Quincy's Lexicon-medicum : a new medical dictionary, containing an explanation of the terms in anatomy, physiology, practice of physic, materia medica, chymistry, pharmacy, surgery, midwifery, and the various branches of natural philosophy connected with medicine / selected, arranged, and compiled, from the best authors by Robert Hooper.
- Robert Hooper
- Date:
- 1817
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![with herbarizations and foliage. Its specific gravity is 6.702. It is sufficiently hard to scratch all the soft metals. It is very brittle, easily broken and pulverizable. It fuses at 810° Fahr. It can be volatilized, and burns by a strong heat. When perfec ly fused, and suffered to cool gradually, it crystallizes in octahedra. It unites with sulphur and phosphorus. It decom] water strongly. It is soluble in alkaline sulphurets. Sulphuric acid, boiled upon antimony, is feebly decomposed. Nitric acid dissolve^ it in the cold. .Muriatic acid scarcely acts upon it. The oxygenated mu- riatic acid gas inflames it, and the liquid acid dissolves it with facility. Arsenic acid dissolves it by heat witli difficulty. It unites, by fusion, with gold and renders it p.dc and brittle. Plat ma, silver, lead, bis- muth, nickel, copper, arsenic, iron, cobalt, tin, and zinc, unite with antimony by fusion, and form with it compounds, more or less brittle. Mercury does not alloy with it easily. We are little acquainted with the action of alkalies upon it. Nitrate ofpot- adi is decomposed by it. It fulminates by percussion with oxygenated muriate of pot- ash. Methods of obtaining antimony —1. To obtain antimony, heat 32 parts of filings of iron to redness, and project on them, by degrees, 100 parts of antimony ; when the whole is in fusion, throw on it, by degrees, 20 parts of nitrate of potash, and after a few minutes quiet fusion, pour it into an iron melting cone, previously heated and greased. 2. It may also be obtained by melting eight parts of the ore mixed with six of nitrate of potash, and three of acidulous tartrite of potash, gradually projected into a red-hot crucible, and fused. To obtain perfectly pure antimony, Mar- graat melted some pounds of the sulphura- ted ore in a lutedcrucible.and thus scorified any metals it might contain. Of the anti- mony thus purified, which lay at the bottom, he took sixteen ouncer, which he oxidated cautiously, first with a slow, and afterwards with a strong heat, until it cea-es to smell of sulphur, and acquired a grayish white colour. Of this gray powder he took four ouuces, mixed them with six drachms of acidulous tartrite of potash, and three of charcoal, and kept them in fusion in a well covered and luted crucible, for one hour, and thus obtained a metallic button that neighed one ounce, seven drachms, and twenty grains. The metal, thus obtained, he mixed with half its weight of desiccated carbonate of soda, and covered the mixture with the same quantity of the carbonate. He then melted it in a well covered and luted cruci- ble, in a very strong heat, for half an hour, and thus obtained a button which weighed one ounce, six drachms, and seven grains, much whiter and more beautiful than the former. This he again treated with one and a half ounce of carbonate of soda, and ob- tained a button, weighing one ounce, five drachms, and six grains. The button was still purer than the foregoing. Repeating these fusions with equal weights of carbo- nate of soda three times more, and an hour and a half each time, he at last ob amed a button so pure as io amalgamate with mer- cury with ease, very hard, and in some degree malleable; the scoriae formed in the last fusion were transparent, which indica- ted that they contained no sulphur, and hence it is the obstinate adherance of the sulphur that renders the purification of this metal so difficult. The preparations of antimony formerly in use were very many: those now direct- ed to be kept are :— Is Sulphuretum antimonii. 2. Oxydum antimonii. 3. Su.phuretum antimonii prtecipitatum. 4. Antimonuirn tartarisatum. 5. Pulvis antimonialis. 6. Liquor antimonii tartarisati. Anti Moris. (From a.y]i, against, and jMopoc, death, or disease.) A medicine to prolong life. A.NTiMuiiiUTiCA. (From mill, against, and vi<ppili% a disease of the kidneys.) Re- medies against disorders1 of the kidneys. Btancard. Antiodontalbicus. An insect described by Gerbi in a small work published at Florence 1794, so called from its property of allaying the tooth-ach. It is a kind of curculio found on a species of thistle, car- dans spinosissimus. If twelve or fifteen of these insects in the state of larvre, or when come to perfection, be bruised and rubbed slowly between the fore-finger and thumb until they have lost their moisture; and if the painful tooth where it is hollow, be touched with that finger, the pain ceases sometimes instantaneously. A piece of shamoy leather will answer the same pur- pose with the finger. If the gums are in- flamed the remedy is of no avail. Other insects possess the property of curing the tooth-ach ; such as the scarabeus ferrugi- neusof Fabricius; the coccineila septem- punctata, or lady-bird ; the chrysnmeia po- puli, and the chrysomela sanguinolenta. This property belongs to several kinds of the coleoptera. Avn pah a lytic a. (Emm tti'7/, against, and >&3.f.i.xv(rK, the palsy ) Medicines against the palsy. Antipatiieta. (From acili, against, and tpAb',c, an affection.) Antipathy. An aver- sion to particular objects. Antiperistaltic. (From a-fli, ngninst, and <w/hs-«aa», to contract.) Whatsoever obstructs the peristaltic motion of the in- testines. Antipetustasi6. (From civil, against and impinifjii, to press.) A compression on all sides. Theophrasius de i:nie. It](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21129642_0069.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
