The drop and pill of Mr. Ward, consider'd ... in an epistle to J. Jurin / [Daniel Turner].
- Daniel Turner
- Date:
- 1735
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The drop and pill of Mr. Ward, consider'd ... in an epistle to J. Jurin / [Daniel Turner]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![This is made of the fine Powder of Antimony ^ di- o-efted for a Week in a ftrong Lixivium of Aqua Calc is ; when it is filter’d, and after gentle boiling, a red Powder is thrown down} which being wafh d, is dry’d, and kept for Ufe. His Copier, Salmon, fays, this Powder performs all that the Crocus can do. # _ Related to the foregoing, is that of Beguintis, which is nothing but the fame Mineral, . boil d alfo in a ftrong Lixivium, and after precipitated with Rain-Water, impregnated with the Spirit of Pine- gar. The Lixivium, ufed for thefe Purpoles, is made commonly of the 6W Lartari, Calx Viva^ and com¬ mon Salt, a diffolved in Water, and then filter d, or of the Alkaline Salt of Plants; although the Aqua Calcis, as above, very frequently fupplies the Place. Again, there is a Sulphur of] Antimony made from the Crocus Metallorum boil'd in the fame Lixiyey and precipitated with the Acet. deftil. having the Vir¬ tues of the Crocus, and is much the finer of the two, given in the fame Dofe, from two to four Grains, or five. The golden Sulphur is prepared by boiling the Trofs, leparated from the Regulus in a Lixivium, as the reft; then, precipitating with Vinegar, there fails a Powder of the Colour of Gold, (whence the Name,) which is fweetend by Ablution in a large Quantity of Rain-Water, and dry d for Ufe. But the true Sulphur, according to our laft recited Author, is prepared from Cinnabar, finely pow¬ der'd, and boil'd in a Solution of Salt of Lartai, Nitre, and Calx Viva. After decanting the Liquor from the Quickfilver at the Bottom, filter and incline the Veffel, that the red Sulphur may fettle, which you muft fweeten with hot Water, and dry gently ; fo have you (with this Gentleman) the true Sulphur Antimonii, which opens all Obllrudtions of the Liver, Spleen, Mefentery, and Hypochonders ; expel¬ ling all Humours whatever, or wherever heaped up in the Body, both upwards and downwards, A 2 Of](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b3049896x_0009.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
