Medico-chymical dissertations on the causes of the epidemic called yellow fever : and on the best antimonial preparations for the use of medicine / by a physician, practitioner in Philadelphia.

  • Félix Pascalis Ouvière
Date:
1796
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    Ancient names. Liver ot antimony, Saffron of metals, - Diaphoretic antimony, CerufTe of antimony, Muriated antimony, - Powder of algaroth, Vitrified antimony, - Ore of antimony, - - n i - s. Ant i 'pku- Sjit'' I ret. Semivitrious fulphur oxyd of antimony. White o\yd of antimony by nitre. White oxyd of antimony by precipitation. Muriat of antimony. C Oxyd of antimony by the mu- l rial a Vitreous Jidphuratcd o; antimony. Na tivejulph urtt of an tun o;: y I1 lowers argentine of regulus 7 ,. r [.Sublimated oxyd oi antimony. 01 antimony, - - - - - ^ ■> J y C Antimoniated tartrit of pot- I afh. Emetic tartar, - Kermes Mineral, C Red fulphuraled oxyd of an- t timony. VI. Thefe are not the only preparations known. As manv more might be made or imagined as there exifl acids in nature, which could take antimony for their bails. But the Materia Medica cannot expect to derive great advan from them ; for, befides that experience would have already ascertained the fuccefs of any fuch combination, nothing more can be hoped from a new compofition than what is already known of its principles, and its application. VII. Before we give our opinion en the antimonial pre- parations, which appear to us the heft in medicine, w< give a general idea of the virtual properties or ali th'ofe that have been in moll eflimation and vh\ VIII. Crude antimony anfwers hardly an indication in fevers. It is a hard, and not a volatile fubftance, which cannot enter into the fecund* viet. lis fulphur connte all its emetic virtue. It is ] efficacious in fuelling1, in the vifecra of the 1, &c.