Medical and chemical observations upon antimony / by John Huxham, M.D., F.R.S.

  • Huxham, John, 1692-1768
Date:
1767
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Credit: Medical and chemical observations upon antimony / by John Huxham, M.D., F.R.S. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    I 16 Medical and Chemical Sulphur adheres to the reguline Part of Antimony, the more vehement is its Operation, and vice verfa. Thus in preparing the common Liver of Antimony, the Nitre deflagrates with, and carries off, a great Part of the Sulphur, whence the antimonial Hepar becomes very ftrongly emetic (1 do not conflder at prefent what the Alkalization of the Nitre in the Procefs doth further), And it is much the fame in making the common Re- gulus; and, when Filings of Steel are ufed in preparing the martial Regu- lus, it is, that the Iron may abforb the antimonial Sulphur. So likewife, in calcining Antimony for the Glafs, the Sulphur is firfl; driven off by roafting, and then more perfectly by melting the Reflduum in a ftrong Fire into a Glafs, whence it acquires a moft violently emetic Power, which notwithftanding is foon totally de- flroyed by re-melting it with much common Sulphur. But