The Medical-Chemical Work

THE ROYAL CHEMICAL PHARMACY

Tincture of Antimony....by repeatedly pouring on vinegar until, indeed, all the redness has been extracted. Then, all the colored vinegar is drawn away from the Tincture using a sand or ash bath Methods of indirect heating to ensure a gentle, steady temperature. The Tincture is then edulcorated cleansed of salts or acids by washing with water until it is "sweet" or neutral with common distilled water. This sweetened Tincture is combined with Spirit of Wine original: "Alkohol vini," referring to highly rectified ethanol and digested in a sealed vessel for forty days. Finally, the Spirit of Wine is drawn off by a very slow distillation, leaving behind the most precious Tincture of Antimony in the form of an oil. Dose.The dose is from 3 to 5 or 8 drops. This is truly a most highly praised medicine for the restoration and renewal of the entire human body. When administered in a suitable vehicle a substance used to carry the active medicine, such as wine or water, specifically wine: Use and Powers.it drives all corrupt humors the four bodily fluids—blood, phlegm, yellow bile, and black bile—which ancient medicine sought to keep in balance from the body, and it does so without manifest evacuation meaning it heals through internal correction rather than causing purging or vomiting, solely through the correction of those wicked fluids. It assists in obstructions of the liver, dissipates dropsy edema or swelling caused by fluid retention, cures jaundice, and removes Morphea localized skin discoloration and Leprosy, for the elimination of which almost nothing more excellent can be sought. It rectifies the spleen, generates joy, heals scurvy, soothes pains of the womb, encourages menstruation, and breaks apart calculi stones in the kidney or bladder. Indeed, it provides aid in infinite other matters, even in the most desperate diseases.

Another calcination of stibium: Take one pound each of choice Antimony and decrepitated salt salt that has been heated until it stops crackling or "popping". Grind them and mix them together; reverberate heat in a furnace where the flame is reflected back onto the material them in a crucible well-sealed with lute an airtight clay sealant for 12 hours, gradually increasing the fire. Once the vessel has cooled, wash it with fresh water as many times as needed until all sharpness is removed. Afterward, dry and grind it. Grind it for some time upon a marble slab with more decrepitated salt; then, having removed the powder by washing with fresh water as before, dry it and reserve it for use. The dose is from half a scruple to a full scruple a scruple is approximately 1.3 grams.

There is also this Calcination of Antimony: Take one pound of crude Antimony and twelve ounces (or equal parts) of Saltpeter potassium nitrate; mix them. Place them in an iron mortar set on its side, after you have first ground them well. Then, using a live coal, a glowing iron, or a heated spatula, Liver of Antimony. Saffron of Metals. Dose.ignite the mixture. It will be suddenly calcined, and this lime is called the Liver of Antimony original: "Hepar Antimonii," so named for its liver-like color (which is the Magnesia of the Philosophers). Afterward, separate the Saltpeter. It is also called the Saffron of Metals original: "Crocus metallorum" because of its appearance. The dose is 12 to 20 grains in an infusion of white wine, Blessed Thistle water, or another suitable liquor, especially in pestilential fevers.

An Addition: This Liver of Antimony, when pulverized in boiling water, boils...