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pREPARATIONS OF

M

R K.

Concerning the beft method of preparing thismedicine, called in the f'ormer Dlfpenfatory, Tar-tarus* emeticum, Chemifts are not agreed, and there-fore the College have retained nearly the former pro -cefs. It is a medicine, which, from its fafety, con-venience of exhibition, and little tafle, is in generalufe as an alterant and emetic, 1t may be given, inthe former intention, to adults, from one eighth ofa grain to one half; in the latter, from one or twograins to four ; or in the way the French give theirEmetique en Lavage-, thatis, afulldofe, largely di-luted, is given by fmall pgrtions, every half hour,tili a vomiting fucceeds.

ANTIMONIUM VITRIFICA-

TUM.

VlTRIFIED AntIMONY.

Take of powdered Antimony, by weight,four ounces.

Burn it in a broad earthen veffel, with aßre gradqally räifed, ftirring with an iron rod

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