SULPHUR.

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Pour warm water upon sublimedsulphur repeatedly till the water em-ployed ceases to acquire acidity,which may be ascertained by testingwith litmus.

Dry the sulphur on bibulous pa-per. (Dubl.)

There is also another process for the ob-taining of pure sulphur, the product ofwhich process is called Precipitated Sul-phur, Mar/istery of Sulphur, Milk of Sul-phur, Hydrate of SulpMir ; Sulphur prœci-pitatum, Lac sen Magisierium sulphurls.(Lond. ; Ant. ; Bstav. ; Bavar. ; Belg. ;Bruns. ; Dax. ; Gall. ; Fenn. ; Fere. ;Fuld. ; Hann. ; Lipp. ; Olden.; Bonus. ;Sax. ; Suec. ; Wirtem. ; Hergip. ; Brug-natelli ; Coxe ; Piderit ; Spielmann ;Van MonsJ. This process consists in de-composing the aqueous solution either ofsulphuret of potass, or of sulphuret of soda(Ant.), or of sulphuret of lime. (Lono. ;Coxe), with hydrochloric acid, carefullywashing and drying the precipitate.

PRECIPITATED SULPHUIt.Sulphur 'Or.vnimtnhim. I

'LoSir. :COXE)

EL

inhumed Sulphur, one pound.Fresh-burnt Lime, two pounds.Water, four gallons.

Boil the sulphur paid lime toge-ther in trie' water; then filter th«' li-quor through paper, and drop into itMuriatic ylcid,

a sufficient quantity

(o precipitate the sulphur. Washthis repeatedly with water till it be-comes tasteless.

Sulphur is an excitant, which, fttcfutHrngto the dose and particularly according tothe subject, acts as a stimulant, expecto-rant, diaphoretic, diuretic, or purgative.It is one of the most powerful and most Va-luable agents in the materia medica, and isemployed under a great number of différentforms, and to fulfil numerous indications.

Dose, from twelve to twenty grains twiceor thrice a day, asa stimulant, and one ortwo drams and more, as a purgative.

CAIUTOEtr OF SULPHUR.

Alcohol Sulphuric. (Van Mons) K. " Sulphur

¡i.

Sulphuret of Iron, in powder,

five parts and a half.Charcoal, one part and a half.

Vol. II.

Mix by continued trituration, and fill aretort with the mixture to one fourth ; dis-til by heating to incandescence, and setapart the liquid which collects at the bot-tom of the water contained in the x'eceiver.

Some experiments which have been madewith this substance do not appear to havesucceeded.

DENTIFRICE POWDER. (PiEROUTN)

R. Sublimed Sulphur, one ounce.

Lac, in powder, a sufficient quantity.Make a very fine powder. uilo*

[slsibsni

ANTI-PSORIC POWDER.

Pulvis contra Scabiem. (Hamb. ; Her-bip. ; Augustin; Cadet de Gassi-coukt ; Van Mons)

R. Sulphur, of each,

Root of Liquorice, j six drains.

Camphor, half a dram.

Mix. — Dose, half a dram twice a day.

(Augustin)

R. Sublimed Sulphur, ~1 - eVnirrS

Charcoal, L ofe;1 5 h > ,

Brick, J ^*ffl|

Make a powder. (Cadet de Oasïi-

court) - iH

R. Sublimed Sulphur, 1 of each, ha 1 !?

■84¿pnuret, of Antimonv, / êP88nofc"|Magnesia, ' two draft:,

Make a powder. (Ham,,)

Sublimed Sulphur, 1 of .,

Sulphuret of Mercury and of [« i feabll" <0kl

Antimony, " ( fanS*^---------------- Mercury, J ounce.

Make a very fine powder. (IIeiihip.) "* 0R. Nitrate of Potass, 1 of each,

R

Sug

two drains,six drams.

Supertartrate of Potass,Sublimed Sulphur,

one ounce and a L^u

Make a powder. (Van Mons),p, , . ,. , . 'ína-ínloa A

I he second of these powders is only ap- 1IJO j

plied externally incorporated with a little l„oil. The two succeeding may be u.sed bothexternal^and internally. The last is $jj

,-ohoni brrr, biqia

,„ n9flV mohoDIArnoRETIC powder. (Hufeland ;,■).„„,

Sainte-Marie)

fî. Sublimed Sulphur, four drams.

Camphor, Qnp sçr.upÎe.

Make twelve parcels. — Dose, one ortwoiiailjdaily, in a cup of tea. (Sainte-Marie)

two drams.

Sulphuret of An- 1 , ,

timony, I .°/«"*..

Camphor, J «ght grams.

Sugar, two scruples.

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