*4 SORBENTIA. Art. IV. 3. 6. 



claws, chelae cancrorum, white clay, cimolia, calcined 

 hartfhorn, cornu cervi calcinatum, bone-aihes. 



VI. Sorbentia affecting the liver, ftomach, and other vifcera. 



Ruft of iron, filings of iron, fait of fteel, fal martis, 

 blue vitriol, white vitriol, calomel, emetic tartar, fugar 

 of lead, white arfenic. 



VII. Sorbentia affecting venereal ulcers. Mercury dilTolved 



or corroded by the following acids : 



1 . DiiTolved in vitriolic acid, called turpeth mineral, or 

 hydrargyrus vitriolatus. 



2. DiiTolved in nitrous acid, called hydrargyrus nitratus 

 ruber. 



3. DiiTolved in muriatic acid, mercurius corrofivus fub- 

 limatus, or hydrargyrus muriatus. 



4. 'Corroded by muriatic acid. Calomel. 



5. Precipitated from muriatic acid, mercurius precipita- 

 tus albus, calx hydrargyri alba. 



6* Corroded by carbonic acid ? The black powder on 

 crude mercury.. 



7. Calcined, or united with oxygen. 



8. United with animal fat, mercurial ointment. 



9. United with fulphur. Cinnabar. 



10. Partially united with fulphur. iEthiops mineral. 



11. Divided by calcareous earth. Hydrargyrus cum creta. 



12. Divided by vegetable mucilage, by fugar, by balfams. 



VIII. Sorbentia affecting the whole fyftem. Evacuations 

 by venefection and catharfis, and then the exhibition 

 of opium. 



IX. Sorbentia externally applied. 



1. Solutions of mercury, lead, zinc, copper, iron, arfen- 

 ic ; or metallic calces applied in dry powder, as ce- 

 rufla, lapis calaminaris. 



2. Bitter vegetables in decoctions and in dry powders, 

 applied externally, as Peruvian bark, oak bark, leaves 

 of wormwood, of tanfey, chamomile flowers or leaves. 



3. Electric fparks, or (hocks. 



X. Bandage fpread with emplaftrum e minio, or with car- 



penter's glue mixed with one twentieth part of honey. 



XI. Portland's powder its continued ufe pernicious, and of 

 hops in beer. 



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