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sulphide of copper. It is described as an alterative, emetic and 

 purgative, and is used in poisoning, dyspepsia, fever, enlurg 

 liver and spleen, anaemia, skin diseases, diarrhoea etc. Dose, as 

 an alterative, grains two to four. In poisoning prepared copper 

 is given in doses of about twenty-four grains with sugar or honey 

 to cause vomiting. 1 



Copper enters into the composition of serval medicines for 

 ague, remittent fever, enlarged spleen etc. The following are a 

 few illustrations. 



Sitabhanji rasa? Take of orpiment, mercury, sulphur and 

 realger, two, one, half and quarter parts, respectively, rub them 

 together into a thin paste with the juice of Momordtca Charantia 

 (kdravella) . Apply this paste on copper plates equal in weight to 

 the other ingredients, enclose the plates in a covered crucible, 

 and roast in a sand-bath over a strong fire for twelve hour?. 

 When cool extract the copper plates from the crucible and powder 

 them. Dose, four grains with four black peppers enclosed in a 

 betel leaf. This packet should be chewed. It is given in inter- 

 mittent fever with shivering fits, followed by burning and heat 

 of skin. A preparation very similar to the above in composition 

 is called Pliha panckdnana ratty and used in enlarged Bpleen. 



Svachchhanda bhairava ra ? Take of prepared copper and 

 aconite equal parts, rub together with the uice of datura leaves 

 and make into one-grain pills. They are given with ginger juicf , 

 sugar and rock salt in fevers complicated with cerebral symptoms. 



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