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66 SANSKBIT MATERIA MFDTCA. 



Hndaydmava rasa? Take of purified mercury and sulphur, 

 each one part, prepared copper two parts, rub them together for 

 twelve hours with the decoction of the three myrobalans, and with 

 the fresh juice of Solarium nigrum (kdbnndclri). Make into pills 

 about four grains each. These pills are administered with a 

 decoction of the fruits of Solatium nigrum and the three myro- 

 balans, prepared with two tolns, in all of the drugs and thirty- 

 two tolas of water, which is boiled down to one- eighth, or four 

 tolas. They are said to be useful in heart disease. 



Tdmresvara? Take of prepared copper, mercury, borax, and 

 iron, sulphur, and long pepper, equal parts, soak in the decoction 

 of the leaves, bark, fruit, root, and flowers of Azadirachta Indica 

 (nimba), of the pulp of Cassia fistula and of the three myrobalans. 

 Hose four grains, in skin diseases of various sorts. During the 

 administration of this medicine a cooling regimen should be 

 observed. 





SULPHATE OF COPPER. 



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Sam. <jf?T, T'fftha. Vem. Tutia. 



Sulphate of copper was known in India from a very remote 

 period. It is prepared by roasting copper pyrites, dissolving 

 the roasted mass in water and evaporating the solution to obtain 

 crystals of the sulphate. It was known as a salt of copper, for 

 the Bhavaprakasa says it contains some copper and therefore 



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