ATH—ATH | i 
Incompatible substances with the infusion. Sulphate of iron 
_and zinc, uriate of mercury, super-acetate of lead. — 
‘Tarun emetie does not affect it, € BF ee 
MepicaL Pitrncers anp Uses. A tonic; used in ase: 
“TMittents, typhus, &c. when cinchona is admissible. : 
in powder, : gate to be made with 3j to vues 03, 
= straine fZiss, or £Zij, every three or = 
ours. 
No, 32.—A;THER Sutpuuricus Rectiricatus. L. 
& U.S. Rectified sulphuric ether. 
Cabinet specimen, Jeff. Coll. No. 37. . 
| Quarries. _A colourless 
~-and in 
liquid, of agen of 
. nt and fragrant odour ; zeke vty 73 i 
mable; when free from alcohol, boils at 98°; Sat 
eee be administered near a candle; unites with alcohol 
and ammonia, in every proportion. A powerful solvent of | 
balsams, resins, gum resins, wax, camphor, extractive, &e.; 
takes up one-twentieth of its wate of —) does not 
dissolve alkalies. 
Meprcat Properties anp Uses. Aw intense diffusible sti- 
mulant, narcotic, anti-spasmodic ; may be given in sweet- 
ened water, or any cold infusion or decoction; useful in 
hysteria, tetanus, gastric cramp, hiccough, and to — 
yomiting in cholera morbus and sea-sickne 
account of the coldness generated by its rapid’ ovipoen: ; 
tion, as a refrigerant in burns and scalds ; to facilitate the 
- reduction of strangulated hernia; and to-lessen high cere- — 
bral excitement of the blood-vessels. When ee 
applied, free access of air must be permitted to the 
for, covered or confined by linen rote et is rubifac ORE 
and even produces vesication. with muriati 
an instantaneous evaporation takes ea aes and as 
below 0 of Fs is engendered. Specific gravity is ke bert : 
test of its purity. Sophisticated with alcohol and suiphar- 
ic acid : the first known by its forming with phosphorus 
_. a milky instead. of a limpid solution—the second, by its 
reddening the tinct. of litmus, and by the precipitation 
-which ensues on adding a solution of barytes. Long kept, 
_ undergoes spontaneous decomposition. Dose, fss to f3ij, 
repeated at short intervals. Inhaled, it excites the scnso- — 
rium, like nitrous oxide gas. Boys made a toy of it, in 
this ra be two years ago, by putting it in glyster bladders, 
aling it through the pipe ; it a — . 
e2. ig ogee it is sai two cases of deat 
