- ANT—ANT 
_ A vitrified. oxide of No. 59, combined with some unde: 
com sulphuret, from which it is prepared—an acrid, _ 
harsh, uncertain medicine, never now used, except to 
make 
ss Orric. Prev. Antimonium Tartarizatum, and Oxydum An- 
No. 61.—Antrmonitum Tarrarizatum. L. & U.S. 
. Tartris Antimonii. E. Tartarum Antimoni-— 
Pure, is soluble in three times its weight of water, at 212° 
ET} fificen times, at 60°, the diate. n clear, + P rent; ” 
_ long kept, is decomposed. 
Pe Ba ote ag oc acids, alkalies and their car- 
| bonates, most metals, soaps, hydro-sulphurets, and many 
bitter and astringent vegetable infusions and decoctions— 
Example—f3j decoct. yellow bark, decomposes }j of 
tart. emetic, and renders it inert. **The compound of tar- 
tarized antimony and bark, is said to purge, and constitute — 
the Bolus Quartanus of the French physicians.” Paris, — 
Rhubarb is incompatible. Not decomposed by infusions — 
of wormwood or gentian. Pure alkaline sulphates not 
incompatible—with excess of acid they are, as alum, bi- 
sulphate of potass, &c. The emetico-purgative of the 
French, consisted of the glauber salt and tartar emetic in — 
solution. Perfectly compatible, and an excellent antifebrile. 
Sophisticated—M. Sexullas, in Journal Pharmacien for 1821, 
shows that unless it is carefully crystallized, tart. emetic a 
contains more or less of arsenic ; should always be pur- 
chased in crystalline form; a solution in distilled water — 
ought to furnish a copious gold-coloured precipitate, with — 
sulphuret of ammonia. ae * 
Mznicat Prorentixs axp Uses. Solution, best form; eme- 
tic, cathartic, diaphoretic, according to mode of exhibition: 
4 grain is diaphoretic—4 grain opens the bowels and the 
skin—1 grain will vomit, purge, and sweat; acts as an €X- 
pectorant, in one-sixteenth and one-twelfth of a grain. The — 
best, most manageable and most certain of all antimonial — 
preparations ; an indispensable searching emetic ; enters — 
ato the Mel scillz compositum, Phar. U. S. called Hive — 
misono ounce ere one grain. beni 
» by sprinkling 5 or 1 ins over a Burgundy p! 
or i Sehunets or as in Gcensite aniinied, e's posal 
