Mevican PropeRTigs AND ‘Uszs. “Gna ; 
; ll empirical remedies for venereal : 
"particularly those whi to cure whoa : 
____ dess than any other, the salivary system. Vows ne 
hol; is aie in ae which attracts it from its 
solution i in water, if agitated with it. Its in wa- 
ter is much increased by adding a few drops of rectified — 
spirit, or muriatic acid—is 17 times more soluble in a 
solution of ammonia, than in water; but no decompo-— * 
sition ensues, forming probably a triple salt. Is soluble in < 
sulphuric, nitric, and muriati¢e acids, from which it is re- 
claimed unaltered, by evaporating the solutions. Accord- ee 
ing to Dr. Davy, it forms definite compounds with muri- _ 
atic acid, common salt, and other muriates. Paris says, 
the supposed change of vegetable blues to green, by its 
watery.solution, is an optical illusion ; the seeming change — 
being owing to the union of the yellow of the sublimate, 
with thé violet blue of the syrup ef violets. Decompo- 
sition of this salt takes place under circumstances of com- 
plicated affinities, as in the instance of the the Liquor ie 2 
dvargyri oxy-muriatis, and in the aqueous solution, im 
“which cases calomel and muriatic acid appear to be ormedy 
and oxygene evolved. For incompatible substances, poet: 
‘tables at end of Vol. I. Lime-water forms with it a lotion, — 
called Aqua Phagedenica. £3ij of liquor C. to grs. ii of the 
salt, will produce the necessary decnnipeniiar >: Be pre- 
cipitate is yellow. 
the most active 
and acrid of the metallic preparations; is an rretic — 
stimulant and alterative, and in large quantities, as : 
ly corrosive poison. It may be used in cases of syp 
in which other mercurial salts would be inadn 
is supposed generally to arrest the poison of tt 
more effectually than any other 
‘it 
% Of these it may be proper to enumerate a few of the. 9 
which this articie enters, as an antisyphilitic, on account of its. 
less action of the salivary giands, and thereby most effet : 
oo of mercury. Gowiand’s Lotion is a solution of sublimate i 
. emuision 
OUNCE, — 
“The 
| Mivity of this lotion. . “Norton’s Drops, is a disguised solution of fen nga stabi 
s Sehapmatangy ae. once. esteemed was wade 
— ge a sovition of cor. sub. with 
of bitter almonds, in the proportion of about half a grain to the fluid 
prussic acigl present in the bitter almond, adds doubtless aetinirand ae 
as an anti-ven¢real and xnti-scorbutic, was 
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mere! ts a mca 
eames j oz. ij of sublimate: 
of oamenin Sapiiswary'e ; 
dri of p ; of antimony, dr. of, 
and dr.3 of et-sandexa shari 8 3 to these ingr fe 
: ‘and ed into a tine’ re. Scheele a 
—— aria a ore cebal aatineiey, wie found. teem of of iron, and & 
ean — ey iis z or es! ati Sy 
