<J 4 SORBENTIA. ART. IV. 3. <f. 



claws, chelx cancrorum, white clay, cimolia, calcined 

 hartftiorn, cornu cervi calcinatum, bone-afhes. 



VI. Sorbentia afleting the liver, ftomach, and other vifcera. 

 Ruft of iron, filings of iron, fait of fteel, fal raartis, 

 blue vitriol, white vitriol, calomel, emetic tartar, fugar 

 of lead, white arfenic. 



VIL Sorbentia affecling venereal ulcers. Mercury diflblved 

 or corroded by the following acids : 



1. Diflblved in vitriolic acid, called turpeth mineral, or 

 hydrargyrus vitriolatus. 



2. Diflblved in nitrous acid, called hydrargyrus nitratus 

 ruber. 



3. Diflblved in muriatic acid, mercurius corrofivus fub- 

 Kmatus, or hydrargyrus muriatus. 



4. Corroded by muriatic acid. Calomel. 



5. Precipitated from muriatic acid, mercurius precipita- 

 tus albus, calx hydrargyri alba. 



6. Corroded by carbonic acid ? The black powder on 

 crude mercury. 



7. Calcined, or united with oxgen. 



3. United with animal fat, mercurial ointment. 

 9. United with fulphur. Cinnabar. 



10. Partially united with fulphur. j-Ethiops mineral. 



11. Divided by calcareous earth. Hydrargyrus cum creta. 



12. Divided by vegetable mucilage, by fugar, by balfams. 

 yill. Sorbentia affecting the whole fyftem. Evacuations 



by venefe&ion and catharfis, and then the exhibition 

 of opium. 



IX. Sorbentia externally applied. 



1. Solutions of mercury, lead, zinc, copper, iron, arfen- 

 ic ; or metallic calces applied in dry powder, as ce- 

 rufla, lapis calaminaris. 



2. Bitter vegetables in deco&ions and in dry powders, 

 applied externally, as Peruvian bark, oak bark, leaves 

 of wormwood, of tanfey, chamomile flowers or leaves. 



3. Eleftric fparks, or (hocks. 



X. Bandage fpread with emplaftrum e minio, or with car- 



penter's glue mixed with one twentieth part of honey. 



XI. Portland's powder, its continued ufe pernicious, and of 



hops in beer. 



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