226 VI. METALS.— SuLPHURETs of. 



Biett used an ointment formed of this and lard in tubercular affec- 

 tions of the skin. 



PHOSPHORUS. 



Phosphorus of urine, Kunckers phosphorus, Phosphorus 

 urince, P. Kunckelii. From urine putrified and distilled in an 

 iron pot, with a glass or stoneware head ; the residuum taken out, 

 ground, put into srpall earthen retorts, and distilled with a very 

 violent heat into water. 



2. By pouring a solution of sugar of lead into urine, which 

 precipitates a white powder, to be mixed with charcoal powder, 

 and distilled with a violent heat into water. 



3. Mix bone-ash 151b., with 3 gall, of water, add oil of vitriol 

 61b. ; the next day add more water, strain through a sieve, and 

 wash the sediment well with hot water ; evaporate the waters 

 mixed together to the consistence of a syrup, add charcoal dust 

 sufficient to absorb it, and distil into water.— Inflammable at a 

 very low heat, and therefore it must be kept under water ; purified 

 by being kept in fusion in a glass tube under water until the 

 impurities have settled; principally used as an easier and speedier 

 method of procuring fire than the common ; also used to analyse 

 atmospheric air, and to form phosphoric ether : equivalent I '5. 



VI. METALS. 



METALLIC SULPHURETS AND SIMILAR COM- 

 BINATIONS. 



ANTIMONY. 



Crude AJiTiuoviY , Eyes medicine, Prismatoidal antimony glance , 

 Surmach, Antimonium crudum. Found in mines, in long needles, 

 formerly preferred for medical and chemical use. 



Smelted antimony, Antimony, Sulphuret of anth^pny, Anti- 

 monium fusum, Antimonii sulphuretum. From crude antimony, 

 by fusion and pouring into conical moulds ; diaphoretic, used in 

 rheumatism, scrofula, and cutaneous diseases as an alterative, 9j 

 to 5j ; given largely to horses, mixed with their food, to smooth 

 their coats ; used in the arts to purify gold, and by the ladies, to 

 paint their eyebrows and eyelashes black ; composed of 5*5 anti- 

 mony with 2 sulph. equi. 7*5. 



Medicinal regulus of antimony, Antimonium medicinak, 



