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very great fervice in feveral of the difeafes of horfes,. 
cattle, and therefore we may very well fuppofe, 
that l'ome of the reguline parts pafs with thcful- 
phureous into the mafs of their blood ; and, by pa- 
rity of reafon, antimony may as well find its way 
through the Vafa lattea , &c. of human bodies, 
and produce very falutary effects. I have, for a great 
many years, given antimony and quickfilver, rubbed 
into what I call an antimoniated aethiops, with great 
advantage, in feveral cafes, particularly in cutaneous 
diforders, obftru&ed fcrophulous glands, rheuma- 
tifms, &c. when the common aethiops had beea 
found much lefs effectual. This I have long ordered 
to be kept here as an officinal medicine, and to be 
prepared of crude antimony, exceedingly fine pow- 
dered, p.. iii; of pure quickfilver, p. ivj of flowers of 
fulphur, p. ii. Thefe are to be rubbed into an im- 
palpable black powder : Dofe from 3 fs. to 3 ii. 
It lies in my way here, alfo to mention, that 
though cinnabar of antimony, fublimed in the ufual 
way after the butter of antimony, may be very little 
different in virtue, or compofition, from the common 
fa&itious cinnabar ; yet cinnabar of antimony, as 
now generally made, with asthiops mineral and crude 
antimony raifed together, hath undoubtedly fome of 
the reguline parts, as well as pile fulphureous, of 
antimony, which carry then) up ; for it is well 
known to chemifts, how eafily the flowers of anti- 
mony rife in the common roafting, where the fire 
is much lefs than for fubliming the cinnabar. Now,, 
every one knows, that thefe flowers are of a reguline. 
nature, are ftrongly emetic, and may be eafily re- 
duced to an a&ual regulus. The abundant fulphur 
indeed 
