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infufion of the glafs or regulus of antimony on wine, 
the reguline fubftance is diffolved by that faponaceous 
fpirituous, tartareous menftruum, and the reguline 
part becomes moll highly attenuated ; otherwife it 
would not fo readily pafs with the wine through the 
clofefl filtre, and remain fo long fufpended, and in- 
timately incorporated with the wine, and fo remain 
for years together. So that antimony, fo prepared, is 
in folutis principiis, as it were; or rather is thus ren- 
dered a kind of highly fubtilized liquid tartar eme- 
tic, which poflefles the whole power and virtue of 
ftibium, as it is potent enough to give a very flrong 
irritation to the flomach and intellines, if taken to 
the quantity of an ounce or two ; and yet, in a 
fmaller dofe of two or three drachms, it only caufes 
a naufea, gentle puke, and a ftool or two, if neither 
a fweat, or very high perforation : but, from thirty 
to fixty or eighty drops, it generally proves merely an 
alterative and diaphoretic, palling through the in- 
moll recelfes, and ultimate ramifications, of the 
whole vafcular fyllem, with little or no dilfurbance 
to nature, and yet evidently promotes all the animal 
fecretions and excretions, particularly thofe of the 
fkin, intellines, urinary palfages, and falival dudfs, 
by gently irritating the whole nervous and vafcular 
compages. 
As this antimonial wine then fo readily mixes 
with the blood and animal humours, and palfes off 
fo freely and eafily through all the outlets of the 
body, it may be given with fafety, and repeated with 
fuccefs, two, three, or even four times in twenty- 
four hours, in fmall dofes, and fo continued for days 
together : whereas the folid antimonial preparations 
are 
