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are very uncertain in their operation, fometimes lying 
a long time in the domach and bowels before they 
exert any fenfible effeCt; and then, at once, irritat- 
ing with «fo much violence and obdinacy, that the 
patient is too often quite exhauded before the force 
of the antimonial. And this is not a little to be 
feared, and fometimes a&ually happens, when kermes 
mineral, fulphur auratum, crocus antimonii mitior, 
and even regulus medicinalis, and other dibiate pow- 
ders, or pills, are given, and too foon and frequently 
repeated, as every one mud know, who hath freely 
dealt in fuch fort of medicines ; a hypercatharfis 
fometimes, all at once, and unexpectedly, coming 
on, efpecially on drinking a glafs of wine, cyder, 
or other vegetable acids. 
Befides, when antimonials are given in fubdance, 
they mud fil'd undergo a didolution in the domach, 
before they can pais the laCteals, and be mixed with 
the blood, fo as to aCt as alteratives, diaphoretics, &c. 
Now, in this liquid preparation the reguline part is 
already difiolved, and mod exquifitely attenuated, fo 
that it paifes into the blood with the utmod facility. 
It fliould be moreover obferved, that, in this form, 
antimony may be given in the mod agreeable man- 
ner, without even being perceived, or creating any 
more didade than the wine it was made on. A thing 
of fome confequence truly, when we have to do with 
fqueamidi patients, particularly with children, to 
whom it may be necelTary to give repeated dofes of 
the medicine. It is certainly then much in favour of 
this preparation, that it is fo agreeable, and may be 
fo eafily concealed, and given in any proper liquor; 
and this, I fay, to children, as well as grown perfons. 
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