1^4 Antimony the Bajh of Noftnsm#*. 
Preparations ^pf it; though his generally ac4 
knowledged, that if the Manner of their 
Operation was certain, or their Violence 
could be fufEciently retrained, great Cures 
might be expected from them. Several 
Nojlrums , exhibited in very fmall Dofes, 
under different Forms, and cried up as aU 
moft uriiverfal Remedies, are believed, not 
without Probability, to be Preparations of 
this Mineral y from the like Uncertainty in 
their Operation, and the Violence where* 
with they fometimes aft. 
As this Uncertainty is too notorious to 
be denied, the Difpenfers of thefe Medi* 
cines plead, that the Manner of their Ope¬ 
ration depends entirely on the Conftitution 
and Diftemper of the Patient, but always 
tends to produce a Cure: for, fay they, if 
vomiting be moil neceffary, the Medicine 
will prove emetic, and that juft fo long 
and with fuch a Degree of Force as is 
requifite to bring away the morbid Mai* 
ter; on the contrary, if purging be more 
conducive to a Cure, the morbid Matter 
will be carried downwards y and if the 
Difeafe requires neither purging nor vo¬ 
miting, neither will be excited, but the 
Diforder will be cured by Perfpiration or 
fome other infenfible Way.— 1 The Truth 
of this I have nothing at all t,o do with* 
but refer the Confideration of it to thofe 
to whom it more properly belongs: per¬ 
mit 
