Corfofve Sublimate , and Arfenic: x 
tnit me only to obferve, that whatever 
Drug can operate as this does, muft be 
capable of producing great Good or Harm 
in animal Bodies, according as its Powers 
can or cannot be diredted or regulated: and 
confequently, whoever can difcover Means 
to correct its Violence, and render it a per¬ 
fectly fafe Medicine, will deferve greatly of 
Mankind. 
I fhall conclude this Head with taking 
Notice, that the Stai;-like^Shootings on the 
Regulus of Antimony , about which fome 
Chemifts make much ado, are nothing more 
than the natural Configurations of its 
Salts 
*3 " 2 . 
CHAP. XXII. 
Corrofve Sublimate, and Arfenic. 
M ERCURY, purified Nitre, (or the 
Spirit of it) calcined Vitriol, and 
Sea-falt, are the Ingredients from which 
Corrofve Sublimate , or Mercury Sublimate, is 
prepared; which is one of the moil violent 
* Regulus of Antimony made up in a proper Form and. 
Size,, is called the Perpetual Pill, becaufe it receives very 
little Diminution, tho 5 carried through the Stomach and 
Bowels fifty times, and will purge every time take it 
as often as you pleafe. Antimonial Cups are made like- 
wife of this Regulus, which fax a long Time .will render 
Wiae put into them emetic. 
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