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take into consideration the difference of the two formulae, 
which is morally impossible in practice, he will administer 
to his patient one-sixth more of the oxide of arsenic. On the 
contrary, he will administer one-sixth less if the Fowler's 
solution which is directed in the formularies of Cadet, 
Ratier, &c., be employed. Between a sixth more and a 
sixth less, there is nearly the difference of a third, and 
certainly this is worthy of attention. So much as regards 
the physician. Is it necessary that I should now show, to 
how much inconvenience, the pharmacien will be exposed, 
who may dispense the colourless liquid of the Codex to foreign 
patients or physicians, or even to countrymen, who have 
previously made use of it abroad. 
I propose then the following formula, which can be trans- 
lated into all languages without altering the proportions. It 
forms exactly the -i j of that of the London Pharmacopoeia. 
P — Sublimed arsenious acid 3i or 4 grammes or parts. 
Carbonate of potassa 3i or do. 
Comp. tinct. of lavender Siij or 12 
Distilled water §xv or 480. 
Proceed, secundum artem, to obtain fifteen ounces, or 480 
grammes or parts of the solution of which the oxide of 
arsenic will exactly make the hundred and twentieth part. 
Jintimonial Wine. 
Formerly antimonial wine was prepared with glass of an- 
timony or the crocus metallorum^ but this practice has been 
renounced generally, since well executed experiments have 
demonstrated how much its strength is affected by the strength 
of the wine, and the continuance of the maceration. Almost 
every where it has been succeeded, by a solution of tartrate 
of potassa and antimony in Spanish wine, either pure or 
diluted with water, and designated by the name of improved 
antimonial wine, or, simply antimonial wine. 
It would be as prolix, as fastideous, to exhibit all the varia- 
tions which this formula presents. But of the large number, 
three, in particular, are more universally adopted than the 
