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Diaphoretick Antimony, in Latin, Antimoni∣um Diaphoreticum.
Powder and mix well together one part of An∣timony with three parts of purified Salt Petre, and having heated the Crucible red hot in the coals, cast into it a spoonful of your mixture, you'll hear •• noise or detonation, after that is over, cast in ano∣ther spoonful, and continue to do so, till all you•• powder is in the Crucible; leave a great fire a∣bout it two hours, then throw your matter, which will be white into an earthen pan, almost filled with Fountain water, and leave it a steeping warm ten or twelve hours, that the fixed Salt Petre may dissolve in it; separate the liquor by inclination▪ wash the white powder that remains at bottom five or six times with warm water, and dry it. This is called Diaphoretick Antimony.
Virtues. It is good to procure sweat, and to re∣sist poyson, for Malignant diseases and the Plague.
Dose. It may be given from six grains to thirty▪ in some proper liquor.