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IT is called in Latine Antimonium, Antimonium Hyacinthinum, vitrem Antimonii, Stibium, and Sti••••mi; in English, Antimony and glasse of Antimony.
It is hot and dry in the third degree.
The best is the clearest glasse, without drosse or earthy substance, and of a red colour and brittle, or easy to breake.
It will keepe good many years.
Antimony is a strong Medicine and worketh strongly both by Vo∣mit and Stoole; It is profitable in old paines of the head, Catarrhes or R••umes, paines of the Stomack arising from Malignant humours, in the Dropsey, Green-sicknesse, shortnesse of breath, Palsey, Falling-sicknesse, in the Tertian or Quartaine Ague, in the French-pox, Me∣lancholly and madnesse, in stoppings of the Liver and Spleene, in the Leprosy, Elephansy, Scab, Itch, and foule Diseases of the skin; It is most excellent in the Pestilence especially at the beginning.
It is given in Substance or by Infusion.
Take of Stibium or glasse of Antimony in fine powder three or four graines, of Sugar in powder two drams or halfe an ounce, mixe them together and take it in a Morning fasting with Physicall observa∣tion.
Take of Stibium in fine powder three graines, Sugar of Roses two drams, or as much conserve of red Roses, mixe them togther and take it as before.
Take of Antimony in very fine Powder three graines, London Trea∣cle a dram, conserve of red Roses two drams, being well mixed take it as before.
Take of Antimony in Powder three graines, Pilula Alephanginae a scruple, make Pills, and cover them with leafe Gold; Sed fraus ho∣nesta latet.
Take of Stibium in powder three or foure graines, white wine four ounces, let them stand all night, in the Morning poure off the clearest, and give it.
Stibium is used in Medicines to cleare the sight, and against Ulcers & Festulas thereof, or also to take away proud flesh in sores, and procu∣reth a cicatrice in Ulcers. Being mixed with sope & used, it helpeth to cure Cankers and the fleshinesse growing in the Nostrills. Plinie saith,
t stoppeth the bleeding of any fresh wound being strewed therein, and singular to heale the bitings of Dogs; but this I conceive is spo∣ken of crude Antimony. Plin. Nat. Hist. lib. 33. cap. 6. fol. 473.
Take of cleare Antimony in powder ten graines, red Rose water three ounces, mixe them together, and let them stand foure and twen∣ty houres, then drop foure or five drops of the clearest into the eyes, twice in a day.
Stibium is a strong and violent Medicine, and brings Convulsions, Cramps, Faintings of the Spirits, and many times sodaine death, therefore take these cautions.
Give it onely to strong and able bodies. Let it not be given where the body is much bound, till a glister hath been administred. Give it not to women with childe, nor to weake persons, nor to any that are in a Consumption, or to such as spit blood or have bad Lungs. Give it not to any immediately before or presently after bleeding. When any doe take it let them keepe their beds while it workes, and take warme Posset drinke, having a care they take no cold. Fabricius mentions two Matrons, that after the taking of Antimony, the one lost her hearing, and the other became foolish. Cent. 5. Obser. 12.
If an•• desire to know more of the nature of Antimony, let them read these following Authors, Matthiol. in lib. 5. Diascor. cap. 59. f. 837. 838. Massar. lib. 7. de Med. Purg. cap. 30. fol. 485. 486. Schroder. Phar∣macop., Med. Chym. lib. 3. cap. 17. fol. 42. 43. 44. &c. Freitag. Aur. Med. lib. 4. cap. 15. fol. 616. 617. 618. &c. Basil. Antimon. Ham. Poppii Printed, 1618. Crol. Basil. Chym. Printed, 1631. fol. 211. 212. 313. &c.
Hepar Antimonii, or Liver of Antimony. Flowres of Antimony. An∣timony diaphoreticke, Regulus Antimonii. Oyle of Antimony. L quor of Antimony. Tinctura. Salt. Spirit of Antimony, with many others.
The Dose is from three graines to five or sixe.