antimonial
Britishadjective
noun
Example Sentences
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She had already sent Phebe for hot water; telling Emily to go to the medicine chest, and procure a bottle of antimonial wine.
From Cora and The Doctor or Revelations of A Physician's Wife by Leslie, Madeline
Fever Mixture.—Mix a drachm of powdered nitre, 2 drachms of carbonate of potash, 2 teaspoonfuls of antimonial wine, and a tablespoonful of sweet spirits of nitre, in half a pint of water.
From The Book of Household Management by Beeton, Mrs. (Isabella Mary)
Diaphoretics, as aromatic vegetables, essential oils, ether, volatile alcali, neutral salts, antimonial preparations, external heat, exercise, friction, cold water for a time with subsequent warmth, blisters, electric fluid.
From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus
The emetic tartar, or antimonial tartar, is a saline substance, composed of acid of tartar, vegetable alkali, and antimony partially calcined.
From Heads of Lectures on a Course of Experimental Philosophy: Particularly Including Chemistry by Priestley, Joseph
Pills with gum ammoniac. gum guaiac. and antimonial powder were directed, with infus. amar. simpl. twice a day.
From An Account of the Foxglove and some of its Medical Uses With Practical Remarks on Dropsy and Other Diseases by Withering, William
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