Wash of The coarse powder

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Source: The London dispensatory [electronic resource] : containing, I. The elements of pharmacy; II. The botanical description, natural history,chemical analysis, and medicinal properties, of the substances of the materia medica; III. The pharmaceutical preparations and compositions of the pharmacopoeiasof the London, the Edinburgh, and the Dublin colleges of physicians : the whole forming a practical synopsis of materia medica, pharmacy, and therapeutics, illustrated with many useful tables and copper- by Thomson, Anthony Todd, 1778-1849; University of Glasgow. Library; University of Glasgow. Library (1822), monograph-offset-1764398-2.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

• The coarse powder: Having poured off the water, wash the precipitate with repeated additions of water, and dry it." In this process, the ammonia of the subcarbonate decom- poses the tartrate of antimony, and forms, with its tartaric acid and the tartrate of potass, a ternary salt, which remains in so- lution in the water employed, while the oxide of antimony is precipitated. This precipitate is a white protoxide of antimony, the medium

Method as extracted

1. Mix according to the source passage: Having poured off the water, wash the precipitate with repeated additions of water, and dry it." In this process, the ammonia of the subcarbonate decom- poses the tartrate of antimony, and forms, with its tartaric acid and the tartrate of potass, a ternary salt, which remains in so- lution in the water employed, while the oxide of antimony is precipitated. This precipitate is a white protoxide of antimony, the medium oxide of Thenard, containing 0-20 of oxygen in 100 parts. jjse, — This preparation is violent in its action, and thence should be exhibited with caution : but, as a remedy, it is not ever likely to be much employed ; and as it is not essential for the composition of any other preparation, it might be dispensed WltANTIMO'NII SULPHURE'TUM PR/ECIPITA'- TUM,' Lond.

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