3Antimonium Nigrum Purification. Antimonious Sulphide. A purified native sulphide, Sb2 S3; a greyish black powder. From it are made the other preparations.

3Antimonii Oxidum. Antimonious Oxide. Dose, 1 - 2 grs.; 6-12 cgms. Sb4 06, a greyish white powder; insoluble in water.

3Pulvis Antimonialis (James' Powder.). Dose, 3 - 6 grs.; 2 - 4 dgms. - 33.3; Calcium Phosphate, 66.6.

3Antimonium Sulphuratum. Sulphurated Antimony. Dose, 1 - 2 grs.; 6 - 12 cgms.

A mixture of sulphides and oxides, forming a dull red powder. Insoluble in water.

2Antimonium Tartaratum. Tartarated Antimony (Tartar Emetic). Dose, as a diaphoretic, 1/24 - 1/8 gr.; 3 - 8 mgms.: as an emetic, 1 - 2 grs.; 6 - 12 cgms.

A double salt of Antimony and Potassium Tartrate, [K(SbO)C4H4 O2], H2O. Colourless, transparent crystals, with a sweet metallic taste. Soluble 1 in 17 of cold, 1 in 3 of hot water; insoluble in alcohol but moderately so in weak alcohol. Soluble in a solution of the alkaline chlorides.

Incompatibles, hydrochloric, nitric, and sulphuric acids; alkali hydrates and carbonates (prevented by citrates, tartrates, glycerin, sugar and acacia); lime water; salts of most metals; tannic acid, albumin, soap.

1Vinum Antimoniale. Antimonial Wine. Dose, as a diaphoretic, 10 - 30 min.; 1/2 - 2 c.c: as an emetic 2 - 4 fl. dr.; 8 - 15 c.c. - 0.457; boiling Water, 5.028; Sherry, to 100. 2 gr. in 1 fl. oz.

Apomorphinse Hydrochloridumi. Dose,1/10 - 1/4 gr.; 6 - 16mgms. hypodermically 1/20 - 1/10 gr.; 3 - 6 mgms.

An alkaloid derived synthetically from morphine. Small whitish crystals, turning green on exposure to light and air. Soluble, 1 in 60 of water, 1 in 50 of alcohol. The solutions are decomposed on boiling.

1Injectio Apomorphinae Hypodermica. Dose, 5 - 10 min.; 0.3 - 0.6 c.c.

- 1; Diluted Hydrochloric Acid, 1; Water, recently boiled 100. 1 gr. in 110 min.

Aqua Destillata. Distilled Water. (Referred to throughout this book simply as Water).

Aqua. (See Anethum, Anisum, Aurantium, Camphora, Caruum, Chloroformum, Cinnamomum, Foeniculum, Laurocerasus, Mentha Piperita, Mentha Viridis, Pimenta, Rosa, Sambucus.)

Araroba. Araroba. (Goa Powder.) A brownish powder found in the trunks of Andira Araroba.

1Chrysarobin. Chrysarobin. A crystalline, inodorous, tasteless, yellow powder, containing varying proportions of chrysophanic acid. Soluble slightly in water, almost entirely so in hot alcohol, completely so in hot chloroform.

2unguentum Chrysarobini

4; Benzoated Lard, 96.