Uses, &c. To lessen friction in machinery, prevent the bearings rusting, &c. The simplest are perhaps the best. Of late years several different liquid hydrocarbons obtained from coal, and particularly paraffin oil, have been extensively employed in this way. See Friction, Lubrication, &c.
ANTIBIL′IOUS (-yŭs). Syn. Antibilio′sus, L.; Antibilieux, Fr. An epithet of medicines that are supposed to remove ailments depending on disordered action of the liver. Aperients, mercurials, and aloetic purgatives generally, belong to this class. See Abernethy Medicines, Bile, Pills, &c.
ANTICAR′DIUM. See Reviver (Black).
ANTI-CHOLERA ACID (H. Ludwig, Vienna; also an American preparation). “A proved cure and preventive of cholera.” Diluted sulphuric acid, 1 part; wine, 5 parts; water, 10 parts. (Hager, Buchner, and Wittstein.)
ANTI-CHOLERA WATER (Eau Anticholerique de Duboc, Paris), for lead colic and a preventive of cholera. Composed of water with some brandy and 1⁄2 per cent. of sulphuric acid. (Gmelin.)
AN′TICHLORE (-klōre). Among bleachers, any substance, agent, or means, by which the pernicious after-affects of chlorine are prevented. Washing with a weak solution of sulphite of soda (which converts any adhering ‘bleaching salt’ into sulphate, sulphide, or chloride) is commonly adopted for this purpose. Recently chloride of tin, used in the same way, has been recommended. A cheap sulphite of lime, prepared by agitating milk of lime with the fumes of burning sulphur, and draining and air-drying the product, has been lately patented in England and America, by Prof. Horsford, under the name of ‘Antichloride of lime,’ See Bleaching, &c.
AN′TIDOTE (-dōte). [Eng., Fr.] Syn. Antid′otum, Antid′otus, L.; Antidot, Gegengift, Ger. In medicine, toxicology, &c., a substance administered to counteract or lessen the effects of poison.
The principal poisons, with their antidotes, are noticed under their respective heads. Also see Poisons, Toxicology, &c.
ANTI-EPILEPTICUM (Wepler, Berlin), known as Wepler’s Krampfpulver. Magnesia alba, 5 parts; rad. dictamni, 15 parts; rad. zedoar, 12 parts; rad. artemis, 8 parts; soot, 1⁄2 part; ol. valerian, 1⁄2 part; ol. cajeputi, 1⁄4 part.
Dr Hager is the authority for the above, and he adds that formerly the same proprietor sold a remedy which consisted of a black powder made by carbonising hempen thread.