Observations on antimony / Read before the Medical Society of London, and published at their request

by John Millar

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THE CONTENTS.

INTRODUCTION	[Page 1]
SECTION I.
Some Account of the earlier Chymists, and of their opinions concerning Antimony	[4]
SECTION II.
Of the Natural History of Antimony	[13]
SECTION III.
Of the Chymical Properties and Analysis of Antimony	[27]
SECTION IV.
Of the Antimonial Preparations and their Medical Effects	[48]
SECTION V.
Of the Secret Antimonial Medicines, and particularly of the Fever-Powder	[71]

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OBSERVATIONS
ON
ANTIMONY.

INTRODUCTION.

Read 1st and 15th Febry. 1774.

Remedies have often acquired reputation without sufficient evidence of their innocence and efficacy. Some have been introduced by an injudicious application of the theory of the schools, others by rash and precipitate conclusions drawn from partial experiment, and many by a refined species of imposition on the credulity of mankind, veiled under the specious pretence of strict morality, extensive benevolence, and disinterested love of science.