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Show ANTIMONY NOV- UiTTLE. USED. Medical Science Has Almost Entirely Discarded It. That terrible poison, antimony, known most familiarly in the compound com-pound called tartar emetic, has a very interesting history. It was introducec! Into medicine some centuries ago bj Paracelsus. Its name signifies that ll is "against monks," as some on whorr. It was tried displayed the now familial symptoms. Its use in modern modi cine has been reduced to the vanishing point, with other depressing measures, such as bleeding. In the table which arranges the elements in series and shows their connections so that all are probably modifications of one universal uni-versal substance there is a sequence, nitrogen, phosphorus, arsenic, antimony, anti-mony, bismuth. Sir Lauder Brunton has shown that these possess many common properties in their action upon man and that these properties vary In relation to the place of each in the scale. In the days before chloroform antimony and tobacco were used to produce the partial unconsciousness uncon-sciousness which attends their action. |