Show ANTIMONY there are a great many of which in common life we know nothing although some of them minister to our wants one of these metals is is antimony ano anc as we owe a great deal to it so let us become better acquainted with it this tins metal metai has been known from time immemorial its e early arly name was but bazil valentine an alchemist and a german monk having as tra relates thrown some of it to the hogs observed observe ed that after purging them violently til they ey immediately grew fat upon it upon this he imagined that by giving h his is fellow monks a similar donethey dos ethey also aiso would become fat the experiment however was anything ant successful for most of them lied died tied from that time was named antimony altimon an timon anti monk this chii very paper could not bear this I 1 1 antelli gence ge ice toyon to yon my dear read redd redder reader tr wert weft it i r rot lot for antimony because the type voth vuth which it is pr printed 1 anted is a mixture oe of th thit it meta medi I 1 and lead F for or many reasons the type metal metai now in use is not likely to be superseded so as far as we can judge printing will always be indirectly indebted to antimony haw much then do lie tie e I 1 ove 0 VP to this metal metai when 1 pure 1 re it is a brilliant silver like hard metal meta 1 when m melted at a red hea beat healand tand and thrown u upon P on the ground it divides into global cs each 0 one e burning with remarkable scintillations when antimony 0 exposed to the air air it does not like iron iron but retains its brilliance for a considerable time it cannot however be rolled or hammered without falling to powder 1 hence it is is but little used by hardware manufacturers rs but when alloyed that is is mixed with other metals it forms several useful compounds bazil valentines dan dangerous C erous experiment led to the use of antimony in medicine and in in this field it has obtained such a reputation that to the present day it is in in some reg reL remedies nedies A 1 in in the doctors shop antimony wine is a family kamily medicine nowa now ta a da dayd days although ae athas has had I something to put up with on its road roid to fanne fase the parliament of taris pans at one time made it illegal to use internally and a celebrated physician physician lost his diploma for adminis administering terin it however however in in 1637 it was restored to use by public authority and so it has continued tw to 0 th present time tim i the antimony mines are chiefly in hungary transylvania and germany but small portions are also ilso obtained from the silver lead mines mines of old eng england land ex |