Eureka Reporter | 1903-05-15 | Page 6 | Antimony Now Little Used

ANTIMONY NOW LITTLE USED medical science has almost almot entirely D carded it that terrible poison antimony known most familiarity famili arIT y in the corn com pound called tartar emetic has a very interesting history it was mas introduced into medicine some centuries ago bi its name signifies that ii Is against moni s as ome come whon it was tried displayed the now tamilla famili ai symptoms its use in modern medi cine hasteen has been reduced to the vanishing point with other depressing measures measure such as bleeding in the table which arranges the elements in series and shows their connections so that all are probably modifications of one uni versal substance there Is a sequence nitrogen phosphorus arsenic anti and 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 ancon which attends their action