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(Made by digesting sulphuret of antimony in a mixture of nitric and muriatic acids with the aid of heat; filtering the liquor, and pouring it into water: freeing the precipitate from acid, by washing and drying it; adding this powder to bitartrate of potassa in boiling distilled water; boiling for an hour, and after filtering the liquor while hot, setting it aside to crystallize.-Ph. U. S.) Tartarized antimony is emetic, sometimes cathartic and diaphoretic. Externally, it is rubefacient, and in the form of ointment, more especially unguentum antimonii is used to cause pustulation. Dose, as an emetic, gr. j to gr. iv in solution: as a diaphoretic, gr. one-sixteenth to gr. one-quarter. The empirical preparation, called Norris's drops, consists of a solution of tartarized antimony in rectified spirit, disguised by the addition of some vegetable colouring matter.