![]() ![]() Rative but as it serves to enliven the tedkim of a lecture m this metal, it will no doubt retain its place in our books, and be told to all future generations as a capital joke upon Valentine. There is pr toably rnoie fancy than fact in this nar. Unfortunately for the success of the theory, all who partook of it died hereupon the poisonous mineral was called anti-moine, or antimony-destructive to monks. In the kindness of his heart, Valentine thought what a good thing it would be to give some of this fattening powder to his fasting brethren. And if any swine labor with a disease about his liver, antimony causeth it to be dried up and expelled." If a farmer purpose in himself to keep up and fatten any of his cattle-as for example, a hog-two or three days before let him give to the swine a convenient dose of crude antimony, about half a drachm, mixed with his food, that by it he may be purged through which purgative he will not only acquire an appetite to his meat, but the sooner increase and be fattened. "Let men know that antimony not only purgeth gold, cleaneth and frees it from every peregrine matter, and from all other metals, but also (by a power innate in itself) effects the same in man and beasts. He wrote a book called the " Triumphant Chariot of Antimony," in which occurs the following curious passage: The story goes that a Benedictine monk, named Basil Valentine, who lived about the time of Luther, at Erfurt, and was fond of scientific researches, gave metallic powders to some hogs, the effect of which was to purge them thoroughly and then to fatten them.
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