The Materia Medica of the Hindus, compiled from Sanskrit Medical Works c4.s7.t2.8
The Materia Medica of the Hindus, compiled from Sanskrit Medical Works c4.s7.t2.8
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c4.s7.t2.8
A specimen of roasted orpiment supplied to me by an up-country physician was analized and found to contain but a small proportion of white arsenic. Bengali physicians do not prepare this drug from a superstitious notion that the man who roasts orpiment dies very soon. They purchase it from *Fakirs* or religious mendicants. It is said that some specimens of roasted orpiment are highly poisonous, and contain a large proportion of white arsenic. The quality of the drug would no doubt vary according to the method in which it is prepared.