Antimonial Wine.
Take glass of antimony, reduced to fine powder, half an ounce; Lisbon Wine, eight ounces. Digest, without heat, for three or four days, now and then shaking the bottle; afterwards filter the wine through paper.
The dose of this wine varies according to the intention. As an alterative and diaphoretic, it may be taken from ten to fifty or sixty drops. In a larger dose it generally proves cathartic, or excites vomiting.
William Buchan
Domestic Medicine 2nd edition 1785