The Collaborative International Dictionary
Antimonial \An`ti*mo"ni*al\, a. Of or pertaining to antimony. -- n. (Med.) A preparation or medicine containing antimony.
Antimonial powder, a consisting of one part oxide of antimony and two parts phosphate of calcium; -- also called James's powder.
Wiktionary
a. (context dated chemistry English) Of or pertaining to antimony. n. Any drug or medical preparation containing antimony.
WordNet
adj. of or containing antimony
containing antimony; "antimonial lead"
Wikipedia
Antimonials, in pre-modern medicine, were remedies principally containing antimony, used chiefly for emetic purposes. They might also have qualified for cathartic, diaphoretic, or simply alternative uses. Such treatments were considered unparalleled in their strength.
Usage examples of "antimonial".
An antimonial cup is included in the inventory of Samuel Seabury, who died 1680, and is valued at five shillings.
Guy Patin, Dean of the Faculty of Paris, Professor at the Royal College, Author of the Antimonial Martyrology, a wit and a man of sense and learning, who died almost two hundred years ago, had come to the same conclusion, though the chemists of his time boasted of their remedies.
Will the people live under a government where antimonial powders cannot be procured?
Later investigations have shown that, in cases of antimonial poisoning, vomiting does not necessarily get rid of all the poison, and the convulsions in which Auguste Ballet died are symptomatic of poisoning either by morphia or antimony.
An antimonial cup is included in the inventory of Samuel Seabury, who died 1680, and is valued at five shillings.