“…Thus the word antimony, which the chemists for the last two or three centuries have used specifically to designate the metal, has long been used to designate also the natural sulfide. The English word antimony, or the French antimoine, is derived from the Latin antimonium, which is assumedly derived from the arabic al ithmid (Schelenz (18)). According to Du-Cange (6), the word was introduced about 1100 by Constantin, the African, in "Liber de Gradibus" (p. 381); it occurs in Platearius' "Circa instans"..., in Nicolas' "Antidotatium," in Salernus' "Tabulae," in Vincent de Beauvais' "Speculum Naturale" (Book VIII, p. 49), in Majeri's "Scrut'mum" (18) as well as in Aldobrandino's writings.…”