Sulphate of Copper, CuSO 4 5H 2 O; Blue vitriol; Cuprum vitriolatum. Preparation , Solution in water. Authorities. A , Hahnemann, from Fragmenta de viribus. 1 , Greding udov, Adv., I, 535, effects of grain doses in epileptics, from Hahnemann's Cuprum in Chr. Kn.; 2 , Kinglake, Lond. Med. Phys. Journ., V, 438, from Cup. sulf., given for epilepsy, from Hahnemann; 3 , Simmons, Med. and Phil. Comm., IV, 33, from touching wound in hand with cup. sulf., from Hahnemann; 4 , Journ. de Chim. Méd., 3, 639, a man took 10 grains in by water, from Wibmer; 5 , Rust's Mag., 1824, a workman swallowed some by mistake (Frank's Mag., 1, 465); 6 , Willich, Baldinger neues Mag., 1785, a woman was poisoned by blue vitriol becoming mixed with pepper in a mortar; 7 , Moschka, translated in Hahn. Month., 7, 66, F. H., aged 16 swallowed some; 8 , Med. Times., 1847, a woman, aged 36, swallowed about 1 1/2 scruples; 9 , Todd, Lancet, 1841, a woman, aged 18, took some in a solution; 10 , Andral, Brit. Ann. of Med., 1837, from Bull. Gén. de Thérap., a man took an ounce (Berridge's coll.); 11 , Simon, effects of inhaling vapor and dipping hands into a solution, The Chemist, 1840 (Berridge's coll.).