The salt of the earth : natural philosophy, medicine, and chymistry in England, 1650-1750 / by Anna Marie Roos.

  • Roos, Anna Marie Eleanor.
Date:
2007
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Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2007.

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xvi, 293 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

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Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-285) and index.

Contents

The context of salts -- Paracelsian concepts of salts -- Van Helmont, salts, and natural history in early modern England -- From salts to saline spirits -- The rise of acids -- Salts and saline spirits in the medical marketplace and literature: patent medicines and chymical satire.

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    History of Medicine
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  • 9789004161764
  • 9004161767