A treatise of the nature and use of the bitter purging salt. Easily known from all counterfeits by its bitter taste / Written originally in Latin ... And now published in English, by Joseph Bridges. With animadversions of a late corrupt translation publish'd by Francis Moult.

  • Nehemiah Grew
Date:
1697
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Credit: A treatise of the nature and use of the bitter purging salt. Easily known from all counterfeits by its bitter taste / Written originally in Latin ... And now published in English, by Joseph Bridges. With animadversions of a late corrupt translation publish'd by Francis Moult. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    (c IO) fpecifick Gravity 5 that is, the meight hereof, domly par'd with the Bulk. As itis heavier than 49 lum 5 fo, much lighter than common Salt : andi alfo than Witre; as will appear hereafter in the sth Chapter. — hà A Solution of this Salt, and another of Salt of Tartar, orof any other Lixividl, or Urinowaler Salt *, being mixed, pr oduce a mbite Coagulums | or C urd; ; Ora certain kind of Neutral ; Salt, taz {ted neither like the one, nor the other, but in|, fome fort Affringent. Imi Oil of Vitriol, very ftrong, and newly made} being dropped upon this Purging Salt, caufeth aj 1 moderate Ebullition, W hereby it appears to} ji partake of an Alcaline Principle T, which is abii fo capable of becoming in fome fort Lixivial. Yah But no other Liquor, that I know of, whetherfin, Alcaline or Acid, being droped upon the faid] | Salt, gives it any manner of Motion or Heat. ‘Ae This Salt being put in a Crucible, into a pret}, ty bright Fire, it melts or flows much a after thet, manner of Alum, and huifs ay into the form offi awhite, porous, and slubber’d Calx. Yet is this} Calx almoft whol ly dif Tluble’ in a fufhicient quan} tity] * Urinous Salt) Such as the volatile Salt of Harts-hornj@}i, $ 4 An Alcaline le, capable of becomingy oot, Qs. | v Alcaline I ^yincip £, CH} DLE 07 comming) in [ome fort Lixivia I. | Obferve disc the -fe two are to be difüne| euifhed, viz. as the Genus is from the Species: For moft| Lixivial Salts are Alcaline ; but there are many Alcaline (asp deitioddla Its actually exiftent in Shells-unburnt) whichi are not Lixivial. |: vcf