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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    ipsu | Laftly, let it be noted, that I have called the]. - Alcaline. Principle of the Purging Salt, Tuch a | one as is capable of becoming, in fome fort, Lix4 ivial: For neither in the Calx it fel£ of this Salél o (as hath already been obferved in this Chapter} * is there any. Lixivial Tajte. Notwithftanding] which, from the Experiments afore-relatedj the Purging Salt may be argu’d, before it hath| felt the Fire, to be in part, dlealine ; but when} it is well burnt, to be in fome fort Luxmoudl Ho albeit we may not fo properly call it Lixivial]|n: nor perhaps by any other Jame which Ufa] hath approved : For the Furniture of Words is| in nothing more fcanty *, than it is in Pbilofos phy; to wit, in that Philofopby,, which, as the Handmaid of /Vaiure, obferveth her. varieties]m every where admirable, with exa&teft Difcrimisli nation and Diligence. aie Ree aac x The Furniture of words is in nothing more fcanty, than iv is in Philofophy.| ‘The occafion of many falfe Conceptionti of things, entertained and defended by unthinking Mem] 4, who having no other Images of things, but fuch, as anfwel]. xo fome word in ufe conclude the number of proper Wordi] ^ and of things to be the fame. Id