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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    over the flame of a Candle, it melts within half che Minute of an Hour ; and hufis np with Blub- |] py bers in the fame manner as if caft into the Fire. | Bi Whereas Jvitre, with the fame fort of heat, will Jl st hardly melt at all, but requires at leaft an ezgbt- |) ti fold {pace of Time, anda very bright Flame. n Onthe contrary, altho itis melted more dif- |; ficultly, yet with much greater Fluidity; for be- || ing placed, ina Crucible, in a good ftrong Fire, | it doth not blubber as Alum, or as the Purging Salty) o but like Rofin, or Metal, plainly flows. M Nitre alfo, melted in a Crucible, fends forth } a thick and dark Steam- Whereof there is no J appearance arifing from the Purging Salt, tho | with the moft vehement heat. 11. They are moreover diftinguifhed by the Pro- |. perty of curdling Milk. For balf a Drachm of}, the Purging Salt, being put into balf a Pint of |, boiling Milk, makes a confiderable Curd, with a} 4 very thin Whey : But Nitre being added to AZilk |y in the fame manner, and in à much greater pros] portion, doth | The Solubility 0 Degrees, than that | have be to the Purging Salt. For 04 ter being well fhaken, and | hof the Hand, will diffolve no more than a d half of Nitre. if They are likewife di bt, whereol] | made the Experiment put Oilof Turpentine into a