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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    | | than three quarters of an Inch. Wherefore Nitre And yet Water, if impregnated with the Purg- it will fubfide or fink lower, than of the Jatter +. Laftly, Let Dantzick Vitriol, Sal Armoniac, Much lef is it the Nitre of the Antients - For neither is it that Egyptian kind, fo often men- rae a : tioned —— uL ML PEN * By one fourth Part] That is, three times the bulk of Nitre, makes equal weight with four crimes the: bulk: ot the Purging Salt. T The Reader cannot fo well underftand this Experiment, except he have recourfe to thar Lecture, which the Author read fome years fince before the Roya; Society, of the Solurion of Salts in Water.