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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    NG Oe PL LV Some further Obfervatious of the Nature of the Bitter Purging Salt defer ibed, one of the principal is,its mean? Jom dy. üt o that] know of, come the neareft. For thefe are bitter is alfo joined with the greateft Au/terity * In tbeSecond Dif- courfe of Mixture. Tafte, except the Salt of Silvé v, and the Purge 25 ig Sak. But whether the Purging Salt is the product} of any perfect or imperte& Silver-Adine, or any, to Rough in the bighejt degree} As in all likelihood, it} alia becomes in the Stomach and Bowels;\.when it there proves a potent Aftringent in Diarrhaas thence arifing.