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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    cemcremnemamh COMNNIMER, eat dtidh i be acta a Shia wj irc me MERE WF Salt | ( d T AE UE any fort of Body which is a ftranger to it. For if you evaporate fome diftill'd Water impreg- sqgaated with an Ounce of this Sale; it will yield qnot one Grain of any Heterogeneous Salt, nor of the /tony Sediment, nor of the like Cremor 5 ) b . ille but the fame Ounce of a molt pure Purging Salt. JS ve | Vee the | | PART the SECOND. Of the USE of the Bitter wi] uy lofe | I in if Purging SALT. , tO hat CHAP I. ji yon | The Ufe of the Bitter Purging Salt, er more generally con[ider'd. i un He Ufe of the Purging Waters near Ep- al fom, and others of the fame kind, is n | fo great and manifold, and fo well ^g known to our London Pbyficians of any 4 | ftanding and practice, that they who make a - | doubt of it, are hardly to be allow'd the hear- f| ing. They are experienced to be a very effec- j | tual Remedy in fundry great Difeafes, without the | con-