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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    fician by meer Motions to Stool, nor afrights the Patient by over-purging. Befides, the Waters are not always of equa Store begins to fail, will venture to adulterate them with common Water ; whereby the Pbyfici- Cui ters, if pure and perfect, is always alike, and of the like purging Virtue. prefcribe the Waters, not to be drunk raw, but) boil'd: For fo the Quantity of the Waters being leffen'd, and yet the Strength encreafed *, they, work off the Stomach and Bowels more advanta- gioufly. In Summer they fhould be boil'd to} iit 0 Y Ati Yen Who quires two or. three Hours: Whereas the Purging Salt of the Waters being diffolved in any conve-| nient Liquor, perhaps a little boil’d, is a Medi] cine always ready, very convenient to the 4po- tbecary's hand, and more to the Patient’s Cale ; who in urgent Difeafeslies in much pain, while (iE MAES NGAI SES, MMC eiae eor * The Strength encreafed.\ That is, proportionably td like, but in a fixed Salt.