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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    the Salt diffolved, gives the fame moderately Lite ter Tafte, without the leaft Acidity joined with it. PA CE TIT REE = - com CoH AS eY TIE Of the Way of. prefcribing the Butter Purging Salt. YT may be taken in any Liquor, agreeable to the Patien?s Conftitution or Palate: as Spring-Water, diftil?d Water,.ot any other very Clear ; a Decodtion of Pearl'd Barley, thin Water- Grooel, or very thin Panada; Poffet-drink,Whey*, and the like. I often ufe fair Water, a little boil’d and feafon'd with 7ace ; whereof Lpre- | {cribe a Quart. or three Pints, or two Quarts | impregnated with half an Ounce, or an Ounce, | or mote of the Purging Salt - : asforexample: [^ Take of Spring-Water two Quarts, Mace a | Drachm: Boil them a little, and in the Liquor J diffolve an Ounce or ten Drachms of the bitter q^» Purging | + Whey.| The Englifh Reader may be minded, that the Whey is to be boil’d, left the Salt fhould make it curdle, if not before it is drunk, yet inthe Stomach.’ + Jmpreg- nated with half an Ounce or an Ounce of Salt, &c] -Ic 8 here requifite to admonifh the Englifh Reader, That in ta- | king the Purging Salt, he is to be guided in the manner, time, | and quantity, by his Conftitution and Difeafe. And that | eve in making a judgment. of thefe, he 15 not to cruft him- | ln {elf too far, but, as his fafcft Courfe, to be advifed by a. | | Phyfician. | |