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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    a Se eee (37 ) | a Cra. TAE al] Of the Ufe of the Bitter Purging Salt, more Hit) particularly: and firft, in Diteates of the «|. Stomach. | V Hat I am about to fay of the Purging 9 Waters, and of their Sat, isnot ground- a ed upon meer Conjecture, but the long Experience ) i of other very Learned Phy/icians, as well as my d own. Who allof us, in the Difeafes hereafter ^i| mentioned, have made ufe of both the aforefaid Remedies, with very good Succefs. T ^ Firf then, the Purging Waters, or the Salt | madeof them, area moft Friendly Aedicine to | the Stomach, viz, in promoting both an Appetite, It} anda good Digeftion, Partly, from oneof its in Principles, which is Potentially Acid; and partly, !! from the addition of the Alcaline, and thereby the Bitternefs of the whole. And from the for- mer fo much the rather, becaufe it affords a Spirit fomewhat of kin to the Spirit of common _| Salt, the Seafoner of all Food: yet from the latter withal, feeing we experience the Sto- | mach to be ftrengthned with moft things which | are bitter. And tis well known that they | are compounded Salts, which whet the Appetite | moft of all. For Pickles are generally made not ! with Brine alone, but with the addition of Vime- | | él DC i ter, (REE EE ITM CERES as es tia