The salt of the earth : natural philosophy, medicine, and chymistry in England, 1650-1750 / by Anna Marie Roos.
- Roos, Anna Marie Eleanor.
- Date:
- 2007
- Books
About this work
Publication/Creation
Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2007.
Physical description
xvi, 293 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
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Contents
The context of salts -- Paracelsian concepts of salts -- Van Helmont, salts, and natural history in early modern England -- From salts to saline spirits -- The rise of acids -- Salts and saline spirits in the medical marketplace and literature: patent medicines and chymical satire.
Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-285) and index.
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Where to find it
Location Status History of MedicineAHB.AMOpen shelves
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ISBN
- 9789004161764
- 9004161767