The salt of the earth : natural philosophy, medicine, and chymistry in England, 1650-1750 /
Roos, Anna Marie Eleanor.
Leiden ; Boston : Brill,
2007.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-285) and index.
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.
Paracelsus, 1493-1541
Helmont, Jean Baptiste van, 1577-1644
Science
Science
Medicine
Medicine
Salt
Salt
Renaissance.