The salt of the earth : natural philosophy, medicine, and chymistry in England, 1650-1750 / by Anna Marie Roos.

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:History of science and medicine library ; v. 3.
Main Author: Roos, Anna Marie Eleanor
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2007.
Series:History of science and medicine library ; v. 3.
Subjects:
Science > Europe > Philosophy > History > 16th century.
Science > Europe > Philosophy > History > 17th century.
Medicine > Europe > Philosophy > History > 16th century.
Medicine > Europe > Philosophy > History > 17th century.
Salt > Europe > History.
Salt > Health aspects.
Renaissance.
Sodium Chloride > history.
History, 17th Century.
History, 18th Century.
Sodium Chloride > chemistry.
Sodium Chloride > therapeutic use.
England.
Paracelsus, > 1493-1541 > Influence.
Helmont, Jean Baptiste van, > 1577-1644 > Influence.
Physical Description:xvi, 293 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Format: Book
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.