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Author Roos, Anna Marie Eleanor.

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

Imprint Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2007.

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Description xvi, 293 p. : ill.
Series History of science and medicine library, 1872-0684 ; v. 3
History of science and medicine library ; v. 3.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Paracelsus, 1493-1541 -- Influence.
Helmont, Jean Baptiste van, 1577-1644 -- Influence.
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.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9789004161764 (hardback : alk. paper)

 
    
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