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THere is salte digged but of the earth, & also salte that is made of the salt water: all kyndes of salt be abstersiue, and stiptike or bynding, but some more, some lesse, after the diuersity of the Groundes and Earthe where they be made. Salte is hoate & dry in the seconde degree, it doth consume all indystures, and condensate, and gather to∣gether the substaunce that doth remeyne, whereby the bodyes be preserued from pu∣trifactiō.
Sal Armoniake among all salts that be mineralles is chiefest, and doth con∣sume superfluous humors in the eyeliddes, whereby the hayres in them doe prosper & increase: all salte doth represse & extenuate superfluous fleshe, & is vsed in Glysters & in bagges or sackes to cease paints. & consume colde swellings, as in Dropsies: with oyle and vyneger also cureth the Itch of the bo∣dy: and is also good in playsters agaynst ye stinging or byting of venemous Beastes 〈◊〉〈◊〉 and doth preserue frō the gout. Salte bur∣ned is more subtill, and resolutiue, & of iess•• bynding or restrictyuenesse, than salte vn∣burned. Sal gemmae is of ye nature of salte and moreouer purgeth Fleagme, and Ch〈…〉〈…〉¦ler: and helpeth medicines laxtiue in th〈…〉〈…〉 operations.