A shorte discourse of the most rare and excellent vertue of nitre wherein is declared the sondrie and diuerse cures by the same effected, and how it may be aswell receiued in medicine inwardly as outwardly plaiterwise applied: seruing to the vse and commoditie aswell of the meaner people as of the delicater sorte.

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Title: A shorte discourse of the most rare and excellent vertue of nitre wherein is declared the sondrie and diuerse cures by the same effected, and how it may be aswell receiued in medicine inwardly as outwardly plaiterwise applied: seruing to the vse and commoditie aswell of the meaner people as of the delicater sorte.
Author: Chaloner, Thomas, Sir, 1561-1615.
Publication: Imprinted at London :: By [T. Marshe for] Gerald Dewes, dwelling in Paules churchyearde at the signe of the Swanne,; [1584]
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Subject terms: Saltpeter -- Therapeutic use -- Early works to 1800.
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