A treatise of the nature and use of the bitter purging salt contain'd in Epsom and such other waters by Nehemiah Grew.

Title

A treatise of the nature and use of the bitter purging salt contain'd in Epsom and such other waters by Nehemiah Grew.

Author

Grew, Nehemiah, 1641-1712.

Publication

London :: [s.n.],

1697.

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Subject terms

Mineral waters -- Therapeutic use.

Saline waters -- Great Britain.

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Contents

• title page
• ADVERTISEMENT.
• TO THE READER.
• Part the First. OF THE NATURE OF THE Bitter Purging Salt.
  • CHAP. I. How the bitter Purging Waters were first Discovered.
  • CHAP. II. Of the Nature of the Bitter Purging Waters.
  • CHAP. III. Of the Nature of the Bitter Salt, peculiar to the Purging Waters.
  • CHAP. IV. Of the difference between the bitter Purging Salt, Allom, and the Muriatick Salt.
  • CHAP. V. The difference of the bitter Purging Salt from Nitrous and Calcarious Salts.
  • CHAP. VI. Some additional Observations of the Nature of the Bitter Purging Salt.
• Part the Second. OF THE USE OF THE Bitter Purging Salt.
  • CHAP. I. Of the more General Use of the Bitter Purging Salt.
  • CHAP. II. Of the Method of prescribing the Bitter Purging Salt.
  • CHAP. III. Of the more particular Use of this Salt, and first of all of its Use in Diseases of the Ventricle.
    • For a lost Appetite.
    • In Vomitings.
    • And to this joyn the Use of the following Pills.
    • In a Bastard Collick.
    • In a hot Hypocondriack Distemper.
    • In the Heart-Burning.
  • CHAP. IV. Of the Use of the Bitter Purging Salt in Diseases of the Intestines and Parts ad∣jacent: And first of the Collick.
    • In Worms.
    • Or if the Purging Salt be given in Bitter Glisters, in the Stone,
    • In heat of Urine.
    • In suppression of Urine.
    • In a Diabetes.
    • In the Jaundice.
  • CHAP. V. Of the Use of the Purging Salt in Cephalick Diseases: And first in Madness.
    • In the Head-Ach.
    • In a Virtigo.
  • CHAP. VI. Of the Use of the Bitter Purging Salt in some other Diseases: And first in Hyste∣rical Fits.
    • In the Wandring Gout, vulgarly, but erro∣neously, call'd the Rhuematism.
    • In a Scorbutick Itch,
  • CHAP. VII. Of the Abuse of the Bitter Waters and their Salt.