volatile salt

British  

noun

1. another name for sal volatile

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Example Sentences

The white is held in greatest esteem in physick, tho' it be opacous; when it is rubbed against anything, it is odoriferous, and it yields more volatile salt than the rest.

From Forty Centuries of Ink or, a chronological narrative concerning ink and its backgrounds, introducing incidental observations and deductions, parallels of time and color phenomena, bibliography, chemistry, poetical effusions, citations, anecdotes and curiosa together with some evidence respecting the evanescent character of most inks of to-day and an epitome of chemico-legal ink. by Carvalho, David Nunes

The one has a good deal of the caput mortuum of genius, the other is all volatile salt.

From The Spirit of the Age Contemporary Portraits by Hazlitt, William

Externally the smoke of burnt feathers, oil of amber, volatile salt applied to the nostrils, blisters, sinapisms.

From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus

Preparations of volatile salt, spirit, gelatine, essence, etc., are made from them, and are very useful in epilepsy and hœmorrhage.

From The Doctor in History, Literature, Folk-Lore, Etc. by Various

Subsequently, Clayton "vomited him" every other day and made him take volatile salt of amber between vomitings.

From Medicine in Virginia, 1607-1699 by Hughes, Thomas Proctor