volatile salt

British  

noun

1. another name for sal volatile

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Example Sentences

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

All these virtues may be said to be derived from the union of their balsamic oil and volatile salt.

From A Treatise on Foreign Teas Abstracted From An Ingenious Work, Lately Published, Entitled An Essay On the Nerves by Smith, Hugh

There is also very little, if any white cloud formed upon holding a piece of the volatile salt within the mouth of a phial containing smoking spirit of nitre.

From Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air by Priestley, Joseph

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

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