volatile salt
Britishnoun
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Having generally fastened the small bag which contained the volatile salt to a piece of brass wire in the preceding experiment, I commonly found the end of it corroded, and covered with a blue substance.
From Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air by Priestley, Joseph
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
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
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
And consisting much of a volatile salt, when that is fired out, make a light kind of cinders.
From Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend by Browne, Thomas, Sir
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