white vitriol
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Rust of iron, filings of iron, salt of steel, sal martis, blue vitriol, white vitriol, calomel, emetic tartar, sugar of lead, white arsenic.
From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin
The sulphate of zinc is commonly known by the name of white vitriol.
From Fruits of Philosophy A Treatise on the Population Question by Charles Knowlton
For a wash, white vitriol, 1 drachm; rose-water, 3 ounces, mixed; or an ointment made of alder-flower ointment, 1 ounce; oxide of zinc, 1 drachm.
From Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889 by Barkham Burroughs
With solution of white vitriol ten grains to an ounce.
From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin
The portly man with the authoritative manner and the white, vitriol splash upon his cheek is Charley Manson, chief of the Wormley Asylum, and author of the brilliant monograph—"Obscure Nervous Lesions in the Unmarried."
From The Man from Archangel and Other Tales of Adventure by A. Conan Doyle
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