Glauber's saltGlauber's saltsn.
Sulphate of sodium. (It was first artificially made by Glauber in 1656.)
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1736 N. Bailey Dict. Domesticum 503 If drink become thick..put in a little fix'd nitre or Glaubers salt.
1761 L. Sterne Let. 28 July in Lett. 1739–64 (2009) 202 If you had not shut up your gall-ducts..the glauber salts could not have hurt.
1772 W. Buchan Domest. Med. (ed. 2) xlvii. 617 A dose or two of Glauber's salts, or some other cooling purge, may be taken.
1812 H. Davy Elements Chem. Philos. 31 Glauber's salt, which consists of sulphuric acid and fossil alkali.
1856 Farmer's Mag. Jan. 29 I have..tried Glauber salts in small doses of three ounces, with very great success.
1871 J. Tyndall Fragm. Sci. (1879) I. xii. 357 A solution of common sulphate of soda or Glauber salt.
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