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peak) giving the utmost _poinant_ and _Relevee_ in lieu of our vulgar _Salt_, to recommend and cry-up the _Essential-Salts_ and _Spirits_ of the most Sanative Vegetables; or such of the _Alcalizate_ and _Fixt_; extracted from the _Calcination_ of _Baulm_, _Rosemary_, _Wormwood_, _Scurvy-grass_, &c. Affirming that without the gross Plant, we might have healing, cooling, generous, and refreshing _Cordials_, and all the _Materia Medica_ out of the _Salt-Cellar_ only: But to say no more of this Impertinence, as to _Salts_ of _Vegetables_; many indeed there be, who reckon them not much unlike in Operation, however different in _Taste_, _Crystals_, and _Figure_: It being a question, whether they at all retain the Vertues and Faculties of their _Simples_, unless they could be made without _Colcination_. _Franciscus Redi_, gives us his Opinion of this, in a _Process_ how they are to be prepar'd; and so does our Learned [58]Doctor (whom we lately nam'd) whether _Lixivial_, _Essential_, _Marine_, or other factitious _Salts_ of Plants, with their Qualities, and how they differ: But since 'tis thought all _Fixed Salts_ made the _common way_, are little better than our _common Salt_, let it suffice, that our _Sallet-Salt_ be of the best ordinary _Bay-Salt_, clean, bright, dry, and without claminess. Of _Sugar_ (by some call'd _Indian-Salt_) as it is rarely us'd in _Sallet_, it should be of the best refined, white, hard, close, yet light and sweet as the _Madera's_: Nourishing, preserving, cleansing, delighting the Taste, and preferrable to _Honey_ for most uses. _Note_, That both _this_, _Salt_, and _Vinegar_, are to be proportion'd to the Constitution, as well as what is said of the Plants themselves. The one for cold, the other for hot stomachs. V. That the _Mustard_ (another noble Ingredient) be of the best _Tewksberry_; or else compos'd of the soundest and weightiest _Yorkshire Seed_, exquisitely sifted, winnow'd, and freed from the Husks, a little (not over-much) dry'd by the Fire, temper'd to the consistence of a Pap with _Vinegar_, in which shavings of the _Horse-Radish_ have been steep'd: Then cutting an _Onion_, and putting it into a small Earthen _Gally-Pot_, or some thick _Glass_ of that shape; pour the _Mustard_ over it, and close it very well with a _Cork_. There be, who preserve the Flower and Dust of the bruised Seed in a well-stopp'd Glass, to temper, and have it fresh when they please. But what is yet by some e
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