THE
HISTORY OF SALT;
WITH OBSERVATIONS
ON ITS
GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION,
GEOLOGICAL FORMATION,
AND
MEDICINAL AND DIETETIC PROPERTIES.
BY
EVAN MARLETT BODDY, F.R.C.S., F.S.S.,
LICENTIATE OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS; LICENTIATE IN MIDWIFERY;
ETC., ETC., ETC.
“Salt is good.”
LONDON:
BAILLIÈRE, TINDALL, AND COX,
20, KING WILLIAM STREET, STRAND.
1881.
[All Rights Reserved.]
To
WILLIAM BARNARD BODDY ESQ.,
Formerly R.N., SURGEON;
THIS
TREATISE
IS
Affectionately Dedicated
BY HIS SON,
EVAN MARLETT BODDY
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CONTENTS.
| CHAPTER | PAGE | |
| I. | INTRODUCTION | 7 |
| II. | HISTORY OF SALT | 9 |
| III. | SALT AS A CHEMICAL, THERAPEUTICAL, AND TOXICOLOGICALAGENT | 25 |
| IV. | GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION | 29 |
| V. | GEOLOGICAL FORMATION OF SALT | 42 |
| VI. | EFFECTS ON ANIMAL AND VEGETABLE LIFE | 53 |
| VII. | MEDICINAL AND DIETETIC PROPERTIES | 61 |
| VIII. | PHYSIOLOGICAL PROPERTIES | 87 |
| IX. | CONCLUSION | 92 |
| APPENDIX | 94 | |
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THE HISTORY OF SALT.
CHAPTER I.
INTRODUCTION.
How frequently it happens that those natural productions withwhich we are to a certain extent superficially familiar, are to agreat many not only uninteresting, but are regarded as subjects moreor less beneath their notice; and by others as deleterious to thehuman race, and therefore to be cautiously used or scrupulouslyavoided. Another peculiarity is, that the more we are