![Acid Salts have the Power of Destroying the Blewness of the Infusion of our Wood [lignum nephreticum], and those Liquors indiscriminatly that abound with Sulphurous Salts, (under which I comprehend the Urinous and Volatile Salts of Animal Substances, and the Alcalisate or fixed Salts that are made by Incineration) have the virtue of Restoring it.](/assets/img/quote-photos/acid-salts-have-the-power-of-destroying-the-blewness-of-the-infusion-of-our-wood.jpg)
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