IX. The Practice of Painting: 639.

IX. The Practice of Painting: 639.

639.

p. 323

Salt may be made from human excrement burnt and calcined and made into lees, and dried by a slow fire, and all dung in like manner yields salt, and these salts when distilled are very pungent.

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