Armoniac salt

Meaning

Phrase.

The epilogue says the philosophers named the alkali salt armoniac and vegetable, concealed in the belly of magnesia. Later it admits that extraction and use of our armoniac salt or philosophical Mercury have not been fully disclosed. The phrase is thus central to both the asserted unity of names and the acknowledged boundary of revelation; it must not be reduced to an unqualified modern commercial substance. Sal vegetabile is a normalized phrase for the coordinated printed wording.