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Show Named After Famous Spa Magnesium sulphate came into use Iduring the Seventeenth century in consequence of the Epsom spa in England, which became famous as a watering place and health resort j about 1640, wrote Charles H. LaWall 'in "Four Thousand Years of Pharmacy." Phar-macy." Later in the same century Dr. Friedrich Hoffman found the waters wa-ters of the Seidlitz spring in Ger-jmany Ger-jmany to contain magnesium sulphate !and so the terms Epsom salt and Seidlitz salt were used to designate this same substance long before its composition had been established. |