Show na named med after famous spa magnesium sulphate sulphate came into use during the seventeenth century in consequence of the epsom spa in england which became famous as a watering place and health resort about 1640 wrote charles il II lawall in four thousand years of PI pharmacy r later in the same century dr friedrich Fr ledrich riol found the waters of the litz spring in germany to contain magnesium sulp sulphate liate land so the terms epsom salt and litz salt were used to designate this same bame substance long before its composition had been |