A Salty Conversation

Thy Worst. I fart at thee (said by Subtle, the second line in the 1610 play, The Alchemist, by Benjonson). 

The author thanks Ms. Rita L. Shumaker, a faculty member at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, for this original drawing and her imaginative evocation of the Archeus. 

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FIGURE 98. Title page of the second edition (1699) of physician Thomas Ernes Dia-logue Between Alkali and Acid. The question is Which one is the cause of disease and which the cure  

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