CHAPTER X.

Concerning Muria*
I just now mentioned two kinds of Salt, Muria and dry Salt. First of all, Muria has the greatest power of drying up all superfluous moisture. It does more in on^ hour than dry Salt could effect in a month. Although this has been reduced to Muria, It has not the same power as the natural in curing moist gout, dropsy, moist tumours of the tibia, and other tumours as well, in a word, for consuming all unnatural leprous liquids. Its heat should be so tempered that a patient could sit in it ;is in a bath without injury. The proof of perfection in Muria is that an ^%^ shall swim on its surface when thrown into it. It should be noticed that a bath of this kind is only adapted for stout people. People who are of a spare habit should not use it, as it dries up too much. If after one or two baths the tumours return, it would be best to live for a time in those places where the decoctions of Mtiriae and Salt are made.