"As a result of the whole tendency of this period pharmaceutical chemistry developed in the course of it to a marked extent. By reason of the eager search for new chemical preparations capable of employment as medicines, the apothecaries busied themselves more and more with chemical reactions, so that in their shops were reared the most important chemists of the following period. We shall find this... in the case of Kunkel, Marggraf, Geoffroy, and especially Scheele. Of inorganic compounds the salts in particular found general employment in medicine; potassium nitrate, , and were used under various names; , which was obtained by Glauber from the residue in the preparation of , and was called sal mirabile Glavberi, enjoyed great repute among the physicians of the time. Among ammonium salts, sal ammoniac and were employed, as well as and , discovered by Libavius and Glauber."
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Hugo Bauer, A History of Chemistry (1907) pp. 56-57.
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