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A History of Inventions, Discoveries, and Origins, Volume 2 (of 2)

Note 246 — SOAP.

William Johnston translation

Cicer. Ep. Fam. viii. 14.—Pollucis Onom. viii. 9, 39; x. 135.—Ovid. De Medicam. Faciei, ver. 73 et 85.—Phavorini Dictionar. p. 527. Gynesius calls clothes washed with nitrum, νιτρούμενα, nitro perfricata.

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