element

Brine

Elements

Strong salt water of pickling and salt-works. Not seawater as the open ocean alone, and not dry salt.

  • Brine is used in Medicine.

    Pliny’s Natural History treats brine and strong salt waters among cleansing and preserving applications. A Roman-era pharmacological use of salt liquor, not salt as the dry mineral already filed and not seawater as an ocean dump.

    from Pliny the Elder · Natural History, c. 77 CE

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