Common salt is of great use to prevent the putrefaction of aliments, and to restrain the heat of the humours of the body; it abates the sharpness of the fluids,and tend to carry the noxious particles off by urine. It helps digestion, prevent costiveness, and procures an appetite : but salted meat breeds the stone, causes the scurvy, scabs, and the lepro-sy, causing great heat throughout the body, and hurting all the functions.