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Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London
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Some observations and experiments about Vitriol, tending to find out the nature of that substance, and to give further light in the inquiry after the principles and properties of other Minerals: communicated by a Fellow of the R. Society, who maketh use of chymistry chiefly as subservient to physiology

      Vitriol is by the Spagyrical Tribe reputed one of the chief Pillars of Medicine and Alchimy ; and is indeed endowed with many excellent and truly admirable properties; being employed by Nature in her most Curious Mineral operations.

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