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One of the most important iatrochemical authorities of the seventeenth century was Johann Rudolf Glauber (1604-1668), to whom we are indebted for the invention or improvement of a large number of medico-chemical products. The well-known "Glauber's salt" may be named as one of these products, and chloride of iron as another.