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CHRISTOPHER GLASER

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 80 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CHRISTOPHER See also:GLASER  , a pharmaceutical chemist of the 17th See also:century, was. a native of See also:Basel, became demonstrator of See also:chemistry at the Jardin du Roi in See also:Paris and See also:apothecary to See also:Louis XIV. and to the See also:duke of See also:Orleans . He is best known by his Traite de la chymie (Paris, 1663), which went through some ten See also:editions in about five-and-twenty years, and was translated into both See also:German and See also:English . It has been alleged that he was an See also:accomplice in the notorious poisonings carried out by the marchioness de Brinvilliers, but the extent of his complicity is doubtful . He appears to have died some See also:time before 1676 . The sal polychrestum Glaseri is normal See also:potassium sulphate which he prepared and used medicinally .

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