or  Seignette's salt  n :  ROCHELLE SALT
 
Seignette, Pierre (1660-1719), French pharmacist. Seignette first prepared potassium sodium tartrates in 1672. Ten years later he introduced Seignette salt as a laxative.
 
 
 
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