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AL'KAHEST, n.

A universal dissolvent; a menstrumm capable of dissolving every body, which Paracelsus and Van Helmont pretended they possessed. This pretense no longer imposses on the credulity of any man.

The word is sometimes used for fixed salts volatilized.

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