Salt Works, Amsterdam, 1660. Right: quality of product is being shown to potential customer: Left: women are refining brine in a boiler. Eggs were sometimes added to brine and the impurities removed from surface with resulting scum. From Schat der Gesontheyt by Johann van Beverwycks. (Amsterdam, 1660).
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