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Salt is essential to human life and nutrition. In recent decades, concerns have been raised about the possibility of adverse effects linked to levels of sodium intake. Investigators published in this Supplement explore these concerns from several perspectives. See the Introduction to the Supplement by Logan (pp. 165-169). Roman soldiers, whose duty in its early centuries called them to widespread areas of a growing empire, were often unable to obtain easily this frequently scarce but necessary item and thus were allotted money for its purchase, called salarium, from sal, Latin for salt. As the term became instaurated in imperial usage, it came to mean the money - stipends, even pensions - paid to soldiers and eventually all officials of the empire. When the word was brought into Middle English as salarie, it had lost all connotations of salt and meant simply a fixed compensation paid regularly for work. The cover image of Roman soldiers marching in full gear, from the cast of Trajan's column in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, is reproduced from the Wikipedia and is in the public domain.
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