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AR-WATER, how made, Tar preferves trees from the bi

TAR

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A cure for foulness of blood,
ulceration of bowels, lungs,
confumptive coughs, pleurity,
peripneumony, eryfipelas,
afthma, indigeftion, cachectic
and hyfteric cafes, gravel,
dropfy, and all inflammations,
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Answers all the purposes of Elixir
proprietatis,Stoughton's drops,
best turpentines, decoction of
the woods, and mineral waters,
53. 61-65
And of the most costly bal-
fams, 21. 22. 62. 63
May be given to children, 67
Of great ufe in the gout, 68. 80
In fevers, 75-77 114
Cures a gangrene as well as ery-
fipelas,
82, 83
The fcurvy and all hypocondri--
ac diforders,
Whence this English malady
proceeds,

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Myrrh foluble by the human

body would prolong life, 49 Tar-water, by what means, and in what manner, it operates, 50-57 86-109 Is a foap at once and a vinegar,

High food how prejudicial,

66. 104

More particularly fpirituous liquors, 103. 106-108 Tar-water a preservative for the

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88, 89 Soap, opium, and mercury, tho
they bid fair for universal me-
dicines, in what refpects dan-
gerous,
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Aromatic flavours of vegetables
depend on light as much as
colours, 40. 162. 214, 5
Analogy between the fpecific
qualities of vegetable juices
and colours,
165. 18
fine fubtile fpirit, the diftin
guishing principle of all vege-

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teeth and gums, Is particularly recommended to fea-faring perfons, ladies, and men of ftudious and fedentary lives, 117-119 Its specific virtues cónfilt in its volatile falts, 8. 123

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tables,

121 What

CONTENT S.

What the principle of vegetation, and how promoted, 126-8 Theory of acids, falts, and alcalies, 129-136. 227 Air the common seminary of all vivifying principles, 137

144 Air, of what it confifts, 147151. 195-7 Pure æther, or invifible fire, the fpirit of the univerfe, which operates in every thing, 152

-62 Opinion of the ancients concerning it, 166-75. 229 And of the Chinese conformable to them, 180-82 Fire worshipped among various nations, 183-5 Opinion of the best modern che mifts concerning it, 189-90 Ultimately the only menftruum

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covered by Galilæi, 245 Phænomena are but appearances in the foul, not to be account-. ed for upon mechanical principles, 251, 2. 310 The ancients not ignorant of many things in phyfics and metaphyfics, which we think the discovery of modern times, 265-69 Had fome advantages beyond 298 Of abfolute space, and fate, 270-3 Of the anima mundi of Plato, 276-84.322

us,

What meant by the Egyptian Ifis and Ofiris, 268. 299 Plato's and Ariftotle's threefold diftinction of objects, 306-7 Their opinion of ideas being innate, or not, 308, 9 Neither of them believed the abfolute existence of corporeal things, 311, 12. 316—18 The study of the philofophy

of Socrates and Pythagoras would have fecured the minds of men from that selfishness which the mechanic philofophy has introduced, 331,32 The study of Plato recommended, 332.338 Who agrees with Scripture in many particulars, 339 His opinion of the deity, and

particularly of a trinity, agreeable to revelation, 341-365

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