Siris: a Chain of Philosophical Reflexions and Inquiries Concerning the Virtues of Tar Water,: And Divers Other Subjects Connected Together and Arising One from AnotherDublin printed, London re-printed, for W. Innys, and C. Hitch, in Pater-noster-row; and C. Davis in Holbourn., 1744 - 164 pages |
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And when a person , who for some years had been subject to erysipelatous
fevers , perceived the usual fore - running symptoms to come on , I advised her to
drink tar - water which prevented the erysipelas . 6 . I never knew any thing so
good ...
And when a person , who for some years had been subject to erysipelatous
fevers , perceived the usual fore - running symptoms to come on , I advised her to
drink tar - water which prevented the erysipelas . 6 . I never knew any thing so
good ...
Page 6
And yet some perhaps may suspect that , as the tar itself is sulphureous , tar -
water must be of a hot and inflaming nature . But it is to be noted , that all balsams
contain and acid spirit , which is in truth a volatile falt . Water is a menstruum that
...
And yet some perhaps may suspect that , as the tar itself is sulphureous , tar -
water must be of a hot and inflaming nature . But it is to be noted , that all balsams
contain and acid spirit , which is in truth a volatile falt . Water is a menstruum that
...
Page 9
Some modern writers inform us that tar flows from the trunks of pines and firs ,
when they are very old , through incisions made in the bark near the root ; that
pitch is tar inspiffated ; and both are the oyl of the tree grown thick and black with
age ...
Some modern writers inform us that tar flows from the trunks of pines and firs ,
when they are very old , through incisions made in the bark near the root ; that
pitch is tar inspiffated ; and both are the oyl of the tree grown thick and black with
age ...
Page 11
Theophrastus faith the best resim or curpentine is got from the Terebinthus
growing in Syria and some of the Greek inands . ' The next best from the Qlver for
and pitch pine . 21 . Turpentine is on all hands allowed to have great medicinal ...
Theophrastus faith the best resim or curpentine is got from the Terebinthus
growing in Syria and some of the Greek inands . ' The next best from the Qlver for
and pitch pine . 21 . Turpentine is on all hands allowed to have great medicinal ...
Page 12
Pliny supposed amber to be a resin , and to diftis from some species of pine ,
which he gathered from it ' s smell . Nevertheless it ' s being dug out of the earth
shews it to be a foslil , though of a very different kind from other fossils . But thus ...
Pliny supposed amber to be a resin , and to diftis from some species of pine ,
which he gathered from it ' s smell . Nevertheless it ' s being dug out of the earth
shews it to be a foslil , though of a very different kind from other fossils . But thus ...
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| Title | Siris: a Chain of Philosophical Reflexions and Inquiries Concerning the Virtues of Tar Water,: And Divers Other Subjects Connected Together and Arising One from Another Siris: a Chain of Philosophical Reflexions and Inquiries Concerning the Virtues of Tar Water,: And Divers Other Subjects Connected Together and Arising One from Another, George Berkeley |
| Author | George Berkeley |
| Contributors | Margaret Rhames, William Bowyer, William Innys, Charles Hitch, Charles Davis |
| Publisher | Dublin printed, London re-printed, for W. Innys, and C. Hitch, in Pater-noster-row; and C. Davis in Holbourn., 1744 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 20 apr. 2009 |
| Length | 164 pages |
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