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 - 174 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.
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.
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And yet some perhaps may suspect that , as the tar itself is sulphureous , tar . water must be of a hot and infiaming nature . But it is to be noted , that all balsams contain and acid spirit , which is in truth a volatile falt .
And yet some perhaps may suspect that , as the tar itself is sulphureous , tar . water must be of a hot and infiaming nature . But it is to be noted , that all balsams contain and acid spirit , which is in truth a volatile falt .
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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 ...
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 ...
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Pliny supposed amber to be a resin , and to distil 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 foffil , though of a very different kind from other foffils ...
Pliny supposed amber to be a resin , and to distil 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 foffil , though of a very different kind from other foffils ...
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There seems to have been some confusion in the naming of these trees , as well among the ancients as the moderns . The ancient Greek and Latin names are by later authors applied very ditferently . Pliny himself acknowledgeth , it is not ...
There seems to have been some confusion in the naming of these trees , as well among the ancients as the moderns . The ancient Greek and Latin names are by later authors applied very ditferently . Pliny himself acknowledgeth , it is not ...
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