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, C. Hitch, and C. Davis, 1744 - 174 pages |
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Page 7
Tar was by the ancients esteemed good against poisons , ulcers , the bites of
venomous creatures , also for pthisical , scrophulous , paralytic and asthmatic
perions . But the method of rendering it an inoffensive medicine and agreeable to
the ...
Tar was by the ancients esteemed good against poisons , ulcers , the bites of
venomous creatures , also for pthisical , scrophulous , paralytic and asthmatic
perions . But the method of rendering it an inoffensive medicine and agreeable to
the ...
Page 9
Pliny faith , it was customary for the ancients , to hold Aeeces of wool over the
steam of boiling tar , and squeeze the moisture from them , which watery
substance was called pissinum . Ray will have this to be the same with the
pissel¿um of ...
Pliny faith , it was customary for the ancients , to hold Aeeces of wool over the
steam of boiling tar , and squeeze the moisture from them , which watery
substance was called pissinum . Ray will have this to be the same with the
pissel¿um of ...
Page 10
It should seem indeed that one and the fame word was used by the ancients in a
large sense , fo as to comprehend the juices issuing from all those trees . Tar and
all sorts of exsudations from evergreens are , in a general acceptation ...
It should seem indeed that one and the fame word was used by the ancients in a
large sense , fo as to comprehend the juices issuing from all those trees . Tar and
all sorts of exsudations from evergreens are , in a general acceptation ...
Page 14
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 easy
...
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 easy
...
Page 24
Now this quality is as remarkable in tar , with which the ancients embalmed and
preserved dead bodies . And though Boerhaave himself , and orher chemists
before him , have given methods for making solutions of myrrh , yet it is by means
of ...
Now this quality is as remarkable in tar , with which the ancients embalmed and
preserved dead bodies . And though Boerhaave himself , and orher chemists
before him , have given methods for making solutions of myrrh , yet it is by means
of ...
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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 Eighteenth Century English short title catalogue Eighteenth Century collection 8128. number of Goldsmiths'-Kress library of economic literature 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 |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | Dublin printed, London re-printed, for W. Innys, C. Hitch, and C. Davis, 1744 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 20 apr. 2009 |
| Length | 174 pages |
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