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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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 ...
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 ...
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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 ...
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 ...
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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 ...
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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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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 ...
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 ...
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