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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... fhew themfelves when the rays are feparated by the attracting and repelling powers of objects , even fo the fpecific qualities of the elaborate juices of plants , feem to be virtually or eminently contain- ed in the folar light , and ...
... fhew themfelves when the rays are feparated by the attracting and repelling powers of objects , even fo the fpecific qualities of the elaborate juices of plants , feem to be virtually or eminently contain- ed in the folar light , and ...
Page 26
... fhew the activity of this medicine . And at the fame time that it quickens the fluggish blood of the hyfterical , it's balfamic oily nature abates the too rapid motion of the sharp thin blood in thofe who are hectic . There is a lentour ...
... fhew the activity of this medicine . And at the fame time that it quickens the fluggish blood of the hyfterical , it's balfamic oily nature abates the too rapid motion of the sharp thin blood in thofe who are hectic . There is a lentour ...
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... fhew that we need no other enemy to compleat our destruction , than this cheap luxury at the lower end of the state , and that a nation lighted up at both ends muft foon be confumed . 109. It is much to be lamented that our Infu- lars ...
... fhew that we need no other enemy to compleat our destruction , than this cheap luxury at the lower end of the state , and that a nation lighted up at both ends muft foon be confumed . 109. It is much to be lamented that our Infu- lars ...
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... fhew themfelves till it had been taken two or three months . 111. We learn from Pliny , that in the firft fer- ! ment of new wine or muftum , the ancients were wont to sprinkle it with powdered rofin , which gave it a certain ...
... fhew themfelves till it had been taken two or three months . 111. We learn from Pliny , that in the firft fer- ! ment of new wine or muftum , the ancients were wont to sprinkle it with powdered rofin , which gave it a certain ...
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... fhew themselves ; all which demonftrates the air to be a common feminary and receptable of all vivi- fying principles , 142. Air may alfo be faid to be the feminary 1 $ 42 . ( 65 ) which fheweth an acid to abound and diffuse itself ...
... fhew themselves ; all which demonftrates the air to be a common feminary and receptable of all vivi- fying principles , 142. Air may alfo be faid to be the feminary 1 $ 42 . ( 65 ) which fheweth an acid to abound and diffuse itself ...
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