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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... first running was tar , the latter or thicker running was pitch . Theophraftus is more particular : he tells us the Macedonians made huge heaps of the cloven trunks of thofe trees , wherein the billets were placed erect befide each ...
... first running was tar , the latter or thicker running was pitch . Theophraftus is more particular : he tells us the Macedonians made huge heaps of the cloven trunks of thofe trees , wherein the billets were placed erect befide each ...
Page 9
... first running or tar was called cedrium , and was of fuch efficacy to preferve from putrefaction , that in Egypt they embalmed dead bodies with it . And to this he afcribes their mummies continuing uncorrupted for fo many ages . 16 ...
... first running or tar was called cedrium , and was of fuch efficacy to preferve from putrefaction , that in Egypt they embalmed dead bodies with it . And to this he afcribes their mummies continuing uncorrupted for fo many ages . 16 ...
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... first flies off from the fubject , is perhaps impoffible to obtain . It is an apophthegm of the chemists , derived from Helmont , that whoever can make myrrh foluble by the human body , has the fecret of prolonging his days and ...
... first flies off from the fubject , is perhaps impoffible to obtain . It is an apophthegm of the chemists , derived from Helmont , that whoever can make myrrh foluble by the human body , has the fecret of prolonging his days and ...
Page 33
... first of these is highly spoken of . But then those who magnify it moft , except against the use of it in fuch cafes where the obftruction is attended with a putrefactive alkali , or where an inflammatory difpofition appears . It is ...
... first of these is highly spoken of . But then those who magnify it moft , except against the use of it in fuch cafes where the obftruction is attended with a putrefactive alkali , or where an inflammatory difpofition appears . It is ...
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... first some of thofe patients had been vomited ; but afterwards I found that without vomiting , bleeding , blistering , or any other evacuation or medicine whatever , very bad fevers could be cured by the fole drinking of tar - water ...
... first some of thofe patients had been vomited ; but afterwards I found that without vomiting , bleeding , blistering , or any other evacuation or medicine whatever , very bad fevers could be cured by the fole drinking of tar - water ...
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| Pealkiri | 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 |
| Autor | George Berkeley |
| Contributors | 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 | 174 pages |
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