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 8
... first running was tar , the latter or thicker running was pitch . Theo- phraftus is more particular : he tells us the Mace- donians made huge heaps of the cloven trunks of those trees , wherein the billets were placed erect befide each ...
... first running was tar , the latter or thicker running was pitch . Theo- phraftus is more particular : he tells us the Mace- donians made huge heaps of the cloven trunks of those 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 mum- mies 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 mum- mies continuing uncorrupted for fo many ages . 16 ...
Page 16
... first purified by ftraining through the fine pores of the root , are afterwards exalted by the action of the air and the veffels of the plant , but , above all , by the action of the fun's light ; light ; which at the fame time that it ...
... first purified by ftraining through the fine pores of the root , are afterwards exalted by the action of the air and the veffels of the plant , but , above all , by the action of the fun's light ; light ; which at the fame time that it ...
Page 33
... first of these is highly spoken of . But then thofe who magnify it moft , except against the use of it in fuch cafes where the obstruction is attended with a putrefactive alkali , or where an inflammatory dif- pofition appears . It is ...
... first of these is highly spoken of . But then thofe who magnify it moft , except against the use of it in fuch cafes where the obstruction is attended with a putrefactive alkali , or where an inflammatory dif- pofition appears . It is ...
Page 37
... first some of thofe patients had been vomited but afterwards I found that without vomiting , bleeding , bliftering , or any other evacuation or me- dicine 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 , bliftering , or any other evacuation or me- dicine whatever , very bad fevers could be cured by the fole drinking of tar - water ...
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