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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... firft in the cold ftill with a kindly gentle heat . This fragrant vegetable water is poffeffed of the fpecific odour and taste of the plant . It is remarked that diftilled oils added to water for counterfeiting the vegetable water can ...
... firft in the cold ftill with a kindly gentle heat . This fragrant vegetable water is poffeffed of the fpecific odour and taste of the plant . It is remarked that diftilled oils added to water for counterfeiting the vegetable water can ...
Page 23
... firft afcends in diftillation . And , indeed , it should feem the lightest and most active particles required leaft force to difengage them from the fubject . 47. The falts , therefore , and more active spirits of the tar are got by ...
... firft afcends in diftillation . And , indeed , it should feem the lightest and most active particles required leaft force to difengage them from the fubject . 47. The falts , therefore , and more active spirits of the tar are got by ...
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... firft flies off from the fubject , is perhaps impoffible to obtain . It is an apophthegm of the chemists , deriv- ed from Helmont , that whoever can make myrrh foluble by the human body , has the fecret of pro- longing his days and ...
... firft flies off from the fubject , is perhaps impoffible to obtain . It is an apophthegm of the chemists , deriv- ed from Helmont , that whoever can make myrrh foluble by the human body , has the fecret of pro- longing his days and ...
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... firft fer- ! ment of new wine or muftum , the ancients were wont to sprinkle it with powdered rofin , which gave it a certain fprightlinefs , qu¿dam faporis acu- mina . This was efteemed a great improver of its odour and taste , and was ...
... firft fer- ! ment of new wine or muftum , the ancients were wont to sprinkle it with powdered rofin , which gave it a certain fprightlinefs , qu¿dam faporis acu- mina . This was efteemed a great improver of its odour and taste , and was ...
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... firft an acid fpirit ( n ) that will mix with water ; which fpirit , except the fire be very gentle , is loft . This grateful acid fpirit that firft comes over , is , as a learned chemist and phyfician informs us , highly refrigeratory ...
... firft an acid fpirit ( n ) that will mix with water ; which fpirit , except the fire be very gentle , is loft . This grateful acid fpirit that firft comes over , is , as a learned chemist and phyfician informs us , highly refrigeratory ...
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