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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Mr. Boyle and other later chemists are agreed , that fixed salts are much the same in all bodies . But it is well known that volatile falts do greatly differ , and the easier they are separated from the subject , the more do they ...
Mr. Boyle and other later chemists are agreed , that fixed salts are much the same in all bodies . But it is well known that volatile falts do greatly differ , and the easier they are separated from the subject , the more do they ...
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Thus much is allowed , that the water , earth , and fixed falt are the same in all plants ; that , therefore , which differencech a plant or makes it what it is , the native spark or form , in the language of the chemists or schools ...
Thus much is allowed , that the water , earth , and fixed falt are the same in all plants ; that , therefore , which differencech a plant or makes it what it is , the native spark or form , in the language of the chemists or schools ...
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And from what I have observed in five or fix instances , I do verily believe it the best and safest medicine either to prevent the gout , or so to strengthen nature against the fit , as to drive it from the vitals ...
And from what I have observed in five or fix instances , I do verily believe it the best and safest medicine either to prevent the gout , or so to strengthen nature against the fit , as to drive it from the vitals ...
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Poupart , in the Memoirs of the royal academy of sciences , for the year one thousand fix hundred and ninety - nine . That author thinks he saw some resemblance in it to the plague of Athens , It is hard to imagine any thing more ...
Poupart , in the Memoirs of the royal academy of sciences , for the year one thousand fix hundred and ninety - nine . That author thinks he saw some resemblance in it to the plague of Athens , It is hard to imagine any thing more ...
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But although fixed or lixivious salts may not contain the original properties of the subject ; yet volatile salts raised by a flight heat from vegetables are allowed to preserve their native virtues : and such falts are readily imbiled ...
But although fixed or lixivious salts may not contain the original properties of the subject ; yet volatile salts raised by a flight heat from vegetables are allowed to preserve their native virtues : and such falts are readily imbiled ...
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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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