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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... fome of our colonies , as a prefervative or prepara- tive against the small - pox , which foreign practice induced me to try it in my own neighbourhood , when the small - pox raged with great violence . And the trial fully anfwered my ...
... fome of our colonies , as a prefervative or prepara- tive against the small - pox , which foreign practice induced me to try it in my own neighbourhood , when the small - pox raged with great violence . And the trial fully anfwered my ...
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... fome years had been fubject to erysipelatous fevers , perceived the ufual fore - running fymptoms to come on , I advised her to drink tar - water which prevented the eryfipelas . 6. I never knew any thing fo good for the fto- mach as ...
... fome years had been fubject to erysipelatous fevers , perceived the ufual fore - running fymptoms to come on , I advised her to drink tar - water which prevented the eryfipelas . 6. I never knew any thing fo good for the fto- mach as ...
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... fome perhaps may fufpect that , as the tar itself is fulphureous , tar - water must be of a hot and inflaming nature . But it is to be noted , that all balfams contain and acid spirit , which is in truth a volatile falt . Water is a men ...
... fome perhaps may fufpect that , as the tar itself is fulphureous , tar - water must be of a hot and inflaming nature . But it is to be noted , that all balfams contain and acid spirit , which is in truth a volatile falt . Water is a men ...
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... fome of the Greek islands . The next beft from the Qlver fir and pitch pine . 21. Turpentine is on all hands allowed to have great medicinal virtues . Tar and it's infufion contain thofe virtues . Tar water is extremely pec- toral and ...
... fome of the Greek islands . The next beft from the Qlver fir and pitch pine . 21. Turpentine is on all hands allowed to have great medicinal virtues . Tar and it's infufion contain thofe virtues . Tar water is extremely pec- toral and ...
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... fome fpecies of pine , which he gathered from it's fmell . Nevertheless it's being dug out of the earth fhews it to be a foffil , though of a very different kind from other foffils . But thus much is certain , that the medicinal virtues ...
... fome fpecies of pine , which he gathered from it's fmell . Nevertheless it's being dug out of the earth fhews it to be a foffil , though of a very different kind from other foffils . But thus much is certain , that the medicinal virtues ...
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