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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... fuch efficacy in a diftemper attended with fo many pu- rulent ulcers , might be alfo useful in other foul- neffes of the blood ; accordingly I tried it on feve- ral perfons infected with cutaneous eruptions and ulcers , who were foon ...
... fuch efficacy in a diftemper attended with fo many pu- rulent ulcers , might be alfo useful in other foul- neffes of the blood ; accordingly I tried it on feve- ral perfons infected with cutaneous eruptions and ulcers , who were foon ...
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... fuch heaps or piles of wood were fometimes a hundred and eighty cubits round , and fixty or even a hundred high : and that having covered them with fods of earth to prevent the flame from bursting forth ( in which cafe the tar was loft ) ...
... fuch heaps or piles of wood were fometimes a hundred and eighty cubits round , and fixty or even a hundred high : and that having covered them with fods of earth to prevent the flame from bursting forth ( in which cafe the tar was loft ) ...
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... 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. Some modern writers inform us that tar flows from the ...
... 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. Some modern writers inform us that tar flows from the ...
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... fuch is it's virtue in afthmas and pleu- rifies , in obftructions and ulcerous erofions of the inward parts . Balfams , as hath been already obferved , are apt to offend the ftomach . But tar - water may be taken without offending the ...
... fuch is it's virtue in afthmas and pleu- rifies , in obftructions and ulcerous erofions of the inward parts . Balfams , as hath been already obferved , are apt to offend the ftomach . But tar - water may be taken without offending the ...
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... fuch as are heterogeneous , we find chemistry is fitted for the analysis of bodies . But the chemistry of nature is much more perfect than that of human art , inafmuch as it joineth to the power of heat that of the most exquifite ...
... fuch as are heterogeneous , we find chemistry is fitted for the analysis of bodies . But the chemistry of nature is much more perfect than that of human art , inafmuch as it joineth to the power of heat that of the most exquifite ...
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