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 44
... living body with tar - water copiously drunk ; and this belief is not without experience . 92. It is the received opinion that the animal falts of a found body are of a neutral , bland and benign nature : that is , the falts in the ...
... living body with tar - water copiously drunk ; and this belief is not without experience . 92. It is the received opinion that the animal falts of a found body are of a neutral , bland and benign nature : that is , the falts in the ...
Page 48
... living for bad appetite , low fpirits , reftless nights , wafting pains and anxie- ties , be rendered eafy and comfortable . 102. As the nerves are inftruments of fenfation , it follows that fpafms in the nerves may produce all fymptoms ...
... living for bad appetite , low fpirits , reftless nights , wafting pains and anxie- ties , be rendered eafy and comfortable . 102. As the nerves are inftruments of fenfation , it follows that fpafms in the nerves may produce all fymptoms ...
Page 52
... living . Which intense living , or , if I may fo fay , lively life , is not more promoted by early hours as a regimen , than by tar - water as a cordial ; which acts , not only as a flow medicine , but hath alfo an immediate and ...
... living . Which intense living , or , if I may fo fay , lively life , is not more promoted by early hours as a regimen , than by tar - water as a cordial ; which acts , not only as a flow medicine , but hath alfo an immediate and ...
Page 76
... living bodies , vegetable or animal , being cffects of that element , which , as it actuates the macrocofm , fo it animates the mi- crocofm . In the Tim¿us of Plato , there is fuppo- fed fomething like a net of fire , and rays of fire ...
... living bodies , vegetable or animal , being cffects of that element , which , as it actuates the macrocofm , fo it animates the mi- crocofm . In the Tim¿us of Plato , there is fuppo- fed fomething like a net of fire , and rays of fire ...
Page 78
... living creatures . It is not therefore to be wondered that Aristotle thought , the heat of a living body to be fomewhat divine and celeftial , derived from that pure ¿ther to which he fuppofed the incorporeal deity ( xwgisov sidos ) to ...
... living creatures . It is not therefore to be wondered that Aristotle thought , the heat of a living body to be fomewhat divine and celeftial , derived from that pure ¿ther to which he fuppofed the incorporeal deity ( xwgisov sidos ) to ...
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