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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What entertainment so . ever the reasoning or notional part may afford the mind , I will venture to say , the other part seemeth so surely calculated to do good to the body , that both must be gainers . For if the lute be not well tuned ...
What entertainment so . ever the reasoning or notional part may afford the mind , I will venture to say , the other part seemeth so surely calculated to do good to the body , that both must be gainers . For if the lute be not well tuned ...
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... I chufe to make it in the following manner : Pour a gallon of cold water on a quart of tar , and stir and mix them thoroughly with a fadle or Ant stick for the space of three or four minutes , after which the veffel must stand eight ...
... I chufe to make it in the following manner : Pour a gallon of cold water on a quart of tar , and stir and mix them thoroughly with a fadle or Ant stick for the space of three or four minutes , after which the veffel must stand eight ...
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And yet some perhaps may suspect that , as the tar itself is sulphureous , tar . water must be of a hot and infiaming nature . But it is to be noted , that all balsams contain and acid spirit , which is in truth a volatile falt .
And yet some perhaps may suspect that , as the tar itself is sulphureous , tar . water must be of a hot and infiaming nature . But it is to be noted , that all balsams contain and acid spirit , which is in truth a volatile falt .
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It must therefore be a thing of great benefit , to be able to introduce any requisite quantity of their volatile parts into the finest ducts and capillaries , so as not to offend the stomach ...
It must therefore be a thing of great benefit , to be able to introduce any requisite quantity of their volatile parts into the finest ducts and capillaries , so as not to offend the stomach ...
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... the endless variety of juices drawn and formed out of the same foil , by various species of vegetables ; which must therefore differ in an endless variety , as to the texture of their absorbent veslels and fecretory ducts . 32.
... the endless variety of juices drawn and formed out of the same foil , by various species of vegetables ; which must therefore differ in an endless variety , as to the texture of their absorbent veslels and fecretory ducts . 32.
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