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 7
... rendered contemp- tible , appears to be an excellent balfam , contain- ing the virtues of moft other balfams , which it eafily imparts to water , and by that means readily and inoffenfively infinuates them into the habit of the body ...
... rendered contemp- tible , appears to be an excellent balfam , contain- ing the virtues of moft other balfams , which it eafily imparts to water , and by that means readily and inoffenfively infinuates them into the habit of the body ...
Page 13
... rendering aan by pinus , as well as Jonftonus , who likewife takes the pine for the ad of Theophraftus . Hardouin will have the pinus of Pliny to have been by others called xn , but by Theophraftus wirvs . Ray thinks the common πίτνς ...
... rendering aan by pinus , as well as Jonftonus , who likewife takes the pine for the ad of Theophraftus . Hardouin will have the pinus of Pliny to have been by others called xn , but by Theophraftus wirvs . Ray thinks the common πίτνς ...
Page 19
... rendering them evergreen . This balfam , weeping or fweat- ing through the bark , hardens into refin ; and this moft copiously in the feveral fpecies of pines and ( a ) 33 . C 2 firs , firs , whofe oil being in greater quantity , and ( 19 )
... rendering them evergreen . This balfam , weeping or fweat- ing through the bark , hardens into refin ; and this moft copiously in the feveral fpecies of pines and ( a ) 33 . C 2 firs , firs , whofe oil being in greater quantity , and ( 19 )
Page 21
... rendered visible to the eye . This when fuffered to fly off , for in- ftance , from the oil of rosemary , leaves it deftitute of all flavour . This fpark of life , this fpirit or foul , if we may so say , of the vegetable departs ...
... rendered visible to the eye . This when fuffered to fly off , for in- ftance , from the oil of rosemary , leaves it deftitute of all flavour . This fpark of life , this fpirit or foul , if we may so say , of the vegetable departs ...
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... renders them fo diuretic , fudorific , penetrating , abfterfive and refolving . Such , for inftance , is the acid fpirit of Guaiacum . And all these fame virtues feem to be in tar - water in a mild and falutary degree . 59. It is the ...
... renders them fo diuretic , fudorific , penetrating , abfterfive and refolving . Such , for inftance , is the acid fpirit of Guaiacum . And all these fame virtues feem to be in tar - water in a mild and falutary degree . 59. It is the ...
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