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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... those trees , wherein the billets were placed erect befide each other . That 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 ...
... those trees , wherein the billets were placed erect befide each other . That 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 ...
Page 15
... those growing on the plain , as yielding a thinner , sweeter , and better fcented tar , all which differences I think I have obferved , between the tar that comes from Norway , and that which comes from low and ( wampy countries . 29 ...
... those growing on the plain , as yielding a thinner , sweeter , and better fcented tar , all which differences I think I have obferved , between the tar that comes from Norway , and that which comes from low and ( wampy countries . 29 ...
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... those cases than even that coftly drug . 63. It hath been already observed that the refto- rative pectoral antihyfterical virtues of the most pre- cious balfams and gums are poffeffed in a high de- gree by tar - water ( a ) . And I do ...
... those cases than even that coftly drug . 63. It hath been already observed that the refto- rative pectoral antihyfterical virtues of the most pre- cious balfams and gums are poffeffed in a high de- gree by tar - water ( a ) . And I do ...
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... those waters are apt to affect the head in taking , which tar- water is not . Besides there is a regimen of diet to be observed , efpecially with chalybeat waters , which I never found neceffary with this . Tar- water layeth under no ...
... those waters are apt to affect the head in taking , which tar- water is not . Besides there is a regimen of diet to be observed , efpecially with chalybeat waters , which I never found neceffary with this . Tar- water layeth under no ...
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... those fmall veffels , and fo bring on the untimely effects of old age , producing more , perhaps , and worse obftructions than thofe it removed ? Similar confe- quences may juftly be apprehended from other mi- neral and ponderous ...
... those fmall veffels , and fo bring on the untimely effects of old age , producing more , perhaps , and worse obftructions than thofe it removed ? Similar confe- quences may juftly be apprehended from other mi- neral and ponderous ...
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