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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... truth a volatile falt . Water is a men- ftruum that diffolves all forts of falts , and draws them from their fubjects . Tar , therefore , being a balfam , it's falutary acid is extracted by water , which yet is incapable of diffolving ...
... truth a volatile falt . Water is a men- ftruum that diffolves all forts of falts , and draws them from their fubjects . Tar , therefore , being a balfam , it's falutary acid is extracted by water , which yet is incapable of diffolving ...
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... truth a wild foreft pine , and ( as Mr. Ray informs us ) agreeing much with the defcription of a pine growing on mount Olympus in Phrygia , probably the only place where it is found out of thefe iflands ; in which of late years it is fo ...
... truth a wild foreft pine , and ( as Mr. Ray informs us ) agreeing much with the defcription of a pine growing on mount Olympus in Phrygia , probably the only place where it is found out of thefe iflands ; in which of late years it is fo ...
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... truth in this , from it's refifting putre- faction . Now this quality is as remarkable in tar , with which the ancients embalmed and preferved dead bodies . And though Boerhaave himself , and other chemists before him , have given ...
... truth in this , from it's refifting putre- faction . Now this quality is as remarkable in tar , with which the ancients embalmed and preferved dead bodies . And though Boerhaave himself , and other chemists before him , have given ...
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... truth be affirmed , that the virtue of tar - water extends to a furprising variety of cafes very diftant and un- like ( a ) . This I have experienced in my neigh- bours , my family , and myself . And as I live in a remote corner among ...
... truth be affirmed , that the virtue of tar - water extends to a furprising variety of cafes very diftant and un- like ( a ) . This I have experienced in my neigh- bours , my family , and myself . And as I live in a remote corner among ...
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... truth of which , I appeal to any perfon's ex- perience , who fhall take a large draught of it milk warm in the paroxyfm of a fever , even when plain water or herb teas fhall be found to have little or no effect . To me it feems that ...
... truth of which , I appeal to any perfon's ex- perience , who fhall take a large draught of it milk warm in the paroxyfm of a fever , even when plain water or herb teas fhall be found to have little or no effect . To me it feems that ...
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