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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... vegetable balfam . 9. Tar was by the ancients esteemed good against poifons , ulcers , the bites of venomous ... vegetables . Mr. Evelyn in his treatife on Foreft trees obferves with wonder , that ftems of trees , fimeared over with tar ...
... vegetable balfam . 9. Tar was by the ancients esteemed good against poifons , ulcers , the bites of venomous ... vegetables . Mr. Evelyn in his treatife on Foreft trees obferves with wonder , that ftems of trees , fimeared over with tar ...
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... vegetable , the discharge of fuperfluities , the fecretion of particular juices . They are found to have ducts answering to the trache¿ in animals , for the conveying of air ; they ' have others answering to lacteals , arteries , and ...
... vegetable , the discharge of fuperfluities , the fecretion of particular juices . They are found to have ducts answering to the trache¿ in animals , for the conveying of air ; they ' have others answering to lacteals , arteries , and ...
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... vegetables . But whether the difcoverers have rightly gueffed at all their ufes or no , thus much is certain , that there are innumerable fine and curious parts in a vegetable body , and a won- derful fimilitude or analogy between the ...
... vegetables . But whether the difcoverers have rightly gueffed at all their ufes or no , thus much is certain , that there are innumerable fine and curious parts in a vegetable body , and a won- derful fimilitude or analogy between the ...
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... vegetable as animal life . 34. It is an opinion received by many , that the fap circulates in plants as the blood in animals : that it afcends through capillary arteries in the trunk , into which are inofculated other veffels of the ...
... vegetable as animal life . 34. It is an opinion received by many , that the fap circulates in plants as the blood in animals : that it afcends through capillary arteries in the trunk , into which are inofculated other veffels of the ...
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... vegetable and foffil , is supposed to perform all forts of chemical operations . Whence it should follow , that the air contains all forts of chemic productions , the vapours , fumes , oils , falts , ( a 30 , 31 . ( b ) 29 . and and ...
... vegetable and foffil , is supposed to perform all forts of chemical operations . Whence it should follow , that the air contains all forts of chemic productions , the vapours , fumes , oils , falts , ( a 30 , 31 . ( b ) 29 . and and ...
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abfolute acid ¿ther ¿thereal alfo ancient animal fpirit Ariftotle attraction balfam blood bodies cafes caufe cauſe confequently confidered confift conftitute cure diffolved diftempers diftinct diuretic divine doctrine doth effects effence elaftic Ennead exift fafe faid falts fame fcurvy fecreted felf fenfe fenfible feveral fhall fhew fhould feem firft foap folar folid fome fometimes fomewhat force foul fpecific ftill ftomach fubftance fubject fubtile fuch fulphur fuppofed fupreme fyftem gout groffer grofs hath heat Heraclitus himſelf intellect invifible itſelf juices lacteals laws of attraction lefs light or fire medicine mind moft moſt motion muſt nature neceffary nevertheleſs obferved pafs Parmenides particles perfons ph¿nomena philofophers pine plants Plato Plotinus Plutarch prefent preferve principle Proclus produce pure reafon refide refin ſeem Sir Ifaac Newton ſpace tar-water thefe themſelves Theophraftus theſe things thofe thoſe Tim¿us turpentine underſtand underſtood univerfe uſe veffels vegetable virtues volatile whereof whofe