A Chain of Philosophical Reflexions and Inquiries concerning the Virtues of Tar-Water, and divers other subjects connected together and arising one from anotherC. Hitch; C. Davis, 1744 - 176 pages |
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... first running was tar , the latter or thicker running was pitch . Theo- phrastus is more particular : he tells us the Mace- donians made huge heaps of the cloven trunks of thofe trees , wherein the billets were placed erect befide each ...
... first running was tar , the latter or thicker running was pitch . Theo- phrastus is more particular : he tells us the Mace- donians made huge heaps of the cloven trunks of thofe trees , wherein the billets were placed erect befide each ...
Page 9
... first running or tar was called cedrium , and was of fuch efficacy to preferve from putrefaction , that in Egypt they embalmed dead- bodies with it . And to this he afcribes their mum → mie's continuing uncorrupted for fo many ages ...
... first running or tar was called cedrium , and was of fuch efficacy to preferve from putrefaction , that in Egypt they embalmed dead- bodies with it . And to this he afcribes their mum → mie's continuing uncorrupted for fo many ages ...
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... first flies off from the fubject , is perhaps impoffible to obtain . It is an apopthegm of the chemifts , deri- ved from Helmont , that whoever can inake myrrh foluble by the human body , has the fecret of pro- longing his days : and ...
... first flies off from the fubject , is perhaps impoffible to obtain . It is an apopthegm of the chemifts , deri- ved from Helmont , that whoever can inake myrrh foluble by the human body , has the fecret of pro- longing his days : and ...
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... first fome of thofe patients had been vomited ; but afterwards I found that without vomiting , bleeding , blistering or any other evacuation or me-- dicine whatever , very bad fevers could be cured by the fole drinking of tar - water ...
... first fome of thofe patients had been vomited ; but afterwards I found that without vomiting , bleeding , blistering or any other evacuation or me-- dicine whatever , very bad fevers could be cured by the fole drinking of tar - water ...
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... or fpirit is fupposed to receive the impreffions of the first mover , and communicate them to the groffer fen- fible parts of this world . Motion , though in me- K taphyfical taphyfical rigor and truth a paffion or mere effect , ( 73 )
... or fpirit is fupposed to receive the impreffions of the first mover , and communicate them to the groffer fen- fible parts of this world . Motion , though in me- K taphyfical taphyfical rigor and truth a paffion or mere effect , ( 73 )
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