Siris: A Chain of Philosophical Reflexions and Inquiries Concerning the Virtues of Tar Water ...Gunne, 1744 - 174 pages |
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... first running was tar , the latter or thicker running was pitch . Theo- phraftus is more particular : he tells us the Mace- donians made huge heaps of the cloven trunks of those trees , wherein the billets were placed erect befide each ...
... first running was tar , the latter or thicker running was pitch . Theo- phraftus is more particular : he tells us the Mace- donians made huge heaps of the cloven trunks of those trees , wherein the billets were placed erect befide each ...
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... first running or tar was called cedrium , and was of fuch efficacy to preserve from putrefaction , that in Egypt they embalmed dead . bodies with it . And to this he afcribes their mum- mies continuing uncorrupted for fo many ages . 16 ...
... first running or tar was called cedrium , and was of fuch efficacy to preserve from putrefaction , that in Egypt they embalmed dead . bodies with it . And to this he afcribes their mum- mies continuing uncorrupted for fo many ages . 16 ...
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... first flies off from the subject , is perhaps impoffible to obtain . It is an apophthegm of the chemifts , deriv- ed from Helmont , that whoever can make myrrh foluble by the human body , has the fecret of pro- longing his days and ...
... first flies off from the subject , is perhaps impoffible to obtain . It is an apophthegm of the chemifts , deriv- ed from Helmont , that whoever can make myrrh foluble by the human body , has the fecret of pro- longing his days and ...
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... first of thefe is highly spoken of . But then those who magnify it most , except against the use of it in fuch cafes where the obstruction is attended with a putrefactive alkali , or where an inflammatory dif pofition appears . It is ...
... first of thefe is highly spoken of . But then those who magnify it most , except against the use of it in fuch cafes where the obstruction is attended with a putrefactive alkali , or where an inflammatory dif pofition appears . It is ...
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... first some of those patients had been vomited but afterwards I found that without vomiting , bleeding , bliftering , or any other evacuation or me- dicine whatever , very bad fevers could be cured by the fole drinking of tar - water ...
... first some of those patients had been vomited but afterwards I found that without vomiting , bleeding , bliftering , 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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