Siris: A Chain of Philosophical Reflexions and Inquiries Concerning the Virtues of Tar Water ...Gunne, 1744 - 174 pages |
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... perhaps a pint every hour , till the patient be relieved ; which I have known to work furprizing cures . My experiments have indeed been made within a narrow compass ; but as this water is now grown into publick use ( though it seems ...
... perhaps a pint every hour , till the patient be relieved ; which I have known to work furprizing cures . My experiments have indeed been made within a narrow compass ; but as this water is now grown into publick use ( though it seems ...
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... perhaps may suspect that , as the tar itfelf is fulphureous , tar - water must be of a hot and inflaming nature . But it is to be noted , that all balfams contain an acid spirit , which is in truth a volatile falt . Water is a men ...
... perhaps may suspect that , as the tar itfelf is fulphureous , tar - water must be of a hot and inflaming nature . But it is to be noted , that all balfams contain an acid spirit , which is in truth a volatile falt . Water is a men ...
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... perhaps be raised , with little more trouble , and much more profit and ornament . 26. The pines which differ from the firs in the length and difpofition of their leaves and hardness of the wood , do not , in Pliny's account , yield fo ...
... perhaps be raised , with little more trouble , and much more profit and ornament . 26. The pines which differ from the firs in the length and difpofition of their leaves and hardness of the wood , do not , in Pliny's account , yield fo ...
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... perhaps are near of kin , and in their most useful qualities concur with common tar , efpecially the Norvegian , which is the moft liquid and beft for medicinal uses of any that I have experienced . Those trees that grow on mountains ...
... perhaps are near of kin , and in their most useful qualities concur with common tar , efpecially the Norvegian , which is the moft liquid and beft for medicinal uses of any that I have experienced . Those trees that grow on mountains ...
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... perhaps fome will think it not unreasonable to fuppofe the mechanifm of plants more curious than even that of animals , if we confider not only the feveral juices fecreted by different parts of the fame plant , but alfo , the endless ...
... perhaps fome will think it not unreasonable to fuppofe the mechanifm of plants more curious than even that of animals , if we confider not only the feveral juices fecreted by different parts of the fame plant , but alfo , the endless ...
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abfolute acid æther æthereal againſt alfo alſo ancient animal fpirit anſwer Ariftotle attraction balfam becauſe beſt blood bodies cafes caufe cauſe confequently confidered conftitute cure diffolved diftempers diftinct diuretic divine doctrine doth effects elaftic Ennead exift exiſtence fafe faid falts fame fcurvy fecreted feem feemeth felf fenfe fenfible feveral fhall fhew fhould firft firſt foap folar fome fometimes fomewhat force foul fpecific ftill ftomach fubftance fubject fubtile fuch fulphur fuppofed fupreme fyftem gout greateſt groffer grofs hath heat Heraclitus himſelf intellect invifible itſelf juices lacteals laws of attraction lefs medicine mind moft moſt motion muft muſt nature neceffary nevertheleſs obferved Parmenides particles perfons phænomena philofophers plants Plato Plotinus Plutarch prefent prefervative principle produce pure reafon refiding ſeem Sir Ifaac Newton ſpace tar-water thefe themſelves Theophraftus theſe things thofe thoſe Timæus turpentine underſtand underſtood univerfe uſe veffels vegetable virtues volatile whereof whofe