Siris: A Chain of Philosophical Reflexions and Inquiries Concerning the Virtues of Tar Water ...Gunne, 1744 - 174 pages |
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... vegetable balfam . 9. Tar was by the ancients esteemed good against poisons , ulcers , the bites of venomous ... vegetables . Mr. Evelyn in his treatise on Forest trees observes with wonder , that ftems of trees , fmeared over with tar ...
... vegetable balfam . 9. Tar was by the ancients esteemed good against poisons , ulcers , the bites of venomous ... vegetables . Mr. Evelyn in his treatise on Forest trees observes with wonder , that ftems of trees , fmeared over with tar ...
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... vegetable , the discharge of fuperfluities , the fecretion of particular juices . They are found to have ducts anfwering to the tracheæ 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 anfwering to the tracheæ 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 fuppofed to perform all forts of chemical operations . Whence it fhould follow , that the air contains all forts of chemic productions , the vapours , fumes , oils , falts , ( 4 30 , 31 . ( b ) 29 . and and ...
... vegetable and foffil , is fuppofed to perform all forts of chemical operations . Whence it fhould follow , that the air contains all forts of chemic productions , the vapours , fumes , oils , falts , ( 4 30 , 31 . ( b ) 29 . and and ...
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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