Philosophical Reflexions and Inquiries Concerning the Virtues of Tar Water: And Divers Other Subjects Connected Together and Arising One from Another. By the Right Rev. Dr. George Berkley, ...C. Hitch; and C. Davis, 1744 - 176 pages |
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... according to the cafe and age of the patient , provided it be always taken on an empty ftomach , and about two hours before or after a meal . 4. It feemed probable , that a medicine of fuch efficacy in a distemper attended with fo many ...
... according to the cafe and age of the patient , provided it be always taken on an empty ftomach , and about two hours before or after a meal . 4. It feemed probable , that a medicine of fuch efficacy in a distemper attended with fo many ...
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... According to Pliny , liquid pitch ( as he calls it ) or tar was obtained by fetting fire to bil- lets of old fat pines or firs . The first running was tar , the latter or thicker running was pitch . Theo- phraftus is more particular ...
... According to Pliny , liquid pitch ( as he calls it ) or tar was obtained by fetting fire to bil- lets of old fat pines or firs . The first running was tar , the latter or thicker running was pitch . Theo- phraftus is more particular ...
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... According to Theophraftus , refin was ob- tained by ftripping off the bark from pines , and by incifions made in the filver fir and the pitch pine . The inhabitants of Mount Ida , he tells us , ftripped the trunk of the pine on the ...
... According to Theophraftus , refin was ob- tained by ftripping off the bark from pines , and by incifions made in the filver fir and the pitch pine . The inhabitants of Mount Ida , he tells us , ftripped the trunk of the pine on the ...
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... according to Pliny , yields much refin , loves a cold and mountainous fituation , and is di- ftinguished , tonfili facilitate , by its fitnefs to be fhorn , which agrees with the fpruce fir , whereof I have feen close fhorn hedges . 27 ...
... according to Pliny , yields much refin , loves a cold and mountainous fituation , and is di- ftinguished , tonfili facilitate , by its fitnefs to be fhorn , which agrees with the fpruce fir , whereof I have feen close fhorn hedges . 27 ...
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... according to Homberg is the pure falt , falt the principle , in it felf fimilar and uniform , but never found alone . And although this principle be called the falt of the earth , yet it fhould feem it may more pro- perly be called the ...
... according to Homberg is the pure falt , falt the principle , in it felf fimilar and uniform , but never found alone . And although this principle be called the falt of the earth , yet it fhould feem it may more pro- perly be called the ...
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