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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... nature . But it is to be noted that all balfams contain an acid fpirit , which is in truth a volatile falt . Water is a men- ftruum that diffolves all forts of falts , and draws them from their fubjects . Tar , therefore , being a ...
... nature . But it is to be noted that all balfams contain an acid fpirit , which is in truth a volatile falt . Water is a men- ftruum that diffolves all forts of falts , and draws them from their fubjects . Tar , therefore , being a ...
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... nature is highly prejudicial to them . 10. It seems that tar and turpentine may be had more or less , from all forts of pines and firs what- foever and that the native fpirits and effential falts of thofe vegetables are the fame in ...
... nature is highly prejudicial to them . 10. It seems that tar and turpentine may be had more or less , from all forts of pines and firs what- foever and that the native fpirits and effential falts of thofe vegetables are the fame in ...
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... natural production , lodged in the veffels of the tree , whence it is only freed and let lofe ( not made ) by burning . If we may believe Pliny , the first running or tar was called cedrium , and was of fuch efficacy to preserve from ...
... natural production , lodged in the veffels of the tree , whence it is only freed and let lofe ( not made ) by burning . If we may believe Pliny , the first running or tar was called cedrium , and was of fuch efficacy to preserve from ...
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... nature is much more perfect than that of human art , inafmuch as it joineth to the power of heat that of the moft exquifite mechanifm . Those who have examined the ftructure of trees and plants by microscopes , have difcovered an admira ...
... nature is much more perfect than that of human art , inafmuch as it joineth to the power of heat that of the moft exquifite mechanifm . Those who have examined the ftructure of trees and plants by microscopes , have difcovered an admira ...
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... nature's acting , for the nourishment and health of animal bodies , chie- fly to confift . And , indeed , what fhare of a plant's nourishment is drawn through the leaves and bark , from that ambient heterogeneous fluid called air , is ...
... nature's acting , for the nourishment and health of animal bodies , chie- fly to confift . And , indeed , what fhare of a plant's nourishment is drawn through the leaves and bark , from that ambient heterogeneous fluid called air , is ...
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abfolute acid æther æthereal againſt alfo alſo ancient animal fpirit Ariftotle attraction balfam becauſe bodies cafes caufe cauſe confequently confidered confift conftitute 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 fhould feem fir Ifaac Newton firft firſt foap folar folid fome fomewhat force foul fpecific ftill ftomach fubftance fubject fubtile fuch fulphur fuppofed fupreme fyftem 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 produceth pure raiſe reafon refides refin ſeem ſpace ſtate tar-water thefe themſelves Theophraftus theſe things thofe thoſe Timæus turpentine underſtand underſtood univerfe uſe veffels vegetable virtues volatile whereof whofe