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4-7 Answers all the purposes of Elixir proprietatis, Stoughton's drops, beft turpentines, decoction of the woods, and mineral waters, 53. 61-65 And of the most coftly balfams, 21. 22. 63 May be given to children, Of great ufe in the gout, 68. 80 In fevers, Cures a gangrene as well as eryfipelas, 82, 83 The fcurvy and all hypocondriac maladies, 86-109 A prefervative for the teeth and gums, 114

Turpentine, what,

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Tar mixt with honey, a cure for a cough, Rofin an effectual cure for a bloody flux, 79 Scotch firs what, and how they might be improved, 25 Pine and fir, different fpecies of each, 26-28 The wonderful structure of trees, 29-38 Juices produced with the leaft violence beft, 46 Myrrh foluble by the human

body would prolong life, 49 Tar-water, by what means, and in what manner, it operates, 50-57 Is a foap at once and a vinegar,

59 Aromatic flavours and vegetables depend on light as much as colours, 40. 214, 5 Analogy between the specific qualities of vegetable juices and colours,

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Is particularly recommended to fea-faring perfons, ladies, and men of ftudious and fedentary lives, 117-119 Its specific virtues confift in its volatile falts,

8. 123 Its virtues heretofore known, but

only in part, 9. 11. 112 Tar, whence produced, 10-17 Rofin, whence, 18-19

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fine fubtile fpirit, the diftinguishing principle of all vegetables, What the principle of vegetation, and how promoted, 126-8 Theory of acids, falts, and alcalies, 129-136. 227 Air the common feminary of all vivifying principles, 137144

Air, of what it confifts, 147

151. 195-7 Pure æther, or invifible fire, the fpirit of the universe, which operates in every thing, 152

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Opinion of the best modern che- Of abfolute space, and fate, mifts concerning it, 189-90 270-3 Ultimately the only menftruum Of the anima mundi of Plato,

in nature 191 Adds to the weight of bodies, and even gold made by the introduction of it into quickfilver, 192-5 The theory of Ficinus and others concerning light, 206-13 Sir Ifaac Newton's hypothefis of a fubtle æther examined, 221 228. 237. 246. No accounting for phænomena, either by attraction and repulfion; or by elaftic æther, without the presence of an incorporeal agent, 231-38.246 249.294-97 Attraction in fome degree difcovered by Galilæi, 245 Phænomena are but appearances in the foul, not to be accounted for upon mechanical principles, 251, 2. 310 The ancients not ignorant of

276-84-322 What meant by the Egyptian Ifis and Ofiris, 268. 299 Plato and Ariftotle's threefold diftinction of objects, 306-7 Their opinion of ideas being innate, or not, 308, 9 Neither of them believed the abfolute existence of corporeal things, 311, 12. 316—18 The ftudy of the philofophy of Socrates and Pythagoras would have fecured the minds of men from that selfishness which the mechanic philofophy has introduced, 331, 32 The study of Plato recommended, 332.338 Who agrees with Scripture in many particulars, 339 His opinion of the deity, and particularly of a trinity, agreeable to revelation, 341-365

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