Siris: a Chain of Philosophical Reflexions and Inquiries Concerning the Virtues of Tar Water,: And Divers Other Subjects Connected Together and Arising One from AnotherDublin printed, London re-printed, for W. Innys, and C. Hitch, in Pater-noster-row; and C. Davis in Holbourn., 1744 - 174 pages |
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A glass of clear water being poured off for a draught is replaced by the same quantity of fresh water , the vefsel being shaken and left to stand as before . And this is repeated for every glais , so long as the tir continuěs to ...
A glass of clear water being poured off for a draught is replaced by the same quantity of fresh water , the vefsel being shaken and left to stand as before . And this is repeated for every glais , so long as the tir continuěs to ...
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Mr. Boyle and other later chemists are agreed , that fixed falts are much the same in all bodies . But it is well known that volatile falts do greatly differ , and the easier they are separated from the subject , the more do they ...
Mr. Boyle and other later chemists are agreed , that fixed falts are much the same in all bodies . But it is well known that volatile falts do greatly differ , and the easier they are separated from the subject , the more do they ...
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... and that the native spirits and essential salts of those vegetables are the same in turpentine and common tar . In effect this vulgar tar , which cheapness and plenty may have rendered contemptible , appears to be an excellent ...
... and that the native spirits and essential salts of those vegetables are the same in turpentine and common tar . In effect this vulgar tar , which cheapness and plenty may have rendered contemptible , appears to be an excellent ...
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Ray will have this to be the same with the piffel¿um , of the ancients ; but Hardouin in his notes on Pliny , thinks the pissel¿um to have been produced froin the cones of cedars . What use they made , of these liquors anciently I know ...
Ray will have this to be the same with the piffel¿um , of the ancients ; but Hardouin in his notes on Pliny , thinks the pissel¿um to have been produced froin the cones of cedars . What use they made , of these liquors anciently I know ...
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... and grows yellow with age : The fourth kind is common turpentine neither transparent , nor so liquid as the former ; and this Mr. Ray taketh to flow from the mountain pine , All these turpentines are usefull in the same intentions .
... and grows yellow with age : The fourth kind is common turpentine neither transparent , nor so liquid as the former ; and this Mr. Ray taketh to flow from the mountain pine , All these turpentines are usefull in the same intentions .
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