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, C. Hitch, and C. Davis, 1744 - 174 pages |
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... Several were preserved from taking the small- pox by the use of this liquor : others had it in the mildeft manner , and others that they might be able to take the infection , were obliged to intermit drinking the tar - water . I have ...
... Several were preserved from taking the small- pox by the use of this liquor : others had it in the mildeft manner , and others that they might be able to take the infection , were obliged to intermit drinking the tar - water . I have ...
Page 13
... Several species of both are accurately defcribed and delineated by the na- turalifts . But they all agree fo far as to feem related . Theophraftus gives the preference to that refin which is got from the filver fir and pitch tree ...
... Several species of both are accurately defcribed and delineated by the na- turalifts . But they all agree fo far as to feem related . Theophraftus gives the preference to that refin which is got from the filver fir and pitch tree ...
Page 15
... several purposes , as the imbibing or attracting of proper nourishment , the diftributing thereof through all parts of the vegetable , the difcharge of fuperfluities , the fecretion of particular juices . They are found to have ducts ...
... several purposes , as the imbibing or attracting of proper nourishment , the diftributing thereof through all parts of the vegetable , the difcharge of fuperfluities , the fecretion of particular juices . They are found to have ducts ...
Page 95
... light is incorporeal , by feveral arguments : Because it enlightens and fills a great space in an inftant , and without oppofition : Because several lights 4 lights meet without refifting each other . Because light cannot ( 95 )
... light is incorporeal , by feveral arguments : Because it enlightens and fills a great space in an inftant , and without oppofition : Because several lights 4 lights meet without refifting each other . Because light cannot ( 95 )
Page 117
... several deep fecrets of nature , in the knowledge whereof he feems to have made a great- er progress , than all the fects of corpufcularians together had done before him . Nevertheless , the principle of attraction itself is not to be ...
... several deep fecrets of nature , in the knowledge whereof he feems to have made a great- er progress , than all the fects of corpufcularians together had done before him . Nevertheless , the principle of attraction itself is not to be ...
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