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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... Some modern writers inform us that tar flows from the trunks of pines and firs , when they are very old , through incifions made in the bark near the root ; that pitch is tar infpiffated ; and both are the oyl of the tree grown thick ...
... Some modern writers inform us that tar flows from the trunks of pines and firs , when they are very old , through incifions made in the bark near the root ; that pitch is tar infpiffated ; and both are the oyl of the tree grown thick ...
Page 16
... Some difference indeed there is between learned men , concerning the proper use of certain parts of vegetables . But whether the discoverers have rightly gueffed at all their uses or no , thus much is certain , that , there are ...
... Some difference indeed there is between learned men , concerning the proper use of certain parts of vegetables . But whether the discoverers have rightly gueffed at all their uses or no , thus much is certain , that , there are ...
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... Some think an Erysipelas and the Plague differ only in degree . If fo , tar - water fhould be useful in the Plague , for I have known it cure an Erysipelas . Doctor 84. Tar - water , as cleanfing , healing , and bal- famic , is good in ...
... Some think an Erysipelas and the Plague differ only in degree . If fo , tar - water fhould be useful in the Plague , for I have known it cure an Erysipelas . Doctor 84. Tar - water , as cleanfing , healing , and bal- famic , is good in ...
Page 44
... Some have reckoned as many forts of the fcurvy , as there are different taints of the blood . Others have fup . pofed it a collection of all illneffes together . Some fuppofe it an accumulation of feveral difeafes in fieri . Others take ...
... Some have reckoned as many forts of the fcurvy , as there are different taints of the blood . Others have fup . pofed it a collection of all illneffes together . Some fuppofe it an accumulation of feveral difeafes in fieri . Others take ...
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... Some moderns have thought fit to deride all that is faid of ¿thereal vehicles , as mere jargon or words without a meaning . But they fhould have confidered , that all fpeech concerning the foul is altogether , or for the most part ...
... Some moderns have thought fit to deride all that is faid of ¿thereal vehicles , as mere jargon or words without a meaning . But they fhould have confidered , that all fpeech concerning the foul is altogether , or for the most part ...
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