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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... guaiacum , and other medicinal woods . 48. Qualities in a degree too ftrong for human nature to fubdue , and affimilate to it felf , must hurt the conftitution . All acids , therefore , may not be useful or innocent . But this feemeth ...
... guaiacum , and other medicinal woods . 48. Qualities in a degree too ftrong for human nature to fubdue , and affimilate to it felf , must hurt the conftitution . All acids , therefore , may not be useful or innocent . But this feemeth ...
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... Guaiacum . And all these fame virtues feem to be in tar - water in a mild and falutary degree . 59. It is the general opinion that all acids coa- gulate the blood . Boerhaave excepts vinegar , which he holds to be a foap , inafimuch as ...
... Guaiacum . And all these fame virtues feem to be in tar - water in a mild and falutary degree . 59. It is the general opinion that all acids coa- gulate the blood . Boerhaave excepts vinegar , which he holds to be a foap , inafimuch as ...
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... Guaiacum which feems the most efficacious of all the woods , warming and sweetening the humours , diaphoretic and useful in gouts , dropfies and rheums , as well as in the foul disease . Nor fhould it seem strange , if the virtues ...
... Guaiacum which feems the most efficacious of all the woods , warming and sweetening the humours , diaphoretic and useful in gouts , dropfies and rheums , as well as in the foul disease . Nor fhould it seem strange , if the virtues ...
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