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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Tar was by the ancients esteemed good against poisons , ulcers , the bites of venomous creatures , also for pthisical , scrophulous , paralytic and asthmatic persons . But the method of rendering it an inoffensive medicine and agreeable ...
Tar was by the ancients esteemed good against poisons , ulcers , the bites of venomous creatures , also for pthisical , scrophulous , paralytic and asthmatic persons . But the method of rendering it an inoffensive medicine and agreeable ...
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Pliny faith , it was customary for the ancients , to hold fleeces of wool over the steam of boiling tar , and squeeze the moisture from them , which watery substance was called pissinum . Ray will have this to be the same with the ...
Pliny faith , it was customary for the ancients , to hold fleeces of wool over the steam of boiling tar , and squeeze the moisture from them , which watery substance was called pissinum . Ray will have this to be the same with the ...
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It fhould seem indeed that one and the fame word was used by the ancients in a large sense , so as to comprehend the juices issuing from all those trées . Tar and all sorts of exsudations from evergreens are , in a general acceptation ...
It fhould seem indeed that one and the fame word was used by the ancients in a large sense , so as to comprehend the juices issuing from all those trées . Tar and all sorts of exsudations from evergreens are , in a general acceptation ...
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There seems to have been some confusion in the naming of these trees , as well among the ancients as the moderns , . The ancient Greek and Latin names are by later authors applied very differently . Pliny himself acknowledgeth , it is ...
There seems to have been some confusion in the naming of these trees , as well among the ancients as the moderns , . The ancient Greek and Latin names are by later authors applied very differently . Pliny himself acknowledgeth , it is ...
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... from it's refifting putrefaction , Now this quality is as remarkable in car , with which the ancients embalmed and preserved dead bodies . And though Boerhaave himself , and other cheniifts before him , have given methods for making ...
... from it's refifting putrefaction , Now this quality is as remarkable in car , with which the ancients embalmed and preserved dead bodies . And though Boerhaave himself , and other cheniifts before him , have given methods for making ...
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| Pealkiri | Siris: a Chain of Philosophical Reflexions and Inquiries Concerning the Virtues of Tar Water,: And Divers Other Subjects Connected Together and Arising One from Another Siris: a Chain of Philosophical Reflexions and Inquiries Concerning the Virtues of Tar Water,: And Divers Other Subjects Connected Together and Arising One from Another, George Berkeley |
| Autor | George Berkeley |
| Contributors | William Bowyer, William Innys, Charles Hitch, Charles Davis |
| Publisher | Dublin printed, London re-printed, for W. Innys, and C. Hitch, in Pater-noster-row; and C. Davis in Holbourn., 1744 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 27 mai 2009 |
| Length | 174 pages |
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