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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... animals alone , but also to vegetables . Mr. Evelyn in his treatife on Foreft trees obferves with wonder , that ftems of trees , fmeared over with tar , are preferved thereby from being hurt by the invenomed teeth of goats and other ...
... animals alone , but also to vegetables . Mr. Evelyn in his treatife on Foreft trees obferves with wonder , that ftems of trees , fmeared over with tar , are preferved thereby from being hurt by the invenomed teeth of goats and other ...
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... animals , for the conveying of air ; they have others anfwering to lacteals , arteries , and veins . They feed , digeft , refpire , perfpire and generate their kind , and are provided with organs nicely fitted for all thofe ufes ... 30 ...
... animals , for the conveying of air ; they have others anfwering to lacteals , arteries , and veins . They feed , digeft , refpire , perfpire and generate their kind , and are provided with organs nicely fitted for all thofe ufes ... 30 ...
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... animals . And perhaps fome will think it not unreasonable to fuppofe the mechanifm of plants more curious than even ... animal bodies , by the fyftole and diastole of the heart , the alternate expanfion and condenfation of the air , and ...
... animals . And perhaps fome will think it not unreasonable to fuppofe the mechanifm of plants more curious than even ... animal bodies , by the fyftole and diastole of the heart , the alternate expanfion and condenfation of the air , and ...
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... animals . In which reciprocation , Hippo- . crates fuppofeth the manner of nature's acting , for the nourishment and health of animal bodies , chie- fly to confift . And , indeed , what share of a plant's nourishment is drawn through ...
... animals . In which reciprocation , Hippo- . crates fuppofeth the manner of nature's acting , for the nourishment and health of animal bodies , chie- fly to confift . And , indeed , what share of a plant's nourishment is drawn through ...
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... animals . Jofeth much of it's force , if it be confidered , that the fuppofed circulating of the fap , from the root or ... animal , vegetable and foffil , is fuppofed to perform all forts of chemical operations . Whence it fhould follow ...
... animals . Jofeth much of it's force , if it be confidered , that the fuppofed circulating of the fap , from the root or ... animal , vegetable and foffil , is fuppofed to perform all forts of chemical operations . Whence it fhould follow ...
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