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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... first running was zar , the latter or thicker running was pitch . Theo- phraftus is more particular : he tells us the Mace- donians made huge heaps of the cloven trunks of thofe trees , wherein the billets were placed erect befide each ...
... first running was zar , the latter or thicker running was pitch . Theo- phraftus is more particular : he tells us the Mace- donians made huge heaps of the cloven trunks of thofe trees , wherein the billets were placed erect befide each ...
Page 24
... first flies off from the fubject , is perhaps impoffible to obtain . It is an apopthegm of the chemifts , deri- ved from Helmont , that whoever can make myrrh foluble by the human body , has the fecret of pro- longing his days : and ...
... first flies off from the fubject , is perhaps impoffible to obtain . It is an apopthegm of the chemifts , deri- ved from Helmont , that whoever can make myrrh foluble by the human body , has the fecret of pro- longing his days : and ...
Page 33
... first of these is highly spoken of . But then those who magnify it moft , except against the use of it in fuch cafes where the obftruction is attended with a putrefactive alkali , or where an inflammatory dif pofition appears . It is ...
... first of these is highly spoken of . But then those who magnify it moft , except against the use of it in fuch cafes where the obftruction is attended with a putrefactive alkali , or where an inflammatory dif pofition appears . It is ...
Page 37
... first fome of thofe patients had been vomited ; but afterwards I found that without vomiting , bleeding , blistering or any other evacuation or me → dicine whatever , very bad fevers could be cured by the fole drinking of tar - water ...
... first fome of thofe patients had been vomited ; but afterwards I found that without vomiting , bleeding , blistering or any other evacuation or me → dicine whatever , very bad fevers could be cured by the fole drinking of tar - water ...
Page 53
... first fer- ment of new wine or muftum , the ancients were wont to sprinkle it with powdered rofin , which gave it a certain fprightlinefs , qu¿dam faporis acu- mina . This was efteemed a great improver of its odour and taste , and was ...
... first fer- ment of new wine or muftum , the ancients were wont to sprinkle it with powdered rofin , which gave it a certain fprightlinefs , qu¿dam faporis acu- mina . This was efteemed a great improver of its odour and taste , and was ...
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