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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Mr. Boyle and other later chemists are agreed , that fixed falts are much the same in all bodies . But it is well known that volatile falts do greatly differ , and the easier they are separated from the subject , the more do they ...
Mr. Boyle and other later chemists are agreed , that fixed falts are much the same in all bodies . But it is well known that volatile falts do greatly differ , and the easier they are separated from the subject , the more do they ...
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Thus much is allowed , that the water , earth , and fixed salt are the same in all plants ; that , therefore , which differenceth a plant or makes it what it is , the native spark or form , in the language of the .. chemists or schools ...
Thus much is allowed , that the water , earth , and fixed salt are the same in all plants ; that , therefore , which differenceth a plant or makes it what it is , the native spark or form , in the language of the .. chemists or schools ...
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... the mildness of this medicine being such that I have known children take it , for above fix months together , with great benefit , and without any inconvenience ; and after long and repeated experience I do esteem it a moft ...
... the mildness of this medicine being such that I have known children take it , for above fix months together , with great benefit , and without any inconvenience ; and after long and repeated experience I do esteem it a moft ...
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And from what I have observed in five or fix instances , I do verily believe it the best and fafest medicine either to prevent the gout , or fo to strengthen nature against the fit , as to drive it from the vitals .
And from what I have observed in five or fix instances , I do verily believe it the best and fafest medicine either to prevent the gout , or fo to strengthen nature against the fit , as to drive it from the vitals .
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patients in the hospitals of Paris , given by monsieur Poupart , in the Memoirs of the royal academy of sciences , for the year one thousand fix hundred and ninety - nine . That author thinks he faw some resemblance in it to the plague ...
patients in the hospitals of Paris , given by monsieur Poupart , in the Memoirs of the royal academy of sciences , for the year one thousand fix hundred and ninety - nine . That author thinks he faw some resemblance in it to the plague ...
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