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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It imparts a kindly warmth and quick circulation to the juices without heating , and
is therefore useful , not only as a pectoral and balfamic , but also as a powerful
and safe deobftruent in cachectic and hysteric cases . As it is both healing and ...
It imparts a kindly warmth and quick circulation to the juices without heating , and
is therefore useful , not only as a pectoral and balfamic , but also as a powerful
and safe deobftruent in cachectic and hysteric cases . As it is both healing and ...
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They cannot therefore be taken in fubstance , so much or fo long , as to produce
all those falutary effects , which , if thoroughly mixed with the blood and juices ,
they would be capable of producing . It must therefore be a thing of great benefit ...
They cannot therefore be taken in fubstance , so much or fo long , as to produce
all those falutary effects , which , if thoroughly mixed with the blood and juices ,
they would be capable of producing . It must therefore be a thing of great benefit ...
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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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Nevertheless it's being dug out of the earth shews it to be a foffil , though of a very
different kind from other foffils . But thus much is certain , that the medicinal
virtues of amber are to be found in the balsamic juices of pines and firs .
Particularly ...
Nevertheless it's being dug out of the earth shews it to be a foffil , though of a very
different kind from other foffils . But thus much is certain , that the medicinal
virtues of amber are to be found in the balsamic juices of pines and firs .
Particularly ...
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... of fine capillary tubes and vessels , fitted for several purposes , as the imbibing
or attracting of proper nourishment , the distributing thereof through all parts of
the vegetable , the discharge of superfluities , the secretion of particular juices .
... of fine capillary tubes and vessels , fitted for several purposes , as the imbibing
or attracting of proper nourishment , the distributing thereof through all parts of
the vegetable , the discharge of superfluities , the secretion of particular juices .
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| Title | 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 Eighteenth Century English short title catalogue Eighteenth Century collection 8128. number of Goldsmiths'-Kress library of economic literature 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 |
| Author | George Berkeley |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | Dublin printed, London re-printed, for W. Innys, C. Hitch, and C. Davis, 1744 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 27 mai 2009 |
| Length | 174 pages |
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