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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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 .
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 .
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The leaves and tender tops of pine and fir are in our times used for diet - drinks , and allowed to be antiscorbutic and diuretic , But the most elaborate juice , falt , and fpirit of those evergreens are to be found in tar 3 whose ...
The leaves and tender tops of pine and fir are in our times used for diet - drinks , and allowed to be antiscorbutic and diuretic , But the most elaborate juice , falt , and fpirit of those evergreens are to be found in tar 3 whose ...
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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 ...
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 ...
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The trees , like old men , being unable to perspire , and their secretory ducts obstructed , they are , as one may fay , choaked and stuffed with their own juice . 17. The method used by our colonies in America , for making tar and ...
The trees , like old men , being unable to perspire , and their secretory ducts obstructed , they are , as one may fay , choaked and stuffed with their own juice . 17. The method used by our colonies in America , for making tar and ...
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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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