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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... vegetable balfam . 9. Tar was by the ancients esteemed good against poifons , ulcers , the bites of venomous ... vegetables . Mr. Evelyn in his treatife on Foreft trees obferves with wonder , that ftems of trees , fmeared over with tar ...
... vegetable balfam . 9. Tar was by the ancients esteemed good against poifons , ulcers , the bites of venomous ... vegetables . Mr. Evelyn in his treatife on Foreft trees obferves with wonder , that ftems of trees , fmeared over with tar ...
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... vegetable , the difcharge of fuperfluities , the fecretion of particular juices . They are found to have ducts answering to the trache¿ in animals , for the conveying of air ; they have others anfwering to lacteals , arteries , and ...
... vegetable , the difcharge of fuperfluities , the fecretion of particular juices . They are found to have ducts answering to the trache¿ in animals , for the conveying of air ; they have others anfwering to lacteals , arteries , and ...
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... vegetables . But whether the discoverers have rightly gueffed at all their uses or no , thus much is certain , that , there are innumerable fine and curious parts in a vegetable body , and a won- derful fimilitude or analogy between the ...
... vegetables . But whether the discoverers have rightly gueffed at all their uses or no , thus much is certain , that , there are innumerable fine and curious parts in a vegetable body , and a won- derful fimilitude or analogy between the ...
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... vegetable as animal . life . 34. It is an opinion received by many , that the fap circulates in plants as the blood in animals : that it afcends through capillary arteries in the trunk , into which are inofculated other veffels of the ...
... vegetable as animal . life . 34. It is an opinion received by many , that the fap circulates in plants as the blood in animals : that it afcends through capillary arteries in the trunk , into which are inofculated other veffels of the ...
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... vegetable and foffil , is fuppofed to perform all forts of chemical operations . Whence it fhould follow , that the air contains all forts of chemic productions , the vapours , fumes , oils , falts ,. ( a ) 30 , 31 . ( b ) 29 . and ...
... vegetable and foffil , is fuppofed to perform all forts of chemical operations . Whence it fhould follow , that the air contains all forts of chemic productions , the vapours , fumes , oils , falts ,. ( a ) 30 , 31 . ( b ) 29 . and ...
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abfolute acid ¿ther ¿therial againſt alfo alſo ancient animal fpirit Ariftotle attraction balfam becauſe blood bodies cafes caufe cauſe confequently confift conftitute cure diffolved diftempers diftinct diuretic divine doctrine doth effects elaftic elaſtic Ennead exift exiſtence fafe faid falts fame fcurvy fecreted feem feemeth felf fenfe fenfible feveral fhall fhew fhould fhould feem fir Ifaac Newton firft foap folar folid fome fometimes fomewhat force foul ftomach fubftance fubject fubtile fuch fulphur fuppofed fupreme fyftem gout groffer grofs hath heat Heraclitus himſelf intellect invifible itſelf juices lacteals laws of attraction lefs medicine mind moft moſt motion muft muſt nature neceffary nevertheleſs obferved Parmenides particles perfons ph¿nomena philofophers pine plants Plato Plotinus Plutarch prefent prefervative principle produce pure reafon refides refin ſeems ſpace ſpecific tar-water thefe themſelves theſe things thofe thoſe Tim¿us turpentine underſtand underſtood univerfe uſe veffels vegetable virtues volatile whereof whofe τὸ