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AR-WATER, how made, Tar preferves trees from the bi-

TAR

Sect. I

How much to be taken at a

time,

3. 116. 217
How long to be continued, 110
How made palatable,
A prefervative and preparative
against the fmall-pox,
Ufeful in it,

115

2

74

A cure for foulness of blood,
ulceration of bowels, lungs,
confumptive coughs, pleurify,
peripneumony, eryfipelas,
afthma, indigeftion, cachectic
and hyfteric cafes, gravel,
dropfy, and all inflammations,
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Answers all the purposes of Elixir
proprietatis, Stoughton's drops,
belt turpentines, decoction of
the woods, and mineral waters,
53. 61-65
And of the most coftly bal-
fams, 21. 22. 62. 63
May be given to children, 67
Of great use in the gout, 68. 80
In fevers, 7577. 114
Cures a gangrene as well as ery-
fipelas,
82, 83
The fcurvy and all hypocondri-

ting of goats and other inju-
ries,

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20

Its virtues heretofore known, but
only in part, 9. 14. 111
Tar, whence produced, 10-17
18-19
Rofin, whence,
Turpentine, what,
Tar mixt with honey, a cure for
a cough,
Rofin an effectual cure for a
bloody flux,
79
Recommended to Vintners to

21

medicate their wines with, 1 II
Method to cure perfons affected
by breathing a peftilential va-
pour,
144
Scotch firs what, and how they

might be improved, 25
Pine and fir, different fpecies of
26-28
each,
The wonderful structure of trees,
29-38
Juices produced with the leat
violence beft,

46
Myrrh foluble by the human
body would prolong life, 49
Tar-water, by what means, and
in what manner, it operates,
50-57
86-109 Is a foap at once and a vinegar,

ac diforders,
Whence this English malady
proceeds,

High food how prejudicial,

59

88, 89 Soap, opium, and mercury, tho'
they bid fair for univerfal me-
dicines, in what refpects dan-
gerous,
6971
Aromatic flavours of vegetables
depend on light as much as
colours, 40. 162. 214, 5
Analogy between the fpecific
qualities of vegetable juices
and colours,
165. 181
A fine fubtile fpirit, the diftin-
guishing principle of all vege-
tables,

114

66.104
More particularly fpirituous li-
-108
quors, 103. 106
Tar-water a preservative for the
teeth and gums,
Is particularly recommended to
fea-faring perfons, ladies, and
men of ftudious and fedentary
lives,
117-119
Its specific virtues confift in its
volatile falts,

8.123

121

What

CONTE N.. T S.

What the principle of vegetation, and how promoted, 126-8 Theory of acids, falts, and alcalies, 129-136. 227 Air the common teminary of all vivifying principles, 137144 Air, of what it confifts, 147151. 195-7

Pure æther, or invifible fire, the Ipirit of the univerfe, which operates in every thing, 152 -62 Opinion of the ancients concern ing it, 166-75. 229 And of the Chinese conformable to them, 180-82 Fire worshipped among various nations, 183-5 Opinion of the best modern chemits concerning it, 189-90 Ultimately the only menitruun 191

in nature, Adds to the weight of bodies, and even gold made by the introduction of it into quickfilver, 169. 193-6 The theory of Ficinus and others concerning light, 206-13 Sir Ifaac Newton's hypothefis of a fubtle æther examined, 221. 228. 237. 246. No accounting for natural phanomena, either by attraction and repulfion, or by elastic æther, without the prefence of an incorporeal agent, 231

38. 246 249. 294-97 Attraction in fome degree dif

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298

Of abfolute fpace, and fate,

270-3 Of the anima mundi of Plato, 276-84. 322 What meant by the Egyptian Ifis and Ofiris, 268.299 Plato's and Ariftotle's threefold diftinction of objects, 306—7 Their opinion of ideas being innate, or not, 308, 9 Neither of them believed the abfolute existence of corporeal things. 311, 12. 316—18 The fudy of the philofophy of Socrates and Pythagoras would have fecured the minds of men from that felfishness which the mechanic philofophy has introduced, 331,32 The study of Plato recommended, 332.338 Who agrees with Scripture in many particulars, 339 His opinion of the deity, and

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particularly of a trinity, agreeable to revelation, 341-365

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