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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... courfe of emetics . They are nevertheless prescribed and fubftituted for exercife . But it is well remarked in Plato's Timæus that vomits and purges are the worst exercise in the world . There is fomething in the mild operation of tar ...
... courfe of emetics . They are nevertheless prescribed and fubftituted for exercife . But it is well remarked in Plato's Timæus that vomits and purges are the worst exercise in the world . There is fomething in the mild operation of tar ...
Page 35
... courfe of tar - water , upon an intermiffion of it , never failed to have their iffues inflamed by an humour much more hot and fharp than at other times . But it's great ufe in the fmall pox , pleurifies , and fevers , is a fufficient ...
... courfe of tar - water , upon an intermiffion of it , never failed to have their iffues inflamed by an humour much more hot and fharp than at other times . But it's great ufe in the fmall pox , pleurifies , and fevers , is a fufficient ...
Page 56
... courfe of marine expeditions , when fo many of our country - men have perifhed by fuch diftempers , contracted at fea and in foreign climates . Which , it is probable , might have been prevented , by the copious ufe of tar - water . 118 ...
... courfe of marine expeditions , when fo many of our country - men have perifhed by fuch diftempers , contracted at fea and in foreign climates . Which , it is probable , might have been prevented , by the copious ufe of tar - water . 118 ...
Page 57
... courfe of life had long fince thrown me into an ill habit , attended with ma- ny ailments , particularly a nervous cholic , which rendered my life a burthen , and the more fo , be- caufe my pains were exafperated by exercife . But fince ...
... courfe of life had long fince thrown me into an ill habit , attended with ma- ny ailments , particularly a nervous cholic , which rendered my life a burthen , and the more fo , be- caufe my pains were exafperated by exercife . But fince ...
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... - gard to man . 154. The order and courfe of things , and the experiments we daily make , fhew there is a mind that governs and actuates this mundane fyftem , ( a ) 139 , 149 , 15 !. 29 1 as the proper real agent and caufe . And that ( 70 )
... - gard to man . 154. The order and courfe of things , and the experiments we daily make , fhew there is a mind that governs and actuates this mundane fyftem , ( a ) 139 , 149 , 15 !. 29 1 as the proper real agent and caufe . And that ( 70 )
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