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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... fome of our colonies , as a prefervative or prepara- tive against the small - pox , which foreign practice induced me to try it in my own neighbourhood , when the small - pox raged with great violence . And the trial fully answered my ...
... fome of our colonies , as a prefervative or prepara- tive against the small - pox , which foreign practice induced me to try it in my own neighbourhood , when the small - pox raged with great violence . And the trial fully answered my ...
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... fome years had been fubject to eryfipelatous fevers , perceived the ufual fore - running fymptoms to come on , I advised her to drink tar - water which prevented the eryfipelas . 6. I never knew any thing fo good for the fto- mach as ...
... fome years had been fubject to eryfipelatous fevers , perceived the ufual fore - running fymptoms to come on , I advised her to drink tar - water which prevented the eryfipelas . 6. I never knew any thing fo good for the fto- mach as ...
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... fome perhaps may suspect that , as the tar itself is fulphureous , tar - water must be of a hot and inflaming nature . But it is to be noted , that all balfams contain and acid spirit , which is in truth a volatile falt . Water is a men ...
... fome perhaps may suspect that , as the tar itself is fulphureous , tar - water must be of a hot and inflaming nature . But it is to be noted , that all balfams contain and acid spirit , which is in truth a volatile falt . Water is a men ...
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... fome of the Greek islands . The next best from the filver fir and pitch pine . 21. Turpentine is on all hands allowed to have great medicinal virtues . Tar and it's infufion contain those virtues . Tar - water is extremely pec- toral ...
... fome of the Greek islands . The next best from the filver fir and pitch pine . 21. Turpentine is on all hands allowed to have great medicinal virtues . Tar and it's infufion contain those virtues . Tar - water is extremely pec- toral ...
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... fome fpecies of pine , which he gathered from it's fmell . Nevertheless it's being dug out of the earth fhews it to be a foffil , though of a very different kind from other foffils . But thus much is certain , that the medicinal virtues ...
... fome fpecies of pine , which he gathered from it's fmell . Nevertheless it's being dug out of the earth fhews it to be a foffil , though of a very different kind from other foffils . But thus much is certain , that the medicinal virtues ...
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abfolute acid æther æthereal againſt alfo alſo ancient animal fpirit Ariftotle attraction balfam becauſe bodies cafes caufe cauſe confequently confidered confift conftitute diffolved diftempers diftinct diſorders diuretic divine doctrine doth effects elaftic Ennead exift exiſtence fafe faid falts fame fcurvy fecreted feem feemeth felf fenfe fenfible feveral fhall fhew fhould fhould feem firft firſt folar fome fometimes fomewhat force foul fpecific ftill 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 light or fire medicine mind moft moſt motion muft muſt nature nevertheleſs obferved Parmenides particles perfons phænomena philofophers plants Plato Plotinus Plutarch prefent principle produce produceth pure reafon refide refin ſeem Sir Ifaac Newton ſpace tar-water thefe themſelves Theophraftus theſe things thofe thoſe Timæus turpentine underſtand underſtood univerfe uſe veffels vegetable virtues volatile whereof whofe