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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... must be gainers . For if the lute be not well tuned , the musician fails of his harmony . And in our present state , the operations of the mind , fo far depend on the right tone or good condition of it's inftrument , that any thing ...
... must be gainers . For if the lute be not well tuned , the musician fails of his harmony . And in our present state , the operations of the mind , fo far depend on the right tone or good condition of it's inftrument , that any thing ...
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... 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- ftruum that diffolves all forts of falts , and draws them from their fubjects ...
... 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- ftruum that diffolves all forts of falts , and draws them from their fubjects ...
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... must therefore be a thing of great benefit , to be able to introduce any requifite quantity of their volatile parts into the finest ducts and capillaries , fo as not to offend the ftomach , but , on the contrary , to comfort and ...
... must therefore be a thing of great benefit , to be able to introduce any requifite quantity of their volatile parts into the finest ducts and capillaries , fo as not to offend the ftomach , but , on the contrary , to comfort and ...
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... must therefore differ in an endless variety , as to the texture of their abforbent veffels and fe- cretory ducts . 32. A body , therefore , either animal or vege table , may be confidered as an organised fyftem of tubes and veffels ...
... must therefore differ in an endless variety , as to the texture of their abforbent veffels and fe- cretory ducts . 32. A body , therefore , either animal or vege table , may be confidered as an organised fyftem of tubes and veffels ...
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... must ac- knowledge , that a plant or tree is a very nice and complicated machine ( a ) ; by the feveral parts and motions whereof , the crude juices admitted through the abforbent veffels , whether of the root , trunk , or branches ...
... must ac- knowledge , that a plant or tree is a very nice and complicated machine ( a ) ; by the feveral parts and motions whereof , the crude juices admitted through the abforbent veffels , whether of the root , trunk , or branches ...
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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