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 poisons , ulcers , the bites of venomous ... vegetables . Mr. Evelyn in his treatife on Forest trees obferves with wonder , that stems of trees ,. smeared over with tar ...
... vegetable balfam . 9. Tar was by the ancients esteemed good against poisons , ulcers , the bites of venomous ... vegetables . Mr. Evelyn in his treatife on Forest trees obferves with wonder , that stems of trees ,. smeared over with tar ...
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... vegetable , the discharge of fuperfluities , the fecretion of particular juices . They are found to have ducts anfwering to the tracheæ in animals , for the conveying of air , they have others anfwering to lacteals , arteries , and ...
... vegetable , the discharge of fuperfluities , the fecretion of particular juices . They are found to have ducts anfwering to the tracheæ 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 ufes 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 ufes 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 ...
Page 17
... 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 should follow , that the air contains all forts of chemic productions , the vapours , fumes , oils , falts , ( a 30 , 31. ( b ) 29 . and and ...
... vegetable and foffil , is fuppofed to perform all forts of chemical operations . Whence it should follow , that the air contains all forts of chemic productions , the vapours , fumes , oils , falts , ( a 30 , 31. ( b ) 29 . and and ...
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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