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

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How much to be taken at a

time, 3. 116. 217 How long to be continued, 110 How made palatable, 115 A prefervative and preparative against the fmall-pox, Useful in it,

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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, 4-7

Anfwers all the purposes of Elixir proprietatis,Stoughton's drops, beft turpentines, decoction of the woods, and mineral waters, 53. 61-65 And of the most coftly balfams, 21. 22. 62. 63 May be given to children, 67 Of great ufe in the gout, 68. 80

In fevers, 75 77. 114 Cures a gangrene as well as eryfipelas, 82, 83 The fcurvy and all hypocondriac disorders, 86-109 Whence this English malady proceeds, 88, 89 High food how prejudicial,

66. 104 More particularly fpirituous liquors, 103. 106-108 Tar-water a preservative for the teeth and gums, 114 Is particularly recommended to fea-faring perfons, ladies, and men of studious and fedentary lives, 117-119 Its fpecific virtues confift in its volatile falts,

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ting of goats and other injuries, Sect. II

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Its virtues heretofore known, but only in part, 9. 11. 111 Tar, whence produced, 10-17 Rofin, whence, 18-19 Turpentine, what, Tar mixt with honey, a cure for a cough, Rofin an effectual cure for a bloody flux, 79 Recommended to Vintners to medicate their wines with, 11 Method to cure perfons affected by breathing a peftilential vapour, 144 Scotch firs what, and how they might be improved, 25 Pine and fir, different fpecies of each, 26-28 The wonderful structure of trees, 29-38 Juices produced with the leaft 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 Is a foap at once and a vinegar,

59 Soap, opium, and mercury, tho' they bid fair for univerfal medicines, in what refpects dangerous, 69- -71 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 diftinguifhing principle of all vegetables,

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What the principle of vegetation, and how promoted, 126-8 Theory of acids, falts, and alcalies, 129-136. 227 Air the common seminary of all vivifying principles, 137

144 Air, of what it confifts, 147151. 195-7 Pure æther, or invifible fire, the spirit of the univerfe, which operates in every thing, 152

covered by Galilæi, 245 Phænomena are but appearances in the foul, not to be accounted for upon mechanical principles, 251, 2. 310 The ancients not ignorant of many things in phyfics and. metaphyfics, which we think the discovery of modern times, 265-69 Had fome advantages beyond

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298 -62 Of abfolute space, and fate,

Opinion of the ancients concerning 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 chemifts concerning it, 189-90 Ultimately the only menftruum in nature, 191 Adds to the weight of bodies, and even gold made by the introduction of it into quickfilver, 169. 192-6 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

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 ftudy of the philofophy of Socrates and Pythagoras would have fecured the minds of men from that selfishness 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

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

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