Encyclopaedia Britannica: Or a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and Miscellaneous Litterature, 5. köide,1. number1810 - 400 pages |
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... experiments with it , and on making comparative trials of its ef- fects with thofe of the bark in common ufe on pa- tients labouring under intermitting complaints . In July 1782 , Dr William Saunders published an account of this red ...
... experiments with it , and on making comparative trials of its ef- fects with thofe of the bark in common ufe on pa- tients labouring under intermitting complaints . In July 1782 , Dr William Saunders published an account of this red ...
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... experiments to be lefs perishable than decoctions ; infufions and de- coctions of the red bark than thofe of the pale ; those of the red bark , however , are found by length of time to separate more mild earth with the lime - water ...
... experiments to be lefs perishable than decoctions ; infufions and de- coctions of the red bark than thofe of the pale ; those of the red bark , however , are found by length of time to separate more mild earth with the lime - water ...
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... experiments ; but cinnabar is certainly ufed with fuccefs to procure a mercurial fu- migation , when that method of cure is proper in ve- nereal difeafes . For this purpofe it is burnt in an open fire on red hot coals , by which the ...
... experiments ; but cinnabar is certainly ufed with fuccefs to procure a mercurial fu- migation , when that method of cure is proper in ve- nereal difeafes . For this purpofe it is burnt in an open fire on red hot coals , by which the ...
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... experiments of a fimilar kind , conveyed the electric matter through a circuit of four miles ; and they concluded from this and another trial , that its velocity is inftantaneous . CIRCULAR , in a general fenfe , any thing that is ...
... experiments of a fimilar kind , conveyed the electric matter through a circuit of four miles ; and they concluded from this and another trial , that its velocity is inftantaneous . CIRCULAR , in a general fenfe , any thing that is ...
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... experiment ; but found , that of feveral kinds of argil . laceous earth not the smallest quantity was diffolved ; and he likewife made feveral experiments in order to obtain vitriolic acid from pure clay , but without fuc cefs : neither ...
... experiment ; but found , that of feveral kinds of argil . laceous earth not the smallest quantity was diffolved ; and he likewife made feveral experiments in order to obtain vitriolic acid from pure clay , but without fuc cefs : neither ...
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