Encyclopaedia Britannica: Or a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and Miscellaneous Litterature, 5. köide,1. number1810 - 400 pages |
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... matter than the cin- chona officinalis . Some of it was imported from St Lucia , in confequence of its having been ufed with ad- vantage in the army and navy during the last war ; and it has lately been treated of at confiderable length ...
... matter than the cin- chona officinalis . Some of it was imported from St Lucia , in confequence of its having been ufed with ad- vantage in the army and navy during the last war ; and it has lately been treated of at confiderable length ...
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... matter : the middle is thicker , more compact , darker coloured , very refinous , brittle , and yields firft to the peftle : the inmoft is more woody , fibrous , and of a brighter red . The Peruvian bark yields its virtues both to cold ...
... matter : the middle is thicker , more compact , darker coloured , very refinous , brittle , and yields firft to the peftle : the inmoft is more woody , fibrous , and of a brighter red . The Peruvian bark yields its virtues both to cold ...
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... matter on the charged furface fhould pafs into the bo- dies which form that part of the circuit which is con- tiguous to it , driving forward that part of the fluid which they naturally poffefs ; and that the deficiency of the exhaufted ...
... matter on the charged furface fhould pafs into the bo- dies which form that part of the circuit which is con- tiguous to it , driving forward that part of the fluid which they naturally poffefs ; and that the deficiency of the exhaufted ...
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... matter milky ( which will be about 7 quarts or 2 gallons ) ; and laftly , add two pounds of fine fugar . This compofition may be improved by fresh elder flowers , hung in a cloth in the head of the ftill , fprinkled with amber- greafe ...
... matter milky ( which will be about 7 quarts or 2 gallons ) ; and laftly , add two pounds of fine fugar . This compofition may be improved by fresh elder flowers , hung in a cloth in the head of the ftill , fprinkled with amber- greafe ...
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... matter is diffolved in water , and on evaporating the decoction remains entire in the extract . The diftilled water was formerly kept in the shops , but on account of the great fcarcity of the flowers is now laid afide ; it is called by ...
... matter is diffolved in water , and on evaporating the decoction remains entire in the extract . The diftilled water was formerly kept in the shops , but on account of the great fcarcity of the flowers is now laid afide ; it is called by ...
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