Siris: A Chain of Philosophical Reflexions and Inquiries Concerning the Virtues of Tar WaterReprinted for W. Innys, 1744 - 174 pages |
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... Some modern writers inform us that tar flows from the trunks of pines and firs , when they are very old , through incifions made in the bark near the root ; that pitch is tar infpiffated ; and both are the oyl of the tree grown thick ...
... Some modern writers inform us that tar flows from the trunks of pines and firs , when they are very old , through incifions made in the bark near the root ; that pitch is tar infpiffated ; and both are the oyl of the tree grown thick ...
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... Some difference indeed there is between learned men , concerning the proper ufe of certain parts of vegetables . But whether the discoverers have rightly gueffed at all their uses or no , thus much is certain , that there are ...
... Some difference indeed there is between learned men , concerning the proper ufe of certain parts of vegetables . But whether the discoverers have rightly gueffed at all their uses or no , thus much is certain , that there are ...
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... some degree . 54. Such medicines are fuppofed to be diapho- retic , which , being of an active and fubtile nature , pafs through the whole fyftem , and work their effect in the fineft capillaries and perfpiratory ducts which they gently ...
... some degree . 54. Such medicines are fuppofed to be diapho- retic , which , being of an active and fubtile nature , pafs through the whole fyftem , and work their effect in the fineft capillaries and perfpiratory ducts which they gently ...
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... some of thofe patients had been vomited ; but afterwards I found that without vomiting , bleeding , bliftering , or any other evacuation or me dicine whatever , very bad fevers could be cured by the fole drinking of tar - water milk ...
... some of thofe patients had been vomited ; but afterwards I found that without vomiting , bleeding , bliftering , or any other evacuation or me dicine whatever , very bad fevers could be cured by the fole drinking of tar - water milk ...
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... Some think an Eryfipelas and the Plague differ only in degree . If fo , tar - water fhould be useful in the Plague , for I have known it cure an Erysipelas . 84. Tar - water , as cleanfing , healing , and bal- famic , is good in all ...
... Some think an Eryfipelas and the Plague differ only in degree . If fo , tar - water fhould be useful in the Plague , for I have known it cure an Erysipelas . 84. Tar - water , as cleanfing , healing , and bal- famic , is good in all ...
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