Siris: A Chain of Philosophical Reflexions and Inquiries Concerning the Virtues of Tar Water, and Divers Other Subjects Connected Together and Arising One from Another |
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It is an excellent medicine in an asthma . It imparts a kindly warmth and quick
circulation to the juices without heating , and is therefore useful , not only as a
pectoral and balsamic , but also as a powerful and safe deobftruent in cachectic
and ...
It is an excellent medicine in an asthma . It imparts a kindly warmth and quick
circulation to the juices without heating , and is therefore useful , not only as a
pectoral and balsamic , but also as a powerful and safe deobftruent in cachectic
and ...
Page 8
Balsams , as all unctuous and oily medicines , create a nauseating in the
stomach . They cannot therefore be taken in substance , so much or so long , as
to produce all those falutary effects , which , if thoroughly mixed with the blood
and juices ...
Balsams , as all unctuous and oily medicines , create a nauseating in the
stomach . They cannot therefore be taken in substance , so much or so long , as
to produce all those falutary effects , which , if thoroughly mixed with the blood
and juices ...
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Similar consequences may juftly be apprehended from other mineral and
ponderous medicines . Therefore , upon the whole , there will not perhaps be
found any medicine , more general in it ' s use , or more falutary in it ' s effects
than tar ...
Similar consequences may juftly be apprehended from other mineral and
ponderous medicines . Therefore , upon the whole , there will not perhaps be
found any medicine , more general in it ' s use , or more falutary in it ' s effects
than tar ...
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I have known a bloody flux of long continuance , after divers medicines had been
tried in vain , cured by tar - water . ... And from what I have observed in five or fix
instances , I do verily believe it the best and safest medicine either to prevent the
...
I have known a bloody flux of long continuance , after divers medicines had been
tried in vain , cured by tar - water . ... And from what I have observed in five or fix
instances , I do verily believe it the best and safest medicine either to prevent the
...
Page 45
But thus much is certain , the cure of the scurvy is no more to be attempted by
strongly active medicines than ( to use ... yet the good effect of this medicine on
cachectic and scorbutic persons , is soon perceived , by the change it produceth
in ...
But thus much is certain , the cure of the scurvy is no more to be attempted by
strongly active medicines than ( to use ... yet the good effect of this medicine on
cachectic and scorbutic persons , is soon perceived , by the change it produceth
in ...
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| Title | Siris: A Chain of Philosophical Reflexions and Inquiries Concerning the Virtues of Tar Water, and Divers Other Subjects Connected Together and Arising One from Another |
| Author | George Berkeley |
| Edition | 2, reprint |
| Publisher | Reprinted for W. Innys, 1744 |
| Original from | Princeton University |
| Digitized | 10 okt. 2008 |
| Length | 174 pages |
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