Siris: A Chain of Philosophical Reflexions and Inquiries Concerning the Virtues of Tar WaterReprinted for W. Innys, 1744 - 174 pages |
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... must have great patience and perfeverance in the use of this , as well as in all other medicines ; which , if fure and safe , must yet be flow in chronical diforders ; which , if grievous or inveterate , may require a full quart every ...
... must have great patience and perfeverance in the use of this , as well as in all other medicines ; which , if fure and safe , must yet be flow in chronical diforders ; which , if grievous or inveterate , may require a full quart every ...
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... must be gainers . For if the lute be not well tuned , the musician fails of his harmony . And in our prefent ftate , the operations of the mind , fo far depend on the right tone or good condition of it's inftrument , that any thing ...
... must be gainers . For if the lute be not well tuned , the musician fails of his harmony . And in our prefent ftate , the operations of the mind , fo far depend on the right tone or good condition of it's inftrument , that any thing ...
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... must be of a hot and inflaming nature . But it is to be noted , that all balfams contain an acid spirit , which is in truth a volatile falt . Water is a men- ftruum that diffolves all forts of falts , and draws them from their fubjects ...
... must be of a hot and inflaming nature . But it is to be noted , that all balfams contain an acid spirit , which is in truth a volatile falt . Water is a men- ftruum that diffolves all forts of falts , and draws them from their fubjects ...
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... must therefore differ in an endless variety , as to the texture of their absorbent veffels and fe- cretory ducts . 32. A body , therefore , either animal or vege- table , may be confidered as an organised system of tubes and veffels ...
... must therefore differ in an endless variety , as to the texture of their absorbent veffels and fe- cretory ducts . 32. A body , therefore , either animal or vege- table , may be confidered as an organised system of tubes and veffels ...
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... must ac- knowledge , that a plant or tree is a very nice and complicated machine ( a ) ; by the feveral parts and motions whereof , the crude juices admitted through the absorbent veffels , whether of the root , trunk , or branches ...
... must ac- knowledge , that a plant or tree is a very nice and complicated machine ( a ) ; by the feveral parts and motions whereof , the crude juices admitted through the absorbent veffels , whether of the root , trunk , or branches ...
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