Siris: A Chain of Philosophical Reflexions and Inquiries Concerning the Virtues of Tar WaterReprinted for W. Innys, 1744 - 174 pages |
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... vegetable balfam . 9. Tar was by the ancients esteemed good against poifons , ulcers , the bites of venomous ... vegetables . Mr. Evelyn in his treatife on Forest trees obferves with wonder , that ftems of trees , fmeared over with tar ...
... vegetable balfam . 9. Tar was by the ancients esteemed good against poifons , ulcers , the bites of venomous ... vegetables . Mr. Evelyn in his treatife on Forest trees obferves with wonder , that ftems of trees , fmeared over with tar ...
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... vegetable , the discharge of fuperfluities , the fecretion of particular juices . They are found to have ducts answering to the tracheæ in animals , for the conveying of air ; they have others answering to lacteals , arteries , and ...
... vegetable , the discharge of fuperfluities , the fecretion of particular juices . They are found to have ducts answering to the tracheæ in animals , for the conveying of air ; they have others answering to lacteals , arteries , and ...
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... vegetables . But whether the discoverers have rightly gueffed at all their uses or no , thus much is certain , that there are innumerable fine and curious parts in a vegetable body , and a won- derful fimilitude or analogy between the ...
... vegetables . But whether the discoverers have rightly gueffed at all their uses or no , thus much is certain , that there are innumerable fine and curious parts in a vegetable body , and a won- derful fimilitude or analogy between the ...
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... vegetable as animal life . 34. It is an opinion received by many , that the fap circulates in plants as the blood in animals :. that it afcends through capillary arteries in the trunk , into which are inofculated other veffels of the ...
... vegetable as animal life . 34. It is an opinion received by many , that the fap circulates in plants as the blood in animals :. that it afcends through capillary arteries in the trunk , into which are inofculated other veffels of the ...
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... vegetable and foffil , is supposed to perform all forts of chemical operations . Whence it fhould follow , that the air contains all forts of chemic productions , the vapours , fumes , oils , falts , ( a 30 , 31 . ( 6 ) 29 . and and ...
... vegetable and foffil , is supposed to perform all forts of chemical operations . Whence it fhould follow , that the air contains all forts of chemic productions , the vapours , fumes , oils , falts , ( a 30 , 31 . ( 6 ) 29 . and and ...
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