AR-WATER, how made, Tar preferves trees from the bi TAR Sect. I A cure for foulness of blood, Answers all the purposes of Elixir Myrrh foluble by the human body would prolong life, 49 Tar-water, by what means, and in what manner, it operates, 50-57 86-109 Is a foap at once and a vinegar, High food how prejudicial, 66. 104 More particularly fpirituous liquors, 103. 106-108 Tar-water a preservative for the 59 88, 89 Soap, opium, and mercury, tho 114 teeth and gums, Is particularly recommended to fea-faring perfons, ladies, and men of ftudious and fedentary lives, 117-119 Its specific virtues cónfilt in its volatile falts, 8. 123 A tables, 121 What CONTENT S. What the principle of vegetation, and how promoted, 126-8 Theory of acids, falts, and alcalies, 129-136. 227 Air the common seminary of all vivifying principles, 137 144 Air, of what it confifts, 147151. 195-7 Pure æther, or invifible fire, the fpirit of the univerfe, which operates in every thing, 152 -62 Opinion of the ancients concerning it, 166-75. 229 And of the Chinese conformable to them, 180-82 Fire worshipped among various nations, 183-5 Opinion of the best modern che mifts concerning it, 189-90 Ultimately the only menftruum covered by Galilæi, 245 Phænomena are but appearances in the foul, not to be account-. ed for upon mechanical principles, 251, 2. 310 The ancients not ignorant of many things in phyfics and metaphyfics, which we think the discovery of modern times, 265-69 Had fome advantages beyond 298 Of abfolute space, and fate, 270-3 Of the anima mundi of Plato, 276-84.322 us, What meant by the Egyptian Ifis and Ofiris, 268. 299 Plato's and Ariftotle's threefold diftinction of objects, 306-7 Their opinion of ideas being innate, or not, 308, 9 Neither of them believed the abfolute existence of corporeal things, 311, 12. 316—18 The study of the philofophy of Socrates and Pythagoras would have fecured the minds of men from that selfishness which the mechanic philofophy has introduced, 331,32 The study of Plato recommended, 332.338 Who agrees with Scripture in many particulars, 339 His opinion of the deity, and particularly of a trinity, agreeable to revelation, 341-365 |