AR-WATER, how made, Tar preferves trees from the bi- TAR Sect. I How much to be taken at a time, 3. 116. 217 115 2 74 A cure for foulness of blood, Answers all the purposes of Elixir ting of goats and other inju- Sect. ir 20 Its virtues heretofore known, but 21 medicate their wines with, 1 II might be improved, 25 46 ac diforders, High food how prejudicial, 59 88, 89 Soap, opium, and mercury, tho' 114 66.104 8.123 121 What CONTE N.. T S. What the principle of vegetation, and how promoted, 126-8 Theory of acids, falts, and alcalies, 129-136. 227 Air the common teminary of all vivifying principles, 137144 Air, of what it confifts, 147151. 195-7 Pure æther, or invifible fire, the Ipirit of the univerfe, which operates in every thing, 152 -62 Opinion of the ancients concern ing 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 chemits concerning it, 189-90 Ultimately the only menitruun 191 in nature, Adds to the weight of bodies, and even gold made by the introduction of it into quickfilver, 169. 193-6 The theory of Ficinus and others concerning light, 206-13 Sir Ifaac Newton's hypothefis of a fubtle æther examined, 221. 228. 237. 246. No accounting for natural phanomena, either by attraction and repulfion, or by elastic æther, without the prefence of an incorporeal agent, 231 38. 246 249. 294-97 Attraction in fome degree dif 298 Of abfolute fpace, and fate, 270-3 Of the anima mundi of Plato, 276-84. 322 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 fudy of the philofophy of Socrates and Pythagoras would have fecured the minds of men from that felfishness 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 C3 |