Siris: A Chain of Philosophical Reflexions and Inquiries Concerning the Virtues of Tar Water, and Divers Other Subjects Connected Together and Arising One from AnotherDublin printed, London re-printed, for W. Innys, C. Hitch, and C. Davis, 1744 - 174 pages |
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Page 19
... animals or vegetables , confifts of oily , aqueous , and faline particles , which being dif folved , volatilifed , and diverfly agitated , part there- of is spent and exhaled into the air ; and that part which remains is by the economy ...
... animals or vegetables , confifts of oily , aqueous , and faline particles , which being dif folved , volatilifed , and diverfly agitated , part there- of is spent and exhaled into the air ; and that part which remains is by the economy ...
Page 21
... animal bodies are lined with a fine down , which in different glands is of different colours . And it is thought , that each particular down , being origi- nally imbued with it's own proper juice , attracts none but that fort ; by which ...
... animal bodies are lined with a fine down , which in different glands is of different colours . And it is thought , that each particular down , being origi- nally imbued with it's own proper juice , attracts none but that fort ; by which ...
Page 24
... animal fyftem , like the fine acid fpirit that firft flies off from the fubject , is perhaps impoffible to obtain . It is an apophthegm of the chemists , deriv- ed from Helmont , that whoever can make myrrh foluble by the human body ...
... animal fyftem , like the fine acid fpirit that firft flies off from the fubject , is perhaps impoffible to obtain . It is an apophthegm of the chemists , deriv- ed from Helmont , that whoever can make myrrh foluble by the human body ...
Page 29
... animal fy- ftem and more effectually , as , by the help of a vo- latile smooth infinuating oil , thofe fame falts are more easily introduced into the capillary ducts . Therefore in fevers and epidemical diftempers it is ( and I have ...
... animal fy- ftem and more effectually , as , by the help of a vo- latile smooth infinuating oil , thofe fame falts are more easily introduced into the capillary ducts . Therefore in fevers and epidemical diftempers it is ( and I have ...
Page 38
... it , not pretending to be a complete treatise . 81. It is evident to sense , that blood , urine , and other animal juices , being let to ftand , foon ( a ) Sect . 68 . contra & contract a great acrimony . Juices , therefore , from ( 38 )
... it , not pretending to be a complete treatise . 81. It is evident to sense , that blood , urine , and other animal juices , being let to ftand , foon ( a ) Sect . 68 . contra & contract a great acrimony . Juices , therefore , from ( 38 )
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