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 55
... manner of making it , and not the American ; that fometimes makes it too ftrong , and fometimes too weak ; which tar - water , how- ever it might serve as there ufed , merely for a pre- parative against the fmall - pox , yet I queftion ...
... manner of making it , and not the American ; that fometimes makes it too ftrong , and fometimes too weak ; which tar - water , how- ever it might serve as there ufed , merely for a pre- parative against the fmall - pox , yet I queftion ...
Page 61
... manner contribute to vegetation , by increafing the falts of the earth . And where fallows are well broken , and lye long to receive the acid of the air into all their parts ; this alone will be fufficient to change many terrene ...
... manner contribute to vegetation , by increafing the falts of the earth . And where fallows are well broken , and lye long to receive the acid of the air into all their parts ; this alone will be fufficient to change many terrene ...
Page 66
... manner . And numberless inftances there are of falts produced by the air , that vaft collection or treasury of active principles , from which all fublunary bodies feem to derive their forms , and on which animals depend for their life ...
... manner . And numberless inftances there are of falts produced by the air , that vaft collection or treasury of active principles , from which all fublunary bodies feem to derive their forms , and on which animals depend for their life ...
Page 68
... manner as the particles of antimony , of them- felves not volatile , are carried off in fublimation and rendered volatile , by cohering with the par- ticles of fal ammoniac . But action and reaction being equal , the fpring of this ...
... manner as the particles of antimony , of them- felves not volatile , are carried off in fublimation and rendered volatile , by cohering with the par- ticles of fal ammoniac . But action and reaction being equal , the fpring of this ...
Page 72
... manners , where a fubject offers to employ or determine its force . It is present in all parts of the earth and firmament , though perhaps latent and unobferved , till fome accident produceth it into act , and renders it vifi- ble in ...
... manners , where a fubject offers to employ or determine its force . It is present in all parts of the earth and firmament , though perhaps latent and unobferved , till fome accident produceth it into act , and renders it vifi- ble in ...
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