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 27
... particles , being foftened by the mixture of an unctuous fubftance they infinuate themselves into the fmall ducts with lefs difficulty and danger . The combination of these different fubftances makes up a very fubtile and active ...
... particles , being foftened by the mixture of an unctuous fubftance they infinuate themselves into the fmall ducts with lefs difficulty and danger . The combination of these different fubftances makes up a very fubtile and active ...
Page 28
... particles of effential oyl : which fine oyl ferves as a vehicle for the acid falts , and fhews itself in the colour of the tar - water ; for all pure falts are colourlefs . And though the refin will not diffolve in water , yet the ...
... particles of effential oyl : which fine oyl ferves as a vehicle for the acid falts , and fhews itself in the colour of the tar - water ; for all pure falts are colourlefs . And though the refin will not diffolve in water , yet the ...
Page 52
... particles , by the gentle menftruum of cold water , is not a violent and fud- den medicine , always to produce its effect at once , ( fuch , by irritating , often do more mifchief than good ) but a fafe and mild alterative , which pene ...
... particles , by the gentle menftruum of cold water , is not a violent and fud- den medicine , always to produce its effect at once , ( fuch , by irritating , often do more mifchief than good ) but a fafe and mild alterative , which pene ...
Page 60
... particles of earth must be joined with a watry acid , that is , they must be- come falts in order to diffolve in water ; that fo , in the form of a vegetable juice , they may pafs through the trainers and tubes of the root into the body ...
... particles of earth must be joined with a watry acid , that is , they must be- come falts in order to diffolve in water ; that fo , in the form of a vegetable juice , they may pafs through the trainers and tubes of the root into the body ...
Page 61
... particles to affume a faline form . 128. Hence it is obferved , there are more falts in the root than in the bark , more falts in vegetables during the fpring , than in the autumn or winter , the crude faline juices being in the fummer ...
... particles to affume a faline form . 128. Hence it is obferved , there are more falts in the root than in the bark , more falts in vegetables during the fpring , than in the autumn or winter , the crude faline juices being in the fummer ...
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