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 29
... renders it a cooler and fafer medicine . And the ætherial oil of turpentine , though an admirable drier , healer , and anodyne , when outwardly applied to wounds and ulcers , and not lefs ufeful in cleaning the urinary paffages and ...
... renders it a cooler and fafer medicine . And the ætherial oil of turpentine , though an admirable drier , healer , and anodyne , when outwardly applied to wounds and ulcers , and not lefs ufeful in cleaning the urinary paffages and ...
Page 33
... rendering it a moft powerful cleanfer of all obftructions , even in the most minute capillaries . But then we should be cautious in the use of it , if we confider , that the very thing which gives it power of do- ing good above other ...
... rendering it a moft powerful cleanfer of all obftructions , even in the most minute capillaries . But then we should be cautious in the use of it , if we confider , that the very thing which gives it power of do- ing good above other ...
Page 41
... render mens lives reftlefs and wretched , even when they are afflicted with no apparent diftem- per . This is the latent fpring of much woe , fpleen , and tædium vitæ . Small imperceptible irritations of the minuteft fibres or filaments ...
... render mens lives reftlefs and wretched , even when they are afflicted with no apparent diftem- per . This is the latent fpring of much woe , fpleen , and tædium vitæ . Small imperceptible irritations of the minuteft fibres or filaments ...
Page 42
... render the juices of our bodies alcalefcent , Hence ichorous and corrofive humours and many disorders . Moist air makes vifcid blood ; and faline air inflames this vifcid blood . Hence broken capillaries , extrava- fated blood , fpots ...
... render the juices of our bodies alcalefcent , Hence ichorous and corrofive humours and many disorders . Moist air makes vifcid blood ; and faline air inflames this vifcid blood . Hence broken capillaries , extrava- fated blood , fpots ...
Page 43
... render us fcorbutic and hy- pochondriac . 90. There are fome who derive all diseases from the fcurvy , which indeed must be allowed to create or mimic moft other maladies . Boerhaave tells us , it produceth pleuritic , colic , nephritic ...
... render us fcorbutic and hy- pochondriac . 90. There are fome who derive all diseases from the fcurvy , which indeed must be allowed to create or mimic moft other maladies . Boerhaave tells us , it produceth pleuritic , colic , nephritic ...
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