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Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1871 edition. Excerpt: ... OSIRIS: A CHAIN OF] PHILOSOPHICAL REFLEXIONS AND INQUIRIES CONCERNING THE VIRTUES OF TAR-WATER, AND DIVERS OTHER SUBJECTS CONNECTED TOGETHER AND ARISING ONE FROM ANOTHER. As we have opportunity, let us do good unto all men.--Gal. vi. 10. Hoc opus, hoc stadium, parvi properemus et ampli.--Hor. 1744. Added in second edition, 'CONTENTS. SKCT. Tar-water, how made i How much to be taken at a time 3, 116, 217 How long to be continued 1 to How made palatable 115 A preservative and preparative against the small-pox ... a Useful in it 74, 83 A cure for foulness of blood, ulceration of bowels, lungs, consumptive coughs, pleurisy, peripneumony, erysipelas, asthma, indigestion, cachectic and hysteric cases, gravel, dropsy, and all inflammations 4-7 Answers all the purposes of elixir proprietatis, Stoughton's drops, best turpentine, decoction of the woods, and mineral waters 53, 61-65 And of the most costly balsams 21, 22, 62, 63 May be given to children 67 Of great use in the gout 68, 80 In fevers 75-77 Cures a gangrene as well as erysipelas 82, 83 The scurvy, and all hypochondriac maladies 86-109 Whence this English malady proceeds 88, 89 High food how prejudicial 66,104 More particularly spirituous liquors 103-109 A preservative for the teeth and gums 114 Is particularly recommended to seafaring persons, ladies, and men of studious and sedentary lives 117-119 Its specific virtues consist in its volatile salts 8, 12 3 Tar preserves trees from the biting of goats and other injuries . 9 Its virtues heretofore known, but only in part .... 9,11,111 Tar, whence produced 10-17 Resin, whence 18,19 Turpentine, what 20 Tar mixed with honey, a cure for the cough .... 21 1 The ' Contents' added in the later editions. SECT. Resin, an effectual cure for the...
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- PublisherTheClassics.us
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 1230252088
- ISBN 13 9781230252087
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages188
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