SIRIS: A CHAIN OF PHILOSOPHICAL REFLECTIONS AND INQUIRIES CONCERNING THE VIRTUES OF TAR WATER; AND DIVERS OTHER SUBJECTS CONNECTED TOGETHER AND ARISING ONE FROM ANOTHER. A preservative and preparative against the small-pox SECT. 1 3, 116 110 115 2 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 And of the most costly balsams Of great use in the gout In fevers Cures a gangrene as well as erysipelas The scurvy, and all bypochondriac maladies Is particularly recommended to seafaring persons, Its specific virtues consist in its volatile salts Its virtues heretofore known, but only in part Resin, whence Turpentine, what Tar mixed with honey, a cure for the cough Resin, an effectual cure for the bloody-flux Scotch firs what, and how they might be improved Pine and fir, different species of each The wonderful structure of trees Juices produced with the least violence best SECT. 49 Myrrh soluble by the human body would prolong life 50. 57 59 Is a soap at once and a vinegar Aromatic flavours and vegetables depend on light as much as colours Analogy between the specific qualities of vegetable juices and colours 40. 214, 215 165 A fine subtile spirit, the distinguishing principle of all vege tables What the principle of vegetation, and how promoted 126, 128 129. 186. 227 Air the common seminary of all vivifying principles - 137 Air, of what it consists 147. 151. 195. 197 Pure ether, or invisible fire, the spirit of the universe, which ope And of the Chinese, conformable to them Fire worshipped among various nations Opinion of the best modern chemists concerning it 191 192. 195 Adds to the weight of bodies, and even gold made by the introduction of it into quicksilver The theory of Ficinus and others concerning light - 206. 213 Sir Isaac Newton's hypothesis of a subtile ether examined 221. 228. 237. 246 No accounting for phenomena, either by attraction and repulsion, or by elastic ether, without the presence of an incorporeal agent 231. 238.246. 249. 294. 297 Attraction in some degree discovered by Galilæi Phenomena are but appearances in the soul, not to be accounted for upon mechanical principles The ancients not ignorant of many things in physics and metaphysics, which we think the discovery of -modern times Had some advantage beyond us Of absolute space, and fate Of the anima mundi of Plato What meant by the Egyptian Isis and Osiris 251, 252. 310 265.269 - 298 270. 273 276. 284. 322 268.299 Plato and Aristotle's threefold distinction of objects 306, 307 |