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 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 Cures a gangrene as well as erysipelas The scurvy, and all hypochondriac maladies Is particularly recommended to seafaring persons, men of studious and sedentary lives Its specific virtues consist in its volatile salts 53. 61. 65 21, 22.63 67 68.80 75. 114 82, 83 86. 109 114 ladies, and 117. 119 8. 123 Its virtues heretofore known, but only in part Resin, whence 18, 19 Turpentine, what 20 Tar mixed with honey, a cure for the cough 21 Resin, an effectual cure for the bloody-flux 79 Scotch firs what, and how they might be improved 25 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 .1 colours 40. 214, 215 165 A fine subtile spirit, the distinguishing principle of all vegetables What the principle of vegetation, and how promoted 121 126. 128 129. 186. 227 Air the common seminary of all vivifying principles 147. 151. 195. 197 Pure ether, or invisible fire, the spirit of the universe, which ope rates in every thing Opinion of the ancients concerning it And of the Chinese, conformable to them. Opinion of the best modern chemists concerning it Adds to the weight of bodies, and even gold made by the introduction of it into quicksilver 192. 195 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 245 251, 252. 310 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 265.269 298 270.273 Of the anima mundi of Plato What meant by the Egyptian Isis and Osiris 276. 284. 322 268.299 Plato and Aristotle's threefold distinction of objects 306, 307 |