The Works of George Berkeley

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.

CONTENTS.

SECT.

3, 116

How long to be continued

110

How made palatable

115

A preservative and preparative against the small-pox 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

21, 22.63

67 68.80

75. 114 82, 83

86. 109

TAR Water, how made

How much to be taken at a time

And of the most costly balsams

May be given to children

Of great use in the gout
In fevers

Cures a gangrene as well as erysipelas

The scurvy, and all hypochondriac maladies

A preservative for the teeth and gums

114

Is particularly recommended to seafaring persons, ladies, and

117. 119

8. 123

9. 11. 112

10. 17 18, 19

26.28

29. 38

men of studious and sedentary lives

Its specific virtues consist in its volatile salts

Its virtues heretofore known, but only in part
Tar, whence produced

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.

Myrrh soluble by the human body would prolong life 49 Tar water, by what means and in what manner it operates

50.57
59

Is a soap at once and a vinegar
Aromatic flavours and vegetables depend on light as much as
40. 214, 215
Analogy between the specific qualities of vegetable juices and

colours

165

colours

A fine subtile spirit, the distinguishing principle of all vege

tables

121

126, 128

What the principle of vegetation, and how promoted
Theory of acids, salts, and alcalies

129. 186. 227

137

Air the common seminary of all vivifying principles Air, of what it consists 147. 151. 195. 197 Pure ether, or invisible fire, the spirit of the universe, which operates in every thing 152. 162 Opinion of the ancients concerning it And of the Chinese, conformable to them. Fire worshipped among various nations

1- JLL

166. 175. 229

180. 182

183. 185

189, 190

Opinion of the best modern chemists concerning it
Ultimately the only menstruum in nature
Adds to the weight of bodies, and even gold made by the intro-

.191

duction of it into quicksilver

192. 195 206. 213

The theory of Ficinus and others concerning light

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 -- 245 Phenomena are but appearances in the soul, not to be accounted for upon mechanical principles 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

Of the anima mundi of Plato