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Page 35
... roots are not only extremely flatulent , but productive of that sharp acid for which magnefia is the beft remedy . Pa- tients of this defeription fhould rather be frequent than liberal in their meals , and fcrupulously care- ful of all ...
... roots are not only extremely flatulent , but productive of that sharp acid for which magnefia is the beft remedy . Pa- tients of this defeription fhould rather be frequent than liberal in their meals , and fcrupulously care- ful of all ...
Page 65
... roots of fatyrium , baked with bread ; VOL . IV . PART I. and liquified , as it were , into blood , by a long digeftion . * BLOODSHED . n . f . [ from blood and shed . ] 1. The crime of blood , or murder.- Full many mischiefs follow ...
... roots of fatyrium , baked with bread ; VOL . IV . PART I. and liquified , as it were , into blood , by a long digeftion . * BLOODSHED . n . f . [ from blood and shed . ] 1. The crime of blood , or murder.- Full many mischiefs follow ...
Page 79
... roots of many plants , particularly fern . When tear the fea - coafts , they will defcend to the fres and demolish the tenderer fhell - fish in very Freat numbers . Their general places of rest are among the thickest bushes that can be ...
... roots of many plants , particularly fern . When tear the fea - coafts , they will defcend to the fres and demolish the tenderer fhell - fish in very Freat numbers . Their general places of rest are among the thickest bushes that can be ...
Page 101
... root caa apia bruifed and mixed with water . See CAA APIA . BOIOCALUS , an ancient German hero , of a moft patriotic and difinterefted fpirit . See AN- SIBARII . BOIORUM DESERTA , a diftrict of Panaonia , fo called from the excifion of ...
... root caa apia bruifed and mixed with water . See CAA APIA . BOIOCALUS , an ancient German hero , of a moft patriotic and difinterefted fpirit . See AN- SIBARII . BOIORUM DESERTA , a diftrict of Panaonia , fo called from the excifion of ...
Page 102
... root must be boiled in a clofe veffel with fix pints of water till one half be confumed ; the decoction is then ... roots , this way and that they bend His reeling trunk , and with a boift'rous found Scatter his leaves , and ftrew ...
... root must be boiled in a clofe veffel with fix pints of water till one half be confumed ; the decoction is then ... roots , this way and that they bend His reeling trunk , and with a boift'rous found Scatter his leaves , and ftrew ...
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