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... Salt , and on the Fevers produced in American Ships and Cities by the Corruption of Animal Flesh cured with that Kind of Salt . By Samuel L. Mitchill , M. D. Representative in Con- gress for the City of New - York , & c . V. Essay on ...
... Salt , and on the Fevers produced in American Ships and Cities by the Corruption of Animal Flesh cured with that Kind of Salt . By Samuel L. Mitchill , M. D. Representative in Con- gress for the City of New - York , & c . V. Essay on ...
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... salts and lime among those wretched creatures . By the use of pearl - ashes , barilla and soap , with some quick - lime , they would do more service in removing and overcoming per- sonal filth and its offspring , infection , in one year ...
... salts and lime among those wretched creatures . By the use of pearl - ashes , barilla and soap , with some quick - lime , they would do more service in removing and overcoming per- sonal filth and its offspring , infection , in one year ...
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... Salt - wort , a plant very common in Syria , Judea , Egypt , and Arabia ; which , if burned to ashes , and the ashes mingled with water , formed a strong ley fit for cleansing and whitening clothes , ( Origine des Loix , & c . ) and ...
... Salt - wort , a plant very common in Syria , Judea , Egypt , and Arabia ; which , if burned to ashes , and the ashes mingled with water , formed a strong ley fit for cleansing and whitening clothes , ( Origine des Loix , & c . ) and ...
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... salt begins to concrete or crystallize in the ket- tles sooner chan any other , and may be scooped out with the ladle . Its crystals , as taken out of the boiling lixivium , are mostly four - sided pyramids , terminating in quadrangular ...
... salt begins to concrete or crystallize in the ket- tles sooner chan any other , and may be scooped out with the ladle . Its crystals , as taken out of the boiling lixivium , are mostly four - sided pyramids , terminating in quadrangular ...
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... SALT . The salt - trade of the United States is very important . The greater proportion of this necessary article is imported from foreign parts . Though the salt springs in New - York , in Ohio , in Indiana , Kentucky , Tennessee , and ...
... SALT . The salt - trade of the United States is very important . The greater proportion of this necessary article is imported from foreign parts . Though the salt springs in New - York , in Ohio , in Indiana , Kentucky , Tennessee , and ...
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Page iii - Co. of the said district, have deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof they claim as proprietors, in the words following, to wit : " Tadeuskund, the Last King of the Lenape. An Historical Tale." In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States...
Page 392 - His catholic majesty promises and engages on his part, to cede to the French Republic, six months after the full and entire execution of the conditions and stipulations herein relative to his royal highness, the Duke of Parma, the colony or province of Louisiana, with the same extent that it now has in the hands of Spain, and that it had when France possessed it, and such as it should be after the treaties subsequently entered into between Spain and other States.
Page iii - That not to know at large of things remote From use, obscure and subtle, bat to know That which before us lies in daily life, Is the prime wisdom...
Page 432 - About eight o'clock he desired to have three pamphlets which had been looked out by his directions the evening before. He then dictated as clearly and distinctly as he had ever done in his life, the additions and alterations which he wished to have made in each.
Page 79 - Their jurisdiction is to overlook the repairs of sea-banks and sea-walls, and the cleansing of rivers, public streams, ditches, and other conduits whereby any waters are carried off: and is confined to such county, or particular district, as the commission shall expressly name.
Page 432 - We shall all meet finally: we only require different degrees of discipline, suited to our different tempers, to prepare us for final happiness.
Page 48 - Professor of Materia Medica, Natural History, and Botany, in the University of Pennsylvania.
Page 432 - About half an hour after he desired that he might be removed to a cot. About ten minutes after he was removed to it he died; but breathed his last so easily, that those who were sitting close to him did not immediately perceive it. He had put his hand to his face, which prevented them from observing it.
Page 391 - Louisiana, westwardly of the Mississippi, though very extensive, are at present involved in some obscurity. Data are equally wanting to assign with precision its northern extent. From the source of the Mississippi, it is bounded eastwardly by the middle of the channel of that river to the thirty-first degree of latitude : thence it is asserted upon very strong grounds that according to its limits, when formerly possessed by France, it stretches to the east, as far, at least, as the river Perdigo,...
Page 377 - Indeed, every mechanic art, in the different processes of which heat, moisture, solution, mixture, or fermentation are necessary, must ever keep pace in improvement with this branch of philosophy. To the physician this science is of still greater value, and is daily growing in importance. He learns from it to compound his medicines; to disarm poisons of their force; to adjust remedies to diseases; and to adopt the general means of preserving health.