...all cases of disease prompted him to communicate the secret to the world, and he published " Skis ; a Chain of Philosophical Reflections and Inquiries concerning the Virtues of Tar Water." It is a fanciful work, reviving the method of the ancients in a strange mixture of physical and metaphysical...

...heard to declare cost him more time and pains than any other he had ever been engaged in. The work is entitled " Siris, a Chain of Philosophical Reflections and Inquiries concerning the Virtues of Таг-water." \s his biographer remarks — " It is indeed a chain, which, like that of the poet,...

...trial of this potent remedy, and extraordinary cures were reported. Accordingly he published a treatise entitled, " Siris, a Chain of Philosophical Reflections and Inquiries concerning the Virtues of Таr-water" — a work highly characteristic of the peculiar genius of the author. The reader of this...

...speculations upon the non-existence of matter, Bishop Berkeley wrote, two treatises on tar-water, one entitled, "Siris, A Chain of Philosophical Reflections and Inquiries concerning the Virtues of Tar-Water," and '"Further Thoughts on Tar-Water." Nothing we have said is intended in the least to...