Farther thoughts on tar-water.

  • Berkeley, George, 1685-1753.
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Printed in the year MDCCLII. [1752]
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Credit: Farther thoughts on tar-water. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    that would yield to no other Medicine, have been cured by aCourfeof Tar-Water, regularly and con- dandy purfued. Wherefoever pure Blood or Plenty of Spirits are wanting, it may be concluded from manifold Ex¬ perience, that Tar-Water is of fingular Benefit. Several Perfons have acknowledged themfelves to be much fitter to go through Bufinefs or Study from the Uie of it. Not is it only medicinal to human Kind : it is alio of no final 1 ufe in the Curing of brute Ani¬ mals. It hath been tried on feveral Kinds, particu¬ larly with great Succefs in the late epidemical Dif- temper of our Horfes. And I have been credibly informed, that being drank in plenty, it hath re¬ covered even a glandered Horfe, that was thought incurable. And as it is of fuch extenfive ufe, both to Man and Bead, it (hould feem, that a Tub of Tar-Wa¬ ter conftandy fupplied in a Market-Town, would ferve, in feme iort, for an Hofpitah Many other Drugs are not eafily got, this is every where plenty and cheap-, many are of a doubtful Nature, this of known Innocence ; others foon perifh, this lads for Years, and is not the worfe for keeping. This, in (hort, is a Medicine for the common People, being a fafe and cheap Remedy, for fuch as cannot afford to be long Tick, or to make uie of coftly Medicines. A Patient who drinks Tar-Water, mufl not be alarmed at Puftules or Eruptions in the Skin * thefe are good Symptoms, and fhew the Impurities of the Blood to be cad out. It is alio notamifs to obferve, that, as Tar-Water by its ablive Qualities doth dir the Humours, entering the minuted Capillaries, and diflodging Qbdru&ions, it may happen that this working fhali feme times be felt in the Limbs,