An authentic narrative of the success of tar water, in curing a great number and variety of distempers; with remarks ... Carefully abridged / To which are subjoined, two letters from the author of Siris: shewing the medicinal properties of tar water, and the best manner of making it.

Reprinted at Providence : By J. Carter, 1793.

75 pages, 2 unnumbered leaves ; 21 cm (8vo)

Alden, J.E. Rhode Island, 1320

Austin, R.B. Early Amer. medical imprints, 1570

ESTC W11726

Evans, 26038

Evans 26038. (Providence; Re-printed by J. Carter, 1793. 75, [4] p.)

Alden 1320

Also issued with imprint: London, Printed. Providence, Re-printed by J. Carter, 1793. (Cf. Alden 1319)

Earlier editions were published in Dublin in 1746 and reprinted at London in May of the same year. There was a "carefully abridg'd" London edition, unauthorized, in November, 1746. An American edition, also "carefully abridged," was reprinted in 1749 at Boston from a London edition of 1746. (Cf. Evans 6409)

The abridged edition includes the 333 numbered paragraphs of the 1746 London reprint, with some alterations in text. Three cases, dated Oct. 1793 (p. 74-75) of "persons in the State of Rhode-Island having received great benefit from the medical virtues of tarwater," were added by "the editor of the present edition"

"Appendix. Containing ... extracts from two tracts [An account of some observations and experiments on tarwater] by ... Dr. Stephen Hales ... and [A letter to the Rev. Dr. Hales, concerning the nature of tar, by] A. Reid, Esq; printed at London, in 1747": p. [76-78]

Copy 1 Note: In this copy the title-page is missing.