Reflexions concerning the virtues of tar water ... With hints for its improvement, so as to make it a most efficacious and pleasant medicine / [Henry Jackson].

  • Jackson, Henry (Chemist)
Date:
1744
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Credit: Reflexions concerning the virtues of tar water ... With hints for its improvement, so as to make it a most efficacious and pleasant medicine / [Henry Jackson]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    give us convincing Demo ml: rations, why it is as likely to procure Obftruftions, as to remove them, and, confequently, lay the very Foundation tor all Chronic Defcafes • which, in my Opinion, muft and do pro¬ ceed from one and the fame Caufe. Dr. Lifler obferves, that Waters which pafs through a clayifh Bottom, muft par¬ take of metallic Particles, becaufe Clay is a mineral Glebe; and that thefe Particles are not to be matter'd, that is, they can¬ not be digefted in the human Body ; and therefore he concludes, they cannot but caufe calculous Concretions in the Kidneys, Bladder, and Joints. If this be the Cafe, we need not wonder why infenfible Perfpiration is obftrudted by them; and thus fays the great Sanfforius in Se£t. 2. Apjpor. 2. that heavy Water converts the Matter of Tranfpira- tion into an Ichor, which being retain’d, induces a Cachexy, which the learn’d Au¬ thor of Tar Water fays, (SeB. 93.) is of the fame Kind with the Scurvy, proceeds from the fame Caufes, and is attended with like Symptoms; which are fo mani¬ fold, and .various, that the Scurv.v maw be looked on as a general Cachexy infecting the whole Habit, and vitiating all the Di- geftions. Frcm