Farther thoughts on tar-water.

  • George Berkeley
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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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    Farther Thoughts o N T A R-WAT E R. S the many Experiments that are daily iriade of the Virtues of Tar-Water, furnifti new Dilcoveries and Reflexions, fome of thefe I have thrown together, and offer to the Public in hopes they may prove ufeful. It is a frequent Complaint, that Tar-Water is made of bad Tar, being of a reddifli Colour, fweetifli or difagreeably infipid. But though the Dregs of Tar are often foul, and make foul Tar-Water, and though Tar already ufed is often made ufe of by un¬ fair Dealers a fecond, if not a third Time, which produceth a vile Potion, void of the genuine Flavour and Virtue of Tar-Water. Yet I apprehend thefe Defefls may fometimes be afcribed, rather to the Veflel wherein the Tar-Water is made, than to the Tar itfelf. Tar-Water being made in an earthen Veil'd un¬ glazed, or that hath loft Part of its Glazing, may extract (as it is a ftrong Menftruum) from the Clay, a fade Sweetifhnds, oflenfive to the Palate. It fhould feem therefore that the beft Way of making Tar- Water is in a Stone Jug, or earthen Veflel through* out
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