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.

  • Thomas Prior
Date:
1793
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Credit: 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. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    with brimflone, they found them. Jelves better; is this fair deal- ing ? . 24. For the fake of truth, we fhali publith a lift of thofe within eur knowledge, who have been ei- ther entirely cuired or greatly re- lieved by the ule of Tarwarer alone, with the places of their abode, and in what ailments they received be-' mefit ; that every other perfon who may have the fame fort of ailment, tay know what perfons to apply to, and be informed of the particu- lars of their cure, and thereby may’ have an opportunity of obtaining the like relict chemfelves. “2g. By what we have already’ experienced, and daily do experi- €nce, o! the good effetts of Tarwa-, ter, we have great reafon to be perfeaded, and to rejoice, that the’ world is bleffed with a medicine, fo efficacious as feldom to fail of favdate) to general as to relieve in’ molt aify eales, fo jafe as never to be atténd~ ed with danger, and yet {0° cheap) as to be in the power of the pet perfon to purchafe. 26. The faid advertifement fraud Stephens hofpital, being publifhhed $n the Englife news-papers, moveda gentieman in the North of England ta fend a /etter to the publifhers of the Newca/ile Fournal, ‘which they in- ferted, with this preface. ' 27. There appears fo benevolent a defign in the following letter, that fhould we delay the pub« Hication of it, we might be ac- cafed not only’ of ingratitude to the ingenious author, ‘but of injuftice to the pep Rer he Gentlemen, '28. TWAS moved with no lit “ie indignation and concern, atread- Sng a fly inveterate paragraph again Warwater, inalate Neawcaftle Con- rant, publithed originally in the pa. pers of Dublin? what quarter: it fhould come from there, together with the purpofes intended it fhould anfwer, are plain enough ta be gueffed at: to obviate, there- fore, as much-as in me lies, the ill effeéts of fo malevolent adefign, I think myfelf indifpen« fably obliged, as well by the ties of juflice and gratitude to the excel- lent writerupon the extenfive vir- tues of Tarwater, and difcoverer of its powerful effects, as by thofe of charity and benevolence to my fel- low creatures and fufferers, to make known. to the public, through: the means of your paper, the ineflima- ble benefits that have accrued ite ad and mine from the ufe of it... Ihad long laboured under inate following complicated difem-. pers, pally, cholic, rbenmatifm, gravel and: piles; in alk which cafes = water, and that in confiderably Jefs time than a month-from beginning © to'drink it: “ And>it ‘has worked itil] greater ‘effe&s upon my wife, who was'infetted to the higheft: de- gree with that Engi plague, thé Scaruy, together | with a large train of diforders, naturally incident to fuch a height of it; fromwhich, by the fame means, andin the fame time, flee» is recovered im: fach a Manner, as’ amazes’ all who were acquainted with her conditions and that for the time it has ‘been effeted in, both dhe and myfelf are reftored to health, in awdegree in» finitely beyond: our moft -fanguine expectations ; ithe truth’ whereof aim ready to atteft;: moteover; 1 have been witne({s of its extraordi- mary falutary effedts in fome of any acquaintance to.adegreelictle fhort | ‘of our own. So “happy any ex- perience, therefore ‘both “in: we ¢