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
Licence: Public Domain Mark
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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![TH ‘ -viate fafpicions about Tarwater, is nature. For it is to be But the light: -,er-is alien or: noxious... 334. In March, 1791, 1 was tak- . ads, which continued to increafe o° firt.of Fune I. was wholly de- i. ods. [had the adviceand afift- aece of the moft fkilful men, but nicer perceived any benefit as to rv numbnefs, and continued to ; ow weaker daily. “In February ‘ :'owing: 1] was advifed to the ufe « Tarwater, and having. been fa- ‘.ared with the loan of a: Treatife 1 the great medical virtues of verovater, written by the Bifhop of - Crevne, Tmade fome agreeable to is dire€tions, of which I took-half , veeks, at which time I perceived 7 feet to be fomewhat moaift, and could move my toes; which I had’ not been able to do for fome months -efore. I continued the ufe of Tarwater, and by the month of April I was able to walk with crutches; by the firft of June I was well enough to walk with- owt them; and have not had oc- cafion toufe them fince. When- ever I feel a little unwell, I drink of the Tarwater, once or twice ir aweek. After I began to drink it, I never took any other kind of medicine ;-whatever my ftomactr craved I ate, and without any ap- parent injury. Knowing that a new edition of Berkley’s Treatifeon Tarwater was about to be printed; I thought ic’ my duty to add a fhort narrative of the ufe of Tarwater in my particu- | Jat](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b32886159_0076.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
