The journal of a voyage to Lisbon / [Henry Fielding].

  • Henry Fielding
Date:
1755
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Credit: The journal of a voyage to Lisbon / [Henry Fielding]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the Female Quixote, that I had many years before, from curiofity only, taken a curfory view of bifhop Berkley’s treatife on the virtues of tar-water, which I had formerly ohferved he flrongly contends to be that real pana¬ cea which Sydenham fuppofes to have an exigence in nature, the/ it yet re¬ mains undifeovered, and, perhaps, will always remain fo. Upon the re-perufal of this book I found the bifhop only aflerting his opi¬ nion, that tar-water might be ufeful in the dropfy, fince he had known it to have a furprizing fuccefs in the cure of a moft fluhhorn anafarca, which is in¬ deed no other than, as the word implies, the dropfy of the flefh; and this was, at that time, a large part of my com¬ plaint. After a fliort trial, therefore, of a milk diet, which I prefently found did not fuit with my cafe, I betook myfelf to the bifhop’s prefeription, and dofed myfelf every morning and evening with half a pint of tar-water. It