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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    It was no more than three weeks fince my laft tapping, and my belly and limbs were diftended with water. This* did not give me the worfe opinion of tar-water : for I never fuppofed there could be any fuch virtue in tar-water, as immediately to carry off a quantity of water already collebted. For my de¬ livery from this, I well knew I muft be again obliged to the trochar ; and that if the tar-w&ter did me any good at all, it muft be only by the lloweft degrees > and that if it fhould ever get the better of my diftemper, it muft be by the te¬ dious operation of undermining, and not by a hidden attack and ftorm. Some viftble effects, however, and far beyond what my moft fanguine hopes could with any modefty expedt, I very foon experienced ; the tar-*water having, from the very firft, leflened my ilinefs, increafed- my appetite, and ad¬ ded, though in a very flow proportion, to my bodily ftrength. But if my ftrength had increafed a little, my water daily increafed much more.