A letter to the Right Reverend the Bishop of Cloyne, occasioned by His Lordship's Treatise on the virtues of tar-water. Impartially examining how far that medicine deserves the character His Lordship has given of it.
- Date:
- 1744
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A letter to the Right Reverend the Bishop of Cloyne, occasioned by His Lordship's Treatise on the virtues of tar-water. Impartially examining how far that medicine deserves the character His Lordship has given of it. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![cular Difeafes it will cure. 4thly, What contra¬ dictory Effects it is able to prejudice, by which Means it becomes ufeful in fuch a Variety of Cafes. And laftly, What Drugs and other coftly Medi¬ cines it poffeffes the Virtues of. Whence we dial] learn, that from this one Difcovery of your Lord¬ fhip’s, we may at once free ourfelves from the ex- penfive Affiftance of Phyficians, Apothecaries, Druggifts, Diftillers, and a long Et ccetera: No Part of which the World will doubt, when they find it deliver’d on the Faith of a Perfon of your Lordfhip’s Sacred Character, that Tar-Wa¬ ter is an univerfal Medicine, and general Re¬ medy for all our Difeafes, as your Lordfhip has exprefly faid, that it fuits all Circumftances, and all Conftitutions: Which however abfurd it might have appear’d in Regard to any other Medicine in the World, we lhall be one fair Step towards be¬ lieving, in Regard to this, when we are fenfible from your Lordfhip’s faithfully affuring us, that it is at once Salt and Spirit ; Soap and BalfamOil, Vinegar, and Sunjhine. That it is in Regard to its general Virtues - a Stomachick and a PeStoral; a Rejiorative and a Diuretick; an Anti-hyfleric and a Balfamic; an Attenuant, Detergent and Diaphoretick • a Paregorick and Deobjiruent 3 a Purge and an AJiringent ; a Cooler and a Cordial. Hence we may eafily guefs no Difeafe can ftand before it; and are accordingly affur’d by your Lordfhip that it will cure, the Small Pox and Confumptions; the Scurvy and the Pleurijy ; Ul¬ cers and ObflruCtions; the Spleen, Vapours and Cutaneous Eruptions ', Peripneumonies and Indige- ft ions; Eryfipelas and Ulcerations of the Bowels, and in the Lungs, Cojiivenejs and Diarrhoeas • AJlhmas](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30360079_0007.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
