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Farther Thoughttae. 6 7whicli I have frequently known to give high spiriis in ali the stages of a
ceive the greatest benefit Dom a medicine so weli calculated to strengthen the intestines, and preserve them Dom fits. In a mord, is it were thecommon practice to accustom insanis froin the beginning to take tarwater, this w id greatly conduco to the health both of their minds and hodies. There is, I am verily persuaded, no one thing in the power ofari or nature, that would so generalty and essectualty contribute to repatrihe constitutions of our gentry and nobility, by strengthening the chil-
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reser Thoughis, M. dren, and casting oss in their insan those impurities and taints, whichthey osten bring into the worid. An infant may tahe one quarter os a pini in the day, warm, by spoon- suis, te si may do good, and there is no sear of excess. When I considerthe private woe os families, as weli as the public lose occasioned by the
death of suci, an incredibie number of infanis, under two years of age, I cannot but insist on recommending tar water, both as a remedy and preservative in that tender age, Whicli cannot bear the common treat-ment and methods of physic, or with sesely take those drugs whicli are fit ter for grown Persens. Another rea n whicli recommends tar Water, particularly to infanis
and child ren, is the great security it brings against the small-pox, to thosethat drink ii, who are observed, either ne ver to take that distemper, orto have it in the gentiest manner. There is no distem per more contagious and destructive than the small-Pox, Or more generalty dreaded, attended with worse symptoms, or that leaves bellind it worse effecis; I observe at the fame time, that tar wateris in no other case a more sese and sure remedy than in this, os whicli captain Drape's certificate, Morn to be re the mayor of Live ool, in the presence of severat principat persons of that town, is a most evident That one hundred and seventy persons, stiged at once with the Gall-pox, de prived os ali conveniencies, and in the worsi circumstances of a narrow mip and hot climate, mouid ali recover by the single medicineos tar water, eXcepi one who would not drin k it, is a matter of fast, sopia in and convincing, and so weli attested, as to leave no doubi in mindsfree frona prepossession, about the usefulnesi and emcacy of tar water in the
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many instances in my own neigh bourhood. It fiath been surmi sed by me celebrated physicians, ibat one day a specific may be discovered for the peculiar venoni of the ' small-pox. There seems to be some rea n for thin king, that tar water is suci, a specific. I say this on good grounds, having by many experimen is observediis virtve in curing, as weli as in preventing, that cruel distemper; during the whole course of which, it is to be drank Warm ; a moderate glass about half a pint) e very hour, in common cases, may lassice, in bad cases more may be gi ven ; there is no sear of excessi. Those who endeavour to discredit this cooling, cordial, and salutarymedicine, as an inflamer of the blood, do very consistently decry iis use in the small-pox, hut there can be nothing more clear, fuit, and satisfactory than captain Drape's assidavit, to convince rea nable people of the great and surprising emcacy of tar Water, in the cure of the Gall-POx ; and consequently of the groundlesse est os that repori, Whicli asecribes a lieating or inflaming quali ty to it. An d yet that groundlesi re. Pori hath hindered many Dom rea ping the benefit they might otherwi se have done, froin the use of this water, whicli is of excellent virtve in althinds of inflammatory disorders, severs, quin siles, Pleuris es, and su Chlike of the hol and infla med hind, whereos the public as Heli as mystis have known a multitude os examples. I ask whether the fact Morn be re the magistrates os L erpool, benot a lassicient an Mer, to ali that is objected, frona an inflaming quali ty, to tar water. Can any instance be produced in the whole materia medica, or history of physic, of the virtve of a medicine tried on greater
numbers, or under greater dissiduantages, or With greater success, or
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6so Farther Thoughis, Ge. the fame experiment was tried in our hospitals. Probably the woridwould seon be relieved from that great and generat terror of the Mall-
When I hear of the devastations made by this distemper, in great cities and populous towns, hoW many lives are tost, or as may be se id) thrownaway, whicli might have been in ali lihelthood ea si ly preserved, by thou se of a medicine, so cheap and obvious, and in every one's poWer, itseems matter of great concern and aston imment, and leaves one at alost to guess at the motives, that govern human ac tions in assairs of thogrentert moment. The experiment may be eassi ly made, is an equalnumber of poor patienis in the small-pog, were put into two hospitalsat the fame time of the year, and provide d with the same necessaries of diei and lodging, arid, sor further care, let the one have a tub of tarwater and an old woman, the other hospital, what attendance and drugsy OuIn ali obstinate fores and ulcers, I very muta recommend the drintaing of tar water, and washing them With a strong lotion os ii, will hasten
One of the most pa insul and dan gerous cases is that of a woman's forebreast. How many poor creatures aster long languishing in misery, a re obliged to suffer the most severe chirurgical operations, osten the Cuttingoff the entire hi east ' The use of tar water in those cases liath been attended with such success, that I do earnes ly recommend the drin Lingthereos, both as a cure and preservative, as a most es fluat medicine tore move the shooting patias that precede a cancer, and also to cure thecancer itself, Without amputation. Cancerous and fore breasis a re such cruei cases, occastioned by many internat causes, as weli as o ut ardaccidenis, that it is a necessary piece of humani ty, to contribute ali Wccan to the prevention and cure thereos In
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Farther Thoughis, tac. In the hing's evit, leprosy, and Dulest cases, tar Water cannot be too much recommended. The poor vagabonds of betauri are many of themin se ted and eaten up with the foui distase, which with them passeth fora canker as they cali it). Severat instances of extraordinary cures have been persormed on such persons, by drinking tar water copioussy, forsome weelis or monilis together, without confinement or other restraint,
than that os a regular cool diei. It is indecd a specific, both sor this andali other tainis and impurities of the blood. An extrach of Siris was made, and accounts of the essects of tar water ere reprinted in America, in whicli continent, as weli as in the istands, much use hath been made thereos, particularly by those Who possest great numbers of naves ; of this I have been informed by letters, and by word of mouili, Dom persens belonging to those paris, who have assured me of the extensive and successsul use of this medicine in many cases, and more especialty in the most inveterate Linds of the Qui distase. I need not say how dearly they purchase health who obtain it by salivation, and yet long and severe as that course is, it is osten unsuccesssul. There a re instances of such as having passed through it with much misery and patience, have been after ards cured by the simple D se of tar
The Ling's evit, so loath me in iis symptoms and effects, and withalso difficult, is at ali possibie, to cure by any other method, is most surelyand casa ly cured by the tar water, even When the patient is far gone, even when he derives it stom his ancestors. A quari per diem sor a ferumonilis, I have known to cure the most deplorabie and abandoned cases. How many wealthy families, other ise at their ease, a re corrupted with this laint in their blood i How many want heirs and humands,
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652 Farther Thoughis, tacithrough this odious malady t A specific for this distase alone, would bejustly esteemed a most valvabie secret, and the plenty and cheapnese of the medicine ought not in reason, to mahe it test esseemed. Salivating, bleeding, and purging, are attended with great hardmipsand inconveniencies seven where the patient reco vers) reducing the strength and spirits of those who use them, Whereas tar Water greatly adds to both. In fractu res and wounds, a quari or i o drank dat ly, while the pati-Cnt is under cure, doth very much assuage the pain and promote his re- covery, both as by iis balsamic nature it disposeth the paris to heal, andalso as it lessens is not totalty prevenis the sever. A poor boy in Clodine, having fallen stom a tree, brohe both arm and wrist. This accident was concealed or neglected for two or three weelis,hC Was then put under the care of a skillat hone-stiter, Who finding the bones linit and grown crooked, and that it would be necessary to breali them again, in order to set them right, and withal considering the holseason of the year in Pul he apprehended. his patient's being thrown into a sever that might prove fatal. But the boy being made to drinlicoptoussy of tar Mater, this prevented or tessened the sever in such sori, that the bones were brohe and set again, and the cure proceeded as easilyand speedily as could be Wimed. I have linown severat instances of bruises and wounds cured by tarWater. A person in my neighbourhood ran over by a horse was muchbrui sed, and cured only by drinhing tar water. Another knocked do nwith a mallet, thereupon thrown into a violent sever, and gi ven sor dead ;another wounded with an axe, so that his life was thought in danger, Wern both reco vered by the use os tar water; which, as it is severeign against
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gangrenes and severs, hath great succest in ali foris of wounds, contusions, and fractu res, heing taken throughout the whole chirurgical process, along with whatsee ver other methods or remedies are applied. Τar water operates variousy. In dropsies and bruises it hath beenknown to work by purging. The stronger hind being used as a wam, is good against ulcerous eruptions. But in ali cases where the lotion is used, I belleve the drin king of tar water might alone lassice, albeit thesores may be longer Withering and drying aWay. There is a certa in age or time of li , when the semale sex runs nosmali rici stom the ceasing of their natural evacuations. In this casetar water is a good Preservative, puristing the blood, and clearing itfrom that cancerous tendency, whicli it is somelimes subject to, absutthat time. Ι tahe it to he a specific in ali cancerous cases, even the bleed ing cancer, esteemed incurabie by Physicians, hath been cured by tar
lleved by tar water. In ali foris of tum ours, wens, and preternatural excrescenoes, it hathi been seund an excellent remedD
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Tremors, palpitations of the heari, irregular pulses, apoplexies, sud-den deallis, osten proceed Dorn a no , stagnating, interrupted motion, or stoppage of the blood, in iis circulation through the body; and thereseemeth to be no cause so certa in ly productive os obstructed circulationas the polypus, a Case, perhaps, much more frequent than is common lyimagined. Morgagni, the celebrated professbr at Padua, and most eminent anatomist, who was supposed to have dissected more human hodies than any man living, astu red me, above thirty years ago, that in thesar greater part os facti hodies, he Mund polypuses, is not in the ventricles of the heari or larger vesself, yet in se me other vesset or cavi ty ; to
hich he attributes many di sorders, and which he supposed to be formed by the obstructed motion of the blood. To prevent this he dissuadedfrom ali tight ligatures, especialty in fleep, unbuttoning the nech and wrist bands of his miri every night, a practice he had learned as he seid)Dom his master, the famous Majighi.
When the circulation is once qui te stopped, nothing can restore it, which would be the fame thing as restoring a dead man to lise, and in proportion as the circulation of the blood is obstructed, the body is di Dordered. Totat obstruction is death partiat obstruction is distase. The polypus theresere is always hurifui, is not mortal. It is, indeed, matteros serious reflexion, that we may probably carry about With us a princi-ple of death, always at work within, and of a nature so violent an dsudden in iis essects, se hard to come at, and so dissiculi to subdue. It may weli be thought at first vieru, a vain underi aking, to attemptio dissolve a flemy or membranous substance, so latent and inaccessi ble,
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it may also dissolve and put an end to those concretions that a re formedin the ventricies of the heari or blood vesseis, and se remove one great cause of apoplexies and sudden death ; and what cures may prevent. Ihave been the longer on this subject, sor the salie of many who lead si chlylives, as weli as severat who are snat ched away by unti mely death. Universally, in ali cases where other methods Dil, I could wim this of
tar water was tried. It hath been semetimes lino Kn, that the most invetera te head-aclis, and other nervous disorders, that would yield to noother medicine, have been cured by a course of tar Water, regularly and
constantly pursu ed. Where e ver pure blood or plenty os spiriis are Want in g, it may be
concluded nom mani id experience, that tar water is of singular benefit Severat persons have acknowledged thenaseives to be much sit ter to gothrough busin est or study frona the use of it. Nor is it only medicinal to human hirid: it is also of no sinali use in the curing of brute animal s. It hath been tried on severat hinds, particularly with great successi in the late epide micat dis temper of our horses. Arad I have been credibiy informed, that be ing draiah in plenty, it hathreco Vered even a glandered horse, that was thought incurabie. And as it is of such extensive use, both to man and beast, it should stem, that a tub of tar water constantly supplied in a market town, would serve, in s me sori, for an hospitat. Many other drugs a re not easi ly got, this is every where plenty and chea p; many a re of a dou biful nature, this of known innocence ; others soon perim, this las is for years, and is not the worse sor kc eping. This, in mori, is a medicine sor the com
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mon People, being a sese and cheap remedy, sor lacti as cannot assordio be long sicli, or to mahe ii se of costly medicines. A patient Who drinlis tar water, must not be alarmed at pustules oreruptions in the flain; these are good symptoms, and shew the impurities of the blood to be cast out. It is also not amisi to observe, that, astar water, by iis active qualities doth stir the humours, entering the minutest capillaries, and dissodging obstructions, it may happen that this working mali somelimes be felt in the limbs, or discliarge it self in a sit
of the go ut, whicli ho ever dilagreeabie, Proves salutary. I am credibiy informed os severat strange conveyances, whicli tarwater hath found oui, whereby to discliarge impurities froin the human constitution. A person who had been in a bad state of health
extraordinary sit of an ague, and Dom that time recovered a good state
of health. An old gentieman in the county of Cori, who for a Iongli me had been a valetudinarian, afflicted with many infirmities, heingadvi sed to drink tar water, found himself relieved, but it producedand on cured a pthiriasis or lou sy distemper, in whicli the putridhumours having discliarged themselves, test him qui te found and healthy.