The works of George Berkeley, D.D. late Bishop of Cloyne in Ireland. To which is added, an account of his life [by J. Stock] and several of his letters to Thomas Prior, Esq., Dean Gervais, and Mr. Pope, etc

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sasely introduced in to the fine capillaries. I may add, that the prasis of the blood is perfected by tar water, bcing good against too great a solution and fluidi ty as a balsam, and against viscidi ty as a soap, ait whichenti rely depends upon the mixture of Oil with the acid, without whicli it

could ne i ther operate as a balsam nor a soap; briesy, it was not mereacid or dis illed water, or tincture of tar, but tar Water, as commonis made, by astusion and stirring of cold water Upon tar, which hath Wrought ali those great cures and salutary este Cis, which have recommended ii as a medicine, to the general esteem of the worid. The mixture of volatile oti, whicli is or contains the spirit, is se farfrom noxio us, that it is the very thing that malies tar Mater a cordial:

this gives it a gratelat warinth, and raiseth the spirits of the hysteric and hypochondriacat; this also rendering the blood balsamic, disposeth wound sos ali foris to an east cure; this also it is that fortistes the vitais, and in-Vigorates nature, dri ving the go ut to the extremities, and morten ing thesiis, tili it enti rely subdites that obstinate and cruet enem y, as it hathbeen osten known to do; but acid alone is se far se om being able to dothis, that on the contrary the free use of acids is reclioned amongst thecauses of the goui. I ne ver could find that the volatile oti dra n Do in tar by the affusionos colit water produced any inflammation, or Was other i se hurtii, notcven though the water hy longer stirring had imbibed far more of theoil than in the common manner, having been asi ured, that seme ofstrong stomaclis have drank ii aster twenty minutes stirring, Without any the least harin, and with very great bene fit It hath been in deed insinuated, that the olt was ordered to be skim med off, hecause it is caustic and dan gerous; but this is a mistahe. Ι my-self, among many others, drank the tar Water sor two years together, WithitS

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Some medicines in deed a re so violent, that the least excess is dangerous: these require an exactne si in the dose, Where a smali error may producea great mischi es But tar is, in truth, no such dan gerous medicine, noteven in substance, as I have more than orace linown it talien innocent ly,

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so me times asked what preci se quantity or degree of strengili is required 'to whicli I an Mer, agreeably to what hath been formerly and frequently observe d) the palate, the stomach, the particular case and Constitution of the patient, the very climate or sea n of the year, Will dispose and require him to drinii more or lese in quantity, stronger or wealier in degree; precisely to measure iis strength by a scrupulous exactness, is by no means necessary. Every one may setile that matter sor himself, with the samesasely that mali is proportioned to Uater in malaing beer, and by the

fame rute, to Wit, the Palate.

Only in generat thus much may be sat d, that the proportions I sormerly recommended will be found agreeable to most stomaclis, and withal os sussicient stren ph, as many thous and s have seund, and dat ly find, by experience. I take this opportunity to observe, that I usu tar water madein stone-ware or earthen very weli glaZed, earthen vesseis ungiaged being

apt to communicate a nauseoUS RVeetnest to the water

Tar water is a diei-drinli, in the mal ing whereos thero is great latitude, iis persection not consisting in a potnt, but varying with the constitutiociand palate of the patient, being neverthelest, at times, taliun by the fame person, Meaher or stronger, With much the same esse si, provided ithe proportionably in greater or tesser quantity. It may indeed be so very vicali as to have litile or no esse R ; and, on the other hanil, Q verystrong, as to offend the stomach; hut iis degree of strengili is easi ly disecerned by the colour, sin ell, and lasse, Whicli alone are the natural and proper guides whereby to judge thereos; . Whicli strength may be easi ly varied, in any proportion, by changing the quantity ei ther of tar or Nater, or the time of stirring. As sor seriing tar watet to stand, this is not to, mae it stronger, but more clear and palatable. I. Bund

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versat, by suggesting and propagating scruples about a caustic quali tyarising sto in the volatile olly particles of tar, or resin imbibed togetherwith the acid in mahing tar water; an apprehension vain, that there verse thereos is true, for whicli I appeal to the experience of many thousiands, who can an Mer for the innocen Ce and sesely, as weli as efficacy, of this medicine, of whicli there are sucii ample and numerous certificates publimed to the worid.

I shali sinisti my essay on the plague and iis cure, with observin g, that in casse God should with-hold his hand for the present, yet these reflections will not be altogether fruitiess, is they dispose men to a proper temper of mind, and a cautio us regimen, a voi ling ali extremes, whicli thingsare justly rectione d among the clites preservatives against insection) butespecialty is the apprehension of this destroyer mali heget serious thoughison the frailty of human lise, an d, in consequence thereos, a resormationos manners ; ad vantages that would sufficient ly repay the tro ubie of writ-ing and reading this letter, even though the trial of tar water, as a reme ly

and distant opportunity.

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cannot bear it. But when it takes a turn to ardS Working UPIVards, nature, by that very way, hath been osten known to carry on the cure. A Worthy gentieman, member of partia ment, came into my neigh bour-hood, in the autumn of the year 173o; he was cacnectic and eXtremelyreduced, so that his frien is thought him near his end. Upon his entering into a course of tar Water, it produced a prodigious vomit ing, whichweahened him much sor the present; but persisting to continue the usethereos for about two monilis, he was restored to his health, strength, and spiritS. Tar water is very diu retic, thereby preventing stone and gravet, and Carrying oss by urine, those salis that might other i se occasion se vers, rheumatism S, dropsites, head-aclis, and many other di sorders, is retainedin the blood. Hence, some have apprehended a diabetes, Dom the continued use thereos, but it is Q far stom causing a diabetes, that it hathbeen known to cure that disorde r. The constitution of a patient semetimes requireth during a Course ostar water, that he talie water and honey, also roasted apples, flewed

prunes, and Other diet os an opening hind. A hint of this is sussicient.

the fame service in England, where men a re accustomed to a more liberal

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instances of cures by tar water have been chlesy taken. Those whowould confine iis use to the moist air and poor diei of bel 4 may beaslured that ait o ver Europe, in France, and Germandi, Dab, Portugal and Hollauri tar water Works the fame essedis. In both North and Sotith, in

s and Eoi Indies, it hath been used and continues to he used Mithgreat success. It hath reached ali our colonies both on the continentand the issands, and many barreis of tar water have been sent Dom -- seriam to Batavia; os ali whicli I have had authentic accounts. But iis Use is no where more conspicuous than at sea, in curing that plague ofseasering persons, the scurvy, as was found in the late attempt to disco-

It is indeed a medicine equalty calculated for ali climates, sor sea and land, sor ricli and poor, high and low livers; be in g, as liath been et

where mentioned, a cordial whicli doth not heat; a peculiar privilegethis, and of excellent use. That it is a cordial, is manifest Dorn iis cheering and enti vening quality, and that it is not heating, is as manifest, Dom iis singular use in ali cases where the blood is infamed. Asthis medicine imparis a genial friendly warmili, sui ted to the humanconstitution, those who past through a course of tar Mater, would doweli not to increase such Diendly warmili to an inflaming heat, by a wrong regimen of high sea ned seon and strong liquors, whicli are notwanted by the drin kers of tar water. There is a certa in degree of heatnecessary to the well-being and lik of man. More than this will be un- ea sy, and this unea sinest indicates a proper choice of dict. I have

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I have mystis drank above a gallon of tar water in a se N hours, and been cooled and reco vered Dom a sever by it. So many instances of the fame nature I have known, as Would mahe it evident to any unprejudiced person, that tar Water is a cooling medicine ; of whicli truth I amas thoroughly convinced, as it is possibie to be of any theorem in physicor natural science.

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Forther Thoughis, G. extraordinary fge. This medicine, whicli is observed to malle se me per- sons costive, is to hydropic patients a strong purge. The present is butone of severat instances, wherein the dropsy hath been cured by tar Gater , whicli Ι ne ver knew to fati in any species of that mala dy.

I am very credibiy informed, that an aged clergyni an os Maia ne in Kent, being reduced to the last extremi ty by the gout in his stomach, after having tried strong liquors, and the methods usual in that casewithout success. bctook himself to drinli a vast quantity of warm tarwater, si ill replenissa ing and letting it talio iis course; by Rhicli it pleased God to deli ver him Dom the jaws of death. A gentiem an in the county of Clare, near Ennis, had a se ver and pleurisy, and inflammation of the lungs, heing at the last extremity, and gi veri over by two physicians, he was ad vised to drinli tar water, which he did, eight quaris. Nexi morning one of the doctors ast ingat what hour his patient diedt to his great surpri se found he was reco vered. This I had Dom a partiament-man his neigh bour. When the yellois se ver as it was called) raged in the mes Indies, thenegroes, with a tub of tar water in their quarters, did weli: but semeos the helter seri miscarried, among whom the physician himself lay at the potnt of death; but his brother recovered him by pou ring down his

throat in spoon is, seme of the fame liquor that recovered the negroes. The DCt was related to me by a gentieman who was then in the istandos St. Grim res, and linew it to be true. A physician himself, not long since assured me, he had cured an ulcer in the bladder, by ordering his patient to drinii tar Water,

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But it would be endlesi to relate the essedis of tar water, in desperate cases. The recovery of Mrs. Wison, daughter to the late bim op of London, Dom a lingering hopelesi di sorder, was a noted case, and attest cilio by his lordship. I have even been informed upora good authori ty, of

two or three instances, wherein persons have been reco vered by tar wa

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Farther Thoughis, Vc. When tar water is copioussy dranli in seVers, the great danger to beguarded against , is an excessive flow of spiriis, Whicli excites the patientio talli and divert himself with company, Which may produce a relapse ;of this I have known fatal esse 's. Is in a course of tar water, the patient mould find himself heated, lethim abstain from or tessen his dose of spiritu ous and fermented liquors;

he hath these words, There has always prevalled a notion among the chymi sis, and particularly with Paracelsus and his sol lowers, that in those otis there lay a great se- eret undis overed. This notion was occasioned by the strange essedis whicli a smalI quantity thereos liath upon the human machine. Severat have been very diligent to discover