Tar-water

Tar-water is a remedy very much in vogue here at present for almost all diseases.

Life of Adam Smith Rae, John, 1845-1915 1895

The essay upon Tar-water attracted great attention.

Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 4 Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle 1864

Becoming more and more convinced of its value, he exploited his supposed discovery with his usual ardor, writing letters and essays, and at length 'A Chain of Philosophical Reflections and Enquiries concerning the Virtues of Tar-water and divers other subjects connected together and arising one from another. '

Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 4 Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle 1864

Some medical beast had revived Tar-water in those days as a fine medicine, and Mrs. Joe always kept a supply of it in the cupboard; having a belief in its virtues correspondent to its nastiness.

Great Expectations Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1861

Some medical beast had revived Tar-water in those days as a fine medicine, and Mrs Joe always kept a supply of it in the cupboard; having a belief in its virtues correspondent to its nastiness.

Great Expectations 1860

His last publications were Siris, a treatise on the medicinal virtues of tar-water, and Further Thoughts on Tar-water.

A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature 1853

The sacred profession has, it is true, returned the favor by giving the practitioner of medicine Bishop Berkeley's "Treatise on Tar-water," and the invaluable prescription of that "aged clergyman whose sands of life" ---- but let us be fair, if not generous, and remember that Cotton

Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851

Berkeley's "Treatise on Tar-water," and the invaluable prescription of that "aged clergyman whose sands of life" ---- but let us be fair, if not generous, and remember that Cotton Mather shares with Zabdiel Boylston the credit of introducing the practice of inoculation into America.

Pages from an Old Volume of Life; a collection of essays, 1857-1881 Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851

Some medical beast had revived Tar-water in those days as a fine medicine, and Mrs. Joe always kept a supply of it in the cupboard; having a belief in its virtues correspondent to its nastiness.

Great Expectations Charles Dickens 1841

Be assured, if you do publish this Chapter in the present work, you will be reminded of Bishop Berkeley's Siris, announced as an Essay on Tar-water, which beginning with Tar ends with the Trinity, the omne scibile forming the interspace.

Biographia Literaria Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803