The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-08-14
THE VIRTUES OF TAR.

very ingenious 'sell" upon the Royal SO
ciety of Great Britain was perpetrated by Sir
Charles Hanbury Williams, q wicked wag Of the
age, during the furore caused by the discovery
of the wonderful healing powers of TAR
WATER. Sir Charles sent a communication to
the President relating the circumstances of a
sailors breaking his leg on board of the guard
ship at Chatham, and its perfect union and cure
by an application of spun oakum soaked in tar.
After the communication had been read aud
printed in the Royal Transactions, he sent second
letter, stating that he had forgotten to state in
the former correspondence that the leg was a
aoooden one! Although this joke was a sore one
for the society, it did not injure the reputation
of Tar as remedy, for its Legitimate cures were
so wonderful that odes were written in its praise
and he celebrated Bishop Berllely published two
vouminous works describing, endorsing and
registering its virtues. From the failure of
scientific men, at that period, to extract and
concentrate the curative principle from the
crude tar, its nauseousness caused it to fall into
dsuse, and its great healing powers were lost to
mankind until DR.. L. Q. C.. Wishart succeeded
in depriving the specific of its unpleasant and
cruder particles, and in his PINE TREE TAR
CORDIAL offering to the afflicted all that was
valuable, while the other parts were eliminated
by its careful preparation. As soon as this was
accomplished the remedy was again endorsed by
the faculty, and the cures were such as to con-
vert its enemies and firmly establish it as one of
the greatest blessings to suffering humanity Its
success was immediate and widespread and its
manufacture became of great Importance and O
source of wealth to its reviver long life was
spent for the welfare ofmankind by Dr. Wishayt
in perfectng his discovery and promulgating its
usefulness, and at his decease (Which took place
but recently the method of preparation and
the extension of its usefulness devolved upon his
sons.
Tar Cordial is an extremely potent and valu-
able medicine for the cure of throat and lung
diseases. 1t combines to a degree unknown in
any other remedy, vigorous action with safety
and harmlessness.
1t cures colds and coughs with marvellous
celerity, and is the only preparation which ap-
proaches to a specific. 1t does not cover and
patch up, but eradicates disease by removing
the cause, and for obstinate long-continued
catarrhs, and consequently of the incipient
stages of consumption, is the only certain remedy
in the pharmacopea. 1t would be a waste of
the readers time to enumerate cases, for the
remedy is so well known, its virtues have been
so thoroughly tested, that eulogy is superluous
and reference not requisite. Not only as an in
ternal remedy is it valuable, but erternaUy it
heals sores and irriations, and a pleasant
fumigator in the sick room stands above all
others.
The firm also are the proprietors and preparers
of the same physicians celebrated Worm Sugar
Drops, which, while pleasant to the palate and
a treat to the child, effectually remove worms,
and act as mud purgatiye medicine, cleansing
the system and removing those premontory
causes which might terminate in dangerous or
fatal diseases.
lnyalids suffering from any of the diseases to
which we have alluded, or from dyspepsia,
should send to