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<dl><dd>Also issued with imprint: London, Printed. Providence, Re-printed by J. Carter, 1793. Cf. Alden 1319</dd>
<dd>Earlier editions were published in Dublin in 1746 and reprinted at London in May of the same year. There was a "carefully abridg'd" London edition, unauthorized, in November, 1746. An American edition, also "carefully abridged," was reprinted in 1749 at Boston from a London edition of 1746. Cf. Evans 6409</dd>
<dd>The abridged edition includes the 333 numbered paragraphs of the 1746 London reprint, with some alterations in text. Three cases, dated Oct. 1793 (p. 74-75) of "persons in the State of Rhode-Island having received great benefit from the medical virtues of tarwater," were added by "the editor of the present edition."</dd>
<dd>Appendix, pp. [76-78], contains extracts from tracts by Stephen Hales and Andrew Reid</dd>
<dd>Signatures: [A]⁴ B-K⁴</dd>
<dd>Film 633 reel 76 is part of Research Publications Early American Medical Imprints collection (RP reel 76, no. 1570)</dd>
<dd>Evans</dd>
<dd>Austin, R.B. Early Amer. medical imprints</dd>
<dd>Alden, J.E. Rhode Island</dd>
<dd>Blake, J. NLM 18th cent.</dd>
<dd>ESTC (RLIN)</dd>
<dd>Microfilm</dd>
<dd>NLM copy provenance: ownership inscriptions of Thomas Sessions</dd>
<dd>Will digitize</dd>
<dd>Condition reviewed</dd></dl><br>Subjects: Tar-Water</div>
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<dl><dd>Prior, Thomas, 1682?-1751</dd>
<dd>Berkeley, George, 1685-1753</dd>
<dd>Hales, Stephen, 1677-1761</dd>
<dd>Reid, Andrew, d. 1767?</dd>
<dd>Carter, John, 1745-1814, printer</dd></dl></div>
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