Honourable mention who lived in the Reign of Adrion The decay of Physick To be short then came up Thessalies the most proud and malepert Fellow that ever was in the world who as Pliny saith lil 2â— Nat. Hâ—st cap. 1. madly raved against all the most excellent Physicians that had been before him contemn ig them all even Hippocrates himself accusing them of gross ignorance while he boasted egregiously of himself and his method as in his Letter to Nero may appear cited by Galen lib. 1. Meth. cap. 11. although yet he knew nothing of solid Learning or the Art of Physick but depraved it with an unwholesome Method and a number of unsound medicines Were I a Pythagorean and did believe a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I should think his Soul had been several times since translated into another Body Thus was this Noble Art lacerated and torn by various Factions the perverse humours of some disquieting the peace of others the wholesome received Principles rased and the Practise differing in every Country while yet every Quack magnified his own way and mens lives were most in jeopardy in the hands of them who pretended most to preserve them It s reparation by Galen In the midst of this decay steps up Gaâ—en vid. in the second Century from the Nativity of our Saviour and 600. years after Hippocrates He was certainly the most Learned of his Age in all the parts of useful Learning as his voluminous Writings do sufficiently make out but especially in Physick even to a Prodigy which Art being left imperfect by Hippocrates and not fully elaborated as Himself confesses in his Letâ—er to Democritus where he says that though he had now lived to be old yet neither He nor yet Aesculapius nor any that he had met with had attained to any considerable height in the Profession but must leave it imperfect But Galen undertook this task and has brought it to such a perfection as no Art besides in the World can pretend to and thus not only in the judgement of the Antient Princes in Physick who followed him Galen in high esteem among the Antients as Paulus Aetius Oribasius c. who have transcribed most choice Sentences and long discourses out of him word for word as not being able or not needing to adde to him but also in the Suffrage of our best Modern Writers What was obscure in Hippocrates he has cleared up he has distinguisht of things that differed and supplied what was defective Not that I would make him to be infallible or that nothing has been added since or yet may not be but that certainly he was the greatest Benefactor to and Polisher of Medicine that ever was in the world He had indeed Hirpocrates his Foundation to build upon but assuredly thereupon he raised a most admâ—rable structure He encountred the several Sects I mentioned discovered plainly their impostures their ragged Methods and unwholesome Medicines and enriched the Art with excellent Tractats upon every part of Physick and innumerable rare Remedies which retain his Name to this day And hereto he was enabled not only by the help of the olâ— man his Master as our Author calls him but also by his own prodigious parts length of time that was betwixt them and his own large Experience through age for he lived till he was an hundred and forty years old and therefore probably he might be trusted though he should in some things dâ—ffer from his Masters Copy While he lived he was esteemed the prime Star of the first magnitude in his Oâ—be and of singular account with the Emperour Antoninus and the many Volumes he has left behind him have begot him a Reputation which Envy can never blast among such as are Learned This made Fuchsius cry Non dubium est quin à Deo excitatus As also among the Neotericks c. to wit no doubt but he was raised up by God to repair the Art of Physick which was extreamly shattered in these times lib. 1. instit med And Valleriola says of him Quem Heroa potiù ac daemonem quà m Hominem appellare suo sanè merito possumus he knows not whether he should not call him some Caeâ—estial Hero or Angel rather than a Man such was his merit in his esteem Loc. com lib. 1. To these I 'le add but one more which I find in Eusebius his Ecclesiastical History lib. 5. cap. ult who tells that he was worshipped such was their Opinion of him by some of the Heathens as a God He was indeed no Christian though I read that hearing of the miracles that were done in those Primitive times by the followers of the Apostles of our Saviour in the curing of diseases by a word He fell into Admiration and made a Voyage towards Judaea to know the certainty of it by his own view but as God would have it died by the way Thus far I thought fit to digress on this occasion that I might give some account to the world of this great Prince in Physick Galen and to make it out that he was no Trifle as some would render him but that his Name was and is yet in Reputation among such as understand him well I now proceed Dr. Tonstall says he hopes it will appear that in this Tract he has been very candid towards me and said nothing ad Personam but ad Rem 'T were well if I could find it so I think no man that has read his Book is of that mind but seeing he pretends it I shall willingly leap over a great many of those Reflexions ad Personam besides what has been told me by Persons of known integrity of his liberty of Speech and only examine such as are ad Rem if any be so wherein I 'le use as much Candour as the Nature of my task can admit He says he has not concerned himself in a word which I have said in my two Books but only what was necessary se Defendendo Really I wonder at this Expression Who ever offended him that he should stand up in his own defence Is not he the Assailant and Aggressor What was there in my Books that concerned him Indeed I mentioned his Name p. 107. of my Answer to Hydrol. Chimica with some sincere respect wherein he has made it appear that I was mistaken and therefore I 'le henceforth resume since he has recanted He boasts of his Mechanical Demonstration whereby he makes cut the Material Principles of the Spaw and presents them to our Senses and says that my failure was that I left off where I should have begun To this I say I have ever observed the greatest Censors either produce nothing of their own or what is more ridiculous than any thing they reprehend Much of ill Nature and a very little Judgement go a great way in finding the mistakes of Writers especially when a design is at the bottome Dr T disingenuous towards the Author He says after I had
vertue and efficacy aâ—â—â—â—l And thus I am certain it is with Knâ—resb which this year he exâ—ols so much and which either our Author has not observed or out of design is not willing to acknowledge And therefore either he did not ☜ know this when he writ this Book or he did If he had not known it then it betokens ignorance in a considerable point of Philosophy and in that part wherein he ought especially to have been better instructed If he did know it and yet goes about to buz it into the heads of the vulgar as a peculiar fault of Scarâ—rough it savours still worse he might as well accuse any of them as this nay upon this Hypothesis no water in the world should be wholsome to be drunk because of the sand or gravel that is in it which fire discovers Although for any man to repine at it were doubtless an Atheistical presumption and a grievous sin against God who has so ordered in his infinite wisedom while either it s not worse for our bodies or if it be it depends upon his Will who not only in his Statute and Decree has determined us all to be subject to death but also in his wise provision of things most necessary for our being will gradually dispose our bodies to a state of mutation and corrptibility What could our Author expect I wonder to find the element of water No element of water to be found Surely no all Fountains are mixed bodies made up of the four elements and in respect of the earth which is the matrix within which they are generated and to which they are so nearly united they partake largely of a terrestrial matter Scarb. Spaw excellent for a feeble stomach I do seriously profess I could never observe any the least harm to feeble Stomachs but have always found it highly to sharpen the appetite and also further the concoction Nay I am certain there is not in Nature a more speedy Remedy for a debilitated Stomach Never did any feeble Stomach if that was the main fault return from these waters without eminent good success when they were regular and would be advised My Lord of Suffolk's stupendious cure which I mention p. 174. of Scarb. Sp. Edit 2. confirms this with others that are there recited Nor if you mind does he bring any instance to confirm this charge but as in the former indictment about its breeding the Stone he has no witness but himself nor one plausible argument to prove it so here he stands alone to make good this accusation against that cloud of witnesses which I have produced although I am certainly informed from some that know full well he did earnestly endeavor to procure some to attest them both but was severely rejected I have know some Persons of quality who when they came could not sit down at the Ordinaries with others lest they should give offence by their conâ—inual belching which always seised on them at meat who found a perfect cure by the waters and some additional helps which I thought fit 〈◊〉 may confidently say I have know many scores that through debility of the retentive faculty of the Stomach were wont to puke up their meat before it was half concocted that have found cures even when all other means have failed and when they have been supposed to be far in consumptions A rare cure Major Samuel Taylor a Gentleman welâ— known to our Superiors and the highâ—st Grandees of the Kingdom by a Commâ—ssion he has from his Majesty for the making of the Mould at Tanger was about nâ—neâ—een years ago so low brought with a lingring weakness attended with a constant Cough and ioss of appetite that his legs could scarce bear him and was wholly given up by all as in a Consumption found here a perfect cure in a very short time The two or three last years finding at Tanger the old symptomes returning which brought him so weak that he could not attend his employment but on hâ—rseback he obtaind leave to come for England purposely to drink these waters at Scarbrough wherein by the way especially at London he met with sufficient discouragements from many otherwise knowing persons fearing the waters would kill him 〈◊〉 grounding their jealousies upon this Book of D. â—â—nstal but his former experience had fixed his resolution so as the last Summer viz. 1670. he came to Scarb. and staid about three weeks then after a few weeks respit and recess he come again and staid nine orâ—ten days at the waters and was reduced God be praised to his perfect health strength and stomach as ever he had in all his life An appeal I appeal to all the Lords Ladies Gentlemen and others that were ever advised by me at these waters at Scarbrough for I cannot justifie the drinking of them abroad when perhaps it may be adulterated by the Carriers or else become putrid whether they have not found their stomachs advanced by it both in point of appetite and digestion Our Landlords tables in Scarb. finde we want not stomacks where we feed like Farmers and are heartily merry year and he himself in the two Summers that he visited the waters know it to be true It s very usual for many to come in various cases on their own accords and so drink largely and boldly without any advice first had or direction in drinking and they think all is well because the water passes freely with them if such return without success or get harm where is the fault Possibly our Author may have met with some of these which he could not redress though perhaps another might must it needs be charged upon the water or its principles Several Indictments against Scr. Sp. answered He is indeed very forward in his Accusation and in this very point he confesses p. 21 he preferred an Indictment against the Water before the Lord Falconberge about the sandy faeces while yet he acknowledges he was not certain but that much of it came by the carelesness of the Porter that brought him the water I could reply to the purpose if I were disposed but I know my limits Sure I am that noble Lord is so well knowing and throughly satisfied with the innocency and excellency of this water that no man can impose upon him nor will his Lordship own any thing that tends to its disparagement But there is yet another fault which he fancies to ensue from the sand and clay that he has told of and the stone faeces to wit that they are plastered upon the inner coat of the bowels disturb the peristaltick motion and obstruct the attraction of the lacteal veins Hard words indeed enough to fright children but they that are wise will not be startled at Bugbears Posito uno absurdo mille sequuntur the cause and the effect are much alike The truth is 't is nothing more then a frivolous conceit and not worthy to be replied to But this effect of the
SCARBROVGHS Spagyrical Anatomizer dissected OR AN ANSWER To all that Dr. Tonstal hath Objected in his Book against Scarbrough Spaw The Innocency and Excellency of that Spaw is further asserted 1. Concerning the Rise and Growth of the Art of Physick 2. Touching the Causes of the Petrifying Property that is in some Springs and more especially that of the Dropping well at Knaresbrough 3. About the Signs Symptomes and Cures of Diseases As also Reflections upon a late Piece called a Vindication of Hydrologia Chymica By Robert Wittie Doctor in Physick London Printed by B. G. for Nath. Brooke at the Anâ—el in Cornhil and R. Lambert at Minister-Gate in York Anno Dom. 1672. To the Right Honourable JAMES Earl of Suffolk JOHN Lord Roos Son and Heir to the Earl of Rutland and JAMES Lord Annesley Son and Heir to the Earl of Anglesey My Lords I Am once more ingaged to appear again in Publick in defence of Scarbrough Spaw which is now accused to be a dangerous Water and what fitter Judges of this Controversie can be found out then your Lordships who have tried it and found it not only most Innocent but Excellent My ultimate and highest Appeal is therefore to your Honours since two of your Lordships do bear its Testimony within you As for you my Lord Annesley though I cannot say this last of your Lordship since you did not drink of it out of any necessity but for company of your Noble Brother the last Summer yet this I may say your Lordship had an ill share of it if it have the faults that some have ascribed to it And farther your Acute Judgment and Excellent Learning wherewith you are qualified for the Highest Service of your Prince and Country when called renders your Lordship a most competent Judge of this Subject beyond all Imposition And the Favourable Aspect which then both your Lordships were pleased to Grace this Discourse and its Author withal do justly challenge this my Thankful and Publick Acknowledgment I humbly beg of all your Lordships the Acceptance of this in token of the great Service and Honour I owe you for all your Noble Favours vouchsafed to York June 3. 1671. My Lords Your Lordships most humble Servant R. WITTIE To the Reader MEthink I hear some object that my Answer to this Book comes too late so as I might have spared my self this labour a return being last Summer made thereto in a piece called A Vindication of Hydrologia Chymica To which I reply Sat cito si bene sat it is soon enough if it be well enough This was finished in June last as some Persons of Honour do know before that came out but was thought fit to be supprest tâ—ll the year came about when the Waters here treated of might become the common subject of discourse And further I shall say if my Answer be but like that then have I lost my labour and thou thy money for in the judgement of learned men it will with that deserve nothing but to be imployed in the most homely usâ—s That Author is scarce satisfied with any thing that this sayes save only where he opposes and girds at me What the one calls the Glebe of Alome the other calls the Minera of Iron The one calls the Salt of Alome an Alkali the other an Acid Salt The one affirms an Acidity to be in Nitre the other denies it nor do their reasons convince each other Thus it appears they do not well understand the Terms of the Art they profess and truly when men run careers in the dark it s no wonder to have them justle And though they differ yet its pretty sport to see how they claw one another with the frequent Title of Ingenious Friend while yet I am not allowed to dissent be my reasons never so cogent but I am called out of my name by the young man with unscholar-like reproaches and new invented stories that have not the least pretence of truth in them The great fault they find in Scarb. Spaw and which they reckon to be its disparagement is the great quantity of Mineral sediment that remains after evaporation over the fire I declare I never saw harm come from thence The only fault I know in that Spring is that it is placed in an angle of the Kingdom at so great distance from London and the midland Counties where if providence had ordered it being found to have the vertues both of Epsam and Tunbridge it would have been more known and better trusted then now it is Now though like Sampson's fâ—xes they turn tails of one another yet they agree in this to fire their neighbors Corn and causelesly to disparage the Spring revenging their Schism upon themselves by separating from one another as they do both from the truth And though Mr. S. can hardly close with Dr. Y. S. arguments against the Spaw yet out of design he supposes somewhat of it may be true on purpose to make room for himself and so undertakes to give rules of advice to those that come there where he says no more then what may sure such subjects in general but wisely refers the Patients to advise with those that understand their cases better At last he proves most ingenious and calls it a noble Spaw wherewith he would improve other Spaws even that at Knaresbrough p. 152. by dissolving the Salts of Scarbrough water to make it more effectual Why could not he say so before but however Nunquam sera est c. And 't is honestly said let the minerals be whâ—t and how many they will of which more anon My reply is this in a word Quod efficit tale illud est magis tale But I may not pass that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of mine the Author of the Vindication of Hydrol. Chymica and his Book without a further survey That Hydrol. Chymic is little else then a Rapsody of Railing first against me about my Book of the Spaw and then against the Galenists and their Method To that Book I gave Answer justifying what I had writ about the Principles of the Spaw and at last after a great deal oâ—bad language that he had given me for assisting them I found him recanting in his Epilogue and confessing them all I also maintained the Honour and Reputation of those worthy Gentlemen the Galenisis and their method of Physick who deserve a better Champion both from Reason and also the Authority of the most eminent among the Chymists who all go that way Nor has that Discourse been unwelcome to the Nation but I have had thanks from many private Gentlemen both of our own Faculty and others yea and from some publick Societies of Learned men Now when I had so fully discovered his errors to him an ingenious man would rather have repented and cried peccavi then writ a vindication what faults he made there he has aggravated in this with more gross circumstances He charges my quotations of Authors to be impertinent
or their sense to be perverted oâ— their words falsly translated This I expected he would say if any thing for he has front enough to deny the conclusion where he cannot stand against the premises The truth is I was very careful in my collections of Authority fetching every thing from the fountains and not from the streams even from the original Authors themselves whose very pages in things most material I usually cited on purpose to stop his clamour Nor have I designedly wrested in any one place the sense of any one Author Nor have I falsly translated a word or added a tittle more then what was necessary to preserve the idiome of each language or make the sense intelligible to common Readers I appeal to the Learned who have read my Book who are most competent Judges betwixt us Nor is it material what he objects to the contrary p. 41. where I citing a place out of Paracelsus concerning Minerals and Mettals imbibed in water he says I added by a Parenthesis dissolved in water I therefore did put them into a Parenthesis because they are not expressed in the Latin among those words but they are so necessarily implied as the Authors sense would be lost if I had not expressed them and the following words do plainly make it out viz. Haecenim aqua sunt c. lib. 4. cap. 1. de crescentibus Aquis p. 271. So again in the same page where I cite Paracelsus speaking of vitriol id si in Aquam resolvaâ—ur colorem omnem deponit he quarrels at the translation of the word in which should be into and imposes severely upon me for it Whether it was omitted in my Copy or by the Printer it matters nor among Men of Reason since there can be nothing gained by it but certainly it s not so pedantick as puâ—rile and argues a desperate sâ—ipwrack of his Cause while he has no better Ancher-hold to stick by then the defect of an insignificant Particle He tells a story in his Preface which for fureness of memory he repeats again in his Book that in a debate about the Existence of Vitriol in the Spaw I was put to such a strait to defend it that after some passion of fear aiscovered by a sudden paleness in my face I had no other refuge but to fly to the ipse dixit of Dr. Tonstal and said he told me it was Vitriol last year Will any man of reason believe that he whom I so lately lashed about in my Book and that among others about this very thing and catched him in nineteen contradictions besides other absurdities should on the sudden become so formidable to me while yet he urged nothing but what I had answered in my Book And yet hence he indeavours to perswade that I had published nothing concerning that Mineral but what I had borrowed from Dr. T. Concerning that debate I could say something from the testimony of the Gentlemen then present of their disrelish of his arguments and behavior insomuch as some of them hissed at him But I shall only offer this at present that I have been acquainted with that Spaw above thirty years and am known to many to have always asserted Vitriol upon the Reasons mentioned in my Books And in Anno 1660. my first Edition of Scarb. Spaw came out with my reasons for that mineral among the rest which is now eleven years Now Dr. Tonstal I think never saw this Spring till the year 1668. when he came to me and confessed himself a stranger to it asking my advice about his Wife then did I convince him of all the minerals in the Spring so as he was satisfied abundantly at that time which gave me occasion to mention his name in my Answer to Hyd. Chym. p. 107. So as in that debate I asked him the question what say you to this in Anno 1669. But then his mind was changed and the Vitriol was become Nitre querying also whether the Spaw were better if it had Vitriol or no which I told him was a new subject and required longer debate Now what ground there is for this his charge that my appeal should be to him as having that notion from him let any man of reason judge and thereby take measure of the temper of this man and consequently of his cause which needs such supports I am certain I shall find Dr. Tonstal just towards me in this point if any man shall enquire of him But he forges another figment arising from my fear of him about the Vitriol when the Chymical Apothecary taking a piece of Alome-stone out of the vitrioline bed that is in the cliff and putting it into water with gall found it strike a black tincture inferring thence that the Tincture in the Water was from the Alome and that there was no Vitriol I answered so would the earth in that place give a tincture but neither earth nor the 100. loads of Alome that are in that cliff elsewhere would do it here they clamoured extreamly but upon that he sayes that I was so touched to the quick that I called the Apothecary aside and said if Mr. Simpson would lay down the cudgéls I would not only look upon him as a Brother but also when occasion should offer would sooner take him into consultation then any other Really such a thing was never in my heart nor did I in my judgement think him equal with the meanest of all the Brethren of our Faculty in these parts as to the practical part of Physick though by this Artifice I guess his design is to level them all But the ground of the story is this This Apothecary after my Book in Answer to Mr. S. was come out came to me at Scarbrough and told me he had read my Book c. and had made that Errand to me to Endeavor a Reconciliation betwixt us desiring carnestly that we might be in Charity and joyn hand in hand as there should be occasion I told him I had said what I intended and my Vitriol and Gall were spent in those lines and if he were so satisfyed and did desire it I could embrace him in all Christian Charitie even as a Brother following that rule of our Saviour Mat. 18.22 and farther that I would not refuse to joyn with him if we were consulted together as with any other Thus I thought my self on that occasion obliged to say and repeat as often as he urged the motion But to wrest that my readiness to comply in a Christian duty into a Pusillanimos dast ardy is both unchristian and unreasonable Are not these dangerous men that I have to deal withall from whom a man shall find nothing short of the lie cast in his face I say again there is no plainer signe of a desperate Cause then when men seek out such a refuge But he sayes I supplyed my defect of Arguments with Taunts and Scoffs at him As for my Arguments he is not fit to be a Judge of them they lye at
sand becomes a cause of still furthers mischief to wit that after you have drunk a month with success it takes a testy jadish fit and will neither go backward nor forward p. 25. and sayes he p. 26. Is this the manner of other waters Yes I can tell him that Knaresb water will not go through at any time in ordinary bodies Scarbr compared with Kuaresb unless it be either drawn or driven and shall I say it is from the sandy sediment which I found upon evaporation Surely no but for want of another thing which he calls the essence of a Spaw which should carry it through But I am not quarrelsome against that water He had told his friends the last year when he invited them to come to Scarbr that it was a nimble and well working water and if he could have brought about his design it would so have continued this year Compared with the German I am certain no water in the world that I read of is less guilty of this fault then Scarb. nay let them find me another that will pass a month together with like success I am certain the German come far short of it for as Dr. Heer confesses in his Spadacrene p. 122. they have scarce one stool in eight days that drink of it even such as were wont to retrograde once every day at home But it after so well working there happen to be any obstruction must the fault needs be in the water Is it not possible that Nature may be weary after a month and so become a slug Or may it not arise from some accidental thing in the Patient Do we not see freequently that the same dose of Diet-drink which we prescribe comes sometimes far short of what it operates at another day and if so where is the alteration but in the body Accidents at all waters It s very ordinary for accidents to happen at all these waters and therefore there is need of Physitians that understand them and know how to correct them although as rarely at Scarb. as at any other in the world As for the Lord he mentions in whom it stopt after a months well working I know whom he means that Lord told me he could never get quit of him till at length he yielded to take something of him and I profess seriously his Lordship told me he found no manner of alteration So I gave him somewhat to take off the waters and he returned home with benefit having come above two hundered miles The truth is it s against my will for any one to drink this water a whole month together but rather I advise to a little intermission and then go to it again if the work be not done Dr. T. wrests the Authors sense But he seems to confirm this assertion from my own expressions in my Book as you may see in his twenty sixth page Thus where I am laying down cautions about orderly and regular drinking that no man hurt himself through want of a Rule he converts them to arguments against the water as is observable throughout his whole discourse Do not all Authors that treat of such subjects lay down rules and give cautions for orderly drinking of the waters they treat of As Dr. Heer 's and others of the German Dr. Dean and Dr. French of Knaresbrough Dr. Roosy of Tunbridg c. and must all these be wrested to a contrary sense as that they imply some faults in their waters certainly nothing can be more disingenious Sure I am none of these ever met with such contradiction and wresting of their sense as I have done But I allow every man his humour though it costs me some Trouble provided the end may be good as here it will I now proceed Of the Essence of Spaws He sayes in his Preface that the Essence of Scarb. Spaw is fit for the Cup of a Prince but the Caput Mortuum which is that he calls the Stonefillings Clay and Sand is for nothing but the Brick-Layers Trowel T is well there is any any thing in it that is good Now by the Essence he means the refined parts to wit the Mineral Salts which are extracted by force of Fire But I wonder why the grosser of fixed parts should be excluded from being Essential to the Water any more then the Body which is of a grosser substance then the Soul should be excluded from being the Essential part of a Man Scaâ—br compared with Knaresb If the Salt be the only Essence then it will follow that Knaresb Water which this year he magnifies so much has little or no Essence for in the Evaporation of 10. Gallons I had a great quantity of Clay and Sand as I said before and but 17. Grins of Salt 3. pints of Scarb. Water affording as much So the consequent must bâ— that there is nothing n Knaresb Spaw fit for a Prince since it has little or nothing of Essence The the Volatile spirits But the truth is there is yet another thing that is Essential to all these sorts of Waters and that is their Volatile parts which being Aetherial do easily vanâ—sh by the innate heat of Fountaines even without Fire and canot be catched by any Project of Art and their consists much of their Virtue although their purging property lyes mainly in their Sâ—lts and much of their Deoppilaâ—ing too And if it were not for this Knaresb Spaw were not worth a Rush while yet we know it wants not Virtue although it rarely passes by Siege only by Vrine which so much whey would do or common Water although not with that Benefit And hence it is as I am certainly informed from some that know it full well that he himself sends for Scarb. Water to Newcâ—stle out of which he extracts that which he calls the Essence and gives it with Knaresb Water even at Knaresbrough as a great Secret which other Phisicians there must not know on purpose to further its Operation But as for those gross Parts which after Evaporation will not pass the Filter and are common to all Mineral Waters as I said before they are for the most part nothing else then the Fixed parts of these Mineralls or Metalls which the fire condenses though in our Bodies they are not Discoverable and are of singular use for the making of the Waters more safe for inward Uses and ends conducing to the fortifying of the Naturall Parts For if the piercing Salts were in the Water alone they would open the Obstructions of the Liver and Mesentery very well but then they would go nere to spoil the Tone of the Liver by purging and attenuating too much but having the Virtue of the gross and fixed parts there is joyned an Astâ—iction by which the Natural Parts are strengthened Scarb. Fortifies the Liver c. and the Tone of the Liver preserved besides that it secures the Body from running into fluxes And from hence also comes it that though it be
observed what was most conspicuous about the Spaw and found that the Gall tinctured the Water of a dark purple colour I contented my self with fair probabilities for asserting the five Principles So again p. 19. he cites a passage out of my Book where I say the Principles cannot be separated further then I had expressed he adds of his own Namely by putting gall to the Water c. and then he Comments upon this Assertion in both places with reference both to my self and others to whom he undertakes though impertinently enough to read a Lectuâ—e of Anatomy and Experimental Phylosophy and tells of things that no man ever doubted of or in the least opposed that understands any thing in Physick but teaches us that the separation of the Principles should have been made by fire Thus he would gladly make the world believe especially those that have not met with my Books that all that I have said to make out the five Principles was but this that the Water is tinctured black by the addition of Gall. But I would ask him if this be the â—â—ndness of a Friend as he professes himself to be to ciâ—e thus and to leave out the rest of my Arguments of demonstration whereby I made them out This indeed I mention p. 9. of my first Book as a Tâ—ken of Vitriol to which there I added the acid taste and iâ—ky smell 2ly to prove A ume I mention its curâ—lâ—ng of Milk and the bubbling noice it makes when it s boiled near the bottom which I made out to be a peculiar property of Alume from the testâ—mony of good Naturalists 3ly To prove Iron I mention the black sediment that falls to the bottome of the vessel after Gall is put into it which calcâ—nes red being near of kin to Vitriol which therefore p. 10. I called Ferrum Vitriolatum or Vitriolum ferrugineum besides the use I made of it inwardly wherein I find it to perform the same intentions with Iron or Steel and that it tinges the Excrements black as all our preparations of Iron do together with the yellow Sediment which falls to the bottome of the vessel when it is carried at distance being much like unto Crocus Martis as I expressed it p. 11. and he himself calls it so p. 57 when he observed it in the spout of Knaresbr Spaw 4ly To prove Nitre I tell of its shooting into Stiriae or Ice-sickles which is the peculiar property of Nitre 5ly I say what Salt it has it takes from the Sea although I declared it to have but very little Salt in it Then again I demonstrate these from their Adjuncts that there is a great probability that these are the Minerals that are in it 1. From the veins of Nitre which appear in the cliffe like hoar-frost or snow and eminently within a few yards of the Well 2ly From the many stones of Iron that are in the Cliffe besides the Earth that turns to an Iron-stone and melts in the Smiths Forge like Metal 3ly The abundance of Alume-stone that is in all that Cliffe 4ly The plentiful imbibition of so many Minerals which is promoted by the Acidity of the Viâ—riâ—â— as also the Vitrioline juyce which is yellow of colour that sweats out of the Cliffe about 110 paces from the Spring which he himself two years ago when he had no design to carry on acknowledged to be no other then Vitriol which gave me occasion to mention him and his consent therein p. 107. of my latter Book 5ly The propinquity of the Sea gives ground to many wise men to think it may have Salt Besides much more that I have said in my latter Book to prove them all against that my fierce Adversary while he denied them and as last was forced to confess them The Authours letter to the Royal Society Now while I have in terminis expressed all these Experimental Proofs of the five Principles and exposed them all not only to wise mens Reason but also to the view of many Persons of Quality and particularly to those Honourable Lords and Gentlemen of the Royal Society the last year to whom I presented by that eminently Learned and obliging Gentleman Henry Oldenburg Esq seven or eight sorts of Extracts and Spirits which I took out of this Spaw-water which those Noble Worthies were pleased to receive with somâ— sâ—â—isfâ—ction a full â—escription of which Extracts c. the Reader may find in number 60 of the Philosophical Transâ—ctions with my Letter at large I say while I have thus fully and plainly made them out it was not candidâ—y done of him to mention that of tingâ—ng with Gall and to leave out the rest on purpose to render me ridiculous But thus he deals with me as Hanunâ— did with Kâ—ng Davids Mâ—ssengers 2 Sam 10.4 of whom the Tâ—xt saith that he shaved off the half of their beards and cut off their garments in the middle even to their Buttocks and sent them away on purpose to make them ashamed But this did so exceedingly disoblige Kâ—ng Dâ—vid that it became an occasion of breaking that bond of Fâ—iâ—â—â—ship that had been between them I was indeed short in my first Book while I diâ—coursed of theâ—â— five Mâ—neral Pâ—inciples because I designed bâ—evity yet tâ—uâ— much was said to make them ouâ— And being called into question by Mâ— S. for this very thin I refer to the Learned whether in my Reply to him I have not stood mâ— gâ—oâ—nd But this also our Author had a mâ—nd to overlook boasting of his own Mechanical demonstration as if I had offered noâ—hing of Experiment to prove them Aâ—d whereas he says p. 20. that fire was the proper Instrumâ—nt to effâ—ct the separation of the Mâ—nerals a mâ—ng thereby to make the world believe I had only taken notice of the tinging with Gall and never tried it by fire and hence he says p. 34. that if Light had been brought in by the hand of a Chymâ—st strange things had been discovered I am certain of this that the hands of some that call themselves Chimists have brought more Heat than Light into our Faculty But thus it seems let but some men assume this title of a Chimist and they take upon them boldly to say what they list as if thereby they had got a Patent for freedome of Language Did not I mention a Body of Minerals to wit an ounce in five quarts of the water which may be extracted either by Distillation or Evaporation over the fire p. 10. And notwithstanding it contradicts what he would here impose upon me that I only tryed the Water by Gall Does not he himself cite a passage of mine p. 151. where I had been discoursing concerning this Body of Minerals which in that place I said cannot be extracted without a long and vehement fire What makes all this double dealing for advantage Such Artifice is very unbecoming and to use his own word savours more of a Mechanical than Academical demonstration If this be