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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07920	Pidax Petreia, or, The disc[ov]erie of S. Peters well, [a]t Peter-head, in Scotland being in latitude 57.d.43.m. and in longitude 22.d.40.m. : shewing the admirable vertues thereof, against many deplorable diseases / by A.M. student in medicine.	Mure, Andrew.	1636 (1636)	STC 18290; ESTC S918	14,332	40

tota credidit antiquitas inquit Fabet Cap. 17. Pallad spag The sediment which remained after separation of the water by inclination being again tried in the fire proved to be a confused masse of not perfectly cancocted mettals But none can speak more by experience of the goodnesse and vertue of this fountaine then the gentleman I have named and another gentleman of good worth M. Thomas Aikinhead Commissar of Edinburgh who in August last An. 1635. did find in this Well as much worth as they found in any of the forementioned exotick Wells having tryed both And not only those but many other gentlemen of good respect can testifie these things to be true which in this booke I have written concerning the medicinall vertues of this fountaine which good reader I hope you may patiently read and thank God if diseased you reap any benefit from hence Neither had I intention to have published this treatise being conscious of my own weaknesse if I had not been animated and encouraged thereto by a letter which I receaved from my learned Master whom I shall reverence with a filial respect so long as breath shall delay to expire Io Adamsonus An. Moro S. D. PErgratae fuerunt tuae ad me literae pergratus libellus utraque vel quod à te ex utrisque amorem satis antea perspectum sed ex hoc industriam quà scrutinio quodam accurato nobis videris 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 thesaurum à nemine hactenus ved quaesitum vel inventum demonstrasse O te felicem cui coelitus obtigit tam eximium thesaurum invenisse in salutem humani generis prodidisse Sed ego hujus felicitatis non vacuus abiero cui contigit discipulum habuisse tam industrium tam doctum disertum qui talis thesauri vires usum tam eruditè concinnè patriae suae aperuerit Tu perge ut facis virtuti litare amantem me tui redamare Vale. Edinb Cal. Mart 1636. De Fonte Petraeo ejusque reclusore ANDREA MORO Cùm gelidus fons est nitidis argenteus undis Vulcanum admoveas aurea lympha siet Est auro argentoque simul praestantior omni Quâ reparent vires languida membra suas Ergo aegri vivis libate è fontibus undas Et manibus puris sumite sultis aquas Atque Deo coeli grates persolvite dignas Qui facit ut tantas petra refundat opes Et Mori ingenium voto laudate benigno Qui facit ut tantas penna recludat opes I. A. Ad Andream Morum Petraei fontis detectorem 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 PEtraei laticis gratas languentibus undas Detegis tanti quae sit origo boni Si tanta utilitas insit vulgaribus undis Hasce sibi ut vulgus commoda prima putet Quanta o Petraeo debetur gloria fonti Omnigenis obstat quae Panacèa malis Nymphae monstratis meruerunt Orgia lymphis Quanta erit inventi gloria More tui T. CRAFORDIUS S. PETERS WELL OR THE WELL OF Peter-head MEdicinall waters differ much in savour and taste some of them being sulfureous some vitriolate some saltish yet all of them communi nomine are called acidi from the taste which acidity or sharpnesse comes partly from vitrioll and partly from the salt of minerals or they are called minerall waters because passing through the concavities of the earth they carry with thē the tinctures of what they renconter and are impregnate with the quintessence of those minerals by which they passe whether it bee terra lemnia bol armen chalk or congeled liquors an juyces as allome succin sulphur nitre vitriol c. or mettals as gold silver yron c. or stones as christall marble load-stone c they are also called medicinall waters for their rare and admirable vertues in curing diseases and preserving of health Many of these waters are found out by the diligent searching and industrious labour of the learned endevouring to find out the secrets of nature most easie for the help of mankind as the wel of Spaw in Germany the wells of Burbon of Pouges of Forges in France of Porrecta in Italy of Tunbridge and Knesbrough in England with many others of infinite vertues as Plinius recordeth in many passages of his books especially in the 2. chap. of his 31. book And I would that any reader who doubts of the excellent vertues of infinite diversity of waters should read that chapter And now our waters of Peter-head called be our forefathers Saint Peters wel thinking that it was S. Peter that sent from Rome a facultie of curing diseases to these waters because hee himself could not come being imployed about more necessary affaires at Rome for the time Pope Wherefore to gratify this holy Apostle they have built a temple which to this day is called S. Peters church They used to come to the well on S. Peters day assembling themselves in great mulitudes on which day as yet we have a great faire at this place But this is meer superstition like that of the heathen who as Plinius testifieth lib. 31. chap. 2. denominate their rare and medicinall waters from diverse of there gods S. Peters well may be compared with Spaw waters being nothing inferiour to them in medicinal vertues and far excells any other as yet found out in Europe It is certain that this Petrean water for so hereafter shal it be called passes through minerals but with what proportion they are mixed in these subterranean cells it is impossible to know or whether it be hote or cold moist or dry some thinges from whence it flows being hote some cold some temperate seeming rather that it is temperate well mixed as its effects shows yet alwayes this water while it is drunken humectates and refrigerates incontinent being daunted through the heat of the stomach heats and dryes For the vertues of our water it cleanseth and wasteth viscide Tartareous humors extenuats pituite it voyds the liver melt mesaraicks and other our entrails of whatsoever obstructions is troublesome to them it strengthens the stomach so be its astriction that none can complain of harme by its actuall coldnesse It gives strength to the nerves tempers the heat of the kidneys cleansing and expelling their gravell sand and stones more forceably then any other medicament because it is diuretick simple naturall voyd of all arte made by the hand of God alone and most gracious to the taste it hinders the concretion or coagulation of sand resisting the generation of confirmed stones and if confirmed diminishes them it purgeth the bladder and mundifies the stone of viscide pituit and mucositie wherewith it is environed prepairing it to be easily taken out by cutting it is most profitable for the ulcer of the reins and carnosities in the urinal passage cast in be injection it certainly helps the venerean Virulent Gonorhea and all other diseases of that sort applyed with out for their ulcers chancres poulanes pustules within by