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A62931	A new-years-gift for Doctor Witty, or, The dissector anatomized which is a reply to the discourse intituled, An answer to all that Doctor Tonstall has writ, or shall hereafter write, against Scarbrough spaw.	Tonstall, George, b. 1616 or 17.	1672 (1672)	Wing T1888; ESTC R21567	56,564	200

surely from one of my two great Lights Thus good Wits jump I shall not trouble the Reader to Comment upon this his Digression to p. 14. All which is translated out of Lambesius only let this vain brag be noted p. 11. Galen has brought the Art of Physick to such a Perfection as no Art in the world can pretend to Mr. Stubbs is modest in his Writings against the Royal Society compared with this one position of the Dissector which if true proclaims all those of their Society that are Physicians Fools and Madmen 'T were happy for the City and Country of York if Doctor Witty's practice could confirm their belief of this perfection in his Art If others cannot understand Galen well as he says I suppose he means in the Greek Copy to be sure he doth but I desire to treat him as a Friend and therefore do commend to his reading Petrus Severinus Danus his Idaea Medicina and so set him right in his way to Perfection Doctor Witty p. 15. Cavils at my expression of se defendendo and thus he vents it Really I wonder at this expression whoever offended him that he should stand upon his defence c. May not the Reader see by this how hardly he strains to get something to talk I refer it to the construction of any man if more could be intended by that innocent expression than to signifie that I meddle not with his Books further than was necessary to defend this one position That the nature of Scarbrough Spaw is petrifying In the same Page he shews his displeasure at this passage Dr. Witty's failure was that he left off where he should have begun I persist in the same mind still he should first have Anatomized the Water that he might have viewed what was contained distinctly in its bowels but this work he leaves to others Doctor S. gives a reason for his so doing pag. 145. Not for want of Ignorance saith he in the Critical Analysis of the water But why should Dr. Witty be so angry for this charge truly laid against him doth it not argue much ill Nature and little Judgment to reject necessary advice But wherein am I to be blamed that gave it except only that it came too late The next Marginal Note p. 16. is Dr. T. Disingenious towards the Author I know who it was that laid on these black patches intending thereby to beautifie the face of Dr. Witty's ill-favour'd discourse 't is an ugly Epithite which I hate worse than to be called a Phanatick I shall therefore clear my self of it I said in my Preface that Dr. Witty after he had observed what was most conspicuous about the Spaw and tryed that the Gall Tinctured the Water contents himself with fair probabilities for asserting his Five Principles I appeal to the Reader if I have dealt disingeniously with him in saying so I have given the Title of fair probabilities to his proofs but he is not pleased therewith but will have them called Arguments of Demonstration Though they were all proved to be Fallacies as may be seen in my Book touching Vitriol and Iron the Principles in difference betwixt us As for Salt another Principle of his he saith for it p. 19. The propinquity of the Sea gives ground to many wise men to think it may have Salt though he knows there are several fresh Springs about Scarbrough which are as near the Sea as the Spaw is Besides see Norwoods Relation to the Royal Society p. 565. affirming that at Bermudas they dig Wells of fresh Water sometimes within twenty yards of the Sea He concludes p. 20. that I have dealt with him as Hanun did with King David 's messenger citing the place of Scripture 2 Sam. 10.4 How can I help that Truth is not ashamed to appear naked in publick though the Dissector be 't is true he received an answer against Vitriol and Iron being in the Spaw importing no less than the shaving of the half of his Beard enough to render him ridiculous and the laying open the stone filings by the Anatomy of the water was like the cutting of his Garments in the middle even to his buttocks It seems indeed he was ashamed hereat and therefore he writes a Letter to the Royal Society presenting them with seven or eight Extracts and Spirits which he took out of Scarbrough Spaw yet hath the confidence to say it was not Candidly done of me to mention that of trying with Gall and to leave out the rest of his Experiments expressed in this Letter for other I know none This letter was Printed four months after my Book come forth yet he blames me for leaving it out I beg his pardon because I do not pretend to that infallible Prophetick Spirit which Doctor Witty assumes to himself so as to answer all that he shall hereafter write before I read what is written But I owe him the kindness of a Friend and therefore shall now take notice of it N. L. First he is not pleased with Dr. Foot in mentioning his principles of Scarbrough Iron Allom Nitre that he pretermitted Vitriol yet he presumes it was not upon design as if Water could pertake of Iron and yet Vitriol be absent from it 't is a grand Solaecism in Chymistry Secondly As touching Vitriol he refers to his Book yet says he it is most conspicuous at the Well A loud untruth for it is a Nitrous Salt only that is so for all that sproots out of the Hill shoots in Stirias the sign which he himself gives for Nitre there being no difference betwixt that which he calls Vitriol and that he calls Nitre but Colour only Now I demand seeing his leasure did permit him to step to Scarbrough to renew his Experiments there resolving to be more Critical why he omitted to present this he calls Vitriol so conspicuous to the Royal Society doubtless his return with this would have been more satisfactory to them than the seven or eight sorts of Extracts and Spirits which now I come to examine His first Extract Exhale Scarbrough Water till all the moisture be consumed and there remains a Body of Minerals signed A. See his Book p. 10. and how he defends it in his answer p. 22. to be an Extract Will not the Apothecary Boys laugh at him for this if when he prescribes to them Extract of Rudy they should send Pillulae Cochiae the Patient will find a difference between them though Dr. Witty makes none His second Extract Dissolve the first Extract in water and filter it there will remain a little Jusipid-earth Pray why did he not sign at B. Oh the cunning of Dr. Witty this is the very Critical Point the foundation of all the dispute betwixt him and me the main pillar on which I build all my discourse an Extract which I made out of Scarbrough Spaw not before so duly taken notice of yet must it be hid from the eyes of the R. S. whose satisfaction he is ambitious to

very hard but the nearer they came to the root of the Stone his Lordships own expression the softer the Rock was even till at last it was nothing but Sand that had not contracted the firmness of a Stone Removing the heap of Sand they came at last to Water and Clay the mother of all that great Rock That Stone which is subject to Corruption may also be generated I need not waste time to prove before you 't is visibly to be observed that Stone has its seed by looking upon the Rock of the Dropping Well where the Water runs out of the same Chinks where it has done from the beginning and will do to the worlds end Notwithstanding the Water as Dr. Witty has described it running into the River Nidd a little way distant from it has Corroded so much Stone that it has made a Rock that stretches some yards into the River which shews that the Nitrous Water would have consumed the Rock which it continually Corrodes unless Nature do supply it by a continued act of Generation Not to give you any further trouble I say all Spaws have their name and natural property from the Minerals or Metals they have dissolved As we call Knaisbrough Spaw a Vitrioline water because it has dissolved Iron so may I properly call Scarbrough Spaw a petrifying water because it has dissolved Stone If there be any doubt remaining unresolved touching the petrifying property of Scarbrough Spaw I beg but to know it from you that I may have no more to do with this man of words and I shall be ready to give you that satisfaction which reason will prompt me to I shall only add a word of Apology for my freedom with Doctor Witty the only provocation that I gave him to all that uncivil language which he used towards me was my opposing his opinion which how fairly and candidly the Book it self can witness for me But finding him in his return shewing his strength rather in reviling than disputing I was necessitated contrary to my Genius to use such a way as might make him a little sensible of himself and yet in this I have not abounded too far because for the most part what might seem harsh are but his own reflections laid at his own dore as the proper Father of them and if there be any thing further I am sure it may be abundantly justified by his expressions towards me Your Honours Humble Servant George Tonstall TO THE READER ALL that I have writ against Scarbrough Spaw is but the Symptom of a Melancholy sancy Pag. 125. in the Judgment of Dr. Witty to cure me of this he has sent me a bitter Pill see now how finely he hath gilted it over these are his last words I do still profess my self to be a Friend to Dr. Tonstall and am ready to make it out in any civil kindness only I hope he will not henceforth expect that I tell him any Secret To reply to this having dealt with him as he says truly like as Hanun did with David's Servants he raises this note from 2 Sam. 10.4 But this did so exceedingly disoblige King David that it became an occasion of breaking the Bond of Friendship that had been betwixt them Now may I trust him for a Friend thinkest thou As for mine expectance that he should tell me any Secret Alas Mr. Culpepper has deluded mine hopes long since for he having Translated the London Dispensatory has rifled the Dissectors Cabinet Counsels and has laid open all his Secrets to the view of all English-Men and Women therefore let him be assured I shall expect none from him Another thing I desire to note is if the Dissector rejoyn he doth consute his own Title He calls his Book An answer to all that I have writ or shall hereafter write against Scarbrough's Spaw There is but one remedy for this great Evil he hints at it in the Epistle He may chuse a Second to re-inforce the Combat and I shall take another and let them fight it out if there be any life left in his Cause And that his Champion may have a fair Field to exercise his Valour in and the most advantage imaginable to rally up his scattered Forces I have presented in answer to p. 102. Twelve Propositions the Summa Totalis of all my Writings concerning Scarbrough Spaw Let him confute any one of these and then I shall recant the Twelfth Proposition which is the necessary consequence of them all I have a word or two more to tell thee of Dr. Witty First It is an observation of many years standing he commends Scarbrough Spaw good for all Diseases take these Instances for it A Gentlewoman came from Lincolnshire to Scarbrough and had a Letter from her Physitian to Doctor Witty yet she sent for me desiring to know my opinion After she had related her case and asked whether I judged the Water to be good for her or no I demanded a reason of her why she sent for me for resolution of that question being a stranger and not of Dr. Witty who was recommended to her by Letter says she We know the answer Dr. Witty gives to every one that comes to these Waters before it be asked him from hence is it making the Spaw a Catholick remedy that he asserts Philip Transel 10.51 That it cures the Asthma inveterate Catarrhs Hecticks and Consumptions I suppose no otherwise than as the King of Terrors doth that is a Cure for all Diseases Mr. Lampleugh liveing a few Miles from Scarbrough consulted Dr. Witty what he should do to prevent an Hectick and Consumption which he feared only he was inclined to the Doctor forthwith advised him to drink the Spaw and kept him a fortnight at Mr. Sanders house there which suddenly brought upon him the thing he feared who shortly after dyed of a Consumption This his Mother-in-Law related to me weeping As for the Asthma the Lord Cr. came last year to Knaisbrough who had sound the Evil Scarbrough had done to him before and related to me how his Nephew was gone to Scarbrough for cure of his Distemper the Asthma I then told his Lordship and desired him to take notice of what I said that if the Squire drank a fortnight of those Waters it would undoubtedly destroy him or else let him believe that I have no judgment of the nature of Scarbrough Spaw Coming to York after Spaw time I enquired of Dr. Witty how the Waters did with him he gave me no other answer but that he was very ill I asked his Physician in Ordnary concerning him and he told me that the Waters did utterly disagree with his Distemper and as soon as he came to Scarbrough he did forbid him to drink of it Mr. Atkinson formerly troubled with a Heat and Scalding of Vrine caused according to Galen by defluxion of sharp Humours advised with Dr. Witty last year for prevention of this Distemper he directs him to drink Scarbrough Water which did so exceedingly