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A12937	Cures vvithout care, or A summons to all such who finde little or no helpe by the use of ordinary physick to repaire to the northerne Spaw Wherein by many presidents of a few late yeares, it is evidenced to the world, that infirmities in their owne nature desperate and of long continuance have received perfect recovery, by vertue of minerall waters neare Knaresborow in the West-riding of Yorkeshire. Also a description of the said water, and of other rare and usefull springs adjoyning, the nature and efficacie of the minerals contained in them, with other not impertinent notes. Faithfully collected for the publique good by M. St.	Stanhope, Michael.	1632 (1632)	STC 23226; ESTC S117787	21,080	44

adde hereunto for further proofe the discollering of the stooles of such as drinke the water giving them a blacn or deep green dye a common observed note in iron waters as also the operation of the water in all manner of obstructions wherein who knowes not that iron doth claime an unparaleled excellency but the ensuing discourse will make this good Other notes an exact minerallist would easily produce to whose discussing and disquisition I willingly leaue matters of this nature they being improper for the spheare both of my capacity and profession How it comes to passe that these waters are thus vertuall the learned can easily make appeare for the mineralls that intermixe with them once granted from their natures will arise abundant satisfaction to all that are rationall of their excellent use As shortly thus Sulphur say they that write of it attracts resolves mollefieth discusseth cooles and dries Salt whereof our Sulphur spring containes a great proportion is astringent detergent purging dispersing attenuating preserving from putrefaction Yron saith our learned Dr Iordan hath an opening or deopilating quality and an astringent also Vitrioll according to Diascorides doth heate and binde It hath an exceeding subtilty of parts saith Tho. Iordanus and is of a penetrative quality From their abstessive and incisive qualities it is noted that these waters doe loosen and scatter viscuous and clammy matter they attenuate the grosse and after by their penetrative quality the Liver Spleene the meseraique veines reines and other partes are deopilated and by this meanes freed from such diseases as proceede from obstruction Dr Turner in his discourse of Baths and minerall waters saith that waters partaking of iron and Brimstone coole and dry that they are proper for all soares of the Kidneyes and Bladder they both prevent and cure the strangury Dry up rumes are good for them that are short winded or stopped in the breast that spit bloud they cure the greene sicknesse are very fit for cold flegmatick men that would gladly have children and have none and so for women whose default doth proceed from too much moistnesse of the matrixe they are good by drinke or glister against wormes and fit to allay the paines in the small guts He saith also that where iron beareth the chiefe rule as it doth in our Spaw such waters are excellent for all manner of itch hardnesse of the milt diseases of the joynts stiffenesse of the sinewes cramps proceeding of moistnesse numnesse or sleepinesse in any part dizinesse of the head the flixe weake Kidneyes pissing of blood heate of urine the oft too much and unwilling making of water gnawings and paines in the belly Waters saith Mounsieur Pigray in the observations of the German Spaw whereunto ours are little I am but too modest inferiour partaking of iron and vitrioll revive the spirits provoke appetite facilitate digestion free from all manner of obstructions they oppose wonderfully the generatton of the stone and hinder the knitting of the gravell with the glutinous raw and vescuous humor The Hermetically learned saith Hermannius Wolfus in his tractate de viribus usu aquarum in Agro Cassellano note that Vitroline waters have a faculty of mundefying and purging all the parts of the hody corroborating the braine curing the Epilepsie exciting the appetite killing all sorts of wormes opposing the Palsey Dropsie Iaundise breeding of the stone suffocation of the matrix all inward oppilations prevent the goute with many other excellent qualities as may appeare in that his discourse in the third chapter Which faculties joyned with the other minerals our waters partaking with them all how usefull these these waters may be I leave to the consideration of those who are able to deduce particular instances from assured generall grounds With these authors agree many learned ones whose opinions I spare to transcribe being very unwilling to embarque my selfe in the discourse of these misteries whereby I may be thought saucely to snatch the pen out of the Doctors hand to whom I leave thee for further satisfaction the former authorities being sufficient to grace our waters and confirme their vertue They who with some violence put me upon this taske of recommending to the generall notice this water with its consiing springs might if they had pleased have undertaken it with a more plaucible entertainment but their profession tending to prescribe to those who are to use the water I suppose caused them to forbeare their paines least a relation from them might seeme to reflect at their particular interest wherein I am altogether free Omitting therefore all further apollogies for I feare the gates are growne too great for the Citty rather then the publique should not bee benefitted I have adventured bluntly to step upon the stage Wherein if I may but be so happy as by my weake though willing pen to invite any to the water for their good and that I may receive of thee that which an honest intention may challenge the Plaudite of a favourablr acceptance I shall thinke my small paines largely recompenced and shall wish thee all successe in the use of these waters and thy being partaker of that water whereof whosoever drinkes shall never after be a thirst M. S. A Catalogue of such persons as have received benefit or cure by Minerall waters of Knaresborow in Yorkeshire Of the Stone M rs Rolfe of Hadley in ihe County of Suffolke pag. 6. Henry Curra of Whardale of 50. yeares p. 6. Henry Rowley of Linton aged 60. yeares p. 7. M rs May of Yorke very old p. 8. William Shan of Medley p. 13. Of Vlcers in Kidneis M rs Barker of Doare p. 7. M rs Ellis of Beaverly cured of the like Of Mallencholly Mr. Sacheveril of Darbishire p. 8. M rs Ayre of Rampton p. 9. Of shortnesse of Breath One Wallis aged 50. yeares p. 14. The Countesse of Buchingham p. 14. Of weaknesse in the Limmes M Foules an Advocate of Scotland p. 11. The Lady Vavisour p. 13. Of Swelling Maude Bogge aged 50. yeares p. 18. A poore man of the like p. 18. A poore woman of the like in her breast p. 19. Of severall other infirmities William Tompson of the Hecticke Feaver p. 10. Mr. Rauden of a strange sort of wormes p. 12. The Lady Hoyle a strange cure p. 15. A poore Boy of the Falling-sicknesse p. 16. One Smith a Shoomaker of the Scurvey p. 19. A Minister of a violent Flixe with many others A RELATION OF CERTAINE PARTICVLAR CVRES DONE BY Vertue of Minerall waters neare Knaresborow in the west-riding of the County of Yorkshire BEFORE entrance be made into the insuing narrations it will not be amisse for the satisfaction of such who are meere strangers to the knowledge of these waters to let them know that it is now full sixe yeares since notice hath beene given to the world by a booke called Spadacrene or the English Spaw written by Doctor Deane a learned Physitian of the City of Yorke of certaine minerall waters seated in

the Forrest of Knaresborow in the west riding of Yorkshire Since which time divers have repaired to them from remote places according to their severall necessities to experement them invited by the Doctors promised probabilities of their usefull operations What hath beene the event and successe I have vndertaken to present to the publique view beginning first with a short Epitomie of the waters discriptions which I know cannot but be expected Of divers Springs that as it were presse which should be first seene within a small distance one of another some whereof being of the same nature differing onely Secundum magis et minus others varying in their composures dispensed and ordered by the carefull and vnimitable hand of provident nature there are two most remarqueable which beyond expectation have advanced themselves by their admirable faculties The one is now called the Spaw but formerly knowne by the name of the Tuit well deriving its vertue principally from iron and vittriall This hath bin long knowne and of late hath beene much frequented blessing many that have made use of it with extraordinary good effects It is distant from Knaresborow being a place very apt to accommodate strangers plentifully both for dyet and lodging about a mile and a halfe Though the soile where this Spring riseth doth afford divers of the like nature yet till of late there hath not any bin so industrious as to search which is it that may iustly challenge the precedence This last Summer 1631. it was my hap to discover a new Spring distancing it selfe about a quarter of a mile from the other which after it had beene trenched and opened did give satisfaction to all that were not partiall that it deserves a better degree of estimation then the other I would be loath to disparage the old spring yet I must take leave to presume that this late found Spring doth exceed the other in these following particulars which whether they give luster to it by way of excellency or no I submit to the iudgement of the learned First for the Scituation it is placed in the desent of a great hill the ground round about it being very firme whereby it giveth advantage of faire dry walkes wherein the other is very defective for that rising in a flat the ground neare unto it is boggye to the preiudice of the water confining the company that resort to it within too narrow a compasse Secondly in the triall with the Gall the colour of the new Spring changeth more hastily and the water admits of a deeper dye then the other Thirdly divers who have tryed this water voluntarily affirme that they can with more ease and with lesse nauciousnesse to the stomach drink 20. glasses of it then 14 of the other which if I mistake not shewes a great measure of repleatnesse of Spirits Fourthly being carried as farre as the Citty of Yorke it retaineth as full and as brisque a taste there as the other doth at the Spring head and tryed so farre off with the Gall it lookes with a bould ruddy face upon the beholder whereas the other abates much of its native taste being brought to the Citty and lookes but with a pale shamfac't blush having received the admixture of the powder of the Gall. So that there is no doubt but this water may be transported to very good use supposing the bottells to be very well stopt which is a caution to be necessarily observed by all those that will send for the water whereby the way I would wish such as have the water brought to them to make use rather of glasse then of stone bottels but as for woodden ones which I have seene fild with the water in regard of the poorenesse of that substance it is but lost labour to use them the life of the water consisting cheifly in the spirits which are of such a nimble agile nature that they are very apt to transpire and scorne to be imprisoned in woodden walls Lastly it is most aparant that this late foūd spring hath an admixture of Brimstone besides the iron and vitriall which I take to bee an aditament of worth and noblenesse for the more variety of minerall say the best observers of these waters the more proper for diversity of distēpers that sulpher springs are profitable in the infirmities of the Lungs there is no doubt to bee made having also a healing quallitie and therefore fitly appliable to any inward vlcerated part by which the water shall passe This spring upon examination proving in all points desirable excellent was this last summer set with stone where it now stands upon its triall and doth boldly challenge any whatsoever of the same nature Neighboring to this there are three other differing springs not a mile distant one from the other wherein Sulpher not in its substance but vapour doth predominate One of them hath beene long knowne by the name of the stinking well for though the water bee very cleare yet it is most true that it hath scarce a sufferable sent whereby it hath beene found by them that sought it not It is actually cold and besides its sulpherous quallitie which is in a very high de gree it is exceeding salt so that a pottle of it being evaporated there will be found aboue halfe an ounce of perfect salt remaining There is another not yeelding at all to this in its sulpheriousnesse but it is not perceivably salt at all A third that is both sulpherous and salt but in a more remisse degree The first of these three is onely in request and hath acted its part with great approvment the other two are neglected though I am perswaded they may be found for some bodies more apt and proper then the former were they iudiciously examined The Spaw springs though they usually challenge as doth the Spaw in Germanie which is the reason we give them the same name a singularity in easing and curing such as are curable of the stone and gravell as also in opening the obstructions of the Spleane and allaying all Melancholly effects and passions yet it will appeare by the subsequent discourse and relations that this kind of water hath other rare and secret influences and opperations which hath procured no small wonder in those who have observed the effects The particular instances whereof without any longer suspending thy expectation I now intend to enter upon beginning first with the cure and alleviation of the stone and other distempers incident to the Kidneys and Reines In the yeare 1626. M rs Rolf of Hadley in the County of Suffolke having occasion to give a visit to some of her neare friends in Yorkshire within a few weekes of her stay there shee found her selfe suddenly surprised with extraordinary sharp fits which by there symptomes did manifestly appeare to be the stone Hereupon she applyed her selfe to the Physitians advise but finding little or no ease by their prescriptions though probable ones she was perswaded to try the new water at