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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62933	Scarbrough spaw spagyrically anatomized by Geo. Tonstall ...	Tonstall, George, b. 1616 or 17.	1670 (1670)	Wing T1889; ESTC R4765	15,856	62

LICENSED Roger L'Estrange Feb. 21. 1669. SCARBROVGH SPAW SPAGYRICALLY ANATOMIZED BY Geo. Tonstall Doctor of Physick LONDON Printed by J. M. for the Author MDCLXX PREFACE Nulla rosa nascitur sine spinis DOctor Witty in his Epistle to the Reader complains that Mr. Simpson by giving him the trouble of answering his Book hath interrupted his design of a Latine Copy upon the subject of this Spaw which he thought should have seen the light this year I would not willingly hinder any good work let this little therefore that I have writ but serve only as an Appendix to his third Volume and I shall clothe it in like fashion far be it from me to espouse the quarrel of either of them I profess my self a friend to both for if I should not walk uniformly betwixt Dr. Witty's Library and Mr. Simpson's Laboratory I might suspect my self a lame Physician Hippocrates and Helmont I declare are the two great lights that rule in my Hemisphere Galen's method of Physick may justly be named rational so far as he writes after the old man his Masters Copy I dare not speak further for him I hope in this Tract my writing is so candid that it may be observ'd what I have said is not ad personam but ad rem And that I have not concern'd my self in any word which Dr. Witty has been pleas'd to say in his two Books but only what was necessary to take notice of me defendendo It is but one Position that I have affirm'd upon the whole subject if it be daubed up with untemper'd Mortar let who will pull it down but if its foundation be built upon mechanical demonstration it must stand firmer than Hercules Pillar by the Process that I have taken the material principles which I assert to be in this Spaw are presented to our senses these are infallible judges positis omnibus requisitis of their objects Dr. Witty's failure was in that he left off where he should have begun after he had observ'd what is most conspicuous about the Spaw and tryed that the Gall tinctured the water of a dark purple colour contents himself with fair probabilities for affirming his five principles and then pag. 15. leaves it to others to try Experiments and make what new discoveries they can What unexpected things hath Anatomy discovered in the body of man these late years to derogate a tittle from the honour of these happy improvements of knowledge were to speak against the light and to bark against the Moon yet why must the usefulness of this noble Art be confined to the Animal Kingdom only The grounds of Anatomy in the vegetable and mineral Kingdom laid down by Tachenius doth neerly conduce to the discovery of the Nature Cause and Cure of diseases if I know any thing The little desection that I have made of Scarbrough's Diana gives the cause why one crys great is D. of S. and another at the same time decrys it as much the general account for this confused noise is because as the liquor is commendable so the dregs are insufferable the Essence of it fit for the Cup of a Prince the caput mortuum which is Sand and Clay fit for nothing but the Brick-layers Trowel Hence it doth follow that those who are weak in their digestive faculties and strong in their distributive these may find good by drinking this Water and no harm by the sordid feces due care being taken but those who are weak in both will experience the contrary To all those that have a petrifying character seminated in them I say of Scarbrough water Procul Ite cito abite nunquam redite SCARBROVGH SPAW SPAGYRICALLY ANATOMIZED BEfore I enter into this Discourse I am necessitated to remove an Objection lest I stumble on the Threshold Says my honoured Patient Last Year you perswaded me that Scarbrough Water was to be preferred before Knaisbrough this Year you are of a contrary opinion and therefore I know not how to trust you I answer first excusively you may note hereby that I am not pertinacious conviction of an errour will work in me conversion to the truth Again I did commend to you no worse thing than that which I took my self 'twere to be wished that all Physicians were bound with this Girdle Secondly directly for your particular trouble Gravel and Stone in the Kidneys I did prefer the Nitre at Scarbrough before the Vitriol of Knaisbrough Appello Coronam if that be not a more noble principle than this yet must it be understood only caeteris paribus Here my mistake was incurable until I got opportunity to sift Scarbrough Water in the Fire the best Microscope could not have shown me what lay in the bowels of it only Spagyrick Anatomy made the Dirt appear to open view For satisfaction to others who may censure my wandring from Knaisbrough to rise from wavering in opinion take this plain Narrative Anno Domini 1666. the famous fortunate Chyrurgeon Mr. Thomas Holiard of London may this man be blessed in his deed cut me for the Stone which weighed four Ounces and a half Six weeks after I was able to take Journey the Doctor there my friend told me his doubt that Vitrioline Waters were too sharp for me to drink because of my green wound so lately healed notwithstanding I resolv'd for Knaisbrough remembring Mr. Stones case which his Father related to me long since which was this after his Son was cut a large Stone taken out of his Bladder the wound did not perfectly heal notwithstanding he had all the help that London could afford for about three Months time at last Sir Theod. Mayrne did advise him to Knaisbrough Water he had not drunk it fifteen days till he was perfectly healed for which great Cure done by it he did frequent that Spaw for many years after this Water I mixed with white Wine which brought away by Urine abundance of mucous matter Helmont the Prince of Reason sets down the cause hereof in these words ubi custodes malè se habent continuò plorant partem proprii alimenti quod sibi assimilare debebat I was glad to see that this Spaw cleansed the Bladder from that glutenous stuff which if let alone would undoubtedly have laid a foundation for another Stone Sandy Gravel which few or none are exempted from falling amongst it and mixing with it must in continuance gather to a hard substance too great to pass away I wish all those that shall receive like mercy with me would use the like means to prevent a relapse of that formidable Disease the Stone Anno Dom. 1667. I returned thither again the season proved wet during which time the Spaw proved very weak of the mineral this discouraged me from drinking much of it I then blamed the great Ditch about the Fountain as the cause of impoverishing the Spaw of its principle for I judge it was as rational to pare an Apple and to peel the Bark off a Tree and hereby not indemnifie

them as to cut away the surface of the earth about a mineral Fountain standing water abiding all Winter in these deep Trenches by sinking down through the softned earth makes passage into the current of the Spaw then every showre of Rain in the Summer will find the same crevices and clifts to descend into it If this may suffice to get this fault mended I shall be glad Anno 1668. being mostly concern'd to look well to my self against the threatnings of my former distemper I visited Scarbrough during mine abode there First I took notice what Doctor Witty says pag. 151. that after he had exhaled the water from the body of the minerals it would not unite with other waters but lie all at the bottom undissolved By this trial of his I was certain that in that body of Minerals there must be other things containd than his 4 or 5 principles for Allom Nitre Salt and Vitriol of Iron are amicable to water and without any force dissolvable in it neither may it be supposed that the fire in exhaling the Water can alter the texture of Salts so as to hinder their dissolution for the more Salts are calcined the more speedily do they imbibe the Water as thirsting for it as Ice doth therefore easily melt in Water because it proceeded from it for the same reason Salts must do so likewise If any one doubt of this let him try the Lord Blay's Experiment that learned Frenchman viz. calcine Sea-Salt deliquiate it then distill all that will come over repeat this process and you will find that all the Salt is turned into Water as devoid of all saltness as is distilled Rain Water Next thing I observed was these words of his pag. 13. Nor can the principles be separated further than I have already expressed namely by putting Gall to the Water notwithstanding many ingenious Gentlemen have endeavoured it I wish those he means had applied their wits about the usefulness of Experimental Philosophy as the Honourable Boyle has done and then their endeavours would have succeeded here and to higher purposes than the separating the principles of Scarbrough Spaw where the difficulty lay that obstructed the separation I cannot apprehend for fire alone is an instrument sufficient to effect it This substance if I may so call it being as subtile as the light must penetrate through the centre of every pore of the mixed Water and because of its property to ascend upward it doth incessantly disquiet the lodge of heterogeneals during this restless Motion like things do occur with like and their Nature is to unite after this manner as I conceive it comes to pass that ignis segregat heterogenea congregat homogenea by no other artifice did I extract out of the Spaw Water a pure nitroaluminous Salt and a large quantity of feces apart both which I then shewed to the Honourable Lord Faulconbridge who can remember what I said then to his Lordship of it At this time I could not be certain but that much of the Sand which settled to the bottom in the Preparation came through the carelesness of the Porter that brought me the Water and therefore I could not come to a positive determination by this Experiment only I wrote to Mr. Simpson wishing him to forbear publishing any thing concerning Scarbrough Spaw till he had spoke with me because I had made a tryal what was contained in it his answer was my advice came too late for his Book was in the Press so far was I from having a hand in the framing his Book as Dr. Witty was made to believe by the report of others This Year 1669. I returned thither and though I dropt Oleum Salis tinctured with Gold in every other Glass hoping thereby to cleanse off the sordes of the Spaw yet after a fortnights drinking it gave me a fit of the Stone which from the time Mr. Holiard cured me I had not felt before I brought the Water home with me that I might be sure that nothing extraneous to the Spaw might interrupt a critical Analysis thereof the product confirmed my first Experiment which I made at Scarbrough all the materials that can be found in it are three first Raments of Stone secondly a Nitroaluminous Salt and thirdly a gleeb of Allom their proportions are thus of the Stone-powder one Ounce and three Drams of the Nitroaluminous Salt one Ounce and six Drams of the Blew-Clay which is the gleeb of Allom three Drams the active principles and the caput mortuum are equal so that if Dr. Witty's tryal be true that five Quarts of Water give one Ounce of the body of Mineral as he calls it you take half an Ounce of Stone and Clay into your Bowels every such quantity you drink Here you see a cause as I observed before why this Body of Minerals would not dissolve in Water namely the Stone and Clay by the heat of the Fire while he exhal'd the Water dry from them become more compacted together with the Salts than when they were in the Fountain whereas when these Salts are separated from their dross they melt as easily as Snow in Water You will say how comes it about that there is so much Filth in Scarbrough Water as you speak of For answer take notice Dr. Witty tells you that the Spaw which is a quick Spring cometh out at the foot of an exceeding high Clift all the Stone and Earth that maketh up this Mountain is big belly'd with Nitre Allom-Stone here and there mingled in it after the Spring has run through this high Hill the Spaw is brought forth which is fair and clear to look to I cannot but compare it to an Harlot of whom it is said She eateth and wipeth her mouth and saith I have done no wickedness This hungry esurine Water after she has devoured Stone in a large quantity as if that were not sufficient for to grate her Teeth upon she hath swallowed both Cup and Liquor of the Allom. Because I have dealt with her as Aesop dealt with the Boy that had eaten the Figs made her vomit them up again whosoever is angry with me for doing so I must bear it If any of her friends think I do bely her let them for their satisfaction first answer this Query From what cause is it after you have drunk a Month of it then if not before it takes a Resty Jadish fit will neither go backward nor forward A Noble Lord complained to me that the Water dealt thus with him his Lordship having drunk it with success about a Month it then swell'd him at stomack two or three last days and would neither work by Urine nor Stool though he took his usual Physick with it as formerly the Scotch Pill which is an Extract of Aloes I advis'd him to take one Dram and half of the pure Essence with the Spaw Water by the help of this and the said Pill he had plentiful Evacuations in that Afternoon thus being quitted