Is not the Stone Feces plaistered upon the inner coat of the Bowels disturbing their peristaltick motion and obstructing the attraction of the lacteal Veins His conclusion therefore is That Scarbrough-Water is petrifying which he endeavours to confirm with four Reasons First By Authority as that of Kircher Queritur quid propriè sit succus lapidificus dico esse saxum introrsum aquâ eliquatum Secondly By Experiment in that the Spaw is mostly a nitrous Stone melted in Water besides the Alom stone imbibed in it Thirdly By the Apporrheâ Spiritûs Lapidisici there are found on the Clâ—ff near the Spaw Muscle-shels and such like things petrified Fourthly By the effects the Spaw produceth primarily on those inclinable to the Stone he instanceth himself and my Antagonist acknowledgeth it p. 150. concerning which the Reader may please to consult what I have said in the Epilogue of my Hydrol. Chym. p. 360 361 c. which in effect amounts to little less then a concurrence with this ingenious Physitians Observations As to the difference betwixt Scarbrough and Knarsbrough Spaws in this particular of the petrifying property he urgeth the instance of Mr. Hen. Proctor of Fernly who was brought very low with a Hectick Feaver and Asthma who by drinking of Knarsbrough Water after a due preparation of his body by Dr. N. coughed up several Stones daily till he was perfectly cured the account of which he had from Dr. N. By what is premised it appears that as the one Water layes a stony Foundation for a Fabrick of Sabulous Diseases to such as take the Water incautiously and without circumspection of the Nature and Symptoms of their Diseases by the advice of a judicious Physitian So the other Water of Knarsbrough being devoyd of all those stony Concretions and indued with a deopilative and if I may so say antipetrifick property is more proper for such persons inclinable to such Diseases unless diligent care be taken by the advice of the Physitian to remove and at due seasons carry off those sabulous products And as the Stone so the Jaundice and the Gout saith he hath their 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from a petrifying Spirit he instanceth the Lord Erwin's case who dyed of the Jaundice whereby as he supposeth the Scarbrough Water did petrifie the Sulphur-Saline humour in the Vesicâ Biliariâ into Stones too great to pass through the common ductus That this Lord did die of the Jaundice together probably with a complication of some other Diseases might be true but that the liquid Balsamick Juyce of the Gaul was petrified was but only conjectural although I confess the conjecture is not irrational but may give some ground of probability and that because as he further saith that Stones are as usually concreted in the Gaul as in the Kidneys in Men as well as in Beasts whereupon he citeth the Professor at a Physick Lecture in a discovery of the Jaundice who brought forth three or four little Stones of the Gaul separated from a Gentlewoman afflicted with that Disease by a Dose of sharp working Physick by which she was cured Which he further confirms by the opinion of Helmont and Silvius viz. That the second fermentation made by the Succus Pancreaticus and the Gaul is as necessary for the preservation of life as the first fermentation in the Stomach for according to the eucrasy fluidness or the contrary I mean obstructions in the Vessels of this balsamick ferment of the Gaul depends not onely the Regiment of the second digestion and the fluidness and obdurateness of the Excrements within the peculiar peristaltick conatus of the Intestines but also of all the Diseases thence resulting viz. the Jaundice Diarrhaeas Dysenteries Cholick Iliack Passions Tenasmus c. in as much as by its Sulphuro-saline Balsam it doth not only in a regular course of Nature become as a ferment to prepare the saline milky Juyce before it be conveighed away by the lacteal Vessels but also it promotes a separation by a kind of precipitation of the faeculencies of the nutritive Juyce in which precipitation the most exuberant and untamed sulphurous parts of the alimentary Juyce first opened and prepared by the stomachial ferment go off in a saetid Flatus peculiar to the Intestines which is that which Helmont otherwise calls a Stercorary Ferment and that it is so appears hence because the posterior flatus or crepitus will take flame of a Candle and blaze like an Occidental Meteor the obstruction and consequently the regurgitation of which flatus upon the stomach and other parts causeth many disturbances of Nature which now I shall not take time to discourse upon So that indeed amongst the efficient causes of the Jaundice a petrification of part of that Juyce or a plaistering the intestines over with a tartarous or sandy matter where the ductus communis is inserted may most frequently happen whereby this Sulphuro-saline Juyce destined for uses aforesaid may preposterously be carried extra lares proprios into the Mass of Blood or rather indeed the blood not undergoing that due separation by the ferment of the Gaul from causes aforesaid retains yet in its bosom that which should be separated which circulating along with it in the habit of the body vitiates the last ferment or assimulative digestion whereby the skin becomes tinged yellow and shines forth in a Saffron colour That the Water may sometimes happen through the incautiousness of the Patient to cause this Disease my ingenious Friend instanceth in the case of an Alderman of Newcastle and a Merchants Wife who after their return from the Scarbrough Spaw were both afflicted with the Jaundice as also Sir John Anderson and his Lady who both drinking the Water at home were afterwards troubled with the Jaundice all which might indeed very probably happen to these who without due caution had dranke liberally of the Scarbrough Water and that either at two great a distance from the Fountain or did not at least use such skilful means as at due seasons might carry off the gritty sabulous residence of the Water concerning which ere long we shall prescribe a Remedy That the Gout also may be promoted by the Scarbrough Water arising from a petrifying property of its acid Spirit he instanceth in himself who never had the least touch thereof before he drank that Water the which also my Antagonist acknowledgeth p. 149. Others saith he drinking without due preparation as was necessary have fallen into the Gout the Water contracting heat for want of speedy passage being thrown by nature upon the weak Joynts and have hence inferred that these Waters cause the Gout That the drinking of this Water may to some Patients at some times occasionally cause the Gout through the debilitude of the separating Emunctories carrying the sabulous matter along with the nutritive Juyce through the Lacteal into the Venal and Atterial Vessels in the liquamen of the Latex where in the habit of the body this sabulous matter may be precipitated
Chamber and about two hours after the last Glass of Water let them drink a Glass or two of the best White Wine well refined from its Tartar and about one hour after that take some warm Broth then to eat of a few Dishes of Meat and those to be as well ordered as may be nor is it a little respect that is to be had to the Drink at Meats viz. that it neither be new thick or unwrought nor that it be hard or tart So that four things are to be regarded in the drinking of the Waters First Moderate exercise after drinking the Water Secondly To drink a Glass or two of Wine two hours after the Water to help the passage thereof Thirdly Not to eat too soon after the Waters for either by too immoderat exercise that which should pass away by Urine by the short way is preposterously carried into the habit of the body or by eating too suddenly before the Waters have passed the like disorder may happen viz. That the Latax wherein the sabulous matter is dissolved is thereby in danger to be carried by the Thoracical Vessels into the fourth digestion of the heart and thence into the habit of the body where it may lay a foundation for the Gout Stone Scurvy Feavers c. Fourthly A moderation in Dyet having good Meat well ordered and to keep a restraint upon the Stomach not overcharging it with too much nor with too great variety of food for sometimes what the Water builds in order to health the irregularity of dyet in some persons pulls down Fifthly Good wholsome Drink is to be chosen at Meats which should neither be very small nor hard or tart nor lastly new thick or unwrought but should be soft clear and healing Ale or a middle sort of Beer fresh and lively all botled Ale especially that which flies is to be avoided in short it should be kindly Ale such as may well dilute our other solid Food and be a sutable Vehicle of our nutritive Juyce for from a due contemperature of our Drink and Meat by the efficiency of the ferments ariseth the wholsomness of our nourishment When the Patient hath drank for two or three dayes of the Spaw Water after the former directions then is he to take a Dose of Solutive Pills viz. one over-night and two the next morning observing much what the former instructions and to omit taking any Water for that day These Pills ought to be so contrived by the Physitian as to contain in them such Ingredients as may chiefly respect the Scurvy and that because the Scurvy is most-what the ground to other Diseases and next that they may be such as may give the Patient four or five stools without griping as his strength and the indications of his Disease may require not neglecting in the interim other specificks seasonably to be exhibited as the Physitian shall think meet from the indications of the Disease Then if the Physitian think fit is the Patient to rest a day or two from taking the Spaw-Water and that to prevent a sudden precipitation of the stony matter upon the Tunicles of the Intestines after their abstersion or cleansing by the former Solutive and after that to begin again observing the former instructions and so on in a round with such diversifications as the Physitian from a critical observation of the Symptoms and Indications shall judge requisite until the Patient be cured at least in so hopeful a way towards it as that Nature may without much stress tug through the rest And by this means will all the inconveniencies which happen as afore-said to incautious Spaw-Drinkers be prevented hereby Patients will not miss of their aim viz. their desired health c. This course being taken I see no cause of suspition of any harm from the Waters for supposing at the worst a precipitation should happen which cannot be much the next Dose of Antiscorbutick Pills together with a good Diuretick and a glass or two of Wine will absterge it off and carry it câ—â— verly away Nor need we be altogether so fearful of harm from the stony Concretions in the Water if we confider That Physicians often prescribe Coral Crabs-eyes Pearl Crabs-claws Hyacinth Smaragde Saphire Bezoar c. which are the Ingredients of several compound Species as of Pulv. è chel cancrorum species Cordiales c. frequently ordered by them for the cure of Diseases which sometimes dulcifie the Blood and other essential Juyces of the body by coagulating their acidities which otherwise cause obstructions in the bowels and give beginning to Apostemations c. being frequently carried off by Siedge Yea I know a Gentlewoman who being troubled with a spurious and therefore superfluous acidity upon her Stomach amongst the hundred of Remedies she hath used finds nothing comparable to the eating plenty of Chalk which is a stony Concretion This more powerfully then any other thing she has yet met with dints the overflowing acidity sweetens it which otherwise with an acid flatus afflicts her Intestines causing unufual tormina or griping of the Guts Of this she has eaten as I remember she told me some pecks in some late years and yet is no more afflicted with the Stone or Gout then she was before the taking thereof So that all those who are not originally inclined to the Stone or Gout may very safely drink of the Waters and that with very good success for the cure of most other inflrmities by the due management of the Spaw according to our prescribed Method where we are not so magisterial in our advices but do leave the judicious Physitian to vary as he seeth cause I giving only hints and opening a Casement for more light for the better discovery of the improvement of this Noble Spaw in order to the cure of many Diseases for Art is not only to imitate Nature but also help and supply its deficiencies separating what is superfluous and adding what is necessary But if any who are inclined originally to the Stone or Gout shall upon the consideration that the Scarbrough-Water is so esurine or acid by its imbibed Nitro-aluminous or duplicate Salt as to dissolve and carry along in its bowels the several Raiments of Stone shall I say thereupon become jealous of drinking the Water To those I shall first advise the drinking the Water according to our prescribed Method which if it do not answer their expectation upon tryal at least doth not satisfie then would I thus farther add viz. That doubtless when these stony Concretions are separated by Art or Nature the foresaid Salt being dissolved in fresh Water which upon evaporation yeelds no sabulous Sediment must needs I say become very powerful against all those Diseases whose seminaries consist in a sabulous petrifying property as the Stone Gout Jaundice c. especially if dissolved with the addition of Salt of Steel and drunk with great plenty of Spring-Water so acuated And therefore lastly would I propound to all those who
are afflicted with these Diseases upon not being satsfied with the former Method or being at too great a distance to take it accordingly either by procuring this duplicate Salt of the Spaw to dissolve it in some pure Spring Water as aforesaid with the addition of Salt of Steel and so to drink it according to the advise of their Physitians at home or else to dissolve the same Salt in some Vitrioline Water as that of Kuarsbrough Rotheram Olton c. and to drink as large quantities thereof as their Physitian by the indications of their Diseases shall advise Thus from what is premised the three Indications propounded by my candid Friend for the right improvement of the Water are readily and without much ado answered for first by a right management of the Waters according to our Method the suspitious petrifying property of the Scarbrough Waters may very probably be prevented yea and though already begun may as likely be carried off And secondly by the same process the Stone-pouder and faeces of the Alom may be hindred from fixing upon the Bowels and lastly to prevent in tender constitutions that the duplicated Salt corrode not the Entrals may easily be done either by our former Method or by diluting the essential Salt thereof in great plenty of fresh Spring Water or by dissolving it in Vitrioline Spaws as aforesaid An APPENDIX Concerning the Anatomy of the GERMAN Spaw-Water I Took about a quart of the Spaw-Water which is brought out of Germany and exposed to sale in Leiden Amsterdam and other Cities of the Low-Countries in Bottles sealed up into a little of which I put some Pouder of Galls with which it struck a pale Clarret colour the rest I ordered to be put into a Glass Retort with a clean Receiver close luted to it and gave an easie heat distilling off first about one ounce of Water then poured it sorth and found that it had neither taste smell nor any other properties that might distinguish it from ordinary Spring-Water distilled for with Galls it would make no more alteration then common distilled Water Then we distilled off about two or three ounces more of insipid Water after which I ordered the fire to be permitted to extinguish to try what kind of precipitate it would let fall because after the first ounce was come over slacking the fire we found that a little Sediment was fallen which was of a pale reddish colour and upon the second cooling more of the same fell down Then I caused that which remained in the Retort to be filtred and sav'd the Sediment in the Filter Paper which being dryed up was an insipid pale red Calx Then I tryed if the filtred Water after this precipitation would give any tincture with Galls as it did before separation but found it would not after which I poured it into the clean washed Retort and distilled again as before until all was come off except about one half ounce This I brought to London and evaporated in a clean Jar Glass in a gentle heat till it came to a dryness The colour of this Pouder was somewhat white and its taste was pleasantly sharp or piercing with a heat and warmth diffused upon the Tongue but had no Vitrioline taste to this pouring Oil of Sulphur per campanam it did make a manifest ebullition as if it had been poured upon so much Salt of Tartar but Oil of Tartar per deliquium did cause no effervescence at all by which it was evident that the Salt contained in this residence was rather lixivial then acid although in taste it scem'd to be neutral but to partake of both so that probably this Spring in its Original I mean where it is first impregnated with Mineral Juyces is hot but running further through a Colander of Earth or Sand loseth its heat and becomes at its eruption a cold Spring Observations on the dissection of a Woman who dyed of the Jaundice AND here that I may entertain the Reader with some little variety I shall end all with some Observations on the dissection of an antient Woman who dyed at the Hospital in Leyden of the Yellow Jaundice Her Skin before death as well as after was dyed the most deep Yellow that ever I saw in my life she consumed away in a Marasmus not withstanding all the means that could be used and it will be judged impossible that it should otherwise be after I have related what we observed in the dissection of her body Upon the opening of the Abdomen of this Cadaver perform'd by the Professor in the Theatre was first observ'd omitting the less considerable enormities a connexure or knitting together of the Pylorus and the under part of the left Lobe of the Liver close by the Vesica Bilaris by a hard schirrhous tumour for besides that the Stomach was somewhat larger then ordinary and the Spleen lay length wayes in a parallel line with the direct Muscles of the Abdomen being somewhat less then usual and although being cut its Patenchyma was found of a due consistence and not vitiated in substance I say besides these the Liver was found very stiff and hard with several schirrous tumours some lesser some bigger whose consistence was most-what glandulous one or two being as big as Wallnuts and some less but one near as large as a Man's Fist The Cystis Fellea was large and very 〈◊〉 which was found together with those in the 〈◊〉 Ductus near a hundred and twenty Stones soâ—â—â— like little Peas some larger but all of them most-what angular in colour some near bright and not much unlike the ordinary sort of Mother of Pearl others had dark spots intermingled and as it were marbled The Professor distributed to each of the Students who were present one of these Stones as a rarity The liquid part of the Gaul which was not yet petrified most of which was lodged in the Ductus Hepaticus was tenacious and mostwhat of the consistence of a Syrup The common Ductus which reacheth from the Cystis to the Duodenum was so much obstructed as the Professor could not without cutting the Vessel which leads from the Cystis further open make the Style pass from that part into the Intestine and that because the situation of the parts was altered and become different from the natural by reason of that strict connection of the Pylorus with the Liver Then opening the Thorax the Lungs were found scarce vitiated at all but the Heart was less by much then usual yea and that which was the wonder of the whole and which no Author that we know of has yet ever observed was to see a Schirrus upon the right Ventricle of the Heart True the Polypus Cordis has been frequently found in the dissection of Dutch Bodies by the sam'd Sylvius And I saw another Woman dissected there who dyed as was supposed of a Syncope in the right Ventricle of whose heart was found a Polypus several inches long from the Basis to the Cone thereof although it 's more probable she dyed of a complication of other Diseases for in the Abdomen was found a great quantity of a Serum together with plenty of a Pituita floating together in that cavity But that there should be a schirrous tumor upon the Heart is what we never heard of or at least never observed before As to the cause of the Jaundice in this Woman it was variously disputed some supposed that it proceeded onely from an obstruction of the Bile which thereby being mixed with the Blood was dispersed into the whole habit of the Body Others supposed that the Disease proceeded srom a volatility of the Bile which passing up by the Ductus Hepaticus was thence by the Vena Porta sent into the Mass of Blood and so vitiated the whole habit of the Body with that Saffron Dye But upon the dissection it should seem to be evident that the natural Crasis of the Bile was wholly perverted and that that which should have been useful in its due consistence not only as a Balsam to the Blood but also by its volatile Alkali to perform the gentle and natural fermentation in the Intestines together with the subacid ferment of the Pancreatical Juyce was in great part being vitiated in its constituent parts petrified which petrifaction as well in that as in other parts of the body do all most probably proceed from the same efficient causes and that not unlikely from a too great exaltation of the saline and sulphureous parts of the Bile coagulating themselves upon some terrestrial or tartarous matter which by continuance of time hath been precipitated to the bottom or sides of the Vesica Bilis From what is premised I would excite the Ingenious to further improvements that we may the better be capacitated to do good by a right understanding of the causes of things and that by propounding first that several Experiments may be essayed in order to the immitation of these Anomolous Products in Animals which do so often afflict the humane Body in several parts thereof for from a true apprehension of the essential Causes which concur in the Fabrick of these Animal Stony Concretions we may the better be informed how to prepare such Menstruums as may genuinely and without corrosion of other tender adjacent parts resolve such petrified Bodies FINIS
ingenious Gentlemen and after his last refuge to the ipse dixit of Doctor Tunstal when he had nothing to say for himself but that Dr. Tunstal told him that Vitriol was in it last year was it not a poor not to say childish way of Philosophyzing to ground what a man publisheth to the World upon the bare word and that but conjectural of an other man Now when my Antagonist was thus touched to the quick he call'd my ingenious Friend who had made the Experiment before him aside and told him That if I would then lay down the Cudgels he would not only look upon me as a Brother but also when occasion offered would sooner take me into consultation then any other By which may be concluded one of these two things viz. That either my Antagonist has given a wrong Character of me in his Book drawing my portraiture with as rude as well as unskilfully handled Pensils or he is willing to be accounted of as a Bifrons or else be likened to a Ferry-man who looks one way and rows another speaks one thing and thinks another and writes another But after and notwithstanding all this if my Antagonist shall at any time make any Experiments to the purpose and shall thence deduce due observations whereby the mechanical part of Philosophy may be improved I should as willingly receive them from him as from any other till then I advise him to lay aside his undue and improper contentions and let us love like Brethren for I do declare to the World that I have no enmity to his Person nor hath what I have done been trom any particular prejudice to him but to contend for the truth in things that respect my Profession and the publick good I must confess that as he has behav'd himself as a Magisterial Browbeater of ingenuity and has indeavoured to eclipse the Light of Truth made forth by Experiments discovering his darkness and ignorance in the things he treated of so far very probably I have been as a Remora to his proceeds yea and perhaps by my means he has reflected upon his high presumption of infallibly curing Diseases and knocking them down to use his own expression with the great Hammer whereas indeed the more a Physitian knows daily eying the conjectures whereon depends the practice of Physick the more cautious he is as to his Prognosticks and that in respect of the ignorance of the causes of things and whether such presumptuous Prognosticks if I should use them as my life for his he shall recover he is safe I wish I had a lease of his life c. in the management of the cure of Diseases when yet notwithstanding all these the Patient frequently dies would not be more an Argument that I am a Quack and Emperick rather then a sober Physitian let the Judicious determine And now I shall appeal to thee Reader whether what I have most-what urg'd both in my Hydrol. Chym. as also in this do not tend rather to an illustration of Truth in the discoveries of the Nature and Essence of Mineral and Medical Waters c. then to any verbal jangling Lastly Because I find not only my Person and my Apprehensions but also my Practice under his censure and contempt all styled by him as Chymical I cannot decline that none of the smallest measure of generosity I lay claim to but will now propose to him as a final decision of this matter under debate that we may measure abilities by that unerring Rule Dignoscitur Medicus à Medendo Let us now opportunely at this Spaw-time choose by lot such a number of persons chronically diseased not less then twenty and he of us that shall Citiùs tutiùs jucundiùs cure his number or the greater part thereof let him win both Field Spring and the other depart thence as vanquished either onely for this year or for ever Provided that if the agreement happen to be made only for this year that the vanquished may enter the next with new recruits and attempt afresh then and as often after as he pleaseth but every time the conquered shall depart for that year Pardon me Reader if herein I seem vain-glorious I can reflect so upon it as well as another but I submit to thy judgment whether a better expedient can be proposed to confront a man of words or whether my own just repute absit jactanctia verbis doth require less of me Or lastly whether the matter it self does not naturally lead thereunto And now to add more words will ill sute with this effort Therefore it onely remains that I inform thee I was willing to fill up some vacant Pages of this Tract not then finished with two particular Anatomies freshly made the first of the German Spaw-Water usually to be had in Amsterdam the other of a Woman who recently expired at Leiden of the Yellow-Jaundice both not so repleat with inconsiderables as not to purchase thy favourable acceptance of them from him who every way endeavours to exhibit himself Thine W. S. Hydrological Essayes OR A VINDICATION OF Hydrologia Chymica BEING A further Discovery of the Scarbrough Spaw And of the Sweet Spaw and Sulphur-Well at Knarsbrough With a brief Account of the Allom Works at Whitby Together with a return to some QUERIES propounded by the ingenious Dr. Dan. Foot concerning Mineral Waters To which is annexed An ANSWER to Dr. Tunstal's Book concerning the Scarbrough SPAW All grounded upon Reason Experiment By WILLIAM SIMPSON Dr. in Physick and Practitioner at Wakefield in Yorkshire London Printed by J. D. for Richard Chiswel at the two Angels Crown in Little-Britain 1670. Hydrological Essayes OR A VINDICATION OF Hydrologia Chymica THat I may not be too prolix in ushering in this following Discourse by any Praeliminaries nor seem to make flourishes before a pass I shall therefore without making him a Leg forthwith close with my Antagonist at down-right Club-Arguments and my Weapons shall be taken up from his own Authors Yea I shall sometimes turn his own Artillery upon him to the wounding of himself The matter therefore that first and mainly offers it self in Controversie is this viz. Whether Vitriol or Iron are two distinct Ingredients or constitutive Principles of the Scarbrough-Spaw Now my Antagonist asserts that they are two distinct Principles of this Spaw I take it saith he to be Iron Mineral with a touch of the Vitriol or if you please ferrum vitriolatum or vitriolum ferragineum this is a natural Vitriol generated in the Veins of the Earth through which the Spring runs which hath by its acidity or esurine Salt actuated the Waters which thereby is inabled to corrode a Vein of Iron By which I perceive he looks upon Vitriol as a simple Salt without any dependance upon any Mineral or Metalline Body And as such hath no relation to Iron being quite another thing yet calls it ferrum vitriolatum or vitriolum ferrugineum hooking the Iron to partake of the Vitriol
which grow from the very same Juyce the Stone it vegetates from had its nourishment only it is determined into that form by the imbred plastick power of that stony Plant and becomes like if I may so say a Misletoe of the Rock Yea and from one or both causes aforesaid hath for ought we know all the rocky and stony productions in the bowels of the Earth had their original But to be short Petrifaction as to the Duelech or Calculus humanus the subject we chiefly now have in hand I see no reason to the contrary but look upon it as chiefly seminaly else how comes it that little Children are sometimes grievously tormented with fits and die of the Stone As I have seen a young Child after death opened whose Reins contained one large Stones besides divers other lesser ones by which it should appear that the inclinatio petrifica which is the same with a petrifying Seed was at first impressed upon the Seminals of its constitution and in such where the petrifying Seed is at work the nutritive Juyce can never be so pure nor the Steinors or Colanders of the Vessels be so accurate in their functions but the Stone and Gravel will be increased the Spirit of Urine will coagulate it self upon its innate Earth and so cause a concretion of a sabulous matter although much more from some sorts of Meats and Drinks then from others amongst ordinary Drinks Ale that is hard blenk'd or new thick and unwrought or Wine which is not depurated from its Tartar by due fermentation are very prejudicial somenters of the Stone so is Bread not well baked Meat not well cooked and prepared and in fine what ever contributes to the Fabrick of the nutritive Juyce when through the weakness or error of the ferments reluctancy of that which is taken or injustice of the distributive powers a feculent tartarous or sabulous matter is sequestred and either thrown upon the Vessels or transmitted by the current of the Latex into other more fine Collanders and Streinors of the Body Then the Stone Gout Jaundice Diarrhaeas Dysenteries Feavers c. are in time brought forth especially to such persons whose constitutions or peculiar fabrick of their constituent parts whether Liquid in Vessels or Solids are most inclinable and consequently most susceptable of such Diseases Therefore respect must primarily be had to the inclinatio petrifica podagrica or natural inclination to the Stone or Gout for to such not only the Waters which contain a sabulous matter but also the common nutritive Juyce made from our ordinary food may singly or conjoyntly bring forth or else exasperate the fits of the Stone Gout c. for the sabulous matter of the Waters as well as the tartarous recrements of our food being imbibed by the Latex of the Blood doth the one as well as the other by its various filtratures and percolations leave its precipitate upon the Streinors Bowels and Membranous Parts causing the foresaid Diseases in Bodies inclinable thereunto Now in what my Antagonist glorieth this our Author and Friend accounts no less then the shame of the Scarbrough Water viz. That it contains such a large quantity of the Minerals as he calls them including together with the noble Salt also the dirty faeces and stony matter which without doubt if any thing is its greatest disparagement But here as we shall accuse the one of vanity and to have done it not for want of ignorance in the critical Analysis of that Water So the other we shall no less impeach of too tart a reflection upon the same and of raising a theoretick Fabrick from too sandy a foundation But before we prescribe our Remedy to prevent petrifaction c. I shall first bring the matter in controversie to the test by propounding onely this following Experiment which I have not yet but may God willing take the opportunity of trying at this Spaw-time which will certaiuly answer this querie viz. whether the Scarborew water doth leave any considerable quantity of its sabulous matter in the body whereby it may give just cause of suspition of furthering or increasing the Stone Gout Jaundice c. the Experiment is this viz. To save the Urin of a calculous gouty or other such like Patient after he hath drank plentifully of the Spaw which is onely to be saved after the Urin comes untinged from him to the quantity of two or three quarts and to distil that in a Glass Body or Retort or barely to evaporate it in a Jar Glass and so to try whether indeed it hath or no left any considerable quantity of its sabulous matter in the body which may truly be computed from the more or less quantity of the stony matter left behind after evaporation or distillation compared with the residence of the same quantity of the Spaw Water distilled or evaporated fresh from the Fountain A Method Prescribed For the right use of the Scarbiough-Water NOW come I to give my Receipt how to prevent petrifaction by propounding a Method for the right use and improvement of the Water where first I advise all Patients who would take this Water for their best advantage and help for the prevention or cure of the Stone Gout Scurvy Jaundice Palsies Epilepsies Asthma or other chronical Diseases to begin with a gentle Vitrioline Vomit the Dose to be ordered according to the discretion of the advising Physitian which may be done although the Patient hath for some time drunk of the Water for this sort of Vonrit which is surely the safest in the World doth not onely carry off plenty of a depraved matter involved in the Tunicles of the Stomach the fomenter of most Diseases whether Acute or Chronical but also strengthens the Fibres of the Stomach and other Membranes through the whole body reducing them to their proper Tone which the generality of Solutions yea the too frequent use of this Spaw Water is apt to relax and to make them flag and hang the depravation of whose oeconomy makes them forgetful of their offices and renders them susceptible of a stony incrustation from the sabulum of the Water and hereby they become the cause of all those Diseases which happen upon those who incautiously drink and that long and plentifully of this Spaw Water and hence it is that after a months drinking of the Water it sometimes happens that the Appetite or Concoction decayes which my Antagonist acknow ledgeth or the Waters pass not so well but cause distention in the Belly or Veins and so brings on a difficulty of breathing pain in the head c. All which may be now remedyed by the method we are now propounding for this kind of Vomit which may as occasion shall require be safely repeated doth fortifie the membranous parts notably and makes them mindful of their duties after which the Patient may for two or three mornings drink pretty freely of the Waters using moderate exercise after as walking upon the Sands or in their