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
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
whether they or your Patients do ever discern aâ— taste or smell of Iron from such Waters Doth no I pray the main reason of Chalybeat Extraction depend upon the reduction of Iron into a Croâ—â— or the acuation or Menstruums by Saline Spirits 〈◊〉 either of which there happens a solution of some the body of Iron into the Chalybeat Liquors which give them a sapor not a vapour It 's true if you â—â— rusty silings of Iron Water upon its affusion â—â— thereby have an Iron taste but this is by reason an acid Salt in the Air which hath fretted the 〈◊〉 and tâ—â—ned it into a Crocus of Iron and theâ— makes it yeeld a solution of some of its parts And now Hydroph by this time I think you and your Apothecaries Boyes have done laughing and may take time to turn your Vapours into Tears and spend them at your leasure Doth not Falopius p. 29 34. who had great experience in Mineral and Metalline Waters say Arbitror non reperiri aquam ferream for certainly if Iron would give it self immediately to Water then should we find frequently those aquae ferreae in places where Waters run through the minera thereof but no such by experience are found therefore our Argument will be strongly inforc'd a majore ad minorem viz. that if in the minera where the parts are more loose it will not yeeld its Vapour or Tincture to Water much less will the compact Body thereof which hath undergone the violence of the melting Forge do any such thing And whereas you cavel at my Philosophical Description of Ink made forth by Colateral Experiments of the Spaw if you could have carpt at any thing therein no question but you would or if you had given a better then you had done like an Artist and so might have passed it over with a joke for though the Subjects sometimes we treat of be but common obvious things yet they require a searching diligence and deep diving Philosophically to solve the abstrusities of the nice Compositions and Commixtures of Bodies to make their Phaenomaena obvious I pray saith my Antagonist p. 35 36. Are Iron and Vitriol all one I think they do as really differ as your Knife and your Ink. Do not all Authors as well Chymical as others that treat of them do it severally And doth not Paracelsus say Natura genorat salem vitriolum dictum c. Do not Gallen Mathiolus Sennertus Pliny Renedeus speak to the same purpose To which I answer That Iron and Vitriol may indeed be two distinct things but then the Vitriol must be such as is made out of some other Metal oâ— Mineral but if you query concerning natural acid Salt Iron as coexistent in the same Concrete theâ— I say they are both one viz. they both together make up that Concrete we call Vitriol from which if you separate the Iron what remains falls short oâ— being a Vitriol and becomes only a Salt which iâ— more simple than Vitriol as being indeed but one Ingredient thereof And out of such a Vitriol oâ— Iron if you be a good Metallurgist and skilful Mechanick you may make as good a Blade as you have a Haft for as to what you urge how that those Authors speak in confirmation of your supposition I am not much sollicitous especially if what they write come in competition with truth as iâ— results from matter of fact besides some of these Authors as they have occasion treat severally oâ— these Concrets as different Subjects and not as they bear any relation to each other in Mineral Solutions and Concretions and so indeed they are different and may be discoursed of as differently And as to what you repeat out of Paracelsus 〈◊〉 am not concern'd seeing he doth not confirm it by matter of fact nor by any evident demonstration I find Paracelsus very incautious in his assertions and as for true Physiology not much to be regarded besides what he there saith doth diametrically oppose what may be made evident by Experiment for he calls that a Salt which after separation of other Ingredients is yet reducible into a more simple Salt witness the Salt of Vitriols which is separable out of any natural Vitriol after the separation of the Mineral or Metalline parts Yea I will tell you Hydroph that if you can produce out of any of the aforesaid Authors so much experiment as to make evident by matter of fact what you would prove yea if you can shew me from any ingenious Chymical Artist to whom you must be beholden if ever it be done such a Vitriol either extracted from this Spaw or elsewhere that is such a simple Salt as from which I cannot separate a Mineral or Metalline Body or if you can separate a Vitriol out of the Spaw after the precipitation of the minera of Iron The Game I assure you shall be upon your side For where you instance what I say p. 47. of my Hydrol. Chym. in p. 105. of your Mamick viz. that I arguing against Vitriol as being inconsistent with that of Iron in the Spaw the reason you blusht not to urge why though Vitriol be in the Water yet it should not vomit was that we used it said you in Juleps and Cordials which doth not cause Vomiting which you confirm and say That the main part of the Vitriol in this Water is the Spirit which is as much yea far more diluted with the Water wherein it is than the force of the Vitriol is corrected by the vehement heat of the fire in the distilling of the Spirit thereof Now to come to the point Hydroph if it were certainly true what you say that the main part of the Vitriol in the Water is the Spirit then it would without controversie demonstrate it self by distillation For seeing according to your own supposition the Vitriol is in Spirits in the Water and these Spirits are also very subtile volatile and penetrative therefore of necessity upon distillation of these Waters fresh from the Spring these Spirits should arise first but that they do not I can assure you by matter of Experiment for I distilled some fresh Water from the Fountain in a Glass Retort at Scarbrough whose joynts was exactly closed up I sav'd the first half ounce yea and in another distillation of fresh Water the first quarter of an ounce of Water which came over supposing that if any volatile vitrioline Spirits would come it would be at the very first whose taste or smell did not I affirm at all resemble the Spirits of Vitriol which according to your Hypothesis they should have done But suppose that what had come off at the first had been of the nature of vitrioline Spirits and had by the sharpness of their taste and sulphureousness of their odour demonstrated themselves to have been such which yet I assure you hapned to the contrary yet would it not thence have followed that these had been Vitriol as you assert for it is if I mistake
the longer these Marcasites are exposed to the open Air the more they become fraught with a vitrioline body contracting a Crust which by solution filtration c. will easily resolve into a body of Vitriol Thirdly That these and their connatural and analogous Juyces do increase and suo more vegetate in the Earth as other Minerals do is apparent in that I have observed a piece of Wood invelloped with a vitrioline Crust found in the Earth where other Marcasites of the like nature have been digged which I keep by me Fourthly That these Marcasites the nearer they lie to the surface of the Earth and the more patent the Channels are by which currents of Spring Water glide by them the more readily they give their tincture or yeeld a solution of their substance whence some vitrioline Springs or Spaws become stronger both in taste and operation then others and this is evident because of the facile ingress the Air hath to these places Nor may this contradict what we elsewhere say viz. That an Esurine Acidity preying upon the Minera of Iron gets a sleight touch therefrom and so becomes as Vitriol of the Minera of Iron which gives essence to the Vitrioline or Sweet-Spaw at Knarsbrough for both may be true though in various respects from different Soyls in as much as there are even in these Marcasites a connatural acid Juyce reasolvable by the confluence of Air which seizeth on an embryonative Sulphur of Iron essential to those Concretes which are carried together in their mutual imbraces by a preterlabent Spring of Water unto the place where they break forth called a Spring-head which gives Original to all or most of the Spaws called Fontes acidi So that all Vitrioline Spaws are reducible to one of these two Causes viz. Either to a sulphureous acid Spirit dissolv'd in a Water-Spring passing through the Minera of Iron the acidity dissolving the looser parts thereof and coagulating it self thereon or to the foresaid Vitrioline Marcasites whose acidity being resolv'd by the Air in the bowels of Earth takes along with it the connate immature Sulphur or loose vitrioline Ocre and both in one gives essence to these Mineral Waters and from theâ— two causes singly and joyntly do the Spaws of Knarsbrough Rotheram Oulton Turnbridg Astrap c. take their Original amongst which those that have but sleighter touches of the Minerals and consequently do the more readily suffer a precipitation of their Earth or Ocre fetch their Mineral in a longer line from the place of their Eruption and that too perhaps from Marcasites more penurious and less opened then others which keep their Minerals unprecipitated and consequently their Vertues the longer These Marcasites calcin'd in a Crucible with a blast will melt and flow especially helped with Nitre which melted Mass being poured forth gives no Regulus or metalline body nor is so pondrous as it was before but hath some bright yellow or cuprous sparkles interspers'd This in two dayes time doth almost all fall to a black Pouder much like what I remember hapned to a Scoria of Iron in the making Regulus Martis which being laid open to the Air did in a few dayes fall into a black Pouder Wherefore these Stones are without doubt a Metalline Embryo consisting of a Salt and inflammable Sulphur which hath scarce begun the matrimonial embraces of its Mercury and therefore at the best is but a Mineral in the road to metallization and being plentifully impregnated with an acid sulphureous Salt whose other Ingredients hanging but loosly on makes it the more readily soluble in a preterlabent Spring of Water for I have for experiment sake onely suffered simple distilled Water to slide over one of them and have found thereby that the Water would by so sleight a gliding over strike a purple tincture with Galls which it will do again and again to fresh Water yeelding thereby an inexhaustible treasure to the transient Springs of Water Amongst these Marcasites I have one by me bright and sparkling cut into curious angular forms like so many Diamonds of several sizes set in a Ground as if Nature in this neat peice of work did vie with Art And yet in the very Interstices of these Diamond-like cuts betwixt each other is conspicuous the Mineral Salt which gives Essence and Operation to most of the Vitrioline Spaws Some Mineral Waters may I confess be such as are only acid being only impregnated with the Esurine Salt of the Earth and have no addition in them of Mineral Sulphurs neither of Iron nor Copper of which sort I have tasted one near Chesterfield in Derbyshire which hath a very strong sowrishness but yet with Galls gives no tincture although I found a reddish Ocre to lie along the sides of the Current The like I doubt not may be found in other places all which may notwithstanding prove very good Waters to open Obstructions in the body of man by their penetrative Vertues Lastly A solution of Salt of Iron in Water with Galls gives a deep purple tincture and passeth all other mutations of colours answerable to all natural Mineral Waters But the solution of Roman Vitriol with Galls added gives no purple colour but becomes a muddied Liquor which with Oyl of Tartar assused becomes greenish but with Oyl of Sulphur wholly green The same alterations doth Viride Aeris suffer with the same additions But Roman Vitriol infus'd in a weak Spirit of Urine gives a blew tincture which will not be altered by the addition of Alome The same doth Viride Aeris dissolved in Water Whence by the by I conclude Roman Vitriol to be factitious made up sometimes of Alom with a tincture of Copper taken in a weak Spirit of Wine or the Phlegm thereof and so caused to shoot into Chrystals A further Account of the Sulphur-Well At KNARSBROUGH As also concerning The Original of Hot Baths and Sulphureous Waters WHat I have said in my Hydrolog Chym. concerning the essential cause of this Mineral-Water viz. That it consists as a Spaw of a Sal-marine or fossile Salt which differ not either materially or formally impregnated with an embryonative faetid Sulphur or rather sulphureous odour is I say true and may be illustrated after a double manner And that first by the collateral Experiments I have there inserted concerning an embryonative Sulphur as faetid as this Spaw Water it self close locked up in the body of Sal-marine as at large is made evident by that Experiment which I shall not now insist upon But secondly and now more to the purpose the same will better be discovered by a fresh light let in by some new Experiments only before I proceed to produce what I have to urge herein I shall first taking things as they lie in my way make an inquiery what Ingredients are not though by some supposed to be in this Spring viz. That neither Vitriol Nitre nor Sulphur as to the body thereof are the constitutive Principles hereof First That Vitriol is not
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