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A11156	The Queenes vvelles That is, a treatise of the nature and vertues of Tunbridge water. Together, with an enumeration of the chiefest diseases, which it is good for, and against which it may be vsed, and the manner and order of taking it. By Lodvvick Rovvzee, Dr. of Physicke, practising at Ashford in Kent.	Rowzee, Lodwick, b. 1586.	1632 (1632)	STC 21426; ESTC S116278	26,141	88

astringent and healing facultie it hath for all inward vlcers and especially for those of the kidneyes and bladder and of the Musculus sphinater which openeth and shutteth the same And in confirmation thereof divers haue bin cured of a bloudy vrine which had long troubled them amongst the rest a worthy Kentish Gentleman with whom I went thither the last yeare It is good also against all inveterate Dysenteries or bloudy Flixes as also all other Fluxes of the belly whether it be Leienteria Diarrhaea or Fluxus hepaticus It doth likewise extinguish all inward inflamations and hot distempers and yet for all that the stomacke is no whit hurt by the actuall coldnesse thereof but rather corroborated and strengthned and appetite provoked yea in some but too much as in my selfe for one For whensoever I dranke either at the Spa or at Tunbridg I was never able to fast with patience vntill noon but must needs offam latranti stomacho offerre cast a bit to my barking stomack before the rest of my company went to dinner For this cause when I was at the Spa a Spanish Physition who was come thither with the yong Prince Doria who was then but a youth would not let him take the water aboue two or three dayes when he saw such an effect in him fearing that he would receiue more hurt by the excesse of his appetite than benefit by the water and so after a long and troublesome journey from Italy thither he returned home without any profit The nerues or sinewes and the originall of them the braine are strengthened by the vse of this water and consequently it is good against the palsie inclination to an apoplexy lethargie and such like diseases of the head And some Paralyticks haue beene seene who sometimes voyded all their water by vrine and at other times were as effectually purged as if they had taken a strong potion and withall sweated aboundantly all their body over All these evacuations and vomitting also are sometimes seene in other diseases as well as in that Nay besides that in some women you shall haue an evacuation by vrine per menses simul haemorrhoidas The cause of all Rheumes and Distillations is likewise remooved by the helpe of this water and all diseases cured which haue their dependencie vpon the same for all that verse of Schola Salernitana Iejunes vigiles sitias sic rheumata cures Convulsions also Head-ach Migraine Vertigo are driven away by the vse of the same if the patient be constant and not too soone weary Against vomitting and the hickot it is vsed with good successe Those that are troubled with hypochondriacall melancholie find a great deale of ease by this water It helpeth also the running of the reines whether it be Gonorrhea simplex or Venerea and the distemper of the Parastatae arising from thence as likewise a certaine carnositie which groweth sometimes in the conduite of the vrine nay and the Poxe also the water having a notable potentiall drying facultie It driveth away besides all manner of wormes whether they be ordinary ones or ascarides or taeniae It may be vsed also for the Gowt but it must be with some caution and the body must be extraordinarily well prepared and purged before because it hath somtimes brought the fit vpon some who were well when they came thither Outwardly applied it doth helpe sore eyes red pimples and other externall infirmities More diseases which haue affinity with these it may be vsed for but I will content my selfe with this enumeration of the aforesaid ones and passe to the time manner and order of taking the water Yet must I not forget in the behalfe of women to tell them that there is nothing better against barrennesse and to make them fruitfull if other good and fitting meanes such as the severall causes shall require be joyned with the water CHAPTER VIII Of the time manner and order of taking Tunbridge Water SOme that shall reade the next foregoing Chapter will perhaps say that I make this water a direct Panpharmacon a remedie for all diseases and therefore wiil giue small credite vnto it But for all that daily experience doth and if it continue to be vsed will more and more confirme what I haue said to be true For very few of those who liue at the Spa whose Water hath great affinitie with that of Tunbridge and in the Country about it and make that Water their ordinary drinke as many doe and my selfe haue seene there very aged people that did never drinke any thing else few of them I say are troubled with headach heart-burning stone obstructions of the kidneyes liver or spleene falling sicknesse the like and as for the Iaundise Dropsie and Scabbes they doe not know what they are My selfe during my stay there being once rid out to take the ayre with a couple of Gentlemen and a showre of raine comming we made to a Countrey house neare hand to shelter our selues and after the taking of a Pipe of Tobacco I requested the goodman of the house who was a very old man and yet fresh and lustie and with very few gray haires to giue vs a cup of his beere but he answered me that he never had had any beere in his house if we would drinke good Pouhon it was at our service and he had a fresh vessell of it abroach Pouhon is the name of that Spring of the Spa which standeth in the middle of the Towne and by the same name they call also the Water thereof But to returne to our matter Temporibus medicina valet data tempore prosunt Et data non apto tempore vina nocent and so water The time then of taking those waters is either the season of the yeare when to come to them or the time of the day when to drinke of the same Concerning the season of the yeare Sommer is the fittest when there is a settled warme and dry weather as in the dog dayes especially Cùm Canis arentes findit hiulcus agros And the chiefest moneths be Iune Iuly Angust and September although the Dutch who naturally loue good Beere and Wine better than Water vse to haue this riming verse in their mouthes Mensibus in quibus R. non debes bibere Water And according as the yeare prooveth a man may sometimes come sooner and continue later In generall whensoever the weather is cleare and dry the water is then best as well in Winter as in Summer yea in hard frostie weather the Water is commonly strongest the antiperistasis of the ayre hindering that there is not so great an evaporation of the minerall spirits of the Water For when the weather is rainy or misty and that Iupiter doth per cribrum mingere pisse through a sieue as Aristophanes merrily speakes the water looseth much of its vertue My selfe haue knowne at the Spa a Friar of the reformed order of Saint Frauncis a good honest temperate man who assured me that having

from the Sea for divers Springs of fresh water are in sundry places which seeme to sympathize with the Sea and to imitate the motion thereof by a kind of ebullition And which is strange and yet a thing avouched by divers good Authors those things which were cast into the River of Alpheus in Grecia were afterwards found in the fountaine called Arethusa neere Syracusa in Sicilie though there bee a great distance of Sea and land betwixt them which gaue occasion to the ancient Poets who did vse to involue all the secrets of nature in their fables to faine that Alpheus and Arethusa were a couple of lovers which were transformed the one into a River and the other into a fountaine and of them speaketh r Lib. 5. Metam Ovid saying In latices mutor sed enim cognoscit amatas Amnis aquas positóque viri quod sumpserat ore Vertitur in proprias quo se mihi misceat vndas But whereas I said before that for all the water which runneth into the Seas they remaine still the same I would not be mistaken for I know that the Seas haue somtimes gone beyond their ordinary bounds and limits but it hath beene when they were as it were commanded so to doe by their Creator for the punishment of mens wickednesse or whensoever men haue gone about to alter the naturall seate and state of the same and the ordinary course of Rivers Of Gods judgements there are diverse examples as ſ Lib 2. Of Polybius that excellent Greeke Authour whose works I lately finished to trāslate into English my translation being readie for the Presse if it can finde any roome there And as for Polybius I dare boldly say here by the way that there is not any better or more necessary Author extant in his kinde especially for three sorts of men Princes Statesmen and Souldiers And whereas the Emperour Charles the fift was wont to say that there were but three Bookes necessary for a Prince Polybius for Warres Machiavell for State-matters and policie and Castiglio for behaviour if he aymed at a compendium he might very well haue left out the second seeing for State-matters and honest policy enough of it may be found in Polybius who for judgement sufficiencie vertue and honestie though but an Heathen went farre beyond Mach●●vell ●nd f●● more 〈◊〉 ●●●loy●●●t ex●●●●●ce ha●ing beene in great pla●●s ●f au●hori●●ie both in c●vill and marshall affa●res and fam●l●●rly acqua●nted wi●h that great Romane Scipio ●fricanus with Caius Laelius Whereas Machiavell was but a pettie Secretarie or Towne-Clarke o● th● Citie of Florence growne famous onely through the wicked Maximes and Positions contained in his writings and especially in his Prince where he setteth forth that Monster ●f Men Caesar Borgia bastard-sonne to the like father Alexander the sixt Pope of Rome as a patterne to be imitated by such as desir● to get rule and dominion to themselues And it seemeth by a passage of the seventh Chapter of his Prince that he was acquainted with him and perhaps a Counsellor of his in his murders po●son●ngs and other devilish exploits But Polybi●● 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 farre from doing the like that there are infinite digr●s●ion● in his workes in which he reprehendeth the vicious act●ons of men more sharply then some other Authors which profe●● themselues Christians Olenus Helice two of the 12. Cities which made the Common-wealth of the Achaeans which a little before the battell of Leuctra were drowned by the sea Antissa Tindaric Burrha had the like fortune also being swallowed vp by the Sea together with all their Inhabitants And that it might the better appeare that the finger of God was in it all such as thought to haue escaped by shipping perished as well as the rest being drowned overwhelmed by the waues And of those who haue endevoured to contract and pin vp the Sea into narrower limits by wrlls dikes and other workes diverse of them haue often sustained great dammage by the same as for example the Hollanders who as we said before lost aboue 100000. acres of ground by such meanes which the Sea after the overthrow of all their dikes and strong workes tooke away from them as it were by Letters of reprisalls This were enough to teach men that it is but in vaine to goe against the order established by God and the ordinary course of Nature yet it is worth the noting also and a thing not to be considered without admiration that all those Princes who purposed to cut the Isthmus of Peloponesus which is a necke of land betwixt two Seas containing according to Mercator in his Atlas Major some fiue miles in breadth dyed all before the worke was begun as Caligula C. Caesar Demetrius Nero and Domitianus CHAPTER IIII. Of waters of strange nature and effects ALL Springs of Waters are actually either hot or cold Of those hot Springs some are of so excessiue heate that a man would thinke it were water boyling vpon the fire and amongst other there is a veine of it running vnder a streete in a village called Porcet neere the City of Akin in Germanie In the middle of this streete there is a hole which they call Hell with three or foure barres of yrō over it in which the neighbours round about in the Sommer time when they haue no fire doe vse to seeth their egges letting them downe with a Net into the water and in a small space of time they may be boyled hard of which I was twice an eye-witnesse being there first in the yeare 1610. after the siege of Gulick and the yeelding of the Towne to the States with that braue Souldier Sir Horace Vere now Lord of Tilbury the second time with that worthy Knight Sir Henry Palmer now Controller of the Navie The cause of those hot Waters is commonly ascribed to Mines of Sulphur or brimstone inflamed within the bowells of the earth But few of those hot waters as at Akin Porcet in the Pyrenean Mountaines at Bathe in Sommersetshire and elsewhere haue any great or extraordinary taste of brimstone as they should of necessitie haue if brimstone melted and burning were the cause of their heate that minerall being of so piercing a nature and of so entensiue a facultie that never so little of it burning vpō a few coales when our women dry their tiffanies filleth a whole room with the strong sent of it Besides such a great quantitie of water running continually and so many yeares and ages together had long since extinguished those fires or if there were such flames within the bowells of the earth the same would long agoe dryed vp the water and reduced the earth into ashes Another reason there is that you shall finde no hot Springs where fires doe breake our and albeit the hill Vesuvius Mount Aetna burne continually yet are there no hot Springs about them though they be environed by the Sea And for all the late wonderfull and extraordinary eruption of fire