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A14325	The baths of Bathe: or, A necessary compendious treatise concerning the nature, vse and efficacie of those famous hot vvaters published for the benefit of all such, as yeerely for their health, resort to those baths: with an aduertisement of the great vtilitie that commeth to mans body, by the taking of physick in the spring, inferred vpon a question mooued, concerning the frequencie of sicknesse, and death of people more in that season, then in any other. Whereunto is also annexed a censure, concerning the water of Saint Vincents rocks neere Bristoll, which begins to grow in great request and vse against the stone. By To. Venner, Doctor in Physick in Bathe.	Venner, Tobias, 1577-1660.	1628 (1628)	STC 24641; ESTC S101770	17,325	29

in a body plethoricke or phlegmaticke They are also very profitable for them that haue their lungs annoyed with much moisture and to make slender such bodies as are too grosse there is nothing more effectuall then the often vse of these waters Wherefore let those that feare obesitie that is would not waxe grosse bee carefull to come often to our Baths for by the vse of them according as the learned Physician shall direct they may not onely preserue their health but also keepe their bodies from being vnseemingly corpulent They are also singularly profitable to women for they helpe them of barrennesse and of all diseases and imperfections of the Matrix proceeding of a cold and moist They also cure all diseases of the skin as Scabs Itch old Sores c. All which to bee true wee daily find with admiration to the exceeding great comfort of many who with deplored diseases and most miserable bodies resort to these Baths and are there by the helpe of wholesome Physicke and vertue of the Baths through the blessing of Almighty God recouered to their former health But Baths naturally hot as these our Baths are to bodies naturally hot and drie are generally hurtfull and so much the more as the body is drier and the Bath hotter because it distempereth and consumeth the very habit of the body and maketh it carrion-like leane Wherfore seeing that these our Baths are not indifferently agreeable to euery constitution and state of body I doe aduise that not any one goe into them rashly or vpon a preposterous iudgement but that he bee first aduised by some faithfull iudicious and expert Physician and to him expose the state of his body whereby he may vnderstand whether or no it may be expedient for him to attempt the same And whereas there are in Bathe diuers Baths as I haue shewed and they differing in their heate and accordingly in their effects he must also from the learned Physician be directed in which to bathe neither must he only vnderstand which Bath to vse as most conuenient for his state of body but also when and how often to vse the same and how long to abide therein at a time Besides this he must take speciall care not to goe into the Bath without fit preparation which is a grosse error of many but must be first purged as his state of body shall require and be also directed in other things how to order himselfe before he goe into the Bath while he is in the Bath and after that he is come out of the Bath and when hee leaueth the Bath and must also with his bathings and sweating vse such physick-helpes as may worke with the Baths according as his disease and present state of body shall require not relying wholly vpon the vse of the water for his cure as many ignorantly and some basely doe to saue their purse The neglect of all these or of some of them either through ignorance or voluntarie wilfulnes is the cause that some that take great paines to come to the Baths are not by them healed of their infirmities but oftentimes neuer returne to their homes againe or if they doe it is most commonly with new diseases and the old worse then euer they were whereas of a generous and religious vnderstanding vsing the true helpes of physick with the Baths are of their diseases perfectly cured Here I may not omit a special reason why many receiue little benefit by the Baths but oftentimes much hurt and that is because they take not the aide and directions of a Physician present in the vse of the Bath but bring their physicke and directions with them from some Physician in the Countrey where they abode perhaps one that well vnderstands not their state of body much lesse the nature and true vse of the Baths But admit that they haue their directions from an vnderstanding Physician yet I must tell them that many accidences fall out oftentimes in bathing that require the helpe of a present Physician Another speciall reason why many find little good by the Baths is because they make not such stay at them as in regard of their infirmities or state of body is meete for some goe away before the Bath in regard of a dense habit of body hath wrought any manner of effect at all on them others euen then when the Bath begins to shew its force and efficacie on their bodies and some too soone vpon much benefit receiued by meanes whereof they easily incurre a relapse Wherefore my counsell herein vnto you is this that you limit not your stay at the Baths before you depart from your homes but in that bee aduised and ruled by your Physician when you are at the Baths according as hee shall find to bee meete for your infirmities and state of body and thinke not to receiue in foure fiue or sixe weekes an absolute cure for an infirmity which perhaps you haue borne two or three yeeres notwithstanding all the helpes and meanes you haue vsed for the same in your owne Countrey Wherefore let your abode at the Baths bee as it shall bee requisite for your state of body and limit not the time no not to a Spring or a Fall for it may bee needfull for you to reside there the whole yeere it may bee more for otherwise by your vntimely departure you may lose the good that you haue gotten by the Bath before the time come that you shall thinke to be fit for the vse of the Baths againe But here I know you will obiect against me saying Is it good to make vse of your Baths in the Summer and Winter Are not those times by all learned and iudicious Physicians prohibited for bathing in hot Baths Whereupon grew the custome of frequenting them in the temperate seasons of the yeere namely in the Spring and Fall Whereunto I answer and first that bathing in our Baths in Summer taking the coole of the morning for it if the season shall bee hot and Summer-like brings much more benefit to the body the disease being of a cold nature and proceeding from a cold and moist cause for so you must conceiue me then in the Spring or Fall when oftentimes the coldnesse and variablenes of the aire takes away the benefit of your bathing for cold or vaporous aire entring into your body after bathing the pores being open doth not onely very greatly annoy the spirits and principall parts occasion winde and tortures in the bowels but also induce oftentimes irrecouerable effects to the sinewes and ioynts But if seasons that are constantly warme be best for bathing in our Baths and cold times hurtfull why should any reside at them in the Winter I answer That it is good for thē that are in the way of cure by reason of their former bathings and that the waters are in their nature as effectually hot in the winter as in any other time of the yeere onely the superficies or vpper part

THE BATHS OF BATHE OR A NECESSARY COMPENDIOVS TREATISE CONCERNING THE Nature vse and efficacie of those famous hot waters PVBLISHED FOR THE BENEFIT OF all such as yeerely for their health resort to those Baths With an Aduertisement of the great vtilitie that commeth to mans body by the taking of Physick in the Spring inferred vpon a question mooued concerning the frequencie of sicknesse and death of people more in that season then in any other Whereunto is also annexed a censure concerning the Water of Saint Vincents Rocks neere Bristoll which begins to grow in great request and vse against the Stone By To. Venner Doctor of Physick in Bathe LONDON Printed by Felix Kyngston for Richard Moore and are to be sold at his shop in Saint Dunstans Churchyard in Fleet-streete 1628. Effigies Tobiae Venner Med. Dr. Anno Dom 1660. Aetatis suae 85. SERENISSIMAE PRINCIPI MARIAE ANGLIAE SCOTIAE FRANCIAE ET HIBERNIAE REGINAE HOC DE THERMIS BATHONIENSIBVS OPVSCVLVM HVMILlimè dedicat consecrat THO. VENERVS Med. Dr. TO THE READER GOod Reader seeing in the few yeeres that I haue exercised Physicke at the Baths the yeerely concourse in the Spring and Fall of people of all sorts and from all parts of this Kingdome to those famous Waters and the little benefit that many after great expence and trouble receiue thereby I was induced to publish this ensuing Treatise wherein I haue very briefely shewed the nature and efficacie of those Waters touched the causes that many finde not comfort but oftentimes rather hurt that resort to them with such aduertisements concerning the vse of the said Waters which if they be rightly obserued I am perswaded few will hereafter complaine that they haue beene at the Baths in vaine and so the Waters regaine that esteeme which in respect of their singular Vertues they are worthy of But here you must take from me this one aduertisement which is That Sickenesse is a Symptome of Sinne And therefore first Poenitentiam agendo before your departure from home make peace betwixt God and your conscience and then repaire to the Baths quò te faustum ducat atque sanum reducat qui solus id potest Vale. THE BATHS OF BATHE BAthe so called from the Baths in it is a little well-compacted Cittie and beautified with very faire and goodly buildings for receit of strangers Although the site thereof by reason of the vicinity of Hills seeme not pleasant being almost inuironed with them yet for goodnesse of ayre neerenes of a sweet and delectable Riuer and fertilitie of soyle it is pleasant and happy enough but for the hot waters that boyle vp euen in the middest thereof it is more delectable and happier then any other of the Kingdome There are in it foure publike Baths so fairely built and fitted with such conueniencie for bathing as the like I suppose is not else-where to be found besides a little Bath for Lepers called The Lepers Bath They all haue the originall of their heate from one matter namely Sulphur burning in the cauities of the earth thorow which the waters flowing receiue their heate They partake of no other minerall that I can finde what may lye hid in visceribus terrae I know not of this I am sure that such diseases as cannot receiue cure else-where here doe These Baths as they differ in their heate so in their operations and effects The Kings Bath is the hottest and it is for beautie largenesse and efficacy of heate a Kingly Bath indeed being so hot as can be well suffered This Bath is of strong-heating opening resoluing attracting and exiccating facultie and therefore onely conuenient for cold and moist bodies and for cold and moist diseases Next to the Kings Bath for efficacy of heate is the Hot Bath and the difference in their heate is so little that it is scarcely to be discerned This Bath is good for the same infirmities that the Kings Bath is and for the effects which it worketh I cannot finde it to be inferiour vnto it They are two excellent Baths for cold and moist diseases and for very cold and moist bodies The Queenes Bath is a member of the Kings Bath a wall onely going betweene them with a passage therein to goe from one to the other This Bath is not altogether so hot as that and therefore the vse of it is conuenient for them that cannot well endure the heate of the Kings Bath The Crosse Bath is for heate the mildest being very temperately warme it is a dainty Bath for young weake and tender bodies that cannot endure the heate of the hotter Baths or for whom the hotter Baths may not be conuenient It is an excellent Bath for temperate bodies by way of preseruation because such the hotter Baths may soone distemper and occasion hurt Neither is this Bath good onely for such as are of a temperate state and constitution of body by way of preseruation but for them and others also by way of curation in some cases where the hotter Baths are not fit to bee vsed This Bath by reason of the mildnesse of its heate is of a notable mollifying and relaxing facultie good therefore in contractions of any member in obstructions of the brest spleene liuer and kidneys and effectuall also for Aches when it is in its prime and vigour of heate especially for such whose temper or habit of body shall prohibit the vse of the hotter Baths This Bath attaines not to its perfection of heate till the weather grow to be constantly hot and when the other Baths by reason of the feruor thereof cannot be vsed but by such whose diseases and state of body are impensiuely cold I cannot in regard of the diuersity of bodies insist vpon euery particular in the vse of these Baths wherefore I will onely for your better instruction and direction herein giue you some speciall aduertisements and thereupon leaue you to some Learned Physician that can accordingly guide you in the vse of them These famous hot Waters are of singular force not only against diseases gotten by cold or proceeding from a cold and moist cause but also bring in time of health exceeding comfort and profit to all cold moist and corpulent bodies for they open the pores resolue attenuate digest consume and draw forth superfluities and withall strongly heale and drie the whole habit of the body They are of excellent efficacy against all diseases of the head and sinewes proceeding of a cold and moist cause as Rheumes Palsies Epilepsies Lethargies Apoplexies Cramps Deafenesse Forgetfulnesse Trembling or weakenesse of any member Aches and swellings of the ioynts c. They also greatly profit windie and hydropicke bodies the paine and swelling of any part of the bodie so that it proceed not from an hot cause the sluggish and lumpish heauinesse of the body numnesse of any member paine in the loynes the gout especially the Sciatica cold tumors of the Milt and Liuer the Yellow Iaundies

their means and to the Patients that they fall not by any meanes into the hands of Empericks who by their ill qualified Physicke will spoile their bodies and by reason of their pragmaticall nature perswade and put them to vnnecessary and preposterous courses which cannot but produce disastrous effects But seeing that no calling is more disgraced then by the men of the same calling I wish all professors of Physicke to carrie themselues worthy of their calling to be faithfull and honest in their courses not to insinuate with any or after the manner of our Bath-guides presse vpon them to be retained If an Empericke or Mountibanke seeke about for work I blame them not let them deceiue those who wil be deceiued but for such as are graduated in the noble faculty of Physicke to doe so it is Fiddler-like a note if not of some vnworthines in them I am sure of a base mind Let those therefore that are Physicians indeed striue to maintaine the reputation of their Art and not by a base insinuating carriage or Mountibank-like tricks to get a note and repute vilifie their owne worth or disgrace so noble a facultie But to draw to an end when you shal for your health repaire to the Baths be cautelous and suffer not your selfe to be taken vp by such as will presse vpon you but rest your selfe at your Inne and be well aduised by a Physician that knowes the nature and vse of the Baths and can well iudge of your infirmities and state of body what Bath shall be fitting for your vse and then vp your lodging accordingly which course if it were obserued and the Physician carefully and learnedly performe his part I am perswaded that many mo then now doe would for their infirmities finde remedie at the Baths to the great honour of the place and that scarcely any would depart thence but much eased and bettered in their state of body Thus much I thought fitting to aduise and publish concerning the nature and vse of our Baths and the rather that such as preposterously vse them as the greater part I suppose doe that resort vnto them may not erroniously detract from the admirable vertues of them for vnto vs it doth yeerely appeare by the miraculous effects they worke of what excellent efficacie they are if they be rightly and iudiciously vsed And seeing that in the true vse of them there are many things to be considered I doe therefore againe aduise all such as are respectiue of their health that they enterprize not the vse of them without the counsell and direction of some honest and learned Physician resident at the Baths which if they doe the incommodum may be maius commodo And so I conclude this Treatise AN ADVERTISEMENT OF THE GREAT VTILITIE THAT COMMETH to mans body by the taking of Physick in the Spring inferred vpon the insuing Question The Spring being the most reuiuing flourishing and temperate season of the yeere whence is it that sicknesses are more frequent in the same and people sooner dye therein then in any other season THere may bee two reasons yeelded for the same the one taken from the Winter preceding which by reason of its moisture filleth the body with crude and excrementall humors and by its coldnesse thickning and compacting the same quieteth them from fluxion But the heate of the Spring approaching and working on those humors rarifieth and dissolueth them which thereupon fluctuating and putrifying in the body are the cause of sicknesse vnlesse they are expulsed by the force of nature or timely helpe of Physicke The other reason may be taken from the inconstancie of the Spring it selfe which sometimes is cold sometimes hot sometimes moist and sometimes drie which sudden alterations cannot but produce feuerous distemperatures and other infirmities according to the disposition of the matter congested in the body the Winter preceding From which it may be concluded that the sicknesses and death of people which happen more frequently in the Spring then in any other season of the yeere are not so much to be attributed to the Spring as to the Winter which hath filled the body with superfluities and prepared it for sicknesse Wherefore whosoeuer will bee so prouident as by the timely helpe of Physicke to free his body as his state and constitution shall require of the superfluities congested in it by meanes of the winter going before he shall be sure to be farre more liuely healthy and free from sicknesse in the Spring then in any other season of the yeere so as he erre not ouermuch in other things And this purging of the body and purifying of the bloud in the Spring will not onely preserue from sicknesses that commonly raigne in the Spring but also be a meanes to keepe the body in a perfect integrity the whole yeere after and therefore I commend the taking of Physicke in the Spring to all generous people to them that leade a geniall sedentary kinde of life especially to such as are subiect to obstructions or any yeerely disease You may here demand of me what time of the Spring is fittest for Physicke by way of preuention I answer that for them that are wont to bee affected with sickenesse in the Spring and whose humors are too cholericke and thinne and consequently subiect to fluxion it is best to take Physicke at the very beginning thereof but for others about the middle or after especially if the precedent time shall be cold and not Spring-like You may also here demand of me whether it be not so necessary to take Physick in the Autumne which we commonly call the Fall as in the Spring Whereunto in regard of a generality I must answer no because the Summer prepareth not the body for sicknesse filling it with superfluities as doth the Winter yet for some bodies it is as for them that naturally abound with crude and phlegmaticke humors that are subiect to obstructions to cold winterly diseases or any melancholicke affects as necessary to take Physicke by way of preuention in the Fall as in the Spring and that for auoiding the superfluities before the Winter for opening the obstructions and freeing the body of superfluous melancholy which then by reason of the season encreaseth And the fittest time for the doing thereof for such as are subiect to melancholy and Autumnall diseases is soone after the beginning of the Fall but for others towards the middle thereof But here I must aduertise you that you expose not your body to the vnlearned Empericke that can neither finde out the peccant humors nor parts affected but to such as are learned in that Art that can well iudge of your state of body and accordingly prescribe you remedies as your constitution and affected parts shall require Many men thinke yea some of a generous note wherein they bewray their carelesnesse if not their stupiditie to that whilst they are in health they may for preuention take Physicke from any one it