and resolved while God spared life to continue his Annual visits notwithstanding the distance being above an hundred and twenty miles The Sixth Cure MRS. Elizabeth Scremerston in the Bishoprick of Durham was troubled for a long time with the same malady which had changed her complexion and made her exceeding swarthy with three weeks drinking she found a perfect recovery The Seventh Cure MR. Robert Lever Minister of Bolam in Northumberland was exceedingly troubled with Hipocondriach Melancholy for the space of eight years joyned with frequent extention and Convulsion of the Nerves which when the fit was gone off left him so feeble that he was not able to walk till he had gotten some rest he was often dizzy in his his head which so clouded his understanding that he became uncapable sometimes for a quarter of a year together of discharging the duties of his Office He was several times at the other Spaw in York-shire where though he found some benefit yet the symptoms returned In 1663. he came to Scarbrough and drank a whole week yet without any benefit till the Physician then at the waters viz. Doctor Wittie was called to see the fit wherein he seemed to be almost distracted who judged it requisite to prescribe some other helps proper for the case for two or three dayes and furnished him with some Specificks to be used with the waters and set him on again advising him to drink ten dayes more after three dayes he found eminent degrees of recovery all the symptoms abating and went from the waters very healthful and chearful who praised be Almighty God continued so The Eighth Cure MR. M. Darrel of Porstow in Lincoln-Shire is by times much afflicted with the Hypocond Flatus finds much benefit by drinking these waters wherefore he frequents them every year sometimes he is for rear six moneths excessive Melancholy cares for no company but loves retirement And by an orderly taking of these waters finds present relief when no other Medicine he has taken at home has succeeded The Ninth Cure MRS. Elizabeth Newcome of Manchester in Lancashire was eight or nine years together so afflicted with this Malady joyned with extreme oppression of the stomach and back with flitting heats as if she had been in a violent Feaver perpetual costiveness and dizziness of the head before the violence of the hot fit she found a sharp stinging in the wrist of her right arm as if a Pen-knife was thrust into it and when the fit was upon her she would fall into exceeding great frights from any the least noise as the crowing of a Cock or the barking of a Dog and when it was gone off she would be as sore as if she were beaten It had resisted all medicines till coming to these waters she found good success The Tenth Cure A Scotch Gentlewoman being in years was much afflicted with Hypochondraism and the Scurvy having a great disorder at her Stomach drank the waters in great excess was brought low and very weak but after a while she recruited to her former strength and the bad symptoms went off Here I could reckon upon several persons more who have by the orderly use of these wates found much benefit in this very Malady But at present let those in transitu serve The Stone THe next Disease in order we here propose to treat on as curable by the waters is that formidable afflicting and excruciating malady the Stone where we do not mean to ascribe that efficacy to these mineral waters as to melt or dissolve any large confirmed stone of what size soever fixed in the Kidneys or Bladder For that we wholly deny and judge such persons who labour under the anxiety of such large Stones as cannot without danger be brought away by the common passages of the ureters neck of the Bladder c. not capable I say of receiving much benefit hereby But are rather to be referred to the skill and cure of the Lithotomist to Mars rather than Neptune to the sharpness of the knife than to the accurateness of the waters But that these waters have a remarkable efficacy upon such as labour under gravel smaller stones such as are passable and in taking away or alleviating their grievous symptoms the usual attendants and products thereof amongst which that of Strangury is to be reckoned as a frequent symptom and almost necessary product of the Stone although that sometimes may proceed from other causes what remarkable efficacy I say these waters orderly taken have upon such let the few following instances speak which in the main may be sufficient to blazon its vertues to the world in this very particular Malady that so none through prejudice or ignorance may deny themselves that benefit which God in nature holds forth to them in this Mineral Spring As to the causes of petrefaction whether in the Macro or Microcosme but particularly that of the Lithiasis viz. the causes of ingendring the Stone in the Reins or Bladder of humane bodies we insist largely and de industria in our Lithologia Physica not yet extant And as for the symptoms they are so well known by every one who is afflicted with this Disease as we need not by numbring them tell what they are wherefore we shall immediately descend to the intended particulars as followeth The First Case MR. John Beaumont of Franck-foss in York-shire his wife had been for very many years subject to a grievous fit of the Stone for which she had taken much advice though with little success she went afterwards to Knarsbrough and drank those waters but found no benefit then her husband brought her to Scarbrough which water brought away the matter of the Stone in Gravel and Sand to a great proportion even in one weeks time and for five years after being then so long to the first writing hereof she had no necessity of returning to the Spaw being free of all symptoms To which I may add what I lately by letter received from a Relation of the aforesaid Gentle-womans and my worthy friend that she received so much benefit by these waters and for this fourteen years hath been so well that she never needed to make a second visit The Second Case AN old man of eighty six years of age has frequented the Span for twelve or thirteen years finding much good thereby every year for the Stone had extreme and most violent pains and grievous torments even so aâ— to make him cry forth aloud so as he might be heard at a great distance yea his torment in those parts were so strong that to use his own words he would have forgiven any one who would have knocked him on the head he drank plentifully of the waters sometimes fifteen pints in a morning found great relief thereby the benefit he reaps incourageth him to come every year and was here this very last year 78 from whose own mouth I had the aforesaid Relation The Third Case THE old Lady Rhodes of Balbrough was grievously
inverting the regular Idea's thereof The degrees of which Disease are varied yea intended or remitted according as those Spirits are in their first hewings or shapings more or less soyled with those noxious steams and clouding vapors which steams and fogs receive all their measures from the ferments of the Stomach and Spleen as they are more or less vitiated from the error of which ferment ariseth Indigestion or Crudities the Mother or rather Chaos of the aforesaid clouds or steams and from it also is produced Wind or Flatus the proper fruit or effect of Indigestion For wherever the generation of the Spirits are the first springs thereof whether Stomach Spleen or arterial vessels we suppose to be the chief Minera of this Disease whose deep rootedness and inward recess is the main reason of the difficuly of its cure which accompanying the reluctancy of the ferments in the error of Digestion bringeth on the incoarcible Flatus whereby it displayes it self into all those various symptoms which attend this Disease These Animal Spirits are the most sublime and etherial parts of the body and nearest a-kin to the Soul are the medium betwixt the Soul and Body and as such are we suppose not only the vehicle but also the mirror of the immortal Soul and in as much as the Soul acts in the body juxta indolem organorum according to the capacity disposition texture temperature or crasis of its vehicle which also has its springs from the alimentary and sanguineous juyces elaborated by their peculiar ferments wherefore if the constitution of these Spirits from the vigour of the ferments sequestring all Heterogenities prove genuine and thence the looking-glass of the Soul becomes pure and polite In such constitutions I say the soul through the clarity of the Regimen of the Spirits takes pleasure and solace in its vehicle causing generous reflections and shaping perspicatious Idea's helping as we say in our Hydrol. Chym. 122. accurateness of phansie solidity of judgment and tenaciousness of Memory But if through the deficiency of the ferments arise Indigestion and Crudities thence the untamable Flatus or Wind and from both dark steams whence the aforesaid Spirits are mudded in their first springs and their constitution or Regimen soiled through foggy Scorbutick mists then and there is laid the foundation of this deeply rooted Malady whereby the imaginative part is darkned the fansie by a Melancholy vapor being clouded and thence as from its natural source ariseth from the irregularities and disturbed phansies of Hypochondriacal Melancholy For the Stomach Spleen arterial juyces with the ferments thereof as they are by nature imployed in order to the production of Animal Spirits are Vulcan's Shop where materials lie for forging all Idea's and Minerva's Nursery where are the ground-plots and seeds of Diseases Now if the depravation of the ferments in order to the hewing forth or generation of Animal Spirits meet or interfeer with other manner of errors of the ferments as appertaining to the alimentary juyces as they are to circulate the various stades of the several digestions in order to the nourishment of the body or supply of what daily transpires then I say is produced a complication of Melancholy with the Scurvy yea the one graduates or heightens the other in their respective depravations whence it is that Melancholy and the Scurvy frequently go hand in hand It rarely happens that Melancholy is brought to any considerable height but is twisted and complicated with the Scurvy although the contrary not often holds good from which complication is generally produced a lesa imaginatio the usual product of that disease although sometimes the heightnings of the one singly considered effects it and from this depravedness of the fancy it is that the Patient is affected now in one part ready to dye upon it and presently in another remote part and must die of that and forthwith too c. So they coyn to themselves hundreds of Miseries as to this or the other part and as many deaths ere one of either sort really siezeth upon them We design not here because we study brevity to shew how and after what manner the waters operate and how other additional helps by way of advice contribute to the cure of this so deeply seated Diseâ—e how it absterseth the first vessels strengthneth the ferment of the Stâ—nach procures an appetite helps dâ—estion promotes the clarity of the â—gimen of the Animal Spirits by carrying away the cause of impure and Scorbutick steams suppresseth the cause of Wind which two last are most-what the scene where and whence most of the Tragical Symptoms of this Disease are acted fortifies the tone of the viscera rectifies their genuine ferments sweetens the blood conduceth to the production of laudable nutritive juyces which how far these may go towards the cure of most Diseases we refer to better judgments to determine and thence brings on a good habit of body and health the sequel of all To insist largely upon which is besides our present purpose we shall therefore which we chiefly aim at only confine our discourse herein to number a few remarkable instances of the efficacy of these waters in the cure thereof which are as followeth Mr. Woodyears Case a Gentleman in York The first Cure AT Christmas 1667. began the occasion of Melancholy or Hypocond Wind being the Passion of Sorrow for the loss of his beloved Son which Disease gradually grew to that height as in about eighteen Moneths time after the first beginning thereof it brought upon him a Virtigo or Megrim so as he thought all went round At Christmas 72. he had two fits one soon after the other as he sate in his chair which for the time deprived him of all sense after which he had as accompanying Symptoms pains all over him with great oppression of Spirits a general indisposition shortness of Breath want of Appetite sometimes vomited what he took had a great weakness and unsteddiness yet seeming great weight upon his head so as he could not stoop or scarce move it but gradually had strange fancies the least noise had so deep an impression upon him as was enough almost as he thought to have struck him dead Three days after his two fits he was extremely sick with a faintness of Spirits as if to death which so much weaked him as he was not able to walk over his Chamber without leading for four Moneths during which time he had many of those sudden Epileptick fits constantly at change and full of the Moon and fainted all over his Spirits for some hours together being in an Agony with weeping which fainting fits would hold for nine hours at a time with great struglings as if convulsed upon all which the pathemata animi had originally the greatest influence He had the advice of two eminent Physicians who ran through several courses of Physick with him giving him Vomits Purges ordering him blooding by the Hemorrhoids Steel Preparations c. Who when none of
these would do they advised him to go for Scarbrough-Spaw whither in July 1673. he went and drank the waters according to advice three weeks For the first ten dayes whereof he was very weak had a faintiness upon his Spirits found no advantage or benefit thereby at length Dr. Wittie then attending the waters advised him to ride abroad upon the Hills As he was riding a sudden griping took him round his body for half an hour and then an extreme purging came on him that he had four Stools in an hour with extremity of gripings before each Stool This purging began at two in the afternoon but the gripings began to abate before morning insomuch that it became rather a pleasure to have Stools than otherwise so continued all next day and night after without drinking the waters in which time he grew so steddy compos'd and strong in his head as he could step out of his bed to the stool without any help although he continued purging 4 times every hour The second morning early the Doctor advised him to put on his cloaths since he was so strong and walk to the Spaw where he according to advice drank only two pints of water and although in going he had four stools yet after drinking the waters he had only one or two there but none in returning and what was remarkable in going to the Spaw he walked faster than the Doctor to the admiration of all that were by After the aforesaid purgings he drank the waters for eleven mornings which then wrought so moderately as it had a most considerable and wonderful effect upon him his symptoms all abated and gradually went off got a good Stomach and digestion the flatus with its causes was suppressed which before sat upon the skirts of the Spirits Membrane of the Brain and Stomach whence his Vertigo went away the load or heaviness upon his head was taken off it became steddy his faintness and sickness ceased the soyling steams or vapors which perverted and darkned the Regimen of the Spirits whence with other concurring causes happened the lesa imaginatio were discussed prevented and in fine he thereby became lively brisk and chearful beyond expectation even to the Admiration of all those whether in City or Country who knew him in his former long lingring weakness He has ever since made his Annual visits to these waters at their season and has to his great satisfaction injoyed his health without the least Relapse or Symptom of his former dreadful Malady The Symptoms of whose Disease were signal Testimonies that the ferments were perverted the nutritive and Sanguineous juyces were become depraved and Spurious an incoarcible flatus was powerful and that the steams and vitiated juyces had darkned and clouded the Regimen of the Animal Spirits whence the lesa maginatio and that the flatus by occult passages and rubs of the vessels bore strongly upon the meninges or tender film of the brain whence came the seeming weight and yet unsteddiness of his head as also bore forcibly upon the original of the Nerves in the brain whence his Virtiginous and Epiliptick fits and smiting or suffocating the Spirits in their proper ducts as also being much penned up excepting as aforesaid in the Stomach strengthneth the Tunicles thereof bearing upon the breathing-holes of the vital ferment the parent of Digestion transmitted from the Arteries into the Stomach suspended its function whence sicknesses and faintings And how the waters orderly taken according to advice answered all these indications or as many of them as was needful we for brevity-sake wave farther to inlarge From the aforesaid remarkable cause and cure we might take an occasion to raise a discourse how the passions of the mind became the efficients and authors of many Symptoms and Diseases especially such as attend Hypocondraism in Men and hysterical fits in Women how they influence the ferments digestions chyliferous and sanguineous juyces tone of the viscera organs of the Spirits c. perverting the first disturbing and suspending the second alienating or vitiating the third altering the fourth inverting the order of the fifth and all in order to the production of several Diseases immediately emerging therefrom but that I must re-mind my self of my designed brevity The second cure THe Right Honorable the Lord Roos had been much troubled with Hypochondriack wind which stole away both his appetite and digestion and caused an eminent decay of his Spirits and strength and so filled his head with fumes that he was often taken with dizziness and Melancholy fancies after long methods of Physick prescribed by several learned Physicians wherein though he ever found much good yet his Distemper was frequently returning his Lord-ship came to these waters wherein he found so much benefit in all the respects aforesaid that he now injoyes a constant state of health this when first writ being the third year wherein his Lord-ship visits Scarbrough being then become much more lively and fleshy than formerly and found good encouragement to continue his Annual visits The Third Cure MRS. Robinson of Buckton betwixt fifty and sixty years of age laboured under a grievous and inveterate Head-ach on one side which was very violent proceeding from the Flatus Hypochondraicus having fixed it self chiefly upon that part and was also highly Scorbutick having the Scurvy in a great measure The pain of her head was so strong as put her upon the trial of many Physitians and had the best of their advice but most-what in vain at length drank these waters and in fourteen dayes time she found her pain abate and gradually go off and within a moneth she was perfectly well both as to her head-ach which before would not bend to ordinary means and also was cured of the Scurvy returning in very good health The Fourth Cure MR. Thomas Birbeck of Sheffeild in York shire was so afflicted with that Flatus Hypocond as it affected his head very much with a dizziness or virtiginous motion that he scarce durst preach in the Pulpit was in a languishing condition in this disease being full of fears and fancies applied himself to the waters and the first year found so much good thereby as incouraged him to come the next year after and then he was cured and for many years became a healthful and chearful man The Fifth Cure MR. G. Smith of Berwick upon Tweed practitioner in Physick fell into an extream heat and sharpness of Urine with a continual dysury after which did immediately succeed most grievous symptoms of Hypochondriach Melancholy viz. Dizziness in his head Dimness of sight Difficulty of breathing Oppression at Stomach and Indigestion of meat being voided raw which himself with others sufficiently learned did in vain labour to remove so as he was forced to keep his Chamber almost six moneths together even despairing of a recovery he came to these waters and drank three weeks and returned home in good health and chearfulness of Spirit for two years after he came again
much cause to suspect a Dropsie It had resisted Medicines till coming to the waters which she drank fourteen days her belly fell and and she shortly after conceived with Child Worms THE causes of Worms are chiefly ascribable first to the debilitude of the ferments and next to the depravation and putrefaction of the nutritive juyces chiefly residing in the Stomach and Guts which two causes joyntly considered are doubtless the seminaries of worms and wormatick matter For we see that Worms happen generally in Children where the ferments are not strong and whose nutritive juyces are hence apt to grow putrid and prone to a spurious animation if I may so say the generation of worms being a bastardly product or off-set springing from depraved vital seeds animating a degenerate putrid matter These without peradventure are many times the causes of several Diseases attended with bad symptoms even in adult persons whose original frequently lies in obscurity and hence are apt to be mistaken for other diseases That these waters expell worms and wormatick degenerate matter both as it strengthens the ferments helps digestion and likewise resists putrefaction will partly be evident from the few following instances The First Cure RIchard Legard Esq had been many years troubled with small worms which we call Ascarides for which he had taken good advice and used several remedies yet never found any so successfull as these waters which brought from him to his best judgment above five hundred in a day and in a few days quit him both of the Worms and the matter that bred them The second cure MR. G. Watson of Throshenby near Scarbrough was grievously afflicted with Melancholick fumes which exceedingly clouded his understanding and possessed him with fears and fancies taking away his sleep for many weeks together so as he was become a meer Skelleton and so feeble that he was not able to walk but was carried about in arms during which time he had nevertheless an incredible appetite accompanied with a gnawing pain at his Stomach the cause of which distemper was not easily discerned till after some time he began to void a sort of flat worms about an inch long empty as if they had been nothing but a skin applying himself to the waters he voided sometimes thirty or forty in a day and in a little time found perfect cure all symptoms abating and his appetite returning to its regular course Womens Diseases WOmens Diseases peculiarly so called are such as properly belong to the womb and to its Regimen and irregularities which chiefly either proceed from the obstructions of the Matrix whereby the redundant superfluous blood to be separated according to the due course of nature in the forms of the Menses flows back floats in the containing vessels in this or the other part whom with its plenty it stretcheth whence as an aliquid amplius a turgescence and plethory and the symptoms thence following or proceed from a debilitude of the womb whereby the blood becomes drained away in too great quantities whence Lypothymia's Faintings Swoonings c. As to the former in order to the better understanding of what the obstructions of the womb are and what the effects thence ensuing towards a right apprehension I say whereof we shew in our Hydrolog Chym. what the Menstrua are the manner of their Generation their use in nature their lunar and critical seasons of Evacuation and how from their obstruction arise a Plethora besides what happens at every natural and critical Evacuation and how the effects of which if setling in the head are usually if internal Megrim Dizziness or pain in the head or if external are pustles in the face redness and soreness of eyes swelling of the face c. if in other places thence tumors erratick pains and how from the restagnation of the blood through the aforesaid obstructions in the Bronchys of the Lungs happen indispositions dulness and sluggishness of the body shortness of breath oppression of the Precordia or upper mouth of the Stomach c. concerning all which I say we treat in our Hydrolog Chym. p. 125. 126. c. to which we refer We shall only here add that the waters by their connate Salts are by matter of fact found not only proper for opening obstructions and consequently adapted for the helping such Diseases and Symptoms as thence depend viz. the Green-sickness in Maids the fits of the Mother and symptoms thence arising But also by observation are found as effectual by its gentle astingency to repress the overflowings both white and red whose floods otherwise bring on Lypothymia's Faintings Swoonings c. For though it be an apperient water yet with other proper advisable helps it is found by experience notably to stay the immoderate Fluxes of Women As to the First the waters with other additional helps are powerful in opening as I said obstructions the Minera or source of womens Maladies makes the blood well to circulate and duly to pay its Lunar or Monethly tribute causing right separations to be made whereby their shortness of breath leave them their listlesness and indisposedness goes off and all other bad symptomes aforesaid disappear their appetite and digestion comes on grow vigorous well complexioned get a good colour for what they do making them look of a ruddy and fresh complexion where nature her self thus assisted begins to paint whose colours being only contempered by an invisible pencil are not only most lively but also durable and consequently if other features conspire the best and most taking And withal to such as are apt to miscarry they notably strengthen the retentive faculty of the womb helping such to go on to their time And that it takes away some causes of barrenness being frequently found to further conception both in those who having been long married never conceived and in such as after many years of intermission near past all hopes of more children In both which cases let the following Instances serve for the rest Prolifickness of the Waters or Instances of the waters efficacy towards helping of conception The first Case MR. Th. St. Quintin of Flambrough in York-shire and his Wife were seven years and an half married during which time she had never conceived upon the report of the efficacy and vertue of the waters he brought her to Scarbrough where she drank fourteen dayes within a month after she conceived and brought forth a Son Then having an interruption for four years he brought her to the waters again After a fortnight or three weeks that she had left the waters she conceived again and brought forth a Daughter both which at the first writing hereof were living and healthful Children The Second Case MRs. Elizabeth Turner of Hutton-Pagnel in York-shire whose cure of the Dropsie by the waters is formerly mentioned shortly after which she conceived with Child and brought forth a Son having had no child before of seven years The Third Case MRS. Elizabeth Smith of Scremerston in the
THE HISTORY OF SCARBROUGH-SPAW OR A further Discovery of the excellent Vertues thereof in the Cure of the Scurvy Hypochond Melancholy Stone Gonorrhea Agues Jaundies Dropsie Womens Diseases c. By many remarkable Instances being a demonstration from the most convincing Arguments viz. Matter of Fact ALSO A Discourse of an Artificial Sulphur-Rath and Bath of Sea-water with the uses thereof in the cure of many Diseases TOGETHER With a short account of other Rarities of Nature observable at Scarbrough By W. Sympson Doct. in Physick LONDON Printed for Tho. Simmons at the Princes Arms in St. Pauls Church-yard 1679. To the most Noble and most Honourable CHARLES PAWLET Marquess of Winchester Earl of Wilt-shire Baron St. John of Basing c. one of the Lords of his Majesties most Honourable Council May it please your Honour My Lord IT is not the least amongst those Oriental Gems which adorn the Breast of Nobility nor ought it to be reputed the meanest ornamental Vertue that by its lustre renders the minds of Noble Persons truly such not only to be thought but really to be encouragers of every generous and useful undertaking not barely in Specie but effectually to become Patrons to every noble Design And surely among the great variety of Topicks for discourse the Hystory of things appertaining to another World Divinity I mean excepted none but in one sence or other yields the Bayes to that highly useful one of health with its Introductions and Appendices whether relating to the continuation or restauration thereof to which our ensuing History is so nearly concerned as to merit the repute of being mainly introductory thereto whose adaptness to humane necessities will evidently appear if we silently resolve within our own bosoms the ensuing Queries viz. What resentment of Grandeur has an aching head although encircled within the most glorious Crown What delight can a Statesman take in Regulating and setting at Rights the Grand Affairs of his Countrey while he labours under the Conspiracy of prevalent although couchant Maladies What pleasure hath a morbid and therefore disgustful Palate the bane of Epicurism in the fruition of the greatest Delicacies even amidst the great variety which accosts that erring sensual Organ What profit can a Rich man take of all his wealth while he labours under the pains of a Gouty fit What quiet have we in the settlement of our Lands and Tenements while the morbid Tenant we inwardly foster turns Lawyer and Bayliff too sues and turns us out of possession by an irresistible Lease of Ejectment And in fine what satisfaction have we of any thing we enjoy here below while we truckle under any Grief or Malady Now my Lord the generousness of the Subject we treat upon viz. The History of these Mineral healing waters is such as among other useful Essayes towards a publick good may from a solution of the aforesaid Queries as also from other intimate Arguments deservedly challenge your Honours Patro nage in as much as you have been particularly pleased out of the sence of that good you have experimentally reaped thereby to do that right to Scarbrough Waters as in the presence of several worthy Personages publickly to own them by giving this Autoptical testimony thereof at least what was equivalent thereto That of all the Mineral waters you had tasted few in England or France having escap'd your test these of Scarbrough surpassed both as to a thorow as well as effectual working By which your Lordship received considerable relief the last Summer from the oppressing symptoms of the Hypochondraical wind although at the latest season of the year And my Lord notwithstanding the following Tract as most-what grounded upon experience the mother of Knowledge having its root deeply set in and firmly knit upon matter of Fact is doubtless the better able to bear up yea stand and vindicate it self against the shocks of any Calumniating Quill whatever yet upon due and mature consideration there is much safety for such a shrub how well rooted soever to be planted under so tall a Cedar that so it may not only in an hot season when tender Plants are apt to wither thence receive shade but also in Winter and stormy weather when there is no shelter To conclude my Lord what service your Lordship may do to that Countrey in this your tutelage to so good a design that you may live long enough to experience and by your if need be annual visits to confirm is the desire of My Lord Your Honours most humble Servant W. Sympson THE PREFACE Candid Reader IT is the usefulness of things which renders them acceptable and the benefit Mankind reaps from things applicable makes them truly valuable which as such really ought to gain opinion on their side the common standard of all matters relating to humane bodies amongst which those that from their own nature are more nearly allyed to the use of man ought of right to purchase the most acceptance the greatest value and the best opinion As to which how nearly deeply and necessarily the health of man the Prince of bodies is concerned in the continuing or regaining thereof let the healthful who have lately known sickness or the diseased who now languish speak Whatever therefore relates to the real curing or healing of Diseases and consequently restoring of health is truly valuable and ought to purchase opinion the common measure of things on their side and thence highly worth inquiring after of which sort are all Medical waters and particularly those of Scarbrough which how agreeable they are to the general constitution of humane bodies How congeneal to their ferments How great apperients or openers of obstructions How generally they pass How frequently they remove the causes of Diseases and consequently concur to the restoration of health The instances of of Cures chiefly performed thereby in the following History set down those speaking for others of the like nature we have not an opportunity to insert will in order to the gaining the ends aforesaid yea satisfactorily and demonstrably point out Vpon my late espousing of Scarbrough-waters the rational Induction whereto were the following Instances the main Subject of this Tract I found it in the mouths of many persons with whom I or my friends conversed that I was generally impeached of a retraction of what I had already writ They apprehending as if my former Books were writ against the Spaw which no person who ever read them can accuse me of For the controversie was not taken up against the waters as if designed to blemish them but was grounded upon shewing other manner of Ingredients then were believed so that what I said was not levelled against the waters but urged against the deposited principles or ingredients thereof As to the truth of which I have a cloud of witnesses even all who have throughly read my two books of the Spaw the chief called Hydrologia Chymica The latter Hydrological Essayes to whom I appeal and particularly I advise such as
the sands Scorbutick-Stone-Collick The twentieth cure of the Scurvy MR. Hall near Hallifax in Yorkshire was under Dr. Wharton and Dr. Paget two eminent Physicians hands in London for a complication of an Ague and Stone-Collick which wrought up to his Stomach and made him very sick I add Scorbutick because Agues not well cured frequently degenerate into Scorbutick habits of body which also fixing upon the urinary passages is the patron of many tormenting evils had many medicines especially purges prescribed which never passed with him At length after he came into the Country he voided several stones Then came to drink the waters at Knarsbrough but finding those not to pass with him came to Scarbrough and tryed those waters which he fonnd to pass exceeding well above all the purging medicines he had ever taken onely for the first two or three days made him very sore in his posteriors but carried off the Scorbutick Chollick and the relicts of his Ague procuring a very good Stomach which before was very bad and weak he received so much good thereby as he has now by times frequented these waters for ten years he had one fit of his Chollick this last Summer at the Spaw but upon drinking of the waters it presently went off he observed that for some few days it wrought like Epsom or Barnet mostly by seidge but more effectually than either of them and other days it wrought like Tunbridge or Knarsbrough chiefly by Urine This last Instance also relates to the Classis of the Stone cures but that the Symptoms thereof doth chiefly and strongly bear upon the Scorbutick ferment which is the cause why we rank it under this head of the Scurvy Scorbutick Diarrhea or loosness The One and twentieth cure of the Scurvy P. B. of Scarbrough his wife was troubled with an excessive loosness drank the waters which after purging presently stayed her loosness and she was well yea as often as she has any trouble that way applyes her self to the waters whether in Summer or Winter by which she alwayes finds good success it commonly cures her with one days drinking Scorbutick Gripes The Two and twentieth cure of the Scurvy P. B. a Master of a ship at Scarbrough my late patient was afflicted with the Gripes so as he could neither sit stand nor go without great torments drank the waters which at first he vomited but by a peculiar way or method of taking the waters giving him somewhat which made them find the way through opening the passages dinted the acrimony or acidity impacted upon the Guts quieted the pain and took away all bad Symptoms so he recovered Scorbutick Dysentery or Bloody-flux The Three and twntieth cure of the Scurvy THE aforesaid Master of a ships brother in law was afflicted with a Dysentery or Bloody-flux so as he was not in a capacity being a Sea-man of going aboard his Vessel he was weakned thereby and brought very low after trying in vain what other advice he could get drank the waters and in a few days the bad Symptoms were off and he was perfectly cured The twenty fourth Cure SIlvester Sympson of Driffield in Yorkshire had a bloody-flux eight years so as he all that space was forced to rise to stoole every night three or four times It had resisted all other means he had attempted He went to Scarbrough and was cured perfectly in two or three days with the waters alone Scorbutick pissing of blood The twenty fifth Cure MR. Chapman of 80 years of age was much and often troubled with pissing blood wherupon he made his recourse to Scarbrough's-Spaw which took away that threatning Symptome by giving him present Ease which was publickly known among the neighbourhood at Hacknes Now we come to reckon upon some other specificated Scurveys in whose causes and Symptoms the Scurvy is chiefly twisted viz. Scorbutick-Rheumatisme Erisipela's Ulcers Elephantiasis and Leprous Scurvy and shall give a single instance of cure of each by the waters at least by their chief help as follows Scorbutick Rheumatisme The twenty sixth Cure A. W. of Scarbrough was troubled with a Scorbutick Rheumatisme which cheifly afflicted her right arm and shoulder with grievous and almost insufferable pain so as through great extremity she cryed forth I ordered her being somewhat in years a vesicatory plaister to be applied to her shoulder on the same side and a fomentation made Ex fol. Ebuli Salv. agrest Et fl Sambuci Ä Ä boyled in Sea-water then I advised her some pills with the waters whereby they wrought well and the had ease in the worst of her paroxysme by the following night Julep viz Aq. papav Rhead â„¥ iiij vel â„¥ iiij Syr. Limon â„¥ i ss cuÌ„ u C li. acidulat which she took for three or four nights with great success and advantage causing her to rest well So she recovered A Scorbutick Cattarrhe The Seven and twentieth cure MRs. Mary Bateman of York had been much troubled with Rheumes which had swelled up her face and eyes and resisted all remedies found very much benefit by the use of this water more then all other methods that had been prescribed for her upon account whereof she has been an annuall visiter of it these twelve years Scorbutick Erisipela's The Eight and twentieth cure THE daughter of the aforesaid woman of about ten years of age or more had an Erisipelas or Inflamation in her legg called vulgarly the shingles or St. Anthony's fire which began the Winter before It often ran with a lee so as the cloth she wrapt it with would cleave and be baked thereto and was very painfull to her even to make her cry at every taking off she had a poultiss laid on which was hard baked thereto which I ordered them to take off and throw away I advised her to drink the waters with a few pils and ordered her a Topick of Venice Treacle one ounce mixt in a pint of the best White-Wine bathing it several times a day therewith leaving a double linnen cloth dipt therein upon her legg whereby in a few days time her leg grew better the Inflamation abated and the pain was mitigated So that in less than a months time the bad Symptoms went quite off and her leg was perfectly whole Scorbutick Vlcer The Nine and twentieth cure A Gentleman at the University of Cambridge Mr. K. now not far off Scarbrough had a Scrobutick Ulcer in both feet cross the toes while in the Colledge which brought him much pain the sore was white and most-what wept forth a Lee accompanied with a Scorbutick Acidum the chief cause of pain He laboured under the grief hereof for about two years notwithstanding all the help a Cantabrigian Physician could make him he came upon an occasion into the Country and drank the waters of Scarbrough for ten days being mindfull to try if he could thence get any help The operation of the waters was such as brought away a matter as black as pitch whereupon the former inveterate