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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62933	Scarbrough spaw spagyrically anatomized by Geo. Tonstall ...	Tonstall, George, b. 1616 or 17.	1670 (1670)	Wing T1889; ESTC R4765	15,856	62

LICENSED Roger L'Estrange Feb. 21. 1669. SCARBROVGH SPAW SPAGYRICALLY ANATOMIZED BY Geo. Tonstall Doctor of Physick LONDON Printed by J. M. for the Author MDCLXX PREFACE Nulla rosa nascitur sine spinis DOctor Witty in his Epistle to the Reader complains that Mr. Simpson by giving him the trouble of answering his Book hath interrupted his design of a Latine Copy upon the subject of this Spaw which he thought should have seen the light this year I would not willingly hinder any good work let this little therefore that I have writ but serve only as an Appendix to his third Volume and I shall clothe it in like fashion far be it from me to espouse the quarrel of either of them I profess my self a friend to both for if I should not walk uniformly betwixt Dr. Witty's Library and Mr. Simpson's Laboratory I might suspect my self a lame Physician Hippocrates and Helmont I declare are the two great lights that rule in my Hemisphere Galen's method of Physick may justly be named rational so far as he writes after the old man his Masters Copy I dare not speak further for him I hope in this Tract my writing is so candid that it may be observ'd what I have said is not ad personam but ad rem And that I have not concern'd my self in any word which Dr. Witty has been pleas'd to say in his two Books but only what was necessary to take notice of me defendendo It is but one Position that I have affirm'd upon the whole subject if it be daubed up with untemper'd Mortar let who will pull it down but if its foundation be built upon mechanical demonstration it must stand firmer than Hercules Pillar by the Process that I have taken the material principles which I assert to be in this Spaw are presented to our senses these are infallible judges positis omnibus requisitis of their objects Dr. Witty's failure was in that he left off where he should have begun after he had observ'd what is most conspicuous about the Spaw and tryed that the Gall tinctured the water of a dark purple colour contents himself with fair probabilities for affirming his five principles and then pag. 15. leaves it to others to try Experiments and make what new discoveries they can What unexpected things hath Anatomy discovered in the body of man these late years to derogate a tittle from the honour of these happy improvements of knowledge were to speak against the light and to bark against the Moon yet why must the usefulness of this noble Art be confined to the Animal Kingdom only The grounds of Anatomy in the vegetable and mineral Kingdom laid down by Tachenius doth neerly conduce to the discovery of the Nature Cause and Cure of diseases if I know any thing The little desection that I have made of Scarbrough's Diana gives the cause why one crys great is D. of S. and another at the same time decrys it as much the general account for this confused noise is because as the liquor is commendable so the dregs are insufferable the Essence of it fit for the Cup of a Prince the caput mortuum which is Sand and Clay fit for nothing but the Brick-layers Trowel Hence it doth follow that those who are weak in their digestive faculties and strong in their distributive these may find good by drinking this Water and no harm by the sordid feces due care being taken but those who are weak in both will experience the contrary To all those that have a petrifying character seminated in them I say of Scarbrough water Procul Ite cito abite nunquam redite SCARBROVGH SPAW SPAGYRICALLY ANATOMIZED BEfore I enter into this Discourse I am necessitated to remove an Objection lest I stumble on the Threshold Says my honoured Patient Last Year you perswaded me that Scarbrough Water was to be preferred before Knaisbrough this Year you are of a contrary opinion and therefore I know not how to trust you I answer first excusively you may note hereby that I am not pertinacious conviction of an errour will work in me conversion to the truth Again I did commend to you no worse thing than that which I took my self 'twere to be wished that all Physicians were bound with this Girdle Secondly directly for your particular trouble Gravel and Stone in the Kidneys I did prefer the Nitre at Scarbrough before the Vitriol of Knaisbrough Appello Coronam if that be not a more noble principle than this yet must it be understood only caeteris paribus Here my mistake was incurable until I got opportunity to sift Scarbrough Water in the Fire the best Microscope could not have shown me what lay in the bowels of it only Spagyrick Anatomy made the Dirt appear to open view For satisfaction to others who may censure my wandring from Knaisbrough to rise from wavering in opinion take this plain Narrative Anno Domini 1666. the famous fortunate Chyrurgeon Mr. Thomas Holiard of London may this man be blessed in his deed cut me for the Stone which weighed four Ounces and a half Six weeks after I was able to take Journey the Doctor there my friend told me his doubt that Vitrioline Waters were too sharp for me to drink because of my green wound so lately healed notwithstanding I resolv'd for Knaisbrough remembring Mr. Stones case which his Father related to me long since which was this after his Son was cut a large Stone taken out of his Bladder the wound did not perfectly heal notwithstanding he had all the help that London could afford for about three Months time at last Sir Theod. Mayrne did advise him to Knaisbrough Water he had not drunk it fifteen days till he was perfectly healed for which great Cure done by it he did frequent that Spaw for many years after this Water I mixed with white Wine which brought away by Urine abundance of mucous matter Helmont the Prince of Reason sets down the cause hereof in these words ubi custodes malè se habent continuò plorant partem proprii alimenti quod sibi assimilare debebat I was glad to see that this Spaw cleansed the Bladder from that glutenous stuff which if let alone would undoubtedly have laid a foundation for another Stone Sandy Gravel which few or none are exempted from falling amongst it and mixing with it must in continuance gather to a hard substance too great to pass away I wish all those that shall receive like mercy with me would use the like means to prevent a relapse of that formidable Disease the Stone Anno Dom. 1667. I returned thither again the season proved wet during which time the Spaw proved very weak of the mineral this discouraged me from drinking much of it I then blamed the great Ditch about the Fountain as the cause of impoverishing the Spaw of its principle for I judge it was as rational to pare an Apple and to peel the Bark off a Tree and hereby not indemnifie