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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19316	The colde spring of Kinghorne Craig his admirable and new tryed properties, so far foorth as yet are found by experience. Written by Patrik Anderson D. of Physick.	Anderson, Patrick, 1575-1624.	1618 (1618)	STC 573; ESTC S115268	17,021	35

water So doeth Niter takē before the bodie bee well prepared and purged And hath it done good to one and evill to another So will any good thing doe although good in it selfe if it bee not vsed with rule and moderation yea to some also one man's meate is another man's poyson a proverb cōmoun amongst vs. And hath it constipat some and loosed others No wonder for the Spring is possessed with contrarie qualities a vertue proper to best medecines for if it did not bind it could not helpe the lask Dysenterie And if it did not loose it could not remoue their causes Hath it not cured some without preparation and others which Physitions could not cure let them thank GOD and sing Te Deum laudamus Vna enim Hyrundo non facit ver Then blesse the Spring with a famous report and say Beatus medicus qui venit in fine morbi Then to conclude I perceiue my verie lerned frend and old Parisien acquentance M r VVilliam Barclay wold haue all the effects of this water to proceede from Tinne which effects sayeth hee the Paracelsians ascryue to Saturne and so concludeth Sacharum Saturni to bee the Salt of Tinne confounding two metalls in one as if Iupiter were Saturne and Saturne Iupiter Stannnm Plumbum and plumbum stannum Tinne to bee Lead and Lead to be Tin Which ouersight I can not think to haue proceided of ignorance because I know him to bee more lerned than my selfe I suspect it may bee imputed to his haist as hee writeth to the Printer in making for the tyde Or else it may bee that hee thinketh the difference betwix stannum plumbum to bee so litle that propter similitudinem in ardore scribendi hee might vse the name of the one for the other without scruple because of their affinitie which if so bee as it is liklie I think there is no oversight at all Finalie amongst all the wholsum qualities where with this water seemeth to bee so secreitlie indued the corroboration of the Stomach is not the least a great ayde in curing of all disseases and a power so oppenlie knowne in this water to steir vp lust to meate that few or none haue as yet retourned with out the proofe heirof But that Springs taking their course through Tin or Lead can giue appetite to the Stomach I cānot beleeue nether hath any of the learned ever as yet remarked such a thing For Fuschius the most learned German Physition in his dayes recompting the Physicall properties of minerall waters both into France and Germanie writeth thus of the Plumbiers or leaden Baines of Loraine In Lotharingiae inquit montanis Balnea sunt quae plumbiers quasi plumbea ob nimirum copiosam plumbi mixturam vocantur Constant ex plumbi Sulphuris Aluminis commixtione Auxiliatur malignis curatu difficilibus vlceribus cancro phaged●nis fistulis elephantiae recens caeptae omnibus cutis vitiis Heir is no mention made of the stomach much lesse of other inward infirmities this way cured either by Tinne or Lead How then can it bee any thing but a detersiue drying semi-minerall Nitrositie which this water seemeth to haue spirituallie contracted whose naturall sweetish scharpnes is so tempered by communication of the refreshing qualities of Crystall and Gypsum and whose qualities are also detersiue and drying The effects whereof bewrayeth it selfe more in bellifying and skouring the superficiall deformities of the skinne then in curing of vlcers proper to Tinne or Lead such as are pustules red plowks of the face ytching and roughnes of the skinne proceeding of a dry melancholious salt blood Tetters Ring wormes and that sort which the Frensh men call les Dartres de Naples the Graecians 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Latines Impetigines and with our selfs is a dry ytching scruffe or hote fla oftymes chancing on the face or on the back of ones hand which as Paulus Aegineta testifieth turneth to those of an ill dyet into a scabbe or leprosie The which also that most eloquent and learned Physition Fernel hath well remarked in the properties of Niter in these wordes Nitrum inquit quanquam vehementer tergit non tamen vlceribus sed lepris alphis impetiginibus aliisque cutis vitiis expurgandis aptum And old Plinius who was so curious in naturall things sayeth it heateth biteth and vlcerateth Which affects say our Chyrugions are no way fit for vlcers therefore may be the cause perchance why Tabide or cōsumed people by an vlcer of the lungs after the immoderat vse of this water became daylie worse and worse by too muche loosing of thee bellie a power proper in this water to some albeit vnproper for Tabides Phthisici enim per alvum rarò aut nuncquam purgandi Now because that some may object if this water had any Nitrous qualitie it wold no dout bewray it self either in taist colour or savour to which I answer that Physicall waters possesse either spirituall qualities or substantiall quantities as there bee diverse kynds of Salt so are they diverse kynds of saltish waters which differ in their qualities by degreis For some be stronger others mylder some sharper and some sweeter others so insipide that skairslie are they felt on the tongue And least I shuld seeme to bee alone of this opinion without warrand of the learned Heare what Fallopius sayeth of this same subject Nitrum quidem ipsum gustu cognoscitur difficile tamen est ex gustu discernere an aqua habeat in se Nitrum quia Nitri sapor in ejusmodi aquis frigidis non discernitur Item visu nec olfactu vllo modo cognoscitur aquam habere Nitrum Tactu autem aliquo modo quia aquae Nitrosae detergunt nec relinquunt aliquam asperitatem Againe hee sayeth in an other place Saepe enim Sal Alumen sunt cum aquis ita commixta vt impossile sit per dissolutionem naturalem ipsa cognoscere Item Nitrum non cognscimus in aliqua aqua esse nisi insit ipsamet Nitri substantia To bee short then let none think but Springs of waters may bee indued with diverse Physicall properties minerall or semi-minerall qualities althogh they nether bewray them selfes in taist colour nor savour But how the say others can waters possessed with saltish and Nitrous faculties refresh moysten and coole I answer that a thousand effects in naturall causes may also proceed of cōtrarie qualities for there be many exceptions even in naturall rules so that sometymes wee see by experience subtile nature so to ouerreach and surpasse the skill of arte in these kynds of mixtures that simples natuallie hote dry of them selfes by the companie of others which coole and refresh are sensiblie felt to excute colde ffects Iosephus Acosta a worthie and judicious Spanyard in his naturall and morall historie which he writeth of the East and West Indies discoursing vpon the naturall