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A62931	A new-years-gift for Doctor Witty, or, The dissector anatomized which is a reply to the discourse intituled, An answer to all that Doctor Tonstall has writ, or shall hereafter write, against Scarbrough spaw.	Tonstall, George, b. 1616 or 17.	1672 (1672)	Wing T1888; ESTC R21567	56,564	200

very hard but the nearer they came to the root of the Stone his Lordships own expression the softer the Rock was even till at last it was nothing but Sand that had not contracted the firmness of a Stone Removing the heap of Sand they came at last to Water and Clay the mother of all that great Rock That Stone which is subject to Corruption may also be generated I need not waste time to prove before you 't is visibly to be observed that Stone has its seed by looking upon the Rock of the Dropping Well where the Water runs out of the same Chinks where it has done from the beginning and will do to the worlds end Notwithstanding the Water as Dr. Witty has described it running into the River Nidd a little way distant from it has Corroded so much Stone that it has made a Rock that stretches some yards into the River which shews that the Nitrous Water would have consumed the Rock which it continually Corrodes unless Nature do supply it by a continued act of Generation Not to give you any further trouble I say all Spaws have their name and natural property from the Minerals or Metals they have dissolved As we call Knaisbrough Spaw a Vitrioline water because it has dissolved Iron so may I properly call Scarbrough Spaw a petrifying water because it has dissolved Stone If there be any doubt remaining unresolved touching the petrifying property of Scarbrough Spaw I beg but to know it from you that I may have no more to do with this man of words and I shall be ready to give you that satisfaction which reason will prompt me to I shall only add a word of Apology for my freedom with Doctor Witty the only provocation that I gave him to all that uncivil language which he used towards me was my opposing his opinion which how fairly and candidly the Book it self can witness for me But finding him in his return shewing his strength rather in reviling than disputing I was necessitated contrary to my Genius to use such a way as might make him a little sensible of himself and yet in this I have not abounded too far because for the most part what might seem harsh are but his own reflections laid at his own dore as the proper Father of them and if there be any thing further I am sure it may be abundantly justified by his expressions towards me Your Honours Humble Servant George Tonstall TO THE READER ALL that I have writ against Scarbrough Spaw is but the Symptom of a Melancholy sancy Pag. 125. in the Judgment of Dr. Witty to cure me of this he has sent me a bitter Pill see now how finely he hath gilted it over these are his last words I do still profess my self to be a Friend to Dr. Tonstall and am ready to make it out in any civil kindness only I hope he will not henceforth expect that I tell him any Secret To reply to this having dealt with him as he says truly like as Hanun did with David's Servants he raises this note from 2 Sam. 10.4 But this did so exceedingly disoblige King David that it became an occasion of breaking the Bond of Friendship that had been betwixt them Now may I trust him for a Friend thinkest thou As for mine expectance that he should tell me any Secret Alas Mr. Culpepper has deluded mine hopes long since for he having Translated the London Dispensatory has rifled the Dissectors Cabinet Counsels and has laid open all his Secrets to the view of all English-Men and Women therefore let him be assured I shall expect none from him Another thing I desire to note is if the Dissector rejoyn he doth consute his own Title He calls his Book An answer to all that I have writ or shall hereafter write against Scarbrough's Spaw There is but one remedy for this great Evil he hints at it in the Epistle He may chuse a Second to re-inforce the Combat and I shall take another and let them fight it out if there be any life left in his Cause And that his Champion may have a fair Field to exercise his Valour in and the most advantage imaginable to rally up his scattered Forces I have presented in answer to p. 102. Twelve Propositions the Summa Totalis of all my Writings concerning Scarbrough Spaw Let him confute any one of these and then I shall recant the Twelfth Proposition which is the necessary consequence of them all I have a word or two more to tell thee of Dr. Witty First It is an observation of many years standing he commends Scarbrough Spaw good for all Diseases take these Instances for it A Gentlewoman came from Lincolnshire to Scarbrough and had a Letter from her Physitian to Doctor Witty yet she sent for me desiring to know my opinion After she had related her case and asked whether I judged the Water to be good for her or no I demanded a reason of her why she sent for me for resolution of that question being a stranger and not of Dr. Witty who was recommended to her by Letter says she We know the answer Dr. Witty gives to every one that comes to these Waters before it be asked him from hence is it making the Spaw a Catholick remedy that he asserts Philip Transel 10.51 That it cures the Asthma inveterate Catarrhs Hecticks and Consumptions I suppose no otherwise than as the King of Terrors doth that is a Cure for all Diseases Mr. Lampleugh liveing a few Miles from Scarbrough consulted Dr. Witty what he should do to prevent an Hectick and Consumption which he feared only he was inclined to the Doctor forthwith advised him to drink the Spaw and kept him a fortnight at Mr. Sanders house there which suddenly brought upon him the thing he feared who shortly after dyed of a Consumption This his Mother-in-Law related to me weeping As for the Asthma the Lord Cr. came last year to Knaisbrough who had sound the Evil Scarbrough had done to him before and related to me how his Nephew was gone to Scarbrough for cure of his Distemper the Asthma I then told his Lordship and desired him to take notice of what I said that if the Squire drank a fortnight of those Waters it would undoubtedly destroy him or else let him believe that I have no judgment of the nature of Scarbrough Spaw Coming to York after Spaw time I enquired of Dr. Witty how the Waters did with him he gave me no other answer but that he was very ill I asked his Physician in Ordnary concerning him and he told me that the Waters did utterly disagree with his Distemper and as soon as he came to Scarbrough he did forbid him to drink of it Mr. Atkinson formerly troubled with a Heat and Scalding of Vrine caused according to Galen by defluxion of sharp Humours advised with Dr. Witty last year for prevention of this Distemper he directs him to drink Scarbrough Water which did so exceedingly

days together while yet it has but made a furrow through the Guts and has left all the Excrementicious humours behind it the party finding therein no benefit at all 'T is honestly said of the Dissector now this second time I see truth will come out at last Therefore he says there is a necessity both to prepare by purging before and also in the drinking of the Water otherwise notwithstanding the daily working of the water they may return as they came 't is well if it so fall out that they return not worse Having thus discommended the ineffectual property of the Waters purging in that it makes but a furrow through the Bowels and leaves all the Excrementicious humours behind he faceth about p. 107. and does commend it as singular incomparison of other Spaw waters that are not purging First in regard of the Stone in this case waters that are only Diuretical may cause an Ischuria by carrying slimy humours into the smallar Vessels 'T is granted if no Physitians be there that has so much wit as to prevent this danger by giving the Patient a Purge Secondly p. 108. By the purging property of the Water not only the gross Excrementicious humours but also the stone filings that are in the water must be carried the broad way down the Bowels Alas for him surely the man is unadvised thus in one Page to write pro and con if the water purging ten days together could not carry away the light Cherry-stones that were in the Bowels as he instances p. 106. How can it be supposed that it should Purge away the Stone-fileings which beside their gravity has affixedness upon the inner coats of the Bowels like as we see the Sand cleaving to the sides of the Chamber-pot which will not be washed off with water unless rubing be used Thirdly This purging property of the water does quite overthrow what before I said asserting the waters obstructive property for 't is impossible that the same thing should be purgative and also obstructive In this contest with Hydrol. Chym. he used the term Sir Simpson as a reproach for my part I wonder how the Dissector got his Batchelor of Arts degree if he disputed after this manner had he said the water quatenus purging could not be obstructive it had been something purging and binding are terms more opposite than purging and obstructing yet Rhabard the same thing doth perform both because of its different parts Scarbrough purgeth as it is enriched with Allom and Nitre it obstructs also by the plenty of Sand Sand and Clay that is in it may not different things in the same water have different effects Fourthly p. 109. That property which I charge on it as that it causeth the Gout cannot possibly consist with the purging quality of the water for purging is owned by all and prescribed as a special remedy against the Gout either to prevent or to cure it First I said the rise of this Disease was from a petrifying property of an Acid Spirit I know none but the Dissector who refers the cause of all things to the first qualities of heat and cold that doth oppose me in this the instance which Mr. Clarke one of his Majesties Justices for the Peace in Northumberland told me which he see with his eyes is famous to confirm it Mr. Potter Steward to the Earl of Northumberland extremely troubled with the Gout had frequently Sand and small Stones that came forth through the Pores and stood on all the joynts of his fingers on the out-side of the skin this being so Sylvins and with him all experienced Authors give as a Maxim that Acidities are so far from being corrected or removed by purging with any Physick that is vulgarly known that it doth but exasperate them and make them worse Yet I 'le grant his Proposition what will it avail to bring it down particularly to the purging with Scarbrough in this Disease nothing at all for by his own confession it makes but a furrow through the Bowels and leaves all the Excrementicious humours behind But he will say I 'le mend that matter by giving other Physick mean while 't is the purging with his Physick and not the waters purging that cures the Gout But then I ask will his purge mend the petrifying property that is in the water and that Acidity because of the Dulphicate Salt in it both which are Enemies to the Gout I trow not as Scarbrough therefore doth upon these two accounts exalt and augment the specifick cause of this Disease as it cannot cure it much less can it prevent it John Lord Bellasses complained this year that by drinking Scarbrough but 3 or 4 days it gave him a Fit of the Gout if the Dissector will persist that he can cure the Gout and prevent it by purging then I suppose he is master of Helmonts Arcanum corallinum I advise him to present it to the R. S. which may make amends for the last trouble he gave them he concludes And therefore seeing he had projected to fix so severe a charge upon the Spaw I wonder he did not take care so to draw it up as that one piece might not interfer with and consute another I judge that the Reader has more cause to wonder at him why he should say so He now summons up all his forces together and says that Chymical Writers lead the Van Acidity Inky smell and black Tincture from Gall are certain and undeniable Arguments to prove Vitriol Thus he builds Castles in the Air I shall blow them all down with this one breath where not in Scarbrough nor any other water that has Nitre and Allom there these three Properties prove nothing for Vitriol for Nitre will give the Acidity Allom the Tincture without it as for the Inky smell as he alone doth find it I gave him an Experiment to make it more perceptable to the sense of smelling from whence it proceeds namely Allom. The savour of any thing is from the Sulphurious parts whilst they are freed from their Vincula Salina and sends forth the Effluvium which effects the Organ of smelling thus Brimstone till the Body be opened smells little or nothing but dissolved and precipitated how strong is the sence of it from the same account the Allom in the Spaw is not distinguishable by smell but let all the Saline parts settle into Chrystals after the stone-powder is separated and take the Sulphurious part that remains dry it and dissolve it in hot water as I said p. 59. of my Book and then you will find it gives the same smell that the Allom Pans at Whitby do and stronger Thus you see his threefold Cord is easily broken at one snap observe now his Pedantick and Unscholar-like dealing with me I wonder to find him so zealous in this Point to fix a stincking smell upon that water when there are so many thousands to confute him though hence it may appear he has lost his smell yet I should