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Scarbrough spaw spagyrically anatomized by Geo. Tonstall ...
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Tonstall, George, b. 1616 or 17.
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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
Thief has lain hid so long but if a Light had been brought in by a Chymist this Thief might have been discovered before this time and then Nephritick men would have been aware of it I grant by reason of abundance of Nitre in the Water it will force out stony Gravel in the Kidneys when any is there but I am certain also because of the plenty of Stone filings that are in it the Water will occasion the breeding of Stones in the Kidneys where pro tempore there are none ask those that have quitted themselves of the Stones they voided by drinking the Water if after they returned home fits have not come on them more frequently and sharply than before they drank of Scarbrough-Spaw I protest to the world both as to my self Relations and Patients I have found it so to shew the disserence betwixt Scarbrough and Knaisbrough Water as to this petrifying property I shall mention a remarkable Observation of Mr. Henry Proctor of Farnly I had the relation of it from his own mouth when we were together this Gentleman was brought very low in an Hectick Fever and sadly troubled with shortness of breath he consulted with Dr. Henry Poor for Cure but found no Remedy he then applied himself to Dr. Neal who prepared his body and advised him to drink Knaisbrough Water which caused him cough up several Stones daily till he was perfectly cured He does enjoy his health very well ever since using those Waters once a year afterward he married and now is Father of two Children if this Patient had been sent to Scarbrough-Spaw what had become of him let others judge as the Disease of the Stone doth immediately proceed from a petrisick spirit the cause sine quâ non so Jaundise and the Gout have their 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from it hence it doth follow that secondarily these two Distempers are dangerously exalted in bodies that are inclinable to them by drinking this Spaw for evidence of this truth I shall give instances First the Lord Erwin went from his House at Temple-Newsam to Scarbrough upon what other account than to divert himself there with the company of his friends I know not after he had drunk the Water and was returned home presently the Jaundise seizes on him of which Disease he shortly died though Dr. Taylor used all means for his remedy now this I say all sweet Spaws in the World have a property common to them that they are of a deopilating nature and though they may not suit to every Disease yet for the removing of grand Obstructions the cause of most Diseases they are generally the best and mostly the last advice of all Physicians what reason then can be given why this Honourable Lord by drinking Scarbrough Spaw Water had not the Obstructions of his Gall opened but contrarily brought into this irrecoverable Disease that kill'd him I say what reason else if not this Scarbrough Water did petrifie that Sulphurous Saline humour in the Vesica bilaria into Stones too great to pass through the porus Dr. Witty blamed his too liberal drinking of wine with it as he said to my self this year but what harm could that do more than to increase Choler which humour unpetrified is most easily purged away of all others That Stones do as usually concrete in the Gall as in the Kidneys in men as well as in beasts who doth question I was present many years since at a Physick Lecture in London when the Professor in the Discourse of the Jaundise brought forth three or four little Stones of Gall wrapt up in his Handkerchif to shew them to the other Doctors there relating that a Gentlewoman of the City afflicted with that Disease after many fruitless attempts made by him for her Cure at last was put to it to give her a Dose of sharp working Physick which quitted her of those Stones whereby she forthwith recovered if any object that suppose the Gall be petrified yet it cannot cause death in so short a time as this Lord took his Disease and died in it For answer let him consult Helmont with Syloius and there is enough to satisfie him that the second fermentation made by the succus pancreaticus and the Gall are as necessary for the preservation of life as the first fermentation is that 's in the Stomack though in an Oxe Gall there is often found a great Stone notwithstanding the beast keeps health and liking till the Butcher slaughter him yet then there is abundance of liquid choler besides in his Vesica bilaria sufficient to perform fermentation I shall mention but two other instances of this year in our Town An Alderman whose Father some years since died of the Jaundice but himself was never troubled with it till after his coming from Scarbrough Water then did the Symptoms of this Disease appear only it did not manifest it self either by Vrine or by Colour of his body which gave me a great cause of suspicion that the water had petrified the Gall with Chalibeat and other Icterical drinks by slow degrees he recovered A Merchant's Wife with Child for company of her Husband came to Scarbrough Dr. Witty in his Book approving the Water safe for such she desired to drink of it upon her return home a tormenting pain seized on her right side for mitigation of this extream dolour and prevention of a Feaver Phlebotomy was thrice ordered then an Antimonial Vomit yet so obdurated was the Gall by the petrifying property of Scarbrough Water as I suspected that none other sign appeared of the Jaundice but a return of her pain three or four times over at length a ternary spirit of Wine Nitre and Mercury elixerated dissolved the congealed Choler and then did the Disease shine forth in its saffron colour after three recidivations she was pluckt out of the Jaws of death beyond the hopes of all her friends and is now well delivered of a lusty Boy Let it be here observed that I practise according to conscience and let those She-Tatlers who when they have done mumbling over their Beads come to a Feast and there mutter hard speeches against me for dealing so severely with this Patient take notice that it is my principle when I see my duty to pursue it to the hazard of my credit with such as them and though I be singular in this point from the most of my Brethren whose wisdom it is to secure themselves from an evil report by doing nothing in a doubtful case yet I have not so learned Christ The Maxim is true quod unicum est non deliberandum est and the resolution is Christian Let us quit our selves like men of Art and Integrity and let the Lord do what seemeth him good Pardon this digression Reader Dr. Witty gives an instance pag. 180. of a Knight and his Lady in Lincolnshire by drinking the Water at home for the Scurvy both of them took the Jaundice which they recovered not from till Christmas following