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A60266	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-bath, and each 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.	Simpson, William, M.D.	1679 (1679)	Wing S3832; ESTC R217885	45,176	146

also against difficulty of Urine The next thing we propose in order is concerning Stones where in the first place amongst those Rocks on the back of the Castle we take notice of some strange and mystical inscriptions written in large Characters by another hand than we are usually acquainted with where he who is skilful in the language of Nature in the unfolding the mysteries thereof has by these dark Hyeroglyphicks a lesson hard enough set him To see some Pyrites or fire-stones some call thunderbolts inclosed in other textured rocky stones so shaped and figured as if shot in by some unseen hand as well as invisible bow which although both are Stone yet the former as much differs from the stony soyl of the latter they are planted or grow in as a vegitable plant differs from the earth it springs from such an object I say can beget no less than wonder To see by viewing again Cockle or Muscle-shells inclosed in great bulky stones as Hetrogeneous parts which constitute the whole compage and some of them to become as stony as the Rock they are fixed in To see others viz. Cockles in their intire form inclosed in and perfectly walled about which lesser stones like as if involved in stony baggs or petrifick cases Also to view other stones there found like boulders to inclose the perfectly wrought bodies of Snakes or Serpents Spirally wrought up in a small compass where the Snake stone has lest such an impression upon its case or print as if it had been the mould about which clay or some succulent stone had been so wrought and then hardned or petrified by the Salt-water and niterous air and thence had received impression just as boys do in making their prints of clay upon moulds and to see the great variety of curious Stones thrown upon the Sands some like Diamonds others like Aggates and so of other colours of which some have been sold at great rates To conclude to see great stones crusted over with fish-shells as if nature was cloathing them with new coats all which besides matter of common wonder may also give occasion to the Naturalist in his allotting of the causes of things to think again To go in the next place and view those pretty little guardens of Natures own sowing planting and walling To see I say little Woods and Trees curiously branched each small twig and slender fibre born up and delicately displayed to full view painted in their natural colours inclosed in stone growing in Neptunes Province and swimming in a flood I mean and some other Coraline plants whose roots are fixed upon stones incircled with walls made of the same floating in Sea-water exhibiting various colours no less pleasurable to the eye then satisfactory to a curious searching mind To say nothing here of the prospect of that great variety of Sea-plants which challenge the Rocks and Sea for their soyl here to be seen of which I have bestowed pains in making a Collection as the curious at the season may view All which cannot but beget admiration which if it do not it is a firm argument of the hardness and stoniness of that mind as well as of its petrifique objects To say little here of the two Wells or Springs of fresh waters which arise pretty near day upon the high Rock on which the Castle stands one of which is within two or three yards of the very brink of that steep Rock which bounds the Sea which is a vast heighth above the Surface of Neptunes Element and these Springs are rarely even in the greatest droughts known to fail And near to this place viz. at Whitby are the great Allom-works of England of which we have given some account in our Hydrolog Essayes To see each Proselite to Natures Wonders searching for Rarities upon the Sea-shore and every one like another Archimedes returning with his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in one thing or other either some curious stones or some Marcasite with a Cockle or Serpent wrapt therein which when the petrifick shell is broke appear plain to view in their intire and curious form or some pretty Sea-Plant for after every flood a new scene of Rarities in one sort or other appears where are to be seen those Ludicra Naturae in which Nature sports her self in great variety To conclude Methinks the question concerning every Rarity we here meet with is not much unlike that of our Lords to them who tempted him about the Lawfulness of paying Tribute viz. whose Superscription is upon it or whose Image doth it bear And the answer thereto not different from theirs viz. Caesars that of the great King of Heaven and Earth who as he hath stamped the character of his Wisdom and power upon every created visible object so more particularly some things seem to bear bolder shadows of the Divine Pencil and to retain more vigorous impressions and lively draughts of the Image thereof And lastly The conclusion or genuine consequence of both runs parallel with that of our Lords advice viz. to give to Caesar the things which belong to Caesar viz. Admiration Adoration Obedience and Praises for ever and all the World to come in with full Chorus saying Amen Hallelujah FINIS

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

blood which is aforehand diluted with a waterishness that which should be carried off most-what byurine being by obstructions made to flow back upon the blood and thence makes it become slow in its circulation and brings it very nigh the analogy of a standing Pool should by the adding more water be cured is I say no less than a seeming Paradox yet if we consider the Primary and Efficient causes thereof and the manner of the waters working will easily remove that Jealousie and confirm us in the belief of the contrary And First if we consider the immediate and efficient causes viz. First the vitiated ferment of the Stomach that primary wheel of all Chronical maladies the patron of the febricula and thirst accompanying Dropsical persons and next the transmitted Acidum impressed upon the reins from whence sometimes alone and other while with some additional mucous matter happen obstructions of those parts which are the principal Emunctories of the potables of the nutritive juyce and blood thence made to which possibly may be added the consideration of some obstructions in or errors of the ferment of the liver whereby the small vessels become stopped and the separation of the latex prevented whence upon the regurgitation of the superfluous latex ready to be separated back into the blood and thence into the habit of the body happens that Species of a Dropsie called Anasarcosis which by the anastomosis of the vessels or concatenation of the limphiducts le ts part thereof fall into the legs swelling them especially towards night and at other times re-imbibes or swallows it up again into the former cavities of the larger vessels and the leggs become unswelled again Or Secondly The liquid potables or superfluous latex by the aforesaid or equivalent obstructions as considered flowing back and heaped up mostwhat betwixt the Omentum and Peritoneum gives that species peculiarly called Hydrops properly a Dropsie which stretching the aforesaid membrans bears up strongly against the Diaphragme thereby contracting the cavity of the lungs hinder the due motion of the muscles thereof straitens respiration making the Patient short winded as usually they are Or lastly The same congested potable latex as considered accompanied with a flatulency gives being to that third species of a Dropsie we call a Tympany which regurgitated latex hath for the most part no urinous Salt in it whence those who are tapped for dropsies commonly weep forth an almost insipid liquor so also that water which passeth from those who drink plentifully of the Spaw has no urinous Salt neither tincture nor sapour Now in the next place we consider how these waters with some other additional helps work and how they may thence answer the general indications of these several sorts of Dropsies and the symptoms thence emerging will doubtless covince us of the truth of what we are treating especially if thereto be added as a sealing argument matter of fact viz. first that they chiefly rectify and strengthen the ferment of the Stomach and thence take off the two attending symptoms of heat and thirst all Dropsical Persons generally having a febricula and thirst upon them And Secondly That they by reason of the Mineral Salts wherewith they are acuated may and do hew forth their own way open obstructions sweeten or alter the transmissed Acidum and set open those formerly dammed or blocked up water-sluces whereby the watery latex lately through obstructions heaped up the blood and carried into other wrong vessels almost drowning and suffocating the vital ferment thereof is now drawn or filtred off and percolated through its proper vessels which being exhausted the blood is reduced to its due crasis and the tone of the debilitated viscera are by the gentle astingency of the inate Salts fortified and rendred capable of performing their due seclusions and separations and the obstructions of the Liver if any such there happen in the Fabrick of this Disease or wrong cast in its ferment are hereby opened and rectified and all the symptoms go off if the ferments be not too degenerate and the latex too much depraved and bowels tainted whence shortly will happen a total stagnation of the blood and drowning of the Spirits in the flood through the long continuance thereof for those who die of Dropsies are as we could easily shew really drowned viz. the same which happens by drowing in water externally happens inwardly in the vessels in dropsical dying persons by intercepting the circulation of the blood and drowning the Spirits what we further say upon this subject the reader may consult our subject the reader may consult our Hydrolog Chym. 117.118 c. to which for brevity sake we refer and shall content our selves at present to confirm the truth of what is already said by matter of fact from some few Instances which are as followeth The First Cure MR. Th. Wesled of Grimsby in Lincoln-shire was taken with an extreme pain in his belly which held him for many months together so as he could never say he was an hour free which took away his sleep he was also swelled in his belly as that he could not walk twenty yards without a rest and great difficutly of breathing and continual sneesing his appetite to meat was gone so as he was despaired of by his Physicians who suspected a Dropsie he came to the waters though with great difficulty in his Journey because of the weight of his belly and drank near three weeks and found an abatement in all the aforesaid symptoms the second year perfected the cure the third year he also drank the waters which he continued to do to prevent a relapse being then as healthful as in all his life before The Second Cure TH. Kud's daughter in Scarbrough of about twelve years of age had an inveterate Itch and by a Chirurgeon Quack was fluxed for it but in stead of curing her left her worse heightned the Scorbutick taint into a white leprous Scab all over her body and her body swelled much was very stark and hard her legs swelled and her face huffed up was judged by many incurable I ordered her a purge which carried off much watery humors and made way for the waters of which I ordered her to drink every morning in each first pint in a morning or sometimes in a little warm Ale to take one ounce of the Syrup de Spina Cervina also ordered her a glister ex recentis urinae â„¥ xij cum Syr. de Spina Cervina Ê’x and when I saw her four dayes after I could scarce know her in that her face was so much fallen and come to its right proportion also her body was much unswelled as likewise her leggs yea was quite recovered and continued so as I had an account thereof from an ingenious friend who had it from her own Father The Third Cure MRS. Eliz. Turner of Hutton-pagnel in York-shire through obstructions fell into a great swelling and hardness of her belly with difficulty of breathing which gave too