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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35721	Hydrologia philosophica, or, An account of Ilmington waters in Warwick-shire with directions for the drinking of the same : together with some experimental observations touching the original of compound bodies / by Sam. Derham ...	Derham, Samuel, 1655-1689.	1685 (1685)	Wing D1098; ESTC R13324	80,234	190

HYDROLOGIA PHILOSOPHICA OR An ACCOUNT of ILMINGTON WATERS In Warwick-shire With Directions for the Drinking of the same Together with some Experimental Observations touching the Original of Compound Bodies By SAM DERHAM Bachelour in Physick lately of Magd. Hall OXON OXFORD Printed by Leon. Lichfield Printer to the University for John Howell Bookseller 1685. TO HIS Honoured Friend WI●●IAM LENTHALL Esq of Haseley S●● I● was not my Ambitious Design but the importunity or rather Command of several Gentlemen to commit to the Press these Experiments I had made on Ilmington Waters that maketh me thus appear however was resolved it should pass as from an unknown Pen until I found Concealment was impossible and by absconding should seem to impose falsities on the World which are the only Reasons of my Name in Print And seeing that hereby I do expose my self to the Censure of all men although it is but a mean Return for your Kindness and Civilities to me to entrench farther upon your good Nature yet I hope you 'l allow this following Treatise a propitious Acceptance whose Prudence and Learning is able to withdraw me from the Calumny of mine Enemies Although the greatest Patron that ever liv'd was never able to protect Books from Censure neither is it reasonable to impose Opinions in Philosophy as Truths necessarily to be believed against the Argu●ngs of more solid judgement yet as just Umpire may advance Truth against the malicious Cavils of them that neither consider the Sureness of the Experiments nor whether the Deductions be a forced Consequence or the Sence of Authors perverted but through Envy quarrel at the Treatise because Delivered by such an Author Flattery for Patronage I shall avoid true praise being not more pleasing to You than Counterfeit is ungrateful but shall presume the more because of your imbred proneness to the Advancement of Scholastick Undertakings Neither shall I endeavour an Encomium of Him whose Merits and Excellent Endowments have already become their own Herauld beyond the Praise of Your truly Affectionate and Humble Servant SAMUEL DERHAM THE PREFACE READER PErhaps it may seem strange that I should thus undertake an Hydrological Essay seeing that many Eminent Writers have given their judgement of the Cause and Vertues of Mineral Waters such as Georgius Agricola Libavius Solinander Andr. Baccius Fallopius and of our own Countrymen Dr. Jorden Simpson Turner and many others both Ancient and Modern Authors Yet there were several Reasons inducing me to publish this my Scrutiny into the Nature and Operation of this New-found Spring by some called Balmoore Waters naming the Spring from the Place which is near Ilmington a Town in Warwick-shire This may also deserve the Name of Ilmington-Spaw from its brackishness according to Van Helmonts's Appellation Parad. 3 and 4 of Fontes aciduli Spadanae or Spaw-Waters Which name I shall retain in my following Treatise My chief Inducements hereto were First The Common Good seeing Multitudes dayly flocked to this Fountain of whom many were poor illiterate Country-men that inconsiderately without preparing their Bodies or Physitians advise repairing hitherto might as well have hastened to their ruine as to recover their impared Health For The most ingenious Dr. Cole who first tryed and applauded these Waters by his recommending a Person of Quality to the Drinking of them did so alarum the Ordinary sort of People and the rude Mobile as if Waters had been found with some Supernatural Vertue like the Pool of Bethesda or the Waters of Jorden when they cured Leprous Naaman the Syrian Secondly The Doctor being called away by his Employment I was desired by several Gentlemen to commit the Tryals I had made on those Waters to the Press on no other design then to give Caution to the incautelous Multitude among which many are as an * Auth. of the Query about Dri●king the Bath-water prefixed to Dr. Jord●n o● the Bath Author observed like so many Animals that follow one another and are apt to go the broader way though it lead to ruine Thirdly Ancient Authors did usually take a general Survey of Mineral Waters not descending to a strict Scrutiny by Experiments into Particular Springs Vpon which account many things have been left false and imperfect which an Examination of Particulars may descry and perhaps afford more of knowledge to Posterity though in a few Experiments than in great Volumes of Conjectural Philosophy As Dr. Tyson in his Phocaena Page 9. rightly saith Malpighius in his Silk-worm hath done more then Jonston in his whole Book of Insects and He and the ingenious Dr. Crew have taught us more of Plants than either Gerard or Parkinson Yet I desire not to contemn but to speak with due honour and reverence of the writings of the Ancients to whom we owe great part of our knowledge but withal hoping that I may have as much freedome to communicate my Sentiments as others have done theirs before me As for the Calumny and Reproach which I shall occur from mine Enemies and especially those that out of a Disgust to the Author verify the Proverb Try the Man and not the Cause I shall pass by remembring the Saying Habent sua fata libelli But least that by making use of some words mentioned by Helmont and other Chymists such as Archeus Leffas terrae Acid and Alkali c. I should seem far short of answering my Design I shall by the way hint out the Sence of them least that by obscure Terms I should seem to darken the Matter and amuse the Reader that is unacquainted with Chymistry Helmont De Form Ortu Sect. 61. thus explaineth himself Repetam seminum massam recipere in se corporalem Auram vulcanum Quem Archeum nomino Now the Aura Vitalis by him termed Archeus is but that Stamp or Divine Impress made at first by God Almighty to direct blind Matter in the Composition of an Object For we cannot suppose that an Embryo is formed by a fortuitous concourse of Atoms and that Animals do propagate after their kind by an accidental Conjunction of Matter but the Divine Fiat in the Creation made an over-ruling Power to the work of Generation and Specification of the Individual whether it be called Archeus vis 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Forma c. Which was at first made by God the Creator and as Helmont else-where telleth us is as a Faber or Workman to the shaping of a Concrete in its Generation Leffas terrae is that Succus terrae fracidus unde surgit omne plantarum genus visibili carens semine sataque semina promoventur in Destinationes Helm Imag. Ferm Parag. 31. viz That fracid juice of the Earth that is the Nutritive Juice to Vegetables For Water on the Earth exposed to heat and air will be soon endowed with a putrid Ferment which is a Leffas convertible by the Archeus into Vegetables Salts are either Acid or Alkalizate upon the mixture of which contrary Salts an Effervescence will follow So that an Alkali may