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A72470	The bathes of Bathes ayde wonderfull and most excellent, agaynst very many sicknesses, approued by authoritie, confirmed by reason, and dayly tryed by experience: vvith the antiquitie, commoditie, propertie, knovvledge, vse, aphorismes, diet, medicine, and other thinges therto be considered and obserued. / Compendiously compiled by Iohn Iones phisition. Anno salutis. 1572. At Asple Hall besydes Nottingham.	Jones, John, physician.	1572 (1572)	STC 14724a.3; ESTC S107904	49,058	102

it might be done supposing these will serue to giue the wise and learned patient matter sufficient to consult with the Phisition of wherby that which is according to nature may be preserued and ayded and those things which be against Nature expelled the scope of Phisicke as is shewed Elementum is a simple and most pure bodie and the best parte of that wherein it is can not be deuided into any other kind and of it all things naturall haue their beginning without al generacion or corruptiō Howbeit of Fire made thicke commeth Ayre Of Aire made thick commeth vvater Of vvater made thick cōmeth Earth And yit here is neither corruptiō nor generation of the whole For this is but a mutation of the parts onely And the consent and agrement of them is the fyre with the Ayre in heate in drynes with the Earth in moisture the Aire with the water in heate with the fire in coldnes the water with the earth and in moisture with the ayre the earth in drines with the fyre and in coldnes with the water as the water to the fyre is extreme contrary so is the aire to the earth Elementes foure Fyre Absolutelie hot and moderately dry Ayre Absolutely moist and moderately hot vvater Absolutely cold moderatly moist Earth Absolutely dry and moderatly cold Temperamentum is a tēpering of diuers qualities of the foure Elements in one body Temperaments or complections .ix. Simple Hot. Actiue Cold. Actiue Moist Passiue Dry. Passiue Compound Hot and dry Hot and moist Cold and moist Cold and dry Tēperate Of all alike as it were by waight the very trew and iust complection but as hard to be found as Plato his Idea or Arist summum bonum or as the the prouerbe is a black Swan Neuertheles he that will iudge trew of complexions must alwayes haue in his imagination the aforesayd perfect temperament Humors which may be called the sonnes of Elements is a part contained subsisting the bodie Humors foure Naturall Blud Temperate norishing the body contained in the vains swetish raigning in the spring Flewme Cold and moist sowpling the drie and hard parts without proper mācion tastles raigning in winter Choler Hot and drie clensing and quickning conteined in the gall bitter raigning in sommer Melācholie Cold and dry staying and binding contained in the Splene sower raigning in haruest Vnnatural as Blud distempered with other humors Flewm waterie glassie slimie plastoie salt sower harsh rugh Choler Citrine yelkie like cankrie And eueri day they are thus moued as the blud betwen the ninth houre at night and iij. in the morning Choler betwen iiij ix afore none Melācolie betwen ix and .iij. Flewme betwen iij. ix at night Membres are bodies that are ingendred of the fyrst commixtion of humours Members Spermatike as Braine synewes Kells bones grissels c. Simple as Skin fatte flesh muscles fillets guts veins artires Synowes chords gristles bones tunicles c. Sanguine as Liuer hart kidnes Milt fatte flesh c. Compound as Hed. Armes Legs Principal as Hart braine Liuer stones Officiall as Synowes seruing the brain Artires seruing the hart Veins seruing the Liuer Vessels spermatike seruīg the stons Instrumētall as Stomake Rayns. Bowels Great synewes c. ¶ Herewith see that you consider the composition the complexion the substance the quantitie the number the figure the operation the vse the disease in part in all the mēbres Facultas facultie or power is the cause of doing thas which is don as the vvater is the cause of the while going about Faculties or power s. Animal Ordeineth discernith composith Mouith by voluntarie will. Sentith wherof procedeth the fiue wits Vital working delating and wraining the artires vvrought which is stirred by an exterior cause wherof com̄mith subtiltie prouidēce Natural Doth minister Apetite Retaineth Digestith Expelleth Is ministrid Ingendreth Norishith Feedeth Actio et opus doing working is that which by the power is don as the wheate conuerted to meale is the grist of the mill Action or operation Vital Mouith mirth sadnes hope trust feare dispaire loue hatred mercie enuie wrath wodnes wildnes stobernes humanitie Empire glorie victorie c. Natural Altereth Ioineth Formith Animal Aaprehendeth Fantasieth Imagineth Opinioneth Cōmonsenteth In the two former ventricles Iudgeth Estemeth Thinketh Disposith In the middle vētricle Remembrith Knoweth calleth to memory in the hinder part Spiritus is an ayrie substance subtile stirring the powers of the bodie to performe their operation euen as a prince doth his counsel and as the counsell doth the subiects euery one according to hys vocation and to that is limited by nature wherin was neuer sene rebellion but euery inferior redy to serue his superior a paterne of a heauenly common weale and for euery reasonable bodie to note obserue although he were an Ethemek how much rather then of Christians euery faithfull manne knoweth Spirits Natural From the Liuer taketh his beginning and by the veines which haue no pulse dispersith in to all the hole bodie Vital From the hart procedeth and by the artires or pulses is sent in to all the hole body Animal From the braine is ingendred and is sent by the sinewes throughout the body and maketh sence or feeling c. ¶ Now that you haue here in this Table noted vnto you the things wherof the Natural bodies is made with the powers and actions of the same so likewise folowith the things not naturall so called bycause they be in parcel of the natural body and yet by the temperance of them the body being in health so consisteth and yet by the distemperance of them sicknes is induced and the body dissolued THese things well waied being the things wherof we are framed the subiect of phisike as the frame of an house is the subiect of the Carpēter wyl vs to looke in the Table of the .vi. things not natural by what meanes we are héere cōtinued maintained as therin further is shewed for other wise what auailed a lump not of an howers life to be produced or so many good lawes and holsome precepts appointed for the good preseruacion educacion bothe of ould yong and auoyding of contagiouse infection aswell from princely mancion as from citie towne and Garrison prohibicion and admission of victualles fit and vnfyt for nouryshment the which if all were hab nab as fooles vse to comyn other ouerbould in abusing theyr eloquence to take from vs in indifferent thinges our frée election seing God nature to them that be framid according to nature not impedited in the actions of the partes to them belonging may as the wyse man sayth vse fyre and water at theyr discresion with eche other thing in this lyfe to them in euery sort méete and decent not forgetting to giue God chéefe prayse for all things yet not in such sort as the Puritanes but better we may terme them pinis precisians vse who would haue that no man deserueth be his acts euer so

receue the impression as the light by the brightnes cléernes of Diamonds Saphirs Cristal or such like strengthning the same but in these of thē afore aledged ther is no such aptnes of heating cooling moystning or drying or by any other meanes furthering the same as you may perceue by your own outward senses Beside these heat preserued becometh more mighty being ioyned to drynes then to moysture séeing drines doth whet sharpen heat contrariwise moisture doth dul it as you may also easely gather Lastly actuall fyre working vpon the water it self can not put into it a greater degrée of heat the water it self remayning then the degrée of feruent heate Experience doth verifye the supposition whereby it may be inferred that the waters of Bathes can not be brought to so great a degrée of heate by whot vapoures vnder the earth nor yit by their dashing from hyghe places and craggie for then the waters descendinge out of the cragged rockes in the hyghe hilles in Kayer Naruayne shyre there called VVithua and out of the rauen cragge in Cumbreland shuld through their longe course and violent tossinges become hote But experience proueth the contrarie therefore dashinge togyther and passage of the waters through stony places is not the immediate cause of the heate of the waters of Bathes Séeing that effecte lastly is fyre neyther be such vapours or dashinges matchable to fyre in heate so that from them such an heate can not procéede Wherefore it shal be shewed that if it be heated their heat shal bée by none other means but of fyre And séeing fire doth so heate it ensueth that in the bowels of the earth fire may be found Which as wée haue sayde shal be farther approued both by experience and reason Auicen and Auerhois do permit that Elements are formally in things mixed which thing we leaue worthy to bee graunted by their authoritie so that then thus wise we wil argue It is an harder thing for nature to be able to bringe forth in the bowels of the earth a thinge mingled perfyte then a thing simple perfecte when as a thing mingled thus wyse can not be produced without the simple séeinge it is presupposed but nature can do the first séeing it bringeth forth Golde Siluer Brimstone Salt peter Alume Iron and all other myneralles Ergo it can do the seconde ergo it can bring foorth fyre also And the cause of the beginninge of this fyre is none other then that which is assigned of Aristo in secundo meteo capite de terraemotu And it is an exhalacion hot and drye included in the concauities of the earth where it séeking a passage out and not fynding it is laboured being so laboured it is rarified and beinge rarifyed is kindled bycause great rarefaction standeth with great heate If therefore it happen that where such vapour is included and after the maner as is sayde inflamed if I say it happen that there be metal of Bitumen or Sulphur it is also kindled and the fyre is so longe preserued as the matter féeding it shal not fayle which matter féeding must now be searched out bycause it is not yit euident what it is and also many of those which doo followe the opinion of Aristo concerning the cause preseruing the fyre vnder the earth do disagrée although all do confesse that this fyre vnder the earth hath some subiect preseruing it and that thys fyre is the cause of the heate of the waters of Bathes hereafter shall appeare more euidently Iohannes de Dondis an excellent learned man and a pure Peripatetique hath made a very goodly treatice of the hot welles in the fielde of Padua and there amongst other questions hée moueth this Whence it is that the waters of Bathes doo springe hote hée aunswereth at the length with Arist and sayth that the cause is fyre vnder the earth and that such waters doo flowe perpetually hote bycause the fyre is perpetually preserued in those places vnder the earth after hée demaundeth what is the cause preseruing and aunswered wherevnto very ignorauntly Sanonarola cleaueth that it is heate excitated of the Starres in the face of the earth which heate hée affirmeth to bée not onely the cause preseruing but also the efficient as it were and the materiall and subiect of the fyre hée supposeth to bée an exhalation hote and drie that is wynde And bycause the wynde is still ministred therfore that especially fyre is perpetually preserued and perpetually heateth the waters Afterward he demaundeth of the place of that fyre vnder the earthe sayth that it is not nye the centre of the earth bicause then it would easily bée corrupted for the earth is ther most pure and therfore the vertue doth more florish so that it is most colde neither is the place of the fyre vnder the brimme of the Earth for if it were ther conteyned it would burne vp the plantes and whatsoeuer is in the face of the same and therfore he concludeth that it is in the middle hollownesses betwene these two extremes that is béetwene the centre and the face of the earthe he addeth that this place where the fyre lyeth is distant from the face of the earth .xxx. Myles whereby it appeareth that he woulde haue the Sunne to perse the earth by the space of .xxx. Myles But this opinion is false bicause if the beames of the Sunne should kéepe fyre vnder the earth it must fyrst passe thorough the face of the earth then passe part after part vntill it come to that especiall heate and so afore it come to that fyre it would burne whatsoeuer is found on the superficies of the earth But admit that this heauenly heate passing thorough the superficies of the earth do not burne all that it encountreth yet it wyll not preserue that fyre bycause seing it is .xxx. myles distant from the superficies of the earth as he sayth toward the centre before the heate excitated of the Sunne beames come thether it will bée so flacke that it wyll not bée warme therefore the opinion of Ioannes is false Againe if fyre vnder the earth that is this flame and especiall heate were perpetually preserued of the heauenly heate it would ensue that in colde Regions waters of Bathes wold not be hot but in hot Regions they would be most feruent hot bicause in colde regions ther is but small reflexion of the beames of the Sunne for which cause they be cold Therfore the heate of the Sunne in them can not bée so hot that it should minister too the fyre vnder the earth so strong an heate but in the hot Zone ther shold not only be so great an heate that those waters should bée most hot but also all things should bée burned But dayly experience proueth the contrary also the authoritie of Matten Curtesse in his booke of Nauigacion to Charles the fith Monarche If therefore the heauenly heate were the cause of heate vnder the earth in cold climates hot waters

wold not flow but alwaies cold in hot regions they wold burst out most hot yit the consequēt is false bicause ther are found hot Bathes in the cold countreyes as is shewed afore Also in the féeld of Lukes ther be most hot bathes although that place all the yeare for the most is couered with snow as testifieth Fallopius what néede we séeke examples so far of our countrey is colder then Italy and yit at Bathe S. Vincents and Buckestones alwaies they flow hot But if the heauēly heat wer ther so reflected snow would fyrst be melted But that is not so for the snow sometime continueth longer sometime shorter Let it bée that the Sunne beames may be hot in the face of the earth by Antyparistasis yit ther can not be so great Antyparistasis that so great heat should be excitated for that ther is not such Antiparistasis made in the sommer Agayne if the opinion of Ioannes should be true the discōmodities which are aforesayd should ensue of the opinions of thē which did say that the waters of Bathes were hot thorough the heate of the sunne and wynd Moreouer the opinion of Dondis appeareth false by that that he supposeth one thing very false that the heate of the sunne heateth vnder the earth xxx miles which thing is most false For at our being in Wookie hole besydes Wels and in Poole hole besyde Buckstones in the chéefe of sommer those places were ryght colde yet not half a myle from the Sodde or turphe of the earth Also Theophrast in his history of plantes affyrmeth that the rootes of trées or plants do stretch so far into the ground as the heate of the Sunne doth perse where also hée sheweth that some sayde that the rootes of trées did counteruayle the length of one foote and an halfe which opinion there also hée confuteth worthely for it is more then manifest that many trées do take deaper root as the oke trées pyne trées larnix trées fir trées ash trées plane trées with infinit others howbeit of the lēgth of the roots of the plane trées he reciteth for a miracle bicause it stretcheth direct dounward vnder the earth 33 foot which in other trées do not although they bee perhaps longer Therefore séeing the rootes of trées do descende no déeper then 33. foote and that also to be miraculouse it plainly proueth that the beames of the sunne can not perse déeper séeing the heat of the sunne vnder the earth hée would make the cause of their length and of the heat of the waters of Bathes which are proued to flowe out of déeper places Therefore the opinion of Iohannes de Dondis is altogither false Other some there bée followinge the Peripatetiques that would the cause of the fire to be a subiecte féeding such fyre perpetually which alwayes preserueth itself but afterward what that féeding should bée their is a discord betwéene them Some of them saye it is Allume and the reason with which they are moued is bicause the fyre is perpetuall and necessarely ther is required some sound nourishement which should last longe and that they saye is Allume bicause it is hard and compacte of substance It can not easely be consumed Vitruuius was the Authour of this opinion in his eight booke But this opinion is false for there is onely a double substance which may bée the nourishement of this fyre one truly oylie and fattie and the other thin ●orye replenished with much ayer but the one easly catcheth fyre long kepeth it the other although it be easly kindled yet it keepeth not the fyre long as it appeareth in styxes strawe chaffe kindled and like matter Let vs now sée whether Allume as some would haue it may bée reduced to the one or the other or noe truely I can not see how it may be reduced to the firste séeinge it hath no oylie thing in it nor fattie nor to the second because allume is of a stonie substance although it bée drie yit that dryenesse is earthy not ayery And if it should be in the fyre xx yeares it would neuer be inflamed as you may proue if you will not beleue mée Wherfore the opinion of Vitruuius is false Georgius Agricola in his booke which hée hath written De subterraneis which is truly a very fayre and most learned booke as be all the other which that learned man hath diuulgated sayeth that the subiect preseruing fyre vnder the earth is Bitumen for to this he sayeth some thing muste be subiect and the féeding of this fyre is required to be fattie that it may easely be taken with fyre and this is not desired in bitumen as it appeareth of Naphta wherof commeth our petrae oleum which is a kinde of bitumen and if it shall bée new it catcheth the flame from farre so that in the fields of Mutina sayeth Fallopius where it is gathered plentifully it is necessary for them which gather it to leaue their candle farre from the place wher they do gather it and they gather it in certayne places vnder the earth vnto which they goe downe by many steps and they be most darke places so that they are constrayned to carrie with them a light Therfore séeinge bitumen may easely be kindled and is plentifully found in places vnder the earth as plenty of Naphta gathered in the aforesayd place doth shewe it is very like that it is the subiect féeding such fyre Secondly Agricola addeth and this marke yée sayeth Fallopius that when the heate of waters of Bathes is so great and sometyme they burst out most plentifuly sayeth Agricola we can not saye that the fire which heateth them should be vnder the conduytes of those waters for they would not so waxe hote but it is necessary to saye that the fire is in the conduytes where the bitumen it selfe is Of which thing it is an argument that no matter can be found which may be kindled burne in water sauing bitumen which also if you powre on water burneth neuer the lesse you may also trye this with Camphyre which according to some is a kind of bitumen For if you kindle it and caste it kindled into the water you shall sée that it will burne no worse then if it were without water wherefore when Bitumen doth burne in water it séemeth to be sayde that fyre heating the waters is in the conduyts and not vnder them Likewise this opinion may bée confirmed of the propertie of bitumen bycause it doth not onely burne in the water but is also nourished of the water for it draweth a certayn humiditie of the water which it turneth into the nature of it selfe and it is the cause that it doth endure longe prooue you this I pray you taking a droppe of it and you shall sée the Naphta kindled and dure so longe that it may be maruaylouse which could not be except the féeding of that flame were encreased by the humiditie of the water which Naptha draweth and chaunging