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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42731	Fons sanitatis, or, The healing spring at Willowbridge in Stafford-shire found out by the Right Honourable the Lady Jane Gerard, Baroness of Bromley / published for the common good by Samuel Gilbert ...	Gilbert, Samuel, d. 1692?	1676 (1676)	Wing G715; ESTC R18732	18,572	50

FONS SANITATIS Or the HEALING SPRING AT WILLOWBRIDGE IN Stafford-shire Found out by the Right Honourable the Lady JANE GERARD Baroness of BROMLEY Published for the Common Good By SAMVEL GILBERT Chaplain to Her Honour and Rector of Quatt The WELL having been of Happy Consequence to all its Neighbouring Diseased Persons and many Strangers to whom Its Infant Fame hath but yet lisped its Virtues With Allowance LONDON Printed for the Author Anno Dom. 1676. The Epistle to the READER Reader IF the Noise of these Waters have not sounded in your Ears the following Catalogue of some few of the many Cures done by it are withall truth and integrity made publick many amazing effects of it being lost through the neglect of enquiring the Persons Names and Places where they Live And though this Excellent Water be but in its infancy being but lately discovered yet 't is found a Physitian not inferiour to many that have taken their degree And as good a Chirurgion and Occulist as those tha● have served an Apprentiship As also a Farrier which my love to that Species of Creatures makes me insert fo● Curing several Maladies in Horses To shew how universally Restorative these Waters are to Debilitated Limbs it hath been often experimented that they not only extend the contraction but contract and comfort the relaxation of feeble Nerves and Sinews even to admiration And in an Incredible short time which is perform'd by Drinking and Bathing although it be a Cold-Water against which some may object yet methinks 't is no● unreasonable to answer That tha● temper improves this virtue in it b●lcent'ring the natural heat which makes it return to the extream part● with greater vigour and so to procure an equal circulation of th● Bood And 't is believed they wil● hardly fail where repletion is no● wanting It Heals all Foul Scabs and Ulcers Scald-heads the Kings-evil Scales Bones and heals by Extracting and Cleansing the humours that cause the Malady And is an incomparable Remedy for Swellings in any part and gives immediate Ease to Aches and Pains and Palsies And by Drinking and Bathing Cures Scorbutick and Dropecal Distempers the Stone the Collick and the Rickets yet of flowing not mercenary administrations I have heard 't is a Maxime That no Mineral lyes single but certainly this may pretend to come from a singular composition of them by its Sanative opperations So excelling all I have heard of And it is hoped and believed there is no cause to fear it should loose its Vertue it being not a lean barren Spring as most other Medicinal Waters but a Stream so plentiful as it is enough to turn a Mill. But although I shall not pretend to Determine whether it be armed to encounter and subdue Diseases by running thorough Iron and Steel or what other Mineralls For I assure you 't is no Philosopher Writes to you yet able to give you this truest and best reason for their virtues viz. Because the great Preserver hath given to the gift of Healing to whom be Eternal Praise 'T is farther added for the Inforformation of the Reader Reader THe Fame that is spread abroad of this Well by those that have had the fortune to use it is not unknown to many nor the Malice neither of some Persons to all Mankind but themselves no marvail then if exercised against the reputation of this Water that is so much for their benefit I wish such have not occasion to make use of it as some of the like stamp have done that have cryed it down in publick and for the Curing of their own Distempers make use of it in private with such success as to perform what all their Choicest-Medicaments have fail'd in Like many Physitians forbidding that to others which they use themselves It being indeed the Interest of the less Generous minded both Physitians and Surgeons to beat down the fame of Cures done by this Water to inhanse their own Advantage though to the utter ruine of many Diseased Persons But we need not spend the Readers nor our own time in vindicating this Well from the aspertion of such or indeed of any It is sufficiently able by the daily effects of its Virtues produce to wash off all spatlings and raise its own fame above all the noted Springs we have yet heard of Of which you 'l be farther satisfied by perusing the annexed and true account that we could take of some Cures performed by it that indeed would be beyond belief were there not good authority for them Nor would thus much as hath been said did not the glory of God lie buryed in our silence which of all things we ought to be most concern'd for Shall so great a mercy as this Healing Well be slighted and his goodness not extolled Shall we be Cured by it and he not Praised the way purely not by concealing his mercies in the wonderous effects of it much less by celipsing them As his mercies shine openly and run freely so let our acknowledgement too and not be clouded by derogating either from the Author or means by which he conveyes so great a health to us Something Concerning Water in General Of the Original and the Reasons of the several Virtues of Springs With an account of the Healing Spring in Willowbridge-Park in Stafford-Shire AN exact Philosophical and Physical Treatise of Water in General or in particulars Sea River Rain or Spring-Water was never the Intention of the Writer which though not wholly out of his road yet out of his compass of time to perform wanting all sorts of suitable Conveniences But such light touches that from his own reason fell in his way to this Spring ftands in yours to the account of some Cures it hath performed giving incouragement to some Pen more ingenuously Industrious to give better satisfaction of the admirable Virtues of this Well Hypocrates that great Master of reason and Prince of Physitians as some term him not unworthily affirms that Water and Fire are the two Principles of life giving as well he may water the preheminence understanding thereby our Radical Moisture which is of such absolute necessity that neither sensative or vegitive creatures subsistance can be propt without it For by its deprivation the one presently grows Hectical the other Withers and decayes And is fitly placed before Fire Aire or Earth for it extinguishes the first changes the second into its self and devoureth the last The most mundane beings running the race of nature without Fire but none without Water As we are abundantly beholding to that Element in our composition and subsistance having chiefest regard to the grandest power God Almighty in the formation and upholding of all things So for the rectifying of the motions of the internal Machins of our Microcosmus's and the repairing those breaches in the walls thereof that our irregularities have made Witness the advantage we have by Water in general but more by many particular Springs whose use is excellent for particular Distempers

greatest pain This Water Comforts Heals gives ease again With praise to God Curtail the Serpents tread Least we trip but on 's heel he on our head Burns 13. Samuel Jackson of Middle-wich in Cheshire having very sorely burnt the bottom of his foot accidentally treading with his bare foot on a red hot Heater of a Smoothing Iron which burnt near the thickness of it into his Foot but no Salve being able to heal it for three months time but rather making it worse But coming to this VVell and Bathing in the water about ten dayes 't is so healed by it that some persons it hath been shown to are scarce able to discover where it was burnt Taken from his own mouth and by the sight of Samuel Gilbert 14. A Daughter of John Clarks of Aston in Stafford-shire five years of Age the fire catchgin in her Aporn and Cloathes most lamentably burnt her Belly and one of her Thighs which could not by any means be healed for a year and halfs time till Bathed about a dozen times with water fetched from this VVell This Attested by her Father to Samuel Gilbert If outward burning here do painful feel And proving Soares as difficult to heal What are the dangerous flames pent up within Still fed with the vast fewel of our sin Which if not quenched here will ever burn And we as they and ne'r to ashes turn Seek Cure for both for their are Springs will do 't Vnto the first apply this water to 't For th' next I hope already understood Bath in the never failing Spring Christ's Blood Collick 51. Edward Bate of Bloor in Drayton Parish under Hales John North of Ashley William Gardiner of Mare John Twyford of Aston by Stone all in the County of Stafford by this water Cured of the VVinde Collick 16. Edward Snep of Mucklestone Robert Cross of Winnington both in the County of Stafford Cured by this water of the Stone Collick witnessed by Mr. Thomas Tildesly Thus hath this water these Diseases Cur'd Let those that make not use of 't be inur'd Wilfully to such their distempring pain Whose virtues they 'l not try but will disdain That power that turned water into wine Makes this more worth than richest juice from Vine For to this waters turn'd each Medicine Consumptions 17. Sarah Plimly of the Parish of Drayton in Shrop-shire having been as judged in a Consumption for twenty years and more by Drinking this water and Bathing was perfectly Cured Attested by Rohet Plimly her Father living in the Parish and County aforesaid 18. Mr. William Plimly of Norton in Shrop-shire about fourty years of Age being so far entred into a Consumption that his Stomack digested nothing that it received accompanied with a tormenting Stich on his left side occasioned at Sea the Vessel in which he was being run on the Sands he continued long wet by being forced to wade to save his life For his Distemper he could receive no benefit from many Doctors of Physick that he applyed himself to who all gave him over as irrecoverable But coming to this VVell last Spring Drinking thereof and Bathing only the pained side it removed the Stich to the other side which he Bathing and continuing the Drinking of it it occasioned much Vomiting somtime gently purging by Stool but most by Urine each night taking a Bottle home with him which he used as before mentioned so many dayes as but to fill up three weeks It cleared him of his Stich regained his Stomach and restored him to as good a state for health as ever Attested by himself and Robert Plimly in Drayton Parish in Stafford-shire Great wheedler of poor men to death Mistaking quite thy whispering breath That such deluding thoughts do'st give 'Twixt hope and fear thinks still to live Till of a suddain hopeless they Remove into their beds of clay If you from this consumption cheat Would live and be in health repleat Consume those vices that controul The health of Body and of Soul Let th' Graces hand you to this Spring For health praise to the Author bring Fail not of that unless most basely rude There 's no Disease like to Ingratitude 19. Mrs. Joan Maudley of Ashburn in the County of Darby Being Lame of one of her Legs that she could not without help get in or out of her Bed by reason of her great pain and contraction of Sinews being brought to this VVell the. 4th of July 1676. and but by Bathing till the 11th of the same month could go so well as to have scarce a discernable halting vide the Contractions Cured in the Leprosies in the third of Lameness Relaxation of Sinews 20. A Boy whose name we cannot learn his Legs hanging as if held together by threds by reason of the weakness and laxed Ligaments and Sinews not being able to use them In a short time were strengthned sufficiently to support his body by Drinking and Bathing at this VVell Attested by Mr. and Mrs. Wildie Dropsies 21. Margaret Tingle of Bloor in Stafford-shire having her Legs much swell'd with the Dropsie by Drinking of the water but once and three or four times Bathing quite Cured Attested by Francis Daniel of Bromley 22. Lawrence Key of the Parish of Stoak upon Trent a ground Collier being extreamly Hydropical the humour so fell down into his Legs as to swell them to a great bulk But putting them into this water the first time he took them out there came from all parts of them little Worms about the bigness of Pins heads very numerous after them issued little drops of water But by often Bathing brought down the swelling stopped those little issues and perfectly Cured him Taken from his own mouth 23. Mary Vicars of Knightly Cured of a Dropsie Attested by Samuel Rhodes 24. John Plimly of Madely in Stafford-shire of middle Age cruelly Diseased with the Dropsie his Belly swell'd bigger than a woman with child at her full time and his Legs to the bigness of a reasonable mans middle and of a strange colour brought to this VVell in March last on a Tuesday and by the Fryday following with Drinking and Bathing tok down the swelling both of his Belly and Legs and in nine dayes time Cured him that he was able to follow his work after his usual manner Attested by Mrs. Jean Reynald's of Muckleston in Stafford-shire whose Workman he was and still is Was ever man delivered so from fear Of Children many as there 's dayes i th' year His Belly should contain being grown so big 'T was past his power to see or feel a Leg. His Belly like unto the great world seeming Of strange productions ready to be teeming His upper parts with arme on Kembo set Look't like the top of great Dutch jugge but yet His moving Legs and Feet Antipodes Alter'd my thoughts that it was none of these But that it was Copernicus's world In which Perepaticks late were hurl'd Who suitable unto their lives might have When past the streights of