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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

and resolved while God spared life to continue his Annual visits notwithstanding the distance being above an hundred and twenty miles The Sixth Cure MRS. Elizabeth Scremerston in the Bishoprick of Durham was troubled for a long time with the same malady which had changed her complexion and made her exceeding swarthy with three weeks drinking she found a perfect recovery The Seventh Cure MR. Robert Lever Minister of Bolam in Northumberland was exceedingly troubled with Hipocondriach Melancholy for the space of eight years joyned with frequent extention and Convulsion of the Nerves which when the fit was gone off left him so feeble that he was not able to walk till he had gotten some rest he was often dizzy in his his head which so clouded his understanding that he became uncapable sometimes for a quarter of a year together of discharging the duties of his Office He was several times at the other Spaw in York-shire where though he found some benefit yet the symptoms returned In 1663. he came to Scarbrough and drank a whole week yet without any benefit till the Physician then at the waters viz. Doctor Wittie was called to see the fit wherein he seemed to be almost distracted who judged it requisite to prescribe some other helps proper for the case for two or three dayes and furnished him with some Specificks to be used with the waters and set him on again advising him to drink ten dayes more after three dayes he found eminent degrees of recovery all the symptoms abating and went from the waters very healthful and chearful who praised be Almighty God continued so The Eighth Cure MR. M. Darrel of Porstow in Lincoln-Shire is by times much afflicted with the Hypocond Flatus finds much benefit by drinking these waters wherefore he frequents them every year sometimes he is for rear six moneths excessive Melancholy cares for no company but loves retirement And by an orderly taking of these waters finds present relief when no other Medicine he has taken at home has succeeded The Ninth Cure MRS. Elizabeth Newcome of Manchester in Lancashire was eight or nine years together so afflicted with this Malady joyned with extreme oppression of the stomach and back with flitting heats as if she had been in a violent Feaver perpetual costiveness and dizziness of the head before the violence of the hot fit she found a sharp stinging in the wrist of her right arm as if a Pen-knife was thrust into it and when the fit was upon her she would fall into exceeding great frights from any the least noise as the crowing of a Cock or the barking of a Dog and when it was gone off she would be as sore as if she were beaten It had resisted all medicines till coming to these waters she found good success The Tenth Cure A Scotch Gentlewoman being in years was much afflicted with Hypochondraism and the Scurvy having a great disorder at her Stomach drank the waters in great excess was brought low and very weak but after a while she recruited to her former strength and the bad symptoms went off Here I could reckon upon several persons more who have by the orderly use of these wates found much benefit in this very Malady But at present let those in transitu serve The Stone THe next Disease in order we here propose to treat on as curable by the waters is that formidable afflicting and excruciating malady the Stone where we do not mean to ascribe that efficacy to these mineral waters as to melt or dissolve any large confirmed stone of what size soever fixed in the Kidneys or Bladder For that we wholly deny and judge such persons who labour under the anxiety of such large Stones as cannot without danger be brought away by the common passages of the ureters neck of the Bladder c. not capable I say of receiving much benefit hereby But are rather to be referred to the skill and cure of the Lithotomist to Mars rather than Neptune to the sharpness of the knife than to the accurateness of the waters But that these waters have a remarkable efficacy upon such as labour under gravel smaller stones such as are passable and in taking away or alleviating their grievous symptoms the usual attendants and products thereof amongst which that of Strangury is to be reckoned as a frequent symptom and almost necessary product of the Stone although that sometimes may proceed from other causes what remarkable efficacy I say these waters orderly taken have upon such let the few following instances speak which in the main may be sufficient to blazon its vertues to the world in this very particular Malady that so none through prejudice or ignorance may deny themselves that benefit which God in nature holds forth to them in this Mineral Spring As to the causes of petrefaction whether in the Macro or Microcosme but particularly that of the Lithiasis viz. the causes of ingendring the Stone in the Reins or Bladder of humane bodies we insist largely and de industria in our Lithologia Physica not yet extant And as for the symptoms they are so well known by every one who is afflicted with this Disease as we need not by numbring them tell what they are wherefore we shall immediately descend to the intended particulars as followeth The First Case MR. John Beaumont of Franck-foss in York-shire his wife had been for very many years subject to a grievous fit of the Stone for which she had taken much advice though with little success she went afterwards to Knarsbrough and drank those waters but found no benefit then her husband brought her to Scarbrough which water brought away the matter of the Stone in Gravel and Sand to a great proportion even in one weeks time and for five years after being then so long to the first writing hereof she had no necessity of returning to the Spaw being free of all symptoms To which I may add what I lately by letter received from a Relation of the aforesaid Gentle-womans and my worthy friend that she received so much benefit by these waters and for this fourteen years hath been so well that she never needed to make a second visit The Second Case AN old man of eighty six years of age has frequented the Span for twelve or thirteen years finding much good thereby every year for the Stone had extreme and most violent pains and grievous torments even so a● to make him cry forth aloud so as he might be heard at a great distance yea his torment in those parts were so strong that to use his own words he would have forgiven any one who would have knocked him on the head he drank plentifully of the waters sometimes fifteen pints in a morning found great relief thereby the benefit he reaps incourageth him to come every year and was here this very last year 78 from whose own mouth I had the aforesaid Relation The Third Case THE old Lady Rhodes of Balbrough was grievously

Bishoprick of Durham whose cure of Hypochondriack Melancholy is before recited upon which it hapned also that while she was with her husband at Scarbrough she conceived with Child when as yet to her own expectation she was past hopes of any more children having never conceived for above five years before The Fourth Case A Scotch Gentlewo-man being in years whose cure of Hypocondraick Melancholy and the Scurvy is before-mentioned upon which drinking the waters notwithstanding the great weakness she was reduced to she conceived and brought forth two Children which was wonderfull so weak a woman as she was should conceive or bring them forth being judged so weak as not capable of bringing forth one The Fifth Case SR H. Thompson his Lady had no Child by two former Husbands when Sr. H. married her she came to the waters whereupon conceived Among the Classis of Diseases belonging to the Womb may not impertinently be reckoned such swellings of the belly as happen sometimes from cold upon or after Child-bearing concerning which we have one considerable instance of the efficacy of these waters as followeth Doctor G. Tunstal of New-Castle his wives belly never fell after a Child she had born nor could he by all the means he used take it down The Physician then at the Spaw viz. Dr. Wittie was consulted who advised her Husband to give her some preparatives and something else with the water to further the intention after a few dayes her Boddice did lace close that could not meet within three or four inches before she continued to drink a moneth and returned perfectly well and so continued free from all swelling it being at the first writing hereof neer three years after To which may be added that these waters are very effectual in the cure of all such symptomatical Diseases if I may so call them which take their first original from obstructions of the menstrual evacuation viz. epileptick paralytick apoplectick hysterick convulsive asthmatick Affections That is those Diseases in women which from the aforesaid causes most resemble the Falling-Sickness Palsies Apoplexies fits of the Mother Convulsions and difficulty of breathing or diseases descending from the aforesaid Spring-head which by their penetrating Salts open obstructions the Minera of such Maladies and remove the first causes thereof whereby together with the addition of other specifick helps all the aforesaid Symptomatick or secondary Diseases will necessarily and consequently cease concerning all which we discourse more largely in our Hydrologia Chym. p. 84. 94. 95. to which we reser An Imposthume THat these waters are powerful in breaking and carrying away inward Imposthumations I shall give one considerable Instance In the year 74. or 75. a man who had an Imposthumation in his small guts drank the waters and in a few dayes after the first drinking thereof while he had a stool he observed something to give a crack the Imposthume broke and came all away the matter was lodged in a skin or film which he shewed a Merchant my worthy friend and late patient here upon the Sands who gave me the relation thereof as an eye-witness Having thus run through the History of Chronick Diseases and shewed the great efficacy of the waters sometimes accommodated with other appropriate helps in order to their respective cures we would conclude with some remarks of their vertue in the cure of Acute Diseases viz. contined Feavers as to which we esteem them duly administred among the best sort of purges and greatly conducible towards the abating of the spurious febrile fermentation or praeternatural boyling of the blood and one of the best quenchers of thirst we know of in the World sometimes strangely allaying the Luxuriant symptoms of a Feaver even although in some cases extended to a Dilirium or Frenzie of which we shall give this following remakable Instance as I had it from the Gentleman 's own mouth viz. An Alderman of York went to drink these waters for a debilitude of the Anus whose Muscles from some Scorbutick Acidum fixed there was so relaxed and the tone of the parts so altered and enfeebled as was a very great affliction to him he for a time suspended drinking the waters and what through the pain of the grieved parts and what through an inquietude and restlesness which yet was consequential to the former and perhaps partly through an imbibition of the Scorbutick Acidum into the blood begot such an alteration of the Crasis thereof as he fell into a Feaver whose symptoms prevailed so strongly and grew so high that it brought a Dilirium or Frenzy upon him he was forbidden to drink the waters but notwithstanding which injunction and imposition he ventured privately which none knew stole a hearty drink took two lusty pulls at a whole pitcher of the waters left by a water-woman which wrought excellently well with him allayed his thirst took away his Dilirium or Frenzy yea so took off the bad symptoms of his Feaver as that he speedily recovered came down out of his Chamber and was the very next day if I do not mis-remember as well as any of the rest of the company A Discourse of an Artificial Sulphur-Bath and Bath of Sea-water with the uses thereof in the Cure of several Diseases HAving a Discourse of the Sulphur Bath at Knarsbrough already Extant at the heel of our Zymol Phys or Phylosophical Discourse of Fermentation which we judged as a necessary Appendix to our two former Treatises of the Spaw's viz. Hydrolog Chymic and Hydrolog Essays we have therein which may be somewhat preluminary or introductory to this traced this following Method in the seven or eight ensuing particular Heads viz. First By laying down the constitutive ingredients and Mineral principles of that water Secondly By shewing the Process as near as we can apprehend nature useth in the preparing that excellent water Thirdly By shewing the difference betwixt it and natural hot Baths in their original and imbred principles so also in some sort as to their virtues Fourthly By pointing out how and by what means the Sulphur as the chief Mineral ingredient of that water is so opened as to become not only so subtill as thence to be solvable therein odore tenus but also so volatile as to pass off in a continual steam and insensible Effluvium Fifthly By shewing how this Sulphur water comes not much short as to its original principles nor is much if at all inferiour in efficacy to some other Sulphur waters which are hot Baths in as much as that it 's lately found successful for outward applications as well as those by late observation are remarked for inward use Sixthly By shewing that the artificial heating of the Sulphur water bears some Analogy to the in-bred heat of other Baths as they come hot out of the earth Seventhly By pointing out how Art may imitate Nature yet from the same principles in the resemblance of most Baths viz. how to prepare such Baths Artificially as are Natural Lastly By inquiring