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Latham Spaw in Lancashire with some remarkable cases and cures effected by it : together with a farther account of it as may conduce to the publick advantage with ease and little expence.
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Borlase, Edmund, d. 1682?
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1672
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Wing B3770; ESTC R29241
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with some is usual at other Spaws all inconveniencies of its chilness would be easily prevented especially if the former rules of taking some gentle Correctives with the water were faithfully observed or a little white wine drunk with it Ut si vestigium aliquod frigiditatis ventriculo ab illis communicatum fuerit ab his deleatur Claud. p. 390. For though this water as Abheers observes of his Spaw p. 102. Actu est humida potentia potentèr exsiccat calefacit sicque ventriculi Cerebri vitia emendat And that it affects the stomach by its coldness with no ill effects is evident from the appetite it raises in all that take it signally remarkable even to the repairing of some appetites prostrate before constringendo enim ventriculi orificium excitat suctionem as Hollerius in his praxis p. 456. observes from our supream Master when he calls cold water 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Vorax The Right Honourable the Countess of Derby when she first began to drink of this Spaw three or four years since was forc't to take Cardamum seeds with it now a few Fennel seeds sometimes without any thing the Spaw passes off with much ease and benefit Exercise whilest the Spaw is in drinking is most necessary light walking is good but in that the body is apter thence to sweat than distribute the water the matter of which is much spent by sweat especially if the motion be violent whereby the strength being drawn into a narrow room the Spirits become more sharp and predatory I commend riding shooting bowling or what may make the water more easily descend and inlarge its distribution and if some easie exercise to warm the bowels be had before one drink the water I conceive it may make way for the water to proceed with less prejudice What diet in this case is most necessary is very obvious viz. meats of easie digestion all fruits of the season must be avoided early rising going to dinner when the waters are come off and soon supping is most requisite yea Lipsius his advice to Lessius from the Spaw in his Epistles is excellent vix quandocunque venietis coenulam vobis paratam apud me scitote ex legibus spadanis tenuem frugalem cum fame dimissuram so is a cheerful spirit moderate exercise and all temperance and the body by Art if the water effects it not is constantly to be kept open In what Cures this Spaw hath been most happy I shall in brief run over some Time which matures all and my leisure at present somewhat disturbed being to enlarge further as there is occasion In facilitating the passage of the stone and gravel and abstersing its sordes and minera I find it very successful One Cropper in the Mannour of Latham hath for these twenty years found as to the stone and gravel much benefit by this Spaw in great violence and extremity Major Henry Nowell Deputy Governour of the Isle of Man drinking of this Spaw found as I am informed infinite relief by it voiding thereupon much Gravel and many stones John Lingley a poor man miserably afflicted with a continued pain about his reins and his bladder especially when he would make water drank freely after he had been gently purged of this Spaw by which he immediately found such ease that the membrum virile swelling priapismi instar constantly before when he endeavour'd to make water grew orderly and he voyded the next morning a stone with two discoverable branches A Gentleman of a fair Estate and an Ancient Family nigh to and in Leverpool one of the most encreasing and flourishing Sea-Towns now in England having but ineffectually long experienced the ablest advice in London for an Ulcer in his right Kidney at length repaired to this Spaw of which for some daies indeed too few to make a through Cure he drank freely and with that effect as ever since he is restored to such a competency of health and strength as he travels in his new Chariot with ease and walks without the least disturbance who for some years before could not stir without stooping and much pain Strange success it hath had on most sturdy obstructions and Annual pains Richard Dinton at present Coachman to the Earl of Derby was long held with an excessive pain about his stomach flushing heats in his head and a streightness at times about his heart Several months successively for two daies together in a month and no more he had an intermitting Tertian with a regular Type and a sharp stitch in his right side for which he tryed much means but in vain At length he drank freely of this Spaw taking some daies a little Rhubarb and salt with it the Medicine is of the Lord Bacons approbation Hist. of Life and Death p. 218. and is now in good health A Gentlewoman of good note washing her knees and hams morning and evening with this Water she drank of it too eased her self thereby of infinite pains and aches in those parts Here I must insert a Case of great importance Elizabeth Holden Wife to one of the Keepers of Latham Park a woman of good years and grave having for a long time suffered under intolerable pains about her stomach back and belly principally towards the Matrix and in her groins And fearing by the bigness of her belly that she might fall into a Dropsie drank orderly of this Spaw being tired out with variety of Churlish Medicines before After a day or two the Spaw wrought so effectually with her as first it mitigated her pains then lessened her belly and at length Oh numen Aquarum It brought away such Bladders as many of them equall'd a pigeons egge which being broke with some noyse yeilded a spoonful of limpid liquor somewhat jellying Before the voiding of which pains not unlike Throws pressed her in her belly groins and lower parts I had by the favour of the Earl of Derby one of those Bladders the last I think she ever voided sent to me whose outward Tunicle was not unlike a Swines bladder but without Fibres or veins within it was smooth and had adhering to its sides a slimy blewish jelly substance Upon discourse with her of which afterwards she assured me that she had not voided less since she took notice of them then two hundred each with pain and trouble though the last with least What to think of these I am somewhat uncertain That there are Monsters in Physick as in Nature is no late Exclamation Ludovicus Nonnius a learned Physician of Antwerp in an Epistle to the most ingenious Beverovicius of Dordrecht inserted in his Treatise De Calculo writes that as in the Yard Caruncles may be generated which inclose Urine so the like substance may be bred in the body of the bladder And Zacutus Lusitanus that admirable observer of especial Cases p. 184. gives an excellent evidence that multa monstrosa in vesica innasci membranae nerveae Globi crystalli formes incredibilis quantitas
Salt of Vitriol or Steel or Cakes of Cream of Tartar the German way prepared freely bestowed by the Countess of Derby who obliges by her great indulgence her Neighbours thereby There is an Ingenuous Person one of a quick and through apprehension who coming more out of a complacency than complaint to this Spaw drank of it with others some daies successively but seldom more than three pints at a time yet made within an hour and an half two Chamber-pots full of Urine which clearly demonstrates its celerity and vertue And that he might not be without a blessing though the healthfulness of his Constitution knew not what he might desire he yet found much gravel to which his Parents are addicted evacuated by it and himself freed of an Ebullition of blood which Critically about Midsummer had expressed its virulency in small pimples for some late years with much offence This Spaw I have throughly tried as to the turning its colour with the powder of galls oak leaves the boyling it with milk the bearing of soap which as the Lord Bacon observes Nat. Hist. p. 87. hungry water will not admit of such kills the unctious nature of the soap As likewise I have tried other experiments frequent in the like Case and I find few Spaws if any sooner answer all their Tests than this Less than a grain of the shavings of Gall will immediately tincture a considerable glass full of the water first purple then inky Nay I have experienced that after some of this Spaw had been kept seven weeks in a bottle it yielded to the Gall a full colour though indeed it putrifies soon being out of its body which argues highly the fineness of its Spirits they being thin and aerial and is an evincing token of its vertue in the Judgment of the Lord Verulam Paulus Aegineta Oribasius and others And that I might be yet fuller informed desiring to lay no Fucus on a wither'd face I caused three pints of this water after it had been carried seven miles to be distilled in a Lamp Still excellently performed by my Lords Apothecary in the House The first four or five spoonfuls of which so distil'd I turn'd as I had done the rest from the Well with a little Gall though what was afterwards distil'd never altered in the least notwithstanding how much Gall soever I put in but remain'd insipid and clear I put also into a glass of Spaw water at the Spring a few drops of the volatile Spirit of Harts-horn which made a white separation with a strong scent not of the faetor of the Harts-horn but the Spaw as if it had drawn all its Spirits into a narrower compass which a few drops of the oyl of Tartar reduced to its clearness and scent The scent of this Spaw is not loathsom somewhat it is like ink more in my apprehension like the Sea-shore when the Tide 's gone out brackish and subtile Further I exactly weighed a glass of fresh Spring-water with as much to a drop as we could measure it of Spaw water which in three ounces so much the glass contain'd of Spring-water the Spaw water came short of the Spring-water a full half ounce which demonstrates the levity of its parts and the subtilty of its Spirits which in the opinion of the Lord Verulam Nat. Hist. pag. 86. makes much for the better Though I must confess too with Heurnius that Learned and intire Physician on Hippocrates his Aphorisms 26. l. 5. Non lance semper aestimanda est aqua sed si non gravis sit Hypochondrio verùm si ea subito pervadat nec ibi cunctando putrescat is the best quality which I have already manifested are extant in our Spaw This Spaw hath a blewish Cream or skin which swims upon the water after it hath stood a very little while Instar iridis vel caudae pavonis in aquae superficie to use Hadrianus a Mynsichts expression in his Anima Vitrioli a medicine of admirable use as this Spaw for this reason may be in many of the like Cases especially when obstructions are the original of such distempers I know coal waters and others which are not without some ill quality as standing Lakes and the like have the same coloured scum but not from the like Principle the one being from putrification This the innate vertue of the Minerals Abheers who in concerns of this nature leaves nothing unsearcht believes this various colour'd fat or skin in the superficies of the Spaw to be liquid Amber though others think it Sulphur But whether from the one or the other certainly much vertue is specified by it both being ingredients active and effectual This Spaw works several waies most by Urine often by Urine and stools sometimes by Vomits but least free that way unless the stomach be before foul and nauseous The Spaw at first drinking is exceeding cold to avoid the inconveniences of which falling suddenly on the stomach a sensible part and the bowels I advise as is usual in the like case Fennel seeds Coriander seeds Lemmon or Orange pills Angelica roots or roots of Enula Campana candied to be taken with it which brings off the water gratefully And if some few drops of that Noble and generous Medicine Elixar proprietatis be taken in a draught of the water now and then I am perswaded it may further its excellency as the Earl of Derby fully experienced when he took the water in reference to an indisposition on his stomach which this Spaw hath happily removed begetting besides an excellent appetite Some Claud. p. 382. not without Authority admit of a spoonful of Salt in their first Cup ut facultatem intestinorum irritent ac alvum subducant which in robust bodies replete with gross humours I shall not forbid according to Avicen and Mesue cited by Dr. Jerden p. 130. though it is too severe and harsh for finer contextures having such tenuity of parts as may fret the guts and bowels In the weaker and finest bodies Manna may be sufficient Rhubarb with Cream of Tartar or Tartarum vitriolatum or my Deobstructive powder which I have observed hath done singularly well Some have been for drinking this Spaw warm as they were they say the first Examples of that course at other Spaws the stomach being apt to suffer by the contraction the water may make on the nerves through its active quality the nerves enduring no cold in pursuance of the Lord Verulams advice for warm drinks Hist. Life and death p 214 which may be in some constitutions more proper at meals than in a course of Physick and I believe his Lordship means so for so drunk in a course of Physick it makes it more nauseous diminishes its spirits renders it less penetrable and gives it another quality though in weak bodies the water with good effect may be taken warm yet if such who desire to take it so would either drink it in their bed or go to bed soon after they have drunk their dose as