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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

¶ 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 SALVTIS 1572. At Asple Hall besydes Nottingam Printed at London for william Iones and are to be solde at his new long Shop at the west dore of Pauls Church 13. Maij. TO THE RIGHT HONOrable Henry Earle of Penbrooke Lord Herbert of Kayerdid c. DEMOCRITVS the most auncient Philosopher of Abdera Reader to the prince of Phisicyons Hippocrates right honorable Earle most learnedly in his Epistle De natura humana to the same Hippocrates recounteth hovv necessary it is for all men to knovv the arte of Phisike bicause it is not onelie an vnderstanding most honorable and profitable to lyfe but also for that of all other it most manifestely setteth forth to the sences the vvisedome povver prouidence and vnmeasurable bountie of our almightie creatour of vvhich to be ignorant it is greate impietie as Galen testifieth in his thyrd booke De vsu partium Hieronymus Montuus therefore in his epistle to Anasceue morborum dedicated to Henry the last French Kinge to whom hee was not onely cheefe Phisicion but also one of his priuie counsaill affirmeth that of all sortes Phisike is to bee embraced and of them cheefely which are endued with honorable dignities and waightie affaires of the common wealth For as wysedome sister to Phisicke dooth deliuer the mynde from euill affectes and maketh vs to liue for euer in perpetuall ioye with aungelles So Phisike maintayneth health and expelleth sicknesses from the body makinge vs liue a longe and lustie lyfe as Galen in his workes ▪ De sanitate tuenda most reasonablie teacheth Furthermore vnderstanding Science and al actiuities by health are encreased as by sicknesse the contrary of necessitie ensueth wherof my good Lord it behoueth all men too haue a due consideration which be louers of vertue and honestie and for their sakes loue things that be best For when the state of the body is sicklie affected the partes not doinge their offices the mynd it self although it be a particle diuine hath no chearfulnes pleasure or delight in the meditacion of vertue eyther deuine or morall Seeing that sicknesse darkeneth the mynde dulleth the sences and depriueth deminisheth or depraueth the partes accidētaly of their operations VVherefore Noble and prudent Earle not sparing any paine nor fearing the reprochefull wordes of the enuiouse Momus and his capciouse rable setting aparte all colours of Rhetorique for the auoyding of prolixitie and bicause Veritatis oratio simplex I haue published an Ayde moste profitable for all them that neede it and that suche an ayde as god hath blessed our coūtrie with cōparable to any elswher if in euery respect throughly it bee considered Seeing that amonge all the most maruaylouse workes of nature there is none more wonderfull none more excellent none more auayleable to the helpe of the disseased and amendmente of the enfeebled partes of man then the Bathes naturall of the Cittie of Bath if they be rightly vsed orderly obserued and as need requireth frequented the efficient cause of this oure enterprise as here in may appeare as well by the authoritie of the most sage Philosophers most renowmed Phisicyons and most auncient Historiographers as by reason it selfe approued by arte confirmed by vse and dayly tried there by practise for these 2460. yeares or thereabout And for that the founder Blaeydin Doyeth or Bladud the wyse and eloquent Philosopher .xi. yeares student in Athenes a Brittayn the ix King of this Monarch after Brute was the firste that vttered the vertue of the water and that erected the Cittie whose Genealogie we haue rightly ascended to Adam and may lineally be descended to your Honour and many other of the race of the most worthie Nobles of this lande howe soeuer the iniuries of tymes haue altered and obscured the same So likewyse of dutie to your Honour erde of the same graine I dedicate these my willinge labours of the South Bathes of England entytuled Bathes Ayde cōtayning fower bookes in one volume as I haue my treatise of the North Bathes to the Noble and puissant Earle of Salope The first of these bookes probablie proueth the discent of Bladud antiquitie of the Brittaines the certaintie of the monuments the sicknesses the bathes helpe the accidents they take away wherof they proceede c. The second sheweth the diuersitie of opinions concerning the cause of these and such lyke waters how and wherein the Phisicions and Philosophers resulte what minerals bee in them of what qualities they be by which they worke their effectes The thyrd expresseth thinges naturall not naturall thinges annxed to nature and things against nature withall the signes shewers of the state of the sicke and whole through the which the better consultacion may be had not onely whether these bathes will helpe or not but also the Chyrurgians Students in Physike and al other capable of reason may fynde a most apte trade of vnderstanding comprehended in few wordes c. The fourth and last declareth Aporismes and brief rules how in and at the Bathes they shall vse them selues what meates what drinkes what cordiall confortatiues with moste excellent purgations clisters suppositoures c. meete for euery complection and purging humoures abounding with all other remedies against such accidentes as growe by reason of hote bathes and to what infirmitie euery of the bathes serue beste seuerally c. Hoping that your Honour of your Noble nature will accept in good part my willing endeuoure although in desarte it be farre vnwoorthy the credite or preferment that Anthonius yeelded to Apianus for his booke written of the properties of Fishes or that Adrianus did to Arianus for his booke of the Gestes of Alexander or that Alexander Magnus did to Aristot for his worke De animalibus Howbeit in desire to profyte the vniuersall people of God I truste nothing inferiour assuring your Honour as tyme and leysure will permit to present your Noble bountie with greater workes hereafter for that your honorable disposition euidently appeareth as well most readie towardes the furtherance of all vertuous attemptes as the aduauncement of the common commoditie of your Countrey wherin you plainly expresse a perfit effect of very Nobilitie the continuance wherof as I nothing doubt so I humblye beseeche the almightie to endue your good Lordship and the right honorable Lady Kateryne your noble and moste vertuouse vvife with Galens health Nestors yeares Craesus welth and Augustus hapines Your Lordships alwayes Iohn Iones Christophori Carlili ad Lectorem Hexametra IOnsus vt audiui retegens mysteria magna Naturae sanat morbos miracula rerum Pandit quae latuere diu Plutonis ad antra Sub terras penetrat Theophrasti lustrat ornat Tartara terrarum venas ruit atque meatus