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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

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-Rath and Bath 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 LONDON Printed for Tho. Simmons at the Princes Arms in St. Pauls Church-yard 1679. To the most Noble and most Honourable CHARLES PAWLET Marquess of Winchester Earl of Wilt-shire Baron St. John of Basing c. one of the Lords of his Majesties most Honourable Council May it please your Honour My Lord IT is not the least amongst those Oriental Gems which adorn the Breast of Nobility nor ought it to be reputed the meanest ornamental Vertue that by its lustre renders the minds of Noble Persons truly such not only to be thought but really to be encouragers of every generous and useful undertaking not barely in Specie but effectually to become Patrons to every noble Design And surely among the great variety of Topicks for discourse the Hystory of things appertaining to another World Divinity I mean excepted none but in one sence or other yields the Bayes to that highly useful one of health with its Introductions and Appendices whether relating to the continuation or restauration thereof to which our ensuing History is so nearly concerned as to merit the repute of being mainly introductory thereto whose adaptness to humane necessities will evidently appear if we silently resolve within our own bosoms the ensuing Queries viz. What resentment of Grandeur has an aching head although encircled within the most glorious Crown What delight can a Statesman take in Regulating and setting at Rights the Grand Affairs of his Countrey while he labours under the Conspiracy of prevalent although couchant Maladies What pleasure hath a morbid and therefore disgustful Palate the bane of Epicurism in the fruition of the greatest Delicacies even amidst the great variety which accosts that erring sensual Organ What profit can a Rich man take of all his wealth while he labours under the pains of a Gouty fit What quiet have we in the settlement of our Lands and Tenements while the morbid Tenant we inwardly foster turns Lawyer and Bayliff too sues and turns us out of possession by an irresistible Lease of Ejectment And in fine what satisfaction have we of any thing we enjoy here below while we truckle under any Grief or Malady Now my Lord the generousness of the Subject we treat upon viz. The History of these Mineral healing waters is such as among other useful Essayes towards a publick good may from a solution of the aforesaid Queries as also from other intimate Arguments deservedly challenge your Honours Patro nage in as much as you have been particularly pleased out of the sence of that good you have experimentally reaped thereby to do that right to Scarbrough Waters as in the presence of several worthy Personages publickly to own them by giving this Autoptical testimony thereof at least what was equivalent thereto That of all the Mineral waters you had tasted few in England or France having escap'd your test these of Scarbrough surpassed both as to a thorow as well as effectual working By which your Lordship received considerable relief the last Summer from the oppressing symptoms of the Hypochondraical wind although at the latest season of the year And my Lord notwithstanding the following Tract as most-what grounded upon experience the mother of Knowledge having its root deeply set in and firmly knit upon matter of Fact is doubtless the better able to bear up yea stand and vindicate it self against the shocks of any Calumniating Quill whatever yet upon due and mature consideration there is much safety for such a shrub how well rooted soever to be planted under so tall a Cedar that so it may not only in an hot season when tender Plants are apt to wither thence receive shade but also in Winter and stormy weather when there is no shelter To conclude my Lord what service your Lordship may do to that Countrey in this your tutelage to so good a design that you may live long enough to experience and by your if need be annual visits to confirm is the desire of My Lord Your Honours most humble Servant W. Sympson THE PREFACE Candid Reader IT is the usefulness of things which renders them acceptable and the benefit Mankind reaps from things applicable makes them truly valuable which as such really ought to gain opinion on their side the common standard of all matters relating to humane bodies amongst which those that from their own nature are more nearly allyed to the use of man ought of right to purchase the most acceptance the greatest value and the best opinion As to which how nearly deeply and necessarily the health of man the Prince of bodies is concerned in the continuing or regaining thereof let the healthful who have lately known sickness or the diseased who now languish speak Whatever therefore relates to the real curing or healing of Diseases and consequently restoring of health is truly valuable and ought to purchase opinion the common measure of things on their side and thence highly worth inquiring after of which sort are all Medical waters and particularly those of Scarbrough which how agreeable they are to the general constitution of humane bodies How congeneal to their ferments How great apperients or openers of obstructions How generally they pass How frequently they remove the causes of Diseases and consequently concur to the restoration of health The instances of of Cures chiefly performed thereby in the following History set down those speaking for others of the like nature we have not an opportunity to insert will in order to the gaining the ends aforesaid yea satisfactorily and demonstrably point out Vpon my late espousing of Scarbrough-waters the rational Induction whereto were the following Instances the main Subject of this Tract I found it in the mouths of many persons with whom I or my friends conversed that I was generally impeached of a retraction of what I had already writ They apprehending as if my former Books were writ against the Spaw which no person who ever read them can accuse me of For the controversie was not taken up against the waters as if designed to blemish them but was grounded upon shewing other manner of Ingredients then were believed so that what I said was not levelled against the waters but urged against the deposited principles or ingredients thereof As to the truth of which I have a cloud of witnesses even all who have throughly read my two books of the Spaw the chief called Hydrologia Chymica The latter Hydrological Essayes to whom I appeal and particularly I advise such as

of the Scurvy are various sometimes under one disguise sometimes under another they are frequently of these sorts b●● some of which that disease discovers it self viz. an universal lassitude and weakness in the knees dulness or heaviness of spirits erratick pains shortness of breath tumors ulcers of many sorts spots and blotches upon the legs roughness of the skin and other impurities of the outward parts discolourdeness and soreness of gums pain and looseness in the teeth sour stink of breath c. As to a further disquisition into the nature and causes of the Scurvy how the foundation thereof is laid in the depravation of the ferment of the Stomack and how the first Errour not being corrected in the subsequent digestions but carried into the blood subverting the crasis thereof alters the sweet balsamick soft natural temper thereof into an austere sour saltiness perverting its natural and genuine fermentation and how the blood corrupted by the vitiating ferment of the Scurvy breaths forth impure streams which making their Egress through the pores of the outward parts are by obstructions they find there coagulated upon the outward parts and so make spots blotches foulness scurf roughness as if netled and other impurities of the skin the usual effects of that disease and how the difference in Scurvys are chiefly ascribable to variety of Acids or some acrimonious ferments prevailing in the juices of the body And how by analogy the skin is compared to a transparent glass upon which the streams arising from that spurious fermentation of the blood and humors being too gross to be pervious to the pores thereof might well be supposed to condense along the sides begetting spots stains foul damps answerable to those impure mists and dark steams really arising from the bastardly fermentation of the blood in Scurvies and condensed upon the external parts c. To a further disquisition I say of all which we refer the reader to what wee have said thereon in our Hydrolog Chymic p. 70. c. Now we shall immediately come to the matter we chiefly aime at viz the Enumeration of perticular cure of the Scurvy and its branches of complications performed by the waters Cures of the Scurvy by the Waters The First shall be Major Taylors Case IN the year 50 or 51 he had a long lingering scorbutick and complicated Malady had a dry Cough short-winded had no appetite or digestion could neither Eat Sleep nor capable of any Exercise was brought by impoverishment of Spirit very low and lean even to a great debilitude in which languishing conditition he continued notwithstanding all the help the Physicians could make him who by them was adjuged consumptive and by them and on all hands concluded a dying-man was however resolved for Scarbrough hearing some noise of its vertues for he thus thought that seeing he was a man already under the sentence of death he must dye if he stayed at home it was but dying and it could be no worse at Scarbrough or els-where and as to the place he was not solicitous whereupon contrary to advice undertakes the journey although with very great difficulty because of his great weakness he was told to his great discouragement that he should never return alive if so he resolved to be buried at Scarbrough he drank the waters three days before it began to work there being at that time no Physician by to advise with Then he filled himself very full with the waters taking about five pints thereof upon which it made him very sick gave him onely one vomit and so wrought downward whereupon in about a weeks time he began to find benefit and in about fourteen days after drinking every day the waters he found himself so much altered for the better as all the bad Symptoms gradually went off the waters passed well working throughly upon the humors discharging the peccant matter correcting the Scorbutick acid ferment opening obstructions dulcified the blood strengthened the weakned tone of the Stomack and bowels proured an appetite helped the digestion brought on rest as the genuine result of the former became cheerfull returned home contrary to the expectation of all very well not in a litter but on horse-back gathering strength daily Then he thought himself so well as he needed not come next year nor did he But finding himself afterwards not well came the next year after And so continued till 64 intermitting one in 3 or 4 years during which time he had his health as well as he would wish Major Taylor 's case of the Scurvy cured a second time by the Waters 2. DUring the time of his being abroad at Tangier which was about five years at his return into England he found himself in as bad a state of health as he was at his first coming to the waters aforesaid The Scorbutick Symptoms prevailing strongly upon him his legs as an addition and product of this sort of Scurvy was covered over with white scales and he in the main over-run with the Scurvy from the Sea-air with most of the indications thereof aforesaid betakes himself to his former Asylum for releif and help drank the waters twice that Summer in the year 70 found as considerable an Event yea as much benefit by the waters as before taking off the Symptoms of the Scurvy as complicated with other weakness purified the blood and thereby made the scales fall off So continued drinking the waters every year since except one and injoys his health very well was at Scarbrouogh twice last Summer being the latter time there with my Lord Marquess of Winchester My Lady Carey her case The Third cure of the Scurvy 3 JUly 5th 77 she was highly Scorbutick the first remarkable appearance whereof was a stitch she had in her right brest which like a dart struck through to her back That a strong Scorbutick Acidum prevailed in her Stomack was evident in that when she took new milk it presently became curdled into cheese which she vomited up with great difficulty and danger of suffocation in the very form of a cheese curd as if indeed the Scorbutick Acid was the runnet which made cheese of milk while in the Stomack she took some Tobacco which caused more of the same cheesy congulum come up after which this Scorbutick Acidum was in great part carried upon the nerves whence she fell into an universal trembling or paralytick fit so as every part of her trembled which continued about half an hour during which time she could not speak and as an argument of an accompanied convulsive motion her mouth was drawn a little aside but as to lividness of colour and other dangerous Symptoms she seemed well nigh Expireing Then was the scene of this Scorbutick ferment transfered into the blood where it caused such a spurious fermentation as thereupon a violent heat was contracted which continued as if she had been in a feaver for four dayes which with sweating Medicines was partly transpired and partly carried or