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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A23627	The natural history of the chalybeat and purging waters of England with their particular essays and uses : among which are treated at large, the apoplexy & hypochondriacism : to which are added some observations on the bath waters in Somersetshire ... / by Benjamin Allen ...	Allen, Benjamin, 1663-1738.	1699 (1699)	Wing A1018; ESTC R1055	100,077	248

THE Natural History OF THE Chalybeat and Purging Waters OF ENGLAND With their particular ESSAYS and USES Among which are treated at large THE Apoplexy Hypochondriacism To which are added Some Observations on the Bath Waters in Somersetshire Dedicated to the Right Honourable the Earl of Manchester By Benjamin Allen Med. Bac. LONDON Printed And Sold by S. Smith and B. Walford at the Prince's Arms in St. Paul's Church-yard 1699. TO THE Right Honourable CHARLES Earl of Manchester Baron of Kimbolton Lord Mandevill AND One of His Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council My Lord THAT this Treatise waited for a share in the Ceremony of receiving your Lordship from Venice Arguments are not wanting for besides the Interest that I bear by living within your Influence There is a common Obligation to appear in the general Train of those that gratefully attend your Return from your Embassy from a just Sense of the Blessings these Kingdoms receive from your Employment and your Country by your Return and Presence But that I inscribe it to your Lordship's Name I am more necessarily induced in that it is not easie to find so fit a Patron and so great a Judge Your Greatness that impowers you to countenance a Book hath a Brightness more than common to your own Quality and hath all the Worth and Beauty that Integrity Virtue and Goodness can give it As a Judge how you are Qualify'd I shall not attempt but only observe your Lordships excellent Temper to be so great a Help as that just Notions of things are not to be had without As a Character is better waved Justice being seldom done in Dedications so I am happy that it is not the least part of your Character that your Excellencies have a Foundation above that of common Applause However you need it not I had the Honour to observe your Lordships first Years possess'd of the Esteem of one who had a Fame for Learning among those that are acknowledged to be the greatest Masters of it in Europe and now your Riper ones in the nearest Imployment of the greatest of Princes The Subject My Lord gives you a Right to it who accounts the noblest Subject is to know a Man's self and who makes the Practise of doing Good your Pleasure And the Touches I have given at Humane Nature your Lordship 's several Travels abroad have given you a particular Palate for I have offer'd somewhat at the two grand Problems the Mechanism of Life and Use of Respiration and at the Distinct Notion of Humane Nature But I own the Thoughts are shatter'd and not exact What your Good Opinion Supports I shall set above the Rate of common Estimation so what your Judgment condemns shall lose all Value and Concern with me However it gives me an Opportunity to signifie that I am My Lord Your Honours Most Humble and Devoted Servant Benjamin Allen. THE PREFACE THE Knowledge of the Specifick Seat and Nature of the Disease and Energy of the Remedy as it gave the Rise and Increase to Medicine so is what the Art of Physick consists in and its Excellency depends on This is evident in 〈◊〉 and appears in every Disease and every Remedy The Jaundies are known to Physicians to admit of a various Cure as Trouble Obstruction of the Catamenia Feavers or an Indisposition of the Intestines may produce them The Exactness requisite to this is further seen in the ill Success that attends the empirical Vse of the Cortex in Pthises and Feavers without distinction of the Nature of the Symptom and Propriety of the Medicine Howfar the best Methodists fall short that sit down short of this Inquiry is experienced in Feavers wherein the taking Indications indiscriminately without respect to the Nature of the Cause could never be made consistent with success by the most judicious and happy Practicer which that Method hath yet produced The present Subject is one of the noblest in Physick not only for its Generosity and Vniversality but for their extraordinary Virtue in some and those very many and various Diseases wherein they are the most constant and sole Remedy And that these Waters are liable to the same Inconvenience I have been induced to believe by their frequently ineffectual and improper Vse and the Neglect of so certain a Remedy which I have observ'd in some Diseases wherein the Patients must be supposed to have drop'd for want of them Instances of which I shall have occasion to glance at presently I shall therefore make no Apology for my advancing somewhat towards so great a Desideratum As to what hath been done on this Subject by the Inquiries which some of our greatest Naturalists who have engaged themselves 〈◊〉 it have made I need only say that neither their Principles have been discover'd nor the Nature of the Salt or Spirit of each Water have been distinctly examin'd whereby as they have been wide from either so they advanced only loose Conjectures at some unknown Principle the most particular Inquiry by the very accomplish'd Physician and industrious Naturalist Dr. Martin Lister to whom the World is obliged for what he hath publish'd and my self what he was pleas'd civilly to communicate to me of the Condition of the Scarburgh Spring takes notice of the Condition of the Wells so far as to observe the Efflorescence of their Earth and their ferreous Stone which he observes to be an attendant on all our Mineral Springs and Baths as I remember without distinction and tho' rightly judging the Salt a Native of the Soyl where it is found yet on the same Account neither arriv'd at the Nature of the Principles of this Salt nor its differences nor traced its reason and Derivation The Chalybeat Waters which were reducible to a few general Heads I have given only Samples of to both I have preserved their experienced Virtues and to the Purging ones suggested some from their Nature and in this Account I find one Benefit that results that besides helping to the distinct Nature of each Water I have discover'd or at least made useful some Waters of the same Virtues with the justly celebrated ones whose distance made them still wanting to other parts of the Kingdom as those of Scarborow and Knaresborow are My account of the reason of the Operation of the Waters is so wild and imperfect as to be nauseous to my self and afford me no other satisfaction than that I have hinted what ought to be done yet because an insight into this promotes the understanding of the Nature of the Diseases and in what their Cure must consist and so the true place of the Vse of the Waters the Hints I give being somewhat informing instead of troubling the Reader with the Reasons of so great Negligence I shall choose to induce him to forgive it by giving them a little light here that may a little clear my sense in this matter Both the Chalybeat and Purging Waters have some Virtues in common to restore the Appetite remove