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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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