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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A82022	Spadacrene Anglica, the English spaw, or, The glory of Knaresborough springing from several famous fountains there adjacent, called the vitrioll, sulphurous and dropping wels; and also other minerall waters. Their nature, physical use, situation, and many admirable cures being exactly exprest in the subsequent treatise of the learned Dr. Dean, and the sedulous observations of the ingenious Michael Stanhope Esquire. Wherein it is proved by reason and experience, that the vitrioline fountain is equall (and not inferiour) to the Germain spaw.	Deane, Edmund, 1582?-1640.	1654 (1654)	Wing D491A; ESTC R226651	28,280	48

chymicall oyle thereof is very available as himself affirmeth to have sufficiently proved against the stone and stopping of Urine and many other outward maladies and diseases Andernacus and Gesner adde to these the Apoplexy all which for avoiding of prolixity I do here purposely omit Neither will I further trouble the Reader with the recitall of divers and sundry excellent remedies and medicines found out and made of it in these latter times by the Spagyrick Physitians and others Insomuch that Joseph Quercetanus one of those is verily of opinion that out of this individual mineral well and exquisitly prepared there might be made all manner of remedies and medicines sufficient for the storing and furnishing of a whole Apothecaries shop But it will perhaps be objected by some one or other in this manner If vitrioll which as most do hold is hot and dry in the third degree or beginning of the fourth nay of a caustick quality and nature as Dioscorides is of opinion should here be predominant then the water of this Fountain must needs be of great heat and acrimony and so become not onely unprofitable but also very hurtfull for mans use to be drunk or inwardly taken To which objection not to take any advantage of the answer which many learned Physitians do give viz. that vitriol is not hot but cold I say First that although all medicinall waters doe participate of those minerals by which they do passe yet they have them but weakly viribus refractis especially when in their passages they touch and meet with divers other minerals of opposite tempers and natures Secondly I Answer that in all such medicinall Fountains as this simple water doth far surpasse and exceed in quantity whatsoever is therewith intermixed by whose coldnesse it commeth to passe that the contrary is scarce or hardly perceived For example take one proportion of any boyling liquor to 100. or more of the same cold and you will hardly find in it any heat it all Suppose then vitrioll be hot in the third degree it doth not therefore follow that the water which hath his vertue chiefly from it should heat in the same degree This is plainly manifest not onely in this fountain but also in all others which have an acide taste being indeed rather cold then hot for the reasons above mentioned CHAP. X. Of the effects which this Fountain worketh and produceth in those who drink of it EXperience sheweth sufficiently besides reason that this water first and in the beginning cooleth such as use it But being continued it heateth and drieth and this for the most part it doth in all yet not alwayes For as we shall more fully declare afterwards it effecteth cures of opposite and quite contrary natures by the second and third qualities wherewith it is endowed curing diseases both hot cold dry and moist Those waters saith Renodaeus which are replenished with a vitrioline quality as those at the Spaw doe presently heal and as it were miraculously cure diseases which are without all hope of recovery having that notable power and faculty from vitrioll by the vertue and efficacy whereof they passe through the meanders turnings and windings of all parts of the whole body Whatsoever is hurtfull or endammageth it that they sweep and carry away what is profitable and commodious they touch not nor hurt that which is flaccid and loose they bind and fasten that which is fastned and strictly tied they loose what is too grosse and thick they incide dissolve attenuate and expell More particularly the water of this fountain hath an incisive and abstersive faculty to cut and loosen the viscous and clammy humours of the body and to make meable the grosse as also by its piercing and penetrating power subtilty of parts and by his deterging and desiccative qualities to open all the obstructions or oppilations of the mesentery from whence the seeds of most diseases doe arise and spring liver spleen kidneys and other interiour parts and which is more to be noted and observed to coole and contemperate their unnaturall heat helping and removing also all the griefs and infirmities depending thereupon Besides all this it comforteth the stomack by the astriction it hath from other minerals especially Iron so that without doubt of a thousand who shall use it discreetly and with good advice their bodies first being well and orderly prepared by some learned and skilfull Physitian according to the states thereof and as their infirmities shall require there will scarcely be any one found who shall not receive great profit thereby Moreover it cleanseth and purifieth the whole masse of blood contained in the veynes by purging it from the seresity peccant and from cholerick phlegmatick and melancholike humours and that principally by Urine which passeth through the body very clear and in great quantity leaving behinde it the mineral forces and vertues Their stooles who drink of it are commonly of a blackish or dark green colour partly because it emptieth the liver and spleen from adust humours and melancholy or the sediment of blood but more especially because the minerals intermixed do produce and give such a tincture CHAP. XI In what diseases the water of this Fountain is most usefull and beneficiall OVer and besides the peculiar and specifical faculties which this fountain hath it sheweth divers and sundry other manifest effects and qualities in evacuating the noxious humours of the body for the most by Urine especially when there is any obstruction about the kidneyes ureters and bladder Or by Urine and stoole both if the mesentery liver or spleen chance to be obstructed But if the effect or grief be in the matrix or womb then it cleanseth that way according to the accustomed and usuall manner of women In melancholly people it purgeth by provoking the haemorrhoides and in cholerick by siege or stool If it causeth either vomit or sweat it is very seldom rare See here a most admirable work guided by the omnipotency and wisdome of the Almighty that a naturall clear and pure water should produce so many and severall effects and operations being all of them in a manner contrary one to another which few medicines composed by Art can easily perform without hurt and dammage to the party Wherefore being drunk with those cautions and circumstances necessarily required thereunto it is to be preferred before many other remedies as not onely procuring these evacuations but also which is more to be noted staying them when they grow ro any excesse For seeing that here are minerals contained booh hot cold dry appercive astringent c. there is none so simple but must needs think and grant that it cannot otherwise be but good and wholsome in grievances and diseases which in their own natures are opposite But I may instance in some few for which it is good and profitable and therein observe some order and method It dryeth the over moist brain and helpeth the evils proceeding there from as rhumes catarhs