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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

kindled what it is wher the heate heating the waters is contayned wée haue likewyse shewed the cause why some waters do breake oute hote some colde more or lesse and wée haue confuted the opinions of diuers Philosophers and haue shewed how they resulte c. Nowe it followeth that we shewe of what natures such waters be and after what sorte they be cōmixed I finde thrée maners of mixtions in waters of bathes for there be some which haue so farre commixed with thē those things which they containe that those things are made one body with the substāce of the water one forme hath resulted out of thē such things whether they be metallique or other cā not be seperated frō the substance of the water but in a very long tyme a most strong cōcoction or mutacion comming out such maner of mingling is that which doth giue gret integritie maketh thē durable this therfore is the first maner of mixtiō which may be cōsidered in the waters of bathes Another is that there are some waters which haue receiued metalles in the concauities of the earth as they flow yet those metalles are not wel commixed as we presuppose at Buckstons so that of the metalles and the water there resulteth one body by one forme as we haue said in the first maner of mixtion but they bée rather confounded with the waters The thirde is meane betwéene both for there are some waters which are partly mixed in déede with the waters which they do containe partly not commixed as S. Vincents but confounded as we haue sayd aboue But we haue not decréed to speake at large of the commixtions of al bathes but onely in a word or two of our baths of Bathe and what the mineralles be supposed there commixed or infunded in the course of those waters by the qualities wherof procéedeth their effectes medicinable which in my iudgement can in no way more certainly bée approued then by the properties and that the collour smell and taste best approueth The colloure of the waters of the bathes of bathe is swartie greene or marble yellowe the yellownes of the brimstone mingled with the water making a sussible couloure Albeit coulour maketh little or rather nothing to the knowledge of the facultie as Montan. hath most excellently shewed libro de componendorum facultatibus For many things of coulour whyte be found mere contrarie in operation as for example Snow is very cold and chalke is very hot yet eyther of them is most whyte The smell of the bathes of Bathe and S. Vincents is of brimstone as the artificiall bathes that bée made thereof howbeit neyther smell also maketh much to the knowledge of the propertie for it litle forceth whether they smel swetly or otherwise for of swéete smellinge and ill sauouringe things ye shall fynd many of diuers natures altogither neuerthelesse of these some coniecture may be made yet that is vncertayne and not perpetual of tast therefore shall wée entreat Theion chibur sulphur is sharpe and stinging of taste especially if you as the Chimistes do destill it into oyle or water of qualitie whit drie in the fourth degrée as partly by his quicke burning may appeare and of thynne essence And vnto this taste sayeth Montane we must onely trust for thorow it may be perceyued not only the temperaturs of simple medicines in heate colde moysture and dryenes hauing strength from the first faculties as Galen sheweth but also all other vertues as of wiping deuiding opening cutting expelling and such lyke the fittest instrument the truest touchestone of all properties trying both toucheable and tasteable qualities Taste I saye therefore aboue all other senses as all the learned Phisicions affyrmeth is too bée trusted of which so great occasion being gyuen wée can not but speake somwhat with that worthy scholler Melancton lib. de Anima First defyning what taste organ and obiect is Taste truely is a sense of féeling which in the tongue or ruffe of the mouth tryeth sauours Sauour or smacke is a perfect straining of the drie part of the humoure wrought by heate Instrument or organ is a skinne pellicle or philme stretched in the ouer part of the tongue vnder the roufe and hallowe fleshe full of holes like a sponge Obiect of taste is a qualitie in iuyce in which moysture ouercōmeth dryenes earthy heat digesting them both Of tastes ther be seuē simple iii. hote iii. cold the eight which the gréekes cal apoios tasteles without qualitie is rather a priuacion then that it might séeme to be taken any kinde of taste as for the wine fattie tastes they are applyed to the swéetest althogh Plinie in hist plant addeth vnto these suauē acutum albeit in my iudgement dulcis contayneth suauem and acris acutum of this iudgement is Theophrastus Montan. Mont. vi C. other truly they be in nūber these 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Dulcis calid 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 acidus frigid 1. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Salsus 1. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 austerus   2. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Amarus 2. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 acerbus   3. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Acris 3.       gradu     4.         Swéet hote 1. degrée Sooner cold 1. degrée Salt in 2. in the 2. Bitter the 3. Rouge 3. Sharpe   4. Harshe 4. The swéete taste is sayeth Montane in comen de simpli medicament qualit that which is lightly gathered delighting and pleasing the sense of the instrument arguinge an earthy dryenes temperatly excocted and not parched sometime with an ayrie moysture sometime with a watery therfore moderately warming not much moysteninge or drying nay it shall easely be turned to nourishement and alwayes such kinde of strength or vertu shall procéed from the swéete taste if it be simple but if it bée ioyned with other tastes as to the bitter or sharpe it shall bringe foorth mingled vertues the scope of our purpose for the qualities of the Bathes The Salte taste is that which perseth and byteth the tonge bringing a certayne kinde of féeling of heate by reason of earthy dryenes in a watery moysture thorow much heate deminished and by such a qualitie you may haue the force of heating drying and persynge to the depth bicause of much watery moysture mingled therewith The bitter taste is that which séemeth to shunne away from the tongue something arguing a farre greater deminishing of earthy substāce thorow heate thā in the salt tast therfore it shall haue a greater force of heating drying The sharpe taste is that which not onely doth byte the tongue but also dryeth setteth on fire as it were burneth arguing an earthy drynes perfectly diminished by heat and almost turned into the nature of fyre therefore it heateth thinneth and dryeth exquisitely also burneth consumeth Now for example of the swéete taste Sugar honie clarified or destilled honie suckles c. Of the salt tast Salt salt péeter Sal

that we meane not for that wer absurd the those mineralles be melted commixed with the water But we affyrme that theyr qualities are through boyling of the fyre in●unded discussid cōmixed dispersed by the waters rūning forth as may be wel approued the which also D. Turner testifieth what néede many wordes The water tastles of his own nature absolutly cold moderatly moist as it is said shal be better in the Table of the things natural is in these Baths per accidens made hot sharp bitter harsh rough c. Therefore 1 Heating Warming the colde 2 Concocting Concocting the crude 3 Persinge Opening the stopped 4 Dissoluing Dissoluing the harde 5 Attracting Attracting the cloyde 6 Clensing Clensing the foule 7 Binding Binding the seuered 8 Drying Drying the moyst 9 Stopping Stopping the flowings 10 Consolidating Consolidating the broken Comforting the weake members euen as if therin nature had bestowed artificially hir highest cunning why say I not the God of Nature for truly passing great benefites are to bée looked for of passing great bountie By meanes whereof it helpeth not onely all the manifeste gréefes afore specified in the fyrst booke but also many other hidden and vnknowen sicknesses which be least vnnamed for if hidden sicknesses any where doo procéed it is necessary sayth Fernelius lib. de abditis rerum causis contrarie to them hidden remedies too consiste as it dooth appéere as well by authoritie and reason as by experience if you consider with aduisement and councell which is as Plato sayeth the very keye of wysedome the diuersities of qualities temperatures properties and naturs of the Bathes The which yet in them selues are varied aswell in heate as in nature For the Kinges bathe is hote betwene both the other and in curing most of the aforenamed sicknesses best But the hote for many colde sycknesses iointaches pockes rotten vlceres more auaylable then the fyrste But the crosse bathe is least hote and therefore for chollerique persons such as are easely disposed to feuers more commodiouse All the which differences may bée gathered by that which is already declared leauinge too speake any further of them to the learned and expert there acknowledging with Aristot that it is not possible for one man to know all things although euery man ought to know as much as hée might For Omnis homo nascitur vt sapiens fiat The ende of the second Booke ¶ The third Booke of Bathes ayde IN our first booke the antiquitie ayde and commodities procéeding of the Bathes are at large described with a confutation of all those as reproueth the drincking of it In the second the causes of the heate of the waters of bathes and also the properties are reasonablie and apparantly to the senses approued Now it resteth that in this thyrd booke be declared when the sicke come thither what ought to be considered and how and by what meanes it may them profit without which very litle could the former bookes benefyte First therefore afore any person doe repayre thither it is conuenient that hée bée purged if not afore hée come thither at the least wyse before hée enter the bathes according as 1 Sicknes 2 Cause 3 Accident shall require Sicknesse is an affecte but not euery affecte for this woorde with Galene is pronounced of many and dyuers thinges but contrarie too Nature by whom the action is fyrste hurte eyther depraued deminished or taken away libro de morborum caussis libro prim Therapentices libro secund comentariorum in libr. Hippo. de natura humana Cause of sicknesse is that vnto which any thing followeth which is named effecte as sayeth Galene libro de symptomatum differenciis Accident is that which the Gréekes call Symptonia and wée properly in English to fall and with fall is what so euer happeneth to the bodye sicknesse and cause excepted Of the which larger to entreate were but friuelouse for the sicknesses be already the chéefest shewed and the outward causes are to be sought in the Table of the things not naturall and the inwarde of the table of the things naturall the coniunct of them both and of the accidents notes of sicknesses which is the argument to knowe whether ye néede adding or empting and that thorowe the consultation with the wyse and learned in Phisicke the neglecting wherof hath caused many a one to come thence worse then they went Some with the Goute in euery ioynte which had it afore but in one or two Some other full of byles some of vlcers and scabs c. And therefore in the behalfe of my Countrie not without aduisement and censure to speak it what letteth but for such a one as so deserueth that there might not be a méete stipend appointed or some impropriat benefyce or parsonage or prebend at Salisbury Worcester Herforde Gloucester Bristowe Excester Wels Landathe c. the furthest of not past a dayes iourney as well for the poore as the ryche yea if in euery Cathedrall church in the lande there were a promocion for a graduate in Phisicke that hée might be there to gyue both councell medicine and ayde to the better setting forth of Gods glorie and the magnificence of the Maiestie séeinge the liuing onely prayse the Lord and not the dead and also the healthy serue best the princely dignitie in all cheualry considering further herewith that woorthy piller of Christian veritie S. Ambrose who sayeth that the bodye is the tabernacle of the soule and the condicions of the minde as sayth Galene in temp Hippo. Platonis c. doo followe the temperature of the body the which thing to be true daylye experience proueth as we knowe and you also that vse too visite the sicke a déed of charitie how some dote some bée frantique some starke madde some numme some loose some disioynted c. then vnfit for any kynde of seruice arte mistery facultie counsell or prowes much lesse refourmable by sermons to pitie and godlines vntill they bée restored agayne according to nature the scope of Physike if so bée Phisyke as the prince Hippo. defyneth lib. de flatibus and as all Vniuersities this 2000. yeares hath receyued it as well Gréekes Arabians as Latinistes is prothesis kai aphasesis an adding and taking away and addinge of that wanting in the Spirites humoures and membres according to nature and a taking away of that contrarie to nature in the members humours and spyrites According to Nature is 1 Health 2 The cause of Health 3 The effect of health 4 Strength 5 Custome and 6 Complexion Health is an affect according to nature apte to perfourme the actions of the same Now the Table of the .vii. things Naturall you may vnfoulde bearyng well all thinges in your memorie vnles you meane to perfourme the prouerbe In at the one eare and out at the other THE TABLE OF THE SEVEN THINGS NATVRAL OVT OF THE VVHICH THE ACTIONS according to Nature doe spring may be perceiued in this Table howbeit not so often deuided as