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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
reason_n	answer_n	answer_v	objection_n	2,644	5	9.4165	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A55637	A short treatise of metal & mineral waters viz. those of the Spaw, Bathe, Epsom, North-hall, Barnet, Tunbridge, and the new-wells at Islington. Wherein is described their bad as well as good qualities, with the danger of peoples too frequent and unadvisedly drinking them. BY E.P. M.D.	Prat, Ellis.	1684 (1684)	Wing P3181; ESTC R219547	22,721	75

humane sagacity First then he says the Sea-water because 't is heavy cannot ascend to such an height as the tops of Mountains but to this have been several refutations some ascribing this motion to the operations of the Celestial bodies and they say this motion is not violent though it be contrary to the private inclination of its proper form if the Potentia obedientialis be considered whereby inferior Bodies are made to obey their Superiors c. Others say there is a certain insite attractive faculty in the Veins of the Earth whereby it sucks Water out of the Sea as the Veins of Animals suck Blood others there are but too long for this place and wholly Philosophical and so not easily to be understood by ordinary capacities and so I omit them Then Secondly he says before the Water could reach the Mountains out of the Sea there 's no reason to be given but it would break forth But the Earth hath passages in some places and in some none Then whatsoever he assigns to be the original of Fountains it may be queried why in some places and Mountains there are Fountains and Rivers and in some none Then Thirdly he says if it were so Rivers would never be less but it may be answered Rivers sometimes grow less from what portion is lost which comes from falls of Showers and Snows and when part is suckt up by the dryness of the Earth and heat of the Sun c. Fourthly he says the Sea would not satisfy so many Rivers when the greatest part of Waters vanish by the heat of the Sun But it may be answered that the Sea receives only as much as it gives forth as Salomon says Rivers flow to the Sea that they may flow out again then if the greatest part of Water should vanish the Sea would long agone have been wasted but the extracted vapors are recondens'd into Water which either flows into the Sea or falls upon the Earth to augment the Rivers which at length unburthen themselves into the Sea Fifthly He says there can be no reason given why it should flow from one Mountain and not from another But the answer to his second Objection solves this Lastly He says Fountains and Rivers would tast saltish and brackish But to this is answer'd that Sea-water whilst it passes through various Veins Sinews and Meanders of the Earth and so being as it were strein'd it sensibly deposes its saltness and bitterness Hence the more remote Fountains are from the Sea the sweeter they are If any shall say that the Water was more likely to contract a bitterness by reason of the Exhalations it receives from the Earth it may be answered that they are not any sort of Exhalations that produce bitterness but only adust ones and all are not such in the intrals the Earth Therefore now Cardan we may conclude I hope hath not got any thing by contradicting Solomon CHAP. II. Of the Division of Fountains and of Mineral and Metal Waters HAving in the former Chapter given the Reader a plain account of the Matter and Origine of Fountains we should in the next place see how many sorts of Fountains there are but because 't is the work of Natural Philosophers and Hydrographers and nothing of an advantage to our present purpose we shall wholly omit it and only speak of Mineral and Metallic Fountains as being the subject of our present Discourse Now those I call Mineral and Metallic Waters which participate of the nature and faculty of that Metall or Mineral through which they pass in the Caverns and Veins of the Earth The which are either 1 Salt 2 Vitriol 3 Allumn 4 Bitumen 5 Naptha 6 Nitre 7 Gypsum 8 Arsenic 9 Cadmia 10 Antimony 11 Chrysocolla 12 Ochre 13 Lime 14 Ashes 15 Pummice-stones 16 Gold 17 Iron 18 Brass 19 Lead 20 Brimstone and 21 Quicksilver Now as I said the Minerals through which Waters pass bestowing upon them in their journey a considerable part and portion of their good and bad qualities I thought it very requisite before I discours'd of the use of the Waters themselves to say somthing of the Natures and Properties of the Metals and Minerals they are mixt with that thereby you may be the better able to judge of the nature of the Waters proceeding from them then we will begin with Salt The faculties of Salt are great many and very useful to man but not so necessary in Physick as many think such as your Quacking Chymists who predicate many wonderful and vain stories of Salt reduced by their Chymical Art for they audaciously assert that their is a Purgative faculty in Medicaments because of Salt and when they have got some Extract from any Medicament then they presently aver that they have got its Salt forsooth but these being things above the vulgar capacity I shall say Salt is very Conservative of an Astringing Absterging Purging Discussing Repressing Extenuating quality and vindicates the Body from Putrefaction yet some Salt is better then others but us'd immoderately produces very bad effects as sharp salt corroding humors all over the Body Scabs Leprosie the Stone and other dire Diseases as Dulness of sight disorderly Fermentations in the Blood rendring it thick and earthy by burning it Schroder thinks thus of the Original of Salts the Macrocosm he says as the other two Kingdoms i. e. the Vegetable and Animal is susteined and lives by its food in this abounds a salt answering to the salt Excrements in the Sweat Urine and Dejections in Animals now the Salt of the greater World congregated into the inferior Glob is of a dverse kind according to the variety of its Matrix even as the salt Excrement in Animals is different hence Common Salt Salt Gem Salt Nitre Alum c. The Greeks call that Calcanthum which the Latines from its blackness call Attramentum Sutorium or Shooe-makers Ink and from its spendent vitreous Nitre Vitriol Dioscorides a man of profound Judgment in the Materia Medica reckons three sorts thereof two Native and one factitious one sort of the Native is found concreted in the bowels of the Earth another is collected in form of a Water out of some Mine which put into a Vessel soon coagulates into Vitriol as for the factitious we have nothing to say to that here the Native or Fossile Vitriol participates of Calcitis Misy and Sory the Native and White is prefer'd in the Medicinal uses which the Metallicolous Alchymists say is produc'd by their Sulphur and Mercury as of Sperm which they indiscriminately exhibit to all affections out of which they draw a certain acid Liquor a few drops whereof mix'd with Syrup of Violets acquire a most elegant colour and taste But Oyl of Sulphur will do the same and a few drops of one or both of them insused in the Syrup of Roses will make the whole Liquor red which they call forsooth Tincture of Roses Now Nature 't is true hath enrich'd Vitriol with eximious faculties which