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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96797	Scarbrough Spaw, or, A description of the nature and vertues of the spaw at Scarbrough in Yorkshire. Also a treatise of the nature and use of water in general, and the several sorts thereof, as sea, rain, snow, pond, lake, spring, and river water, with the original causes and qualities. Where more largely the controversie among learned writers about the original of springs, is discussed. To which is added, a short discourse concerning mineral waters, especially that of the spaw. / By Robert Wittie, Dr. in Physick.	Wittie, Robert, 1613?-1684.	1660 (1660)	Wing W3231; Thomason E1830_2; ESTC R204108	73,129	263

I read also of a Fountain in Judaea which flowes six dayes and rests on the Sabbath and is therefore called fons S●bb●ticus Also of a Fountain in Epyrus which will quench a lighted torch and light one whose flame is out So among the Garamantes there is a Spring which is so cold in the day time that one cannot drink of it and in the night so hot that it cannot bee touched Catal gl●r mund p. 12 In inst rei pub l. 7. tit 9. These and many more of like nat●te I meet withall in good Authors especially in Cassanaeus and Patricius where the learned Reader may abundantly satisfie his curiosity like wise in D. Fulks book of Meteors concerning which no reason can be given so as I think it better silently to admire the power and wisedome of Almighty God in them then too curiously to pry into the causes of these deep mysteries in nature which are wrought in the lower parts of the earth It being the Prophe D●vids expression in his contemplation upon the secret mystery of his forming in the womb Psal 139.15 Sect. 11. Of River Waters The next sort of water which fal●under our consideration is River water First therefore concerning the Originall of Rivers and then of the nature of that sort of water In Original The Scripture tells us that all Rivers come from the Sea Eccles 17. so as we need not go further to search out their Original nevertheless they consisting of two sorts of water to wit salt and fresh we may distinguish and call the Sea the original of the Salt water and trace the fresh up to its Springs and Fountains and determine that the fresh water in Rivers comes from the Springs and in this we are not without a president in Scripture Gen. 2.10 Where it s said a River went out of Eden which divided it selfe into four streams which intimates that the Spring from whence those sour Rivers had their Original was in Eden Notwithstanding Rivers have also an additional supply from Rain and Snow which falling from higher places do carry down with them the water that is in Lakes Ponds and Ditches and fills their Danks Hippocrates will have River water to be altogether unwholsom It s natu●● being made up of so many several sorts of water and most of them bad as also mixt with mud dirt and slime De aquis locis breeding diseases of various kinds according to the nature of the waters and therefore it is very observable that those Cities and Towns that are forced to drink of the water of Rivers are more pestered with Epidemical sickness then others that have better water which Valleriola observed at the City of Arles in France Lib 2. loc com c. 7. which stands in a low and Fenny soyl having no Springs at all but the inhabitants are forced to drink the water of Rhone Notwithstanding I finde some Rivers commended to have wholsom water as Eulaeus and Choaspes which I mentioned before which the Kings of Persia and Parthia preferred before any other sort whatsoever But above all other the water of Nilus is commended by Aetius Tetrab 1. c. 165. as having all the properties of the best sort of water And hence it was that Philadelphus the second King of Egypt having married his daughter Berenice to Antiochus King of Assyria caused the water of Nilus to be carried to her into Assyria that she might drink of no other water but that Lib. 2. dypn cap. 2. as Athenaeus saith out of Polybius Yea the water of Nilus seems to be equalized with wine if not preferred before it for Scaliger relates out of Spartianus that when the Egyptian Army was ready to mutiny because they had no Wine De subt exerc 48. Pescenninae Niger their General appeased them with this answer what do you grumble for wine and have the River Nilus at hand But I must not wade too far into this stream least I lose my self and my Subject especially since River water contributes nothing to the Spaw at Scarborough there being none acer it Nor have we the water of Nilus here our Rivers in England are compounded of several sorts of waters and therefore not so wholsom and yet it is the best or only water that some Towne have for their ordinary use the water of Owse being also most commonly used by this City of York for whose cause especially I will say something more concerning it River water is not so good as Rain or Spring Water the Sun having exhaled the thin parts it is become more gross yet it will keep longer then either of the other and will make stronger Bear then either of them it being more easily impregnated with the strength of the Malt by reason of its gross parts but it is not so good for Medicines as the other Now the reason why it will keep longer then Rain or Spring water is because it hath passed already some degrees of fermentation by the heat of the Sun yet the water of some Rivers will keep longer then other Baccius saith the water of Tiber wil keep an hundred years and not corrupt Lib. 1. de ag teber c. 2. the reason is because it is grosse and thick like Oyle on which account its unwholesome to be drunk River water is not to be used after rain till it hath purged it selfe and doth become clear and its the best when it is taken out of the middle of the River which if that cannot bee done then let it be taken out of some deep place and not where it is shallow also above the Cities and Towns before the filth of the channels run into it Great care likewise should be taken by the Governours of Cities that no Carrion be cast into Rivers both because it corrupts the water and destroyes the fishes likewise that no cloaths be washed or boyes bathe or horses be watered above those places where the water is taken up especially in times of common contagion and pestilential diseases In which particulars the Antient Law-makers were exceeding carefull appointing certain Officers for the preserving of their waters whom they called Hydrophylaces which were persons of the best quality and had great immunities conferred on them and were to see to the putting of the Laws in execution concerning waters Cat. glor muud par 12. p. 259. as Cassanaeus relates out of Franciscus de Ripa This water being taken up should be kept in large Stone Cesterns not leaden which are apt to breed dysenterie fluxes and those very clean into which if some gravell stones gathered out of a fresh River were put it would preserve it longer and cooler Lib. 2. loc com c. 7. Valleriola would have also some little fishes put in to keep in motion and when it is first put in the Cesterns it should be poured through a thick woollen cloth that no sandy or slimy substance may pass through River water being very