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spirit_n	artery_n	blood_n	vein_n	5,874	5	10.2889	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66809	Scarbroughs spagyrical anatomizer dissected, or, An answer to all that Dr. Tonstal hath objected in his book against Scarbrough spaw the innocency and excellency of that spaw is further asserted 1. Concerning the rise and growth of the art of physick, 2. Touching the causes of the petrifying property that is in some springs, and more especially that of the dropping well at Knaresbrough, 3. About the signs, symptomes and cures of diseases : as also reflections upon a late piece, called A vindication of hydrologia chymica / by Robert Wittie ...	Wittie, Robert, 1613?-1684.	1672 (1672)	Wing W3233; ESTC R38727	58,185	159

drinking of these waters that could afford any the least ground of jealousie that there was any such cause notwithstanding his pretences But seeing our Author is so severe in his charge against it A digression about petrification as having a petrifying property and thereupon compares it to the Dropping-well I judge it requisite to make some enquiry into the parallel and to consider of the causes of petrification that is in waters and more particularly that of the Dropping-well how it makes stone and so we shall the better discern what sutableness there is in this his parallel where by the way somewhat I shall say concerning the nature of stone Of the nature of stone It is a point of no small difficulty that I am now fallen upon there being few that have written of the subject unto any competent satisfaction Fallopius de metallis cap. 6 found it so and therefore he implored the help of Marcus Antonius Janna about it But at last he adventures upon it and defines Stone to be a mineral substance concrete that is not capable of dissolution either by heat or moisture And whereas some stones will dissolve or melt he imputes to the mixture of some mineral or mettal But this is not a full or compleat definition for as much as we see there are some stones in which we cannot say there is any mineral or mettal that will neither endure the fire nor yet the air and are therefore accounted improper for building But this is observable that the more pure and fine the matter of any stone is the harder it is and the more uncapable of dissolution either by heat or moisture as Diamonds Amethists Cornelians c. Nor does it agree with the nature of those stones that are bred in the bodies of men some of wh●ch we find are dissoluble by the help of these waters though others are not Of the generation of stones But the cause of the generation of stones is still more abstruse and difficult Some will have them all to be originally nothing but water but then they should all be pellucid and clear Some to be only earth condensed but then none of them should be pellucid Besides why should any of them be heavier then earth since they are drier for we see the same piece of earth when 't is dry is far lighter then when 't is moist unless we shall attribute it to its more close and compact substance which is not enough The best account we can give is that every sort of stone has its Succus Lapidescens as mettals have before it be concrete and that concretion is furthered sometimes by cold and sometimes by heat Thus by cold those Springs that have imbibed any sort of Lapidescent juyce may petrifie or make a stone of the same kind and the sooner if there be any mixture of a fixed salt in it and the water be kept from motion By the other to wit heat may any crasse matter be turned into a stone as the clay in a Potters furnace is by the fiery heat condensed into a stone Stones often found in the body There are also stones generated in the concave parts of mens bodies very frequently by the immoderate heat of the parts condensing crasse matter as in the Gall the Reins the Bladder the Stomach the Womb as have been found in d●ssections frequently so likewise in the very Arteries and Veins Kircher tells that he was present when Joannes Trulla a Chirurgeon found many stones and much urtarous matter in the great Artery near to its union with V●na Cava in one Barthelinus Cenventinus which stopped the motion of the blood and spirits and brought sudden death The like was found lately in the Ar●●ry of a Noble Peer of this Realm which rendred his disease incurable as I had a relation from my Friend Dr. Troutbeck who was present at the dissection Many stories of like sort may be found in Schenkin's Observationss as also in Laurentius's Historia Anatomica Yea and sometimes stones have been found in the solid and mustulous parts I have seen a stone as hard as a flint and in all respects like one as one flint can be like another that after much pain in the part and of long duration was cut out of a mans buttock at Doncaster which would strike fire upon steel Springs that have imbibed stones I read in good Authors of several Springs that are impregnated with stone as the Aqua Aponitana which Fallopius says has Limestone as also the Baths of Eugesta according to Gesner and that at Corsena has shreds of Marble So at Giret near Vienna in Savoy there is a Spring whose water petrifies into flints This must necessarily from the diversity of the Lapidescent juyces which those Springs have imbibed A rare Spring in France But the most stupendious is a Spring at Clarmont in Averne a Province in France which though it flows as limpid and clear as any other water yet it turns all its substance in●o stone if it be suffered to stand still in any vessel and being put into a glass of what shape you please it will turn presently into a stone of the same form Petrus Joannes Faber a French Physitian in his Hydrographum Spagyricum lib. 2. c. 14. reports of this water that they are wont to make Bridges of it to pass into their Gardens over the Rivulet that comes from it by placing timber and then pumping up the water upon it they have a compleat stone-bridge in 24. hours This water he says kills any beast that drinks of it for as much as it turns into a stone in the stomach The said Author undertakes to give a reason for i● to wit That the Spiritus Mundi with a peculiar influence of the Stars upon this Spring more then any other does excite the astringent and coagulating property that is in the Sal one of the three Chymical principles whereby the water upon r●sting or ceasing of motion shall convert into a stone But in my judgement he had as good have said nothing for so he may easily solve all the Phaenomena in Nature be they never so difficult which have puzled all the Sages of the World by attributing them to the activity of the Spiritus Mundi and the Stars influences upon one or more of their three principles to wit Sal Sulphur and Mercury But in all probability the true cause must be this that this whole matter that runs out of the Spring is a Lapidescent juyce and not water which when it ceases to move as it does in the Spring or Rivulet immediately it hardens into a stone For motion hinders the concretion as we see in water which in the coldest weather never frezes while 't is kept in motion but let it rest and then it converts to ice And so I may say of our petrifying Springs which only differ in magis and minus several of which I have seen in this County