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A30805 The artificial spaw, or, Mineral-waters to drink imitating the German spaw-water in its delightful and medicinal operations on humane bodies, &c. / by T. Byfield. Byfield, T. (Timothy) 1684 (1684) Wing B6396; ESTC R24245 13,506 81

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THE Artificial Spaw OR MINERAL-WATERS TO DRINK Imitating the German Spaw-Water in its Delightful and Medicinal Operations on Humane Bodies c. By T. Byfield M. D. Fellow of the College of Physicians at Dublin LONDON Printed by James Rawlins for the Author and are to be sold by Matthew Keinton in Little-Britain 1684. TO THE Right Worshipful Sir WILLIAM JENNINGS KNIGHT Honored Sir THE Encouragement these Waters receiv'd last Year from your own Experience and Commendation of 'em to others did in part Naturalize 'em by gaining such Repute that they were prescrib'd by several Physicians in Town to their Patients and that with good Success For they alone wrought several Cures as by the Testimony of the Doctors does appear I have bin therefore very industrious to keep open these Salutiferous Springs that they may flow to the advantage of many And I doubt not but under your Patronage their Medicinal Virtues will raise 'em to such general good esteem that they 'l become the Metropolitan Fountain 'T will not be difficult besides Experience to make it appear from Reason that Medicinal Waters thus by Art prepar'd will excel the Natural But that being part of the ensuing Tract I 'le not here forestal the matter But acknowledge your Obligations in permitting a Rivulet of this Fountain to have its Eruption among your ingenious useful Vndertakings which that they may continue to prosper are the unfeigned wishes of Honoured Sir Your most humble Servant T. Byfield From my House in New-street by Fetter-Lane near the Five Bells THE Artificial Spaw OR MINERAL-WATERS To Drink c. CHAP. I. THe improvement of Arts and Sciences is the great design os all industrious Men. I have therefore in imitation of such bin at pains and cost too in making some useful improvements within my own Sphere of Physick of which at present I shall only discourse of one viz. The making of Artificial Mineral Waters equal to if not exceeding the Natural as to their Medicinal qualities For I have so strictly examin'd with what Minerals Marcasites and Nitrous Glebes the healing Fountains are impregnated to make 'em such that by preparing purifying and exalting their Medicinal Virtues I shall be able not only to imitate Nature but herein excel by defecating and expelling those gross Terrestrial parts and often unwholsome that are commixt with Minerals from which to extricate the benign and useful parts great diligence and curiosity is requisite This boast I hope may be very well allow'd within the bounds of Modesty since I have brought my undertakings to Perfection And since things Natural especially as to the Materia Medica are greatly improv'd in regard to their usefulness by Learning and Industry why may not this Mineral Preparation among the innumerable store of others be allow'd to challenge the credit it deserves It has pleas'd God for our imployment to make those things that Minister Food and Physick capable of improvement by us and our Labour and Industry in their preparation necessary e're we can receive due Benefit and Refreshment from 'em whenas in those only which serve for Delight and Pleasure as rich Fruits and Flowers c. He has shown his infinite skill and excellence which when we tamper with we only damage So that no Artist is so vain and impious to vye with Nature but only pleas'd when he can diligently and curiously perform that Labour and Culture assign'd him by his Maker But I must not digress how high therefore this way of Physick is in vogue or like to be shall not be so much my concern to recount as to make the usefulness and conveniency of it appear For if persons can with little expence and trouble be prevail'd upon to make a harmless trial of those things that are productive of great good such insinuations are no ways culpable 'T is obvious how many perish for want of timely care permitting slenderer indispositions which might soon be remov'd to run to some high Distemper and that too often suffer'd almost to have mischiev'd the Body e're they will look out for remedy being deterr'd from the use of means either because the methods are harsh and unpleasing or because they are Expensive and too Chargeable none of which our Medicinal Waters can be taxed with The Theoretick part of Physick being of late so richly adorn'd with accurate Anatomical Dissections and a refin'd Philosophy I conceive it likewise requisite that the Practice should bear some proportion to it otherwise the Ornament of Languages and all other Embellishments are but gilded nothings to the great Art of preserving and restoring a sound and healthy Constitution For to live long and in health as 't is the best thing belonging to this World so 't is most desir'd tho' the methods conducing thereto are much neglected 't is not only furnish'd with delights in it self but it gives a gust to all others for without it all their Excellencies are imperceptible But this is a Blessing most relish'd and best valu'd by those who sometimes are without it 'T is a great misfortune of Humane Nature not to discern wherein her happiness and delights consist which often are nearer her than she 's aware of and the farther she wanders in pursuit of 'em she 's at the greater loss For the methods to be taken for a happy life are not so difficult nor to be so far fetcht as are by most imagin'd But it being my business chiefly to direct to that part which conduces to preserving and restoring a healthy Body I shall only concern my self in what tends thereto How nice and delicate a thing it is to keep the Body in a just and due mixture of Principles and to recover those decaying is not soon apprehended For the subtile vital Breath or the volatile invisible Spirit of man's Body deservedly nam'd Mercury nourisheth feedeth and preserveth himself by the Oleity of Man's Suphur which is predominant in the Blood besides these there is a Salt lying in the Juices Flesh and Bones this ministers its noblest part for nourishment to the Blood and preserveth man's Body from putrefaction and is that Vinculum whereby the other two are kept and dwell together For in the Salt there lyeth a Spirit which protects and preserves the Balsoms in their worth and purity it savoureth all the rest and is inexhaustible unless it dye quite for the Air which supports the Spirits with its Vital Breath does carry in it a nitrous Spirit which tempers the whole nourishment and prevents the unruly disorders of the other ingesta Thus is preserv'd and kept a due temperament of Principles ad justitiam which is the great skill of a Physician But lest I make too large a Digression designing at present to discourse only of the excellent uses of Medicinal Waters and of my imitation of the Ultramarine Spaws I shall rather now say somewhat of Water in general and its usefulness CHAP. II. Of Water in general SInce I am about to demonstrate the advantages