Languid Masse of Blood by which the Spirits that before lay gasping as it were and press'd down with their own weight are excited and made more lively by Invigorating the Blood and renwing the Ferment For as soon as Chalybeat Medicines are made use of in the Green-sickness the Pulse becomes suddenly greater and quicker The External parts of the Body grow hot the Face no longer Pale and Dead-colour'd but fresh and Purpled with Blood it self Betwixt the Ferment of the Stomach and Chalybeats there 's a mutual conflict as appears by the Nidorolent Belches and Eructations after taking 'em as if one had eaten hard Fryed Eggs In this re-action Chalybeats undergo a dissolution within the Viscera of Concoction and the active Particles both Sulphureous and Saline display themselves and mixing with the Nutritive Juice are carried into the Blood which they Inactuate Chalybeat-Waters by their many and divers Seminary Principles with which they are embryonated are very powerful and efficacious in curing of many and divers Diseases tho' they be of a contrary Nature and Disposition for they serve not only as a Bridle but also as a Spur Yet I would not advise them to be drunk indifferently by all Constitutions and Sexes without the Advice of a Physician who by his Prudent Conduct and management weighing all * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Indications Contra-indications and Co-indications according to Discretion may obviate all Symptoms that may survene and thereby render them more useful and effectual the Potation of Waters thus Circumstantiated may deserve to be called the most powerful Hand of God and keep their Reputation untainted But without this Caution they may prove a Sword in a Mad-Mans hand and not at all Auxiliary but pernicious and hurtful Hence comes the saying * Pessimum mortis sed optimam vitae instrumenturs That Steel is the worst Instrument of Death and best of Life Wherefore our Learned and well Experienc'd Doctors now adays abbreviate the tedious and various Theraupeutick method of Physick and in lieu of it prescribe their Patients only a Chalybeat course to satisfie all intentions judging it to be instar omnium or equivalent to all other prescriptions * Vt hujus veluti panacaee usus caetera possit excusare Medicamenta and as a Learned Physitian was wont to say As true as Steel The Sanative Virtues and Energies of those Waters are beyond any Polypharmacon prescription imaginable being very prevalent against frequent Giddiness and Scotomia Passions of the Heart and Fainting of Spirits with a fear and dread as it were of present Death In Hypochondriacal and Hysterick Fits by supressing the Anathymiasis of ill Vapours and hindering Damps to exhale to the Head and Heart no Remedy more effectual In Scurvy which is an Endemick Disease it is an Appropriate and Specifick Remedy by correcting the deprav'd Ferments and Dulcifying the Blood In Hemorrhagies taken with Advice it is of great strength and force In both Obstructions and overflowing of the Terms also an excellent Remedy It s good against all Obstructions of Liver Spleen and Mesentery Leucophlegmatia Febris Alba Seu Amatoria or Green-sickness Stone Gravel Nay it Cures Hydrophobia or the Disease call'd the Fear of Water commonly contracted by the Bite of a Mad-Dog methodically Drank Moreover these Waters are endowed with an admirable and Powerful Faculty in rendring those who Drink of them Fruitful and Prolifick by reason of their Spirituous Ferment they Enliven Invigorat and Actuate the whole Masse of Blood the nobler parts of the Body and Spirits thereof Likewise reduce them from a Saline or Sulphureous Dyscrasie and sometimes from both to a sweet Balsamick Spirituous and Sanguineous Temperament * Actiones sequuntur temperamentum corporis which naturally incites and inspires men and Women to Amorous Emotions and Titillations being previous Dispositions enabling them to Procreation This may be the Aitiology of this product in some sense Venus comes from the Salt Sea through many Crannies Interstices Pores of the Earth and dangerous Precipices foaming to meet her beloved Mars in the Bowels of the Earth whom she no sooner embraces but she is Impregnated and big with a Valliant Hero in the Bed of Honour with no insipid delight From thence soon after this Congression she rises Tryumphing in our Hemisphere at Tunbridge generously imparting and distributing this Impregnative Faculty to her Votaries Omne bonum sui communitativum in order to preserve and perpetuate Mankind To Her Mars in a Poetical Rhapsodie speaks Tu Dea tu rerum naturam Sola gubernas Nec sine te quidquam dias in luminis oras Exoritur nec sit laetum nec amabile quicquam Thou Goddess turnest Natures Wheel To thee All-Beings do Appeal Without Thee neither Joy nor Love we feel So Passionate was he for a married Venus To these Lines I may annex a Poetical Hypothesis de aquis Chalibeatis or Chalibeat-waters made by a Learned and Ingenious Man alluding to the preceding Discourse Quid valet obdurum placide dissolvere Martem Ecce Venus madidans mollit amore Deum Spuma maris transit telluris sedula rimas Quemque ardet juvenem quaerit ubique furens Non erit ergo novum si nostris emicet undis Hìc Martem exultans convenit illa suum Salsis in Terrae thalamo complexibus hument Surgit explosus colliquefactus Amor. Hinc tantis dignae ferratae laudibus undae Mars praebet robur Dat Venus alma decus Huc queis forma perit huc huc properate puellae Vos Pulchras reddit candida limpha Deas Hue properate senes curvans quos deprimit aetas Ecce Dei vires exhibit unda sui Ventriculos implete mares implete puellae Quos bibitis fontes rivus Amoris erunt Posthac de Baccho fileant proverbia friget Non sine Lenaeo sed sine Marte V-enus What thing can reach Mars his hard heart 'T is Venus only has the Dart. The foaming Sea finds Terra's chinks And mad with Love into 'em sinks 'T is nothing strange if Venus rise And both in Joy here sympathise Moisten'd in Salt Embraces Bed She melted rising rears her head Hence Waters Fame of Iron race Mars gives the Strength Venus the Grace Come hither Dames whose Beauties fade A Goddess in a trice is made Come hither Old whom Age has bent Gods Pow'r is Omnipotent Drink Men and Women drink and swell You can't drink dry kind Cupids Well Drink Sirs and Ladies He She Dove What here you drink increases Love. No more of Bacchus Venus chill Appears when Mars has no good will. Nay only then to say I 'm bold Venus is so when Mars is cold Notwithstanding all these Encomiums of the Waters yet some are of opinion they are not proper in some kind of Maladies As in a Rheumatism nor in Hectick Feavers or Consumptions First by reason of the ill success they are wont to have in using these Waters Secondly Because in them the parts
A PHYLOSOPHICAL AND Medicinal Essay OF THE WATERS OF TUNBRIDGE Written to a Person of Honour By PAT MADAN M. D. Temporibus Medicina juvat data tempore prodest Et data non apto tempore Lympha nocet LONDON Printed for the Author MDCLXXXVII My Lord IT was your Honours pleasure to ask my judgement concerning Tunbridge-waters because I oft recommend my Patients to them which in my opinion are not Inferior in Medicinal Virtues to any Spaw of that kind For by their Effects which is an * Demonstratis à posteriori after-demonstration they are impregnated with a Chalcanteous or Vitriolate Juice which with its Sulphureous Particles irritates and moves the Belly to Blackish Excretion and by frequent Drinking thereof it Blackneth the Tongue because this member being of a Spongy Substance imbibes some Sooty Sulphureous Minims into its Porosity occasioning this Tincture Through its more subtiler piercing Chalchantous Spirits it provokes Vrine in a plentiful manner To these is admixt some Ferrugineous Juice which contains a great deal of the Volatile Salt which is it that is dissolv'd in the Chalybeat-Wine now so much in Vogue amongst Physitians His Aquis ferrum inesse videtur in principiis solutis unde earum vis Chalybeata intimius Sanguine permiscetur potentius morbis expugnat quam ferrum quocunque demum artificio nobilitatum Dr. Sydenham These Waters seem to contain Iron in its unconcrete and seminal Principles whereupon their Chalybeat Virtue is more intirely mix'd with the Blood and more powerfully attaques Diseases then Iron prepar'd to the best advantage can Dr. Sydenham Mars in its self confists chiefly of Salt Sulphur and Earth It has very little of Spirit and Water and Particles of the former Elements especially the Sulphureous and Saline in the mixt are combin'd together with Earth remain wholly fix'd but being loosed and divided from each other as in these Waters have a very efficacious Energy Dr. Willis de Chalybeatis In them Galles shaven or Oake-leaves added or by pouring to them some infusion of Tea made in Water they 'l become of an Atropurpureous Colour to which in-Stilling some drops of Spirit of Vitriol or pouring thereunto some Sherry becomes clear again and Redintegrats its Pristine Colour On the Surface of these Waters there 's a Grey-Filme in a Morning they have a Roughness in the Mouth with 'em no Arsenical Vapors are intermix'd but void of all noxious quality are Limpid and Salutiferous many do daily receive Benefit by the use of 'em Wherefore by * Syndrome Phainomenoon the concurrence of these appearances they have the Characteristick of a good and wholesom Spaw As for their Virtues and Properties in Physick I believe if there be any such Remedy in Being as a Panpharmacon or Vniversal Remedy 't is here For even as Soap put to Foul Linnen with Water Purgeth and Cleanseth all Filth and maketh them to become White again so these Waters with their Saponary and Detersive Quality clean all the whole Microcosm or Body of man from all Feculency and Impurities Vid. the first Region by Black Seige the second by Vrine the third by Transpiration sending forth from the Center to the Circumference many Sooty and Fetid Effluviums which in some colour their Shirt Blackish * Harum enim substantia liquida notannda quantitas per intimos viscerum recessus preterfluens peccantes in propriis cuniculis stagnantes succos egregie everrit morborumque causam averruncet Materiam tartaream viscosam dissoluunt Hepatis quoque renum calidam in temperiem corrigunt An observable quantity of this Liquid Substance gliding through the Inner Passages of the Bowels brushes off the Peccant Humours that stagnate in their proper Channels and root out the Cause and Origen of Diseases The Acidulae also dissolve Tartarous and Viscous Matter and correct the hot Indisposition of Liver and Kidnies See the Author Fredericus Lossius in Conciliis Medicis Wherefore the use of these Waters have deservedly gain'd a great esteem and reputation in Curing many Chronick and Rebellious Diseases which are accounted the shame of Physitians for they Cure even to a Miracle such as are quite given over by Doctors they may well be nam'd Aquae Vitae or Waters of Life because they restore men to Life and make them live twice * Quia vita priori posse frui est bis vivere Because to enjoy their former Health is to live again for Sickness and Neutrality of Health as the Greeks say is but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 To live without Life wherefore * Non est vivere sed bene valere Vita Martial Life is not only to live and breath but also to have perfect Health and that is got here by Drinking * Ad has aquas medici postquam aegros magna sumptuoso medicamentorum apparatu longo tempoae defatigarunt cum vident res sibi ex voto non succedere miseros relegant tanquam ad sacram anchoram sunt enim efficacissimum potentissimum remedium ad profligandos gravisstmos morbos a Deo concessum si dextra manu porrigantur quod Poeta exprimit his versibus Physitians when they have tyr'd their miserable afflicted Patients with tedious and Chargeable courses of Physick finding all ways else unsuccessful at last send 'em to these Waters which they lay hold of as a Sacred Anchor for they are the most Efficacious and Powerful Remedy against the greatest and most Inveterate Diseases by the appointment of Almighty God provided they are made use of in a due and right manner which the Poet expresses in these words Publica morborum requies commune medentum Auxilium praesens numen inemptaque salus Amissium reparant lymphis impune vigorem Peccaturque aegro luxuriante dolor Diseases publick ease a common heal A free-cost-Health a God does never fail Vigour to Men restore with ease avail All pain in wanton Patient's does assail But if you take 'em in the left hand or by the wrong handle they cause thousands of Diseases and hasten even death it self Fredericus Lossius in Conciliis de morbis Hypochondriacis * Etenim massae Sanguineae Effatae Languescenti volatile quoddam fermentorum seu calcaria subdit à quo excitantur quasi eriguntur spiritus antea jacentes suo pondere pressi Sanguinem vigorat ejusque vim 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 redintegrant Nam quoties Chalybeata in chlorosi seu febre alba vel amatoria propinantur pulsus de repente major fit celeror Exteriora corporis incalescunt facies non amplius pallida morti concolor sed vivida cernitur Sanguine purpurata Fredericus Lossius Chalybeats Cure not so much by opening Obstructions of the Viscera as by depressing the Exaltations of Sulphur and fixt Salts and by Volatilizing the Blood much Depauperated and made Effete as in Cachectick Bodies For they communicate a Volatile sort of Ferment as a Spur to the Effete and
are much weak'ned and Nature cannot throw off the Glut of Waters sent into the Blood In Rheumatick Persons the Nervous Juice degenerates from its Crasis and inclines to a sharpish Nature and is wont to be perverted by the fluid Salts of the Spaw-Waters As Doctor Willis well observes As for Hecticks they are commonly of a fine texture of Body much Distempered with Heat Driness and Costiveness all which Symptoms are rather increased by Chalybeats than abated Wherefore the Learned Dr. Willis in his Chapter of Chalybeats says That Steel is not proper in very Hot and Spiritous Blood nor where the the Bowels are of a hot Temperament Neither are these Waters good but rather hurtful to those who are in perfect Health according to Hippocrates sentiment who says Medicamenta non conveniunt sanis Medicaments are not convenient for Sound and Healthy Persons Moreover they are Judged not proper for Women with Child Because whatever provokes Vrine as these Waters do provokes also the Terms and whatever provokes 'em in Women causes Miscarriage therefore not fit for them in this circumstance Old and Antient Persons are not to be too bold in drinking these Waters because their Ferments and Natural Faculties are much debilitated by decay of Nature and not sufficient to exert their Function in distributing these Waters which if remaining in their Body and being not carried off Suffocates the Vital Flames of the Heart and Arteries Wine therefore for 'em is most convenient * Deus enim Vinum hominibus quasi auxilium adversus senectutis austeritatem pharma cum largitus est ut reviviscere videantur maestitiae oblivio capiat atque ipse animi habitus mollise duro factus ut ferrum Igni impositum tractabilior fiat unde Vinum a non nullis lac senum nominatur Lossius For God has given Wine as a Physick-help against the Moross Austerity of Age that by the moderate use thereof Old Men may in a manner renew their Lives and forget their Aches even the habit of the Mind from a hardned condition is become soft as Iron by the help of Fire is made more tractable whereupon Wine is call'd Lac senum the Old Mans Milk. The method which is to be observed in drinking these Waters is as followeth First To drink for three or four days every Morning Epsom or North-Hall Waters to Purge the Body and prepare it in order to Tunbridge For unless the first passages are cleansed Medicines designed for any other use will be depraved by the filth residing in them These Purging-Waters may be drunk to three or four Pints either raw or boyl'd and altered with Milk. This being done drink of Tunbridge walking gently to the Fountain-Head * Nam dulcius utilius ex Fonte bibuntur delatae enim ex propriis Fontibus fieri non potest quin amittant vivificos illos Spiritus inquoque omnis vivamenti vis consistit quos nullo postea labore restitui potest Bacchius de thermis For Waters are more pleasant and profitable taken at the Fountain-Head Whence once removed they lose their Vivific Spirits in which all Virtue does reside which afterward no diligence can recover For being impregnated with a Spiritous and volatile Exhalations they easily lose their Virtue by the Avolation of Fugitive Parts being carried at a distance That they are embodied with such subtile parts you may experience it sensibly by putting a Bottle half full of them about Sun-rising to your eyes and from thence you 'll perceive such Emanation of Efluviums to come Analogous to those of Orange-peel when squeez'd as will stimulate and irritate the tender Tunicles of your Eyes This I have by Tradition from a Physician who for many years frequented Tunbrige and made great scrutiny into the Nature and Idiosyncrasia of these Waters yet this I know that Chalybeat-waters in long deportation or being some space of time out of the Fountain will not tinge with Galls or Oaken leaves at least not so intense as before whence I deduce that in carriage to some distance or being long our of the Fountain they are divested of their Martial and consequently Medicinal Power * Vnum quodque quo magis elongatur a principio eò magis languescit They are to be drunk gradually and with leasure not in great draughts with little or no intermission because they are chiefly prescrib'd to purifie and keep in its due Crasis the Blood and Nervous Juice to open Obstructions and strengthen the Tone of the Nervous Plexus Now this they effect by insinuating Subtile and Active Particles of different State and Origine into the Morbifick Minera conquering and subduing Saline and Irritative Particles residing in the Blood and carrying some forth as Prisoners by Vrine 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 This Mutual Contest betwixt the Combatants of Chalybeats and their Antagonist cannot be expected to be at an end in haste or in short space of time but after many Attacks and several Collisions and as I may say broken Pates But precipitate drinking destroys all these intentions and leaves no time for alteration assimulation or Mortification of Particles of different Nature and Figure Wherefore it 's better to * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Festina lente Hippes omne nimium Naturae inimicum quod vero paulatim fit tutum est presertim si ab uno ad aliud progrediatur hasten slowly and drink 'em leasurely with due intervals Moreover great draughts are generally held Pernicious Destructive and rather oppressing than alleviating Nature And considering these Waters are not Virtuated so much by their quantity as quality inherent in them the Body participates more of the latter frequently drinking a little than by powering in a vast and stupendious quantity at one time like Tricongius Mediolanensis who drunk three Gallons at one draught and from thence took his Name The compass of time wherein the Waters are usually drunk is an hour or an hour and a half walking betwixt whiles moderately * Ad Ruborem sed non ad Sudorem till you look red but not sweat least you divert 'em from the Vrinary passage to the Periphery of the Body for the same matter goeth by Sweat as by Vrine and cause too great an Effervescency in the Blood. The measure of time to continue the drinking of these Waters for good effect is commonly a Month or six Weeks But by the Authority of Claudinus and many other Doctors we may continue a Steel course for the space of a Year Why not a Fortiori or much more the use of these Waters with as much safety and benefit they being the most perfect course of Steel because here the Elements of Steel are in un-concrete and seminal Principles and display themselves as I before mentioned out of Dr. Sydenham Supposing in this Administation there be respect had to the Patients strength Disease Euphory or well-bearing Temperament of the Air and other Circumstances They are to be taken