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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60266	The history of Scarbrough-Spaw, or, A further discovery of the excellent vertues thereof in the cure of the scurvy, hypochond. melancholy, stone, gonorrhea, agues, jaundies, dropsie, womens diseases, &c. By many remarkable instances, being a demonstration from the most convincing arguments, viz. matter of fact. Also a discourse of an artificial sulphur-bath, and each of sea-water, with the uses thereof in the cure of many diseases. Together with a short account of other rarities of nature observable at Scarbrough. By W. Sympson doct. in physick.	Simpson, William, M.D.	1679 (1679)	Wing S3832; ESTC R217885	45,176	146

inverting the regular Idea's thereof The degrees of which Disease are varied yea intended or remitted according as those Spirits are in their first hewings or shapings more or less soyled with those noxious steams and clouding vapors which steams and fogs receive all their measures from the ferments of the Stomach and Spleen as they are more or less vitiated from the error of which ferment ariseth Indigestion or Crudities the Mother or rather Chaos of the aforesaid clouds or steams and from it also is produced Wind or Flatus the proper fruit or effect of Indigestion For wherever the generation of the Spirits are the first springs thereof whether Stomach Spleen or arterial vessels we suppose to be the chief Minera of this Disease whose deep rootedness and inward recess is the main reason of the difficuly of its cure which accompanying the reluctancy of the ferments in the error of Digestion bringeth on the incoarcible Flatus whereby it displayes it self into all those various symptoms which attend this Disease These Animal Spirits are the most sublime and etherial parts of the body and nearest a-kin to the Soul are the medium betwixt the Soul and Body and as such are we suppose not only the vehicle but also the mirror of the immortal Soul and in as much as the Soul acts in the body juxta indolem organorum according to the capacity disposition texture temperature or crasis of its vehicle which also has its springs from the alimentary and sanguineous juyces elaborated by their peculiar ferments wherefore if the constitution of these Spirits from the vigour of the ferments sequestring all Heterogenities prove genuine and thence the looking-glass of the Soul becomes pure and polite In such constitutions I say the soul through the clarity of the Regimen of the Spirits takes pleasure and solace in its vehicle causing generous reflections and shaping perspicatious Idea's helping as we say in our Hydrol. Chym. 122. accurateness of phansie solidity of judgment and tenaciousness of Memory But if through the deficiency of the ferments arise Indigestion and Crudities thence the untamable Flatus or Wind and from both dark steams whence the aforesaid Spirits are mudded in their first springs and their constitution or Regimen soiled through foggy Scorbutick mists then and there is laid the foundation of this deeply rooted Malady whereby the imaginative part is darkned the fansie by a Melancholy vapor being clouded and thence as from its natural source ariseth from the irregularities and disturbed phansies of Hypochondriacal Melancholy For the Stomach Spleen arterial juyces with the ferments thereof as they are by nature imployed in order to the production of Animal Spirits are Vulcan's Shop where materials lie for forging all Idea's and Minerva's Nursery where are the ground-plots and seeds of Diseases Now if the depravation of the ferments in order to the hewing forth or generation of Animal Spirits meet or interfeer with other manner of errors of the ferments as appertaining to the alimentary juyces as they are to circulate the various stades of the several digestions in order to the nourishment of the body or supply of what daily transpires then I say is produced a complication of Melancholy with the Scurvy yea the one graduates or heightens the other in their respective depravations whence it is that Melancholy and the Scurvy frequently go hand in hand It rarely happens that Melancholy is brought to any considerable height but is twisted and complicated with the Scurvy although the contrary not often holds good from which complication is generally produced a lesa imaginatio the usual product of that disease although sometimes the heightnings of the one singly considered effects it and from this depravedness of the fancy it is that the Patient is affected now in one part ready to dye upon it and presently in another remote part and must die of that and forthwith too c. So they coyn to themselves hundreds of Miseries as to this or the other part and as many deaths ere one of either sort really siezeth upon them We design not here because we study brevity to shew how and after what manner the waters operate and how other additional helps by way of advice contribute to the cure of this so deeply seated Dise●e how it absterseth the first vessels strengthneth the ferment of the St●nach procures an appetite helps d●estion promotes the clarity of the ●gimen of the Animal Spirits by carrying away the cause of impure and Scorbutick steams suppresseth the cause of Wind which two last are most-what the scene where and whence most of the Tragical Symptoms of this Disease are acted fortifies the tone of the viscera rectifies their genuine ferments sweetens the blood conduceth to the production of laudable nutritive juyces which how far these may go towards the cure of most Diseases we refer to better judgments to determine and thence brings on a good habit of body and health the sequel of all To insist largely upon which is besides our present purpose we shall therefore which we chiefly aim at only confine our discourse herein to number a few remarkable instances of the efficacy of these waters in the cure thereof which are as followeth Mr. Woodyears Case a Gentleman in York The first Cure AT Christmas 1667. began the occasion of Melancholy or Hypocond Wind being the Passion of Sorrow for the loss of his beloved Son which Disease gradually grew to that height as in about eighteen Moneths time after the first beginning thereof it brought upon him a Virtigo or Megrim so as he thought all went round At Christmas 72. he had two fits one soon after the other as he sate in his chair which for the time deprived him of all sense after which he had as accompanying Symptoms pains all over him with great oppression of Spirits a general indisposition shortness of Breath want of Appetite sometimes vomited what he took had a great weakness and unsteddiness yet seeming great weight upon his head so as he could not stoop or scarce move it but gradually had strange fancies the least noise had so deep an impression upon him as was enough almost as he thought to have struck him dead Three days after his two fits he was extremely sick with a faintness of Spirits as if to death which so much weaked him as he was not able to walk over his Chamber without leading for four Moneths during which time he had many of those sudden Epileptick fits constantly at change and full of the Moon and fainted all over his Spirits for some hours together being in an Agony with weeping which fainting fits would hold for nine hours at a time with great struglings as if convulsed upon all which the pathemata animi had originally the greatest influence He had the advice of two eminent Physicians who ran through several courses of Physick with him giving him Vomits Purges ordering him blooding by the Hemorrhoids Steel Preparations c. Who when none of

and obstinate Symptoms that would not bend to Physick nor outward Topicks before now abated his pain went away the Scorbutick Lee was dryed up its Acidum being corrected in the blood by the waters and the Ulcers healed was thereupon cured being encouraged hereby frequents the waters every year since he was cured in the year 1655. only missed coming one year during which interval or intermission he had a dangerous Fever which was about seven or eight years ago since which he has had his health well Which account I had from his own mouth Scorbutick Elephantiasis The Thirtieth cure MR. Rogers's daughter of Scarbrough had a Scorbutick Elephantiasis almost all over her which also from the Scorbutick Acidum seising the tendons and ligaments of her joints had rendred her well nigh decrepid she drank the waters and in about a fortnights time or more the blood was so purified as it cast off those externall feculencies or recrements of the ultimate digestion in the form of white scales and so sweetned the blood and latex and opened obstructions as that it removed those bolts and hedges which were fastned upon the joynts and ligaments and begot a healthfull habit of body So her skin became clear and smooth and she well Leprous Scurvy The One and thirtieth cure A Boy had a leprous Scurvy which brought a white scurf all over him drank the waters and in a few weeks time the spreading Scorbutick ferment being dinted the blood purified the scales from the roots dryed and mortified and pilled off and he was cured To which as at the Heel of these Instances of cures of the Scurvy we shall by way of conclusion only subjoin somewhat in short concerning Scorbutick Hemorrhoids and that not only for the opening those which are inward swelled and obstructed but also for binding closing and healing those which are too open in both correcting the Scorbutick Acidum of the blood In the one loosning the impacted and close rivetted Acidum which binds and swells the veins and in the other sweetning or dinting the Acidum which lacerated and wounded the veins gently binding up and healing the Orifices thereof for the future of which in order as followeth Scorbutick Hemorrhoids The Two and thirtieth cure MR. Ker of Eaton in the year 1677 laboured under greivous pains of the inward Hemerrhoids had a constant pain of those parts but especially when nature was to discharge its burden by siege which was very afflictive to him causing him great grief for near a quarter of a year had advice of a Physician but found no benefit till he came to the waters which he drank regularly for ten or twelve days whereby the Scorbutick Acidum which was let down into and had bound and swelled the Hermorrhoidal vessels was so sweetned and dinted as he returned home perfectly well and continues so ever since A Gentleman acquainted me that the waters open the Hemorrhoid veins which doth him a great kindness in order to his health upon the account whereof he drinks them every year Scorbutick Hermorrhoids The Three and thirtieth cure ANd that the waters are proper not only for the opening the Hemorrhoids where obstructed as aforesaid but also for the closing and healing them when too open was observable from a Doctor of my acquaintance who labouring with a more then ordinary effusion of Hemorrhoidal blood and that for about seven years was at first very timerous of drinking the waters fearing least they should open the aforenamed veins too much But being incouraged by the success he saw others have ventured and to his great satisfaction and even admiration found great help thereby That these waters purifie the blood and cure the Scurvy even in such a● have been tainted with it in a high degree is evident from the large experience had thereof by Dr. Wittie in th● late wars when the Garrison which w●● kept by Sir Hugh Cholmly in the Castle● after a few weeks siege whether fro● the air of the sea or a bad diet 〈◊〉 want of exercise his men were most 〈◊〉 them fallen into the Scurvy especially the Country-Gentlemen who had fled in thither who were miserably troubled with it as many of them as drank of the Spaw water were perfectly and speedily cured which some of them used without any other means And many instances as Dr. Wittie saith of persons of quality might be brought in who have been highly tainted with all the Symptoms that attend the Scurvy and Cachexy and were upon the very brink of the Dropsie having their legs swelled c. who have found perfect cures on which account they were constant frequenters of it Only before we conclude this Classis of Scarbrough's Maladies it will not be amiss to take notice that as the Scruvy doth chiefly depend upon the depravation of the ferment of the Stomach towards the rectification and restitution of which the waters notably contribute so likewise the other manner of depravations of the Stomach whence dejections of appetite and an ingendring of tough Phlegm which in some persons these waters carry off by vomit of which I shall give this following instance J. Bilbrough Jun. of Scarbrough finds that as often as his Stomach declines as it yearly by times doth when he drinks the waters always the first morning it makes him vomit much tough Phlegm then passeth downward the rest by siedge and in a few daies recruits his Stomach again very well Where we might also shew these waters are so proper to the Stomach and to the restoring its ferment as that they effectually assist in the carrying off such depraved matter as through excess by debauchery lies heavy and oppresseth the Stomack and by a longer stay in the body might become the Seminary of many diseases viz. Surfeits Scurvyes Dropsies c. thereby preventing such fruits as are the natural product and off-spring of such Seminaries concerning which if we might not thereby give incouragement towards the transgressing the bounds of Temperance and Moderation we could give considerable instances save that we Judge such here not to be Exemplary and therefore of design forbear Melancholy or the Hypochondriacal Flatus THe next disease we intend in order to treat of and to innumerate the cures thereof performed by the waters is Melancholy called the Flatus Hypochondriacus or Hypochondriacal Melancholy and the Diseases springing from Melancholy which Disease we suppose is caused from the irregularities of the ferments of the Stomach and Spleen whence some impurities otherwise separable by the vigor and genuine temperature of the ferments are heaped up in the blood chiefly in reference to its elaboration into Animal Spirits which being depraved in their Minera or Shop are instead of being if I may so say translucid congeneal Spirits the genuine product of a right and natural genesis thereof and thence proper for the obsolving the functions of the body soyled with a clodding vapour and darkned with a misty and foggy steam perverts the Phansie sometimes