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
Phylosophers all agree and the derivation of the very word Air from the Greek word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Spiro denotes the same being Compos'd of two Vowels Alpha and Omega as Principium finis Vitae which is the beginning and end of Mans Life is here Clear Serene Lucid void of any stinking Mephitis or Damps arising from Boggs or Fens which may occasion Epidemical Distempers in the Blood but to the contrary the whole Ambient of the Horizon is fill'd with an inexhaustable Series of Odoriferous and Fragrant Effluviums incessantly exhaling from sweet scented Herbs and Plants that grow in these parts The Air thus embodied we perpetually inspire which arise and Analogically speaking Spiritualize our Minds far beyond all Exotick either Natural or Artificial Perfumes Moreover at Tunbridge you find conference with Eminent and Famous Wits which is the most Fruitful and Natural Exercise of the Mind the use of which is more sweet than any other action of our Life The Study of Books is a Languishing and Feeble motion in respect of it For what is delivered Viva Voce with a Lively Voice makes a deeper Impression in the Mind and consequently more advantagious than Reading Sic variis animum studiis Tunbrigia mulcet ut vix absentes possis lugere Penates Much more may be said of the various and manisold Benefits and Comforts you may receive at Tunbridge which I now supersede hoping these I mentioned are Allurements strong enough to invite if not a Magnetism to draw Men thither It 's rare to Write any thing to that perfection as to rescind the occasion of all objections from Cavillers Wherefore what I have said of the Virtues of these Waters would not be sufficient if I do not obviate also such Objections as may raise Scruples in the minds of these who make use of them The First Objection is That many soon after drinking of these Waters died and that others by the use of them receive no benefit Whence they infer these Waters to be Improper Noxious Lethiferous and not fit to be drunk by Men. Vina bibant homines animantia caetera Fontes Absit ab humano pectore potus Aquae Let none but Cattle Water drink That fit for Men no Man can think As for the first Objection I confess one may die soon after taking Waters and so may he after taking any thing else Not that the Waters duly prescribed are occasion of Death but through Irregularity Disorder or neglect of something that was to be done in order to the taking of them Death may ensue Nay Men may die immediately or soon after taking things indifferent in themselves and void of any Medicinal or Alterative quality as for example after eating Bread and Butter or drinking a Glass of Wine It doth not therefore follow that this last thing they eat or drunk cause their Bane and that no Man ought to eat or drink any more of this kind of Food Secondly Some of those who drink Waters may have a Malady of Cacoethes Nature or of such a contumacy and so far radicated that it illudes all Energie of Chalybeats or any sort of Physick * Non est in Medico semper releuetur ut aeger nam Doctâ interdum plus valet orte malum ovidius It does not follow therefore that this Martial Remedy is ineffectual in its self in order to cure other Maladies of a different Nature by reason of the impregnable habit and rooting of some incurable Distempers Non defamanda praesidia quae aliis profuere Celsus Remedies which have done others good are not to be undervalued * Actiones activorum sunt in subjecto disposito they exert their Operation according to the dispositon of the subject on which they work The Sun for example with the same heat melts the Wax and hardens the Clay Limus ut hic durescit haec ut cera liquescit uno eodemque igne Virgilius and by this reason that which is one Mans Meat may prove anothers Poyson So likewise these Waters if used with a Physicians Advice and due consideration prove Effectual and Salubrious But taken without it and by an indispos'd or unprepar'd Bodies may be Noxious and sometimes Morti-ferous Wherefore since all things do not agree with all Persons nay nor the same thing always or a long time with the same person therefore the careful Observation and daily Advice of a Prudent Physician is here necessary that by Indications taken from things that do good or hurt the Method of Cure may be rightly ordered and now and then changed Willis Capite de colico These Waters kill and expel all manner of Worms ingendered either in the Stomach Intestines Matrix or in any other part of the Body Ryetius in his Observations of the Spaw-Waters makes mention of a Woman who laboured a long time with a Chronicki Distemper under the Doctors hands without receiving any benefit by all their Prescriptions and Physick that she had taken was at last advised to Chalybeat-Waters and by drinkig of them with Method and Continuance avoided several Worms of divers Shapes Figure and Longitude and was perfectly Cured They are a Polychrest Remedy serving for many uses and intentions they both Loosen and Bind Cool and make Hot Dry and Moisten Cure Distempers of divers State and Origen nay of contrary Natures and Dispositions as I said before Certainly a perfect Knowledge of their Idiosyncrasia and Properties wou'd reduce Physick to a narrower compass and to Prescribe well the Stadium Chalybeatum or Chalybeat course wou'd make the Studying of so many Volums of the parts of Physick unncessary for by the help of these Waters we prolong Mans life by a more facil and easier means than has hitherto been known Veritas ex puteo exathlanda Truth must be drawn out of a Well Provocat haec leniter Tunbrigia menstrua pridem Suppressa nimium sistit ubi illa fluunt Nostraque suppressos ut provocat ipsa vicissim Immodicos Fluxus sic quoque sistit Aqua Stringunt quippe suâ vi lymphae five relaxant Frigore tum corpus sive calore juvant Ecquis idem Medicamen eodem in corpore credat Adversa inter se pellere posse mala These Waters Virtue have to ope and close What may be call'd the Females Monthly Rose These Waters loosen and as firmly bind As in all Fluxes any one may find By their own virtue strengthen and relax Both heat and cool dry Clay and harden Wax 'T is strange that in one Body the same thing Shou'd cross-grain'd Maladies to cure bring Ecce quam sint Naturae Omnipotentis Dei prudentia potestate ductae admiranda opera quae Aquae istius limpidae at purae beneficio tot tamque inter se contrarios morbos curat id quod ars Medica sine Corporis noxä prestare nequit Ryetius in his Observations de Aquis Spadanis Behold the Wonderful Works of Nature guided by the Prudence and Power of the Almighty God that by the help of a limpid and clear Water she cures manifold nay contrary and opposit Maladies which the Art of Physick without great detriment to the Body cannot do To accelerate and promote the passing of these Waters by Vrine Ryetius advises some Drops of Spirit of Vitrol to be Instill'd into their Glasses of Water for Acids being endowed with a Diuretick and Penetrative Faculty depose the Serum and conveys it to the Reins to be sent forth by the Vreters To promote Evacuation by Seige he adviseth to mix some common Salt in Powder with the Waters and a Dram to every Pint more or less proportionating the quantity to the bearing of the Patient This gently expels the loose matter contain'd in the Ventricle and Intestines Purgeth Viscous Phlegm adhering to their Tunicles and Bilous Humours from the Pancreatick passages But it 's not to be taken indifferently by all Persons Dum juga montis aper dum flumen Piscis habebit Anchora fonsaegris hic sacra semper erit Ut bibat accurret rumpantur ut ilia Codris Germanus Scotus Belga Britannus Iber Hinc Populus Floret crescet Tunbrigia quidquid Bellum destruxit mox reparabit Aqua Whilst Boars on Mountains shall abide Or Fishes in the River glide So long both sure and uncontroul'd Will last this Health-firm Anchor-hold This Drink let Codrus burst with rage Will English Scotch and Irish Sage With German French and Dutch engage Hence Peoples Glory Tunbridge praise VVhat War thows down Water will raise Thus much for Chalybeats to comply with Your Honours Solicitations hoping this rude Essay upon a Baren Subject may be cultivated by other Phylosophers and Physicians better qualified to the benefit and advantage of Mankind especially to Your Honours Satisfaction and Wellfare whom Almighty God the Everlasting Fountain and Source of Living Waters preserve with long Life and Health in this World and grant immarcescible Lawrels in that which is to come which is the earnest and unfained desire of My LORD Your Honours Most Humble and Obedient Servant P.M. M.D. ERRATA PAge 3 in the Marginal Note against l. 7. for dissoluunt r. dissolvit ibid. against l. 8. for corrigunt r. corrigit l. 10. for Fredericus r. Fridericus l. 8.19 dele Because ibid. against l. 27. for magna r. magno p. 4. l. 9. for Peccaturque r. Pacaturque Marg. l. 3. for fermentorum r. fermentum l. 9. for redintegrant r. redintegrat l. ult for Fredericus r. Fridericus
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