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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07920	Pidax Petreia, or, The disc[ov]erie of S. Peters well, [a]t Peter-head, in Scotland being in latitude 57.d.43.m. and in longitude 22.d.40.m. : shewing the admirable vertues thereof, against many deplorable diseases / by A.M. student in medicine.	Mure, Andrew.	1636 (1636)	STC 18290; ESTC S918	14,332	40

same beauty When the Petrean waters are to be taken GEnerally all seasons when the weather is good and the aire dry and clear are convenient to drink of this water abstaining when the air is ful of hanging clouds threatning us with rain or foggy mists In winter there is more strength in our water then any other time because then the subterranean heat is greater per antiperistasin sending forth in greater abundance the tinctures of what is there included But because in May Iune Iuly August ordinarly their is fairest and hotest weather and longest dayes giving opportunitie to walk and use exercise for helping the digestion of the waters these months are thought fittest for drinking notwithstanding that all kinde of medicine in the canicular dayes with many be odious founding on that aphorisme of Hippocrates exoriente cane ante canis exortum perdifficiles sunt purgationes meaning that the great and burning heat of that time is able to cast us in fevers after any kinde of immoderate evacuation by medicine Yet Hippocrates doth not altogether forbid the use of medicine about that time but tells us only that it is difficult The medicaments used in his time were Hellebore without any good preparation or some such other violent medicament which we in this our age will use in no time of the year without great and exquisite preparation For if he had known the use of Cassia manna Rubarbe syrup rosat c. he had never mentioned any danger in the canicular dayes You must also distingush the place he lived in a hote countrey we in a cold The most part of physicians affirme that the spring and automne are the most proper times for medicine because then the aire is most temperate without pearcing cold or scorching heat we in Scotland are troubled at no time with heat the summer distinguished chiefly from the winter by the longer sojourning of the sun in our horizon wherefore it is most agreable with reason to take medicine in Scotland in our hottest season When the air is too hote remain in a cold chamber if cold cause it become warme with fire and in so doing you may safely purge phlebotomise sweat bath and so forth any time or season in the year How the Petrean waters are to be taken HE who is to drink of this water either for curing disease restoring health lost or to preserve it being present avoyding future inconveniences shal come to this Wel in a convenient tyme of the year whereof now I have spoken resting the first day after arrivall the next day purge with fit and convenient medicines either powders potions pilles syrups juleps c. cum regimine by the advise of some Medicin because diversity of diseases require diverse medicaments since some have their stomach and intestines oppressed with tough and glewie phlegme some their liver and gall obstructed some their melt hardned with melancholy juyce some their reins and bladder burdened with sand stones pituite viscide and tartareous humors and so forth Therefore let the medicament be proper having respec to the humor which is peccant The day following purgation let him come to the Well neither fear any Hypercatharsis early in the morning yet after the sun rising and drink so much even the first day while he finde his stomach full not loadned walking a little betwixt every two or three glasses taking in the mean tyme some confected anise coriander cinamom or some good tablets proper for the disease or tobacco to help the stomach to daunt and vanquish the actuall coldnesse of the water which done walk ride or exercise your self with goafing bowling or some such other exercise for the Petrean fields are as the Elisian for such exercises whilst the most part of the waters bee voyded which will be so soone as the urine doth begin to bee coloured Then dine with meats of good digestion let the better sort drink wine moderatly others ale or beere Afternoon beguile the time with reading talking walking dauncing singing dicing carding c. Then sup lightly with a tosty of bread some raisins of the sun or some such other thing of good and easie digestion Use this kynd of doing 20. 30. 40. 50. dayes or so long as the disease requireth or affaires can permit Aday after you leave off the drinking of water take some other good purgative medicine resting aday after then take journey to go whither you list Live temperatly a long time after the drinking of the water in a clear pure wholesome aire to breath on eating meats of good digestion to suffice nature not greedie appetit sleeping to refresh not to dull your spirits waking to drive away stupiditie dulnesse and drowsineesse from your braines not to wast consume and dry your bodies using exercise for recreation not to weary taking rest for a remeed to your wearinesse restoring strength that your bodies may be made more fit to indure new travels and labours avoyde repletion of the belly intestins and veins by moderate evacuation of nature and if slow make help by art neither violent to resolve your spirits or to evacuate with excrements your souls Flee perturbations of the minde and in so doing by the grace of God you shall continue healthful even to your lives end To which I pray GOD happily to bring us all throgh IESUS CHRIST Amen We have thought good to insert in this place some approved receiptes fitto be taken before after and in the mean tyme of drinking of our Petrean waters A potion R. of sene vnc ss Cinamom drag ss of the marrow of Cassia fistula vnc 1. salt of tartar drag ss which infuse in lib. ss of the Petrean water cold 12 hours straine it and dissolve therein of suggar rosat vnc 1 syrop of pale roses vnc ss which give discretly to all kinde of persons young men and maides old men and babes It is harmelesse pleasant to the taste and purges well and strongly Another Take of manna syrop of pale roses an Vnc. 2. crystall tartar drag 1. dissolve them in abroth A good electuary Take of electuar lenit vnc 2. pul sen vnc ss cryst tartar drag vi mixe them with the syrop of pale roses A potion Take of the cold infusion of cassia fistula in the Petrean water vnc vi mixe with it of pul sen laxat Ruland drag 1. ss Syrup benedictus Take of the whole Cichory of Celidone an manip iij of lig vitae of sarsa parill ana vnc 2. of sasafras of crystall tartar pul nostri emetici benedict an vnc 1. boyle these things in agood sufficient quantity of the Petrean water to the consumption of two parts wherein put sufficient quantity of suggar Adde thereto of Venice theriack vnc 1. confect alkerm. drag 2. The effects of this blessed syrop are mo●● nor ordinary in extirping the roots of deplorable diseases it purgeth up and down without violence and may be given safely to all ages and sexes with discretion For expelling the stone Take of the barke of the ash tree lib. 2. Iuniper feed lib. 3. Venice turpentine lib 2. ss mixe them with three pints of the Petrean water and distil it after the manner of other oyls This oyl being taken in the mean time or before the drinking of our waters breaks and expells the stone Another Take of tartar vitriolate vnc ss of Iulep rosat vnc iij. cannel water vnc 1 mixe them and you shall finde an efficacious and profitable detersive of the reins For the jaundise Boyl in the Petrean water of Rad. Flor. Chelid Hyperic an M. 1. ebor of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 an drag 3. of safran drag ss of suggar-candi vnc 1. whereof make 3. doses for 3 dayes together FINIS

the concavities of the earth appears evidently but be artificiall projection many imaginations are not strong enough to conceave though some too strongly conceave them by thus conceaving have deceaved many of the world and themselves and it is thought be many that gold is not so dissolved bee any preparation as yet found out that it renders any tincture worthy of the least and smalest part of the praises it receives For in auro potabili essentia auri sale auri there are other excellent things of more worth nor the gold lurking in another forme reducible to the metallick substance neither perchance is it to bee denyed but there is in gold excellent vertues and specifick remedies for all kinde of diseases yea more then in any other thing else if the right and true preparation thereof were known as it may bee future ages more happy then wee shall finde and I pray GOD they that spend their spirit and expence herein may better themselves and the world And it may be thought if the ancients or moderns had known that the tinctures of minerals were carryed from the concavities of the earth with water as in our Petrean fountain they had never so perplexed themselves to have tryed so many solutions calcinations coagulations fixations sublimations c. As they have done evaporating their spirits and exhausting the humiàum radicale of their substance Within the earth from whence our Petrean water flows is a concavitie a great vessel ampullare matratium capacissimum wherein is contained materia proxima metallorum which sends forth its tincture with our water In this natural operation there is no need of calcination solution reduction to its prima materia and separation of the foure elements which are the most difficile operations in the composition of the stone And where many may erre for here as yet the matter is not coagulate neither is mercurie vnited to its salt and sulfur but nature finding the salt sulphur and mercurie of minerals as yet not vnited conjoyns them by digestion and cohobation sublimating and subtilizing the earthly part rēdring the mercurial fixed going on naturally with all the operations requisite to the perfection of the work as coagulation cibation sublimation fermentation exaltation augmentation as certainly it would increase grow and fill up the whole concavities where our water is contained if there were not a continuall projection of this naturall elixir this magisterium this quintessence of all mettals in our water dissolving it self therein the water being impregnate with this admirable yet naturall medicine bursts out dauncing bringing with it the cure of all diseases crying and calling all those who are troubled and loadned with infirmities to come and buy without money what may restore them to their health And truely I may speak of this source what sweetly the prince of French Poets did sing of the tree of life neither let divins take exception that we symbolize from one earthly thing to another from the tree of life to the water of life for what is called the tree of life in the old testament is called the water of life in the new both pointing out the lively vertue of our life which is hid in Christ yet from the tree of life to the water of life let mee subsultim passe as birds doe from sprayes to brayes and from mountains to fountaines saying of this water what hee spoke of that tree Du Bartas pag. 174. O holy peerlesse rich preservative Whether wert thou the strange restorative That suddenly did age with youth repaire And made old A Eson younger then his heir Or holy Nectar that in heavenly bowrs Eternally self-pouring Hebe pours Or blest Ambrosia gods immortall fare Or else the rich fruit of the garden rare Whereof three Ladies as assured guard A fire arm'd dragon day and night did ward Or pretious Moly which Ioves pursuivan Wing footed Hermes brought to th' Ithacan Or else Nepenthe enemie to sadnes Repelling sorrows and repealing gladnesse Or Mumie or elixir that excels Save men and angels every creature else And it may be thought that a more ancient I will not say a better Poet when he said 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 comparing water with the rest of the elements meant of this and such other medicinall waters and not of common rivers fountains which have no taste not being impregnate with barley or beef or some such like good commendable ingredients Nature hath here prepared an vniversall medicine by many divers long and naturall preparations which for its perfect temperament and puritie is able governe conserve and increase the radicall humor and enliving nectar sympathizing be its spiritall nature with our spirits Hee that useth this water aright and in season shall be restored corroborate and so armed with strength that he may afterwards more easilie and readily shake of diseases of whose comforting help nature being destitute may sooner succumbe For if our naturall balsame the shining torch and lampe of our life faile either through defect of proper aliment or bee confined and retrenched by dregs and ashes obstructing or impeded be any other cause from exercing its livelie flame for the conservation of our life then and in that case it must be restored fortified inlarged with this balsamick medicine the true and naturall tincture of such wholesome minerals that it may afterwards absolutely exerce its functions which come from a friendly harmonie which this balsamick medicine hath with our naturall balsame And from this sympathie and similitude of nature this our water is indued with great activity spirituall and penetrative for it attenuats digests dissolves and evacuats these feculent oppilations which threaten danger to our health and life If there bee any impuritie or corruption offending nature by what better and more safe way can it be extirped then be so excellent and pure a thing as this If any ardent fever invade us with what sharp julep with what more convenient and efficacious syrup of limons shal you extinguish it then with the balsamick aciditie of our medicinall water is their pain to quench let this be your Anodyn this your only and safe Nepenthes this your safest Triacle your wholesome Alexipharmacum and Antidote to abolish and extirpate poysonable pestilent and maligne qualities no Bezoar naturall nor artificiall animall minerall or metallick no Alkermes comparable to this for corroborating the heart that our bodies may by its comforting help continue in lively strength and vigour these and many more vertues are proper to this Panacea and universall medicine these are the vertues of our medicinall balsamick water working together with our naturall balsame which naturall balsame is the only governer and conserver of life the only preserver of health and expeller of diseases for if morbus be affect us contra naturam actiones laedens altogether contrary to our naturall balsams and nectar of life which is nothing but nature or an assisting instrument so conjoyneds that without its help nature can perfect