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A15051	Peri ydroposias: or, a discourse of waters their qualities, and effects diæteticall, pathologicall, and pharmacaiticall. By Tobias Whitaker, doctor in physicke of Norwich.	Whitaker, Tobias, d. 1666.	1634 (1634)	STC 25355; ESTC S101856	22,988	176

n Arist Meteor l. 3. Finis est facere aeris et aquae commotionem ne nimia quiete putrescant ne putredine sua ammantia enecent in his discourse o● winds affirming● that the end o● their generation is to cause commotion in the ayre and waters lest by quiet they should putrifie and destroy the creatures that live in them of them Lastly the puritie of the ayre fish and vegetals demonstrate the wholsomnesse of the water and salubritie for common use externall or internall By this time we have taught what waters are principally to be elected as also their nature and difference and how to distinguish them for although all are esteemed wholesome that we have hitherto spoken of according to some moderne opinions that is to say brewed Yet some are more healthfull then others and stand in need of lesse caution Now therefore I suppose it behoovefull that wee explicate the nature qualities of morbifical waters such as offend in smell or taste or otherwise and ●re neither repu●ed wholsome for meat or medicine Aire and water may affect human bodies three seve●all wayes first as ●hey are elements ●hey may hurt both by their qualities and substan●es and that per se immediatly or ●●mediatly per accidens Secondly as aliment for so by respiratiō the spiritual substance of the ayre is said to nourish water also is said to nourish insomuch that it serveth for the distribution of aliment into every part of the body and may also nourish in deed in respect o Avicen li 1. sen 2. doct 2. Non autem dicimus qd aqua non nutriat quia nutriens est illud quod est in potentia sanguis of its substance For the use of water is not only necessary to nutrition as meat and drinke but also to life and the continuance of the same and therefore by some * Ranchinus Patholog sect 2. cap. 10. is called vitae potus salus corporis Yet Gal. p Gal. li. 4. de vsu part cap. 5. at enim in hac quoquè vena multa adhuc humiditate tenui et aquosa plenus est sanguis vocat autem ipsam Hippocrates 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 conceiveth and seemeth to perswade others that water doth not nourish per se but instrumentally so farre as it is a vehiculum of th● blood and by th● thinnesse moistnesse of the sam● doth convey th● blood into every part for the nourishing strengthning of the same Avicen q Avicen li. 1. fen 2. doct 2. cap. 16. aqua vnum existit elemeatorum quae sola inter omnia elementa habet proprium ut in eo quod comeditur bibitur ingrediatur non ideo ut nutriat sed quia nutrimentum penetrare facit ejus rectificat subst antiam also is o● the same opinion water saith he is the sole element indowed with ● Propertie received either in meat or drinke to mixe and incorporate with it and yet not nourish but that it may rectifie the substance of nutrimēt make it penetrable and in this respect is only said to nourish Thirdly if they bee considered as medicaments for by the use of medicall waters as also the mutation of the aire many diseases are begotten some are said to be cur'd for this cause the doctrine of aire and water is not onely referred to diet but also to pathologie and the curative part of medicine In order therefore we will discourse of such waters as tend to the subversion of health Neverthelesse before I explicate their qualities and differences give me leave to take up a question by the way which peradventure may seeme a small digression yet not so unnecessary but that it may bee wel argued in this place The question is whether aire or water have most power in preserving of health or generating sicknesse They that prefer water first ground upon Arist r Arist li. 1. probl 13. cur mutationem aqua rum gravem esse affirmēt where the Philosopher questioneth why the mutations of the water are more turbulent then those of the ayre produceth reason to prove it for saith hee those things which are able to make a stronger and firmer impression either by permanencie or crassitude they seeme to bee more able either to helpe or hurt but water is more thicke then aire and makes a longer stay in the body Contrarily Hippocrates cōceiveth greater inconvenience in the ayre then in water and draweth his reason from the necessitie for saith hee the nocuments of water may bee avoided but the ambient ayre cannot bee shunned but doth continually affect us as doth appeare in his s li. de aere lo. et aquis li. de natura humana li. de natura pueri elegant gradation saying such as is the ayre such are the spirits because they are begotten of blood and ayre such as are the spirits such are the humours as following the mature of them such as are the humours such are the parts of the body because they are nourished by them and maintained To conclude such as is th● condition of th● part such is th● state of the whole body Hence appeareth the necessitie of ayre in ou● conservation and force in generating sicknesse But to set aside the decrees both of Arist and Hipp. the question is determined thus that the vitall and animall parts of the body are more sooner affected by the ayre then by water and that the naturall parts are more hurt by water then the vitals This being conceived let us take notice of such waters as doe destroy the temper of the body and are called morbificall after what manner they are said to be pernicious to the life of man some more some lesse either internally or externally applied Morbificall waters are such as are discoverd by sense to have a taste or smell for those that are healthfull and wholesome ought to have neither as is before said in the description of wholsome water Secondly unwholsome waters are such as have an offensive taste and stinking smell such as are grips ditches and channels from salt marshes or common shores and these are so unwholesome as I need not urge authority to prove it yet because I desire to satisfie take one learned ancient a● instar omnium Avicen t Avicen Tract 5. fol. 585. Aquae mali odoris coenosae tardam descentionem suam a stomaco pen●trationem cibi sitis quidem augetur cum aquis huju smodi virtus debilitatur et quia ipsae non sunt purae simplices im o in hujusmodi aquis est terrecitas plurima quare ex eis genera●ur humor a●● phlegmaticus vitreus aut melancholicus et propter illud multiplicāt aegritudines splenis in hominibus qui plurimum bibunt de ipsis acciden● faciūt haemorroidas et hydropisim propter malltiam complectionis hepatis inductam ab eis mictum vrinae involuntarium propter malitia● complectionis

the government of our health And of these wee will generally observe three differences that is to say aery such as distill from the clouds secondly marine or such as are contained in the Ocean parts adjoyning thirdly terrene or such as arise out of the Earth Aery waters are divided into rayne or such as come of Snowe Haile and Frost terrestriall are such as spring out of the Earth they are either nourishing or healing the norishing are such as we call sweet potable and pleasant to the taste And of these are divers species as of fountaines mores Standing pooles rivers the like Medicall Waters are also diverse as from Mineralls of gold silver brasse Iron Sulphure Alum Bitumen c. Lastly Sea-water is such as is contained in the Ocean and maritime partes adjoyning And these are their generall differences It behoveth now to discourse of their natures qualities more particularly as they are good or bad healthfull or morbifical Forasmuch as water that is simple pure and without alien mixture is so necessary for the preservatiō of life we wil first make a descriptiō of those which are set apart for common use and preservation of man and these are either such as spring out of wholsom earth and of themselves are simple pure and sweet or such as fall from the cloudes and by transmutation are made water both which offer themselves to our view Those therefore which arise out of the earth and are pure altogether and voyd of alien mixture or such mixture as cannot bee discovered by sense for they can bee knowne to us otherwise then by their consistence nature spirits and qualities by wch wee will in order demonstrat them those are such waters as are most wholsome and fit to bee taken into the body and ought to bee such as are without both sapor and odor And if any object that passage of Hipp. f li. de aeie loc aq sect 3. maxime vero commendantur quorum fontes ad solis exortus praesertim aestivos decurrūt limpidiores enim boni odoris leves esse necesse est Gal. cap. 3. maxime vero laddare eas oporter quarum fluxiones ad solisexortus erumpunt presertim ad aestivos necesse est enim sptedidiores esse oderatas leves and Gal. in their booke de aere loc aquis where they say that sweet and odoriferous waters are to bee commended it is answered that by sweetnesse is to be understood pleasantnesse and such as are gratefull to the taste adde also that insipidnes is as it were the first degree of sweetnesse in water but that which pertaineth to odor is nothing else but a gentle smoothe vapour w th out any roughnesse and the water which is without smell is said to smell best because it ought to be void both of odor and sapor as is above said Secondly good and healthfull water is discovered by g Gal. cap. 3. hae enim dalces albae sunt the smoothnesse thinnesse and clearenesse of the same For waters by now much more pure they are by so much they are more smooth cleare and thin and by reason of their h Hipp. l. 5. A ph 26. aqua quae citò cale fit citò refrigeratur levissima tenuitie and lightnesse are soone made hott by fire and soone cooled by the impression of the ayre and the reason is rendred by Gal. i Gal. comment 5. Aph. Sed nunc levierem dixit aquam quae ventrem non gravat quae cito permeat not because such water is light in respect of weight but because it is without any sensible oppression in the vētricle k Gal. comment 5. Ap. 26. primum quidem si neque turbidae neque caenosae deinde sineque in gustu neque in odoratu aliquam absurdam qualitatem prae se fert tum illud quod nunc Hip dixit si cito refrigeratur cale sit nam perspicuum existit talem esse bene alterabilem when as the stomack is not troubled with the receipt of it as also when it passeth quickly out of the body againe by urine Contrarily wee call that water ponderous which doth not passe through the body speedily but is troblesom to the stomacke ungratefull to the taste and smell therefore Hipp. would haue us under stand that such water as is soone hot cold by reason of levitie tenuitie and clearenesse is most subject to a suddaine and speedy change or alteratiō which in meate drinke wee call concoctible disposition such as is easily transmutated or concocted by the ●ētricle indowed with a propertie and dedicated by nature to such a use But this description offereth an objection and peradventure som will urge or alledge that raine water doth possesse the same con stitution of limpiditie tenuitie and levitie and yet is cōdemned by Gal. l Gal. l. 4. de sanit tuend cap 6. Quan quam potest qui volet ex pluvia aqua id conficere ipseque si pluviam aquam protarem id suaderem verum nec ipsam probo nihilo est deterius siaccessit as most unwholsome either in diet or medicine as appeareth plainely in his discourse of Oximel and the manner of making the same medicament affirming the use of raine water not to bee approved and that of it selfe it is worst of all others especially if it grow sower corrupt To which answer that neiher our Master nor any other learned Phisician doth mislike or not approve such water because it is cleare hin and light or asie of digestion but because of an apt disposion that raine water hath to putrifie more speedily thē any other water And in this respect is much different from the former which is also described by Hipp m Hip. de aere loc aq sect 3. hae enim dulces sunt albae modicumque vinum serre queunt per hyemem calidae per aestatem frigidae to bee hot in winter and cold summer which by reason of his incolation through the profound and deepe parts of the earth by antiperistacie is hotter in winter and in frostie weather doth commōly wreak For it receiveth alteration both from the bowels of the earth throgh which it runneth and also from the earthie ayre with which it is mixed Fourthly amongst fountaines and springs from rocks or clifts those are said to bee most health full and wholesome which flow through earth and sand the reason is because they are purified in their course and by colation through such a body of sandie earth they leave behind them their grosnes and alien qualities by which they doe infect are made by this colature much more wholsome Fiftly wa●ers which are moved are more ●ure and wholesome then those ●hat want motion from the ayre or winds as wels ●r other enclosed springs because open streames are ●urified continually by the wind and ayre as is proved by Arist