Selected quad for the lemma: water_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
water_n	air_n	cold_a	moist_a	3,600	5	10.5118	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20002	Spadacrene Anglica Or, the English spavv-fountaine. Being a briefe treatise of the acide, or tart fountaine in the forest of Knaresborow, in the west-riding of Yorkshire. As also a relation of other medicinall waters in the said forest. By Edmund Deane, Dr. in Physicke, Oxon. dwelling in the city of Yorke.	Deane, Edmund, 1582?-1640.	1626 (1626)	STC 6441; ESTC S113477	20,242	38

other world Wherefore let all those who are yet liuing bee admonished hereafter by their examples not obstinately and wilfully to eschue and shunne these two remedies in hot seasons and in the time of the Dog-dayes much lesse all other manner of physicall helpes not once knowing so much as why or wherefore and without any reason at all following blind and superstitious tradition and error haply first broched by some vnworthy and ignorant Physitian not rightly vnderstanding Hippocrates his saying in all likelyhood or at least wise misapplying it Which hath so preuailed in these times that it hath not onely worne out the vse of purging but also of all other physicke for that season because most people by the name of physicke vnderstanding purging onely and nothing else As though the art and science of Physicke was nothing else but to giue a potion or purge Then we rightly and truly might say Filia deuorauit matrem But for as much as most people are altogether ignorant of the true ground or reason from whence this so dangerous an error concerning the Dog-dayes did first spring and arise giue me leaue a little to goe on with this my digression for their better instruction and satisfaction and I will briefly and in few lines shew the case and the mistake somewhat more plainly Hippocrates in his fourth booke of Aphorismes the fift hath these words Sub canicula ante caniculam difficiles sunt purgationes That is vnder the canicular or dog-star and before the dog-star purgations are painfull and difficill This is all that is there said of them or brought against them for that season or time of the yeare A great stumbling-blocke against which many haue dashed their feet and knockt their shinnes and a fearfull scar-crow whereat too many haue nicely boggled Here you doe not find or see purging medicines to bee then prohibited or forbidden to be giuen at all much lesse all other physicke but onely said to be difficill in their working partly because as all expositors agree nature is then somewhat enfeebled by the great heat of the weather partly because the humours being then as it were accended are more chaffed by the heat of the purging medicines partly and lastly because two contrary motions seeme then to be at one and the same time which may offend nature as the great heat of the weather leading the humours of the body outwardly to the circumference thereof and the medicine drawing them inwardly to the center All which circumstances in our cold region are little or nothing at all as formerly hath beene mentioned to be regarded For as Iacobus Hollerius a French Physitian much honoured for his great learning and iudgement hath very well obserued in his Comment vpon this Aphorisme Hippocrates speaketh here onely of those purging medicines which are strong and vehement or hot and fiery and that this precept is to take place in most hot Regions but not in these cold Countries as France England and the like Ouer and beside all this those churlish hot purging medicines which were then in frequent vse in Hippocrates his time and some hundred of yeares after are now for most part obsolete and quite growne out of vse seldome brought in practice by Physitians in these dayes because we haue within these last six hundred yeares great choice and variety of more mild benigne and gentle purgatiues found out by the Arabian Physitians which were altogether vnknowne vnto the ancients to wit Hippocrates Dioscorides Galen c. which haue little heat and acrimony many wherof are temperate and diuers cooling which may most safely be giuen either in the hottest times and seasons of the yeare or in the hottest diseases Let vs adde to these the like familiar and gentle purging medicines more lately yea almost daily newly found out since the better discoueries of the East and West Indies So that henceforth let no man feare to take either easie purgatiues or other inward Physicke in the time of the canicular or dog-dayes The same Hollerius goeth on in the exposition and interpretation of the said Aphorisme and confidently saith Ouer besides that we haue benigne medicines which we may then vse as Cassia c. Wee know and finde by experience no time here with vs more wholsome and more temperat especially when the Etesian or Easterly winds do blow then the Canicular dayes so that wee finde by obseruation that those diseases which are bred in the moneths of Iune and Iuly doe end in August and in the Canicular dayes Wherefore if a disease happen in those dayes we feare not to open a veyne diuers times and often as also to prescribe more strong purging medicines Wherefore away henceforth with the scrupulous conceit and too nice feare of the Dogge-dayes and let their supposed danger be had no more in remembrance among vs. And if any will yet remaine obstinate and still refuse to haue their beames pulled out of their eyes let them still be blinde in the middest of the cleare Sun-shine and groape on after darknes and let all learned Physitians rather pitty their follies then enuy their wits CHAP. 13. At what time of the yeare and at what houre of the day it is most fit and meet to drinke this water TO speake in generall tearmes it is a fit time to drinke it when the ayre is pure cleare hot and dry for then the water is more tart and more easily digested then at other times On the contrary it is best to forbeare when the ayre is cold moist darke dull and misty for then it is more feeble and harder to be concocted But more specially the most proper season to vndertake this our English Spaw dyet will be from the middest or latter end of Iune to the middle of September or longer according as the season of the yeare shall fall out to be hot and dry or otherwise Not that in the Spring time and in Winter it is not also good but for that the ayre being more pure in Sommer the water also must needs be of greater force and power Notwithstanding it may sometime so happen in Sommer that by reason of some extraordinary falling of raine there may be a cessation from it for a day or two Or if it chance to haue rained ouer night it will then be fit and necessary to refraine from drinking of it vntill the raine bee passed away againe or else which I like better the fountaine laded dry and filled againe which may well be done in an hower or two at most Touching the time of the day when it is best to drinke this water questionlesse the most conuenient hower will be in the morning when the party is empty and fasting about seauen aclocke Nature hauing first discharged her selfe of daily excrements both by stoole and vrine and the concoctions perfected This time is likewise fittest for exercise which is a great good help and furtherance for the better distribution of the water whereby