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
A82022	Spadacrene Anglica, the English spaw, or, The glory of Knaresborough springing from several famous fountains there adjacent, called the vitrioll, sulphurous and dropping wels; and also other minerall waters. Their nature, physical use, situation, and many admirable cures being exactly exprest in the subsequent treatise of the learned Dr. Dean, and the sedulous observations of the ingenious Michael Stanhope Esquire. Wherein it is proved by reason and experience, that the vitrioline fountain is equall (and not inferiour) to the Germain spaw.	Deane, Edmund, 1582?-1640.	1654 (1654)	Wing D491A; ESTC R226651	28,280	48

expositors agree nature is then somewhat enfeebled by the 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 seem 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 litle or nothing at all as formerly hath been mentioned to be regarded For as Jacobus Hollerius a French Physitian much honoured for his great learning and judgment hath very well observed in his Comment upon 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 Over and beside all this those churlish hot purging medicines which were then in frequent use in Hippocrates time and some hundred years after are now for the most part obsolete and quite grown out of use seldome brought in practice by Physitians in these dayes because we have within these last six hundred years great choice and variety of more milde benigne and gentle purgatives found out by the Arabian Physitians which were altogether unknown unto the Antients to wit Hippocrates Dioscorides Galen c. which have little heat and acrimony many whereof are temperate and divers cooling which may most safely be given either in the hottest times and seasons of the year or in the hottest diseases Let us adde to these the like familiar and gentle purging medicines more lately yea almost daily newly found out since the better discoveries of the East and West Indies So that henceforth let no man fear to take either easie purgatives or other inward Physick in the time of Canicular or Dog-dayes The same Hollerius goeth on in the exposition and interpretation of the same Aphorisme and confidently saith Over and besides that we have benigne medicines which we may then use as Cassia c. We know and find by experience no time here with us more wholesome and more temperate especially when the Etesian or Easterly windes do blow then the Canicular dayes so that we finde by observation that those diseases which are bred in the moneths of June and July do end in August and in the Canicular dayes Wherefore if a disease happen in those dayes we fear not to open a vein divers times and often as also to prescribe more strong purging medicines Wherefore away hence forth with the scrupulous conceit and too nice fear of the Dog-dayes and let their supposed danger be had no more in remembrance among us And if any will yet remain obstinate and still refuse to have their beams pulled out of their eyes let them still be blinde in the midst of the clear Sun-shine and groap on after darknesse and let all learned Physitians rather pitty their follies then envy their wits CHAP. XIII At what time of the year and at what houre of the day it is most fit and meet to drink this water TO speak in generall terms it is a fit time to drink it when the ayre is pure clear 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 forbear when the ayre is cold moist dark dull and misty for then it is more feeble and harder to be concocted But more specially the most proper season to undertake this our English Spaw diet will be from the middest or latter end of June to the middle of September or longer according as the season of the year 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 Summer the water also must needs be of greater force and power Notwithstanding it may sometime so happen in Summer that by reason of some extraordinary falling of rain there may be a cessation from it a day or two Or if it chance to have rained over night it will then be fit and necessary to refrain from drinking of it untill the rain be passed away again or else which I like better the Fountain laded dry and filled again which may well be done in an houre or two at the most Touching the time of the day when it is best to drink this water questionlesse the most convenient hour will be in the morning when the party is empty and fasting about seven a clock Nature having first discharged her self of daily excrements both by stoole and Urine 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 it doth produce its effects more speedily CHAP. XIV Of the manner of drinking this water and the quantity thereof THose who desire the benefit of this Fountain ought to go to it somewhat early in the morning and if they be able and strong of body they may doe very well to walk to it on foot or at least wise some part of the way Such as have weak and feeble legs may ride on horse-back or be carried in the Coaches or born in Chairs As for those whose infirmities cause them to keep their Beds or Chambers they may drink the water in their lodgings it being speedily brought to them in a vessel or glasse well stopt It is not my meaning or purpose to describe here particularly what quantity of it is fit and meet for every one to drink for this is part of the task and office which belongeth to the Physitian who shall be of counsell with the Patient in preparing and well ordering of him who is to consider all the severall circumstances as well of the malady or disease it self as of his habit and constitution c. Neverthelesse I may advise that at the first it be moderately taken increasing the quantity daily by degrees untill they shall come at last to the full height of the proportion appointed and thought to be meet and necessary There they are then to stay and so to continue at that quantity so long as it shall be needfull For example the first morning may happily be sixteen or eighteen ounces and so on by degrees to 20 30 40 50 60. or more in people who are of good and strong constitutions Towards the ending the abatement ought likewise to be made by degrees as the increment was formerly made by little and little Here by the way every one must be admonished to take notice that it is not alwayes best to drink most lest they chance to oppresse and overcharge nature that would rather be content with lesse It will therefore be more safe to take it rather somewhat sparingly

corpulency of body his belly especially of a vast greatnesse For divers years he had not been able to go the space of an hundred yards especially if it were an ascent without resting himself his breath failing him upon the least extraordinary motion By the drinking of the Spaw water he was brought to that passe within three weeks that his belly did fall to an ordinary size he was able to go from the Town of Knaresborow to the Spring which is a mile and a half part of it being a great ascent without any desire of ease and hath continued ever since a man as able to foot it as most of his age The like effect the late Right Honourable Countess of Buckingham found who this last Summer 1631. vouchsafed to honor the Northern Spaw with her presence Her infirmity I have it from her own mouth was a shortnesse of breath not being able to get up an ordinary pair of stairs but with much difficulty of breathing and resting once at the least There is none will question but her ample fortune was able to command the choicest helps of Physick Which failing she had recourse to Wellingborow but even that water so much famed was not able to perform any thing worth her stay At last she was advised by a learned Artist who was no stranger to this our Spaw to make tryall of our water Her Honor was pleased to tell me having drunk orderly of the water about ten dayes that she found the whole frame of her body reduced to a very good temper and for that particular which occasioned her coming to the water she did professe seriously that she was well able to mount two pair of stairs without either support or the least desire of respite The time of the year was somewhat too far spent at her coming to the water for it was the middle of August so that the coldnesse of the air and frequent showers forc'd her departure before the water could finish its work which was no small prejudice to her after being Mrs Fairweather of the City of York dwelling in Micklegate had been long troubled with a dizinesse in her head call it the Vertigo or what you please so that if she did but stoop to the ground looking downwards she was ready to fall by the use of the Spaw water for the space of a month was absolutely freed from this her distemper The Lady Hoyl wife to the new Lord Mayor of the City of York after she had been the mother of four children did fall into a strange infirmity Her face for the most part every ten or eleven weeks after she had conceived did swell and grow very red many knots arising in divers parts of her face The swelling sometimes was such that it almost deprived her for the time of her sight during the continuance of which trouble she miscarried of three or four children together It must be supposed one of her ability being happy also by enjoying a tender loving husband could want no means that part could afford but no proof or good successe was found She was at last advised to repair to the Spaw where she stayed about three weeks finding apparent signes of her bodies alteration Within two moneths of her return home it pleased God she conceived continuing in a constant state of health to the time of her delivery She hath since then been blest with diverse children not having the least touch of her former distemper A poore boy about the age of 13 years had often strange fits like those of the Epilepsie or falling sicknes yet somewhat differing from the ordinary fits of that disease neither soaming at the mouth nor shewing any distortions of countenance He would lye as if he had been dead the space of a quarter of an hour without the least motion In this case he had continued a year and more and did usually fall two or three times a day He was brought to drink of the Spaw water and within ten dayes did so alter that he did not fall above once in six dayes space He returned home in hope of recovery yet too soon if my advice might have taken place but the party that brought him thither told me he was not able to stay in regard of the charge Mistresse Sadler daughter to that same reverend Sage of the Law Sir Edward Cook let her pardon me that I close the relations of the Spaw with her name who for her worth and excellent parts deserved to be rank'd and equalled with the best of her sex came to the Spaw in the year 1630. Her distemper as near as I can inform my self was a long continued fixed pain in her head It is very probable that she received benefit by the waters use which incouraged her to repair to the water again the last year 1631. And pitty it were she should not find good successe she shewed her self so rare a pattern of patience in attending the issue of six weeks stay not any one that I have observed proceeding in the whole course in drinking of the water with such constant observation of all those Rules which are requisite to be observed by those who expect the benefit by the water And now having finished what I think fit to instance concerning this our Spaw water I will adde a few experiments of the Sulphur Spring Maud Bogge for by that name she is commonly known a woman of an ordinary condition dwelling in the City of York about the age of 50 years had a swelling about her ancle which had continued long the place was for the most part very red and hard whereunto was applyed divers means by the Surgeons to bring it to a head but nothing availed Her pain did daily increase the part was grown monstrously great whereby she began to lose the use of her limb She was at length advised to go to the Sulphur Spring near Knaresborow whither with much ado she was brought on Horse-back The next day after her coming she drunk liberally of the water which purged her in a violent manner and at night she bathed her leg in the water at her lodging This course she continued three days during which time the swelling abated very much and she was able the fourth day to tread on the ground so boldly and firmly that without expecting any further operation of the water she returned to the City of York on foot as if she scorned any other help and within a week she was so perfectly cured that divers who had seen her sweld leg did admire to see her trot up and down the City as if she never had ailed any thing This was in the year 1627. This Summer being 1631. I spoke with her at York from whom I had her story D. Dean and divers in York taking speciall notice of it In 1629. there came a poor man to make use of the Sulphur Spring whose name and abode I have not had the opportunity to learn He had a great