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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

chymicall oyle thereof is very available as himself affirmeth to have sufficiently proved against the stone and stopping of Urine and many other outward maladies and diseases Andernacus and Gesner adde to these the Apoplexy all which for avoiding of prolixity I do here purposely omit Neither will I further trouble the Reader with the recitall of divers and sundry excellent remedies and medicines found out and made of it in these latter times by the Spagyrick Physitians and others Insomuch that Joseph Quercetanus one of those is verily of opinion that out of this individual mineral well and exquisitly prepared there might be made all manner of remedies and medicines sufficient for the storing and furnishing of a whole Apothecaries shop But it will perhaps be objected by some one or other in this manner If vitrioll which as most do hold is hot and dry in the third degree or beginning of the fourth nay of a caustick quality and nature as Dioscorides is of opinion should here be predominant then the water of this Fountain must needs be of great heat and acrimony and so become not onely unprofitable but also very hurtfull for mans use to be drunk or inwardly taken To which objection not to take any advantage of the answer which many learned Physitians do give viz. that vitriol is not hot but cold I say First that although all medicinall waters doe participate of those minerals by which they do passe yet they have them but weakly viribus refractis especially when in their passages they touch and meet with divers other minerals of opposite tempers and natures Secondly I Answer that in all such medicinall Fountains as this simple water doth far surpasse and exceed in quantity whatsoever is therewith intermixed by whose coldnesse it commeth to passe that the contrary is scarce or hardly perceived For example take one proportion of any boyling liquor to 100. or more of the same cold and you will hardly find in it any heat it all Suppose then vitrioll be hot in the third degree it doth not therefore follow that the water which hath his vertue chiefly from it should heat in the same degree This is plainly manifest not onely in this fountain but also in all others which have an acide taste being indeed rather cold then hot for the reasons above mentioned CHAP. X. Of the effects which this Fountain worketh and produceth in those who drink of it EXperience sheweth sufficiently besides reason that this water first and in the beginning cooleth such as use it But being continued it heateth and drieth and this for the most part it doth in all yet not alwayes For as we shall more fully declare afterwards it effecteth cures of opposite and quite contrary natures by the second and third qualities wherewith it is endowed curing diseases both hot cold dry and moist Those waters saith Renodaeus which are replenished with a vitrioline quality as those at the Spaw doe presently heal and as it were miraculously cure diseases which are without all hope of recovery having that notable power and faculty from vitrioll by the vertue and efficacy whereof they passe through the meanders turnings and windings of all parts of the whole body Whatsoever is hurtfull or endammageth it that they sweep and carry away what is profitable and commodious they touch not nor hurt that which is flaccid and loose they bind and fasten that which is fastned and strictly tied they loose what is too grosse and thick they incide dissolve attenuate and expell More particularly the water of this fountain hath an incisive and abstersive faculty to cut and loosen the viscous and clammy humours of the body and to make meable the grosse as also by its piercing and penetrating power subtilty of parts and by his deterging and desiccative qualities to open all the obstructions or oppilations of the mesentery from whence the seeds of most diseases doe arise and spring liver spleen kidneys and other interiour parts and which is more to be noted and observed to coole and contemperate their unnaturall heat helping and removing also all the griefs and infirmities depending thereupon Besides all this it comforteth the stomack by the astriction it hath from other minerals especially Iron so that without doubt of a thousand who shall use it discreetly and with good advice their bodies first being well and orderly prepared by some learned and skilfull Physitian according to the states thereof and as their infirmities shall require there will scarcely be any one found who shall not receive great profit thereby Moreover it cleanseth and purifieth the whole masse of blood contained in the veynes by purging it from the seresity peccant and from cholerick phlegmatick and melancholike humours and that principally by Urine which passeth through the body very clear and in great quantity leaving behinde it the mineral forces and vertues Their stooles who drink of it are commonly of a blackish or dark green colour partly because it emptieth the liver and spleen from adust humours and melancholy or the sediment of blood but more especially because the minerals intermixed do produce and give such a tincture CHAP. XI In what diseases the water of this Fountain is most usefull and beneficiall OVer and besides the peculiar and specifical faculties which this fountain hath it sheweth divers and sundry other manifest effects and qualities in evacuating the noxious humours of the body for the most by Urine especially when there is any obstruction about the kidneyes ureters and bladder Or by Urine and stoole both if the mesentery liver or spleen chance to be obstructed But if the effect or grief be in the matrix or womb then it cleanseth that way according to the accustomed and usuall manner of women In melancholly people it purgeth by provoking the haemorrhoides and in cholerick by siege or stool If it causeth either vomit or sweat it is very seldom rare See here a most admirable work guided by the omnipotency and wisdome of the Almighty that a naturall clear and pure water should produce so many and severall effects and operations being all of them in a manner contrary one to another which few medicines composed by Art can easily perform without hurt and dammage to the party Wherefore being drunk with those cautions and circumstances necessarily required thereunto it is to be preferred before many other remedies as not onely procuring these evacuations but also which is more to be noted staying them when they grow ro any excesse For seeing that here are minerals contained booh hot cold dry appercive astringent c. there is none so simple but must needs think and grant that it cannot otherwise be but good and wholsome in grievances and diseases which in their own natures are opposite But I may instance in some few for which it is good and profitable and therein observe some order and method It dryeth the over moist brain and helpeth the evils proceeding there from as rhumes catarhs

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

one is half a league from the Spa or Spaw Village the other is in the middle of the town CHAP. V. A more particular recitall of the first four wels I Purpose to speak somewhat more in this place of the first foure Springs mentioned in the former Chapter in regard the consideration of them may perhaps give some light to those who shall hereafter search further into the secrets which nature may seem to afford in the Country hereabouts The first is the Dropping well known almost to all who have travelled unto this place The water whereof distilleth and trickleth down from the hanging Rock over it not onely dropping wise but also falling in many pretty little streams This water issueth at first out of the earth not far from the said hanging Rock and running a while in one entire current continueth so till it commeth almost to the brim of the crag where being opposed by a damme as it were artificial of certain spongy stones is afterwards divided into many smaller branches and falleth from on high in manner aforesaid It is therefore very like that Mr. Cambden in person did not see this fountain but rather that he had it by relation from others or at least wise if he did see it that he did not mark and duly observe the originall springing up of the water when in his Britannia he saith thus The waters thereof spring not up out of the veins of the earth c. Concerning the properties and qualities thereof I have nothing more to write at this time there being formerly little triall had of it saving that divers inhabitants thereabouts say and affirm that it hath been found to be very effectuall in staying any flux of the body which thing I easily believe The other three are sulphurous fountains and cast forth a stinking smell a-farre off especially in the Winter season and when the weather is coldest They are all noisome to smell to and cold to touch without any manifest or actual heat at all by reason as may most probably be thought their mines and veins of brimstone are not kindled under the earth being perhaps hindred by the mixture of salt therewith Those who drink of their waters relate they verily think there is gun-powder in them and that now and then they vomit after drinking thereof The waters as they run along the earth do leave behind them on the grasse and leaves a gray slimy substance which being set on fire hath the right savour of common brimstone They are much haunted with Pigeons an argument of much salt in them of which in the evaporation of the water by fire we found a good quantity remaining in the bottom of the vessel One thing further was worth observation that white mettall as silver dipped into them presently seemeth to resemble copper which we first noted by putting a silver porrenger into one of these unto which Sir Francis Traps did first bring us Which tincture these waters give by reason of their sulphur Touching their vertues and effects there may in general the like properties be ascribed unto them as are attributed unto other sulphurous Bathes actually cold participating also of Salt The vulgar sort drink these waters as they say to expell reef and fellon yea many who are much troubled with itches scabs morphews tetters ring-worms and the like are soon holpen and cured by washing the parts ill-affected therewith Which thing they might much more conveniently and more commodiously do if at that in Bilton park were framed to capacious Bathes the one cold the other● to be made hot or warm by art for certain known houres a day CHAP. VI. A more particular description of the fifth or last Fountain called the English Spaw THis being the principal subject of this whole Treatise is in the said Forrest about half a league or a mile and a half West from the Town from whence there is almost a continuall rising to it but nothing so great as the ascent is from the Spaw village to the Sauvenir This here springeth out of a mountainous ground and almost at the height of the ascent at Harcgate-head having a great descent on both sides the ridge thereof and the Country thereabouts somewhat resembleth that at the Spaw in Germany The first discoverer of it to have any medicinal quality so far forth as I can learn was one Mr. William Slingsby a Gentleman of many good parts of an ancient and worthy Family neer thereby who having travelled in his younger t me was throughly acquainted with the taste use and faculties of the two Spaw Fountains In his latter time about 55 years ago it was his good Fortune to live for a little while at a Grange house very neer to this Fountain and afterwards in Bilton Park all his life long Who drinking of this water found it in all things to agree with those at the Spaw Whereupon greatly rejoycing at so good and fortunate an accident he made some further trial and assay That done he caused the Fountain to be well and artificially walled about and paved at the bottom as it is now at this day with two fair stone flags with a fit hole in the side thereof for the free passage of the water through a little guttered stone It is open at the top and walled somewhat higher than the earth as well to keep out filth as cattell for comming and approaching to it It is foure square three foot wide and the water within is about three quarters of a yard deep First we caused it to be laded dry as well to scoure it as also to see the rising up of the water which we found to spring up onely at the bottome at the chink or cranny between two stones so left purposely for the springing up of the water at the bottome Which as Pliny observeth in his 31 Book of his Natural History and the third chapter is a signe above all of the goodnesse of a Fountain And above all saith he one thing would be observed and seen unto that the source which feedeth it spring and boile up directly from the bottome and not issue forth at the sides which also is a main point that concerneth the perpetuity thereof and whereby we may collect that it will held still and be never drawn dry The stream of water which passeth away by the hole in the side thereof is much one and about the proportion of the current of Sauuenir The above-named Gentleman did drink the water of this Fountain every year after all his life time for helping his infirmities and maintaing of his health and would oftentimes say and aver that it was much better and did excell the tart fountains beyond the Seas as being more quick and lively and fuller of Minerall spirits effecting his operation more speedily and sooner passing through the Body Moreover Dr. Timothy bright of happy memory a learned Physitian while he lived my very kind freind and familiar acquaintance first gave the