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A14325	The baths of Bathe: or, A necessary compendious treatise concerning the nature, vse and efficacie of those famous hot vvaters published for the benefit of all such, as yeerely for their health, resort to those baths: with an aduertisement of the great vtilitie that commeth to mans body, by the taking of physick in the spring, inferred vpon a question mooued, concerning the frequencie of sicknesse, and death of people more in that season, then in any other. Whereunto is also annexed a censure, concerning the water of Saint Vincents rocks neere Bristoll, which begins to grow in great request and vse against the stone. By To. Venner, Doctor in Physick in Bathe.	Venner, Tobias, 1577-1660.	1628 (1628)	STC 24641; ESTC S101770	17,325	29

THE BATHS OF BATHE OR A NECESSARY COMPENDIOVS TREATISE CONCERNING THE Nature vse and efficacie of those famous hot waters PVBLISHED FOR THE BENEFIT OF all such as yeerely for their health resort to those Baths With an Aduertisement of the great vtilitie that commeth to mans body by the taking of Physick in the Spring inferred vpon a question mooued concerning the frequencie of sicknesse and death of people more in that season then in any other Whereunto is also annexed a censure concerning the Water of Saint Vincents Rocks neere Bristoll which begins to grow in great request and vse against the Stone By To. Venner Doctor of Physick in Bathe LONDON Printed by Felix Kyngston for Richard Moore and are to be sold at his shop in Saint Dunstans Churchyard in Fleet-streete 1628. Effigies Tobiae Venner Med. Dr. Anno Dom 1660. Aetatis suae 85. SERENISSIMAE PRINCIPI MARIAE ANGLIAE SCOTIAE FRANCIAE ET HIBERNIAE REGINAE HOC DE THERMIS BATHONIENSIBVS OPVSCVLVM HVMILlimè dedicat consecrat THO. VENERVS Med. Dr. TO THE READER GOod Reader seeing in the few yeeres that I haue exercised Physicke at the Baths the yeerely concourse in the Spring and Fall of people of all sorts and from all parts of this Kingdome to those famous Waters and the little benefit that many after great expence and trouble receiue thereby I was induced to publish this ensuing Treatise wherein I haue very briefely shewed the nature and efficacie of those Waters touched the causes that many finde not comfort but oftentimes rather hurt that resort to them with such aduertisements concerning the vse of the said Waters which if they be rightly obserued I am perswaded few will hereafter complaine that they haue beene at the Baths in vaine and so the Waters regaine that esteeme which in respect of their singular Vertues they are worthy of But here you must take from me this one aduertisement which is That Sickenesse is a Symptome of Sinne And therefore first Poenitentiam agendo before your departure from home make peace betwixt God and your conscience and then repaire to the Baths quò te faustum ducat atque sanum reducat qui solus id potest Vale. THE BATHS OF BATHE BAthe so called from the Baths in it is a little well-compacted Cittie and beautified with very faire and goodly buildings for receit of strangers Although the site thereof by reason of the vicinity of Hills seeme not pleasant being almost inuironed with them yet for goodnesse of ayre neerenes of a sweet and delectable Riuer and fertilitie of soyle it is pleasant and happy enough but for the hot waters that boyle vp euen in the middest thereof it is more delectable and happier then any other of the Kingdome There are in it foure publike Baths so fairely built and fitted with such conueniencie for bathing as the like I suppose is not else-where to be found besides a little Bath for Lepers called The Lepers Bath They all haue the originall of their heate from one matter namely Sulphur burning in the cauities of the earth thorow which the waters flowing receiue their heate They partake of no other minerall that I can finde what may lye hid in visceribus terrae I know not of this I am sure that such diseases as cannot receiue cure else-where here doe These Baths as they differ in their heate so in their operations and effects The Kings Bath is the hottest and it is for beautie largenesse and efficacy of heate a Kingly Bath indeed being so hot as can be well suffered This Bath is of strong-heating opening resoluing attracting and exiccating facultie and therefore onely conuenient for cold and moist bodies and for cold and moist diseases Next to the Kings Bath for efficacy of heate is the Hot Bath and the difference in their heate is so little that it is scarcely to be discerned This Bath is good for the same infirmities that the Kings Bath is and for the effects which it worketh I cannot finde it to be inferiour vnto it They are two excellent Baths for cold and moist diseases and for very cold and moist bodies The Queenes Bath is a member of the Kings Bath a wall onely going betweene them with a passage therein to goe from one to the other This Bath is not altogether so hot as that and therefore the vse of it is conuenient for them that cannot well endure the heate of the Kings Bath The Crosse Bath is for heate the mildest being very temperately warme it is a dainty Bath for young weake and tender bodies that cannot endure the heate of the hotter Baths or for whom the hotter Baths may not be conuenient It is an excellent Bath for temperate bodies by way of preseruation because such the hotter Baths may soone distemper and occasion hurt Neither is this Bath good onely for such as are of a temperate state and constitution of body by way of preseruation but for them and others also by way of curation in some cases where the hotter Baths are not fit to bee vsed This Bath by reason of the mildnesse of its heate is of a notable mollifying and relaxing facultie good therefore in contractions of any member in obstructions of the brest spleene liuer and kidneys and effectuall also for Aches when it is in its prime and vigour of heate especially for such whose temper or habit of body shall prohibit the vse of the hotter Baths This Bath attaines not to its perfection of heate till the weather grow to be constantly hot and when the other Baths by reason of the feruor thereof cannot be vsed but by such whose diseases and state of body are impensiuely cold I cannot in regard of the diuersity of bodies insist vpon euery particular in the vse of these Baths wherefore I will onely for your better instruction and direction herein giue you some speciall aduertisements and thereupon leaue you to some Learned Physician that can accordingly guide you in the vse of them These famous hot Waters are of singular force not only against diseases gotten by cold or proceeding from a cold and moist cause but also bring in time of health exceeding comfort and profit to all cold moist and corpulent bodies for they open the pores resolue attenuate digest consume and draw forth superfluities and withall strongly heale and drie the whole habit of the body They are of excellent efficacy against all diseases of the head and sinewes proceeding of a cold and moist cause as Rheumes Palsies Epilepsies Lethargies Apoplexies Cramps Deafenesse Forgetfulnesse Trembling or weakenesse of any member Aches and swellings of the ioynts c. They also greatly profit windie and hydropicke bodies the paine and swelling of any part of the bodie so that it proceed not from an hot cause the sluggish and lumpish heauinesse of the body numnesse of any member paine in the loynes the gout especially the Sciatica cold tumors of the Milt and Liuer the Yellow Iaundies

is to take it so neere as you can in the same temper of heate as it issueth forth or else so hot as you shall be well able to drinke it and herein euery one may gratifie his owne stomacke But seeing that the place is vnfit for the taking of it and that the Water seems by reason of the rawishnesse of the place to be colder at its issuing forth then it is otherwise for being taken into a stone Iugge it warmeth the same I aduise that the water bee taken into stone Iugges or other conuenient bottles and the Iugges or bottles to bee immediately stopped to keepe in the vapours and so the water to be taken while it reserueth its heate but if the water shall waxe cold before you take it you may heate the Iugge in a kettle of hot water till it shall bee so hot as you shall like to take it keeping the Iugge close stopped all the while and so you may doe such mornings when you cannot haue the water it being all ouercouered by that part of the Seuerne that floweth to the Cittie If you demand of me whether the water loseth any thing of its vertue being so kept I must answer you that it is likely that it loseth somewhat of its sulphurous but not any thing of its introus qualitie and therefore it may be well referued and vsed in manner as aforesaid The sixth is the time of the yeere that is best for the taking of this Water and that is in a season that is not cold or rainy but hot or inclining therevnto as from the beginning of May to the middle of September but after that in regard of the alterations of the aire and Winter approaching this Water is not good to be taken because it will weaken the stomacke and liuer annoy the brest breede crudities Coughs c as I haue already shewed The seuenth is the diet that is to be obserued all the time of the taking of the Water which is that it must bee but slender and that of meats of good iuice and easie digestion the dinner not to be taken till the greater part of the Water be auoided and the supper must be alwaies lesse then the dinner that the Stomacke may be the next morning emptie for receiuing of the Water againe The eight is that the body be purged immediately after the taking of the Water that is when an end is made of taking it for auoiding some reliques thereof which perhaps may abide in the body after the vse of it which the Physician must be carefull to do with a fit medicine Afterwards a moderation in diet and all other things is to be obserued The ninth is that it be not giuen to children that are subiect to the Stone vnder twelue yeeres of age vnlesse they shall be naturally of a very hot constitution and that to them in quantities proportionable to their age Neither is it to be admitted to them that are entered within the limits of old age because it will abbreuiate their life calorem innatum extinguendo The tenth and last thing to be considered in the vse of this Water is that it be not giuen to such as by reason of the smalnesse and streightnesse of their veines cannot extreate and passe it away by vrine though the infirmities of the Stone Stranguries c. may otherwise require the vse thereof Neither is to be giuen to such as haue cold stomackes weake liuers feeble braines and subiect vnto Rheumes in a word not to phlegmaticke not to any that abound with crudities or haue a cold and moist habit of body for in all such it will soone infringe the naturall heate breed Rheumes annoy the brest occasion Cramps and diuers other infirmities as I haue afore shewed The same obseruations must be kept in taking of this Water against the Strangurie and vlcerations of the bladder and kidneys as is directed in taking thereof against the Stone In which affects it is good to giue therewith some lubrifying cleansing extract or the like And heere note that if the Water in all the aforesaid cases be giuen with a fit and conuenient Adiunct it will not onely be the more effectuall and sooner conueied to the affected parts but lesse quantities also may serue to be taken and then the stomacke will not be so ouerprest and charged therewith as it is in the common manner of taking it But if it bee at any time fit to ouercharge and presse the stomacke therewith it is in cases of the Strangurie and purulent-vlcers of the bladder and kidneys I may not omit to giue you notice that diuers symptomes or perillous accidences may happen oftentimes in the vse of this Water which because they cannot be well rectified or preuented without the presence of a Physician I here omit to nominate or treat of and in stead thereof as also for diuers reasons afore nominated doe aduise you not to aduenture the drinking thereof without the aduice and presence of a iudicious Physician which if you doe you may haply in stead of the good you expect thereby receiue much hurt As for outward vses this Water may sometime asswage the Itch mundifie and palliat old Sores but no matter of moment is to be expected from it this way And thus much concerning the nature and vse of this Water whose Vertues will be better knowne if people make a right and good vse thereof FINIS Kings Bath Hot Bath Queenes Bath Crosse Bath The vertue of the Baths in generall Hot Baths hurtfull to hot and drie bodies As not to goe thereinto vpon a full stomake c. Baths Technologie with them that resort to those Baths Bathe being a place in regard of the Baths that many resort vnto for cure of infirmities that cannot receiue helpe elsewhere it were to bee wished that Empericks and all other whatsoeuer they be being not Graduates in the faculty of Physick were vtterly prohibited to practise in the City or neere to the consines thereof idque sub poena grauissima The vtilitie of Physick taken in the Spring What time of the Springbest for Physicke Whether it be so requisit to take Physicke in the Fall as in the Spring Aduertisement to beware of Empericks * Vrbs pulchra Emporium celebre The substance and temperature of the Water From what Minerals it receiues its medicinable faculties The hurst that are occasioned by the vnaduised vse of the Water The Vertue and Faculties of the Water The vse of the Water for inward inflammations Tenne Rules to be obserued in taking of the Water against the Stone For what bodies the vse of the Water not conuenient but hurtfull

in a body plethoricke or phlegmaticke They are also very profitable for them that haue their lungs annoyed with much moisture and to make slender such bodies as are too grosse there is nothing more effectuall then the often vse of these waters Wherefore let those that feare obesitie that is would not waxe grosse bee carefull to come often to our Baths for by the vse of them according as the learned Physician shall direct they may not onely preserue their health but also keepe their bodies from being vnseemingly corpulent They are also singularly profitable to women for they helpe them of barrennesse and of all diseases and imperfections of the Matrix proceeding of a cold and moist They also cure all diseases of the skin as Scabs Itch old Sores c. All which to bee true wee daily find with admiration to the exceeding great comfort of many who with deplored diseases and most miserable bodies resort to these Baths and are there by the helpe of wholesome Physicke and vertue of the Baths through the blessing of Almighty God recouered to their former health But Baths naturally hot as these our Baths are to bodies naturally hot and drie are generally hurtfull and so much the more as the body is drier and the Bath hotter because it distempereth and consumeth the very habit of the body and maketh it carrion-like leane Wherfore seeing that these our Baths are not indifferently agreeable to euery constitution and state of body I doe aduise that not any one goe into them rashly or vpon a preposterous iudgement but that he bee first aduised by some faithfull iudicious and expert Physician and to him expose the state of his body whereby he may vnderstand whether or no it may be expedient for him to attempt the same And whereas there are in Bathe diuers Baths as I haue shewed and they differing in their heate and accordingly in their effects he must also from the learned Physician be directed in which to bathe neither must he only vnderstand which Bath to vse as most conuenient for his state of body but also when and how often to vse the same and how long to abide therein at a time Besides this he must take speciall care not to goe into the Bath without fit preparation which is a grosse error of many but must be first purged as his state of body shall require and be also directed in other things how to order himselfe before he goe into the Bath while he is in the Bath and after that he is come out of the Bath and when hee leaueth the Bath and must also with his bathings and sweating vse such physick-helpes as may worke with the Baths according as his disease and present state of body shall require not relying wholly vpon the vse of the water for his cure as many ignorantly and some basely doe to saue their purse The neglect of all these or of some of them either through ignorance or voluntarie wilfulnes is the cause that some that take great paines to come to the Baths are not by them healed of their infirmities but oftentimes neuer returne to their homes againe or if they doe it is most commonly with new diseases and the old worse then euer they were whereas of a generous and religious vnderstanding vsing the true helpes of physick with the Baths are of their diseases perfectly cured Here I may not omit a special reason why many receiue little benefit by the Baths but oftentimes much hurt and that is because they take not the aide and directions of a Physician present in the vse of the Bath but bring their physicke and directions with them from some Physician in the Countrey where they abode perhaps one that well vnderstands not their state of body much lesse the nature and true vse of the Baths But admit that they haue their directions from an vnderstanding Physician yet I must tell them that many accidences fall out oftentimes in bathing that require the helpe of a present Physician Another speciall reason why many find little good by the Baths is because they make not such stay at them as in regard of their infirmities or state of body is meete for some goe away before the Bath in regard of a dense habit of body hath wrought any manner of effect at all on them others euen then when the Bath begins to shew its force and efficacie on their bodies and some too soone vpon much benefit receiued by meanes whereof they easily incurre a relapse Wherefore my counsell herein vnto you is this that you limit not your stay at the Baths before you depart from your homes but in that bee aduised and ruled by your Physician when you are at the Baths according as hee shall find to bee meete for your infirmities and state of body and thinke not to receiue in foure fiue or sixe weekes an absolute cure for an infirmity which perhaps you haue borne two or three yeeres notwithstanding all the helpes and meanes you haue vsed for the same in your owne Countrey Wherefore let your abode at the Baths bee as it shall bee requisite for your state of body and limit not the time no not to a Spring or a Fall for it may bee needfull for you to reside there the whole yeere it may bee more for otherwise by your vntimely departure you may lose the good that you haue gotten by the Bath before the time come that you shall thinke to be fit for the vse of the Baths againe But here I know you will obiect against me saying Is it good to make vse of your Baths in the Summer and Winter Are not those times by all learned and iudicious Physicians prohibited for bathing in hot Baths Whereupon grew the custome of frequenting them in the temperate seasons of the yeere namely in the Spring and Fall Whereunto I answer and first that bathing in our Baths in Summer taking the coole of the morning for it if the season shall bee hot and Summer-like brings much more benefit to the body the disease being of a cold nature and proceeding from a cold and moist cause for so you must conceiue me then in the Spring or Fall when oftentimes the coldnesse and variablenes of the aire takes away the benefit of your bathing for cold or vaporous aire entring into your body after bathing the pores being open doth not onely very greatly annoy the spirits and principall parts occasion winde and tortures in the bowels but also induce oftentimes irrecouerable effects to the sinewes and ioynts But if seasons that are constantly warme be best for bathing in our Baths and cold times hurtfull why should any reside at them in the Winter I answer That it is good for thē that are in the way of cure by reason of their former bathings and that the waters are in their nature as effectually hot in the winter as in any other time of the yeere onely the superficies or vpper part

matters not from whom it bee nor what Physicke it bee so it worke with them I must tell you that many ouerthrow their bodies hereby and that there is no lesse art and iudgement required for preseruing the body in health then for curing of it being sicke if they did but know how the foure humors are or ought to be proportioned in their bodies for enioying according to their constitutions a sound and healthy state they would I am perswaded be more cautelous then to commit themselues into the hands of the vnlearned who by their inconsiderate courses take humors from them at an aduenture so well those which are not offensiue as those which are to the vtter subuersion of the Oeconomie of the body whereof though perhaps in regard of their strengths they are not by and by sensible which is that which onely cloaketh the errors of Empericks and as a vaile masketh many mens eies and vnderstanding herein yet they will as I haue in diuers obserued to their perill by little and little incurre a lapsed state of body It is strange to see the ignorance of most people how backward they are to giue to the learned Professors of Physicke their due ready to lay scandals vpon them but forward to magnifie Empericks their Physicke their honesty their care willing to excuse and passe ouer their grosse slips and absurdities O mira hominum stupiditas But proceeds this altogether out of ignorance I suppose no for doubtlesse many seeke vnto them and magnifie their Physicke because it is cheape but such are fooles and Gulles indeed for they wrong and euen poyson their bodies with grosse and ill-qualified Physicke to saue their purse But to answer the reasons or rather the words which they produce and alledge in the fauour and behalfe of Empericks To what purpose is the working of that Physicke which respecteth not the peccant humors nor parts affected but to the ouerthrow of the body What is a supposed honesty in a Physicion without learning but a snare wherein the ignorant doe voluntarily entrap themselues I say supposed for I cannot thinke that man to be honest that vsurps a calling which with a good conscience he is not able to discharge Or to what purpose is the care that Empericks take about their preposterous and ill-composed medicines but to the vtter ruine of the patients body as it too too vnluckely happened of late to a Gentleman of good worth and note who taking Physicke by way of preuention of a Pil-boasting Surgeon in a short space by his ill-qualified and preposterous Physicke incurred an incureable and mortall lapse of his stomacke and Liuer being in his constant age and perfect strength of body Vaine therefore and very absurd is that conceit which many haue in fauour of Empericks viz. If they doe no good they will doe no harme Admit that sometimes by their triuiall pettie medicines they doe no harme yet neuerthelesse for that I must tell you that they doe much harme for the sicke body relying vpon their skill and they being not able to direct and execute such courses as shall be fitting and effectuall to impugne the disease while there is time fitting for the same the sicknesse gets the masterie and then perhaps when the strengths are too much weakened and the disease become incureable they seeke helpe of the learned Physician So basely verily are most of our people affected to their health that vntill some practicall Minister Parish Clarke Apothecary Chirurgeon or the like haue done their vtmost hurt they seeke not to the Physician And here to vindicate our Art from calumnie I cannot but taxe the most sort of people that being affected with any great or difficult disease which by reason of the nature thereof or contumacy of the peccant humors will haue such progresse as that it cannot in a short time by the medicines and best endeuors of the learned Physician how forceable so euer be euicted will reiect their Physician and betake themselues which is an absurdity super omnem absurditatem to some ignorant sottish Empericke and euery good wiues medicine to their great hurt and oftentimes vtter ouerthrow But if it happen that they recouer thereupon they lay an imputation vpon the Physician and grace their Emperick with the cure whereas in very deede the matter of their disease was wholy or at least the greatest part therof eradicated by such fit and powerful remedies as the learned Physician had formerly administred vnto them wherevpon the residue of the cure was effected by the force of Nature not by the weake endeuors of the Empericke or triuiall medicines of any other whatsoeuer I haue of purpose enlarged this Aduertisement and doe leaue it for a memoriall and Caueat to all posteritie especially to the Gentlemen of this our age who for the most part of them very greatly wrong their iudgements and vnderstanding in taking Physicke of the vnlearned and wherein they doe not only wrong themselues but also giue occasion of hurt vnto others for the meaner sort of people following their example do the like whereby it comes to passe that in all likely-hood more vntimely perish which I beleeue to be true in the Westerne parts of this kingdome vnder the hands of Empericks then die otherwise Such as will not take notice hereof in Empericorum manus incidant And if any Asinus Cumanus or Terra filius shall obiect that diuers recouer vnder the hands of Empericks I answer in a word that the recouery is not to be attributed to their Physick but to the strengths of Nature that beares vp both against the disease and their preposterous courses A CENSVRE CONCERNING THE WATER OF SAINT Vincents Rocks neere Bristoll which begins to grow in great request and vse against the Stone THis water of Saint Vincents Rocke is of a very pure cleare cristalline substance answering to those cristalline Diamonds and transparent stones that are plentifully found in those Clifts It is no lesse commendable for smell and taste then delectable for colour and substance and for its temperature excels any other of this kingdom being almost of a meane betweene heate and cold I say almost because it is a little more inclined to cold then to hear which maketh it the more effectuall for allaying the burning heat of the bowels and yet by reason of its good temperature not quickly offensiue to the stomacke if it be not lapsed by cold But before I deliuer my censure and opinion concerning the nature and vse of this water it is fitting that I declare vnto you the matter frō whence it receiues its medicinable faculties and that is for I haue twice made probation therof from Sulphur and Niter and from both but in a small measure for the water at its issuing forth carrieth with it but an obscure heat being scarcely lukewarme and the reason thereof is because the heat of the water strength of the sulphurous vapors are qualified and abated

in the passages thorow the earth or else it is because this water issueth but from a small veine of sulphur And the note that it hath but little Niter in it besides the probation therof is because it can hardly or not at all in the taste bee discerned but by a curious and skilfull pallate for the purpose I suppose that this water partakes of other good minerals but I leaue that for a farther search or to such as shall hereafter liue more conueniently for that purpose then I doe But whatsoeuer minerals shall lie hid in the passages of this water it is sufficient that it partakes of two so good as Sulphur and Niter and that in such a mixture as it makes it to be of an excellent temper and medicinable faculty in potable vses for diuers cases as shall be hereafter shewed It were to be wished that the water issued forth in a more conuenient place aswell for accesse vnto it as for conseruing the heate thereof This water is frequented for no other vse but for the drinking of it against the Stone it hath also other excellent faculties but I suppose such is the vanity of our time that the fame thereof wil not long hold but wil in a short time haue an end as some other waters of good force and efficacy against sundry infirmities in diuers places of this kingdome haue had and that by reason of the absurdand preposterous vse of it for vpon notice and experience that this water hath done some good against the Stone people of all sorts repaire vnto it so wel such as haue not the stone as those that haue or stand in feare thereof and abundantly glut and fill themselues therewith till they vomit and strout againe scarcely one of fifty I dare say hauing the opinion of a iudicious Physician for the taking of the same or preparing their bodies for it as is meete which cannot but bring a disgrace to the water for admit that a few chance to receiue benefit thereby some will not but many much hurt Neither can the water be good for all bodies that are troubled with the Stone or subiect thereunto and therefore I would haue you to know that the ill and preposterous vse thereof will weaken the stomacke subuert the liuer annoy the head and brest occasion Cramps paine in the ioynts breed crudities rheumes Coughs Cachexies the Dropsie it selfe and Consumption But I will proceed to shew you the faculties and true vse of the water It notably cooleth the inflammations of all the inward parts and yet as I haue said not quickly offending the stomacke as other Waters doe and it is withall of a gentle mundifying facultie It is therefore very effectuall against the burning heate of the stomacke inflammations of the liuer and reines and adustion of the humors being taken with fine Sugar in this proportion as halfe an ounce of Sugar or thereabout to a pinte of the Water In such as haue had hot liuers red pimpling faces and adusted humors I haue caused a Tincture of Roses and Violets to be taken therewith and that with singular successe It may be giuen with other good conuenient Adiuncts which will not onely make it the more gratefull to the stomacke but also more effectuall for the cases aforesaid which I leaue to the Physician to finde out and direct as shall be best fitting for his patients body In inflammation and siccity of the intestines it is good to giue with this Water syrrup or mel Viol. Sol. In inflammation of the kidneys with obstruction also in them I haue giuen it to such as had withall hot liuers with Chrystallo minerali with wished effect for the distemper of the kidneys was not onely quickly allayed therewith but also abundance of sand and other drossie matter stopping in them purged forth That this Water is good against the Stone Strangury and purulent vlcers of the kidneys and bladder it is euident by reason of its mundifying and clensing faculty to be taken with Sugar as aforesaid or with some good and effectuall Adiunct for the speedier carriage of it to the affected places c. which by reason of the diuersity of bodies I cannot here describe but must leaue you therein to the aduice and counsell not of a vulgar but of some learned iudicious expert Physician and that with this Caution that if you bee not sure of the accurate iudgement and skill of your Physician that you take the Water onely with Sugar without any other mixture with it This Water is also good in the vlcerations of the intestines with this Prouiso that it be taken with some conuenient Adiunct as Mel Rosat c. to occasion the passage thereof thorow the belly diuerting it from the veines As concerning the vse of this Water and first for inward inflamations The time of the yeere best for taking thereof by way of cure or preuention is in the moneths of April May and Iune and that in the morning fasting the body being first prepared thereunto that is gently purged according as the constitution thereof shall require but in case of necessity it may be taken at any other time respect being had of the season age and present state of the body As for the quantity that is to be taken euery morning and how long to be continued in that because of the diuersity of bodies I must leaue you to the discretion and iudgement of your Physician As for the taking of this Water against the Stone tenne Rules are to be obserued in the vse thereof The first is the preparation of the body that is that it be exquisitely purged before you attempt the vse thereof for the passages being cleared and the ill matter diuerted by Stoole the Water will the more freely and with greater force penetrate vnto the reines The second is that it be taken in the morning fasting the excrements of the belly being first deposed and that at diuers draughts allowing betwixt euery draught or two draughts taken the one after the other the space of a quarter of an houre or some what more till you haue taken the whole portion of Water that is intended to be taken each morning walking and stirring gently your body betweene euery taking for that will cause the Water to be the sooner distributed thorow your body refraining to goe abroad in the aire betweene and vpon the takings thereof if the weather shall be any thing cold for cold will hinder the distribution of the Water The third is the quantity of the Water that is to be taken euery morning which must be directed by your Physician that knowes your age and state of body The fourth is how many mornings together it is to be taken as eight or tenne more or lesse according to the abilitie of the stomacke strenghts and state of body wherein you must likewise be directed by your Physician The fift thing to be obserued in the taking of the Water