Selected quad for the lemma: water_n

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water_n	dram_n	powder_n	scruple_n	4,986	5	10.5791	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62931	A new-years-gift for Doctor Witty, or, The dissector anatomized which is a reply to the discourse intituled, An answer to all that Doctor Tonstall has writ, or shall hereafter write, against Scarbrough spaw.	Tonstall, George, b. 1616 or 17.	1672 (1672)	Wing T1888; ESTC R21567	56,564	200

A NEW-YEARS-GIFT FOR Doctor WITTY OR THE DISSECTOR ANATOMIZED Which is a reply to the Discourse Intituled An Answer to all that Doctor TONSTALL has writ or shall hereafter Write against SCARBROUGH Spaw Aeger non quaerit Medicum Eloquentem sed sanantem Seneca LONDON Printed by J. M. for the Author MDCLXXII TO THE ROYAL SOCIETY SIRS IF there were no Judges to determine Controversies Disputes would be endless Dr. Witty having said all he can in answer to my Objections against Scarbrough Spaw He makes his ultimate and highest appeal to the Right Honourable Lords to whom he Dedicates his Book saying What fitter Judges of this Controversie can be found out than their Lordships And in the conclusion of his Preface he seems to refer the difference betwixt him and me to the major Vote of the Right Honourable and Right Worshipful Thus he prefers Alexander for a more Competent Judge of A Philosophical question before Aristotle as if Titles of Honour were infallible Amulets and Charms against mistakes and that none of those were to be imposed upon by the common Tricks and Juggles of one who with confidence would perswade them 1. That the Water notwithstanding the great proportion of Sand and Clay in it will leave none of this in our Bodies because he has let them see Pag. 42. That it will pass when newly taken out of the Fountain through the filter leaving nothing behind or 2. That the Water cannot possibly occasion Obstructions because it moves to stool p. 108. 3. That it cannot breed Stones in the Kidneys because it provokes to Vrine p. 37. 4. That it must be good to prevent and cure the Gout because it purgeth p. 109. 5. That it is a most innocent Water and good for all because some who are strong in their distributive faculty have quitted themselves from the Sandy faeces without taking harm So confident he is in the strength of these reasonings that he concludes p. 126 Nor do I think that there is a more innocent Water in the world of this kind in the very particulars he hath charged it withal Self-opinion is a thing so natural to all men that it may be found in those that say they know not what and that do like him Magno conatu nugas agere but his ipse dixit can neither satisfie you nor silence me Seeing therefore you have avowed to examine all opinions in Natural Philosophy by the test of Experiment a foundation for truth that will never fail and that I desire to be tryed thereby I make mine appeal to you were it a matter of small concernment not worth your cognizance I should not be so rude as to beg that sentence may be pronounced by you according to the merit of the Cause so let your judgments be I have evidenced the Quiddity of petrifying waters agreeable to Kirchers definition by experimenting the droping Well at Knaisbrough which Dr. Witty says is the most famous petrifying water by far of any that this Kingdom doth afford p. 54. Of that Water before it came to the Rock I distilled a quart and there was half a dram of pure Nitrous Salt remaining The Cattle he says drinks of it neither is there any Symboles of a petrifying property in it 'T is very true for it has been tryed by several but as soon as it runs into the Rock and comes distilling forth on the other side then it petrifies because the Nitrous Water has now dissolved stone which it had not done before I distilled a quart of this Water also and it gave as I said a dram wanting Ten Grains of Stone Powder and Nitre Here let it be observed that the surest way to discover whether a Water be petrifying or no is to distil or boil it in a double Vessel to see what Sediment remains or is cast down to the bottom if it be Sand which is stone powder that Water is certainly petrifying As for trying it by putting moss or sticks in the Water to see if it will lay a crust of stone upon them valeat argumentum affirmativè but it is a fallacious Experiment negative to deny it to be a petrifying Water in case it do not incrustate Because there are other circumstances requisite besides a petrifying property in the Water to perform this incrustation the main requisite I judge is that the Experiment be made whilst the Water flows immediately out of the Rock and is in its act of Corrosion I dare affirm that all the tryals had by things petrifyed were thus obtained whereas if the same things were left in the Currant of these petrifying Waters after the act of Corrosion were fully compleated I suppose a mile or two distant from the Rock from whence the Water took its petrifying property they would not then be Crusted over 'T is more than probable that this is the case of Scarbrough Water wherefore it doth not lay a Crust of stone upon the things put in it notwithstanding it be a petrifying Water For it runs out of the South and in a direct line Southward a mile or two distant beyond the great Mountains there is an Hydrophilacia a stately Lake abounding with Fish here is the Spring-head of Scarbrough Spaw it passing forthwith through the Roots of those Stony Hills first Dissolves the stone and hath performed fully the act of Corrosion on it before it come to the Cliff This being done it then Corrodes Allom-stone and in this second act of Corrosion the Spaw appears at the bottom of the Cliff after the Corrosion is compleated which happens in a day or two it settles to the bottom the Glebe of Allom. See for this what I say to p. 102. the Tenth Proposition A second requisite for incrustation is that the Saline water which has newly dissolved stone do penetrate through the pores of what is laid in it that thereby it may leave a crust of Stone upon it that this is necessary also appears by this The more porous any thing is that is put into all petrifying waters the sooner and more perfectly is it incrustated There is a Water a mile distant from the dropping Well that will petrifie neither Leaf nor Stick or other thing save Moss only and that is grown so hard upon the Surface of that Water that one may go over it as on a Bridge The cause sine qua non of all petrifying Waters is that the Saline Water passeth through the Stone whilst it is in Embryone and therefore dissolves it If it were not so then all Saline Waters which must be supposed to pass through stone before it appear above ground would be petrifying but we know the contrary for the Sulphurous Salt Well at Knaisbrough and the Allom Well at Malton has not a grain of stone powder in them 'T is a memorable thing which the Lord Thomas Fairfax told to me he cut away an high Rock near his house at Denton above the ground and a good way within the Earth 't was

Clay which are in the Water from being Essential to it any more than the body which is of a grosser substance than the Soul should be excluded from being the essential part of man I wonder also why the Dissector should thus plead to have these dirty Faeces essential to the Spaw but I 'le remove this Mountain that he may no longer marvel at it Impurities of any mixt body are not essential to it they supervened upon the earth when it was cursed for sin and are by Art as a natural effect in some good measure separable from it therefore we call that the Essence of a thing which contains the whole Crasis of the subject matter nothing wanting there from but its impurities properly termed a caput mortuum If the body be nothing else but a caput mortuum to a man it might then be accounted no essential part of him most likely the Dissectors upper parts give only a He argues again If the Salt be the only Essence then it will follow that Knaisbrough water has little or no Essence because it has little or no Salt in it Even so do blind men judge of Colours as if what is the Essence of the one Spaw suppose Scarbrough must be the Essence of the other at Knaisbrough or else it has none Salts extracted are the Essence only of Saline Waters such are Scarbrough Sulph well and Burbon the Essence whereof the Lord Faulconbridge show'd to the Dissector But says he p. 78. The Volatile Spirits are Essential to all sorts of Spaw-waters and if it were not for these Knaisbrough Spaw were not worth a rush He has more confidence than skill of Spaw-waters to say so He confesseth in his Letter to Doctor Foot Printed in the Translations of the Royal Society that he could not meet with Tachenius it seems he is at the same loss still which makes him so peremptory The Generality of Spaws are Acid Waters Acid Spirits we know by experience are not so Volatile as to lose the least of their vertues by standing open in the Air though for a long time but the Spaws that are Acid Waters do lose their vertue in a few days out of the Fountain though never so close stopped up in Bottles we may therefore necessarily infer from hence that it is not from the Volatility of their Spirits that their vertue is so soon vanished and gone but from another most rational accompt for which I refer him to the Author he has not seen The worth and excellency of Scarbrough Spaw is that an Embrionate Sulphur has corroded Iron in it which makes it Stomachical Deopilative Diuretical and strengthning all the noble parts A fig for the Dissectors Volatile Spirits here they are not worth a rush He doth still persist p. 79. in perswading us to put forth our eyes and blindly to believe him that the Sediment which we see to be Sand and Clay is nothing else than the fixed parts of Minerals or Metals which the fire condenceth and that these are of a singular use to the fortifying of the Natural parts The fire condenceth the Minerals by exhaling the water so far from them that they settle into Chrystals which nevertheless will dissolve again in Water and pass all through the filter not leaving the least atom behind if these Faeces then be what he says they are why will not they pass the filter which he confesses will not Minerals then they are not for Metals he tells us of none in Scarbrough but Iron If that were it why did he not when he presented his seven or eight Extracts to the R. S. tell them this is Iron and if they approv'd on 't I should have yielded to him that there is Vitriol in Scarbrough Spaw however whatsoever they be he says of them that they fortifie the Natural parts I gather from hence that the Dissector is of the Cartesian Sect taking the body of man for a fine Engine and therefore he as a cunning Engineer will fortifie the parts with Sand and Clay by the help of the Potters Furnace making a Bullwork about them impregnable against all the storms and batteries of preternatural Diseases The Lord Er. case which I mention p. 57. He confesses p. 80. frets him more than all my Book beside I wish him more patience for the future He refers to p. 149. Edit 2. here he is mounted into Helmonts Aenigmatical Chariot glances dark language being of the same mind with him not to have his meaning publickly known I protest in verbo Medici 't is an untruth like the rest of his stories to say that I asked him again and again with very much importunity whose case it was My light burns dim oh for a pair of Galenical Snuffers the old man Hippocrates his Spectacles cannot help me to read 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. What pump me and then tell abroad my Secret I declare he does me wrong for I was never guilty of so much folly yet as to pump for Wine out of a dry Hoggshead But that I may give the Reader satisfaction I shall give a true account of this matter Whilst I was at Knaisbrough the report came that the Lord Er. went to Scarbrough to drink the Waters and came home in the Jaundice of which he shortly dyed I said then to Dr. Neale who was with me when this news was told that certainly Scarbrough water had some mischievous thing in it for it was never heard of before that any should take the Jaundice which is founded on Obstructions by drinking spaw-Spaw-waters that are deobstructive This scruple against Scarbrough I carried with me thither and therefore the first time of my coming I asked the Dissector how it came to pass that the Lord Er. got the Jaundice by drinking of the Water he gave me the answer I mentioned in my Book This is the truth and the whole truth I appeal then to the Reader how I have deserved such language from him as I did unworthily the very School-boys will blame me for this This is not done like a Physitian but you may understand like Knave and Rascal by that long scratch It seems Secundae cogitationes sunt meliores he is now provided of a better answer than he gave me at the first Nor had the Lord Er. any Jaundice but a Cachexy which he brought with him He comes now p. 83. to the Aldermans case I mentioned p. 40. His position is That no man can call a Disease the Jaundice if it appear not in the skin This he would prove from the definition Galen makes of the Jaundice to whom he says agrees all the Princes of Physick yea that Hippocrates and Helmont they will let me see the Jaundice is not to be judged without it do appear in the skin I said in the entrance of this Book that the Dissector wanted one eye by reason of the thick darkness that is continually in his Library if he have any he could not see the light of