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water_n	drink_v	good_a	time_n	15,200	5	5.0979	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51617	Pegiama or The vertues of, and way how to use the minerall and medicinall-water at Peterhead in Scotland within the shire of Aberdene: whose latitude is 57. degrees 43. minuts: longitude 22. degrees 40. minuts. This being the compend of a peece, written anno 1636. by A. M. the student, now M.D. & P. in A. R. Aberdon.; Pedax petreia. Abridgements.	Mure, Andrew, M.D.	1668 (1668)	Wing M3097B; ESTC R216874	2,624	1

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Or the Vertues of and way how to use the Minerall and Medicinall-Water at PETERHEAD in SCOTLAND within the Shire of ABERDENE Whose Latitude is 57. Degrees 43. minuts Longitude 22. Degrees 40. minuts This being the Compend of a Peece written Anno 1636. by A.M. then Student now M.D. P. in A.R. Aberdon THis water by the tryall of judicious Men and manifold Experiments of diseased People of all Ranks Sexes and Ages is found to be nothing inferiour to the Spaw Minerall waters in Germany and farre to excell the wells of Bourbon of Pougues of Forges in France of Porrecta in Italy of Tunbridge of Knesburgh in ENGLAND or any other as yet found out in Europe The Mineralls and Mettall through which these waters passe and whose Tu●ctu●e they carry with them are Vitriol and Materia proxima omnium Metallorum as hath been made often evident to the Eye Taste and Touch of the Learned For the Vertues of this Water it purgeth and washeth viscide and tartareous Humors extenuateth Pituite it voideth the Liver Melt Misera●●ks and other our Entrails of whatsoever obstructions are troublesome to them it tempereth the heat of the Kidneys purging and expelling their Gravel Sand and Stones more forcible then any other Medicament It hindreth the concretion or coagulation of Sand. resisting the generation of confirmed Stones and if confirmed diminisheth them It purgeth the Bladder and mundifieth the Stone of viscide pitutle and Mucositie wherewith it is often environed preparing it to be easily taken out by Lithotomie It is most profitable for the Vlcers of the Reins and Carnosities in the Urinall passages It certainly helpeth the venerean and virulent Gonorhaea and all other diseases of that sort applyed without For their Vlcers Chancres Poulains Pustuls within by Injection and Potion It helpeth the concoction of the Stomack and by Astrction so doth strengthen the same that no●ec●n complaine of harme By its actuall coldness it quencheth Thrist appeaseth Dolours throwing of the Belly with Collick and ●●●ack Passions It purifieth the Blood killeth and expelleth Wormes Chaseth away Fevers of all sorts cleanseth the Skin of Scabs by Lotion and Bathing It openeth the Belly if bound and restraineth the Fluxes thereof working proportionally according to the necessity of Nature helping the defects thereof These waters carry with them out of the Body diverse wayes all sorts of excrementious Humors Our Hydropeta pisse much the expulsive faculty being helped through the diuretick quality of the Water then grosse Excrements the time of the drinking of the water are Black or Greenish because the salt of Minerals by its precipiating Vertue Facit terrestreitatem descendere ad fundum Some Vomite voyding their Stomack of superfluous Humors Some Sweat sending forth their Obstructions by the Pores and so these Clear Pure waters gracious both to Pallat and Eyes provock many and diverse evacuations which scarce any Artificial Medicament could effectuat They agree with both Sexes all Ages restoring Health lost preserving in Integrity the present Is there any Impurity or Corruption offending Nature By what better and more safe way can it be exstirpat then by so excellent and Pure a thing is this If any Fever invade us with what sharpe Iulep with what more convenient efficacious Syrup of Limons shall you extinguish it then with the Balsamick aciditie of our Medicinall Water Is there any paine to quench let this be your Anodyne this your only and safe Landanum or Nepenthe this your safest Tryacle your wholsome Alexipharmacum and Antidote to abolish Poysonable Pestilent and Maligne Qualities No Bezoar Naturall nor Artificial Animal Mineral or Metallick no Alkermes comparable to this for corroborating the Heart that our Bodies may by its comforting help continue in living strength and vigour These and many more Vertues are proper to this Panacea and universal Medicine whose salt is Detersive Purgative diuretick an universal voider and corrective of all Impurities and Corruptions its Sulphur a general and spiritual Anodyne its Mercurie an universall Consortative which being all conjoyned in our water by the industrious working of Nature can furnish us means not only for defence but also for expulsion and suppression of Diseases as an excellent instrument appointed by GODS Providence for the help of Mankinde It is found by Learned Physitians to be the only Soveraigne specifick remedy to which difeated Persons should runne as to their last refuge upon Earth when all other Artificial helps are ineffectual for the Diseases of Liver Splen Kedneyes and all other rebellious obstructions Yea its vertues are not confined within the compasse of the generality that doth not reach to the particular Diseases of the infirmer Sex which as it is more lovely and delicat then the other so it is more opportune to its own defects and is obnoxious to some proper diseases as farre different from these of men as the Sex is from the Sex This Water helpeth as other common Diseases so Barrenness in both but in the weaker Sex the pale colours the immoderate evacuation or retention in their desired Sicknesse insurrection Precipitation Suffocation and other Diseases of the Mother Of the Time when and Manner how these Waters are to be taken HE who is to drink of this Water either for curing Diseases restoring Health lost or to preserve it being present avoiding future inconveniencies shall come to this Well any time of the Year when the Weather is Good Ayre Dry and Cleare but especially in the Moneths of May Iune Iully August and September resting the first day after Arrivall the next day let him be Purged with some fit and convenient Medicament by the advice of some understanding and approved Physitian the day following Purgation lethim come to the Well neither feare any Hypercatharsis or Superpurgation early in the Morning Fasting yet after the Sun rysing And drink first a Cup full about the quantity of half a Mutchken or half an English pynt within half an houre thereafter take an other Cup-full of the same quantity and so every half an houre for two houres two Cups which will make a Scotish Chopin or an English Quart The second day every half-houre of two houres two Cups which wil make a Scotish Pynt The third day take every half houre of the foresaid time three Cups which will make three Chopins and so continue twenty thirty fourty dayes or so long as the Disease requireth or Affaires can permit VValk a little betwixt the drinking of your Cups taking above the waters a little confected Anyse Coriander Cynamon or some good Tablets proper for the Disease or Tobacco to help the Stomack to daunt and vanquish the actuall coldness of the water ryde or exercise your Bodyes with any moderat Recreation whillest the most part of the water be voided which will be so soon as the Urine doth beginne to be colcured Then dyne upon Meat of good digestion and proper to the Nature of the Person and Disease Afternoone use such recreation as occasion shall offer and sup moderatly If the Ayre be troubled with Foggy Mists or Rainy or if the Person be not able to travel conveniently the water may be taken lying in a Bed with good successe A day after you leave of the drinking of water Take some other good purgative Medicine by the foresaid advyce After you returne home live a long time Temperatly in a convenient Ayre with wholsome Meat and Dring moderat sleep and exercise avoiding repletion or immoderat evacuation of the Belly Intestines or Veynes naturâ vel arte Flec perturbation of the Minde And in so doing by the Grace of GOD you shall continue Healthfull even to your Lives end AMEN