blood which is aforehand diluted with a waterishness that which should be carried off most-what byurine being by obstructions made to flow back upon the blood and thence makes it become slow in its circulation and brings it very nigh the analogy of a standing Pool should by the adding more water be cured is I say no less than a seeming Paradox yet if we consider the Primary and Efficient causes thereof and the manner of the waters working will easily remove that Jealousie and confirm us in the belief of the contrary And First if we consider the immediate and efficient causes viz. First the vitiated ferment of the Stomach that primary wheel of all Chronical maladies the patron of the febricula and thirst accompanying Dropsical persons and next the transmitted Acidum impressed upon the reins from whence sometimes alone and other while with some additional mucous matter happen obstructions of those parts which are the principal Emunctories of the potables of the nutritive juyce and blood thence made to which possibly may be added the consideration of some obstructions in or errors of the ferment of the liver whereby the small vessels become stopped and the separation of the latex prevented whence upon the regurgitation of the superfluous latex ready to be separated back into the blood and thence into the habit of the body happens that Species of a Dropsie called Anasarcosis which by the anastomosis of the vessels or concatenation of the limphiducts le ts part thereof fall into the legs swelling them especially towards night and at other times re-imbibes or swallows it up again into the former cavities of the larger vessels and the leggs become unswelled again Or Secondly The liquid potables or superfluous latex by the aforesaid or equivalent obstructions as considered flowing back and heaped up mostwhat betwixt the Omentum and Peritoneum gives that species peculiarly called Hydrops properly a Dropsie which stretching the aforesaid membrans bears up strongly against the Diaphragme thereby contracting the cavity of the lungs hinder the due motion of the muscles thereof straitens respiration making the Patient short winded as usually they are Or lastly The same congested potable latex as considered accompanied with a flatulency gives being to that third species of a Dropsie we call a Tympany which regurgitated latex hath for the most part no urinous Salt in it whence those who are tapped for dropsies commonly weep forth an almost insipid liquor so also that water which passeth from those who drink plentifully of the Spaw has no urinous Salt neither tincture nor sapour Now in the next place we consider how these waters with some other additional helps work and how they may thence answer the general indications of these several sorts of Dropsies and the symptoms thence emerging will doubtless covince us of the truth of what we are treating especially if thereto be added as a sealing argument matter of fact viz. first that they chiefly rectify and strengthen the ferment of the Stomach and thence take off the two attending symptoms of heat and thirst all Dropsical Persons generally having a febricula and thirst upon them And Secondly That they by reason of the Mineral Salts wherewith they are acuated may and do hew forth their own way open obstructions sweeten or alter the transmissed Acidum and set open those formerly dammed or blocked up water-sluces whereby the watery latex lately through obstructions heaped up the blood and carried into other wrong vessels almost drowning and suffocating the vital ferment thereof is now drawn or filtred off and percolated through its proper vessels which being exhausted the blood is reduced to its due crasis and the tone of the debilitated viscera are by the gentle astingency of the inate Salts fortified and rendred capable of performing their due seclusions and separations and the obstructions of the Liver if any such there happen in the Fabrick of this Disease or wrong cast in its ferment are hereby opened and rectified and all the symptoms go off if the ferments be not too degenerate and the latex too much depraved and bowels tainted whence shortly will happen a total stagnation of the blood and drowning of the Spirits in the flood through the long continuance thereof for those who die of Dropsies are as we could easily shew really drowned viz. the same which happens by drowing in water externally happens inwardly in the vessels in dropsical dying persons by intercepting the circulation of the blood and drowning the Spirits what we further say upon this subject the reader may consult our subject the reader may consult our Hydrolog Chym. 117.118 c. to which for brevity sake we refer and shall content our selves at present to confirm the truth of what is already said by matter of fact from some few Instances which are as followeth The First Cure MR. Th. Wesled of Grimsby in Lincoln-shire was taken with an extreme pain in his belly which held him for many months together so as he could never say he was an hour free which took away his sleep he was also swelled in his belly as that he could not walk twenty yards without a rest and great difficutly of breathing and continual sneesing his appetite to meat was gone so as he was despaired of by his Physicians who suspected a Dropsie he came to the waters though with great difficulty in his Journey because of the weight of his belly and drank near three weeks and found an abatement in all the aforesaid symptoms the second year perfected the cure the third year he also drank the waters which he continued to do to prevent a relapse being then as healthful as in all his life before The Second Cure TH. Kud's daughter in Scarbrough of about twelve years of age had an inveterate Itch and by a Chirurgeon Quack was fluxed for it but in stead of curing her left her worse heightned the Scorbutick taint into a white leprous Scab all over her body and her body swelled much was very stark and hard her legs swelled and her face huffed up was judged by many incurable I ordered her a purge which carried off much watery humors and made way for the waters of which I ordered her to drink every morning in each first pint in a morning or sometimes in a little warm Ale to take one ounce of the Syrup de Spina Cervina also ordered her a glister ex recentis urinae â„¥ xij cum Syr. de Spina Cervina Ê’x and when I saw her four dayes after I could scarce know her in that her face was so much fallen and come to its right proportion also her body was much unswelled as likewise her leggs yea was quite recovered and continued so as I had an account thereof from an ingenious friend who had it from her own Father The Third Cure MRS. Eliz. Turner of Hutton-pagnel in York-shire through obstructions fell into a great swelling and hardness of her belly with difficulty of breathing which gave too
of the Scurvy are various sometimes under one disguise sometimes under another they are frequently of these sorts bâ—â— some of which that disease discovers it self viz. an universal lassitude and weakness in the knees dulness or heaviness of spirits erratick pains shortness of breath tumors ulcers of many sorts spots and blotches upon the legs roughness of the skin and other impurities of the outward parts discolourdeness and soreness of gums pain and looseness in the teeth sour stink of breath c. As to a further disquisition into the nature and causes of the Scurvy how the foundation thereof is laid in the depravation of the ferment of the Stomack and how the first Errour not being corrected in the subsequent digestions but carried into the blood subverting the crasis thereof alters the sweet balsamick soft natural temper thereof into an austere sour saltiness perverting its natural and genuine fermentation and how the blood corrupted by the vitiating ferment of the Scurvy breaths forth impure streams which making their Egress through the pores of the outward parts are by obstructions they find there coagulated upon the outward parts and so make spots blotches foulness scurf roughness as if netled and other impurities of the skin the usual effects of that disease and how the difference in Scurvys are chiefly ascribable to variety of Acids or some acrimonious ferments prevailing in the juices of the body And how by analogy the skin is compared to a transparent glass upon which the streams arising from that spurious fermentation of the blood and humors being too gross to be pervious to the pores thereof might well be supposed to condense along the sides begetting spots stains foul damps answerable to those impure mists and dark steams really arising from the bastardly fermentation of the blood in Scurvies and condensed upon the external parts c. To a further disquisition I say of all which we refer the reader to what wee have said thereon in our Hydrolog Chymic p. 70. c. Now we shall immediately come to the matter we chiefly aime at viz the Enumeration of perticular cure of the Scurvy and its branches of complications performed by the waters Cures of the Scurvy by the Waters The First shall be Major Taylors Case IN the year 50 or 51 he had a long lingering scorbutick and complicated Malady had a dry Cough short-winded had no appetite or digestion could neither Eat Sleep nor capable of any Exercise was brought by impoverishment of Spirit very low and lean even to a great debilitude in which languishing conditition he continued notwithstanding all the help the Physicians could make him who by them was adjuged consumptive and by them and on all hands concluded a dying-man was however resolved for Scarbrough hearing some noise of its vertues for he thus thought that seeing he was a man already under the sentence of death he must dye if he stayed at home it was but dying and it could be no worse at Scarbrough or els-where and as to the place he was not solicitous whereupon contrary to advice undertakes the journey although with very great difficulty because of his great weakness he was told to his great discouragement that he should never return alive if so he resolved to be buried at Scarbrough he drank the waters three days before it began to work there being at that time no Physician by to advise with Then he filled himself very full with the waters taking about five pints thereof upon which it made him very sick gave him onely one vomit and so wrought downward whereupon in about a weeks time he began to find benefit and in about fourteen days after drinking every day the waters he found himself so much altered for the better as all the bad Symptoms gradually went off the waters passed well working throughly upon the humors discharging the peccant matter correcting the Scorbutick acid ferment opening obstructions dulcified the blood strengthened the weakned tone of the Stomack and bowels proured an appetite helped the digestion brought on rest as the genuine result of the former became cheerfull returned home contrary to the expectation of all very well not in a litter but on horse-back gathering strength daily Then he thought himself so well as he needed not come next year nor did he But finding himself afterwards not well came the next year after And so continued till 64 intermitting one in 3 or 4 years during which time he had his health as well as he would wish Major Taylor 's case of the Scurvy cured a second time by the Waters 2. DUring the time of his being abroad at Tangier which was about five years at his return into England he found himself in as bad a state of health as he was at his first coming to the waters aforesaid The Scorbutick Symptoms prevailing strongly upon him his legs as an addition and product of this sort of Scurvy was covered over with white scales and he in the main over-run with the Scurvy from the Sea-air with most of the indications thereof aforesaid betakes himself to his former Asylum for releif and help drank the waters twice that Summer in the year 70 found as considerable an Event yea as much benefit by the waters as before taking off the Symptoms of the Scurvy as complicated with other weakness purified the blood and thereby made the scales fall off So continued drinking the waters every year since except one and injoys his health very well was at Scarbrouogh twice last Summer being the latter time there with my Lord Marquess of Winchester My Lady Carey her case The Third cure of the Scurvy 3 JUly 5th 77 she was highly Scorbutick the first remarkable appearance whereof was a stitch she had in her right brest which like a dart struck through to her back That a strong Scorbutick Acidum prevailed in her Stomack was evident in that when she took new milk it presently became curdled into cheese which she vomited up with great difficulty and danger of suffocation in the very form of a cheese curd as if indeed the Scorbutick Acid was the runnet which made cheese of milk while in the Stomack she took some Tobacco which caused more of the same cheesy congulum come up after which this Scorbutick Acidum was in great part carried upon the nerves whence she fell into an universal trembling or paralytick fit so as every part of her trembled which continued about half an hour during which time she could not speak and as an argument of an accompanied convulsive motion her mouth was drawn a little aside but as to lividness of colour and other dangerous Symptoms she seemed well nigh Expireing Then was the scene of this Scorbutick ferment transfered into the blood where it caused such a spurious fermentation as thereupon a violent heat was contracted which continued as if she had been in a feaver for four dayes which with sweating Medicines was partly transpired and partly carried or
translated to the urinary vessels where the Scurvy Acid thus variously disguised at length chiefly fixt and acted another sort of Scene bringing on the strangury or stoppage of Urine which continued day and night not past two spoonfuls a time and her water constantly mixed with blood and that for 14 weeks together mean while some of the Scorbutick Acidum lodged in the Stomack depraving the ferment thereof whence the lost her appetite and part of it was sent or precipitated from the blood in its circulation upon the lungs whence from the obstructing Acidum they were stuffed and had not through a lessening their Systole and Diastole a due respiration the cause of her short windedness and from both was brought on a decaying of Spirits and strength and an impoverishment of her body together with a great pain in the urinary Vessels Thus the Scurvy had appeared under various masques as if indeed it had been a complication of many other maladies viz. a bastard Plurisie Surfet Palsy Convulsions Fever Strangury Stone with the aggravation of mixt blood dolor Nephriticus Apepsie Asthma Marasmus while really as may be concluded from the range of Symptoms emerging from the frequent metastasis of the Scorbutick Acid they were but various appearances and different guises the scorbutick ferment had put on as it was lodged in or transferred from one part organ or juice to another was all I say but the Scurvy under different masques This worthy Lady under the circumstances of the aforesaid Symptoms somewhat alleviated by which she had been under confinement to her Chamber for eight months by advice at length betakes her self to Scarbrough-Spaw May 28 drank the waters and found immediate help For the Scorbutick Symptoms abated her appetite was recruited and strength regained And although the waters did not pass by Urine the obstructions being so obstinate at the first time of drinking thereof which was onely for 10 days yet upon her Ladyships return again to the waters they then made their way through those formerly obstructed passages took off all bad Symptoms formerly afflicting those parts easting her pain procured a good digestion brought on considering her age a good Athletick habit of body became very active cheerfull and healthfull and as if renewed again in her old age the good effects thereof continued for I waited on her near two months after her returne from the water and found her well as aforesaid A Fourth cure 4 THe Right Honorable James Earl of Suffolk had been for the space of thirteen years troubled with a most grievous Scorbutick pain for so it appeared by the Symptoms at the Stomack which usually seized on him at meals especially if he did eat flesh so as was forced to give over though sometimes at two or three bits of meat and thus it would hold him for several hours causing a great distention and hardness upon the region of the Stomack with torsions on the right side so as it made his very ribs on that side to bend whose best ease was to sit low and thrust his thumb with all his force upon his Stomack His Lordship had sought for cure both in England and France of the most eminent Physicians he could hear of but found none the malady resisting all means that could be used His Lordship came to these waters and drank about three weeks after a few days as Dr. Whittie who was then at the Spaw and attended him observed the fits lessened by degrees that he could better Eat and concoct his meat with little pain who gave his Lordship some grounds of hope that after he was settled at home from the waters and his Journey he might find a perfect recovery which through the mercy of God did accordingly succeed so as he has scarce any footsteps of his former malady but can eat any sort of meat without pain The Fifth is Sir John Anderson's Case given in a letter under his own hand to Dr. Whittie SIr upon your request to give you an account of the effects of Scarbrough-Spaw I present you with this as a true narrative of what I have observed In Anno 1661 finding my self very much inclining to the Scurvy having most of the Symptoms attending that disease I came to Scarbrough and must confess that after a fortnights drinking of the waters I found both the pains of my knees and short windedness wholly gone and those other impediments which are concomitants of that distemper being thus encouraged at the convenient time of the next year I repaired thither again and very unexpectedly I was there taken with a fit of the Gout under which malady I had formerly suffered but after I had drank the waters about a week I was freed from all my pain and I thank God excepting some small remembrances as heat in that joint of my toe I never had since any thing of pain worth taking notice of In 1663. I found my blood extreamly hot and such pricking in my hands and feet and continual bleeding at the nose that I feared an extraordinary distemper which after using of the waters I was clearly freed from In the year 1664 I was prevented by extraordinary occasions and could not come to the Spaw and most part of that Winter and the succeeding Spring I was much afflicted with an extraordinary heat in my bowels and short-windedness and pain in my knees which by the blessing of God and the goodness of the waters joined with your advice and assistance in using them I find my self quitted of And this observation I have made this year of my own using them that after I had drank three days the waters having fully answered my expectation in all particulars I resolved one night to content my self with a very slender Supper and the next morning I observ'd that I made plentifull store of Urine as usually before I drank the waters after which I drank four quarts of water and resolved to fast untill they had fully compleated their operation which as I conceive ended about three in the afternoon I still kept fasting to see if they would work longer which in some small measure they did till five but more by Urine then siege after which I measured the quantity that had come from me in which I was as exact as I was in taking the water it self and when I had compared what had passed through with the quantity that I drank I found the 4 quarts increased to five and very near a pint which could not be increased by any thing I took for untill five I had fasted from all things and then took but a gill of Wormwood wine which was all that could help to make the addition excepting the humors of the body which were plentifully cast out with the waters This from Sir your very affectionate Friend John Anderson The Sixth cure of the Scurvy MR. J. Robinson of Hull had a Fever with an aguish intervall being a fever spun out at length by Paroxysms and thence upon the
exit thereof had contracted a Scorbutick Apepsie and chachectical habit of body as the relict of his late Quartan having much pains and weakness in his joints all over him so as he could scarcely walk and his appetite to food was taken away by advice he came to the waters of Scarbrough drank them and found himself better in a few days After eight or ten days drinking he got an Excellent good Stomack and in about fourteen days time his Scorbutick Symptoms went off and he returned as well in health home as he had been of twenty years before as I had from his own mouth upon which account he yearly drinks the waters with good success ever since which is now seaven or eight years A Seventh cure of the Scurvy ANne Robinson laboured under a Scorbutick ferment vitiating the natural ferment of the Stomack which took away her appetite and procured a great weakness and languor of body her disease was chronical of long continuance held her above two years in order to the cure of which she had taken vomits and other medicaments according to the advice of some Physicians but all in vain she still becomeing worse and worse in so much as she was judged consumptive she contrary to the advice of one Physician she had consulted applies her self to the waters drank them for fourteen days and that without any success at all continued as bad as at first at length when fourteen days were expired she began to expectorate or spit abundance of Phlegm which in the aforesaid time had been loosned whereupon she grew better got a Stomack to her food regained strength so as in a months time after the first drinking she found her self very well And returned home in good health But after a while at home she began again in the same malady whereupon she came again the next Spaw time and was cured a second time also she had some touches of her former Symptoms a third time but after her third drinking she was throughly well recovered and so continued ever since being now several years ago which account I had from her own mouth at the Waters The Eighth cure of the Scurvy J. C. near York laboured under a Scorbutick disorder of his Stomack evident by its great oppression by Phlegm and water so as every morning he had great and troublesome boknings or retchings to vomit whereby a clear water came off and after that by much strugglings came up Phlegm and then he was at some ease during which time it took away his appetite This continued notwithstanding the advice of an ingenious Physician who at length ordered him to come to these waters where he found great relief it thinns his Phlegm and carryes it off by seidge and disposeth so of the clear water which used to distill per lingulam from his Stomack as he is well and continues so for many months after drinking the waters till towards the Spring and then it begins again and continues till he comes to the waters which takes it away again and he returns well home Upon which action he every year frequents the waters and that with good success The Ninth cure of the Scurvy MR. Christopher Adams of Camelsfield Yorkshire aged seventy three years had for six years together been miserably tormented with pain in his leggs feebleness in his knees frequent faintings and a dry Itch over all his skin he had advice with several Physicians who had ordered him Diet-drinks Diaphoreticks Oyntments c. But without any success at all he came at length to Scarbrough and upon drinking those waters he found perfect ease in all the aforesaid Symptoms he had also been sore afflicted with dizziness in his head and loss of memory his undestanding also was sometimes so clouded that he could not discern the quarters of heaven or know the East from the West and sometimes was wont to fall by the use of the Spaw he recovered out of the said Symptoms and never had any fits since considerable For prevention whereof he continued his annual visits at Scarbrough for seven years although he lived at 40 miles distance The Tenth case MAdam Pockley nere Selby in Yorkshire had a bad Stomack accompanyed with an ill digestion a great flatulency or windy-riftings she drank the waters last year near fourteen days with some intervall which procured her a very good Stomack to her meat so as she said she eat near as much meat and that with savouriness and good relish in one day at Scarbrough as in a week at home her meat also digesting well and the windiness the fruit of Indigestion was gone 1 Scorbutick Cholera The Tenth cure of the Scurvy SIr W. Ker upon the borders of Scotland a worthy Knight laboured under a Scorbutick Cholera with a great oppression of wind upon his Stomack in so much as he could scarce get any meat down but was presently heaved up by the force and pressure of the wind and what ever he eat at night he was sure after his first sleep to be desperate sick therewith till it was carryed off both by vomiting and purging whereby was brought on a great debilitude of appetite could scarce digest any meat and was thence reduced to a very weak state of body being brought to a great enfeeblement by the prevalency of the aforesaid Scorbutick Symptoms haveing had much advice before and had taken much Physick but to little purpose was advised by his Physician Dr. Simpson an Eminent Physician in Scotland to apply himself to Scarbrough waters who accordingly did and upon five or six days drinking thereof according to advice found himself much better and the Symptoms abating could take food and had a pretty good digestion the flatus ceasing and in about ten or twelve days time he returned home as well in health as ever he had been before which happened in the year 74 found so much good by drinking the waters as he has come every year since and so intends to do for the future if he lives from whose own mouth I had the aforesaid relation 2 Scorbutick Cholera The Eleventh cure of the Scurvy G. laboured under a Scorbutick Apepsie and indigestion throwing up sometimes a matter of a greasy form so as might be made into balls other while casting up that little food he took raw and indigested many hours after taking thereof being unaltered in its form from what it was when taken being contracted by a surfeit from cold by which Symptoms he became weak in body and unfit for labour he continued thus for above two years most what sick after taking any food and what he took was so little as by computation was scarce able to sustain him he came to the waters drank them four dayes each day twelve pints which wrought very plentifully with him The very first day he began to eat with an appetite what food he took staied with him and in the compass of the foresaid time he got a very good Stomack to
his meat which also digested very well and he thereupon recovered The waters during their working especially the last day made him very sore behind which was a demonstraion a posteriori of the efficacy of the waters 3 Scorbutick Cholera The Twelfth cure of the Scurvy A Scotch Gentleman was afflicted with a Scorbutick indigestion and flatus upon his Stomack so as what ever he took he threw it up presently after This continued for about three quarters of a year he came in order to his help to drink the Scarbrough waters the first week he found no benefit at all But being put upon a more regular Method of taking them he then the first day after began to take some broth which staid with him next day he could take and digest a little meat which staied and agreed well with him and in a few days after had a very good Stomack digested his meat very well and returned home in health 4 Scorbutick Cholera The Thirteenth cure of the Scurvy A Noble Lord contracted a disorde upon his Stomack by eating Fish and that of such sort which would the soonest for want of digestion grow putrid upon the stomack and perhaps by drinking upon it some bad wines from which indigestion his Lordship was much put out of order I advised him to drink the waters which while he was doing sends for me all in hast when I came he told me he was ill at his Stomack had a pain and dizziness in his head I advised his Lordship to follow it yet by taking more water which he did and presently while I staied by him he began to vomit abundance of tough Phlegm and yellow bitter choller which cleared his Stomach and carried the rest downwards so he was presently at ease nature by the help of the waters discharging her self both wayes of what was burdensome whence the disorder of his Stomack pain and dizziness of his head went forthwith away and by drinking the waters some few days he got a good Stomach to his meat also a fresh lively colour The Fourteenth cure MR. Humfrey Birch of London had been long troubled with loss of appetite and debility of concoction the ferment of his Stomach being so vitiated and the tone of the membranes thereof so altered as that he did constantly cast up his meat which were undoubted Symptoms of the Scurvy as it had seated it self in the Stomach This being the second year of his appearance at Scarbrough he acknowledged he had found a perfect cure being able to eat and concoct any sort of meat The Fitfteenth cure MR. Roger Maynat of Dalton-Royal in Yorkshire laboured for above three years together under the same malady which had exceedingly abated his strength and resisted all endeavours of Physicians who was perfectly cured after one weeks drinking of the waters and for prevention has not failed for several years to visit them The Sixteenth cure MR. William Linstead of Hull had got a Scorbutick surfeit which brought on an excessive vomiting and purging even to fourscore times all his body over he broke out into red pimples as if it had been the small pox upon his drinking of the waters immediately all the Symptoms abated and his strength and stomach encreased daily and in four or five days was restored to perfect health The Seventeenth cure viz. a Scorbutick Heart-burn MAtthew Alured Esq of Beverly in Yorkshire was many years sore afflicted with a Scorbutick Heart-burn which tormented him day and night notwithstanding much means used for cure found benefit here on which account he yearly frequented them I reckon the seven last cases of Scorbutick Cholar's together with that of the Scorbutick heart-burn as most properly reducible to the Classis of the Scurvy putting them under that head as for Method sake most adapted thereto although the concurring circumstances doth not only in every respect quadrate therewith however I was biassed thereto not only as I said for Method sake but also as led by this reason that if the Scorbutick ferment had setled or fixt it self in some other parts organs or juyces of the bodyes of those aforesaid patients it would then doubtless have put on other Symptoms and appeared under such dresses as it might easily enough have been discovered even by a vulgar Eye to be no other than the Scurvy Now come we to another branch or species of the Scurvy as its ferment fixeth it self in other parts viz. either the lungs or Intestines or smaller guts where it acts another scene of Symptoms The first of which we call a Scorbutick Asthma because the ferment of the Scurvy seems chiefly to fix it self upon the Lungs on which parts chiefly the tragedy of Scorbutick Symptoms are acted of which take one Case and Cure as followeth The Eighteenth cure MRs. Mary Byron of Koosby in Yorkshire had been three or four years exceedingly troubled with a stopping at her breast in so much as for a month or five weeks together sometimes she could not lye down in her bed but was bolstered up with pillows she was brought also to that excessive weakness that she could scarce go over the house when she was at the best and her flesh was quite consumed being almost nothing but skin and bone she could never eat any thing but cast it up againe with coughing nor could she drink at any time but presently she was scarce able to speak for want of breath the came to these waters and drank about eight or ten days returning home with perfect health and has so continued since when she hath had a child The second we for distinction sake call Scorbutick Collicks which that they are indeed Collicks is evident from the Symptoms immediately emerging therefrom and next that they are Scorbutick is as apparent because they take as deep rooting as the very ferment of the Scurvy are as durable and obstinate to vulgar Methods and cured mostly with such Antiscorbuticks as respect the deep roots of such fixt diseases under which as stems thereof or species of Scorbutick Collicks we comprise also some Diarrhea's or loosnesses the Gripes and Dysenteries or Bloody fluxes all which have not always their source or first spring from the Intestines but many times from a Symbolical Scorbutick Acid as sometimes transmitted thither from the blood co-operating in the Stomach yet for method and distinction sake we reckon them as followeth Scorbutick Cholick The Ninteenth cure of the Scurvy A Man living in the Bishoprick of Durham laboured under a grievous Scorbutick Collick asslicting his body especially below his navel with great pain his stomach was gone had excessive pains all over him was brought exceeding weak as he could scarce walk came to drink the waters which he did with so great success as his Scorbutick pains abated and gradually went away got a good Stomach and digested his meat well And in about eight days time was so well recovered as to the astonishment of his wife and freinds he could run and leap upon
the sands Scorbutick-Stone-Collick The twentieth cure of the Scurvy MR. Hall near Hallifax in Yorkshire was under Dr. Wharton and Dr. Paget two eminent Physicians hands in London for a complication of an Ague and Stone-Collick which wrought up to his Stomach and made him very sick I add Scorbutick because Agues not well cured frequently degenerate into Scorbutick habits of body which also fixing upon the urinary passages is the patron of many tormenting evils had many medicines especially purges prescribed which never passed with him At length after he came into the Country he voided several stones Then came to drink the waters at Knarsbrough but finding those not to pass with him came to Scarbrough and tryed those waters which he fonnd to pass exceeding well above all the purging medicines he had ever taken onely for the first two or three days made him very sore in his posteriors but carried off the Scorbutick Chollick and the relicts of his Ague procuring a very good Stomach which before was very bad and weak he received so much good thereby as he has now by times frequented these waters for ten years he had one fit of his Chollick this last Summer at the Spaw but upon drinking of the waters it presently went off he observed that for some few days it wrought like Epsom or Barnet mostly by seidge but more effectually than either of them and other days it wrought like Tunbridge or Knarsbrough chiefly by Urine This last Instance also relates to the Classis of the Stone cures but that the Symptoms thereof doth chiefly and strongly bear upon the Scorbutick ferment which is the cause why we rank it under this head of the Scurvy Scorbutick Diarrhea or loosness The One and twentieth cure of the Scurvy P. B. of Scarbrough his wife was troubled with an excessive loosness drank the waters which after purging presently stayed her loosness and she was well yea as often as she has any trouble that way applyes her self to the waters whether in Summer or Winter by which she alwayes finds good success it commonly cures her with one days drinking Scorbutick Gripes The Two and twentieth cure of the Scurvy P. B. a Master of a ship at Scarbrough my late patient was afflicted with the Gripes so as he could neither sit stand nor go without great torments drank the waters which at first he vomited but by a peculiar way or method of taking the waters giving him somewhat which made them find the way through opening the passages dinted the acrimony or acidity impacted upon the Guts quieted the pain and took away all bad Symptoms so he recovered Scorbutick Dysentery or Bloody-flux The Three and twntieth cure of the Scurvy THE aforesaid Master of a ships brother in law was afflicted with a Dysentery or Bloody-flux so as he was not in a capacity being a Sea-man of going aboard his Vessel he was weakned thereby and brought very low after trying in vain what other advice he could get drank the waters and in a few days the bad Symptoms were off and he was perfectly cured The twenty fourth Cure SIlvester Sympson of Driffield in Yorkshire had a bloody-flux eight years so as he all that space was forced to rise to stoole every night three or four times It had resisted all other means he had attempted He went to Scarbrough and was cured perfectly in two or three days with the waters alone Scorbutick pissing of blood The twenty fifth Cure MR. Chapman of 80 years of age was much and often troubled with pissing blood wherupon he made his recourse to Scarbrough's-Spaw which took away that threatning Symptome by giving him present Ease which was publickly known among the neighbourhood at Hacknes Now we come to reckon upon some other specificated Scurveys in whose causes and Symptoms the Scurvy is chiefly twisted viz. Scorbutick-Rheumatisme Erisipela's Ulcers Elephantiasis and Leprous Scurvy and shall give a single instance of cure of each by the waters at least by their chief help as follows Scorbutick Rheumatisme The twenty sixth Cure A. W. of Scarbrough was troubled with a Scorbutick Rheumatisme which cheifly afflicted her right arm and shoulder with grievous and almost insufferable pain so as through great extremity she cryed forth I ordered her being somewhat in years a vesicatory plaister to be applied to her shoulder on the same side and a fomentation made Ex fol. Ebuli Salv. agrest Et fl Sambuci Ä Ä boyled in Sea-water then I advised her some pills with the waters whereby they wrought well and the had ease in the worst of her paroxysme by the following night Julep viz Aq. papav Rhead â„¥ iiij vel â„¥ iiij Syr. Limon â„¥ i ss cuÌ„ u C li. acidulat which she took for three or four nights with great success and advantage causing her to rest well So she recovered A Scorbutick Cattarrhe The Seven and twentieth cure MRs. Mary Bateman of York had been much troubled with Rheumes which had swelled up her face and eyes and resisted all remedies found very much benefit by the use of this water more then all other methods that had been prescribed for her upon account whereof she has been an annuall visiter of it these twelve years Scorbutick Erisipela's The Eight and twentieth cure THE daughter of the aforesaid woman of about ten years of age or more had an Erisipelas or Inflamation in her legg called vulgarly the shingles or St. Anthony's fire which began the Winter before It often ran with a lee so as the cloth she wrapt it with would cleave and be baked thereto and was very painfull to her even to make her cry at every taking off she had a poultiss laid on which was hard baked thereto which I ordered them to take off and throw away I advised her to drink the waters with a few pils and ordered her a Topick of Venice Treacle one ounce mixt in a pint of the best White-Wine bathing it several times a day therewith leaving a double linnen cloth dipt therein upon her legg whereby in a few days time her leg grew better the Inflamation abated and the pain was mitigated So that in less than a months time the bad Symptoms went quite off and her leg was perfectly whole Scorbutick Vlcer The Nine and twentieth cure A Gentleman at the University of Cambridge Mr. K. now not far off Scarbrough had a Scrobutick Ulcer in both feet cross the toes while in the Colledge which brought him much pain the sore was white and most-what wept forth a Lee accompanied with a Scorbutick Acidum the chief cause of pain He laboured under the grief hereof for about two years notwithstanding all the help a Cantabrigian Physician could make him he came upon an occasion into the Country and drank the waters of Scarbrough for ten days being mindfull to try if he could thence get any help The operation of the waters was such as brought away a matter as black as pitch whereupon the former inveterate
and obstinate Symptoms that would not bend to Physick nor outward Topicks before now abated his pain went away the Scorbutick Lee was dryed up its Acidum being corrected in the blood by the waters and the Ulcers healed was thereupon cured being encouraged hereby frequents the waters every year since he was cured in the year 1655. only missed coming one year during which interval or intermission he had a dangerous Fever which was about seven or eight years ago since which he has had his health well Which account I had from his own mouth Scorbutick Elephantiasis The Thirtieth cure MR. Rogers's daughter of Scarbrough had a Scorbutick Elephantiasis almost all over her which also from the Scorbutick Acidum seising the tendons and ligaments of her joints had rendred her well nigh decrepid she drank the waters and in about a fortnights time or more the blood was so purified as it cast off those externall feculencies or recrements of the ultimate digestion in the form of white scales and so sweetned the blood and latex and opened obstructions as that it removed those bolts and hedges which were fastned upon the joynts and ligaments and begot a healthfull habit of body So her skin became clear and smooth and she well Leprous Scurvy The One and thirtieth cure A Boy had a leprous Scurvy which brought a white scurf all over him drank the waters and in a few weeks time the spreading Scorbutick ferment being dinted the blood purified the scales from the roots dryed and mortified and pilled off and he was cured To which as at the Heel of these Instances of cures of the Scurvy we shall by way of conclusion only subjoin somewhat in short concerning Scorbutick Hemorrhoids and that not only for the opening those which are inward swelled and obstructed but also for binding closing and healing those which are too open in both correcting the Scorbutick Acidum of the blood In the one loosning the impacted and close rivetted Acidum which binds and swells the veins and in the other sweetning or dinting the Acidum which lacerated and wounded the veins gently binding up and healing the Orifices thereof for the future of which in order as followeth Scorbutick Hemorrhoids The Two and thirtieth cure MR. Ker of Eaton in the year 1677 laboured under greivous pains of the inward Hemerrhoids had a constant pain of those parts but especially when nature was to discharge its burden by siege which was very afflictive to him causing him great grief for near a quarter of a year had advice of a Physician but found no benefit till he came to the waters which he drank regularly for ten or twelve days whereby the Scorbutick Acidum which was let down into and had bound and swelled the Hermorrhoidal vessels was so sweetned and dinted as he returned home perfectly well and continues so ever since A Gentleman acquainted me that the waters open the Hemorrhoid veins which doth him a great kindness in order to his health upon the account whereof he drinks them every year Scorbutick Hermorrhoids The Three and thirtieth cure ANd that the waters are proper not only for the opening the Hemorrhoids where obstructed as aforesaid but also for the closing and healing them when too open was observable from a Doctor of my acquaintance who labouring with a more then ordinary effusion of Hemorrhoidal blood and that for about seven years was at first very timerous of drinking the waters fearing least they should open the aforenamed veins too much But being incouraged by the success he saw others have ventured and to his great satisfaction and even admiration found great help thereby That these waters purifie the blood and cure the Scurvy even in such aâ— have been tainted with it in a high degree is evident from the large experience had thereof by Dr. Wittie in thâ— late wars when the Garrison which wâ—â— kept by Sir Hugh Cholmly in the Castleâ— after a few weeks siege whether froâ— the air of the sea or a bad diet 〈◊〉 want of exercise his men were most 〈◊〉 them fallen into the Scurvy especially the Country-Gentlemen who had fled in thither who were miserably troubled with it as many of them as drank of the Spaw water were perfectly and speedily cured which some of them used without any other means And many instances as Dr. Wittie saith of persons of quality might be brought in who have been highly tainted with all the Symptoms that attend the Scurvy and Cachexy and were upon the very brink of the Dropsie having their legs swelled c. who have found perfect cures on which account they were constant frequenters of it Only before we conclude this Classis of Scarbrough's Maladies it will not be amiss to take notice that as the Scruvy doth chiefly depend upon the depravation of the ferment of the Stomach towards the rectification and restitution of which the waters notably contribute so likewise the other manner of depravations of the Stomach whence dejections of appetite and an ingendring of tough Phlegm which in some persons these waters carry off by vomit of which I shall give this following instance J. Bilbrough Jun. of Scarbrough finds that as often as his Stomach declines as it yearly by times doth when he drinks the waters always the first morning it makes him vomit much tough Phlegm then passeth downward the rest by siedge and in a few daies recruits his Stomach again very well Where we might also shew these waters are so proper to the Stomach and to the restoring its ferment as that they effectually assist in the carrying off such depraved matter as through excess by debauchery lies heavy and oppresseth the Stomack and by a longer stay in the body might become the Seminary of many diseases viz. Surfeits Scurvyes Dropsies c. thereby preventing such fruits as are the natural product and off-spring of such Seminaries concerning which if we might not thereby give incouragement towards the transgressing the bounds of Temperance and Moderation we could give considerable instances save that we Judge such here not to be Exemplary and therefore of design forbear Melancholy or the Hypochondriacal Flatus THe next disease we intend in order to treat of and to innumerate the cures thereof performed by the waters is Melancholy called the Flatus Hypochondriacus or Hypochondriacal Melancholy and the Diseases springing from Melancholy which Disease we suppose is caused from the irregularities of the ferments of the Stomach and Spleen whence some impurities otherwise separable by the vigor and genuine temperature of the ferments are heaped up in the blood chiefly in reference to its elaboration into Animal Spirits which being depraved in their Minera or Shop are instead of being if I may so say translucid congeneal Spirits the genuine product of a right and natural genesis thereof and thence proper for the obsolving the functions of the body soyled with a clodding vapour and darkned with a misty and foggy steam perverts the Phansie sometimes
these would do they advised him to go for Scarbrough-Spaw whither in July 1673. he went and drank the waters according to advice three weeks For the first ten dayes whereof he was very weak had a faintiness upon his Spirits found no advantage or benefit thereby at length Dr. Wittie then attending the waters advised him to ride abroad upon the Hills As he was riding a sudden griping took him round his body for half an hour and then an extreme purging came on him that he had four Stools in an hour with extremity of gripings before each Stool This purging began at two in the afternoon but the gripings began to abate before morning insomuch that it became rather a pleasure to have Stools than otherwise so continued all next day and night after without drinking the waters in which time he grew so steddy compos'd and strong in his head as he could step out of his bed to the stool without any help although he continued purging 4 times every hour The second morning early the Doctor advised him to put on his cloaths since he was so strong and walk to the Spaw where he according to advice drank only two pints of water and although in going he had four stools yet after drinking the waters he had only one or two there but none in returning and what was remarkable in going to the Spaw he walked faster than the Doctor to the admiration of all that were by After the aforesaid purgings he drank the waters for eleven mornings which then wrought so moderately as it had a most considerable and wonderful effect upon him his symptoms all abated and gradually went off got a good Stomach and digestion the flatus with its causes was suppressed which before sat upon the skirts of the Spirits Membrane of the Brain and Stomach whence his Vertigo went away the load or heaviness upon his head was taken off it became steddy his faintness and sickness ceased the soyling steams or vapors which perverted and darkned the Regimen of the Spirits whence with other concurring causes happened the lesa imaginatio were discussed prevented and in fine he thereby became lively brisk and chearful beyond expectation even to the Admiration of all those whether in City or Country who knew him in his former long lingring weakness He has ever since made his Annual visits to these waters at their season and has to his great satisfaction injoyed his health without the least Relapse or Symptom of his former dreadful Malady The Symptoms of whose Disease were signal Testimonies that the ferments were perverted the nutritive and Sanguineous juyces were become depraved and Spurious an incoarcible flatus was powerful and that the steams and vitiated juyces had darkned and clouded the Regimen of the Animal Spirits whence the lesa maginatio and that the flatus by occult passages and rubs of the vessels bore strongly upon the meninges or tender film of the brain whence came the seeming weight and yet unsteddiness of his head as also bore forcibly upon the original of the Nerves in the brain whence his Virtiginous and Epiliptick fits and smiting or suffocating the Spirits in their proper ducts as also being much penned up excepting as aforesaid in the Stomach strengthneth the Tunicles thereof bearing upon the breathing-holes of the vital ferment the parent of Digestion transmitted from the Arteries into the Stomach suspended its function whence sicknesses and faintings And how the waters orderly taken according to advice answered all these indications or as many of them as was needful we for brevity-sake wave farther to inlarge From the aforesaid remarkable cause and cure we might take an occasion to raise a discourse how the passions of the mind became the efficients and authors of many Symptoms and Diseases especially such as attend Hypocondraism in Men and hysterical fits in Women how they influence the ferments digestions chyliferous and sanguineous juyces tone of the viscera organs of the Spirits c. perverting the first disturbing and suspending the second alienating or vitiating the third altering the fourth inverting the order of the fifth and all in order to the production of several Diseases immediately emerging therefrom but that I must re-mind my self of my designed brevity The second cure THe Right Honorable the Lord Roos had been much troubled with Hypochondriack wind which stole away both his appetite and digestion and caused an eminent decay of his Spirits and strength and so filled his head with fumes that he was often taken with dizziness and Melancholy fancies after long methods of Physick prescribed by several learned Physicians wherein though he ever found much good yet his Distemper was frequently returning his Lord-ship came to these waters wherein he found so much benefit in all the respects aforesaid that he now injoyes a constant state of health this when first writ being the third year wherein his Lord-ship visits Scarbrough being then become much more lively and fleshy than formerly and found good encouragement to continue his Annual visits The Third Cure MRS. Robinson of Buckton betwixt fifty and sixty years of age laboured under a grievous and inveterate Head-ach on one side which was very violent proceeding from the Flatus Hypochondraicus having fixed it self chiefly upon that part and was also highly Scorbutick having the Scurvy in a great measure The pain of her head was so strong as put her upon the trial of many Physitians and had the best of their advice but most-what in vain at length drank these waters and in fourteen dayes time she found her pain abate and gradually go off and within a moneth she was perfectly well both as to her head-ach which before would not bend to ordinary means and also was cured of the Scurvy returning in very good health The Fourth Cure MR. Thomas Birbeck of Sheffeild in York shire was so afflicted with that Flatus Hypocond as it affected his head very much with a dizziness or virtiginous motion that he scarce durst preach in the Pulpit was in a languishing condition in this disease being full of fears and fancies applied himself to the waters and the first year found so much good thereby as incouraged him to come the next year after and then he was cured and for many years became a healthful and chearful man The Fifth Cure MR. G. Smith of Berwick upon Tweed practitioner in Physick fell into an extream heat and sharpness of Urine with a continual dysury after which did immediately succeed most grievous symptoms of Hypochondriach Melancholy viz. Dizziness in his head Dimness of sight Difficulty of breathing Oppression at Stomach and Indigestion of meat being voided raw which himself with others sufficiently learned did in vain labour to remove so as he was forced to keep his Chamber almost six moneths together even despairing of a recovery he came to these waters and drank three weeks and returned home in good health and chearfulness of Spirit for two years after he came again
and resolved while God spared life to continue his Annual visits notwithstanding the distance being above an hundred and twenty miles The Sixth Cure MRS. Elizabeth Scremerston in the Bishoprick of Durham was troubled for a long time with the same malady which had changed her complexion and made her exceeding swarthy with three weeks drinking she found a perfect recovery The Seventh Cure MR. Robert Lever Minister of Bolam in Northumberland was exceedingly troubled with Hipocondriach Melancholy for the space of eight years joyned with frequent extention and Convulsion of the Nerves which when the fit was gone off left him so feeble that he was not able to walk till he had gotten some rest he was often dizzy in his his head which so clouded his understanding that he became uncapable sometimes for a quarter of a year together of discharging the duties of his Office He was several times at the other Spaw in York-shire where though he found some benefit yet the symptoms returned In 1663. he came to Scarbrough and drank a whole week yet without any benefit till the Physician then at the waters viz. Doctor Wittie was called to see the fit wherein he seemed to be almost distracted who judged it requisite to prescribe some other helps proper for the case for two or three dayes and furnished him with some Specificks to be used with the waters and set him on again advising him to drink ten dayes more after three dayes he found eminent degrees of recovery all the symptoms abating and went from the waters very healthful and chearful who praised be Almighty God continued so The Eighth Cure MR. M. Darrel of Porstow in Lincoln-Shire is by times much afflicted with the Hypocond Flatus finds much benefit by drinking these waters wherefore he frequents them every year sometimes he is for rear six moneths excessive Melancholy cares for no company but loves retirement And by an orderly taking of these waters finds present relief when no other Medicine he has taken at home has succeeded The Ninth Cure MRS. Elizabeth Newcome of Manchester in Lancashire was eight or nine years together so afflicted with this Malady joyned with extreme oppression of the stomach and back with flitting heats as if she had been in a violent Feaver perpetual costiveness and dizziness of the head before the violence of the hot fit she found a sharp stinging in the wrist of her right arm as if a Pen-knife was thrust into it and when the fit was upon her she would fall into exceeding great frights from any the least noise as the crowing of a Cock or the barking of a Dog and when it was gone off she would be as sore as if she were beaten It had resisted all medicines till coming to these waters she found good success The Tenth Cure A Scotch Gentlewoman being in years was much afflicted with Hypochondraism and the Scurvy having a great disorder at her Stomach drank the waters in great excess was brought low and very weak but after a while she recruited to her former strength and the bad symptoms went off Here I could reckon upon several persons more who have by the orderly use of these wates found much benefit in this very Malady But at present let those in transitu serve The Stone THe next Disease in order we here propose to treat on as curable by the waters is that formidable afflicting and excruciating malady the Stone where we do not mean to ascribe that efficacy to these mineral waters as to melt or dissolve any large confirmed stone of what size soever fixed in the Kidneys or Bladder For that we wholly deny and judge such persons who labour under the anxiety of such large Stones as cannot without danger be brought away by the common passages of the ureters neck of the Bladder c. not capable I say of receiving much benefit hereby But are rather to be referred to the skill and cure of the Lithotomist to Mars rather than Neptune to the sharpness of the knife than to the accurateness of the waters But that these waters have a remarkable efficacy upon such as labour under gravel smaller stones such as are passable and in taking away or alleviating their grievous symptoms the usual attendants and products thereof amongst which that of Strangury is to be reckoned as a frequent symptom and almost necessary product of the Stone although that sometimes may proceed from other causes what remarkable efficacy I say these waters orderly taken have upon such let the few following instances speak which in the main may be sufficient to blazon its vertues to the world in this very particular Malady that so none through prejudice or ignorance may deny themselves that benefit which God in nature holds forth to them in this Mineral Spring As to the causes of petrefaction whether in the Macro or Microcosme but particularly that of the Lithiasis viz. the causes of ingendring the Stone in the Reins or Bladder of humane bodies we insist largely and de industria in our Lithologia Physica not yet extant And as for the symptoms they are so well known by every one who is afflicted with this Disease as we need not by numbring them tell what they are wherefore we shall immediately descend to the intended particulars as followeth The First Case MR. John Beaumont of Franck-foss in York-shire his wife had been for very many years subject to a grievous fit of the Stone for which she had taken much advice though with little success she went afterwards to Knarsbrough and drank those waters but found no benefit then her husband brought her to Scarbrough which water brought away the matter of the Stone in Gravel and Sand to a great proportion even in one weeks time and for five years after being then so long to the first writing hereof she had no necessity of returning to the Spaw being free of all symptoms To which I may add what I lately by letter received from a Relation of the aforesaid Gentle-womans and my worthy friend that she received so much benefit by these waters and for this fourteen years hath been so well that she never needed to make a second visit The Second Case AN old man of eighty six years of age has frequented the Span for twelve or thirteen years finding much good thereby every year for the Stone had extreme and most violent pains and grievous torments even so aâ— to make him cry forth aloud so as he might be heard at a great distance yea his torment in those parts were so strong that to use his own words he would have forgiven any one who would have knocked him on the head he drank plentifully of the waters sometimes fifteen pints in a morning found great relief thereby the benefit he reaps incourageth him to come every year and was here this very last year 78 from whose own mouth I had the aforesaid Relation The Third Case THE old Lady Rhodes of Balbrough was grievously
afflicted with the symptoms of the Stone who found great help and relief by the drinking these waters yea and by what I could learn was cured thereby The Fourth Case SR J. H. of York now a Member of Parliament drank the waters for several years finding thereby he voided much gravel and was more chearful afterwards Then for five years by times was frequently afflicted with the symptoms of the Stone having difficulty of Urine or dysuria â—â—â—ming away drop by drop with pain before the Stone came away but still every year Gravel came away and wâ—â— more at ease Then August 1677. he went and drank the waters before which for Moneth or more had a great dysuria or difficulty of urine making none bâ—â— with great pain The first day he waâ— worse the second day also worser yeaâ— the third day was worse and worse the waters mean-while passing but not well And upon the night after the third day a stone to the bigness of a Date-stone came away which was a solid confirmed stone then all the badâ— Symptoms ceased and he had perfect ease The next year after which was the last year he came to the waters and upon the third-day morning after the first drinking voided another less stone about the bigness of a vetch which was angular but not of so firm a texture by much as the former which he shewed me and since which has had passage of his water very well having not the least of those troublesome symptoms which usually attend the Stone he observed that upon every years drinking the waters his Stomach was much recruited and digestion bettered The Fifth Case A Lady of Scotland no less virtuous in Morals than noble in birth had two violent fits of the Stone in her own Country with extream sharp pain even to swoonings so as they almost despaired of her life after the severe Paroxisme was over she came by her Physicians advice to Scarbrough drank the waters regularly whereby in a few dayes she voided a stone which her Ladyship shewed me it was angular yet came away with little pain The Sixth Case A Merchant of York Mr. A. T. laboured of a fit of the Stone after some other Medicaments I advised him he drank the waters whereby he passed away a little stone and so the Symptoms ceased and he was at ease For which very purpose he drank 〈◊〉 waters most-what every year and the with good success The Seventh Case Which is Mr. G. Waugh of New Castle 's Case sent by way of Letter to Dr. Wittie SR I judge my self obliged 〈◊〉 give my testimony of the Spaâ— and its good effects in my Case and first I bless God that he has affordeâ— me so great help by it and also I let you know that it proved effectual almost beyond my first belief of the waters even to my admiration In the year 69. at my first visiting of the Well the water did not only bring away 〈◊〉 confirmed Stone as large as any Date stone with its bed in which it lay but as I found did also soften and dissolve what was more in my body so that at one urine as I remember 〈◊〉 voided above a dozen stones most oâ— them as large as a white Pease which did lye in the bason as stones but 〈◊〉 draining the water off and thinking to take them up they would not bear their own weight but betwixt my fingers became sand and these I voided the very day I left the Spaw At my return in 1670. I had not drank eight pints of the water the first morning before a large quantity of the tartarous tough matter that breeds the Stone came away which I know was caused by the vertue of the water I am your c. George Waugh The Eighth Case MR. Emmerson of New-Castle having violent pain from the Stone whereby he was exceedingly enfeebled drank the waters in the year 1677. pretty plentifully and at one time as he observed about a spoonful and a half of gravel passed from him drank the waters also the last year with great advantage had a pain in his back from the stone or gravel in the Kidneys before he drank them but upon drinking it went away and he was as well as ever he was according to his own words in his life The Ninth Case MR. Christopher Keld of Newby near Scarbrough had been many years subject to violent fits of the Stone and falling into one of his usual fits he called to mind that he had heard this water commended in the case so as he sent immediately for some bottles thereof and drank betwixt two or three quarts which within less than half an hour caused him to void several stones besides much gravel which gave him perfect ease so as for seven years after he had not another fit But then it seizing on him again he applied himself to the same remedy with like success The Tenth Case MR. Stow of Newton upon Trent in Nottingham-shire his Son being cut for the Stone in order to the healing of the wound in the neck of the bladder first drank knarsbrough-spaw-Knarsbrough-Spaw-waters but afterwards hearing of the same of Scarbrough-waters did about eight or nine years before the first writing hereof make a journey thither by which they found so much and more real benefit in that disease of the of the Stone than they had before that they never after returned to Knarsbrough but have been constant drinkers of Scarbrough-waters either going thither or else sending for the waters to Newton though it be near thirty miles further distant than the other The Eleventh Case THe Apothecary of Scarbrough's Mother has found much good by the waters for the Stone who has sometimes voided a spoonful of red sand or gravel and has drank them these many years To all which we might add the Case of a Merchant in London of Mr. W. Kitching who keeps the chief Inne at Grimsby in Lincoln-shire by the Sea side of Mr. Skehough a School-master in Scotland c. who all received so much good hereby for the Stone as incouraged them for some years to frequent the waters That these waters sometimes discovers and brings on a fit of the Stone to some persons who possibly never had one before I think an evident demonstration of the excellency of it vertue For many are inclinable to the Stone and perhaps as yet know not but might if the taking these waters did not prevent go on towards the Fabrick of some large cofirmed stone which then by its bulk might be incapable of any cure save that of the knife But these waters by their powerful efficacy suspends further growth to the Stone dislodgeth those already bred and either splits them into lesser stone or moulders them into gravel and so passes them off in a stream or flood of urine which otherwise might if leâ—â— alone grow two big for the passages or if they be no bigger than may glide through the vessels and orifices to carn
them away in their intire form and hence I say it is that sometimes a sharp fit upon the drinking thereof happens which to judge otherwise doubtless were to do manifest injustice to them because hereby Knarsbrough-Spaw might as equally be impeached as Scarbrough in that some have upon drinking those waters been seised with a violent fit of the Stone For instance the Earl of Twadal about four year ago as his Lordship acquainted me even while he was drinking the waters of Knarbrough was seized with a violent fit of the Stone And Mr. Justice an Attorney being in health out of compliasance drank five glasses of the Sulphur water of Knarsbrough last Summer which not passing gave him a Surfeit so as he afterwards vomited and purged all that he took thence fell into a great languor of Spirits and thence into violent convulsive fits which endangered his life Must therefore the former viz. the sweet Spaw-waters be accused of a petrifying property or must thence of necessity the other viz. the Sulphur-water be accounted dangerous to drink on which consequences how adapted to our present purpose we leave to the judicious reader to determine These waters are also peculiar against the heat inflamation and ulcer of the reins correcting the heat and sharpness of urine expelling the mucous matter which sometimes obstructs the passages of the urine which often times causeth the same symptoms and is taken to be the Stone in the bladder when yet there is none there washing through and cleansing all the urinous passages The Reliques of a Clap. THe waters are likewise excellent good against the reliques of a Clap and cleanses away the dregs of a bad Mercurial method helps the pissing of blood and strengthneth the seminal vessels the malignity of the Disease being first removed by due Medicines The Gonorrhea THe waters regularly drank safely stayes the Gonorrhea The first Instance A Gentleman that had got a Clap having had the usual symptoms upon him many Moneths which had exceedingly impaired his strength who committing himself for cure unto two able Physitians who in a few weeks took off all the pains and other symptoms only a fluid Gonorrhea remained which resisted Medicines even the most proper they could prescribe and that for several weeks after the virulency of the Disease was gone was advised to drink of these waters where within ten days he was perfectly cured and since has begotten Children The second Instance ANother had got a grievous Gonorrhea which through the sharpness of the humor made such a corrosion upon the neck of the Bladder that he pissed blood with exceeding great pain to the great abatement of his natural strength It had resisted what advice he had met with in the Country till coming to these waters he was perfectly cured in a very few dayes Agues THe next disease according to our proposed method we are to treat of as curable by the waters are Agues which are nothing else but broken or interrupted Feavers whose different spaces of intervals and accesses made from the more or less frequent imbibitions of the offending febril Acidum doth mostwhat if not solely distinguish them into Quotidian Tertian double Tertian and Quartane which I say in their root are Feavers being the same with them in their essential causes only as I said broken and thence have the interchanges of cold and heat and admit of frequent periods And that what a Feaver strictly so called springs out with a long and mostwhat unbroken thread these snap the thread and begin and weave again and that sooner or later as the offending febrile Acidum whether imbred or ab extra communicated from the air is partly transpired or precipitated or in some adjacent vessels deposited or by any of them for a time subjugated What one has to say concerning Feavers whether continued or broken from a somewhat novel hypothesis we refer in the main to our Pyretologia therefore shall at present apply our selves to the incumbent task which is First to shew that all broken Feavers viz. Agues are curable Next that they admit of various and yet certain methods of cure And lastly more directly to the purpose are particularly with some additionals curable by these waters Only here on the by we would crave leave to say that among the great improvements now on the wheel in order to the better and more certain cure of Diseases it would doutless be none of the least for Physicians to busie themselves in their Studies and Observations how to promote this most laudable and useful essay viz. how to break a Feaver which I look upon as one of the Master-pieces of a Physician how unhappily it has been slipt hitherto I know not to make a Feaver split into Proxisms and then to cure them which latter is most easily done The former of which how frequently nature put occasionally upon some exigency or other doth with or without the help of a Physitian for the good of the Patient many Physitians in their observations can tell which if they had but narrowly watched and traced her in those obscure paths might by searching have found out the knack and so have helped her with such another job in her pinch If the former I say by the industry of Physitians were but more diligently prosecuted and some progress made threin towards the rendring it practical It would then certainly be one of the easiest things in the world for Physicicians to cure the generality of Feavers which otherwise cut off many hundreds not to say more of Patients As to the first viz. that all Agues are curable the truth of which we are ready by matter of fact to make evident where we doubt not but by infallible demonstration to prove the cure of all manner of Agues and that both certainly and safely supposing mean-while there be strength of nature enough to admit of As to the second viz. that Agues admit of various and yet certain methods of cure is evident from the various practice of Physicians some of whom cure Agues by one method others by another And as to the last viz. that Agues which is more directly to the purpose are particularly curable by Scarbrough-waters leads me in to give an account of some few instances of cures performed thereby which are as followeth The first J. B. Jun. of Scarbrough had a Tertian Ague seventeen weeks which afflicted him very much drank the waters by advice which in three dayes time brought him very low yet continuing on drinking he began to find his Stomach to recruit got a good appetite and good digestion of what he took so his Ague went sensibly off yea in not many dayes it was quite gone and he perfectly well The second MRS. G. C. A Merchants daughter of Hull laboured under◠Tertian Ague for about fifteen or 〈◊〉 teen weeks which had vitiated the 〈◊〉 ment of her Stomach debilitated 〈◊〉 appetite and so weakned her as she could walk but little being much troubled with
faintness and a general indisposition and lassitude upon her lost her colour came to the waters last Summer took my advice had only one easie fit and no more all the time she staid which was about fourteen dayes recovered the ferment of her stomach got a good appetite and what she took digested well gathered strength so as she could walk well her fainting was gone she was chearful got a good colour and returned home in very good health and continued so for I saw her Father about six weeks after who acquainted me his daughter continued very well The third MR. G. Blackaller Rector of Etton in York-shire had been troubled with a double Quartan for the space of nine moneths together with some symptoms of the Scurvy which appeared in â—ed spots in all the musculous parts of the body He went to Scarbrough and at the very beginning his fits lessened and staying three weeks he found a perfect cure and had not the least symptomps of either for five years after I have often known saith Doctor Wittie inveterate Quartans cured by it and other sorts of Agues also which have long resisted Medicines have been conquered by the use hereof in a short time And for taking away the reliques of all inveterate Agues those oftentimes tedious chronical diseases and of the small-Pox and other diseases preventing relapses these waters are of admirable efficacy The Jaundies THis disease as to its causes chiefly depends upon obstructions of the bilious vessels leading into the Intestines whereby that noble juyce as an auxiliary ferment assists in the performances of the offices in the second Digestion by agitating fermenting and further preparing the chiliferous juyce transmitted from the stomach helping the due separation and percolation of the milky juyce into the lacteals disseminated along the Intestines in order to a future Sanguification gives colour to the recrements irritating the Peristaltick motion of the spiral guts in order to cleansing work viz. the seclusion of excrements This I say being obstructed in its passage flows by other vessels into the mass of blood whose crasis it vitiates by giving it a high Saffron Tincture which nature partly in capilary veins throws into the habit of the body witness the Saffron dye of all external parts and partly dischargeth it as dissolved in the serum or latex of the blood by the emulgents into the urinary vessels whence the height of its Saffron tincture both which together with the unseparable symptoms of an universal lassitude indisposition shortness of breath and faintness are the general as well as certain indexes of the Jaundies Wherefore it is found by observation the nursery of knowledge that those Medicines which do open obstructions are most prevalent in the cure hereof amongst which those who abound most with a fixed or volatile alcalie or partake of apperial Mineral Salts are most effectual especially if a good round-working-purge precede or that they be taken along with some proper purgative Now that these waters as fraught Mineral apperient Salts are with some additional helps adequate remedies for this and other Diseases arising from obstructions yea even sometimes the waters alone orderly taken let their efficacy in these few following instances declare to the world The First Cure SR John Legards Lady of Gauton within a few miles of Scarbrough had a Jaundice that long resisted remedies in a rational method and was perfectly cured by the Spaw in a few dayes being thereto recommended by another Lady who had experienced a cure in the same Disease This was consented to by her Physician Doctor Arnold The Second Cure MR. W. Hodgson Mimister of Scarbrough was for the space of six years ever and anon falling into the Jaundies especially Spring and Fall Nay one time it continued upon him almost all the year notwithstanding his endeavours after a cure after he was setled at Scarbrough he found a perfect cure by the Spaw The Third Cure MAdam Elizabeth Strickland of Boynton in York-Shire after the small-Pox fell into a Feaver after that relapsed into a Tertian Ague which terminated in the Jaundies after which probably as an inveterate symptom followed a most grievous griping pain at the Stomach and Back which seized on her by fits sometimes a month or two betwixt one another accompanied with a vomiting up of whatsoever she took and after every fit her whole body would be as yellow as Gold She had also a fulness and tension at Stomach and upon the region of the Liver that she could not indure it to be touched nor could lie upon the right side It had resisted all rational means that could be used till the season of the year coming on Dr. Wittie whose account this is advised her Lady-ship to drink the waters and fitted her with Medicines both preparative and concomitant which she did for fourteen dayes with very much benefit being then almost half gone with Child notwithstanding after some months the fits returned as before so as the next Summer she drank the waters again though at Boynton twelve miles from Scarbrough she was again somewhat better But the Winter following had most violent returns of her fits The next year the Doctor advised her to drink them at the Fountain and to stay longer which she did for three weeks and then after a months intermission to send for fresh water every day and drink ten dayes at home her Ladiship being then young with Child yet without any harm upon that account since which she had God be thanked no more fits it being when this was writ almost two years after but was as healthful as in all her life before The Fourth Cure MR. Palar of Nun-Nountain in York-Shire was during his abode in the Southern parts much afflicted with the Jaundies having the symptoms which usually attend that Disease consulted Doctor Dickenson who then lived at Oxford but is now an eminent Physician in London whose advice was to get him down into his own country and to drink the waters of Scarbrough which he judged the best and most certain cure for him whither accordingly he applied himself and in not many dayes was perfectly cured I shall only add somewhat remarkable concerning a Country man who had the Jaundies highly complicated with the Scurvy with a great stiffness in his joynts so as he could not stoop but with great pain and trouble one day I ordered him a few doses of volatile Spirits to be taken in his waters upon which he found so great an alteration as that he could that very day to the admiration of those who were by stoop to the ground with much ease and if I mistake not played at pennystone upon the Sands The Dropsie THe next Disease in order is the Dropsie which although at the first prospect it may seem contradictory to reason that the drinking of waters should be effectual for the curing that Disease which chiefly consists in a flood of watery latex already heaped up in the mass of
much cause to suspect a Dropsie It had resisted Medicines till coming to the waters which she drank fourteen days her belly fell and and she shortly after conceived with Child Worms THE causes of Worms are chiefly ascribable first to the debilitude of the ferments and next to the depravation and putrefaction of the nutritive juyces chiefly residing in the Stomach and Guts which two causes joyntly considered are doubtless the seminaries of worms and wormatick matter For we see that Worms happen generally in Children where the ferments are not strong and whose nutritive juyces are hence apt to grow putrid and prone to a spurious animation if I may so say the generation of worms being a bastardly product or off-set springing from depraved vital seeds animating a degenerate putrid matter These without peradventure are many times the causes of several Diseases attended with bad symptoms even in adult persons whose original frequently lies in obscurity and hence are apt to be mistaken for other diseases That these waters expell worms and wormatick degenerate matter both as it strengthens the ferments helps digestion and likewise resists putrefaction will partly be evident from the few following instances The First Cure RIchard Legard Esq had been many years troubled with small worms which we call Ascarides for which he had taken good advice and used several remedies yet never found any so successfull as these waters which brought from him to his best judgment above five hundred in a day and in a few days quit him both of the Worms and the matter that bred them The second cure MR. G. Watson of Throshenby near Scarbrough was grievously afflicted with Melancholick fumes which exceedingly clouded his understanding and possessed him with fears and fancies taking away his sleep for many weeks together so as he was become a meer Skelleton and so feeble that he was not able to walk but was carried about in arms during which time he had nevertheless an incredible appetite accompanied with a gnawing pain at his Stomach the cause of which distemper was not easily discerned till after some time he began to void a sort of flat worms about an inch long empty as if they had been nothing but a skin applying himself to the waters he voided sometimes thirty or forty in a day and in a little time found perfect cure all symptoms abating and his appetite returning to its regular course Womens Diseases WOmens Diseases peculiarly so called are such as properly belong to the womb and to its Regimen and irregularities which chiefly either proceed from the obstructions of the Matrix whereby the redundant superfluous blood to be separated according to the due course of nature in the forms of the Menses flows back floats in the containing vessels in this or the other part whom with its plenty it stretcheth whence as an aliquid amplius a turgescence and plethory and the symptoms thence following or proceed from a debilitude of the womb whereby the blood becomes drained away in too great quantities whence Lypothymia's Faintings Swoonings c. As to the former in order to the better understanding of what the obstructions of the womb are and what the effects thence ensuing towards a right apprehension I say whereof we shew in our Hydrolog Chym. what the Menstrua are the manner of their Generation their use in nature their lunar and critical seasons of Evacuation and how from their obstruction arise a Plethora besides what happens at every natural and critical Evacuation and how the effects of which if setling in the head are usually if internal Megrim Dizziness or pain in the head or if external are pustles in the face redness and soreness of eyes swelling of the face c. if in other places thence tumors erratick pains and how from the restagnation of the blood through the aforesaid obstructions in the Bronchys of the Lungs happen indispositions dulness and sluggishness of the body shortness of breath oppression of the Precordia or upper mouth of the Stomach c. concerning all which I say we treat in our Hydrolog Chym. p. 125. 126. c. to which we refer We shall only here add that the waters by their connate Salts are by matter of fact found not only proper for opening obstructions and consequently adapted for the helping such Diseases and Symptoms as thence depend viz. the Green-sickness in Maids the fits of the Mother and symptoms thence arising But also by observation are found as effectual by its gentle astingency to repress the overflowings both white and red whose floods otherwise bring on Lypothymia's Faintings Swoonings c. For though it be an apperient water yet with other proper advisable helps it is found by experience notably to stay the immoderate Fluxes of Women As to the First the waters with other additional helps are powerful in opening as I said obstructions the Minera or source of womens Maladies makes the blood well to circulate and duly to pay its Lunar or Monethly tribute causing right separations to be made whereby their shortness of breath leave them their listlesness and indisposedness goes off and all other bad symptomes aforesaid disappear their appetite and digestion comes on grow vigorous well complexioned get a good colour for what they do making them look of a ruddy and fresh complexion where nature her self thus assisted begins to paint whose colours being only contempered by an invisible pencil are not only most lively but also durable and consequently if other features conspire the best and most taking And withal to such as are apt to miscarry they notably strengthen the retentive faculty of the womb helping such to go on to their time And that it takes away some causes of barrenness being frequently found to further conception both in those who having been long married never conceived and in such as after many years of intermission near past all hopes of more children In both which cases let the following Instances serve for the rest Prolifickness of the Waters or Instances of the waters efficacy towards helping of conception The first Case MR. Th. St. Quintin of Flambrough in York-shire and his Wife were seven years and an half married during which time she had never conceived upon the report of the efficacy and vertue of the waters he brought her to Scarbrough where she drank fourteen dayes within a month after she conceived and brought forth a Son Then having an interruption for four years he brought her to the waters again After a fortnight or three weeks that she had left the waters she conceived again and brought forth a Daughter both which at the first writing hereof were living and healthful Children The Second Case MRs. Elizabeth Turner of Hutton-Pagnel in York-shire whose cure of the Dropsie by the waters is formerly mentioned shortly after which she conceived with Child and brought forth a Son having had no child before of seven years The Third Case MRS. Elizabeth Smith of Scremerston in the
Bishoprick of Durham whose cure of Hypochondriack Melancholy is before recited upon which it hapned also that while she was with her husband at Scarbrough she conceived with Child when as yet to her own expectation she was past hopes of any more children having never conceived for above five years before The Fourth Case A Scotch Gentlewo-man being in years whose cure of Hypocondraick Melancholy and the Scurvy is before-mentioned upon which drinking the waters notwithstanding the great weakness she was reduced to she conceived and brought forth two Children which was wonderfull so weak a woman as she was should conceive or bring them forth being judged so weak as not capable of bringing forth one The Fifth Case SR H. Thompson his Lady had no Child by two former Husbands when Sr. H. married her she came to the waters whereupon conceived Among the Classis of Diseases belonging to the Womb may not impertinently be reckoned such swellings of the belly as happen sometimes from cold upon or after Child-bearing concerning which we have one considerable instance of the efficacy of these waters as followeth Doctor G. Tunstal of New-Castle his wives belly never fell after a Child she had born nor could he by all the means he used take it down The Physician then at the Spaw viz. Dr. Wittie was consulted who advised her Husband to give her some preparatives and something else with the water to further the intention after a few dayes her Boddice did lace close that could not meet within three or four inches before she continued to drink a moneth and returned perfectly well and so continued free from all swelling it being at the first writing hereof neer three years after To which may be added that these waters are very effectual in the cure of all such symptomatical Diseases if I may so call them which take their first original from obstructions of the menstrual evacuation viz. epileptick paralytick apoplectick hysterick convulsive asthmatick Affections That is those Diseases in women which from the aforesaid causes most resemble the Falling-Sickness Palsies Apoplexies fits of the Mother Convulsions and difficulty of breathing or diseases descending from the aforesaid Spring-head which by their penetrating Salts open obstructions the Minera of such Maladies and remove the first causes thereof whereby together with the addition of other specifick helps all the aforesaid Symptomatick or secondary Diseases will necessarily and consequently cease concerning all which we discourse more largely in our Hydrologia Chym. p. 84. 94. 95. to which we reser An Imposthume THat these waters are powerful in breaking and carrying away inward Imposthumations I shall give one considerable Instance In the year 74. or 75. a man who had an Imposthumation in his small guts drank the waters and in a few dayes after the first drinking thereof while he had a stool he observed something to give a crack the Imposthume broke and came all away the matter was lodged in a skin or film which he shewed a Merchant my worthy friend and late patient here upon the Sands who gave me the relation thereof as an eye-witness Having thus run through the History of Chronick Diseases and shewed the great efficacy of the waters sometimes accommodated with other appropriate helps in order to their respective cures we would conclude with some remarks of their vertue in the cure of Acute Diseases viz. contined Feavers as to which we esteem them duly administred among the best sort of purges and greatly conducible towards the abating of the spurious febrile fermentation or praeternatural boyling of the blood and one of the best quenchers of thirst we know of in the World sometimes strangely allaying the Luxuriant symptoms of a Feaver even although in some cases extended to a Dilirium or Frenzie of which we shall give this following remakable Instance as I had it from the Gentleman 's own mouth viz. An Alderman of York went to drink these waters for a debilitude of the Anus whose Muscles from some Scorbutick Acidum fixed there was so relaxed and the tone of the parts so altered and enfeebled as was a very great affliction to him he for a time suspended drinking the waters and what through the pain of the grieved parts and what through an inquietude and restlesness which yet was consequential to the former and perhaps partly through an imbibition of the Scorbutick Acidum into the blood begot such an alteration of the Crasis thereof as he fell into a Feaver whose symptoms prevailed so strongly and grew so high that it brought a Dilirium or Frenzy upon him he was forbidden to drink the waters but notwithstanding which injunction and imposition he ventured privately which none knew stole a hearty drink took two lusty pulls at a whole pitcher of the waters left by a water-woman which wrought excellently well with him allayed his thirst took away his Dilirium or Frenzy yea so took off the bad symptoms of his Feaver as that he speedily recovered came down out of his Chamber and was the very next day if I do not mis-remember as well as any of the rest of the company A Discourse of an Artificial Sulphur-Bath and Bath of Sea-water with the uses thereof in the Cure of several Diseases HAving a Discourse of the Sulphur Bath at Knarsbrough already Extant at the heel of our Zymol Phys or Phylosophical Discourse of Fermentation which we judged as a necessary Appendix to our two former Treatises of the Spaw's viz. Hydrolog Chymic and Hydrolog Essays we have therein which may be somewhat preluminary or introductory to this traced this following Method in the seven or eight ensuing particular Heads viz. First By laying down the constitutive ingredients and Mineral principles of that water Secondly By shewing the Process as near as we can apprehend nature useth in the preparing that excellent water Thirdly By shewing the difference betwixt it and natural hot Baths in their original and imbred principles so also in some sort as to their virtues Fourthly By pointing out how and by what means the Sulphur as the chief Mineral ingredient of that water is so opened as to become not only so subtill as thence to be solvable therein odore tenus but also so volatile as to pass off in a continual steam and insensible Effluvium Fifthly By shewing how this Sulphur water comes not much short as to its original principles nor is much if at all inferiour in efficacy to some other Sulphur waters which are hot Baths in as much as that it 's lately found successful for outward applications as well as those by late observation are remarked for inward use Sixthly By shewing that the artificial heating of the Sulphur water bears some Analogy to the in-bred heat of other Baths as they come hot out of the earth Seventhly By pointing out how Art may imitate Nature yet from the same principles in the resemblance of most Baths viz. how to prepare such Baths Artificially as are Natural Lastly By inquiring