the Time though some are of opinion Waters may be drunk in winter as being stronger then Yet the Air being then cold the Pores are more condensed whence the passages are not so relax and commonly one is driest in the Summer months so more inclin'd to drink freely a good Expedient to carry them off readily in which respects I conceive the fittest Time to repair hither is from the end of May to August inclusively Some so the constitution of the Season disswades not commend August most though generally then the first Rains begin and that according to the Proverb discovers the Poverty of Nobility The Trees thence forward casting their Livery whence People cloathing themselves warmer imply Waters afterwards are ill Visitors of the inward parts But this Circumstance may be ore-rul'd according to the seasonableness of the year no maxim being truer than that Change of Seasons principally begets Diseases Certainly the hottest Season and clearest Air are fittest Times to drink Waters in the Air a vehicle by which Diseases are conveyed to us being much indisposed by the contrary consequently Waters and we by them in case Wind Rain or Air prove unwholsom Yet I have known Those whom the strongest Medicines could not move the Waters though in Winter have wrought on effectually but such Patients are not sufficient to make the Rule general Secondly let such as would drink these Waters advise with their Physician whether the Cause for which they would apply themselves hither be probable to be relieved here Siloe was not for all since Luxury complicate Diseases have flown in upon us Nothing is so soveraign which in some respect may not be attended with an inconvenience though I havebeen so strict in my observation of this Water that I cannot charge the least Ill upon it Who were fit to drink it Who have took it orderly that have not been spent with Age or whose Heat or Vital parts have not been asleep Thirdly having rightly discovered the Disease for one may emulate aâ—other and yet is not to be cured by the same means let them carefully pursue Rules drink orderly and keep within the compass of a sober Dyet Rules consist first in Purging either by Vomit or Stools of which more in the larger Treatise on this Subject it being impossible to apt Medicines to every ones Necessities though in general the Nauseous may help their Stomachs by Hiera Picra in Pills from half a Drachm to a Drachm or take it in its Species with Syrup of Wormwood and strengthen their Stomach afterward with Zedoary Galinga China-Ginger sweet Calamus Roots candied and the like The costive may do well to take Diacassia cum Manna an ounce Cremor Tartar a scruple made into a Bolus the night before or some of the lenitive Electuaries with a little Hiera Picra which by morning may relax the belly 2. Let the Patient drink the Water early on an empty Stomach and walk jump ride swing the Arms shoot at Butts or exercise gently after also a little before the better to relax the Passages and excite natural Heat weak Persons may drink them in their bed some what warm but never too much at once least driving obstructive Matter into the Uriters the Waters find not a current flux or the Stomach being overcharg'd the Patient be forced to vomit not that a Vomit the first or second day may be inconvenient though the Custom of it may effeminate the Stomach and divert the Course more natural and intended Hence I disallow drinking in the afternoon unless a Cup or two four or five hours after Dinner that the Chylus diluted may be the better distributed but then I am against such as would sleep upon it for that as some well observe the Water lying longer in the Stomach than at other times and gathering Heat it sends up Vapours apt to oppress the Brain 3. After the Water begins to come off kindly the Patient may drink thin Veal or Mutton Broth altered with Asparagus Fenel Parsley roots and the like with Tops of young Wheat Succory Chervil and seasonable Herbs the better to warm the Stomach and open the passages 4. Dine not till the Water be come off A little White or Rhenish Wine in a glass or two of the Water furthers that sometimes a Pipe of Tobacco also Elecampane or Angelica Roots candied Orange Pills Tablets of Aromaticum Rosaâ—um and the like mentioned under the first head strengthening the Stomach help concoction then which nothing can bring off the waters sooner 5. As one ascends by degrees to his Dose which is impossible to assign positively to any for that the Water works not alike with All so let him descend gradually and if he will not admit of other Physick let him at least take a Glister in conclusion that what the waters have thrown into the Bowels it may cleanse and relieve Else after evacuations sometimes Torments may ensue very prejudicial indeed Glisters and those of the Spaw Water may in case of Costiveness or obstinate obstructions be of excellent use through the whole course 6. Feed on meats easie of Disgestion such as may rather satisfie than whet the Appetite The Belly 's cheaply fed especially avoid the crude Fruits of the Season viz. Cherries Cucumbers Millons Pease Peaches or what may raise the least satiety the fertile Parent of divers complicate inexplicable Diseases 7. Spend the vacant time in gentle exercise as before is specified also in Mirth and good Company that together with the Body the mind may be relieved 8. Get convenient sleep in the nights rarely in the day unless the Patient be very weak and that sleep may be taken with Advice and in case you sweat kindly in the night check not favourable Dews although such I am against in the Act of Drinking for that it spends much of that matter which is more natural to come away by Urine so infeebling the Spirits it much indisposeth the Patient 9. Less then fourteen or twenty days a respect being ever had to the habit of the Patient and his strength cannot well serve to run the Course in In the strict observance whereof some times Headach Maziness and the like by reason of vapours affect the Patient In others the pains of the Hemorrhoids prove offensive And the Waters get off difficultly with others All which may thus probably be remedied First the Patient having been seasonably purg'd may take a Tablet of Sugar of Roses preserv'd Quinces or the like mentioned in the first Head under the Rules to be observ'd which gratifying the Brain repells the grosness of the vapours Secondly the Hemorrhoids may be prevented by a Glister in a little quantity the better to retain it of common Oyl or Oyl of Violets and Butter injected a convenient space before the Patient drinks the Water or make an Oyntment of Oyl of Violets Mucillage of Psylly seeds and a little Wax wherewith as also with Oyl of Eggs well beaten with the yolk of an Egg the Part may be well anoynted Thirdly as to the difficult coming off of the Water sharp Glysters may be excellent yet in respect there is some doubt of those as not sufficiently reaching the Parts most burthened Caesar Claudinus his Bolus Sylvius his Electuarium Hydragogum a neat compounded Medicine or the deobstructive Powder mentioned in the first Treatise pag. 27. may do well in a draught of white Wine early in the morning Nay the same Powder taken sometimes from a Drachm to a Drachm and a half with the water may be a ready means to bring it off or to prepare the Body at first as hath been long experienced Though if the Body still proves obstinate it s better to desist then force Nature to what she will not readily yield to And yet I have found nor are others without the same Notion that where these or the like waters come not off readily they often spend themselves even some months after in beneficial sweats or large salivations nay not seldom in great quantities of Urine that it hath amazed some where the treasures of these Waters should be so long deposited without further prejudice which as observations very important I could not but insert that where the Waters are slow hopes may not be cold Some complain of sharpness of Urine after drinking the Waters though Others are certainly cur'd even of this complaint by their orderly government herein to remedy which Emulsions of the greater cold Seeds white Poppy Seed and Almonds sweeten'd with Sugar of Pearl Syrup or Sugar of Althea may contribute much though I have long experienc'd that a draught of Florid Wine well defecated hath not had less happy effects on this complaint than it hath found in the Dysury or Strangurie proceeding from cold Indistempers fomented by refrigerating accidents Of which and the other Heads I might say more the Field being spatious but so these Rules with the rational deductions that may favourably be gathered thence may be well observed I see not why brevity to the Reader as well as to my self may not be an advantage Farewell CAstalios Latices decantavere Poetae At Lathamensis tutior haustus Aquae Mens vatum Lymphata furit corpusque tabescit Ast hinc mens sano Corpore sana viget Printed in the Year 1672.
with some is usual at other Spaws all inconveniencies of its chilness would be easily prevented especially if the former rules of taking some gentle Correctives with the water were faithfully observed or a little white wine drunk with it Ut si vestigium aliquod frigiditatis ventriculo ab illis communicatum fuerit ab his deleatur Claud. p. 390. For though this water as Abheers observes of his Spaw p. 102. Actu est humida potentia potentèr exsiccat calefacit sicque ventriculi Cerebri vitia emendat And that it affects the stomach by its coldness with no ill effects is evident from the appetite it raises in all that take it signally remarkable even to the repairing of some appetites prostrate before constringendo enim ventriculi orificium excitat suctionem as Hollerius in his praxis p. 456. observes from our supream Master when he calls cold water 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Vorax The Right Honourable the Countess of Derby when she first began to drink of this Spaw three or four years since was forc't to take Cardamum seeds with it now a few Fennel seeds sometimes without any thing the Spaw passes off with much ease and benefit Exercise whilest the Spaw is in drinking is most necessary light walking is good but in that the body is apter thence to sweat than distribute the water the matter of which is much spent by sweat especially if the motion be violent whereby the strength being drawn into a narrow room the Spirits become more sharp and predatory I commend riding shooting bowling or what may make the water more easily descend and inlarge its distribution and if some easie exercise to warm the bowels be had before one drink the water I conceive it may make way for the water to proceed with less prejudice What diet in this case is most necessary is very obvious viz. meats of easie digestion all fruits of the season must be avoided early rising going to dinner when the waters are come off and soon supping is most requisite yea Lipsius his advice to Lessius from the Spaw in his Epistles is excellent vix quandocunque venietis coenulam vobis paratam apud me scitote ex legibus spadanis tenuem frugalem cum fame dimissuram so is a cheerful spirit moderate exercise and all temperance and the body by Art if the water effects it not is constantly to be kept open In what Cures this Spaw hath been most happy I shall in brief run over some Time which matures all and my leisure at present somewhat disturbed being to enlarge further as there is occasion In facilitating the passage of the stone and gravel and abstersing its sordes and minera I find it very successful One Cropper in the Mannour of Latham hath for these twenty years found as to the stone and gravel much benefit by this Spaw in great violence and extremity Major Henry Nowell Deputy Governour of the Isle of Man drinking of this Spaw found as I am informed infinite relief by it voiding thereupon much Gravel and many stones John Lingley a poor man miserably afflicted with a continued pain about his reins and his bladder especially when he would make water drank freely after he had been gently purged of this Spaw by which he immediately found such ease that the membrum virile swelling priapismi instar constantly before when he endeavour'd to make water grew orderly and he voyded the next morning a stone with two discoverable branches A Gentleman of a fair Estate and an Ancient Family nigh to and in Leverpool one of the most encreasing and flourishing Sea-Towns now in England having but ineffectually long experienced the ablest advice in London for an Ulcer in his right Kidney at length repaired to this Spaw of which for some daies indeed too few to make a through Cure he drank freely and with that effect as ever since he is restored to such a competency of health and strength as he travels in his new Chariot with ease and walks without the least disturbance who for some years before could not stir without stooping and much pain Strange success it hath had on most sturdy obstructions and Annual pains Richard Dinton at present Coachman to the Earl of Derby was long held with an excessive pain about his stomach flushing heats in his head and a streightness at times about his heart Several months successively for two daies together in a month and no more he had an intermitting Tertian with a regular Type and a sharp stitch in his right side for which he tryed much means but in vain At length he drank freely of this Spaw taking some daies a little Rhubarb and salt with it the Medicine is of the Lord Bacons approbation Hist. of Life and Death p. 218. and is now in good health A Gentlewoman of good note washing her knees and hams morning and evening with this Water she drank of it too eased her self thereby of infinite pains and aches in those parts Here I must insert a Case of great importance Elizabeth Holden Wife to one of the Keepers of Latham Park a woman of good years and grave having for a long time suffered under intolerable pains about her stomach back and belly principally towards the Matrix and in her groins And fearing by the bigness of her belly that she might fall into a Dropsie drank orderly of this Spaw being tired out with variety of Churlish Medicines before After a day or two the Spaw wrought so effectually with her as first it mitigated her pains then lessened her belly and at length Oh numen Aquarum It brought away such Bladders as many of them equall'd a pigeons egge which being broke with some noyse yeilded a spoonful of limpid liquor somewhat jellying Before the voiding of which pains not unlike Throws pressed her in her belly groins and lower parts I had by the favour of the Earl of Derby one of those Bladders the last I think she ever voided sent to me whose outward Tunicle was not unlike a Swines bladder but without Fibres or veins within it was smooth and had adhering to its sides a slimy blewish jelly substance Upon discourse with her of which afterwards she assured me that she had not voided less since she took notice of them then two hundred each with pain and trouble though the last with least What to think of these I am somewhat uncertain That there are Monsters in Physick as in Nature is no late Exclamation Ludovicus Nonnius a learned Physician of Antwerp in an Epistle to the most ingenious Beverovicius of Dordrecht inserted in his Treatise De Calculo writes that as in the Yard Caruncles may be generated which inclose Urine so the like substance may be bred in the body of the bladder And Zacutus Lusitanus that admirable observer of especial Cases p. 184. gives an excellent evidence that multa monstrosa in vesica innasci membranae nerveae Globi crystalli formes incredibilis quantitas
Fabrick of wood ordered more to secure it from rain than the Raies and power of the Sun which have still a sufficient influence upon it whence this Spaw being intire it preserves without the affronts of accidents its own pureness and efficacy issuing forth its stream through a well pav'd Channel into the Road where the neighbourhood and common people who are alike free coming at seasonable hours drink of it there and convert much of the water running into the Road to their necessary uses of washing brewing and the like with no little advantage it being observed that the people thereabouts are of healthier Constitutions and not so subject to the Epidemical distemper of this year which hath so miserably infected most places though I will not say as Abheers of the German Spaw that vix annosiores homines sub nostro Coelo quà m Spadanos inveneris it is sufficient they have not like Distempers at present as elsewhere The Water in its descent beating on the pavement dies it with a rusty iron colour one Argument of what it is impregnant with Not far from the Spaw there are many able Tenants sufficient to receive the best Persons with all Accommodations and respective conveniencies The Spaw is set about with Trees which yield a pleasant shade and there are two competent Seats about it for the Patients repose and Attendants Adjoyning to it there is a large field of late repurchased by the Earl of Derby for the freer access of all comers thither by nature cast into such order as men and women may have a full conveniency for their walks and evacuations without trespassing on eithers modesty and that with diversity of Entertainment too there being shrubs plants and young trees of sundry sorts and uses A fathom scarce sounds the bottom where there is laid a large Mill-stone through the hole of which the Spring forces its passage casting up within a foot of the surface a cleer silver sand mixt with such variety of little thin Cockle-shells and some Periwinkles curiously filed by the penetrable quality of the vitriol as the finest glass is not more perspicuous more smooth that were a Microscope set to inlarge their minute bodies what figures what improvement what objects might thence captivate the eye more and no less I am perswaded than Mr. Hooke in his Book hath improved to admiration evincing as Dr. Power in his Preface to his Experimental Philosophy hath it the dull world how curiously the minutest things are wrought and with what signatures of Divine Providence they are inrich't which as it is excellently observed in the Beauty of Providence doth not daily fall under our sense and observation And yet none of these or any of the sand ever mixes with the stream though it issues through a large hole in the side of the Cistern with a current flux bubling in several places at once and is of that strength that if one try the deepness of it with a stick it immediately buoys it up Some from the Cockle-shells and Periwinkles found in this water conjecture that this Spaw may be fed by subterraneous veins from the Sea whose shore is commonly stored with such shells nor is the opinion wholy to be exploded though the earth in its matrice may also have such a plastick vertue as from its prolifick ferment actuated by the Sun it may produce such shells which as the case stands is hard to determine Mr. Childrey in his Britannia Baconica a good piece page 75. mentions Cockle shells and Periwinkles found at Alderley neer Severn in Glocestershire but so as he rather allows them attempts of Nature failing in her workmanship for want of fit matter than such in reality which those we speak of are in figure and other similitudes exceeding like though very minute and without the least substance found in them though in a Close hard by there are like shells which have full fishes in them Ours as Mr. Childrey's are not found neer the surface of the Earth but in the body of the sand cast up by the force of the Spring This Spaw by its Effects and the separation of its parts seems impregnate with Vitriol and some Allum out of Iron and not in the least saturated with any ill quality That Allum is an Ingredient not the main Principle nothing discommends the Spaw As by Forestus and others we shall hereafter more fully evidence and cleer And here before I proceed I must from all whom I have discoursed with insert that if this Spaw proves slow in getting off with some it is but with a few and that through their want of advice first whose distempers have such a nicety of complications as may in prudence require advice which I think ought regularly to be taken by such Ne fortè aqua noxios humores incurrens eos secum rapiat inventamque obstructionem augeat as Abheers observes or if it comes off slow it is through the irregularities of others in taking the water too late in the day and dining too early and plentifully after indulging besides a more than ordinary freedom Yet none ever complained that it prejudiced them in the least I have heard that Dr. Spratling a Person worthily respected in Lancashire for his Endowments though somewhat morose and cloudy commended this Spaw to Mrs Fleetwood of Penwerden and others as singularly good And this Testimony I have from a Reverend Prelate one of the most ingenuous and intimate Sons of the inmost Recesses of Nature that He hath a very good Opinion of this Spaw though he drank but one morning of it In which opinion is Dr. Pope one of the Councel of the Royal Society And Dr. Howorth of Manchester my honoured friend a Person whose desert intitles him to no mean Credit writes to me That he lately viewed and drank of the Latham Spaw and perceived it to be as deeply impregnate with the tincture of the Iron and Vitriol Minerals as any water in Lancashire or the Yorkshire Spaw adding further That the greatest Test now must be from Those that by experience make further discovery of its usefulness and benefit it affords which he believes may answer the hopes and expectation he hath of it And old Spaw drinkers of which I met some at this Spaw told me cheerfully that a less quantity effected their business than at Tunbridg Epsom Barnet and other Spaws of which in an ingenious Persons Case here following you will have a notable proof which cannot but be an excellent Quality considering thereby that the Hypochonders are less stretched Obstructions are more powerfully opened the filth of the stomach impacted in its folds and wrinckles is sooner fetcht off especially if an easie vomit of Sa◠vitrioli albi which as well astringendi vi strengthens as evacuates the stomach in robust and obstinate bodies precedes and the membranous Parts by the speedier comming off of the water are easier reliev'd especially if this Spaw be a little acuated as I have advised some with
Salt of Vitriol or Steel or Cakes of Cream of Tartar the German way prepared freely bestowed by the Countess of Derby who obliges by her great indulgence her Neighbours thereby There is an Ingenuous Person one of a quick and through apprehension who coming more out of a complacency than complaint to this Spaw drank of it with others some daies successively but seldom more than three pints at a time yet made within an hour and an half two Chamber-pots full of Urine which clearly demonstrates its celerity and vertue And that he might not be without a blessing though the healthfulness of his Constitution knew not what he might desire he yet found much gravel to which his Parents are addicted evacuated by it and himself freed of an Ebullition of blood which Critically about Midsummer had expressed its virulency in small pimples for some late years with much offence This Spaw I have throughly tried as to the turning its colour with the powder of galls oak leaves the boyling it with milk the bearing of soap which as the Lord Bacon observes Nat. Hist. p. 87. hungry water will not admit of such kills the unctious nature of the soap As likewise I have tried other experiments frequent in the like Case and I find few Spaws if any sooner answer all their Tests than this Less than a grain of the shavings of Gall will immediately tincture a considerable glass full of the water first purple then inky Nay I have experienced that after some of this Spaw had been kept seven weeks in a bottle it yielded to the Gall a full colour though indeed it putrifies soon being out of its body which argues highly the fineness of its Spirits they being thin and aerial and is an evincing token of its vertue in the Judgment of the Lord Verulam Paulus Aegineta Oribasius and others And that I might be yet fuller informed desiring to lay no Fucus on a wither'd face I caused three pints of this water after it had been carried seven miles to be distilled in a Lamp Still excellently performed by my Lords Apothecary in the House The first four or five spoonfuls of which so distil'd I turn'd as I had done the rest from the Well with a little Gall though what was afterwards distil'd never altered in the least notwithstanding how much Gall soever I put in but remain'd insipid and clear I put also into a glass of Spaw water at the Spring a few drops of the volatile Spirit of Harts-horn which made a white separation with a strong scent not of the faetor of the Harts-horn but the Spaw as if it had drawn all its Spirits into a narrower compass which a few drops of the oyl of Tartar reduced to its clearness and scent The scent of this Spaw is not loathsom somewhat it is like ink more in my apprehension like the Sea-shore when the Tide 's gone out brackish and subtile Further I exactly weighed a glass of fresh Spring-water with as much to a drop as we could measure it of Spaw water which in three ounces so much the glass contain'd of Spring-water the Spaw water came short of the Spring-water a full half ounce which demonstrates the levity of its parts and the subtilty of its Spirits which in the opinion of the Lord Verulam Nat. Hist. pag. 86. makes much for the better Though I must confess too with Heurnius that Learned and intire Physician on Hippocrates his Aphorisms 26. l. 5. Non lance semper aestimanda est aqua sed si non gravis sit Hypochondrio verùm si ea subito pervadat nec ibi cunctando putrescat is the best quality which I have already manifested are extant in our Spaw This Spaw hath a blewish Cream or skin which swims upon the water after it hath stood a very little while Instar iridis vel caudae pavonis in aquae superficie to use Hadrianus a Mynsichts expression in his Anima Vitrioli a medicine of admirable use as this Spaw for this reason may be in many of the like Cases especially when obstructions are the original of such distempers I know coal waters and others which are not without some ill quality as standing Lakes and the like have the same coloured scum but not from the like Principle the one being from putrification This the innate vertue of the Minerals Abheers who in concerns of this nature leaves nothing unsearcht believes this various colour'd fat or skin in the superficies of the Spaw to be liquid Amber though others think it Sulphur But whether from the one or the other certainly much vertue is specified by it both being ingredients active and effectual This Spaw works several waies most by Urine often by Urine and stools sometimes by Vomits but least free that way unless the stomach be before foul and nauseous The Spaw at first drinking is exceeding cold to avoid the inconveniences of which falling suddenly on the stomach a sensible part and the bowels I advise as is usual in the like case Fennel seeds Coriander seeds Lemmon or Orange pills Angelica roots or roots of Enula Campana candied to be taken with it which brings off the water gratefully And if some few drops of that Noble and generous Medicine Elixar proprietatis be taken in a draught of the water now and then I am perswaded it may further its excellency as the Earl of Derby fully experienced when he took the water in reference to an indisposition on his stomach which this Spaw hath happily removed begetting besides an excellent appetite Some Claud. p. 382. not without Authority admit of a spoonful of Salt in their first Cup ut facultatem intestinorum irritent ac alvum subducant which in robust bodies replete with gross humours I shall not forbid according to Avicen and Mesue cited by Dr. Jerden p. 130. though it is too severe and harsh for finer contextures having such tenuity of parts as may fret the guts and bowels In the weaker and finest bodies Manna may be sufficient Rhubarb with Cream of Tartar or Tartarum vitriolatum or my Deobstructive powder which I have observed hath done singularly well Some have been for drinking this Spaw warm as they were they say the first Examples of that course at other Spaws the stomach being apt to suffer by the contraction the water may make on the nerves through its active quality the nerves enduring no cold in pursuance of the Lord Verulams advice for warm drinks Hist. Life and death p 214 which may be in some constitutions more proper at meals than in a course of Physick and I believe his Lordship means so for so drunk in a course of Physick it makes it more nauseous diminishes its spirits renders it less penetrable and gives it another quality though in weak bodies the water with good effect may be taken warm yet if such who desire to take it so would either drink it in their bed or go to bed soon after they have drunk their dose as
pituitae alia mira quae intus corercita deinde excernuntur cum urina Nor is Sennertus that Learned and excellent man less observing in his Chapter de vermibus aliis praeter naturam in vesica natis And none of our books treating of preternatural accidents but are plentifully stored with strange productions from the womb Concessions much strengthening our present Case though they clear not the reason of it Nor do I believe the reason is easily found out Multa tegit sacro involucro Natura Though till I am better convinc't I must suppose these Bladders voided by our Patient to be bred in her bladder if there or in her womb as Aposthumes of which there are great varieties arising from choice of matter as Sennertus well observes disseminated through the whole body some of them inclosed in a proper tunicle receiving form and matter from the place they are generated in I have been lately assured by a Person worthy to be credited that having had some years since discourse with an Eminent Physician in these parts whose infirmities generally tyed him to his Chamber he was then told by him that he once had a Patient a Gentlewoman of good quality who on her Urine had a fat scum with various colours in it under which swam many Bladders the bigness of a large pins head very clear which being broke afforded a slimy water which he conceived were the effects of some Apostumated matter in the Reins and not improbable so various is Nature in the discharge of her burden But that which sways most next to what may be imputed to the irregularities of the womb is the opinion of a Learned Physician whose deserts challenge more than is paid to his years and merits He conceives these Bladders come from the Mesentery and are the involucra and Cystes of Scrophulous Tumors generated there there being as Vigo maintains the focus and seminary of the Scrophula expelled thence as Schenckins observes of other evacuations per ductus occultos and hence Forestus in his Treatise of Chirurgical observations lib. 3 p. 259. in 8º from Arnoldus observes that Aquae minerales aluminosae non solùm infernos hos strumosos ac pituitosos abscessus sed externos quoque summa corporis occupantes imminuunt ac discutiunt from whence this Patient received so much benefit But to our intent The Collick seldom here misses of a Cure Holmes who had lately the ground in Lease gives an excellent Testimony of this as others whilest I was on the place Since Mr. William Blackbourn of Billings a young Gentleman having some sharp heats breaking forth in his body went the last Autumn to Holywell in hopes the coldness of that Well certainly a clear and fresh one would have relieved him But washing there returned notwithstanding with the same heats increast and some days after had the Collick so extreamly as it tormented him much Whereupon coming to this Spaw he drank plentifully of it and was that day cured of his Collick and mended immediately of his itch This Spaw hath wrought good effects on long obstructions of which something hath been took notice of in Dintons Case The Countess of Derby being sensible of a more than ordinary indisposition on her right Hypochonder applyed her self two years since to the drinking of this Spaw The Spaws in Germany those of Ardenne as that of Wilong in the Territories of the Lantgrave of Hesse famous for the Dutchess of Longaveile Sister to the Duke of Conde proving afterwards with Child having been no strangers to her Palat and observations which incouraged that Excellent and discerning Person to hope well of her own Spaw at Latham in tast and trial not unlike Upon drinking of which she found so notable an improvement of her health languid and impair'd before that her appetite return'd the rawness and crudity of her stomach before mentioned wore off her flushings and heats grew less and her Liver till then stretcht immoveably to her ribs grew loose and plyable and all upon drinking this water this admirable vehicle imbib'd with such active qualities as wasting the pertinacious humours adhering to the Parenchyma and vessels before rebellious to ordinary solutives and medicines restored her Ladiship to the excellent health she now enjoys The Lady Colchesters Gentlewoman complaining through a long indisposition of much pain inher head and stomach with a strange averseness to meat a vomiting afterwards drank orderly after some small preparations of this Spaw and in few days grew well and so continues In old Aches and inward and outward Sores this Spaw is of good effect Thomas Holmes of Slade about 50 years old having been troubled several years last past with a pain about his Midriff which though not altogether yet in great measure hindred his daily Labour contracted by a strain lifting a great weight neer 20 years since the last May began to drink of this Spaw not constantly and regularly but as he thought fit and business permitted him in quantity about two quarts at a time and is now not only freed of his pains but can daily do more work than he could possibly reach to for some years before His Servant also about Christmass was twelve-month got a strain in his back lifting more than he could well master which disinabled him much In June last he drank of this Spaw for the most part twice a day for some weeks whereby he is now lusty and follows his labour close without the least sense of his former Complaints Henry Maudesley within the Mannour of Latham being in very great pain at his heart in his thighs legs feet and head you must accept of his own expressions for which he had tryed what help Boulton and the Country afforded Eminent men in some places but in vain came or rather with much ado crawled to Latham Spaw with a strong confidence where in the morning he drank thereof freely and getting a bottle carried it full home of the same water and drank of it when he went to bed Next morning he found himself amaz'd at the Deliverance in a very good Condition and both his thighs broken out with pimples out of which issued much water whereupon he immediately grew perfectly well and so continues Alexander Parr one of the Keepers of Latham Park on a bruise vomited much blood and thereupon grew weak and short-winded but drinking of this Spaw recovered strength grew hearty and spat no more blood Thomas Aiscough one of an athletick constitution upwards of 50. every winter for some years last past being troubled with a severe Cough together with a shortness of breath complaining withall of such exquisite pains in his shoulders and over his brests as the anguish of them would sometimes cloud his Reason Quibus etsi non tollitur lumen illud ut sic dicam mentis tamen interdum offuscatur velut nubeculâ serenitatem ejus subducunt to make use of dear Lipsius his words to Prunius then his pains
would descend to his stomach where they would be more tolerable and afterwards settle with much virulency in his thighs having in their walk pain'd his hips so as to turn them black and in the end determine in his great toes with blisters pouring forth for some weeks freely thick and putrid matter as Herc. Sax. p. 288. observes in the like Case Humours descended ad pedes in quibus fiunt tubercula sic solent solvere abscessus for the Cure of which he had much advice but finding it ineffectual resorted to this Spaw which after due preparations by bleeding vomits purges and an orderly diet which of himself he was not much inclin'd to wrought so powerfully on him every way as he found exceeding Relief thereby and is now returned to the Isle of Man where he usually lives with much Comfort and satisfaction Though such a habit of Distempers will necessarily need Spring and Fall some evacuation more than natural Monsieur Pelate Gentleman of the Horse to the Countess of Derby one well verst in Chymistry and a sober person who in his own Country had often visited the Waters of Bourbon and the most reputed Spaws acknowledges This in its kind to be nothing inferiour to any of them It having effected a most signal Cure on him who being much indisposed and stiff in his Limbs inclinable as he suspected to a Palsie a Scorbutick one I conjecture drank orderly of this Spaw and within a short time recovered his Limbs with a constant good habit of body before much indisposed and obstructed through a sedentary life in his more retired years The last Summer he went to Holywel and with others bathed himself there Upon which ensued a great indisposition on his Limbs and his whole body The Spring being too cold and piercing though it must be own'd for its Rise and Purity one of the excellentest of that nature as it discompos'd him much so much as he hath exprest his resentment ingeniously fecit indignatio versus since he hath recovered his health by drinking again This Spaw John Thorp of Chester 16 years old having been for several years if not since his birth exceeding scrophulous in his face arms body and legs so violent there as to have eight bones at once took thence underwent all usual means for his recovery but finding little good thence the year 1669. the humour broke forth very violently in his arm thighs and back in his back so violently as it ran extreamly distempering his whole body sufficient indeed and more than sufficient to make him an object of great Charity which the Earl of Derby considering ordered about the midst of July last that he should be brought with much Care to This Spaw from Chester of which he drank freely it agreeing after two or three daies excellently with him working by stools and urine very kindly so kindly as after six weeks stay there observing an orderly Course both as to Physick and diet his Ulcers mended to admiration without any other application whatsoever than the Spaw water His pains before intolerable vanisht his strength neer exoluted increast and his mind dejected through the loathsomeness of his distemper grew serene so that at this day he stands a Miracle of Restoration being able to walk cheerfully that lately could not move without anguish and complaints though I suspect unless the next Spaw season perfect his recovery his distemper through its violence hath so impoverisht Nature that he will at length fall under his Complaints through the decay of some Parts without the recovery of which Nature cannot well subsist though at present exceedingly relieved John Stephen of Newgate in Holland near Latham 20 years old having near the vertebrae of the loins within somewhat more than an inch of the back bone upon the first of the spurious ribs a great Tumour which for six months was gathering to suppuration but could not be brought to it notwithstanding the most usual effectual pultises cataplasms and plaisters till by the advice of a Country woman a Colts Secundine which was stretcht according to their Custom on a board and by pieces applyed to the Tumour so ripen'd and easily brake it as at the first running it yielded some quarts of laudable Quittor The next dressing almost as much and every day after for four weeks the Aposteme wetted three or four napkins each dressing not unlike to what Herculius Saxonius observes p. 288. of one he opened qui excernebatur pus album eo die ad libras octo sequentibus diebus ultra decem libras which comes the nearest I read of to our Patient who being thereby brought very low and finding no benefit by what he had been advis'd to for his recovery He with much difficulty repair'd to Latham Spaw where after he had took a dose of the Apozeme prescribed for the former Scrophulous Patient he drank orderly of that Spaw As Her Sax. in the former Chapt. advises in curatione ulceris post abstersionem utilitèr enim says he administrantur omnes Aquae Thermales intemperie calidâ conveniunt frigidae in minus calida aluminosae nam exsiccant mutant intemperiem partes as Forestus in his Chyrurgical Observations p. 329. also advises by which the Patient in few daies gathered strength with such a stomach as his sores he had two ran kindly grew sweet and by the Fistula injection which the Countess of Derby excellent in those things ordered out of her Charity and knowledge is now in such a Condition as he can without pain ride nay go many miles who before could scarce hold up his back one step and might easily have the wound healed if there were not more danger Lupum auribus tenere Some Recidiva's remaining which for fear the vertebrae of the back should be foul or the Cartilage and the Tendons of the joynts be thereby impair'd the Aposteme being long in gathering I cannot yet but indulge Doctor Reads Caution not to heal the Orifice too soon Before he came to the Spaw oftentimes the Orifice in his side would be shut up upon which he would breath extream short and spit up exceeding bitter matter in great quantity ready to suffocate him the matter being translated to his Lungs which after drinking a day or two of the Spaw turned it's Course to the Wound never reversing it's order since So happy hath this Spaw been to this poor neighbour Some in Dropsies have repaired happily to this Spaw The Lord Strange's Nurse a Woman of a full body cheerful and of a wholesom Complexion being exceedingly swolen in her belly thighs and legs nay almost all over afflicted too with violent pains in her head and a troublesome Asthma seriously betook her self to drink of this Spaw and without any considerable preparation which in few months cur'd her Dropsie remedied her head-ach and freed her as it hath done some others lately of her Asthma that at this time she enjoys much health I know a Divine about 40
years old a graceful Preacher and Reverend much afflicted with the Scurvy and many of its languishing symptoms besides miserable swoln legs who drinking of this Spaw but a few daies returned home infinitely eas'd of his Complaints and cured of his swoln legs In the Worms nothing proves more effectual The House-keepers Wife of Cross-Hall a sweet Retirement of the Earl of Derbys maintains it that one of her Children being very ill and as she thought at the point of Death and she her self too at that time indisposed and ill drank both of this Spaw brought to them in a bottle by James Holmes the Husband and immediately they both grew well The Mother thereupon voiding two and the Daughter three worms Indeed the Neighbourhood as I am informed drinks it often upon that score and with much benefit Mistris Elizabeth Nowel being troubled with the Palpitation of the Heart from the womb and Spleen drank some days of this Spaw and found not relief only but for ought I yet hear a Cure In Womens Diseases viz obstructions of the womb Critical evacuations hysterical fits c. the whites with all the symptoms arising thence the Spaw produces excellent effects too apparent here to insist on that through the whole glance only at some Cures As also in loosenesses bloudy fluxes fluxes of the Liver This Spaw effects considerable Cures and that not so much as some suppose by a restringent and thickning quality condensing the prodigality of Humours preying on Nature thereby disabled to act in her own vigour as by an opening and discussing vertue precipitating the Morbifick Cause of these and the like fluxes whereby Nature being rid of her superfluities she recovers her pristine strength as Abheers p. 24. excellently well observes to this effect The same may be affirmed of the Gonorrhea and all the diseases incident thereto Of which you may take two Examples One of a young man about 29 years who having run through a Course of Physick not less terrible than the Disease drinking of this water was speedily cur'd of a notable Flux of Bloud in the frenum with its consequents The other was of a man about 30. who having a Consumption in his back drank freely of this Spaw and in few daies gathered strength such as if a Quartan which hath seiz'd on him this winter do not again impair his strength exceedingly may restore him to a healthful Condition I may here likewise mention one related to him that looks to the Well who having spent much in the Cure of a dysentery was by his friends advised to come from Manchester where he lived and lack't not advice of Learned and eminent men to drink of this Spaw which he did and in a short time returned cur'd Nor is it any wonder that this Spaw impregnate with sufficient virtue should have such an effect on the Diseases last mentioned since as Sennertus observes of the taking of the Aquae Thermales in the Dysentery the reason of which Cure is also pregnant for the rest That cùm una opera pluribus scopis satisfaciant acres scil humores diluant deturbent sordes ulcerum detergant ulcera ipsa egregiè consolident so my Author in his Ch. De dysenteria p. 329. 4º which as a Conclusion to this hasty Discourse is not impertinent to insert And though I might now add more each day during its season raising up some passage worthy an Observation Yet with the shutting up of the Spaw in Winter we will also leave the rest to flourish with this Spring If what we have writ we judge not more than sufficient FINIS Memoriae Sacrum ILLUSTRISSIMI Paris Conjugum Viri quidem Nobilissimi D. D. CAROLI Comitis DERBIAE Et Junctae Illi Lectissimae Foeminae D. Dorotheae Helenae Operam Conferentium ut Aquae Acidulae Lathamenses Omnium visui obviae usui expositae essent Anno à FONTE saliente plus minus XLXX Aera Christi MDCLXXII A further Account of LATHAMSPAW as IT may conduce to the publick Advantage with ease and little Expence under the favour of the ILLUSTRIOUS PERSONS the Proprietors of IT whose Charity exposes IT to All as their Countenance gives Life and encouragement to IT MAny having been encouraged by the success which They and their Friends have found on their Repair to Latham-Spaw to enquire further after its Effects and the Times and Customs to be observed there too cursorily glanc'd at in the first Treatise of this Subject I cannot but in order to the approaching Season so far yield to the Importunity of Truth and the publick benefit as briefly to affirm what the most knowing and ingenious testifie that the Excellency of that Water far excell'd the attempt of its Praise and Vertue though it being remote from the Business of the Nation the Access to it may not be so universal as is observ'd in other Places weaker impregnated with the Minerals Iron Vitriol and Sulphur Nor were the Effects more visible on the Plebean than the Patrician as hereafter may be more particularly expressed though some circumstances in their Cases are more remarkable than a short time may well comprehend to which at present intending few Notes only not a Tract I am narrowly confin'd Hence for their clearer Information who shall repair thither for the opening of Obstructions either of the Liver Spleen or Mesentery the Inn of slow Fevers and other contumacious Effects freeing the Uriters of Gravel Stone or Phlegm restoring the Appetite clearing the Vessels of the Gall and curing the Diseases incident thereunto also the suppression of Urine painfulness c. the rectifying the Womb furthering Conception menstrual Evacuations and rectifying other Infirmities of Women dissipating Hypocondrick Vapours or Melancholy removing old Pains Scorbutick affections with its prodigal and virulent Progeny Dropsies Asthmas Morphew distempers of the Reins Worms Reliques and proper Fuels of intermitting Fevers healing old Sores sore Mouths inflam'd Eyes inveterate Dysenteries Laskes and Fluxes with many Diseases lodging in the Channels through which the water passes I shall add some Directions observing to the Prophanation of this great Blessing how irreligiously how brutishly most flock thither as to other Spaws without discrimination or rules to be bounded by in their Drinking as if the Water were a Spell not a Medicine whereas the influence even of the Pleiades and Orion have not their natural Effects but as the Bodies they work on are capacitated to imbibe their Energie In pursuance of which so grateful to the most illustrious Indulgers of this Spaw whose Interest is never so well advanced as in the Community of Good I shall set down some Canons which observed may make the Waters influenced from above truely healing and beneficial not here only but where ever the like are drunk so as these Rules may prove a general Benefit summ'd up in a narrow Room In publishing of which I comply rather with their Charity diffusive as their vertues then seek my Ease or Repose First as to