Selected quad for the lemma: water_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
water_n	drink_v	white_a	wine_n	11,023	5	8.8154	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03922	Callirhoe, the nymph of Aberdene, resuscitat by William Barclay M. of Art, and Doctor of Physicke. What diseases may be cured by drinking of the well at Aberdene, and what is the true vse thereof	Barclay, William, 1570?-1630?	1615 (1615)	STC 1403; ESTC S118242	6,047	17

best Physician who killeth most prouiding that hee bee not accused But if there were such search heere as is in France or Italie the people would be better serued and the King haue more subjects I sawe a weighty matter pleaded before the court of Parliament at Paris The historie was this A Physician had prescribed to a noble man a certaine quantitie of confectio Alchermes it chanceth that the patient died within a little space This confectio Alchermes had coloured all the chyle in his stomacke like skarlet which should be white The Chirurgian which bowelled the man alledged that the patient was poysoned the Parents accused the Physician so it went to the Barre And at last both parties heard and all alledgance ponderate and considered the Physician was absolued and the Chirurgian condemned as ignorant and to pay a Fine and to restore the Physician to his honour againe But returning to our purpose againe Whosoeuer disposeth himselfe to drink of this water his body must be prepared by the counsel aduise of some learned Physician by taking clysters some purgatiue medicines I will not here prescribe the formes because I will not minister occasion to ignorant leeches to the abuse of mens health In the meane space that they are drinking this water it were meete to keepe a good dyet and eate such meate as leaue no cruditie and doeth resist melancholy their drinke at their ordinare may be white wine moderately drunken mixed with water and not with the water of this Well as sundrie doe to their owne hinder and prejudice because this water vsed with their meate helpeth to carrie the meate to the neares and bladder before it be perfectly digested After dinner and supper it shall not be amisse to vse a digestiue powder for to dissipate the winde and close the stomacke Also it is sufficient to drinke euery day once of this water and that in the morning some two or three houres after the rising of the sunne As concerning the quantitie which ought to be drunken it should be according to the disease and nature of euery one at the beginning they should vse moderately and euery day ascend while they arriue at the highest of that which they may drinke neither hath it bene found that the drinking of foure or fiue pounds haue done any harme albeit there be many men and women that can not reach to that quantitie Alwayes it is better to drinke longer and lesse then to drinke a great quantitie in few dayes This is the summe of that which may be saide concerning the nature and vse of that water neither will I wearie the Lector with any longer discourse beseeching him onely to heare mee patiently in few tearmes rander thankes to God which for the benefite of our poore diseased persons in this I le hath reuealed this secrecie and that in such a parte that the ingine of man could not haue deuised it better not in the Higlands and Wildernesse not in some countrie beggerly village as Spae and Forges are but amongst the most ciuile and courteous and charitable people of this Realme where the poore may bee assisted with almes and with Physicians where the rich may be harboured according to their estates and where all sort of ranckes may haue fit companie honest recreation good example great pietie and all kind of eases and commodities that any man or woman can desire Blessed and honoured be that Omnipotent and beneficiall Father Author of all health and the first of all Physicians FINIS

carelesse boldnesse to hazarde our health seeing this water runneth through the channell of our veines with such impetuositie that it carrieth with it whatsoeuer cruditie it encountreth in the way Non alius per pinguia culta In mare purpureum violentior instuit amnis No water naturall or artificiall can passe more swiftly through mans body to the bladder where the sea of all our humidities are collected than doeth this vitriolicall liquour But hereafter shall be declared by what meanes the patient shal dispose and prepare his body that is to craue aide and reliefe at the handes of this courteous and cristaline Aberdonian Nymphe For better vnderstanding of the following discourse I will premit two things First that there is no dis●ase that chanceth to mans body that can receiue any great detriment from the right vse of this water except it be the diseases of the lights because this water mooueth the cough and increaseth the dolor to the pulmonickes Secondly this water is a present and sure remedy against all obstructions which are the mothers and authors of most part of our diseases Nowe I call obstruction a ditting or stopping of any passag● of the body which obstruction commeth most ordinarily in the small veines of the mesentere and liuer in the passages of the gall in the vreters or passages of the bladder in the veines which open towardes the matrix or mother through which ditted and obstructed wayes this water pierceth without any harme or detriment by a detersiue and penetrant vertue and taketh away the slimie thicke glewie teugh matter which sticketh to the banckes of the channels while this water as another Nilus washeth away those corrupted excrements from this hidden interior Aegypt of our bowels This water worketh not with euery one after one sort for if the matter be in the neires the vreters or bladder it expelleth the humours by vrines if the cause of the disease be in the melt in the mesentere or the liuer this water worketh by the passage of the stoole if the matter be in the matrix the water worketh by the ordinarie purgation of that parte And yet albeit this water be such a justiciar as executeth her sentence against the diseases of euery part by banishing the materiall causes through their owne passages yet she disburdeneth the greatest parte of all the morbificke causes by the vrines I haue seene sundrie men and women cured of great and tedious diseases by vomiting after the drinking of this water This Nymphe beyond the custome of all her sexe refresheth and augmenteth the wearie and dull spirits of any patient she corroborateth and an arte I sawe at London in the late Queene ELIZABETHS dayes an impostor hanged because he auouched that hee was the sonne of God and had sent his supposed prophets through the countrie to vaunt of his comming This Irlandish impostor doeth imitate that pseudochrist and sendeth through the countrie his prophets to abuse the people with a false rumor I protest before God I enuie not his estate but I would wish that he could doe the thing that hee sayeth but I cannot abide such abuse of that arte wherein I haue spent many yeeres vnder the discipline of the most learned Physicians of France Yet albeit this water cannot dissolue such a stone it doeth much good to those that are vexed therewith for it fortifieth the bladder and washeth away the slime which is about the stone the which slime maketh the stone greater then it is indeede and riueth the wound too much at the cutting The second question is whether this water hath any vertue to cure the hydropsie or not To which I answere First that of all remedies this is the surest to preuent the dropsie and to correct the disposition from whence the Dropsie proceedeth which ordinarily is weaknes of the liuer through exorbitant heate I know that hydropsie floweth at times from a cold liuer also but the most frequent cause is hote Doctor MARTINE at Paris one of the most learned men of Europe not in Physicke onely but in languages and all other sort of literature finding himselfe inclined to hydropsie postponing all other sort of medicament hee tooke resolution to passe to the Well of Forges not farre from Rouvan in Normandie which Well is sister Germane to our Nymph with hope to returne from thence in health or then neuer to see Paris againe and in this resolution he tooke leaue from threscore of Physicians his collegues and went to Forges where he recouered his health and liued many yeeres thereafter I answere secondly that a man beeing perfectly hydroped his hydropsie being caused of an obstruction and hote intemperie of the liuer or melt this water will cure him or nothing els will cure him because it correcteth the intemperie it openeth the obstructions and it voydeth water out of the bellie The third question is whether this water hath any force to helpe those that are subject to the Arthritis or generall or particular gout For by this discourse it appeareth that this water openeth the passages and giueth place to the serous and watrie humours to goe to the joyntes and lithts where the gout is formed for it is called the gout because the watrie humours guttatim cadunt in articulos I answere that this water openeth the passages of the mesentere the liuer the melt the reines but I thinke that it taketh no leasure in the body to goe to the joynts because it passeth so suddainely through the first and second region of the body that it stayeth not to goe to the third region and albeit it did goe it fortifieth the wayes for it hath not onely an opening force but a roborating vertue also and besides that draweth water out of the joynts rather then filleth them with water and because a hote intemperie of the liuer is the originall cause of Arthritis this water curing that intemperie it must of force cut away the spring of that disease At last now I thinke expedient to declare how the patients should behaue themselues towardes this Nymphe to the effect they haue no just occasion to thinke euill either of her or me the meetest time to drinke of this water is when the weather is hotest and driest as it is in Iune Iuly and a parte of August because then the water is lightest and of easiest digestion the superfluous vapours beeing drawen out of the earth by the heate of the sunne Before wee enter to drinke of this medicinal water it is meetest that our bodies bee prepared and purged by the aduise of some learned Physician and when I say a learned Physician I seclude barbarous apothecares Highland leeches impostors and montbankes Mercuriall medicines that is to say rubbers with quicke siluer and all those which can giue no reason of their calling Amongst the Lacedemonians he was accounted the most gallant man that could steale most prouiding that he were not apprehended flagranti delicto In Brittaine hee is esteemed the