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A11156	The Queenes vvelles That is, a treatise of the nature and vertues of Tunbridge water. Together, with an enumeration of the chiefest diseases, which it is good for, and against which it may be vsed, and the manner and order of taking it. By Lodvvick Rovvzee, Dr. of Physicke, practising at Ashford in Kent.	Rowzee, Lodwick, b. 1586.	1632 (1632)	STC 21426; ESTC S116278	26,141	88

f Gen. 1.4 5. let there be a firmament in the middest of the waters and let it divide the waters from the waters And GOD made the firmament and divided the waters which were vnder the firmament from the waters which were aboue the firmameÌ„t g Psal 29.10 And David saith that the Lord sitteth vpon the flood that is vpon the Orbe of the waters and where he exciteth the creatures to laude the Lord he speaketh thus h Psal 148. v. 4 Praise him ye heavens of heavens and the waters that be aboue the heavens Those waters are likened in another place to a i Ezech. 1.24 terrible chrystall and sayd to be as it were k Exod. 24.10 a paved worke of Saphir stone l Rabbi Levi Ben Iarehij in Gen. c. 1. And some go so farre as to define the place and seate of those waters and say that they are as much aboue the primum mobile as the primum mobile is aboue the elementary waters but whether they ever were there to take the iust distance I doe not know That there should be water aboue the firmament many men thinke it strange and yet the deluge besides the expresse word of God proved it to be true For if all the water of all the Seas Lakes Ponds Rivers Fountaines in the world had been drawn vp into the heavens in like manner as we doe in distillations yet would not their quantitie haue increased but there would haue returned back againe by raine no more then was ascended vp nor so much neither perhaps because though you be never so carefull in your distillations and vse Glasse vessels neuer so well luted yet will you still receiue some losse and so the flood had not gone fifteene cubits aboue the highest mountaines But why this should be stranger then all the rest of the wonderfull works of God there is no reason The massie and heavy Globe of the earth and water standeth as it were in aequilibrio in the center of the world suspended by the omnipotencie of God Nay all his workes are vniversally so admirable that there is no lesse wonder in the smalest Gnat then in the biggest Elephant in the least weede that creepeth vpon the ground then in the tallest Cedar But of those waters which are aboue the firmament and of those which were gathered together vnder the firmament namely the Seas wee speake here but by the way though concerning the Seas divers curious and pleasant questions might bee handled as touching the saltnesse of it the ebbing and flowing of the same why it can endure no impure things and the like These things I say might bring some delight to the Reader but they are beyond our scope and therefore I will onely speake briefly of those waters which are potable and in common vse amongst vs either for dyet or Physicke They are commonly divided into Fountaine-water River-water Well-water raine-water and pond-water The preheminence thereof is commonly given to Spring-water but in generall that water is accounted best and wholesomest for dyet which is pure and without any tast but such as water should haue For most water retaineth some savour of the ground through which it runneth and albeit to those who doe not vse to drinke water it be imperceptible yet divers of those who drink nothing but water will as easily perceiue a difference betwixt water and water as wee doe betwixt beere and beere or wine and wine The best water also is lightest but that lightnesse is not to be considered by waight for snow-water is most light and yet vnwholesome but by the thinnesse of the parts thereof and by the speedy heating and cooling of the same as Hippocrates well observeth Let this suffice to haue beene briefly touched concerning the differences of waters in generall and let vs now say something with like brevitie concerning the originall of Springs and Rivers CHAPTER III. Of the originall of Springs and Rivers IT is a common received opinion derived from Aristotle that the generation of water proceedeth from ayre condensated into the same in the bowels of the earth and distilling as water doth with vs from a Limbicke But it is hard to imagine how the nature of ayre should bee so speedily corrupted and turned into water and in that quantitie too that should maintaine the continuall course of so many Springs and so great a number of Rivers as are in the world divers of which are of such vastnesse and of so swift a course that a man might justly thinke that the whole element of ayre which in its owne nature is but very thinne should scarcely suffice to maintaine the course of that aboundance of water one only day And as for the reason they alledge that ayre is retained within the concavities and porosities of the earth ad vitandum vacuum which nature doth abhorre and afterwards is converted into water it is but a very weake one For those concavities are still full of ayre as well else-where as where Springs and Rivers doe flow But if the transmutation of ayre into water were the only cause of the flowing of all Springs and Rivers surely their streams must needs be but narrow their course slow and of small continuance Besides if this were true how could the Sea thinke you containe that excessiue aboundance of water which perpetually runneth into the same The ancient opinion then is the truer that all fountaines and rivers come from the Sea and are transcolated through the veines and porosities of the earth where in their passage they leaue their saltnesse Plato Aristotles Master was of this opinion and before him Thales Milesius as also m In Libro de mundi opificio Philo n Lib. 3. c. 9. Nat. quaest Seneca and o Lib. 1. de ortu subterran Georgius Agricola which without question they had learned from the Hebrewes For thus speaketh the Preacher p Eccles 1. All the Rivers runne into the Sea yet the Sea is not full vnto the place from whence the Rivers come thither they returne againe This is a most cleare and expresse text and which alone shall suffice to proue this point especially seeing the rule and law of Nature doth suffragate vnto the same For wheresoever there is a repletion there must needs an evacuation bee But some perhaps may say wee see indeed all Rivers runne into the Sea but we doe not see how they come from it True but when wee see that for all the abundance of water which runneth continually into the Seas the same are not increased thereby but remaine still the same we must needs imagine that they disburthen themselues some where For otherwise the waters had long agoe overwhelmed the world and reached vp even vnto heaven seeing that the g Gen. 7. Flood caused bin by raine of forty dayes ascended fifteene cubits aboue the highest mountaines Besides our very senses may perswade vs that the originall of Springs and Rivers is

THE QVEENES VVELLES THAT IS A Treatise of the nature and vertues of Tunbridge Water TOGETHER With an enumeration of the chiefest diseases which it is good for and against which it may be vsed and the manner and order of taking it BY LODVVICK ROVVZEE Dr. of Physicke practising at Ashford in Kent LONDON Imprinted by Iohn Dawson 1632. Recensui hunc librum cui titulus est The Queenes Welles or a Treatise of the nature and vertues of Tunbridge Water Qui quidem liber continet triginta et tria folia in quibus nihil reperio quod non cÃ¹m utilitate publicÃ¢ imprimatur modÃ² intra tres menses proximÃ¨ sequentes typis mandetur Ex aedibus Fulhamiensibus Iun. 3. 1632. Guilielmus Bray Episcopo Londinensi Capellanus Domesticus AS diverse medicinable waters are daily found out in many places so is it a very profitable labour to make true observation of their effects and best manner of vsing them specially by men of learning and judicious vnderstanding and such as haue beene accustomed to the frequent vse of them both in themselues and others whereby they may make their observations more true and certaine Such an one wee take this Author to be concerning the Waters neere Tunbridge whole paines taken herein wee doubt not but will be very vsefull to all such as shall haue occasion to make tryall of them Iohn Argent President of the Colledge of Physitians at London Ottuell Meverell Fellowes of the said Colledge Richard Spicer Fellowes of the said Colledge TO THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE EDVVARD Lord Viscount Conway and Kilulta and one of his MAIESTIES most Honourable privy Counsell of his Kingdome of IRELAND MY LORD INgratitude is the foulest vice in the world and as the old saying is Ingratum si dixeris omnia dixeris I may haue incurred the imputation of it these six twentie yeares for so long it is since I harboured vnder your Noble deceased Fathers roofe for not expressing my thankfulnesse for the courteous vsage I found at his hands both here in England and at the Briele in Holland What want of opportunitie hindered me to expresse to him now dead opportunitie now offering it selfe I will striue to doe it vnto your Lordship his living Image But a small expression it is God knoweth yet all I may at this time and though it be very meane yet doe I thinke that your Lop. will receiue these two fountaines of water as courteously at my hands as Artaxerxes did the two handfulls of Persian water which Sinaetas offered him It is the nature of Noble and Generous Spirits not to haue so much regard to the worth of the things offered them as to the affection wherewith they are offered I haue knowne your Lop. a teneris vnguiculis and alwayes observed even in your tenderest yeares a most Noble disposition and withall both at the Briele and at Leyden a naturall inclination to follow Minerva as well as Mars This together with the courteous affabilitie it ever pleased you to vse me withall maketh me now beleeue that your Lordship will giue favourable acceptance to this small labour of mine for Acceptissima semper Munera sunt Author quae preciosa facit Receiue it then My Lord as an earnest of what would be done if abilitie concurred with desire by Your Lordships most humble servant L. ROVVZEE A TREATISE CONCERNING THE Nature and vertues of Tunbridge Water in KENT CHAPTER I. Of Water in generall ALbeit my maine scope in this following discourse be concerning Tunbridg water yet will it not be altogether fruitlesse or vnpleasant I hope to the Reader if I say something as it were by way of Preface touching water in generall Water is a substance so absolutely necessary that no living creature can subsist without the benefit of it nor no tree bring forth its leaues and fruit nor any plant its seede if they be deprived of that vivificall moisture which maketh them all to grow and prosper That this is true you may obserue it in Summer for if Raine be wanting but a few weekes how hinderly be all things How doe all plants wither in that seasoÌ„ when they should chiefly flourish For this cause perhaps it was that Hesiodus thought water to be the most ancient of all the elements Of this opinion also was Thales Milesius one of the seaven wise Grecians who made water the sole principle of all things Empedocles likewise jumping with them sayd that all things were made of water and Hippon in a Lib. 1. c 2. de anima Aristotle termes the soule water Hippocrates goeth not so farre but yet he calleth water and fire the two principles of life True it is that by water Hippon doth vnderstand our seede and Hippocrates our radicall moisture The Latins vpon the Etymologie of the word Aqua water doe derive it from Ã et qua quasi Ã qua vivimus vel Ã qua omnia fiunt by which we liue or out of which all things are made Others will haue it quasi aequa because there is nothing more equall and smooth then water when it is not tossed with the winde But b Exercit. 745. Iulius Caesar Scaliger disliketh these Etymologies and will deriue aqua from the obsolete Greeke word ã€ˆâ—Šã€‰ ã€ˆâ—Šã€‰ ã€ˆâ—Šã€‰ ã€ˆâ—Šã€‰ ã€ˆâ—Šã€‰ which anciently did signifie water This Element seemeth to challenge a kinde of rule and dominion over the rest for it easily transmuteth ayre into it selfe extinguisheth fire and devoureth earth And to goe no higher then our grand-fathers memory nor farther then our neighbours the Ocean Sea swallowed vp aboue one hundred thousand Acres of ground at one clap in Holland Nay it aspireth even vnto the heavens and which is strange it doth not onely get vp thither in it selfe alone but carrieth with it whole sholes of fishes heapes of stones and divers other heavy substances which afterwards fall down with it Most creatures liue without fire without water none with water onely without any other sustenance a c Cael. Rhod. Lib. 13. c. 23 Spanish mayden is reported to haue lived a long time and Albertus writeth of a Melancholy man who by the space of seven weekes lived with water onely one draught of which he tooke but every other day The d d. Lord Verulam also hath produced his opinion of late and holdeth that Trees and Plants liue and are nourished meerely by water and that the earth is as it were but a Stabilimentum vnto them to keepe them steadie and from being beaten downe by the winde Hee proveth it by Rose bushes which being put into water without any earth kept vpright in the same not onely brought forth leaues but faire Roses also And the e Psal 1. royall Prophet sayth that a tree planted by the rivers of water bringeth forth his fruit in due season Much more might be sayd concerning water but because I intend to be briefe let this suffice CHAPTER II. Of the differences of water IN the Creation God sayd

from the Sea for divers Springs of fresh water are in sundry places which seeme to sympathize with the Sea and to imitate the motion thereof by a kind of ebullition And which is strange and yet a thing avouched by divers good Authors those things which were cast into the River of Alpheus in Grecia were afterwards found in the fountaine called Arethusa neere Syracusa in Sicilie though there bee a great distance of Sea and land betwixt them which gaue occasion to the ancient Poets who did vse to involue all the secrets of nature in their fables to faine that Alpheus and Arethusa were a couple of lovers which were transformed the one into a River and the other into a fountaine and of them speaketh r Lib. 5. Metam Ovid saying In latices mutor sed enim cognoscit amatas Amnis aquas positÃ³que viri quod sumpserat ore Vertitur in proprias quo se mihi misceat vndas But whereas I said before that for all the water which runneth into the Seas they remaine still the same I would not be mistaken for I know that the Seas haue somtimes gone beyond their ordinary bounds and limits but it hath beene when they were as it were commanded so to doe by their Creator for the punishment of mens wickednesse or whensoever men haue gone about to alter the naturall seate and state of the same and the ordinary course of Rivers Of Gods judgements there are diverse examples as Å¿ Lib 2. Of Polybius that excellent Greeke Authour whose works I lately finished to traÌ„slate into English my translation being readie for the Presse if it can finde any roome there And as for Polybius I dare boldly say here by the way that there is not any better or more necessary Author extant in his kinde especially for three sorts of men Princes Statesmen and Souldiers And whereas the Emperour Charles the fift was wont to say that there were but three Bookes necessary for a Prince Polybius for Warres Machiavell for State-matters and policie and Castiglio for behaviour if he aymed at a compendium he might very well haue left out the second seeing for State-matters and honest policy enough of it may be found in Polybius who for judgement sufficiencie vertue and honestie though but an Heathen went farre beyond Machâ—â—vell â—nd fâ—â— more ã€ˆâ—Šã€‰ â—â—â—loyâ—â—â—t exâ—â—â—â—â—ce haâ—ing beene in great plaâ—â—s â—f auâ—horiâ—â—ie both in câ—vill and marshall affaâ—res and famâ—lâ—â—rly acquaâ—nted wiâ—h that great Romane Scipio â—fricanus with Caius Laelius Whereas Machiavell was but a pettie Secretarie or Towne-Clarke oâ— thâ— Citie of Florence growne famous onely through the wicked Maximes and Positions contained in his writings and especially in his Prince where he setteth forth that Monster â—f Men Caesar Borgia bastard-sonne to the like father Alexander the sixt Pope of Rome as a patterne to be imitated by such as desirâ— to get rule and dominion to themselues And it seemeth by a passage of the seventh Chapter of his Prince that he was acquainted with him and perhaps a Counsellor of his in his murders poâ—sonâ—ngs and other devilish exploits But Polybiâ—â— ã€ˆâ—Šã€‰ ã€ˆâ—Šã€‰ farre from doing the like that there are infinite digrâ—sâ—ionâ— in his workes in which he reprehendeth the vicious actâ—ons of men more sharply then some other Authors which profeâ—â— themselues Christians Olenus Helice two of the 12. Cities which made the Common-wealth of the Achaeans which a little before the battell of Leuctra were drowned by the sea Antissa Tindaric Burrha had the like fortune also being swallowed vp by the Sea together with all their Inhabitants And that it might the better appeare that the finger of God was in it all such as thought to haue escaped by shipping perished as well as the rest being drowned overwhelmed by the waues And of those who haue endevoured to contract and pin vp the Sea into narrower limits by wrlls dikes and other workes diverse of them haue often sustained great dammage by the same as for example the Hollanders who as we said before lost aboue 100000. acres of ground by such meanes which the Sea after the overthrow of all their dikes and strong workes tooke away from them as it were by Letters of reprisalls This were enough to teach men that it is but in vaine to goe against the order established by God and the ordinary course of Nature yet it is worth the noting also and a thing not to be considered without admiration that all those Princes who purposed to cut the Isthmus of Peloponesus which is a necke of land betwixt two Seas containing according to Mercator in his Atlas Major some fiue miles in breadth dyed all before the worke was begun as Caligula C. Caesar Demetrius Nero and Domitianus CHAPTER IIII. Of waters of strange nature and effects ALL Springs of Waters are actually either hot or cold Of those hot Springs some are of so excessiue heate that a man would thinke it were water boyling vpon the fire and amongst other there is a veine of it running vnder a streete in a village called Porcet neere the City of Akin in Germanie In the middle of this streete there is a hole which they call Hell with three or foure barres of yroÌ„ over it in which the neighbours round about in the Sommer time when they haue no fire doe vse to seeth their egges letting them downe with a Net into the water and in a small space of time they may be boyled hard of which I was twice an eye-witnesse being there first in the yeare 1610. after the siege of Gulick and the yeelding of the Towne to the States with that braue Souldier Sir Horace Vere now Lord of Tilbury the second time with that worthy Knight Sir Henry Palmer now Controller of the Navie The cause of those hot Waters is commonly ascribed to Mines of Sulphur or brimstone inflamed within the bowells of the earth But few of those hot waters as at Akin Porcet in the Pyrenean Mountaines at Bathe in Sommersetshire and elsewhere haue any great or extraordinary taste of brimstone as they should of necessitie haue if brimstone melted and burning were the cause of their heate that minerall being of so piercing a nature and of so entensiue a facultie that never so little of it burning vpoÌ„ a few coales when our women dry their tiffanies filleth a whole room with the strong sent of it Besides such a great quantitie of water running continually and so many yeares and ages together had long since extinguished those fires or if there were such flames within the bowells of the earth the same would long agoe dryed vp the water and reduced the earth into ashes Another reason there is that you shall finde no hot Springs where fires doe breake our and albeit the hill Vesuvius Mount Aetna burne continually yet are there no hot Springs about them though they be environed by the Sea And for all the late wonderfull and extraordinary eruption of fire

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