jucunde soon safe and pleasantly For no violent Catharticks are proper with these Waters for fear of agitating and irritating Nature too much and making an ill impression on the Blood and Viscera I know some who in lieu of Physick will take in the first Glass to Purge them a spoonful of common Salt with very good success but this Remedy is not proper for all Constitutions Those who are obnoxious to Stone or Gravel and frequent these Waters My advice is that the Night precedent drinking 'em they take an emollient Glister and in the Morning an hour or two before the Waters to swallow four or five Pills of Venice or Chios Turpenthine Likewise in the first Glass to take an Ounce of Syrup of Marsh-Mallows or let them take the bigness of a Bean of Lucatellus Balsom or Turpenthine Pills especially if there be any Excoriation in the Kidneys or Bladder every Night going to Bed. with an Ounce of the said Syrup in the first Glass every Morning and an Emollient Glister every third or fourth Night because by these means the passages are lubricated and the distribution of the Waters rendred more easy Hypochondriacal Persons may take in the first Glass a spoonful or two of the Syrup of Steel or a Dram of Cremor Tartar in Powder and so likewise in all other Distempers to mix Specificks with Chalybeats is the Opinion of Dr. Willis de morbis Hypochondriacis and many other Learned Physicians for in so doing they associate their Operation against the Malady Now as to the Animi pathemata or Passions of the Mind Those who drink these Waters must be Facetious Merry Cheerful Gay Jovial free from Melancholly Jealosy Suspicion Discontent Peevishness c. * Edaces animi curae solici utdines tristitiae maerores atque ejus generis farinae alia animi pathemata abigenda because such Passions as these corrode both Soul and Body impede the benefit they may reap by the Waters nay in lieu of Health they may catch their Death so great is the Sympathy betwixt Body and Soul in their disorder 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Non Sine animo corpus nec sine corpore animus bene valere potest The Mind without the Body nor the Body without the Mind cannot be well What a Catastrophe have Passions of the Mind with fear and apprehension of Death which of all terrible things is the most terrible made in condemn'd Persons Bodys in few days insomuch that those who were before Condemnation Young Vigorous Intrepid Magnanimous c. were afterwards Metamorphoz'd into Old Effete Pusilanimous Decay'd Bodys with Gray Hair and Hippocratical Faces which is the Vissage of a Dying Man after being wasted away with long Sickness We experimentally see that Women impart their Marks of fancy even to the Child they carry in their Womb It 's observ'd that Physicians prepossess their Patients with hopes of Cure to the end that the effect of Imagination may supply the defect of their Physick A Doctor being asked the Question why he could not cure his Mother in Law as well as his Father He wittily reply'd That his Mother in Law had not the same confidence or rather fancy for him as his Father had otherwise the Cure would be effected So great you see is the Influence of the Fancy or Imagitation on the Body of Man. Likewise the effects of the Body are Communicated to the Mind You see for Example Valiant Heroick Magnanimous Souls by change of Tempreament of Body either ther by Disease or Old Age become Timorous Suspicious Pusillanimous Cowards Omnia tuta timent more like Statues than Men of these Hippocrates says Vidi mortuos ambulantes I have seen dead Men walk their Body is a Sepulcher to their Soul and as the Greeks say 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which is the Body is become 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Sepulcher Corpus quod corrumpitur aggravat animam a decay'd and corrupting Body is a Load and Burden to the Soul and by its Impurities and Feculency is infected In ficitur Terrae sordibus unda fluens The clearest Currents as they glide Take foulness from the Rivers side * Animus Ad nullum consurgit opus Cum Corpore languet For when the Body Languishing doth lie The Soul it self to nothing can apply Wherefore the way to have mens sana * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in corpore sano or to be every way sound is to leave pinching cares behind when you come to Tunbridge Expatiat your Mind and harken sometimes to the Charming Musick you have here the choicest and best can be had It 's an Antidote against the Spleen Dulcisonum reficit tristia corda melos Melodious Songs do oft impart Refreshment to the saddest Heart For Melody gently soothing Nature disposes and directs the Spirits into a Dancing and observing regular motions You see Musick by its Influence forces sound and sober Men even against their own wills or thinking of other things to actions emulating the Tune heard Willis de Convulsione à Tarantula Physicians whom Almighty God has Created for the necessity and use of Man-kind and commands us to Honour * Ecclesiasticus cap. XXXVIII vers 1. 2. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 are here many Able Worthy and Eminent of that Profession who by their diligent Scrutiny into the Recesses of Nature are come of late years to great Perfection and Knowledge of Physick here in England far excelling those of former Ages wherein Physick laboured under a dying Hippocratical Face and in Cimerian Darkness These Doctors are in this place ready to assist with their Learned Prescription and Wholsom Advice according to the exigency of every one in order to their Health and Methodically drinking the Waters Many Learned Divines and Spiritual Guides are not here wanting whom you may freely consult and make choice of according to your Inclination in order to the good and safety of your Soul. Here are Women whom they call Dippers ready to fill you Glasses of Water Confestim advolitat quae pocula porrigat ultrô Plena perennis Aquae quam Fons sine munere donat Qualem nec Latium novit nec Graecia iactat Illa beat siccos faecunda stirpe parentes Deciduumque facit post funera vivere nomen Illa domat febres si male calculus haerens Renibus aut peni languentia uiscera torquet Illa fugat pellit curas nubila menti Discutiens aptat Doctis sacratque Camaenis With winged speed one to you Glasses brings With Water fill'd free as the Living Springs Whose Fame far above Rome's or Greece's Rings This blesseth Parents with a Fruitful Race That even Death it self cannot deface This Waters Feavers and the Stone casheers That vext the Shaft and Kidneys many years This chaseth Sorrow clears a cloudy Mind Fits it for Learning which with Muses joyn'd All here a Seat and Temple too do find The Air which to the Preservation of Man's Life nothing's more necessary as
gradually increasing and lessening the Dose at the beginning and before their end of the whole space of time appointed for the taking of them As in reference to the number of Glasses In my Judgement you may make it either odd or even Tho' some Phylosophers who are of Opinion that all things are composed of number prefer the odd before the other and attribute to it a great Efficacy and Perfection especially in matters of Physick Wherefore it is that many Doctors prescribe always an odd Pill an odd Draught or Drop to be taken by their Patients For the perfection thereof they alledge these following Numbers As Seven Planets Seven Wonders of the World Numero Deus impore gaudet Nine Muses God is Three and One with many other Examples which for brevity I supersede and let them abound in their own Sense If there fall Rain then the Waters are not seasonable because they 'l be too much diluted and weak'ned but a little wet does no harm but rather good because it washes the Salt in the Crannies and Interstices of the Earth into the Fountain and more intensly impregnates them * Virtue unita fortior se ipsa dispersa To correct the Crudities and Rawness of the Waters and to acelerate their passing Carroway Confects and such like Candied Seeds masticated are very good and much commended taken betwixt whiles Likewise a Glass of small White Wine is a proper Vehicle and for all those who are innur'd to Tobbacco * Nulla salutifero praestantior herba Tobacco Interpone tuis interdum pocala fumis nothing better than a Pipe of it for this effect taken btwixt whiles To those to whom it 's offensive taken alone may add thereunto some Tea leaves or Catechu to qualifie the ingratefulness thereof and render it in-offensive taken Pipe-wise This warms the Stomach without mixing any Heterogeneous Body with the Waters that may obstruct their distribution and passing for it rarefies the Pores and Meatus in order thereunto It 's observed that in some the Waters being drunk at the Fountain Head either by the inclemency of the Weather or indisposition of the Patient will not easily pass but remain too long in the Body to their great prejudice and detriment To these Persons my advice is to drink 'em in their warm Bed without sleeping which hinders all Evacuation for as I said before the gentle heat of Bed dilates the passage and consequently the distribution of the VVaters is much facilitated The Regimen which is observed in Eating and Drinking at those VVaters is as followeth First Eschew all gross and obstructive Meats as Pork Beef Duck Pudding Sawsages all Fry'd Victuals as Eggs Collops of Bacon most sorts of Fish and Sallets All Souced and Pickled Meats as Anchovy Cucumbers c. refrain from Milk and all Milk-Meats Eat no Roots or any sort of Fruit let your Meat be of easy Digestion and Nutritive as the Greeks say 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Keep no days of Fast or Abstinance during this time if I may advise you as a Physician and not as a Casuist lest I encroach upon anothers Province tractent fabrilia fabri every one in his own Sphere Fast three or four hours after the waters and if at Dinner you have an esurine Appetite take care not to eat too much because the quantity of waters you drunk has relax'd and distended your Stomach therefore little eating is best according to the Latine Proverb qui multum edere optat parum commedat he that desires to eat much must eat little Avoid variety of Meats but if you indulge your self to several sorts let the easier of digestion precede the grosser and not be Post-poned as the Greeks advise us 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Let your Drink be clear well fermented not stale nor sower not thick nor muddy not heating nor cooling but temperate all Ale is prohibited because thick and muddy Nihil spissius illa dum ingeritur nihil clarius cum egeritur Ergo in corpore relinquit multas faeces It goes in thick and comes out thin And therefore leaves its Dregs within Begin your Meals with a Glass of White Wine Incipe cum Liquido ficco sinire memento Schola salernitana Vt vites paenam de potibu◠incipe caenam I recommend Aniou Wine beyond others because it 's small clear light very diuretick and of a singular virtue against the Stone or Gravel and all Obstructions of the Mesentery Yet tho' you begin with Liquids nevertheless be advised to conclude with Solids by this means you first wash and fortifie your Stomach and at last close the Orifice thereof that no Fumes or Vapours arise to disturb your Head The French who are esteemed a Wise Nation are always observed boucher la Bottle to stop the Bottle least nothing exhale so likewise they close their Stomach with some Desair or Sweet-Meat after eating for the same intent All Excesses and Debauchery with late sitting up at Nights is pernicious and destructive during this time for many reasons which I here omit because every one may experience it easily in himself after such Nocturnal Locubration therefore bibas ut vivas sed non vivas ut bibas drink to live but not live to drink To change your Linnen often will be convenient if not necessary while you drink these VVaters because many Sooty fetid Sulphureous Steems come from 'em which render your Shirt black and some other Particles obstruct the Pores of your Body and make them impervious and hinder insensible transpiration which is an evacuation far greater and more considerable than any manifest or sensible one either by Seige or Vrine according to Sanctorius de Sanctorio in his Medicina Statica During the time you drink these Waters it 's necessary to take some gentle Medicine every fourth or fifth Night going to Bed or in a Morning early drinking these Waters thereupon after the Physick hath begun to work Here Aloetick Medicine is held offensive by reason it consists of Acrimonious and Lixivial parts apt to heat and corrode the Viscera But this is easily solv'd if to the Aloetick Physick you mix some Resinous or Balsamick Substance which may lenifie mitigate hebetat and obtunde the fiery Alkaly's of Aloes And with this correction or preparation it is not only rendred less hurtful but particularly an appropriat Medicine to be taken with these Waters My usual Pill is ♃ Massae Pilul Ruffi ℈ i. resinae Jalap gr iij. Balsam peru q. s f. Pilulae iij. sumendae hora somni superbibenao mane aquas predictas ad lbiiij plus minusue Many Doctors give Diacassia cum Manna to an Ounce over-night which is a good Eccoprotick fit for all Ages and Constitutions and leave no ill Diathesis in the Viscera Another rare Eccoprotick and Ecphractick Remedy is highly commended with these Waters which is Tinctura Cathartica an Ounce of which or an Ounce and a half given in the first Glass Purgeth cito tutò
Phylosophers all agree and the derivation of the very word Air from the Greek word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Spiro denotes the same being Compos'd of two Vowels Alpha and Omega as Principium finis Vitae which is the beginning and end of Mans Life is here Clear Serene Lucid void of any stinking Mephitis or Damps arising from Boggs or Fens which may occasion Epidemical Distempers in the Blood but to the contrary the whole Ambient of the Horizon is fill'd with an inexhaustable Series of Odoriferous and Fragrant Effluviums incessantly exhaling from sweet scented Herbs and Plants that grow in these parts The Air thus embodied we perpetually inspire which arise and Analogically speaking Spiritualize our Minds far beyond all Exotick either Natural or Artificial Perfumes Moreover at Tunbridge you find conference with Eminent and Famous Wits which is the most Fruitful and Natural Exercise of the Mind the use of which is more sweet than any other action of our Life The Study of Books is a Languishing and Feeble motion in respect of it For what is delivered Viva Voce with a Lively Voice makes a deeper Impression in the Mind and consequently more advantagious than Reading Sic variis animum studiis Tunbrigia mulcet ut vix absentes possis lugere Penates Much more may be said of the various and manisold Benefits and Comforts you may receive at Tunbridge which I now supersede hoping these I mentioned are Allurements strong enough to invite if not a Magnetism to draw Men thither It 's rare to Write any thing to that perfection as to rescind the occasion of all objections from Cavillers Wherefore what I have said of the Virtues of these Waters would not be sufficient if I do not obviate also such Objections as may raise Scruples in the minds of these who make use of them The First Objection is That many soon after drinking of these Waters died and that others by the use of them receive no benefit Whence they infer these Waters to be Improper Noxious Lethiferous and not fit to be drunk by Men. Vina bibant homines animantia caetera Fontes Absit ab humano pectore potus Aquae Let none but Cattle Water drink That fit for Men no Man can think As for the first Objection I confess one may die soon after taking Waters and so may he after taking any thing else Not that the Waters duly prescribed are occasion of Death but through Irregularity Disorder or neglect of something that was to be done in order to the taking of them Death may ensue Nay Men may die immediately or soon after taking things indifferent in themselves and void of any Medicinal or Alterative quality as for example after eating Bread and Butter or drinking a Glass of Wine It doth not therefore follow that this last thing they eat or drunk cause their Bane and that no Man ought to eat or drink any more of this kind of Food Secondly Some of those who drink Waters may have a Malady of Cacoethes Nature or of such a contumacy and so far radicated that it illudes all Energie of Chalybeats or any sort of Physick * Non est in Medico semper releuetur ut aeger nam Doctâ interdum plus valet orte malum ovidius It does not follow therefore that this Martial Remedy is ineffectual in its self in order to cure other Maladies of a different Nature by reason of the impregnable habit and rooting of some incurable Distempers Non defamanda praesidia quae aliis profuere Celsus Remedies which have done others good are not to be undervalued * Actiones activorum sunt in subjecto disposito they exert their Operation according to the dispositon of the subject on which they work The Sun for example with the same heat melts the Wax and hardens the Clay Limus ut hic durescit haec ut cera liquescit uno eodemque igne Virgilius and by this reason that which is one Mans Meat may prove anothers Poyson So likewise these Waters if used with a Physicians Advice and due consideration prove Effectual and Salubrious But taken without it and by an indispos'd or unprepar'd Bodies may be Noxious and sometimes Morti-ferous Wherefore since all things do not agree with all Persons nay nor the same thing always or a long time with the same person therefore the careful Observation and daily Advice of a Prudent Physician is here necessary that by Indications taken from things that do good or hurt the Method of Cure may be rightly ordered and now and then changed Willis Capite de colico These Waters kill and expel all manner of Worms ingendered either in the Stomach Intestines Matrix or in any other part of the Body Ryetius in his Observations of the Spaw-Waters makes mention of a Woman who laboured a long time with a Chronicki Distemper under the Doctors hands without receiving any benefit by all their Prescriptions and Physick that she had taken was at last advised to Chalybeat-Waters and by drinkig of them with Method and Continuance avoided several Worms of divers Shapes Figure and Longitude and was perfectly Cured They are a Polychrest Remedy serving for many uses and intentions they both Loosen and Bind Cool and make Hot Dry and Moisten Cure Distempers of divers State and Origen nay of contrary Natures and Dispositions as I said before Certainly a perfect Knowledge of their Idiosyncrasia and Properties wou'd reduce Physick to a narrower compass and to Prescribe well the Stadium Chalybeatum or Chalybeat course wou'd make the Studying of so many Volums of the parts of Physick unncessary for by the help of these Waters we prolong Mans life by a more facil and easier means than has hitherto been known Veritas ex puteo exathlanda Truth must be drawn out of a Well Provocat haec leniter Tunbrigia menstrua pridem Suppressa nimium sistit ubi illa fluunt Nostraque suppressos ut provocat ipsa vicissim Immodicos Fluxus sic quoque sistit Aqua Stringunt quippe suâ vi lymphae five relaxant Frigore tum corpus sive calore juvant Ecquis idem Medicamen eodem in corpore credat Adversa inter se pellere posse mala These Waters Virtue have to ope and close What may be call'd the Females Monthly Rose These Waters loosen and as firmly bind As in all Fluxes any one may find By their own virtue strengthen and relax Both heat and cool dry Clay and harden Wax 'T is strange that in one Body the same thing Shou'd cross-grain'd Maladies to cure bring Ecce quam sint Naturae Omnipotentis Dei prudentia potestate ductae admiranda opera quae Aquae istius limpidae at purae beneficio tot tamque inter se contrarios morbos curat id quod ars Medica sine Corporis noxä prestare nequit Ryetius in his Observations de Aquis Spadanis Behold the Wonderful Works of Nature guided by the Prudence and Power of the Almighty God that by the help of a limpid and clear Water she cures manifold nay contrary and opposit Maladies which the Art of Physick without great detriment to the Body cannot do To accelerate and promote the passing of these Waters by Vrine Ryetius advises some Drops of Spirit of Vitrol to be Instill'd into their Glasses of Water for Acids being endowed with a Diuretick and Penetrative Faculty depose the Serum and conveys it to the Reins to be sent forth by the Vreters To promote Evacuation by Seige he adviseth to mix some common Salt in Powder with the Waters and a Dram to every Pint more or less proportionating the quantity to the bearing of the Patient This gently expels the loose matter contain'd in the Ventricle and Intestines Purgeth Viscous Phlegm adhering to their Tunicles and Bilous Humours from the Pancreatick passages But it 's not to be taken indifferently by all Persons Dum juga montis aper dum flumen Piscis habebit Anchora fonsaegris hic sacra semper erit Ut bibat accurret rumpantur ut ilia Codris Germanus Scotus Belga Britannus Iber Hinc Populus Floret crescet Tunbrigia quidquid Bellum destruxit mox reparabit Aqua Whilst Boars on Mountains shall abide Or Fishes in the River glide So long both sure and uncontroul'd Will last this Health-firm Anchor-hold This Drink let Codrus burst with rage Will English Scotch and Irish Sage With German French and Dutch engage Hence Peoples Glory Tunbridge praise VVhat War thows down Water will raise Thus much for Chalybeats to comply with Your Honours Solicitations hoping this rude Essay upon a Baren Subject may be cultivated by other Phylosophers and Physicians better qualified to the benefit and advantage of Mankind especially to Your Honours Satisfaction and Wellfare whom Almighty God the Everlasting Fountain and Source of Living Waters preserve with long Life and Health in this World and grant immarcescible Lawrels in that which is to come which is the earnest and unfained desire of My LORD Your Honours Most Humble and Obedient Servant P.M. M.D. ERRATA PAge 3 in the Marginal Note against l. 7. for dissoluunt r. dissolvit ibid. against l. 8. for corrigunt r. corrigit l. 10. for Fredericus r. Fridericus l. 8.19 dele Because ibid. against l. 27. for magna r. magno p. 4. l. 9. for Peccaturque r. Pacaturque Marg. l. 3. for fermentorum r. fermentum l. 9. for redintegrant r. redintegrat l. ult for Fredericus r. Fridericus