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A12654	A briefe discourse of the hypostasis, or substance of the water of Spaw; containing in small quantity many pots of that minerall water Verie profitable for such patients, as cannot repaire in person to those fountaines, as by perusing this discourse, it will plainly appeare. Translated out of French into English, by G.T. This abouesaide hypostasis, or substance of the water of Spaw, is to be sold by Doctor Hieronimus Seminus, Italian, dwelling in S. Paules Alley, in Red-crosse-street.	Fuchs, Gilbert, 1504-1567. De acidis fontibus sylvae Arduennae, praesertim eo qui in Spa visitur, libellus.; G. T.	1612 (1612)	STC 22975; ESTC S117679	4,796	14

discretion of the learned Phisition In the retention of vrine it will be needfull to take those fifty ounces euery morning and as much more in the afternoone vnlesse the partie finde amendment and in that disease to walke and vse some exercise will bee of great importance The same quantity may bee prescribed in the dropsie morning and euening especially after the first weeke and if the disease haue not taken very deepe roote the patient will finde sencible amendment and his strength day by day verie much to encrease In Tertian and Quartaine Agues the Patient must drinke euery morning 50. Ounces on his good dayes but on the dayes of his fit hee may take before the accesse 20. Ounces and in the heate of the fit thirty Ounces The like obseruations may bee vsed in Quotidian Agues to wit that 20. ounces be taken before the fit and ●o in the heate thereof if it shall seeme good to the Physitian whose iudgement is also to be vsed concerning the time and quantity when and how much of this water may bee vsed in continuall Agues In pestilentiall Agues there hath not as yet any assured triall bene made In all Obstructions as the Greene sicknes and the like the Physitian may prescribe it in place of the powder of steele it being vndoubtedly far more secure and of more effectuall operation In the weaknesse of the stomacke and heate of the Liuer it is a singular water being dayly taken in the aforesaide quantity of 50. ounces In the Flux and in the abundance of VVoment Courses it may also bee taken and beeing mingled now and then with red wine it will bee the better In womens infirmities as aforesaid if this water bee mingled with distilled Plantine water it will worke the better For other diseases the Reader may see what is added in the end of this discourse which is taken out of the Treatise of the vertues of the waters of the Forrest of Arden and principally of those of Spaw written some yeares since in the French tongue by the learned M. Gilbert Lembourgh Doctor of Physicke dedicated vnto the Prince of Liege Obseruing neuerthelesse by the way that as the said Fountaines of Spaw do not benefit euery one in particular so is it not promised that this Hypostasis thereof shall worke infallible cures in all kinde of diseases and vpon all persons as though one saddle should fit euery horse for diuers persons haue diuers constitutions of body and the same Medicine which is auaileable to one is not alwayes profitable to another as reason and experience dayly sheweth Wherefore to conclude the ordinary proportion as before hath bin said is to mingle fifty ounces of pure water to a dram of this Mineral Hypostasis or substance of the Spaw water not that there is any danger if one should drinke one dram onely with an ounce of common water but for the more efficatious working this ordinary quantity is found to be more conuenient hauing therein some resemblance with the copious abundance of the Spaw water Heere also the patient may obserue that it shall not he needfull for him alwayes to weigh the water for hauing weighed it once and put it into a glasse of conuenient greatnesse hee may see to what fulnesse of the glasse his fifty Ounces of water do reach and so vse that measure for the saide weight The Patient may moreouer mingle the water with wine in all such Diseases as are not hot They do vse at the Spaw to make Brewesse or sops of that water boyling it with Butter which they finde both toothsome and wholesom in al which particularities it will alwayes be good as before is saide to follow the aduice of a learned expert and vnpassionate Physitian Of sundry diseases which principally are cured by the vse of drinking the water of Spaw taken out of the treatise of the vertues therof written by M. Gilbert Lembourgh Doctor of Physicke and consequently of the Hypostasis of the saide water being mingled with pure common water as in the precedent discourse is declared The drinking of this water doth mightily quench thirst and it bringeth the hot Liuer vnto a good temper as also the Kidneyes It strengthneth the stomacke and giueth it appetite thorough the astrictiue vertue that it hath but for an extreame cold stomacke it is not so good It is greatly profitable against all obstructions and debility of the Milt for it doth dissolue and cure the cause thereof It deliuereth the Kidneyes and bladder from Grauell and is aidefull against all defluctions of those parts It correcteth Rheumes and Cararrhes in what part of the body soeuer they descend as in the breast the stomacke the Kidneyes Sinewes on Muscles It cureth Dropsies how be it such as in whom this disease is confirmed by length of time and that the forces of the Patients are thereby much weakened are verie hardly cured And so are also such Dropsies as proceede of a hardnesse of the Liuar which Galen saith are incureable Experience also sheweth that such dropsies as come of drinesse of the stomacke and of long resolution and humidity of the intestine parts are not easily cured But among such as the beginning of this Disease commeth of the ilnesse of the Milt the other parts not naturally well many persons haue bin perfectly cured It helpeth greatly the parts that are softned resolued by defluctions as the Sinews Muscles c. It strengtheneth the Matrix that i● subiect to too much humidity and disposeth it in such sort that it retaineth the conceiued fruite and so expelle●h barrennesse It aydeth against strangulations and suffocations of the Matrix As touching such as are verie Leapers if it do not wholly cure them yet doth the continuall vse thereof impeach and hinder their disease from any more increasing As for the curing of Agues the Reader may note what hath bin saide in the precedent Discourse The Reader is lastly to be aduertised That whereas the most vsuall taking of the VVater of Spaw is in Sommer it is chiefly because of the abundance of Raine and Snow that falleth into those Fountaines in winter which weakneth the force of them and so is the force also weakened in Sommer in rainy weather as contrary-wise in winter in frosty and dry weather the water hath his perfect force In which respect this Hypostasis thereof being mingled with pure VVater in such quantity of the one and the other as before is mentioned may aswel be vsed in winter as in Sommer FINIS Vt in morbis in quibus humiditas perualet Till the water is past by the belly or by the Vrine Meatus that the stomack is empty For the paines of the Spleen hardnesse and swellings therof

A Briefe Discourse of the Hypostasis or substance of the water of Spaw Containing in small quantity many pots of that Minerall Water Verie profitable for such Patients as cannot repaire in person to those Fountaines as by perusing this Discourse it will plainly appeare Translated out of French into English by G. T. This abouesaide Hypostasis or substance of the water of Spaw is to be sold by Doctor Hieronimus Seminus Italian dwelling in S. Paules Alley in Red-crosse-street A briefe Discourse of the Hypostasis or substance of the water of Spaw conteyning in small quantitie many pots of that Minerall water WHereas the singular effects that are yearely experimented by drinking the water of Spaw doe cause the concourse of sundry persons of diuers Countries and Nations to those Fountaines whereunto many more patients would willingly repaire were they not letted either by extraordinary defect of health or ordinarie want of wealth or such other impeachments as dayly occurre in the course of this transitory life In consideration whereof it hath seemed verie expedient to some who haue disposed their studies and labours to the good of others and whose residences are not farre from those Fountaines nor themselues estranged from the ensearch of naturall things to deuise the meanes that such as are absent may be made partakers of those Minerall waters and consequently of those healthfull effects that by the drinking of them are produced The accustomed course hitherto taken hath beene to fill numbers of Bottles with the water of the vpper or the lower Fountaine and to conueigh those Bottles being closely stopped vnto their designed places as to France England Italy Germany Polonia Moscouia and other farre distant places But this way is found by experience no lesse troublesome then chargeable in the carriage considering that a huge quantity of water containeth but a very little of the Minerall substance wherein the vertue of the water consisteth and the saide substance being so thinly diuided into a great quantity of water looseth much of the force and vertue before it can bee brought into so farre distant places the which hath beene the cause why the persons before insinuated haue employed their studye and Trauaile to reduce the pure Hypostasis or substance of the saide Minerals into so little a quantitie as that one pot may supply for farre more then an hundred pots and withall that no part of the force or vertue of the saide Minerals should bee impaired And to the end the Reader may receiue some kinde of satisfaction who perchance is curious to looke into the practise heereof or at lest into the speculation of this Maistry three points hee is then to obserue First that the extraction of the saide Minerall essence bee made in Sommer in which season those Waters are of more efficacie And if the extracter bee himselfe present at the Fountaines it is so much the better Secondly that he finde out the secret how to part the Minerall substance from the VVater without distillation for that would not quite the cost but by precipitation whereby the Minerall powder falleth downe and setleth it selfe in the bottome of the glasse depriuing the VVater of all Minerall taste and operation which secret is soone performed by a skilfull Artist Thirdly when he hath a sufficient quantity of that precipitated powder hee must not dissolue it with any corasiue but with a competent measure of such Liquors as are agreeable vnto the health of man and in these three obseruations the whole practise consisteth It followeth now to declare in what quantitie this Hypostasis or extraction dissolued thus into a liquor is to bee taken which must bee as followeth Take a dram weight of this Liquor which is the eight part of an Ounce and contayneth as much in quantity as will fill a great Thimble poure this into a glasse or stone Bottle poure thereunto fifty Ounces of the best and clearest water that is to be had whether it be Fountaine water Riuer water or Well water This water is to be put vnto the dram weight of the other liquor at the time that the Patient is ready to drinke it and not before not that any inconuenience may ensue thereof but because the fresher the water is the more grateful it is vnto the taste and the Minerall substance in length of time will descend vnto the bottom of the glasse and albeit it may bee newly stirred and mingled with the water and so taken yet will it notwithstanding be more to the liking of the Patient as before is noted to haue his water brought fresh from the Spring c. This quantity of fiftie Ounces of Water to a dram of the Minerall substance is the ordinary and best proportion which hetherto by practise hath beene tried being also lesse distastfull vnto the drinke yet in some diseases as in retention of Vrine or in quenching the heats of Agues it will stand the Patient in better steede to followe this proportion then to take it in lesser quantitie of water And this is spoken vpon proofe and experience how be it if the learned Physitian shall thinke it expedient that in some diseases the quantity of the water be diminished the matter is referred vnto his graue iudgement consenting with the Philosopher that Frustra fit per plura quod potest fieri per punciora The water being in the former proportion prepared the patient may drinke thereof according to the quality of his disease as for example For the stone and grauell or heate of the raynes he may take euery morning fasting fiftie Ounces at seuerall times and hee must abstaine from meate two houres after and if within that space he be in plight to walke or to vse some other moderate exercise it will worke the better Heere is also to bee noted that albeit such as drinke the Spaw water to take 100. 200. or more ounces in a morning Yet this notwithstanding these-fiftie-ounces will be of as great efficacie because there is more pure substance conteyned in those fiftie ounces then in a far greater quantity of Spaw water Thus much taken in a morning will be sufficient the first weeke for the whole day The week following so much more may be drunken in the afternoone about three or foure of the clocke if it shall seeme good to the learned and expert Phisition to whose discretion and direction are referred these and sundry other particular circumstances that may happen which in schooles are tearmed Hic nunc in sundry diseases and in the diuers dispositions of different patients in which occurrences all purgations and other preparations that mny be prescribed are to goe before the taking of this water as in like sort the prescription of dyets and the like heedfull and healthfull obseruations as when or how often the patient may drinke the water alone or mingled with wine at meates or at other times These and other circumstances must in all reason be referred to the