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A40451	The York-shire spaw, or, A treatise of foure famous medicinal wells viz. the spaw, or vitrioline-well, the stinking, or sulphur-well, the dropping, or petrifying-well, and S. Mugnus-well, near Knare borow in York-shire : together with the causes, vertues and use thereof : for farther information read the contents / composed by J. French, Dr. of Physick.	French, John, 1616-1657.	1654 (1654)	Wing F2176; ESTC R42037	61,290	136

obstructions of the said parts which are the occasions of most distempers and diseases It penetrates also through every narrow occult passages of the body where other medicines cannot come Moreover it corroborates astringeth and laxateth and divers such as these and the former contrary operations hath it upon the body of man Now note that although its operations are thus contrary and the cures effected thereby of so contrary natures yet this is no other than what consists with and conduceth to the preservation of nature for if by its astriction any retention is caused yet nothing is reteined but what should not be evacuated and if by its laxating evacuation is promoted yet nothing is evacuated that should be retained It dries nothing but what it finds too moist and flaccid and so on the contrary and it heats nothing but what before was too cold and so on the contrary also I speak now as to the generality of its operating and do not deny but there may accidently something happen contrary to general observations But as for most exceptions that are or can be made either they may easily be answered or any accidental or casual prejudice be easily prevented and the credit of the Spaw maintained If any shall object and say by its coldness and moisture it weakens the liver more than by its heat and driness it coroborates it and thereby occasioneth a dropsie where before was none and where it finds it increaseth it To this I answer viz. if the body be well prepared first and the water pass freely and other such directions and cautions observed as should be and I have praescribed in the following chapter it doth not onely prevent but cure the dropsie by heating drying and corroborating the liver And if any shall object that it astringeth and bindeth the bodies of some so much that there is no ejection of their excrements by stool for two or three dayes together I answer that it is true this may happen sometimes and it may be oftentimes by reason that those humours which should irritate the bowels to expel and eject their excrements are diverted through the ureters by which means also the bowels become more dry and dull but yet this inconveniency may easily be remedied and prevented by taking every night at bed-time a little Cassia or some such lenient medicament and sometimes a glister or suppositorie Many such like observations and exceptions may be made against mine aforesaid positions but they may as easily be answered salvâ adhuc famâ aquae Spadanae as made Now the manifold vertues and various operations of this Spaw as effecting cures of a contrary nature being premised it will I hope be easie to conclude what distempers symptoms and diseases it is effectual against It allayes all acid gnawing and hot humours and cures all such symptomes as proceed from thence as agues consumptions quincies tumours impostumes ulcers wounds it stops bleeding the over flowing of choller the dissentery and such like fluxes It corroborates the brain nerves c. and prevents or cures the Apoplexie Epilepsie Palsie Virtigo inveterate head-ach and madness and all such symptoms as proceed from the weakness coldness heat dryness or moisture of the same It corroborates the stomack and causeth good digestion consumes crudities which are the causes of obstructions and breed ill bloud and infirm flesh or an ill habit of body it maketh the fat lean and the lean fleshie cureth and preventeth the chollick and worms It strengtheneth and openeth the Lungs Liver Spleen messentery and cureth difficulty of breathing the Asthma the dropsie melancholly and fearful passions Hypochondriacal wind and vapours offending the head and heart which most women and many men are afflicted withall It doth also upon this account cheer the heart cure and prevent the palpitatious and passions thereof as also all faintings It purifieth the bloud cures the scurvy even in those whose teeth are ready to drop out of their heads by reason of the extreamity thereof also the foul veneral disease the leprosie Jaundise yellow and black and for the more perfect effecting of these cures it doth in many open the hemorrhoides It provoketh Urine and cureth the suppression and allayes the sharpnes thereof it diminisheth the stone in the bladder by dissolving the soft superficial part thereof and evacuating that mucousslimy water in which it is involved and by this means also it prepares it for cutting for sometimes this stone cannot be felt by reason of that slimy mucus which mucuus it self doth also sometimes by its torments counterfeit the stone where it is collected in a great quantity being of an acid tartarous nature It forceth out from the kidnies and bladder abundance of sand and small stones to a great number and sometimes such as are as big and as long as long pepper And as it cures all ulcers and wounds in the body so especially and much sooner in the reins and bladder suppressing also the pissing of bloud and the gonorrhea It cures the Gout Aches Cramp convulsion in what part of the body whatsoever and giveth great ease therein suddenly It openeth all obstructions and suppresseth all manner of over-flowings in Women strengtheneth the womb cureth the mother maketh the barren fruitfull and is a great preventative against miscarryings and rectifies most infirmities of the womb Note that this water doth not help all parts cure all these infirmities after one and the same manner for some part of the body it helps per se as we call it and some per accidens per se it helps those through which it passeth and toucheth and that either by its crass substance as the Mouth Jaws Stomack Messentery Liver Reins Bladder c. or by its Spiritual parts which do penetrate the whole body Per accidens it helps those which are distempered by consent or by the obstructions of other parts and this by removing the obstructions thereof It is also used by way of insession in griefs of the womb and by way of injection into that as also into the bowels bladder where all the qualities act immediatly upon those parts allay the sharp and hot distempers mitigate the pains thereof healing and corroborating the same It may moreover be used by way of fomentation and lotion in external wounds Ulcers Itch or Scabs and being dropt into soar eyes wonderfully cooleth drieth and cleareth the same In a word if any intensions in a medicinal way be to be performed by allaying distempers opening obstructions evacuating superfluous morbifick humours and corroborating all the parts of the body those are effected in a very good measure if not fully and perfectly by this water And I my self have seen many of the aforenamed diseases cured by the help thereof and for other cures effected thereby I have been assured by them themselves who received the benefit or by others who have been eye witnesses of the same Some may demand whether this water may be administred to Children Old Men and

bituminous vapours Ob. What is the reason that seeing this water hath passed lately through the bituminous burnings as it appears by its fresh odour of the same should be cold and not hot as hot Baths are Sol. 1. It was the opinion of Fallopius that such kind of waters proceed from a remote fire but passing through narrow passages retain their full odour and tast which cannot be vanished by the way any otherwise than smoak through a Chimney or pipe although by the length of its passage it may loose its heat 2. Though the fire be near to the superficies of the earth where this water breaketh forth yet it is very probable that the coldness thereof may proceed from a mixture of a cold spring before the breaking forth thereof Neither let it seem strange to any that cold springs and hot may be so near together in the bowels of the earth for just above the head of this Sulphur-well there arise two cold Springs which meet and run down within a few feet of the head of the same And Mr. Jones in his treatise of Buck-stones Bath in Derbishire saith that the cold Springs and hot Springs are so near that a man may put one finger in the cold and another in the hot Having in some measure declared unto you the cause of this Sulphur-well viz. of its saltness bitterness and sulphurious odour I shall in the next place give an account of some experiments and observations which I made and they are these viz. 1. If Silver be put into this water it is thereby tinged first yellow and then black but Gold is not all discoloured thereby 2. If this water be a little boiled it looseth its tinging property and also stinking odour 3. It coagulates milk if it be boiled therewith 4. The distilled water thereof looseth its odour and doth not coagulate milk 5. If the water be boiled it will still coagulate milk though it looseth its odour 6. Seven gallons yield by evaporation a pound of Salt which though at first black I have made as white as snow 7. This Salt coagulates milk also 8. This water kills worms and such kind of creatures presently if they be put therein 9. I filled two Vial glasses with this water in wet weather and stopt the one but the other I left open The water in that which was stopt within an hour or two became white and thick and within two or three dayes deposited a white sediment and the sides of that glass were furred the water in the other glass altered not 10. I filled two Vial glasses in fair weather whereof the one I stopt but the other left open the water in neither of them turned colour any whit considerably onely a kind of a thin whitish matter after two or three dayes fell to the bottom the water continuing very clear The water of that glass which was stopt retained its odour most 11. A pint of this water weighs two scruples i. e. fourty grains more than a pint of common Spring-water Note that the reason of its tinging white metals is not from any bodily Sulphur or bitumen mixt with it for the substance of them will not mix with water but swim on it as in the Spring at Pitchford in Shropshire and in Avernia in France and in divers other places but from the vapours or the subtile atomes efluvia's thereof which are mixed with the water and in boiling are evaporated The reason of its coagulating property is from some occult acidity in the Salt thereof which to sense is not perceptible onely by effect Out of the Salt is drawn a very good spirit of excellent vertue as I shall declare in the next Chapter Before I conclude this Chapter it will be worth taking notice that about 240 yards above the head of this Sulphur-well is a bog of about twenty yards diameter in which I digged a mineral kind of substance like the finders of Iron but almost rotten being corroded with some acid spirits of which that bog is full as also other places This mineral substance being cast into the fire burns blew and smels like Sulphur It is in tast like Vitrial and out of it Vitrial may be drawn nay in time it will be almost all resolved into Vitrial For I washed it and set it in a Cellar for two or three dayes and it was covered over with a white sweeetish Vitrial which I dissolved in water and set the said substance in a Cellar again and it contracted the like I did as before still reiterating this work till it was almost all turned to Vitrial In the said bog I found three or four sorts of waters viz. a Sulphur and Vitrioline and of each two sorts This was done the last day of my abode there and therefore I had not time to make any further search onely some of that mineral substance I took with me with which I tried the aforesaid experiments If any Gentleman would be pleased to expend some costs in digging up this bog and erecting some new Wels there he would prove an acceptable benefactor to his Countrey and it may be some new kind of water might be discovered hereby having yet more vertues than any of the former Note that the stink of this Sulphur-well is perceived afar off especially in moist and cold weather CHAP. XV Of the vertues and uses of the Sulphur-well together with directions and cautious for the taking of it THe use of this water is either inward or outward It being taken inwardly incideth abstergeth attenuates and resolves viscous thick humours and irritates every vessel of the body to expel whatsoever humours are offensive in them It openeth and removes those strong and obstinate obstructions whether in men or women that would not yield to any other Medicine whatsoever It doth oftentimes evacuate by stool great lumps of viscous slimy matter which was certainly whilest it was in the body the cause of some great distemper oppressure gripings tensions c. and which could hardly any other way be removed It heateth and quickneth the stomack bowels liver spleen bloud veins nerves and indeed the wholy body in so much that it consumes crudities rectifieth all cold distempers in all parts of the body causeth a good digestion cures the Dropsie Spleen Scurvy Green sickness Gout Cramp Epilepsie head-ach Vertigo Kings evil and all such Symptomes as proceed either from crudities cold viscous slimy or corrupt humours which obstruct distemper the stomack Bowels Messentery Liver Veins Brain and Nerves and these though of long continuance It killeth worms infallibly Note that this water must be begun by degrees and the full proportion be taken not at once but at several times exercise intermediating as in the taking of the Spaw The full dose or quantity to be taken must be proportioned according to the constitution strength of the party his bearing of it as also the humour offending the predominancy of the distemper and the aptness of the

whole body as in continual and burning feavers It is upon this account commended by Galen against an inward Erisipelas I know some that account it especially rain water as a great secret against ulcers of the reins Note that cold water is prohibited from a cold temper either of the whole or of principal parts also from old age because it is very feeble and from child-hood because it is subject to convulsions as saith Galen and from a thin habit of body extenuated by reason of scarcity of bloud which is a great and the principal safeguard against cold things Winter also and a cold crass slimy morbifick or a hot impact matter as also great obstructions of the vessels and cold inward tumours forbid the use of cold water As for the time when cold water is to be drank note that it is never to be administred in feavers unless concoction do first appear as saith Galen for although it be a remedy for a feaver as it is a feaver yet it is not a remedy against the humours which cause a feaver but as it evacuates them by Urine stool or sweat But these cannot safely be expelled before they be concocted Now we must not notwithstanding expect a perfect and full concoction but it will suffice if it be moderate and in good part performed for else there will be a danger of the feavers turning into a Hectick Also it must not be taken on the critical day for then saith Hippocrates we must not move the humours because we do not certainly know which way nature will attempt an evacuation But for a more particular time of the feaver it is to be taken most conveniently in the fit or in the very hour of the ebullition of the humours because then the inward parts do burn most and need most then to be qualified besides coldness is then least offensive because the greatness of the heat is a safeguard against the offensiveness thereof As for the quantity to be drunke note that if the repelling or suppressing vertue thereof be required it is to be taken to the quantity of half a pint more or less as things may be considered But if the altering or allaying vertue as in a feaver then it is to be taken in such a quantity as may be drunk at one breath or as much at the sick party needs for satisfaction or elss can well bear But the greatness of the distemper the age time of the year custome and strength is also to be considered But it will be demanded which is the best water and most wholsome and for answer hereunto I say that is the best which is void of taste or odour is clear pure most light is soon heated and soon cooled and in which flesh is soonest boyled and in particular as saith Galen rain water is the best but yet not any but such which falls in Summer-time when the heaven is in great part serene and especially with thunder being that which consists of thinner vapours elevated and purified by the heat of the Sun and lightning And next to this is that pit water which flows from the next fountain or river especially through a sandy earth because if the said earth partake of no other quality it is percolated made more thin and becomes more depurated than other water And in defect of these two fountain and river water may be used being indeed very good and wholsome and indeed are by many accounted the best but the worst of all is standing water as lakes pooles Now in case there can be got no good water but onely what is bad than Galen would have that to be boyled and cooled again and so to be used Thus much of the use and vertues of cold and warm water administred in wardly It remaines now that I speak two or three words of the external use of water both warm and cold and of the effects thereof Now water is used outwardly saith Julius Caesar Claudinus first by way of Balneum or bathing the whole body secondly by way of insessus or sitting in water up to the navel thirdly by way of aspersion or affusion i. e. sprinkling or pouring on fourthly by way of stillicidium dropping or distilling Fistly by way of fomentation and lastly by way of lotion or washing any part Bathes are either hot or cold Cold Bathes were by ancient and modern Philosophers and Physitians ordeined for divers uses Many used them onely by way of exercise as for swimming in them which the Lord Verulam in his learned treatise de vitâ morte reckons up as one of those robust exercises as he calls them which makes the flesh hard and compact conducing to long life They are used also for the astringing of the body and condensing the same also as saith the a foresaid Learned Vicount for the closing of the pores of the body that are too open whereby the hot air excluded from preying upon the body besides they unite the Calidum innatum corroborating the same by an antiperistasis wherby by cōsequence it doth beget a good appetite cause a good digestion excite the expulsion of excrements represse a canine appetite other ill symptomes caused by the exolution of the skin stop bleeding the overflowings in women and the gonorrhea cure the Hydrophobia which is a symptome occasioned by the biting of a mad dog and many sorts of seavers both intermitting and continual if the party make use of them when that fit is approaching and there continue an houre or two Note that the use of cold baths is not for youths because they hinder their growth nor for old men because that little heat which they have is thereby suffocated nor for cold and thin women which have delicate bodies because the cold penetrates too much into their solide parts nor to any that be sick unles they be of strong natures for as cold baths doe wōderfully corroborate the Calidum innatum or naturall heat if it be strong so doe they on the contrary overcome it if it be weak and the humours appeare to be concocted and fit for evacuation and no principal part or bones nerves brain ill affected and the body free from convulsions Note also that when the intension is to be formed by cooling onely and there is no need of moistening then as saith the aforesaid authour of the History of life and death the body is to be annointed with oyle with spissaments or thickeners that the quality onely of the cooler be received and not the substance Yet we must in such cases have a care that the pores of the body be not thereby stopt too much for when any extrinsecal cold obstructs the body too much it is so far from cooling it that it stirs up the heat the more by suppressing perspirations Baths also of hot or heated water are of great use but before I declare the uses and effects thereof wee must consider that they are of three sorts for either they are tepid i.

For the better passing of the waters let the first glass be mixed with Sugar Syrrup of Liquorish or de quinque Radicibus or Nitre or Spirit of Salt or Vitrial Salt of Tartar or a glass of white wine in the midst of the water or mixed with three or four of the first glasses or two or three glasses of the Sulphur Well in the midst of the Spaw-water or a good draught of the decoction of Fennel or Parsley-roots be taken half an hour before the water Note that some of the aforesaid things are penetrative and so force their way and some are sweet and therefore are sooner attracted to and by the Liver and so the more speedily evacuated In case of the necessity of any of the aforesaid mixtures it will be convenient and necessary that some experienced Physitian be first consulted withall And if you meet with none at the Spaw that you can confide in York and other places are not far where you shall find such Gentlemen that are able to advise you as concerning this so also in any other case and especially if any unexpected accident should fall out whilest you are drinking the waters In case in the taking of the waters sumes and vapours fly to the head as oftentimes they do even to inebriation let none be disheartned thereat for either they are the spirits of the water themselves alone which will do the head much good or else there is a mixture of wind from the stomack for when that is filled with water the wind that was in it must of necessitie be forced up to the head but there it continues but a very short time And as there is no necessity of preventing it so neither can it be well prevented but yet for some satisfaction let Nutmeg and Coriander seed being beaten together into a gross pouder be taken after every fourth part of the water for the gratefull vapour thereof will also be carried up to the head with the force of the other vapours from the stomack and withall somewhat corroborat and close the mouth of the stomack Q. It may be demanded whether or no the rednes and hot pimples of the face may be cured by the inward use of this water and it is the more questioned because it dries and heats the Liver Sol. It is true that for the most part the rednes of the face is increased by the use of this water but yet notwithstanding it may in a great measure be cured with the help thereof with the observing of certain rules and cautious which do much conduce thereunto The patient that is thus affected his body being well prepared by medicaments phlebotomie must in the first place drink of this water ten or twelve mornings together for by this time it will in some considerable measure remove those obstructions of the messentery Liver which are the chiefest cause of the aforesaid distemper then let him be purged with some cooling lenitive and then because the continual use of the water should not as doth steel heat the bloud too much or rather by its strengthning the inward parts drive outwardly the heated corrupt humours of the body too fast I advise that he do for seven or eight dayes together drink clarified whey made with cooling moist and diuretical herbs and medicaments as Borage Lettuce Seangreen Endive Grasroots Parsly and Fennel-roots Nitre Tamarines Liquorish and such like and withall have a vein breathed if nothing contradict it and then return again to the use of the water for another fortnight and after that again to cooling purges and the cooling and clarified whey as before for a moneths time Note that withall that some topical Medicines are to be applied to the place affected as oyl of the yelks of Eggs oyl of Tartar juice of Lemmon and Salt unguentum alhum but above all flores sulphuris dissolved in oyl or the like By such kind of means with the use of the Spaw-water I would undertake to cure almost any red pimpled face whatsoever CHAP. XI Of the necessity and manner of exercise in the use of the waters EXercise is whilest the water is in the body very necessary as being good to laxate the passages of the body to excite the natural heat for the better digestion of the waters if as I said before we may properly call it a digestion for by this means saith Archigenes as also Aetius the internal vessels being heated will more strongly attract and expell Some kind of exercise is if strength permit to be continued from the first glass to the evacuation of the whole proportion taken Now for exercise in particular riding on a trotting horse or in a Coach are the best because thereby the muscles of the abdomen being pressed do intend the expulsive faculty of the Ureters and bladder And where those cannot conveniently be had and used I commend walking bowling pitching of the bar and leaping and the like all which must be used so moderatly as not to provoke sweat for by sweat the water will be drawn into the habit of the body to the endangering of a dropsy and such like symptomes They that are not able to walk nor have the accommodation for riding must take the waters in their bed for the warmeth of the bed doth as I said before serve very well instead of exercise and answers to the intensions thereof Sleep is very hurtfull because in sleep all exceptions or evacuations of excremently except sweat which is thereby promoted and for the aforesaid reasons to be prevented are suppressed Sitting on the ground is hurtfull and also standing in the Sun and walking late in the evening CHAP. XII Of the time of the year and day when the Spaw is chiefly to be taken IN frosty weather the water is strongest because the mineral spirits thereof are by the binding of the earth suppressed and prevented from evaporating through the superficies thereof as they do at other times by which means the water becomes the more strongly impregnated therewith But by reason of the inconveniency of journying and of the uncertainty of the frost I prefer the Summer viz. from the beginning of May to the end of September and before and after if the season be dry Ob. Some may object against the use of the Spaw in the Canicular or Dog dayes because say they Hippocrates in the fifth of his fourth book of Aphorismes saith {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} forbiding thereby purgations and evacuations and these being forbidden say they how shall we prepare our bodies for the taking of the waters Sol. This aphorisme having been these many years grosly mistaken hath been the occasion of the deaths of thousands I say mistaken because purgations are not here at all forbidden but onely intimation given that in that season by reason of that usual extremity of heat the humours being drawn outwardly towards the habit of the body are not so easily retracted and evacuated by way of purgation as