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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

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

enjoy what is attracted and over and above that none or at least not so much as would suffice for the making of Springs 5. Neither are there such veins in the earth through which the water should passe as cloth wine through crooked pipes or cranes which wine-coopers and Vintners use for the drawing of wine out of one vessel into an other through which the wine being once sucked runs continually till all be run forth For the veines in the bowels of the earth are not wholly and throughout full as of necessity they must be before water will ascend through them for preservation of its continuity and the avoyding of a vacuum 6. Neither is the water raised to the superficies of the earth by Helmonts sabulum or virgin-earth which he saith is a certain sand continued from the Center of the earth in divers places even to the superficies of the same and to the tops of some Mountains which sand hath in it a vitality and in which as in a vital abode and natural place the water whilest it remains is living and enjoyes common life and knows neither superiority or inferiority of place any otherwise than the bloud in the veines which flowes upward to the head and downward to the feet But moreover he adds that when this water is let out of its natural abode viz. the virgin earth as bloud out of a veine it then doth like a heavy thing hasten to its Center or iliad viz. the Sea Now for the confirming of this vitality in water he brings in this distich of the Poēt undas Spiritus intus alit vasti quoque marmoris aequor Mens agitat molem totam diffusa per artus And he further adds that the sea hath in it a kind of life because though the winds cease yet it hath its spontaneous motions and observes its tides according to certain observations that it hath of the course of the moon as if it would rise to meet her Now let us observe the weight of Helmonts arguments and that indeed is little or none as I conceive for first he doth not any way demonstrate that continuation of his virgin-earth from the Center to the superficies of the earth much less the vitality thereof Secondly for the vitality of water he onely quotes a poeticall fiction and thirdly for the spontaneous flowing of the sea it is noe more a demonstrative reason for the vitality thereof than the loadstones attracting Iron a reason of the vitality of the same 7 Neither is it rais'd upon that account of condensation rarefaction which the learned Docter Flud endeavours to demonstrate by the experiment of his weather-glass The air water saith he fill up all the cavities of the world so that in what hemispheare the air by reason of cold is condensed there the waters are rarefied and swell as may be seen in the weather-glass where the water is rarified and raised highest when the air is with cold most condensed as also in the swelling of springs in frosty-weather Now although this his experiment of the aforesaid glass doth prettily illustrate the busines of condensation and rarefaction in close vessels yet it doth not demonstrate sufficiently the raising of waters from the deep subterraneall channells to the superficies of the earth for it is apparent as I have shewed in the former part of this chapter that some springs swell more in summer than in winter Secondly if springs do rise higher in time of frost than in hot seasons it is onely either because some subterraneall vapours which could not evaporate by reason of the earth being constringed with cold are condensed into water and so make for the present some small addition to springs or because the subterraneall waters are rarified and swell by that heat which is occasioned through the aforesaid binding of the earth for we see by experience that springs are hotter in frosty weather than in summer And thirdly because the water of that weather-glass if it were open at the top as the veins of fountains are would not observe the nature of the season so as to rise or fall accordingly for that in a close glass it ariseth onely ad evitandum vacuum and now rather than nature should suffer a vacuum by the airs being condensed vapours and fumes would proceed out of the earth nay the next adjacent warm air would come in as a supply to prevent a vacuum sooner than water in the bowels of the earth could be rarified which would not in an open glass be raised at all though the weather were never so cold By these seven negatives it appears how the waters in the earth do not ascend I shall endeavour to demonstrate how they do ascend to the heads of Springs It is absurd to think being the same which Aristotle himself and his followers graunt that the waters should not be elevated from the bottom of Caverns to the heads of Springs after the same manner as water is elevated from the Sea to the midle region of the air Now this elevation is done by the force of heat resolving the water into vapours And if so why then may not the other be done after the same manner viz by heat Neither is it any matter whether that heat be above or beneath the waters if so be it forceth them into vapours and maketh them ascend as high as is requisite they should But it may be said that the middle region of the air is very cold and it is coldness that condenseth vapours into water but now the earth through which these vapours pass is warm as is agreed by most To this I answer that it is not necessary that there must be cold for the condensing of vapours into water it is sufficient if there be a more remiss degree of heat as you may see in the head of an alembick and the cover of a seething pot the interior superficies thereof being full of drops whilest they themselves are warm Now for the making of a vapour of any liquid matter heat is altogether and absolutely necessary according to the opinion of all and for much vapour there is much heat and a considerable proportion of humour required But seeing abundance of water comes from the Sea into the bowels of the earth the subterraneall heat which must be in like proportion being the chiefest cause of the generations of Springs is next and diligently to be inquired into Now that the earth is hot it is known by daylie experience And Lucilius Baldus saith that the earth being newly digged is hot smoketh and that out of deep wells is drawn warm water and especially in winter season by reason of the cold binding the earth and keeping in the heat but how this heat comes to be in the earth he speaks like a Stoick and saith it is in it as naturally as vitall heat is in animals But this opinion is not so probable as that of the Peripateticks who say that the earth is of

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

Women great with child Sol. 1. As to the first although the heat of children be soon destroyed by cold yet this water may safely be given to children of a year old if the water which they drink exceed not the strength of their stomack or if their stomack can bear it And H. ab Heer 's saith he saw a sucking child drink of the German Spaw with good success and some children very young have taken of ours not without benefit 2. As to the second It is true that their heat also is very little and soon extinguished by cold yet if the strength of their stomacks be able to carry it off without a manifest dejection of the appetite it may safely to them also but not in so large a quantity as to others be administred 3. And as to third It is true it is diuretical and may seem dangerous for them to take it yet it hath been observed that many have taken it securely enough some when they have been very young with child and others when near the time of their bringing forth I shall not give too much liberty neither shall I lay too great a restraint upon them Onely I say it is safest for them to take it in the fourth fifth and sixth moneth and Hippocrates himself will admit of purgation at that time But if any be very defirous to take it before or after by reason of some griefs urging them thereto let them use it cautiously and in less quantity and withall take something every night to prevent the inconveniencies thereof as Pearl Corall pouder of hartshorn or the like 〈◊〉 Q. It may be demanded whence it is that the excrements upon the taking of this water become black Sol. This blackness is not from the mixture of black melancholy humours as many will have it for if the soundest healthiest body in the world who can in no wise be suspected to have any adust black choller in him his excremēts will also be tinged black therewith Besides we do not find that one mans body in twenty that are dissected have any such black humours in it nay although he were the most melancholly man in the World therefore to impute it to a mixture of this is a great errour Neither do I impute it to Iron onely as H. ab Heer 's who because Iron did the like would not ascribe it to any thing else But it seems he had not as it appears by his own words observed that Vitrial would do the like and that either of Iron or Copper and that although Iron being taken inwardly the excrenents are tinged black it was by the Vitrial which was made in the body by the acid spirits thereof resolving the esurine Salt of the Iron and corroding it into a Copperas he I do suppose never considered and the reason he gives to prove that Vitrial doth not discolour the excrements is because oyl or spirit of Vitrial will not But herein he argues a conjunctis ad disjuncta and therefore his argument is of no force For here is but a part of the Vitrial viz. one part abstracted from the other and that not without the destruction of the species Now if the species could be conserved it might be done although it were volatile and more spiritual as the Vitrial is in this Spaw for the truth is the same species may be fixed and yet become volatile and more spiritual and yet all this while the species be conserved Note here by the way upon what account it is that Iron or Steel opens obstructions and it is this viz. There being a great affinity betwixt the esurine Salt in Iron and all acid unspecificated spirits the acid spirits in the body which are the cause of fermentation and coagulation and by consequence of obstructions do presently forsake those parts and humours where they are seated and betake themselves to the Iron which they endeavour to dissolve and so be united to the aforesaid Salt that is in it to which union they have a natural propensity and so being therewith united are with the same ejected together with the obstructive humours which at the same time are ejected viz. when nature is strongly irritated to expel the Iron as being very offensive to her CHAP. IX Of some general directions to be observed before in the time of and after the taking of the Waters THere are seldom any distempers or diseases that occasion people to go to the Spaw that are without peccant excrementitious obstructing humours which must of necessity be removed before the drinking of the waters attempted and that either because those crude gross humours in the greater vessels will be by the force of the waters carried down into the narrower passages and there cause greater obstructions and by consequence Feavers Dropsies Gripings c. and also hinder the free passage of the waters to the endangering of many unthought of inconveniences and symptomes as also because nature being thereby disburdened of the load of grosser humours will be the better able with the assistance of the waters to overcome digest and evacuate the thinner and those that are left behind and the sooner recover its natural vigour and sanitude Now for the Medicines to be administred they must be elected suitable to the humour offending and proportioned to the strength and constitution of the patient I do in most cases very much approve of vomits because they do effectually cleanse the stomack and the primas vias and instead of them where they cannot be safely and conveniently used biera picra comes next in place for absterging and cleansing the stomack bowels messentery and making free passage for the water to pass to the Liver And after either of these some proper lenitive for the opening the passages through the Liver Ureters Kidnies and into the Bladder Phlebotomy also or letting of bloud is in many cases to be considered of viz. if the veins and other adjacent vessels be oppressed with bloud or any peccant humours for thereby they will be made more fit for the waters to pass through them and the virtues thereof into them Also in case of very obstinate obstructions I advise that a chalybiate course of Physick be run through for a certain time that thereby the waters may with the less resistance act their parts and sooner easier and more perfectly effect the intended cures Now after such preparation is made and the patient come to the Spaw let him also then take some easie vomit as of Oxymel or wine of Squils or the like or some hiera picra the first day after he is come thither and the next morning after that some Lenitive as Lenitive Electuary Cassia Manna Tamarines infusion of Sene Rhabarb syrop of Roses or the like according to the humour that is to be evacuated and then let him cheerfully and confidently begin to drink these waters with a resolvedness to observe all such rational directions as he shall find in this and the next