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A27372 The Irish spaw, being a short discourse on mineral waters in general with a way of improving by art weakly impregnated mineral waters ... / by P. Bellon ... Belon, P. (Peter) 1684 (1684) Wing B1852; ESTC R14765 15,247 85

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THE IRISH SPAW BEING A Short Discourse on MINERAL WATERS in general WITH A Way of Improving by Art weakly impregnated Mineral Waters AND A brief Account of the MINERAL WATERS at CHAPPEL-IZOD near Dublin With Directions for the Taking of Mineral Waters either strong weak by themselves or with Additions By P. Bellon Dr. in Physick Dublin Printed by J. R. for M. Gunne at the Bible and Crown in Castle-street and Nat. Tarrant at the King's Arms in Corn-Market 1684. TO THE ILLUSTRIOUS PRINCE JAMES Duke of ORMOND Lord Lieutenant OF IRELAND May it please Your Grace SPrings tend not more naturally unto their center then this Discourse to Your Grace through whose courteous Invitation I have left my native Soil to end the remainder of my days in the Service of my most Gracious King in this his Kingdom under Your Graces Favour and Protection This Nation my Lord which is so sensible in its whole and in each individual parts of those vast and innumerable Benefits and Advantages which it has receiv'd from the benign'd influences of your Graces wise prudent and most politick Government that in a due sense of Gratitude sends up its daily Prayers to Heaven for Your Graces Preservation That I might not remain useless during my stay in this City till Your Grace were pleas'd to appoint me a fix station where I might be most serviceable in my capacity I thought it convenient to employ my hours of leisure in some particular which might tend to a general good The Crudities of the River Waters in these parts might have been a proper Theme to insist upon but it requiring peradventure a further Scrutiny then the spare time which I may enjoy here would permit me to enter upon I diverted my thoughts on a Spring of Mineral Waters at a small distance from this place the Subject of this Discourse Be pleased my Lord to protect these few Sheets under Your Graces Favour together with their Subject the Spring by encouraging the search after some other Head so much elevated above this as may place it beyond the encroachment of common Waters on its Prerogatives that amongst all the wonderful goods and advantages which this Nation has receiv'd at Your Graces Hands there may be added Your Graces miraculous production of a Spring of Health from the midst of insalubrious Waters If in this first attempt I am so happy as to please Your Grace I have my end which shall never presume beyond the bounds of being May it please Your Grace Your Grace's Most obliged most humble most obedient Servant P. Bellon THE IRISH SPAW With a short Discourse on Mineral Waters in general c. HAving been informed that neer unto this City there is a Spring of Mineral Waters of which divers persons have drank with good success as to the Cure of some particular Diseases I thought this a fit Subject on which to entertain my thoughts during my stay in this City in order to discover its particular Virtues and Use by the anatomising of its parts and by a Chymical examination of those Metals Minerals from whence it derived its Virtues In this design I transported my self upon the adjacent places to this Spring and there examin'd the Soil Situation distance from fresh and salt Waters its Sediment in the Spring the most proximate Hills Next I considered the Water it self its Colour Odour Tast Brightness Weight and Softness and what Skin Film or Skum it did afford on the superficies Having made some immediate observations on all these circumstantial accidents I applied my self unto such persons as might give me what further observations they could as to the Strength of the Water when it was first found the causes and proportions of its Decay and its Effects both internal and external To this I added those observations which I made during the divers tryals and examinations which are usually performed with Galls Oak-leaves Oaken-vessels Allum Spirit of Harts Horn distill'd Vinager Oil of Vitriol Oil of Tartar mixing heating and boyling of it with Milk and the like All which tryals standing good though weak but having no effect at all on Milk In the next place I entred upon the more judicious and Philosophical way of examination by Fire after a more particular method then is common whereby the Gass Silvester or wild volatile Spirits are so preserv'd that Judgment may pass upon them as well and with as much advantage as on those more gross and terrene parts which are rendred visible not only through common Distillation but by Precipitation also By these examens I was inform'd of the Minerals with which it was imbued though not to that degree that I could wish through its late mixture with common Waters Having found that though this Mineral Water is tinged with such Minerals as other efficatious Mineral Waters are yet in so small a proportion as would not raise any great hopes of success in the Cure of obstinate chronical Diseases but that like unto other weakly impregnated Mineral Waters in other parts it would require some Stimulator to add more virtue unto its weakness I thought it convenient to give here a short account of Mineral Waters in general to mention the inconveniencies which usually attend weakly imbued Waters and to offer at the means to supply those defects and to render them not only equal to the most powerful natural Mineral Springs but even to surpass them Which I will endeavour to perform with the greatest brevity that I can possible considering the large extant of this Subject after which I shall fall upon this particular Water which is the Theme of my Discourse That there is a universal Spirit or Spiritus mundi which God hath established for the continuation of the Species which Spirit gives a life to all beings is a truth long since agreed upon by the Learned but how and through what conveyers this Spirit is communicated and distributed into every individual being is that point unto which I would come as neer as this Subject does require without amplification Springs have been placed and appointed by a Divine Providence in the Earth for the same use as is the Air on the surface of it to be the Vehicles by which this universal Spirit of the World should be communicated to all the parts thereof yet with this difference that whereas in the Air that uncontroled Spirit acts more in its purity in the Waters it is attracted by matter and so becomes adherent to it The chief attracting matter of this Spirit is by the Philosophers esteemed to be Vitriol in which is contained that subtle acid Juice of the Earth the sole cause of that universal Fermentation which precedes all natural productions this its external Green and Azurine colours its internal acidity and its magnetick property testifies its Sulphur being that which attracts to it self the universal Spirit that opens unites gathers and coagulates the subterraneous vapours and forms them into Mineral and Metallick substances Without dispute