Tenderdens Steeple I advise him to make use of the Bell-rope and the Muscle shells we find petrified on the bank he says was cast up by the Sea So may be was the three Cart load of Earth that lies petrified at the bottom of the Hill but hear his proof Assuredly the Sea doth petrifie any thing that has in it a Lapidescent juice p. 31. This is a Golden Aphorism so doth all the four Elements Fire Air Earth and Water without Salt for Fire that is his own saying p. 56. the words that cost him so dear before cited For Air see Tachen p. 15. where he says that 't is observed that a Flint stone laid on the ground of a hundred pound weight will receive from the Ambient Air such nourishment that yearly it will acquire about ten pound more weight for Water look into fresh rivers how full they are of pebble stones at the bottom for Earth dig any where among the Quarries Is not this then spoken like a Philosopher think you hear him now how like a Physitian he utters his mind Hence it comes to pass that he that has any Lapidescent juice which we call a Tartarous humour shall sooner contract the stone if he eat much salt with his meat This is point blank against the unquestionable reasons and experience of Helmont cap. de Lithiasi 3. parog 30. Sexagenarium immunem arenum calculo servavi annos sedecim cui alioqui obnoxius erat largo salis marim usu quod deinceps in multis confirmavi But Dr. Witty matters not what Helmont say for he told me I hope not for a secret when I was at Scarbrough and he newly come from Cambridge in Triumph for his victory over Dr. S. That Helmont was a Quack and if he could have met with the man that Married his Daughter whom he sought after in London he assured me That Son-in-Law of his would say no less of him I shall therefore tell him the practice of another Learned Physician and Chymist famous for his Cures done in the North Doctor Webb he for preventing of Tartarous humours coagulating in the Body did use himself and advised all his Friends to break-fast every morning with Bread and Salt which was observed in his time by most Gentlemen of his acquaintance I dare be positive that this breakfast is a better receipt for the Stone than the eating of Radish Roots with Meat which Dr. Witty magnifies for a secret p. 61. But if any object that Salt meats are found to be ill for the Stone I 'll grant it yet doth it not therefore follow that to eat much Sea-Salt with fresh meat is so as Dr. Witty saith for this reason If meat be laid in Salt before it be eaten the longer it lies the more of the fleshes Alkali is melted into the Salt which we find again by distilling of the pickle The flesh being so much deprived of this must therefore be bad for the Stone in as much as Acidity in all Concoctions but the first is the principle of Coagulation and Alkali is the sole sweetner of it If this be not a Note above Ela in Doctor Witty's Gamut I would have him to dance after this my pipe for the future That this Dissector is a perfect Trifler we have a proof of it as all along so here because I did but allude to Lot's Wife what a bussle he makes about her writing in Folio to Doctor Bazere for information whether it was Sea-salt or other Mineral that she was turned into yea so Fool-hardy is Doctor Witty that he will prescribe to the Almighty a reason of his miraculous doings Says he She was not turned into Marine Salt for then she would have melted away with every shower and so it could not have suted with the design of God Vain man the same Omnipotent hand that with-held the Bush that burned with fire that it was not consumed would have kept the Salt from melting with rain and made it sute his design as long as he pleased But to go on Doctor Bazere sends this Letter of Doctor Witty's to the Bishops Chaplain He told me that a Traveller lately shewed him a white lump of stone like Alabaster bidding him to taste it he did so says the Traveller to him that is a piece of Lot's Wife upon this report the Chaplain fell a spitting and a spawling seeming to be angry that he was not told so before he put his tongue to it for says he for ought you know it was taken out of her Buttock Had this Traveller gone to Doctor Witty with it he would to give the world satisfaction have lick't his lips at it notwithstanding it had been so To let this Woman alone I say old Parr who lived an hundred and forty years and eat Sea-salt with his meat daily when he could get it if Doctor Witty speak truth that this Salt is petrifying then 't was a miracle like that of Lots Wife that he was not turned into a petrifying Pillar of Salt before he dyed Whilst Doctor Witty is of this opinion it were advice secundùm artem for him to perswade people to eat their meat without Salt He comes next to my fourth Argument from the effects of Scarbrough Spaw instancing first in my self how hurtful these Waters were to me he brings in with it what I said of Knaisbrough before how it brought mucous matter out of my Bladder which I illustrated with a saying of Helmont in his Custos errans p. 212. Vbi custodes malè se habent continuo plorant partem proprii alimenti quod sibi assimilare debebant The Marginal note is Dr. T. Cites Helmont impertinently p. 34. yea saith he The matter for which I cite him and the words agree like a Harp and an Harrow Now if I produce a another place in Helmont where the words and the matter are both expresly together Doctor Witty had better said nothing See Delithiasi p. 664. Oblaeditur nempe vesica in sua digestione acrudeli molesto hospite calculo qua-propter impatiens partem sui alimenti indigestam continuo plorat quia preficere atque promovere eam nequit novamque ideo accersit successive It appears then that though in the judgment of Dr. Witty Helmont is impertinent to write thus yet have not I cited him impertinently Nor doth it appear says he that I understand Helmonts meaning I deserve a Fools Coat if I do not To say no more says he than what appears true to Learned men this is one of those sentences wherein Helmont affects obscurity and is scarce intelligible Thus Dr. Witty would put the Fools Cap upon the Head of all Learned men measuring their knowledge by his own Custodes is the one hard word that is in the sentence he knew the whole body is distinguished into three Continentia Contenta impetum fatientia what ailed him that he could not appropriate the word Custodes to the last of these doth not the Spirits Animal Vital
court and only pass it over with this slight remembrance but not present it to them calling that a little Insipid earth which is a great deal of Gretty stone powder How justly may I retort his own words upon him What makes all this double-dealing for advantage He proceeds Evaporate that Water away there is the Body B. this I judge to be for the greater part Nitre dissolve this Body in Water and filter it and there remains in the paper powder C. which seems to be the aluminous part Why so may not the Aluminous Salt in the Water as easily pass through the Filter as the Nitre This is sometimes found to be like a Chrystalline Sand C. C. Take heed of it 't is better expressed p. 64. the grosser part of the Minerals or Metals which the fire fixes Evaporate this Water and there is a Salt Dor that D. D. the difference betwixt them is in the degrees of Heat this dissolved again and evaporated there is a Salt D. D. D. When the Spaw Water is first set on the fire there falls to the bottom a Yellowish Powder E. He cannot say what it is I told him p. 56. of my Book that it was the Glebe of Allom which appears in a Black Powder if the Water be set by cold after two or three days N. L. Dr. Witty being reproved for asserting his Five Principles before he had Anatomized the Water he now to make amends will dissect it into more parts than makes up the whole eight Extracts signed A. B. C. C. D D. D. E. he should have proceeded in the Alphabet to Witty that the R. S. might see he had not his name for naught Now I appeal to the Reader what more he hath made to appear by all these then a Nitro Aluminous Salt which is impossible by Art to separate asunder except Sand and Clay which Doctor Witty will not have spoken on He calcin'd also the Body of Minerals signed F. I demand if there were any Flakes of Iron intersperced amongst it as he told us there were in his Answer to Hydr. Chym. p. 67. He affirms in the place fore-cited that they do Calcine whitish now says he you may see they have a manifest appearance of a Red Colour qui color albus erat nunc est c. This Redish Colour he judges to come from Iron and for that purpose he presented it whereas it is a better Argument that the Redness comes from the Sand and Clay that is in it which by stress of fire turns to be of that Colour as is observed in the Potters furnace and Brick-kilns he presented also half an Ounce of the Spirit besides an Ounce of Phlegm which he distilled out of six Ounces of the body of Minerals signed by G. H. Alas that a man should be at all this pains and charge only to confute himself and that before the Royal Society to whom he makes this offering and of whom he boasts these noble Worthies were pleased to receive with some satisfaction I desire no better Judges and therefore appeal to them if it be not impossible to distil a Spirit of half an Ounce out of six Ounces of this Body of Minerals unless it be granted that there is a large proportion of Sand and Clay in it as I have affirmed For what else could hinder the Salts from fluxing in the Retort and if they did flux how could the Spirit arise in the Receiver Now let others judge to use his own words with a little alteration if these few Notes may not serve for Academical Demonstrations of Doctor Witty 's Mechanical Fooleries The Marginal Note p. 23. is he confesses his Levity I confessed my credulity that I durst drink the Waters and commend them to others upon the credit of Doctor Witty's Book Forgive me but this once when after search I found Stone-powder in it I then rationally desisted and disswaded others enclined either to Stone Gout or Jaundice from further medling with those Waters He says I brought my Wife thither what then it was not for Cure of any of these three Diseases mentioned ergo his talk is nihil ad rombum but of this more anon But that this charge of Levity might the better take place in the minds of men he strengthens it with another plainly insinuating p. 24. that the change of my opinion was but for a base design of interest and advantage and thus he doth above nine times if I misreckon not in his Book What shall I answer to this will Doctor Witty arrogate to himself the knowledge of my Heart and Principles he knows whose sole prerogative it is to be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 may not I with equal probability affirm that 't is a base design of gain in him to plead for Scarbrough against the evidences produced of its danger to such as drink it But I would have him know if he hath the Ingenuity of believing a serious Profession that the Conviction I have of the hazard that attends the drinking those Waters was the true cause that moved me to a publick discovery of it if these Accusations be friendly or manly they are his own words I know not what is friendly or humane What he further urgeth pag. 26. 27. that Scarbrough Spaw cannot have a petrifying property from Nitre is so altogether nothing against me that one would think he had not read my Book which he pretends to answer neither is his catch about a Nitrous stone p. 28. worthy of any consideration Saxum Nitrosum is Kirchers expression and Salt-peter is in Latine called Sal-petrae But now he falls on at last against my first Argument to prove the petrifying property of Scarbrough drawn from the Authority of Kircher which he thus answers Kircher is such an uncertain and wavering Writer that my Argument from his Authority is of no validity at all This is a great unthankfulness in Dr. Witty thus to abuse this Learned Author that stood him in so much stead before so long as Kircher seemed to be on his side against Dr. S. then who but Kircher Paracelsus was not worthy to carry his Books who was certainly a hundred times more profoundly Learned than he Answer to Hydr. chym p. 228. Now that he is turned to be on my side against Dr. Witty he is a wavering and uncertain Author well what then is his Authority therefore of no validity at all If Dr. Witty could produce the Authority of Galen against me I would answer Valeat quantum valere potest The Authority of this Learned man is of some weight until he bring as great a Scholar to put in the other Scale to ballance it let it be observed that authority of Authors is the best weapon Dr. Witty has to contend with and if any dare encounter the Doctor none doth more industriously handle this weapon than he But I shall further concern my self to vindicate Kircher from another charge of Dr. Witty Kircher is extremely roving and unresolved
wherein this petrifying property shall reside says he p. 28. Oh strange Self-interest is of such a smoaky nature and force that it puts out his Eyes and therefore he cannot see how in the very same Book and Chapter quoted by him he placeth the petrifying property of waters in their dissolving of Stone and that to effect this Dissolution 't is necessary some Salt of what sort soever be joyned to the water lib. 8. p. 46. there are these words Succus Lapidificus est saxum nitrosum aqua eliquatum quod experientia docet si enim aqua nitro vel tartaro miscetur polliui saxi per filtrum colaveris illa frondes similiaque nitida cortice saxeo vestiet quod sine sale non eveniet unde patet vel salis nitri vel aluminis copiam jungi debere aquis rupes per currentibus ad petrificationem He speaks so plain that he that runs may read that any Salt in water will serve to dissolve Stone and thereby make the water to petrifie and that no Salt of what sort soever that is in water and has not dissolved Stone is petrifying Reader you see how disingeniously Dr. Witty hath dealt with Kircher and that he is so far from weakning his Authority that he discovers only that either he would not or did not understand him My second Argument is Experiment whereby I prove that Scarbrough is parallel to all petrifying waters in that property which is essential to them namely in that they have dissolved Stone which is common to no other water which is not petrifying I instance in Knaisbroughs Dropping Well what says Dr. Witty to this To both these Arguments of Authority and of Experiment I 'le answer saith he in one word why in one word I shall dare him or any man else to confute me as the Scholar confuted Bellarmine with saying Bellarmine thou lyest Upon this Point I 'le venture as high as Dr. Witty has done to give up the cause If I be false in either of my Experiments which I have made of Scarbrough and of this Dropping Well but let him speak out Knaisbrough will cover with a stony Crust Moss put into it and let any man shew me that Scarbrough will do so and I 'le give up the Cause What a sorry unScholar-like vaunt is this when I told him before that Scarbrough was not accused by me for doing so if they agreed in this Point how could he and I dispute such a matter which any two Girls that come to the Waters may decide with their eyes It could not then be a fit subject for Disputation but though it petrifies not a stick put in it what if it petrifies when put in our Bodies and leaves a crust of Stone when 't is passing through in our Vital Bowels It will not follow that because it doth not the one therefore it cannot do the other there is a difference in the subjects Sticks and Living flesh are not one there is a difference in the object the water in the Fountain is Homogenical every drop of that water is water and will so pass through the filter but after it is received into our Bodies the Ferments of Concoction makes a separation of the Principles and what was before Water is now in part Sand and Clay But this is all nothing in Dr. Witty's account I hope the Learned will judge otherwise of it with this empty brag he would pass on to my Third Argument I shall not part with him so but shall fetch him hither from p. 57. Dr. Witty has dissected me after such a Butcherly manner that I am forced to make Head and Pluck go together There he concludes thus The parallel betwixt Dropping Well and Scarbrough is naught and frivolous You would think a strong Team of Arguments went before that made this conclusion follow 't is this The salt of Dropping Well is not Nitre for it does not shoot into Stirias suppose it were so that the Water of Scarbrough and Dropping Well have different Salts what is this to the purpose so long as they agree in this that they both have dissolved Stone 'T is proved already let the Salt be what it will whereby the water has power to dissolve stone that water is petrifying Seeing in this therefore they do agree wherein the petrifying property of all Waters doth recide I have all granted to me I dispute for but I declare and vow per fidem meam datam universitati Oxon that the Salt of Droping Well is Nitrous and shoots into Stirias having it to shew to any that questions this my solemn protestation enough I hope to satisfie any Brother of the Profession but the Dissector He proceeds because I declare there is Nitre in Scarbrough I have proved it already to be inconsistent with the nature and property of Nitre to make a stone who goes about to disprove him in this he is beating the Air again Reader then see that Scarbrough and Dropping Well are parallel for any thing the Dissector has to object against it hear him now confess it says he pag. 56. of the Dropping Well if it be evapourated away it leaves in the bottom of the vessel a gretty stone powder so doth Scarbrough confessed of all hands that have tryed it ergo they are parallel Dr. Witties Friend confessed to me he boiled Scarbrough Water this year and found it did so But this is not all as he has confessed that Scarbrough and Droping Well are parallel here now he gives up the whole Cause his next words are For the fire fixes the Lapidescent juice hence this Syllogism doth naturally result The Water that after evaporation leaves a gretty stone powder at the bottom of the Vessel has in it a Lapidescent juice But Scarbrough Spaw after evaporation leaves a gretty stone powder at the bottom of the Vessel ergo Scarbrough Spaw has in it a Lapidescent juice The Major is his own confession in the place force-cited p. 56. The minor is proved by the Experiment mentioned and confessed by all Experimentators of Scarbrough Spaw nemine contradicente It is superfluous to say more yet for satisfaction of the vulgar I shall say again The Spaw that has in it a Lapidescent juice is a petrifying water But Scarbrough Spaw has in it a Lapidescent juice ergo Scarbrough Spaw is a petrifying Water Reader now that mine Adversary the Dissector is under my Feet as I am a Gentleman I scorn to trample upon him and therefore shall with all submission patiently give him leave to pull the hood over mine Ears in the most disgraceful manner to degrade me if the minor Proposition of the first Syllogism prove not true upon his own tryal and experiment My third Argument à priori p. 30. from the apporhoea spiritus Lapidifici is now ex supra abundanti so that if there were no effects of this to be seen on the Cliff Dr. Witty's boasting is vain though he be got up as high as
matter is the material cause of stone is no less than a gross mistake Spirit of Urine mixt with pure Spirit of Wine they both do coagulate together into a firm Salt Fermented Urine distilled before half be cummed over there is found all about the sides of the receiver a Sabulous matter Sat namque constat says Helmont delithiasi p. 683. quod in lotio humano etiam sanorum semper sit proxima materia invisibilis semen ad duelech But if Doctor Witty be willing to learn and can understand Helmont well he may be informed by that Author how stones are bred in our Bodies Vbi Spiritus Vrinae invenit volatile non coagulatum coagulabile tamen quia terreae indolis suum exserens coagulum constringit eandem aporrhaeam in terram consercisque viribus utrimque fit nova creatura quae est nativitas duelech Helmont p. 687. The efficient cause of stone it cannot be because it is cooling for says he Thus the stones are bred the fiery heat of the Reins and circumjacent parts condueeth some Crass matter into Gravel and Stone even as Potters Clay is by heat hardned into a stone Who will blot Paper to tell him how Helmont has confuted this irrational opinion which is contrary to the judgment of Hippocrates Sennertus and with him all Modern Authors that has not put their Thumbs under Galens Girdle yea contrary to the experience of all afflicted with that distemper who can feel that Stone and Gravel causeth the heat in the Reins and circumjacent parts and not the heat of them causeth the Stone in as much as they find if ever the petrifying Spirit be extinct and gone they are never more troubled with any preternatural heat in those parts than others that know not what fits of Stone meant If heat were the cause sine quâ non of Gravel and Stone in the Kidneys how easily were it by the Galenical method to prevent it for ever a little Vng Populeon or refrigerous Galeni would do the feat I would know of him how it comes to pass that there are great stones bred in the Bladder so frequently suppose heat were there as much as in a Potters Furnace it could not harden Crass matter into stone there because the water continually coming thither would keep it moist Again how could stones be bred by heat in the hollow of the Lungs as in Mr. Procters case which continually sucks in cooling Air. How comes it to pass that old men quatenus such are more subject to stone than others of middle age Thou seest that Dr. W. in his description of the stone is of the question both as to matter and form But says he Our Author accuseth it as a material cause I accuse Scarbrough to breed the stone both as a material and efficient cause He goes on perhaps I might be beguiled in taking up Sand with the Water which made me look upon it as an inseparable adjunct of the Water What a wearisomness is it to answer such trifling words why did did not the Dissector before he fell on his work try the water by boyling it and then if he did not find a great deal of gretty stone powder at the bottom of the Vessel he might have put his Whittle to my throat and said to me Tonstall thou lyest perhaps indeed he did try it but we hear not a word of that But he further urgeth p. 42. All Mineral Waters will let fall something to the bottom called Ochre yet Learned Writers on the subject never thought the worse of them I know Allom waters will let fall its Glebe as Vitrioline do their Colcothar neither do I think the worse of them for it The Spaw at Malton does so which is an Allom water If Scarbrough were as innocent as this Doctor Witty and I should soon agree together I declare and publish that I have Experimented this Water as I did that at Scarbrough and it lets fall no gretty stone powder to the bottom Hereby Doctor Witty is plainly confuted in two things First That I picked a quarrel with Scarbrough only for by-ends and out of a mean design to draw Patients from thence to Knaisbrough If I had been so basely Spirited I would not have told him thus much of Malton which he confesses p. 201. first Edition To be of like vertue and in operation as quick and strong as that at Scarbrough Here let him set up and if he can bring the Patients from Knaisbrough to him thither I shall not complain Secondly He is confuted by this also that it is a peculiar fault in Scarbrough as it is a petrifying water not as an Allom water that it casts a gretty stone powder to the bottom in the boyling Yet another evasion Doctor Witty relates a notable Experiment shown before several persons of quality I wonder I met not with it in his Letter at large to the R. S. Two quarts of Spaw water passeth through the filter whilst it is cold cleaverly leaving not a grain of Sand behind and thence he infers that if they drink the water unwarm'd it will he doubts not pass through the Body as easily leaving no dregs behind as it did in the filter I 'le set another Experiment against this dissolve Pearl prepared with Sp. of Venus in springing water filter it and it shall go all through not leaving a grain behind Were it true therefore that this Pearl-water would so pass through the Body as it did the filter then save but the Ladies water that drank it and we may find the Pearl again and that an hundred times over If Swelfer were alive he should thank Doctor Witty who by this Experiment would prove that his Spir. veneris is tantum non the liquor Alkahest He endeavours again to put by the force of this Argument by affirming pag. 43. Though the fire make a separation of the gross parts of the water from the pure yet the natural heat in the Bowels doth not so when we drink it but the water passeth through the body as pure as we put it into our mouths His first proof is a most impertinent instance of the blood which is flued in our veins yet exhaled on the fire it will be thick like Starch Let Doctor Witty who is a Master of Secrets yet will tell me none take the liquor Alkahest and first digest the blood with it then set it on the fire and he will see that all the blood will be exhaled and no thick matter left behind He considers not that the different parts of our body are indued with divers Functions 't is the faculty of the veins and arteries quam diu custodes bene se habent to circulate the blood which also evaporates through the pores without separation of any Sediment or caput mortuum because of the natural Alkahest that recides there 't is the faculty of the bowels by the Ferments there to make separation betwixt pure and impure and to leave a Sediment
and Natures caput mortuum to be cast forth as an Excrement His second instance like the former is That Sack put on a hot fire-shovel will leave a white Sediment but passes well through our bodies In Sack there is a Volatile Sulphur and Salt duly contemperated which makes it so great a Cordial Being cast on the Fire these two Principles suddenly apprehends each other and unites in aliquid tertium like Starch Yet let him take the Tartar of Wine which is the grossest part of it and Volatilize it as he is told in Quarcetan de medecin prisc Philos cap. 6. And then put it upon a hot fire-shovel and it shall all evaporate into smoke and leave nothing behind so that his two instances serve nothing to his purpose to shew the different effects betwixt the heat of the Fire and of our Bodies but rather the difference of Functions betwixt that in the Veins and that in the Bowels and the difference of Concretes how some are volatile and some are not But if Doctor Witty would make Scarbrough Spaw as parallel to Sack as I have made it to the Dropping Well at Knaisbrough we will all come and drink with him But what needs all this trouble of Experiments Doctor Witty hits the nail on the head and drives it home at one blow says he p. 44. A petrifying water is an excellent remedy against the Stone Alas poor Galen Doctor Witty has broken thine head at this one stroke a word and a blow with him will confute us both remember what he said before of Galen and is not this in him crimen laesae majestis Contraria Contrariis curantur Says rational Galen Similia Similibus curantur Says Doctor Witty Welcom good Sir I am glad to see you shake hands with Paracelsus Sic saevis inter se convenit ursis But he has Doctor Fuller an Historians word for it that a spring at Newenham Regis a petrifying water is sound to be very soverain against the Stone If so then 't is the best expedient in the world to recover the credit of Scarbrough for him to go thither this Summer and when he has performed his Cures there then to bring his observations under the hands of his Right Honourable Right Worshipful Reverend and Well-beloveds If he will not follow mine advice I shall be on Galens side against Doctor Witty for all that Fuller reports of Newenham Spring because I descry Scarbrough Spaw by reason of the stone powder in it therefore he infers I may as well cry down Pearl Coral Crab-eyes Gasc-powder all sorts of Precious Stones as dangerous against the Stone and we should use nothing but the fiery hot Spirits of the Pseudo-Chymists if Wise men and Great Ladies would believe this doctrine N. L. doubtless the Dissector has drunk too much of the hot fiery Spirits of the Pseudo-Chymists which has inflamed his brain and made him rove at this rate What says Wise Men and great Ladies to this Doctrine of his seeing they take Pearl and Precious Stone-powder they may as well take the Powder scraped off their stone-walls as if there were no difference betwixt stones in the street and Rubies whereas they differ toto coelo as we say distant in vertue from each other as far as Heaven is from Earth Hear that incomparable Philosopher describing these Precious stones and the common ones Canon 172. Saxa verò lapides quia non tam ex verâ elementorum mixtione generantur quà m ex Terra Aquae concursu per exteriorem caloris frigoris vim quasi opus terreum fictile decoquuntur propterea omnino stupescunt à tenebrosâ frigentique terrae aquae natura formam invalidam mutuati de pretiosis lapillis gemmis aliter sentiendum est formas enim suas à limpidissimus Coeli solis fontibus hauriunt ipsorumque corpora sunt purissime roris exuberati guttulae coelestibus influentiis impregnatae ac veluti concrete Coeli lacrymae unde plurimas sublimesque in se virtutes possident As for Crab eyes and Claws which are the Basis of Gascin powder they are noble Alkalis sweeting all Acidities and therefore good for the Stone as I said before As for Spar it is a mark hasite of Lead abounding with Volatile Sulphur and Salt whereby it is very Diuretical and therefore not only good for the Stone as he mentions but for the Dropsie also which he might have found in Kirkerus if he had read him for any other end than to serve his turn in disputations If Scarbrough Water has dissolved any one of these he mentions I had been as just to commend it as now in honesty I dispraise it for the Stone Once again he assaults the Battery p. 47. 'T is impossible says he for such a gross substance as Sand which suppose we grant to be in the Water to pass through the capillar veins of the Mesentery Emulgents which it must do before it come into the Kidneys to breed the Stone He must needs be quarrelsom with others who cannot be reconciled to himself he said before p. 43. He did not doubt but the water nothwithstandiug the gross Sediment which the fire as a proper instrument has discovered to be in it would pass through and penetrate our Bodies and leave no dregs behind now 't is impossible it should be so Again observe what he said last Mineral and Precious Stones are good to expel Gravel and Stone out of the Kidneys now he says it is impossible they should get thither through the Capillar Veins of the Mesentery will he also be against Aristotle and deny that omnis actio est per contactum or will his Medicines kill Diseases in the same manner as the Gentleman told him bragging how he had mall'd me he had kill'd his Adversary namely before he came at him A factum esse ad posse valet argumentum affirmativè he might have read in Sennertus that powder of Anniseed given to a Child for wind of the Stomach was found in the Childs Urine next day after I shall tell him of baggs of water the skins whereof were as thick as the brim of an Hat and before the water was drawn out of them as big as his Head these hanging upon the outward coat of the Bowels came through into them and was voided by siege To give a reason how this could be that it was so I shall manifest in mine observations take the Answer of Severine in another case Quod manifestas vias corporum in his similibus Atomistis demonstare non possumus excusamur Hippocratis authoritate Qui consensum conspirationem naturae ubique celebrat affirmans nullam viam naturae difficilem omnia patere etiam per ossa abscessus fieri To confirm what Hippocrates says I shall mention how another vomited up every morning gross purulent matter and sowas cleared of an Empyema that lay above the Diaphragm in the hollow of the Chest whether by the
lying upon the Radish root which being made of a Stone taken out of the Bladder melted away considerably His inference upon this that hapned by the Radish Helmont has pull'd up by the roots shewing how the power of such vegetable dissolvents is enervated before they come where the Stone is by the ferments of concoction Pag. 63.64 He mentions Mr. Proctors case I spoke of and Catechiseth Doctor Neale that did advise him to Knaisbrough to whom I refer the Dissector He gave out before that I placed the petrifying property of Scarbrough in Nitre and manfully beat the Air about it now he understands me better 't is in the stone perticles saith he p. 64. But how come these to be found in Scarbrough Thus the fire in the boyling of the water does condense some fixed parts of the Minerals and Metalline substances even so said the Parson that Tenderden Steeple was the cause of Goodwin Sands however yet exceeding short of that proportion that he mentions I wonder he should say so what need of extenuating the matter thus if it be not plain Sand but only the Mineral and Metalline Substances what worse is Scarbrough's water for them though they were exceeding above the proportion that I mentioned nor indeed is it worth the enquiring what is his Book worth then which he entitles an Answer Surely not the Reading For if he have not enquired into mine Experiment of Scarbrough Spaw and upon tryal found that 't is false either as to the thing or to the proportion of it his whole discourse is impertinent as indeed it is save only that it serves to illustrate what I have said of Scarbrough Observe now his pitiful shufflings to make the Sand found in Scarbrough an innocent thing and but that which is common to all waters His first Argument Mr. Boyle in his Ninth Experiment p. 390. says that distilled Rain-water left at the bottom a fine white Earth the Dissector according to his wonted manner of dealing with all Chymical Authors abuses this noble person reporting of him That he sound there a quantity of Sand as a bottom Sediment His second Argument would throw Sand and Clay that is in Scarbrough into all the Spaws in Europe such says he there is in Burbon Spaw his proof for it is the Lord Faulconbridge shewed him the Minerals of it his Lordship told me they were pure Mineral Salts extracted out of the Spaw he goes on Epsam Tanbridge Barnett has the like Sandy Sediment If this charge of his be not true then let the Physitians who attend at those Waters return the Dissector the thanks he deserves for reproaching them If it be true let them give me better reasons than he has done why they are not petrifying notwithstanding they have dissolved stones Knaisbrough water upon my own knowledge says he after evaporation yields a great proportion of Sand and Clay I distilled a quart of it last year and there was not one grain of Sand at the bottom only ten grains of a Colcothar which I have to shew yea Doctor French saith he p. 66. in his Book of Knaisbrough confesseth it his words are these The water being evaporated leaves behind it an insipid powder of a darkish colour like unto which powder will that blewish cream or skin which swims upon the said water after long standing be when it is dryed French p. 69. what prety Hocus Pocus tricks are here every Spaw after evaporation has its proper Sediment suitable to the Minerals it has dissolved Scarbrough Sediment is Sandy because it has dissolved Stone The Dissector by the Art of Legerdimain would make all the Sediments of Spaws whatsoever to appear the very same with Scarbrough when no waters in the world has the like except those only that are petrifying He cites Faber who speaks in words to the same purpose as Dr. French said before which is true of all Vitrioline waters but it seems any inspid Earth or Ochre is Sand with Doctor Witty he makes no difference I found by Experiment that Scarbrough has a Sandy Sediment and therefore to return upon the Dissector his own words p. 67. Either he did not know this when he writ his Book of Scarbrough or he did If he had not known it then it betokens ignorance in that part of Philosophy wherein he ought especially to have been better instructed if he did know it and yet goes about to buzze it into the heads of the vulgar That Scarbrough water has no other Faeces than insipid Earth common to all waters it savours still worse as coming from the Crackfart of Scarbrough Spaw Page 68. to 72. He frisks it away as if he were making a third Edition of Scarbrough declaring that it sharpens the Apetite making them eat like Farmers it has been better exprest like Seamen for doubtless the Sea air is a good whetstone to it as any that walks near it on the Sands will find though they drink no Water but why doth he apply this as an answer to me show where I quarrel with Scarbrough upon this account To what I said pag. 27. of the Sand and Clay in Scarbrough cleaving to the Bowels Dr. Simpson is put upon these remedies and cautions to prevent the mischief thereof First He prescribes a Vitrioline Vomit which doth strengthen the stone of the Bowels the Relaxation whereof renders them susceptible of a stony Incrustation from the Sabulum of the water whereby they become the cause of all those Diseases that happen by drinking the Water Secondly He prohibits immoderate exercise and too soon eating after the Water lest the lattex wherein the Sabulous matter is dissolved be thereby in danger to be carried by the Thoracical Vessels into the fourth digestion of the Heart and thence into the habit of the body whereby it may lay a foundation for the Gout Stone Scurvy Feaver c. Thirdly After the two or three days drinking Water he adviseth Purging Pills and to rest a day or two after from taking the Spaw Water and that to prevent a sudden precipitation of the strong matter upon the Panicles of the Intestines after their abstertion or cleansing by the former Solutine When all this is said and done he is is said and done he is not peremptory in his dictates but concludes if any who are inclined to the Stone and Gout be jealous of drinking the Water in case his prescribed method do not satisfie then he commends the Essence of Scarbrough Spaw which is a Salt depurated from all the Stony Concretions that are in the water These he supposeth will become powerful against all those Diseases whose Seminaries consist in a Sabulous petrifying property as the Stone Gout Jaundice c. The Dissector likes not such plain and honest dealing and therefore he says Dr. Simpsons Answer in the Judgment of Learned men such as himself deserves nothing but to be imployed in the most homely uses You may gather what he means by it saving your presence
Clay which are in the Water from being Essential to it any more than the body which is of a grosser substance than the Soul should be excluded from being the essential part of man I wonder also why the Dissector should thus plead to have these dirty Faeces essential to the Spaw but I 'le remove this Mountain that he may no longer marvel at it Impurities of any mixt body are not essential to it they supervened upon the earth when it was cursed for sin and are by Art as a natural effect in some good measure separable from it therefore we call that the Essence of a thing which contains the whole Crasis of the subject matter nothing wanting there from but its impurities properly termed a caput mortuum If the body be nothing else but a caput mortuum to a man it might then be accounted no essential part of him most likely the Dissectors upper parts give only a He argues again If the Salt be the only Essence then it will follow that Knaisbrough water has little or no Essence because it has little or no Salt in it Even so do blind men judge of Colours as if what is the Essence of the one Spaw suppose Scarbrough must be the Essence of the other at Knaisbrough or else it has none Salts extracted are the Essence only of Saline Waters such are Scarbrough Sulph well and Burbon the Essence whereof the Lord Faulconbridge show'd to the Dissector But says he p. 78. The Volatile Spirits are Essential to all sorts of Spaw-waters and if it were not for these Knaisbrough Spaw were not worth a rush He has more confidence than skill of Spaw-waters to say so He confesseth in his Letter to Doctor Foot Printed in the Translations of the Royal Society that he could not meet with Tachenius it seems he is at the same loss still which makes him so peremptory The Generality of Spaws are Acid Waters Acid Spirits we know by experience are not so Volatile as to lose the least of their vertues by standing open in the Air though for a long time but the Spaws that are Acid Waters do lose their vertue in a few days out of the Fountain though never so close stopped up in Bottles we may therefore necessarily infer from hence that it is not from the Volatility of their Spirits that their vertue is so soon vanished and gone but from another most rational accompt for which I refer him to the Author he has not seen The worth and excellency of Scarbrough Spaw is that an Embrionate Sulphur has corroded Iron in it which makes it Stomachical Deopilative Diuretical and strengthning all the noble parts A fig for the Dissectors Volatile Spirits here they are not worth a rush He doth still persist p. 79. in perswading us to put forth our eyes and blindly to believe him that the Sediment which we see to be Sand and Clay is nothing else than the fixed parts of Minerals or Metals which the fire condenceth and that these are of a singular use to the fortifying of the Natural parts The fire condenceth the Minerals by exhaling the water so far from them that they settle into Chrystals which nevertheless will dissolve again in Water and pass all through the filter not leaving the least atom behind if these Faeces then be what he says they are why will not they pass the filter which he confesses will not Minerals then they are not for Metals he tells us of none in Scarbrough but Iron If that were it why did he not when he presented his seven or eight Extracts to the R. S. tell them this is Iron and if they approv'd on 't I should have yielded to him that there is Vitriol in Scarbrough Spaw however whatsoever they be he says of them that they fortifie the Natural parts I gather from hence that the Dissector is of the Cartesian Sect taking the body of man for a fine Engine and therefore he as a cunning Engineer will fortifie the parts with Sand and Clay by the help of the Potters Furnace making a Bullwork about them impregnable against all the storms and batteries of preternatural Diseases The Lord Er. case which I mention p. 57. He confesses p. 80. frets him more than all my Book beside I wish him more patience for the future He refers to p. 149. Edit 2. here he is mounted into Helmonts Aenigmatical Chariot glances dark language being of the same mind with him not to have his meaning publickly known I protest in verbo Medici 't is an untruth like the rest of his stories to say that I asked him again and again with very much importunity whose case it was My light burns dim oh for a pair of Galenical Snuffers the old man Hippocrates his Spectacles cannot help me to read 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. What pump me and then tell abroad my Secret I declare he does me wrong for I was never guilty of so much folly yet as to pump for Wine out of a dry Hoggshead But that I may give the Reader satisfaction I shall give a true account of this matter Whilst I was at Knaisbrough the report came that the Lord Er. went to Scarbrough to drink the Waters and came home in the Jaundice of which he shortly dyed I said then to Dr. Neale who was with me when this news was told that certainly Scarbrough water had some mischievous thing in it for it was never heard of before that any should take the Jaundice which is founded on Obstructions by drinking Spaw-waters that are deobstructive This scruple against Scarbrough I carried with me thither and therefore the first time of my coming I asked the Dissector how it came to pass that the Lord Er. got the Jaundice by drinking of the Water he gave me the answer I mentioned in my Book This is the truth and the whole truth I appeal then to the Reader how I have deserved such language from him as I did unworthily the very School-boys will blame me for this This is not done like a Physitian but you may understand like Knave and Rascal by that long scratch It seems Secundae cogitationes sunt meliores he is now provided of a better answer than he gave me at the first Nor had the Lord Er. any Jaundice but a Cachexy which he brought with him He comes now p. 83. to the Aldermans case I mentioned p. 40. His position is That no man can call a Disease the Jaundice if it appear not in the skin This he would prove from the definition Galen makes of the Jaundice to whom he says agrees all the Princes of Physick yea that Hippocrates and Helmont they will let me see the Jaundice is not to be judged without it do appear in the skin I said in the entrance of this Book that the Dissector wanted one eye by reason of the thick darkness that is continually in his Library if he have any he could not see the light of
it were only obstructive his Inference were good but who says so Scarbrough it is purging also He proceeds p. 99. Nor is there a better thing in Nature for taking away the reliques of all inveterate Agues How can I believe this brag when Mr. Tailor of York his own Apothecary was ordered by the Dissector after his Ague Fits had left him to come to Scarbrough and drink water who did so and after the first days drinking instead of taking away the reliques of the Ague it brought his Fits upon him again and he was glad to return whether more Wise man he or the Dissector that advised him thither I leave the Reader to judge This was told me whilst I was at Scarbrough by Mr. Taylor himself He goes on p. 100. But I may not pass it over that our Author was censured and fell under the obloquy of the Women concerning the Merchants Wife yet I thank him he says I do indeed take him to be an honest Man and faithful Physitian It seems if I had not been so then I had escaped both his and their obloquy yet what I said in my just defence he says It savours too much like that of a Pharisee p. 102. I shall here shew you the Dissectors fair out-side profession that by the sequel it may appear whether he or I be more like an Hypocrite the true note of a Pharisee says he p. 125. As I desire in all all things to be found faithful as becomes me either as a Physitian or a Christian so in this dispute I aim not so much at Victory as Truth Here then is truth unquestionable First Truth Scarbrough Water has Stone-powder in it leaving it in Sand at the bottom of the Vessel when 't is boyled Second Truth Scarbrough Spaw is parallel to the Dropping Well at Knaisbrough which leaves also Sand at the bottom of the Vessel in boyling Third The Water that leaves Sand at the bottom of the Vessel when boyled has a Lapidescent juice and is petrifying 't is his own saying Fourth The Water that has a Lapidescent juice and is petrifying is bad for the Stone Gout and Jaundice by natural consequence Fifth 'T is the peculiar Character of Scarbrough Spaw whereby it is distinguished from all other Spaws that are in use to take a Resty Jadish Fit sooner or later Sixth Allom-stone dissolved in water gives a Purple Tincture with Gall this Allom-stone he confesseth is in Scarbrough and therefore the Tincture by Gall is no Argument for Vitriol in Scarbrough Spaw Seventh That all waters that have dissolved Iron hath Vitriol also as the product of that dissolution Eighth All the Salts that sproots out of the Cliff is Nitroaluminous and not Vitriol Ninth The three Carts load of Earth fallen from the Cliff is not Iron-stone but Earth petrifyed mixt with pebble stones Tenth The precipitated powder found in the bottom of the Vessel after Scarbrough Water has stood in it two or three days is Glebe of Allom. Eleventh If Vitriol be joyned with Nitre in Scarbrough Water as the Dissector will have it he makes it a corrosive water which is worse than all I have said against it Twelfth The Dissector must yeild the Victory to the Anatomizer for Truth sake or else in Print As to the Tenth Proposition all the rest being proved already if it be demanded how I can make it out I answer first to the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Dissector in his Letter to R. S. says that when the Spaw Water is first set on the fire this Powder settles to the bottom I grant it but after the water by boyling hath let fall the stone-power in it then doth the Saline water resume this powder into its Pores and after all the Salts are setled into Chrystals you shall find it in the remaining water and may see that it differs nothing from the Glebe of Allom if one may trust his senses as I have mentioned which I have to show as to the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 take this account The Nitrous water meeting with the Allom stone corrodes and dissolves it wholly During this action the water appears clear but as soon as the Intestine motion ceaseth that the Nitre and Allom embrace mutually each other in quiet then is the Glebe of Allom as an Heterogenious Caput mortuum cast forth of the embracements of these two Salts and so settles to the bottom which happens in two or three days time If it be demanded further how it comes to pass that the Glebe of Allom should settle to the bottom and yet the stone-powder which is also in it and a heavier body doth not settle at all whilst the water is kept in cold from boiling on the fire I answer here is the difference betwixt petrifying waters and Mineral waters these always sooner or later do settle something to the bottom the other do not as is known by experience the reason of the difference may be gathered from that I said last for the Stone whilst the Saline water dissolves it is meerly passive in that action of dissolution and therefore the longer a Nitrous water has stone in its Bowels the firmlier it holds it there being neither Sulphur nor other Salt in it to re-act upon the Nitre It is not so when Metallick or Mineral Stones are dissolved in water there are then contrary principles at work the strife being ended they shew what Metal or Mineral those waters come from by their settlements He now remembers what he had forgotten p. 103. But there is one thing I may not over-look the stones that were by Physick brought out of the Gall which the Professor at London did shew us He is afraid I was mistaken p. 104. So is the saying still of the things I see with mine eyes but why What passage is there from the Gall to the Guts to convey stones the stones he shewed us were larger in bredth than Gray-Pease being flatter but about their bigness if he denies these passable through the Ductus Bilarius he has little or no experience of the works of Nature as I have instanced before when 't is assisted by Art next he accuseth me for asserting upon the former Principles of the petrifying Nature of Scarbrough that is ill for the Gout which I experienced in my self and he opposeth it only by his experience of himself who has had some gentle Fits of it and so leaves it making himself both Plaintiff and Witness and Judge of this matter but this is spoken to hereafter Next he declares p. 105. against me for commending Scarbrough that it is so quick in its purging quality that it needs no Preparative and rather than lose his advantage of dosing out his Physick he doth discommend the water as much as I can think it deserves 't is an old saying better may one steal a Goose than another stick down a Feather his words are these The water is p. 106. indeed nimble and sometimes has wrought ten
days together while yet it has but made a furrow through the Guts and has left all the Excrementicious humours behind it the party finding therein no benefit at all 'T is honestly said of the Dissector now this second time I see truth will come out at last Therefore he says there is a necessity both to prepare by purging before and also in the drinking of the Water otherwise notwithstanding the daily working of the water they may return as they came 't is well if it so fall out that they return not worse Having thus discommended the ineffectual property of the Waters purging in that it makes but a furrow through the Bowels and leaves all the Excrementicious humours behind he faceth about p. 107. and does commend it as singular incomparison of other Spaw waters that are not purging First in regard of the Stone in this case waters that are only Diuretical may cause an Ischuria by carrying slimy humours into the smallar Vessels 'T is granted if no Physitians be there that has so much wit as to prevent this danger by giving the Patient a Purge Secondly p. 108. By the purging property of the Water not only the gross Excrementicious humours but also the stone filings that are in the water must be carried the broad way down the Bowels Alas for him surely the man is unadvised thus in one Page to write pro and con if the water purging ten days together could not carry away the light Cherry-stones that were in the Bowels as he instances p. 106. How can it be supposed that it should Purge away the Stone-fileings which beside their gravity has affixedness upon the inner coats of the Bowels like as we see the Sand cleaving to the sides of the Chamber-pot which will not be washed off with water unless rubing be used Thirdly This purging property of the water does quite overthrow what before I said asserting the waters obstructive property for 't is impossible that the same thing should be purgative and also obstructive In this contest with Hydrol. Chym. he used the term Sir Simpson as a reproach for my part I wonder how the Dissector got his Batchelor of Arts degree if he disputed after this manner had he said the water quatenus purging could not be obstructive it had been something purging and binding are terms more opposite than purging and obstructing yet Rhabard the same thing doth perform both because of its different parts Scarbrough purgeth as it is enriched with Allom and Nitre it obstructs also by the plenty of Sand Sand and Clay that is in it may not different things in the same water have different effects Fourthly p. 109. That property which I charge on it as that it causeth the Gout cannot possibly consist with the purging quality of the water for purging is owned by all and prescribed as a special remedy against the Gout either to prevent or to cure it First I said the rise of this Disease was from a petrifying property of an Acid Spirit I know none but the Dissector who refers the cause of all things to the first qualities of heat and cold that doth oppose me in this the instance which Mr. Clarke one of his Majesties Justices for the Peace in Northumberland told me which he see with his eyes is famous to confirm it Mr. Potter Steward to the Earl of Northumberland extremely troubled with the Gout had frequently Sand and small Stones that came forth through the Pores and stood on all the joynts of his fingers on the out-side of the skin this being so Sylvins and with him all experienced Authors give as a Maxim that Acidities are so far from being corrected or removed by purging with any Physick that is vulgarly known that it doth but exasperate them and make them worse Yet I 'le grant his Proposition what will it avail to bring it down particularly to the purging with Scarbrough in this Disease nothing at all for by his own confession it makes but a furrow through the Bowels and leaves all the Excrementicious humours behind But he will say I 'le mend that matter by giving other Physick mean while 't is the purging with his Physick and not the waters purging that cures the Gout But then I ask will his purge mend the petrifying property that is in the water and that Acidity because of the Dulphicate Salt in it both which are Enemies to the Gout I trow not as Scarbrough therefore doth upon these two accounts exalt and augment the specifick cause of this Disease as it cannot cure it much less can it prevent it John Lord Bellasses complained this year that by drinking Scarbrough but 3 or 4 days it gave him a Fit of the Gout if the Dissector will persist that he can cure the Gout and prevent it by purging then I suppose he is master of Helmonts Arcanum corallinum I advise him to present it to the R. S. which may make amends for the last trouble he gave them he concludes And therefore seeing he had projected to fix so severe a charge upon the Spaw I wonder he did not take care so to draw it up as that one piece might not interfer with and consute another I judge that the Reader has more cause to wonder at him why he should say so He now summons up all his forces together and says that Chymical Writers lead the Van Acidity Inky smell and black Tincture from Gall are certain and undeniable Arguments to prove Vitriol Thus he builds Castles in the Air I shall blow them all down with this one breath where not in Scarbrough nor any other water that has Nitre and Allom there these three Properties prove nothing for Vitriol for Nitre will give the Acidity Allom the Tincture without it as for the Inky smell as he alone doth find it I gave him an Experiment to make it more perceptable to the sense of smelling from whence it proceeds namely Allom. The savour of any thing is from the Sulphurious parts whilst they are freed from their Vincula Salina and sends forth the Effluvium which effects the Organ of smelling thus Brimstone till the Body be opened smells little or nothing but dissolved and precipitated how strong is the sence of it from the same account the Allom in the Spaw is not distinguishable by smell but let all the Saline parts settle into Chrystals after the stone-powder is separated and take the Sulphurious part that remains dry it and dissolve it in hot water as I said p. 59. of my Book and then you will find it gives the same smell that the Allom Pans at Whitby do and stronger Thus you see his threefold Cord is easily broken at one snap observe now his Pedantick and Unscholar-like dealing with me I wonder to find him so zealous in this Point to fix a stincking smell upon that water when there are so many thousands to confute him though hence it may appear he has lost his smell yet I should