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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42731	Fons sanitatis, or, The healing spring at Willowbridge in Stafford-shire found out by the Right Honourable the Lady Jane Gerard, Baroness of Bromley / published for the common good by Samuel Gilbert ...	Gilbert, Samuel, d. 1692?	1676 (1676)	Wing G715; ESTC R18732	18,572	50

but mostly for this Spring the occasion of what is hear made publick since God hath been pleased so to bless it and us with having the advantage of it as to inforce it with such virtues as to be a Catholicon if rightly used for most if not all Diseases in Man or Beast This Spring was first taken notice of and several experiments tryed with it by the most Ingenious and true vertuosa that Right Honourable Lady Jane Gerard Baroness of Bromley of Sandon in Stafford-shire whose Charitable care and charge in damming it out from the common Water into which it delivered it self a large Pool through which the River Terne runs taking its beginning about half a mile above it causing it to be divided into two large Baths the one for Men the other for Horses In both which the Spring rises with great force in several places And building a fair four-square Stone Conduit at the head of the Springs to preserve water pure and clear for Drinking Intending also to build a Row of Rooms for the conveniency of poor people to lodge in and an Undressing Room for persons of Higher Ranks that shall have occasion for Bathing there declaring the Nobleness of her Spirit in such her concern for the Publick benifit of all Diseased persons without the least glance on self-interest But the satisfaction of being useful to others This well is distant a quarter of a mile from Willowbridge Lodge the finest seated and best compacted house of that nature in the parish of Ashely two miles and a half off that famous house of Bromley in Stafford-Shire both possessed by that Honourable Lady before mentioned the Inheritance of her incomparable Son The Right Honourable Digby Lord Gerard Baron of Gerards Bromley Lord of Dutton of most noble parts as well as large fortunes Three miles from Drayton in Shrop-Shire five miles from Newcastle underline six miles from Eccleshall seaven miles from Namtwich nine miles from Newport nine miles from Stone eleven miles from Stafford all Market Towns of Note and is Eastwardly from the Lodge in a valley surrounded by several rises of ground The River Terne on the North and Willowbridge Parke on the South on the same side lyes Ashley-Heath about a mile distant which hath been reputed by the ablest Artist's in King Jame's time the Learned Cambden to be the highest ground in England and from whence 't is supposed this Spring comes flowing through at its breakings out or off the face of a large Bed of good and hard Building Stone Before we come to the wondrous effects of this Spring 't will be satisfactory to some less knowing to be informed of the original of all Springs for whose satisfaction I declare in short without mentioning the many oppinions about it and their Authors Discourses Pro and Con meerly to shew their mastery of misterious words That all Springs undoubtedly come from the Sea through Meandring veins and porositous passages of the Earth forced through them even to or over the tops of Mountains and to their breakings out in so many places by that great weight of water that lyes behind them pressing them forward and are clarified from the Sea Saltness in their passage Good * Lord Bacon authority affirming that pits dug near the Sea the water that soaks into them by that means becomes fresh Now the nature of the Spring is suitable to the Qualities of that Earth or Minerals through which by its many turnings and windings in its passage through the bowels of the Earth it runs carrying with it either faculty or substance or both Some Springs as this we treat of out of the subteraneal substances attract faculties to each other as those substances they pass through Which solves the Question of the Curious enquirer why the same Spring should Cure divers Diseases and they contrary or having but small kin to each other as 〈◊〉 any simples compounded together of natures repugnant to each other having had their due fermentation working so upon one another as to become incorporated with a concatenation of their virtues may occasion the same Question yet produce in its effects a rare Medicine for most Diseases and as it is most powerful against those for which there was a greater quantity of suitable Simples in the composition So is each Spring of the greater force and quicker dispatch in the Curing those Distempers for which those Minerals it last and most run through his proper The virtues this Spring last participated is conceived to be Sulphur and Nitre by its Coldness and driving out an internal Malady to the extream parts of the body and its Balsamick virtue in healing it and all sorts of Soa●s whatever that it with its vertues can reach either Internal or External The Taste of this Water is extreamly pleasant to most near to that of new milk mixed with common Spring water But can give no pleusible reason of the contrary and bitter relish it hath left on the Pallets of some few that have given mean account thereof This Water is free from any manner of Tincture but of a Christal clearness some whereof standing but a little time in a clear Glass which I often for satisfaction tryed left a thick Oyly foeces all over the Glass A quantity of it being exhaled over the fire there hath remained a substance of the thickness and colour of Honey but we were debilirated for making Chimical experiments of it for want of suitable Utensils would but an Artist bestow some pains upon it 't would certainly require his pains and he thereby find out the reasons of and confirm those that are not eye witnesses may doubt its vertues What this Water performs you are informed in the Epistle to Reader by a Right Honourable and though Female yet a Pen of more than a Masculine strain and vivacity proceeding from so ready a Phaucis at all times that the richness thereof flows as much faster than she can write though an incredible swift hand as this Spring outdoes the belief of many Therefore the dull account I might have given would have seemed like flatest Water after the briskest VVine However before we come to the Alphabetical account of the few of those many Cures it hath done since Spring was a twelvemonth Those persons that desire to make tryal of this VVater that are not able to see a Physitian for better advice are desired to follow these brief and easie rules First Rightly to consider the nature of their Distemper and which way the water must work to Cure them and to take something that may prepare their Bodies for it to facilitate its operation though few that methodically use the water and have time so to do will stand in need thereof Secondly that they Drink two or three days before they Bath and that in the morning not overcharging their Stomachs at the first but increasing their draughts every morning and using if they can some moderate exercise as walking betwixt every three

FONS SANITATIS Or the HEALING SPRING AT WILLOWBRIDGE IN Stafford-shire Found out by the Right Honourable the Lady JANE GERARD Baroness of BROMLEY Published for the Common Good By SAMVEL GILBERT Chaplain to Her Honour and Rector of Quatt The WELL having been of Happy Consequence to all its Neighbouring Diseased Persons and many Strangers to whom Its Infant Fame hath but yet lisped its Virtues With Allowance LONDON Printed for the Author Anno Dom. 1676. The Epistle to the READER Reader IF the Noise of these Waters have not sounded in your Ears the following Catalogue of some few of the many Cures done by it are withall truth and integrity made publick many amazing effects of it being lost through the neglect of enquiring the Persons Names and Places where they Live And though this Excellent Water be but in its infancy being but lately discovered yet 't is found a Physitian not inferiour to many that have taken their degree And as good a Chirurgion and Occulist as those tha● have served an Apprentiship As also a Farrier which my love to that Species of Creatures makes me insert fo● Curing several Maladies in Horses To shew how universally Restorative these Waters are to Debilitated Limbs it hath been often experimented that they not only extend the contraction but contract and comfort the relaxation of feeble Nerves and Sinews even to admiration And in an Incredible short time which is perform'd by Drinking and Bathing although it be a Cold-Water against which some may object yet methinks 't is no● unreasonable to answer That tha● temper improves this virtue in it b●lcent'ring the natural heat which makes it return to the extream part● with greater vigour and so to procure an equal circulation of th● Bood And 't is believed they wil● hardly fail where repletion is no● wanting It Heals all Foul Scabs and Ulcers Scald-heads the Kings-evil Scales Bones and heals by Extracting and Cleansing the humours that cause the Malady And is an incomparable Remedy for Swellings in any part and gives immediate Ease to Aches and Pains and Palsies And by Drinking and Bathing Cures Scorbutick and Dropecal Distempers the Stone the Collick and the Rickets yet of flowing not mercenary administrations I have heard 't is a Maxime That no Mineral lyes single but certainly this may pretend to come from a singular composition of them by its Sanative opperations So excelling all I have heard of And it is hoped and believed there is no cause to fear it should loose its Vertue it being not a lean barren Spring as most other Medicinal Waters but a Stream so plentiful as it is enough to turn a Mill. But although I shall not pretend to Determine whether it be armed to encounter and subdue Diseases by running thorough Iron and Steel or what other Mineralls For I assure you 't is no Philosopher Writes to you yet able to give you this truest and best reason for their virtues viz. Because the great Preserver hath given to the gift of Healing to whom be Eternal Praise 'T is farther added for the Inforformation of the Reader Reader THe Fame that is spread abroad of this Well by those that have had the fortune to use it is not unknown to many nor the Malice neither of some Persons to all Mankind but themselves no marvail then if exercised against the reputation of this Water that is so much for their benefit I wish such have not occasion to make use of it as some of the like stamp have done that have cryed it down in publick and for the Curing of their own Distempers make use of it in private with such success as to perform what all their Choicest-Medicaments have fail'd in Like many Physitians forbidding that to others which they use themselves It being indeed the Interest of the less Generous minded both Physitians and Surgeons to beat down the fame of Cures done by this Water to inhanse their own Advantage though to the utter ruine of many Diseased Persons But we need not spend the Readers nor our own time in vindicating this Well from the aspertion of such or indeed of any It is sufficiently able by the daily effects of its Virtues produce to wash off all spatlings and raise its own fame above all the noted Springs we have yet heard of Of which you 'l be farther satisfied by perusing the annexed and true account that we could take of some Cures performed by it that indeed would be beyond belief were there not good authority for them Nor would thus much as hath been said did not the glory of God lie buryed in our silence which of all things we ought to be most concern'd for Shall so great a mercy as this Healing Well be slighted and his goodness not extolled Shall we be Cured by it and he not Praised the way purely not by concealing his mercies in the wonderous effects of it much less by celipsing them As his mercies shine openly and run freely so let our acknowledgement too and not be clouded by derogating either from the Author or means by which he conveyes so great a health to us Something Concerning Water in General Of the Original and the Reasons of the several Virtues of Springs With an account of the Healing Spring in Willowbridge-Park in Stafford-Shire AN exact Philosophical and Physical Treatise of Water in General or in particulars Sea River Rain or Spring-Water was never the Intention of the Writer which though not wholly out of his road yet out of his compass of time to perform wanting all sorts of suitable Conveniences But such light touches that from his own reason fell in his way to this Spring ftands in yours to the account of some Cures it hath performed giving incouragement to some Pen more ingenuously Industrious to give better satisfaction of the admirable Virtues of this Well Hypocrates that great Master of reason and Prince of Physitians as some term him not unworthily affirms that Water and Fire are the two Principles of life giving as well he may water the preheminence understanding thereby our Radical Moisture which is of such absolute necessity that neither sensative or vegitive creatures subsistance can be propt without it For by its deprivation the one presently grows Hectical the other Withers and decayes And is fitly placed before Fire Aire or Earth for it extinguishes the first changes the second into its self and devoureth the last The most mundane beings running the race of nature without Fire but none without Water As we are abundantly beholding to that Element in our composition and subsistance having chiefest regard to the grandest power God Almighty in the formation and upholding of all things So for the rectifying of the motions of the internal Machins of our Microcosmus's and the repairing those breaches in the walls thereof that our irregularities have made Witness the advantage we have by Water in general but more by many particular Springs whose use is excellent for particular Distempers