Major Taylor's case of the Scur­vy cured a second time by the Waters.

2. DUring the time of his being abroad at Tangier, which was about five years, at his return in­to England, he found himself in as bad a state of health as he was at his first coming to the waters aforesaid. The Scorbutick Symptoms prevailing strong­ly upon him, his legs, (as an addition and product of this sort of Scurvy) was covered over with white scales, and he, in the main, over-run with the Scurvy from the Sea-air, with most of the in­dications thereof aforesaid, betakes him­self to his former Asylum for releif and help, drank the waters twice that Summer (in the year 70) found as considerable an Event, yea as much be­nefit by the waters as before, taking off the Symptoms of the Scurvy as com­plicated with other weakness, purified [Page 8]the blood, and thereby made the scales fall off: So continued drinking the wa­ters every year since except one, and injoys his health very well, was at Scar­brouogh twice last Summer, being the latter time there with my Lord Mar­quess of Winchester.

My Lady Carey her case.
The Third cure of the Scurvy.

3 JUly 5th 77 she was highly Scorbu­tick, the first remarkable appea­rance whereof was a stitch she had in her right brest, which like a dart struck through to her back: That a strong Scorbutick Acidum prevailed in her Stomack, was evident, in that when she took new milk, it presently be­came curdled into cheese, which she vo­mited up (with great difficulty and dan­ger of suffocation,) in the very form of a cheese curd, as if indeed the Scor­butick Acid was the runnet which made cheese of milk while in the Stomack: she took some Tobacco which caused more of the same cheesy congulum come up: after which this Scorbu­tick Acidum was in great part carried [Page 9]upon the nerves, whence she fell in­to an universal trembling or paraly­tick fit, so as every part of her trem­bled, which continued about half an hour, during which time she could not speak, and (as an argument of an ac­companied convulsive motion) her mouth was drawn a little aside; but as to li­vidness of colour and other dangerous Symptoms, she seemed well nigh Expire­ing: Then was the scene of this Scor­butick ferment transfered into the blood, where it caused such a spurious fer­mentation, as thereupon a violent heat was contracted, which continued (as if she had been in a feaver) for four dayes, which with sweating Medicines was part­ly transpired, and partly carried or trans­lated to the urinary vessels, where the Scurvy Acid (thus variously disguised) at length chiefly fixt, and acted ano­ther sort of Scene, bringing on the stran­gury or stoppage of Urine, which con­tinued day and night (not past two spoonfuls a time) and her water con­stantly mixed with blood, and that for 14 weeks together: mean while some of the Scorbutick Acidum lodged in the Stomack, depraving the ferment thereof, whence the lost her appetite: and part [Page 10]of it was sent or precipitated from the blood in its circulation upon the lungs, whence from the obstructing Acidum they were stuffed and had not (through a lesse­ning their Systole and Diastole) a due re­spiration, the cause of her short winded­ness, and from both was brought on a decaying of Spirits and strength, and an impoverishment of her body, together with a great pain in the urinary Vessels.

Thus the Scurvy had appeared under various masques, as if indeed it had been a complication of many other maladies, viz. a bastard Plurisie, Surfet, Palsy, Con­vulsions, Fever, Strangury, Stone, (with the aggravation of mixt blood) dolor Nephriticus, Apepsie, Asthma, Marasmus, while really (as may be concluded from the range of Symptoms emerging from the frequent metastasis of the Scor­butick Acid) they were but various ap­pearances, and different guises the scor­butick ferment had put on, as it was lodged in, or transferred from one part, organ, or juice to another: was all (I say) but the Scurvy under diffe­rent masques.

This worthy Lady, under the cir­cumstances of the aforesaid Symptoms, [Page 11](somewhat alleviated) by which she had been under confinement to her Chamber for eight months, by advice, at length betakes her self to Scarbrough-Spaw, May 28, drank the waters, and found immediate help; For the Scorbu­tick Symptoms abated, her appetite was recruited, and strength regained: And although the waters did not pass by U­rine (the obstructions being so obsti­nate) at the first time of drinking thereof, which was onely for 10 days: yet upon her Ladyships return again to the waters; they then made their way through those formerly obstructed passages, took off all bad Symptoms, formerly afflicting those parts, ea­sting her pain, procured a good di­gestion, brought on (considering her age) a good Athletick habit of body; be­came very active cheerfull and healthfull, and as if renewed again in her old age, the good effects thereof continued: for I waited on her near two months after her returne from the water and found her well as aforesaid.

A Fourth cure.

4 THe Right Honorable James Earl of Suffolk had been for the space of thirteen years trou­bled with a most grievous Scorbutick pain (for so it appeared by the Symp­toms) at the Stomack, which usually seized on him at meals, especially if he did eat flesh, so as was forced to give over, though sometimes at two or three bits of meat, and thus it would hold him for several hours, causing a great distention and hardness upon the region of the Stomack, with torsions on the right side, so as it made his very ribs on that side to bend: whose best ease was to sit low, and thrust his thumb with all his force upon his Stomack. His Lordship had sought for cure both in England and France of the most emi­nent Physicians he could hear of, but found none, the malady resisting all means that could be used: His Lord­ship came to these waters, and drank a­bout three weeks, after a few days (as Dr. Whittie, who was then at the Spaw and attended him, observed) the fits [Page 13]lessened by degrees, that he could better Eat, and concoct his meat with little pain: who gave his Lordship some grounds of hope, that after he was settled at home from the waters and his Journey, he might find a perfect recovery, which through the mercy of God did accordingly succeed, so as he has scarce any footsteps of his former malady, but can eat any sort of meat without pain.

The Fifth is Sir John Anderson's Case given in a letter under his own hand to Dr. Whittie.

SIr, upon your request to give you an account of the effects of Scar­brough-Spaw, I present you with this, as a true narrative of what I have ob­served. In Anno 1661 finding my self very much inclining to the Scurvy (ha­ving most of the Symptoms attending that disease) I came to Scarbrough; and must confess, that after a fortnights drinking of the waters, I found both the pains of my knees and short wind­edness wholly gone, and those other impediments which are concomitants of that distemper: being thus encou­raged, at the convenient time of the [Page 14]next year I repaired thither again, and very unexpectedly I was there ta­ken with a fit of the Gout, under which malady I had formerly suffered, but after I had drank the waters about a week I was freed from all my pain, and I thank God (excepting some small remembrances, as heat in that joint of my toe) I never had since any thing of pain worth taking notice of. In 1663. I found my blood extreamly hot, and such pricking in my hands and feet, and continual bleeding at the nose, that I feared an extraordinary di­stemper, which after using of the wa­ters I was clearly freed from. In the year 1664 I was prevented by extraor­dinary occasions and could not come to the Spaw, and most part of that Win­ter and the succeeding Spring I was much afflicted with an extraordinary heat in my bowels, and short-winded­ness and pain in my knees, which by the blessing of God, and the goodness of the waters, joined with your advice and assistance in using them, I find my self quitted of. And this obser­vation I have made this year of my own using them, that after I had drank three days (the waters having [Page 15]fully answered my expectation in all particulars) I resolved one night to con­tent my self with a very slender Sup­per, and the next morning I observ'd that I made plentifull store of Urine, as usually before I drank the waters, after which I drank four quarts of water, and resolved to fast untill they had fully compleated their operation which (as I conceive) ended about three in the afternoon; I still kept fasting to see if they would work longer, which in some small measure they did till five, but more by Urine then siege, after which, I measured the quantity that had come from me, in which I was as exact as I was in ta­king the water it self, and when I had compared what had passed through, with the quantity that I drank, I found the 4 quarts increased to five and very near a pint, which could not be increased by any thing I took, for untill five I had fasted from all things and then took but a gill of Wormwood wine, which was all that could help to make the addition, excep­ting the humors of the body which were plentifully cast out with the waters. This from Sir your very affectionate Friend John Anderson.

The Sixth cure of the Scurvy.

MR. J. Robinson of Hull had a Fe­ver with an aguish intervall, being a fever spun out at length by Pa­roxysms, and thence upon the exit thereof, had contracted a Scorbutick A­pepsie and chachectical habit of body (as the relict of his late Quartan) having much pains and weakness in his joints all over him, so as he could scarce­ly walk, and his appetite to food was taken away: by advice, he came to the waters of Scarbrough, drank them, and found himself better in a few days. After eight or ten days drinking, he got an Excellent good Stomack, and in about fourteen days time, his Scorbutick Symptoms went off, and he returned as well in health home as he had been of twenty years before, as I had from his own mouth: upon which account he yearly drinks the waters with good success ever since, which is now seaven or eight years.

A Seventh cure of the Scurvy.

ANne Robinson laboured under a Scorbutick ferment vitiating the natural ferment of the Stomack, which took away her appetite, and procured a great weakness and languor of body, her disease was chronical, of long conti­nuance, held her above two years: in order to the cure of which, she had taken vomits and other medicaments according to the advice of some Physi­cians but all in vain, she still become­ing worse and worse, in so much as she was judged consumptive, she (con­trary to the advice of one Physician she had consulted) applies her self to the waters, drank them for fourteen days, and that without any success at all, con­tinued as bad as at first: at length when fourteen days were expired, she began to expectorate, or spit abundance of Phlegm which in the aforesaid time had been loosned: whereupon she grew better, got a Stomack to her food, regained strength, so as in a months time (after the first drinking) she found her self very well: And retur­ned home in good health. But after a [Page 18]while at home, she began again in the same malady: whereupon she came again the next Spaw time, and was cured a second time: also she had some touches of her former Symptoms a third time, but after her third drinking, she was throughly well recovered, and so continued ever since, being now several years ago: which account I had from her own mouth at the Waters.

The Eighth cure of the Scurvy.

J. C. near York, laboured under a Scorbutick disorder of his Sto­mack, evident by its great oppression by Phlegm, and water, so as every morning he had great and trouble­some boknings or retchings to vomit, whereby a clear water came off, and after that, by much strugglings, came up Phlegm, and then he was at some ease, during which time it took a­way his appetite: This continued, not­withstanding the advice of an ingeni­ous Physician, who at length ordered him to come to these waters, where he found great relief, it thinns his Phlegm and carryes it off by seidge, and disposeth so of the clear water, which [Page 19]used to distill per lingulam from his Stomack, as he is well, and continues so for many months after drinking the waters, till towards the Spring, and then it begins again, and continues till he comes to the waters, which takes it away again, and he returns well home. Upon which action he every year fre­quents the waters and that with good success.

The Ninth cure of the Scurvy.

MR. Christopher Adams of Camels­field Yorkshire, aged seventy three years, had for six years together been miserably tormented with pain in his leggs, feebleness in his knees, frequent faintings, and a dry Itch over all his skin, he had advice with several Physicians, who had ordered him Diet-drinks, Diaphoreticks, Oyntments, &c. But without any success at all, he came at length to Scarbrough, and upon drinking those waters he found per­fect ease in all the aforesaid Symptoms; he had also been sore afflicted with diz­ziness in his head and loss of memory, his undestanding also was sometimes so clouded, that he could not discern [Page 20]the quarters of heaven, or know the East from the West, and sometimes was wont to fall: by the use of the Spaw, he recovered out of the said Symptoms, and never had any fits since considerable. For prevention whereof he continu­ed his annual visits at Scarbrough for seven years, although he lived at 40 miles distance.

The Tenth case

MAdam Pockley nere Selby in York­shire had a bad Stomack, ac­companyed with an ill digestion, a great flatulency or windy-riftings: she drank the waters last year near fourteen days, with some intervall, which procured her a very good Stomack to her meat, so as she said, she eat near as much meat, and that with savouriness and good relish, in one day at Scarbrough, as in a week at home: her meat also digesting well, and the windiness (the fruit of Indigestion) was gone.

1 Scorbutick Cholera.
The Tenth cure of the Scurvy.

SIr W. Ker, upon the borders of Scotland (a worthy Knight) la­boured under a Scorbutick Cholera, with a great oppression of wind upon his Stomack: in so much as he could scarce get any meat down, but was pre­sently heaved up by the force and pres­sure of the wind, and what ever he eat at night, he was sure after his first sleep to be desperate sick there­with, till it was carryed off both by vomiting and purging: whereby was brought on a great debilitude of ap­petite, could scarce digest any meat, and was thence reduced to a very weak state of body, being brought to a great enfeeblement by the prevalency of the aforesaid Scorbutick Symptoms: have­ing had much advice before, and had ta­ken much Physick but to little purpose, was advised by his Physician Dr. Simpson (an Eminent Physician in Scotland) to apply himself to Scarbrough waters: who accordingly did, and upon five or [Page 22]six days drinking thereof, according to advice, found himself much better, and the Symptoms abating, could take food, and had a pretty good digestion, the flatus ceasing; and in about ten or twelve days time, he returned home as well in health as ever he had been before, which happened in the year 74; found so much good by drinking the wa­ters, as he has come every year since, and so intends to do for the future if he lives: from whose own mouth I had the aforesaid relation.

2 Scorbutick Cholera.
The Eleventh cure of the Scurvy.

G.— laboured under a Scorbutick Apepsie, and indigestion, throw­ing up sometimes a matter of a greasy form, so as might be made into balls, other while casting up that little food he took, raw and indigested, many hours after taking thereof, being unaltered in its form, from what it was when taken, being contracted by a surfeit from cold, by which Symptoms he became weak in body and unfit for labour: he con­tinued [Page 23]thus for above two years, most what sick after taking any food, and what he took was so little as by com­putation was scarce able to sustain him: he came to the waters, drank them four dayes, each day twelve pints, which wrought very plentifully with him: The very first day, he began to eat with an appetite, what food he took staied with him, and in the compass of the foresaid time, he got a very good Stomack to his meat, which also di­gested very well, and he thereupon reco­vered. The waters during their wor­king (especially the last day) made him very sore behind, which was a demon­straion a posteriori of the efficacy of the waters.

3 Scorbutick Cholera.
The Twelfth cure of the Scurvy.

A Scotch Gentleman was afflicted with a Scorbutick indigestion and flatus upon his Stomack, so as what ever he took he threw it up presently after; This continued for about three quarters of a year, he came (in order [Page 24]to his help) to drink the Scarbrough waters, the first week he found no be­nefit at all: But being put upon a more regular Method of taking them: he then, the first day after, began to take some broth, which staid with him, next day he could take and digest a little meat, which staied, and agreed well with him: and in a few days after had a very good Stomack, digested his meat very well, and returned home in health.

4 Scorbutick Cholera.
The Thirteenth cure of the Scurvy.

A Noble Lord contracted a disorde upon his Stomack by eating Fish (and that of such sort, which would the soonest, for want of digestion grow putrid upon the stomack) and per­haps by drinking upon it some bad wines: from which indigestion his Lordship was much put out of order: I advised him to drink the waters, which while he was doing, sends for me all in hast, when I came, he told me he was ill at his Stomack, had a pain [Page 25]and dizziness in his head, I advised his Lordship to follow it yet, by taking more water, which he did, and presently while I staied by him, he began to vo­mit abundance of tough Phlegm, and yellow bitter choller, which clea­red his Stomach, and carried the rest downwards; so he was presently at ease, nature by the help of the waters dis­charging her self both wayes of what was burdensome; whence, the disor­der of his Stomack, pain, and dizzi­ness of his head, went forthwith away, and by drinking the waters some few days, he got a good Stomach to his meat, also a fresh lively colour.

The Fourteenth cure.

MR. Humfrey Birch of London, had been long troubled with loss of appetite and debility of concoction, the ferment of his Stomach being so viti­ated and the tone of the membranes thereof so altered as that he did con­stantly cast up his meat, (which were undoubted Symptoms of the Scurvy as it had seated it self in the Stomach) This being the second year of his ap­pearance at Scarbrough, he acknowledged [Page 26]he had found a perfect cure, being able to eat and concoct any sort of meat.

The Fitfteenth cure.

MR. Roger Maynat of Dalton-Roy­al in Yorkshire, laboured for a­bove three years together under the same malady, which had exceedingly abated his strength, and resisted all en­deavours of Physicians: who was per­fectly cured after one weeks drinking of the waters, and for prevention has not failed for several years to visit them.

The Sixteenth cure.

MR. William Linstead of Hull had got a Scorbutick surfeit, which brought on an excessive vomiting and purging even to fourscore times: all his body over he broke out into red pimples, as if it had been the small pox; upon his drinking of the waters, immediate­ly all the Symptoms abated, and his strength and stomach encreased daily, and in four or five days was restored to perfect health.

The Seventeenth cure, viz. a Scor­butick Heart-burn.

MAtthew Alured Esq of Bever­ly in Yorkshire was many years sore afflicted with a Scorbu­tick Heart-burn, which tormented him day and night notwithstanding much means used for cure, found benefit here, on which account he yearly fre­quented them.

I reckon the seven last cases of Scor­butick Cholar's, together with that of the Scorbutick heart-burn as most pro­perly reducible to the Classis of the Scurvy, putting them under that head, as (for Method sake) most adapted thereto, although the concurring cir­cumstances doth not only in every re­spect quadrate therewith; however I was biassed thereto, not only (as I said) for Method sake but also as led by this reason, that if the Scorbutick ferment had setled or fixt it self in some other parts, organs, or juyces of the bodyes of those aforesaid patients, it would then doubtless have put on other Symptoms, and appeared under such dresses, [Page 28]as it might easily enough have been discovered (even by a vulgar Eye) to be no other than the Scurvy.

Now come we to another branch or species of the Scurvy, as its ferment fixeth it self in other parts, viz. either the lungs or Intestines or smaller guts; where it acts another scene of Symp­toms. The first of which we call a Scorbutick Asthma, because the ferment of the Scurvy seems chiefly to fix it self upon the Lungs, on which parts chiefly the tragedy of Scorbutick Symptoms are acted, of which take one Case and Cure as followeth.

The Eighteenth cure.

MRs. Mary Byron of Koosby in York­shire, had been three or four years exceedingly troubled with a stopping at her breast, in so much as for a month or five weeks together sometimes she could not lye down in her bed but was bolstered up with pillows, she was brought also to that excessive weakness, that she could scarce go over the house when she was at the best, and her flesh was quite consumed, being almost no­thing but skin and bone; she could never eat any thing, but cast it up [Page 29]againe with coughing, nor could she drink at any time, but presently she was scarce able to speak for want of breath, the came to these waters and drank about eight or ten days, retur­ning home with perfect health, and has so continued, since when she hath had a child.

The second, we for distinction sake, call Scorbutick Collicks: which, that they are indeed Collicks, is evident from the Symptoms immediately emer­ging therefrom; and next that they are Scorbutick, is as apparent, because they take as deep rooting, as the very ferment of the Scurvy, are as durable, and obsti­nate to vulgar Methods, and cured mostly with such Antiscorbuticks, as respect the deep roots of such fixt diseases, under which as stems thereof, or species of Scor­butick Collicks, we comprise also some Diarrhea's or loosnesses, the Gripes and Dysenteries or Bloody fluxes: all which have not always their source or first spring from the Intestines, but many times from a Symbolical Scorbutick Acid, as sometimes transmitted thither from the blood co-operating in the Stomach: yet for method and distinction sake we reck­on them as followeth.

Scorbutick Cholick.
The Ninteenth cure of the Scurvy.

A Man (living in the Bishoprick of Durham) laboured under a grievous Scorbutick Collick, asslicting his body, especially below his navel, with great pain, his stomach was gone, had excessive pains all over him, was brought exceeding weak as he could scarce walk: came to drink the waters, which he did with so great success as his Scor­butick pains abated and gradually went away, got a good Stomach and digested his meat well: And in about eight days time, was so well recovered, as to the astonishment of his wife, and freinds he could run, and leap upon the sands.

Scorbutick-Stone-Collick.
The twentieth cure of the Scurvy.

MR. Hall near Hallifax in Yorkshire, was under Dr. Wharton and Dr. Paget (two eminent Physicians) [Page 31]hands in London, for a complication of an Ague and Stone-Collick, which wrought up to his Stomach and made him very sick; I add Scorbutick, because Agues (not well cured) frequently de­generate into Scorbutick habits of body, which also fixing upon the urinary passa­ges is the patron of many tormenting evils: had many medicines especially pur­ges, prescribed, which never passed with him: At length, after he came into the Country, he voided several stones: Then came to drink the waters at Knars­brough, but finding those not to pass with him, came to Scarbrough, and tryed those waters, which he fonnd to pass exceeding well, above all the purging medicines he had ever taken, onely for the first two or three days made him very sore in his posteriors, but carried off the Scorbutick Chollick, and the re­licts of his Ague, procuring a very good Stomach, which before was very bad and weak: he received so much good thereby, as he has now by times frequen­ted these waters for ten years: he had one fit of his Chollick this last Summer at the Spaw, but upon drinking of the wa­ters, it presently went off: he observed, that for some few days it wrought like [Page 32] Epsom or Barnet, mostly by seidge, but more effectually than either of them: and other days it wrought like Tunbridge or Knarsbrough, chiefly by Urine.

This last Instance also relates to the Classis of the Stone cures, but that the Symptoms thereof doth chiefly and strongly bear upon the Scorbutick fer­ment, which is the cause why we rank it under this head of the Scurvy.

Scorbutick Diarrhea or loosness.
The One and twentieth cure of the Scurvy.

P. B. of Scarbrough, his wife, was troubled with an excessive loos­ness, drank the waters, which after purging, presently stayed her loosness, and she was well: yea as often as she has any trouble that way, applyes her self to the waters, whether in Summer or Winter, by which she alwayes finds good success; it commonly cures her with one days drinking.

Scorbutick Gripes.
The Two and twentieth cure of the Scurvy.

P. B. a Master of a ship at Scarbrough, (my late patient) was afflicted with the Gripes, so as he could neither sit, stand, nor go without great torments; drank the waters, which at first he vo­mited, but by a peculiar way or method of taking the waters, giving him some­what which made them find the way through, opening the passages, dinted the acrimony or acidity impacted up­on the Guts, quieted the pain, and took away all bad Symptoms, so he recovered.

Scorbutick Dysentery or Bloody-flux.
The Three and twntieth cure of the Scurvy.

THE aforesaid Master of a ships brother in law, was afflicted with a Dysentery or Bloody-flux, so as he was not in a capacity (being a Sea-man) of going aboard his Vessel, he was weak­ned [Page 34]thereby and brought very low: af­ter trying in vain what other advice he could get, drank the waters, and in a few days the bad Symptoms were off, and he was perfectly cured.

The twenty fourth Cure.

SIlvester Sympson of Driffield in York­shire, had a bloody-flux eight years so as he all that space was forced to rise to stoole every night three or four times. It had resisted all other means he had attempted. He went to Scarbrough, and was cured perfectly in two or three days with the waters alone.

Scorbutick pissing of blood.
The twenty fifth Cure.

MR. Chapman of 80 years of age was much and often troubled with pissing blood, wherupon he made his recourse to Scarbrough's-Spaw, which took away that threatning Symp­tome by giving him present Ease, which was publickly known among the neigh­bourhood at Hacknes.

Now we come to reckon upon some other specificated Scurveys, in whose causes and Symptoms the Scurvy is chiefly twisted viz. Scorbutick-Rheuma­tisme, Erisipela's, Ulcers, Elephantiasis, and Leprous Scurvy, and shall give a single instance of cure of each by the waters, at least by their chief help, as follows.

Scorbutick Rheumatisme.
The twenty sixth Cure.

A. W. of Scarbrough was troubled with a Scorbutick Rheumatisme, which cheifly afflicted her right arm and shoulder, with grievous and almost insufferable pain; so as (through great extremity) she cryed forth I ordered her (being somewhat in years) a vesi­catory plaister to be applied to her shoulder on the same side, and a fo­mentation made Ex fol. Ebuli, Salv. agrest. Et fl. Sambuci ā ā boyled in Sea-water: then I advised her some pills with the waters, whereby they wrought well: and the had ease in the worst of her paroxysme by the follow­ing [Page 36]night Julep (viz) Aq. papav. Rhead. ℥iiij vel ℥iiij Syr. Limon. ℥i ss, cū [...] ^u C li. acidulat. which she took for three or four nights with great success and advantage, causing her to rest well: So she recovered.

A Scorbutick Cattarrhe.
The Seven and twentieth cure.

MRs. Mary Bateman of York had been much troubled with Rheumes, which had swelled up her face and eyes, and resisted all re­medies, found very much benefit by the use of this water, more then all other methods that had been prescribed for her, upon account whereof she has been an annuall visiter of it these twelve years.

Scorbutick Erisipela's.
The Eight and twentieth cure.

THE daughter of the aforesaid woman (of about ten years of [Page 37]age or more, had an Erisipelas or Infla­mation in her legg, called vulgarly the shingles or St. Anthony's fire, which began the Winter before; It of­ten ran with a lee, so as the cloth she wrapt it with would cleave and be baked thereto, and was very painfull to her (even to make her cry) at every taking off, she had a poultiss laid on, which was hard baked thereto, which I ordered them to take off, and throw away: I advised her to drink the wa­ters with a few pils, and ordered her a Topick of Venice Treacle, one ounce mixt in a pint of the best White-Wine, bathing it several times a day there­with, leaving a double linnen cloth dipt therein upon her legg: whereby in a few days time her leg grew better, the Inflamation abated, and the pain was mitigated: So that in less than a months time the bad Symptoms went quite off, and her leg was perfectly whole.

Scorbutick Ʋlcer.
The Nine and twentieth cure.

A Gentleman at the University of Cambridge (Mr. K.) now not [Page 38]far off Scarbrough, had a Scrobutick Ulcer in both feet cross the toes (while in the Colledge) which brought him much pain, the sore was white and most-what wept forth a Lee, accom­panied with a Scorbutick Acidum, the chief cause of pain: He laboured under the grief hereof for about two years, notwithstanding all the help a Cantabrigian Physician could make him; he came upon an occasion into the Coun­try, and drank the waters of Scarbrough for ten days: (being mindfull to try, if he could thence get any help.) The operation of the waters was such, as brought away a matter as black as pitch: whereupon the former inveterate and obstinate Symptoms (that would not bend to Physick nor outward Topicks before) now abated: his pain went a­way, the Scorbutick Lee was dryed up, (its Acidum being corrected in the blood by the waters,) and the Ulcers healed, was thereupon cured: being encouraged hereby, frequents the waters every year since, (he was cured in the year 1655.) only missed coming one year, during which interval or intermission, he had a dangerous Fe­ver, which was about seven or [Page 39]eight years ago; since which he has had his health well: Which account I had from his own mouth.

Scorbutick Elephantiasis.
The Thirtieth cure.

MR. Rogers's daughter of Scarbrough had a Scorbutick Elephantiasis almost all over her: which also, from the Scorbutick Acidum seising the ten­dons and ligaments of her joints, had rendred her well nigh decrepid: she drank the waters, and in about a fort­nights time or more, the blood was so purified, as it cast off those externall feculencies or recrements of the ultimate digestion in the form of white scales, and so sweetned the blood and latex, and opened obstructions, as that it removed those bolts and hedges which were fastned upon the joynts and li­gaments, and begot a healthfull habit of body: So her skin became clear and smooth, and she well.

Leprous Scurvy.
The One and thirtieth cure.

A Boy had a leprous Scurvy, which brought a white scurf all over him, drank the waters, and in a few weeks time, the spreading Scorbutick ferment being dinted, the blood purifi­ed, the scales from the roots dryed and mortified, and pilled off, and he was cured.

To which (as at the Heel of these Instances of cures of the Scurvy) we shall (by way of conclusion) only sub­join somewhat in short concerning Scorbutick Hemorrhoids: and that not only for the opening those which are inward, swelled, and obstructed, but also for binding, closing, and healing those which are too open; in both cor­recting the Scorbutick Acidum of the blood: In the one loosning the impacted, and close rivetted Acidum, which binds and swells the veins: and in the other sweetning or dinting the Acidum (which lacerated and wounded the veins) gent­ly binding up and healing the Orifices [Page 41]thereof for the future: of which in order as followeth.

Scorbutick Hemorrhoids.
The Two and thirtieth cure.

MR. Ker of Eaton (in the year 1677) laboured under greivous pains of the inward Hemerrhoids, had a constant pain of those parts, but especially when nature was to discharge its burden by siege, which was very afflictive to him, causing him great grief for near a quar­ter of a year; had advice of a Physici­an, but found no benefit, till he came to the waters, which he drank regularly, for ten or twelve days: whereby the Scorbutick Acidum (which was let down into and had bound and swelled the Hermorrhoidal vessels) was so sweet­ned and dinted, as he returned home perfectly well, and continues so ever since.

A Gentleman acquainted me that the waters open the Hemorrhoid veins, which doth him a great kindness in or­der to his health: upon the account whereof he drinks them every year.

Scorbutick Hermorrhoids.
The Three and thirtieth cure.

ANd that the waters are proper, not only for the opening the Hemor­rhoids, where obstructed, as aforesaid: but also for the closing and healing them when too open, was observable from a Doctor of my acquaintance, who la­bouring with a more then ordinary ef­fusion of Hemorrhoidal blood, and that for about seven years, was at first very ti­merous of drinking the waters, fearing least they should open the aforenamed veins too much. But being incouraged by the success he saw others have, ven­tured, and to his great satisfaction and even admiration found great help thereby.

That these waters purifie the blood and cure the Scurvy, even in such a [...] have been tainted with it in a high de­gree, is evident from the large expe­rience had thereof by Dr. Wittie in th [...] late wars, when the Garrison which w [...] kept by Sir Hugh Cholmly in the Castle [...] after a few weeks siege, whether fro [...], the air of the sea, or a bad diet, [...] want of exercise, his men were most [...] [Page 43]them fallen into the Scurvy, especially the Country-Gentlemen who had fled in thither, who were miserably troubled with it: as many of them as drank of the Spaw water, were perfectly and speedily cured, which some of them used without any other means. And many instances (as Dr. Wittie saith) of persons of quality might be brought in, who have been highly tainted with all the Symptoms that attend the Scurvy and Cachexy, and were upon the very brink of the Dropsie, having their legs swelled &c. who have found perfect cures, on which account, they were constant frequenters of it. Only before we conclude this Classis of Scarbrough's Maladies, it will not be amiss to take notice, that as the Scruvy doth chiefly depend upon the depravation of the ferment of the Stomach, towards the rectification and resti­tution of which, the waters notably contribute: so likewise the other man­ner of depravations of the Stomach, whence dejections of appetite, and an ingendring of tough Phlegm, which in some persons these waters carry off by vomit; of which I shall give this fol­lowing instance.

J. Bilbrough Jun. of Scarbrough finds, that as often as his Stomach declines (as it yearly by times doth) when he drinks the waters, always the first mor­ning it makes him vomit much tough Phlegm, then passeth downward the rest by siedge, and in a few daies recruits his Stomach again very well.

Where we might also shew these wa­ters are so proper to the Stomach, and to the restoring its ferment, as that they effectually assist in the carry­ing off such depraved matter, as through excess by debauchery lies heavy and op­presseth the Stomack, and by a longer stay in the body, might become the Seminary of many diseases, (viz.) Surfeits, Scurvyes, Dropsies, &c. there­by preventing such fruits as are the natural product and off-spring of such Seminaries: concerning which (if we might not thereby give incouragement towards the transgressing the bounds of Temperance and Moderation) we could give considerable instances, save that we Judge such here not to be Exemplary, and therefore of design forbear.

Mr. Woodyears Case, a Gentleman in York.
The first Cure.

AT Christmas, 1667. began the oc­casion of Melancholy or Hypocond. Wind, (being the Passion of Sorrow for the loss of his beloved Son,) which Disease gradually grew to that height, as in about eighteen Moneths time af­ter the first beginning thereof, it brought upon him a Virtigo or Megrim, so as he thought all went round. At Christmas 72. he had two fits (one soon after the other) as he sate in his chair, which for the time deprived him of all sense; after which, he had (as accompanying Symptoms) pains all over him, with great oppression of Spi­rits; a general indisposition, shortness of Breath, want of Appetite, some­times vomited what he took, had a great weakness and unsteddiness, yet seeming great weight upon his head, so as he could not stoop, or scarce move it but gradually; had strange fancies; the least noise had so deep an [Page 52]impression upon him, as was enough almost (as he thought) to have struck him dead. Three days after his two fits he was extremely sick with a faint­ness of Spirits as if to death, which so much weaked him as he was not able to walk over his Chamber without lead­ing for four Moneths: during which time he had many of those sudden Epi­leptick fits, constantly at change and full of the Moon, and fainted all over his Spirits for some hours together, be­ing in an Agony with weeping, which fainting fits would hold for nine hours at a time, with great struglings as if convulsed; upon all which, the pathe­mata animi had originally the greatest influence.

He had the advice of two eminent Physicians, who ran through several cour­ses of Physick with him, giving him Vo­mits, Purges, ordering him blooding by the Hemorrhoids, Steel Preparations, &c. Who, when none of these would do, they advised him to go for Scarbrough-Spaw, whither in July, 1673. he went, and drank the waters according to advice three weeks: For the first ten dayes whereof he was very weak, had a fain­tiness upon his Spirits, found no advan­tage [Page 53]or benefit thereby: at length Dr. Wittie (then attending the waters) ad­vised him to ride abroad upon the Hills. As he was riding, a sudden griping took him round his body for half an hour, and then an extreme purging came on him that he had four Stools in an hour, with extremity of gripings before each Stool. This purging began at two in the afternoon, but the gripings began to abate before morning, insomuch that it became rather a pleasure to have Stools than otherwise, so continued all next day and night after (without drinking the waters) in which time he grew so steddy, compos'd and strong in his head as he could step out of his bed to the stool without any help, although he continued purging 4 times every hour. The second morning early the Doctor advised him to put on his cloaths (since he was so strong) and walk to the Spaw, where (he according to advice) drank only two pints of water, and al­though in going he had four stools, yet after drinking the waters he had only one or two there, but none in return­ing, and (what was remarkable) in going to the Spaw, he walked faster than the Doctor, to the admiration of all that were by.

After the aforesaid purgings, he drank the waters for eleven mornings, which then wrought so moderately as it had a most considerable and wonderful effect upon him, his symptoms all abated and gradually went off, got a good Sto­mach and digestion, the flatus (with its causes) was suppressed, which before sat upon the skirts of the Spirits, Mem­brane of the Brain and Stomach, whence his Vertigo went away, the load or hea­viness upon his head was taken off, it became steddy, his faintness and sickness ceased, the soyling steams or vapors which perverted and darkned the Regi­men of the Spirits (whence with other concurring causes happened the lesa imaginatio) were discussed, prevented, and in fine, he thereby became lively, brisk, and chearful beyond expectati­on, even to the Admiration of all those (whether in City or Country) who knew him in his former long lin­gring weakness. — He has ever since made his Annual visits to these waters at their season, and has to (his great satis­faction) injoyed his health without the least Relapse or Symptom of his for­mer dreadful Malady.

The Symptoms of whose Disease were signal Testimonies that the fer­ments were perverted, the nutritive and Sanguineous juyces were become depraved and Spurious, an incoarcible flatus was powerful, and that the steams and vitiated juyces had darkned and clouded the Regimen of the Animal Spirits, whence the lesa maginatio, and that the flatus by occult passages and rubs of the vessels bore strongly upon the meninges or tender film of the brain, whence came the seeming weight and yet unsteddiness of his head, as also bore forcibly upon the original of the Nerves in the brain, whence his Virti­ginous and Epiliptick fits, and smiting or suffocating the Spirits in their pro­per ducts, as also being much penned up (excepting as aforesaid) in the Stomach, strengthneth the Tunicles there­of, bearing upon the breathing-holes of the vital ferment (the parent of Digestion) transmitted from the Ar­teries into the Stomach, suspended its function, whence sicknesses and faint­ings; And how the waters orderly ta­ken according to advice, answered all these indications, or as many of them as was needful, we (for brevity-sake) wave farther to inlarge.

From the aforesaid remarkable cause and cure, we might take an occasion to raise a discourse how the passions of the mind became the efficients and au­thors of many Symptoms and Diseases, especially such as attend Hypocondraism in Men and hysterical fits in Women; how they influence the ferments, di­gestions, chyliferous and sanguineous juyces, tone of the viscera, organs of the Spirits, &c. perverting the first, disturbing and suspending the second, alienating or vitiating the third, alter­ing the fourth, inverting the order of the fifth, and all in order to the pro­duction of several Diseases, immediate­ly emerging therefrom, but that I must re-mind my self of my designed brevity.

The second cure.

THe Right Honorable the Lord Roos had been much troubled with Hypochondriack wind, which stole away both his appetite and digestion, and caused an eminent decay of his Spi­rits and strength, and so filled his head with fumes, that he was often taken with dizziness and Melancholy fancies, [Page 57]after long methods of Physick prescri­bed by several learned Physicians (where­in though he ever found much good, yet his Distemper was frequently re­turning:) his Lord-ship came to these waters, wherein he found so much be­nefit in all the respects aforesaid, that he now injoyes a constant state of health, this (when first writ) being the third year wherein his Lord-ship visits Scar­brough, being then become much more lively and fleshy than formerly, and found good encouragement to continue his Annual visits.

The Third Cure.

MRS. Robinson of Buckton (be­twixt fifty and sixty years of age) laboured under a grievous and inveterate Head-ach on one side, which was very violent, proceeding from the Flatus Hypochondraicus, having fixed it self chiefly upon that part, and was also highly Scorbutick, having the Scur­vy in a great measure: The pain of her head was so strong as put her upon the trial of many Physitians, and had the best of their advice, but most-what in [Page 58]vain: at length drank these waters, and in fourteen dayes time she found her pain abate and gradually go off, and within a moneth she was perfectly well both as to her head-ach, (which be­fore would not bend to ordinary means) and also was cured of the Scurvy, re­turning in very good health.

The Fourth Cure.

MR. Thomas Birbeck of Sheffeild in York shire, was so afflicted with that Flatus Hypocond. as it affected his head very much with a dizziness or vir­tiginous motion that he scarce durst preach in the Pulpit: was in a languish­ing condition in this disease, being full of fears and fancies, applied himself to the waters, and the first year found so much good thereby as incouraged him to come the next year after, and then he was cured, and for many years be­came a healthful and chearful man.

The Fifth Cure.

MR. G. Smith of Berwick upon Tweed practitioner in Physick, fell into an extream heat and sharpness of Urine, with a continual dysury, after which did immediately succeed most grievous symptoms of Hypochondriach Melancholy, viz. Dizziness in his head, Dimness of sight, Difficulty of breath­ing, Oppression at Stomach, and Indi­gestion of meat, being voided raw, which himself, with others sufficiently learned, did in vain labour to remove, so as he was forced to keep his Cham­ber almost six moneths together, even despairing of a recovery; he came to these waters and drank three weeks, and returned home in good health and chearfulness of Spirit; for two years after he came again, and resolved, while God spared life to continue his Annual visits, notwithstanding the distance, being above an hundred and twenty miles.

The Sixth Cure.

MRS. Elizabeth Scremerston in the Bishoprick of Durham was trou­bled for a long time with the same ma­lady, which had changed her complexi­on and made her exceeding swarthy, with three weeks drinking she found a perfect recovery.

The Seventh Cure.

MR. Robert Lever Minister of Bolam in Northumberland was exceeding­ly troubled with Hipocondriach Melan­choly for the space of eight years, joyn­ed with frequent extention and Con­vulsion of the Nerves, which when the fit was gone off left him so feeble that he was not able to walk till he had got­ten some rest, he was often dizzy in his his head, which so clouded his under­standing that he became uncapable some­times for a quarter of a year together of discharging the duties of his Office. He was several times at the other Spaw [Page 61]in York-shire, where though he found some benefit, yet the symptoms return­ed. In 1663. he came to Scarbrough and drank a whole week, yet without any benefit till the Physician then at the waters, viz. Doctor Wittie was called to see the fit, wherein he seemed to be almost distracted, who judged it requi­site to prescribe some other helps pro­per for the case for two or three dayes, and furnished him with some Speci­ficks to be used with the waters, and set him on again, advising him to drink ten dayes more; after three dayes he found eminent degrees of recovery, all the symptoms abating, and went from the waters very healthful and chearful, who (praised be Almighty God) con­tinued so.

The Eighth Cure

MR. M. Darrel of Porstow in Lin­coln-Shire is by times much af­flicted with the Hypocond. Flatus, finds much benefit by drinking these wa­ters, wherefore he frequents them eve­ry year, sometimes he is for rear six [Page 62]moneths excessive Melancholy, cares for no company, but loves retirement: And by an orderly taking of these waters finds present relief, when no other Medi­cine he has taken at home has succeeded.

The Ninth Cure.

MRS. Elizabeth Newcome of Man­chester in Lancashire was eight or nine years together so afflicted with this Malady, joyned with extreme oppression of the stomach and back, with flitting heats, as if she had been in a violent Feaver, perpetual costiveness and diz­ziness of the head before the violence of the hot fit, she found a sharp stinging in the wrist of her right arm as if a Pen­knife was thrust into it, and when the fit was upon her, she would fall into excee­ding great frights from any the least noise, as the crowing of a Cock or the barking of a Dog, and when it was gone off she would be as sore as if she were beaten: It had resisted all medicines, till coming to these waters, she found good success.

The Tenth Cure.

A Scotch Gentlewoman, being in years, was much afflicted with Hypochondraism and the Scurvy, ha­ving a great disorder at her Stomach, drank the waters in great excess, was brought low and very weak, but after a while she recruited to her former strength, and the bad symptoms went off.

Here I could reckon upon several persons more who have by the order­ly use of these wates found much bene­fit in this very Malady. But at present let those in transitu serve.

The First Case.

MR. John Beaumont of Franck-foss in York-shire, his wife had been for very many years subject to a grievous fit of the Stone, for which she had taken much advice, though with little success, she went afterwards to Knarsbrough and drank those waters, but found no benefit: then her husband brought her to Scarbrough, which water brought [Page 66]away the matter of the Stone in Gravel and Sand to a great proportion even in one weeks time, and for five years af­ter (being then so long to the first writing hereof) she had no necessity of returning to the Spaw, being free of all symptoms.—To which I may add what I lately by letter received from a Relation of the aforesaid Gentle-womans, and (my worthy friend) that she received so much benefit by these waters, and for this fourteen years hath been so well that she never needed to make a second visit.

The Second Case.

AN old man of eighty six years of age, has frequented the Span for twelve or thirteen years, finding much good thereby every year for the Stone, had extreme and most violent pains and grievous torments, even so a [...] to make him cry forth aloud, so as he might be heard at a great distance, yea his torment in those parts were so strong that (to use his own words) he would have forgiven any one who would have knocked him on the head, he drank plen­tifully [Page 67]of the waters, sometimes fifteen pints in a morning, found great relief thereby: the benefit he reaps incoura­geth him to come every year, and was here this very last year 78, from whose own mouth I had the aforesaid Relati­on.

The Third Case.

THE old Lady Rhodes of Balbrough, was grievously afflicted with the symptoms of the Stone; who found great help and relief by the drinking these waters; yea, and by what I could learn was cured thereby.

The Fourth Case.

SR. J. H. of York (now a Mem­ber of Parliament) drank the wa­ters for several years, finding thereby he voided much gravel, and was more chearful afterwards: Then for five years by times was frequently afflicted with the symptoms of the Stone, having [Page 68]difficulty of Urine (or dysuria) [...]ming away drop by drop with pain be­fore the Stone came away, but still eve­ry year Gravel came away, and w [...] more at ease.

Then August 1677. he went and drank the waters, before which for Moneth or more, had a great dysuria or difficulty of urine, making none b [...] with great pain: The first day he wa [...] worse, the second day also worser, yea [...] the third day was worse and worse the waters mean-while passing, but not well. And upon the night after the third day, a stone, to the bigness of a Date-stone came away, which was a solid confirmed stone; then all the bad [...] Symptoms ceased, and he had perfect ease.

The next year after (which was the last year) he came to the waters, and upon the third-day morning (after the first drinking) voided another less stone about the bigness of a vetch, which was angular, but not of so firm a texture by much as the former, which he shew­ed me, and since which has had passage of his water very well, having not the [Page 69]least of those troublesome symptoms which usually attend the Stone, he ob­served, that upon every years drinking the waters, his Stomach was much re­cruited and digestion bettered.

The Fifth Case.

A Lady of Scotland, no less virtu­ous in Morals than noble in birth, had two violent fits of the Stone in her own Country, with extream sharp pain even to swoonings, so as they almost despaired of her life, after the severe Paroxisme was over, she came, by her Physicians advice to Scarbrough, drank the waters regularly, whereby in a few dayes she voided a stone, which her Ladyship shewed me, it was angular, yet came away with little pain.

The Sixth Case.

A Merchant of York (Mr. A. T.) laboured of a fit of the Stone, after some other Medicaments I advised him, he drank the waters, whereby he passed away a little stone, and so the [Page 70]Symptoms ceased and he was at ease For which very purpose he drank [...] waters most-what every year, and the with good success.

The Seventh Case
Which is Mr. G. Waugh of New Castle's Case, sent by way of Let­ter to Dr. Wittie.

SR. I judge my self obliged [...] give my testimony of the Spa [...] and its good effects in my Case, and first I bless God that he has afforde [...] me so great help by it, and also I let you know that it proved effectual almost beyond my first belief of the waters even to my admiration. In the year 69. at my first visiting of the Well the water did not only bring away [...] confirmed Stone as large as any Date stone, with its bed in which it lay but as I found did also soften and dis­solve what was more in my body, so that at one urine (as I remember) [...] voided above a dozen stones, most o [...] them as large as a white Pease, which did lye in the bason as stones, but [...] [Page 71]draining the water off, and thinking to take them up, they would not bear their own weight, but betwixt my fin­gers became sand, and these I voided the very day I left the Spaw. At my return in 1670. I had not drank eight pints of the water the first morning be­fore a large quantity of the tartarous tough matter that breeds the Stone came away, which I know was caused by the vertue of the water.

The Eighth Case.

MR. Emmerson of New-Castle having violent pain from the Stone, where­by he was exceedingly enfeebled, drank the waters (in the year 1677.) pret­ty plentifully, and at one time (as he observed) about a spoonful and a half of gravel passed from him; drank the waters also the last year with great ad­vantage, had a pain in his back from the stone or gravel in the Kidneys before [Page 72]he drank them, but upon drinking, it went away, and he was as well as ever he was (according to his own words) in his life.

The Ninth Case.

MR. Christopher Keld of Newby near Scarbrough had been many years subject to violent fits of the Stone, and falling into one of his usual fits, he cal­led to mind, that he had heard this wa­ter commended in the case; so as he sent immediately for some bottles there­of, and drank betwixt two or three quarts, which within less than half an hour, caused him to void several stones, besides much gravel, which gave him perfect ease, so as for seven years after he had not another fit. But then it seizing on him again, he applied him­self to the same remedy, with like suc­cess.

The Tenth Case.

MR. Stow of Newton upon Trent in Nottingham-shire, his Son being cut for the Stone, in order to the heal­ing [Page 73]of the wound in the neck of the bladder, first drank Knarsbrough-Spaw-waters, but afterwards hearing of the same of Scarbrough-waters did about eight or nine years (before the first writing hereof) make a journey thi­ther, by which they found so much and more real benefit in that disease of the of the Stone than they had before, that they never after returned to Knarsbrough but have been constant drinkers of Scar­brough-waters, either going thither, or else sending for the waters to Newton, though it be near thirty miles further distant than the other.

The Eleventh Case.

THe Apothecary of Scarbrough's Mo­ther has found much good by the waters for the Stone, who has some­times voided a spoonful of red sand or gravel, and has drank them these many years.

To all which we might add the Case of a Merchant in London, of Mr. W. Kitching who keeps the chief Inne at Grimsby in Lincoln-shire by the Sea side) of Mr. Skehough a School-master [Page 74]in Scotland, &c. who all received so much good hereby for the Stone, as in­couraged them for some years to frequent the waters.

That these waters sometimes disco­vers and brings on a fit of the Stone to some persons, who possibly never had one before, (I think) an evident de­monstration of the excellency of it vertue: For many are inclinable to the Stone, and perhaps as yet know not, but might (if the taking these waters did not prevent) go on towards the Fabrick of some large cofirmed stone, which then by its bulk might be incapa­ble of any cure save that of the knife. But these waters by their powerful effi­cacy, suspends further growth to the Stone, dislodgeth those already bred, and either splits them into lesser stone or moulders them into gravel, and so passes them off in a stream or flood of urine (which otherwise might if le [...] alone grow two big for the passages) or if they be no bigger, than may glide through the vessels and orifices, to carn them away in their intire form, and hence I say it is that sometimes a sharp fit (upon the drinking thereof) hap­pens, which to judge otherwise doubt­less [Page 75]were to do manifest injustice to them, because hereby Knarsbrough-Spaw might as equally be impeached, as Scar­brough, in that some have upon drink­ing those waters been seised with a vio­lent fit of the Stone; For instance, the Earl of Twadal about four year ago (as his Lordship acquainted me) even while he was drinking the waters of Knarbrough, was seized with a violent fit of the Stone. And Mr. Justice an Attorney, being in health, out of compliasance drank five glasses of the Sulphur water of Knarsbrough last Sum­mer, which, not passing, gave him a Surfeit, so as he afterwards vomited and purged all that he took, thence fell into a great languor of Spirits, and thence into violent convulsive fits, which en­dangered his life. Must therefore the former, viz. the sweet Spaw-waters be accused of a petrifying property, or must thence of necessity the other, viz. the Sulphur-water be accounted dange­rous to drink on? which consequences, how adapted to our present purpose, we leave to the judicious reader to deter­mine.

These waters are also peculiar against the heat, inflamation and ulcer of the [Page 76] reins, correcting the heat and sharpness of urine, expelling the mucous matter which sometimes obstructs the passages of the urine, which often times cau­seth the same symptoms, and is ta­ken to be the Stone in the bladder; when yet there is none there, washing through and cleansing all the urinous passages

The first.

J. B. Jun. of Scarbrough had a Terti­an Ague seventeen weeks, which af­flicted him very much, drank the waters by advice, which in three dayes time brought him very low, yet continuing on drinking, he began to find his Sto­mach to recruit, got a good appetite, and good digestion of what he took, so his Ague went sensibly off, yea, in not many dayes it was quite gone, and he perfectly well.

The second.

MRS. G. C. A Merchants daugh­ter of Hull, laboured under [...] Tertian Ague, for about fifteen or [...] teen weeks, which had vitiated the [...] ­ment of her Stomach, debilitated [...] appetite, and so weakned her as she could walk but little, being much trou­bled with faintness and a general indis­position and lassitude upon her, lost her colour; came to the waters last Sum­mer, took my advice, had only one easie fit, and no more all the time she staid, which was about fourteen dayes, recovered the ferment of her stomach, got a good appetite, and what she took digested well, gathered strength, so as she could walk well, her fainting was gone, she was chearful, got a good co­lour and returned home in very good health, and continued so, for I saw her Father about six weeks after, who ac­quainted me his daughter continued ve­ry well.

The third.

MR. G. Blackaller Rector of Etton in York-shire, had been troubled with a double Quartan for the space of nine moneths together with some symp­toms of the Scurvy, which appeared in [...]ed spots in all the musculous parts of the body. He went to Scarbrough, and at the very beginning his fits lessened, and staying three weeks he found a perfect cure, and had not the least symp­tomps of either for five years after.

I have often known (saith Doctor Wittie) inveterate Quartans cured by it, and other sorts of Agues also, which have long resisted Medicines, have been conquered by the use hereof in a short time.

And for taking away the reliques of all inveterate Agues (those often­times tedious chronical diseases) and of the small-Pox and other diseases, pre­venting relapses, these waters are of admirable efficacy.

The First Cure.

SR John Legards Lady of Gau­ton within a few miles of Scar­brough, had a Jaundice that long resisted remedies in a rational method, and was perfectly cured by the Spaw in a few dayes, being thereto recommended by another Lady, who had experienced a cure in the same Disease. This was consented to by her Physician Doctor Arnold.

The Second Cure.

MR. W. Hodgson Mimister of Scar­brough was for the space of six years ever and anon falling into the Jaundies, especially Spring and Fall: Nay, one time it continued upon him almost all the year, notwithstanding his endeavours after a cure, after he was setled at Scarbrough he found a perfect cure by the Spaw.

The Third Cure.

MAdam Elizabeth Strickland of Boynton in York-Shire, after the small-Pox, fell into a Fea­ver, after that relapsed into a Tertian Ague, which terminated in the Jaun­dies, after which (probably as an inve­terate symptom) followed a most grievous griping pain at the Stomach and Back, which seized on her by fits, sometimes a month or two betwixt one another, accompanied with a vomiting up of whatsoever she took, and after every fit her whole body would be as yellow as Gold. She had also a fulness and tension at Stomach and upon the region of the Liver, that she could not indure it to be touched, nor could lie upon the right side. It had resisted all rational means that could be used, till the season of the year coming on, Dr. Wittie (whose account this is) advised her Lady-ship to drink the waters, and fitted her with Medicines both prepa­rative and concomitant, which she did for fourteen dayes with very much be­nefit, [Page 88]being then almost half gone with Child, notwithstanding after some months the fits returned as before, so as the next Summer she drank the wa­ters again (though at Boynton twelve miles from Scarbrough) she was again somewhat better. But the Winter fol­lowing had most violent returns of her fits. The next year the Doctor advi­sed her to drink them at the Fountain, and to stay longer, which she did for three weeks, and then after a months intermission to send for fresh water eve­ry day, and drink ten dayes at home, her Ladiship being then young with Child, yet without any harm upon that account, since which she had (God be thanked) no more fits, (it being when this was writ almost two years after) but was as healthful as in all her life be­fore.

The Fourth Cure.

MR. Palar of Nun-Nountain in York-Shire, was during his abode in the Southern parts much afflicted with the Jaundies, having the symptoms [Page 89]which usually attend that Disease, con­sulted Doctor Dickenson (who then li­ved at Oxford but is now an eminent Physician in London) whose advice was to get him down into his own country and to drink the waters of Scarbrough, which he judged the best and most cer­tain cure for him; whither accordingly he applied himself, and in not many dayes was perfectly cured.

I shall only add somewhat remarkable concerning a Country man who had the Jaundies highly complicated with the Scurvy, with a great stiffness in his joynts, so as he could not stoop but with great pain and trouble; one day I ordered him a few doses of volatile Spirits to be taken in his waters, upon which he found so great an alteration as that he could that very day (to the admiration of those who were by) stoop to the ground with much ease, and (if I mistake not) played at penny­stone upon the Sands.

The First Cure.

MR. Th. Wesled of Grimsby in Lin­coln-shire, was taken with an extreme pain in his belly, which held him for many months together, so as he could never say he was an hour free, which took away his sleep, he was also swelled in his belly, as that he could not walk twenty yards without a rest, and great difficutly of breathing, and continual sneesing; his appetite to meat was gone, so as he was despaired of by his Physicians, who suspected a Drop­sie, he came to the waters, though with great difficulty in his Journey, because of the weight of his belly, and drank near three weeks, and found an abate­ment in all the aforesaid symptoms, the second year perfected the cure; the third year he also drank the waters, which he continued to do, to prevent a relapse, being then as healthful as in all his life before.

The Second Cure.

TH. Kud's daughter in Scarbrough, of about twelve years of age, had an inveterate Itch, and by a Chirurgeon Quack was fluxed for it, but in stead of curing her left her worse; heightned the Scorbutick taint into a white leprous Scab all over her body, and her body swelled much, was very stark and hard, her legs swelled and her face huffed up, was judged by many incurable; I order­ed her a purge, which carried off much watery humors and made way for the waters; of which I ordered her to drink every morning; in each first pint in a morning (or sometimes in a little warm Ale) to take one ounce of the Sy­rup de Spina Cervina, also ordered her a glister ex recentis urinae, ℥xij cum Syr. de Spina Cervina, ʒx. and when I saw her four dayes after, I could scarce know her, in that her face was so much fallen and come to its right proportion, also her body was much unswelled, as likewise her leggs, yea, was quite reco­vered, and continued so, as I had an ac­count thereof from an ingenious friend who had it from her own Father.

The Third Cure.

MRS. Eliz. Turner of Hutton-pag­nel in York-shire, through ob­structions, fell into a great swelling, and hardness of her belly, with diffi­culty of breathing, which gave too much cause to suspect a Dropsie: It had resist­ed Medicines, till coming to the waters, which she drank fourteen days, her bel­ly fell, and and she shortly after concei­ved with Child.

The First Cure.

RIchard Legard Esq had been many years troubled with small worms which we call Ascarides, for which he had taken good advice, and used several remedies, yet never found any so suc­cessfull as these waters, which brought [Page 101]from him, to his best judgment above five hundred in a day, and in a few days quit him both of the Worms and the matter that bred them.

The second cure.

MR. G. Watson of Throshenby near Scarbrough was grievously affli­cted with Melancholick fumes, which exceedingly clouded his understanding, and possessed him with fears and fancies, taking away his sleep for many weeks together, so as he was become a meer Skelleton, and so feeble that he was not able to walk, but was carried about in arms, during which time he had never­theless an incredible appetite, accom­panied with a gnawing pain at his Sto­mach, the cause of which distemper was not easily discerned, till after some time he began to void a sort of flat worms about an inch long, empty as if they had been nothing but a skin, ap­plying himself to the waters, he voided sometimes thirty or forty in a day, and in a little time, found perfect cure, all sym­ptoms abating, and his appetite retur­ning to its regular course.

The first Case

MR. Th. St. Quintin, of Flambrough in York-shire, and his Wife, were seven years and an half married, during which time she had never conceived, upon the report of the efficacy and ver­tue of the waters, he brought her to Scarbrough, where she drank fourteen [Page 106]dayes, within a month after she con­ceived; and brought forth a Son. Then having an interruption for four years, he brought her to the waters again: Af­ter a fortnight or three weeks that she had left the waters, she conceived again; and brought forth a Daughter: both which (at the first writing hereof) were living and healthful Children.

The Second Case.

MRs. Elizabeth Turner of Hut­ton-Pagnel in York-shire, whose cure of the Dropsie by the wa­ters is formerly mentioned; shortly af­ter which, she conceived with Child, and brought forth a Son, having had no child before of seven years.

The Third Case.

MRS. Elizabeth Smith of Scremer­ston in the Bishoprick of Durham, whose cure of Hypochondriack Melancholy is before recited, upon which it hapned also that while she was with her hus­band at Scarbrough, she conceived with [Page 107]Child, when as yet to her own expecta­tion, she was past hopes of any more children, having never conceived for above five years before.

The Fourth Case.

A Scotch Gentlewo-man, being in years, whose cure of Hypocondraick Melancholy and the Scurvy is before-men­tioned, upon which, drinking the waters (notwithstanding the great weakness she was reduced to) she conceived and brought forth two Children, which was wonderfull so weak a woman as she was should conceive or bring them forth, be­ing judged so weak, as not capable of bringing forth one.

The Fifth Case.

SR. H. Thompson his Lady had no Child by two former Husbands when Sr. H. married her, she came to the waters, whereupon conceived

Among the Classis of Diseases belong­ing to the Womb, may not imperti­nently be reckoned such swellings of the belly, as happen sometimes from cold upon or after Child-bearing, concern­ing which we have one considerable in­stance of the efficacy of these waters, as followeth.

Doctor G. Tunstal of New-Castle his wives belly never fell after a Child she had born, nor could he by all the means he used, take it down; The Physician then at the Spaw, viz. Dr. Wittie was consulted, who advised her Husband to give her some preparatives, and something else with the water to further the intention, after a few dayes her Boddice did lace close, that could not meet with­in three or four inches before, she con­tinued to drink a moneth, and returned perfectly well, and so continued free from all swelling, it being (at the first writing hereof) neer three years af­ter.

To which may be added, that these waters are very effectual in the cure of all such symptomatical Diseases (if I may so call them) which take their first original from obstructions of the [Page 109]menstrual evacuation, viz. epileptick, paralytick, apoplectick, hysterick, con­vulsive asthmatick Affections; That is, those Diseases in women, which (from the aforesaid causes) most resemble the Falling-Sickness, Palsies, Apoplexies, fits of the Mother, Convulsions, and dif­ficulty of breathing, or diseases descend­ing from the aforesaid Spring-head, which by their penetrating Salts open obstructions (the Minera of such Ma­ladies) and remove the first causes thereof, whereby (together with the addition of other specifick helps) all the aforesaid Symptomatick or secondary Diseases will necessarily and consequent­ly cease, concerning all which we di­scourse more largely in our Hydrologia Chym. p. 84. 94. 95. to which we re­ser.