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A12654G. T.[ 4], 11,[ 1] p. Printed by William Jaggard,[ London: 1612?]
A42118But, if the Purging Water is a good Medicine, how much more is the Salt to be accounted so?
A913421 sheet([ 1] p.) s.n.,[ London: 1690?]
A03922What diseases may be cured by drinking of the well at Aberdene, and what is the true vse thereof Barclay, William, 1570?-1630?
A03922What diseases may be cured by drinking of the well at Aberdene, and what is the true vse thereof Barclay, William, 1570?-1630?
A28830Borlase, Edmund, d. 1682?
A28830Borlase, Edmund, d. 1682?
A31676Are not Abana and Pharphar rivers of Damascus, better then all the waters of Israel?
A31676But Si Populus vult perire, quis vetet?
A31676That was answered thus, Nameless then Fameless, for how can Fame Attend that man that wants a known- by Name?
A30807NOw what Great Things, and Truly too, can I say for These Fountains?
A23627Hens I have seen Epileptic, Magpyes are often afflicted by the same Distemper when housed, but who ever found them fallen in the Fields?
A23627Qua via distribuetur Spiritus in Nervos null ● modo ipsi continuous, quibus sedibus includetur, ubi necessarium, huc illucve depromendus?
A23627Vnde suppeteret mattria?
A23627What Colour Nutgall gives it, and whether Turbid or Clear?
A23627What Colour the Water kept three days in an open Glass will take with Nutgall turbid or clear?
A23627What Colour with Syrup of Violets?
A14325Are not those times by all learned and iudicious Physicians prohibited for bathing in hot Baths?
A14325But here I know you will obiect against me, saying, Is it good to make vse of your Baths in the Summer and Winter?
A14325But if seasons that are constantly warme, be best for bathing in our Baths, and cold times hurtfull, why should any reside at them in the Winter?
A14325But proceeds this altogether out of ignorance?
A14325If you demand of me, whether the water loseth any thing of its vertue, being so kept?
A14325What is a supposed honesty in a Physicion without learning, but a snare wherein the ignorant doe voluntarily entrap themselues?
A14325Whereupon grew the custome of frequenting them in the temperate seasons of the yeere, namely, in the Spring and Fall?
A14325You may also here demand of me, whether it be not so necessary to take Physick in the Autumne, which we commonly call the Fall, as in the Spring?
A14325You may here demand of me, what time of the Spring is fittest for Physicke by way of preuention?
A14591Are not these straunge operations?
A14591Haue not all notable benefits had their seuerall beginnings?
A14591To what purpose( will it happilie be asked) is this far fetcht preamble placed in the front of so slender a discourse?
A14591What meane Scholler hath not read of the Well in Gnarsborrough forrest, which cōuerteth leaues, flesh and such like into hard stone?
A14591Why was not this precious water( say some) found out before this time?
A14591and is it any new thing that waters should effect so strange, and so diuers operations?
A19316And doeth Niter composed and applyed to the stones, stay their inflammation?
A19316And doeth not common water even coole& ease inward paines?
A19316And hath it done good to one, and evill to another?
A19316And who doubteth what refreshing power this cold Spring hath in hote fevers, in thirst, and in all internall and externall inflammations?
A19316But how the, say others, can waters possessed with saltish and Nitrous faculties, refresh, moysten, and coole?
A19316Further, hath it not vnstopped the Lunges to many persons, and helped a short braith?
A19316Hath it not cured some without preparation, and others which Physitions could not cure?
A19316Hath not N ● tre a Diaphoretick power, and maketh some to breck out?
A19316How many people haue beene helped this same last yeere there with, and oppenlie affirmed against all those who say the cōtrarie?
A19316Is Niter, deulie prepared, good to expell gravel and sand both from the reines& blader?
A19316Is it good being disolved to apply outwardlie and for heat in those parts?
A19316Is it not good for the Hydropsie, the Colik and Iliack passion?
A19316Now because that some may object: if this water had any Nitrous qualitie, it wold( no dout) bewray it self, either in taist, colour, or savour?
A19316Now why may not Niter doe all this?
A19316Signatures: pi² A- D⁴(-D4, blank?).
A19316What then?
A19316and what accompt shall wee make of this crystalline or semi- minerall water, which not onlie is answerable omni- modo to the best?
A19316and what simple or miner all doeth so much agree with these properties as Niter?
A46281( Unde nefas tantum Zeli fautoribus?)
A46281Again, fire having but one quality to work withall, whereby he must unite the other three Elements, what shall bring and unite fire unto them?
A46281Also if a cold ambient be able to make cold water hot, why should not a hot ambient make it more cold?
A46281Also there are salt Lakes, as the Terentine Lake in Italy?
A46281Also, why should the Sun heat some few Fountains and pass over an infinite number of others, which are left cold?
A46281But if it be a Gum, faith Solinander, why should it abound more after earth- quakes?
A46281But what shall we judge of those Lamps, which have been found burning in old Sepulchres?
A46281But what?
A46281But why should it suck more than it hath need of?
A46281Corpore( quis neget hoc?)
A46281For how can they give these affections to other things, when they have them not themselves?
A46281For how the could water be humidissimum medicamentum, if it were not humidissimum elementum?
A46281Horrida de innocuis fertur sententia famis; Abbatiae pereunt, fpoliantur Templa, rapinis Tecta patent, reditus, fundi, Sacraria; quid non?
A46281Num pietatis amor an amor sceleratus habendi?
A46281Quod si tam celebrem mereatur guttula laudem, Praemia quae referet largos qui funditat imbres?
A46281Sed quid?
A46281Si non est ab elementis gustare, quare sit gustari?
A46281So for fat and unctuous substances, as Sulphur, Bitumen, Oyle, Grease,& c. unto what Element shall we ascribe them?
A46281What taste have any of these Elements?
A46281and how shall it cast it forth beyond the place of use to the superficies of the earth?
A46281and why should it burn and not dissolve in water?
A46281specioso haec templa Jacobus Donavit praesul( pia nam decreta bonorum AEquivalent factis) animam Rex ipse Jacobus( Hoc quoque quis dubitat?)
A40451( because it is less resisted, by reason of the small quantity of water in them) than on the Ocean?
A40451And are they not a hot and dry exhalation?
A40451And as these Springs differ in their heat according to their nearness, or remoteness to their fire, so also in their Bituminous odour?
A40451And can not the burnings of the Aetnean, Visuvian, Nymphean mountains convince us a little of this?
A40451And hath it not been observed that a fiery Bituminous matter doth sometimes flow out of hot Springs?
A40451And whence crudities, saith Hippocrates, but from fulnes, affirming also, that to eat without fulnes is the rule of health?
A40451And will not this rust being boiled in rain- water yield a Vitrial?
A40451How comes this Bitumen to be kindled in the earth?
A40451Ignem quid humoris expers pabulatur?
A40451Or might not their patients be unwilling to drink the water regulary; or disorder themselves in respect of diet, exercise and the like?
A40451Quid enim creatum complectitur natur a rerum non ex aqua humectante,& coalescente adultum,& animatum?
A40451Quid spirat, vernat, crescit, consistit sine suo fluore?
A40451This might be true, but what then?
A40451Who would have thought that the dropping- well would have yielded a stony pouder upon evaporation, and coagulate milk?
A40451vomiting, purging, bleeding, sweat, and urine?
A29026And if any, what?
A29026And if it do, in what Qualities, and to what degree of alteration?
A29026And if not whether it arise in a Hillock, a Hill, or a Mountain?
A29026And though the Title, these belong to, be the Thirteenth in the Scheme( of the II Part,) yet I thought fit to premise these Notes to all the rest?
A29026And what are the Qualities of the neighbouring Soil, and the adjacent Country?
A29026And what inconveniences may attend the neglect of such preparation especially in gross, foul, or much obstructed Bodies?
A29026And what these Minerals are, whether copperish, ferrugineous, Marcasitical,& c. And whether the Ores do, or do not, abound in the Metalline portion?
A29026By what waies we may know the predominancy of Acidity in the Salt proposed?
A29026How much the greater or lesser length of time, spent in taking the Water, conduces to its good Effects?
A29026How to examine with evaporation, whether the Mineral Water contain common Salt, and if it do, whether it contains but little or much?
A29026In what climate and parallel, or in what degree of Latitude, the Mineral Water do''s spring up, or stagnate?
A29026In what stated Diseases, and in what particular cases, the Mineral Water is proper, or to be suspected of being dangerous, if not certainly hurtful?
A29026To examine whether the Saline part be, ex praedominio, acid, alcalizate, or adiaphorous?
A29026To what Temperaments and constitutions the Mineral Water propos''d is the most proper, to what less proper, and to what noxious or inconvenient?
A29026What advantages may accrue, from preparing the Patients Body before he enters upon his course of drinking the Waters?
A29026What changes of colour,& c. it thereby receives?
A29026What may encourage us to undertake the Natural History of Mineral Waters?
A29026Whether any thing, and if any thing, what can be discover''d in the Mineral Water by the help of the best Microscopes adapted to view Liquors?
A29026Whether any, occult vertues, or other hidden Qualities, can be discovered in the Mineral Water?
A29026Whether the Mineral Water be more easy to be heated and cool''d, and to be dilated and condens''d than common Water?
A29026Whether the Saline part will shoot into Crystals or no?
A29026Whether the Spring- head, or other receptacle, do chiefly regard the East, the West, the North, or the South?
A29026Whether the Water be found in a Plain or Valley?
A29026Whether there be any necessity, or great use, of taking Physick after one has done drinking the Water?
A29026Whether, and( if any thing) how much the mineral waters Earth looses by strong and lasting Ignition?
A29026and if it will, what figure the grains will be of?
A29026and what colour,( if any,) it will impart to fine and well powder''d Venice glass if they be exactly mix''d, and flux''d into a Transparent Glass?
A29026be the same in quantity and quality, if produc''d by either of those wayes?
A29026by calcination, elixiviation, and( if it will bear such a fire) vitrification?
A29026whether it be capable of Vitrification perse?