THE HISTORY OF SCARBROUGH-SPAW, OR, A further Discovery of the excellent Virtues thereof in the Cure of the Scurvy, Hypochond. Melancholy, Stone, Gonorrhoea, Agues, Jaundice, Dropsy, women's Diseases, etc. By many remarkable Instances, being a demonstration from the most convincing Arguments, viz. Matter of Fact.  
ALSO A Discourse of an Artificial Sulphur-Rath, and Bath of Sea-water, with the uses thereof, in the cure of many Diseases.  
TOGETHER With a short account of other Rarities of Nature observable at Scarbrough.  
By W. Sympson Doct. in Physic.  
LONDON, Printed for Tho. Simmons at the Prince's Arms in St. Paul's Churchyard. 1679.   

To the most Noble and most Honourable CHARLES PAWLET; Marquis of Winchester, Earl of Wilt-shire, Baron St. John of Basin, etc. one of the Lords of his Majesty's most Honourable Council.  
May it please your Honour, My Lord,  
IT is not the least amongst those Oriental Gems, which adorn the Breast of Nobility, nor ought it to be reputed the meanest ornamental Virtue, that by its lustre renders the minds of Noble Persons truly such, not only to be thought, but really to be encouragers of every generous and useful undertaking; not barely in Specie but effectually to become Patrons to every noble Design. And surely among the great variety of Topics for discourse (the History of things appertaining to another World, Divinity I mean excepted) none but in one sense or other yields the Bays to that highly useful one of health (with its Introductions and Appendices) whether relating to the continuation or restauration thereof; to which our ensuing History is so nearly concerned as to merit the repute of being mainly introductory thereto: whose adaptness to humane necessities will evidently appear if we silently resolve within our own bosoms the ensuing Queries, viz. What resentment of Grandeur has an aching head, although encircled within the most glorious Crown? What delight can a Statesman take in Regulating and setting at Rights the Grand Affairs of his Country while he labours under the Conspiracy of prevalent, although couchant, Maladies? What pleasure hath a morbid and (therefore) disgustful Palate, the bane of Epicurism, in the fruition of the greatest Delicacies, even amidst the great variety which accosts that erring sensual Organ? What profit can a Rich man take of all his wealth, while he labours under the pains of a Gouty fit? What quiet have we in the settlement of our Lands and Tenements; while the morbid Tenant we inwardly foster, turns Lawyer and Bailiff too, sues and turns us out of possession by an irresistible Lease of Ejectment? And in fine, what satisfaction have we of any thing we enjoy here below, while we truckle under any Grief or Malady? Now, my Lord, the generousness of the Subject we treat upon, viz. The History of these Mineral healing waters, is such as (among other useful Essays, towards a public good) may from a solution of the aforesaid Queries, as also from other intimate Arguments, deservedly challenge your Honours Patro nage, in as much as you have been particularly pleased out of the sense of that good you have experimentally reaped thereby to do that right to Scarbrough Waters, as in the presence of several worthy Personages publicly to own them, by giving this Autoptical testimony thereof (at lest what was equivalent thereto) That of all the Mineral waters you had tasted (few in England or France having escaped your test) these of Scarbrough surpassed, both as to a thorough as well as effectual working: By which your Lordship received considerable relief the last Summer from the oppressing symptoms of the Hypochondraical wind, although at the latest season of the year.— And, my Lord, notwithstanding the following Tract as most-what grounded upon experience, (the mother of Knowledge) having its root deeply set in, and firmly knit upon, matter of Fact, is doubtless the better able to bear up, yea stand and vindicate itself against the shocks of any Calumniating Quill whatever; yet upon due and mature consideration, there is much safety for such a shrub how well rooted soever, to be planted under so tall a Cedar, that so it may not only in an hot season (when tender Plants are apt to whither,) thence receive shade, but also in Winter and stormy weather, when there is no shelter. To conclude, my Lord, what service your Lordship may do to that Country in this your tutelage to so good a design, that you may live long enough to experience, and by your (if need be) annual visits to confirm, is the desire of,  
My Lord, Your Honours most humble Servant. W. Sympson.   

THE PREFACE.  
Candid Reader,  
IT is the usefulness of things which renders them acceptable, and the benefit Mankind reaps from things applicable, makes them truly valuable, which as such, really aught to gain opinion on their side, the common standard of all matters relating to humane bodies; amongst which, those that from their own nature are more nearly allied to the use of man, aught of right to purchase the most acceptance, the greatest value and the best opinion. As to which, how nearly, deeply, and necessarily the health of man (the Prince of bodies) is concerned in the continuing or regaining thereof, let the healthful (who have lately known sickness or the diseased who now languish) speak.  
Whatever therefore relates to the real curing or healing of Diseases, and consequently restoring of health, is truly valuable and aught to purchase opinion (the common measure of things) on their side, and thence highly worth enquiring after, of which sort are all Medical waters, and particularly those of Scarbrough, which how agreeable they are to the general constitution of humane bodies? How congeneal to their ferments? How great apperients or openers of obstructions? How generally they pass? How frequently they remove the causes of Diseases, and consequently concur to the restoration of health, The instances of of Cures chief performed thereby (in the following History set down) those speaking for others of the like nature, we have not an opportunity to insert) will (in order to the gaining the ends aforesaid) yea satisfactorily and demonstrably point out? Upon my late espousing of Scarbrough-waters (the rational Induction whereto were the following Instances, the main Subject of this Tract. I found it in the mouths of many persons (with whom I or my friends conversed) that I was generally impeached of a retraction of what I had already writ. They apprehending as if my former Books were writ against the Spa, which no person (who ever read them) can accuse me of. For the controversy was not taken up against the waters, as if designed to blemish them, but was grounded upon showing other manner of Ingredients than were believed, so that what I said was not leveled against the waters, but urged against the deposited principles or ingredients thereof. As to the truth of which I have a cloud of witnesses, even all who have throughly read my two books of the Spa, (the chief called Hydrologia Chymica. The latter Hydrological Essays) to whom I appeal, and particularly I advise such as scruple thereat, for their further satisfaction to consult p. 115, etc. of my Hydrolog. Chym. where they will find what I ascribe to the cure of the Scurvy, Dropsy, Strangury, Jaundice, Melancholy, women's Diseases, etc. If I was drawn a little aside to have a jealous eye upon the waters (as some may imagine from my Hydrolog. Essays,) It was from an obliqne credulity, biased by a dark Saturnine Influence, whose Clouds were soon dispersed by the Sunbeams of experimental light, yea many were for a time (from the same male-influence) afraid of these waters, as if they had suffered from the mouth of the constellated Dog above (animated by the rising of a late Saturnal Star) as injurious at some hits of times, and in some sense as the bitings of mad dogs here below, and were thence brought into a Hydrophoby, viz. was afraid of their proper remedy, by refusing to approach the Medical waters; although they have formerly proved a cure to theirs or other parallel Diseases. And this Male-influence (in reference to these waters) has (as I hinted) lately taken date from the Cosmical rising of one of the Satilities, a churlish Star of morose Saturn, which appeared in the year 1670, 1672. But if I have any skill in this sort of Astrology, the effects of this unfortunate constellation, and dark visaged Saturn, will, by calculation, be quite over in this year 1679. and another more benign will begin to take place.  
At this Pool, like that of Bethesdah's (the dark mists and fogs being blown over) are a multitude of Scorbuticks, Hypochondriacks and other Valetudinarians, (I mean such as labour of the Scurvy, Melancholy, Stone, and other Diseases) Male and Female in their several apartments, waiting for the moving of the waters, that thereby they may be healed of their respective Maladies, whilst others (who come here chief for diversion) only sport in Neptune's Province, and like the Leviathan, only play with the waters. Were I to insist upon an Encomium of these healing waters, I might venture, and that without Vanity) to speak a bold word, viz. that if a Physician, who has these waters as a substitute, have but likewise a stock of some good specificks, (without which he will often prove lame) to use upon occasion, as necessity, through various indications should require, might Essay to grapple almost with any Disease, (if there be but any tolerable strength in nature) and scarce any would be able to stand before him; For those waters do not work as vulgar waters, which as an Exotic ferment penetrates the Excrements, thins them, and by irritating the  of the Intestines, carries them away; But withal, by the nimbleness and quickness of its Salts, insinuates into the more inward recesses of the obstructed bowels, unbinding those hidden ligatures, unhinging those fastened obstacles, unbending those inward strong springs in their elasticity, whether in the juices or solid parts of the body, unlocking those shut-up bolts, and opening all those hidden obstructions which are far removed from the eye, or even intellectuals of many, and yet intimately, yea essentially concerned in the Fabric of many Chronical Diseases; which (as I said) are with great difficulity come at or reached, but with such nimble agents and deeply piercing Salts, as are the inmates of these waters. Amongst which, that of Nitre is so tightly (by the Chemistry of nature) mixed, and contempered with the aluminous Salt, as that water is thereby (among other excellent waters) rendered the most effectual quencher of thirst of any water that ever I saw, yea perhaps I might not be much mistaken, if I should say that the temperature of the Mineral juices performed by the wonderful subterraneal industry (I had well nigh said Chemistry) of Nature, are such as if in reference to quenching (yea and peradventure also as to other virtues) it may (and that without vanity) be reputed one of the best of the known healing waters in Europe.  
We have studied conciseness, and yet are larger in the main than we expected. I could not well be more compendious, especially when I considered, how I was under an obligation to give the Readers (chief the more ingenious sort) some tolerable satisfaction, at least in the solution of some Phenomina necessarily to be insisted on, in a discourse of this nature.— This is to be noted, these waters being carried at a distance, are found to operate nothing nigh so well, as to the cure of Diseases, as when drunk at the Springhead.  
To consider, what faithfulness I have used in putting down the respective Cases? What care I have taken in methodically ranging them under their particular heads? And as near as I could in reducing them to their distinct classes, and in all with what candour to truth I have used either in transcribing, or originally placing down the various Topics of the following History, I refer to every  Reader by his best Inquest to determine and satisfy himself? where we do not rank Patients in their several classes first or last, according to the dignity of the persons, so much as according to the eminency of their respective cases. Amongst whom, those who are so publick-minded as to permit their names to attest their cures, thereby do (as of right they ought) Justice to the waters, Service to their Country, and meanwhile, no injury to themselves. Thus wishing them, who may be concerned, much good success by the due, proper, and advisable use of the waters,  
I remain Thine further to serve Thee, W. Simpson.   

THE HISTORY OF Scarbrough-Spaw.  
THE Diseases we propose to treat of, and to which the use of the waters are most proper, are chiefly Chronical, or such whose causes are so rooted as to continue long unless cured by proper Remedies: amongst which, the most grassant or most universally afflicting, are, first the Scurvy with its branchings, complications and inoculations into other diseases: next the Flatus Hypochondriacus, or diseases springing from Melancholy. 3. the Stone and Strangury. 4. Agues. 5. The Jaundice. 6. The Dropsice. 7. Worms. 8. women's diseases, etc. next to which we but touch upon acute diseases.  
We shall begin with the Scurvy, which, with its appendices, is the most spreading Malady, No Cities, towns, villages, free from it, nay scarce any family which is not notorious for some one or other persons therein afflicted more or less with the Symptoms thereof.  
It is not now our intended work here to give the definition and various distinctions or specifications of the Scurvy, only in short shall crave leave to say that it depends chiefly, if not solely, upon the depraved ferments, and vitiated digestions of the body, and particularly and primarily of the Stomach: (that Primum mobile of this and other chronical diseases) where resides the very seminary of the scorbutic ferment, consisting chief in a spurious Acidity, which vitiating the subsequent digestions (some more than others spreads itself by degrees into the blood and other juices, until it appear in all its colours, and branched fort in all its symptoms and products.  
The symptoms of the Scurvy are various, sometimes under one disguise sometimes under another, they are frequently of these sorts (b●● some of which that disease discovers itself) viz. an universal lassitude and weakness in the knees, dulness or heaviness of spirits, erratic pains, shortness of breath, tumours, ulcers of many sorts, spots and blotches upon the legs, roughness of the skin, and other impurities of the outward parts, discolourdeness, and soreness of gums, pain and looseness in the teeth, sour stink of breath, etc.  
As to a further disquisition into the nature and causes of the Scurvy, how the foundation thereof is laid in the depravation of the ferment of the Stomach, and how the first Error, not being corrected in the subsequent digestions, but carried into the blood, subverting the crasis thereof, altars the sweet balsamic soft natural temper thereof into an austere, sour, saltiness, perverting its natural and genuine fermentation, and how the blood corrupted by the vitiating ferment of the Scurvy, breathes forth impure streams, which making their Egress through the pores of the outward parts, are (by obstructions they find there) coagulated upon the outward parts, and so make spots, blotches, foulness, scurf, roughness (as if nettled) and other impurities of the skin, the usual effects of that disease: and how the difference in Scurvys, are chief ascribable to variety of Acids or some acrimonious ferments prevailing in the juices of the body; And how by analogy, the skin is compared to a transparent glass, upon which the streams arising from that spurious fermentation of the blood and humours, being too gross to be pervious to the pores thereof, might well be supposed to condense along the sides, begetting spots, stains, foul damps, answerable to those impure mists, and dark steams, really arising from the bastardly fermentation of the blood in Scurvies, and condensed upon the external parts, etc. To a further disquisition, I say, of all which, we refer the reader to what we have said thereon in our Hydrolog. Chymic. p. 70. etc.  
Now we shall immediately come to the matter we chief aim at viz the Enumeration of particular cure of the Scurvy and its branches of complications performed by the waters.  

Cures of the Scurvy by the Waters.  
The First shall be Major Tailor's Case.  
IN the year 50 or 51 he had a long linger scorbutic and complicated Malady, had a dry Cough, shortwinded, had no appetite or digestion could neither Eat, Sleep, nor capable of any Exercise, was brought by impoverishment of Spirit, very low, and lean, even to a great debilitude; in which languishing conditition he continued notwithstanding all the help the Physicians could make him; who by them was adjuged consumptive, and by them and on all hands concluded a dying-man: was however resolved for Scarbrough, hearing some noise of its virtues, for he thus thought, that seeing he was a man already under the sentence of death, he must die if he stayed at home, it was but dying and it could be no worse at Scarbrough, or elsewhere, and as to the place he was not solicitous; whereupon contrary to advice, undertakes the journey, although with very great difficulty, because of his great weakness, he was told to his great discouragement, that he should never return alive: (if so he resolved to be buried at Scarbrough) he drank the waters three days before it began to work, there being at that time no Physician by to advise with: Then he filled himself very full with the waters, taking about five pints thereof: upon which it made him very sick, gave him only one vomit, and so wrought downward; whereupon in about a week's time, he began to find benefit, and in about fourteen days after (drinking every day the waters) he found himself so much altered for the better, as all the bad Symptoms gradually went off, the waters passed well, working throughly upon the humours, discharging the peccant matter, correcting the Scorbutic acid ferment, opening obstructions, dulcified the blood, strengthened the weakened tone of the Stomach and bowels, proured an appetite, helped the digestion, brought on rest, as the genuine result of the former, became cheerful, returned home (contrary to the expectation of all) very well, not in a litter, but on horseback, gathering strength daily. Then he thought himself so well as he needed not come next year, nor did he: But finding himself afterwards not well, came the next year after: And so continued till 64 intermitting one in 3 or 4 years, during which time he had his health as well as he would wish.   

Major tailor'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 Scorbutic 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, overrun with the Scurvy from the Sea-air, with most of the indications thereof aforesaid, betakes himself to his former Asylum for relief 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 the blood, and thereby made the scales fall off: So continued drinking the waters every year since except one, and enjoys his health very well, was at Scarbrovogh twice last Summer, being the latter time there with my Lord Marquis of Winchester.   

My Lady Carey her case.  
The Third cure of the Scurvy.  
3 JUly 5th 77 she was highly Scorbutic, the first remarkable appearance whereof was a stitch she had in her right breast, which like a dart struck through to her back: That a strong Scorbutic Acidum prevailed in her Stomach, 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 cured, as if indeed the Scorbutic Acid was the rennet which made cheese of milk while in the Stomach: she took some Tobacco which caused more of the same cheesy congulum come up: after which this Scorbutic Acidum was in great part carried upon the nerves, whence she fell into an universal trembling or paralytic 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 Scorbutic 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 fever) for four days, which with sweeting Medicines was partly transpired, and partly carried or translated to the urinary vessels, where the Scurvy Acid (thus variously disguised) at length chief fixed, 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 Scorbutic Acidum lodged in the Stomach, depraving the ferment thereof, whence the lost her appetite: and part 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 masks, as if indeed it had been a complication of many other maladies, viz. a bastard Pleurisy, Surfeit, Palsy, Convulsions, Fever, Strangury, Stone, (with the aggravation of mixed blood) dolour Nephriticus, Apepsie, Asthma, Marasmus, while really (as may be concluded from the range of Symptoms emerging from the frequent metastasis of the Scorbutic Acid) they were but various appearances, and different guises the scorbutic 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 masks.  
This worthy Lady, under the circumstances of the aforesaid Symptoms, (somewhat alleviated) by which she had been under confinement to her Chamber for eight months, by advice, at length betakes herself to Scarbrough-Spaw, May 28, drank the waters, and found immediate help; For the Scorbutic 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 only for 10 days: yet upon her Ladyships return again to the waters; they than 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 Athletic habit of body; became very active cheerful and healthful, and as if renewed again in her old age, the good effects thereof continued: for I waited on her near two months after her return from the water and found her well as aforesaid.   

A Fourth cure.  
4 THe Right Honourable James Earl of Suffolk had been for the space of thirteen years troubled with a most grievous Scorbutic pain (for so it appeared by the Symptoms) at the Stomach, 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 distension and hardness upon the region of the Stomach, 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 Stomach. 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 Spa and attended him, observed) the fits 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 myself very much inclining to the Scurvy (having most of the Symptoms attending that disease) I came to Scarbrough; and must confess, that after a fortnight's 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 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 extremely 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 Spa, 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 myself 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 fully answered my expectation in all particulars) I resolved one night to content myself with a very slender Supper, and the next morning I observed that I made plentiful store of Urine, as usually before I drank the waters, after which I drank four quarts of water, and resolved to fast until they had fully completed 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 itself, 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 until 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 humours 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 interval, being a fever spun out at length by Paroxysms, and thence upon the exit thereof, had contracted a Scorbutic 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 Stomach, and in about fourteen days time, his Scorbutic 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 seven or eight years.   

A Seventh cure of the Scurvy.  
Arm Robinson laboured under a Scorbutic ferment vitiating the natural ferment of the Stomach, 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 herself 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 loosened: whereupon she grew better, got a Stomach to her food, regained strength, so as in a month's time (after the first drinking) she found herself very well: And returned home in good health. But after a while at home, she began again in the same malady: whereupon she came again the next Spa 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 Scorbutic disorder of his Stomach, evident by its great oppression by Phlegm, and water, so as every morning he had great and troublesome bokning or retching to vomit, whereby a clear water came off, and after that, by much struggle, 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 carries it off by siege, and disposeth so of the clear water, which used to distil per lingulam from his Stomach, as he is well, and continues so for many months after drinking the waters, till towards the Spring, and then it gins 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 adam's of Camelsfield Yorkshire, aged seventy three years, had for six years together been miserably tormented with pain in his legs, 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, Ointments, etc. 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 understanding also was sometimes so clouded, that he could not discern the quarters of heaven, or know the East from the West, and sometimes was wont to fall: by the use of the Spa, 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 mile's distance.   

The Tenth case  
MAdam Pockley near Selby in Yorkshire had a bad Stomach, accompanied with an ill digestion, a great flatulency or windy-riftings: she drank the waters last year near fourteen days, with some interval, which procured her a very good Stomach 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 Scorbutic Cholera.  
The Tenth cure of the Scurvy.  
SIr W. Ker, upon the borders of Scotland (a worthy Knight) laboured under a Scorbutic Cholera, with a great oppression of wind upon his Stomach: 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 carried 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 Scorbutic Symptoms: having had much advice before, and had taken much Physic 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 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 Scorbutic Cholera.  
The Eleventh cure of the Scurvy.  
G.— laboured under a Scorbutic 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 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 days, 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 stayed with him, and in the compass of the foresaid time, he got a very good Stomach 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 Scorbutic Cholera.  
The Twelfth cure of the Scurvy.  
A Scotch Gentleman was afflicted with a Scorbutic indigestion and flatus upon his Stomach, 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 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 stayed with him, next day he could take and digest a little meat, which stayed, and agreed well with him: and in a few days after had a very good Stomach, digested his meat very well, and returned home in health.   

4 Scorbutic Cholera.  
The Thirteenth cure of the Scurvy.  
A Noble Lord contracted a disorde upon his Stomach by eating Fish (and that of such sort, which would the soon, for want of digestion grow putrid upon the stomach) 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 haste, when I came, he told me he was ill at his Stomach, had a pain and dizziness in his head, I advised his Lordship to follow it yet, by taking more water, which he did, and presently while I stayed by him, he began to vomit abundance of tough Phlegm, and yellow bitter choler, which cleared his Stomach, and carried the rest downwards; so he was presently at ease, nature by the help of the waters discharging herself both ways of what was burdensome; whence, the disorder of his Stomach, 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. Humphrey 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 itself in the Stomach) This being the second year of his appearance at Scarbrough, he acknowledged 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 Scorbutic 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 increased daily, and in four or five days was restored to perfect health.   

The Seventeenth cure, viz. a Scorbutic Heart-burn.  
MAtthew Alured Esq of Beverly in Yorkshire was many years sore afflicted with a Scorbutic 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 Scorbutic Cholar's, together with that of the Scorbutic 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 biased thereto, not only (as I said) for Method sake but also as led by this reason, that if the Scorbutic ferment had settled or fixed itself in some other parts, organs, or juices of the bodies of those aforesaid patients, it would then doubtless have put on other Symptoms, and appeared under such dresses, 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 itself 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 Scorbutic Asthma, because the ferment of the Scurvy seems chief to fix itself upon the Lungs, on which parts chief the tragedy of Scorbutic 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 lie 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 again 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 Scorbutic colics: which, that they are indeed colicks, is evident from the Symptoms immediately emerging therefrom; and next that they are Scorbutic, 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 Antiscorbutics, as respect the deep roots of such fixed diseases, under which as stems thereof, or species of Scorbutic colics, 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 Scorbutic Acid, as sometimes transmitted thither from the blood co-operating in the Stomach: yet for method and distinction sake we reckon them as followeth.   

Scorbutic Colic.  
The Ninteenth cure of the Scurvy.  
A Man (living in the Bishopric of Durham) laboured under a grievous Scorbutic Colic, 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 Scorbutic 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 friends 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 (too eminent Physicians) 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 Scorbutic, because Agues (not well cured) frequently degenerate into Scorbutic 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 tried those waters, which he found to pass exceeding well, above all the purging medicines he had ever taken, only for the first two or three days made him very sore in his posteriors, but carried off the Scorbutic Colic, and the relics 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 Colic this last Summer at the Spa, but upon drinking of the waters, it presently went off: he observed, that for some few days it wrought like Epsom or Barnet, mostly by siege, but more effectually than either of them: and other days it wrought like Tunbridge or Knarsbrough, chief by Urine.  
This last Instance also relates to the Classis of the Stone cures, but that the Symptoms thereof doth chief and strongly bear upon the Scorbutic ferment, which is the cause why we rank it under this head of the Scurvy.   

Scorbutic Diarrhea or looseness.  
The One and twentieth cure of the Scurvy.  
P. B. of Scarbrough, his wife, was troubled with an excessive looseness, drank the waters, which after purging, presently stayed her looseness, and she was well: yea as often as she has any trouble that way, applies herself to the waters, whether in Summer or Winter, by which she always finds good success; it commonly cures her with one days drinking.   

Scorbutic 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.   

Scorbutic Dysentery or Bloodyflux.  
The Three and twntieth cure of the Scurvy.  
THE aforesaid Master of a ships brother in law, was afflicted with a Dysentery or Bloodyflux, so as he was not in a capacity (being a Seaman) of going aboard his Vessel, he was weakened 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 bloodyflux eight years so as he all that space was forced to rise to stool 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.   

Scorbutic pissing of blood.  
The twenty fifth Cure.  
MR. Chapman of 80 years of age was much and often troubled with pissing blood, whereupon he made his recourse to Scarbrough's-Spaw, which took away that threatening Symptom by giving him present Ease, which was publicly known among the neighbourhood at Hacknes.  
Now we come to reckon upon some other specificated Scurveys, in whose causes and Symptoms the Scurvy is chief 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.   

Scorbutic Rheumatisme.  
The twenty sixth Cure.  
A. W. of Scarbrough was troubled with a Scorbutic Rheumatisme, which chiefly afflicted her right arm and shoulder, with grievous and almost insufferable pain; so as (through great extremity) she cried forth I ordered her (being somewhat in years) a vesicatory plaster to be applied to her shoulder on the same side, and a fomentation made Ex fol. Ebuli, Salu. agrest. Et fl. Sambuci ā ā boiled 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 paroxysm by the following night Julep (viz) Aq. papav. Rhead. ℥ iiij vel ℥ iiij Syr. Limon. ℥ i ss, cum 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 Scorbutic Cattarrhe.  
The Seven and twentieth cure.  
MRs. Mary Bateman of York had been much troubled with Rheums, which had swelled up her face and eyes, and resisted all remedies, found very much benefit by the use of this water, more than all other methods that had been prescribed for her, upon account whereof she has been an annual visitor of it these twelve years.   

Scorbutic Erisipela's.  
The Eight and twentieth cure.  
THE daughter of the aforesaid woman (of about ten years of age or more, had an Erisipelas or Inflammation in her leg, 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 wrapped it with would cleave and be baked thereto, and was very painful 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 pills, and ordered her a Topick of Venice Treacle, one ounce mixed in a pint of the best White-Wine, bathing it several times a day therewith, leaving a double linen clothe dipped therein upon her leg: whereby in a few days time her leg grew better, the Inflammation 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.   

Scorbutic Ulcer.  
The Nine and twentieth cure.  
A Gentleman at the University of Cambridge (Mr. K.) now not far off Scarbrough, had a Scrobutick Ulcer in both feet cross the toes (while in the College) which brought him much pain, the sore was white and most-what wept forth a Lee, accompanied with a Scorbutic 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 mindful 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 Physic nor outward Topics before) now abated: his pain went away, the Scorbutic Lee was dried 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 miss coming one year, during which interval or intermission, he had a dangerous Fever, which was about seven or eight years ago; since which he has had his health well: Which account I had from his own mouth.   

Scorbutic Elephantiasis.  
The Thirtieth cure.  
MR. Rogers' daughter of Scarbrough had a Scorbutic Elephantiasis almost all over her: which also, from the Scorbutic Acidum seizing the tendons and ligaments of her joints, had rendered her well nigh decrepit: she drank the waters, and in about a fortnight's time or more, the blood was so purified, as it cast off those external feculencies or recrements of the ultimate digestion in the form of white scales, and so sweetened the blood and latex, and opened obstructions, as that it removed those bolts and hedges which were fastened upon the joints and ligaments, and begot a healthful 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 week's time, the spreading Scorbutic ferment being dinted, the blood purified, the scales from the roots dried and mortified, and peeled 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 Scorbutic 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 Scorbutic Acidum of the blood: In the one loosening the impacted, and close riveted Acidum, which binds and swells the veins: and in the other sweetening or dinting the Acidum (which lacerated and wounded the veins) gently binding up and healing the Orifices thereof for the future: of which in order as followeth.   

Scorbutick Hemorrhoids.  
The Two and thirtieth cure.  
MR. Ker of Eton (in the year 1677) laboured under grievous 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 Scorbutic Acidum (which was let down into and had bound and swelled the Hermorrhoidal vessels) was so sweetened 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 than ordinary effusion of Hemorrhoidal blood, and that for about seven years, was at first very timorous of drinking the waters, fearing lest they should open the aforenamed veins too much. But being encouraged by the success he saw others have, ventured, and to his great satisfaction and even admiration found great help thereby.  
That these waters purify 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. Witty in th● late wars, when the Garrison which w●● kept by Sir Hugh Cholmly in the Castle● after a few week's siege, whether fro●, the air of the sea, or a bad diet, 〈◊〉 want of exercise, his men were most 〈◊〉 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 Spa water, were perfectly and speedily cured, which some of them used without any other means. And many instances (as Dr. Witty 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 Dropsy, having their legs swelled etc. 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 chief 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 engendering 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 siege, and in a few day's recruits his Stomach again very well.  
Where we might also show 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 Stomach, and by a longer stay in the body, might become the Seminary of many diseases, (viz.) Surfeits, Scurvyes, Dropsies, etc. thereby preventing such fruits as are the natural product and offspring of such Seminaries: concerning which (if we might not thereby give encouragement 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.   

Melancholy or the Hypochondriacal Flatus.  
THe next disease we intent in order to treat of, and to innumerate the cures thereof performed by the waters, is Melancholy called the Flatus Hypochondriacus, or Hypochondriacal Melancholy, and the Diseases springing from Melancholy; which Disease, we suppose is caused from the irregularities of the ferments of the Stomach and Spleen, whence some impurities (otherwise separable by the vigour and genuine temperature of the ferments) are heaped up in the blood, chief in reference to its elaboration into Animal Spirits, which being depraved in their Minera or Shop, are instead of being (if I may so say) translucid congeneal Spirits (the genuine product of a right and natural genesis thereof, and thence proper for the obsolving the functions of the body) soiled with a clodding vapour, and darkened with a misty and foggy steam, perverts the Fancy, sometimes inverting the regular Ideas thereof.  
The degrees of which Disease are varied, yea intended or remitted according as those Spirits are (in their first hew or shaping) more or less soiled with those noxious steams, and clouding vapours, which steams and fogs receive all their measures from the ferments of the Stomach and Spleen, as they are more or less vitiated, from the error of which ferment ariseth Indigestion or Crudities, the Mother or rather Chaos of the aforesaid clouds or steams; and from it also is produced Wind or Flatus, the proper fruit or effect of Indigestion. For wherever the generation of the Spirits are, the first springs thereof (whether Stomach, Spleen, or arterial vessels) we suppose to be the chief Minera of this Disease, (whose deep rootedness and inward recess is the main reason of the difficuly of its cure,) which accompanying the reluctancy of the ferments in the error of Digestion, bringeth on the incoarcible Flatus, whereby it displays itself into all those various symptoms which attend this Disease.  
These Animal Spirits are the most sublime and etherial parts of the body, and nearest akin to the Soul; are the medium betwixt the Soul and Body, and as such, are (we suppose) not only the vehicle but also the mirror of the immortal Soul: and in as much as the Soul acts in the body juxta indolem organorum, according to the capacity, disposition, texture, temperature or crasis of its vehicle, which also has its springs from the alimentary and sanguineous juices elaborated by their peculiar ferments: wherefore if the constitution of these Spirits from the vigour of the ferments (sequestering all Heterogenities) prove genuine, and thence the looking-glass of the Soul becomes pure and polite. In such constitutions (I say) the soul, through the clarity of the Regimen of the Spirits, taketh pleasure and solace in its vehicle, causing generous reflections, and shaping perspicatious Ideas, helping (as we say in our Hydrol. Chym. 122.) accurateness of fancy, solidity of judgement and tenaciousness of Memory. But if through the deficiency of the ferments, arise Indigestion and Crudities, thence the untamable Flatus or Wind, and from both dark steams, whence the aforesaid Spirits are mudded in their first springs, and their constitution or Regimen soiled through foggy Scorbutic mists. then and there is laid the foundation of this deeply rooted Malady; whereby the imaginative part is darkened, (the fancy by a Melancholy vapour being clouded,) and thence as from its natural source, ariseth from the irregularities and disturbed fancies of Hypochondriacal Melancholy: For the Stomach, Spleen, arterial juices, with the ferments thereof, as they are (by nature) employed in order to the production of Animal Spirits, are Vulcan's Shop, where materials lie for forging all Ideas, and Minerva's Nursery, where are the ground-plots and seeds of Diseases.  
Now if the depravation of the ferments, in order to the hewing forth or generation of Animal Spirits, meet or interfeer with other manner of errors of the ferments as appertaining to the alimentary juices (as they are to circulate the various stades of the several digestions, in order to the nourishment of the body or supply of what daily transpires;) then, I say, is produced a complication of Melancholy with the Scurvy, yea the one graduates or heightens the other in their respective depravations, whence it is that Melancholy, and the Scurvy, frequently go hand in hand. It rarely happens that Melancholy is brought to any considerable height, but is twisted and complicated with the Scurvy, (although the contrary not often holds good) from which complication is generally produced a lesa imaginatio, (the usual product of that disease;) although sometimes the heightenings of the one, singly considered, effects it, and from this depravedness of the fancy, it is that the Patient is affected now in one part (ready to die upon it,) and presently in another remote part (and must die of that, and forthwith too) etc. So they coin to themselves hundreds of Miseries, as to this or the other part, and as many deaths ere one of either sort really siezeth upon them.  
We design not here (because we study brevity) to show how and after what manner the waters operate, and how other additional helps (by way of advice) contribute to the cure of this so deeply seated Dise●e: how it absterseth the first vessels strengtheneth the ferment of the St●nach, procures an appetite, helps d●estion, promotes the clarity of the ●gimen of the Animal Spirits by carrying away the cause of impure and Scorbutic steams,) suppresseth the cause of Wind, (which two last are most-what the scene, where and whence most of the Tragical Symptoms of this Disease are acted:) fortifies the tone of the viscera, rectifies their genuine ferments, sweetens the blood, conduceth to the production of laudable nutritive juices, (which, how far these may go towards the cure of most Diseases, we refer to better judgements to determine;) and thence brings on a good habit of body, and health the sequel of all. To insist largely upon which, is besides our present purpose; we shall therefore (which we chief aim at) only confine our discourse herein, to number a few remarkable instances of the efficacy of these waters in the cure thereof, which are as followeth.   

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 Month's 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 sat 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 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 Months: during which time he had many of those sudden Epileptic 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 struggle 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 Physic with him, giving him Vomits, Purges, ordering him blooding by the Hemorrhoids, Steel Preparations, etc. 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 days whereof he was very weak, had a faintiness upon his Spirits, found no advantage or benefit thereby: at length Dr. Witty (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 gripe before each Stool. This purging began at two in the afternoon, but the gripe 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 steady, composed 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  (since he was so strong) and walk to the Spa, 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 Spa, he walked faster than the Doctor, to the admiration of all that were by.  
After the aforesaid purge, 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 steady, his faintness and sickness ceased, the soiling steams or vapours which perverted and darkened 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 cheerful beyond expectation, even to the Admiration of all those (whether in City or Country) who knew him in his former long lingering weakness.— He has ever since made his Annual visits to these waters at their season, and has to (his great satisfaction) enjoyed 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 juices were become depraved and Spurious, an incoarcible flatus was powerful, and that the steams and vitiated juices had darkened 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 meanings 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, strengtheneth 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 enlarge.  
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 juices, tone of the viscera, organs of the Spirits, etc. 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 myself of my designed brevity.   

The second cure.  
THe Right Honourable 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, after long methods of Physic prescribed by several learned Physicians (wherein though he ever found much good, yet his Distemper was frequently returning:) his Lordship came to these waters, wherein he found so much benefit in all the respects aforesaid, that he now enjoys a constant state of health, this (when first writ) being the third year wherein his Lordship 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 Headache on one side, which was very violent, proceeding from the Flatus Hypochondraicus, having fixed itself chief upon that part, and was also highly Scorbutic, having the Scurvy in a great measure: The pain of her head was so strong as put her upon the trial of many Physicians, and had the best of their advice, but most-what in vain: at length drank these waters, and in fourteen day's time she found her pain abate and gradually go off, and within a month she was perfectly well both as to her headache, (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 encouraged him to come the next year after, and then he was cured, and for many years became a healthful and cheerful man.   

The Fifth Cure.  
MR. G. Smith of Berwick upon Tweed practitioner in Physic, fell into an extreme 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 months together, even despairing of a recovery; he came to these waters and drank three weeks, and returned home in good health and cheerfulness 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 Bishopric 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, joined with frequent extension 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 Spa in Yorkshire, 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 Witty 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 days, and furnished him with some Specificks to be used with the waters, and set him on again, advising him to drink ten days more; after three days he found eminent degrees of recovery, all the symptoms abating, and went from the waters very healthful and cheerful, 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 months 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, joined with extreme oppression of the stomach and back, with flitting heats, as if she had been in a violent Fever, 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 Stone.  
THe next Disease in order we here propose to treat on, as curable by the waters, is that formidable, afflicting and excruciating malady the Stone, where we do not mean to ascribe that efficacy to these mineral waters as to melt or dissolve any large confirmed stone of what size soever, fixed in the Kidneys or Bladder; For that we wholly deny, and judge such persons who labour under the anxiety of such large Stones as cannot without danger be brought away by the common passages of the ureters, neck of the Bladder, etc. not capable I say of receiving much benefit hereby. But are rather to be referred to the skill and cure of the Lithotomist, to Mars rather than Neptune, to the sharpness of the knife than to the accurateness of the waters.  
But that these waters have a remarkable efficacy upon such as labour under gravel, smaller stones, (such as are passable) and in taking away, or alleviating their grievous symptoms, the usual attendants and products thereof, amongst which, that of Strangury is to be reckoned as a frequent symptom and almost necessary product of the Stone, (although, that sometimes may proceed from other causes:) what remarkable efficacy (I say) these waters orderly taken, have upon such, let the few following instances speak, which in the main may be sufficient to blazon its virtues to the world in this very particular Malady, that so none through prejudice or ignorance may deny themselves that benefit which God in nature holds forth to them in this Mineral Spring.  
As to the causes of petrefaction whether in the Macro or Microcosm, but particularly that of the Lithiasis, viz. the causes of engendering the Stone in the Reins or Bladder of humane bodies, we insist largely and the industria in our Lithologia Physica. (not yet extant) And as for the symptoms, they are so well known by every one who is afflicted with this Disease as we need not by numbering them tell what they are, wherefore we shall immediately descend to the intended particulars as followeth.  

The First Case.  
MR. John Beaumond of Franck-foss in Yorkshire, 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 away the matter of the Stone in Gravel and Sand to a great proportion even in one week's time, and for five years after (being then so long to the first writing hereof) she had no necessity of returning to the Spa, being free of all symptoms.— To which I may add what I lately by letter received from a Relation of the aforesaid Gentlewoman's, 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 of the waters, sometimes fifteen pints in a morning, found great relief thereby: the benefit he reaps encourageth 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.  
SIR. J. H. of York (now a Member of Parliament) drank the waters for several years, finding thereby he voided much gravel, and was more cheerful afterwards: Then for five years by times was frequently afflicted with the symptoms of the Stone, having 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 Month 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 worse, yea● the third day was worse and worse the water's meanwhile passing, but not well. And upon the night after the third day, a stone, to the bigness of a Datestone 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 fetch, which was angular, but not of so firm a texture by much as the former, which he shown me, and since which has had passage of his water very well, having not the 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 extreme sharp pain even to swoonings, so as they almost despaired of her life, after the severe Paroxysm was over, she came, by her Physician's advice to Scarbrough, drank the waters regularly, whereby in a few days she voided a stone, which her Ladyship shown 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 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. Witty.  
SIR. I judge myself 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 lie in the basin as stones, but 〈◊〉 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 Spa. 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 virtue of the water.  
I am your, etc. George Waugh.   

The Eighth Case.  
MR. Emmerson of Newcastle 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 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 than 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 Nottinghamshire, his Son being cut for the Stone, in order to the healing 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 Inn at Grimsby in Lincolnshire by the Sea side) of Mr. Skehough a Schoolmaster in Scotland, etc. who all received so much good hereby for the Stone, as encouraged 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 virtue: 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 Fabric 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 entire form, and hence I say it is that sometimes a sharp fit (upon the drinking thereof) happens, which to judge otherwise doubtless 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 seized 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, inflammation and ulcer of the 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 Relics of a Clap.  
THe waters are likewise excellent good against the relics of a Clap, and cleanses away the dregs of a bad Mercurial method, helps the pissing of blood, and strengtheneth the seminal vessels, the malignity of the Disease being first removed by due Medicines.  

The Gonorrhoea.  
THe waters regularly drank safely stays the Gonorrhoea.  

The first Instance.  
A Gentleman that had got a Clap, having had the usual symptoms upon him many Months, which had exceedingly impaired his strength: who committing himself for cure unto two able Physicians, who in a few weeks took off all the pains, and other symptoms, only a fluid Gonorrhoea remained which resisted Medicines, even the most proper they could prescribe, and that for several weeks after the virulency of the Disease was gone, was advised to drink of these waters, where within ten days he was perfectly cured, and since has begotten Children.   

The second Instance.  
ANother had got a grievous Gonorrhoea which through the sharpness of the humour, made such a corrosion upon the neck of the Bladder, that he pissed blood with exceeding great pain, to the great abatement of his natural strength. It had resisted what advice he had met with in the Country, till coming to these waters, he was perfectly cured in a very few days.     

Agues.  
THe next disease, according to our proposed method, we are to treat of, as curable by the waters, are Agues, which are nothing else but broken or interrupted Fevers, whose different spaces of intervals and accesses made from the more or less frequent imbibitions of the offending febril Acidum doth mostwhat, if not solely, distinguish them into Quotidian, Tertian, double Tertian and Quartane, which (I say) in their root are Fevers, being the same with them in their essential causes, only (as I said) broken, and thence have the interchanges of cold and heat, and admit of frequent periods: And that what a Fever (strictly so called) springs out with a long, and mostwhat unbroken thread, these snap the thread, and begin and wove again, and that sooner or later, as the offending febrile Acidum, (whether imbred, or ab extra, communicated from the air,) is partly transpired or precipitated, or in some adjacent vessels deposited, or by any of them for a time subjugated.  
What one has to say concerning Fevers, whether continued or broken, from a somewhat novel hypothesis, we refer in the main to our Pyretologia, therefore shall at present apply ourselves to the incumbent task, which is, First, to show that all broken Fevers, viz. Agues, are curable: Next, that they admit of various, and yet certain methods of cure: And lastly, more directly to the purpose, are particularly (with some additionals) curable by these waters.  
Only here on the by, we would crave leave to say, that among the great improvements now on the wheel, in order to the better and more certain cure of Diseases, it would doutless be none of the least for Physicians to busy themselves in their Studies, and Observations, how to promote this most laudable and useful essay, (viz.) how to break a Fever, which I look upon as one of the Masterpieces of a Physician, (how unhappily it has been slipped hitherto I know not) to make a Fever split into Proxisms, and then to cure them, which latter is most easily done; The former of which, how frequently nature (put occasionally upon some exigency or other) doth, with, or without the help of a Physician, for the good of the Patient, many Physicians in their observations can tell, which if they had but narrowly watched, and traced her in those obscure paths, might by searching have found out the knack, and so have helped her with such another job in her pinch.  
If the former (I say) by the industry of Physicians, were but more diligently prosecuted, and some progress made threin, towards the rendering it practical.  
It would then certainly be one of the easiest things in the world, for Physicicians to cure the generality of Fevers, which otherwise cut off many hundreds (not to say more) of Patients.  
As to the first, viz. that all Agues are curable, the truth of which we are ready by matter of fact to make evident, where we doubt not but by infallible demonstration to prove the cure of all manner of Agues, and that both certainly and safely, supposing meanwhile there be strength of nature enough to admit of  
As to the second, viz. that Agues admit of various and yet certain methods of cure, is evident from the various practice of Physicians, some of whom cure Agues by one method, others by another.  
And as to the last (viz.) that Agues (which is more directly to the purpose) are particularly curable by Scarbrough-waters, leads me in to give an account of some few instances of cures performed thereby, which are as followeth.  

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 day's 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 days it was quite gone, and he perfectly well.   

The second.  
MRS. G. C. A Merchant's daughter of Hull, laboured under● Tertian Ague, for about fifteen or 〈◊〉 teen weeks, which had vitiated the 〈◊〉 meant of her Stomach, debilitated 〈◊〉 appetite, and so weakened 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 easy fit, and no more all the time she stayed, which was about fourteen days, 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 cheerful, 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 Yorkshire, had been troubled with a double Quartan for the space of nine months 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 Witty) 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 relics 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 Jaundice.  
THis disease, as to its causes, chief depends upon obstructions of the bilious vessels leading into the Intestines, whereby that noble juice (as an auxiliary ferment) assists in the performances of the offices in the second Digestion, by agitating, fermenting, and further preparing the chiliferous juice (transmitted from the stomach) helping the due separation, and percolation of the milky juice into the lacteals disseminated along the Intestines in order to a future Sanguification, gives colour to the recrements, irritating the  motion of the spiral guts, in order to cleansing work, viz. the seclusion of excrements. This I say being obstructed in its passage, flows by other vessels into the mass of blood, whose crasis it vitiates by giving it a high Saffron Tincture, which nature partly in capilary veins throws into the habit of the body, witness the Saffron die of all external parts, and partly dischargeth it, (as dissolved in the serum or latex of the blood) by the emulgents into the urinary vessels, whence the height of its Saffron tincture, both which (together) with the unseparable symptoms of an universal lassitude, indisposition, shortness of breath and faintness) are the general, as well as certain indices of the Jaundice.  
Wherefore it is found by observation (the nursery of knowledge) that those Medicines which do open obstructions are most prevalent in the cure hereof, amongst which, those who abound most with a fixed or volatile alcaly, or partake of apperial Mineral Salts, are most effectual, especially if a good round-working-purge precede, or that they be taken along with some proper purgative. Now that these waters, as fraught Mineral apperient Salts, are (with some additional helps) adequate remedies for this and other Diseases arising from obstructions, yea, even sometimes the waters alone orderly taken) let their efficacy in these few following instances declare to the world.  

The First Cure.  
SIR 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 Spa in a few days, 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 Jaundice, especially Spring and Fall: Nay, one time it continued upon him almost all the year, notwithstanding his endeavours after a cure, after he was settled at Scarbrough he found a perfect cure by the Spa.   

The Third Cure.  
MAdam Elizabeth Strickland of Boynton in Yorkshire, after the small-Pox, fell into a Fever, after that relapsed into a Tertian Ague, which terminated in the Jaundice, 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 fullness and tension at Stomach and upon the region of the Liver, that she could not endure 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. Witty (whose account this is) advised her Ladyship to drink the waters, and fitted her with Medicines both preparative and concomitant, which she did for fourteen days with very much benefit, 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 month's intermission to send for fresh water every day, and drink ten days at home, her Ladyship 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 Yorkshire, was during his abode in the Southern parts much afflicted with the Jaundice, having the symptoms 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 days was perfectly cured.  
I shall only add somewhat remarkable concerning a Country man who had the Jaundice highly complicated with the Scurvy, with a great stiffness in his joints, 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 Dropsy.  
THe next Disease in order is the Dropsy, which although at the first prospect it may seem contradictory to reason, that the drinking of waters should be effectual for the curing that Disease which chief consists in a flood of watery latex, already heaped up in the mass of blood, which is aforehand diluted with a waterishness; that which should be carried off most-what byurine, being by obstructions made to flow back upon the blood and thence makes it become slow in its circulation, and brings it very nigh the analogy of a standing Pool, should by the adding more water be cured, is I say no less than a seeming Paradox, yet if we consider the Primary and Efficient causes thereof, and the manner of the waters working will easily remove that Jealousy and confirm us in the belief of the contrary. And First, if we consider the immediate and efficient causes, viz. First, the vitiated ferment of the Stomach (that primary wheel of all Chronical maladies) the patron of the febricula and thirst accompanying Dropsical persons, and next the transmitted Acidum impressed upon the reins, from whence sometimes alone, and other while with some additional mucous matter, happen obstructions of those parts, which are the principal Emunctories of the potables of the nutritive juice and blood thence made (to which possibly may be added the consideration of some obstructions in, or errors of the ferment of the liver) whereby the small vessels become stopped, and the separation of the latex prevented, whence upon the regurgitation of the superfluous latex (ready to be separated) back into the blood, and thence into the habit of the body, happens that Species of a Dropsy called Anasarcosis, which by the anastomosis of the vessels or concatenation of the limphiducts, let's part thereof fall into the legs, swelling them, especially towards night, and at other times re-imbibes or swallows it up again into the former cavities of the larger vessels, and the legs become unswelled again.  
Or Secondly, The liquid potables (or superfluous latex) by the aforesaid or equivalent obstructions as considered flowing back, and heaped up mostwhat betwixt the Omentum and Peritoneum, gives that species peculiarly called Hydrops, (properly a Dropsy) which stretching the aforesaid membrans, bears up strongly against the Diaphragme, thereby contracting the cavity of the lungs, hinder the due motion of the muscles thereof, straitens respiration, making the Patiented short wound as usually they are. Or lastly, The same congested potable latex as considered accompanied with a flatulency, gives being to that third species of a Dropsy we call a Tympany, which regurgitated latex hath for the most part no urinous Salt in it, whence those who are tapped for dropsies, commonly weep forth an almost insipid liquor, so also that water which passeth from those who drink plentifully of the Spa has no urinous Salt, neither tincture nor sapour.  
Now in the next place we consider how these waters (with some other additional helps) work, and how they may thence answer the general indications of these several sorts of Dropsies, and the symptoms thence emerging, will doubtless covince us of the truth of what we are treating, (especially if thereto be added) as a sealing argument, (matter of fact) viz. first, that they chief rectify and strengthen the ferment of the Stomach and thence take off the two attending symptoms of heat and thirst, (all Dropsical Persons generally having a febricula and thirst upon them). And Secondly, That they (by reason of the Mineral Salts (wherewith they are acuated) may, and do hue forth their own way, open obstructions, sweeten or alter the transmissed Acidum and set open those formerly dammed or blocked up water-sluces, whereby the watery latex (lately through obstructions heaped up the blood, (and carried into other wrong vessels) almost drowning and suffocating the vital ferment thereof, is now drawn or filtered off, and percolated through its proper vessels, which being exhausted, the blood is reduced to its due crasis, and the tone of the debilitated viscera, are by the gentle astingency of the inate Salts, fortified and rendered capable of performing their due seclusions and separations, and the obstructions of the Liver (if any such there happen in the Fabric of this Disease) or wrong cast in its ferment, are hereby opened and rectified, and all the symptoms go off if the ferments be not too degenerate, and the latex too much depraved, and bowels tainted, (whence shortly will happen a total stagnation of the blood and drowning of the Spirits in the flood) through the long continuance thereof; for those who die of Dropsies, are (as we could easily show) really drowned, (viz.) the same which happens by drowing in water externally happens inwardly in the vessels in dropsical dying persons, by intercepting the circulation of the blood and drowning the Spirits, what we further say upon this subject, the reader may consult our subject, the reader may consult our Hydrolog. Chym. 117.118. etc. to which (for brevity sake) we refer; and shall content ourselves at present, to confirm the truth of what is already said by matter of fact from some few Instances, which are as followeth.  

The First Cure.  
MR. Th. Wesled of Grimsby in Lincolnshire, 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 Dropsy, 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; heightened the Scorbutic taint into a white leprous Scab all over her body, and her body swollen 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 humours 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 days 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 legs, 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 Yorkshire, through obstructions, fell into a great swelling, and hardness of her belly, with difficulty of breathing, which gave too much cause to suspect a Dropsy: 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.    

Worms.  
THE causes of Worms are chief ascribable, first to the debilitude of the ferments, and next to the depravation and putrefaction of the nutritive juices chief residing in the Stomach and Guts, which two causes jointly considered, are doubtless the seminaries of worms and wormatick matter: For we see that Worms happen generally in Children, where the ferments are not strong, and whose nutritive juices are hence apt to grow putrid, and prone to a spurious animation (if I may so say) the generation of worms, being a bastardly product or off-set springing from depraved vital seeds animating a degenerate putrid matter. These without peradventure are many times the causes of several Diseases (attended with bad symptoms) even in adult persons whose original frequently lies in obscurity, and hence are apt to be mistaken for other diseases.  
That these waters expel worms and wormatick degenerate matter, both as it strengthens the ferments, (helps digestion) and likewise resists putrefaction, will partly be evident from the few following instances.  

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 successful as these waters, which brought from him, to his best judgement 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 Melancholic 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 mere 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.    

women's Diseases.  
women's Diseases peculiarly so called, are such as properly belong to the womb, and to its Regimen and irregularities which chief either proceed from the obstructions of the Matrix, whereby the redundant superfluous blood, (to be separated according to the due course of nature in the forms of the Menses) flows back, floats in the containing vessels, in this or the other part, whom with its plenty it stretcheth (whence as an aliquid amplius) a turgescence, and plethory, and the symptoms thence following; or proceed from a debilitude of the womb, whereby the blood becomes drained away in too great quantities, whence Lypothymia's, Faintings, Swoonings, etc.  
As to the former; in order to the better understanding of what the obstructions of the womb are, and what the effects thence ensuing towards a right apprehension (I say) whereof we show in our Hydrolog. Chym. what the Menstrua are, the manner of their Generation, their use in nature, their lunar and critical seasons of Evacuation, and how from their obstruction arise a Plethora (besides what happens at every natural and critical Evacuation) and how the effects of which (if settling in the head) are usually (if internal) Megrim, Dizziness, or pain in the head, or (if external) are pustles in the face, redness and soreness of eyes, swelling of the face, etc. if in other places, thence tumours, erratic pains, and how from the restagnation of the blood (through the aforesaid obstructions) in the Bronchys of the Lungs, happen indispositions, dulness and sluggishness of the body, shortness of breath, oppression of the Precordia, or upper mouth of the Stomach, etc. concerning all which (I say) we treat in our Hydrolog. Chym. p. 125. 126. etc. to which we refer.  
We shall only here add, that the waters (by their connate Salts) are (by matter of fact) found, not only proper for opening obstructions, and consequently adapted for the helping such Diseases and Symptoms as thence depend viz. the Green-sickness in Maids, the fits of the Mother, and symptoms thence arising; But also (by observation) are found, as effectual by its gentle astingency, to repress the overflowings both white and red, whose floods otherwise bring on Lypothymia's, Faintings, Swoonings, etc. For though it be an apperient water, yet with other proper advisable helps, it is found by experience, notably to stay the immoderate Fluxes of Women.  
As to the First, the waters (with other additional helps) are powerful in opening (as I said) obstructions, the Minera or source of women's Maladies, makes the blood well to circulate, and duly to pay its Lunar or Monthly tribute, causing right separations to be made, whereby their shortness of breath leave them, their listlesness and indisposedness goes off, and all other bad symptoms aforesaid disappear, their appetite and digestion comes on, grow vigorous, well complexioned, get a good colour for what they do: making them look of a ruddy and fresh complexion, where nature herself thus assisted, gins to paint, whose colours (being only contempered by an invisible pencil) are not only most lively, but also durable, and consequently (if other features conspire) the best and most taking.  
And withal to such as are apt to miscarry, they notably strengthen the retentive faculty of the womb, helping such to go on to their time.  
And that it takes away some causes of barrenness, being frequently found to further conception, both in those who having been long married, never conceived, and in such as, after many years of intermission, near past all hopes of more children: In both which cases let the following Instances serve for the rest.  
Prolifickness of the Waters, or Instances of the waters efficacy towards helping of conception.  

The first Case  
MR. Th. St. Quintin, of Flambrough in Yorkshire, and his Wife, were seven years and an half married, during which time she had never conceived, upon the report of the efficacy and virtue of the waters, he brought her to Scarbrough, where she drank fourteen days, 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.  
Mistress Elizabeth Turner of Hutton-Pagnel in Yorkshire, whose cure of the Dropsy 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 Bishopric of Durham, whose cure of Hypochondriack Melancholy is before recited, upon which it happened also that while she was with her husband at Scarbrough, she conceived with 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 , upon which, drinking the waters (notwithstanding the great weakness she was reduced to) she conceived and brought forth two Children, which was wonderful 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.  
SIR. 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 swell of the belly, as happen sometimes from cold upon or after Childbearing, concerning which we have one considerable instance of the efficacy of these waters, as followeth.  
Doctor G. Tunstal of Newcastle his wife's 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 Spa, viz. Dr. Witty was consulted, who advised her Husband to give her some preparatives, and something else with the water to further the intention, after a few days her Boddice did lace close, that could not meet within three or four inches before, she continued to drink a month, and returned perfectly well, and so continued free from all swelling, it being (at the first writing hereof) near 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 menstrual evacuation, viz. epileptic, paralytic, apoplectic, 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 Springhead, 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 specific 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.    

An Imposthume.  
THat these waters are powerful in breaking and carrying away inward Imposthumations, I shall give one considerable Instance.  
In the year 74. or 75. a man who had an Imposthumation in his small guts, drank the waters, and in a few days after the first drinking thereof, while he had a stool, he observed something to give a crack, the Imposthume broke and came all away, the matter was lodged in a skin or film, which he shown a Merchant (my worthy friend and late patiented) here upon the Sands, who gave me the relation thereof, as an eye-witness.  
Having thus run through the History of Chronic Diseases, and shown the great efficacy of the waters (sometimes accommodated with other appropriate helps) in order to their respective cures we would conclude with some remarks of their virtue in the cure of Acute Diseases, viz. contined Fevers, as to which, we esteem them (duly administered) among the best sort of purges, and greatly conducible towards the abating of the spurious febrile fermentation or preternatural boiling of the blood, and one of the best quenchers of thirst we know of in the World, sometimes strangely allaying the Luxuriant symptoms of a Fever, even although, in some cases, extended to a Dilirium or Frenzy, of which we shall give this following remarkable Instance as I had it from the Gentlemans own mouth (viz.)  
An Alderman of York went to drink these waters for a debilitude of the Anus, whose Muscles (from some Scorbutic Acidum fixed there) was so relaxed, and the tone of the parts so altered and enfeebled as was a very great affliction to him, he for a time suspended drinking the waters, and what through the pain of the grieved parts, and what through an inquietude and restlessness (which yet was consequential to the former) and perhaps partly through an imbibition of the Scorbutic Acidum into the blood, begot such an alteration of the Crasis thereof as he fell into a Fever, whose symptoms prevailed so strongly, and grew so high, that it brought a Dilirium or Frenzy upon him, he was forbidden to drink the waters; but notwithstanding which injunction and imposition, he ventured privately, which none knew, stole a hearty drink, took two lusty pulls at a whole pitcher of the waters (left by a water-woman) which wrought excellently well with him, allayed his thirst, took away his Dilirium or Frenzy; yea, so took off the bad symptoms of his Fever, as that he speedily recovered, came down out of his Chamber, and was the very next day (if I do not mis-remember) as well as any of the rest of the company.   

A Discourse of an Artificial Sulphur-Bath, and Bath of Sea-water, with the uses thereof in the Cure of several Diseases.  
HAving a Discourse of the Sulphur Bath at Knarsbrough, already Extant, at the heel of our Zymol. Phys. or Philosophical Discourse of Fermentation, which we judged as a necessary Appendix to our two former Treatises of the Spaw's viz. Hydrolog. Chymic. and Hydrolog. Essays; we have therein (which may be somewhat preluminary or introductory to this) traced this following Method, in the seven or eight ensuing particular Heads, viz. 

First. By laying down the constitutive ingredients and Mineral principles of that water.  
Secondly. By showing the Process (as near as we can apprehend) nature useth in the preparing that excellent water.  
Thirdly. By showing the difference betwixt it and natural hot Baths in their original and imbred principles, so also in some sort as to their virtues.  
Fourthly. By pointing out how and by what means, the Sulphur (as the chief Mineral ingredient of that water) is so opened as to become not only so subtle as thence to be solvable therein odour tenus, but also so volatile as to pass off in a continual steam and insensible Effluvium.  
Fifthly. By showing how this Sulphur water comes not much short as to its original principles, nor is much (if at all) inferior in efficacy to some other Sulphur waters, which are hot Baths, in as much as that it's lately found successful for outward applications, as well as those by late observation are remarked for inward use.  
Sixthly. By showing that the artificial heating of the Sulphur. water bears some Analogy to the inbred heat of other Baths, as they come hot out of the earth.  
Seventhly. By pointing out how Art may imitate Nature (yet from the same principles) in the resemblance of most Baths, viz. how to prepare such Baths Artificially as are Natural.  
Lastly. By enquiring how and after what manner that Sulphur-water performs those expected helps as a Bath, where in short its various virtues are unfolded in order to the help of several Diseases; for illustration of which, we refer to that Discourse.    
But the Reader may object and say, that all here said relates to the Sulphur-water, and the virtues ascribable thereto, may only belong to it as such? The answer to which objection opens a door to let me in to say in this matter what I chief aim at.  
And first, That Art working with the same instruments that Nature doth, is so far from perverting the course of nature, as it rather promotes the intention thereof.  
Secondly. That what is done by Art above ground with congeneal principles, in imitation of what is performed in the bowels of the earth by the Chemistry of Nature, must needs be congruous and very suitable to nature, so that if nature be traced in her subterraneal solutions, praecipitations, percolations, and other manner of depurations, and that by various Salts or other Mineral juices in order to the preparing Mineral healing waters; what should hinder (even in a rational way) but that by skilful Enkeiresy or manual (admitting analogy in Principles) the same may be done above ground, and that for the supplying other places by a benign hand where nature is defective, not but that in some cases we must own the curiosity of Nature to be such as cannot be imitated, and her paths so obscure as are indiscoverable by our dull senses, so that in such productions where Nature is imitable, if we arrive at due Mediums and prosecute them with parallel circumstances, we need not doubt of reaching equivalent effects.  
But in short, we propose to show, First, The possibility of preparing such an artificial Bath, as may (for aught we know) in every respect (or at least in such as we have need of) answer the Natural. And next to show its uses; The first we discover in our aforesaid Treatise, and intent (if God grant life and health) to have ready for use against the Spa season, to render it practical as (among other things) a necessary adjunct for the benefit of Mankind.  
And here (for brevity sake) as preliminary to the latter, because the uses of the Sea-Bath and artificial Sulphur-Bath will be reciprocal according as the judgement of the Physician guided by indications of Diseases shall advise, sometimes the one, other-while the other prore nata, as the case shall require, therefore what relates to the help or cure of such Diseases as are peculiar to either or both, we shall (to avoid multiplicity of words) reduce under one name, viz. the Bath.  
Wherefore as to the latter (which is what we mainly aim at) viz. the uses of the Bath, we propose it as effectual (together with other concurring helps) chief in such Diseases as arise; first, from the ill habit of the genus nervosum (or nervous parts) viz. Appoplexy's, Palsie, Falling-sickness, and Convulsions, the particular accounts whereof we (for brevity sake) new omit, next to which we might reckon upon the Gout, and Sciatica, (which are the same Disease, only distinguished by difference of parts affected) which in as much as it chief consists in a spurious ferment or (if I may so call it) Stum of the blood, transmitted upon the Synovia or interior membrane of the joints (that exquisitely sensible web woven over the whole,) made up of nervous fibres whence the sensible pains essentially inherent in that Malady, thence these Sulphurous Baths (with other helps) are found proper in the dinting and allaying the aforesaid fermental acoras, matter of fact hath already evinced. To which may be added the Rickets and other weaknesses of joints in children, as also all Scorbutic impurities, Itch or Scabs, or other foulnesses of the skin, all which by a skilful management it takes off, opening the pores of the skin, giving liberty for the blood to breath forth what is noxious to it, and dints all bad ferments lodged in the outward parts, as to which we have not time now to enlarge.   

The Rarities observable at Scarbrough.  
TO rank what is here remarkable into their several classes, and to treat distinctly of them would swell this Piece beyond its intended bounds, therefore we shall at present only content ourselves with this slight method (viz.) First, To reckon up the several sorts of Diuretics because those are very useful for the help of Mankind, next to touch upon Stones with some hints of the variety thereof: Then to speak and that very concisely by way of Epitome, of Sea-plants, etc.  
As to the First, viz. Some excellent Diuretics of which four sorts are here found.  
The First is the Mineral Fountain itself, which by daily experience is found to be a most admirable Diuretic, generally passing well, and carrying off with it that mucous or viscous matter which is often the cause of obstructions and difficulty of Urine; as also Sabulous matter, which concreted, swells into larger stones, (and which the waters (if not of a very hard or complete texture) will dissolve, or if confirmed (and not too big for the passages) will bring away.  
The Second Diuretic is Daucus Silvestris, which grows within a dozen yards or thereabouts off the Spa, seems as if placed there designedly by Providence to fortify and second the Diuretic quality of the Mineral waters. That what Nature works under ground by Minerals tightly contempering and dissolving them and their Salts in water, is here also wrought in another Kingdom (even the vegetable) above ground, evident not only in that of the Daucus, but also in the production of another most excellent Diuretic plant (to be found upon Scarbrough-Castle-Banks) called Carduns-Marinus, of great efficacy, as has been experienced in the cure of the Stone,  
And as though these were not enough to afford such admirable Specificks, wherein, as if not only the Mineral Kingdom in the Subterraneal Solutions thereof (evident in this apperient Spring) but also the workings of Nature above ground, apparent in the vegetable Kingdom (as aforesaid) were I say, not sufficient; Nature to complete her number in the ternary of Kingdoms, adds the Animal and therein exhibits to our view the largest sort of Milipides that ever I saw, a kind of Animal or rather Insect, which are bred and live amongst the Rocks of this place, they consist of a curious texture of parts very bright and an almost incredible size, of which we have gotten several a complete Inch long. They seem to be an animation of Marine Salt fostering their oviperous original, excited by a stony Fracedo incorporated with the Sunbeams, and to be fed thereby, whence their great plenty of an inbred volatile Alkali, the Marine Salt in the Fabric of their bodies, by the ferment thereof, (like as if by an Animal Alkahest,) being transmuted into an Alkali, or from fixed is made volatile, such energy there is in Animal ferments, whence these Infects become powerful Abstersives and openers of obstructions both in the case of the Jaundice, as also against difficulty of Urine.  
The next thing we propose in order is concerning Stones, where in, the first place, amongst those Rocks on the back of the Castle, we take notice of some strange and mystical inscriptions written in large Characters by another hand than we are usually acquainted with, where he who is skilful in the language of Nature in the unfolding the mysteries thereof, has by these dark Hyeroglyphicks, a lesson hard enough set him.  
To see some Pyrites or fire-stones (some call thunderbolts) enclosed in other textured rocky stones, so shaped and figured as if shot in by some unseen hand, as well as invisible bow; which (although both are Stone) yet the former as much differs from the stony soil of the latter they are planted or grow in, as a vegetable plant differs from the earth it springs from, such an object I say can beget no less than wonder. To see (by viewing again) Cockle or Muscle-shells enclosed in great bulky stones (as Hetrogeneous parts which constitute the whole compage) and some of them to become as stony as the Rock they are fixed in. To see others, viz. Cockles in their entire form enclosed in and perfectly walled about which lesser stones like as if involved in stony bags or petrifick cases. Also to view other stones (there found) like boulders to enclose the perfectly wrought bodies of Snakes or Serpents Spirally wrought up in a small compass, where the Snake stone has lest such an impression upon its case or print as if it had been the mould, about which clay or some succulent stone had been so wrought and then hardened or petrified by the Salt-water and niterous air, and thence had received impression just as boys do in making their prints of clay upon moulds, and to see the great variety of curious Stones thrown upon the Sands; some like Diamonds, others like Aggates, and so of other colours, of which some have been sold at great rates. To conclude, to see great stones crusted over with fish-shells, as if nature was clothing them with new coats; all which, besides matter of common wonder, may also give occasion to the Naturalist in his allotting of the causes of things, to think again. To go in the next place and view those pretty little guardens of Natures own sowing planting and walling: To see I say, little Woods and Trees curiously branched, each small twig and slender fiber born up and delicately displayed to full view, painted in their natural colours, enclosed in stone, growing in Neptune's Province and swimming in a flood; I mean and some other Coraline plants whose roots are fixed upon stones, encircled with walls made of the same, floating in Sea-water, exhibiting various colours, no less pleasurable to the eye, then satisfactory to a curious searching mind: To say nothing here of the prospect of that great variety of Sea-plants which challenge the Rocks and Sea for their soil, here to be seen, of which I have bestowed pains in making a Collection, as the curious at the season may view. All which cannot but beget admiration, which if it do not, it is a firm argument of the hardness and stoniness of that mind as well as of its petrifique objects.  
To say little here of the two Wells or Springs of fresh waters which arise pretty near day, upon the high Rock on which the Castle stands, one of which is within two or three yards of the very brink of that steep Rock which bounds the Sea, which is a vast height above the Surface of Neptune's Element, and these Springs are rarely (even in the greatest droughts) known to fail.— And near to this place viz. at Whitby are the great Allom-works of England, of which we have given some account in our Hydrolog. Essays.  
To see each Proselyte to Nature's Wonders searching for Rarities upon the Seashore, and every one like another Archimedes, returning with his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in one thing or other, either some curious stones, or some Marcasite with a Cockle or Serpent wrapped therein, which when the petrifick shell is broke, appear plain to view in their entire and curious form, or some pretty Sea-Plant; for after every flood, a new scene of Rarities in one sort or other appears, where are to be seen those Ludicra Naturae, in which Nature sport's herself in great variety.  
To conclude, Methinks the question concerning every Rarity we here meet with, is not much unlike that of our Lords to them who tempted him about the Lawfulness of paying Tribute, viz. whose Superscription is upon it, or whose Image doth it bear? And the answer thereto not different from theirs, viz. Caesar's, that of the great King, of Heaven and Earth; who as he hath stamped the character of his Wisdom and power upon every created visible object, so more particularly some things seem to bear bolder shadows of the Divine Pencil, and to retain more vigorous impressions and lively draughts of the Image thereof. And lastly, The conclusion or genuine consequence of both, runs parallel with that of our Lord's advice, viz. to give to Caesar the things which belong to Caesar, viz. Admiration, Adoration, Obedience and Praises for ever, and all the World to come in with full Chorus, saying, Amen, Hallelujah.  
FINIS.