THE WARMING STONE.  
Excellent Helps really sound out, tried, and had, by a Warming Stone in his Case, which not costing much, will save much cost in fire, and withal avoid the danger of fire: And likewise is very useful and comfortable for the colds of aged and sick people, and for Women with child, and in Childbed:  
As also for Fluxes, Rheums, Colicks, Ruptures, or any cold disease: And for those that in Beds, Studies, Shops, Ships, Churches, or elsewhere, have need of heat, yet cannot conveniently make use of Fire:  
And likewise for the Poor, when having no fire of their own, they may borrow the heating of this stone at a Neighbour's fire, if his Charity be not altogether cold.  
These Stones with their Cases are to be sold at where more particular satisfaction may be had of the Contents of the Book.  
LONDON, Printed by R. H. for john Bartlet, at the Sign of the gilt Cup in Paul's Churchyard, near S. Augustine's Gate. 1640.   

The Warming Stone.  
THe decay of natural heat in aged persons and in many others, by sickness, ill accidents, and their continual sitting, makes them to need the helps of Artificial warmth; and myself through the blessing of God have thereby often received ease of my griefs, and I verily believe the preservation of my life in many grievous extremities. Once (I remember) when I was dangerously oppressed with often and very strong vomiting, and did rise out of my bed and go into the cold so many times, and so speedily one after another, that I could neither give heat to my bed, nor receive any from it: Another time also when by a hurt in my foot my grief was so exceedingly increased, that both my foot & leg were grown full of black spots, and white between, from the sole of the foot to the knee, and most which saw it took it to be a Gangrene, which they thought to be uncurable without cutting off my leg, which also was so mortified with cold that I could give it no heat from my body; I then by the blessing of God (as I have many other times done) maintained heat in it by the help of a kind of stone, which I find to be apt to receive heat much sooner, and likewise to retain it much longer than any other thing which I could find upon any reason or trial. For I found  heated by the fire would quickly lose their warmth, and likewise boards could not retain their heat long, and that brick and freestone required much time to heat them, and held it but a little while; & that other stones were not able to endure strong heating, but would suddenly fly in pieces; whereas this stone being well seasoned at the first with a moderate heat, will both receive it quickly, and keep it very long, and impart it very kindly and agreeable unto nature. When my feet have been cold, warming the same stone by the sire, and putting the soles of my feet thereon, it hath in one quarter of an hour recovered me more heat unto them, then scorching them by a violent fire, could have done in an whole hour; When I have been likewise grievously pained and tortured with the Colic, and wind in my Guts, the strength of the heat of this stone hath (by applying it unto my belly) suddenly eased and cured me. My Wife being delivered of our eldest child, I came to visit her, to know how she did after that great danger; she told me that she was laid on a Trundle-bed to make her sweat, after her weakening with pain and travel in childbirth; but the bed being somewhat too short for her (she being tall of person) and her feet reaching beyond the frame of the bed, she could get no sufficient heat unto them to procure sweat; which as soon as I heard, I promised I would make her a medicine for it quickly, and did so, by warming a stone, which did bring her to so kindly a sweat, as that she recovered the danger of that Childbirth, and by the Blessing of God brought me many more Children afterwards This Warming Stone also hath helped a Woman great with Child, who had a great ache in her thigh, and thought she could not be cured, till she were freed of her burden by Childbirth, yet by the help of the warmth of this Stone, found perfect remedy above two months before the time of her delivery came: And as it is a thing certainly known, that the least cold in Childbed, (which cannot be recovered by the sole strength of their then weakened natural heat) brings certain death; so I know no other remedy so likely to recover heat, sweat and strength in any such accident, as by the help of these warming Stones, in their cases, either one or more of them (as need shall require) being applied unto any part of the Body that wants it. This hath been tried by a woman whose strength failing her to free the after burden; those which were about her not knowing what other help to give her, they applied this warming Stone, and by the help of the heat thereof, and the Blessing of God, nature wrought so well, that within one hour, she escaped that danger and recovered her health and strength again. Another also who was grown so pale and cold after long travel, that the midwife who was sent for to help her, finding and feeling her feet and her face to be cold, supposed she had been dead, and said unto those who had sent for her, she marvelld why they had sent for her, to come to a dead body: they answered her she was not dead, though very weak: whereupon rubbing her face, and finding some warmth therein, she caused them presently to send to her house with all speed for a Couple of these warming Stones, by the help of the heat whereof applied to her feet and her Belly, God blessed her endeavours so well, that both the woman and the child were preserved.  
One of my Neighbours also, who had been long weak and sickly, and newly had her old grief and weakness much increased by the loss of her eldest son, when with all the help that she could get by Physic, in a long night she could take little rest; by the warmth of these Stones (the one being applied to her feet, and the other to the bottom of her belly) she found more ease and sounder sleep, than she could do at any time in a quarter of a year before: And she told me that when her maid had forgotten (after an eight or ten days using thereof) to provide this help for her, she slept as ill, as she was wont to do before; but now (God be praised) is very well amended both in health and strength: The same party also being so extremely weakened, with such a grievous pain in her back as she was neither able to go nor stand, and told her husband, that if it should continue with her but three days, she thought verily it would cost her life, by applying these warming stones to the place grieved, within 3 hours was able to walk about her chamber; at which her husband told me he wondered exceedingly, how so great an alteration could be wrought in so short a time.  
The help hereof also hath recovered those who were so endangered by taking cold in their ruptures, that both themselves & their friends dispaired of their lives, because the fat of their guts being fallen down into their cod, and there grown hard & stiff by the cold, could not possibly be replaced, till strong heat had resolved it into softness again: and so there was means found to return them into their due place; by which (God be praised) some who desired to be prayed for publicly in the church, being out of hope of life, have recovered health and strength again, though one of them was near three score & ten when by this means he was helped. It hath likewise done exceeding much good to many that have had very violent fluxes (whereof some of them have been bloody) who by the help of these stones applied to their belly and their hinder parts both at one time, and the help of heating their drink by the fire as hot as they could take it, have recovered. The same remedy likewise helps much to abate the violent cold fits of agues, & being applied to the stomach, strengthens the weakness thereof very much, against the cough or any disease which comes of a cold cause: for it exceedingly helps the weakness of the stomach, because all good digestion being made by heat, as extreme outward colds weaken it by abating that heat, so this outward heat strengtheneth it much by adding more warmth unto it: as we find, that boiled, baked, or roasted meat being eaten hot, that heat helps us much to concoct the same meat. And whereas we seek help by artificial liquors that have an extraordinary heat, to help the cold weakness of nature by their strength, if too little be taken it doth little good, if too much, much harm; whereas the heat of these stones may be duly tempered to our use, being continued, increased, abated, or removed suddenly, as the diseased party shall think fit. The same stones also put into the bed, do not only supply the need of a warming pan, but being put into a case lined two fingers thick every where, with wool between, frise on the outside, and canvas on the inside, will retain a comfortable heat in the bed for ten hours together, and a sensible heat for fourteen, if it be throughly warmed; which must be done as hot as may be, without burning the case, which is tried by spitting on the stone, or sprinkling water on it, for if it hisse not it is never too hot. I make the case of canvas on the inside, because it is not so apt to burn as woollen cloth; and have wool between, because it sorts better with any part of the body than cloth doth, and by reason of the thickness thereof brings not an overviolent heat in the beginning, yet continues it much longer than cloth or linen could do: and the frise on the outside is softer and warmer than other stuff. And a stone in a case thus made, may be applied to the head, feet, belly, or any other part of the body that hath need of it, and may be as soon put away if the heat be too great.  
It is also exceeding useful for all scholars to heat their hands and feet, when they must attend their studies in cold weather. And for all persons which by their trades in such seasons must keep their shops, or for the service of God continue in the Church. And such as travel by sea, who may have these stones warmed by the fire, though they cannot warm themselves in that place where the fire is. The small cost which belongs to it is mostly in providing the stone and case at first; for the stone will be heated by the same fire which is made for any other purpose, either to bake, boil, brew, or roast, or by any other fire, either laid upon it, or set against it, by convenient turn, that all parts of the stone may heat alike: Which may be done without any hindrance of any of the aforesaid uses. And by trial I find, that two about nine or ten inches long, and six or seven inches broad, will do more service, and are more easy to be found than a single one of double the length and breadth, because they will be less subject to breaking with falling, and are the more easily put to the fire and taken from it, and moved to and fro in the bed with more speed and ease than a great single one can be, yet may, being put together, fill a greater room than the single one could do, by adding warmth, on each side, to any part of the body that shall lie between them, and likewise at one time be applied to several places. And such poor people as have no fire of their own, they may heat it at their neighbour's fire, which will damnify them no more, then lighting one candle by another; and whereas no fire can be maintained without consuming the fuel which makes it, and that cannot be provided without continual charge, according to the wasting thereof, this stone being so heated will keep his heat without cost for divers hours, in other places, but in the bed for a whole night, and that without renewing the heat, or troubling the rest of the party, who needeth the warmth of it. These uses and experiments will be verified, by the witness of many persons who have very often, and do daily make use thereof, some of which have not been more averse, from being persuaded to try it in the beginning, then afterwards they have been loath to leave the benefits they have found thereby; and I am very confident that by due observation of the quality of these 〈◊〉 many other uses of them will be found out, besides these here mentioned.  
This same stone being laid under the head of a child that was much stopped in his breath by a cold, did in one night clear and free the passage of his breath: and likewise being laid under the head of an old man that was very deaf, did in such sort help him, that his neighbours wondered to see the change that was wrought in him.  
An ancient Doctor of Physic of London testifies it gave a Patient of his more ease in the cure of the Sciatica, than any outward Medicine that he could apply.  
Septemb. 1. 1640.   

Imprimatur,  
Tho. Wykes.