¶
A
briefe
discourse
of
certaine
Bathes
or
Medicinall
waters
,
in
the
Countie
of
Warwicke
,
neer
vnto
a
village
called
Newnam
Regis
.
IT
is
well
and
trulie
said
,
and
vpon
very
sufficient
ground
&
reason
,
by
Aristotle
the
chiefest
learned
of
all
the
heathen
Philosophers
,
that
Philosophy
proceeded
and
tooke
his
beginning
from
woonder
and
admiration
.
For
wheras
in
truth
it
is
alwaies
seene
that
we
doubt
,
and
are
altogither
ignorant
of
the
hidden
causes
of
such
euents
and
things
,
which
astonish
and
amaze
vs
,
the
wit
of
man
being
naturally
indued
with
an
vnsatiable
desire
of
knowledge
,
bendeth
all
his
force
and
industrie
to
attaine
the
perfect
discouerie
of
all
such
secret
matters
,
neuer
ceasing
or
surceasing
painfull
trauels
with
earnest
search
and
inquirie
,
vntill
he
be
fully
satisfied
and
thoroughly
resolued
touching
al
causes
&
circumstances
belonging
to
such
effects
as
seemed
strange
,
whereunto
when
he
hath
attained
,
the
woondring
ceaseth
,
the
minde
being
satisfied
with
the
apprehension
of
the
causes
.
Wherfore
that
assertion
of
Pythagoras
,
that
The
beginning
of
Philosophie
is
to
woonder
at
nothing
,
as
Schegkius
reporteth
,
doth
not
carrie
so
good
probabilitie
:
the
veritie
of
that
affirmation
rather
taketh
place
after
Philosophie
is
attained
,
than
in
the
beginning
.
For
we
are
not
occasioned
to
search
out
the
causes
and
grounds
of
things
knowne
which
are
not
strange
vnto
vs
.
No
man
laboreth
about
ordinary
matters
,
ech
man
trauelleth
to
learne
,
heare
,
and
know
the
causes
of
strange
euents
,
and
of
haps
vnvsual
.
So
that
we
may
iustly
conclude
with
Aristotle
,
that
admiration
and
wondring
gaue
occasion
of
Philosophy
,
without
the
which
no
man
is
stirred
with
desire
of
knowledge
:
and
after
the
wit
of
man
is
satisfied
with
vnderstanding
of
the
causes
which
breed
astonishment
,
the
woondering
ceaseth
,
and
the
minde
is
maruellouslie
pleased
and
delighted
with
the
knowledge
thereof
.
And
as
the
veritie
of
this
position
is
aboundantly
confirmed
in
great
varietie
of
naturall
effects
,
which
by
meanes
of
their
strangenes
haue
been
occasion
to
the
learned
in
all
ages
to
exercise
their
wits
for
the
vnderstanding
&
apprehension
of
them
:
so
amongst
all
other
things
naturall
bathes
by
meanes
of
their
diuers
operations
and
vertues
in
curing
of
sundrie
maladies
and
diseases
,
haue
vehemently
incensed
&
stirred
vp
all
diligent
students
which
bestow
their
times
in
inquirie
and
search
of
naturall
causes
,
earnestly
to
pursue
the
knowledge
of
their
mysteries
,
not
ceasing
vntill
they
haue
thoroughly
conceaued
and
apprehended
all
such
intricate
difficulties
as
vnto
them
appertaine
.
And
of
this
very
particular
matter
we
haue
had
a
domestical
familiar
example
offered
vnto
vs
within
these
fewe
yeers
heer
in
England
.
For
it
hapned
not
long
since
in
Warwickshire
,
neer
vnto
a
Village
called
Newnam
Regis
,
that
a
certaine
husbandman
occupied
in
lopping
of
trees
,
chaunced
to
receiue
a
greeuous
wound
in
his
hand
,
whereupon
he
repaired
presently
to
a
fountain
which
was
not
far
off
:
after
he
had
washed
and
clensed
the
wound
very
well
with
the
water
,
he
presently
found
al
pains
of
his
hurt
asswaged
,
and
in
short
time
the
wounde
thoroughly
closed
&
healed
,
that
he
needed
no
further
helpe
by
the
art
of
surgerie
,
which
effect
he
imparted
to
his
neighbors
,
as
a
strange
successe
:
and
it
so
amazed
the
hearers
,
that
after
,
another
hauing
a
deepe
wound
in
his
heele
with
a
sieth
,
came
to
the
same
fountaine
&
recouered
&
was
made
hole
onely
with
the
lotion
of
the
same
water
.
These
and
such
rare
cures
done
by
these
wels
,
astonished
all
the
inhabitants
thereabout
.
And
the
fame
hereof
occasioned
great
concourse
and
multitudes
of
diseased
people
to
run
into
those
parts
,
and
many
receiued
helpe
of
their
infirmities
,
as
is
verefied
by
the
testimonies
of
the
worshipfull
.
So
that
the
fame
heerof
confirmed
now
by
often
experience
,
was
at
length
so
far
spread
,
that
such
as
were
diseased
,
almost
out
of
all
parts
of
this
land
,
came
to
those
waters
for
remedie
:
wherupon
all
men
hauing
the
noueltie
of
the
matter
in
admiration
,
many
in
that
they
had
not
obserued
such
strange
things
to
be
done
by
common
water
,
supposed
some
secret
vertue
to
be
imparted
from
God
to
these
wels
,
whence
such
rare
cures
were
miraculously
performed
farre
beside
and
beyond
the
ordinary
course
of
nature
.
The
learneder
and
wiser
sort
instructed
with
the
grounds
of
natural
Philosophie
,
after
they
vnderstood
the
reports
to
be
indeed
not
altogither
fabulous
and
vaine
,
but
to
carrie
much
truth
;
to
satisfie
their
woondering
cogitations
gaue
themselues
to
a
farther
search
,
to
finde
out
the
true
and
naturall
causes
of
these
euents
.
For
as
it
may
be
accounted
meere
impietie
to
detract
any
thing
from
the
omnipotent
power
of
God
,
to
thinke
his
hand
so
shortened
,
that
he
is
not
aswell
able
to
produce
things
miraculously
now
in
these
our
daies
,
without
the
mean
of
naturall
causes
,
as
he
did
often
in
times
past
:
so
without
derogation
of
Gods
power
I
trust
,
we
may
affirme
,
that
in
these
our
latter
daies
,
God
for
the
most
part
doth
in
his
actions
put
natural
meanes
as
instruments
,
of
which
the
Philosophers
do
consider
as
naturall
and
inferior
causes
.
For
if
we
shall
say
that
God
without
any
naturall
course
,
supernaturally
doth
produce
all
things
,
we
shall
subuert
all
the
grounds
of
Philosophy
and
spoile
nature
of
all
actions
.
Rather
in
mine
opinion
we
are
to
imbrace
that
saying
in
Genesis
,
that
God
doth
cease
from
newe
creation
of
things
,
hauing
giuen
to
them
a
nature
and
power
,
by
the
which
they
stande
and
fall
.
For
if
these
second
causes
,
as
barren
in
themselues
,
should
continually
receiue
facultie
and
power
from
the
almightie
,
that
otherwise
they
might
not
be
meanes
in
Gods
works
:
besides
that
,
we
shal
take
away
all
generation
and
corruption
in
this
world
,
we
must
imagine
that
there
is
daily
a
new
creation
of
things
,
from
the
which
God
long
since
hath
ceased
,
as
we
reade
in
the
holie
scriptures
,
when
he
did
put
all
things
created
vnder
a
lawe
,
giuing
them
a
vertue
and
facultie
,
that
the
same
might
increase
and
multiply
.
This
considered
,
I
hope
it
will
not
be
accounted
impietie
,
by
reasonable
discourse
to
search
out
the
naturall
means
which
God
hath
placed
as
causes
of
euents
.
Heerupon
hauing
heard
the
credible
reports
of
rare
and
sundry
cures
done
in
diuers
persons
by
those
Warwickshire
wels
,
the
strangenesse
and
woonder
thereof
caused
me
to
repaire
thither
,
the
better
to
learne
the
veritie
&
truth
of
that
I
heard
.
And
after
I
had
a
fewe
daies
obserued
the
successe
and
euent
of
things
,
and
seene
as
much
with
mine
eies
as
I
had
before
hard
with
mine
eares
,
I
was
in
truth
induced
to
beleeue
that
there
was
in
those
wels
some
more
secret
and
hidden
qualities
than
are
found
in
common
waters
,
and
so
was
stirred
vp
to
inquire
and
to
find
out
some
naturall
cause
of
such
effects
.
Wherin
surely
I
was
at
the
first
greatly
discouraged
,
considering
how
hard
a
matter
it
hath
alway
been
accounted
amongst
the
learned
,
to
finde
out
the
minerals
of
medicinall
waters
.
For
where
many
learned
men
haue
written
of
Bathes
,
&
bestowed
much
labor
to
finde
out
their
secret
natures
and
misteries
,
they
haue
left
in
their
monuments
so
dissident
and
diuers
opions
,
that
hardly
two
writers
do
deliuer
like
iudgement
:
such
repugnancie
of
one
matter
,
doth
argue
the
hardnes
and
difficultie
of
the
same
.
And
indeed
the
beginnings
of
all
fountaines
,
specially
of
those
which
are
medicinall
,
are
deepely
seated
and
situated
in
the
bowels
of
the
earth
,
and
the
deepe
caues
of
hils
,
that
nature
may
seeme
thereby
to
haue
an
intent
to
hide
the
mysteries
of
them
from
the
knowledge
of
man
,
which
happily
may
be
cause
that
after
men
haue
much
labored
to
vnderstand
and
explaine
all
causes
and
circumstances
appertaining
to
Bathes
,
yet
alwaies
some
thing
happeneth
,
whereof
sufficient
cause
was
not
giuen
,
whereby
the
authors
haue
daily
added
to
that
,
which
was
first
expounded
,
and
after
many
discourses
,
other
euents
haue
fallen
out
,
wherein
mans
wit
coulde
not
in
all
points
be
satisfied
,
which
hath
giuen
cause
to
many
of
all
ages
to
attribute
the
operations
of
bathe
waters
vnto
the
diuine
powers
.
For
we
read
much
written
of
the
Bathes
of
Iupiter
in
Lybia
,
&
of
the
Baths
dedicated
to
the
sun
as
of
a
diuine
nature
amongst
the
Troglodites
,
the
Bathes
of
Hercules
accompted
also
a
god
,
are
much
spoken
of
.
The
like
superstition
hath
creped
in
amongst
Christians
,
for
in
the
late
ignorant
age
,
men
haue
dedicated
some
bathe
waters
to
S.
Anne
,
others
to
S.
Gregorie
,
others
to
S.
Nicolas
,
others
to
S.
Wynefride
,
others
to
S.
Rumboll
,
and
so
others
to
diuers
other
saints
,
through
ignorance
vnskilfull
of
the
causes
of
the
faculties
of
such
waters
,
they
supposing
the
effects
doone
by
them
to
come
by
the
grace
of
som
saint
,
did
yeeld
diuine
names
vnto
the
bathes
.
Wherfore
seeing
it
is
apparent
that
the
serch
of
the
secret
natures
of
Bathes
in
all
ages
hath
been
found
verie
harde
,
and
much
hath
troubled
the
learned
,
I
trust
men
in
this
our
time
will
not
take
occasion
to
carpe
and
reprehend
my
labors
,
if
I
now
in
this
discourse
hap
to
pronounce
of
these
late
inuented
fountaines
,
assertions
contrary
to
some
others
opinions
,
or
if
I
shall
not
now
in
this
little
pamphlet
sufficiently
explane
the
true
minerals
of
these
bathes
,
or
else
shall
with
some
shew
of
probabilitie
establish
some
things
which
herafter
may
be
found
other
wise
.
For
we
find
that
where
many
writers
in
ancient
time
haue
largely
discoursed
of
sundrie
bathes
in
Italie
,
yet
the
natures
and
causes
of
the
same
do
seeme
not
sufficiently
discussed
,
but
that
in
this
our
time
late
writers
do
disallow
of
many
positions
of
the
former
authors
,
and
brag
of
better
explanations
found
out
,
that
a
man
may
suppose
it
to
bee
an
impossible
matter
throughly
to
discourse
of
the
conditions
&
circumstances
of
bathe
waters
.
Therefore
let
it
not
be
accounted
strange
if
learned
men
do
differ
in
opinion
in
consideration
of
these
Warwickshire
so
late
knowen
bathes
:
and
the
indeuors
of
men
are
to
be
allowed
though
many
imperfections
appeere
in
a
thing
not
yet
sufficiently
tried
,
which
happily
heereafter
in
time
may
be
better
established
.
And
vpon
this
ground
trusting
of
the
well
acceptation
of
my
good
meaning
in
this
treatise
,
I
haue
taken
incouragement
to
deliuer
mine
opinion
and
knowledge
of
these
Warwickshire
waters
as
followeth
.
The
Minerals
from
which
the
waters
of
these
wels
are
supposed
to
draw
their
vertues
.
FOr
the
better
discouerie
of
the
secret
faculties
of
these
waters
,
I
haue
taken
certaine
quantities
of
them
,
and
distilled
them
:
I
haue
likewise
examined
them
by
filtrings
and
euaporations
,
and
haue
alwaies
obserued
and
found
in
the
end
,
after
perfect
separation
of
all
the
waterish
parts
,
that
there
remaineth
a
certaine
residence
,
in
color
whitish
,
and
in
taste
somwhat
salt
,
which
being
put
vpon
a
glowing
hote
iron
,
doth
foorthwith
become
cleerer
and
whiter
.
And
although
this
be
a
propertie
common
to
the
Limestone
,
Plaister
,
and
Alabaster
,
when
they
are
mingled
in
bath
waters
,
yet
I
am
persuaded
,
The
generall
qualities
and
temperament
of
the
water
of
these
wels
.
FOrasmuch
as
the
minerall
which
beareth
the
chiefest
swaie
in
these
waters
,
is
the
Limestone
,
after
the
which
we
finde
as
ingredients
of
inferior
sort
,
and
lesse
portions
,
Niter
,
Iron
,
and
Allume
:
it
euidently
appeereth
that
these
waters
haue
great
force
and
facultie
to
drie
,
and
somewhat
to
coole
.
For
the
Limestone
(
as
Agricola
writeth
in
his
booke
of
minerals
)
hath
a
drieng
qualitie
,
which
is
increased
by
the
mixture
of
the
Niter
,
Iron
,
and
Allume
,
which
all
haue
force
to
drie
,
so
that
I
may
reasonably
conclude
,
that
this
bath
drieth
to
the
farthest
of
the
second
degree
,
how beit
the
cooling
and
refrigeration
extendeth
not
so
far
,
for
that
the
excesse
of
this
qualitie
is
mitigated
and
repressed
by
the
heate
of
Niter
.
Allum
also
is
supposed
to
haue
in
it
some
hot
parts
,
notwithstanding
the
parts
which
heat
,
are
not
so
many
nor
so
great
,
that
the
same
may
be
comparable
or
equall
to
the
cooling
portions
of
all
the
rest
,
but
that
we
may
instly
conclude
,
that
these
bathes
do
in
facultie
drie
strongly
,
and
somewhat
coole
.
Touching
the
second
faculties
of
the
minerals
of
these
waters
,
we
find
iron
to
haue
an
astringent
and
corroborating
force
,
very
conuenient
in
diseases
of
the
liner
and
splene
:
Niter
,
to
be
abstersiue
,
resoluing
,
discussing
,
extenuating
and
cutting
of
grosse
and
clammish
humors
:
and
Allume
not
only
to
be
astringent
,
but
also
to
haue
force
to
absterge
and
clense
:
so
that
heereof
the
discreete
physition
may
plainly
see
the
causes
why
these
waters
do
manifestly
cure
wounds
and
vlcers
as
wel
externall
as
internall
,
and
do
good
in
manie
other
infirmities
.
Neither
is
it
to
be
marueled
that
these
waters
do
heale
sicknesses
which
are
contrary
and
repugnant
:
for
by
this
discourse
it
appeereth
,
that
they
stand
of
contrarie
things
differing
in
qualities
,
wherby
they
may
produce
contrarie
and
dissident
actions
.
Particular
diseases
which
may
be
cured
by
the
vse
of
these
waters
.
WHereas
the
vse
of
these
waters
is
generally
conuenient
in
such
maladies
which
are
hot
and
moist
:
they
must
needs
in
special
do
good
in
inflammations
of
the
eies
,
in
excessiue
bleeding
,
and
ouerlarge
fluxe
of
womens
termes
,
in
their
whites
,
in
the
gonorhaical
passion
,
in
shortnes
of
breathing
,
and
in
sundry
pectorall
diseases
,
in
obstructions
,
and
other
affects
of
the
spleene
,
in
gouts
,
in
suffusions
,
and
diuers
like
imperfections
of
the
eies
,
in
difficultie
of
hearing
,
in
weakenes
and
loathing
of
the
stomacke
,
and
ouermuch
laxitie
of
the
gums
,
being
vsed
as
a
lotion
,
in
the
cholicke
passion
proceeding
from
sharpe
humors
,
in
the
bloody
flixe
,
in
the
wormes
,
in
the
pissing
euil
,
in
the
stone
,
in
the
hemorrhoides
&
egresse
of
the
fundament
,
in
the
headach
,
rheume
,
and
in
affects
of
the
nerues
and
sinews
,
and
likewise
in
such
deformities
as
happen
vnto
the
skin
,
as
ringwoormes
,
scabs
,
and
externall
vlcers
.
And
the
truth
of
the
premisses
,
common
experience
hath
confirmed
vnto
vs
.
The
vse
of
these
Wels.
COncerning
the
vse
of
the
waters
of
these
wels
,
I
do
not
doubt
,
but
that
in
time
,
farther
experience
will
best
teach
the
true
vse
of
them
.
In
the
meane
,
we
haue
sufficient
proofe
,
that
the
same
doe
good
both
inwardly
dronken
,
and
also
outwardly
applied
.
Therfore
it
shal
not
be
amisse
to
mention
som
conuenient
rules
and
orders
for
the
vse
of
these
Bathes
,
according
to
the
precepts
of
our
ancient
writers
,
set
downe
to
be
obserued
in
all
Bathes
,
which
may
easily
be
applied
to
these
waters
as
occasion
shall
serue
.
First
,
therefore
that
we
may
the
better
knowe
when
,
and
in
what
diseases
these
Bathes
either
inwardly
are
to
be
dronken
,
or
outwardly
to
be
vsed
by
lotion
,
it
is
to
be
vnderstood
,
that
Bath
waters
do
only
good
to
these
parts
,
by
the
which
they
do
passe
,
and
which
they
foment
;
as
Fallop
noteth
in
his
booke
de
aquis
medicatis
.
And
bathe
waters
are
said
to
foment
the
parts
of
the
bodie
,
not
onely
such
as
they
do
in
substance
touch
,
but
all
others
to
whom
they
do
impart
their
vapors
,
&
faculties
.
So
that
outward
parts
of
the
affected
,
do
receiue
good
,
when
by
lotion
they
are
washed
with
these
waters
,
the
inwarde
parts
take
most
comfort
by
drinking
of
them
:
so
the
bowels
,
and
those
members
are
best
cured
,
by
which
the
waters
do
passe
,
or
at
the
least
do
impart
,
their
vapors
and
vertues
:
wherefore
when
the
same
are
taken
to
cure
the
diseases
of
the
lungs
,
liuer
,
spleene
,
reines
,
kidneies
,
bladder
,
&c.
there
must
be
singular
heede
taken
,
that
the
waters
may
be
brought
to
passe
through
the
body
by
these
parts
diseased
,
and
so
may
be
auoided
by
the
vrin
,
which
will
be
done
by
adding
some
thing
to
the
bathe
water
,
according
to
the
affect
&
the
situation
of
the
part
affected
,
as
shal
be
made
more
manifest
heerafter
.
In
the
meane
let
vs
consider
what
things
are
to
be
obserued
in
the
drinking
of
bathe
waters
.
Certaine
things
to
be
obserued
before
the
drinking
of
the
water
of
these
welles
.
WHen
the
drinking
of
medicinall
waters
is
thought
expedient
,
we
are
to
obserue
some
things
before
we
take
them
,
some
whilest
we
are
drinking
of
them
,
and
also
some
other
things
after
they
are
fully
receiued
.
Concerning
the
first
,
the
discreet
physition
is
to
be
conferred
withall
,
whether
the
vse
of
these
waters
be
conuenient
for
the
present
affect
and
disease
or
no
:
bicause
euery
bathe
water
is
not
a
remedie
for
euerie
sicknes
:
but
the
learned
physition
will
easily
satisfie
any
man
in
these
points
,
by
comparing
the
nature
and
conditions
of
the
disease
,
with
the
faculties
of
the
water
.
The
physition
likewise
is
to
be
consulted
,
whether
the
partie
himselfe
which
purposeth
to
vse
these
medicinall
waters
,
be
for
other
respects
in
case
apt
to
receiue
them
:
for
they
are
not
without
good
consideration
to
be
offered
either
vnto
children
,
or
vnto
olde
persons
.
The
habite
also
and
state
of
the
bodie
is
to
be
regarded
,
for
it
fortuneth
sometimes
that
some
one
part
may
receiue
good
by
the
bathe
,
&
others
may
be
hurt
:
as
if
a
man
hath
hot
kidneies
,
to
temper
them
with
these
waters
may
be
thought
conuenient
,
yet
if
the
constitution
of
his
bodie
togither
with
his
stomacke
be
colde
and
weake
,
in
such
case
these
waters
are
not
rashly
to
be
ministred
.
Likewise
if
the
patient
haue
an
ague
,
we
may
not
but
with
great
warines
counsell
these
waters
.
And
where
it
is
needfull
that
the
partie
which
drinketh
of
them
,
do
in
reasonable
sort
exercise
him-himselfe
,
during
the
time
hee
drinketh
,
it
is
not
conuenient
to
aduise
the
same
to
one
which
can
by
no
meanes
exercise
his
bodie
.
It
is
also
diligently
to
be
prouided
,
that
such
as
vse
the
Bathes
be
not
inwardly
subiect
to
obstructions
,
and
that
the
veins
be
large
,
and
the
waies
open
.
For
if
the
veines
be
verie
little
,
that
the
bathe
water
cannot
passe
,
many
inconueniences
therof
may
insue
:
therfore
diligent
care
is
to
be
had
,
that
the
veines
be
large
,
and
the
passages
open
.
The
consideration
of
the
time
to
drinke
bathe
waters
is
not
of
lest
moment
.
For
albeit
som
are
of
opinion
that
medicinall
waters
may
at
al
times
be
dronken
,
notwithstanding
it
is
of
the
best
learned
concluded
,
that
the
winter
season
is
altogither
vnfit
to
drink
any
medicinal
water
.
And
where
all
such
waters
are
found
in
their
fountains
actually
,
either
hot
or
cold
,
it
is
best
to
vse
the
springs
actually
hot
in
temperate
seasons
,
as
in
the
spring
and
the
fall
of
the
leafe
.
They
which
are
actually
cold
are
taken
with
best
successe
,
in
hotter
weather
.
So
experience
hath
taught
vs
that
these
Warwikshire
wels
,
which
are
both
actually
and
potentially
colde
,
are
dronken
with
most
commoditie
in
the
hottest
time
of
the
sommer
,
and
that
the
hotter
and
drier
the
sommer
time
is
,
the
more
holesome
,
and
of
the
better
effecte
these
waters
are
.
I
am
not
ignorant
that
in
consideration
of
the
time
to
vse
bathe
waters
,
the
learned
do
dispute
whether
the
same
may
be
ministred
in
the
leape
yeere
,
for
that
our
authors
heerin
haue
written
diuersely
,
and
pronounced
contrary
opinions
,
it
seemeth
to
me
not
necessarie
by
long
discourse
heerof
,
to
detaine
the
reader
:
onely
this
I
say
,
as
I
do
not
thinke
but
medicinall
waters
may
be
vsed
in
leape
yeares
,
when
great
occasion
vrgeth
,
so
for
my
part
I
would
not
rashly
counsel
any
to
vse
them
in
the
leap
yeers
,
vnlesse
great
cause
do
vrge
the
vse
of
them
.
It
is
an
olde
obseruation
that
in
rainie
weather
bath
waters
are
not
so
wholsom
:
whereby
we
are
to
thinke
that
the
constitution
of
the
ayre
present
for
this
our
purpose
is
not
to
be
neglected
,
wherin
the
Italian
writers
are
so
curious
,
that
they
do
admonish
that
no
man
should
drinke
bath
waters
in
moist
seasons
,
nor
in
moist
places
:
in
which
respect
they
do
disswade
the
drinking
of
the
waters
of
Aponum
at
the
fountaines
.
Much
more
then
,
we
ought
to
be
carefull
heerof
,
in
taking
of
these
Warwickshire
waters
,
for
that
this
our
countrie
is
much
more
subiect
to
blustering
winds
,
raine
,
and
stormes
,
and
also
bicause
these
waters
are
actually
cold
in
their
fountaines
.
Wherefore
I
do
in
anywise
aduise
my
countrymen
which
haue
in
purpose
to
vse
these
wels
,
to
forbeare
them
in
wet
and
rainy
seasons
:
for
the
rain
water
being
compounded
and
mixt
with
the
other
,
maketh
them
either
altogither
vnholsome
,
or
at
the
least
lesse
profitable
,
and
effectuall
,
than
otherwise
they
would
be
.
Last
of
all
,
this
precept
is
general
,
that
before
the
drinking
of
any
medicinall
waters
,
they
which
are
to
vse
them
,
ought
to
haue
their
bodies
well
prepared
and
purged
:
surely
I
thinke
it
most
necessarie
,
that
we
in
England
omit
not
the
like
practise
vpon
the
like
occasion
.
For
wheras
we
do
abound
commonly
with
manie
and
corrupt
humors
in
our
first
veines
,
we
must
diligently
see
that
these
be
throughly
remooued
:
and
heer
in
this
place
I
cannot
passe
ouer
with
silence
the
ordinarie
practise
of
some
of
our
physitions
,
which
think
it
sufficient
to
send
their
patients
to
the
Bathes
with
some
one
sleight
purgation
,
where
as
in
truth
we
are
not
to
stand
vpon
,
once
,
twise
,
or
thrise
purging
of
such
which
are
to
drinke
medicinall
waters
,
but
to
see
that
their
bodies
be
exactly
purged
.
And
where
this
precept
is
accounted
most
necessarie
in
all
Bathes
and
countries
,
we
ought
verie
religiously
to
obserue
the
same
heer
in
England
,
and
the
rather
when
these
waters
are
dronken
,
which
do
spring
actually
cold
,
and
for
that
cause
with
more
difficultie
do
passe
thorough
their
bodies
which
receiue
them
.
Of
the
maner
of
drinking
medicinall
waters
,
and
what
things
are
to
be
obserued
whiles
they
are
dronken
.
FIrst
in
the
morning
let
the
patient
after
he
is
risen
,
before
he
taketh
this
drinke
,
vse
some
light
exercise
,
as
walking
,
or
such
like
,
vntill
his
inward
heate
be
well
stirred
vp
,
and
then
let
him
discharge
himselfe
of
all
excrements
,
as
perfectly
as
he
can
▪
which
being
done
,
let
him
take
his
drinke
,
but
in
such
sort
,
that
he
quaffeth
not
vp
all
the
whole
quantity
which
he
is
to
take
,
at
once
:
but
let
him
diuide
it
into
diuers
draughts
,
&
so
drink
it
by
little
and
little
,
walking
somewhat
betweene
euery
draught
,
and
yet
hauing
this
regarde
,
that
within
the
space
of
an
houre
and
a
halfe
,
the
whole
quantitie
which
is
prescribed
vnto
him
be
receiued
.
For
by
these
meanes
his
stomack
wil
not
be
ouercharged
,
but
will
be
well
able
to
digest
the
whole
quantitie
of
water
receiued
in
such
sort
,
that
it
will
be
the
sooner
perfectly
dispatched
through
the
bodie
,
and
the
partie
apt
and
readie
to
take
fresh
at
his
ordinarie
season
.
2.
Secondly
it
is
meetest
to
drinke
these
waters
in
the
morning
the
stomacke
being
emptie
.
3
Thirdly
,
I
thinke
it
very
necessarie
,
that
after
the
water
is
all
dronken
,
the
sicke
man
haue
good
regard
for
the
houre
and
time
,
when
he
is
to
take
his
meate
.
And
whereas
this
cannot
be
certainly
determined
,
and
set
downe
,
bicause
of
the
secret
and
vnknowne
varietie
of
diuers
bodies
,
it
is
diligently
to
be
considered
,
whether
the
greatest
part
of
the
water
receiued
that
morning
be
already
past
thorow
him
,
for
if
either
the
whole
or
the
greatest
part
of
the
water
be
rid
out
,
he
may
securely
take
his
meat
.
The
like
he
may
do
also
although
neither
of
these
two
happen
,
if
he
finde
his
vrine
which
at
the
first
came
from
him
waterie
and
whitish
,
to
be
nowe
somewhat
citrin
and
of
higher
colour
,
for
this
is
an
euident
signe
that
nature
hath
reserued
the
residue
of
these
waters
vnto
certain
vses
,
&
that
she
wil
expell
them
either
the
next
night
or
the
day
following
.
In
like
maner
if
nature
disburdening
hirselfe
of
these
waters
by
siege
,
doth
manifestly
cease
from
so
doing
,
the
partie
which
receiueth
them
may
safelie
take
meate
.
But
besides
these
obseruations
,
commonly
and
for
the
most
part
,
the
distance
of
foure
houres
is
accounted
to
suffice
betw̄eene
the
taking
of
the
bath
water
and
dinner
.
4
Whereas
diuers
woulde
not
haue
this
drinke
to
be
taken
euery
day
,
but
euerie
second
day
:
I
can
not
in
any
wise
consent
with
them
,
for
by
meanes
of
a
day
of
intermission
,
nature
would
prooue
idle
and
remisse
in
discharging
hirselfe
of
this
burden
,
whereas
otherwise
if
she
be
daily
stirred
vp
and
prouoked
by
daily
drinking
of
the
water
,
she
will
be
farre
more
painefull
and
diligent
in
ridding
and
auoiding
the
same
out
of
the
bodie
,
and
therefore
I
do
more
commend
the
drinking
of
them
euery
day
,
then
euery
other
day
.
The
quantitie
of
water
which
is
to
be
dronken
,
and
how
in
diuers
cases
it
is
diuersly
to
be
vsed
.
IN
drinking
of
medicinall
waters
no
certaine
quantitie
can
be
set
downe
which
may
serue
generally
for
al
men
,
but
the
discreet
physition
which
knoweth
thoroughly
the
qualities
of
the
bath
,
the
constitution
of
the
sicke
partie
,
and
the
nature
of
the
disease
:
may
easily
prescribe
a
fit
and
conuenient
quantitie
.
After
that
this
is
determined
,
ancient
authors
wold
haue
this
to
be
obserued
,
that
the
sicke
partie
should
begin
his
drinking
in
lesser
quantitie
,
and
so
proceede
increasing
it
daily
vntill
the
first
portion
be
doubled
,
at
what
time
he
is
to
diminish
it
againe
,
vntill
he
returne
by
little
and
little
vnto
the
quantitie
,
which
he
receiued
the
first
day
:
as
for
examples
sake
,
if
sixe
pintes
be
appointed
,
the
greatest
quantitie
to
be
drunken
,
they
would
haue
the
patient
drinke
the
first
day
three
pintes
,
the
second
day
foure
pints
,
the
thirde
daie
fiue
pints
,
and
the
fourth
day
,
sixe
pints
,
and
to
proceed
no
further
,
but
to
returne
by
detracting
from
this
quantity
daily
by
little
and
little
,
as
by
drinking
the
fift
day
fiue
pints
,
the
sixt
day
foure
,
the
seauenth
day
three
,
and
so
to
giue
ouer
.
Although
this
was
the
custome
among
the
ancient
,
yet
in
this
our
country
&
in
these
bathes
,
I
thinke
it
not
conuenient
so
religiously
to
obserue
this
order
.
For
where
as
we
are
not
accustomed
to
drinke
water
,
we
are
not
to
charge
our
stomackes
with
such
great
quantities
of
the
same
:
How beit
our
diseases
oftentimes
require
such
quantitie
of
it
,
that
if
we
should
surcease
to
drinke
of
these
waters
,
after
we
haue
risen
to
the
doubling
of
the
first
dais
quantitie
,
we
should
reape
either
litle
commoditie
by
the
same
,
or
none
at
al.
Wherfore
vse
and
experience
hath
taught
vs
to
begin
heerin
,
with
a
lesse
quantitie
,
and
to
increase
it
daily
,
not
only
to
the
doubling
of
the
first
portion
,
but
far
beyonde
,
vntill
we
come
to
that
which
the
nature
of
the
disease
exacteth
.
For
as
I
haue
oftentimes
obserued
in
the
drinking
of
these
Warwikshire
waters
,
when
the
greatest
quantitie
which
we
purpose
to
giue
for
one
day
,
is
eight
pints
,
so
we
begin
not
with
foure
:
for
almost
no
man
is
able
at
the
first
to
brooke
so
much
,
but
rather
we
begin
with
two
pints
,
or
at
the
most
with
three
,
and
so
go
forwarde
euery
day
,
adding
one
pint
,
vntill
we
come
to
eight
,
(
not
standing
vpon
the
proportion
of
doubling
)
beyond
the
which
quantitie
,
I
will
not
counsell
any
man
to
aduenture
.
If
there
be
any
man
that
hath
so
strong
a
stomacke
,
that
he
is
able
to
receiue
foure
pints
the
first
day
:
I
do
not
dislike
,
but
that
he
may
begin
the
first
daie
with
foure
,
and
so
following
the
maner
of
the
ancient
writers
,
proceede
vntill
he
come
to
the
double
quantitie
:
but
bicause
I
haue
obserued
that
the
most
part
of
men
are
not
able
to
receiue
so
great
quantities
,
my
aduise
is
,
rather
that
they
take
a
lesse
portion
the
first
day
:
as
namely
two
or
three
pints
,
and
so
from
thence
ascend
vntill
they
come
to
eight
.
And
this
haue
I
found
to
be
the
safest
kind
of
vsing
these
waters
:
which
although
it
passeth
slowly
through
the
bodie
,
so
that
in
many
daies
it
is
not
rid
out
of
diuers
,
before
they
come
to
the
drinking
of
foure
or
fiue
pints
in
a
morning
▪
yet
do
I
find
no
great
inconuenience
to
follow
hereof
,
bicause
those
parties
purging
in
the
night
season
verie
liberally
by
vrine
,
do
no
doubt
discharge
great
quantitie
of
this
water
withall
.
And
for
that
I
noted
alwais
,
that
these
waters
do
easily
pas
thorough
mans
bodie
,
when
they
are
dronken
to
the
quantities
of
foure
or
fiue
pints
in
a
morning
:
I
haue
oftentimes
appointed
such
as
haue
had
strong
stomackes
,
to
begin
the
first
day
with
foure
pints
,
and
so
according
to
the
custome
of
the
ancient
,
to
double
,
vntill
they
come
to
eight
,
and
from
thence
by
little
and
little
to
descend
,
vntill
they
returne
to
foure
.
I
must
confesse
,
there
haue
been
diuers
,
wherof
I
haue
knowne
some
,
to
haue
dronken
ten
pintes
in
a
morning
,
and
some
twelue
:
but
for
my
part
I
can
not
in
any
wise
either
commend
,
or
like
of
these
excessiue
quantities
.
For
wheras
these
waters
are
both
actually
and
potentially
cold
,
such
ouer
liberall
drinking
of
them
hath
brought
many
to
such
extreeme
coldnes
of
stomacke
,
that
they
haue
been
driuen
for
a
long
time
after
to
vse
Aqua
vitae
and
hot
things
to
recouer
their
former
heate
and
strength
againe
.
Wherefore
it
is
safest
to
consist
in
a
mediocritie
,
and
neuer
to
aduenture
to
drink
aboue
sixe
,
or
at
the
vttermost
eight
pintes
:
&
when
the
diseased
party
is
come
to
the
greatest
portion
,
it
is
not
good
to
persist
any
time
in
the
same
,
but
straight
,
euen
the
next
day
,
to
descend
to
a
lesser
quantitie
:
and
when
by
an
orderly
descending
he
is
come
to
foure
,
or
to
three
pintes
,
let
him
by
and
by
giue
ouer
,
although
he
began
the
first
day
with
two
pintes
,
for
otherwise
nature
will
hardly
be
able
to
auoid
those
lesse
quantities
which
are
last
taken
.
Wheras
Fallopius
would
haue
vs
to
drinke
all
medicinall
waters
actually
hote
,
and
would
haue
such
for
that
purpose
to
be
heat
,
which
in
their
fountaines
are
found
cold
,
I
can
not
in
any
wise
like
of
this
his
aduise
:
for
all
men
for
the
most
part
can
better
both
receiue
and
conteine
these
waters
cold
,
then
hote
,
especially
when
any
great
quantity
of
the
same
is
taken
.
Furthermore
in
heating
of
such
bath
waters
,
many
of
the
minerall
spirits
are
altered
and
euaporated
.
I
do
better
therefore
allow
of
drinking
these
waters
actually
cold
as
they
are
taken
out
of
the
springs
.
It
shall
not
be
amisse
to
mingle
for
diuers
purposes
,
some
things
with
these
waters
,
when
they
are
to
be
drunken
:
as
for
example
,
when
we
will
haue
them
easily
to
passe
through
the
liuer
and
the
reines
,
the
adding
of
sugar
,
or
some
conuenient
iulep
,
by
meanes
of
their
sweetnes
,
will
be
occasion
of
their
speedier
conueyance
vnto
the
farther
distant
places
of
the
bodie
.
So
likewise
,
when
we
will
haue
these
waters
to
haue
free
passage
thorough
the
guts
,
we
may
adde
some
little
quantity
of
salt
vnto
them
,
for
heereby
they
will
the
better
loose
the
belly
:
heereof
I
haue
had
in
these
waters
good
experience
.
For
at
my
being
at
these
fountaines
,
a
certayne
man
well
knowne
vnto
me
,
comming
to
these
welles
for
the
cure
of
a
Strangurie
,
caused
by
a
stone
in
his
bladder
,
wherewith
he
was
long
time
troubled
,
and
drinking
dayly
great
quantities
of
this
water
,
he
fell
into
a
loosenes
,
auoiding
the
water
by
his
belly
:
which
when
I
vnderstood
,
I
caused
him
to
mingle
sugar
to
euery
draught
of
the
water
,
by
which
meanes
,
the
water
had
passage
by
vrine
,
and
so
the
partie
receiued
cure
of
his
infirmitie
.
At
the
same
time
,
it
fortuned
another
man
to
drinke
plentifully
of
this
water
,
and
auoiding
the
same
by
vrine
onely
,
grew
to
be
very
costiue
and
much
bound
in
his
belly
,
who
requiring
of
me
remedie
for
the
same
,
I
aduised
him
to
adde
to
euery
draught
,
such
a
portion
of
salt
,
as
might
make
the
water
a
little
brackish
,
whereby
his
belly
was
well
loosed
,
without
the
helpe
of
any
other
meanes
.
So
that
for
these
aforesaid
respects
,
it
shall
be
alwayes
expedient
to
season
this
water
with
one
or
both
of
these
two
condiments
:
and
surely
the
stomacke
doth
better
like
and
endure
these
waters
by
these
mixtures
.
Notwithstanding
such
men
which
haue
their
conduits
so
open
,
that
they
need
no
such
helpe
,
for
the
easy
conueyance
or
passage
of
the
water
through
their
bodies
,
we
may
prescribe
this
water
sincere
and
simple
without
any
such
mixture
,
except
either
the
party
affected
,
or
the
disease
shall
require
the
same
.
How
long
and
how
many
dayes
the
diseased
person
is
to
continue
the
drinking
of
these
waters
,
it
is
easily
knowne
by
the
quantitie
which
is
prescribed
:
for
so
manie
dayes
onely
are
to
be
spent
therein
,
as
by
increasing
and
diminishing
the
whole
prescribed
quantitie
of
the
water
(
according
to
the
manner
aforesayd
)
may
be
receiued
,
which
is
accomplished
for
the
most
part
in
tenne
or
twelue
dayes
.
There
is
no
man
so
rude
and
ignorant
,
which
knoweth
not
that
those
which
minde
to
reape
any
benefite
by
these
bathes
,
ought
for
the
present
time
especially
to
feed
vpon
such
meates
as
yeeld
good
iuice
,
and
are
of
easy
concoction
,
whereof
there
are
diuers
sorts
in
dayly
vse
,
which
to
rehearse
in
this
place
were
superfluous
.
But
one
precept
of
the
learned
Fallopius
I
can
not
but
heere
commend
,
who
aduiseth
vs
in
this
case
to
feed
more
liberally
at
dinner
,
then
at
supper
,
because
(
saith
he
)
an
ouerlarge
supper
oftentimes
in
the
night
following
ouerchargeth
the
stomacke
,
and
so
the
next
morrow
leaueth
such
crudities
in
that
part
,
that
the
partie
is
vnreadie
to
receiue
the
water
at
his
due
houre
:
for
those
crudites
must
be
concocted
or
auoided
before
the
party
may
drinke
the
bathe
water
the
day
following
:
so
necessary
it
is
to
make
a
light
supper
.
Wherefore
the
vsage
and
manner
of
our
countreymen
in
England
is
vtterly
to
be
condemned
,
which
whiles
they
are
vsing
the
bathes
,
haue
no
regard
to
frugality
of
diet
,
but
both
in
their
dinner
and
supper
so
farre
exceed
,
and
swarue
from
this
former
rule
,
that
it
is
not
to
be
maruelled
at
,
that
there
be
so
few
in
our
countrey
,
which
ordinarily
receyue
any
commoditie
or
health
by
meanes
of
the
bathes
.
I
admonish
them
therefore
to
be
more
sparefull
in
their
dyet
,
and
so
they
shall
gayne
health
to
their
bodies
,
and
comfort
to
their
pursse
.
Things
to
be
obserued
after
that
the
drinking
of
these
medicinall
waters
is
fully
past
.
IT
oftentimes
falleth
out
that
the
diseased
persons
which
haue
vsed
medicinall
waters
,
do
not
presently
finde
the
profite
and
commoditie
acquired
by
them
,
but
long
after
when
they
haue
left
the
vse
of
them
,
and
are
gone
from
the
bathes
;
so
that
many
times
they
go
thence
with
sorrowfull
harts
,
supposing
that
they
haue
not
receiued
that
goodnes
which
they
hoped
for
,
yet
many
daies
after
,
perhaps
not
before
the
space
of
a
moneth
be
expired
,
they
feele
what
good
the
bathes
haue
done
to
them
:
whereby
we
are
to
coniecture
,
that
the
vertues
and
qualities
,
of
the
bath
waters
do
remain
a
long
time
in
the
members
and
parts
of
the
body
,
yeelding
strength
vnto
them
,
by
which
meanes
the
commodities
obtained
by
the
bathes
do
appeere
long
time
after
the
vse
of
them
:
in
which
consideration
it
is
requisite
,
that
they
which
haue
vsed
medicinall
waters
,
do
for
a
good
season
after
,
carefully
and
orderly
gouerne
themselues
,
that
the
vertues
and
properties
of
the
waters
may
be
reserued
in
the
body
,
vntil
they
haue
don
their
effects
and
operations
.
Therefore
it
is
to
be
wished
,
that
all
bathers
,
after
the
vse
of
the
bathes
,
for
a
good
season
doe
keepe
a
good
diet
in
feeding
vpon
meats
which
are
easie
to
be
digested
,
&
do
breed
a
good
iuice
:
as
after
the
taking
of
the
bathe
waters
the
partie
may
not
feed
too
sparefully
,
so
he
must
beware
of
ouergorging
:
let
him
therefore
keepe
a
meane
in
his
feeding
,
giue
himselfe
to
pleasant
disports
,
and
not
ouermuch
to
expose
his
bodie
to
colde
aier
,
but
keepe
himselfe
reasonably
warme
.
And
aboue
all
things
he
must
eschue
lasciuious
and
venerious
sports
,
which
the
learned
do
forbid
after
the
vse
of
bathes
by
the
space
of
a
moneth
,
as
a
thing
most
pernitious
.
FINIS
.