A
briefe
Discourse
of
the
Hypostasis
,
or
substance
of
the
water
of
Spaw
,
conteyning
in
small
quantitie
many
pots
of
that
Minerall
water
.
WHereas
the
singular
effects
that
are
yearely
experimented
,
by
drinking
the
water
of
Spaw
,
doe
cause
the
concourse
of
sundry
persons
of
diuers
Countries
and
Nations
to
those
Fountaines
:
whereunto
many
more
patients
would
willingly
repaire
,
were
they
not
letted
,
either
by
extraordinary
defect
of
health
,
or
ordinarie
want
of
wealth
,
or
such
other
impeachments
,
as
dayly
occurre
in
the
course
of
this
transitory
life
.
In
consideration
whereof
,
it
hath
seemed
verie
expedient
to
some
,
who
haue
disposed
their
studies
and
labours
,
to
the
good
of
others
;
and
whose
residences
are
not
farre
from
those
Fountaines
,
nor
themselues
estranged
from
the
ensearch
of
naturall
things
,
to
deuise
the
meanes
,
that
such
as
are
absent
,
may
be
made
partakers
of
those
Minerall
waters
;
and
consequently
,
of
those
healthfull
effects
,
that
by
the
drinking
of
them
are
produced
.
The
accustomed
course
hitherto
taken
,
hath
beene
to
fill
numbers
of
Bottles
with
the
water
of
the
vpper
or
the
lower
Fountaine
,
and
to
conueigh
those
Bottles
(
being
closely
stopped
)
vnto
their
designed
places
;
as
to
France
,
England
,
Italy
,
Germany
,
Polonia
,
Moscouia
,
and
other
farre
distant
places
.
But
this
way
is
found
by
experience
,
no
lesse
troublesome
,
then
chargeable
in
the
carriage
;
considering
,
that
a
huge
quantity
of
water
,
containeth
but
a
very
little
of
the
Minerall
substance
,
wherein
the
vertue
of
the
water
consisteth
;
and
the
saide
substance
being
so
thinly
diuided
into
a
great
quantity
of
water
,
looseth
much
of
the
force
and
vertue
,
before
it
can
bee
brought
into
so
farre
distant
places
;
the
which
hath
beene
the
cause
,
why
the
persons
before
insinuated
,
haue
employed
their
studye
and
Trauaile
,
to
reduce
the
pure
Hypostasis
or
substance
of
the
saide
Minerals
,
into
so
little
a
quantitie
,
as
that
one
pot
may
supply
for
farre
more
then
an
hundred
pots
;
and
withall
,
that
no
part
of
the
force
or
vertue
of
the
saide
Minerals
should
bee
impaired
.
And
to
the
end
the
Reader
may
receiue
some
kinde
of
satisfaction
,
who
perchance
is
curious
to
looke
into
the
practise
heereof
;
or
at
lest
,
into
the
speculation
of
this
Maistry
,
three
points
hee
is
then
to
obserue
.
First
that
the
extraction
of
the
saide
Minerall
essence
bee
made
in
Sommer
;
in
which
season
,
those
Waters
are
of
more
efficacie
:
And
if
the
extracter
bee
himselfe
present
at
the
Fountaines
,
it
is
so
much
the
better
.
Secondly
,
that
he
finde
out
the
secret
how
to
part
the
Minerall
substance
from
the
Water
,
without
distillation
,
(
for
that
would
not
quite
the
cost
)
but
by
precipitation
,
whereby
the
Minerall
powder
falleth
downe
,
and
setleth
it selfe
in
the
bottome
of
the
glasse
,
depriuing
the
Water
of
all
Minerall
taste
and
operation
;
which
secret
,
is
soone
performed
by
a
skilfull
Artist
.
Thirdly
,
when
he
hath
a
sufficient
quantity
of
that
precipitated
powder
,
hee
must
not
dissolue
it
with
any
corasiue
,
but
with
a
competent
measure
of
such
Liquors
as
are
agreeable
vnto
the
health
of
man
:
and
in
these
three
obseruations
the
whole
practise
consisteth
.
It
followeth
now
,
to
declare
in
what
quantitie
this
Hypostasis
or
extraction
dissolued
thus
into
a
liquor
,
is
to
bee
taken
;
which
must
bee
as
followeth
.
Take
a
dram
weight
of
this
Liquor
,
which
is
the
eight
part
of
an
Ounce
;
and
contayneth
as
much
in
quantity
,
as
will
fill
a
great
Thimble
;
poure
this
into
a
glasse
or
stone
Bottle
,
&
poure
thereunto
fifty
Ounces
of
the
best
and
clearest
water
that
is
to
be
had
;
whether
it
be
Fountaine
water
,
Riuer
water
,
or
Well
water
:
This
water
is
to
be
put
vnto
the
dram
weight
of
the
other
liquor
,
at
the
time
that
the
Patient
is
ready
to
drinke
it
,
and
not
before
;
not
that
any
inconuenience
may
ensue
thereof
,
but
because
the
fresher
the
water
is
,
the
more
grateful
it
is
vnto
the
taste
,
and
the
Minerall
substance
in
length
of
time
,
will
descend
vnto
the
bottom
of
the
glasse
:
and
albeit
it
may
bee
newly
stirred
and
mingled
with
the
water
,
and
so
taken
;
yet
will
it
notwithstanding
,
be
more
to
the
liking
of
the
Patient
,
as
before
is
noted
,
to
haue
his
water
brought
fresh
from
the
Spring
,
&c.
This
quantity
of
fiftie
Ounces
of
Water
to
a
dram
of
the
Minerall
substance
,
is
the
ordinary
and
best
proportion
,
which
hetherto
by
practise
hath
beene
tried
,
being
also
lesse
distastfull
vnto
the
drinke
;
yet
,
in
some
diseases
,
as
in
retention
of
Vrine
,
or
in
quenching
the
heats
of
Agues
,
it
will
stand
the
Patient
in
better
steede
to
followe
this
proportion
,
then
to
take
it
in
lesser
quantitie
of
water
.
And
this
is
spoken
vpon
proofe
and
experience
:
how
be
it
,
if
the
learned
Physitian
shall
thinke
it
expedient
,
The
water
being
in
the
former
proportion
prepared
▪
the
patient
may
drinke
thereof
according
to
the
quality
of
his
disease
;
For
the
stone
and
grauell
,
or
heate
of
the
raynes
,
he
may
take
euery
morning
fasting
fiftie
Ounces
at
seuerall
times
,
and
hee
must
abstaine
from
meate
two
houres
after
,
and
if
within
that
space
he
be
in
plight
to
walke
,
or
to
vse
some
other
moderate
exercise
,
it
will
worke
the
better
.
Heere
is
also
to
bee
noted
,
that
albeit
such
as
drinke
the
Spaw
water
,
to
take
100.
200.
or
more
ounces
in
a
morning
.
Yet
this
notwithstanding
,
these-fiftie-ounces
will
be
of
as
great
efficacie
,
because
there
is
more
pure
substance
conteyned
in
those
fiftie
ounces
,
then
in
a
far
greater
quantity
of
Spaw
water
.
Thus
much
taken
in
a
morning
,
will
be
sufficient
the
first
weeke
for
the
whole
day
.
The
week
following
,
so
much
more
may
be
drunken
in
the
afternoone
,
about
three
or
foure
of
the
clocke
,
if
it
shall
seeme
good
to
the
learned
and
expert
Phisition
,
to
whose
discretion
and
direction
are
referred
,
these
and
sundry
other
particular
circumstances
that
may
happen
(
which
in
schooles
are
tearmed
Hic
&
nunc
)
in
sundry
diseases
,
and
in
the
diuers
dispositions
of
different
patients
:
in
which
occurrences
all
purgations
and
other
preparations
that
mny
be
prescribed
,
are
to
goe
before
the
taking
of
this
water
,
as
in
like
sort
the
prescription
of
dyets
,
and
the
like
heedfull
and
healthfull
obseruations
,
as
when
or
how
often
the
patient
may
drinke
the
water
alone
,
or
mingled
with
wine
,
at
meates
or
at
other
times
.
These
and
other
circumstances
must
in
all
reason
be
referred
to
the
discretion
of
the
learned
Phisition
.
In
the
retention
of
vrine
it
will
be
needfull
to
take
those
fifty
ounces
euery
morning
,
and
as
much
more
in
the
afternoone
,
vnlesse
the
partie
finde
amendment
,
and
in
that
disease
to
walke
,
and
vse
some
exercise
,
will
bee
of
great
importance
.
The
same
quantity
may
bee
prescribed
in
the
dropsie
,
morning
and
euening
,
especially
after
the
first
weeke
,
and
if
the
disease
haue
not
taken
very
deepe
roote
,
the
patient
will
finde
sencible
amendment
,
and
his
strength
day
by
day
verie
much
to
encrease
.
In
Tertian
and
Quartaine
Agues
,
the
Patient
must
drinke
euery
morning
50.
Ounces
on
his
good
dayes
;
but
on
the
dayes
of
his
fit
,
hee
may
take
before
the
accesse
20.
Ounces
,
and
in
the
heate
of
the
fit
,
thirty
Ounces
.
The
like
obseruations
may
bee
vsed
in
Quotidian
Agues
,
to
wit
;
that
20.
ounces
be
taken
before
the
fit
,
and
●o
.
in
the
heate
thereof
,
if
it
shall
seeme
good
to
the
Physitian
,
whose
iudgement
is
also
to
be
vsed
concerning
the
time
and
quantity
,
when
and
how
much
of
this
water
may
bee
vsed
in
continuall
Agues
.
In
pestilentiall
Agues
,
there
hath
not
(
as
yet
)
any
assured
triall
bene
made
.
In
all
Obstructions
,
as
the
Greene
sicknes
,
and
the
like
,
In
the
weaknesse
of
the
stomacke
and
heate
of
the
Liuer
,
it
is
a
singular
water
,
being
dayly
taken
in
the
aforesaide
quantity
of
50.
ounces
.
In
the
Flux
,
and
in
the
abundance
of
Woment
Courses
it
may
also
bee
taken
;
and
beeing
mingled
now
and
then
with
red
wine
,
it
will
bee
the
better
.
In
womens
infirmities
(
as
aforesaid
)
if
this
water
bee
mingled
with
distilled
Plantine
water
,
it
will
worke
the
better
.
For
other
diseases
,
the
Reader
may
see
what
is
added
in
the
end
of
this
discourse
,
which
is
taken
out
of
the
Treatise
of
the
vertues
of
the
waters
of
the
Forrest
of
Arden
,
and
principally
of
those
of
Spaw
,
written
some
yeares
since
in
the
French
tongue
,
by
the
learned
M.
Gilbert
Lembourgh
,
Doctor
of
Physicke
,
&
dedicated
vnto
the
Prince
of
Liege
.
Obseruing
neuerthelesse
by
the
way
,
that
as
the
said
Fountaines
of
Spaw
do
not
benefit
euery
one
in
particular
;
so
is
it
not
promised
,
that
this
Hypostasis
thereof
shall
worke
infallible
cures
in
all
kinde
of
diseases
,
and
vpon
all
persons
,
as
though
one
saddle
should
fit
euery
horse
;
for
diuers
persons
haue
diuers
constitutions
of
body
;
and
the
same
Medicine
which
is
auaileable
to
one
,
is
not
alwayes
profitable
to
another
,
as
reason
and
experience
dayly
sheweth
.
Wherefore
to
conclude
,
the
ordinary
proportion
as
before
hath
bin
said
,
is
to
mingle
fifty
ounces
of
pure
water
to
a
dram
of
this
Mineral
Hypostasis
or
substance
of
the
Spaw
water
;
not
that
there
is
any
danger
if
one
should
drinke
one
dram
onely
with
an
ounce
of
common
water
,
but
for
the
more
efficatious
working
:
this
ordinary
quantity
is
found
to
be
more
conuenient
,
hauing
therein
some
resemblance
with
the
copious
abundance
of
the
Spaw
water
.
Heere
also
the
patient
may
obserue
,
that
it
shall
not
he
needfull
for
him
alwayes
to
weigh
the
water
;
for
hauing
weighed
it
once
,
and
put
it
into
a
glasse
of
conuenient
greatnesse
,
hee
may
see
to
what
fulnesse
of
the
glasse
his
fifty
Ounces
of
water
do
reach
,
and
so
vse
that
measure
for
the
saide
weight
.
The
Patient
may
moreouer
mingle
the
water
with
wine
,
in
all
such
Diseases
as
are
not
hot
.
They
do
vse
at
the
Spaw
to
make
Brewesse
or
sops
of
that
water
,
boyling
it
with
Butter
,
which
they
finde
both
toothsome
and
wholesom
;
in
al
which
particularities
it
will
alwayes
be
good
(
as
before
is
saide
)
to
follow
the
aduice
of
a
learned
expert
and
vnpassionate
Physitian
.
Of
sundry
diseases
,
which
principally
are
cured
by
the
vse
of
drinking
the
water
of
Spaw
,
taken
out
of
the
treatise
of
the
vertues
therof
,
written
by
M.
Gilbert
Lembourgh
,
Doctor
of
Physicke
,
and
consequently
of
the
Hypostasis
of
the
saide
water
being
mingled
with
pure
common
water
,
as
in
the
precedent
discourse
is
declared
.
The
drinking
of
this
water
doth
mightily
quench
thirst
,
and
it
bringeth
the
hot
Liuer
vnto
a
good
temper
,
as
also
the
Kidneyes
.
It
strengthneth
the
stomacke
,
and
giueth
it
appetite
thorough
the
astrictiue
vertue
that
it
hath
,
but
for
an
extreame
cold
stomacke
it
is
not
so
good
.
It
is
greatly
profitable
against
all
obstructions
,
and
debility
of
the
Milt
,
for
it
doth
dissolue
and
cure
the
cause
thereof
.
It
deliuereth
the
Kidneyes
and
bladder
from
Grauell
,
and
is
aidefull
against
all
defluctions
of
those
parts
.
It
correcteth
Rheumes
and
Cararrhes
,
in
what
part
of
the
body
soeuer
they
descend
;
as
in
the
breast
,
the
stomacke
,
the
Kidneyes
,
Sinewes
,
on
Muscles
.
It
cureth
Dropsies
,
how
be
it
such
as
in
whom
this
disease
is
confirmed
by
length
of
time
,
and
that
the
forces
of
the
Patients
are
thereby
much
weakened
,
are
verie
hardly
cured
.
And
so
are
also
such
Dropsies
as
proceede
of
a
hardnesse
of
the
Liuar
,
which
Galen
saith
,
are
incureable
.
Experience
also
sheweth
,
that
such
dropsies
as
come
of
drinesse
of
the
stomacke
,
and
of
long
resolution
and
humidity
of
the
intestine
parts
are
not
easily
cured
.
But
among
such
as
the
beginning
of
this
Disease
commeth
of
the
ilnesse
of
the
Milt
,
the
other
parts
not
naturally
well
,
many
persons
haue
bin
perfectly
cured
.
It
helpeth
greatly
the
parts
that
are
softned
&
resolued
by
defluctions
,
as
the
Sinews
,
Muscles
,
&c.
It
strengtheneth
the
Matrix
that
i●
subiect
to
too
much
humidity
,
and
disposeth
it
in
such
sort
that
it
retaineth
the
conceiued
fruite
,
and
so
expelle●h
barrennesse
.
It
aydeth
against
strangulations
and
suffocations
of
the
Matrix
.
As
touching
such
as
are
verie
Leapers
;
if
it
do
not
wholly
cure
them
,
yet
doth
the
continuall
vse
thereof
,
impeach
and
hinder
their
disease
from
any
more
increasing
.
As
for
the
curing
of
Agues
,
the
Reader
may
note
what
hath
bin
saide
in
the
precedent
Discourse
.
The
Reader
is
lastly
to
be
aduertised
;
That
whereas
the
most
vsuall
taking
of
the
Water
of
Spaw
is
in
Sommer
,
it
is
chiefly
because
of
the
abundance
of
Raine
and
Snow
that
falleth
into
those
Fountaines
in
winter
,
which
weakneth
the
force
of
them
;
and
so
is
the
force
also
weakened
in
Sommer
in
rainy
weather
;
as
contrary-wise
in
winter
,
in
frosty
and
dry
weather
,
the
water
hath
his
perfect
force
.
In
which
respect
,
this
Hypostasis
thereof
being
mingled
with
pure
Water
,
in
such
quantity
of
the
one
and
the
other
,
as
before
is
mentioned
,
may
aswel
be
vsed
in
winter
,
as
in
Sommer
.
FINIS
.