3 JUly 5th 77 ſhe was highly Scorbutick, the firſt remarkable appearance whereof was a ſtitch ſhe had in her right breſt, which like a dart ſtruck through to her back: That a ſtrong Scorbutick Acidum prevailed in her Stomack, 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 curd, as if indeed the Scorbutick Acid was the runnet which made cheeſe of milk while in the Stomack: ſhe took ſome Tobacco which cauſed more of the ſame cheeſy congulum come up: after which this Scorbutick Acidum was in great part carried upon the nerves, whence ſhe fell into an univerſal trembling or paralytick 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 Scorbutick 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 feaver) for four dayes, which with ſweating Medicines was partly tranſpired, and partly carried or tranſlated to the urinary veſſels, where the Scurvy Acid (thus variouſly diſguiſed) at length chiefly fixt, 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 Scorbutick Acidum lodged in the Stomack, 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 maſques, as if indeed it had been a complication of many other maladies, viz. a baſtard Pluriſie, Surfet, Palſy, Convulſions, Fever, Strangury, Stone, (with the aggravation of mixt blood) dolor Nephriticus, Apepſie, Aſthma, Maraſmus, while really (as may be concluded from the range of Symptoms emerging from the frequent metaſtaſis of the Scorbutick Acid) they were but various appearances, and different guiſes the ſcorbutick 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 maſques.

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 her ſelf to Scarbrough-Spaw, May 28, drank the waters, and found immediate help; For the Scorbutick 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 onely for 10 days: yet upon her Ladyſhips return again to the waters; they then 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 Athletick habit of body; became very active cheerfull and healthfull, and as if renewed again in her old age, the good effects thereof continued: for I waited on her near two months after her returne from the water and found her well as aforeſaid.

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 my ſelf very much inclining to the Scurvy (having moſt of the Symptoms attending that diſeaſe) I came to Scarbrough; and muſt confeſs, that after a fortnights 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 extreamly 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 Spaw, 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 my ſelf 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 my ſelf with a very ſlender Supper, and the next morning I obſerv'd that I made plentifull ſtore of Urine, as uſually before I drank the waters, after which I drank four quarts of water, and reſolved to faſt untill they had fully compleated 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 it ſelf, 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 untill 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 humors of the body which were plentifully caſt out with the waters. This from Sir your very affectionate Friend John Anderſon.

J. C. near York, laboured under a Scorbutick diſorder of his Stomack, evident by its great oppreſſion by Phlegm, and water, ſo as every morning he had great and troubleſome boknings or retchings to vomit, whereby a clear water came off, and after that, by much ſtrugglings, 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 carryes it off by ſeidge, and diſpoſeth ſo of the clear water, which uſed to diſtill per lingulam from his Stomack, as he is well, and continues ſo for many months after drinking the waters, till towards the Spring, and then it begins 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.

MR. Chriſtopher Adams of Camelſfield Yorkshire, aged ſeventy three years, had for ſix years together been miſerably tormented with pain in his leggs, 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, Oyntments, &c. 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 undeſtanding 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 Spaw, 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 miles diſtance.

MAdam Pockley nere Selby in Yorkſhire had a bad Stomack, accompanyed with an ill digeſtion, a great flatulency or windy-riftings: ſhe drank the waters laſt year near fourteen days, with ſome intervall, which procured her a very good Stomack 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.

G.— laboured under a Scorbutick 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 dayes, 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 ſtaied with him, and in the compaſs of the foreſaid time, he got a very good Stomack 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.

A Scotch Gentleman was afflicted with a Scorbutick indigeſtion and flatus upon his Stomack, 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 ſtaid with him, next day he could take and digeſt a little meat, which ſtaied, and agreed well with him: and in a few days after had a very good Stomack, digeſted his meat very well, and returned home in health.

A Noble Lord contracted a diſorde upon his Stomack by eating Fiſh (and that of ſuch ſort, which would the ſooneſt, for want of digeſtion grow putrid upon the ſtomack) 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 haſt, when I came, he told me he was ill at his Stomack, 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 ſtaied by him, he began to vomit abundance of tough Phlegm, and yellow bitter choller, which cleared his Stomach, and carried the reſt downwards; ſo he was preſently at eaſe, nature by the help of the waters diſcharging her ſelf both wayes of what was burdenſome; whence, the diſorder of his Stomack, 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.

MR. Humfrey 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 it ſelf 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.

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.

MR. William Linſtead of Hull had got a Scorbutick 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 encreaſed daily, and in four or five days was reſtored to perfect health.

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 lye 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 againe 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 Scorbutick Collicks: which, that they are indeed Collicks, is evident from the Symptoms immediately emerging therefrom; and next that they are Scorbutick, 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 Antiſcorbuticks, as reſpect the deep roots of ſuch fixt diſeaſes, under which as ſtems thereof, or ſpecies of Scorbutick Collicks, 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 Scorbutick Acid, as ſometimes tranſmitted thither from the blood co-operating in the Stomach: yet for method and diſtinction ſake we reckon them as followeth.

MR. Hall near Hallifax in Yorkshire, was under Dr. Wharton and Dr. Paget (two 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 Scorbutick, becauſe Agues (not well cured) frequently degenerate into Scorbutick 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 tryed thoſe waters, which he fonnd to paſs exceeding well, above all the purging medicines he had ever taken, onely for the firſt two or three days made him very ſore in his poſteriors, but carried off the Scorbutick Chollick, and the relicts 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 Chollick this laſt Summer at the Spaw, 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 ſeidge, but more effectually than either of them: and other days it wrought like Tunbridge or Knarsbrough, chiefly by Urine.

This laſt Inſtance alſo relates to the Claſſis of the Stone cures, but that the Symptoms thereof doth chiefly and ſtrongly bear upon the Scorbutick ferment, which is the cauſe why we rank it under this head of the Scurvy.

P. B. of Scarbrough, his wife, was troubled with an exceſſive looſneſs, drank the waters, which after purging, preſently ſtayed her looſneſs, and ſhe was well: yea as often as ſhe has any trouble that way, applyes her ſelf to the waters, whether in Summer or Winter, by which ſhe alwayes finds good ſucceſs; it commonly cures her with one days drinking.

THE aforeſaid Maſter of a ſhips brother in law, was afflicted with a Dyſentery or Bloody-flux, ſo as he was not in a capacity (being a Sea-man) of going aboard his Veſſel, he was weakned 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.

SIlveſter Sympſon of Driffield in Yorkſhire, had a bloody-flux eight years ſo as he all that ſpace was forced to riſe to ſtoole 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.

MR. Chapman of 80 years of age was much and often troubled with piſſing blood, wherupon he made his recourſe to Scarbrough's-Spaw, which took away that threatning Symptome by giving him preſent Eaſe, which was publickly known among the neighbourhood at Hacknes.

A. W. of Scarbrough was troubled with a Scorbutick Rheumatiſme, which cheifly afflicted her right arm and ſhoulder, with grievous and almoſt inſufferable pain; ſo as (through great extremity) ſhe cryed forth I ordered her (being ſomewhat in years) a veſicatory plaiſter to be applied to her ſhoulder on the ſame ſide, and a fomentation made Ex fol. Ebuli, Salv. agreſt. Et fl. Sambuci ā ā boyled 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 paroxyſme by the following night Julep (viz) Aq. papav. Rhead. ℥iiij vel ℥iiij Syr. Limon. ℥i ſs, cū 〈☐〉 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.

MRs. Mary Bateman of York had been much troubled with Rheumes, which had ſwelled up her face and eyes, and reſiſted all remedies, found very much benefit by the uſe of this water, more then all other methods that had been preſcribed for her, upon account whereof ſhe has been an annuall viſiter of it theſe twelve years.

THE daughter of the aforeſaid woman (of about ten years of age or more, had an Eriſipelas or Inflamation in her legg, 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 wrapt it with would cleave and be baked thereto, and was very painfull 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 pils, and ordered her a Topick of Venice Treacle, one ounce mixt in a pint of the beſt White-Wine, bathing it ſeveral times a day therewith, leaving a double linnen cloth dipt therein upon her legg: whereby in a few days time her leg grew better, the Inflamation 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.

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 Colledge) which brought him much pain, the ſore was white and moſt-what wept forth a Lee, accompanied with a Scorbutick 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 mindfull 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 Phyſick nor outward Topicks before) now abated: his pain went away, the Scorbutick Lee was dryed 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 miſſed 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.

MR. Rogers's daughter of Scarbrough had a Scorbutick Elephantiaſis almoſt all over her: which alſo, from the Scorbutick Acidum ſeiſing the tendons and ligaments of her joints, had rendred her well nigh decrepid: ſhe drank the waters, and in about a fortnights time or more, the blood was ſo purified, as it caſt off thoſe externall feculencies or recrements of the ultimate digeſtion in the form of white ſcales, and ſo ſweetned the blood and latex, and opened obſtructions, as that it removed thoſe bolts and hedges which were faſtned upon the joynts and ligaments, and begot a healthfull habit of body: So her skin became clear and ſmooth, and ſhe well.

MR. Ker of Eaton (in the year 1677) laboured under greivous 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 Scorbutick Acidum (which was let down into and had bound and ſwelled the Hermorrhoidal veſſels) was ſo ſweetned 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.

THe Right Honorable 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 Phyſick preſcribed by ſeveral learned Phyſicians (wherein though he ever found much good, yet his Diſtemper was frequently returning:) his Lord-ſhip came to theſe waters, wherein he found ſo much benefit in all the reſpects aforeſaid, that he now injoyes a conſtant ſtate of health, this (when firſt writ) being the third year wherein his Lord-ſhip viſits Scarbrough, being then become much more lively and fleſhy than formerly, and found good encouragement to continue his Annual viſits.

MRS. Robinſon of Buckton (betwixt fifty and ſixty years of age) laboured under a grievous and inveterate Head-ach on one ſide, which was very violent, proceeding from the Flatus Hypochondraicus, having fixed it ſelf chiefly upon that part, and was alſo highly Scorbutick, having the Scurvy in a great meaſure: The pain of her head was ſo ſtrong as put her upon the trial of many Phyſitians, and had the beſt of their advice, but moſt-what in vain: at length drank theſe waters, and in fourteen dayes time ſhe found her pain abate and gradually go off, and within a moneth ſhe was perfectly well both as to her head-ach, (which before would not bend to ordinary means) and alſo was cured of the Scurvy, returning in very good health.

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 incouraged him to come the next year after, and then he was cured, and for many years became a healthful and chearful man.

MR. Robert Lever Miniſter of Bolam in Northumberland was exceedingly troubled with Hipocondriach Melancholy for the ſpace of eight years, joyned with frequent extention 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 Spaw in York-ſhire, 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 Wittie 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 dayes, and furniſhed him with ſome Specificks to be uſed with the waters, and ſet him on again, adviſing him to drink ten dayes more; after three dayes he found eminent degrees of recovery, all the ſymptoms abating, and went from the waters very healthful and chearful, who (praiſed be Almighty God) continued ſo.

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 moneths 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.

MRS. Elizabeth Newcome of Mancheſter in Lancaſhire was eight or nine years together ſo afflicted with this Malady, joyned with extreme oppreſſion of the ſtomach and back, with flitting heats, as if ſhe had been in a violent Feaver, 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.