A discourse of naturall bathes, and minerall waters. Wherein first the originall of fountaines in generall is declared. Then the nature and differences of minerals, with examples of particular bathes from most of them. Next the generation of minerals in the earth, from whence both the actuall heate of bathes, and their vertues are proved to proceede. Also by what meanes minerall waters are to be examined and discovered. And lastly, of the nature and uses of the bathes, but especially of our bathes at Bathe in Sommersetshire / [Edward Jorden].

  • Jorden, Edward, 1569-1632.
Date:
1631
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A discourse of naturall bathes, and minerall waters. Wherein first the originall of fountaines in generall is declared. Then the nature and differences of minerals, with examples of particular bathes from most of them. Next the generation of minerals in the earth, from whence both the actuall heate of bathes, and their vertues are proved to proceede. Also by what meanes minerall waters are to be examined and discovered. And lastly, of the nature and uses of the bathes, but especially of our bathes at Bathe in Sommersetshire / [Edward Jorden]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    oylc,if the fire be beneath it, and couered with it. As for their arguments, they lay that Bitumen being be- fprinckled with water,burnes more, and therefore wa¬ ter is a fewell to it: as we fee that Smiths csft water vp- on their Sea-cole in their Forges; but the reafon of this is becaufe their Coale being fmall like duft, the water makes it to cake and bake together, where otherwiie the blaft would blow it away: alfo it hinders the quickc burning of it, and fo makes it continue the longer: fo in a Vnlcano after raine, they finde the fire to burne more* when the Bitumen is fmall, and in dull. Although this may be a reafon of it, that the Lyme which hath there becne calcincd,being by raine diflolucd, increafeth the fire. And whereas they fay that water will kindle Bitu¬ men, and quench Sulphur,itis not fo: neither doth their example of Wilde-fireproue it. For in Wild-fire, be¬ etles Bitumen and Campher, there is quickc Lyme,, which by reafon of the fodaine diffolution of his Salt, bytheaffulionofwater, is apt to kindle any combufti- blc matter 5 not by reafon of any Bitumen in the Lyme, as fome imagine, nor of any Empyreuma which the fire hath left in it, as rracafterius thinks : for, how can ^ fyapathi& there be any Bitumen left in the Lyme (if there were a- Mtipatb.cap.ic>> nyatfirftj after calcination: the fire would haue con« fumed that before any thing clfe. And as for any Em- pi/reumajit iscertaine that the more any thing is burnt, although thefircleauean aduftionin it, the leffe apt itis to burne againe, efpecial y being burnt and calcind Adcalcemautctnensy where all the combuftible matter isfpent. Wherefore it muft needs bee by the violent motion which is in the fiiddaine diffolution of the fait in it, as appearcs by the crackling it makes: Et ex mem fitcalor. The like weobferue in Pyrite fterili whereof they make Vitrioll, which being broken and laid vp