Hampstead-Wells: or, directions for the drinking of those waters ... With an appendix, relating to the original of springs in general; with some experiments of the Hampstead Waters, and histories of cures / [John Soame].

  • Soame, John.
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[1734]
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Credit: Hampstead-Wells: or, directions for the drinking of those waters ... With an appendix, relating to the original of springs in general; with some experiments of the Hampstead Waters, and histories of cures / [John Soame]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Oliver's Pradtical Differta- tion on Bath Wa¬ ters,Chap. 2- P- 7- Ovid Me- tamorp. Lib. xv. ( 2° ) I (hall juft mention Dr .Oliver, who, fpeakmg; of the Original of Springs, fays, there is but one Univerfal Matter infinitely divifible, the: only Element in Nature, out of which all things are made, according to the Specifick Motions im- prefs’d on it by the firft Mover of all things, which denominate it of this or that Species ol Beings. So Matter, confider’d as fuch, by one Motion became Water, and by the Variety ol Motions given it, will become Earth, Stone Tree, or Animals, and to this Univerfal Matter all things are reduc’d at laft, when they have quite loft their fpecifick Forms, which gave them their firft Denomination; of which we have a large philofophical Account in Ovid. The four Elements, by the Ancients, are faid to be the firffc Principles out of which all things were- made, and to which all will at laft be refoived* Nec Species fit a cuique manet ; rerumque novatrix, Ex aliis alias repay at Natura Figuras. Nec per it intanto quicquam (mihi credite) muudo; Sed variat^ Faciemque novat : nafcique vocaiur, Jucipere effe altud, quam quod fait ante morique, Definere illud idem. I (hall then hereconfider it only as an heteroge* neous Body, fuch as we find it in Springs, anc fountains. In the next place, Authors, whc treat of the Origin of Springs and Fountains obferve two forts of them. Firft, Such as are temporary, often dry ir Summer, bccaufe they lie near the Surface of the Earth. Secondly, Perennial, fuch as in Winter anc Summer, wet and dry Seafons? are always the fame