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be of chat capacitie,asneed requireth. 
And fince I am falne into the treatife and difcourfe of Fountains,I woonder much at Homer, - 
that he hath madeno mention at all of hot {prings, andyet otherwifechroughout his whole po- 
éme, he bringeth in oftentimes thofe who bathed and wathed in hot bains, But it may verie well 
be, that the reafon thereof is,becaufe in thofe times there was not that ufe of chemin phyfickeas — 
atthis prefent: for now adaies, if folke be amiffe or ill at cafe, ftraightwaies they run tothe bains- 
and bath, for remedie. And in truth, thofe waters which ftand upon brimftone, bee good for the 
finews :{uch as come from a veine of alume,are proper for the palfie, or fuch like infirmities pro- 
ceeding from refolution of the nerves.Moreover, they that hold of bitumen or nitre (fuch as be 
the fountains Cutiliz) be potable and good to be drunke,and yet they are purgative. 
Tocome tothe ufe of naturall bains and hot waters:many men in abraverie fitlong in a bath, 
and they take a pride in it, co endure the heat of the water many hours togither ; and yet is there 
nothing fo hurcfull for the bodie :for in truth, a man fhould continue little longer in them than 
in ordinarie artificial] bains or ftouphs ; and then afterwards when hee goeth forth, heistowath 
his bodie with freth cold water, not without fome oile among. Howbeit, our common people 
here, thinke this to be very {traunge, and will not be brought ro it: which is the reafon,that mens 
bodies in no place, are more fubjeét to difeafes: for the ftrong vapours that fteme from thence, 
ftuffe and fill their heads ; and although they {weat in one part, yet they chill in another,notwith- - 
ftanding the reft of their bodies ftand deepe within the water. Others there are befides, who'up-" 
on the like erroneous conceit, take great joy in drinking a deale of this water, ftriving aviewho 
can poure moft of it downe the throat.I have my felfe feenefome of them fo puffed up & {wolne 
with drinking, that their very skin covered and hid the rings upon their fingers, namely, when 
they werenot able to deliver againe the great quantitie of water that they had taken in, There- 
fore this drinking of much water is not good to be ufed, unleffe aman doe eftfoons eat*fale with- 
all. Great ufe there is and to good purpofe, of the mud which thefe fountains doyeeld; butwith 
this regard, that when the bodieis befmeared and bedawbed outwardly therewith, the fame may 
drie upon it in the Sun. bt 
Well, thefe hore waters be commonly full of vertue;howbeir, this isnot generall, That if a 
{pring be hot,by and by we fhould thinke it is medicinable ; for theexperience of the contraricis 
to be ieene in Egefta of Sicilie, in Lariffa, Troas, Magnefia, Melos,and Lipara. Neither ts ita 
{ure argument of amedicinable water (as many are of opinion)ifa peece of filver or brafle which 
hath been dipped therein, loofe the colour: for there is no fuch matter to. be feen by the natural 
baths of Padua s neither is there perceived in them any difference in {mell from others. 
Concerning Sea waters, the fame order and meane isto be obferved, efpecially in fuch as be 
made hot,for to helpe the pains and infirmities of the finews : and many hold them good tofow- 
der fra&tures of bones, yea and to cure their bruifes and contufions: likewife they havea defic- 
cative vertue, whereby chey drie rheumaticke bodies; in which regard, men bathalfoin feawa- 
ter actually cold, Moreover,the fea affourdeth other ules in divers and fundrie refpects but prin- 
cipally the aire thereof is holefome for thofe who are ina phthyficke or corfumption (as I have 
before faid) and cureth fuch as doe reach or void bloud upward : And verely,] remember of late 
daies,that Anneus Gallto after that he was Confull,tooke this courfe; namely, to faile upon the 
fea, for this infirmitie, What is the caufe thinke yee,that many make voiages into Agypt? furely 
it isnot for the aire of Agypt itfelfe, but becaufe they lie long at fea,and befailing a great while 
before they come thither, Furthermore,the vomits alfo which are occafioned atfea by the con- 
tinuall rolling and rocking of the fhips never {tanding ftill, are good for many maladies of head, 
eyes,and breaft;and generally they doe cureall thofe accidents, for which the drinking of elle- 
bore ferveth, As for fea water to be applied fimply of it felfe unto the outward parts, phyficians 
are of opinion, thatit is more effectuall chan any other, forto difcufle andrefolve tumors: and _ 
more particularly, if there be acataplafme made of itand barley mealefodden togither,itisfin- 
gular for the fwellings behind the ears, called Parotides. They mingle the. fame likewife in pla- 
tres, fuch efpecially asbe white and emollitives: and ifthe head be hurt,and the *brain touched 
and offended, it is foveraigne to be infufed into the wound, Itis prefcribed alfoto be drunke: for 
albeit the ftomacke take fome offence and hurt thereby, yet it purgeth the bodie well, and doth 
evacuat melancholicke humorsand blacke choller ; yea and if the bloud be cluttered within the 
bodie, it fendeth it out one way or other, either upwatd or downward. Soine have ordained 1tto 
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