( 5 ) 
Veffel^when it is boiled^like the dropping well J^aifhorouih^ 
and that coBfequfently ithath a,I,ap^de^cent Juice, and there, 
fore is petrifying , and bad for the Stone, Gout^and Jaun. 
dice : maintainiogythat that which DtMitty calls a little infipid 
earth, ( remainiDg upon the diffolution of the fifft extraftof 
this Spa w 5 and the filtration ofit^ isa^great dealofgretty 
Stone-powder 5 and adding further, that 'tis the peculiar Cha- 
rafter of the fame Spaw, wherc6y it is diftinguifli't from other 
Spaws in ufe^to take a refty fit fooner or later^ fo as that it will 
neither go backward nor forward, by fiege or urine. 
Having made it his bufinefs to prove this both by a Chymi* 
cal ADalyfis^ and by Experience of his own and othersjimpors 
ting that they never had any fit of the Stone till he and 
they drank of this Scarbreu^^b^w^ter i he further obfer- 
veth^ 
1. ThsLtAhm- Stone diffolved in water yields a Purple tin- 
fture by Gall • and that, this Allom ftone being acknowled** 
ged by Dr* fFiiJ^y to be in Scarhrongb ^ therefore theTinSure 
by Gall is no argument for Fitriol \nx\i2LX. Spaw. 
2, That all waters that have diffolved Iron, have Vitriol al« 
fo as the produd of that difTolution. 
5 That all the Salt that fprouts out of the Scarbrough^clf^ 
isNitro-alluminous, and not Vitriol. 
4. That.the precipitated powder found at' the bottom of 
the velTel, after that *yr<giriro»g^. water hath flood in it two or 
three dayes, is Glebe of 
5^ That if Vitriol be joyned with Niter m Scarbrmgh ( asi 
Dr. ^2>/^y will have it ^ it becoms a corrofiVe water^ where^ 
by (faith Dr. Tonjial ) it would be made worfe than by all he 
bath written againftit* r 
Whilft our Author is thus examining th^ Scarbrough^Sptm^ 
he takethoGcafioD to fay thus much o{ihzto{^mift)orGu^,t\i^t 
its worth and excellency is, tKat an Embryonate Sulphur hath 
corroded Iron inic^ which,/i^itlJ^3 makes it StomachicalyO- 
pening, Diuretical, aDd ftrengthening all the noble parts. 
Having thus Teprefented the fum and fubftance of what 
Dr*^Ti^/2/?^/hath alledged againft Dr. Witty uiponxhh Spa^^V 
we wilhibr further e:s:miinatioii of this water^ to be under- 
taken 
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