Martini Lifter M. e. R. Lond. de FONTIBVS 
MEDICATES Angliae , Exercitatio altera. Lon- 
dini in O^av i 684. 
I Formerly gave an Account to this Society, of the firft 
Exercitation I pubHfhed of the Medical Waters of 
spaws of England 'y what I have fince added to the fe- 
cond Edition of that Exercitation, I have already difcour- 
fed in a Paper to this Society. As the Examination of all 
the Inland fait Springs, or Brine Pits called Wiches ^ alfo con- 
cerning the fpecifical difference of Sea fait from the Salt of 
thofe Inland Brine Pits, &c, 
I fhall proceed to entertain you with a fhort Account 
of the 2^. Exercitation, now firft publilhed, oi the Me- 
dicinal ufes of the faid Waters. 
And becaufe I could not well be underftood when I had 
f occafion to reafon of Phyfical Matters, unlefs I premifed 
my own thoughts (how true I leave it to others to judge) 
and for that the main bufinefs of health and ficknefs feem-" 
ed to me to depend moft upon the due conco<9:ion of meat 
in the Stomach, and the good and bad condition of the 
humours of the Body refulting there from j I have thought 
it fufficient to explain my felf upon thefe matters 5 
There being ( in my Opinion ) little elfe required , to 
account for all the Phenomena of health and ficknefs, and 
the right application of Medicines- 
Concodion I have explained by PutrifacStion , for that 
I fee no caufe to think the change and refolution of meats 
and drinks to be differently made in the ftomach of Ani- 
mals, from what they are in the open Air ; becaufe the 
capacity of the Stomach and Guts, are verily an other out- 
fide of them. The Tabefadtion of meat and drink is only 
therein haft'ned, and fooner performed ^ as, for example 
Wine or Beer, which do not fower of themfeives of fome 
, . time 
