attentively examine the Urine of Mankind, will find 
none free; unlefs the ftrumous and gouty ; of which more 
I defign elfe where. 
The Examination of ran Belmont's Do6trine about the 
Stone ; and the Arguments for this which I have laid down, 
I omit, and refer to the Treatife. 
If Iron be in the calcined Cakuhrs Humanm the Load- 
ftone, if carefully applyed, willextrad: it, and demonitrate 
it to us i as, in truth, it hath often done, when I have 
applyed it for that purpofe : And if Limeftone , the Cal- 
cmation alfo is neceffary ; becaufe otherwife the Fat will 
hinder the Acids to work on it s but a calcined bone will 
wholly be diffblvedby any Acid. 
Having difpatcht thefe things, we come to the Medici- 
nal ufes of the Spa-w Waters in E^f^land • which we exa- 
mine upon the Dodrrines of other Writers of our Englilh 
Spaws; 'Viz.. choofing out the particulars wherein they 
moftly agree. 
As Hypochondriac Melancholy ; an ill habit of body from a- 
ny chronical Difeafe, as long Agues, the Scurvy, &c. The 
ftoneof the Kidniesand Bladder 5 the Gout, Worms, Bar- 
rennefs of Women, &c* 
The excellency of the waters in the firft cafe is dedu- 
ced at large , from the caufe of that difeafe ; which we 
take to be, too great a fullnefs of Chyle. That they are 
lefs fit, and not to be given to cacheitic people, without 
great Caution and Advife : that they are not to be ufed in 
the Stone and Gout, which two Difeafes they can no 
ways help, but by accident : the reafon of the Gout being 
from a flop and dejedtion or coition of fome ftony Particles 
upon the Membranes of the bones in the more narrow 
paflages of the Joynts 
That Steel hath been of old noted as infamous for cau- 
fing barrennefs in women : wh ch ill CharacSter of that 
Meciiciue I doubt is almoft forgot in this Age ; and that 
therefore 
