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Keying and markup guidelines are available at the Text Creation Partnership web site . eng Water quality -- England -- London -- Early works to 1800. Broadsides 2008-04 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2008-09 SPi Global Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-12 Mona Logarbo Sampled and proofread 2008-12 Mona Logarbo Text and markup reviewed and edited 2009-02 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion Dr. PETER's Judgment , OF Dullidge or Lewisham Water . THIS Water was taken notice of about the Year 1648 and a certain Person would have Monopolized it , by Bui●ding and Inclosing it ; and thereupon it was observed that it lost it's Taste , it 's Odour , and Effe●ts , and People left off Drinking it : Sometime ●●●er it was observed to return to it's Primitive Goodness , and bestowed upon the Poor , and it hath held it's Virtue ever since , this is the Traditional Account . I judge this Water principally to consist of Nitrous Salt , Allom , and some Sulphur . It Purges strongly , sometimes causes to Vomit , sometimes ▪ but seldom by Sweat ; sometimes by all three ways of Evacuation , the Property of it's being to vary 〈◊〉 it 's Operation , according to the matter it meets ●ith in Peoples Bodies . It 's Vertues . IT opens all Obstructions within , what ever latter , especially those of the Liver , Spleen , Mese●●ick , Veins , Pancreas , the Billiary , Vterine and Vrmary Passages , by which means such long lingring and almost Incurable Disterupers are bred as the Sch●rrhuo , Tepatick , Lienis , the hard Tumours of the Liver and Spleen , the Flatus Hypocondriacks , the black and yellow Jaundice , the Cholick , the Stone , the Gravel in the Kidneys and Bladder , all Obstructions , Difficulties and Sharpness of Urine , the Haemorrhoi●es , Cholick Passion , Tenas●●… Cachexia , Scurvy , Dropsie , Green-sickness , Stopness of Terms , Fits of the Mother , and many such ●ad Distempers , whereof my Author says he hath seen the Effects ; and the reason he says why it should be so excellent for the Curing the above named Distempers , 〈◊〉 from the cleansing and attenuating Quality of the Nitrous Salt , from the Astringent and Cooling Faculty of the Allom , and from the healing Property of the Sulphur . It Fecundates the Womb beyond any other , and seems an Universal Remedy against Barranness , it Extinguishes Inflammations , it sweetens sharp Humours , is good for Salt Distillations , helps admirably scal●ing ●rines , and is approved by most very Beneficial for t●e ●unning of the Reins , and for other Diseases that are like to these , it 's an absolute Remedy for the Gout , if little assisted by Art , Excellent against all sorts of Worms in the Body . This Water strengthens the Brain and Nerves , prevents or cures the Apoplexy , Falling Sickness , P●lsie , Dizziness , Head-ach , and such like Symptoms , it strengthens the Stomach , causeth good Digestion , consumes Crudities , it makes gros● and fat Bodies lean , and the lean fleshy ; in a word , this Water will Effect whatsoever by any Intention in a Medicinal way is to he perform'd by opening Obstructions , evacuating superfluous Humours , allaying Vapours , cleansing the Blood , and strengthen all the parts of the Body . This Water outwardly used , is good for most cutaneous Distempers , as Leprosie , Itch , Scabs , Pimples , Ring-worms , Scurvy , &c. It dissolves Tumours , and cureth old Ulcers , if the Part afflicted be well or bathed therewith ; and I am perswaded , it being used by way of a warm Bath , it would be of great Efficacy to consume Hyduropical Tumours , to Ease or Cure the Gout , and Rheumatick Dolours , and far more Effec●●al also in the abovesaid Cutaneous Distempers . The Time of Drinking it . ●S either Winter or Summer as Occasions requires ; 〈◊〉 but in general when th● Weather is clean dry it 's best , as well in Winter as Summer , and in Frosty Weather the Water is strongest . In Summer drink it betwixt Sun rising and 'till It 's an hour high , or thereabouts ; then you will have it in it's full Strength , and take it but once a Day , and in my Opinion , it 's much better drank warm than cold ; to drink Water cold Hypocrates says is hurtful to the Bones , Teeth , Sinews , Brain , and Marrow of the Back , &c. but warm is good and profitable . In short , I take it in all Cases satest to take it warm , tho' Strong Constitutions may questionless receive it cold with great Benefit , but weak Constitutions do better to take it warm , so it be done with as little loss of the Spirits as may be . In some Cases you may make Posset Drink of it with Milk ; in Cases where it 's not safe to drink it cold , you may put a quarter of a Pint of scalding or boiling hot Milk into three Pints of Water , whereby it will become of a convenient warmth to be drank , and so you may proportion the Milk to what quantity of Water you please ; but I instance in the quantity , because for a Body of middle Age and compleat Strength , I hold it a fit proportion to begin with , and so increasing every day gradually , 'till he rises to 8 or 9 Pints , more or less , as he shall be able to bear it ; and so again decrease by degrees , as suppose you design to allot 20 Days to drink the Water , and the first day you begin with 3 Pints , then I would have you add half a Pint a day more for the next six days , three quarters of a Pint for the eighth day , and almost a Pint for the ninth day , and a whole Pint for the tenth day ; which being your greatest Rise , will amount to eight Pints and a half , and so for the rem●●●ing ten days daily drink the Proportions backw●rd : As what quantity you drank the tenth day , you are to drink the eleventh , and what proportion you drank the ninth , you are to take the twelfth , &c which brings you to the same proportion for the twentieth and last day , with which you began the first day ; but the just quantity to be taken at one time cannot possibly be ascertain'd , in regard of Age , Sex , Strength , and other Circumstances , yet general they have the most Benefit by it that can drink the most , and thorowly concoct it . Drink not the Water too fast , but allot a short time , which will prevent Griping , cold Sweats , Giddiness in the Head , and the like ; take at first about a third part of what quantity you design , and then walk half and hour , then take another third part , and Ezercise half an hour more ; and then the last or remaining part , and walk 'till all be past out of the Body , or 'till Dinner time ; walk moderately , but not so as to Sweat ; but let not your Exercise be violent , and Sleep not 'till your Water is wrought off ; stand not still in the Sun , nor sit on the cold Ground , which are hurtful ; you may eat a few Caraway-Comfits , Coriander Seeds , Elicanpane , or Angelica preserved , &c. to help the Digestion of the Water ; above all be temperate in your Diet ; eat Beef , Mutton , Veal , Lamb , Chickens , Pullets , Turkys , Partridge , Pheasant , Conies , &c. forbear all Salt Meats , Ducks , Geese ▪ Bacon , Tripe , all Salt-fish , Eels , old Cheese , Leeks , Onions Cabbage , Muskmelons , Cucumbers , &c. are to be avoided ; also Apples , Pears , Plumbs , Cherries ripe Goose-berries Rasberries , &c. are all agreeable , if sparingly eat , and that a little before Night , and then they help to temper the Blood. At Supper , for Drink , Beer , Ale , or Wine may be moderately drank ; let Supper be larger than Dinner , and 6 or 7 Hours after it . After the end of the Waters , use a spare Diet for a Month or two , which will prevent and keep out all Crudities .