Scarbrough Spaw, or, A description of the nature and vertues of the spaw at Scarbrough in Yorkshire. Also a treatise of the nature and use of water in general, and the several sorts thereof, as sea, rain, snow, pond, lake, spring, and river water, with the original causes and qualities. Where more largely the controversie among learned writers about the original of springs, is discussed. To which is added, a short discourse concerning mineral waters, especially that of the spaw. / By Robert Wittie, Dr. in Physick.

Title

Scarbrough Spaw, or, A description of the nature and vertues of the spaw at Scarbrough in Yorkshire. Also a treatise of the nature and use of water in general, and the several sorts thereof, as sea, rain, snow, pond, lake, spring, and river water, with the original causes and qualities. Where more largely the controversie among learned writers about the original of springs, is discussed. To which is added, a short discourse concerning mineral waters, especially that of the spaw. / By Robert Wittie, Dr. in Physick.

Author

Wittie, Robert, 1613?-1684.

Publication

London, :: Printed for, and are to be sold by Charles Tyus, at the three Bibles on London Bridge, and by Richard Lambert in York, neer the Minster,

1660.

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Subject terms

Mineral waters -- England -- Scarborough -- Early works to 1800.

Mineral waters -- Therapeutic use -- Early works to 1800.

Hydrotherapy -- Early works to 1800.

Water -- Early works to 1800.

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"Scarbrough Spaw, or, A description of the nature and vertues of the spaw at Scarbrough in Yorkshire. Also a treatise of the nature and use of water in general, and the several sorts thereof, as sea, rain, snow, pond, lake, spring, and river water, with the original causes and qualities. Where more largely the controversie among learned writers about the original of springs, is discussed. To which is added, a short discourse concerning mineral waters, especially that of the spaw. / By Robert Wittie, Dr. in Physick." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A96797.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 4, 2024. content_copy

Contents

• title page
• Universis ac Singulis Medicinae Do∣ctoribus, nec non coeteris Genersis àm in Urbe qà nin Comitatu Eboracensi in Re Medicâ versantibus.
• Encomiasticon in Scriptorem doctum & Scriptum.
• A Rapsodie on the learned work of my worthy and much honoured friend, R.W. Dr. in Physick.
• In sui nominis Viri Doctoris Wittie de aquis Scarburgensibus clabora∣tam tractatiunculam, Carmen
• In opus utilissinum R. Wittie Med. Doctoris, de Spadacrene Scar∣burgensi.
• The Authors Contemplation upon his Water-Works.
• Scarbrough Spaw; OR, A description of the Nature and Vertues of the Spaw at Scarbrough.
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  • Sect. 5.
  • Sect. 6.
  • Sect. 7.
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  • Sect. 9.
  • Sect. 10.
  • Sect. 11. Of River Waters
  • Sect. 12.
  • Sect. 13.
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• READER, Through the Authors great distance from the Press some gross Errours have escabed the Printer, which do break the sense: He begs so much ingenuity, that these following being some of the principall may be corrected by thy pen before thou begin to read.