Spadacrene Anglica Or, the English spavv-fountaine. Being a briefe treatise of the acide, or tart fountaine in the forest of Knaresborow, in the west-riding of Yorkshire. As also a relation of other medicinall waters in the said forest. By Edmund Deane, Dr. in Physicke, Oxon. dwelling in the city of Yorke.

CHAP. 13.

At what time of the yeare, and at what houre of the day it is most fit and meet to drinke this water.

TO speake in generall tearmes, it is a fit time to drinke it, when the ayre is pure, cleare, hot and dry: for then the water is more tart, and more easily digested, then at other times. On the contrary, it is best to forbeare, when the ayre is cold, moist, darke, dull and misty: for then it is more feeble, and harder to be concocted.

But more specially, the most proper season to vnder∣take this our English Spaw dyet, will be from the middest or latter end of Iune to the middle of September, or lon∣ger, according as the season of the yeare shall fall out to be hot and dry, or otherwise.

Not that in the Spring time, and in Winter it is not also good, but for that the ayre being more pure in Sommer, the water also must needs be of greater force and power. Notwithstanding it may sometime so happen in Sommer, that by reason of some extraordinary falling of raine, there may be a cessation from it for a day or two. Or if it chance to haue rained ouer night, it will then be fit and necessary to refraine from drinking of it, vntill the raine bee passed away againe: or else (which I like better) the fountaine laded dry, and filled againe, which may well be done in an hower, or two at most.

Touching the time of the day, when it is best to drinke this water, questionlesse the most conuenient hower will be in the morning, when the party is empty, and fasting, a∣bout seauen aclocke: Nature hauing first discharged her selfe of daily excrements both by stoole and vrine, and the concoctions perfected. This time is likewise fittest for ex∣ercise, which is a great good help, and furtherance for the better distribution of the water, whereby it doth pro∣duce its effects more speedily.