The Irish spaw, being a short discourse on mineral waters in general with a way of improving by art weakly impregnated mineral waters ... / by P. Bellon ...
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- The Irish spaw, being a short discourse on mineral waters in general with a way of improving by art weakly impregnated mineral waters ... / by P. Bellon ...
- Author
- Belon, P. (Peter)
- Publication
- Dublin :: Printed by J.R. for M. Gunne ... and Nat. Tarrant ...,
- 1684.
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- Health resorts -- Ireland.
- Mineral waters -- Therapeutic use.
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"The Irish spaw, being a short discourse on mineral waters in general with a way of improving by art weakly impregnated mineral waters ... / by P. Bellon ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A27372.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 23, 2025.
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TO THE ILLUSTRIOUS PRINCE JAMES Duke of ORMOND, Lord Lieutenant OF IRELAND.
May it please Your Grace,
SPrings tend not more naturally unto their cen∣ter, then this Discourse to Your Grace, through whose courteous Invitation
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I have left my native Soil, to end the remainder of my days, in the Service of my most Gracious King, in this his Kingdom, under Your Graces Favour and Prote∣ction. This Nation, my Lord, which is so sensible in its whole and in each indi∣vidual parts of those vast and innumerable Benefits and Advantages which it has receiv'd from the be∣nign'd influences of your Graces wise, prudent, and most politick Government, that in a due sense of Grati∣tude
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sends up its daily Prayers to Heaven for Your Graces Preservation.
That I might not remain useless during my stay in this City, till Your Grace were pleas'd to appoint me a fix station, where I might be most serviceable in my capa∣city, I thought it convenient to employ my hours of lei∣sure in some particular, which might tend to a ge∣neral good.
The Crudities of the Ri∣ver
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Waters in these parts might have been a proper Theme to insist upon: but it requiring peradventure a further Scrutiny then the spare time which I may en∣joy here would permit me to enter upon; I diverted my thoughts on a Spring of Mi∣neral Waters, at a small di∣stance from this place, the Subject of this Discourse.
Be pleased, my Lord, to protect, these few Sheets under Your Graces Favour, together with their Subject
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the Spring by encouraging the search after some other Head, so much elevated a∣bove this, as may place it beyond the encroachment of common Waters on its Pre∣rogatives; that amongst all the wonderful goods and ad∣vantages which this Na∣tion has receiv'd at Your Graces Hands, there may be added Your Graces mi∣raculous production of a Spring of Health, from the midst of insalubrious Wa∣ters.
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If in this first attempt, I am so happy as to please Your Grace, I have my end, which shall never pre∣sume beyond the bounds of being
(May it please Your Grace)
Your Grace's Most obliged, most humble, most obedient Servant, P. Bellon.