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<P>A New METHOD Of Curing the FRENCH-POX</P>
<P>Written by an Eminent French Author.</P>
<P>Together with the Practice and Method of Mon&s;ieur <HI>Blanchard.</HI> As al&s;o Dr. <HI>Sydenham</HI>'s Judgment on the &s;ame.</P>
<P>To which is added Annotations and Ob&s;ervations By <HI>WILLIAM SALMON,</HI> Pro|fe&s;&s;or of <HI>Phy&s;ick;</HI> living at the <HI>blew Balcony</HI> by the <HI>Ditch-&s;ide</HI> near <HI>Holbourn</HI> Bridge, <HI>London.</HI></P>
<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed for <HI>John Taylor</HI> at the <HI>Ship,</HI> and <HI>Thomas Newborough</HI> at the <HI>Golden Ball</HI> in St. <HI>Paul</HI>'s Church-Yard, 1690.</P>
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<HEAD>THE PREFACE.</HEAD>
<P>THis Treati&s;e tran&s;lated out of <HI>French,</HI> being a new Method, is pre&s;ented to the World, for the pub|lick Good, being indeed the mo&s;t excellent of any thing of this kind that I ever yet &s;aw. The Author without doubt was an ingenious Man, and one that well under&s;tood the Practick part of Curing this Di&s;|ea&s;e, which he has conci&s;ely, and in few words, delive|red; and which he has as well faithfully as learnedly declared: He u&s;es but few Medicines, nor is there need of any more, where &s;o great things are pre&s;en|ted. His only Remedy is the <HI>Solar Praecipitate,</HI> which is truly the &s;ame thing with our <HI>Impetus Mineralis,</HI> the which medicament we have u&s;ed for near twenty years la&s;t pa&s;t, whereby it may appear, that this Authour was not the fir&s;t, or only man that made u&s;e of it, or di|vulged it to the World; and that this truth may more clearly appear, you may &s;ee the &s;ame preparation al|mo&s;t in all Re&s;pects in my <HI>Phylaxa Medicinae, Lib.</HI> 1. <HI>Cap.</HI> 42. <HI>Sect.</HI> 2. Under the Title of <HI>Angelus Mineralis,</HI> Printed about &s;ix years ago: And in my Select Ob&s;ervations, <HI>Lib.</HI> 2. <HI>Cap.</HI> 5. <HI>Sect.</HI> 57. written above eight years &s;ince, though not &s;o long made publick: If any &s;hall object that the <HI>Angelus Mineralis</HI> is not the &s;ame Medicine; I an&s;wer, in re&s;pect to it's force it is not, becau&s;e it has a farther preparation to take away it's <HI>Emetick, Cathartick,</HI> and <HI>Salivatick</HI> properties; but &s;etting a|&s;ide that la&s;t, or additional proce&s;s; it is then our <HI>Impetus Mineralis,</HI> which is exactly the &s;ame with our Author's <HI>Solar Praecipitate,</HI> as they who plea&s;e to
<PB REF="3">examine it may find where this Author was to court or brief, I have, in my Annotations annext, made bold to enlarge him; and where he was ob&s;cure, I have done my endeavour to clear him; and I hope I have done things &s;o much for the better, that no man will repent his labour of reading them; and 'tis po&s;|&s;ible the&s;e Annotations (though &s;hort) may be worth his &s;erious con&s;ideration. The Medicines here made u&s;e of are for the mo&s;t part &s;uch, who&s;e Preparations I have publi&s;hed in my &s;aid <HI>Phylaxa Medicinae,</HI> and may all of them be had at my hou&s;e faithfully prepared: I have a &s;econd part of this <HI>Phylaxa</HI> now fitted for the Pre&s;s, which &s;hall al&s;o in a little time be made publick, wherein I &s;hall di&s;cover many more great and excel|lent Medicines which I u&s;e in my, private Practice, and were never yet divulged to the World. In the mean &s;ea&s;on, the <HI>Herbal</HI> which I have for &s;ome years pro|mi&s;ed, will in a &s;hort time be completed with it's Cutts, and in &s;ome few months after expo&s;ed to the publick View; the Method of it is new, yet I hope may plea&s;e, and the Medical Part of it is delivered Rationally, and Chymically to the Inve&s;tigation of the Powers of all things within the Vegetable King|dom. I have been for &s;ome years la&s;t pa&s;t in the <HI>A|merican</HI> World, and am but lately returned home to perfect the whole Sy&s;tem of Medical Learning; and for the performing of which I humbly crave the A&s;&s;i|&s;tance of the mo&s;t Great and Good God, and that he would ble&s;s me in all my hone&s;t and ju&s;t Under|takings,</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>W. SALMON.</SIGNED>
<DATELINE><HI>From my Hou&s;e at the</HI> Blew-Balcony <HI>by the Ditch &s;ide, near</HI> Holbourn-Bridge London, <DATE>1&s;t of <HI>November,</HI> 1689.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>The Table to the Treatice of the Venereal Di&s;temper.</HEAD>
<ITEM>Chap. 1. <HI>OF the Venereal Di&s;temper in Gene|ral, of the Name and original thereof,</HI> Page 1.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Chap 2. <HI>Of the Venereal Di&s;temper, of its De&s;crip|tion and Symptoms in General,</HI> page 5.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Chap 3. <HI>How many &s;orts there are of the Venereal Di&s;temper,</HI> p. 8.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Chap 4. <HI>Of the Degrees of the Pox, and its pro|gre&s;s,</HI> p. 13.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Chap 5. <HI>Of the Ca&s;e of the Pox, and the nature of the Veneral Ferment,</HI> p. 24.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Chap 6. <HI>Of the &s;igns of the Venereal Di&s;temper, and of the Conduct that is to he us'd, that one may neither deceive, nor be deceived,</HI> p. 36.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Chap 7. <HI>Of the Progno&s;tick of the Venereal Di&s;|ea&s;e,</HI> p. 48.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Chap 8. <HI>Of Mercury, and if it be the &s;pecifick Medicine for the Venereal Di&s;temper,</HI> p. 52.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Chap 9. <HI>Of the method of curing the Veneral Di&s;temper, and that Salivation is the mo&s;t &s;hort and the mo&s;t certain way, provided that the Mercurial &V;nguent be not made u&s;e to excite it,</HI> p. 71</ITEM>
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<ITEM>Chap 10. <HI>Of the Chancre,</HI> p. 90.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Chap 11. <HI>Of the heat of the &V;rine, and the Vi|rulent Gonorrhoea,</HI> p. 92.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Chap 12. <HI>Of a Bubo, or Poulain,</HI> p. 98.</ITEM>
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<HEAD>The Table of the Problems.</HEAD>
<ITEM>Prob. 1. <HI>WHEREIN it proceeds that the Veneral Di&s;temper remains conceal'd in the Body, without any inconve|niency, and that it does afterwards appear with all its &s;igns,</HI> Page 109.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Prob. 2. <HI>To know if a Man or Woman, who have the Veneral Di&s;temper, may have Children born free from that Di&s;ea&s;e,</HI> p. 111.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Prob. 3. <HI>Why a Woman, who has not actually the Veneral Di&s;temper, does neverthele&s;s give it,</HI> p. 112.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Prob. 4. <HI>Why among&s;t &s;everal Men, who lie with the &s;ame Woman that is infected with the Venereal Di&s;temper, one gets a heat of &V;rine, another a Chancre, another a Poulain, another the great Pox, and others get no harm at all,</HI> p. 113.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Prob. 5. <HI>Why a Woman, who has a heat of &V;rine does, not always give to him who has to de with her the like; but (it may be) a Chancre, or a Poulain, and &s;o the &s;ame when &s;he has a Chancre,</HI> p. 115.</ITEM>
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<ITEM>Prob. 6. <HI>Why there are &s;ome which catch the Ve|nereal Di&s;temper, at the first amorous Congre&s;s, and others do not take after many, though they have always had to doe with the &s;ame infected Per&s;on,</HI> p. 116.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Prob. 7. <HI>If there be any infallible Pre&s;ervative against the Venereal Di&s;temper,</HI> p. 117.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Prob. 8. <HI>To know if a Woman who has her Cour&s;es, can give the Venereal Di&s;temper,</HI> p. 121.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Prob. 9. <HI>To know if the Stars can be the cau&s;e of the Venereal Di&s;temper,</HI> p. 123.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Prob. 10. <HI>To know, (when one has the Venereal Di&s;temper; an Ague does &s;eize him, and goes off in a Cri&s;is,) if the Pox may be likewi&s;e cured by the means of that Cri&s;is,</HI> p. 127.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Prob. 11. <HI>To know, if the Venereal Di&s;temper may be defined, a General Corruption of the ma&s;s of Bloud, which is ordinarily contracted by rea&s;on of a venemous vapours tran&s;mitted during the Con|gre&s;s,</HI> p. 128.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Prob. 12. <HI>Why a Chancre on the Prepuce is more dangerous for giving the &V;niver&s;al Pox, than one that is in the Gland,</HI> p. 129.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Prob. 13. <HI>To &s;hew, if the veneral Di&s;temper was known to the Antients,</HI> p. 131.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Prob. 14. <HI>To know, if the Venereal De&s;temper be the Lepro&s;ie of the Antients,</HI> p. 139.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Prob. 15. <HI>How many ways one may get the Ve|nereal Di&s;temper, and if it may be got at a con&s;iderable di&s;tance,</HI> p. 144.</ITEM>
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<ITEM>Prob. 16. <HI>What is the true Subject, of the Vene|real Ferment, and if it be rather the Lymph, than the Phlegm, or the other humours,</HI> p. 149.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Prob. 17. <HI>Why a Man that wounded in the time that he has the Venereal Di&s;temper, is never well cured of his wounds; or at lea&s;t, with great diffi|culty,</HI> p. 157.</ITEM>
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<HEAD>The Table to Mr. <HI>Stoph. Blankard</HI>'s Practice.</HEAD>
<ITEM>Sect. 1. <HI>OF Original, and Symptoms of the Venereal Di&s;temper.</HI> Pag. 165.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sect. 2. <HI>Wherein the Virulency of the Pox con|&s;i&s;t, and how it is communicated,</HI> p. 169.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sect. 3. <HI>Of the Gonorrhea or running of the Reins,</HI> pag. 170.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sect. 4. <HI>Of the Inflammation of the Yard,</HI> &amp;c. p. 179.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sect. 5. <HI>Of the Caruncle,</HI> p. 197.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sect. 6. <HI>Of the Venereal Hernia, or Tre&s;ticle,</HI> p. 200.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sect. 7. <HI>Of the Venereal Buboes,</HI> p. 202.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sect. 8. <HI>Of Condylomes, or Venereal Excre&s;cen|ces in the Fundament, and Privy Parts,</HI> p. 204.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sect. 9. <HI>Of the &V;niver&s;al Pox, and its Symp|tome,</HI> p. 206.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>The Hi&s;tory of the Venereai Di&s;temper,</HI> p. 221.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>The Cure of the Virulent Gonorrhea.</HI> p. 231.</ITEM>
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<HEAD>A New TREATISE OF THE Venereal Di&s;temper.</HEAD>
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<HEAD>CHAP. I. <HI>Of the Venereal Di&s;temper in General, of the Name and Original thereof.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THere are no &s;mall Conte&s;ts recorded by Authors, that are betwixt the People of &s;everal Nations, concerning the Name and Original of this Di&s;ea&s;e, which we call <HI>Venereal,</HI> becau&s;e it is an Effect of <HI>Venus</HI>'s Game; or &s;imply, the <HI>Pox,</HI> by rea&s;on of the re&s;emblance that the Bli&s;ters appearing in &s;ome &s;ort of <HI>Pox,</HI> bear to tho&s;e of the <HI>Small-Pox,</HI> which are called <HI>Variolae</HI> by the Phy&s;itians: In which, becau&s;e there is &s;omething that is &s;hameful and &s;ordid; every one, to excu&s;e him&s;elf, is forward to a&s;cribe to his Neighbour the Source and Ori|ginal of this Di&s;temper. Whence it is, that
<PB N="2" REF="6">the <HI>French, Spaniards</HI> and <HI>Italians,</HI> do upon this account, charge one another, with volleys of continual Reproaches: But in my opinion, if it be con&s;idered, that it is two hundred Years ago, or more, &s;ince &s;uch Que&s;tions were &s;tart|ed, Pre&s;cription upon Pre&s;cription ought to put an end to the Plea, and purcha&s;e to every one an indi&s;putable Right to that which he does po&s;&s;e&s;s for the&s;e two Ages pa&s;t, and more.</P>
<P>But why do I talk of two Ages? 'Tis cer|tain, that, though the <HI>Pox</HI> has not been e|qually known in all Ages, yet it is very near as ancient as the World, or at lea&s;t, as the impure conver&s;ation of Men, with common and debauched Women, which was before <HI>Noah</HI>'s time, when the World began to be Multipli|ed. As we read in the VI. Chap. of <HI>Gene&s;is, For all flo&s;h had corrupted his way upon the Earth.</HI> Authority, Rea&s;on and Experience do evident|ly prove that the Venereal Di&s;ea&s;e began from that time.</P>
<P>For, we may &s;ay, once for all, without making a forceable Entry on the Divine's Pro|vince, that God, having at all times hated Fornication, as an horrid Sin, did likewi&s;e in all Ages of the World, puni&s;h the &s;ame, with innumerable Mi&s;erys, and bodily Di&s;ea&s;es, a|mong which the Venereal one is to be recko|ned, as the effect of impurity, and the Re|ward
<PB N="3" REF="6">that is promi&s;ed to &s;uch profligate extra|vagancy. XIX. Chap. of <HI>Eccle&s;ia&s;ticus, He that cleaveth to Harlots will become impudent, Moths and Worms &s;hall have him to Heritage.</HI></P>
<P>Be&s;ides, both Experience and Rea&s;on do prove the Antiquity of this Di&s;ea&s;e, for if it be true, as no body can doubt of it, that at this day, the Pox does proceed from a Cor|ruption of Seeds which have been mixed in the &s;ame Matrix, Rea&s;on does oblige us to believe that the &s;ame thing happened to the Debau|ch&eacute;s of old, and that con&s;equently, they could not be free from the Pox.</P>
<P>But 'tis known, that if a Virgin, that is perfecty &s;ound (if the Matter be &s;o ordered as to free her from all &s;u&s;picion of the Venereal di&s;temper) &s;hall keep Company with half a dozen young Fellows, as &s;ound as her &s;elf, and be debauched with them &s;everally, time after time, &s;ome one or other of them &s;hall quickly have the Pox, and all of them, by a repetition of Venereal Acts, &s;hall at la&s;t be infected.</P>
<P>There are but too too many Examples of &s;uch Truths, and Hi&s;tories might be compo&s;ed of the Misfortunes that have hapned, in debau|ches of this Nature, if the Circum&s;tances were not too tedious to be related.</P>
<P>Books do &s;ufficiently furni&s;h us with &s;uch Tragical accounts; and tho&s;e of Judgment
<PB N="4" REF="7">are well enough &s;atisfied, that the Pox may be got after that manner. We &s;hall give the Natural Rea&s;on of it, when we &s;peak to its Cau&s;e in Chap 5.</P>
<P>And from this we may ob&s;erve, that what &s;ome Authors &s;ay of the Original of the Pox is altogether fabulous, as when they refer it to the Stars:</P>
<P>We &s;hall &s;peak of this in the Problems which we &s;hall give upon a great number of Que&s;tions concerning the Venereal di&s;temper.</P>
<P>'Tis true, that tho&s;e who catch this Di&s;ea&s;e at this day, do not all get it, in this manner; the mo&s;t part have it by Tradition, and a communication from one to another; it is an infectious di&s;temper, whence it's natural pro|perty is &s;uch, as to communicate it &s;elf, and produce the like Contagion, &s;eeing that the Cau&s;e of it is a true Ferment, and it is of the Nature of a Ferment to multiply it &s;elf inde|finitely, hence, there needs no more than one grain of this Venereal Ferment to infect the whole World, as there is only need of one Grain of ordinary Leven, to work upon and to reduce into it's own Nature, &s;uch a quantity of Pa&s;te as &s;hould require all the Grain in the whole World to compo&s;e it; we &s;hall &s;peak of this Venereal Ferment, after we have given a general Idea or De&s;cription of the Venereal Di&s;ea&s;e.</P>
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<PB N="5" REF="7">
<HEAD>CHAP. II. <HI>Of the Venereal di&s;temper, of it's De&s;cription and Symptoms in general.</HI></HEAD>
<P>SEing a Di&s;cour&s;e does yeild no &s;atisfacti|on to the Reader, unle&s;s the Subject matter which is managed thereby be re|pre&s;ented by a di&s;tinct and clear Idea, I thought it convenient not to proceed further, until I &s;hall have once &s;hewn what the Pox or Venereal Di&s;temper is.</P>
<P>'Tis true, that herein I cannot follow that Method, in which, when one has occa&s;ion to explain a Subject, he mu&s;t give the Definition of it, that is to &s;ay, expre&s;s its E&s;&s;ence and Nature by two Artributes, which are called <HI>Genus</HI> and <HI>Differentia,</HI> becau&s;e, &s;ince that <HI>Genus</HI> ought to be &s;uch as contains, and de|notes the <HI>Species</HI> immediately under it, and next to it, and the difference mu&s;t be e&s;&s;ential to that which is defined, we cannot make u&s;e of any of tho&s;e <HI>Genus</HI>'s, &s;ince the Di&s;ea&s;e does com|prehend but three things, <HI>viz.</HI> an intempera|ment, <HI>an ill</HI> conformation, and a &s;olution of continuity, and we ob&s;erve that the Pox does con&s;i&s;t &s;ometimes in one of the&s;e, and &s;ome|times in another, and often times in all the three; but it cannot be &s;aid, that it is always one of them, for in&s;tance, an Intemperament, that
<PB N="6" REF="8">(as &s;ome pretend) is always found with the <HI>French-Pox,</HI> which is very hard for any one to be &s;ure of, if it be con&s;idered, that an intem|perament, being the exce&s;s of one or more qualities, the Pox is often di&s;covered in &s;uch ca&s;es, where 'twill be very difficult to affirm, that it is that predominant quality, and what &s;hall be &s;aid of tho&s;e who have the Pox for ten years, or more, without any appearance of hurt done to any bodily function? 'tis ne|ce&s;&s;ary therefore to u&s;e a Term in this ca&s;e that is more tran&s;cendent then that of an In|temperament.</P>
<P>As to the other Attribute, called <HI>differentia,</HI> it mu&s;t be taken from &s;omething which im|mediately follows the E&s;&s;ence or Nature of the Thing; that is to &s;ay, from &s;ome e&s;&s;ential propriety, which does always agree with every Pox, and only with the Pox; and there is no &s;uch difference found; whence it is, that the Di&s;ea&s;e cannot admit of a Regular Defini|tion.</P>
<P>But neither mu&s;t it be imagined, that the De&s;cription that we are about to give, is ab|&s;olutely compleat and perfect, becau&s;e that does depend on very many circum&s;tances; as for Example, one cannot exactly comprehend the nature of that Pox which remains conceal'd in the Body, for a long time, without exhibiting any &s;ign what&s;oever, of which we &s;hall &s;peak
<PB N="7" REF="8">el&s;ewhere. Whence it is, that I cannot blame tho&s;e, who, to rid them&s;elves of this trouble, do not at all define the Pox, nor write a long Treati&s;e of that Di&s;ea&s;e, alledging with good Rea&s;on, that 'tis of very &s;mall importance to know how to define the Pox, provided they have but the skill <HI>and good fortune</HI> to cure it.</P>
<P>The Pox is a di&s;po&s;ition again&s;t Nature, contagious upon the touch, occa&s;ioned by a ferment of the &s;ame Nature, ari&s;ing from the corruption of the Seeds of divers Per&s;ons received and retained in the Wombs of Com|mon Women, upon which one or more of the&s;e Accidents do follow, <HI>viz.</HI> Heat of Urine, or a virulent Gonorhea, or Running of the Reins, Chancers, Buboes, or Poulains, Tu|mours, Boyls, Condyloms, Nodes, Glands, Pains, Spots, Bli&s;ters, Tetters, Scabs, Ulcers, Rottene&s;s, and a Caries of the Bones or Carti|lages, Falling of the Hair, and many others which proceed from the&s;e, or may be common to this and other di&s;tempers.</P>
<P>Neverthele&s;s &s;ome of the fir&s;t of the&s;e Acci|dents mentioned in the de&s;cription, may fol|low upon other Di&s;ea&s;es, but 'tis ob&s;ervable, that when they proceed from the Pox, they are attended with &s;omething that is &s;in|gular, which di&s;covers them to be the Effect of the Pox, as we &s;hall &s;hew, when we come
<PB N="8" REF="9">to &s;peak of them in particular, or give the marks, by which we may di&s;cern that di&s;tem|per from other Di&s;ea&s;es.</P>
<P>And &s;eeing the Pox does unavoidably draw after it innumerable Evils upon the Body, not to reckon tho&s;e of the Mind, which appear by turns, by a great many fanta&s;tical repre|&s;entations, in a thou&s;and different &s;hapes; One &s;aid well that the Pox is the <HI>Protaeus</HI> of Di&s;ea&s;es and a Collection of all Di&s;tempers.</P>
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<HEAD>CHAP. III. <HI>How many Sorts there are of the Venereal Di&s;temper.</HI></HEAD>
<P>IT appears, by the De&s;cription which we gave in the former Chapter, that we allow of only one &s;ort of Pox, and here we affirm, that that which they call Heat of Urine, a Chancre, or Bubo, is not of a different nature from that which is called the great (or <HI>French</HI>) Pox, as we &s;hall prove by three Arguments that are without exception.</P>
<P>The fir&s;t is, that Heat of Urine, does as infallibly turn to the <HI>French-Pox,</HI> as the Chancre or the Poulain, upon a neglect, or ill management of the Cure; and therefore
<PB N="9" REF="9">they mu&s;t of nece&s;&s;ity be of the &s;ame na|ture.</P>
<P>The &s;econd is, that the <HI>French-Pox,</HI> and the forementioned accidents admit of the &s;ame cure, in &s;o far at lea&s;t, as they are malig|nant or Venereal.</P>
<P>And the third is, that the <HI>French-Pox,</HI> is often|times nothing el&s;e but a Collection of tho&s;e Accidents, which is manife&s;t in Practice; and we &s;hall give the rea&s;on thereof in the follow|ing Part of this Di&s;cour&s;e.</P>
<P>There is therefore no e&s;&s;ential difference betwixt Heat of Urine, Chancres, Buboes, and the <HI>French-Pox,</HI> neither as to the Nature of the Malady, nor the cau&s;e whence they proceed, nor finally, as to their &s;pecific Remedy.</P>
<P>There is, neverthele&s;s, an accidental dif|ference, which does con&s;i&s;t in this, that the <HI>French-Pox</HI> does generally &s;eize the whole Body, becau&s;e the Ma&s;s of Blood is thereby infected; upon which account, it may be called, an Univer&s;al Pox and Heat of Urine, the Chancre, and the Bubo attack but one &s;ingle Part, either for that the Venereal Ferment has not been carried far, &s;ince it was fir&s;t communi|cated, or, that Nature has expelled it, by a vigorous influence, and, as it were, by way of an imperfect Cri&s;is, as may be &s;een in Bu|boes, or finally, by &s;ome other Accident, and therefore this may be called a particular Pox.</P>
<PB N="10" REF="10">
<P>In which there is al&s;o a notable difference, as to the manner of u&s;ing a Specific Medi|cine, and &s;ome other circum&s;tances, which are be&s;t ob&s;erved in Practice, as we &s;hall &s;hew in the Chapter concerning the Method of curing both &s;orts of the <HI>French-Pox.</HI></P>
<P>'Tis further ob&s;ervable, that there is ano|ther &s;ort of particular Pox, that is to &s;ay, which lyes in one Part of the Body; for it often happens in Practice, that after the Univer&s;al Pox is cured, there &s;till remains a lurking poy&s;on in &s;ome part of the Body, as in the Caries or Gangrene of &s;ome Bones, in &s;ome Node or Tophus, which admits of no di&s;&s;olution by the action of <HI>Mercury,</HI> when all the re&s;t of the Body is very well clean&s;ed; and which con&s;equently requires a particular Remedy.</P>
<P>Although the Pox is the &s;ame in all Per|&s;ons and at all times, and has a &s;pecific Me|dicine, which is <HI>Mercury,</HI> yet it cannot be well cured but by accident, unle&s;s the Temper, Age, Sex, Tenderne&s;s (with other like circum|&s;tances) of the Per&s;ons thereby infected, be duely con&s;idered.</P>
<P>For Men are commonly more &s;trong, Women more delicate, more moi&s;t, and their Monthly Cour&s;es mu&s;t direct us in the choice of a par|ticular Method, when we go about their Cure; whereof we &s;hall give an Example in the proper Chapter.</P>
<PB N="11" REF="10">
<P>Tho&s;e who are of a Melancholy Temper are commonly cured with the greate&s;t diffi|culty, becau&s;e their Humors are more &s;tubborn and tenacious, and becau&s;e they abound in acid, and frequently in au&s;tere humours, which are wor&s;e then the other.</P>
<P>Choloric Per&s;ons are ea&s;ily moved, but &s;uf|fer cold or heat le&s;s than others, wherefore the Bile, with which they abound, mu&s;t not be ir|ritated, by a &s;uddain change of tho&s;e qualities. Tho&s;e of a Sanguine Con&s;titution mu&s;t be often blooded, and Phlegmatic Per&s;ons fequent|ly inured to drying Medicines.</P>
<P>Infants and Old-men, being more tender and feeble, ought to be look'd after accord|ingly, neither the one nor the other is fluxed, e&s;pecially, if they be re&s;pectively, very young, or decrepite.</P>
<P>For this and many other Rea&s;ons, ea&s;y to be under&s;tood, <HI>Mercury,</HI> which in this Age is the common Medicine for this Di&s;ea&s;e, ought not to be Prepared always in the &s;ame manner, and I will &s;ay, by the by, that he that will &s;till make u&s;e of the &s;ame Preparation, &s;hall fall into a great many Errors, and fail in the Cure of ma|ny that labour under this Di&s;ea&s;e.</P>
<P>'Tis further alledged that the Times or Ages of the Pox are to be di&s;tingui&s;hed, <HI>viz.</HI> its beginning, its encrea&s;e, its &s;tate, and its de|clination, but &s;eeing it is not an acute Di&s;ea&s;e, and
<PB N="12" REF="11">be&s;ides tho&s;e times are not determined equally, and have not a regulated cour&s;e, I think it im|po&s;&s;ible to bring the thing into a true light.</P>
<P>Becau&s;e, for Example, there have been &s;ome per&s;ons, who have had the Pox, for the &s;pace of ten Years or more, without any remarkable ap|pearance, or fatal con&s;equence, and others, who in the &s;pace of three Months, have become almo&s;t rotten. There are &s;ome, who upon a Chancre neglected or ill cured, &s;hall be for two or three Years free from the con&s;equent marks of the Pox, and others, who in &s;ix Months time, &s;hall be therewith covered all over, the thing depending le&s;s or more on the activity of the Venereal Fer|ment, with which they are infected, and on their good or bad con&s;titution; we &s;hall treat of tho&s;e Que&s;tions in the Problem; in a word, the Times of this Di&s;ea&s;e are &s;o uneven and uncertain, that there can be no &s;tanding Rule given, by the help of which we may di&s;cern them, Experience being the be&s;t guide in this matter.</P>
<P>And 'tis not, in my Opinion, a thing of &s;o great importance, as to make it needful for me to in|&s;i&s;t any longer upon it, in this Chapter, becau&s;e that which follows, and treats of the different degrees of the Pox, &s;hall fully clear all that is nece&s;&s;ary to be under&s;tood, in order to the giving a right Judgment of the &s;tate of this Di&s;ea&s;e.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="4" TYPE="chapter">
<PB N="13" REF="11">
<HEAD>CHAP. IV. <HI>Of the Degrees of the Pox, and its Progre&s;s.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THat the Subject Matter of this Chapter may be made the more manife&s;t, 'tis to be &s;uppo&s;ed that the &s;everal ways how one may get the Pox, may be reduced to three, for either the Di&s;ea&s;e is original, that is, con|tracted in the Mothers Womb, or, it is got by Copulation, or la&s;tly, by &s;ome other external Contract, <HI>viz.</HI> by lying with tho&s;e that have the Pox, or in their Linnen, after their Sweat|ing, by Drinking after them, by Sucking or giving Suck, or in &s;ome other like manner.</P>
<P><HI>Secondly,</HI> It mu&s;t be &s;uppo&s;ed, till it be proved in the following Chapter, that the Cau&s;e of the Pox is a &s;harp and biting Fer|ment, which without all Que&s;tion is of the Nature of an Acid, upon which account it can coagulate or thicken the Humors, with which it is mixed, but e&s;pecially the Phlegm, with which 'tis more readily mixed, then with the re&s;t of the Humors, becau&s;e there is &s;omething of an Acid naturally in all Phlegm.</P>
<P><HI>Thirdly,</HI> 'Tis to be con&s;idered, that this Ferment is by &s;o much the more active, as 'tis the more exalted by a long Corruption,
<PB N="14" REF="12">and as it does pa&s;s from a Body that is more warm and open, to another that is likewi&s;e heated, and contrarywi&s;e, that it is the le&s;s active, and con&s;equently works more &s;lowly, when &s;uch Conditions happen to be contrary. In the&s;e re&s;pects, the Ferment is rendred more or le&s;s fixed or volatilized.</P>
<P>The&s;e Grounds being laid, I &s;hall give a View of its ordinary Progre&s;s, beginning with that which follows upon Copulation, which is the mo&s;t common way of its Communication.</P>
<P>If a Man has the Pox, he emits into the Womans Matrix, a Seed that is full of that Venereal Ferment, which in&s;inuates it &s;elf into tho&s;e parts which are naturally di&s;po&s;ed to re|ceive it, as being &s;oft, &s;pongy, and very full of &s;mall Glands that are almo&s;t imperceptible in their natural <HI>Figure</HI> and <HI>Po&s;ition,</HI> though they be at this day pretty well known by A|natomi&s;ts, and &s;ometimes do &s;o much encrea&s;e, that they may be di&s;cerned with good Eyes. 'Tis tho&s;e &s;mall Glands that ea&s;ily imbibe the Venereal Ferment, which, in them, is fur|ther corrupted, that is, it does become more &s;harp by remaining in them, and &s;eeing it has the Nature of an Acid, it does fix and coagulate the Liquors that are contained in tho&s;e &s;mall Glands, whence there does ari&s;e a hard &s;mall Tumor, accompanied with Pain, which is that we call a Chancre; and becau&s;e
<PB N="15" REF="12">Heat does put that Ferment in Motion, which thereby does become more &s;harp, there hap|pens a Corro&s;ion of the Sub&s;tance, and a &s;mall Ulcer begins to grow, the Limits whereof remain as yet hard, and this Ulcer encrea&s;es by little and little; this is that they call a <HI>Chancrous-&V;lcer,</HI> and which we call a particular Pox, &s;eeing it does only affect one part; or if one plea&s;es, he may take this for the fir&s;t Degree of the Pox, or the fir&s;t Ad|vance that this Venereal Ferment does make, according to our Example.</P>
<P>That Ferment always multiplying, does corrupt the ulcerated Parts that are next to it, and e&s;pecially the Liquors that ferment more ea&s;ily; hence it is, that the Blood that is car|ried by the Arteries for the Nouri&s;hment of the Parts, does receive &s;ome Particles of that Ferment, and in returning by the Veins, ac|cording to its due Circulation, communicates tho&s;e Particles to the Ma&s;s of Blood, which by degrees, comes to be &s;ufficiently di&s;po&s;ed, by the Acce&s;&s;ion of &s;uch Particles for a Fer|mentation and Corruption, that is, to become it &s;elf a Venereal Ferment.</P>
<P>Thus we &s;ee how an Univer&s;al Pox may proceed from a &s;mall Chance, that was only at fir&s;t a particular Pox.</P>
<P>And the Ma&s;s of Blood may be corrupted a thou&s;and times, according to the Force of
<PB N="16" REF="13">the Ferment, or Con&s;titution of the Per&s;on.</P>
<P>If the Ferment be volatile enough, and the Party have Bile or Choler predominant in his Con&s;titution, there does ari&s;e a &s;ort of Turgen<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">y, which makes the Humors glide, &s;ometimes on the one &s;ide, and &s;ometimes on the other, from whence wandring Pains do proceed.</P>
<P>If the Ferment is more fixed, and the Per|&s;on Melancholy, the Blood likewi&s;e becomes fixed, and does coagulate, and its Motion con&s;equently becomes unequal and &s;low, which is the Cau&s;e of Wearine&s;s, want of Appetite, and decay of the Animal Spirits, ill Concocti|on, and ill Nouri&s;hment, together with a Depravation of the Expul&s;ive Faculty, Sup|pre&s;&s;ion of the <HI>Men&s;trua,</HI> Hemorrhoids, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></P>
<P>If the Ferment be very acid, and the Per&s;on Flegmatic, that Ferment does entan|gle it &s;elf in the Flegm, which it makes vi&s;|cous and thick, whence the Body comes to be chill'd, puffed up, and bleak.</P>
<P>If the Per&s;on be Sanguine, it does produce an unequal boyling in the Veins and Arteries; hence Inquietudes, Watchings, Heats, Va|pors, &s;ometimes in one Part, and &s;ometimes in another, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> Every one may here di&s;cern by his own Rea&s;on, the Con&s;equences of that Corruption of the Ma&s;s of Blood, for all cannot be contained in a &s;mall Treati&s;e.</P>
<PB N="17" REF="13">
<P>And this is the &s;econd Degree of the Pox, or if you plea&s;e, the fir&s;t Step to the Univer|&s;al Pox.</P>
<P>'Tis not ea&s;ie for the Ma&s;s of Blood of re|main any long time in this Condition, but it di&s;charges it &s;elf into all Parts of the Body, which it does moi&s;ten, and through which it does pa&s;s by a continual Circulation.</P>
<P>And &s;uch di&s;charges do always happen with a great deal of Inequality, for it is a con&s;tant Ma|xim in the admirable oeconomy of the Body, as 'tis everywhere el&s;e, that the Stronger does over|power the Weaker, Nature that has a continual Propen&s;ity to disburden it &s;elf when oppre&s;&s;ed, though it be provided with ordinary pa&s;&s;ages, for expelling the Impurities of the Ma&s;s of Blood, yet does not always take the &s;ame ways, e&s;pecially when &s;he is &s;trugling with an Adver&s;ary that treats her with the greate&s;t Violence.</P>
<P>And therefore, if the Venereal Ferment be (though in a very &s;mall quantity) in the Ma&s;s of Blood, it may be pu&s;hed on by Heat to the Glands of the Emunctories, though by rea&s;on of its Weight, it goes downward more ea&s;ily: And thus we &s;ee that there grows cer|tain Tumors in the Groin, which are called Buboes or Poulaines. Sometimes the &s;ame Matter is carried towards the Arm-pits, and frequently towards the Glands of the Neck,
<PB N="18" REF="14">which become thereby very much infla|med.</P>
<P>Sometimes we &s;ee the Pox of &s;uch a &s;ort, that a great Number of Glands do appear, in which ca&s;e, there is a &s;trong ground to believe that the Lymph and Lymphatic Ve&s;&s;els have contributed to that Di&s;charge, &s;eeing, that ac|cording to the Principles of Anatomy, the Lymph cannot pa&s;s from the Arteries in the Lymphatic Ve&s;&s;els, otherwi&s;e then by the Glands, through which it is filtred.</P>
<P>If there be a great quantity of the Fer|ment, the Ma&s;s of Blood does di&s;charge it &s;elf by an Ebullition upon the whole Skin, up|on which we may &s;ee Spots, which are no|thing el&s;e but Venereal Fumes; that by rea|&s;on of their being gro&s;s, do &s;ettle on the Sur|face, Bli&s;ters, which in a little time grow hol|low, and turn to Chancers or Scabs, as well great as &s;mall, Tettars, Boyls, Warts, accord|ing to the predominant Humor.</P>
<P>If the Blood di&s;charge by Sweat, any &s;e|rous Humours betwixt the Mu&s;cles, the&s;e Se|ro&s;ities, by pricking the Members, do cau&s;e Pains that re&s;emble a Rheumati&s;m.</P>
<P>If the&s;e Sero&s;ities march along the Mem|branes, a Nerve or a <HI>Perio&s;tium,</HI> they cau&s;e fixed Pains, with which, tho&s;e who have the Pox are mi&s;erably tormented.</P>
<PB N="19" REF="14">
<P>If tho&s;e Sero&s;ities affect the Joynts, they &s;hall excite the Venereal Gout.</P>
<P>If that &s;erous Matter &s;ettle at the Roots of the Hair, it does cau&s;e, by corroding the Roots, the falling off of the Hair.</P>
<P>And this is another Degree of the Pox. If tho&s;e Sero&s;ities grow confirmed and hard|ned all along a Bone, they produce Nodes, which make yet another Degree.</P>
<P>If they &s;ink into the Sub&s;tance, and penetrate even to the Marrow, they cau&s;e profound Pains, and becoming more &s;harp by their &s;tay there, corrode the Bone, which likewi&s;e be|falls the Cartilages.</P>
<P>And this is the utmo&s;t Degree of the Pox; 'Tis true, there is another Degree, wor&s;e then any of the former, becau&s;e it makes the Di&s;|ea&s;e incurable, and the Patient is unavoidably lo&s;t, which is, when the virulent Matter does di&s;charge it &s;elf on a Noble Part, and corrupts it; for be&s;ides that, the lo&s;t Sub&s;tance can never be repaired; the bad Symptoms that ac|company this Pox, and the Condition of the Noble Part that is affected, admit of no &s;pe|cific Medicine.</P>
<P>'Tis evident therefore, that there are &s;o many degrees of the Pox, as it does make ad|vances to take deeper root, and that from the Surface, it does pa&s;s to the Ma&s;s of Blood, from thence to the Fle&s;h, from the Fle&s;h to
<PB N="20" REF="15">the Membranes, and from the Membranes to the Bones.</P>
<P>Neverthele&s;s, all the&s;e Degrees which I have de&s;cribed, do not keep always the &s;ame Order, for oftentimes the Pox doth pa&s;s from one Degree to another inperceptibly; and &s;ometimes there is a Gangreen or Caries per|ceived in the Bones, without the Precedency of other Accidents, as it was in our Explication, and this ari&s;es from &s;ome particular Di&s;po&s;iti|ons of the Ferment, or of the Parts of the Body, &s;o that one Part does make a greater Re&s;i&s;tance than another, and the Ferment makes a longer &s;tay in one Part than in ano|ther. And therefore Judgment may be be&s;t made of it according to the Di&s;po&s;ition and State of the Patient, in which ca&s;e Rea&s;on will be joyned to Experience.</P>
<P>'Tis ea&s;ie, by this Example to judge of the Progre&s;s and Degrees of the Pox in all other kind of Examples: I &s;hall further explain &s;ome of them, which may &s;erve as a Rule for the re&s;t.</P>
<P>I &s;uppo&s;e that a common Woman has the Pox, and though &s;he were not infected, if &s;he has a particular Conver&s;ation with many Men, the Mixture of &s;o many Seeds does oc|ca&s;ion &s;uch a Corruption in the Pa&s;&s;age of her Matrix, that degenerates into a proper virulent Ferment, as we &s;hall explain in the following Chapter.</P>
<PB N="21" REF="15">
<P>If then in that Ca&s;e, another Man &s;hall keep Company with that Woman, and heat him&s;elf by Copulation, he &s;hall attract &s;ome Particles of that Ferment, which adhering to his Yard, &s;hall produce &s;ome Chancer, in the &s;ame manner as we have explained the for|mer, and have the &s;ame Progre&s;s, very near, as the other.</P>
<P>But if the Venereal Ferment, which is in the Pa&s;&s;age of the common Woman, be &s;uf|ficiently volatilized, and the Pa&s;&s;age of the Yard, which made a Penetration, be &s;ufficient|ly open, that Ferment being put in motion, &s;hall enter into that Pa&s;&s;age, and go to the &s;mall Caruncle, that hinders the involuntary Emi&s;&s;ion of Seed, from thence to the <HI>Pro&s;tatae</HI> and <HI>Para&s;tatae,</HI> which are the Repo&s;itories of the Seed, and &s;hall produce in the&s;e Parts an Inflammation and an Acrimony in the Seed (which &s;hall corrupt it) and after a little time, one Ulcer or more in the &s;ame Parts, &s;o that the Seed &s;o corrupted and fermented, &s;hall be involuntarily emitted by continual Irritations; and 'tis this involuntary Effu&s;ion of Seed that makes the fir&s;t Degree of the particular Pox, which they call Heat of Urine, and after|wards a Gonorrhea or Running of the Reins, of which we &s;hall treat in a Chapter apart.</P>
<P>This Venereal Heat of Urine may continue in &s;ome a longer, in others a le&s;s time, with|out
<PB N="22" REF="16">bringing the great Pox; becau&s;e of the Effu&s;ion of &s;ome other Humors with the Seed, that proceed, as it may be &s;uppo&s;ed, from &s;ome Ulcers, and carry off a part of the Ve|nereal Ferment of tho&s;e Ulcers, and blunt the Activity of what does remain therein, whence it comes to pa&s;s, that in &s;uch a Ca&s;e, 'tis &s;omething &s;low in its Operation; but when that Ferment is volatilized or <HI>rai&s;ed</HI> by Heat, the Blood which does pa&s;s through tho&s;e Parts, gradually attracts into the Ma&s;s of Blood, &s;o many Particles as are &s;ufficient to corrupt it; after the &s;ame manner as we have &s;aid, of a Chancer at the beginning of this Chapter; and this is the Univer&s;al Pox, which makes the like Steps in its Progre&s;s with the other, which is already &s;hown, and needs no Repetition.</P>
<P>If the Venereal Ferment is yet more vola|tile, it pa&s;&s;es not only into the Seminary Ve&s;|&s;els, but al&s;o (without any &s;top) into the ad|jacent Veins, and mixing it &s;elf with the Blood, does corrupt it, and this Blood does corrupt that which is next to it, and &s;o on, till the whole Ma&s;s be infected, and thus there is an Univer&s;al Pox, when there was no other Symptom that preceded, which is commonly very &s;urpri&s;ing, and very much deceives the World.</P>
<P>But if Nature be &s;trong, before this Fer|ment is much multiplied in the Ma&s;s of Blood,
<PB N="23" REF="16">'tis &s;eparated by way of <HI>Cri&s;is,</HI> and forced to|wards the Glands of the Groin, where there grows a Bubo or Poulain, and &s;ometimes two together, when the Matter does much abound.</P>
<P>This may happen, when the Heat is &s;o &s;trong, and the Ferment &s;o volatile, that it is expelled through the Pores with the Sweat, without the Help of any Medicine; but to &s;peak the truth, I know very few that come off with &s;o cheap a Cure, and he would be ve|ry unadvi&s;ed, who would tru&s;t to &s;uch a Chance.</P>
<P>After what has been &s;aid, 'tis very ea&s;ie to conceive, that in what way &s;oever the Pox is got, it does make very near one and the &s;ame Progre&s;s, that is, the Venereal Ferment acts by degrees, beginning at that place which it fir&s;t &s;eized, diffu&s;ing it &s;elf in&s;en&s;ibly into the neighbouring parts, which it does corrupt, and the&s;e corrupting others, until the whole Body be involved in the &s;ame <HI>Cata&s;trophe,</HI> then this Body can bring the &s;ame Fatility on an infinite number of others, becau&s;e the Fer|ments have no Limits, as we are now about to &s;hew by what does follow.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="5" TYPE="chapter">
<PB N="24" REF="17">
<HEAD>CHAP. V. <HI>Of the Cau&s;e of the Pox, and of the Nature of the Venereal Ferment.</HI></HEAD>
<P>HItherto we have u&s;ed the Term of a Venereal Ferment, which we &s;uppo&s;ed to be the Cau&s;e of the Venereal Di&s;temper, and I think, that I cannot find a more proper one, for giving &s;uch a general Explication as &s;hall agree with all the Opinions of rea&s;onable Au|thors, who have treated of this Di&s;ea&s;e; I &s;hall al&s;o u&s;e the &s;ame in the following part of this Treati&s;e, for this rea&s;on, becau&s;e no Body can be mi&s;taken therein, unle&s;s he ap|ply thereunto &s;ome extravagant Idea, as that of an <HI>Occult Quality,</HI> or a <HI>Quinte&s;&s;ential Agent,</HI> which has &s;erved the turn of the Antient and the Ignorant Race, who loved not to be in|volved in intricate Affairs, nor puzled with hard Que&s;tions; and al&s;o for another rea&s;on, becau&s;e tho&s;e who are prepo&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed with another Opinion, about &s;uch kind of Subjects, will not grant (unle&s;s it be proved) that the Cau&s;e of the Pox is rather a Salt than a Mercury, or any other Principle; or that it is a true <HI>mixt</HI> Body in which a Salt is predominant; and yet none will deny this to be a true Ferment, &s;ince it has all the Qualities thereof, which
<PB N="25" REF="17">purpo&s;e, in this Chapter, to make good, upon plain and demon&s;trative Rea&s;ons.</P>
<P>I &s;ay then, that every Ferment is a Body who&s;e Principles are re&s;olved, exalted, and in &s;uch a Motion, that being applyed to another body of its own kind, can penetrate, move and finally Convert that Body into its own Nature.</P>
<P>And &s;ince I know that this definition does agree to all proper Ferments, that I may ex|plain it in &s;uch a manner as does be&s;t &s;uit the &s;ubject in hand; ordinary Leven and common Vinegar will &s;uffice for Examples in this Matter.</P>
<P>A bit of Leven being put in a proportiona|ble quantity of Flower that is reduced into Pa&s;te with Water, &s;hall put the Parts of that Pa&s;te into &s;uch a motion, that it &s;hall be &s;en|&s;ibly corrupted and become Leven, like unto that which was put therein, and this Levened Pa&s;te &s;hall turn another Pa&s;te into Leven, and this &s;hall change another, and &s;o infinitely. But the fir&s;t Leven was made of the like Pa&s;te, and it can change nothing but Pa&s;te, into its own nature.</P>
<P>This change or conver&s;ion does evidently appear to be made by a motion, and agitation of the Parts of the Pa&s;te, that is to &s;ay, that the Leven which is &s;harp and penetrating (which may be &s;ufficiently, known by the Smell) by the means of it's acid, or &s;harp
<PB N="26" REF="18">points, does enter into the Parts of the Pa&s;te, and in dilating and expanding them by the Motion, &s;ets at liberty the Spirits which were in the Flower or Pa&s;te, and gives occa|&s;ion to the adjacent Ethereal matter to enter into it, which joyning it &s;elf with tho&s;e Spirits, does encrea&s;e the Motion, and drive the parts of the Leven yet further into tho&s;e of the Flower, which thereupon are more divided, and this gives entrance to new Ethereal Mat|ter, and di&s;engages new Spirits, that encrea&s;e the Motion more and more, and in fine, it does continue the &s;ame, until the Flower be very much divided, all the principles be in Motion, and receive a determination like, to that of their fir&s;t mover, which was the Leven, and that was nothing el&s;e, as appears, but a Motion, Attenuation and Re&s;olution of the Principles, which will be yet more mani|fe&s;t by the Example of Vinegar.</P>
<P>Seeing Truth &s;eldom appears on the Sur|face; 'tis worth the while to ob&s;erve what happens in the Generation and Multiplication of Vinegar. Wine is a Compound of five Principles. Of Spirit, Salt, Sulphur, Water and Earth, in &s;uch a Proportion, that the Spirits are predominant, and the re&s;t of the Principles of a moderate quantity: If it hap|pen by any acciddent, that the Spirits evaporate, or that the acid of the Air (which the Wind
<PB N="27" REF="18">does often-times carry with it) does enter into the Ve&s;&s;el, or that heat alone does excite motion in this Wine, the E&s;&s;ential of Salt the Wine, which is naturally Acid (as we &s;ee in the Chry&s;tal of Tartar) and is be|twixt a fixt and a volatile, does more volatili&s;e <HI>or rai&s;e</HI> it &s;elf, and being attenuated does <HI>dilate</HI> and expand it &s;elf over the whole &s;ub&s;tance of the Wine, and get the Ma&s;tery over the Spi|rits, which it does clog and bear down, yet not de&s;troy, as &s;ome have pretended, but in vain, becau&s;e, 'tis in no wi&s;e hard, at one Tryal to recal tho&s;e Spirits from &s;tronge&s;t Vinegar, provided it be made of Wine, and not of other <HI>Liquors.</HI> And 'tis by this exaltati|on of its own e&s;&s;ential Salt, which comes to be predominant over the re&s;t of the Principles, that Wine is turned into Vinegar, which is a true Ferment that will turn a proportionable quantity of Wine into Vinegar, and this &s;hall change another infinitely. That is to &s;ay, that there needs no more than one drop of Vinegar to turn all the Wine in the World into Vinegar, &s;ucce&s;&s;ively.</P>
<P>This being &s;uppo&s;ed, 'twill not, in my o|pinion, be difficult to compleat the Expli|cation, and &s;hew, that the cau&s;e of the Pox is a Ferment, which ows it's original to &s;e|veral Seeds that are corrupted and Fermen|ted.</P>
<PB N="28" REF="19">
<P>I have &s;aid, at the beginning of this Treati&s;e, that the mo&s;t of tho&s;e who get the Pox, have it by Tradition, or by Communi|cation from one another; and there, we did not meddle with the Manner of the Forma|tion of that Ferment; but, becau&s;e we would proceed, and &s;earch into it's fir&s;t &s;ource, 'tis by this way of Rea&s;oning we may find it out.</P>
<P>Experience does teach us that the Pox is an infectious Di&s;ea&s;e, which is communicated from one to another indefinitely, that it is the &s;ame in all, that 'tis cured with the &s;ame Medicine, and that con&s;equently its Cau&s;e is aways the &s;ame, whence its Cau&s;e mu&s;t be a true Fer|ment, becau&s;e nothing but that, does admit of the&s;e qualities.</P>
<P>And becau&s;e Leven mu&s;t be of the &s;ame kind with the Pa&s;te, the Venereal Ferment mu&s;t nece&s;&s;arily be compo&s;ed, of the &s;ame Matter of which the Per&s;ons therewith in|fected are compo&s;ed.</P>
<P>The Seed is the fir&s;t Matter of which Man is compo&s;ed, the Seed has relation to all Parts of the Body, to the &s;olid Parts, it being the foundation and ba&s;is thereof, to the Spirits, &s;ince it abounds with them, to the Blood, and other humors, becau&s;e it does proceed from them.</P>
<PB N="29" REF="19">
<P>The Seeds is very proper to degenerate into a Ferment, when it is corrupted in &s;ome cir|cum&s;tances, becau&s;e it does contain Principles that are very active, and fit to be exalted.</P>
<P>We cannot therefore find the Original of the Venereal Ferment, any where but in Seed that is much corrupted, nor is there any Seed that is corrupted, but in the Wombs of com|mon Women which keep company with ma|ny Men. The Seeds of one Man and of one Woman only can never degenerate into a contagious and Venereal Ferment, &s;eeing that according to the Laws of Nature, which is always uniform, if they take good care, tho&s;e two Seeds, are afterwards capable of no alte|ration, but for the Generation of a Natural <HI>Birth,</HI> or &s;ome other production, or, if &s;ome di&s;po&s;ition be wanting for &s;uch a Genera|tion, tho&s;e Seeds are lo&s;t, but never produce any bodily harm, at lea&s;t no contagious or Venereal di&s;temper.</P>
<P>'Tis therefore &s;omewhat el&s;e that is nece&s;&s;a|rily required to make the Seed degenerate into a Ferment, that is Venereal, and altogether again&s;t Nature.</P>
<P>It &s;hall therefore happen when a Common Woman has kept company with many Men, that their Seeds (which are of different, and often times of oppo&s;ite qualities) being mixed in that womans Womb (which is naturally fitted to pre&s;erve the
<PB N="30" REF="20">Seeds with all their Spirits) do forcibly ju&s;tle a|gain&s;t one another, and 'tis very hard to ima|gine, but that in this Combat, &s;ome Spirits (with which each Seed abounds) &s;hall vani&s;h or be de&s;troyed, and becau&s;e the &s;eeds have vi&s;cous Parts, the re&s;t of the Spirits are entangled therein, whence there proceeds a mixture of Principles, and &s;o great an Agitation and At|tenuation of Parts, that the Salts that are in the Seeds are,
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">'Tis by rea&s;on of the Salts with which the Seed abounds, that Voluptuous Men are called <HI>Sala|ces,</HI> which is de|rived from <HI>Sal,</HI> and <HI>Venus</HI> is &s;aid <HI>erta mari.</HI></NOTE> by that oc|ca&s;ion, exalted, and do expand them&s;elves through the whole, and &s;o prevail over the other principles which compo&s;e the Seed. And therefore this compound of &s;everal Seeds becomes a Ferment which is capable of corrupting other Seeds, and all the Parts of the Body, by rea&s;on of the relation they have to the Seed; and 'tis this Ferment which is to be called Venereal, becau&s;e it is the cau&s;e of the Ve|nereal Di&s;temper by a peculiar determination which it received in that corruption, that occa&s;i|ons it to exert it's force in one certain manner only, as we have &s;hewn in Vinegar, which proceeds from the corruption of Wine, that is, from the re&s;olution of the Principles of Wine.</P>
<PB N="31" REF="20">
<P>And &s;eeing Milk, which has a great re|&s;emblance of Seed, becomes ea&s;ily Acid, by the exaltation of its own Salt, we have rea&s;on to believe, that in the pre&s;ent Ca&s;e, the Fer|ment that proceeds from the corruption of Seeds and the exaltation of their own Salt is al&s;o of the nature of an Acid.</P>
<P>Rea&s;on and Experience will confirm this opinion, if after great <HI>Sylvius de Leboe's</HI> Ex|ample, we make &s;ome reflection on Acids, and upon the Principal Symptoms of the Pox.</P>
<P>We have &s;aid, that the Principal Symptoms of the Pox were the Chancres, Ulcers, Heat of Urine, Bubo's, Pains, Nodes, Glands, Scabs, Tetters, and the Rottenne&s;s or Caries of the Bones.</P>
<P>'Tis evident that the&s;e Symptoms can pro|ceed from none other, but a cau&s;e that is &s;harp, biting and coagulating, for the Chancre be|gins ordinarily with a hardne&s;s, that denotes the coagulation of &s;ome juice, and then it be|comes an Ulcer, and this is made by corro&s;ion. In heat of Water, there is an Inflammation, Pain and Ulcer which &s;hews an Acrimony, the Nodes and Glands proceed from the thickning and coagulation of &s;ome Liquors thatly all along the Bones, and in the Glands, with which our Bodies abound. The Itching that accompa|nies Scabs and Tetters does manife&s;t the
<PB N="32" REF="21">&s;harpne&s;s of Salt to be the cau&s;e, and the cor|ro&s;ion of the Bones does prove the &s;ame.</P>
<P>All &s;harpne&s;s does proceed from Salt; This Propo&s;ition is general, and 'tis very ea&s;ie to prove it; for of the five Principles which we reckon'd in mixt bodies, Spirit, Sulphur, Salt, Water and Earth, there is not one but Salt, that by it's Points and &s;tiffne&s;s, is capable of Acrimony; the Spirit being very &s;ubtile and &s;wift, Sulphur exceeding &s;weet and unctuous, Water very &s;oft, and Earth without Acti|on.</P>
<P>'Tis thought with good rea&s;on, that all Salts are Originally Acid; but becau&s;e it does not belong to the pre&s;ent Subject; 'tis to no purpo&s;e for me to di&s;cu&s;s that propo&s;ition; 'tis &s;ufficient that there are &s;olid grounds, upon which we &s;hould admit a Salt; of what&s;oever kind it be, as the Principal Salt of all, and a Principal mo&s;t &s;imple, and which being in|timately United to the Principles of mixed Bodies (which cannot be perfectly re&s;olved by any Chymical Art) is the cau&s;e of the dif|ferent Salts that are acknowledged at this day, and are drawn from mixed Bodies. But how different &s;oever the&s;e Salts are, they are neverthele&s;s reduced to two &s;orts, which are, an Acid and Alkali, the proportionable mix|ture whereof makes a third which is called Salin, and however the matter has been exa|mined
<PB N="33" REF="21">before this time, the Salts that are ad|mitted to be in an Animal are reduced to the&s;e two. And upon this account (that we may return to our Subject) we may &s;ay, that all Acrimony depends on one of the&s;e Salts, <HI>viz.</HI> an Acid, an Alkali, or a Salt that is com|pounded of the&s;e two.</P>
<P>Now that we may determin, if the Salt that produces the Acrimony of the Venereal Fer|ment is an Acid or an Alkali, 'tis nece&s;&s;ary to make the following reflections.</P>
<P>The E&s;&s;ential Salt of Bread and Wine, which is the Principal Aliment we u&s;e are Acids, common Salt with which our Victuals are &s;ea&s;oned is Acid, the e&s;&s;ential Salt of Fruit and Plants which we eat, is Acid, the Fer|ment of the Stomach is Acid, the e&s;&s;ential Salt of the Chyle is Acid, that of Milk, which in all appearance is nothing but Chyle, is A|cid, and therefore that of the Seed mu&s;t be the &s;ame: whence 'tis probable, that when the Seed is Fermented by the exaltation of it's own Salt, it does become Acid, and therefore the Venereal Ferment mu&s;t be &s;o too.</P>
<P>'Tis true, that 'tis po&s;&s;ible for the Salt of the &s;eed not to be Acid, becau&s;e &s;o many Concoctions that precede the generation of Seed, might entirely have changed the nature of the e&s;&s;ential Salt, which was in the Aliment and in the Chyle; and in effect, we &s;ee that
<PB N="34" REF="22">Bile is made of the Food and Chyle, and yet it mu&s;t be con&s;idered as an Alkali: but we mu&s;t al&s;o ob&s;erve, that Bile is nothing el&s;e but a Recrement, which is particularly made up of &s;ome parts of Salt and Sulphur, that have been &s;corch'd by the great heat of di|ge&s;tions, and it principally proceeds from this &s;trong heat, that a Salt, tho' fir&s;t an Acid, is changed into an Alkali, it being thereby forcibly Joyned to a Terre&s;trial Matter; and yet it cannot be &s;aid, that the Seed is made up of a burnt Sub&s;tance, &s;ince on the con|trary, it ought to be the mo&s;t gentle, pure and noble matter of the whole Body; and therefore if it is made by the means of an acid Ferment, 'tis nece&s;&s;ary that this Acid remain in its Compo&s;ition, although this does never appear but when the Spirits that are predominant therein, are as it were vanqui&s;h'd and fetter'd by the exaltation of its own e&s;&s;ential Salt, which we affirm to be an Acid.</P>
<P>All this is lyable to many Objections, which with the An&s;wers thereunto would take up too much time. They who are not willing to acquie&s;ce in the <HI>Hypothe&s;is,</HI> may if they plea&s;e, &s;u&s;pend their Judgment, and if they will be at the pains to examine it, as the mat|ter requires, they will <HI>grant me this at lea&s;t,</HI> that although what is propo&s;ed by way of objection may be true, yet that (in all ca&s;es)
<PB N="35" REF="22">would not change the Sy&s;tem, nor force of other Proofs.</P>
<P>The effects of the Venereal Ferment do manife&s;t that it is Acid, &s;ince 'tis evident that it does conden&s;e and coagulate the Hu|mours excites &s;harp and piercing Pains, cor|rupts the Fle&s;h, Membranes and Bones, as much almo&s;t, as other Acids; and ordinari|ly without any blackne&s;s or gangrene; whil&s;t that corro&s;ion or corruption that pro|ceeds from Alkalis's is always attended with a blackne&s;s, mortification and a gangrene, as in the Plague, the rea&s;on whereof is, that &s;ince an Alkali is produced by the force of Heat, it is by &s;o much the more Fiery and Cau&s;tic as the Heat from which it did proceed, was violent. And therefore it is to be con&s;ider'd as a potential Fire.</P>
<P>Neverthele&s;s it does not follow, but that a gangrene may &s;ometime &s;ei&s;e &s;uch Parts as are infected with the Venereal Di&s;temper, when the Body is much heated, abounds with Choler, and is under a Fever at the &s;ame time, but e&s;pecially when one is carele&s;s of him&s;elf, or takes hurtful Medicines, as we have &s;een &s;ome Patients who had fallen into ill hands, but that happens by accident, the Acid of the Venereal Ferment being in le&s;s quantity or weaker then the Bile which is an Alkali: for in that Ca&s;e the Alkali is predo|minant,
<PB N="36" REF="23">and being irritated by the Acid, does produce Effects contrary to tho&s;e of the Acid.</P>
<P>And likewi&s;e, 'tis from this various Mix|ture of an Alkali and Acid, and their dif|ferent proportion, whether it be in quantity or vigour, that we &s;ee in the Venereal Di&s;temper, &s;o great a Variety of Symptoms, and are frequently mi&s;taken in our Judgment about the nature of that Di&s;ea&s;e, and the effect of the proper Medicines: wherefore 'tis needful to make our Ob&s;ervations with great care and con&s;ideration, and not to imagine that all Patients are to managed after a like man|ner.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="6" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>CHAP. VI. <HI>Of the Signs of the Venereal De&s;temper, and of the Conduct that is to be u&s;ed, that one may neither deceive nor be deceived.</HI></HEAD>
<P>'TIS &s;ometime ea&s;y enough to di&s;cover the Pox, e&s;pecially if one has had &s;ome experience: but it often falls out, that the Signs which appear are &s;o ob&s;cure, ambiguous and equivocal, that it is very difficult, and frequently impo&s;&s;ible (even for the mo&s;t judi|cious and experienced) to know it.</P>
<PB N="37" REF="23">
<P>From thence it is, that &s;o many Impo&s;tures flow. The number of tho&s;e who pretend to Cure this Di&s;temper, is &s;o con&s;iderable in the World, that there is &s;carce one, even to the mo&s;t whifling Journey-man Apothecary, but gives him&s;elf out for an <HI>Able Man</HI> in this re|&s;pect; from which we may conclude, that for one of &s;ufficient Skill in the&s;e Affairs, you may find many thou&s;ands that know lit|tle or nothing; and there are not a few a|mong&s;t the re&s;t, who are governed by their Intere&s;t, and who, in expectation of <HI>Half a Guinea,</HI> will per&s;wade tho&s;e that con&s;ult them, that they have the Pox, and having <HI>gained their point,</HI> treat their Patients with a thou&s;and Sham-Offices, that are unworthy of the Character of a Man of Honour, who would rather choo&s;e to &s;tarve, or never gain one penny during his Life, then Affront the mo&s;t incon&s;iderable and poore&s;t Creature in the World. The Sick who know not their own Condition, or who oftentimes are a&s;hamed to make it known to tho&s;e who could A&s;&s;i&s;t them, become a Prey to tho&s;e <HI>Ignoramu&s;es,</HI> or to tho&s;e <HI>Cheats.</HI></P>
<P>I am re&s;olved, in this Chapter and el&s;e|where on all occa&s;ions, to lay down the mo&s;t certain Rules, by which the Venereal Di&s;tem|per may be di&s;cerned, that the Ignorant may learn to know it; and I &s;hall give whole&s;ome
<PB N="38" REF="24">Coun&s;el to tho&s;e who have had the misfor|tune to get this Di&s;ea&s;e, that they may &s;hun the Ignorant, and avoid all Impo&s;ture.</P>
<P>Heat of Urine is not hard to be di&s;cerned in Men; 'tis &s;omewhat more difficult in Women. Of this we &s;hall treat in a Chap|ter by it &s;elf, and therefore, that we may neither be tedious, nor repeat what has been &s;aid already, the Reader may con&s;ult the re|&s;pective Places.</P>
<P>We &s;hall al&s;o &s;peak of a Bubo or Poulaine, by them&s;elves; in one of the following Chapters.</P>
<P>As for the Chancre, as it is con&s;idered as a particular Pox, we &s;hall treat of it in a Chapter apart, which 'tis needful to read, in order to get a clear and &s;olid Notion of it.</P>
<P>I &s;uppo&s;e al&s;o, that the Reader remembers what was &s;aid in the fourth Chapter of this Treati&s;e, for his help to di&s;tingui&s;h the par|ticular Pox, from the Univer&s;al; The diffe|rent degrees of the Venereal Di&s;temper were de&s;cribed there, which as I think was &s;uffici|ently explained, &s;o far as to prevent mi&s;takes about it; it being ob&s;ervable, that in doubt|ful ca&s;es we mu&s;t always pre&s;cribe &s;ome Re|medies by way of precaution, provided they be no ways hurtful to the Patient.</P>
<PB N="39" REF="24">
<P>For Example, a Nur&s;e, by giving &s;uck to an Infant that has the Venereal Di&s;ea&s;e, has got a Chancre in one of her Brea&s;ts, and has had it for &s;ome time, never thinking of it nor dreaming of a Cure: Although you have no manife&s;t &s;igns that this Chancre has infected the Ma&s;s of Blood; neverthele&s;s &s;eeing it is very hard to conceive, but that &s;ome Particles of the Ferment have glided into the Blood; 'tis Prudence not only to mind the particular Cure of the Chancre, but al&s;o to pre&s;cribe &s;ome Medicines for clean&s;ing the Blood, as &s;ome doe&s;s of <HI>Mercurius dulcis</HI> mixed with a Purgative that is proportioned to the Con&s;ti|tution; or &s;ome &s;light Diet, for what re|mains, we &s;hall treat thereof in the Chapter concerning the univer&s;al Cure, and that of the Chancre.</P>
<P>And this is a Rule that is very u&s;eful in the Cure of the particular Pox, that is, which does only effect one Part.</P>
<P>As we mu&s;t notneglect the Remedies of Precaution, for the depuration of the Blood (which may have received &s;ome Particles of the Venereal Ferment) during the time that nece&s;&s;ary Medicines are applyed to the Part affected.</P>
<P>So we mu&s;t not proceed to the great Re|medy &s;o long as we have no certain marks of the Univer&s;al Pox.</P>
<PB N="40" REF="25">
<P>I call that the great Remedy which does cau&s;e a Salivation, which I believe to be mo&s;t natural and proper for curing the Uni|ver&s;al Pox.</P>
<P>I &s;hall now give the Rules concerning the Univer&s;al Pox.</P>
<P>When a great number of Signs do appear, as a Chancre, Heat of Urine, Pains in the Night, Nodes, Glands, Scabs, Chancrous Ulcers and others mentioned in the de&s;cription of the Venereal Di&s;temper, in the Second Chapter; every one may know it to be the <HI>Pox.</HI></P>
<P>If there be a Chancre and Botch in the Groyn, one whereof does follow upon the other, it is a &s;ign of the Univer&s;al Pox; for 'tis very evident, that &s;uch a thing cannot happen, unle&s;s the Ma&s;s of blood be infected, according to what we &s;aid, in the Fourth Chapter.</P>
<P>And 'tis the &s;ame, when there is Heat of Urine and a Chancre, or heat of Urine and a Poulaine or Botch in the Groin.</P>
<P>If one of the&s;e three, a Chancre, heat of Urine, or a Poulain is accompanied with &s;ome other Sign, as &s;ome Nodes, Glands, Pains, Scabs, virulent Tetters, Caries of the Bone, 'tis a Mark of the Univer&s;al Pox.</P>
<P>And al&s;o when there is no Chancre; Heat of Urine, or Poulain about the Per&s;on, if it
<PB N="41" REF="25">appear that he was either neglected or ill cu|red; if any of tho&s;e Accidents &s;upervene, as Pains, and e&s;pecially about the middle of the Arms or Legs, a great Scab, that is no ways like to an ordinary one, but e&s;pecially, if it happen on the Head, or any virulent Ulcer without an external Cau&s;e it may be believed to be the Pox.</P>
<P>Neverthele&s;s, a Woman may have her Whites, which may be taken for a virulent Gonorrhea, and &s;he may have at the &s;ame time Pains, which yet &s;hall not con&s;equently be the Pox; and therefore on &s;uch Occa&s;ions, 'tis needful to proceed wi&s;ely in Bu&s;ine&s;s, and &s;tudy the Di&s;cour&s;e I &s;hall make anon, of the Heat of Urine.</P>
<P>If there be any Chancre in the &s;ecret Parts or Brea&s;ts, and al&s;o el&s;ewhere, which is dryed up, either by it &s;elf, or by Medicines, and that Chancre, after a con&s;iderable time, come again in the &s;ame place, without any manife&s;t Cau&s;e there is &s;ome rea&s;on to beleive that the Pox has pa&s;&s;ed into the Ma&s;s of Blood; but if the Chancre return in another place, though never &s;o near to the fir&s;t, 'tis &s;o without all doubt.</P>
<P>When the Body is covered with Bli&s;ters, and the&s;e Bli&s;ters are turned into Chancres, that is to &s;ay, into round Ulcers, the &s;ides whereof are hard, and the middle &s;omewhat
<PB N="42" REF="26">white, or (as they &s;ay) re&s;embling the Eyes of a Partridge, there needs no other proofs to a&s;|&s;ure us of the Pox.</P>
<P>Pains alone over all the Body in the mid|dle of the Members or Limbs, or Nodes or Scabs on the Head, which happen after keep|ing company with infected Per&s;ons, are Marks of the Pox.</P>
<P>If Pains be in the Joynts, it requires a more &s;trict Examination, and the Patient ought not to be treated, as if he had the Venereal Di|&s;temper, unle&s;s there be a Concurrence of more evident Signs, becau&s;e that may be a &s;ingle Gout, and the &s;ame is to be &s;aid of a Rheumati&s;m.</P>
<P>And herein 'tis very ea&s;ie to be mi&s;taken, for the Pox is often concealed under the Name of the Gout and Rheumati&s;m. Ne|verthele&s;s, &s;o long as there are no other Signs, as Chancres, Virulent Ulcers, great Scabs, Nodes, or the like, though the Pains hap|pened after an unclean Conver&s;ation, the Pati|ent is not to be expo&s;ed to the great Re|medy.</P>
<P>And the Nodes that lye near the Joynts in Gouts, give an A&s;&s;urance of the Pox, if they are not accompanied with other Signs; for &s;uch Nodes are often &s;een in Gouty Per&s;ons, who are not liable to the lea&s;t &s;u&s;picion of having the Pox.</P>
<PB N="43" REF="26">
<P>An intollerable Pain, and &s;uch as has not yielded to ordinary Means, has pa&s;&s;ed fre|quently for the Pox; but in that ca&s;e 'tis up|on &s;ome A&s;iurance that the Party has had &s;ome Chancre or Heat of Urine for a long time, from whence it is concluded that the Pox did proceed.</P>
<P>But upon &s;uch Occa&s;ions as that, he who knows him&s;elf to be under tho&s;e Circum&s;tan|ces, does very little tender his own Health, if he do not con&s;ult with the mo&s;t able Men, and tho&s;e who&s;e Profe&s;&s;ion it is to cure the Ve|nereal Di&s;temper, will have no &s;en&s;e of Ho|nour and Con&s;cience, if they do not, upon mature Deliberation, undertake his Cure.</P>
<P>And becau&s;e from this Ca&s;e, which does often happen (as may be &s;een in &s;uch Trea|ti&s;es as contain Medicinal or Chyrurgical Con&s;ultations) I draw a General Rule for the Patients, and tho&s;e who cure them.</P>
<P>I &s;ay that no Per&s;on ought to be underta|ken, as having the Venereal Di&s;temper, &s;o long as no convincing Signs thereof do appear; otherwi&s;e, this were to undertake the Cure without knowing the Di&s;ea&s;e, and pretend to re&s;tore a Man to Health, without any A&s;&s;u|rance that he is &s;ick.</P>
<P>'Tis better, whenever the Signs are not certain, to &s;tay till &s;ome one does appear, that determines the thing, and if there be any
<PB N="44" REF="27">Grievances that do ab&s;olutely require &s;ome Help, they are, in my Opinion, to be looked upon as &s;ingle, and it a Purgative be needful, <HI>Mercurius Dulcis</HI> may &s;erve the turn, that be|ing an harmle&s;s Medicine, which never has any bad Effects, if it be prepared, pre&s;cribed, and given as it ought.</P>
<P>And if the Ma&s;s of Blood be &s;en&s;ibly cor|rupted, it may be depurated by ea&s;ie Me|thods and gentle Medicines, &s;uch as promo|ting of Tran&s;piration without exce&s;&s;ive heat|ing of the Body, for which purpo&s;e, at this day, we &s;afely u&s;e the Volatile Salt of Vi|pers, or Vipers them&s;elves, or the like.</P>
<P>There are al&s;o &s;ome Ca&s;es, in which 'tis better to u&s;e gentle Means, when we are not fully a&s;&s;ured of the Venereal Di&s;temper.</P>
<P>As for Example, After one has been cured in appearance of &s;ome Chancre or Heat of Urine; if Wearine&s;s without Labour, Loath|ing of all manner of Food, an Indi&s;po|&s;ition to the Venereal Action do follow, there is great probability that &s;ome Virulency is tran&s;mitted to the Ma&s;s of Blood; never|thele&s;s, &s;eeing the&s;e, when &s;ingle, are but doubtful &s;igns, and may very well be the Fore|runners of &s;ome other Di&s;temper, I think, he &s;hould be very precipitant, who would &s;ali|vate this Per&s;on, and that therefore, gentle Means (as we have &s;aid) are more preferable.</P>
<PB N="45" REF="27">
<P>As al&s;o, if nothing appears but &s;ome Piles or Warts in the &s;ecret Parts, without any other &s;ign, 'tis not to be thought the Pox, becau&s;e the&s;e Accidents in that place do ordinarily pro|ceed from a Decay and Weakne&s;s of tho&s;e parts through a long and frequent u&s;e of Ve|nery.</P>
<P>But if, together with &s;uch &s;igns, there be &s;ome Fi&s;&s;ures, which come towards the <HI>Anus,</HI> Chancrous Hemorrhoids, and Warts in other places of the Body; in &s;uch a Ca&s;e, there is &s;ufficient a&s;&s;urance of the Di&s;temper.</P>
<P>If there be Chancres, with a Caries of the Bone, in the Palate or No&s;trils (I mean &s;uch Chancres as are perceived in Per&s;ons who have the Venereal Di&s;temper, which differ ve|ry much from tho&s;e that are called Cancers) 'tis called the Pox, which is al&s;o very hard to be cured, as we &s;hall &s;hew in the Chapter that treats of the Cure.</P>
<P>If there be a Line of Pimples that cro&s;s the Fore-head, which begins with the Impre&s;&s;ion that the Hat does make, and which does not di&s;appear with a Scab on the Fore-head, Face, or Head, or Spots in other places of the Body, provided it be known that the Party has had &s;ome ill Conver&s;ation, it may be &s;aid to be the Univer&s;al Pox.</P>
<PB N="46" REF="28">
<P>I &s;aw lately a Sea-man, who, after having had a Venereal Chancre for the &s;pace of three Years, of which he was ill cured, became full of Glands or Tumors, &s;ome of which broke in his Neck and Brea&s;t, ju&s;t as the Kings Evil, with no other difference, but that his was the Venereal Kings-Evil.</P>
<P>We frequently &s;ee Per&s;ons who have their Bodies covered all over with Tetters, very large and thick Cru&s;ts, if they have had any Conver&s;ation with Per&s;ons infected, or lay in Bed with them, or in their Linnen that is made Contagious by their Sweat, it is the Univer&s;al Pox.</P>
<P>I have &s;een a young Woman, who had ne|ver known a Man, and who was covered all over her Body, the Privities only excepted, with tho&s;e Cru&s;ts of an Inch thickne&s;s, and as broad as ones Hand, without knowing that &s;he had laid with any &s;u&s;pected Woman; &s;he could not be cured for the &s;pace of three years, though during that time, &s;ome who pa&s;&s;ed for famous Men, pre&s;cribed Medicines to her. I cured her with Bathes, Whey and Mercury, without Salivation, and within &s;even Months &s;he perfectly recovered, and no Tetter or o|ther Accident has ever returned, though it be now fourteen years &s;ince &s;he was cured. And from that time, I have been more confirm'd in the Opinion I had, that Mercury is an excel|lent
<PB N="47" REF="28">Remedy for Tetters and the Scab; I al&s;o give it on the like Occa&s;ions, at all times, e|&s;pecially when the Scab is more ob&s;tinate then ordinary, and to have the Cure the more &s;pe|dily done, during all the time that I was Phy|&s;itian to the Ho&s;pital of St. <HI>James,</HI> I have u&s;|fed with good &s;ucce&s;s, a Mercurial Purgative for tho&s;e that had the Scab.</P>
<P>I brought that Example of the Maid, only to &s;hew, that there are &s;ome Ca&s;es that require the u&s;e of Mercury, though there be no Pox at all in the Ca&s;e, or when we are lea&s;t a&s;&s;u|red of it, and e&s;pecially when we &s;ee that Mercury is otherwi&s;e a proper Medicine for the Symptom that is apparent, and when we ob&s;erve that ordinary Means do no good, whence al&s;o an Indication may be drawn, if the Symptom be not Venereal, it may at lea&s;t appear to be &s;uch as requires almo&s;t the &s;ame Medicine.</P>
<P>Yet I do not pretend that this Indication is either general or certain, and I am not, in this, in <HI>Mercurial</HI>'s Mind, in other re&s;pects, a very great Phy&s;ician, who &s;ays in his third Chapter, concerning the Venereal Di&s;temper, That when the Di&s;ea&s;e does not yield to ordi|nary Medicines, nor to tho&s;e that the Antients have taught us, 'tis in effect, a &s;ign (as he &s;ays) that 'tis the Pox.</P>
<PB N="48" REF="29">
<P>On the contrary, I am of the Opinion, that every thing &s;hould be examined, all Circum|&s;tances exactly weighed, and a prudent Deli|beration u&s;ed, that nothing be undertaken but upon weighty rea&s;ons, and if, after all the Efforts that are made for knowing the Truth, no &s;igns &s;hall appear, that may mani|fe&s;t the Di&s;temper to be Venereal, 'tis not to be medled with <HI>under that Name,</HI> without knowing it <HI>to be of that Nature.</HI></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="7" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>CHAP. VII. <HI>Of the Progno&s;tick of the Venereal Di&s;ea&s;e.</HI></HEAD>
<P>AFter that which we have &s;aid in the fore|going Chapters, it will not be difficult to find what is the Progno&s;tic of the Pox, for after having examined if the Pox be ori|ginal (which makes it the more hard to be cured) or contracted &s;ince ones Nativity; to|gether with the Difficulties which may ari&s;e from the Con&s;titution, Age, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> And by con&s;idering what was &s;aid in the Fourth Chapter, concerning its different Degrees; it will be ea&s;ie to judge, that it is &s;o much the more difficult to cure, as it is the more rooted in the Body: And therefore, &s;eeing the la&s;t Degree is that of a Caries or Rottenne&s;s of the
<PB N="49" REF="29">Bones, 'tis al&s;o that which is mo&s;t hard to be cured, e&s;pecially when that Caries is in the Skull or No&s;e: I will al&s;o &s;ay that 'tis &s;o difficult, that the Cure thereof ought not to be expect|ed by any u&s;e of bare Mercurial Pills; and the outward u&s;e of Mercury by Friction, is to no purpo&s;e, becau&s;e it never reaches the Caries of the Bones, that it may de&s;troy or remove the Venereal Ferment that adheres to tho&s;e parts.</P>
<P>I know by Experience, that the &s;ure&s;t Cour&s;e that can be taken about this kind of Pox, is by way of Vapour, which does reach the infected Bones; but &s;eeing this Method is &s;omewhat dangerous, and may have ill Con|&s;equences, it requires both Judgment and Dex|terity to accompli&s;h it.</P>
<P>The Venereal Di&s;temper is not commonly Mortal; there have been &s;ome who have had it for the &s;pace of thirty years or more, and when they dye, it does not &s;o much proceed from this Di&s;ea&s;e, as from others which were contracted through the Di&s;order that is made by the Venereal Ferment, which does &s;o much corrupt the Humors, that it hinders the Nou|ri&s;hment and other bodily Functions, or when it di&s;gorges it &s;elf on &s;ome noble part, it does &s;o corrode and corrupt it, that the Lo&s;s is ir|reparable, whence it comes to pa&s;s, that in &s;uch a Ca&s;e, Death is unavoidable.</P>
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<P>It frequently happens, that the mo&s;t part of tho&s;e who have the Venereal Di&s;temper, do not &s;uffer them&s;elves to be dealt with to good purpo&s;e, and that upon a great many Con&s;i|derations. Some are thus backward, becau&s;e they have not enough to pay for their Cure; others, becau&s;e their E&s;tate or Bu&s;ine&s;s do not permit; a third &s;ort, becau&s;e they are guided by Phy&s;icians who have no Skill, or if they have, yet may be mi&s;taken, though they were the mo&s;t able Men in the World, &s;eeing the Pox is &s;ometimes &s;o concealed, that it is im|po&s;&s;ible to know it in all its Circum&s;tances. There are &s;ome Bodies of &s;uch &s;ingular Di&s;|po&s;itions, that Mercury cannot produce the de&s;ired Effect upon them, notwith&s;tanding all the Precaution and Means can be u&s;ed; tho&s;e who have Practice in the&s;e Matters, know ve|ry well, that they cannot perform a Cure at the fir&s;t, e&s;pecially tho&s;e who make u&s;e of Mercurial Oyntment; there have likewi&s;e been &s;ome, whom Salivation by Friction could never work upon; 'tis true, that at this day, 'tis advi&s;ed, when the&s;e Difficulties do occur, that we &s;hould make u&s;e of a Do&s;e of <HI>Mercu|rius Dulcis,</HI> that the Salivary Ve&s;&s;els may be|gin to open.</P>
<P>But I could wi&s;h that it were an ea&s;ie Mat|ter to rai&s;e a Salivation, by the Means of the Unguent, and if &s;o, can any one be a&s;&s;ured that
<PB N="51" REF="30">a &s;ufficient Quantity of the Mercury &s;hall enter into the Body, to excite a Salivation to that degree which is requi&s;ite, or that it &s;hall not enter in too great a Quantity, &s;o as to cau&s;e a Suffocation, or &s;ome other Cata&s;trophe, which &s;hall be wor&s;e than the Di&s;ea&s;e.</P>
<P>I am of the Opinion, that it is impo&s;&s;ible to be exact in this Matter, becau&s;e, as we &s;hall &s;hew in the Chapter of the Cure, it does depend on the Di&s;po&s;ition of the Skin (which in &s;ome, is too much &s;hut, and in others too open, whence it does admit of a greater or le&s;&s;er quantity of the Mercury that is in the Unguent) and not on him who applies the Un|guent, how well &s;oever he may ob&s;erve the Rules.</P>
<P>And therefore it often falls out, by rea&s;on of &s;ome of tho&s;e Faults I have &s;hewn, that the Venereal Di&s;temper is not cured, but only its Symptoms, and that &s;ome of the Venereal Ferment does &s;till remain in the Body, which in proce&s;s of time, does lodge and entangle it &s;elf in the Humors, in &s;uch a manner, that &s;ome Inconveniences do afterwards en&s;ue, which do not re&s;emble the Pox, though they have in effect &s;prung from it as their proper Foun|tain.</P>
<P>From thence it is, that there are &s;o many hereditary Di&s;ea&s;es, &s;o many &s;crophulous Tu|mors, &s;o many old Ulcers, &s;o many Gouts and
<PB N="52" REF="31">Rheumati&s;ms, &s;o many white Cour&s;es among&s;t Women; and in a Word, from thence ari&s;e the mo&s;t part of tho&s;e Di&s;ea&s;es which we ob|&s;erve in Families, and which unhappily have only ordinary Means applied to them, becau&s;e their Source is concealed, and the Phy&s;icians them&s;elves many times, dare not be inqui&s;itive concerning their Original.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="8" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>CHAP. VIII. <HI>Of Mercury, and if it be the Specific Medicine for the Venereal Di&s;temper.</HI></HEAD>
<P>NOT to &s;tand upon the Etymologies that Authors have given of Mercury, nor the different Names that it has got, nor the Influence which it receives (as is thought) from the Planet Mercury, nor the places where it is found; I only &s;ay, that Mercury or Quick-&s;ilver is a Metallic Liquor, the Nature whereof is as wonderful as it is &s;ingular for it is extreamly heavy, &s;eeing it comes ve|ry near to the weight of Gold (which is the mo&s;t ponderous Body of any we know, and that which may be called the mo&s;t fixed Bo|dy too, becau&s;e it does re&s;i&s;t the Fire more then all others) we may add, that it has a nearer Affinity to Gold than any other Me|tal,
<PB N="53" REF="31">becau&s;e it does more ea&s;ily unite it &s;elf to it than to other Bodies, and goes as to a Load|&s;tone, a con&s;iderable way, to find it, which has been matter of admiration, that there &s;hould be a Sympathy of a mo&s;t active and moveable Body, with another that is of all Bodies the mo&s;t fixed.</P>
<P>And yet the lea&s;t Action of the Fire makes this Liquor extreamly &s;wift, volatile, and in|vi&s;ible. Mercury is a gro&s;s Body, &s;eeing it is very opacous, and it is exceedingly &s;ubtile, &s;eeing it does penetrate the Pores of our Bo|dies; tho&s;e of the Ve&s;&s;els that contain it, when ever the Fire does work upon it, and tho&s;e of Gold, which are incredibly &s;mall, by rea&s;on of its compactne&s;s; and which is more, it does produce &s;urpri&s;ing and quite oppo&s;ite Ef|fects; it heats &s;ometimes, and does cool at o|ther times; it does purge &s;ome by Salivation, others by Stool, and a third &s;ort by Tran&s;pi|ration, and as though it were never the &s;ame thing, one Man is purged at one time with &s;ix Grains of Mercury, who at another time cannot be purged with thirty Grains.</P>
<P>And 'tis this great Uncon&s;tancy and Diver|&s;ity of Mercury, that has very much perplexed, to no purpo&s;e, the Heads of very able Men, who endeavour'd to explain its Nature, and give &s;ome regular Definition thereof; upon which account, I have &s;ometimes &s;aid, by way of di|ver&s;ion,
<PB N="54" REF="32">that in this Matter, 'tis needful to follow <HI>Ari&s;totle</HI>'s Precept very clo&s;ely, who &s;aid, That
<NOTE N="(a)" PLACE="marg"><HI>C.</HI> 8. <HI>lib.</HI> 1. <HI>Po&s;ter. &amp;c.</HI> 1. <HI>l.</HI> 1. <HI>de Anim&acirc;.</HI></NOTE> <HI>De|finitio debet e&s;&s;e rei immutabilis,</HI> i. e. <HI>A Definition ought to be of &s;uch a thing as does not change.</HI></P>
<P>If Mercury be a Bank that &s;plits the Judg|ment of the Learned, and a Stone of &s;tum|bling to &s;o many curious Men, who are a&s;&s;i|duous in making new Di&s;coveries, and more e&s;pecially, to draw an univer&s;al Medicine from this Metallic Liquor, without knowing its Nature: What can the more Ignorant pretend, who know nothing of it, unle&s;s it be &s;ome pi|tiful Receit, to &s;ublime or precipitate the &s;ame with a Corro&s;ive (which they can never any more &s;eparate) or barely to mix it with Purges or Oyntments, and with this they would pa&s;s for Workers of Miracles. 'Tis indeed an Abu&s;e, and one ought to u&s;e Dili|gence, if he cannot know the Nature of Mer|cury to the bottom, to find out a Method, whereby it may be, in &s;uch a manner prepa|red, as it may be given without danger. For if we examine the ordinary Receits thereof that are found in Authors, we &s;hall find that all of them give us the &s;ame Song, which they borrow from one another, and that none of them does examine what he propo&s;es to us, which will be more manife&s;t, after I have
<PB N="55" REF="32">delivered my Opinion of Mercury, and my Experiments upon u&s;ing it.</P>
<P>Although Mercury is an homogeneous Bo|dy, and it is as ea&s;ie to &s;eparate the Principles that compo&s;e it, as tho&s;e of Gold, though this principal Metal does contain &s;uch as are very clo&s;ely united and well dige&s;ted, and tho&s;e of Mercury are not &s;o &s;trongly joyned, be|cau&s;e it is only a crude, imperfect and undi|ge&s;ted Metal, or rather a Sub&s;tance that comes &s;omewhat near to a Metal; neverthele&s;s, Rea|&s;on and Experience do evince that it does contain &s;uch Principles.</P>
<P>Fir&s;t, a great deal of Salt, but not an Al|kaly, as &s;ome pretend (for there was never a|ny &s;uch found in the Mines) but an exceeding Acid Salt, very like that which is in Sulphur Mineral, which is known by di&s;tilling it by it &s;elf, by a Method that all Chymi&s;ts are well acquainted with; for it is re&s;olved into an A|cid Liquor, as the Acid of Sulphur drawn off <HI>Per Campanam,</HI> which would not happen, if the Salt of Mercury were an Alkali, from which there can never be &s;o much as one drop of an Acid drawn, &s;eeing they are oppo&s;ite. And this is an evident proof of my A&s;&s;er|tion.</P>
<P>Notwit&s;tanding what has been la&s;t &s;aid, Mercury may &s;ometimes Operate not unlike to an Alkali, but upon a quite different rea&s;on
<PB N="56" REF="33">which is, becau&s;e it's Salt is Fettered by a great deal of Sulphur.</P>
<P>For 'tis not to be que&s;tioned, but that there is much Sulphur in Mercury, not at all imflammable as the common Sulphur, but Mettallic, incombu&s;tible, and as pure Origi|nally, as that of Gold; the Proof of which is, that there are no Mettals but do con&s;i&s;t of Unctuous Parts, for 'tis their Oyl that makes them capable of exten&s;ion; if then Mercury be a &s;ub&s;tance that has a near affinity to Mettals, as 'tis not to be doubted; it con|tains Unctuous Parts as well as Mettals. Ex|perience does plainly confirm this, for Mercury does ea&s;ily mix with common Sulphur, Fat, Turpentine and Re&s;ins, by which it appears, that they con&s;i&s;t of &s;ub&s;tances that are alike; but the re&s;emblance it has of common Sul|phur is yet greater, becau&s;e, this having a great deal of an Acid Salt in it's compo&s;ition, has a double relation to Mercury, that is to &s;ay, by it's Salt and by it's Sulphur.</P>
<P>There is al&s;o without all que&s;tion, contained in Mercury a &s;ubtile and volatile Earth, a Metalic Water, which makes it Fluid, and a Spirit which is it's proper Mercury. I &s;hall not &s;tay to give the Proofs of a Matter that is &s;o very con&s;picuous in it &s;elf.</P>
<PB N="57" REF="33">
<P>We &s;hall now endeavour to explain what is ob&s;ervable in Mercury, together with the ef|fects which it does produce.</P>
<P>It is ponderous, becau&s;e it abounds with Salt, and experience does &s;hew, that Liquors are by &s;o much the more heavy, as they con|tain the more Salt; the &s;ame may be ob&s;er|ved in all &s;orts of Wood; which is &s;ufficient to per&s;wade us, that it is likewi&s;e Salt which makes Mettals ponderous. Some believe, that it is the Sulphur that does produce this quali|ty, and I al&s;o think, that this is not u&s;ele&s;s, but that it does much contribute thereunto, by uniting the Salt to the other Principles; but it cannot be the Principal cau&s;e thereof, becau&s;e it &s;elf is very incon&s;tant, and there are &s;ome Bodies which are &s;urcharged with Sul|phur, which weigh nothing in compari&s;on with others, which cannot be &s;aid of Salt.</P>
<P>And it will not evince the contrary, to &s;ay, that this great quantity of Salt which we ad|mit, cannot be drawn either from Mettals or Mercury; for this rea&s;on does only prove our want of Skill, for we &s;ee, that in Gla&s;s, there is a great deal of Salt <HI>Kali,</HI> and yet it is &s;o en|tangled in the Flint, which they u&s;e for making of Gla&s;s, that it cannot be &s;eparated from it, by any ordinary Art, much le&s;s can it be done from Mercury, which flies away with the lea&s;t heat.</P>
<PB N="58" REF="34">
<P>It is Volatile, and the lea&s;t fire does make it evaporate, becau&s;e, &s;eeing it is Liquid, the fire does ea&s;ily penetrate into it, and divide it into &s;uch &s;mall Parts, that it can then rai&s;e it into Vapours, and reduce it into that State, in which it was at fir&s;t; for Mercury is nothing but a Mettalic Vapour, which is rai&s;ed by the Central heat of the Earth, and conden&s;ed in the Surface, by the external heat. It is true, that this Mercurial Vapour, meeting, in its way with &s;ome Sulphurs, with which the Mines abound, does, by joyning therewith, compo&s;e a mixture that makes the Mineral Cinabar, not unlike that we &s;ee in Artificial Cinabar, which is only a mixture of Sulphur and Mercury, that may be ea&s;ily &s;eparated by putting filings of Iron into the Cinabar, and then di&s;tilling the whole in a Re|tort.</P>
<P>It is Opacous, becau&s;e it has &s;traight pores, and &s;uch as never can be di&s;po&s;ed in a right Line, without changing the Nature of the Mercury, being compo&s;ed of Spherical Parti|cles that are in a perpetual motion.</P>
<P>It is penctrating, becau&s;e it does ea&s;ily di|vide it &s;elf into Atoms, and is in a continual motion.</P>
<P>It re&s;olves Tumours, and di&s;&s;olves Phlegm, becau&s;e it is penetrating, and compo&s;ed of an Acid Salt and of Sulphur, which are very
<PB N="59" REF="34">proper di&s;&s;olvents, becau&s;e Phlegm contains much of an Acid, wrapt up in Unctuous Mat|ter; And therefore there is a great Affinity betwixt the one and the other: and Tumours proceed from a Phlegm, that is made thick and hard by an Acid, and therefore, the Mercury does di&s;&s;olve it, and the re&s;olution that afterwards happens, does proceed from the natural heat and motion, which does a&s;&s;i&s;t the Mercury in its Action.</P>
<P>It does produce cold Di&s;ea&s;es in &s;ome Per|&s;ons, and is a great Enemy to the Brain and the Nerves, e&s;pecially when it is taken crude or ill prepared, becau&s;e it's Mettallic Sulphur, which is crude and indige&s;ted, and by the Action of heat draws other Parts with it, does turn into a Vapour, that always joyns with &s;ome Volatile Acid, which it finds in the Bo|dy, and this Vapour, being carried through the Body, with the Blood, and e&s;pecially to the Brain, does &s;ettle there, by rea&s;on of the coldne&s;s of that Part, as it does al&s;o &s;tay in the Nervous parts, which are likewi&s;e cold; and fixing it &s;elf in their Pores does ob&s;truct the pa&s;&s;age of the Spirits, and &s;top their cour&s;e; And hence it is, that tho&s;e who take Mercury out of the Mines and who are em|ployed in the Works, do commonly fall into a Pal&s;ey, by rea&s;on of the ill effects of the Mer|curial Vapours.</P>
<PB N="60" REF="35">
<P>On the contrary, it does heat &s;ome others, by Accident, when it is unskillfully mixed with Purgatives, that are proper for cau&s;ing heat, or when it is prepared with &s;harp In|gredients, that make violent Irritations, which rai&s;e an Efferve&s;cence in the Humours; or when that Acrimonious preparation, and that Purgative have procured, without Di&s;crimi|nation, a voidance of the &s;ero&s;ities which were in the Blood; for in that Ca&s;e, the Active Principles of which the Blood is compo&s;ed, not being tempered and re&s;trained by tho&s;e &s;erous Parts, making nearer approaches to, and being altered by one another, produce that great heat, which follows upon a Fermentation a|gain&s;t Nature.</P>
<P>It does excite Salivation, becau&s;e, when it has once entred into the Body, the heat does reduce it into a Vapour, and &s;eeing there is an Acid in all &s;orts of Bodies, tho&s;e Acids do ea&s;ily joyn them&s;elves to the Mercury, which in it &s;elf, does contain an Acid Salt, as we have &s;aid, and tho&s;e Acids being in Conjuncti|on therewith, make it Corro&s;ive, in the &s;ame manner almo&s;t as the Acids of Vitriol and Sea. Salt do communicate a Corro&s;ive quality to common Sublimate, which, as is mo&s;t mani|fe&s;t to all, has no force, but by the points of Salt, which are joyned thereunto, in Sublima|tion, without being able to di&s;&s;olve it entire|ly;
<PB N="61" REF="35">for the Mercury does retain its round Eigure, as may be &s;een by a Micro&s;cope (and tho&s;e Salts are by their Points, fixed in the lit|tle Globs of the Mercury, end-wi&s;e,) &s;o that the Mercury is the more ea&s;ily carryed to the head, where it does, with no difficulty &s;tay, by rea&s;on of the cold that it meets with there, and becau&s;e it does joyn it &s;elf more readily to the Phlegm then to any other Humours, upon the account of the Acid which it contains, and the Salivary Ve&s;&s;els do always contain a Phlegm that is the matter of the Saliva, the Mercury does di&s;&s;olve the &s;ame, and for that rea&s;on, it is more abundantly evacuated by the Salivary Ve&s;&s;els, and &s;eeing the Phlegm does attract the Mercury, which is become Acid, as we have &s;aid, the extremity of the Salivary Ve&s;&s;els is Corroded, and likewi&s;e the mouth is thereby all Ulcerated, whence it comes to pa&s;s, that the Salivation or Flux is encrea&s;ed, and that an extraordinary quantity of Phlegm, does I&s;&s;ue out of the mouth till the &s;ame Phlegm, by its continual Cour&s;e, has wa&s;h'd the&s;e Ulcers, and drawn to it &s;elf the Mercury that had lodged there, and then, by degrees, it does occa&s;ion a clo&s;ing and healing of the Salivary Ve&s;&s;els, which makes the Salivation to cea&s;e.</P>
<PB N="62" REF="36">
<P>Sometimes Mercury does only Purge by &s;tool, and 'tis thought, that, in &s;uch a Ca&s;e, it does meet with &s;ome Alkalious Matter, which makes it let go tho&s;e Acids, and precipitates the Mercury into the lower Parts, not unlike to what is ob&s;erved, when Sublimate Corro&s;ive, di&s;&s;olved in common water, is precipated by the Oyl of Tartar, or by its Salt only, which I believe may be done; but I have ob&s;erved, that it is more difficult to excite a Salivation in Melancholy Per&s;ons, then in tho&s;e that are Choleric, or of any other con&s;titution, and that tho&s;e Melancholy Per&s;ons are frequently Purged by &s;tool, which gives me ground to believe, that &s;eeing tho&s;e Per&s;ons abound in Acids, and that the Acids are more fixed in them, then in others, tho&s;e &s;ame Acids may very well &s;top the Mercury, and hinder it from a&s;cending to the head, whence it comes to pa&s;s, that being more heavy, becau&s;e &s;ur|charged with tho&s;e fixed Acids, it is forced to pa&s;s by &s;tool; &s;o we &s;ee, that when there is a di&s;&s;olution of Mercury made with Acids, as the Spirit of Sulphur, the Spirit of the Oyl of Vitriol, of Allom, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> tho&s;e Acids are the more fixed, and the Mercury is &s;ublimed with the greater difficulty, and if it be taken at the mouth after a convenient Dulcoration, it does Purge more by &s;tool then by Vomit, and is not proper to cau&s;e Salivation.</P>
<PB N="63" REF="36">
<P>It does, without doubt, proceed from the defect of tho&s;e Acids, that the Mercury not finding enough thereof, to make it &s;ublime to the Head, or to precipitate it downwards, is carried off by Tran&s;piration only, and that there are &s;ome Per&s;ons who can neither be Flux'd nor Purged with Mercury.</P>
<P>From thence it is al&s;o, that one may be well Purged with a &s;mall quantity of Mercury, at one time, and that a con&s;iderable quantity thereof &s;hall have no effect upon him at ano|ther time, for there is not the &s;ame quantity of Acids in the Body, at all times, which de|pends on the Diet, the Sea&s;on and the Pa&s;&s;ions, together with many other circum&s;tances which every one may ea&s;ily ob&s;erve.</P>
<P>From which we mu&s;t conclude, that Mer|cury does act in &s;o many different manners, according to the different di&s;po&s;itions of the Per&s;on who receives it, or the different man|ner of it's preparation.</P>
<P>And finally, it is from thence that we are to draw a Con&s;equence, that is the mo&s;t im|portant of all others, that tho&s;e who adven|ture to give Mercury, without knowing it's right Preparation and the effects which it is capable to produce, as well as the Con&s;titution of their Patients, do a great injury to them|&s;elves, and a greater to the Sick, whom they
<PB N="64" REF="37">unhappily expo&s;e to a great number of Acci|dents and Dangers which they cannot pre|vent, &s;o long as they are not capable of know|ing them.</P>
<P>It remains, that we examine, whether Mercury be a Specific Remedy for the Ve|nereal di&s;temper.</P>
<P>A Specific Medicine is that which does cure a certain Di&s;ea&s;e, at all times, in all places, in all ages, and in all degrees; and &s;eeing we have &s;hewn, that the Venereal Ferment is of an acid Nature, that it fixes on the Phlegm particular|ly, it may be &s;aid, that Mercury is the mo&s;t fit Remedy of any we have yet known, for the Cure of the Venereal Di&s;temper; for if it is not become ab&s;olutely incurable, by the de|fect of the Per&s;on who is &s;ubject thereunto, as by the Corruption of &s;ome noble Part, or the Complication of &s;ome mortal Di&s;ea&s;e, I believe it may be compleatly Cured; but &s;eeing I have made it appear that Crude Mercury is very dangerous, as well as that which is Corro&s;ive; the former, becau&s;e it is an Enemy to the Brain and all the Nervous Parts, as we have formerly &s;hewn; the lat|ter, by Irritations, Corro&s;ions and other De|predations which it makes in the Stomach and el&s;ewhere; I can Advi&s;e no body to u&s;e either of them, although I know very well, that &s;ome have been Cured both by the one
<PB N="65" REF="37">and the other, becau&s;e tho&s;e Cures were cau&s;al, and if there happens to be Succe&s;s at one time; the Sick are neverthele&s;s always ex|po&s;ed to danger, or to the fury of &s;ome o|ther Accident wor&s;e then the Venereal Di|&s;temper; I &s;hall make this more manife&s;t in the following Chapter, in which I &s;hall &s;hew the common way of u&s;ing Mercury, and af|ter having demon&s;trated the danger that is apparent upon &s;uch a manner of u&s;ing it, and the &s;mall a&s;&s;urance that one can pro|mi&s;e him&s;elf, of curing the Sick that way, I &s;hall e&s;tabli&s;h another Method which may be practi&s;ed at all times, and is incomparably more gentle, more ea&s;y and more certain.</P>
<P>In the mean time, although this Method has many Advantages above the common way, yet the Sick are expo&s;ed thereby to &s;ome inconveniences, when Salivation is to be excited, which ordinarily cannot be &s;o effect|ed, but that there will be Ulcers in the Mouth, tho' we have &s;ometimes &s;een gentle and protracted Salivations without any ill Ac|cident to the Mouth, which proceeded from a good management of the Mercury; and the like Succe&s;s may happen by taking what time is needful for the Cure.</P>
<P>But &s;eeing there is no better Medecine; known then that, and that all others that have been hitherto u&s;ed, are ineffectual, or in
<PB N="66" REF="38">all Ca&s;es, tedious and mo&s;t dreadfully trouble|&s;ome, we are forced to u&s;e it. We may al&s;o &s;ay, that Mercury is an admirable Medicine for many other Di&s;ea&s;es; the wonderful Ef|fects that we perceive every day of <HI>Mercurius dulcis</HI> does prove the Excellency of this Re|medy, and there are &s;o many Able Men at this day who make Experiments on Mer|cury, that we may rea&s;onably hope, that &s;ome or other of them will at length, Com|municate to the World, &s;ome extraordinary preparation thereof, which will make it manife&s;t that Mercury is a &s;overaign Remedy for the Venereal Di&s;temper; whil&s;t I expect this, I &s;hall ingenuou&s;ly declare, that having of a long time ob&s;erved the different Effects produced by Mercury (that is prepared a thou&s;and ways) in a great Number of Per|&s;ons &s;ubject to the Venereal Di&s;temper, whom I have cured; I have found by Experience that <HI>Mercurius dulcis</HI> &s;ublimate is a Remedy that will never do any hurt, if one knows how to u&s;e it, but it is al&s;o &s;o weak, that how little &s;oever the Pox has taken root, it is not to be expected that it can be cured thereby; yet there are &s;ome Per&s;ons of &s;o delicate a Con&s;titution, and who&s;e Humours are &s;o fluid, that they may be Cured with twenty or thirty Do&s;es thereof, provided it be mixed with a Purgative, and convenient Vehicles. I
<PB N="67" REF="38">have often, on &s;uch occa&s;ions, pre&s;cribed this Receit.</P>
<P>Take of <HI>Mercurius dulcis</HI> &s;ublimate well prepared, and the Powder of Vipers, of each &s;ix Drachms, Cri&s;tal of Tartar in fine Powder, and Scammony in Powder, of each half an Ounce, the Trohi&s;icks of Alhandal, two Drachms, mix them altogether with &s;o much Powder of Pale Ro&s;es as may &s;uffice to make up a Ma&s;s of Pills, whereof a Drachm is to be taken, or one Drachm and a half, with your ordinary Diet, Exerci&s;e, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></P>
<P>I have al&s;o found by Experience, that we may u&s;e with very good Succe&s;s (even in the ca&s;e of an inveterate Pox) the Golden Precipitate, the preparation of which is as followeth.</P>
<P>Take one part of fine Gold, and three parts of Mercury revived from Cinabar, make an Amalgam of both in the ordinary form, and put this Amalgam in a fit matras, well luted, dige&s;t them over a fire, with a gentle heat at the fir&s;t, that the Mercury do not a&s;cend and &s;eparate it &s;elf from the Gold, encrea&s;e the fire by little and little, till all the Ma&s;s &s;hall be changed into a Red Powder, and which will become of a dark red Colour up|on continuance of the heat: That it may be well done, it is nece&s;&s;ary to dige&s;t the Ingre|dients for three Months together, after which
<PB N="68" REF="39">it will be &s;ufficiently fixed, &s;o as it may be &s;afely given. The Do&s;e is from three to twelve Grains for the &s;tronge&s;t Per&s;ons, mix it with a convenient Purgative, for Example, with the Polychre&s;t, or the Catholic Pills.</P>
<P>I cannot enough extol the Vertues of this Medicine, and he who &s;hall u&s;e it skilfully, will not repent the time he be&s;towed in the dige&s;ting of it, and no &s;ooner &s;hall he have made the Experiment of its Vertue, but he will reject all other Receits which are found in Books.</P>
<P>It does ordinarily purge by Stool, and &s;ometimes by Vomit, it mu&s;t not be wa&s;hed before it is u&s;ed, otherwi&s;e it will loo&s;e &s;ome of its Acrimony which was communicated to it by the fire, without which it will not purge as it ought.</P>
<P>It may be taken every third day, unle&s;s the Patient have a Loo&s;ne&s;s or Purgation in the Morning in which it is to be taken; in which ca&s;e, it is to be given on another day when it is &s;topp'd; in the Intervals the Patient mu&s;t be let Blood le&s;s or more, according as his Blood abounds, or is corrupted.</P>
<P>When there are Nodes or Tetters, or the Body is dry, Bathes mu&s;t be u&s;ed, for E|mollition of the Parts, for humectation and encrea&s;ing of the fluidity of the Humors, and bringing them to &s;uch a Condition,
<PB N="69" REF="39">as they may ea&s;ily yield to the Medica|ment.</P>
<P>All the difficulty is to determine, what Number of Do&s;es is requi&s;ite to each Per&s;on that has occa&s;ion to u&s;e it, for although the Accidents have wholly di&s;appeared, it does not follow, that the Patient is perfectly recovered, for there &s;till remains &s;ome Ferment in the Parts, or in the Blood, from which the Pox will in a &s;hort time &s;pring up again, when it has not been altogether rooted out, as we have &s;ometimes &s;een, when we had le&s;s experience: And therefore to be &s;ure, &s;ome Do&s;e of the Medicine ought to be taken after all the Acci|dents have quite vani&s;hed, that no Leven be left in the Blood; a Decoction of Vipers may be given for &s;ome days, by which means, there will be an in&s;en&s;ible tran&s;piration that &s;hall carry off all the re&s;t of the Venereal Ferment, and that &s;hall &s;o perfectly clean&s;e the Blood, that the Patient will be beyond the danger of a relap&s;e. It is truly &s;aid,
<Q><LG>
<L><HI>Heureux celuy qui pour devenir &s;age;</HI></L>
<L><HI>De maux d'autry, fait &s;on apprenti&s;&s;age.</HI> i. e.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>That Man is happy, who grows Wi&s;e</L>
<L>By other Men's Calamities.</L>
</LG></Q></P>
<P>There is no Pox but what may be Cured by this Medecine, &s;uch a degree of it only
<PB N="70" REF="40">excepted, where there is a Caries or Putre|faction of the Bones of the No&s;e or Skull, which cannot be throughly effected, but by a method that is extreamly trouble&s;ome and tedious. And therefore, in this ca&s;e, it is better to &s;alivate the Patient, not by the means of an Unguent, which I would advi&s;e no body, becau&s;e of its ill Con&s;equences, which we &s;hall &s;hew in the next Chapter, be&s;ides that it cannot do any good in &s;uch an Exigency, for this rea&s;on, becau&s;e the Mercury does not penetrate &s;o far as the putrified Bone, to de|&s;troy the Ferment that infects it, but this Salivation mu&s;t be procured by Fumigation or Vapour for which we &s;hall &s;hew the be&s;t method.</P>
<P>I leave all other Medicines which were u&s;ed by the Antients, as <HI>Guiacum, Sar&s;a-parilla, Sa&s;&s;afras</HI> and <HI>China-root</HI> and al&s;o <HI>Box,</HI> which has been u&s;ed of late, by &s;ome modern Ar|ti&s;ts, becau&s;e no body doubts of the in&s;uffi|ciency of the&s;e Remedies, and every one is &s;atisfied that there is no Cure to be expected from them, and they &s;erve for no other pur|po&s;e but to heat &s;uch Bodies, as require them, for attenuating the Phlegm, by making a Pti&s;an thereof, for their ordinary Drink.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="9" TYPE="chapter">
<PB N="71" REF="40">
<HEAD>CHAP. IX. <HI>Of the Method of Curing the Venereal Di&s;temper, and that Salivation is the mo&s;t &s;hort and the mo&s;t certain way, provided that the</HI> Mercurial Unguent <HI>be not made u&s;e of to excite it.</HI></HEAD>
<P>IT mu&s;t be agreed upon by all, that the Pox may be cured by all &s;uch methods, as will effectually evacuate the Phlegm, in which the Venereal Ferment does particu|larly ly, and which will depurate the Blood; And therefore, Sudorifics, Diuretics, Vo|mits, Purgatives and Salivation are the means that are the mo&s;t proper and convenient for that end.</P>
<P>But after all, I mu&s;t freely declare, that al|though the&s;e Remedies be all good, yet Sali|vation is to be preferred to all the re&s;t, as be|ing the be&s;t, the &s;horte&s;t, the &s;ure&s;t, nay I will &s;ay, the mo&s;t natural method: for if we ob&s;erve the Oeconomy of our Body and the ways which Nature has provided for the eva|cuation of &s;uperfluous Humours, we &s;hall find that &s;he voids the Excrementitious Matter that remains after the fir&s;t dige&s;tion, with the more gro&s;s Parts of the Bile and the Pancrea|tic Juyce, by &s;tool; the &s;uperfluous Sero&s;ity (after it has &s;erved as a Vehicle for the Nutri|tive juice, with which all the Parts of the
<PB N="72" REF="41">Body are nouri&s;hed) partly by the Veins, and partly by in&s;en&s;ible Tran&s;piration; the men&s;trual Blood by the Matrix; the Hemorrhoid Blood by the Hemorrhoid Veins; &s;ome other parti|cular Excrements by particular Pa&s;&s;ages, as by the Ears, the Hair, by Expiration, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> And, La&s;tly, as to the Pituit or Phlegm, the Sali|vary Ve&s;&s;els are appointed for the Evacuation thereof: The likene&s;s that is betwixt the Pi|tuit and Saliva is well known; They being the &s;ame Matter, and only differing in con|&s;i&s;tence; for the Saliva is the fir&s;t Matter of the Pituit, the Saliva is continually &s;wallow'd down, and when it is in the Stomach, it grows thick, and in the dige&s;tions, it does intermix it &s;elf with the mo&s;t Vi&s;cous Part of the Ali|ment and is afterwards carried into the Gut cal|led <HI>Duodenum,</HI> where it does continually mix it &s;elf with the Bile and the Pancreatic Juice, which make a Fermentation together, by the means of which it does &s;o fall out, that the more gro&s;s Parts are precipitated, or forced downwards with the Excrementitious Mat|ter, to be evacuated by &s;tool, and the purer Part is carried by the <HI>Venae lacteae</HI> to the Heart, and from thence, by the Arteries, to all the Body, with the Blood, from which it is gran|dually &s;eparated by the Conglomerated Glands that lye on either &s;ide of the <HI>Mandibulum,</HI> and from thence it is carried by the Salivary Con|duits,
<PB N="73" REF="41">to the Mouth, in which the Pituit that de&s;cends from the Brain, does mix with it, there being a con&s;iderable quantity thereof, produced in the Head, by rea&s;on of the coldne&s;s of that Part, which Pituit does in&s;en&s;ibly pa&s;s through the <HI>Infundibulum,</HI> from whence it is Filtrated, through the Pituitary Gland, into the Mouth, &s;o that it is ea&s;ie to comprehend how the Phlegm is carried from all places of the Body into the Mouth, and that by it's na|tural motion; And therefore, in a Salivation, which is excited by Mercury, the Phlegm be|ing put in a quicker motion then ordinary, does ea&s;ily draw to it &s;elf all the impurities of the ma&s;s of Blood, and e&s;pecially the Venere|al Ferment, becau&s;e of its Acidity, as we have &s;aid el&s;ewhere, and by that means the P<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="3 letters">d is compleatly purified.</P>
<P>It is true, that it &s;eems that the &s;weat may effect the &s;ame; which certainly would be &s;o, if we had a Sudorific, that could without any violence, &s;eparate the Pituit from the ma&s;s of Blood; but &s;eeing it is Vi&s;cous, it is very difficult, to reduce it into Vapours by any Remedies that we know, to the end that it may tran&s;pire through the Pores of the Skin; and if one will needs attempt it, he mu&s;t heat the Body very much; whereas the Maxillary Glands have naturally a Con&s;iguration fit for making this &s;eparation, which is enough (with|out
<PB N="74" REF="42">u&s;ing other rea&s;ons) to prove, that an Ar|tificial Salivation is only an imitation and an Acceleration of the natural.</P>
<P>They al&s;o who are conver&s;ant about this Matter, know by experience, that it is more difficult to &s;top a Flux then to rai&s;e it, and therefore they who give it by the Unguent do always expo&s;e the &s;ick to a mortal danger, becau&s;e they cannot mea&s;ure the quantity of Mercury, which ought to enter into the Bo|dy, for puting that Pituit in motion, which is not precipitated, and opening the Pituitary Ve&s;&s;els by little and little; whence it does come to pa&s;s, that a great deal thereof does enter into them at once, which makes the Pituit and the re&s;t of the Humours a&s;cend to the Throat and Head, and produces Inflamma|tions, which are ready to choak the Pati<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="3 letters">, a thing which does very frequently fa<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">l out; upon which account, every one concerned ought for the future, to think of &s;uch means for exciting Salivation, as may be gentle, and &s;afe.</P>
<P>This did oblige me to apply my &s;elf with all diligence to &s;earch for another kind of prepara|tion of Mercury then what is to be found in Authors, by the means of which I can excite a Salivation, by giving, at the mo&s;t, half a Drachm thereof, to the &s;tronge&s;t Per&s;on, in four or five Do&s;es, which will al&s;o Purge by &s;tool, and a little by Vomit, Urine and Tran|&s;piration;
<PB N="75" REF="42">and will give motion enough to the Phlegm to pa&s;s by the Mouth for as long a time, as when Salivation is excited by Friction, but in a manner that is imcompara|bly more gentle, all the trouble which en&s;ues upon Friction, being thereby avoided, which to &s;peak the truth, is &s;o great and intollerable (be&s;ides the danger to which the &s;ick is ex|po&s;ed) that if tho&s;e who have the Venereal Di|&s;temper knew the &s;ame, I am verily per&s;waded, that there is not one of them among&s;t a hun|dred, but would rather choo&s;e to endure the Di&s;ea&s;e all his life time, though it &s;hould be never &s;o &s;hort, then meddle with &s;uch a mi&s;|chievous Remedy.</P>
<P>That I may make it appear how intollera|ble that method is, I &s;hall &s;hew in what man|ner tho&s;e that have the Pox are commonly treated when they are to undergo Salivation by way of an Unguent.</P>
<P>I &s;uppo&s;e that the Patient hath no other Di|&s;ea&s;e in complication with the Pox, which would require di&s;tinct Remedies, that ought to be fir&s;t given, and that the Venereal Di|&s;temper is only to come under con&s;idera|tion.</P>
<P>I do likewi&s;e &s;uppo&s;e that the Per&s;on that is to undergo the Friction is of a good and &s;trong Habit of Body, to engage with the Re|medy, without any great Preparation, for the
<PB N="76" REF="43">correcting of the evil qualities that are predo|minant in his Blood.</P>
<P>Now the Patient is to be prepared, <HI>Fir&s;t,</HI> they give him a Gli&s;ter to di&s;po&s;e him for bleeding; the next day they let him Blood; and afterwards repeat bleeding, according as the Patient is more or le&s;s Sanguine or Pletho|rick. They purge him at lea&s;t, three or four times, for carrying off the more gro&s;s Excrements; and after that, they Bathe him for eight or ten days, to make the humours fluid, to open the Pores of the habitude of the Body, and to make the Mercury pa&s;s more ea&s;ily through the Skin. Some, for the better opening of the Pores, give a Sudorific, putting them three or four times in a Sweat, placing the Patient under a Canopy, archet, or any other In&s;trument proper for that purpo&s;e: And in the mean time, they give him a Pti&s;an to drink, to cau&s;e heat, and put the humours in Motion, and withal dimi|ni&s;h his Diet gradually, till he be wholly re|duced to Broths.</P>
<P>After that, they begin Friction, with the Mercurial Unguent, which they have prepared before: This Unguent is ordinarily prepared according to this form, or &s;ome other that may be reduced hereunto, buy putting more or le&s;s Mercury in it. Take &s;ix ounces of Quick-&s;ilver, beat it in a Marble Mortar, with
<PB N="77" REF="43">it's cover of Wood, with three or four ounces of fine Turpentine, when the Mercury is ex|tingui&s;hed, add thereto a Pound and a half of Hoggs-lard, and one ounce of the Oyl of Laurel; the Unguent mu&s;t be beaten a long time, for dividing the Mercury, the beating being to la&s;t for the &s;pace of &s;even or eight hours, this is called the Gray, or Neapolitan Unguent, which is the &s;ame that the Apothe|cries &s;ell for the Scab, with this difference, that the latter has a le&s;s mixture of Mer|cury.</P>
<P>This Unguent is then taken, and after ha|ving made a great fire, with a Screen before it, they make the Patient warm him&s;elf in his &s;hirt, that the Unguent may make a far|ther entrance, and they rub it on him, for that time, very well, from the Soles of his Feet to above his Knees, and from the Wri&s;ts, to his Shoulders, u&s;ing in this Friction, two or three ounces of Unguent; after that, they put the Patient in a Bed very warm, oblig|ing him to keep very clo&s;e and covered, ha|ving, before that, &s;o ordered the Bed and all the Room, that the Air is &s;hut out, and the wind can have no entrance, keeping a good &s;ire on, by Night and by Day, even when the wheather is but moderately cold.</P>
<P>The next day following, they put the Pa|tient in the &s;ame Po&s;ture, and making u&s;e of
<PB N="78" REF="44">a little more of the Unguent, they rub all his Body (the Head, the fore-part of the Brea&s;t and Belly being only excepted;) and after|wards commit him to his Bed warm as before.</P>
<P>On the third day, they repeat the &s;ame, and if they do not perceive the marks of an approaching Salivation, they continue the like method, by a fourth, a fifth, and a &s;ixth Fri|ction, and if after all, the Signs of Salivation do not appear, they think it the be&s;t way (in|&s;tead of u&s;ing more Frictions which may prove mortal) to give the Per&s;on, a &s;mall Do&s;e of <HI>Mercurius Dulcis</HI> by the mouth, to deter|min or begin the Salivation.</P>
<P>Then it is, that whil&s;t the Mercury, af|cends to the head, the Patient finds pricking Pains in his Mouth, which are followed with Ulcers therein. And becau&s;e the Phlegm is ordinarily carried thither with a Rapid Moti|on, it does draw along with it &s;elf the other humours, which inflame all the Head and Throat, and put the Patient in danger of be|ing &s;uffocated: yet if the Salivary Ve&s;&s;els be opened, and the Pituit &s;ufficiently Fluid, it does run &s;wift enough, and two or three Pounds of the Saliva are every day evacuated at the mouth.</P>
<P>This Salivation, that it may an&s;wer the de|&s;ign, ought to continue at the lea&s;t for the &s;pace of fifteen, and at the mo&s;t, thirty days; and
<PB N="79" REF="44">during that time, the Patient is to eat nothing but Broth, &s;ome yolks of Eggs upon the re|mi&s;&s;ion, and a Pti&s;an made with <HI>Guiacum</HI> which is &s;omething offen&s;ive to the ta&s;te.</P>
<P>They give the Patient a Gli&s;ter every other day, and &s;ometimes Purge him gently, e&s;peci|ally towards the end of the Salivation, which being over, they give him a formal Purge, they let him again Blood, and put him to &s;weat, according as he is more or le&s;s dried by the Salivation.</P>
<P>To this it mu&s;t be added, that the Patient is not to &s;tir out of Bed, and that his Linnen mu&s;t not be &s;hifted for &s;even or eight days, and that he mu&s;t wear the &s;ame &s;hirt that he had on when the Friction was begun, which would be no matter of great hard&s;hip for &s;ome old Souldier, who might po&s;&s;ibly wear a dirty and lou&s;y one much longer time; but for tho&s;e Gallants who pretend to neatne&s;s, I verily believe, that they need no other Ar|ticle of Pennance <HI>from the mo&s;t rigid Confe&s;|&s;or.</HI></P>
<P>What has been &s;aid of this Matter, is &s;up|po&s;ed to be in a Mans Ca&s;e; for, as to the Female Sex, if their monthly Cour&s;es do not proceed regularly, proper means are to be u&s;|ed to regulate them, before the Remedy be applied, and if the Woman be with Child, there are Mea&s;ures to be taken, with regard to all particulars.</P>
<PB N="80" REF="45">
<P>I al&s;o &s;uppo&s;ed, that the Per&s;ons who re|ceive the Friction, is of a good Habit and ea|&s;ie to be cured; for &s;eeing by this Method, the Mercury has entred into the Body with|out any proportion, and that this Entrance does depend upon the Di&s;po&s;ition of the Pores of the Skin; It does frequently happen that tho&s;e Pores are very much &s;hut, and that on|ly a very &s;mall quantity of Mercury does en|ter, which not being capable to di&s;&s;olve the Phlegm, which is over all the Body, does &s;till leave &s;ome Venereal Ferments behind, upon which occa&s;ion the Pox does quickly appear again. And when the Pores are too large, a great deal of Mercury gets an entrance, which does attenuate the Phlegm with too great ce|lerity, and draws it to the Head, and to the Salivary Ve&s;&s;els, with the other Humors, whence not only a danger of Suffocation does en&s;ue, as we have &s;aid, but al&s;o this pre|cipitated Motion does hinder the equal di&s;tri|bution of the Mercury, through all the Body, and the re&s;olution of the coagulated Humors, which the Mercury would otherwi&s;e perform therein; &s;o that in this Ca&s;e there can be no Cure any more expected; it is &s;o far true, that a great or &s;mall quantity of Mercury does &s;ig|nifie nothing in this Method; and neverthe|le&s;s, it does not depend on him who does ma|nage the Friction, to make it enter more or
<PB N="81" REF="45">le&s;s, as we have &s;aid, but wholly on the Di&s;|po&s;ition of the Pores; whence we may draw this Con&s;equence, that tho&s;e who undergo a Method of Cure by the Unguent, are not re|&s;tored but by accident, and that they are more obliged to their good Con&s;titution than to the Phy&s;ician who pre&s;cribes the Medicine.</P>
<P>That will not happen, if Salivation be ex|cited by taking Mercury at the Mouth, be|cau&s;e in this ca&s;e it may be entertained as long as it is thought nece&s;&s;ary, and al&s;o augmen|ted, when we perceive that it is not copious enough.</P>
<P>This way of Salivation is not dangerous, becau&s;e it is excited by little and little. It is more gentle, becau&s;e there is one part of the Matter di&s;charged, which the Mercury does evacuate by Stool, Vomiting, Urine and Tran&s;piration. It is not trouble&s;ome, there being no need for all that dolorous Fatigue to which the Patient is expo&s;ed by means of the Unguent, and by this Method, he may get out of his Bed when he plea&s;es. It is &s;hort, becau&s;e this Remedy is given to all, and the time from the giving of the Mercury, to the appearing of the Salivation, being ordina|rily but &s;ix or &s;even Hours, is &s;ufficient to pre|pare the Patient, if need be; and this Prepa|ration is only &s;ome Bleeding, which is done to tho&s;e who &s;tand in need of it, and &s;ome
<PB N="82" REF="46">Broth made of Herbs, to tho&s;e who are of a hot Di&s;po&s;ition of Body; the Salivation being once over, there is a Purge given with &s;ome Royal Pti&s;an, and the Work is done.</P>
<P>It is true, that when the Skin has been in|fected, &s;ome gentle Sudorific may be given by way of precaution, <HI>viz.</HI> a Gla&s;s of the Water of <HI>Carduus Benedictus,</HI> with a little Cinnamon Water, and &s;ome drops of the vo|latil Spirit of <HI>Sal Armoniac,</HI> to be drank every Morning, for three or four days together; Which is an admirable Remedy for procuring Sweat without any Trouble, in a manner that is the mo&s;t gentle that can be imagined. If it be advi&s;able to &s;weat more copiou&s;ly, there may be &s;ix grains of the volatile Salt of Vi|pers added thereunto.</P>
<P>This Method of procuring a Salivation by Mercury taken at the Mouth, is not unknown to able Men. It is al&s;o practi&s;ed in places of greate&s;t renown. Some make u&s;e of crude Mercury, which is extreamly dangerous, for Rea&s;ons mentioned el&s;e where; others, white Precipitate, which I do not believe to be with|out danger, becau&s;e it is prepared with <HI>Aqua Fortis,</HI> the &s;alt Spirits of which do unite them|&s;elves &s;o &s;trongly to the Mercury, that they cannot, by any means, be again &s;eparated, though it may be &s;weetned with wa&s;hing, and the Spirit of Wine, and may be al&s;o prepared
<PB N="83" REF="46">without <HI>Aqua Fortis;</HI> but &s;ince I have not &s;een the&s;e Medicines tryed, and have great cau&s;e to &s;u&s;pect them, I will not determine any thing concerning them.</P>
<P>I only know, that <HI>Mercurius Dulcis</HI> &s;ubli|mate, which &s;ome u&s;e, is not in the lea&s;t dan|gerous, by rea&s;on of its preparation, which Experience has confirmed to be very good: But &s;eeing it is nece&s;&s;ary that a great quantity thereof be given to each Patient, there ha|ving been one Per&s;on that had the Venereal Di&s;temper in the fir&s;t Degree, who took more than &s;ix hundred Grains, before his Cure could be effected; I &s;hall not make u&s;e of &s;uch a Remedy &s;o long as I can make a Sali|vation with a Mercury that is more &s;weet than that, and in &s;o &s;mall a quantity, that the Work may be very ea&s;ily compleated, by tak|ing fifteen or twenty Grains, and at the mo&s;t thirty, for the mo&s;t robu&s;t Per&s;ons, in three or four Do&s;es.</P>
<P>To make it appear that the thing is very ea&s;ie, we mu&s;t make the following Ob&s;ervati|ons, which &s;hall withal, mo&s;t clearly contain all the Proce&s;s that I u&s;e in my way of pre|paring Mercury.</P>
<P><HI>Fir&s;t,</HI> to proceed upon &s;ure Grounds, we mu&s;t bani&s;h every thing that is &s;harp, for the Mercury does find enough of that in the Bo|dies of tho&s;e who have the Venereal Di&s;tem|per;
<PB N="84" REF="47">there is al&s;o enough in all Bodies, which joyns with it, and gives it force enough to open the Salivary Ve&s;&s;els.</P>
<P><HI>Secondly,</HI> Seeing Mercury is a great Enemy to the Brain, and to the nervous Parts, when it is crude or ill prepared, it mu&s;t not be given crude, nay, not with a Purgative, which &s;ends it off by Stool, for this is not the way to procure a Salivation, becau&s;e it cannot be doubted but that there is a way to prepare it &s;o, as it &s;hall not be dangerous, as we &s;ee for example, in <HI>Mercurius Dulcis,</HI> which is known by Experience to be a harmle&s;s Remedy.</P>
<P><HI>Thirdly,</HI> That in what manner &s;oever Mer|cury be prepared, it can never be &s;o dive&s;ted of its own Nature, but that it will always keep a Character of its fir&s;t Form, which it can ea&s;ily re&s;ume in all the ordinary Preparati|ons, and that it is good to dive&s;t it as much as is po&s;&s;ible, at lea&s;t, as much as is nece&s;&s;ary, that the Mercury may not be revived in the Body.</P>
<P><HI>Fourthly,</HI> That for this rea&s;on, the Mercu|ry mu&s;t be given in as &s;mall a quantity as po&s;|fible; and it is to be ob&s;erved, that when Friction is allowable, as it is in Per&s;ons of a good Con&s;titution, there does very little Mer|cury enter into the Body, although the Un|gu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="2 letters"> does contain much of it; and it is &s;o far thus to be pre&s;umed, that there are &s;ome
<PB N="85" REF="47">judicious Per&s;ons who have maintained an O|pinion, that in this ca&s;e, nothing but the &s;in|gle Vapor of the Mercury does enter into the Body, and if one had the Curio&s;ity to gather the Mercury that remains in the Linnen, there would be the &s;ame weight found, that was put in the Unguent at the fir&s;t.</P>
<P><HI>Fifthly,</HI> That although the Mercury be made fit to go to the Head, and rai&s;e a Sa|livation; yet this Salivation &s;hall do no good, if it be not performed by &s;uch a motion as is called Critical; that is to &s;ay, that the Vene|real Matter mu&s;t be &s;eparated from the Ma&s;s of Blood, that it mu&s;t be conveighed out of the Body by the mo&s;t convenient Pa&s;&s;ages, which will not happen, if the Mercury be not a double Mercury, which may exert its Acti|vity from all Quarters, and be di&s;tributed through the whole Body, in conformity to the motion of the Blood, that it may be in a Capa|city to &s;eize upon the Venereal Ferment in all the parts of the Body; and therefore we mu&s;t think it to be much better, if we could joyn it in&s;eparably by way of Fermentation, to &s;ome dome&s;tick Spirit, that is well acquainted with the Affairs of the Hou&s;e, to conduct it through all tho&s;e Stages.</P>
<P><HI>Sixthly,</HI> When this is once effectually per|formed, we &s;hall only have a Medicine which will be more proper for Tran&s;piration than
<PB N="86" REF="48">for Salvation: And therefore there mu&s;t be an A&s;&s;i&s;tant that is no Stranger to this Kind, which mu&s;t be made fit to produce all the&s;e nece&s;&s;ary motions.</P>
<P>Ignorant Per&s;ons may imagine that I talk to be &s;een, and not to be under&s;tood; but Men of rea&s;on, who by Study and Indu&s;try, do in &s;ome mea&s;ure know the Nature of the Subject about which I treat, will under&s;tand me at the fir&s;t reading, and do me the Right to declare in my Favour, that it is not po&s;&s;ible for me to explain more clearly and faithfully, the preparation of a Medicine of this impor|tance.</P>
<P>And for &s;uch Per&s;ons it is, that I have writ|ten this Treati&s;e; 'tis ju&s;t, that they receive the Benefit of it, and that, in the mean time will invite others, by their Example, to In|du&s;try and Study. <HI>Qui nucleum ex nuce vult excorticat nucem.</HI> i. e. He that would have the Kernel mu&s;t crack the Shell. I further declare, that neither Ambition nor Covetou&s;|ne&s;s moved me hereunto. What I offer has a Foundation in rea&s;on, which a&s;&s;i&s;ted me in the finding of it, and this rea&s;on is &s;econded by a very fortunate Experience.</P>
<P>By this means we may cure the mo&s;t in|veterate Pox, I have already excepted that De|gree of it, where there is a Caries of the Bones of the No&s;e or the Skull. Yet we may rea|&s;onably
<PB N="87" REF="48">think it &s;ufficient. Neverthele&s;s, from the time that I fir&s;t di&s;covered this Anti-vene|real Medicine, although I have cured a great number of tho&s;e who had the Venereal Di&s;tem|per, I have not yet had enough of &s;uch Per&s;ons, who had their Bones &s;o very much putrified, as to afford me an Occa&s;ion of e&s;tabli&s;hing by Experience, an ab&s;olute A&s;&s;urance of the thing. No body, in the&s;e days, does &s;uffer him&s;elf to be eaten to the Bones by the Vene|real Di&s;temper, they look to it, in &s;ome rea|&s;onable time, without expo&s;ing them&s;elves to the Fatality of the la&s;t Degree, but becau&s;e I have formerly &s;een many, even of this &s;ort, who could not be cured, either by Mercurial Pills or Friction, which were given them with no &s;mall Rigour; I have, with good &s;ucce&s;s, u&s;ed on the like Occa&s;ions, a Fumigation or Vapour, with Turpentine or Bal&s;am of <HI>Peru,</HI> the Cru&s;t of Bread in Powder, and a little Mercury, and thereby rai&s;ed a happy Saliva|tion, proceeding gently at the fir&s;t. Yet this Method is not ab&s;olutely without Danger, al|though Mr. <HI>Sylvius de Leboe</HI> has &s;aid of it, that the Fumigation is the &s;afe&s;t way; it is ea&s;ie, by making the lea&s;t Ob&s;ervation, to be of a contrary mind, and I &s;hall demon&s;tratively prove, that this Remedy cannot cure all &s;orts of Pox, and if another way can be found for curing the Caries of the Bones, I would not
<PB N="88" REF="49">advi&s;e any one to u&s;e this; but &s;eeing this Method is not u&s;ed in this Country, and there are very few who knows how to practi&s;e it, I &s;hall no longer in&s;i&s;t on it.</P>
<P>I do not here pre&s;cribe any particular Me|thod for Infants, becau&s;e I know they may be very well cured without salivation, by the on|ly u&s;e of Sublimate, or in all Ca&s;es, by that of the Golden Precipitate.</P>
<P>Neither do I particularly con&s;ider as yet, the Ca&s;e of Women, who have irregular Cour&s;es, becau&s;e we know by experience, that the Remedy I have given does infallibly pro|voke the <HI>Men&s;trua,</HI> and that it does not in the lea&s;t divert Salivation: We have al&s;o ob&s;er|ved, that the &s;ame Remedy does provoke the Haemorrhoids in Men who are &s;ubject to them, without diverting Salivation.</P>
<P>And upon this account, it ought not to be given to Women with Child, for fear of an Abortion; but the Solar Precipitate is to be u&s;ed, and that with great moderation and pru|dence, and in Ca&s;e the Cure cannot be com|pleated before &s;he is brought to Bed, by rea&s;on of her being near her Time, which will hin|der the Continuance of the Remedy, it may be conveniently done afterwards, and in gi|ving it to the Mother, the Child will be cured at the &s;ame time, if &s;ome Grains of the Vola|tile Salt of Vipers be given to it from time
<PB N="89" REF="49">to time. Or the Mother may be &s;alivated in that Ca&s;e, if the Phy&s;ician plea&s;es.</P>
<P>There is no need of a &s;eparate Chapter for a De&s;cription of the Medicines that may cor|rect the ill Accidents that frequently follow upon Salivation, that is made by the mercurial Unguent which, to &s;peak the truth, are &s;o dreadful, that they are enough to &s;trike us with Horror, when we read them in Authors. You may judge how intolerable they are to the Patients, and what a Tragedy they are to the Spectators: For if the Medicine be well ordered, there will no ill Accident en&s;ue, there needs only a common Gargari&s;m to qua|lifie the Ulcers of the Mouth, yet this is not to be u&s;ed too often, unle&s;s there be an Haemor|rhagy, lea&s;t the Ulcers be clo&s;ed up too &s;oon, and &s;o the Salivation have not a due time for its Continuance, which ordinarily, is at the lea&s;t fifteen, &s;ixteen or twenty days, or at the mo&s;t thirty days, which happens very &s;eldom, unle&s;s when it is thought nece&s;&s;ary to be enter|tained &s;o long.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="10" TYPE="chapter">
<PB N="90" REF="50">
<HEAD>CHAP. X. <HI>Of the Chancre.</HI></HEAD>
<P>I Speak not here of Chancres that are the Accidents of the Venereal Di&s;temper, be|cau&s;e the&s;e are cured by the &s;ame Remedy, that is proper for the Pox, but only of tho&s;e that are the particular Pox, the Ferment of which has not been carried farther than the part which at fir&s;t received it; and whereof we have &s;poken &s;ufficiently in the preceding Chapters, with re&s;pect to the Theory; &s;o that it is needle&s;s to repeat the &s;ame thing. As for the Practice, I differ &s;omewhat from &s;ome Authors whom I have &s;een, not from a Spirit of Contradiction towards any Per&s;on, but be|cau&s;e I learned by Rea&s;on and Experience, that this &s;ort of Chancres may be more &s;ucce&s;|fully and ea&s;ily cured, otherwi&s;e than by the ordinary Methods.</P>
<P>They alledge that all Chancres of the right Sort, ought to be Cauteri&s;ed, and then brought to Suppuration; and for this purpo&s;e, they make u&s;e of Red Precipitate, of <HI>Lapis Infer|nalis,</HI> or the common Cau&s;tic, or Sublimate Corro&s;ive, and they Cicatrize the Chancre with a Suppurative, after that they u&s;e the Ordinary Remedies, and in the mean time
<PB N="91" REF="50">they Purge the Patient frequently with Mer|cury, for the depuration of his Blood, be|cau&s;e they &s;uppo&s;e, that it would be very ex|traordinary for the Chancre to remain in a Part, for any long time, without tran&s;mit|ting in&s;en&s;ibly &s;ome Particles of the Venereal Ferment into the Ma&s;s of Blood, which may produce the Univer&s;al Pox, if it be neglected, and be&s;ides that, tho&s;e who u&s;e the greate&s;t Precaution, give Diaphoretics to the Patient, after tho&s;e Remedies. All this is attended with an in&s;upportable Pain, and un&s;peakable trouble to the Per&s;on, be&s;ides the unrea&s;onable time which it requires. I am confident, that if <HI>Vigo</HI>'s Plai&s;ter, with a little <HI>Mercurius Praecipi|tatus dulcis</HI> be applyed to the Patient, and if &s;ome Do&s;es of the Solar Precipitate be given to him; The mo&s;t inveterate Chancre &s;hall be &s;afely Cured without pain, without trouble, and in a little time.</P>
<P>If there be a <HI>Phymo&s;is</HI> or a <HI>Paraphymo&s;is</HI> (that is to &s;ay, the former, when the Glans is &s;o enclo&s;ed within the Prepuce, that it can|not be uncovered, or the latter, when it is &s;o uncovered that it cannot be again covered) but the latter e&s;pecially, being attended with an Inflammation and a Pain; the &s;ame Solar Precipitate, after once Bleeding, is an Ef|fectual Remedy.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="11" TYPE="chapter">
<PB N="92" REF="51">
<HEAD>CHAP. XI. <HI>Of the Heat of &V;rine and the Virulent</HI> Go|norrhea.</HEAD>
<P>IT would require a Book by it &s;elf to treat of this kind of Pox exactly; yet all &s;orts of Per&s;ons meddle with it, and there are tho&s;e who pretend that they can ea&s;ily Cure it with Water and Sugar, others with a bare Royal Pti&s;an, which is to be taken every day, till the Cure be Compleated, a third Sort, with the Salt Polychre&s;t or Chry&s;tal Mineral; in a Word; every one does flatter him&s;elf with the Fancy that he has found an Excellent and ea&s;y Method for Curing this Di&s;ea&s;e.</P>
<P>Yet they who are mo&s;t Conver&s;ant about tho&s;e things, and who are to be Credited, are obliged to acknowledge, that if there are &s;ometimes Heats of Urine that may be ea&s;ily Cured, there is al&s;o a great number of others which are hard enough to be Cured; and that oftentimes the great Di&s;ea&s;e might be more ea&s;ily Cured then any Venereal Heat of Urine what&s;oever, e&s;pecially, if it be not well lookt to at the beginning, and if the &s;pecific Remedies be neglected, or ill admini|&s;tred.</P>
<PB N="93" REF="51">
<P>I have &s;een no approved Treati&s;e of this Subject, but what does give Rules that are to be ob&s;erved, for a good Cure. And therefore, I &s;hall not here particularly treat of them. Yet I hope, within &s;ome time, to give &s;ome &s;ingular Ob&s;ervations upon this Subject, which I would have willingly done in this Impre&s;&s;ion, if they had been ready for a publication.</P>
<P>Yet that this Treati&s;e may not be altoge|ther Defective, I &s;hall here lay down a Me|thod of Practice for ordinary occa&s;ions.</P>
<P>I do not repeat what I have &s;aid in the fourth Chapter, touching the Theory of this particular Pox: for although I did not very much enlarge upon it, you may there find that which is nece&s;&s;ary for the Knowledge of it's Nature, and the manner of it's Pro|duction.</P>
<P><HI>Fir&s;t,</HI> If the Per&s;on be of a very hot Tem|per, and Plethoric, and the Pain, and heat of Urine con&s;iderable, there is no danger in Bleeding him, and repeating it as often as it &s;hall be thought nece&s;&s;ary; The Blood mu&s;t be taken in the Arm, to make a true revul&s;i|on, and not in the Foot, which would draw the Humours more upon the part.</P>
<P>They were formerly, very &s;crupulous to let Blood, and e&s;pecially, in the Arm, becau&s;e they
<PB N="94" REF="52">believed, that that might attract the virulency into the ma&s;s of Blood, and thereby occa&s;ion the great Pox, but they were undeceived, af|ter they &s;aw that both rea&s;on and experience do manife&s;tly ju&s;tify Phlebotomy. The circula|tion of the Blood does plainly &s;hew, that if there were any danger in letting of Blood, the practice would be as dangerous in the Foot as in the Arm; and experience &s;hews, that bleeding in the Arm does &s;o much contribute to the Cure, that it is the means of preven|ting the Pox, becau&s;e it cools and &s;uppre&s;&s;es the inflammation, and thereby hinders the pro|gre&s;s of the Venereal Ferment, it disburdens the Sanguinary Ve&s;&s;els, and &s;o makes way for Purgatives and Diuretics to operate with the greater Efficacy.</P>
<P>Yet I do not alledge, that all &s;orts of Pa|tients ought to bleed, but only tho&s;e who are hot, Sanguine and Plethoric.</P>
<P>I Advi&s;e withal that the Virulency be not neglected, and that the &s;pecific Remedy, which is <HI>Mercurius dulcis,</HI> be not forgotten, which is &s;ufficient for this Di&s;ea&s;e, if it be given with convenient Purgatives, as <HI>Ca&s;&s;ia,</HI> fine <HI>Catholicon,</HI> or Confection of Hamech, and repeated from time to time, as nece&s;&s;ity &s;hall require.</P>
<PB N="95" REF="52">
<P>Neverthele&s;s this Remedy will be inef|fectual, or very &s;low on &s;ome occa&s;ions, as when the hot Urine is roapy, which happens when the Inflammation is very great, and the Patients &s;uffer great Pains, that cau&s;e a Convul&s;ion in the Nerves of the Yard, which by dilating them&s;elves in their breadth, do re|tire toward their Original, and &s;o make the Yard crooked or twi&s;ted; In this Ca&s;e it will be found, that one Do&s;e of the Solar Preci|pitate &s;ea&s;onably given, will be a very &s;afe and effectual Expedient.</P>
<P>In the mean time, care is to be taken, that the Patient may be Cooled, which is one of the fir&s;t things to be done, and 'tis to be re|membred, that if he be heated from the be|ginning, by a Purgative, the Malady be|comes thereby very Rebellious, and the Symptoms are exceedingly encrea&s;ed; or the virulent Matter &s;hall be thrown upon the Stones: Emul&s;ions are the be&s;t means that can be u&s;ed for cooling, after which, if it be thought convenient, there may be given &s;ome very cooling Pri&s;an for Example, of whole Barley, the Roots of Water-lilly, Sorrel, Mar&s;h Mallows, and of Liquorice, Lin&s;eed, the Cold Seeds, white Poppy Seed, and &s;ome Lemmon juyce, all boyled together in a proportionable quantity of Water, which
<PB N="96" REF="53">mu&s;t be always a great deal, becau&s;e the Pa|tient mu&s;t drink as much of the Pti&s;an as his Stomach can bear.</P>
<P>When the accidents di&s;appear, &s;o that the virulency is mitigated by the means of <HI>Mer|curious Dulcis,</HI> that the running is not &s;o great, and becomes prety white, if an Ulcer be thought to be in tho&s;e Parts that are the Seat of the <HI>Gonnorrhea,</HI> there mu&s;t be put in the Pri|&s;an a little of the Salt Polychre&s;t, or Cry&s;tal Mineral, or which is much better, the fixed Salt Armoniac, which is a gentle and power|ful Diuretic for clean&s;ing Ulcers, after which, to con&s;olidate the Part, there mu&s;t be given, for &s;ome mornings, in a little Wine, twelve or fifteen drops of a mixture made by di&s;tillation, of two parts of the Bal&s;am of Peru, one Part of the Ethereal Spirit of Turpentine. Or, this following preparation of Antimony may be u&s;ed, which is a good remedy for drying an Ulcer; it &s;tops the running of matter, gently and in&s;en&s;ibly, and al&s;o expells the re|mainder of the virulent matter, by &s;weat, when it has not been &s;ufficiently taken off by preceeding Medecins.</P>
<P>Take equal Parts of good Antimony, and of Harts-horn calcined to a whitne&s;s, mix the&s;e two &s;ub&s;tances very well upon Marble, put the mixture in an open Earthen Ve&s;&s;el, &s;et it
<PB N="97" REF="53">in a Wind Furnace, you &s;hall calcine them, by &s;tirring the matter continually with an Iron Spatula, till the &s;moak thereof be well over; after which the whole is to be put into a Crucible with a large bottom; calcine them therein over a great fire, for the &s;pace of two hours; you &s;hall have a Powder, white as Snow, and which for &s;ome great and peculi|ar advantages, is preferable to the vulgar Dia|phoretic Antimony; which will be manife&s;t by experience: The Do&s;e is, half a Drachm with the Con&s;erve of Ro&s;es, or any other con&s;erve, or water of the like nature, as you plea&s;e.</P>
<P>No injections are to be u&s;ed, if they may be avoided, but &s;ometimes we are at la&s;t ob|liged to u&s;e them, and that we may have one that is proper and &s;afe, this is to be made u&s;e of.</P>
<P>Take a handful of Hor&s;-tail, as much of red Ro&s;es, and five or &s;ix Flowers of a Pome|granate, or their peeling in proportion. Let all be boyled in three pints of Claret Wine of a good Body, to the diminution of the half, then &s;train it through a Linnen-cloath to free it from the gro&s;&s;er Parts, and make an injection with it three or four times a day.</P>
<P>All the&s;e Remedies will be unprofitable, if the Patient does not ob&s;erve good Rules for
<PB N="98" REF="54">governing him&s;elf, he mu&s;t be continent, u&s;e no violent exerci&s;e (e&s;pecially what may prove trouble&s;ome to the Reins, &s;uch as much walking, riding) avoid drinking of Wine, Sauces, play, watching, and the like.</P>
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<HEAD>CHAP. XII. <HI>Of a Bubo, or Poulain.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THE manner how a Venereal Bubo or Poulain is produced has been &s;poken of in the fourth Chapter, we need only add here, that &s;eeing the Poulain is produced in a cri|tical manner, it is not to be imagined, that it is a perfect Cri&s;is; and when &s;uch a tu|mour does appear in the Groyn, which makes a Poulain, although the Venereal matter of that Poulain has been &s;eparated from the ma&s;s of Blood, and the Blood is entirely clean&s;ed from it, yet there does always remain a great deal more, and even when the Poulain does &s;uppurate very well, there is &s;ome time re|quired, before the ma&s;s of Blood can be freed; and po&s;&s;ibly this will never happen, unle&s;s there be great care taken, both to draw forth the matter by external Remedies, as by Cup|ping Gla&s;&s;es, and Ve&s;icatory Plai&s;ters, and like|wi&s;e to give frequent and &s;trong Purges by
<PB N="99" REF="54">Specifics; be&s;ides a Sudorific diet, which &s;ome pre&s;cribe, the better to con&s;ume the Venereal Ferment, with which the whole Blood is in|fected.</P>
<P>And upon this account, we ought to look upon this &s;ort of Pox, not as particular, but Univer&s;al, becau&s;e the virulency thereof does re&s;ide in the Blood, and it is upon this ground, that I am of opinion, that it does re|quire the &s;ame Remedy. I further affirm, that by that means, it &s;hall not only be Cured with all imaginable a&s;&s;urance, but likewi&s;e in a much le&s;s time, then according to the ordi|nary method.</P>
<P>To under&s;tand this well, we need only ob&s;erve, that two or three Month's time is often times requi&s;ite for perfecting the Cure of a Poulain. When it begins to appear, they apply Cupping-Gla&s;&s;es to it, to draw the mat|ter outwards, and &s;tay it in that Part, which puts the Patient to a great deal of Pain; after which, they apply very attractive Plai&s;ters or Catapla&s;ms, and very frequently it is a Month before that Bubo come to a &s;tate of &s;uppurati|on, e&s;pecially in tho&s;e who are of a cold and Melancholly temper; for in tho&s;e that are Sanguin it does &s;uppurate more ea&s;ily: when the Purulent matter is of &s;ome maturity, they open the Bubo with a Launce or Cauter, and
<PB N="100" REF="55">dre&s;s it as they do other tumours, till the &s;up|puration be over, which is of a very long continuance: in the mean time they Purge the Patient frequently with Mercurial Pills they confine him to a Diet Drink and after all, there are &s;ome who make him &s;weat a little, or empty him by Diuretics.</P>
<P>If the Solar precipitate be u&s;ed every third day, and Vigo's Plai&s;ter with Mercury, be applyed to the Bubo; Poulains &s;hall be Cured without danger, if what we &s;aid in the Eight Chapter be ob&s;erved, where we &s;poke of the Golden Precipitate.</P>
<P>By this method you will find that Pou|lains are re&s;olved, and the con&s;equences are not to be feared, becau&s;e, according to the Precautions that we have laid down, the Blood is &s;o well depurated, that there remains no Venereal Ferment; and no Man can upon any good ground oppo&s;e this method, be|cau&s;e, it may be often ob&s;erved, that Poulains do di&s;appear, (what ever may be pretended) after all kinds of &s;uppuratives have been e&s;|&s;ay'd, and the Patient has endured a long Fatigue. And therefore, there is a nece&s;&s;ity, to u&s;e the &s;ame methods as in the great Di&s;tem|per, or, if it be not done in that time, tho&s;e who differ from me, are con&s;trained to u&s;e this way, when they &s;ee the ordinary &s;igns of the Pox appear. Tho&s;e who have practice
<PB N="101" REF="55">about Poulains, know very well that what I &s;ay, is true, and if they would be at the Pains to reflect on their own method, if they would take a view of the &s;ick whom they have not recovered, or have cruelly tortured, and if they were di&s;po&s;ed to quit the prejudices with which they are Blinded, they would quickly embrace what I propo&s;e, &s;eeing it is a more certain, gentle and &s;hort way.</P>
<P>But if a Poulain comes to &s;uppurate of it &s;elf; it would, in this Ca&s;e be very fooli&s;h, to drive the Venereal matter into the Body, to evacuate it by &s;tool, or any other way than by the Part it &s;elf; which ought to be cauteri|zed or launced, without expecting any thing but the Maturation of the ab&s;ce&s;s it &s;elf. The matter mu&s;t be let alone, to run &s;o long as it can of it &s;elf, by keeping in the pa&s;&s;age a Tent of Lint only, and the like upon the Plai&s;ter which we have mentioned, and in the mean time, the other Remedies of which we have &s;poken are to be given, as if the Bubo had not been opened.</P>
<P>I declare, it is very much to be wi&s;hed that Buboes did &s;uppurate of them&s;elves, and al&s;o, that if in&s;tead of the drawing Plai&s;ter, the matter could be &s;o ordered that all the Venereal matter, with which the ma&s;s of Blood is infected, might be evacuated through the pa&s;&s;age that is made after &s;uppuration;
<PB N="102" REF="56">the &s;ick would receive &s;ome comfort, under the extraordinary pain which they &s;uffer, and the weari&s;om time that is taken for the Cure: But to &s;uffer much, to be patient beyond pa|tience, and to take an extraordinary Number of trouble&s;ome Medicins, all this, I &s;ay, is &s;ufficient to open the Eyes of tho&s;e who are mo&s;t &s;tupid, and oblige them to con&s;ider what I propo&s;e to them.</P>
<P>I know very well, that it is a matter of &s;ome difficulty, for tho&s;e who have been pre|vented with a contrary method, to accommodate them&s;elves to this: rea&s;on, how Pregnant &s;o|ever it may be in it &s;elf, has ordinarily no power over tho&s;e who are not in a condition to u&s;e it them&s;elves, or (if they be) are en|gaged by their intere&s;t, not to change; the continuance of the Di&s;ea&s;e, a great Number of Catapla&s;ms, Pills, Pti&s;ans maintain the Trade of not a few in the World, and are valuable enough to purcha&s;e &s;ome Lucre, which is fairly advanced by the Pains that the &s;ick en|dure, who being ignorant of the Nature of the Di&s;ea&s;e, do never think it great but when the pain is great, and when the Cure takes a long time: Neverthele&s;s, becau&s;e there are &s;ome able Men in all places, who hearken to rea&s;on, and who are &s;o laudably di&s;po&s;ed, that they &s;uffer them&s;elves to be convinced,
<PB N="103" REF="56">I hope, that there may be &s;ome one of &s;uch found, who will grant me one thing at lea&s;t, which is to examin impartially what I offer; and when he &s;hall find that what I affirm is not contrary to rea&s;on; it mu&s;t al&s;o be en|quired, if experience does agree with rea&s;on; by this means he will judge rightly, and if there be any cau&s;e for it, he may give me the lye, but I have no rea&s;on to be affraid of the charge, becau&s;e, before I offered any thing to the World, I did three things, I rea|&s;on'd, I practi&s;ed, and frequently reflected on my own experience.</P>
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<P>Some Curious PROBLEMS: IN WHICH The fine&s;t <HI>Que&s;tions</HI> that can be propo&s;ed concerning the <HI>Vene|real Di&s;temper,</HI> are re&s;olved.</P>
<P>And which may &s;erve for an ILLUSTRATION Of the former TREATISE.</P>
<P>By the &s;ame <HI>Author.</HI></P>
<P>Printed in the Year, 1689.</P>
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<HEAD>AN ADVERTISEMENT Concerning the PROBLEMS.</HEAD>
<P N="1"><HI>I</HI> Have ob&s;erved no particular Order in pub|li&s;hing the&s;e Problems. I have left them in the &s;ame order in which I writ them, which is as they occurred to my Thoughts. There are &s;ome of them which cannot be perfectly under|&s;tood without reading &s;ome Chapter of the preceding Treati&s;e. It is true, that I have taken the Pains to refer the Reader to the Chapter, by quoting &s;uch as has a Relation to the &s;ubject Matter of the Pro|blem; the re&s;t, being more Ea&s;ie, may be under|&s;tood by every one at the fir&s;t reading. I have af|fected an extream Brevity in them all, yet not neg|lecting what was nece&s;&s;ary to make me be under|&s;tood, that tho&s;e who have occa&s;ion for any Deci&s;ion upon &s;ome of the&s;e Problematic Que&s;tions, in which they &s;hall find them&s;elves intere&s;ted, either for them&s;elves or for their Friend, may be quickly &s;atisfied without Impatience; and tho&s;e who &s;hall read them for Curio&s;ity only, may not be di&s;gu&s;ted
<PB N="108" REF="59">with the tedious Length, to which Problematick Que&s;tions are ordainarily d<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="2 letters">wn. And moreover, I have, for this rea&s;on, frequently in the Problem, omitted the oppo&s;ite Opinion; for a Problem is pro|perly a Que&s;tion which has Rea&s;ons <HI>Pro</HI> and <HI>Con;</HI> becau&s;e I follow &s;o clear, &s;o &s;imple, and &s;o natural a Method for re&s;olving tho&s;e I give, that the oppo|&s;ite Opinion may be ea&s;ily refuted with tho&s;e Rea&s;ons which <HI>I</HI> u&s;e.</P>
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<PB N="109" REF="59">
<HEAD><HI>Problem</HI> I. <HI>Whence it proceeds that the Venereal Di&s;temper re|mains concealed in the Body, without any In<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="4 letters"> veniency, and that it does afterwards appear with all its Signs.</HI></HEAD>
<P>WE have &s;hewn in the Fourth Chap|ter, that a Venereal Ferment, in its ordinary progre&s;s, does &s;tick by the external part that fir&s;t re|ceives it, and from thence does communicate it &s;elf to the Ma&s;s of Blood, by rea&s;on of a Fermentation which does multiply it, by changing the neighbouring parts into its own Nature, and when the Ma&s;s of Blood is infect|ed by it, it is carried into all the Body by the Arteries; but becau&s;e the Medicines that have been taken by a Per&s;on that has the Venereal Di&s;temper do clean&s;e the Blood by an Effer; ve&s;cence, or becau&s;e Nature does &s;o provide, that in that ca&s;e there &s;hall be a continual E|bullition; it does often times fall out, that a &s;mall quantity of that Venereal Ferment is, as
<PB N="110" REF="60">as it were, precipitated into &s;ome part of the Body, which &s;hall be more di&s;po&s;ed to receive it then other parts are, as we &s;ee in Rheums, and that Ferment loo&s;ing its motion in tho&s;e parts grows fixed and dormant, having but little action el&s;ewhere, becau&s;e of its &s;mall quantity, whence it comes to pa&s;s, that it can remain concealed for the &s;pace of ten, nay, even thirty years without any &s;en&s;ible mark of its pre&s;ence, till it &s;hall happen that being excited by &s;ome particular Cau&s;e, or exalted by a foreign or natural Heat, it is put in a Condition of corrupting the adjacent parts, and the&s;e corrupting others, till at length the Ma&s;s of Blood be infected, and the Ferment is di&s;tributed through all the Body in that manner, where it does produce tho&s;e Acci|dents that are as dreadful as they are &s;urpri&s;|ing to a Per&s;on who finds him&s;elf puni&s;hed with the Venereal Di&s;temper, without having given any occa&s;ion for it for &s;o many years pa&s;t.</P>
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<PB N="111" REF="60">
<HEAD><HI>Problem</HI> II. <HI>To know if a Man or a Woman, who have the Ve|nereal Di&s;temper, may have Children born free from that Di&s;ea&s;e.</HI></HEAD>
<P>BY the fir&s;t <HI>Problem</HI> it was &s;hewn, that one may have the Pox, and yet the Ma&s;s of Blood not be infected, becau&s;e the Virulency is di&s;charged upon &s;ome one or more parts of the Body, and in that ca&s;e there may be Chil|dren begotten and born that &s;hall not have that Di&s;ea&s;e, becau&s;e the Arteries do carry the Seminal matter to the Te&s;ticles; this Opinion is founded on Rea&s;on, and Experience does confirm it every day; for we &s;ee that there are very &s;ound Children born of Parents &s;ub|ject to the Venereal Di&s;temper; it is al&s;o ve|ry probable, that the Ma&s;s of Blood may be infected with the Venereal Ferment, but in &s;uch a manner as that the Seed may not be corrupted thereby; as when for Example, the Ferment is as yet very much fixed, or not e|qually mixed through all the Blood, for the &s;eminal Sub&s;tance which is the pure&s;t and mo&s;t &s;pirituous part of the Blood, may be &s;epara|ted without drawing any Particle of the Ve|nereal Ferment along with it. And accord|ing to this we &s;ee every day, Parents who are
<PB N="112" REF="61">&s;ubject to &s;undry other Di&s;ea&s;es, beget &s;ound Children, and who are altogether free from the like Di&s;tempers.</P>
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<HEAD><HI>Problem</HI> III. <HI>Why a Woman, who has not actually the Venereal Di&s;temper, does neverthele&s;s give it.</HI></HEAD>
<P>IF it be true, as Rea&s;on and Experience do &s;hew, that the Venereal Ferment is produced by the Corruption of many Seeds, received into the Matrix of the &s;ame Woman, as we have explained it in the fifth Chapter, it is ea&s;ie to comprehend, that if after a Wo|man has known many Men, another keeps Company with her, at &s;uch time as the fir&s;t Seeds &s;hall be fermented (yet without making any impre&s;&s;ion upon the Matrix of the Wo|man, and who by con&s;equence has not the Pox, although &s;he has the Cau&s;e near enough) that Man, I &s;ay, &s;hall carry off with his Yard that Venereal Ferment, and &s;hall fre|quently free the Woman from the eminent Danger &s;he was in, of having the Pox within a very little time,</P>
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<DIV1 N="4" TYPE="problem">
<PB N="113" REF="61">
<HEAD><HI>Problem</HI> IV. <HI>Why, among&s;t &s;everal Men, who lye with the &s;ame Woman that is infected with the Venereal Di|&s;temper, one gets a Heat of &V;rine, another a Chancre, another a Poulain, another the great Pox, and others get no Harm at all.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THis <HI>Problem</HI> would be &s;oon explained, by alledging, that it depends upon the different Con&s;titution of tho&s;e Men; but to give a Phy&s;ical Rea&s;on for it, it is to be &s;hewn wherein that Di&s;po&s;ition does con&s;i&s;t. And therefore it mu&s;t be ob&s;erved, that when the Venereal Ferment that is contained in the Concavity of the Matrix is very volatile, and the Pa&s;&s;age of the Yard is large enough, that Ferment being excited by Copulation, has the force to penetrate to the Pro&s;tate and Para|&s;tate, to produce therein that Di&s;po&s;ition which does cau&s;e a heat of Urine; &s;ometimes it is yet more volatile, and goes into the Ma&s;s of Blood, where it does produce the great Pox; but if the Heat be great enough to ex|pel that Virulency by a critical way, the Mat|ter being carried to the Groin, a Poulain does grow there; but if the Venereal Ferment is le&s;s &s;ubtil, it &s;tays on the outward parts of the Yard (e&s;pecially in tho&s;e who have taken no
<PB N="114" REF="62">care to wipe the &s;ame after the Venereal Act) and produces &s;ome Chancre, and tho&s;e who take care to wipe them&s;elves, who have their Yard not &s;o porous and hot, who otherwi&s;e are very active in the Affair, or who come af|ter the Matrix is clean&s;ed by tho&s;e who went before, receive no hurt, although it does often fall out, the fir&s;t gets free, and the latter is catch'd, which may then happen, not only for &s;ome one of tho&s;e Rea&s;ons, which we have already given, but al&s;o becau&s;e the Venereal Ferment which is in the pa&s;&s;age of the Ma|trix is le&s;s penetrating, the Per&s;on being cold, or becau&s;e it is imbibed in the Pores, and the &s;mall Glands of that Pa&s;&s;age, in which it lyes, as it were dormant, whence it comes to pa&s;s, that the fir&s;t came well off, not having put the Ferment into a &s;ufficient Motion, for to make it penetrate, and that the latter does put it in an Agitation that will &s;erve to tran&s;mit a &s;hare of it to him&s;elf. To conclude, many other Circum&s;tances may concur upon the whole Matter, which may be ea&s;ily found out by the Ob&s;ervations that we have already made.</P>
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<DIV1 N="5" TYPE="problem">
<PB N="115" REF="62">
<HEAD><HI>Problem</HI> V. <HI>Why a Woman, who has a Heat of &V;rine, does not always give to him who has to do with her, the like; but (it may be) a Chancre, or a Pou|lain, and &s;o the &s;ame, when &s;he has a Chancre.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THis <HI>Problem</HI> is very near wholly explain|ed by the former, wherein it was made manife&s;t that the quality of the Venereal Fer|ment, and the manner of receiving it does make all that difference. Thus, when it is vo|latile, and the Pa&s;&s;age of the Yard is open, it does in&s;inuate it &s;elf into the Pro&s;tatae, and Pa|ra&s;tatae, to produce heat of Urine therein; if it &s;tays upon the outward Parts, it cau&s;es &s;ome Chancre there, and &s;o of the re&s;t. This po&s;i|tion being laid down, it is ea&s;ie to compre|hend, that a Woman who has a Chancre in the Pa&s;&s;age of her Matrix, &s;hall neverthele&s;s communicate heat of Urine to a Man who has knowledge of her, becau&s;e the Motion and Heat &s;hall &s;o attenuate the Ferment of the Chancre, that it &s;hall ea&s;ily penetrate into the Pa&s;&s;age of the Yard; and on the contrary, if &s;he has a Heat of Urine, &s;he may ea&s;ily give a Chancre, becau&s;e the Venereal Ferment of that hot Urine &s;hall &s;tay upon the External parts of the Yard.</P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="6" TYPE="problem">
<PB N="116" REF="63">
<HEAD><HI>Problem</HI> VI. <HI>Why there are &s;ome who catch the Venereal Di&s;tem|per at the fir&s;t amorous Congre&s;s, and others do not take it after many, though they have always had to do with the &s;ame infected Per&s;on.</HI></HEAD>
<P>BY a rational Con&s;equence, we mu&s;t con|clude, that if one be more than ordinary hot, the natural parts very porous, and the Venereal Ferment exceeding active, the Ve|nereal Di&s;temper may be got at the fir&s;t <HI>Coitus.</HI> This may happen to a Man who has know|ledge of an infected Woman, when &s;he has, or is very near having her Months, for then the Venereal Ferment, joyning it &s;elf to the men&s;trual Ferment, which is na|tural to all Women who are in a Condition of having their Months, does produce a more vigorous effect, which therefore becomes the more malignant, and when there are contrary Di&s;po&s;itions, and one does likewi&s;e take care to wipe and wa&s;h him&s;elf, and to make water af|ter the Venereal Act, &s;uch a Corre&s;pondence may be frequently maintained with one that has the Venereal Di&s;temper, without any evil Con|&s;equence. But this is not to be rely'd upon, for there are &s;o many particular Di&s;po&s;i|tions that do concur in this Ca&s;e, in &s;uch a manner as it is impo&s;&s;ible to avoid them, or
<PB N="117" REF="63">prevent them any other way then by Conti|nence, which is the only Pre&s;ervative again&s;t the Venereal Di&s;temper, as we &s;hall &s;hew in the following <HI>Problem.</HI></P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="7" TYPE="problem">
<HEAD><HI>Problem.</HI> VII. <HI>If there be any infallible Pre&s;ervative again&s;t the Venereal Di&s;temper.</HI></HEAD>
<P>LIbertines have been, for a long time, &s;earch|ing for &s;ome preventing Medicine to Arm them again&s;t the Venereal Di&s;temper, that they might continue their di&s;&s;olute Life, and yet be without the reach of that Di&s;ea&s;e. We al&s;o &s;ee, that &s;ome Authors do give Pre|&s;criptions for this purpo&s;e; from which &s;ome promi&s;e them&s;elves marvellous Succe&s;s, and are very confident, that by that means, Men may take their &s;wing, keep as much Company, as they plea&s;e with Per&s;ons infected with the Ve|nereal Di&s;temper. By this, all Men of Sence may ea&s;ily judge, that &s;uch Authors are Cheats, who to purcha&s;e Credit at the co&s;t of others, do venture all at once, and &s;o pro|&s;titute their Con&s;cience, which mu&s;t needs be &s;truck with horror, for teaching a Remedy in favour of a debauched Conver&s;ation; See|ing, without all doubt, there is a va&s;t number
<PB N="118" REF="64">of Per&s;ons, who are Libertines by Inclinati|on, who would go to the Stews, if they were a&s;&s;ured that they &s;hould not catch the Pox, as there are a great many young Women who would not value their Virginity, if they were &s;ecured again&s;t a Big-belly. And there|fore, tho&s;e who &s;hew &s;uch Expedients, &s;hall be the Authors of &s;uch dammage as they can never repair: But further, all &s;uch Pre|&s;ervatives, to &s;peak properly, are nothing el&s;e but Impo&s;tures, which yet have gained Credit with &s;ome &s;illy Per&s;ons, who &s;uffer them&s;elves to be impo&s;ed upon, by the exceeding woe|ful Rea&s;ons, that they alledge, for Conciliating Authority, to that pretended Pre&s;ervative; the mo&s;t conclu&s;ive of which is &s;uch, as at mo&s;t, does only prove the po&s;&s;ibility of &s;uch a Remedy.</P>
<P>There is no Poy&s;on, but what has a pro|per Antidote, nor a Di&s;ea&s;e without it's own Specific, and all the difficulty is to know the&s;e Antidotes and the&s;e Specifics. We have heard of Men who being fortified with good Antidotes did &s;o vigorou&s;ly defend them&s;elves again&s;t Poy&s;ons, that they &s;uffered no Altera|tion from them, and &s;till we &s;ee &s;ome Per&s;ons who have natural Tali&s;mans, and carrying &s;uch about them, go among&s;t tho&s;e who are infected with the Plague without any danger of being touched with it; we &s;aw in the time of the la&s;t Pe&s;tilence, a Man who was
<PB N="119" REF="64">called <HI>Vinceguerre,</HI> who carried a Vial full of a Compo&s;ition, which po&s;&s;ibly is not unknown to us, and with that he went among&s;t tho&s;e who were &s;ick of the Plague, with contiual &s;afety both to him&s;elf and tho&s;e who ac|companied him, though he expo&s;ed him&s;elf every hour to that greate&s;t Fatality; Why (&s;ay they) may there not be found a Pre&s;er|vative of as con&s;iderable a Vertue, with re|&s;pect to the Venereal Di&s;temper. I am clear|ly of the mind, that we may be hereby induced to believe, &s;uch a Pre&s;ervative to be po&s;&s;ible. But if it be con&s;idered, that although God is plea&s;ed to &s;end the Plague frequently among&s;t Men, for the Puni&s;hment of their Crimes, yet he does not execute his Anger upon them all equally, and therefore, be&s;ides his Grace which is the principal and &s;overaign Pre&s;er|vative, he is plea&s;ed very often, to make u&s;e of natural Means, which the Philo&s;ophers call Contraries; &s;o the Plague has it's con|trary, without all doubt, which can extin|gui&s;h it, as water quenches fire, &s;eeing it is not in the power of Man to defend him&s;elf again&s;t manifold external Cau&s;es, which the Phy&s;icians call Non-natural, as for Example, from the Air, which frequently tran&s;mits the Plague and many other Epidemical Di&s;ea&s;es; it is very rea&s;onable for us to think that God has Created contrary things, that there may be
<PB N="120" REF="65">a po&s;&s;ibility of our Cure, &s;o long as he &s;uffers the natural Cau&s;es to continue in their ordi|nary Cour&s;e; But, as to the Venereal Di|&s;temper, &s;eeing it is commonly the reward of the Sin of Fornication, which God has al|ways had in Abomination, as we have &s;aid in the fir&s;t Chapter, and that that Di&s;temper may be avoided by Continence, which is the true Pre&s;ervative, it &s;eems that it was no ways nece&s;&s;ary that God &s;hould create a Specific Pre&s;ervative again&s;t that: And for tho&s;e, who being innocent, have contracted the Venereal Di&s;temper, as Infants in their Mo|ther's Womb, or on the Brea&s;ts, Virtuous Women who have got it from their di&s;&s;olute Husbands, and tho&s;e good Husbands that are trepann'd by their extravagant Wives; It is &s;ufficient, that there are a&s;&s;ured Medicines in Nature, and in the hands of skilful Arti&s;ts for the Cure of that Di&s;temper.</P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="8" TYPE="problem">
<PB N="121" REF="65">
<HEAD><HI>Problem.</HI> VIII. <HI>To know if a Woman who has her Cour&s;es can give the Venereal Di&s;temper.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THere is frequently a &s;pecious Pretext u&s;ed to palliate the Crimes of &s;uch Women as have given the Venereal Di|&s;temper to their Husbands, by telling them, that the mi&s;chief has therefore befallen them, becau&s;e they would needs embrace them whil&s;t they had their Cour&s;es: There are &s;ome who tell &s;ome Old Women's Stories, or &s;ome Pa&s;&s;ages taken out of <HI>Cardan, John Bapti&s;ta Porta,</HI> or the Book of <HI>Albertus Magnus, de &s;ecretis mulierum.</HI> They <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">lledge, that the Vapour of the <HI>Men&s;trua</HI> does &s;tain Looking|gla&s;&s;es, &s;o as no Art can remove the infection, that Women kill the Plants that are near them, and Chickens which they look upon, at that Juncture, and many other Rap&s;odies, which are only for diver&s;ion or amu&s;ing &s;illy Souls who believe every thing that is told them, without examination, or regard had to the Credit of the Author that does propo&s;e it. Some others, that they may be more &s;erious will relate on this Subject of Women's Months, &s;undry Pa&s;&s;ages of the Old Te&s;ta|ment,
<PB N="122" REF="66">and e&s;pecially in the fifteenth Chap|ter of <HI>Leviticus:</HI> which is, to &s;ay the truth, a very impertinent Quotation, becau&s;e they ought not to mix &s;acred things with pro|fane, when there is no occa&s;ion for it, and the Scripture is &s;o my&s;terious, that we mu&s;t refer the expo&s;ition thereof to tho&s;e who&s;e profe&s;&s;ion it is to handle it, who are of a more refined Character then that of a meer Naturali&s;t. Therefore to re&s;olve our Problem, it mu&s;t be maintained, that Wo|men's Months never flow but by rea&s;on of a Fermentation, and the men&s;trual Blood at|tracting that Ferment which has been ga|thered in the &s;pace of one Month, in the &s;mall pa&s;&s;ages of the Matrix, it cannot be, but that the Blood mu&s;t needs ferment &s;ome other Bodies, which may be di&s;po&s;ed for it, but above all, the men&s;trual Blood of &s;ome Women who have their Humours very &s;harp and corrupted, has much more force then that of other Women: It is by rea&s;on of this Acrimony, that we &s;ee Men have Heats, Bli&s;ters and &s;mall Ulcers on their Yard, after having known &s;ome Women otherwi&s;e very &s;ound, in the time of their Months; but &s;uch inconveniences cannot po&s;&s;ibly de|generate into the Pox, for as we &s;aid, in the fifth Chapter, that the Seed of one Man and one Woman can never degenerate into a
<PB N="123" REF="66">Venereal Ferment; becau&s;e that would be again&s;t the Laws of Nature; It may be al&s;o &s;aid, that it would be no le&s;s again&s;t the &s;ame Laws, for Women's Months to give the Ve|nereal Di&s;temper; none could e&s;cape the Pox, and Women that are Big mu&s;t infect the very Child in their Womb; the Women them&s;elves mu&s;t have it, and to conclude, a great many Ab&s;urdities would follow, which are obvious to the con&s;ideration of every one, &s;o that it is needle&s;s to &s;tay any longer upon this Problem.</P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="9" TYPE="problem">
<HEAD><HI>Problem.</HI> IX. <HI>To know if the Stars can be the Cau&s;e of the Venereal Di&s;temper.</HI></HEAD>
<P>IT is very plea&s;ant to ob&s;erve that &s;ome Authors do attribute the Original of the Venereal Di&s;temper to the Stars. When &s;ome do alledge, that the Pox does proceed from the Conjunction of <HI>Jupiter,</HI> of <HI>Mars</HI> and <HI>Saturn,</HI> of the <HI>Sun</HI> and <HI>Mercury</HI> in the Hou&s;e of <HI>Libra;</HI> and others, from the Conjunction of <HI>Mars</HI> and <HI>Venus,</HI> or <HI>Jupiter</HI> and <HI>Venus</HI> in the Hou&s;e of <HI>Libra,</HI> it would &s;eem, that they be|lieved, that the Stars went to the Bawdy Hou&s;e, and that there are &s;ome Intrigues that
<PB N="124" REF="67">prove fatal in their Con&s;equence, among&s;t them; I do not know why they have not al&s;o alledged, that they might get the Pox too, and communicate the &s;ame to Men, by their influences, &s;eeing the one would follow from the other. I do not know, which is mo&s;t ridiculous, for Authors to own, or me to go to refu&s;e this Opinion; for, to be &s;hort, it requires but &s;ome grains of good Sence to conceive, that it is an extravagancy to believe, that the Stars, in any di&s;po&s;ition what&s;oever can produce the Venereal Di&s;temper: They who are of the Opinion of <HI>Des Cartes</HI> and &s;undry other New Authors, will quickly a|gree to this, becau&s;e tho&s;e Influences, accord|ing to them, are nothing el&s;e but illu&s;ions and the imaginations of A&s;trologers, that we are only to reckon upon the Sun, who&s;e Heat and Light is as much as all the Stars put to|gether (which have nothing of them&s;elves) and &s;ublimary Bodies are capable of &s;uch an Influence: but Heat and Light cannot be the Cau&s;e of the Pox: And other true Philo&s;o|phers, more knowing in this, then <HI>Des Cartes,</HI> who, be&s;ides Heat and Light, did acknow|ledge in all the Stars, Influences that are ca|pable to produce powerful Motions in all in|ferior Bodies, and al&s;o to change a Man's Temper, and by that means, &s;tir up diver&s;e Inclinations in them, neverthele&s;s leaving the
<PB N="125" REF="67">will free, over which they have no direct or ab&s;olute Power, as the Angelic Doctor has very well explained it: tho&s;e Philo&s;ophers, I &s;ay never reckoned the Venereal Di&s;temper in the Number of A&s;tral Di&s;ea&s;es; but that we may not go too far, but &s;eriou&s;ly re&s;olve our Problem; we mu&s;t &s;ay, that it is very little to the purpo&s;e, to have recour&s;e, in the explication of any Effect, to an occult Cau&s;e, when there is a manife&s;t one at hand; &s;eeing, if they will needs per&s;i&s;t in the A&s;&s;er|tion, that the Stars are capable of producing that Effect, they &s;hall yet never be able to know, by what Vertue they do it, and there|fore, they will be obliged to &s;ay, that it is an occult Quality, which is the &s;ame, as if they &s;hould &s;ay, it is, they do not know what; although, they will not, through ei|ther Vanity or Stupidity declare their Igno|rance in plain <HI>Engli&s;h;</HI> and yet we may clear|ly explain (as we have done in the fifth Chap|ter) the Cau&s;e of the Pox, as proceeding from the Corruption of Seeds in the Matrix of a Common Woman. Again, it is demon|&s;trative, that the Cau&s;e of the Pox is a true Ferment; that a true Ferment mu&s;t be of the Nature of the thing fermented; that all the parts of the Body being &s;ubject to the Venereal Ferment, the Ferment mu&s;t have an affinity with them; that there is nothing
<PB N="126" REF="68">that has &s;o great an Affinity as the Seed has to all the parts of the Body, &s;eeing they are compo&s;ed of it, that the Seed can ea&s;ily de|generate into a Venereal Ferment, after &s;e|veral Men have ejected it into the &s;ame Ma|trix, which cannot happen without many Circum&s;tances that can never be attributed to the Stars, in any di&s;po&s;ition what&s;oever. Be|&s;ides, if tho&s;e pretended Conjunctions of the Stars could produce the Venereal Di&s;temper, which they cannot do, we mu&s;t wait for &s;ome Ages before it can happen, becau&s;e, a va&s;t interval of time is requi&s;ite, before &s;uch Conjunctions do happen; I will likewi&s;e add, that we might rea&s;onably hope, that when tho&s;e Stars &s;hould happen to be in a contrary Po&s;ition, all tho&s;e who have the Venereal Di&s;ea&s;e &s;hould of nece&s;&s;ity be Cured, which is a fancy which can po&s;&s;e&s;s no Man who is not either in his Sleep, or out of his Wits.</P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="10" TYPE="problem">
<PB N="127" REF="68">
<HEAD><HI>Problem.</HI> X. <HI>To know, if (when one has the Venereal Di&s;temper, an Ague does &s;ei&s;e him, and goes off in a Cri&s;is) the Pox may be likewi&s;e Cured by the means of that Cri&s;is.</HI></HEAD>
<P>IF it be con&s;idered, that there is during the Cour&s;e of an Ague, an extraordinary Mo|tion and Fermentation in the Ma&s;s of Blood, and that, for a perfect and Healthful Cri&s;is, it is nece&s;&s;ary the natural heat do mitigate, di|ge&s;t and &s;eparate the impurities in the ma&s;s of Blood, from that which is pure, and that impure matter be at la&s;t expelled out of the Body by a rapid motion; it is ea&s;ie to con|ceive, that, if the ma&s;s of Blood be, at that time, infected with the Venereal Poy&s;on, it mu&s;t of nece&s;&s;ity, follow the motion of the other impurities, and that con&s;equently, the ma&s;s of Blood &s;hall be freed from them; and this is con&s;onant to experience: But if the cau&s;e of the Venereal Di&s;temper does not lye in the ma&s;s of Blood, and that the Venereal Ferment is &s;topp'd, or fixed to one or more Parts of the Body, as in &s;ome Nodes, Exo|&s;to&s;es, or O&s;&s;icular Tumours, Caries of the Bones or the like, 'tis very Plain, that the only Motion and Fermentation which
<PB N="128" REF="69">does happen by the Cri&s;is, in that Ca&s;e, can|not po&s;&s;ibly di&s;&s;olve it, and that on the contra|ry, the heat of the Fever, by di&s;&s;ipating the Fluid Parts, may harden the Nodes the more, and drive the putrefaction more into the Bones, by Augmenting the Acrimony of the Ferment which corrodes the Parts.</P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="11" TYPE="problem">
<HEAD><HI>Problem.</HI> XI. <HI>To know, if the Venereal Di&s;temper may be defined, a General corruption of the ma&s;s of Blood, which is ordinarily contracted, by rea&s;on of a Vene|mous Vapour tran&s;mitted during the con|gre&s;s.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THo&s;e who give this Definition, and make it pa&s;s for an exact one, have not well ob&s;erved the Rules of Logic, becau&s;e it is e|vident that this Definition cannot agree to the Venereal Di&s;temper, which we called parti|cular, in which the Venereal Ferment is fix|ed to the Part which received it, and has not as yet glided into the ma&s;s of Blood; which con&s;equently cannot be corrupted thereby; but if they have not ob&s;erved the Rules of an exact Definition, they have made it mani|fe&s;t, that they have not con&s;ulted experience, that &s;hews every day, that Blood not altoge|ther corrupted is taken from Per&s;ons that
<PB N="129" REF="69">have the great Di&s;temper, and that one may have the Venereal Di&s;ea&s;e without &s;uch a cor|ruption, whether it be becau&s;e the Ma&s;s of Blood has rid it &s;elf of the Fermentby di&s;char|ging it on the Fle&s;h, Membranes or Bones, or becau&s;e the Ferment has pa&s;&s;ed in&s;en&s;ibly in|to the Parts without making any &s;tay in the Blood, as we have &s;hewn in the fourth Chap|ter. What I here affirm is common, and &s;o well known by tho&s;e who have any Practice, that the time is but ill &s;pent in impugning a Definition that de&s;troys it &s;elf.</P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="12" TYPE="problem">
<HEAD><HI>Problem.</HI> XII. <HI>Why a Chancre on the Prepuce is more dangerous for giving the &V;niver&s;al Pox than one that is in the Gland.</HI></HEAD>
<P>ALthough every Chancre, in what place &s;oever it be, may communicate the Univer&s;al Pox, experience has confirmed this, that a Chancre on the foreskin, if it be never &s;o little neglected, or ill ordered, will be in|comparably more infectious, for giving the Univer&s;al Pox, then a Chancre in the Gland; &s;ome have &s;aid, that the Prepuce being a double membrance, the Venereal Poy&s;on does ea&s;ily glide betwixt, and that from thence, the pa&s;&s;age is free, for it is to be carried into the
<PB N="130" REF="70">Body; and this rea&s;on is not ill, if it be ad|ded, that &s;eeing the membrane is more &s;en|&s;ible then the Fle&s;h, becau&s;e it is a Nerve ex|tended, and that &s;o it has more Spirits; the&s;e Spirits do volatilize the Venereal Fer|ment, and render it fit to Penetrate, and that this Penetration and Subtilization are Aug|mented by the Pain, and the continual Irri|tations, that are produced by the Acrimony of the Venereal Ferment, whence a certain con|traction does en&s;ue, that is natural to all &s;en|&s;ible Parts, that &s;hrink when any thing that is &s;harp or pungent does touch them; and if we ob&s;erve, &s;eeing this contraction is made towards it's Original, which is a Nerve, whatever is mo&s;t liquid in the Part that does &s;hrink, is pre&s;s'd out, as it were, and pu&s;h'd inwardly; which makes the Explication of this Problem: whereas all this is not to be found in the Gland that is a Fle&s;hly Part, more &s;oft and more moi&s;t, wherein the Spirits do not &s;o much abound, the Pain is le&s;s, the Humidity does qualify the Ferment; and the &s;uppuration of the Chancre, which happens more often there|in, by rea&s;on the Blood in that Part, does continually draw to the out Parts, &s;ome Part of the Ferment which is in the Chancre, whence it comes to pa&s;s that it does not give the Pox &s;o &s;oon.</P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="13" TYPE="problem">
<PB N="131" REF="70">
<HEAD><HI>Problem.</HI> XIII. <HI>To &s;hew, if the Venereal Di&s;temper was known to the Antients.</HI></HEAD>
<P>IT is highly probable that the Venereal Di|&s;temper is as antient as we &s;hewed it to be, in the Fir&s;t Chapter, that is, that it began be|fore <HI>Noah,</HI> becau&s;e it is certain that there were common Women from that time; and &s;eeing there have been &s;uch, ever &s;ince, in all times; 'tis evident, that there has been al&s;o this Di&s;temper in all &s;ucceeding Ages. Yet this is a thing which can only be proved by rea&s;on; for we have no undoubted Authority for it; &s;eeing it ought to be taken, either from the Holy Scripture, or from Authors that treat of Phy&s;ic, who might give a faithful Relation of this Di&s;ea&s;e; I &s;ay Authors who treat of Phy&s;ic, for all other ought to be reckoned incompetent Judges of this matter, in which they know nothing; and if any one has medled with it, beyond his Line, he could only write by Hear-&s;ay, and &s;ome popular conjecture, which is commonly fal&s;e, or at lea&s;t Subject to &s;u&s;pi|tion.</P>
<P>As for the Scripture, I do not think that there is any &s;ingle place that &s;peaks more clearly then that of <HI>Eccle&s;ia&s;ticus,</HI> which I
<PB N="132" REF="71">quoted in the Fir&s;t Chapter, which &s;ays, <HI>that he that cleaveth to Harlots will become im|pudent, Months and Worms &s;hall have him to Heritage,</HI> which cannot be ea&s;ily interpre|ted, but of the Morphew and the Pox; Ne|verthele&s;s, becau&s;e that Pa&s;&s;age is not expre&s;s, there does need &s;ome inferences to prove it from thence, as we have done in our Chapter, for though we read in many places in the Old Te&s;tament, in <HI>Liviticus,</HI> and <HI>Numbers,</HI> that all tho&s;e who lo&s;t their Seed were &s;eparated from other Men, this does not prove any thing that is like the Venereal Di&s;temper, be|cau&s;e in all the &s;ame Places, we ob&s;erve, that the &s;ame cour&s;e was taken with Lepers, and Women who had their Monthly Cour&s;es, or &s;ome other of Blood, who were all, as well as Eunuchs and Ba&s;tards (though the&s;e were upon different rea&s;ons) deprived of their li|berty of entering into the Temple, as were al&s;o tho&s;e who had touched the &s;ame Women and Lepers, or their Cloaths, all which Per|&s;ons were declared unclean for &s;ome time, and could not come near to the Sanctuary of the Lord, till they were fir&s;t purified accord|ing to the Law, which extended &s;o far, as even to bani&s;h out of the Camp, not only tho&s;e who were &s;ick by rea&s;on of an involun|tary emi&s;ion of Seeds, Lepers and Women who had their Months, but al&s;o, tho&s;e who
<PB N="133" REF="71">had nocturnal Pollutions in their Sleep, as we read in the 23 <HI>Chap.</HI> of <HI>Deuteronomy,</HI> for the Law does declare; <HI>Ca&s;tra Domini &s;unt &s;ancta,</HI> and <HI>Dominus in medio corum,</HI> i. e. <HI>The Lord's Camp is holy, and the Lord is in the mid&s;t of it.</HI> And therefore, we cannot from thence form any Argument, to prove the Antiquity of the Venereal Di&s;temper, and &s;o much the rather, becau&s;e an involuntary emi&s;ion of Seed may happen &s;undry ways, without any Venereal indi&s;po&s;ition, as all the World does know.</P>
<P>Be&s;ides tho&s;e places we have quoted, it is al&s;o Written in the beginning of the 24th Chapter of <HI>Deuteronomy,</HI> that it was permit|ted to a Husband, who took an unclean Wife, to put her away, but the word that the Scrip|ture does u&s;e (which is this) <HI>propter aliquam faeditatem,</HI> i. e. <HI>for &s;ome uncleanne&s;s,</HI> is too ge|neral to allow a liberty of drawing any Con|&s;equence from it, in favour of the Venereal Di&s;temper, for <HI>&s;aeditas</HI> does &s;ignifie Filth, Dirt, &s;tinking Matter, Corruption, Deformi|ty, Ugline&s;s, Spots, Pollution, Turpitude and the like; &s;o as I do not in the lea&s;t &s;ee, that this expre&s;&s;ion <HI>propter faeditatem,</HI> does rather &s;ignify, that he might put her away, upon the account of the Venereal Di&s;temper, ra|ther than for ugly, or pi&s;&s;ing the Bed, or for a &s;tinking Breath, or being deflowered, and the like.</P>
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<P>There can therefore be no evident proof drawn from Scripture, much le&s;s are we to follow the example of a certain Doctor of Phy&s;ic, who, to prove the Antiquity of the Venereal Di&s;temper, did &s;ay, that in the 29th of <HI>Deuteronomy,</HI> there is mention made of a Di&s;ea&s;e, the Symptoms of which re&s;em|ble tho&s;e of the Pox, and to e&s;tabli&s;h this upon a very &s;olid ground, he did quote the 25th and the 29th Ver&s;e of the &s;ame 29th Chapter. Yet 'tis evident, that that place does no more &s;peak of the Venereal Di&s;tem|per then it does of the Amphitheater of <HI>Tholou&s;e,</HI> and that in the whole Book of <HI>Dou|teronomy</HI> there is nothing like it. The Rea|der by this may judge of the re&s;t.</P>
<P>If there be therefore any expre&s;s Authori|ty, it ought to be taken from Phy&s;ical Au|thors, and tho&s;e of ancient times, and for that purpo&s;e, I known &s;ome quote <HI>Hippocrates, Ga|len, Salicetus, Gourdon,</HI> who (as they pretend) had the knowledge of the Venereal Di&s;tem|per, which yet is fal&s;e as we mu&s;t reckon to the fir&s;t Two, and tho&s;e who affirm it, are either Men of &s;mall Credit, or they have not read Authors.</P>
<P>It is true, that tho&s;e Authors have &s;poken here and there, of many Symptoms that are common to the Venereal Di&s;temper; but it is as true, that the&s;e Accidents are al&s;o found
<PB N="135" REF="72">without that Di&s;ea&s;e, as the lo&s;s of Seed, the Falling off the Hair, Ulcers of the Mouth and the Privy Parts, Scabs, Bli&s;ters, Condylames, Warts, Tumors, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> We know that <HI>Hippocra|tes</HI> and <HI>Galen</HI> have made mention of tho&s;e Ac|cidents, &s;ometimes of one and &s;ometimes of another, but it cannot be found they ever attri|buted the&s;e Symptoms to the Venereal Di&s;tem|per, that they ever &s;pake of any Venereal Ferment, or that they knew, that the&s;e Acci|dents could proceed from that virulency, which is produced by the impure Conver&s;ation of Men with common Women, or by any other contract; and therefore it may be &s;aid, that the Venereal Di&s;temper was not known to them.</P>
<P>There are &s;ome who believe that <HI>Hippo|crates</HI> has de&s;cribed this Di&s;ea&s;e, with all its Symptoms in <HI>lib.</HI> 3. <HI>Epidem. Sect.</HI> 3. of <HI>Marinel's</HI> Impre&s;&s;ion, where there are all the Symptoms of the Pox, as Bli&s;ters over the Body, Tu|mors, Ab&s;ce&s;&s;es and Putrefaction of the Bones, Pains, Falling off the Hair from the Head, Ulcers in the Head, Mouth and Privy parts, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> All this (&s;ay they) does &s;ignifie the Pox: And <HI>Vale&s;ius,</HI> the famous Commentator on <HI>Hippocra|tes,</HI> at his beginning of his Fourth Commen|tary that he made upon the Epidemies, had rea&s;on to &s;ay upon the &s;ame Subject, that at the Reading of tho&s;e Symptoms, there is no
<PB N="136" REF="73">Phy&s;itian but might be ea&s;ily a&s;&s;ured, that the Venereal Di&s;temper is meant in that Place; Take <HI>Vale&s;ius</HI> his own Words, <HI>What Phy&s;itian can hear of one that has got filthy &V;lcers in his Head, baldne&s;s of Head and Chin, without a Fever, &V;lcers in his Privities and his Throat, and la&s;tly, who has his Bones made bare of Fle&s;h, and coming out</HI> by rea&s;on of Rottenne&s;s and Corruption; <HI>and not certainly affirm, that it is the Venereal Di&s;temper; but there were many &s;uch in tho&s;e days, by rea&s;on of which, and many other Symptoms, that</HI> Hippocrates <HI>mentions in this Work and el&s;ewhere, I am per&s;waded, that there is nothing of late di&s;|covered in that Di&s;ea&s;e, but what was &s;ufficiently known in former Ages.</HI> I do agree with <HI>Vale&s;ius,</HI> that as the Accidents he has ob&s;erved, there is not a Phy&s;itian who would not judge them to have been the Pox; if there had been no|thing el&s;e in the ca&s;e; I believe al&s;o, as well as he, that there were Per&s;ons who had the Venereal Di&s;temper in former Ages, as there are tho&s;e who have it now. But I affirm that the Di&s;ea&s;e which <HI>Hippocrates</HI> de&s;cribed, was not Venereal, but Pe&s;tilential according to the Opinion of <HI>Galen</HI> and <HI>Hippocrates</HI> him&s;elf, and to make this manife&s;t, 'tis only con&s;ulting the Hi&s;tory of <HI>Hippocrates,</HI> and one will with|out contradiction grant, when he has con&s;i|dered the other Accidents that accompanied tho&s;e which are mentioned before, that
<PB N="137" REF="73">it was an Epidemical Pe&s;tilential Di&s;ea&s;e which raged at that time. It will al&s;o appear, that <HI>Hippocrates</HI> did never think that it was the Ve|nereal Di&s;temper; and I again affirm, that it was not known to him, at lea&s;t his Writings which we have, do not acquaint us with any &s;uch thing. It might very well be, that a|mong&s;t the &s;ick, whom he &s;aw in tho&s;e days, there were &s;ome who had the Pox, and that he knew it not, or that they had the Plague and the Pox both together, which might have deceived him, for (to draw to a clo&s;e) although <HI>Hippocrates</HI> was one of the greate&s;t Phy&s;itians in the World, and that he has fur|ni&s;hed us with more Light, proportionably, than all tho&s;e who came after him, he was a Man, and therefore lyable to Error; he lived in a time, when Speculative Phy&s;ic was in its Birth, or rather, he him&s;elf was the Father of it; whence it it could not be per|fect, at the time of it's fir&s;t production.</P>
<P>'Tis alledged, that <HI>Salicetus,</HI> who writ in the Year 1270. did give us &s;ome Marks that he under&s;tood the Venereal Di&s;temper, which is true, not in the&s;e places that are quoted, nor in his di&s;cour&s;e, but there is a Chapter in his Chyrurgery that bears this Title, Chap. 48. <HI>Concerning white Bli&s;ters, Sores and Corruptions which happens in the Yard, and about the Prepuce, that proceeds from Copu|lation
<PB N="138" REF="74">with an unclean Harlot, or &s;ome other cau&s;e.</HI> I have al&s;o found &s;omething to this purpo&s;e in <HI>Gordonius,</HI> who Printed his Book <HI>Anno</HI> 1305. after he had been for above twenty Years a Profe&s;&s;or in the College of Phy&s;icians in <HI>Montpelier,</HI> among&s;t &s;ome pa&s;&s;ages that he has, that may be the mo&s;t clear which is in his Fifth Chapter <HI>De Pa&s;&s;ionibus Virgae.</HI> That a|mong&s;t the external Di&s;ea&s;es that befall the Yard, we mu&s;t reckon that which proceeds from carnal Copulation with a Woman, who&s;e Matrix is unclean, virulent, full of cor|ruption, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> and in the &s;ame Chapter he pre|&s;cribes a Remedy for curing the Chancre of the Yard. And this is &s;ufficient to make it appear, that the Venereal Di&s;temper is very antient; and therefore we are to give no Credit to &s;ome Stories, that are framed con|cerning the Introduction and Original of this Di&s;temper, as that of &s;ome who have alledg|ed, that it appeared fir&s;t in <HI>Europe</HI> a hundred Years ago, or thereabouts, and that it was brought into <HI>France</HI> by the Souldiers who re|turned from the War of <HI>Naples,</HI> betwixt <HI>Charles</HI> VIII. and <HI>Alphon&s;us</HI> King of <HI>Naples,</HI> in the Year 1493, or 94. Seeing we know that <HI>Salicetus</HI> and <HI>Gourden</HI> (the former of whom lived about Three hundred Years before) have taken notice of this Di&s;temper, and that in all rea&s;on, we are to believe, that
<PB N="139" REF="74">there was &s;uch a thing as the Venereal Di&s;tem|per, as well as Common Women, although the the fir&s;t Phy&s;itians did not well know it. It might po&s;&s;ibly have been confounded with the Lepro&s;ie, of which we &s;hall &s;peak in the following Problem.</P>
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<DIV1 N="14" TYPE="problem">
<HEAD><HI>Problem.</HI> XIV. <HI>To know if the Venereal Di&s;temper be the Lepro&s;y of the Antients.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THE Que&s;tion is not to be under&s;tood con|cerning that Lepro&s;y with which God, of Old, did puni&s;h Sinners, and of which, as we read in the Holy Scripture, there were three &s;orts, in proportion to the greatne&s;s of their Offences; If the Sin was &s;mall, the Le|pro&s;y was only fixed to the Walls of the Hou&s;e, if it was &s;omewhat greater it was confined to their Cloaths, and if it was very hainous, the Bodies of the Criminals were more or le&s;s infected, according to their own demerit, or as it plea&s;ed God to afflict them; and this &s;ort of Lepers was only cured by the Prie&s;ts, to whom God gave the Power, in a Spiritual and Miraculous, as well as a my&s;tical Manner, all Corporeal Medicines be|ing altogether u&s;ele&s;s in that ca&s;e.</P>
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<P>But yet we may find, that this Lepro&s;y was known to the Antient Phy&s;itians, and that we have rea&s;on to believe it to be a Di&s;ea&s;e, as others are, produced by the Con|currence of natural Cau&s;es, &s;eeing it was cured by Medicaments, &s;o long as it had not arrived at the highe&s;t Degree. But to un|der&s;tand what this Lepro&s;y was: it is to be ob&s;erved, that altho' it was one and the &s;ame Di&s;ea&s;e, they did divide it into three Kinds, and they have given it &s;uch different Names, that Authors are at a great uncertainty about it. Some call that a Lepro&s;y which is no|thing el&s;e but a Tetter or great Scab. The <HI>Greeks</HI> call'd that a Lepro&s;y which the <HI>Ara|bians</HI> named <HI>Albarras,</HI> or <HI>Barras nigra</HI> and the the <HI>Latins, Scabis faeda,</HI> and on the contrary, the <HI>Arabians</HI> called that a Lepro&s;y, which the <HI>Greeks</HI> have called an <HI>Elephantia&s;is.</HI> And both the one and the other have made Divi&s;ions of it, and invented particular Names for it, which 'tis needle&s;s to recount. They who de&s;ire to have the Theory of the Lepro&s;y ought rather to di&s;tingui&s;h well, if they have a mind to under&s;tand any thing of it.</P>
<P>In the mean time, that we may, in a few words, &s;ay all that is nece&s;&s;ary for the Re&s;o|lution of this Problem, the Lepro&s;y is di&s;tin|gui&s;hed into that of the <HI>Greeks,</HI> and that of the <HI>Arabians:</HI> That of the <HI>Greeks</HI> is not pro|perly
<PB N="141" REF="75">any thing el&s;e but a Di&s;ea&s;e of the Skin, &s;uch as the Scab, and others that are of Kin to it. This is ju&s;tified by an authentic Pa&s;|&s;age of the Venerable <HI>Hippocrates,</HI> the mo&s;t Antient of all the <HI>Greek</HI> Authors, whom we e&s;teem. It is in his Book, <HI>De Affectionibus,</HI> that he &s;peaks thus, <HI>The Lepro&s;ie, the Itch, the Scab, Tetter, Morphew, and Falling off the Hair, proceed from Phlegm, and the&s;e are rather an &V;n|cleanne&s;s and &s;hamful Deformities than Di&s;ea&s;es.</HI></P>
<P>Not to in&s;i&s;t on the truth of this pa&s;&s;age, nor to mention what the <HI>Greeks</HI> and <HI>Arabians</HI> have written concerning this Matter; I only &s;ay, that the Lepro&s;ie of the <HI>Greeks,</HI> which is the highe&s;t Degree of the Scab, although <HI>Hip|pocrates</HI> has named it as the fir&s;t or lowe&s;t, is only an Indi&s;po&s;ition of the Skin, for it may be ob&s;erved, on this Subject, that the Skin be|comes filthy and deformed three &s;everal ways, either by very deep White or Black Spots, and that is the white or black Morphew, or by &s;ome other &s;mall Specks which make the Itch, which coming to maturity and a dryne&s;s, are &s;eparated from the Skin upon Scratching, in the likene&s;s of Bran, which is therefore called Furfures; or they are reduced to Scabs or to Tetters, and at la&s;t to Scales, like to tho&s;e of Fi&s;h, and it is upon this Mark that the <HI>Greeks</HI> have called it a Lepro&s;ie. But when the Matter of this Lepro&s;ie becomes
<PB N="142" REF="76">more &s;harp by the mixture of black, Choler the Skin is corroded thereby, and not only the Skin, but al&s;o the Fle&s;h, Membranes, and the Bones, or rather the whole Body, which is affected with gro&s;s, malignant and dreadful Ulcers; and according to the proportion of the mixture of the Phlegm and the black Choler, there does appear a very great number of ter|rible Symptoms, as the falling off the Hair from the Head and Eyebrows (and the like of the Eye-&s;la&s;hes and Beard) a frightful or hip|pocratical Countenance, the Mouth ulcerated, the No&s;e putrified, the whole Body filled with Bli&s;ters, Tumors, Nodes, Kernels (as we &s;ee in Swine that have the Murrain) the Lo&s;s of Judgment, and many other Accidents which 'tis needle&s;s to relate, among which Ulcers have been looked upon as Chancres, &s;o that the <HI>Arabians</HI> have called this kind of Lepro&s;ie an univer&s;al Cancer, and the <HI>Greeks</HI> have nam|ed this Lepro&s;ie an <HI>Elephantia&s;is.</HI> It is this par|ticularly which has many Accidents common to the Pox, as the Lepro&s;ie of the <HI>Greeks</HI> has al&s;o &s;ome of the &s;ame &s;ort, as may be judged by the Account that we have given; and there is all the probability in the World, that Men are frequently deceived with it, and that the Venereal Di&s;temper has been taken for the Lepro&s;ie, and &s;o much the rather, becau&s;e the Lepro&s;ie is communicated by an amorous
<PB N="143" REF="76">Congre&s;s as well as the Pox, though in a manner &s;omewhat different; and &s;eeing there were many Leprous Per&s;ons of antient time, as there are a great many Per&s;ons who have the Venereal Di&s;temper at this day, I believe that they might have been very ea&s;ily mi&s;ta|ken, and that which confirmed their Error, was, that &s;eeing the Antients did not know the Cure of the Venereal Di&s;temper, their Sick peri&s;hed, very near in the &s;ame manner as if they had had the Lepro&s;ie. And that which confirms this Opinion, is, that 'tis evi|dent that the Antient Phy&s;itians did &s;eparately de&s;cribe the Symptoms that are common to the Pox, without referring them to a Venereal Poy&s;on, as we have &s;aid in the preceding Problem, which does fully a&s;&s;ure us that there were tho&s;e who were infected with the Pox at that time, as well as there are now; but tat they did undoubtedly confound the &s;ame with the Lepro&s;ie.</P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="15" TYPE="problem">
<PB N="144" REF="77">
<HEAD><HI>Problem.</HI> XV. <HI>How many ways one may get the Venereal Di&s;tem|per, and if it may be got at a con&s;iderable Di&s;tance.</HI></HEAD>
<P>WE &s;hewed in the fourth Chapter, that the Venereal Di&s;temper may be contracted many ways, as in the Mothers Womb, by Copulation, or only approaching the privy Parts that are infected with the Di&s;ea&s;e, by Ki&s;&s;ing, by Sucking, or giving to Suck, lying with the &s;ick Per&s;on, or in his Linnen in which he has Sweated, or left &s;ome Filth, by drinking after the infected Per&s;on who has left &s;ome of his Spittle on the &s;ide of the Gla&s;s, that is not afterwards wa&s;hed, and generally by all manner of immediate Contact of any Per&s;on that has the Venereal Di&s;tem|per, from whom &s;ome virulent Matter goes forth, or by touching any other Body which has received the &s;ame Poy&s;on, to which there does as yet remain &s;ome Motion that makes it capable of communicating it &s;elf, which is ob|&s;ervable; for if the Gl<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;s which h as received &s;ome of the Parties Venereal Slabber, or the Linnen that has been infected by his Sweat, or the purulent Matter of any Ulcer, has been a long time expo&s;ed to the Air, or that
<PB N="145" REF="77">the Poy&s;on has exhaled from &s;uch Stuff, or if the Sub&s;tance that contained the Virulency be &s;o dried, that there is no likelihood that one can catch the Pox by touching it; there is no matter of Difficulty or Danger in all this.</P>
<P>That which is doubtful, is to know if any Particles, which are called Venereal Mia&s;ms, do, by Tran&s;piration or Expiration, go out of a Body infected with the Venereal Di&s;temper, and if the&s;e Particles being tran&s;mitted through the Air, can, at &s;ome con&s;iderable di&s;tance, conveigh the Venereal Di&s;temper to tho&s;e who breath in the &s;ame Air. But &s;eeing this Pro|po&s;ition is big with Difficulties, it mu&s;t be well di&s;tingui&s;hed, before there can be a Re|&s;olution given of it.</P>
<P><HI>Fir&s;t,</HI> 'Tis pa&s;t all doubt, that all &s;orts of Bodies do tran&s;pire, and con&s;equently tho&s;e who are infected with this Di&s;ea&s;e do the &s;ame; but it does not from thence follow, that there is always an Evacuation of Venere|al Particles in that Tran&s;piration, becau&s;e the Cau&s;e of the Venereal Di&s;temper does not al|ways lye in the Humors, as has been often times &s;aid in the foregoing part of this Di&s;|cour&s;e, and it is the Humors as well as the Sweat, that does furni&s;h Matter for Tran&s;pi|ration. And although the Humors be infect|ed with the Venereal Ferment, that Ferment may be &s;o fixed, &s;o tyed up and entangled a|mong&s;t
<PB N="146" REF="78">other vi&s;cous Humors, that the Va|por that goes out through the Sub&s;tance of the Body, &s;hall not be able to carry it off with it &s;elf.</P>
<P>It is true, that the Vapours that come from the Ma&s;s of Blood, may, whil&s;t they pa&s;s, car|ry with them &s;ome Particles of the Venereal Ferment, which had &s;etled it &s;elf in &s;ome &s;o|lid part; but that is &s;o incon&s;iderable, that I do not think that the Pox is ever got by that means, and if it were &s;o, that it could be &s;o ea&s;ily catch'd, there would need nothing el&s;e to give one the Pox, but a bare rubbing with the Hand upon a Node or a Gland of any Per&s;on that has the Venereal Di&s;ea&s;e, which is contrary to Experience. Tran&s;piration alone does not communicate the Di&s;temper, though the Blood be very much corrupted, unle&s;s the Skin be covered with inveterate Scabs or Ul|cers, whereof the purulent Matter or Corrup|tion has been received by the Party. I have known that &s;ome Per&s;ons covered over with Venereal Scabs, their Mouth and Privities full of Chancres, have lain with others that are &s;ound, d<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">ing the &s;pace of one or two Months, without any Communication of the Evil, which proves that the Venereal Di&s;temper is not &s;o ea&s;ily communicated by Tran&s;piration, although the Parties lye in the &s;ame Bed. Yet this is not to be t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="2 letters">&s;ted to, for &s;eeing the Scab
<PB N="147" REF="78">or Itch is catched by &s;uch Per&s;ons as handle the &s;cabbed Party, or u&s;e the &s;ame Towel with him, the Venereal Di&s;ea&s;e may be al&s;o catched, and although there be &s;ome Per&s;ons who are conver&s;ant a long time with tho&s;e who have the Itch, and it may likewi&s;e happen in the &s;ame manner, among&s;t tho&s;e who have the Pox; yet they, who&s;e Bu&s;ine&s;s it is to be concerned with them, ought not to handle them too much; for on the contrary, there are &s;ome who catch the Itch by only rubbing the Parties Hand, which proceeds from a great Aptitude they had, before that, to be|come Scabby, as having had their Blood cor|rupted, or becau&s;e they abound in Salt and acid Humors; yet that which proves that the &s;ame thing does not happen, as to the Vene|real Di&s;temper, is the Example of the Chy|rurgions who rub the Party affected all over, who dre&s;s their Buboes or other Ab&s;ce&s;&s;es without any Inconveniency en&s;uing to them|&s;elves thereby.</P>
<P>As to Expiration, we may &s;ay almo&s;t the &s;ame thing. If the Blood which is in the Lungs is not fermented with the Poy&s;on, or if the Blood be very vi&s;cous, if the Mouth or other Conduits by which the Air does pa&s;s, that is breath'd by the infected Per&s;on, be not &s;poiled with malignant and &s;tinking Chancres, the Air which entred in by In&s;piration, &s;hall
<PB N="148" REF="79">go out by Expiration, without tran&s;mitting the Venereal Ferment: and though all that we have &s;aid &s;hould happen, it is not to be be|lieved, that tho&s;e Venereal Particles, are car|ried any great way, or that they have force enough to conveigh the Venereal Di&s;temper; for if that were &s;o, the whole World would be put in a Venereal Fermentation, that is, there is not one alive that could e&s;cape the Pox, and any one that has the Di&s;ea&s;e, could not &s;o much as enter into any Chamber or pub|lick Place, but would communicate the Di|&s;temper to all Per&s;ons that are pre&s;ent: It is very well known that Experience &s;peaks the contrary; and the rea&s;on is, that there is no Venereal Ferment that is like that of the Plague, becau&s;e this latter is more volatile, more active, and of an igneous Nature, and con&s;equently &s;wift and apt to be tran&s;mitted through the Air, whereas the Venereal Fer|ment being acid, although it may be very much volatilized by a mixture of Spirits and Bile, is neverthele&s;s almo&s;t continually entan|gled in Phlegm, which is heavy and vi&s;cous, and can never, without putting off its Nature, be made &s;o &s;wift as to be carried through the Air, though to never &s;o near a di&s;tance, and if it &s;hould be &s;o carried, it would then loo&s;e all its force, by the Coldne&s;s of the Air, or by the mixture of other Particles which com|po&s;e it.</P>
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<PB N="149" REF="79">
<HEAD><HI>Problem</HI> XVI. <HI>What is the true Subject of the Venereal Ferment, and if it be rather the Lymph than the Phlegm, or the other Humors.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THis is the mo&s;t celebrated Que&s;tion at this day, on the pre&s;ent Subject. Many Authors of known worth are of Opinion, that the Venereal Ferment does rather invade the Lymph than the other Humors, that the For|mer does receive it fir&s;t, and afterwards tran&s;|mit it to the Blood. They alledge, that as two Homogeneous Bodies are ea&s;ily united together, and that this Union does happen by rea&s;on of the Di&s;po&s;ition of their Pores, which being alike, give occa&s;ion to the Ethereal Matter (which continually endeavours to make a Pa&s;&s;age for it &s;elf, finding the Pores of two Bodies alike) to pa&s;s through the two, without any Ob&s;tacle, which is that which makes the Union of tho&s;e two Bodies; the Ve|nereal Ferment being acid, mu&s;t of nece&s;&s;ity, upon the &s;ame rea&s;on, invade the Lymph ra|ther than the other Humors, becau&s;e it is acid, and con&s;equently has Pores di&s;po&s;ed in the &s;ame manner, for affording a Pa&s;&s;age to the Ethereal Matter. After all, we &s;ee that the Lymph being made more acid by its Union
<PB N="150" REF="80">the Venereal Ferment, does produce upon the Blood, the &s;ame Alterations very near, that the Juice of Limons or Vinegar, does upon boyling Milk, and that hereupon do depend all the Con&s;equences and Accidents of the Ve|nereal Di&s;temper, as Pains, Bli&s;ters, Tumors, Nodes, Tophes, or Exo&s;to&s;es, Ulcers, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> This Opinion is confirmed by an Ob&s;ervation, that the Venereal Poy&s;on has a great power o|ver the Glands, which are always affected in this Di&s;ea&s;e, and the Glands being the principal Seat of the Lymph, we may rea&s;onably believe that the Lymph does al&s;o receive the Venereal Poy&s;on, and that the other parts do derive their Virulency from it. It may be added, that tho&s;e who are a fluxing do void a clear Matter at the Mouth, which has a great Re|&s;emblance of the Lymph.</P>
<P>Although this Opinion has a great probabi|lity, and that it already begins to be received a|mong&s;t many learned Men, who have not as yet been at the pains to examine it to the bottom; I do neverthele&s;s believe that it is fal&s;e in its Principle, and that it is always ill under&s;tood.</P>
<P>I think that the prepo&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion, the fir&s;t Pro|po&s;ers were &s;ubject to, and by which they were &s;wayed in their Judgment about the Lymph and the Glands, might much contri|bute to their giving the Lymph more than was due: I am at lea&s;t very much per&s;waded,
<PB N="151" REF="80">that there are others who have rendred this Matter by &s;o much the more ob&s;cure, as they have a head-&s;trong Zeal for the Lymphatic Ve&s;&s;els, beyond whatever the fir&s;t Inventors had. They imagine already that the whole Body is but a Ti&s;&s;ue of Lymphatic Ve&s;&s;els, and that all the Humors are Lymphs. The Blood, ju&s;t after its Sanguification will be ta|ken for nothing among them, but a red Lymph, the Chyle &s;hall be a white Lymph, but opacous, the Bile a yellow Lymph, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> So true it is, that when Men are prepo&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed with the Conceit of a thing, they believe eve|ry thing they &s;ee or touch to be that thing. <HI>Jupiter e&s;t quodcunque vident, quodcunque mo|vetur.</HI></P>
<P>It is true, that the Lymph has oftentimes an Intere&s;t in the Venereal Di&s;temper, as well as the re&s;t of the Humors have; but that it &s;hould be the fir&s;t, and the only Humor that receives the Venereal Ferment, 'tis ea&s;ie to prove the contrary by their own Rea&s;ons, and &s;hew that there is an Error in the Principles upon which their Opinion is founded: for &s;ee|ing they &s;aid, that the Lymph, in its natural State, is a very agreeable Acid, becau&s;e the acid Spirits which enter into its Compo&s;ition do make it to be &s;o, and that con&s;equently it would be very homogeneous with the Venere|al Ferment, which is likewi&s;e acid;
<PB N="152" REF="81">without doubt, becau&s;e they ta&s;ted the Lymph of &s;ome Per&s;on after he was hanged, which was made acid by Di&s;plea&s;ure and the Pains of Death; for it is well known that there is nothing that does &s;o much augment Acids as Grief; But tho&s;e who have made a Di&s;covery of the Lymph, and have ob&s;erved it well, have a&s;&s;ured us that it was in&s;ipid, and con&s;equently free from any predominant Aci|dity; and tho&s;e who know the good Quali|ties of the Animal Spirits, will never affirm, that in their natural State they ought to be acid; on the contrary, 'tis only the Spirits that do reduce Acids to a good Temper; the Spi|rit of Nitre, which is extreamly acid, is &s;weet|ned with the Spirit of Wine; this is very tri|vial, &s;o that if the Remainder of the Animal Spirits, as they would have it, enter into the Compo&s;ition of the Lymph, they would be &s;o far from making it acid; I will undertake, though it had been &s;o before (&s;eeing 'tis pro|bable that the Lymph does contain &s;omewhat of an Acid, upon the Suppo&s;ition that it owe its Original to the Arteries) that tho&s;e Spirits &s;hall entirely correct all that Acidity: And therefore we may ea&s;ily judge, that what they propo&s;e, is an Error in its Principle, and this Error is &s;o much the greater, as it admits of no Glo&s;s, &s;eeing there are Humors in the Ma&s;s of Blood, that are much more acid, as the Se|rum,
<PB N="153" REF="81">Melancholly, and the Pancreatic Li|quor, and above all the re&s;t the Phlegm, and con&s;equently the Venereal Ferment &s;hall have a greater Affinity with &s;ome one of the&s;e Li|quors, then with the Lymph; and therefore, according to their own Rea&s;oning, it ought rather to joyn it &s;elf thereto; and &s;o much the more, becau&s;e that Conjunction may be promoted by the Motion of Fer|mentation, which is rai&s;ed in the Blood by the means of an Acid, whereas the Lymph does not ferment at all, be&s;ides, it is more liquid, and circulates more &s;wiftly then the Blood, which renders it le&s;s apt to receive a Coagula|tion which is ob&s;erved to be the ordinary Effect of the Venereal Ferment, as we have of|ten &s;aid in &s;everal Chapters.</P>
<P>And what &s;hall be &s;aid of tho&s;e who take the Venereal Di&s;temper by Chancres in the Mouth, in &s;uch a Ca&s;e, it is the <HI>Saliva</HI> that is fir&s;t affected; it is that which receives the Venereal Ferment and does communicate the &s;ame to the Blood; if it be &s;aid, that the Sa|liva is a kind of Lymph; I &s;ay al&s;o, that the Lymph is a &s;ort of a Saliva, and thus we &s;hall confound the Terms.</P>
<P>I know, that there is a great Affinity be|twixt the true Lymph, the Pancreatic Liquor, the Saliva, the Pituite, and the &s;erum of the Blood, and that the&s;e Liquors do not differ &s;o
<PB N="154" REF="82">much in &s;ub&s;tance as they do in con&s;i&s;tence, and by the Ve&s;&s;els that contain them; but neverthele&s;s every one of them has it's own u&s;e; and they mu&s;t be named &s;o as that they may be under&s;tood. Therefore the Lymph mu&s;t be &s;aid to be, that clear and tran&s;parent Liquor that is in the Lymphatic Ve&s;&s;els, the Pancreatic Liquor that which is in the Pancreas, the Saliva that which is in the Salivary Ve&s;&s;els, the Pituite, that which does re&s;ult from the Saliva and the more vi&s;|cous part of the Food, which after dige&s;tion does pa&s;s into the Ma&s;s of Blood as we have &s;aid el&s;ewhere, e&s;pecially in the ninth Chapter.</P>
<P>It is this that has a greater Affinity with the Venereal Ferment then any other Humour, becau&s;e it may be &s;aid, that it does contain more of an Acid then any other, and that it is all over the Body: it is more Acid, be|cau&s;e it contains the Acid of the Saliva which is the fir&s;t matter thereof, it contains the Acid of the Food, to which the Saliva is joyn'd in the dige&s;tion, it contains the Acid of the Ferment of the Stomach through which it does pa&s;s, it contains the Acid of the Pancreatic Liquor, with which it is mixed in the <HI>Duodeum:</HI> and finally, al|though it be in a greater quantity in &s;ome places of the Body, it is neverthele&s;s, in and over all Parts generally, becau&s;e it does
<PB N="155" REF="82">accompany the Blood, with which it is con|tinually mixed by <HI>Sylvius</HI> his Triumrirate.</P>
<P>And therefore, there is more rea&s;on to &s;ay, that the Venereal Ferment does rather joyn it &s;elf to the Phlegm then to any other Humour what&s;oever. There are al&s;o &s;ome occa&s;ions, in which tho&s;e of the contrary &s;ide, cannot &s;ay otherwi&s;e, &s;eeing they admit that the Venere|al Ferment may be communicated by re&s;pira|tion, for it is certain, that in &s;uch a ca&s;e, the Ferment that &s;hould be carried through the Air, would go directly into the Blood, to joyn with what is mo&s;t acid therein.</P>
<P>And the matter which is known to i&s;&s;ue from tho&s;e who are in a Flux for the Vene|real Di&s;temper, does de&s;erve well to be called Pituite rather than Lymph, becau&s;e it does effectually contain all the Properties of the former, e&s;pecially a vi&s;cous quality which is e&s;&s;ential thereto, and does very much de|pend on the acid that is in it; it is al&s;o probable, that this quality, which &s;ure is not occult, does &s;erve as a Glue to fix the Venereal Ferment.</P>
<P>Neverthele&s;s I do not intend to criti&s;i&s;e on Words, let the appellation be what they plea&s;e, provided the thing be explained. I &s;aid, that there was &s;o great an Affinity be|tween the Lymph, the Saliva, the Pancrea|tic Liquor and the Phlegm, that their con|&s;i&s;tence, or the Ve&s;&s;els that contain them, do
<PB N="156" REF="83">make the great difference that is between them.</P>
<P>All the&s;e humours do ea&s;ily degenerate into Pituit, when they become vi&s;cous; It may be &s;aid, that the true Lymph is never capable of making ob&s;tructions, nor receiving any Coagulation in the Glands, or el&s;ewhere, but when it becomes Phlegmatic, and although the Glands are the proper Filters of the Lymph, we know they have Arteries, Veins, and a Nerve as the Lymphatic Ve&s;&s;els; &s;o that throughout the whole Body, where there is any Lymph, there is al&s;o Phlegm, and it may be ridgidly &s;aid on the contrary, that there is no Lymph in all places where there is Pituit.</P>
<P>I have &s;aid nothing of the Nervous Liquor, becau&s;e it cannot be rea&s;onably under&s;tood, when it is &s;aid to be a Liquor that is the Vehicle of the Animal Spirits, which they compare to the Spirit of Wine, and which is believed to joyn it &s;elf to the Lymph: And therefore 'tis needle&s;s to &s;ay any thing of it, &s;eeing, to &s;peak properly, it is nothing el&s;e but Spirits that are le&s;s &s;ubtile and more aqueous, and if any thing be under&s;tood by it, we de|ny down right, that there is any &s;uch thing as a Nervous Liquor.</P>
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<PB N="157" REF="83">
<HEAD><HI>Problem.</HI> XVII. <HI>Why a Man that is wounded in the time that he has the Venereal Di&s;temper, is never well cured of his Wounds, or at lea&s;t, with great diffi|culty.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THo&s;e who have their Blood corrupted, who abound in ill Humors, and who have a great deal of Acrimony in their Blood, are very hard to be cured of Wounds, becau&s;e a great quantity of &s;harp humors di&s;charge them|&s;elves on the wounded. Parts, Humidity and Acrimony are plain hindrances of the Cure, and the&s;e mu&s;t be of nece&s;&s;ity removed, if one would clo&s;e up a Wound or Ulcer, and for that purpo&s;e, &s;ome &s;ucce&s;s may be at la&s;t expected from bleeding, altering Medicines, that correct the Acrimony, gentle Purgations, Bal&s;ams, Oyntments and Plai&s;ters; unle&s;s the Body be &s;o Cacochymical, and the Humours &s;o &s;harp, that a gangrene does en&s;ue, which cannot be corrected, when it is confirmed, but only by an Amputation of the gangren'd part, but when the Venereal Di&s;temper is found with the Wounds, the Blood is very &s;harp and much corrupted, by the means of the Vene|real Ferment, which, &s;eeing it cannot be cor|rected by ordinary Remedies, hinders the
<PB N="158" REF="84">Cure, and the Patient, is not in a Condition, &s;o long as he has his Wounds, to take tho&s;e Medicines that are proper for curing him of the Venereal Di&s;temper, which is obvious to the con&s;ideration of every one, and from thence it is, that he is not cured at all, and although the Wound be very &s;mall, &s;ome ill Accidents do happen neverthele&s;s, by rea&s;on of the &s;harp and virulent Humours that throw them&s;elves upon the Part. This does &s;up|po&s;e, that the Cau&s;e of the Venereal Di|&s;temper is in the Blood, or in the &s;olid Part that is wounded; for it might po&s;&s;ibly have been &s;ome where el&s;e; in which ca&s;e the Wounds ought to be look'd upon as &s;ingle and without complication.</P>
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<PB N="159" REF="84">
<HEAD>AN ADVERTISEMENT TO THE READER.</HEAD>
<P>I Have, in this &s;mall Treati&s;e, delive|red in a few Words what I thought nece&s;&s;ary to be &s;aid on this Subject. I might, 'tis true, have taken up more Paper, and &s;pent more time, by giving Examples and general Maxims, by &s;tuffing it with a great Number of Pompous and Extraordi|nary Receipts, by embelli&s;hing every Chapter with a premeditated Di&s;cour&s;e
<PB N="160" REF="85">by way of Preface, by quoting the O|pinions of five or &s;ix Authors, or doing as many others have done, who having nothing of their own, to &s;ay, by plundering Authors, do very much imitate tho&s;e Jack-Puddings, who never appear on the Stage, but with Garbs compo&s;ed of &s;hreds of divers Colours. To the re&s;t, I might have added many Cures, with their Cir|cum&s;tances, to give Authority to my Experiences; But &s;eeing I was not Ambitious of all this, as being more trouble&s;om then nece&s;&s;ary, giving li|berty to every one to &s;ay, to believe, and to do concerning this little Book, as he &s;hall think fit, I de&s;ire all Per&s;ons of Candor and Equity to take this in good part, which I have given them with a good intention; and others, who, laying a&s;ide Ju&s;tice
<PB N="161" REF="85">and good Nature, are offended with it, to believe, that they &s;hall never be|reave me of that Tranquillity, with which God has been graciou&s;ly plea&s;ed to ble&s;s me, be&s;eeching him to con|tinue the &s;ame with me, and to grant it to all my Enemies.</P>
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<P><HI>Mr.</HI> Stephen Blankards<HI>'s</HI> PRACTICE Relating to the Venereal Di&s;temper And the ACCIDENTS thereunto belonging;</P>
<P>WHEREIN, There is a true and &s;olid <HI>Cure</HI> of the &s;ame <HI>Di&s;temper,</HI> Exhibited and Confirmed by &s;everal Remarkable CASES.</P>
<P><HI>London,</HI> Printed for <HI>John Taylor</HI> and <HI>Thomas Newborough,</HI> 1689.</P>
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<PB N="165" REF="87">
<HEAD>SECTION I. <HI>Of the Original, and Symptoms of the Venereal Di&s;temper.</HI></HEAD>
<P N="1">I. <HI>PAracel&s;us</HI> believed,
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>The Opini|on of</HI> Pa|racel&s;us.</NOTE> that the Venereal Di&s;temper does owe its Original to a Le|prous Strumpet, in the Year 1478. who had &s;ome virulent Inflam|mations in and about the Privities betwixt the Groins. I grant that there was &s;uch a Strum|pet, but it is not &s;o certain that the Di&s;temper &s;he had was Venereal, which is the Subject Matter of the pre&s;ent Di&s;cour&s;e. Be&s;ides, we have no a&s;&s;urance that &s;he was the fir&s;t Per&s;on who had this Di&s;ea&s;e, &s;eeing the Writings of the Ancients inform us of the like.</P>
<P N="2">II. Others think that this Di&s;tem|per was brought from the <HI>We&s;t-In|dies,</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>This Di|&s;temper did not come from the</HI> We&s;t-In|dies.</NOTE> and that it raged there as the Di&s;ea&s;e of the Country, like the Scur|vy in <HI>France,</HI> and the Stone in <HI>Eng|land;</HI> but <HI>Ferdinand Cortez</HI> does witne&s;s
<PB N="166" REF="88">the contrary, for he tells us, that before his Arrival in tho&s;e remote Parts of the World (he having been the Conqueror of the <HI>Indies</HI>) the Venereal Di&s;temper was altogether un|known there, unle&s;s to one &s;ingle Negro (Slave to <HI>Pamphilio</HI> of <HI>Navaes</HI>) who fir&s;t brought it from <HI>Spain,</HI> and that many hundreds of the Savages were thereby quickly infected, that Slave having been ju&s;t come from the Siege of <HI>Naples;</HI> whence, as it is believed, this Di|&s;temper does derive its Original. But farther, if it was the Di&s;ea&s;e of the Country, why &s;hould it be catched rather by Conver&s;ation than otherwi&s;e? For Di&s;ea&s;es that are peculiar to a Climate, are common Evils that are not confined to Per&s;ons who have Carnal Copula|tion with tho&s;e that have the Di&s;temper, but do al&s;o reach tho&s;e who live very Hone&s;t and Cha&s;te, and do not haunt the peppered Tribe, and the&s;e Innocents of nece&s;&s;ity would incur the &s;ame Fate, &s;eeing they breath in the &s;ame Air with the re&s;t; but Experience does teach us the contrary.</P>
<P N="3">III. <HI>Helmont</HI> differs in Opini|on from the former.
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Helmont's <HI>Opinion.</HI></NOTE> He fancies that &s;ome Wretch had to do with a &s;cabbed Mare, and that the Farcy in the Brute did produce the Pox in the Man. But &s;eeing the Symptoms of this Di&s;temper do very much differ from tho&s;e that are
<PB N="167" REF="88">ob&s;erved in Hor&s;es that have that Di|&s;ea&s;e, I mu&s;t reject this Opinion as well as the re&s;t.</P>
<P N="4">IV. I am of Opinion that the &s;aid Di|&s;ea&s;e is more Ancient then is commonly be|lieved, but it was unknown and cured under the name of &s;ome other Di&s;temper, as may appear from the Fourth Book of <HI>Epidemical Di&s;ea&s;es</HI> written by the Famous <HI>Hippocrates;</HI> what he &s;ays in his Book of inward Di&s;ea|&s;es, and his Book of Ulcers. Page 171. Chap. IX. does confirm the &s;ame; as al&s;o in his <HI>Coacae Praenotiones.</HI> Page 535.10, 11. does prove that the Venereal Di&s;temper was known by another Name, that they knew not that this Di&s;ea&s;e was the effect of an un|cha&s;t conver&s;ation, and that they cured it oftentimes, under the notion of &s;ome other unclean Di&s;temper. See al&s;o <HI>Plinius</HI> the Younger, in <HI>Chap.</HI> 18, of the <HI>Book</HI> XXI. and in <HI>Chap.</HI> 8. of the <HI>Book</HI> XXII. and in &s;everal other Places. Among&s;t other things he gives us an account of a Gentleman who was mi&s;erably pe&s;tered in his Privy-Parts; which being di&s;covered by his Wife, &s;he to avoid the mi&s;chief, threw her &s;elf out of a Window into the Sea, having fir&s;t per|&s;waded her Husband to bear her Compa|ny.</P>
<PB N="168" REF="89">
<P N="5">V. The Di&s;ea&s;e called the <HI>Elephantia&s;is</HI> a|mong the Antients had a great re&s;emblance of the Venereal Di&s;temper; For they write of it, that it was an Univer&s;al Gangrene o|ver all the Body, which happens to tho&s;e who neglecting their own &s;afety, put off their Cure till they be eaten with the Pox, and their Bodies be covered as with one U|niver&s;al Ulcer.</P>
<P N="6">VI. Nor do we find, that tho&s;e Accidents and Di&s;ea&s;es &s;poken of by the Antients (which for the mo&s;t part agree with our Venereal Di&s;temper) do befal tho&s;e Per&s;ons who live hone&s;tly and cha&s;tly, unle&s;s they be infected by another, as a Vertuous Woman may get it of her Vitious Hu&s;|band.</P>
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<PB N="169" REF="89">
<HEAD>SECT. II. <HI>Wherein the Virulency of the Pox does con&s;i&s;t, and how it is communicated.</HI></HEAD>
<P N="1">1. THis Di&s;ea&s;e does con&s;i&s;t,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">The E&s;&s;ects of an Acid.</NOTE> for the mo&s;t part, in an Acid; yet it is not enough barely to affirm this, &s;eeing that all the Di&s;ea&s;es of the Hu|mours do con&s;i&s;t, for the mo&s;t part, in an A|cid: But becau&s;e the particles of the Acid do much differ from one another in figure and quantity, in Vinegar, for example, <HI>Aqua for|tis,</HI> the juice of black Goo&s;eberries, and Ver|juice, and many other Acids, I affirm in the pre&s;ent ca&s;e; that this does al&s;o much differ in figure, quantity, and motion, from other Acids: And this poy&s;onous Acid does not in all appearance pre&s;ently infect all the Humours of our Body, but it &s;eems that one &s;ort of Humours is more &s;ubject to the con|tagion thereof than another, and e&s;pecially that Member which was fir&s;t infected with this Poy&s;on, as it appears in the ca&s;es of car|nal copulation, where the Privy-parts are or|dinarily fir&s;t &s;ei&s;ed; or as it was in the ca&s;e of a certain Nur&s;e of <HI>Zealand,</HI> who&s;e Nipples did fir&s;t attract the Poy&s;on; and as a little Leaven can ferment the whole ma&s;s, &s;o a lit|tle
<PB N="170" REF="90">of the venereal Ferment can poy&s;on the whole ma&s;s of Bloud. The &s;ame may be &s;aid of the Foam of a mad Dog, a little whereof does poy&s;on a Man to &s;uch a degree, that he becomes as mad as the Dog, and breaks out into the like Fury. It cannot be thought any thing but a Ferment, which pa&s;&s;ing into our Humours does corrupt them, and makes them of the &s;ame nature with it &s;elf.</P>
<P N="2">2. But be&s;ides this, we may a&s;&s;ign a cau&s;e for the venereal Virulency, which none that I know have ever thought of, <HI>viz.</HI> that we find in Men's Seed, and that moi&s;t matter that Women have in their <HI>Matrix,</HI> and pa&s;|&s;age, little Animals, which, being venomous, do not only corrupt our Genitals, but al&s;o, after they have encrea&s;ed to &s;ome bigne&s;s, make an univer&s;al and forcible inroad into our Bloud, perverting the <HI>Cra&s;is,</HI> and cor|rupting the whole Ma&s;s.</P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="3" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>SECT. III. <HI>Of the Gonorrhea, or Running of the Reins.</HI></HEAD>
<P N="1">1. A <HI>Virulent Gonorrhea,</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Virulent.</NOTE> or Run|ning of putrid Seed, hap|pens when the Seed being mixed with the vi|rulent matter does di&s;charge it &s;elf at the Yard
<PB N="171" REF="90">of the infected per&s;on; which running, is ac|companied with a &s;tench, a pain, and with a white, grey, yellow or greeni&s;h, colour, and commonly with an inflammation of the <HI>Pro|&s;tatae,</HI> or the Neck of the Womb in Women, and frequently with an erection of the Yard in Men.</P>
<P N="2">2. But in a <HI>Single Gonorrhea</HI> the Mat|ter is white and watery,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Single.</NOTE> without any &s;tench or pain, not occa&s;ioned by an un|cha&s;te conver&s;ation, but by a too frequent reiteration of venereal Acts, even in &s;ound per&s;ons, or by exce&s;&s;ive evacuation, or the weakne&s;s of the per&s;on: To both of the&s;e there is frequently joyned Heat of Urine; not that the Urine is really of that quality, but becau&s;e it does pa&s;s through a Yard that is excoriated inwardly, which cannot happen without a &s;en&s;e of great pain en&s;uing; yet &s;ometimes the Urine may be really hot.</P>
<P N="3">3. If a &s;ound Man does lie with an un|clean Woman, that Member with which he fir&s;t touched her Frivy-parts mu&s;t of nece&s;&s;i|ty be fir&s;t infected; for the humour that was in her pa&s;&s;age, and afterwards in her <HI>Matrix,</HI> is compo&s;ed of many penetrating, acid, and &s;alt particles, which may &s;ufficiently appear by the &s;tench thereof; for particles of one &s;ort make no &s;tench, unle&s;s they be excited by others: It mu&s;t therefore be a volatil
<PB N="172" REF="91">and fermentative <HI>Acid,</HI> that works continual|ly upon a volatil <HI>Alcali,</HI> and the former cor|rupting the latter, a &s;tench proceeds from this Corruption.</P>
<P N="4">4. This matter con&s;i&s;ts of a &s;alt Acid, that is to &s;ay, that the <HI>Alcali</HI> is compo&s;ed of long and hard Tubes, in the concavities of which there is a great number of acid points; which being mixed with &s;ome ramous and oily par|ticles, do by a &s;trange a&s;tringency in&s;pi&s;&s;ate the body, which was fluid before. In the mean time, the more fine &s;alt particles are actuated by the &s;ubtile matter, and the&s;e compo|&s;ing a kind of fire, do divide and cut out their way, as if they were many thou&s;and of Knives and Swords mixed together, and in action; and a Man's Yard approaching there|to, does meet with this matter, which hews and cuts down all in its way; and from hence Ulcers and a Gangrene do happen in a Man's Yard.</P>
<P N="5">5.
<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Motion of the Poy&s;on.</NOTE> But &s;eeing the ways by which this Liquor, or rather virulent Fer|ment, pa&s;&s;es into the Pro&s;tatae, are as yet &s;omewhat hid, we &s;hall endeavour to di&s;co|ver them. I know no particular Ve&s;&s;els that &s;erve for this purpo&s;e; but I affirm, that when the virulent matter does corrode the fle&s;h, it hews out its way into the Bloud, and other humours of the Yard, &s;tops their cour&s;e, and
<PB N="173" REF="91">inflames the Yard; and that this poy&s;on, af|ter that, corrupting the Bloud, and the other humours, by little and little, mu&s;t nece&s;&s;arily hurt the adjacent parts; as, fir&s;t the Pro&s;tatae, and then the Cods, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> and hence the Yard is violently erected; for &s;eeing the Bloud, be|cau&s;e of its gro&s;&s;ne&s;s, cannot &s;o quickly enter into the &s;mall ends of the Veins, as it does pa&s;s out of the Arteries into the Yard, it mu&s;t be, that more does remain therein than is con|veyed back; and all the &s;mall receptacles of the Yard being filled therewith, they mu&s;t needs render it rigid.</P>
<P N="6">6. The <HI>Gonorrhea</HI> is gradual, becau&s;e the Pro&s;tatae are but gently pre&s;&s;ed by the &s;tay of the humours that are in&s;pi&s;&s;ated, and &s;o the running is by drops, the Bloud and Hu|mours, being &s;eparated from the Pores of the Glands, are pre&s;&s;ed out by little and little; which pre&s;&s;ure does not happen, but for the carrying the matter through certain Ve&s;&s;els, and di&s;charging it into the Bloud; which be|ing impo&s;&s;ible, by rea&s;on of the ob&s;truction of the pa&s;&s;ages of the Glands, it is di&s;charged by little and little into the Yard.</P>
<P N="7">7. As for the Cure of the <HI>Gonorrhea,</HI> we mu&s;t fir&s;t free the Body of the Patient from the virulent ferment; for without this his Re|covery is not to be expected: After that the Body being duly purged, the Ulcer mu&s;t be
<PB N="174" REF="92">cured; after which the <HI>Gonorrhea</HI> will quickly cea&s;e. As to the u&s;efulne&s;s of Purgatives, it is to be known, that the&s;e do force a great quantity of the acid into the Belly, and from thence they pa&s;s by &s;tool, as may be percei|ved by the &s;tench of the excrementitious matter, which would not be &s;o di&s;agreeable to the &s;mell, if the Acid and the <HI>Alcali</HI> did not work &s;o &s;trongly on one another. I am of the opinion that much purging is not nece&s;|&s;ary, becau&s;e it would weaken the Patient, and make him unable to endure the Sweating that is nece&s;&s;ary.</P>
<P N="8">8. The purging Medicines are for the mo&s;t part prepared of &s;ome compo&s;itions of Mer|cury, e&s;pecially <HI>Mercurius dulcis,</HI> or White Precipitate, and the like; but not always of &s;uch, e&s;pecially if there be no fear of the uni|ver&s;al Pox, or if the evil is not inveterate. I &s;hall &s;et down &s;ome Medicines here, which are ordinarily u&s;ed: As,</P>
<P>&Jupit; The Extract of fre&s;h Ca&s;&s;ia one ounce, the Extract of Rhabarb one &s;cruple, <HI>Venice</HI> Turpentine one drachm; mix them, and make them into a <HI>Bolus.</HI></P>
<P>Or, &Jupit; <HI>Diagridium</HI> &s;ixteen grains, Cream of Tartar, Antimony diaphoretick, of each &s;ix grains; M. for a Powder.</P>
<P>Or, &Jupit; The Extract of Rhabarb half a &s;cruple, <HI>Diagridium</HI> nine grains, Oil of Cloves
<PB N="175" REF="92">two drops; M. make Pills thereof, five in number.</P>
<P>If after this, many Mercurials be joyned to the&s;e Remedies, the Acid &s;hall be &s;o much the more broken; as by that which follows.</P>
<P>&Jupit; The Extract of Rhabarb half a &s;cru|ple, <HI>Mercurius dulcis</HI> &s;ixteen grains, Oil of <HI>Guiacum</HI> two drops; mix them, and make all into five Pills.</P>
<P>Or, &Jupit; The Catholick Extract one &s;cru|ple, white Mercury precipitate three grains, Oil of Turpentine three drops; mix them, and make them into five Pills.</P>
<P>Or, &Jupit; The Catholiok Extract fifteen grains, <HI>Mercurius dulcis</HI> twenty grains, Oil of Amber three drops; mix them, and make all into five Pills.</P>
<P>The&s;e and the like &s;hall conquer the Acid, which is cau&s;e of the Malady, and force it to a particular part of the Body, which the Mercury does al&s;o perform by the means of its round particles.</P>
<P N="9">9. After this, tho&s;e Remedies are to be u&s;ed which do not only provoke Urine, but con&s;equently procure Sweat, and withall open the ob&s;tructions of the <HI>Pro&s;tatae;</HI> which be|ing open, all the matter is di&s;charged; and afterwards &s;uch Medicines are admini&s;tred as temper the Acid, or rather break its force.</P>
<PB N="176" REF="93">
<P>The &s;imple Medicaments that provoke U|rine, are, Privet root, Thea leaves, Savain leaves, Winter Cherries, the Bal&s;am of <HI>Peru,</HI> the Bal&s;am of <HI>Copayva,</HI> Myrrhe, <HI>Venice</HI> Tur|pentine, <HI>Cantharides,</HI> Woodlice, <HI>Venice</HI> Soap, <HI>Sperma Caeti,</HI> Salt of Amber, Oil of Amber, Oil of Turpentine, Oil of Savain.</P>
<P>The Medicaments that temper the Acid, are, <HI>China</HI> root, <HI>Sar&s;aparilla</HI> root, <HI>Lign. Guia|cum,</HI> Sa&s;&s;afras, the Leaves of Thea, of Win|ter-green, of Savain, Saffron, the Bal&s;am of <HI>Peru,</HI> the Bal&s;am of <HI>Copayva,</HI> Camphore, Gum <HI>Elemni,</HI> Ma&s;tick, Turpentine, Bezoar, Crabs-eyes, <HI>Sperma Caeti,</HI> Corall, Bolus, Cuttle bone, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></P>
<P>In the next place I &s;hall give &s;ome exam|ples of &s;uch Remedies as expell and temper the Acid.</P>
<P>&Jupit; Crabs-eyes half an ounce, Camphore, <HI>Venice</HI> Turpentine of each three drachms, the Bal&s;am of <HI>Peru</HI> two &s;cruples; mix them, and make up Pills, five out of one &s;cruple.</P>
<P>The Do&s;e is of five every day, which &s;hall not only temper the Acid, but al&s;o ex|pell it by Urine.</P>
<P>Or, &Jupit; Crabs-eyes one ounce, Savain leaves two drachms, <HI>Venice</HI> Turpentine three drachms, Bal&s;am of <HI>Copayva</HI> two &s;cruples; M. for Pills; make five of one &s;cruple. The Do&s;e is as before.</P>
<PB N="177" REF="93">
<P>Or, &Jupit; Crabs-eyes in Powder two ounces, <HI>Lapis Prunellae</HI> one ounce, the vitriolated Salt of Tartar, Camphore, of each two drachms, Bal&s;am of <HI>Peru</HI> a &s;ufficient quantity, Oyl of Savain half a &s;cruple; make all into Pills; let the Pills be &s;mall: The do&s;e is from a &s;cruple to a drachm.</P>
<P>Or, &Jupit; Ma&s;tick one ounce, Camphore two drachms, Salt of Amber one &s;cruple, Oyl of Amber twenty drops; make all into Pills.</P>
<P>Or, &Jupit; Privet Root two ounces, Oyl of Turpentine what is &s;ufficient; &s;et them &s;ome days in the Sun; this evacuates: The do&s;e is from &s;ix to ten drops, but it is &s;omething too &s;trong. Some make u&s;e of Spani&s;h Flies.</P>
<P>&Jupit; <HI>Cantharides</HI> one drachm, Spirit of Wine five ounces; which mu&s;t lie for &s;ome days, after which two drachms thereof are to be taken with one drachm of Crabs-eyes,</P>
<P>Or, &Jupit; Crabs-eyes half an ounce, <HI>Cantha|rides</HI> one &s;cruple, Oyl of Turpentine one drachm, Oyl of Savain half a &s;cruple, Rhe|ni&s;h Wine &s;ix ounces; make a Tincture of them: It may be taken by &s;poonfulls. <HI>Quer|cetane</HI>'s Water is likewi&s;e proper in this Ca&s;e, and is a volatil oily &s;alt compo&s;ed of &s;everal, things. Lettice &s;eed is of little u&s;e therein; but in&s;tead of it, it is better to put a drachm or two of Camphore: There may be al&s;o
<PB N="178" REF="94">Turpentine given with the Yolk of an Egg.</P>
<P>&Jupit; <HI>Venice</HI> Turpentine two drachms, the Yolks of two or three Eggs, <HI>Quercetan</HI>'s Water a &s;ufficient quantity; make up a drink to be taken at once.</P>
<P>To make this the more forcible to expell the acid, the Oyl of Amber and the Oyl of Savain may be mixed with it.</P>
<P N="10">10. We may al&s;o put &s;ome drops of the Oyl of Amber in the <HI>Alchohol,</HI> or mo&s;t high|ly rectified Spirit of Wine, and give it with a little Wine.</P>
<P N="11">11. Then for tempering the Heat in the Corroding Pains, and in making of water; there is nothing better than Thea taken warm, for it dilutes the acid, and tempers the Inflam|mation, &s;eeing the Particles that cau&s;ed the inflammation, are di&s;per&s;ed and go downwards in as far as Thea-drinkers have frequent oc|ca&s;ion to make water. A pti&s;an may be like|wi&s;e prepared of Barley, Rai&s;ins, and &s;weet Wood, with a little <HI>Sal&s;aparilla,</HI> or the Pati|ent may very conveniently drink &s;weet Milk and warm Thea together.</P>
<P N="12">12. Some injections may be al&s;o u&s;ed with a &s;trong decoction of Thea, which will clean&s;e and heal the Ulcers; and the&s;e are to be repeated often.</P>
<PB N="179" REF="94">
<P>Or, &Jupit; White Vitriol, Camphore, of each one drachm, Spirit of Wine &s;ixteen ounces; mix them for an injection;</P>
<P>Or, &rx; Common Water three ounces, Salt of Lead half a drachm, Camphore one &s;cru|ple; mix them for an injection. An injecti|on with Lime Water is very good.</P>
<P N="13">13. If the Yard be very much inflamed, &s;o that it becomes crooked, there mu&s;t be &s;ome|thing applyed to it, that may make the inflam|mation evani&s;h.</P>
<P>&rx; <HI>Bole Armoniac</HI> two drachms, Camphore one &s;cruple, Spirit of Wine a &s;ufficient quan|ty; mix them for a Liniment: Apply this to the Yard round about, and the Inflammation will be gone.</P>
<P N="14">14. Sudori&s;icks may be likewi&s;e u&s;ed in a &s;ufficient quantity, chiefly <HI>Guiacum,</HI> Sa&s;&s;afras, China, and <HI>Sal&s;aparilla;</HI> e&s;pecially when this di&s;temper is &s;omething inveterate.</P>
<P N="15">15. If it be nece&s;&s;ary to clo&s;e up the Ul|cers, the&s;e following Pills may be given.</P>
<P>&rx; <HI>Gum. Elemni,</HI> Ma&s;tich, of each two &s;cruples, Japan Earth one &s;cruple; mix them for Pills: Two of them may be taken every day, which will allways work it's effect, un|le&s;s the Ulcer be very great; if the Ulceration be &s;o rooted as hardly to yield to this, you mu&s;t mix a little Vitriol with the injections, which will eat the impure cru&s;t that remain<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">.
<PB N="180" REF="95">Now &s;eeing our Method does tend to this end, a good and regular conduct mu&s;t be ob&s;erved in Dyet, and the Patient is generally to ab|&s;tain from all &s;orts of drink; unle&s;s it be a decoction of <HI>Sal&s;aparilla,</HI> Thea, with, or with|out &s;weet Milk, or A pti&s;an, or the like; nei|ther will a little fre&s;h Ale doe any hurt. His food mu&s;t not have any thing that is &s;harp or fat in it. Toward the latter end of the Cure he may eat a few Almonds and Rai&s;ins. We proceed to give &s;ome Ca&s;es in the Pra|ctice.</P>
<DIV2 N="1" TYPE="case">
<HEAD><HI>CASE</HI> I.</HEAD>
<P>A certain young Man of 28 years of Age, had for the &s;pace of twelve days a Gonorrhea, accompanied with and offen&s;ive &s;mell, and purulent matter: He endured a great pain and heat in making water, with an Inflammation in the Yard; which mi&s;chief was got by a conver&s;ation with an unclean per&s;on. I gave him the following Pills.</P>
<P>&rx; The Extract of Rhabarb one &s;cruple, <HI>Mercurius dulcis</HI> half a &s;cruple; mix both, and make up &s;ome Pills: By the&s;e he had eight &s;tools; after which I pre&s;cribed to him the fol|lowing Pills to be taken evening and mor|ning on the &s;ame day.</P>
<PB N="181" REF="95">
<P>&rx; <HI>Venice.</HI> Turpentine boiled half an ounce, Crabs-eyes three drachms, the Bal&s;am of <HI>Peru</HI> one drachm, Camphore half a drachm, Oyl of Savain twenty drops; mix all, and make up &s;ome Pills, five of one &s;cruple: After which I made him drink a decoction of Thea, morning, noon, and evening; and I made an in|jection twice a day into his yard with the like decoction though very &s;trong; and I applyed a linen cloath, with Bole, Camphore, and Brandy, round about his Yard; after which he was cured in a few days.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="2" TYPE="case">
<HEAD><HI>CASE</HI> II.</HEAD>
<P>Mr. <HI>J. B. Pinket,</HI> an Excellant Anatomi&s;t of <HI>Gant,</HI> did me the favour to communicate to me this Ca&s;e:</P>
<P><HI>A certain Gentleman</HI> (&s;aid he) <HI>aged</HI> 38 <HI>years, had followed a Bawd's advice for the &s;pace of &s;ome weeks, but without any good effect; and when he came to me, after all, I gave him the Infu&s;ion of</HI> Can|tharides, <HI>prepared thus:</HI></P>
<P>&Jupit;. <HI>Cantharides,</HI> one drachm and an half, Spirit of Wine twelve ounces; as to the for|mer, I ordered the gro&s;s parts to be peel'd off, and what remained to be put in a linen cloath, then to be hung in Brandy a whole night over the fire, for making an Infu&s;ion.</P>
<PB N="182" REF="96">
<P>The Patient took a &s;poonfull thereof mor|ning and evening, and a Gla&s;s of the Al|mond Milk every day, which is prepared as follows:</P>
<P>&Jupit; Of the four great cold Seeds of each two drachms, &s;weet Almonds twenty in num|ber, barley Water a quart, white Sugar what may &s;uffice; make an Emul&s;ion ac|cording to Art. The day following he was twice launced in the Yard, for to ea&s;e him of his pain.</P>
<P>&Jupit; <HI>Rha&s;is</HI>'s white <HI>Trohisks</HI> half a Scruple, Ro&s;e water two ounces; make an injection. Several things were continued for &s;ix days fol|lowing; then the Patient took the following decoction to clean&s;e his body.</P>
<P>&Jupit; <HI>Guiacum</HI> wood half a pound, <HI>Senna</HI> Leaves two ounces, Ani&s;e &s;eed one ounce, Li|quorice one ounce, common Water eight pints; boil them to the half quantity: The Patient is to take &s;ixteen ounces at two &s;everal times a day, <HI>viz.</HI> eight ounces at a time. This decoction la&s;ts for three days, and eve|ry day gives four or five &s;tools. After this Purge, the following is to be taken:</P>
<P>&Jupit; The Sugar of Lead, Camphore, of each half a Scruple, <HI>Sal Prunella</HI> one drachm, Prepared Steel one &s;cruple, the Con&s;erve of the Egyptian Thorn one drachm; mix them. The do&s;e is a drachm twice a day: The
<PB N="183" REF="96">following injection is al&s;o to be given twice a day for an ab&s;olute Cure:</P>
<P>&Jupit; White French Wine two ounces, Prepared Tutty half a &s;cruple; mix them. By this Method the Patient was cured in fifteen days time.</P>
<P>Note, that the Injection is the chief means for curing a <HI>Gonorrhea,</HI> for I allways find that the mo&s;t &s;overeign Medicines taken by the mouth, are not &s;o effectual as tho&s;e that are very near the parts; and there is no need to fear that the Syringe Pipe, entering the Yard, will put the Patient to pain, or other inconvenience, becau&s;e I order the Pipe &s;o, that it is completely round in the end that en|ters the yard, and but a &s;pan long.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="3" TYPE="case">
<HEAD><HI>CASE</HI> III.</HEAD>
<P>A certain Lawyer, about 30 years of Age, who would needs be dabling, and after ha|ving &s;ailed in a dangerous pa&s;&s;age, arrived ve|ry fairly in the Straits; being pinch'd with a <HI>Gonorrhea,</HI> that held him for eight months to|gether, the Cure of which he committed to a pitifull Apprentice, but in vain, I ordered for him the following things:</P>
<P>&Jupit; <HI>Venice</HI> Turpentine two drachms, the Bal&s;am of <HI>Peru</HI> half a drop, the Extract of Rhabarb one Scruple; mix them, and make up
<PB N="184" REF="97">a <HI>Bolus.</HI> I made him repeat this every other day, till he had taken it four times, in the mean time he made u&s;e of the following Pills:</P>
<P>&Jupit; <HI>Venice</HI> Turpentine <HI>coct. Gum. Elem|ni,</HI> of each two drachms, Oyl of Amber ten drops, Crabs-eyes half an ounce; mix them, make up Pills; the do&s;e one Scruple. After which he al&s;o took <HI>Quercetane</HI>'s Water, four &s;poonfulls a day, and he was cured in the &s;pace of ten days, or thereabouts.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="4" TYPE="case">
<HEAD><HI>CASE</HI> IV.</HEAD>
<P>A certain Per&s;on of Quality, of 25 years of Age, took my advice, after he had made u&s;e of &s;everal other Phy&s;icians to no purpo&s;e; for the di&s;temper did &s;till appear: I purged him with &s;ome Mercurial Medicines, which I de&s;ired him to repeat every other day, till he had u&s;ed them thrice; in the mean time he drank the following decoction:</P>
<P>&Jupit; China Root, <HI>Sal&s;aparilla,</HI> of each two ounces, Liquorice half an ounce; boil them in &s;uch a quantity of water, that being &s;trai|ned, the whole may amount to eleven ounces; then let it be u&s;ed. He drank in the mor|ning, and at noon as much then as he could get down. His Yard was wa&s;hed and clean&s;ed twice a day with an injection; after
<PB N="185" REF="97">which I ordered for him the following mix|ture:</P>
<P>&Jupit; Oyl of Amber, of Juniper, of each one drachm, the Spirit highly Rectified, or, the Alcohol of Wine five ounces; mix them. He took one &s;poonfull of it every day, morning and evening, mixed with a little Wine, and half a drachm of Crabs-eyes; after which he was cured.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="5" TYPE="case">
<HEAD><HI>CASE</HI> V.</HEAD>
<P>A certain young Man, an <HI>Hamburgh</HI> Mer|chant, having had the misfortune to be made free of a Bawdy hou&s;e, got a <HI>Gonorrhea</HI> for for his Certificate; and having acquainted me with his condition by the means of a Chirurgi|on that was with him in the &s;ame Inn, we made him &s;weet once, and the morrow after we purged him with a Mercurial. His Yard was very much inflamed, and we did mitigate the &s;ame with new Milk; after which we put Camphore about it, and gave him the following injection:</P>
<P>&rx; Camphore ten grains, Infu&s;ion of Thea two ounces; mix both for an injection. This was continued for &s;ome days, and in the mean time he took Pills made of Turpentine, Bal&s;am of <HI>Copayva,</HI> Crabs-eyes; after which he re|turned to <HI>Hamburg</HI> in very good health.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="6" TYPE="case">
<PB N="186" REF="98">
<HEAD><HI>CASE</HI> VI.</HEAD>
<P>A Friend of mine was troubled with a vi|rulent <HI>Gonorrhea,</HI> and a very great Inflam|mation in the Gland of his Yard, with a pain in making water.</P>
<P>The morrow after I &s;aw him I made him im|mediately be purged with &s;ome Mercurial Pills, which afforded him &s;ome ea&s;e; I put round about his Yard a Pla&s;ter of Bole Armoniac, Camphore, and Spirit of Wine, which took away all the Inflammation, and encrea&s;ed the <HI>Gonorrhea;</HI> for if this virulent matter be &s;topp'd, it does corrode, whence there is an exceeding great pain in making water. He drank a great deal of new Milk, with Coffee, to take the heat or acrimony from his Urine. After he was purged I pre&s;cribed to him De|ter&s;ives, with &s;ome other Medicaments; by which he recovered his perfect health in three weeks time.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="7" TYPE="case">
<HEAD><HI>CASE</HI> VII.</HEAD>
<P>A young woman, wrong'd by her Husband, had a <HI>Gonorrhea</HI> of &s;harp, &s;tinking, and yel|low matter, accompanied with great pain; &s;o that the external parts of her tender pa&s;&s;age were exceedingly excoriated, and &s;he mighti|ly
<PB N="187" REF="98">tormented thereby. I ordered an outward application of a mixture of <HI>Bolus,</HI> Camphore, and Spirit of Wine, upon fine linen; by which that Inflammation that proceeded from the &s;harp and corro&s;ive matter continually running, was wholly removed; I al&s;o purged her with an ordinary Medicine, <HI>viz.</HI> the Ca|tholick Extract, and afterwards moderately with white Precipitate, after &s;he had had three very convenient &s;tools, I ordered her that which follows:</P>
<P>&rx; Bal&s;am of <HI>Copayva</HI> an ounce and an half, of <HI>Peru</HI> one drachm; mix them. After &s;he had u&s;ed this mixture for &s;ome days, having taken &s;ome drops of it in Thea, or Coffee, I ordered for her what follows:</P>
<P>&rx; Ma&s;tich, Franckincen&s;e, Bole Armoniac, Amber, Cuttle bone, Crabs-eyes, our <HI>Arca|num,</HI> of each three drachms; mix, and make them into a powder. I ordered her to take of this powder every day, morning and evening, the bigne&s;s of a Dait, either in the decoction of <HI>Sal&s;aparilla</HI> and China, or with Coffee, or Thea; by the u&s;e of which &s;he was very quickly re&s;tored to her health.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="8" TYPE="case">
<HEAD><HI>CASE</HI> VIII.</HEAD>
<P>A certain Gentleman had a <HI>Gonorrhea</HI> for allmo&s;t the &s;pace of two years, which was
<PB N="188" REF="99">not very virulent, I cured him of it; in which ca&s;e the juice of the Egyptian Thorn, and the juice of the Holy Ro&s;e Root, are very u&s;e|full, but my <HI>Arcanum</HI> is better.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="9" TYPE="case">
<HEAD><HI>CASE</HI> IX.</HEAD>
<P>A certain Per&s;on having a virulent <HI>Go|norrhea,</HI> committed him&s;elf to a Mountebank, but in vain; his Yard was very much infla|med, on the Gland of which there grew a Node.</P>
<P>After he was once purged with the Extract of Rhabarb, and <HI>Mercurius dulcis,</HI> I put Camphore and <HI>Bolus</HI> about his Yard, having fir&s;t mixed them according to art, whereby the Inflam|mation was allayed; he drank likewi&s;e new Milk with Thea, to mitigate the &s;harp pains he &s;uffered in making Water; he al&s;o drank <HI>Nimiguen</HI> Beer, which they call <HI>Mol;</HI> after|wards he took the Bal&s;am of <HI>Capayva,</HI> and the Bal&s;am of <HI>Peru,</HI> for the &s;pace of one Week; after which he took our <HI>Arcanum</HI> for &s;ome time, and perfectly recovered.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="10" TYPE="case">
<HEAD><HI>CASE</HI> X.</HEAD>
<P>A Man of thirty years of age had a conti|nual <HI>Gonorrhea</HI> for the &s;pace of two Months, and after having taken many things of &s;everal
<PB N="189" REF="99">Chirurgions, he took my advice, I then made him take a good deal of Bal&s;om of <HI>Sulphur,</HI> eight days together, purging him once in the mean time; and after this I gave him my <HI>Arca|num,</HI> by which he was recovered.</P>
</DIV2>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="4" TYPE="section">
<HEAD><HI>SECT.</HI> IV. <HI>Of the Inflammation of the Yard,</HI> &amp;c.</HEAD>
<P N="1">1. The Inflammation of the Yard is to be cured in this manner: Put the Yard fre|quently into warm Coffee, and warm Thea, letting it lie for &s;ome time; or in new Milk mixed with a little Camphore; the follow|ing Oyntment is exceedingly u&s;efull for cu|ring the &s;aid Inflammation.</P>
<P>&Jupit; Bole Armoniac half an ounce, Camphore half a drachm, Spirit of Wine in a &s;ufficient quantity; mix all together, and make an Unguent.</P>
<P>And the operation of this Unguent is this: Fir&s;t, I order the Bole, which is compo&s;ed for the mo&s;t part of an <HI>Alcali;</HI> &s;econdly, the Cam|phore, which is nothing el&s;e but a volatil oleaginous Salt, with which I mix Spirit of Wine, which in &s;ome &s;ort incorporating with the Camphore, is very active, by rea&s;on of
<PB N="190" REF="100">the &s;ubtilty of the air, and being put on the Yard, or an Inflammation, mu&s;t penetrate in|to the root of the cau&s;e by the means of its energetick quality, which in the fir&s;t place does open many pa&s;&s;ages, and afterward the matter of the ob&s;truction becomes more fluid, or at lea&s;t more movable; &s;o as one part of it does evaporate, and another is carried into the Bloud.</P>
<P N="2">2. If it happens that the ob&s;truction that cau&s;es the Inflammation be &s;o great that it cannot be entirely removed, the Pores and pa&s;&s;ages of the parts are corroded for &s;o long a time, that they are cut and broken to pie|ces; and &s;o Ulcers are opened, which ought then to be purged, to carry off the purulent matter, for fear the Ulcers &s;hould proceed to lay wa&s;te the adjacent parts, and devour the Yard wholly; again&s;t which Fate good Me|dicines are to be u&s;ed, &s;uch as,</P>
<P>&Jupit; Verdigri&s;e, Sublimate, of each four grains, Camphore one &s;cruple, Rich Wine three ounces; mix them, and make up a Cly&s;ter.</P>
<P>Or, &Jupit; <HI>Fallopius</HI>'s Mercurial Water, Spirit of Wine, of each two ounces, Frankincen&s;e, Aloes, Camphore, of each one drachm; mix all for the &s;ame purpo&s;e.</P>
<P>The&s;e Remedies are called Deter&s;ives, or Purgatives, the operation of which is as fol|lows.
<PB N="191" REF="100">There is Mercury one of the greate&s;t enemies to an Acid; it is &s;treighty united to &s;aline particles, and therefore it is the more ea&s;ily di&s;&s;olved in Wine or Water, to be em|ployed for this or the other purpo&s;e. Be&s;ides, to the&s;e Medicines we add &s;ome Oyls of a volatil Salt, &s;uch as Camphore, and other Gums, which are mixed with Wine, and Brandy, that it may penetrate the Ulcer; it clean&s;es the part from the virulency, and o|pens the pores, &s;o as the Acid is overcome by the means of the Mercury; to which there is al&s;o added Verdegri&s;e, white Vitriol, and the like, which by rea&s;on of their gro&s;s and &s;harp parts, like hewers of wood, cut down the Cop&s;e, or Small-wood, and clean&s;e the Ulcers from all u&s;ele&s;s and decay'd matter.</P>
<P N="3">3. The Precipitate Water that follows is not to be &s;lighted; we &s;hall give the Receipt for it here, &s;eeing we &s;hall have occa&s;ion to u&s;e it hereafter.</P>
<P>&Jupit; Sublimate pul&s;erized half an ounce, <HI>Sal</HI> Armoniack one ounce, Rain water two quarts; mix the&s;e together in a bottel, and &s;hake them now and then, adding thereunto two ounces of the Salt of Tartar, the Sublimate will be precipitated; let it alone till it fall all to the bottom, and then put it into water; you may dry the precipitated Powder, and keep it till you have occa&s;ion; the Water is kept in a Bottel.</P>
<PB N="192" REF="101">
<P N="4">4. This Water does then con&s;i&s;t of &s;ome particles of Salt which were in the Sublimate, <HI>viz.</HI> the Vitriol, and the Salt, to which &s;ome volatil particles of the <HI>Sal Armoniac</HI> do joyn them&s;elves, together with &s;ome others of the Salt of Tartar, which are fixed, &s;o as the vo|latil do put the fixed in motion; and the A|cid of the Ulcer is overcome by the Vitriol, the Salt of Tartar, and Armoniack; and the&s;e particles being in motion, do cut out their way round about the borders of the Ulcer, till the whole be clean&s;ed by their deter&s;ive Energy.</P>
<P N="5">5. That which is precipitated is the grea|te&s;t part of the Mercurial particles, and con|tains &s;ome others of the Salt of Tartar and Armoniack; for the Mercury, before that, was reduced to a compact body in the Sub|limate, by the acids of Salts which are there|in; but being di&s;&s;olv'd in water, all the&s;e acid points left the Mercury, and fixed them|&s;elves in the alcalious Salts, which leaving their place, the fine and volatil parts of the Salt Armoniack take place in the Mercury; for the one going out, the other mu&s;t &s;uc|ceed, &s;eeing there is a circular motion always in the Body.</P>
<P N="6">6. Quick-lime Water ought not to be ex|cluded here; for it is a known thing, that the Lime is an <HI>Alcali,</HI> which by the means of the
<PB N="193" REF="101">Water does clean&s;e the Ulcers from the Acid, that was the great cau&s;e that the Ulcer ope|ned, and remained &s;o; this Acid being there|fore removed, and the borders of the Ulcer hewed and lopp'd, the Ulceration is clean&s;ed.</P>
<P N="7">7. Neverthele&s;s it will not be ami&s;s to clean&s;e the Body with Mercurial Medicines, to &s;weat continually, and to take &s;ome Tur|pentine Pills, Crabs-eyes, and white Precipi|tate; and the Patient ought to drink of no|thing but a Decoction of <HI>China</HI> and <HI>Sal&s;apa|rilla,</HI> but always warm, which will drive the Acid from the Body, and vanqui&s;h the viru|lent Ferment on which the whole depends: The Ulcers being clean&s;ed, it onely remains that we clo&s;e up the pa&s;&s;age.</P>
<P N="8">8. As for the means that are requi&s;ite to ob|tund the Acid, we may give the&s;e following; fir&s;t, there is <HI>Emplastrum gri&s;eum,</HI> compo&s;ed of &s;everal ingredients which temper the Acid, as all <HI>Alkalies</HI> do, &s;uch as <HI>Lapis Calaminaris,</HI> the Li|thargyre, Ceru&s;e, Tutty, that have all an <HI>Alcali,</HI> capable of breaking the points of the Acid, and to receive them into their pipes; which appears by Ceru&s;e, a &s;ort of Lead, in which many acid points are engaged, and being bro|ken can no longer retain their pri&s;tine cha|racter and vigour. To the&s;e are al&s;o joyned &s;ome volatil Salts, mixed with an Aromatick Oil, as Turpentine, Frankincen&s;e, Ma&s;tich,
<PB N="194" REF="102">Myrrhe, Camphore, which put the Acid of the Ulceration in motion; and thus the Acid is buried in the <HI>Alcali.</HI> The like may be &s;aid of <HI>Diapompholix,</HI> and &s;everal other things, in which Mercurials are mixed, as Precipitate, which by its corro&s;ivene&s;s does re&s;train the too great growing of the fle&s;h; otherwi&s;e, without it, this would encrea&s;e to &s;uch a bulk, that it would afterwards be hard to reduce it by Corro&s;ives: Oils and pingous Unguents are oftentimes hinderances to a good and ready cure; to avoid which, 'tis better to u&s;e &s;uch as are compo&s;ed of firm ingredients, but reduced; as,</P>
<P>&Jupit; Ceru&s;s half an ounce, Lithargyre, three drachms, Powder of Frankincen&s;e two drachms, Red Precipitate half a &s;cruple, Spirit of Wine a &s;ufficient quantity; mix all, and make there|of a &s;oft Unquent.</P>
<P>When the Unguent is too dry, put al|ways therein &s;ome Brandy to moi&s;ten it.</P>
<P>Or, &Jupit; Prepared Tutty, Frankincen&s;e, of each two drachms, Camphore half a drachm, Spirit of Wine a &s;ufficient quantity; mix them, and make up a &s;oft Unquent.</P>
<P>Or, &Jupit; Red Lead, Bole, of each two drachms, Ma&s;tich a drachm and a half, Rich Wine what &s;ufficeth; M. make up a &s;oft Un|guent.</P>
<PB N="195" REF="102">
<P>Or, &Jupit; Burnt Ivory, Lead grinded with Water, of each two drachms, Quick Lime Water what &s;ufficeth; M. make up a &s;oft Unguent.</P>
<P N="9">9. It &s;ometimes happens, that there grows venereal Warts or, the like, in Ulcerations, which may be remedied by Corro&s;ives, &s;uch as red Precipitate, and burnt Alume, which mu&s;t be put on the &s;ame in powder; the &s;ame thing may be done to hard and callous Ulcerations; in which ca&s;e, &s;ome make u&s;e of a Plai&s;ter of Frogs, prepared with Mercu|ry, or this that follows:</P>
<P>&Jupit; Ointment of Ro&s;es one ounce, Crude Mercury half an ounce; mix them.</P>
<DIV2 N="1" TYPE="case">
<HEAD><HI>CASE</HI> I.</HEAD>
<P>A Servant Man having kept company with an infected per&s;on, had an itching in the Gland of his Yard, but afterwards the whole became inflamed with great pain, then ulce|rated; he had a <HI>Gonorrhea</HI> at fir&s;t, but the matter being lock'd, could not be di&s;charged; or, being a poor Creature, he had neglected him&s;elf; I pre&s;cribed to him good Catapla&s;ms, &s;uch as,</P>
<P>&Jupit; Sowre Rye Bread two ounces, Pidgeons dung one ounce, <HI>Phellandrium</HI> Leaves one handfull; boil all in <HI>Joppa</HI> Ale; add of Cam|phore
<PB N="196" REF="103">two drachms; make up a Catapla&s;me: This removed the Inflammation, &s;o as on the morrow after he voided a huge quantity of Urine, and putrified &s;eed: In other things the ordinary method was ob&s;erved; as, Mercurials, and Decoction of <HI>China,</HI> &amp;c.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="2" TYPE="case">
<HEAD><HI>CASE</HI> II.</HEAD>
<P>A certain Man having had a <HI>Gonorrhea</HI> for a long time, that was very virulent, had the Gland of his Yard covered with hard Nodes, and &s;o with &s;ome Ulcers: I made him apply <HI>&V;nguentum Ba&s;ilicum</HI> thereunto, with a little red Precipitate; I al&s;o made him cover his Yard with a Plai&s;ter of Frogs, prepared with Mer|cury; which were &s;o operative, that all the Nodes were di&s;&s;olved, and the Ulcers healed, which were at la&s;t clo&s;ed up with a little Bo|lus, and <HI>&V;nguentum ro&s;aceum</HI> mixed together; he ob&s;erved withall a good diet, and drank eve|ry day a Decoction of <HI>Sal&s;aparilla</HI> and <HI>China.</HI></P>
</DIV2>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="5" TYPE="section">
<PB N="197" REF="103">
<HEAD>SECT. V. <HI>Of the Caruncle.</HI></HEAD>
<P N="1">1. A Caruncle does accompany a Gonorrhea, and is a &s;mall fle&s;hy Tumour, placed in the very pa&s;&s;age of the Yard. The chief part of the cure does con&s;i&s;t in taking away this Tumour, which is difficult to be done, &s;eeing we cannot come near it, as in the ca&s;e of an external part: The be&s;t way therefore is to make a &s;mall &s;ilver Pipe, very even, but &s;omething &s;maller in that end that enters into the Yard.</P>
<P N="2">2. The Pipe being prepared, the next thing is a good Powder; the prepartion of which is as follows:</P>
<P>&rx; Burnt Alume one drachm, Bra&s;s Ru&s;t ten grains; mix them, and make a Powder:</P>
<P>Or, &rx; Red Mercury half a &s;cruple, Pow|der of Savain one drachm; mix them into a Powder:</P>
<P>Or, &rx; Sulphur one drachm, Bra&s;s Ru&s;t half a &s;cruple; for a Powder, as before.</P>
<P N="3">3. Some Unguents are to be conveyed through that Pipe to the excre&s;cence; &s;uch as <HI>&V;nguentum Apostolorum,</HI> or this which follows:</P>
<PB N="198" REF="104">
<P>&rx; Butter one ounce, Yellow Wax two drachms Turpentine three drachms Red Precipitate, Bra&s;s Ru&s;t, of each one &s;cruple; mix them, and make up an Unguent; and this is u&s;ed till the Carno&s;ity be con&s;umed. The&s;e Unguents and Powders may be made as &s;trong or weak as one plea&s;es, by adding thereto a greater or le&s;&s;er quantity of Corro&s;ives.</P>
<P N="4">4. After the excre&s;cence of fle&s;h is corroded, the Orifice that was made by the Tumour, is to be healed by the following Powders, blown by the Pipe into the Yard.</P>
<P>&rx; Crude Antimony one drachm, Bole Ar|moniack two drachms, Camphore one &s;cru|ple; mix them all into a Powder.</P>
<P>Or, &rx; <HI>Lapis Calaminaris,</HI> Frankincen&s;e, of each one drachm; make them into a Powder.</P>
<P>Or, &rx; Sweet Vitriol Earth, burnt Harts|horn, of each one drachm, Yellow Re&s;ine one drachm; make them into a Powder.</P>
<P>Or, &rx; Sealed Earth, Ceru&s;s, of each two parts, Camphore one part; make them into a Powder.</P>
<P>Or, &rx; Lithargyre of Gold, Ma&s;tich, of each equal parts; mix them into a Powder.</P>
<P>Or, &rx; Burnt Lead, Tutty, of each two parts, Camphore one part; make them into a Powder. We may likewi&s;e make Unguents of the&s;e Powders, with a little Oil, Wax, and Turpentine; and for the &s;ame purpo&s;e we
<PB N="199" REF="104">may u&s;e <HI>Emplastrum Gri&s;eum, &V;nguentum Ocu|lare, Diapompholigos, Opodeldoch, Felicis, Wurts,</HI> &amp;c.</P>
<P N="5">5. But whil&s;t the excre&s;cence is kept from encrea&s;ing, the Pipe is to be drawn out &s;ome|times, to give pa&s;&s;age to the Urine, and if it cannot be conveniently emitted, a Catheter is to be u&s;ed to facilitate the pa&s;&s;age; the Urine being voided, the pipe is to be put in again, and &s;ome of the la&s;t mentioned Powder is to be blown in by it, and repeated till the cure be compleated.</P>
<DIV2 N="1" TYPE="case">
<HEAD><HI>CASE</HI> I.</HEAD>
<P>A young Man having been cured of a Go|norrhea, felt &s;ome pain in making water, by rea&s;on of an ob&s;truction, &s;o as &s;ometimes the pa&s;&s;age was &s;topp'd up, and no Urine could pa&s;s, but by drop and drop. We found with the finger and a probe, that there was &s;omething in the middle of the <HI>&V;retra:</HI> In order to his cure there was &s;ome of this following Powder blown in by a Pipe, upon the excre&s;cence:</P>
<P>&rx; Burnt Honey two drachms, Burnt Al|lom three drachms; mix them into a Powder. By this means the Carno&s;ity was taken away, and it was healed by a Compo&s;ition of Brandy and Bolus.</P>
</DIV2>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="7" TYPE="section">
<PB N="200" REF="105">
<HEAD>SECT. VII. <HI>Of the Venereal Hernia, or Te&s;ticle.</HI></HEAD>
<P N="1">1. THis accident of the Venereal Hernia is nothing el&s;e but an enlargment of of the Te&s;ticular Ve&s;&s;els. As to it's Cure, we mu&s;t endeavour to make the matter that cau&s;es the &s;welling to be fluid, by di&s;&s;olving and operative Medicines; but if the mi&s;chief be come to a great heighth, we mu&s;t draw the matter from it, to free the part from the Scher|rous Tumours; and if after all, the remedies have not the de&s;ired &s;ucce&s;s, it is nece&s;&s;ary to make an Inci&s;ion in the part.</P>
<P N="2">2. The Patient may take Turpentine Pills, together with the Bal&s;am of <HI>Peru,</HI> or that of <HI>Copayva,</HI> Crabs-eyes; and afterwards drink e|very day a great quantity of the Decoction of Thea, or Coffee, to heat the body, and render all the humours fluid; and &s;o he may put for his u&s;e &s;ome drops of the Volatil Salt of Harts-horn into Spani&s;h Wine, to di&s;&s;olve all the gro&s;s Liquors; which may al&s;o be performed by this which follows:</P>
<P>Spirit of Salt, Armoniack, Ivory, Bones, Bloud, Urine, a Volatil oily Salt, Harts-Horn, Flowres of Salt Armoniack, and the like,
<PB N="201" REF="105">&s;eeing all volatil Salts are Antidotes a|gain&s;t the venereal Symptoms. The Exter|nal Medicines are the&s;e that follow:</P>
<P>&rx; Cows dung three ounces, <HI>Phellandrium</HI> leaves, Rue leaves, of each one handfull, To|bacco one drachm: Boil them in water to a good con&s;i&s;tency, adding thereto, Wheat, and Honey, of each two ounces; mix them for a Catapla&s;me; the Catapla&s;me mu&s;t be applied very warm, and &s;o mu&s;t the following Fomen|tations be u&s;ed.</P>
<P>&rx; Joppa Ale three ounces, Spirit of Fea|ther feat two ounces, Sal Armoniack ten drops; mix them for a Fomentation.</P>
<P>Or, &rx; Tobacco half an handfull, Cre&s;&s;es two handfulls, <HI>Phellandrium</HI> one handfull; boil them in new Wine to ten ounces, &s;train them; then add thereto of the Spirit of Sal Ar|moniack half a drachm, Camphore half an ounce; mix them for a Fomentation.</P>
<P>The following Receit was given me as a ra|rity, by a friend who had cured many with it.</P>
<P>&rx; Cre&s;&s;es three handfulls, fre&s;h butter one ounce; &s;tir this till it be freed from all redun|dant Humidity, then add thereto two drachms of Camphore and put them about the Hernia; all the fine liquors are very fit to remove it, of which this which follows is not the lea&s;t:</P>
<P>&rx; Spirit of Feather feat, Frankincen&s;e wood, Amber, Myrrhe, Ma&s;tich, of each equal parts,
<PB N="202" REF="106">Spirit of Wine rectified what is &s;ufficient; peel and refine the&s;e very well, and leave them to dige&s;t &s;ome days in the Spirit of Wine, that the Gums may be the better di&s;&s;olved, and af|terwards di&s;till them by a &s;low fire: The Tincture of A&s;&s;afetida is u&s;efull upon the &s;ame occa&s;ion.</P>
<DIV2 N="1" TYPE="case">
<HEAD><HI>CASE</HI> I.</HEAD>
<P>A certain man coming to me, acquainted me that he had to doe with a &s;trange Woman, upon which he got a Gonorrhea, which he had &s;topp'd by the advice of one of his Com|rades; after which his two Te&s;ticles did en|crea&s;e prodigiou&s;ly: He con&s;ulted a Chirur|gion who brought him to me; we applied a good Catapla&s;me to his Te&s;ticles made up of Brandy, Drache, and Camphore, which had a good effect, being u&s;ed thrice a day; and the Patient was cured without any thing el&s;e.</P>
</DIV2>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="7" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>SECT. VII. <HI>Of Venereal Buboes.</HI></HEAD>
<P N="1">1. VEnereal Buboes happen commonly in the Glands of the Groin, &s;ometimes in the Arm-pits, and other Glandulous pla|ces. To which there is joined an Inflammati|on,
<PB N="203" REF="106">Heat, Corro&s;ion, Pain, Pul&s;ation and Ex|ten&s;ion, which are the mo&s;t ordinary marks.</P>
<P N="2">2. As for the cure, if the Inflammation be onely begun, it may be repelled; if it be come to &s;ome forwardne&s;s, it mu&s;t be brought to &s;up|puration as &s;oon as po&s;&s;ible; for which purpo&s;e the Receits which here follow are proper.</P>
<P>&rx; Wheat flower three ounces, Yolks of Eggs &s;ix in number, Camphore two drachms, Saffron one &s;cruple, Honey what is &s;ufficient; mix them for a &s;oft Plai&s;ter;</P>
<P>Or, &rx; Roa&s;ted Onions two ounces, Pige|ons dung one ounce, Mu&s;tard &s;eed half an ounce, Honey what is &s;ufficient; mix them for a Catapla&s;me;</P>
<P>Or, &rx; <HI>Galbanum</HI> two ounces, Powder of Tobacco, Cummin &s;eed, of each one ounce, Spirit of Wine, with Camphore and Honey, of each what is &s;ufficient; mix them for a Plai&s;ter. The&s;e remedies being warmly ap|plied, ought to be a&s;&s;i&s;ted frequently with a bag of warm Sand, applied to the place over the Catapla&s;me.</P>
<P>The&s;e Applications do very much contribute to the Suppuration of tho&s;e Inflammations; for whatever can make an Inflammation to va|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">i&s;h, can likewi&s;e bring it to Suppuration; if <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">hen the Inflammations do not break ea&s;ily. we may u&s;e &s;uch Remedies as are of &s;omewhat greater force; for there is often need that
<PB N="204" REF="107">the Inflammation be launced, or opened with a Corro&s;ive, or that this following Plai&s;ter be applyed thereto:</P>
<P>&rx; Of Rye-leven three ounces, Mu&s;tard two ounces, black Soap one ounce; boil all together in a &s;ufficient quantity of Water, and Spirit of Wine, to the con&s;i&s;tency of a Cata|pla&s;me.</P>
<P N="3">3. But if it happens to &s;uppurate, the pa&s;|&s;age is to be clean&s;ed with a little of the Juice of Celandine and Honey, applied with a Pledget.</P>
<P N="4">4. Neverthele&s;s a Mercurial Purgative is to be u&s;ed once, and the Patient is to drink nothing but a Decoction of <HI>Sal&s;aparilla</HI> and <HI>China;</HI> neither mu&s;t Sweating be omitted.</P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="8" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>SECT. VIII. <HI>Of</HI> Condylomes <HI>or Venereal Excre&s;cences in the Fundament, and Privy-Parts.</HI></HEAD>
<P N="1">1. WE are to reckon among&s;t the ac|cidents of the Venereal Di&s;tempe<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter"> whatever grows in that ca&s;e, in the Funda|ment and Privy-Parts, which are called Con|dylomes, or Wens; and the&s;e, according to their various figure, admit of various Appella|tions; they are called <HI>Ficus, Mari&s;ca, and Morus;</HI>
<PB N="205" REF="107">if they hang, they are called <HI>Pen&s;iles;</HI> but names make nothing for the thing.</P>
<P N="2">2. Care is to be taken to remove the&s;e Ex|cre&s;cences, and to cicatri&s;e their place; if they leave no open pa&s;&s;age, they are to be annoin|ted with the Butter of Antimony, (or the Oil of Antimony, or el&s;e with the Spirit of <HI>Sul|phur per campanam,</HI> both con&s;i&s;ting of acid Parts: The Butter of Antimony, and it's Oil, &s;eem not indeed to be compo&s;ed of a pure Acid, otherwi&s;e the Butter would rai&s;e an Efferve&s;|cence, with the Spirit of Niter; &s;o that there are many particles of an <HI>Alcali</HI> therein, which cannot come near to one another, for want of a Liquour, which happens when the Spirit of Niter is joined to it; the anoninting mu&s;t be afterwards repeated once every day, after which the Condylomes will dye, dry, and fall off gradually. The following Unguent may be likewi&s;e u&s;ed:</P>
<P>&rx; Mercury Sublimate one drachm, Sal Ar|moniack, Ceru&s;s, of each two drachms, White-Wine Vinegar &s;ix ounces; mix them.</P>
<P>When the Warts have a neck, a hor&s;e hair may be tied about them, after which they will gradually fall off, and dry up: If there re|mains a large pa&s;&s;age, cicatri&s;ing Remedies are to be u&s;ed, which take away all noi&s;ome &s;mell, as <HI>Lithargyre, Ceru&s;s, Tutty.</HI></P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="9" TYPE="section">
<PB N="206" REF="108">
<HEAD>SECT. IX. <HI>Of the &V;niver&s;al Pox, and it's Symptomes.</HI></HEAD>
<P N="1">1. SEeing this Di&s;temper does con&s;i&s;t in an A|cid Poi&s;on, it cannot be better cured than by &s;uch Medicines as expell the Acid out of the Body, or altogether vanqui&s;h and obtund it; and this may be done by purging, &s;weating, &s;alivating, and u&s;ing other altering Medicines.</P>
<P N="2">2. The Purgatives are not to be u&s;ed too often, le&s;t the Patient be reduced to great weakne&s;s of Body, and &s;o be made unable to endure the fatigue of Sweating. It is be&s;t to ob&s;erve a <HI>Medium,</HI> that is, to purge moderate|ly at the beginning, at the middle, and at the end. As for the Medicines, it is no great mat|ter what &s;ort we u&s;e, although many think <HI>Coloquintida</HI> to be the mo&s;t proper Cathartick, not knowing the rea&s;on why, unle&s;s they &s;up|po&s;e that it does contain more alkalious Par|ticles, that are fit to vanqui&s;h the Acid; to this they join Mercurials, the better to expell the Acide from the Body. It is to be ob&s;erved that we mu&s;t mix the Mercurials with Pills, or a <HI>Bo|lus;</HI> for if they be mixed with drink, or pow|ders, and then be given, the Acid of the <HI>Saliva</HI> would mix therewith in the Mouth, and would very much impair the parts thereunto belonging. I &s;hall here &s;et down &s;ome Receits for learners.</P>
<PB N="207" REF="108">
<P>&rx; The Confection Hamech one drachm and an half, <HI>Mercurius dulcis</HI> 24 grains; mix them for a <HI>Bolus.</HI></P>
<P>Or, &rx; <HI>Aloes, Guttae Gambae,</HI> white Mercury Precipitate, of each half a &s;cruple; mix them, and make up &s;even Pills.</P>
<P>Or, &rx; The Catholick Extract, Sublimate Precipitate of each 16 grains; mix them, and make up five Pills.</P>
<P>Or, &rx; The Pulp of <HI>Ca&s;&s;ia, Calomelan,</HI> of each one drachm, Scammony &s;ix grains; mix them, and make up a <HI>Bolus.</HI></P>
<P>The&s;e are the principal Purgative Medi|cines prepared with Mercury; otherwi&s;e this &s;ort is made up into Decoctions.</P>
<P N="3">3. Mercurials are al&s;o mixed with &s;udori|ficks, which are given at night in the follow|ing manner:</P>
<P>&rx; Treacle one drachm, <HI>Mercurius dulcis</HI> one &s;cruple; mix them for a <HI>Bolus.</HI></P>
<P>Or, &Jupit; White Mercury Precipitate half a &s;cruple, Re&s;ine of <HI>Guiacum</HI> one &s;cruple; mix them, and make up &s;ix Pills.</P>
<P N="4">4. But be&s;ides the&s;e Remedies that procure Sweat, the Patient is to be &s;weated every day once, by the means of Brandy, or <HI>Aquavitae;</HI> in the &s;ame, or the like manner, as follows:</P>
<P N="5">5. The Patient being undre&s;&s;ed, and &s;tark naked, is &s;et in an high Seat, his feet over a warm &s;tove; then his body is to be covered
<PB N="208" REF="109">all over with a large &s;heet from below reach|ing to his neck, &s;o that nothing appear but his head; after which the &s;heet is to be put very clo&s;e to his body, all over, that nothing be naked, and that the Air be utterly excluded: Then a pot of Brandy is to be taken, &s;et under the &s;eat, and kindled, but not all at once, but by degrees, and often, le&s;t the flame ri&s;e too high, and damnify the Seat; when the Patient has &s;weated well, he is to put on a &s;hirt very well aired, and warm; and he is to be put immediately into a Bed well warmed, and mu&s;t drink a good Pottinger of Decoction.</P>
<P N="6">6. The drinks that we give in this Di&s;tem|per are as follow:</P>
<P>&Jupit; <HI>Lignum Sanctum</HI> ra&s;ed one ounce, the Bark of the &s;ame, Liquorice, of each half an ounce; boil them according to Art to 40 ounces; &s;train them, and give them.</P>
<P>Or, &Jupit; <HI>Sal&s;aparilla</HI> Root, <HI>China</HI> Root, of each three ounces, Sa&s;&s;afra&s;s Wood two oun|ces, Liquorice one ounce; boil them in Wa|ter to eighty ounces, &s;train them.</P>
<P>Or, &Jupit; Burr-dock Root, <HI>Sal&s;aparilla</HI> Root, Rai&s;ins of the Sun, of each three ounces; boil all in water to eighty Ounces, and being &s;trai|let it be u&s;ed.</P>
<P>Or, &Jupit; Roots of <HI>China,</HI> of Butter-burr, of Burdock, of each three ounces; boil them in water to eighty ounces, &s;train them for u&s;e.</P>
<PB N="209" REF="109">
<P N="7">7. The Patients in the mean time, &s;o long as they are under cure, are to drink no other decoctions but the&s;e; for they provoke &s;weat much, which is affected by heat, whe|ther it be that Brandy, hot Bricks, or other things of the like Nature, be u&s;ed.</P>
<P N="8">8. After the Patient has &s;weated &s;ufficiently, he mu&s;t take a full Cup of &s;uch drink, that the motion of the Humours be not &s;uddenly &s;topped.</P>
<P N="9">9. Many think that there is a great bene|fit to be expected from crude Antimony, be|cau&s;e they believe that it excites Sweat, which mu&s;t proceed from it's Sulphur, which in this Ca&s;e is like an <HI>Alkali.</HI> The Sulphur of Antimony being like common Sulphur, and this having no Acid in it, as it is believed, it mu&s;t needs be that the Acid of our bodies (by cutting and continually dividing the Sulphur of the Anti|mony) does break it's own points, by which means all the &s;trength of the Acid is vanqui&s;h|ed; and during this Combat in the Bloud, there is a motion, and con&s;equently a heat; &s;o that the fine&s;t Acides do flie out of the Territories of the Body.</P>
<P N="10">10. After having &s;poken of proper Sudo|rificks, it will not be unfit to &s;et down &s;ome|thing relating to the Practice of Artificial Sali|vation, without which this Di&s;temper cannot be cured oftentimes.</P>
<PB N="210" REF="110">
<P N="11">11. The Internal Medicines for Salivation are as follow:</P>
<P>&Jupit; <HI>Mercurius dulcis</HI> half an ounce, Treacle in a &s;ufficient quantity; mix them, and make up Pills for ten times. A Do&s;e thereof is to be taken Morning and Evening.</P>
<P>Or, &Jupit; Camomel one ounce, White Sugar two ounces; mix them, and make up &s;ix Pills: Of which al&s;o a Do&s;e is to be taken Morning and Evening.</P>
<P>Or, &Jupit; Turbith Mineral ten grains, Trea|cle one drachm and a half; mix them, and make up a <HI>Bolus.</HI> The Do&s;e is to be taken thrice a day.</P>
<P>Or, &Jupit; White Precipitate, Red Precipitate, of each three drachms, Old Treacle one ounce, Powder of Mace, Powder of Cloves, of each two drachms; mix them, and make up Pills. The Do&s;e is from twelve to &s;ixteen grains.</P>
<P>Or, &Jupit; Sublimate Precipitate twelve grains, or &s;ixteen grains, Old Treacle one drachm; mix them. To be taken once a day, till the Salivation begin.</P>
<P N="12">12. The following Receit was commu|nicated to me as a great &s;ecret, to cure the Venereal Di&s;temper without any danger:</P>
<P>&Jupit; Mercury Sublimate one drachm, com|mon Water twenty ounces; mix them.</P>
<P>In the Morning the Patient may take a &s;poonfull thereof; and this frequently cures
<PB N="211" REF="110">upon &s;even times taking: But I think this too &s;trong; &s;o that there may be more water ad|ded, and a greater quantity taken thereof.</P>
<P N="13">13. For clean&s;ing the Mouth which is ul|cerated by the Acid, in the Salivation, it is convenient to take Remedies that are proper to rince the Mouth withall, and to draw the corro&s;ive Acid from all the corners thereof, for which purpo&s;e the Pickle of Limons is u&s;efull, being full of volatil and aromatick Particles; and if the mouth be rinced there|with, it does very much contribute to the clean&s;ing of it, and much more than all the Almond Milk, decoctions of Figs, Ro&s;es, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> but if the Ulcers be ob&s;tinate, and the Pains in&s;upportable, &s;ome Gargari&s;ms are prepared, which are penetrating; &s;uch as,</P>
<P>&Jupit; Limon Pickle, Spirit of Scurvy-gra&s;s, of each two Ounces, Spirit of Wine four oun|ces, <HI>Opium</HI> four grains; mix them, and make a Gargari&s;m.</P>
<P>When the Salivation is backward, the Pa|tient is to take &s;omething to &s;weat; and if it be too forward, a gentle Purge mu&s;t be given, that the Mercury may al&s;o operate in the Glands of the Region of the Belly.</P>
<P N="14">14. When Mercury is taken, the Patient may very well make u&s;e of &s;uch things as tem|per the Acid, and break its points; which may be effected by &s;uch Remedies as provoke
<PB N="212" REF="111">Urine, and clean&s;e the Ulcers and the Belly.</P>
<P N="15">15. In &s;alivating, the Mouth is to be con|tinually rinced, that the Acid may be always expelled from thence, and tho&s;e parts be not impaired; for this purpo&s;e fre&s;h Water, new Milk, and Decoctions of Harts-horn may be u&s;ed; for the Acid remaining a long time in the Mouth, mu&s;t of nece&s;&s;ity continually cor|rhode the &s;ame: and a decoction of <HI>Guiacum</HI> is likewi&s;e u&s;ed for this end, &s;eeing it keeps the Pores always open.</P>
<P N="16">16. The Venereal Di&s;temper is &s;ometimes accompanied with Tophes, or &s;tony or chal|ky Tumours, as in the Gout, which cannot be better di&s;cu&s;&s;ed than by Mercurial Plai&s;ters; as, the Plai&s;ter of Frogs, prepared with Mer|cury, <HI>Vigo</HI>'s Plai&s;ter with Mercury: There is al&s;o for the &s;ame purpo&s;e a Mercurial Water, made in the manner following.</P>
<P>&Jupit; Tin five ounces, Crude Mercury three ounces; make an Amalgam thereof.</P>
<P>&Jupit; Of this Amalgam, of Sublimate corro&s;ive, of each eight ounces, di&s;till them in a Retort in Sand, with a Recipient well luted; there will come forth a mo&s;t clear Water always &s;moa|king.</P>
<P>Of this Water a drop or two is to be ta|ken every day, to put on the Tumour. I think that there is &s;omething &s;ingular in this Water that de&s;erves to be noticed, and that
<PB N="213" REF="111">the Tin being mixed with the other two, di|vides the minute particles of the Mercury, and &s;eparates them from one another; and the Sublimate, which is compo&s;ed of an <HI>Al|eali,</HI> and of an Acid, being added, one part of the Acid works upon the Tin, and ano|ther part goes out of the Retort by the action of the fire, and &s;eems to repre|&s;ent to us the figure of a Water, one part of which can never be vanqui&s;hed by ano|ther; the Mercury being divided into very &s;mall parts, is in continual action and re&s;i|&s;tence; and hence the ince&s;&s;ant Smoak.</P>
<P N="17">17. But the&s;e Remedies are only to be u|&s;ed when the Bones are not corrupted; for if they be, another method is to be followed; as when a <HI>Caries</HI> is to be cured, by grating, &s;craping, drawing out the &s;mall Bones, and cauteri&s;ing them; upon which, there is after|wards put a Powder that drinks up the A|cid, and effects the Cure by its alcalious and volatil particles. The Powders are as fol|lows:</P>
<P>&Jupit; Ma&s;tich two drachms, Powder of Flo|rentine Orris half an ounce; mix them into a Powder.</P>
<P>Or, &Jupit; Powder of Birthwort, <HI>Fab. vel Rot.</HI> Frankincen&s;e, of each three drachms, Cam|phore one drachm; mix them into a Pow|der.</P>
<PB N="214" REF="112">
<P>But if there be &s;cales that are but &s;lowly &s;eparated, they may be removed by Remedies that drink up the Acid, and make them fall off the &s;ooner.</P>
<P>&Jupit; Spirit of Wine two ounces, the juice of the greater Celandine one ounce, <HI>Euphorbe</HI> one drachm; mix them.</P>
<P>Wa&s;h with this from time to time; and af|ter this, the fore&s;aid Powder is to be &s;prinkled on the part.</P>
<P N="18">18. There are &s;ome marks of &s;ores and Pox that are rubbed with the Mercurial Wa|ters of <HI>Fallopius,</HI> and <HI>Fernelius,</HI> and the like: And the following may be u&s;ed for the &s;ame purpo&s;e:</P>
<P>&Jupit; Quick Lime Water &s;ix ounces, Salt of <HI>Saturn</HI> one drachm, Bra&s;s Ru&s;t &s;ix grains; mix them.</P>
<P>Or, &Jupit; Spirit of Wine two ounces, <HI>Sal Ar|moniack</HI> half a drachm, Aloes one drachm, Orpiment &s;ix grains; mix them.</P>
<P>Or, &Jupit; Sublimate Precipitate Water four ounces, White Vitriol &s;ix grains, Myrrhe one drachm; mix them.</P>
<P>I &s;hall conclude the Work with a Relati|on of &s;ome Ca&s;es: and fir&s;t, I &s;hall &s;et down what I had in a Letter from Mr. <HI>J. Bapt. Pinket,</HI> a famous Chirurgion and Anatomi&s;t of <HI>Gant.</HI></P>
<PB N="215" REF="112">
<P><HI>I mu&s;t, Sir, communicate to you an Ob&s;erva|tion, touching that which the Spaniards make u&s;e of for curing the Venereal Di&s;temper on the Ninth Day; and there have been many of their Captains and En&s;igns, who have been cured by this Method in that &s;mall time. I made tryall thereof &s;ome Months ago on a Woman, aged forty years, with good &s;ucce&s;s: But I am very well a&s;&s;ured, that no|thing can be effected to purpo&s;e, but where the Di&s;ea&s;e is not inveterate: I al&s;o believe, that it is to be repeated, if the pains and other accidents do not leave the Patients at the end of Nine days.</HI></P>
<P><HI>I thought fit to add the &s;aid manner of Cure.</HI></P>
<DIV2 TYPE="case">
<P><HI>A Cure of the Venereal Di&s;temper in Nine Days.</HI></P>
<P>The Air mu&s;t be warm; but if it be Win|ter, the Patient mu&s;t not &s;tir from his Cham|ber, but mu&s;t have good fires there, that his Pores may be always open.</P>
<P>His Diet mu&s;t be &s;o regulated, that he mu&s;t ab&s;tain from eating in the Morning; at Noon he mu&s;t eat Veal, or Mutton, roa|&s;ted, with no fat, to the quantity of four ounces; his Bread mu&s;t be Bisket, but with|out Sugar: He is to take three ounces there|of: For his de&s;ert he &s;hall take a few Al|monds and Rai&s;ins; at Night he mu&s;t ab|&s;tain from all other food, but only one ounce
<PB N="216" REF="113">of Bisket, with a few Almonds and Rai&s;ins; and for his Drink he mu&s;t take this:</P>
<P>&Jupit; <HI>Sar&s;aparilla</HI> three ounces, Sa&s;&s;afras an ounce and a half, Ani&s;eed half an ounce, Rai&s;ins of the Sun four ounces, Common Water twelve pints. Make a Decoction of all, according to art. It mu&s;t be boiled to the half. Of this Drink the Patient mu&s;t take as much as he can; he mu&s;t avoid all Wrath, Grief, and other Pa&s;&s;ions of the Mind.</P>
<P>So much for the Patient's Diet: Now fol|low the Medicines; and fir&s;t, this Decocti|on.</P>
<P>&Jupit; Four ounces of <HI>Sal&s;aparilla,</HI> &s;plit, pill'd, and &s;teep'd twenty four hours in four pots of Water; then boil it in a Copper, or Ear|then Pot, well &s;topt, over a &s;mall fire, till three thereof be con&s;umed, and &s;train the re|maining part through a cour&s;e &s;trainer; put again this Decoction in a new Earthen Ve&s;|&s;el upon the fire, and add thereunto a quarter of a Pint of Virgin's Honey, and an ounce of white Sugar; let them boil together, and &s;cum it well; then take it off the fire, for &s;uch u&s;e as we &s;hall pre&s;ently &s;hew. Then this Powder is requi&s;ite.</P>
<P>&rx; <HI>Sal&s;aparilla</HI> two ounces, <HI>Senna</HI> Leaves one ounce, Oak-fern Roots half an ounce, Her|modacts three ounces, White Sugar half an ounce; make all up into a powder. Make them
<PB N="217" REF="113">&s;everally very &s;mall, then mix them together; afterwards take them in the following man|ner, <HI>viz.</HI> In the Morning four &s;poonfulls of the fore&s;aid mixture, two drachms of the Powder, mix them together and take them; if it be too thick to be drunk, put into it &s;ome of the ordinary Decoction of <HI>Sar&s;a,</HI> to make it drinkable. If the Patient take of it, he mu&s;t cover him&s;elf very well, that he may &s;weat, or get a &s;tool; for this Remedy does produce both the one and the other ef|fect.</P>
<P>This is to be continued for the &s;pace of nine days, unle&s;s the Patient become very feeble; for in that ca&s;e one day mu&s;t be in|termitted. After the u&s;e of it for five days, the Patient will find him&s;elf much better, and on the ninth day he will perceive him&s;elf to be perfectly cured.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="1" TYPE="case">
<HEAD><HI>CASE.</HI> I.</HEAD>
<P>A Woman, about fourty years of age, ha|ving complained a long time of a pain in her Head, e&s;pecially about her Forehead, and her No&s;e, whereof the cartilaginous Inter&s;tice was already corroded; for a Probe being put into her No&s;e, it was found to be all hollow, which was a &s;ign of a great corruption in
<PB N="218" REF="114">the Bones of the No&s;e, and Palate; her <HI>&V;|vula</HI> was al&s;o gone, with an Inflammation and Ulcers round about. We wa&s;hed her Mouth one day with Sublmate, whereby the Ulcers were cured; afterwards we prepared one of the following Medicines:</P>
<P>&Jupit; Spirit of Featherfeat, Juice of <HI>Choli|donii,</HI> of each equal parts; mix them.</P>
<P>We put of it into her No&s;e, morning and evening, together with &s;omething of the fol|lowing Compo&s;ition for humectation.</P>
<P>&Jupit; Juice of Celandine one ounce, Spirit of Wine two ounces, Myrrhe, Aloes, of each one drachm, Bra&s;s Ru&s;t &s;ix grains; mix them.</P>
<P>By the&s;e &s;he was gradually cured; in the mean time we made her continually &s;weat by the means of a Brandy &s;tove; her diet was the &s;ame as we have already pre&s;cribed in the like ca&s;es, and her drink was nothing el&s;e but a Decoction of <HI>Sal&s;aparilla</HI> and <HI>China.</HI> This Woman, who was in that extremity, was at la&s;t perfectly re&s;tored.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="2" TYPE="case">
<HEAD><HI>CASE.</HI> II.</HEAD>
<P>A certain Man, infected with the Pox, went to one for his Cure, who made him &s;weat, and be&s;meared him with a Mercurial Ointment, which excited a &s;alivation, after
<PB N="219" REF="114">he had been twice rubb'd with the Unguent; but he took a kind of Apoplexy in his Armes and Legs; be&s;ides, his Belly &s;welled; in his Throat he look'd like a Man &s;trangled; and the &s;alivation &s;topped on a &s;udden: They rubbed the parts with a little warm Spirit of Wine, and gave him Cordial Waters, but in vain; they gave him a Cly&s;ter, and made him take a little Treacle-Water, after which he gathered &s;trength. The Salivation pro|ceeded one day, or two, at a &s;low rate: they applied a Mercurial Plai&s;ter to his Legs, and Arms; after which the Salivation went on &s;trongly, but he was &s;urpri&s;ed with the &s;ame hurricane; the &s;ame Remedies were again u|&s;ed, but in vain, and he &s;eemed likewi&s;e to be choak'd; there was a &s;tronger Cly&s;ter gi|ven him, and he recovered: The next day, after having &s;alivated a little, he was &s;urpri|&s;ed a third time after the &s;ame manner, but more violently than before; whatever means were u&s;ed, were in vain: At la&s;t, it was con|cluded that he &s;hould take a Vomit, becau&s;e, it might be, that in &s;alivating he had gathe|red a great deal of corrupted humours in his Stomach; accordingly it was given, with a Tincture of the Gla&s;s of Antimony, of which he was &s;en&s;ible for &s;ome time, and began to vomit; and after having by this means di&s;|charged
<PB N="220" REF="115">a great quantity of &s;limy humours, he was re&s;tored: And the Salivation was af|terwards continued for &s;ome days, after which he was completely freed from the Di&s;tem|per.</P>
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<HEAD>THE HISTORY Of the Venereal DISTEMPER.</HEAD>
<P>THE Venereal Di&s;temper was fir&s;t brought into <HI>Europe</HI> out of the <HI>We&s;t-Indies An. Dom.</HI> 1493. for before that time, for any thing we can find, it was not &s;o much as heard of in our part of the World; whence it is that the Di&s;ea&s;e is thought to be <HI>Epidemical</HI> in tho&s;e parts of <HI>America,</HI> where we fir&s;t had our Colonies: But I rather incline to think that it took it's Ori|ginal from &s;ome Territory of the Blacks, near the Confines of <HI>Guinea;</HI> &s;eeing I was infor|med not by a few of our Country-men, Per&s;ons of good Credit, who inhabit the <HI>Caribee</HI> I&s;lands; that the Slaves that are newly brought from <HI>Guinea</HI> are infected with this di&s;temper, even before they are &s;et on &s;hoar, as
<PB N="222" REF="116">are al&s;o others who live on the Place, and that without any unclean Conver&s;ation preceding; &s;o that oftentimes it does fatally &s;eize a whole Family of them, and involves equally Men, Women, and Children in the <HI>Cata&s;trophe:</HI> Nor does this Contagion, which frequently &s;urpri&s;es tho&s;e mi&s;erable Souls, differ in the lea&s;t, for any thing I know, in re&s;pect of the Sym|ptoms, Pains, Ulcers, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> from that we call the Venereal Di&s;temper, the different Cli|mates being con&s;idered, though the name is much different for they call it the <HI>Yaws:</HI> Nor does the Method of it's Cure, in u&s;e among&s;t them, differ much from ours; for both do hold Salivation by Mercury to be the mo&s;t &s;o|vereign Remedy, notwith&s;tanding what is al|leadged among&s;t us of the exceeding great virtue of <HI>Guiacum</HI> and <HI>Sar&s;aparilla,</HI> which they exert in their own &s;oil, but is thought to be almo&s;t exhau&s;ted by rea&s;on of the great di&s;|tance between them and us. It &s;eems to me therefore probable, that the Spaniards, who brought this Di&s;ea&s;e fir&s;t into <HI>Europe,</HI> were them&s;elves infected by the Negroes, who were bought in <HI>Africk,</HI> to &s;ome of who&s;e Countries it may be Epidemical; for there are &s;undry people on the confines of <HI>Guinea,</HI> who had that barbarous Cu&s;tome of changing Men for Merchandi&s;e in their dealings with the <HI>Europe|ans.</HI> However it be, this Contagious Di&s;tem|per
<PB N="223" REF="116">making gradual advances, has &s;o much in|fected the&s;e parts of the World, that if it now raged with the &s;ame &s;wiftne&s;s with which at fir&s;t it made it's a&s;&s;aults, the whole Race of <HI>A|dam</HI> mu&s;t in a few Ages Peri&s;h by it's fury, or at lea&s;t be &s;o confined to Ho&s;pitals, that they would be rendred utterly uncapable of mana|ging tho&s;e Affairs that maintain Humane &s;o|ciety: But, like to a Plant removed from it's Natural to a Foreign Soil, the Di&s;ea&s;e does not &s;o well agree with our European Climate, but langui&s;hes more and more, and goes off with le&s;s Pomp. When it fir&s;t arrived a|mong&s;t us, in &s;ei&s;ing a Per&s;on, it corrupted the whole Ma&s;s of his bloud, and did di&s;cover it &s;elf by extreme pains in the Head and Joints, and Ulcers in divers Parts. But an hundred years a go, it did fir&s;t &s;hew it &s;elf by a viru|lent <HI>Gonorrhea,</HI> which it continues to this day, &s;eeking to vent it &s;elf this way; with no other manife&s;t Symptome, unle&s;s that in a very few, a &s;mall boil in the Privities (commonly called a Chancre) is the fir&s;t mark of the Di&s;temper; who&s;e virulency not being ejected by the <HI>Go|norrhea,</HI> does very quickly invade and infect the Ma&s;s of bloud.</P>
<P>This Venereal Di&s;temper is propagated ei|ther by Generation, whence a poor Infant from the infection of either of the Parents re|ceives the di&s;ea&s;e in it's fir&s;t formation, or by
<PB N="224" REF="117">touching &s;ome &s;oft part, &s;o as the Virulency and Inflammation do in&s;inuate them&s;elves into the Body, upon the&s;e and the like occa&s;ions. Fir&s;t, in giving or receiving &s;uck the Infant may either infect the Nur&s;e by the wide Pores of her Brea&s;t, or the Nur&s;e the Infant by it's Mouth. Secondly, Infants, if they lie naked in the &s;ame bed with infected Per&s;ons; for al|though Per&s;ons grown up, who&s;e fle&s;h is be|come firm with Age, can hardly be infected, but by an impure Conver&s;ation, though they lie with the di&s;ea&s;ed in the &s;ame bed, yet the fle&s;h of Infants being more tender, and of a loo&s;er texture, receives the Poi&s;on ea&s;ily, which I have more than once ob&s;erved in Infants, who having lain with their infected Parents, catched the Di&s;temper of them. But Thirdly, The Contact of a &s;oft part happens mo&s;t fre|quently in having to do with an unclean Per|&s;on; and therefore the Venereal Di&s;temper is propagated this way e&s;pecially; &s;eeing the Yard being turgid with the Spirits that are de|&s;tined to Generation, does quickly &s;uffer by a Venereal Ulcer, or Bli&s;ter lodging in the Neck of the Females Womb; either of which lur|king inwardly, the women may neverthele&s;s &s;eem to be &s;ound, the Poi&s;on being either detained by the Urine, and other humours, pa&s;&s;ing through the&s;e parts, or being of|tentimes wa&s;hed, and in &s;ome mea&s;ure expelled
<PB N="225" REF="117">by the men&s;trual Purgations. This Contagi|on in my opinion does fir&s;t &s;ei&s;e the carnous &s;ub&s;tance of the Yard, which it corrupts, and it does fir&s;t communicate thereunto an Inflam|mation, and &s;oon after an Ulcerous di&s;po&s;ition by degrees; and hence it is that the purulent matter, &s;uch as we perceive in a <HI>Gonorrhea,</HI> does pa&s;s into the Ureter by drops; and I be|lieve this for this Rea&s;on: For I my &s;elf have &s;een this virulent Matter come out of the Po|ruos &s;ub&s;tance of the Gland, and not pa&s;s by the Ureter; there being no Ulcer that affected either the Gland, or the Prepuce: But at la&s;t taking deeper root, it u&s;es to lay wa&s;te the Glands, Pro&s;tate, with a virulent Ul|cer; which is frequently &s;een in the bodies of tho&s;e who die of this di&s;temper.</P>
<P>This Di&s;ea&s;e does make it's progre&s;s by the following &s;teps, (&s;ooner or later, as the Female that gave it was more or le&s;s infected, and al&s;o according to the temper that is more or le&s;s di&s;po&s;ed to receive the Corruption.) Fir&s;t, the privy Parts are tormented with an unu&s;ual pain, accompanied as it were with a rotation of the Te&s;ticles; then, if the party have not his Prepuce turned back from his Gland, there is a &s;pot very like one of the Small-pox at it's fir&s;t breaking out, both in re&s;pect of co|lour and bigne&s;s: Pre&s;ently after this &s;pot ap|pears a liquour drops out like to &s;eed, which
<PB N="226" REF="118">daily grows more and more unlike &s;eed, both in re&s;pect of colour and con&s;i&s;tency, till it grow &s;omewhat more yellow than the yolk of an Egg; and in a more virulent Pox, it is not only green, but it is likewi&s;e mixed with a wateri&s;h Humour tinged deeply with bloud. The &s;aid Bli&s;ter becomes at length an Ulcer (at fir&s;t not unlike the <HI>Apthae</HI> that are in the mouths of Infants) and daily &s;preads and penetrates, over and into the part; a hard <HI>Callus</HI> growing upon the Orifice. Neverthe|le&s;s it is to be ob&s;erved, that the fore&s;aid Bli|&s;ter is &s;eldom accompanied with a <HI>Gonorrhea,</HI> in tho&s;e who either have had a <HI>Gonorrhea</HI> long be|fore, or have their Prepuce turned back from their Gland, &s;eeing their Gland growing hard, by rea&s;on of the Air to which it is expo&s;ed, and the frequent pre&s;&s;ure it &s;u&s;tains by the li|nen it always touches, is not &s;o &s;oon dam|nified. Per&s;ons of this &s;ort are &s;eldom or ne|ver troubled with an Ulcer in their Gland, 'tis only a <HI>Gonorrhea</HI> that happens in the man|ner forementioned.</P>
<P>THis is followed by other Symptomes; as, fir&s;t, a great &s;en&s;e of pain in the Yard, when it is erected, as if it were violently gra&s;ped with a &s;trong hand; which happens mo&s;t in the night time, when the Patient grows warm in his Bed; which painfull con&s;triction of the Yard, I hold to be the mo&s;t <HI>Pathognomical</HI> &s;ign
<PB N="227" REF="118">of the Di&s;ea&s;e in this &s;tate; the Yard is al&s;o made crooked by a violent contraction, which when it is erected, as it u&s;es to be, brings an intolerable pain: There is al&s;o heat of U|rine, which for the mo&s;t part is not perceived in the time of making water, but when the Patient has ju&s;t done, he is extreamly burnt through all the pa&s;&s;age of his Yard, e&s;pecial|ly about the Gland. For &s;ometimes the <HI>&V;re|thra</HI> being corroded and excoriated by a con|tinual running of &s;harp and purulent Matter, Nature &s;omewhat too precipitant in &s;upplying what is lo&s;t, does form a loo&s;e and &s;pongeous fle&s;h, which daily encrea&s;ing, and growing in|&s;en&s;ibly into a confirmed hardne&s;s, &s;o fills the urinary pa&s;&s;age with carnous excre&s;cences, that the Patient cannot any more make water, and the&s;e Caruncles do &s;end forth &s;ome cor|rupted Matter out of the Ulcers that grow by them, which both perplexes the Phy&s;ician in the Cure, and is of a more tremendous a&s;pect than death it &s;elf to the Patient. And it fre|quently happens, that the purulent Matter, which &s;hould have been di&s;charged by a <HI>Go|norrhea,</HI> is thrown upon the <HI>Scrotum,</HI> by rea|&s;on of a virulent motion, or the u&s;e of A&s;trin|gents, which occa&s;ions an horrible &s;en&s;e of pain, and produces an Inflammation of the part; &s;ometimes one, and &s;ometimes both &s;ides of the <HI>Scrotum</HI> &s;welling prodigiou&s;ly, by
<PB N="228" REF="119">rea&s;on of this; in the mean time the <HI>Gonorrhea</HI> is but &s;low, yet the heat of Urine is not the more abated. And the&s;e are the more com|mon Symptomes of this Di&s;ea&s;e, its &s;tate con|tinuing thus.</P>
<P>But when, by rea&s;on of the length of the Di&s;ea&s;e, and its continuance in the &s;aid parts, the Contagion is carried upwards, and gra|dually infects the Ma&s;s of Bloud; or when the humours are corrupted by the virulent matter retained in the Body, through the u&s;e of A&s;tringents, a <HI>real Pox</HI> is produced; in which, Tumours or <HI>Bubo's</HI> appearing oftentimes in the Groin, do con&s;titute the fir&s;t degree thereof. After this, pains torment the Head, and &s;paces betwixt the Joints, <HI>viz.</HI> the Shoul|ders, Armes, and Legs, without any order, though with &s;ome intermi&s;&s;ion in the day time; for in the night, the Patient, being warm, is very &s;eldom free from them; nor do they ea&s;ily vani&s;h till toward the mor|ning. Tetters and dry Scabs do deform &s;un|dry places of the Body: The&s;e are of a yel|lowi&s;h colour, not unlike a Honey-comb, whereby they may be known from all others: Sometimes they &s;pread over &s;everal parts of the Body, with a larger &s;urface, in the &s;ame manner as the Lepro&s;ie is repre&s;ented in the Books of the ancient Writers. But the more that this &s;cab is diffu&s;ed over the Body, the
<PB N="229" REF="119">Patient is the le&s;s tortured with pain. All the Symptomes do gradually encrea&s;e to an extreme violence, but e&s;pecially the pain of the Head, which at length becomes to be &s;o intolerable, that the mi&s;erable creature can|not any longer confine him&s;elf to his Bed, but is forced to jump out upon the Floor, and run about like a <HI>Bedlam,</HI> till day light. Be|&s;ides, it happens by the vehemency of the pain, that the Skull, and the Bones of the Legs and Armes are rai&s;ed, in &s;undry places, into hard tumours, called <HI>Exo&s;to&s;es,</HI> not unlike the bony excre&s;cences in the Legs of Hor&s;es, commonly called a <HI>Spavin:</HI> And the Bones being &s;o be&s;et with Tumours, contract a <HI>Ca|ries,</HI> and they putrifie by rea&s;on of the conti|nual Pain and Inflammation. Likewi&s;e <HI>Pha|gedenick &V;lcers</HI> de&s;troy &s;undry places of the Body, which fir&s;t invading the Jaws, pa&s;s in|&s;en&s;ibly by the Palate into the Cartilage of the No&s;e, which they quickly devour; &s;o that the No&s;e, wanting its prop, mu&s;t fall with|out remedy. The Ulcers daily increa&s;ing, and the Pain augmented, the Patient being partly overcome with ince&s;&s;ant torture, and partly eaten up with Ulcers and Petrefaction, does live a deplorable life, &s;urcharged with torment, &s;tench, rottenne&s;s, and reproach, till at length Death &s;ei&s;ing each member by re|tail, his torn and mutilated Carca&s;e being &s;o
<PB N="230" REF="120">much noi&s;ome to the living, is committed to the Earth.</P>
<P>The extrin&s;ick, or (as they &s;ay) the e&s;&s;en|tial Nature of this Di&s;temper, is no more known to me than is the e&s;&s;ence of a Plant, or of an Animal, unle&s;s in &s;o far as the thing may appear from the Symptomes we have al|ready de&s;cribed: Whatever may be &s;aid of it, I am &s;ure, that the Humour that does pro|duce it, partakes very much of an Inflamma|tion, whence proceed &s;o many evils; 'tis al&s;o plain, that the &s;aid Humour ought to be e|vacuated, and by &s;uch means as are approved by Experience, the Mi&s;tre&s;s of Phy&s;icians; &s;eeing there has not been as yet found any immediate &s;pecifick, by which the Venereal Di&s;temper may be vanqui&s;hed, without a pre|ceding evacuation. Neither are we to think, that Mercury, or the drying Woods, as they call them, are to have the Title of Speci|ficks, till it be proved by plain examples, that either Mercury has completely cured the Ve|nereal Di&s;temper without Salivation; or that a Decoction of the Woods has performed the &s;ame without &s;weating. And as I have learn'd by Experience, that common Sudorificks have been of as great u&s;e in this Di&s;temper, as the Decoction of the Woods; &s;o I make no que|&s;tion, but if there were any thing in the Ve|getable, or Animal Kingdom, found equiva|lent
<PB N="231" REF="120">to Mercury in virtue, for exciting Sali|vation, that it would be al&s;o equivalent to it for curing the Venereal Di&s;temper; but as this di&s;ea&s;e, when confin'd to the limits of a <HI>Gonorrhea,</HI> does very much differ from the &s;ame when it has corrupted the whole Ma&s;s of Bloud, and gets the name of the Venereal di&s;temper in a &s;trict &s;en&s;e; &s;o the Evacuation by which the matter of the <HI>Gonorrhea</HI> is voi|ded, is different from that whereby the Pox already formed, is rooted out.</P>
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<HEAD>The Cure of the Virulent <HI>Gonorrhea.</HI></HEAD>
<P>AS to the <HI>Gonorrhea,</HI> of which we &s;hall treat fir&s;t, the whole &s;tre&s;s of Cure (for any thing we have yet found) does lie on <HI>Cathartick,</HI> or purgative Medicines; by the means of which either the peccant humour is expelled out of the Body, or the natural Jui|ces of the Body are diverted, which otherwi&s;e would afford &s;u&s;tinence to the enemy. But although both Rea&s;on and Experience per|&s;uade me, that this di&s;temper may be cured by any <HI>Cathartick</HI> given often, and for a long me together; yet tho&s;e Purgatives &s;eem to me to carry a more vigorous Energy, which
<PB N="232" REF="121">&s;trongly purge out and expell the Bile, but e|&s;pecially the noxious &s;ero&s;ities out from the Bloud: And therefore, I have &s;ometimes admi|ni&s;tred help to the poor by the bare root of <HI>Ja|lapp;</HI> for as this &s;erved the turn, &s;o I con&s;ide|red their inability to purcha&s;e dearer Medicines: But when the di&s;ea&s;e draws a con&s;picuous In|flammation along with it, and the purging Medicaments by which it is to be vanqui&s;hed are al&s;o hot, a cooling diet mu&s;t be pre&s;cri|bed from the fir&s;t to the la&s;t of the Cure.</P>
<P>I u&s;e to make my Pre&s;cription thus: Take the greater Pill coched three drachms, of Extract Rudy one drachm, of Re&s;in of <HI>Ja|lap,</HI> of <HI>Diagraphium,</HI> of each a drachm; with a &s;ufficient quantity of Balm of <HI>Gilead;</HI> make up Pills, &s;ix out of every drachm: Four of the&s;e are to be taken every morning at four or five of the Clock (&s;o that the Patient may &s;leep upon them) for twelve, fourteen, or more days, till the heat of Urine, and the Yellow colour of the Seed-like Matter be very much dimini&s;hed; and when this is effected, I think it will be &s;ufficient if the Patient take the &s;ame every other day, for the &s;pace of two weeks more; which time being pa&s;t, it will be enough to take the Pills twice a week, till the humour that u&s;ed to drop out of the Ure|ther do quite vani&s;h, which for the mo&s;t part happens not till after many days. For al|though
<PB N="233" REF="121">it be commonly &s;aid, that &s;uch a Matter that is perceived to come out by drops (after the heat of the Urine, and Yellow colour of the running, is over in the Morning, e&s;pecially when the top of the Yard is pre&s;&s;ed with the fingers) does only proceed from a weakne&s;s, and laxne&s;s of the Parts, by rea&s;on of the long &s;tay of the virulent ferment there; yet poor Creatures find to their &s;orrow, that this is a re|mainder of the Contagion, that is not altoge|ther expelled out of the Body; which although it be in &s;ome mea&s;ure &s;ubdued, does on every light occa&s;ion (as too much drinking, too great exerci&s;e, or the like) afford new Tragi|cal evidences of the real exi&s;tence of the Ma|lady, whil&s;t the <HI>Gonorrhea</HI> re-u&s;urps it's anti|ent Province, if the Patient avoid the fatigue of purging, when the di&s;temper, not being throughly rooted out, does ab&s;olutely require it.</P>
<P>If the <HI>Gonorrhea</HI> does not yield to this &s;ort of Purgatives, it will be convenient, in&s;tead of the Pills, e&s;pecially in tho&s;e who are purged with &s;ome difficulty, to give betwixt whiles &s;ome more powerfull Medicament; &s;uch as the following Potion, which at once taking, has &s;ometimes contributed more to the &s;topping of a <HI>Gonorrhea,</HI> than a more gentle Cathartick of|ten repeated:</P>
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<P>&rx; Tamarinds half an ounce, Senna leaves two drachms, Rhubarb one drachm and an half; boil them in a &s;ufficient quantity of wa|ter, that there may be three ounces; when &s;trained di&s;&s;olve therein Manna, Syrup of Ro|&s;es, of each one ounce, Syrup of Harts-horn, and Electuary of the Juice of Ro&s;es, of each two drachms; mix them, and make up a Po|tion:</P>
<P>Or, If the Cure proceed too &s;lowly, give Turbith Mineral eight grains, only for two or three times, (and that with the intermi&s;&s;ion of &s;ome &s;pace of time, le&s;t it cau&s;e a Salivation,) which remedy is to be preferred to all others, e&s;pecially for the curing of a more inveterate <HI>Gonorrhea;</HI> or the following Pills may be gi|ven twice a week:</P>
<P>&Jupit; <HI>Pill. ex duob.</HI> half a drachm, <HI>Mercu|nius dulcis</HI> one &s;cruple, Balm of <HI>Gilead</HI> in a &s;uf|ficient quantity; make up four to be taken very early in the Morning.</P>
<P>But &s;ometimes it happens, that the Patient, upon the repeated u&s;e of the afore&s;aid Purga|tives, comes to bear &s;uch a &s;trong aver&s;ion to them, that he cannot endure either the &s;ight or the ta&s;te of the Medicines; and &s;ometimes the Body from a certain peculiarity of con&s;titution does pertinacioiu&s;ly oppo&s;e the operation and force of Purgatives,
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="foreign">.</NOTE> &s;o that a &s;ufficient quantity of the peccant humour
<PB N="235" REF="122">cannot be evacuated; and thus when there is too great diligence u&s;ed to no purpo&s;e, the Pox takes place at length, invading e&s;pecially &s;uch per&s;ons who&s;e bodies do mo&s;t re&s;i&s;t Ca|thartick Medicines: When the Ca&s;e is &s;uch, Cly&s;ters are to be u&s;ed; which being injected, the event will an&s;wer to both indications, <HI>viz.</HI> for purging the humour, and conveying it from the part affected: And this is more ex|peditious than the former Method, but not &s;o &s;afe in my opinion, &s;eeing the former, though more trouble&s;ome by it's continuance, yet has le&s;s of danger; beeau&s;e by it's means no parti|cle of the virulent Ferment does remain in the bowels ready to rai&s;e new tumults: But this in|conveniency is very ea&s;ily avoided if proper Purgatives be likewi&s;e given on &s;uch days as the Cly&s;ters are not taken. I proceed therefore after this Method; I take care that the fore&s;aid Pills, or others of the like Nature, be given for two or three Mornings following; and after|wards I order a Cly&s;ter to be given in the Mor|ning, and at five a Clock in the Afternoon, e|very day till the Symptomes &s;hall quite di&s;ap|pear; only once or twice in the week I pre|&s;cribe a Purgative, omitting the Cly&s;ter for that day.</P>
<P>&rx; An Electuary of the Juice of Ro&s;es &s;ix drachms, <HI>Venice Turpentine</HI> di&s;&s;olved in the Yolk of an Egg half an ounce; di&s;&s;olve them
<PB N="236" REF="123">in Barley water one pint; &s;train all, and put thereto <HI>Diacatholicon</HI> Electuary two ounces; mix them, and make up a Cly&s;ter.</P>
<P>Every night I al&s;o allow twenty five drops of Balm of <HI>Gilead,</HI> or the Balm of <HI>Mecha,</HI> when the Patient is going to bed, which Medica|ment, &s;eeing it is a liquid and pure &s;ort of Turpentine, has likewi&s;e the &s;ame virtue, and affords a &s;overeign relief again&s;t the Ulcerous Di&s;po&s;ition of the Privy parts; therefore in ca&s;e it cannot be had, <HI>Cyprian</HI> Turpentine may in it's &s;tead be given at the times forementioned, the bigne&s;s of a Walnut in quantity.</P>
<P>Whil&s;t the Cure goes on, in what method &s;oever it be manag'd, I forbid the Patient all meats that are Salt, or of no good Concocti|on; &s;uch as Beef, Pork, Fi&s;h, Chee&s;e, Roots, Oils, and all Summer Fruit, in&s;tead of which I allow Mutton, Veal, Chickens, Rabbets, and others that are of an ea&s;ie dige&s;tion: And I advi&s;e that the Patient may al&s;o be moderate in u&s;ing the&s;e, that he take them only &s;o, as his &s;trength may not fail. As for his drink, he mu&s;t abdicate Wine in general, as al&s;o all Spirituous and Acid drink; and keep him&s;elf to Milk and Water, <HI>viz.</HI> three parts of boil'd Wa|ter, and a fourth of Milk; only at dinner and &s;upper a little &s;mall Ale may be allowed him. Moreover to temper the Inflammation, and mitigate the Heat of Urine, I make &s;ome
<PB N="237" REF="123">cooling Emul&s;ion after the following manner, to be often drank on tho&s;e days when he does not purge.</P>
<P>&Jupit; Melon and Pumkin Seed, of each half an ounce, White Poppy Seed two drachms, &s;weet Almonds peel'd eight in number, bray them in a Marble Mortar, and pour thereon by little and little one pound and an half of Bar|ley water; &s;train all, and then add thereto of Sugar Candy &s;o much as is &s;ufficient; mix them, and make up an Emul&s;ion according to Art.</P>
<P>In a very &s;anguine Temper, and an invete|rate Malady, after having u&s;ed Catharticks for one month or thereabouts; I mo&s;t commonly advi&s;e to take eight or ten ounces of bloud from the right arm: I am not of the opinion that the Patient &s;hould be let bloud &s;ooner, le&s;t by this occa&s;ion the Contagion take deeper root: I think not much of Injections into the Yard, &s;eeing they u&s;e often to doe more hurt than good, either by rea&s;on of their biting acrimony, or their a&s;tringent quality; neverthele&s;s toward the end of the Cure a &s;mall quantity of Ro&s;e Water may be injected.</P>
<P>I have found as yet no better method than this I u&s;e, which has always an&s;wered my expectation, e&s;pecially in tho&s;e that are ea&s;ily purged; for in tho&s;e who are purged with
<PB N="238" REF="124">&s;ome difficulty, the Cure, though it always holds, yet is not completed till after a long time. From the&s;e per&s;ons Bloud is to be again taken, and the Catharticks they u&s;e are to be &s;harpned, and to be more often repeated, and continued for a longer time; or Cly&s;ters are to be u&s;ed in the &s;ame manner; for purging in this ca&s;e is in a manner as good as all other things; and in this di&s;temper, if in any other, it may be truly affirmed, that he who clean&s;es well, heals well, provided he ab&s;tain from Mi|neral Waters, which I am very certain do by their a&s;tringency, and too healing quality, ar|re&s;t and rivet the remainder of the Di&s;ea&s;e that ought to be expelled out of the Body. Hence, as I have frequently ob&s;erved, Tumours grew in the <HI>Scrotum,</HI> if the&s;e Waters were drank in the beginning or State, and wor&s;e Symptomes, as Caruncles, if they were drank toward the end of the di&s;temper, which I con|fidently affirm, although the Mineral Wa|ters be frequently pre&s;cribed in the &s;aid ca&s;e, agreeable to the cu&s;tome that obtains at this day.</P>
<P>Nor am I ignorant what great things &s;ome Empiricks pretend in the Cure of this Sym|ptome, relating partly to the &s;hortne&s;s of the time, in which they complete it, and partly to the high Names, and mighty Titles, of tho&s;e Medicines which they employ in the accom|pli&s;hing
<PB N="239" REF="124">of it; in the mean time I have cer|tainly found by too frequent ob&s;ervation, that the Matter that &s;hould have been exterminated from the Body, was detained therein by the force of a&s;tringents, and expo&s;ed the Patients to great inconveniencies; &s;o that the virulen|cy being very often tran&s;mitted to the bloud a|fre&s;h, does produce the univer&s;al Pox: Nor have I ob&s;erved the Decoction of the drying woods to have been u&s;ed with better advantage, though they were attended with le&s;s danger: With this (being as is pretended a &s;pecifick Medicine) the Patient's whole Body, and e|&s;pecially the part affected, were over-heated, and farther inflamed; and &s;ometimes al&s;o the <HI>Gonorrhea</HI> that had vani&s;hed (which I remem|ber I ob&s;erved) came again.</P>
<P>But it is to be con&s;idered, that if the Pati|ent's Gland be covered all round with his Pre|puce, and the borders thereof be &s;o much &s;welled, hard, and callous, by rea&s;on of the In|flammation, that it cannot be by any means brought back, it would be in vain to endea|vour the cure of the <HI>Gonorrhea</HI> by the &s;tron|ge&s;t purgatives, though never &s;o often repeated, unle&s;s at the &s;ame time the part &s;o affected be reduced to it's natural &s;tate, by removing the hardne&s;s and tumour, by which means there is way made for the <HI>Gonorrhea:</HI> And this I doe by the following Fomentation:</P>
<PB N="240" REF="125">
<P>&Jupit; Mar&s;h Mallows, and Lilly Roots, of each one ounce and a half, Mar&s;h Mallows, Longwore Elder, and Henbane Leaves, Cha|mamel, and Melilot flowers, of each one hand|full, Lin-&s;eed, and &s;eed of Faenygreek, of each half an ounce; boil them according to Art in Fountain water; make up a Fomentation of all to be laid on the place for the &s;pace of one hour, twice or thrice a day; after this fomen|tation, I order that the part affected be annoin|ted with Lin-&s;eed Oil, newly drawn; then I cau&s;e to apply a Plai&s;ter of the Mucilaginous part, of a Lamb skin to the &s;ides of the Prepuce, round about the &s;welling: But if the Ulcer, either in the &s;ides of the Prepuce, or in the Gland, by rea&s;on of it's callo&s;ity hinder the retraction of the Prepuce, be&s;ides the &s;aid fomentation, I pre&s;cribe likewi&s;e the follow|ing Liniment:</P>
<P>&Jupit; Ointment of Ba&s;il &s;ix drachms, of To|bacco two drachms, Precipitate wa&s;h'd in Ro&s;e Water, and very well refin'd, half a drachm; mix them together, and make up a Liniment of them; dip a little rag therein, and apply it to the Ulcer always after the fore-mentioned Fomentation has been u&s;ed.</P>
<P>But when, either by rea&s;on of &s;topping the <HI>Gonorrhea</HI> too &s;oon, by too violent exerci&s;e, or any other cau&s;e, the <HI>Scrotum,</HI> which is now the &s;eat of the Di&s;ea&s;e, is thereby very much
<PB N="241" REF="125">&s;welled; I apply the fore&s;aid fomentation twice a day to the part affected, in ca&s;e that the pain, and the tumour are not dimini&s;hed by the ordinary Catapla&s;m of Oxycrate and Bean flower: Whil&s;t the&s;e external remedies are applyed; I continue to attack the Enemy with both Cathartick, and cooling Medicines taken inwardly, and with the forementioned dyet which we have already pre&s;cribed; nor do I think it ami&s;s to take nine or ten ounces of Bloud (on every &s;uch occa&s;ion) from that Arm which an&s;wers to the &s;welled Te&s;ticle, if the greatne&s;s of the Tumour, and vehemence of the pain require it: And &s;o much for the <HI>Gonorrhea.</HI></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>The Cure of the Confirm'd Pox.</HEAD>
<P>But when the di&s;temper is come to &s;uch a height, that it ought to be called &s;trictly the Veneral di&s;temper, or the confirm'd Pox: Other means are to be u&s;ed, and a more &s;e|vere cour&s;e is to be taken for removing a di&s;|ea&s;e that is &s;o inveterate; &s;eeing for ought I know there has been no experiment brought to prove that this di&s;temper has been cured any other way, than by Salivation rai&s;ed by Quick-Silver, whatever &s;ome of both the Learned and Ignorant have temerariou&s;ly, and confi|dently talked of other Methods of Cure:
<PB N="242" REF="126">Therefore &s;eeing Salivation is the only Sove|reign Remedy in this ca&s;e; it is my bu&s;ine&s;s here to &s;hew what my Rea&s;on (&s;uch as it is) and Ob&s;ervation have taught me, concerning exciting, and managing Salivation aright.</P>
<P>But fir&s;t, I cannot &s;o much as imagine what is meant by the frequent Advices that are gi|ven by way of Caution, to prepare the Body by Cathartick, and Dige&s;ting Medicines, as by Bathing, and the like; not to &s;ay any thing of Bleeding, which &s;ome believe to be the principal thing in this Ca&s;e: Seeing if we have a due regard to Truth, we mu&s;t acknow|ledg that the Matter is brought to this, that Salivation is to be procured by a Poi&s;on (for we do not as yet know any whole&s;ome Medi|cament by which it can be excited, nor yet can the Patient be &s;afe without the u&s;e of it;) the que&s;tion is, whether it is be&s;t to give Poi|&s;on to a Body when it is &s;trong and vigorous, and &s;o able to grapple with it's enemy, and &s;tand the &s;hock of all the violence it offers, or when it is weakned with Phlebotomie, and a &s;pare diet; he that weighs the thing impar|tially will undoubtedly conclude, that it is bet|ter to doe nothing at all in this Ca&s;e, than to expo&s;e the Patient to mi&s;chief by tampering with him, to &s;uch a rigorous extremity; nay, experience teaches us, that tho&s;e who are not weakned by any Evacuations, or by any other
<PB N="243" REF="126">means do much better endure the fatigue of a Salivation, then others who&s;e Nerves as it were have been cut before Battle. Omitting therefore &s;uch an hurtfull prelude, &s;o &s;oon as ever I am &s;ent for, I pre&s;cribe an Ointment of Hog's Lard two ounces, and of <HI>Crude Mercu|ry</HI> one ounce; and I mix therewith none of the hot Oils, nor any thing el&s;e; &s;eeing the Unguent will be the wor&s;e, if it be fetter'd with any &s;uch addition, and will never be the more effectual, if &s;uch things added be no wi&s;e ope|rative; and it is po&s;&s;ible that &s;uch addita|ments, under the name of Correctives, per|form the &s;ame thing here, (if they perform a|ny thing,) that they do, as we &s;ee by experi|ence, when joined to Cathartick Medicines, <HI>viz.</HI> they cau&s;e gripes, and render the Operati|on of the Purgatives more intolerable, which ari&s;e from the Combate that happens betwixt the Antidote and the Cathartick, all who&s;e Purging virtue does con&s;i&s;t in this, that it is an Enemy to Man's Nature. But I appoint the Patient him&s;elf to take one third part of the &s;aid Unguent, and anoint his own arms, legs, and thighs therewith for three nights to|gether (including that night that I was &s;ent for,) but that he touch not his Arm-pits, or Groin with it; and let him defend his Belly from the Unguent, by putting a Linen Cloth upon it, and tying it behind him: After the
<PB N="244" REF="127">third anointing the Gums &s;well for the mo&s;t part, and the Salivation begins; but if this does not happen within three days, and after the third anointing; then the Patient mu&s;t take eight grains of Turbith Mineral in the Con&s;erve of Red Ro&s;es, and after each Vomit, or Stool, let him take a draught of a warm Po&s;&s;et: When he begins to &s;pit, the onely bu&s;ines of the Phy&s;ician is to con&s;ider the de|gree of the Salivation in the mo&s;t exact man|ner imaginable; le&s;t by a ra&s;h encrea&s;e of it, the Patient's Life be endangered: When the Salivation is come to a ju&s;t &s;tate, (&s;o that two quarts are voided at the mouth in the &s;pace of twenty four hours) or the Symptoms di&s;ap|pear, (which for the mo&s;t part happens after the fourth day from the &s;tate, or height of the Salivation) although the Salivation proceed moderately, the Patients Shirt is to be changed, and it will be fit that for &s;ome the bed clothes which may be have been u&s;ed &s;ince the time of the la&s;t wa&s;hing be removed, and clean Linen put in their room; &s;eeing the foul Linen having drawn in much of the Unguent, is apt to rai&s;e the Salivation to a greater height, and protract it to a longer time than is expedi|ent for the Patient; but if it happen that the Salivation cea&s;e before the Symptoms do al|together di&s;appear; it mu&s;t immediately be re|trieved by one &s;cruple of <HI>Mercurius dulcis,</HI> given <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 span">.</HI></P>
<PB N="245" REF="127">
<P>It falls out &s;ometimes, e&s;pecially in &s;uch bo|dies that are habitually open, that after u&s;ing the Unguent once or twice (<HI>viz.</HI> &s;o &s;oon as the blood begins to be &s;en&s;ible of the Quick&s;ilver) Nature pre&s;ently &s;ets her &s;elf vigorou&s;ly to work that &s;he may expell this Enemy by the inte&s;tines, whence not only mucous ejections and griping of the Gutts, do happen, as in tho&s;e who have a dy&s;enterie; but al&s;o the Cure of the di&s;temper is hindred; &s;eeing it only yields to Salivation. In this ca&s;e Mercu|ry mu&s;t by no means be meddled with, nei|ther for outward Application, nor inward Ope|ration, till the&s;e Symptoms altogether di&s;appear; and moreover the &s;aid loo&s;ne&s;s (which happens for the mo&s;t part before the Salivation is well begun) mu&s;t be &s;topt by the u&s;e of <HI>Laudanum li|quidum</HI> encrea&s;ing and repeating the Do&s;e ac|cording to the violence of the Symptome, or a drachm and a half of <HI>Dia&s;corides</HI> &s;wallow'd down &s;ometimes, as need &s;hall require: When the flux is over, the Salivation u&s;es to proceed in regular manner, though it was &s;carce di&s;cernible before.</P>
<P>When the Patient is recovering, only his mouth being Ulcerated (which is the genuine Fruit of Salivation) the Salivation which now daily decays, mu&s;t not be &s;topp'd by Purging, or in any other manner what&s;oever; for it may &s;o fall out, that even after the pain is a&s;|&s;uaged, and the Ulcers are dried, that &s;ome|thing
<PB N="246" REF="128">of the Venereal Ferment may be lurking in the Body; and afterwards rai&s;e a new &s;edi|tion, unle&s;s this moderate &s;pitting be permitted, which will cea&s;e after the Patient is &s;o well re|covered that he can expo&s;e him&s;elf for &s;ome time to the open Air. I think it therefore a thing of dangerous con&s;equence, either to purge off by Catharticks, or to dry up by a Decoction of the Woods, the remainder of the Salivation; upon which practice, which is common under the pretence of either clean|&s;ing the Body of the Mercury, or correcting it's Malignity; Relap&s;es do follow, which befall mi&s;erable Creatures, who long for their health (after &s;uch va&s;t expences, oppre&s;|&s;ive toil, and dolorous fatigue,) to which &s;tate they would certainly have arrived, if the Salivation had cea&s;ed in it's own time. It would therefore be much better to promote the Salivation, by giving a Do&s;e of <HI>Mercurius dulcis</HI> once in the week, even after the Pati|ent is very well in health, and walks abroad (which I &s;ometimes have enjoined for &s;ome months) than &s;top it too &s;oon.</P>
<P>But although I am again&s;t Purging in the declen&s;on of Salivation, for the rea&s;ons already &s;hewn; yet it may &s;o happen that in its State it neither can nor ought to be omitted, <HI>viz</HI> when&s;oever the Matter is &s;o ill managed that the Salivation being rai&s;ed to too great a de|gree,
<PB N="247" REF="128">does put the Patient's Life in danger; in which ca&s;e it is not only &s;afe, but nece&s;&s;a|ry to u&s;e a Cathartick for reducing the Saliva|tion to that degree, which may proceed with the ea&s;e and good plight of the Patient, and &s;o it is to be left.</P>
<P>If any one now ask, whether or no we mu&s;t re&s;t &s;atisfied with bare Salivation, and u&s;e no Purgative, nor other &s;olemn Re|medies, after it is over? I an&s;wer, be&s;ides what has been &s;aid, which is confirmed by Rea&s;on and Experience; that I would very fain know why it is thought more nece&s;&s;ary to purge after the Salivation, than to excite a Sa|livation after a Purge; &s;eeing Purgatives (as Scammony, and other &s;harp Medicaments of that Nature) do leave &s;omewhat of Maligni|ty in the Body, which yet we leave to Na|ture, by who&s;e energy whatever Poi&s;on lies there, is at la&s;t &s;ubdued, provided the Per&s;on that has been purged betake him&s;elf to his wonted diet, exerci&s;e, and live in a more o|pen Air than before. And farther I would very willingly know what Maxim of Art we tru&s;t to, when we pretend to expell the remainders of Mercury by Catharticks, and not only neglect but hinder that Genuine, and only Method (<HI>viz.</HI> by Salivation) whereby Nature u&s;es and ought to effect it? Such con|fu&s;ed apprehen&s;ions of things proceed from the
<PB N="248" REF="129">&s;mall mea&s;ure of the Light of Rea&s;on, which we poor Mortals now enjoy, whence it is that our knowledg being only &s;uperficial, we can|not reach the Truth which lies at the bottom; but catch at any &s;hadow, or appearance there|of and embrace, as they &s;ay a Cloud in&s;tead of <HI>Juno:</HI> Thus weakly arm'd we proceed to Ve|litations by di&s;cour&s;e, and feloniou&s;ly wound our own Judgments by rivetting our former ill grounded prejudices, with &s;uch vigour, and to &s;uch a height that we would pa&s;s our own phanta&s;tical Ideas and incoherent dreams for cogent and demon&s;trative Principles, an In|&s;tance of which, if I be not mi&s;taken we have now in hand.</P>
<P>Although the Cure is completed in the mo&s;t Per&s;ons after the manner afore&s;aid, <HI>viz.</HI> by anointing for three nights together, and giving a Do&s;e of Turbith Mineral when the Salivation does not proceed aright, as al&s;o <HI>Mer|curius dulcis</HI> for &s;ome times, when it cea&s;es too &s;oon; yet it is &s;eriou&s;ly to be con&s;idered, that &s;ome per&s;ons have an <HI>Idio&s;yncra&s;ie,</HI> or a certain peculiar Temperament, as well in re|&s;pect of Salivation as Purgation, (and the &s;ame for the mo&s;t part in the &s;ame per&s;ons; that tho&s;e who are purged with difficulty are al&s;o brought to &s;alivate with difficulty;) &s;o that the received Method can hardly cau&s;e an Exulce|ration of the Gumms in &s;ome, much le&s;s pro|cure
<PB N="249" REF="129">that degree of Salivation that is requi&s;ite for carrying off the Di&s;temper. As to this &s;ort of Patients the Phy&s;ician ought to u&s;e all the caution imaginable, that he do not force Sali|vation, with an ob&s;tinate importunity in &s;pight of Nature, which may have an utter aver&s;i|on to that &s;ort of Evacuation; they who have not under&s;tood this, have by rea&s;on of the darkne&s;s of their own minds, deprived many of their Patients of the light as well as comfort of their lives; for in Bodies of that Con&s;tituti|on, when&s;oever one &s;hall pertinaciou&s;ly load the Patient with Medicaments, whether ex|ternal or internal, in&s;tead of a perfect Salivati|on, there is nothing to be perceived as the ef|fect of it; but gripings of the Guts and a bloudy Flux, (Nature expelling the Poi&s;on of the Mercury by the po&s;tern,) or pains of the Stomach and Sickne&s;s, cold Sweatings, and o|ther dreadfull Symptomes &s;hall appear, &s;o that the poor Patient, if he deliver not up his affli|cted Soul, can yet hardly appear to be in the &s;tate of the Living: As to the&s;e, though it may be allowed to the Phy&s;ician, that when he has in vain expected Salivation for the &s;pace of four or five days after the la&s;t annointing, he may repeat the &s;aid annointing together with Turbith Mineral, (intermitting &s;ome days be|twixt every two inunctions,) yet he ought to make Con&s;cience of this, that whil&s;t he has in
<PB N="250" REF="130">vain endeavoured to rai&s;e a Salivation with &s;o eager an application, he proceed not to force it contrary to Nature: Therefore this mea|&s;ure in my Judgment is to be ob&s;erved by the Phy&s;ician; that &s;o &s;oon as ever Sickne&s;s of the Stomach, or gripings of the Guts do hap|pen, in that ca&s;e, he pre&s;ently ab&s;tain from gi|ving remedies till the&s;e Symptomes do quite va|ni&s;h; for when the number and force of the Medicaments are encrea&s;ed to force Salivation in a con&s;titution that is altogether again&s;t it, a bloudy Flux &s;hall certainly follow upon the griping of the Guts, and death &s;hall quickly follow upon the &s;ickne&s;s of the Stomach: Whil&s;t on the contrary if he make no greater ha&s;te than good &s;peed, and proceed with due deliberation, by giving one &s;cruple of <HI>Mercuri|us dulcis</HI> once or twice in the Week, either by it &s;elf, or with one drachm of <HI>Dia&s;cordium;</HI> if the Patient be inclinable to be loo&s;e, the &s;uc|ce&s;s will an&s;wer expectation: For although the Salivation never come to the height, yet the Patient &s;hall &s;pit more copiou&s;ly than ever he u&s;ed to do, and a &s;tench, the concomitant of a right Salivation, &s;hall not relinqui&s;h this which is of a moderate degree; whence it is undeni|able that that Putrefaction or alteration, (or what ever it be,) has reached the Bloud, and the Humours, which either produces a Saliva|tion, or is produced with it. And by this
<PB N="251" REF="130">Method all the Symptomes of this Di&s;temper &s;hall be at length overcome, if there be a due time taken for it.</P>
<P>But it mu&s;t be ob&s;erved, that although Sali|vation is very much preferable to all other Remedies for rooting out a confirmed Pox, yet it cannot by any means heal the <HI>Gonorrhea</HI> that accompanies it, nor &s;hall the latter be &s;topp'd, though the former be ab&s;olutely cured: From whence it may be concluded, that Mercury contains no &s;pecifick Virtue, by which the Veneral di&s;temper may be immediately van|qui&s;hed; although perhaps it may be called a Mediate, or Remote Specifick, in &s;o far as it does expell the di&s;ea&s;e by the means of a Sali|vation, almo&s;t in the &s;ame improper &s;en&s;e as a Chirurgion's Penknife may be called a Speci|fick for curing an Ulcer in the &s;ide. But to return to the pre&s;ent Subject, when&s;oever the Confirmed Pox and a <HI>Gonorrhea</HI> happen to be together, the Cure of the <HI>Gonorrhea</HI> is to be un|dertaken either before, or after Salivation, and in my opinion it is both more &s;afe, and more ea&s;ie after the Salivation; &s;eeing a <HI>Gonorrhea</HI> which is accompanied with the Pox, is more difficulty Cured; that which has been in &s;ome mea&s;ure &s;ubdued by the preceding Salivation is more ea&s;ily rooted out: But we mu&s;t be &s;ure to ab&s;tain from Catharticks, &s;o long as the lea&s;t remainder of a Salivation does as
<PB N="252" REF="131">yet continue: And therefore it will be the &s;urer way to depend upon Turbith Mineral, given once or twice a Week for doing the work, than to tru&s;t to any other Purgatives what&s;oever; by which means the Salivation &s;hall be &s;omewhat promoted, whil&s;t in the mean time the matter that main|tains the <HI>Gonorrhea</HI> &s;hall be gradually di&s;|charged.</P>
<P>Moreover it is to be ob&s;erved if any Tu|mour, commonly called an <HI>Exo&s;to&s;is,</HI> or bony excre&s;cence, invade a Bone, which continues &s;o long time that the Bone comes to have a caries, it will be altogether in vain to attempt the Cure, either by Salivation, or by any o|ther Method what&s;oever, unle&s;s we al&s;o u&s;e means for removing of this mi&s;chief: And therefore the Bone is to be made bare by a Cau&s;tick, and as &s;oon as po&s;&s;ible it is to be ex|foliated as they call it, by u&s;ing &s;uch remedies as are proper for producing this effect.</P>
<P>As for an Ulcerated Mouth, which tho&s;e ordinarily have, who have undergone a Salivation, if either the Patient be under an in|tollerable pain, or his mouth be &s;o excoria|ted that it run with Bloud, and that both night and day it mu&s;t be very often garga|ri&s;ed, either with Damask Ro&s;e Water, or with Milk and Water, or with a Decoction of Barley Water, Mallow Roots, and &s;ome Seeds
<PB N="253" REF="131">of Quinces. This is the only memorable Sym|ptome that I know of that follows upon Sali|vation, at lea&s;t when it is performed in a due manner, and the truth, is if the pain and exul|ceration of the mouth could be by any art prevented, the Cure of this di&s;temper would not be much more trouble&s;ome than that of others that are of much le&s;s note.</P>
<P>As for the Patien's Diet, and the re&s;t of his Conduct; in my judgment the &s;ame Rules are to be ob&s;erved in Salivation till it be almo&s;t brought to a clo&s;e, as are ob&s;erved in Pur|ging; and &s;eeing he that has taken &s;ome Purgative Medicine, is onely to mind this, that he keep him&s;elf within his Chamber from the Cold, and moderately eat &s;uch food as is of good and ea&s;ie dige&s;tion; I do not as yet apprehend why the Patient &s;hould either be confined to his bed, or be re&s;trained from moderate eating, which would &s;trengthen and encourage him in the conflict of Nature with the Poi&s;on: From &s;uch irregular Methods it is, that when Na|ture has been totally oppre&s;&s;ed with &s;o great a burthen, a great many per&s;ons being ex|hau&s;ted in their Spirits, and deprived of all manner of &s;trength through the &s;weating, purging, and unnece&s;&s;ary fa&s;ting enjoined on them, (be&s;ides the mi&s;chief done to them by the Mercury) have been mi&s;erably de|&s;troyed;
<PB N="254" REF="132">and very often when the di&s;ea&s;e is vanqui&s;hed, the Patient being de&s;titute of that &s;tock of Spirits that is requi&s;ite for his perfect recovery yields to fate through weak|ne&s;s; but if he avoid grim Death, he buys his Life at the price of &s;o great and many Torments, that he has but a dear bargain of it: Of which one of the Modern Poets has expre&s;&s;ed him&s;elf elegantly enough:
<Q><L>Graviora morbis patimur Remedia,</L>
<L>Nec Vita tanti est, vivere ut po&s;&s;is, mori.</L></Q></P>
<P>And it is ea&s;ie in this place to an&s;wer an Objection; How comes it to pa&s;s that &s;ome per&s;ons having this di&s;temper in a great extream, (<HI>viz.</HI> in &s;uch a &s;tate as has been ju&s;t now &s;hewn,) are obliged to go to <HI>France</HI> for their Cure? The rea&s;on of which, in my Judgment, is this; our Air be|ing thick and moi&s;t, is not &s;o proper for re|pairing the Spirits in this &s;ort of per&s;ons, who have the Oeconomie of the Body &s;ub|verted, and their &s;trength ruduced to the lowe&s;t; whereas that of <HI>France</HI> being more whole&s;ome and clear, is more apt to re&s;tore the Spirits, and repair decay'd &s;trength: Not that the Men of Experi|ence there, though Learned, have a better Method of Curing the di&s;temper, than we
<PB N="255" REF="132">have in <HI>England:</HI> But that I may return to the diet.</P>
<P>Therefore I am of Opinion, (and Experi|ence is for me) that be&s;ides water grewel, <HI>Panado</HI> po&s;&s;et drink, and warm Ale; that we may, nay, we ought to allow the Patient Veal, Pullets, and the like, to be taken moderately; and that he be permitted to eat a little of a Rabet, Pullet, or Lamb, &s;o &s;oon as the the Tumour of his Gums is fallen, &s;o as he may make u&s;e of his Teeth; that he may keep his Bed, or &s;it by the Fire, as he him&s;elf plea&s;es: For &s;eeing this Di&s;temper is cured by Sa|livation, not by Diaphoreticks; I cannot imagine why the Patient &s;hould be Tor|mented with to much heat without any ne|ce&s;&s;ity.</P>
<P>This &s;aid Method, as it is more expedi|tious, &s;eeing it does not impo&s;e upon the Pa|tient &s;o long a Preparation of his Body for &s;o many days before Salivation, nor tho&s;e &s;olemn Purges or Decoctions after Salivation; &s;o I am very well a&s;&s;ured that it is much more ea&s;ie, le&s;s dangerous, and does not &s;o much expo&s;e the Patient to a Relap&s;e; which every one who has been u&s;ed to the other practice, will &s;oon be &s;atisfied in, when he comes to try this Method; I at la&s;t found therein all imaginable &s;ucce&s;s,
<PB N="256" REF="133">as to very many Patients; of whom &s;ome had undergone more than once the fatigue of a Salivation, &s;uffering &s;till a Relap&s;e upon it, upon &s;uch occa&s;ions, and for &s;uch cau&s;es as we have formerly mentioned.</P>
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<BYLINE>By <HI>WILLIAM SALMON,</HI> Profe&s;&s;or of Phy&s;ick.</BYLINE>
<P N="1">I. <HI>IF the Ma&s;s of Blood be &s;en&s;ibly corrupted, it may be depurated by gentle Medicines, &s;uch as Volatile Salt of Vipers, or Vipers them&s;elves.</HI> Pag. 44 Line 8.</P>
<P><HI>Salmon.</HI> Our Author calls this Gentle Means, and &s;o it is indeed, if you have re|&s;pect to the Form of its Operation: but if you have re&s;pect to the Effects, 'tis no &s;uch thing, but one of the greate&s;t, mo&s;t &s;tupendi|ous and excellent of Medicaments in the whole Animal Kingdom; and &s;ome que&s;tion whe|ther any in the Mineral exceed it; I am cer|tain none in the Vegetable come near it by many degrees, I &s;peak by a long and through
<PB N="2" REF="134">Experience; <HI>Guajacum</HI> it &s;elf, yea, and <HI>Sar&s;a</HI> too, are much below it. But here an Ob|jection ari&s;es, how they &s;hall do that live far off in the Country, or cannot get the Salt of Vipers, or if it may be had, are &s;o poor, that they cannot purcha&s;e it? To this I an&s;wer, that they mu&s;t make u&s;e of Vipers Fle&s;h. 1. By boyling, and then the Fle&s;h may be eaten, and the Broth may be drank, as if it was made of Eeles: but by this way &s;ome few of the volatile Parts are lo&s;t. 2. By drying the Fle&s;h, and beating it into Powder: of which Powder the Sick may take two Drams a Day, <HI>viz.</HI> a Dram or more in the Morn|ing fa&s;ting, and la&s;t at Night going to Bed. 3. In the Wine made of them, made as di|rected in our <HI>Doron Medicum, Lib.</HI> 1. <HI>Cap.</HI> 24. <HI>Sect.</HI> 39. Thus, <HI>Take choi&s;e Canary</HI> pound viij. <HI>Live large Vipers</HI> vj. <HI>or</HI> viij. <HI>Suffocate the Vipers in the Wine, then let it pa&s;s a gentle Fermentation: and after two Months, when it is fine and clear, the Sick may begin to drink of it.</HI> The Sick may take &s;ix or eight Spoonfuls in the Morn|ing fa&s;ting, and as much at Night going to Bed. This Wine is very full of Volatile Salt, and mo&s;t effectual to the Purpo&s;e intended. 4. By taking our <HI>Powers of Vipers,</HI> mentioned in our <HI>Phylaxa. Chap.</HI> 29. <HI>Sect.</HI> 1.2.7.8.12. You may give twenty, thirty, or forty Drops in Milk, Broth, or a Gla&s;s of Canary, two or three times
<PB N="3" REF="134">a Day. The&s;e Viperine Medicines are &s;afe, and cannot be given ami&s;s, &s;hould it not be the <HI>Pox,</HI> but a <HI>Lepro&s;ie, inveterate Herpes, or malig|nant and high graduated Scurvy.</HI></P>
<P N="2">II. <HI>Al&s;o if nothing appears but &s;ome Piles or Warts in the Secret Parts, which without any o|ther Sign, 'tis not to be thought the Pox; but if with tho&s;e Signs there be Fi&s;&s;ures towards the Anus, ulcerous Hemorrhoids, and Warts in other Parts, there is &s;ufficient a&s;&s;urance of the Di&s;temper,</HI> Pag. 45. Line 1.</P>
<P><HI>Salmon.</HI> Though &s;ometimes it may not be the <HI>Pox,</HI> when there is Piles or Warts only in the &s;ecret Parts; yet &s;ometimes it may be the <HI>Pox</HI> for all that no more may appear, not|with&s;tanding what our Author has &s;aid; but then the Arti&s;t ought to enquire what Cour&s;e of Life the Patient has liv'd before, that he may make a Judgment from the Preludes of the Di&s;temper: However, whether it be the <HI>Pox</HI> or no, the former Medicaments may be of u&s;e here; and if the Sick plea&s;es, they may take the &s;aid Powers of Vipers in an In|fu&s;ion of Our <HI>Hercules</HI> in Canary: the way of making the &s;aid <HI>Hercules</HI> and <HI>Infu&s;ion,</HI> you may &s;ee in Our <HI>Phylaxa Medicinae, Cap.</HI> 47. <HI>Sect.</HI> 1.6.11.12.15.</P>
<P N="3">III. <HI>I have &s;een a young Woman who had never known Man, who was covered all over her Body (the Privities only excepted) with Cru&s;ts of an Inch
<PB N="4" REF="135">thickne&s;s, and as broad as ones Hand.</HI> Pag. 46. Line 15.</P>
<P><HI>Salmon.</HI> Our Author is not willing to have this to be the <HI>Pox,</HI> and it may be, what he thinks it to be; for an inveterate <HI>Herpes</HI> or <HI>Serpigo</HI> may have that appearance: But if the Patient was of age enough to get the <HI>Pox,</HI> by Venery, I &s;hould have little Charity to believe it to be otherwi&s;e, for that I have known &s;ome, yea, innocent lookt Creatures, who have denied the Matter of Fact with an Oath, yea, with many Oaths, who, before the Cure has been over, has confe&s;t the thing, which be|fore they perjured them&s;elves to deny. In this Ca&s;e our Authors Method by <HI>Mercuriates</HI> (without Salivation) is very good: as al&s;o all the Means before directed. Be&s;ides <HI>Mercuri|us Dulcis,</HI> and other gentle Preparations of Mercury; I &s;hould u&s;e Our <HI>Hercules</HI> as direct|ed in our afore&s;aid <HI>Phylaxa. Cap.</HI> 47. <HI>Sect.</HI> 12. I have never found it fail what I de&s;igned for. Outwardly the Sick may wa&s;h the Parts af|fected with the following Water. <HI>Take Lime Water boyling hot, a Gallon; put it into a white|ware earthen Ba&s;on; di&s;&s;olve in it &s;weet Sublimate in fine Powder two Ounces: So a blacki&s;h Powder will precipitate.</HI> This Water keep in a Gla&s;s Bottle for the Purpo&s;es afore&s;aid.</P>
<P N="4">IV. <HI>I know by Experience, that the &s;ure&s;t cour&s;e that can be taken about this kind of Pox, is by
<PB N="5" REF="135">way of Vapor, which does reach the infected Bones; but &s;eeing this Method is &s;omething dangerous, and may have ill Con&s;equences, it requires both Judg|ment and Dexterity to accompli&s;h it.</HI> Pag. 49. Line 11.</P>
<P><HI>Salmon.</HI> The kind of <HI>Pox</HI> here intended, is the wor&s;t of <HI>Poxes, viz.</HI> That wherein there is a <HI>Caries,</HI> or Rottenne&s;s of the Bone, which is &s;carcely cured by any Method or Preparation of <HI>Mercury,</HI> nay not by Salivation it &s;elf, whe|ther inwardly given, or outwardly by Uncti|on, which indeed I account the mo&s;t pernici|ous way of all. Our Author &s;ays, the &s;ure&s;t way is by <HI>Fumigation,</HI> the Method of which we &s;hall hereafter teach. <HI>Wi&s;eman</HI> in his <HI>Chy|rurgery</HI> commends the&s;e Troches. <HI>Take Cin|nabar</HI> &ounce;ij. <HI>Crude Mercury</HI> &ounce;j. <HI>Ma&s;tich, Frankin|cen&s;e, Juniper Gum; ana.</HI> &ounce;&s;s. <HI>Storax Calamita, Benjamin, ana</HI> &dram;iij. <HI>make all into a &s;ubtil Powder, with which a &s;ufficient quantity of Turpentine, make into Troches for u&s;e, each weighing about three Drams.</HI></P>
<P N="5">V. <HI>They cannot perform a Cure at fir&s;t, e&s;peci|ally tho&s;e who make u&s;e of the Mercurial Oyntment: there has likewi&s;e been &s;ome whom Salivation by Friction or &V;nction could never work upon.</HI> Pag. 50. Line 19.</P>
<P><HI>Salmon.</HI> This is true generally, and there|fore it is, that this our Author doth &s;o much in|veigh again&s;t this Way or Method of Cure,
<PB N="6" REF="136">becau&s;e for the mo&s;t part it is no Cure, but the Introduction of a whole Regiment of Vexa|tious and Deplorable Symptoms, notwith|&s;tanding all that the magnifyers of this way of Fluxation can &s;ay.</P>
<P N="6">VI. <HI>And therefore it often falls out by rea&s;on of &s;ome of tho&s;e Faults I have &s;hewn, that the Vene|real Di&s;temper is not cured, but only its Symptoms, and that &s;ome of the Venereal Ferment does &s;till remain in the Body.</HI> Pag. 51. Line 17.</P>
<P><HI>Salmon.</HI> That is to &s;ay, by &s;ome of tho&s;e almo&s;t impo&s;&s;ible to be avoided Faults, which happen in the Method by Unction; and though many times, &s;ome of the raging Symptoms, at the time of the Salivation &s;eem to vani&s;h, or are laid a&s;leep; yet new ari&s;e in many Patients, which are far wor&s;e than their former, and &s;ometimes prove uncurable to boot: I have known many Patients who have been throughly &s;alivated twice, yea, three times for a <HI>Pox,</HI> by this Method, whom it has left wor&s;e than at fir&s;t it found them, not|with&s;tanding all the Faithfulne&s;s and Care of the Undertaker; and then this fal&s;e Conclu&s;i|on has followed, <HI>viz. that there were &s;ome kinds of Poxes, &s;o inveterate and malign, that no Sali|vation could cure:</HI> which was, and is a fal&s;e Deduction from the Premi&s;es. And truly, if I may freely &s;peak my Thoughts, I firmly believe that mo&s;t of the Per&s;ons, in whom
<PB N="7" REF="136">there is a <HI>Caries</HI> or Rottenne&s;s of the Bones (which is the wor&s;t &s;ort of <HI>Pox,</HI> and by &s;ome accounted uncurable) that it oftner, yea, ten times to one, ari&s;es from the unhappy Me|thod of Cure by Unction, rather than from the Malignity or Poy&s;on of the Di&s;ea&s;e: though I do not &s;ay, but that &s;ome have hap|pily met with a good and &s;afe Cure that way too, yet am almo&s;t confident that ten to one has either mi&s;carried, or been made wor&s;e by it.</P>
<P N="7">VII. <HI>'Tis indeed an Abu&s;e, and one ought to u&s;e Diligence, if he cannot know the Nature of Mer|cury to the bottom, to find out a Method whereby it may be, in &s;uch a manner prepared, as it may he given without Danger.</HI> Pag. 54. Line. 20.</P>
<P><HI>Salmon.</HI> This is good Advice of the Author, and therefore he has been &s;o indu&s;trious as to fix upon a &s;afe and &s;ub&s;tantial Medicine in or|der to this end, which you will have in its due place: he has not given you many Re|ceipts, nor multiplied Medicines without rea|&s;on, having met with one that is good, true, and indubitable. Nor will we multiply ma|ny after him, but either confirm the U&s;e and Practi&s;e which this prudent Author has laid down, by manifold Experiments of our Own, or produce &s;ome one or two other Medica|ments no ways inferior to his, which will not only &s;upply the Place, but al&s;o perfectly per|form
<PB N="8" REF="137">the &s;ame Work, without any Hazard, danger of ill Symptoms, or fear of Relap&s;e.</P>
<P N="8">VIII. <HI>(Mercury does contain) a great deal of Salt, but not an Alcaly, as &s;ome pretend, but an exceed|ing Acid Salt, very like that which is in Sulphur Mineral.</HI> Pag. 55. Line 14.</P>
<P><HI>Salmon.</HI> I mu&s;t confe&s;s, I cannot but di&s;|&s;ent here from this Author, nor am I alone, but have on my &s;ide very great and good Au|thority; I am &s;ure the <HI>Pox</HI> proceeds, and is made up of an extream and vehement Acid, and it is the natural Cour&s;e of the Cure, to proceed with Alcalies, that may &s;weeten the Blood and Juices; and if Mercury was &s;uch an Acid as he would make it, it would rather be inimical than beneficial for this purpo&s;e; but this is not the place to enter the Li&s;ts of Di&s;|pute about a thing, which (let its Nature be what it will) &s;o perfectly an&s;wers our Ends.</P>
<P N="9">IX. <HI>It is ponderous, becau&s;e it abounds with Salt; and Experience doth &s;hew, that Liquors are by &s;o much the more heavy, as they contain the more Salt; the &s;ame may be ob&s;erved in all &s;orts of Wood.</HI> Pag. 56. Line 4.</P>
<P><HI>Salmon.</HI> This &s;eems to be a Paradox, and may be thought not to be univer&s;ally true: for &s;ome &s;uppo&s;e that the Sulphurs of &s;ome Metals cau&s;e their Heavine&s;s; as in Gold, which is the heavie&s;t of all Metals, and con|tains a much larger quantity of Sulphur than
<PB N="9" REF="137">of Salt. To in&s;tance al&s;o in Woods. Guaja|cum is an extream heavy Wood, yet its prin|cipal Compo&s;ition is Sulphur, next to a dead Earth, and I am confident from Experience, that it contains near ten times the quantity of Sulphur, that it has of Salt of any kind.</P>
<P N="10">X. <HI>This Mercurial Vapor, meeting in its way with &s;ome Sulphurs, with which the Mines do a|bound, by joyning therewith, compo&s;e a Mixture, that makes the Mineral (or native) Cinnabar, not unlike that we &s;ee in the Articifical Cinnabar, which is only a Mixture of Sulphur and Mercury.</HI> pag. 58. line. 10.</P>
<P><HI>Salmon.</HI> This is true in Nature: how the Artificial is made, we have taught in our <HI>Pharmacopaeia, Lib.</HI> 3. <HI>Cap.</HI> 7. <HI>Sect.</HI> 54. to which I refer you. The Cinnabars of all kinds, as well the Artificial as the Antimonial and Native, are great Medicines, and in a wi&s;e and skilful Hand will perform Wonders in the Medical Art, and may be &s;o prepared, that they &s;hall perform as much in the Cure of the Pox, Lepro&s;ie, Gout, Scurvy, and Hy|pochondriack Di&s;affections, as any other Me|dicine what&s;oever, yea, even to outvie with the Greate&s;t.</P>
<P N="11">XI. <HI>(Mercury) excites Salivation, the Heat of the Body reducing it into a Vapor: and &s;eeing there is Acids in all &s;orts of Bodies, tho&s;e Acids do ea&s;ily joyn them&s;elves to the Mercury, which in its &s;elf
<PB N="10" REF="138">does contain an Acid Salt, and tho&s;e Acids being in conjunction therewith, make it corro&s;ive, in like manner almo&s;t as the Acids of Vitriol and Sea Salt make Quick &s;ilver, Sublimate Corro&s;ive.</HI> Page 60. Line 17.</P>
<P><HI>Salmon.</HI> But we have before declared our O|pinion, that Mercury is an Alcaly, and truly I believe it to be one of the greate&s;t Alcalies in Nature, which is in part demon&s;trated by its immediate Fermentation, and being di&s;quieted, being mixed with any Acid of what kind &s;oe|ver. So that this Author had more exqui&s;itely &s;poken, if he had &s;aid thus. <HI>Mercury, by the Heat of the Body, and Acidity of its Juices, being turned into a Vapor, excites a Salivation; for the Acid Salts of the Body meeting, and being con|joyned with the Alcalious Sub&s;tance of the Mercury, immediately promotes a Fermentation of the conta|minated Juices; and the Mercury being made Cor|ro&s;ive (as Sublimate is with the Acids of Vitriol and Sea-&s;alt) by the &s;harpne&s;s and Corro&s;ion of its Particles, makes a Separation and Participation of the malign Humors and poy&s;onous Salt from the truly natural and benign, &s;o that tho&s;e evil Juices being joyned with the Mercury, and the Mercury, by the Heat and Fermentation, forced to a&s;cend upwards to the Salivatick Glandules, they are actually &s;eparated, and &s;o carried forth out of the Body.</HI></P>
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<P N="12">XII. <HI>Sometimes Mercury does only purge by Stool, and 'tis thought that in &s;uch a Ca&s;e, it does meet with &s;ome alcalious Matter, which makes it let go tho&s;e Acids, and precipitates the Mercury into the lower Parts.</HI> page 62. line 1.</P>
<P><HI>Salmon.</HI> I can no ways concede to this Opi|nion, but do rather think, that the Cau&s;e of the Purging by Stool, is, when the Alcaly of the Mercury much exceeds in Strength and Proportion the Acid Salts of the Body, where|by it has not that Natural Propen&s;ity up|wards, which otherwi&s;e it would have. But there are many other Rea&s;ons for this <HI>Phaenomenon,</HI> which we cannot &s;tand here to enumerate.</P>
<P N="13">XIII. <HI>We &s;ee, that when there is a Di&s;&s;olution of Mercury made with Acids, as the Spirits or Oyls of Sulphur, Vitriol, Allum,</HI> &amp;c. <HI>tho&s;e Acids are the more fixed, and the Mercury is &s;ublimed with the greater Difficulty.</HI> Page 62. Line 22.</P>
<P><HI>Salmon.</HI> This is wholly a Mi&s;take; for in this Ca&s;e of the Di&s;&s;olution of Mercury with acid Spirits or Oyls, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> the Mercury is o|verpowred; and its Alcaly (by rea&s;on of the Di&s;proportion of the Acid) is fixed by the A|cid Salt (for that almo&s;t all Acid Salts are na|turally fixed Salts) and it is a received Princi|ple in Nature, that the Weaker mu&s;t &s;ubject it &s;elf to the Stronger; and this is the Rea&s;on that the Mercury cannot &s;o ea&s;ily be &s;ublim|ed
<PB N="12" REF="139">or a&s;cend, becau&s;e it is as it were fixed or chained down by the Fetters of the fixt acid Salt.</P>
<P N="14">XIV. <HI>A Specifick Medicine is that which does cure a certain Di&s;ea&s;e, at all Times, in all Places, in all Ages, and in all Degrees (provided it be not pa&s;t Cure.)</HI> page 64. line 8.</P>
<P><HI>Salmon.</HI> This is a good Definition of the Nature and Property of a Specifick Medica|ment: And &s;uch a Medicine is indeed in <HI>Mer|cury,</HI> and &s;uch a Specifick it will become, if it be prepared by a curious and skilful Hand: It is the mo&s;t excellent and ab&s;olute Remedy yet known to the Learned World; and what in|deed neither <HI>Guajacum, Sar&s;aparila,</HI> nor any o|ther Vegetable can pretend to, which although by Accident (in a recent and young <HI>Pox</HI>) they have &s;ometimes cured this Di&s;ea&s;e; yet ten, yea, twenty times mi&s;s it again, for that one, that is cured by them.</P>
<P N="15">XV. <HI>I have made it appear, that Crude Mercu|ry is very dangerous, as well as that which is Cor|ro&s;ive: the former, becau&s;e it is an Enemy to the Brain and all the Nervous Parts; the latter, be|cau&s;e by irritations, Corro&s;ions,</HI> &amp;c. <HI>it makes De|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">redations in the Stomach, and other nobler Parts,</HI> page. 64. line. 21.</P>
<P><HI>Salmon.</HI> This is for the mo&s;t part true, yet &s;everal learned Men have pre&s;cribed it with good Succe&s;s in this Ca&s;e; and I have many
<PB N="13" REF="139">times found it to an&s;wer, when all other things would do no good. But it ought to be ad|mini&s;tred by a wi&s;e Hand, and a prudent Phy&s;ician, and where the Patient is near to, or under the Eye of the Phy&s;ician, that if a|ny Accident &s;hould happen, he may be ready to remedy it. I remember <HI>Chalmeteus Enchirid. Chirurgic. Lib.</HI> 5. <HI>Cap.</HI> 7. pre&s;cribes this. <HI>Take Rhubarb</HI> &dram;x. <HI>Scammony</HI> &dram;iij. <HI>mix them, powring on Juice or Syrup of Limons; Quick-&s;ilver tyed up in a Cloth, that it may run out in very &s;mall Grains</HI> &ounce;ij. &dram;vj. <HI>Let it be well kill'd with the Juice, by long &s;tiring in a Mortar, and pouring on the &s;ame Syrup or Juice, adding Wheat-flower</HI> &dram;ij. <HI>Musk</HI> &dram;j. <HI>make a Dram into five Pills, which guild well:</HI> Let him take one Dram every Day, &s;ix Hours before Dinner, and take them for thirty Days. In the Interim let him take no other Medicine, neither Cathartick nor Topick, but now and then half an Ounce of <HI>Aqua Vitae</HI> mixt with Fennel-water &ounce;j. I have given this Pre&s;cript &s;everal times, and with very good Succe&s;s, but 'tis not a Weapon fit to be put into every ones Hand. But much &s;uperior to this is our <HI>Pilulae Herculaeanae,</HI> men|tioned in my <HI>Parateremata,</HI> or &s;elect Ob&s;ervati|ons, <HI>Lib.</HI> 3. <HI>Cap.</HI> 7. <HI>Sect.</HI> 10. with which I have done great Cures in this Di&s;ea&s;e, even beyond expectation: The Receipt is this. <HI>Take Her|cules no&s;ter</HI> &ounce;iiij. <HI>Scammony in fine Powder</HI> &ounce;ij.
<PB N="14" REF="140"><HI>Musk in fine powder</HI> &dram;ij. <HI>with any convenient Syrup, make a ma&s;s of Pills.</HI> Do&s;e ab &dram; &s;s. and &scruple;ij. or &scruple; ij. &s;s.</P>
<P N="16">XVI. Mercurius dulcis &s;ublimate, <HI>i sa Remedy that will never do any hurt, if one knows how to u&s;e it: but it is al&s;o &s;o weak, that how little &s;o ever the Pox has taken root, it is not to be expect|ed that it can be cured thereby.</HI> Page 66. Line 21.</P>
<P><HI>Salmon.</HI> 'Tis a weak Medicine indeed, com|pared to other Preparations of <HI>Mercury:</HI> but as weak as it is, if given by a skilful hand ma|ny may be cured by it; and &s;everal have been cured with it: <HI>Rhodius Cent.</HI> 3. <HI>ob&s;erv.</HI> 84. &s;ays it is almo&s;t a Divine Remedy, and may be given well prepared <HI>about</HI> 12 <HI>grains of it in Lenitive Elect.</HI> &ounce;j. for thirty or forty days together; it is a Purge &s;ufficient &s;aith he for a Strong man, and operates without any pain or &s;alivation. Yet le&s;t any malignity might &s;tick to the Guts (letting alone other Medicines) they ought to be elean&s;ed every week with <HI>Mel. Ro&s;a|tum Solutivum and a Decoction of Tamarinds in Cichory water with Citron Seeds.</HI></P>
<P N="17">XVII. &rx;. <HI>Mercurius dulcis &s;ublimate, Powder of Vipers, and</HI> &dram;vj. <HI>Cri&s;tals of Tartar, Scammony, ana</HI> &ounce; &s;s. <HI>Troches Alhandal</HI> &dram;ij. <HI>with Surrup of Damask Ro&s;es, make a Ma&s;s of Pills. Do&s;e</HI> &dram;j. <HI>or</HI> &dram;j. &s;s. <HI>with ordinary Diet.</HI> Page 67. Line 3.</P>
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<P><HI>Salmon.</HI> Though I like Cry&s;tals of Tartar well enough in &s;ome Purges, yet I care not much to u&s;e them with Mercuriates, becau&s;e of their acidity. 'Tis po&s;&s;ible this following may do much better.</P>
<P><HI>Take Mercurius dulcis, Powder of Vipers, Scammony in Powder of each</HI> 12 <HI>grains: Troches Alhandal</HI> 6 <HI>grains; with Surrup of Damask Ro&s;es make a Ma&s;s of Pills for one Do&s;e,</HI> to be taken in the Morning fa&s;ting, which may be given for thirty or forty days together, unle&s;s the vehement force of the Cartharticks forbid it; but the num|ber of times ought to be compleated, though with the intermi&s;&s;ion of a day or 2 or 3 between each Do&s;e: if the Per&s;on be a &s;trong robu&s;t body, the <HI>Mercurius dulcis</HI> may be en|crea&s;ed to 15 or 18 grains; but this as you &s;ee occa&s;ion.</P>
<P N="18">XVIII. <HI>I have al&s;o found by Experience, that (even in the ca&s;e of an inviterate Pox) the Golden Preci|pitate is to be u&s;ed with very good &s;ucce&s;s,</HI> page 67. line 13.</P>
<P><HI>Salmon.</HI> This is an Excellent (if not one of the be&s;t of) Remedies indeed, and our Author commends it with much Rea&s;on, the Prepara|tion whereof, he has given you in the place cited. But that the world may not think that this Author is the only Man that has u&s;ed this Medicament, they may plea&s;e to peru&s;e Our <HI>Phylaxa Medicinae</HI> cap. 42. Sect. 2. where you
<PB N="16" REF="141">have the &s;ame Medicine, which has been Prin|ted and made publick to the world by me this &s;ix years agon: al&s;o in my <HI>Parateremata.</HI> or <HI>&s;elect Ob&s;ervations, lib.</HI> 2. <HI>cap.</HI> 5. <HI>pag.</HI> 270. written about five years &s;ince: where there is a &s;ingu|lar Cure performed by the &s;ame Medicine; The name which I have given it is <HI>Angelus Mineralis</HI> from its wonderful and &s;tupendious Vertues, in which place I have given you the Preparation in the&s;e words. <HI>Take Hungarian Quick&s;ilver, or the be&s;t purified Mercury three Ounces, fine Gold one Ounce, mix and make anAmalgama, put this into a Gla&s;s Cucurbit or Bolt head, two or three feet high, who&s;e interior part let be large and broad: but the &s;uperior part narrow and long: di|ge&s;t with a gentle fire forty days; and let the Fire be gentle and continual, &s;o will the Amalgama be turned into a Rubicund powder, which mix with Aqua Ovorum, dige&s;ting and cohabating &s;even times: then for fifteen days circulate with Spirit of Wine in a gentle Sand heat: Ab&s;tract the Spirit of Wine by di&s;tillation, &s;o have you the Angelus Mineralis, which is one of the greate&s;t Medicines in the world.</HI> This is a Medicine we have had experi|ence of, for the&s;e twenty years la&s;t pa&s;t, and po&s;|&s;ibly may be able to &s;ay more to it, then the Author has done. Do but con&s;ider the Hi&s;tories of Cures which we have done with it, nay but them which are yet in Print, and you mu&s;t ac|quie&s;s in our &s;entiments &s;ee the following Hi&s;to|ries in our <HI>Parateremata lib.</HI> 2, <HI>Cap.</HI> 5. <HI>Sect.</HI> 6, 7, 8,
<PB N="17" REF="141">9, 10, 11, 12, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 43, 44, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 53, 55, 56, 57, <HI>and Chap.</HI> 4. <HI>Sect.</HI> 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27. be&s;ides &s;ome hundred of other Pa|tients not only of the&s;e but of other Di&s;ea&s;es, the Hi&s;tory of who&s;e Cures are not yet ex|tant; but I hope in their due Sea&s;on &s;hall be made publick to the World.</P>
<P N="19">XIX. <HI>In the Intervals the Patients mu&s;t be let Blood le&s;s or more, according as his Blood abounds, or is corrupted.</HI> Page 68. Line 23.</P>
<P><HI>Salmon.</HI> He who has read my Arguments again&s;t this operation in my <HI>Synop&s;is Medi|cinae lib.</HI> 3. <HI>cap.</HI> 15. <HI>&s;ect.</HI> 3. <HI>ad</HI> 16. I am &s;ure mu&s;t be another Opinion: however, whether he be again&s;t Blood-letting in general or no, if he con&s;iders the nature and quality of the Di&s;ea&s;e, and &s;tate of the Sick, mu&s;t di&s;ap|prove of this advice: the very weakne&s;s of the Patient, Paucity of Spirits, and declivity of the natural juices and functions, ab&s;olutely be|&s;peak the contrary.</P>
<P N="20">XX. <HI>Where there are Nodes or Tetters, or the Blood is dry, Baths mu&s;t be u&s;ed, for Emollition of the Parts, for humectation and encrea&s;ing of the fluidity of humors, to bring them to &s;uch a condition, as they may ea&s;ily yeild to the Medicines.</HI> Page 68. Line 26.</P>
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<P><HI>Salmon.</HI> You ought to have a Bathing-Tub, wherein the &s;ick may &s;it up to the Neck in the Bath, Blood warm, or &s;o hot as with plea|&s;ure it may be endured. For this purpo&s;e &s;everal &s;orts of Baths may be made u&s;e of; nor are Au|thors &s;paring in delivering &s;everal pre&s;criptions or forms of them. I might here de&s;cribe &s;e|veral forms of Baths of admirable u&s;e, but the two or three following &s;hall &s;uffice. <HI>Take water a &s;ufficient quantity for a Bath and for every Gallon of water, di&s;&s;olve in it an ounce of Soap:</HI> which u&s;e as hot as the Sick can endure it, to &s;it in. Another. <HI>Take water a &s;ufficient quantity for a Bath: To every Gallon of which add a Pint of good Brandy:</HI> to be u&s;ed hot as the former. Another: <HI>Take water a &s;ufficient quantity for a Bath: And in every Gallon of it di&s;&s;olve Soap one Ounce, Common Spirit of Wine a Pint:</HI> to be u&s;ed of a moderate heat. Another which is more excellent. <HI>Take fair water enough for a Bath, and to every Gallon of it add, common &s;pirit of Wine a Pint, Powers of Mercury</HI> (&s;ee the Preparation in our <HI>Phylaxa,</HI> cap. 24. Sect. 1.) <HI>an ounce or &s;omething le&s;s: mix them, the water being fir&s;t warm enough for the Bath.</HI> The&s;e Baths e&s;pecially the latter are of admirable u&s;e in the Cure of this Di&s;ea&s;e, e&s;pecially if there he any external defedation, by Pocky Herpes, Tettars, Ringworms, Serpigo, Ulcers, Gums, Nodes, Tophs, Warts, Pains or the like.
<PB N="19" REF="142">And they ought to be often u&s;ed, as once every day for the &s;ame time, then once every o|ther day, afterwards twice a week, till the &s;ick is well.</P>
<P N="21">XXI. <HI>All the difficulty is to determine what number of D<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;es</HI> (of this Golden Precipitate) <HI>is requi&s;ite to each per&s;on that has occa&s;ion to u&s;e it: for although the Accidents may wholly di&s;appear, yet it does not fol|low that the Patient is perfectly recovered.</HI> Page 69. Line 3.</P>
<P><HI>Salmon.</HI> This is a difficulty, but may ea|&s;ily be determined by any one skilful in our Profe&s;&s;ion: and them that are not skillful are not fit to practice. This is certain, that it ought to be given, till all the Accidents are vani&s;ht: but in my Opinion that is not enough, two or three Do&s;es ought &s;till to be taken after all, yea although the Patient may think him&s;elf to be perfectly well; that the &s;aid Accidents may not only vani&s;h, but that no Leven or Seed of the Di&s;ea&s;e may be le&s;t in the Blood and Humors; and then al&s;o Viper Broth, or Pow|der, or the other preparation of Vipers men|tioned at <HI>Sect.</HI> I. of the&s;e Annotations ought to be taken for twelve or fourteen days, where by, the recrements of the Di&s;ea&s;e (if any yet remain) will be &s;o throughly carried off, that the &s;ick will be in no future danger of a Relap&s;e. But here is one thing to be noted, that our <HI>Angelus Mineralis</HI> works not &s;o &s;trongly
<PB N="20" REF="143">as the Preparation of the &s;ame Medicine, here laid down by our Author &mdash; but does things much more mildly and plea&s;antly, and there|fore requires a longer time, and more Do&s;es to do it in: for which cau&s;e &s;ake I always keep of both &s;orts by me, to wit, the mild or gentle which I call <HI>Angelus Mineralis;</HI> and the &s;trong, or mo&s;t powerful which I call the <HI>Impetus Mine|ralis,</HI> becau&s;e <HI>it forcibly invades the di&s;temper, ve|hemently a&s;&s;aults the Poy&s;on, and certainly eradicates the malignity, performing the Cure as well with great &s;afty as &s;peed.</HI></P>
<P N="22">XXII. <HI>A Decoction of Vipers may be given for &s;ome days (after</HI> the u&s;e of the Powder I &s;uppo&s;e he means) <HI>by which there will be an In&s;en&s;ible tran|&s;piration that &s;hall carry off all the re&s;t of the Vene|real Ferment,</HI> page 69. line 16.</P>
<P><HI>Salmon.</HI> It is an u&s;ual thing for Phy&s;icians to pre&s;cribe Diets or Diet-drinks to the Sick after the chief work is over, to carry off the Re|liques of the Di&s;ea&s;e, and the&s;e for the mo&s;t part are made of <HI>Guajacum, Sa&s;aparilla, China,</HI> and the like, the Forms of which you may find plentifully enough in other Authors, and therefore we &s;hall not vainly repeat tho&s;e mean|er Remedies here: Our Author here, in place thereof, pre&s;cribes one much more powerful prepared from Vipers, which out-does tho&s;e things almo&s;t an hundred fold, <HI>viz.</HI> Viper|broth, but you may u&s;e either that, or other
<PB N="21" REF="143">Preparations of Vipers mentioned at Section 1. of the&s;e Annotations, which may be taken for 12, 14, 16, 18, or twenty days together, as you &s;ee occa&s;ion. But for tho&s;e that cannot take Vipers, or otherwi&s;e cannot get them, or tho&s;e Preparations of them, I commend <HI>a Diet drink,</HI> made of <HI>Our Hercules;</HI> the Prepa|ration of which you have in Our <HI>Phylaxa Medicinae Lib.</HI> 1. <HI>Cap.</HI> 47. <HI>Sect.</HI> 1. Of this <HI>Her|cules</HI> you may make a Diet as is taught in the <HI>&s;ame Chapter Sect.</HI> 15. in the&s;e words. <HI>Take of this Our Hercules or Panacea five ounces: Canary two quarts; &s;hake them together; and let them &s;tand in a warm Infu&s;ion for a week, &s;haking the Gla&s;s twice a day: then being well &s;ettled pour off the clear Wine (which will have neither colour, ta&s;te, nor &s;mell, more than it had when it went on) and keep it for a Diet.</HI> Do&s;e a quarter of a Pint in the Morning, or more if you plea&s;e, and as much at night going to Bed. This much exceeds a <HI>Guaiacum</HI> and <HI>Sar&s;a</HI> Diet, yea that made of Vipers, and may be taken without offence at Meals, even by the mo&s;t delicate Pallats. This Diet you mu&s;t renew, by putting the like quantity of fre&s;h Canary upon the &s;ame Pow|der: and you may repeat the Infu&s;ion upon the &s;ame faeces or <HI>Hercules,</HI> &s;even or eight times,; (and &s;o long the Powder will hold good, and make the Infu&s;ion &s;trong enough) which will be &s;ufficient for any ordinary Cure:
<PB N="22" REF="144">the Patient may take this Diet drink even in Company, and yet the mo&s;t prying Eye never take notice of it.</P>
<P N="23">XXIII. <HI>There is no Pox but what may be cured by this Medicine, &s;uch a degree of it only excep|ted, where there is a</HI> Caries <HI>or putrefaction of the Bones of the No&s;e or Skull, which cannot be throughly effected, but by a method that is extreamly trouble&s;om and tedious,</HI> page 69. line 27.</P>
<P><HI>Salmon</HI> The Medicine he here means is his <HI>Solar Precipitate</HI> before mentioned, which is our <HI>Impetus Mineralis.</HI> He excepts a Pox with a <HI>Caries:</HI> whether it may cure &s;uch a Pox or no, I cannot be po&s;itive in, becau&s;e I have had no Experience of it in that ca&s;e; though I am apt to believe it would go a great way in the Cure, if it was managed by a prudent hand, given for &s;ome time longer then in the former Ca&s;es. And our Author <HI>page</HI> 87. &s;aith, <HI>We may rea&s;onably think it &s;nfficient.</HI></P>
<P N="24">XXIV. <HI>And therefore in this Ca&s;e, it is better to &s;alivate the Patient not by means of an &V;nguent, which I would advi&s;e no Body to, becau&s;e of its ill Con&s;equences: be&s;ides&mdash;the Mercury does not penetrate &s;o far as the putrified Bone, to de&s;troy the Ferment that infects it.</HI> pag. 7. line 5.</P>
<P><HI>Salmon.</HI> This is very true, and therefore we can advi&s;e no Body to a Method &s;o unhappy, where other ways much more excellent are
<PB N="23" REF="144">known, and which we &s;hall explicate in the Se|quel hereof.</P>
<P N="25">XXV. <HI>But this Salivation mu&s;t be performed by Fumigation or Vapor, for which we &s;hall &s;hew the be&s;t Method.</HI> page 70. line 14.</P>
<P><HI>Salmon.</HI> Our Author here promi&s;es the Me|thod of Salivating by Fumigation, but has no where in his whole Book &s;hown the particular Way how it &s;hould be done. And therefore, for the Sakes of the Ignorant, we &s;hall here explicate it. The Fume may be made with <HI>Cinnabar,</HI> either Native or Artificial. Some Authors think the Artificial to be the be&s;t, be|cau&s;e in the Burning, by rea&s;on of the Brim|&s;tone, it has a much greater and more piercing Fume, piercing further, and working &s;tronger than Quick-&s;ilver by Unction, or any other way of touching the Body. Thus, <HI>Take Cin|nabar</HI> &ounce;j. <HI>Frankin&s;cence, Ma&s;tich, Benjamin, Cortex, Winteranus, ana</HI> &dram;j. <HI>all being in fine Powder, with Turpentine or Mucilage, of Gum Tragacanth, make a Ma&s;s for Troches, of which make tmenty four for eight times.</HI> If there be many Ulcers in the Body, you mu&s;t make the Troches &s;tronger, after this manner. <HI>Take Cinabar one Ounce: Frankin&s;cence, Ma&s;tick, Myrrh, Amber, of each an Ounce, Cortex Winteranus, Cloves, Nutmegs, Zedoary, ana</HI> &ounce; &s;s: <HI>all being in fine Powder with Turpentine or Mucilage of Gum Tragacanth, make thirty two Troches for eight Fumagations.</HI> But if the
<PB N="24" REF="145">Ulcers are many, and very Malignant, you mu&s;t yet u&s;e &s;tronger than the&s;e, made after this manner. <HI>Take Cinabar</HI> &ounce; j. <HI>Frankincen&s;e, Myrrh, Amber, Benjamin, Crude Antimony, ana</HI> &ounce; j. <HI>of our Hercules, Verdigri&s;e, ana</HI> &dram;ij. <HI>Cortex Winteranus</HI> &ounce; ij. <HI>Cloves, Nutmegs, Zeadory, ana</HI> &ounce;&s;s. <HI>all being in fine Powder, with Turpentine or Mu&s;ci|lage make two and thirty Troches for eight times.</HI> And if the party be &s;trong, &s;ome add <HI>a dram of Orpiment or a dram of &s;ome precipitate,</HI> with this caution, that they avoid the fume, &s;o as it may not come into their Mouth or No&s;e. The way of u&s;ing the&s;e Troches is this. Put the Sick naked into &s;ome warm clo&s;e place, which is kept from the Air, as a hot Hou&s;e, or a Tub for the purpo&s;e, made beneath of boards, arched like a Tent, and covered all over with a Mat; Or which is much better <HI>Hartmans</HI> Sweating Chair: with in this, let him &s;it, and take the fume a&s;cending from the Troches within, being thrown upon live Coals: his face mu&s;t be out, as the Nature of the Place imports, that he may endure it the longer, and his Head &s;o covered, that the Air come not at it: but towards the conclu&s;i|on let the Headreceive &s;ome of the fumes al&s;o; and let him endure it &s;o long as he can endure it without fainting: then wraping warm Sheets round him, carry him to a fre&s;h warm place, and put him into a warm Bed,
<PB N="25" REF="145">to &s;weat for three or four hours or more, as long as he can endure it. The&s;e Fumes are to be u&s;ed once every day, if the Sick be &s;trong, but if weak once every other day: or if he grows faint, let him re&s;t a day, or &s;o, till his Spirits be recruited, and then repeat the Fumi|gation again, till by his &s;orene&s;s of Mouth, and fluxing or &s;pitting, you &s;ee rea&s;on to give over. And becau&s;e this way by Fumigation, wea|kens more than that by Unction, the Sick is permitted, to eat oftner than otherwi&s;e, and that good, whol&s;om and nouri&s;hing Food; for too much Ab&s;tinence in this ca&s;e will certainly do hurt.</P>
<P N="26">XXVI. <HI>All other Medicines as Guaiacum, Sa&s;a|parilla, Sa&s;&s;afras, China, Box,</HI> &amp;c. <HI>&s;erve for no other purpo&s;e but to heat &s;uch Bodies as receive them.</HI> page 70. line. 17.24. <HI>&amp;c.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Salmon.</HI> 'Tis true, they may do &s;ome good, being given in the Pox; but our Author &s;uppo&s;es that <HI>no body doubts of the in&s;ufficiency of tho&s;e Me|dicines,</HI> for my part I do not: and this I am &s;ure of, that in all thin, and lean and Tabefick bodies, they are of very ill con&s;equence and vehemently promote the Indi&s;po&s;ition; in &s;o much that tho&s;e who have been but a little con&s;umptive before, by the u&s;e of <HI>Guaiacum</HI> and <HI>Sa&s;&s;afra&s;s,</HI> have fallen into an incurable <HI>Tabes,</HI> or &s;ome other di&s;temper, of which they could never be relieved by the utmo&s;t power o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter"> Art.</P>
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<P N="27">XXVII. <HI>That when the Skin has been infected &s;ome gentle Sudorifick may be given by way of Precaution.</HI> page 82. line 5.</P>
<P><HI>Salmon.</HI> Our Author has in the place cited, given you &s;ome pretty things for the &s;ame pur|po&s;e: but Our <HI>Aqua Bezoartica</HI> the making of which we have taught in our <HI>Phylaxa Medi|cinae lib.</HI> 1. <HI>cap.</HI> 2 <HI>&s;ect.</HI> 1. much exceeds them all. Or this. <HI>Take Aqua Bezoartica no&s;tra</HI> &ounce; iij. <HI>Cinnamon|water</HI> (<HI>in our</HI> Phylaxa lib. 1. cap. 61. &s;ect. 8.) &ounce; vj. <HI>mix them;</HI> of which let the Sick take now and then three or four &s;poonfuls. Or this. &rx;. <HI>Aqua Bezoartica no&s;tra</HI> &ounce;iij. <HI>Our Hippocra&s;s</HI> (Phylax. cap. 61. &s;ect. 4.) <HI>eight ounces mix for a Cordial:</HI> to be taken as the former, and if a &s;mall proportion of <HI>Volatile &s;al Armoniack</HI> or Salt of Vipers be added (if the &s;ick will permit it,) it will be profitable: and at Night the Patient may take a Do&s;e of Our <HI>Pilulae Angelicae,</HI> and continue their u&s;e for fourteen, twenty or thirty days, as need &s;hall require. See their Preparation in our <HI>Phylaxa lib.</HI> 1. <HI>cap.</HI> 53. <HI>&s;ect,</HI> 1.</P>
<P N="28">XXVIII. <HI>Some make u&s;e of crude Mercury, which is extreamly dangerous, for rea&s;ons mentioned el&s;e|where: others white Precipitate, which I do not be|lieve to be without danger, becau&s;e prepared with</HI> Aq. Fortis pag. 82. line. 21.</P>
<P><HI>Salmon.</HI> Crude Mercury is indeed dange|rous, unle&s;s managed by a skilful hand:
<PB N="27" REF="146">And by &s;uch it has often been u&s;ed with great &s;ucce&s;s: as we at <HI>Sect.</HI> 15. aforegoing have declared. And as for the ordinary <HI>Precipi|tates,</HI> we confe&s;s they are u&s;ed with dan|ger enough, of the common &s;ort <HI>Turpethum Minerale</HI> and <HI>Arcanum Coralinum,</HI> are the chief: Of the more choice, Our <HI>Aurum Vitae</HI> (the ma|king of which you have in our &s;aid <HI>Phylaxa. lib.</HI> 1. <HI>cap.</HI> 41. <HI>&s;ect.</HI> 1) is very excellent, and may be u&s;ed without danger, if the directions we have given in the place cited be exactly followed, I have known (I believe) above an hundred Patients cured with that alone Remedy.</P>
<P N="29">XXIX. <HI>I only know that</HI> Mercurius ducis &s;ub|limatus, <HI>which &s;ome u&s;e, is not in the lea&s;t dange|rous, by rea&s;on of its preparation, which expe|rience has confirmed to be very good.</HI> page 83. line 5.</P>
<P><HI>Salmon.</HI> That 'tis &s;afe is certain; and that it may cure a recent or young Pox is true, provided it be in a skillful hand: but by the management of the Common Quack&s;alvers it does not u&s;ual|ly do any great feats: being taken for a long time together, it is at la&s;t found to root out the Di&s;ea&s;e: and being ground &s;mall, <HI>viz.</HI> to an impalpable Powder and mixt with Un|guents, it cures veneral Ulcers to a Miracle, and &s;uch rebellious and ill natured Scabs, as re&s;i&s;t other Remedies, and to which <HI>Precipi|tates</HI>
<PB N="28" REF="147">for their corro&s;ive quality are applied in vain; the following Water al&s;o is very good to wa&s;h the&s;e Pocky &s;ores withal. <HI>Take Lime-water of an ordinary &s;trength a Pint: Calo|melanos levigated</HI> &ounce; j. <HI>mix and &s;hake them toge|ther in a Gla&s;s, till the Mercury is di&s;&s;olved, or rather precipitated into a black Powder.</HI> And here note, that if you u&s;e the <HI>Colomelanos</HI> (in our <HI>Phylaxa. lib.</HI> 1. <HI>cap.</HI> 30. <HI>&s;ect.</HI> 1.) in&s;tead of <HI>Mercurius dulcis</HI> before named you will do much better, for that it is much &s;afer, and better pe paed.</P>
<P N="30">XXX. <HI>Yet this method</HI> (viz. of &s;alivating by Fumigation) <HI>is not ab&s;olutely without danger, although</HI> Sylvius <HI>has declared it to be the &s;afe&s;t way: it is ea&s;y by making the lea&s;t ob&s;ervation to be of a contrary mind.</HI> page 87. line 22.</P>
<P><HI>Salmon.</HI> The danger or &s;ecurity in the u|&s;ing this method is according to the dexterity and skill of the Undertaker. If it be an igno|rant fellow the Patient does indeed run a Risk: but if he be a learned and able Man, he needs fear nothing, nor is there any danger in it: the experience I have had of this means, makes me declare my di&s;&s;ent from this Author, and defend the mo&s;t learned <HI>Sylvi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">s</HI> again&s;t the Exprobation of all Men what&s;oever. The way and manner how it is performed we have declared at <HI>Sect.</HI> 25. aforegoing.</P>
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<P N="31">XXXI. <HI>I am confident that if</HI> Vigo<HI>'s Empla&s;ter with a little &s;weet Precipitate be applied to the Pa|tient,</HI> (viz. to the Chancres) <HI>and if &s;ome Do&s;os of the Solar Precipitate be given him, the mo&s;t in|veterate Chancre &s;hall be &s;afely cured without pain, without trouble, and in a little time.</HI> page 91. line 14.</P>
<P><HI>Salmon.</HI> Our Author &s;peaks-truth it &s;elf in this: <HI>Vigo</HI>'s Empla&s;ter is an Excellent thing to apply over all; or this. <HI>Take Oyle Olive</HI> &ounce;viij. <HI>Bees-wax, Common Turpentine, ana</HI> &ounce;iiij. <HI>Of our</HI> Hercules &ounce;vj. <HI>mix for a Pla&s;ter.</HI> And in&s;tead of the &s;weet Precipitate <HI>Calomelanos</HI> levigated into an impalpable Powder may be u&s;ed, for it much exceeds it in all ca&s;es, let the Ulcers be never &s;o rebellious, it being &s;trewed upon them, or apply'd, mixed with our <HI>Bal|&s;amum Amicum</HI> (in our <HI>Phylaxa. lib.</HI> 1. <HI>cap.</HI> 56. <HI>&s;ect.</HI> 1.) So al&s;o our <HI>Hercules</HI> u&s;ed in the &s;ame manner; the Sores or Ulcers being fir&s;t wa&s;ht, with the Water mentioned at <HI>Sect</HI> 3. aforegoing. Giving al&s;o our <HI>Impe|tus Mineralis</HI> in the mean &s;ea&s;on, mixed with &s;ome proper Cathartick: Or our <HI>Tabulae Ca|tharticae</HI> the Preparation of which you have in Our <HI>Phylaxa. lib.</HI> 1. <HI>cap.</HI> 37. <HI>&s;ect.</HI> 1. in the&s;e words. <HI>Take Cathartick Antimony, Aurum Vitae Cathar|tick, ana</HI> &ounce;iiij.: <HI>Mercurius dulcis levigated,</HI> &ounce;x. <HI>be&s;t Re&s;inous Scammony</HI> &ounce;xviij. <HI>double refined Sugar</HI> &ounce;lxiiij. <HI>Gum Tragacanth</HI> &ounce;j. &s;s. <HI>made <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">nto a
<PB N="30" REF="148">Mu&s;cilage: mix and make Lozenges according to Art.</HI> Do&s;e from a Scruple to two Scruples, to a Dram, Dram and half, or two Drams, according to age and &s;trength. Or this, our <HI>Pilulae Catholicae. Take Extract of Aloes</HI> &ounce;x. <HI>Re&s;in of Scammony</HI> &ounce; vj. <HI>Extract of Colocynthis</HI> &ounce;iiij. <HI>Turpethum Minerale</HI> &ounce; vj. <HI>Aurum Vitae Cathartick</HI> &ounce;j. <HI>with Syrup if Elaterium make a Ma&s;s of Pills, to every Ounce of which add</HI> &scruple;j. <HI>of Oyl of Juni|per-berries</HI> Do&s;e &agrave; gr. 15. ad gr. 25. or &dram;&s;s. in &s;trong Bodies, there is &s;carcely any Pox will &s;tand before this Medicine.</P>
<P N="32">XXXII. <HI>If the Per&s;on be of a very hot temper and Plethoriok, and the pain and heat of &V;rine con&s;ide|pable, there is no danger in bleeding him, and re|reating it,</HI> &amp;c. page 93. line. 20.</P>
<P><HI>Salmon.</HI> This is no part of the Cure, nor can it do any good, or any ways promote the intention: mi&s;chief it may do, and that very much, by weakening and debilitating the Powers and Forces of Nature, &s;o that &s;he will not be able to act in conjunction with the Me|dicament to expel the Di&s;ea&s;e.</P>
<P N="33">XXXIII. <HI>I advi&s;e with all that the Virulency be not neglected; and that the &s;pecifick Remedy which is</HI> Mercurius dulcis <HI>be not forgotten, which is &s;ufficient for this Di&s;ea&s;e.</HI> page 94. line 21.</P>
<P><HI>Salmon. Mercurius dulcis</HI> to &scruple; j. being often given in Extract of Aloes &dram; &s;s. is a very good Medicine indeed: but our <HI>Tabulae Catharticae</HI>
<PB N="31" REF="148">are much better, or our <HI>Pilulae Catholicae</HI> above de&s;cribed, which are &s;carcely inferior to any other thing. Al&s;o this. <HI>Take Extract of Aloes</HI> gr. 25. <HI>of our Impetus Mineralis, or Solar Preci|petate</HI> gr. vj. <HI>or</HI> vij. <HI>mix for a Do&s;e.</HI> You ought to Purge with di&s;cretion, for I have known that too long and vehement purging has brought upon a Patient, an incurable Gleet, which is a note worth the ob&s;erving.</P>
<P N="34">XXXIV. <HI>In the mean time care is to be taken that the Patient may be cooled, which is one of the fir&s;t things that is to be done.</HI> pag. 95. line 13.</P>
<P><HI>Salmon.</HI> This mu&s;t be done indeed; but I like not much of our Authors way of doing it. This following Mixture is admirable: <HI>Take &s;pring Water</HI> &ounce;viij. <HI>white Sugar</HI> &ounce;j. <HI>Extractum pectorale no&s;trum</HI> (<HI>in our</HI> Phylaxa, <HI>Cap.</HI> 51. <HI>Sect.</HI> 1.) <HI>a Dram: Guttae Vitae, twenty five or thirty Drops, Sal Prunellae</HI> &scruple;j. <HI>or twenty five Grains; mix for a Draught:</HI> it may be given Morning and Evening till the Heat and Pain is gone. Every third or fourth Day the Patient may purge as before directed, for three, four, five or &s;ix times, till the Virulency and Malignity is wholly taken away. When that is done, the Sick is to take our <HI>Pilulae Angelicae</HI> (in our <HI>Phy|laxa, Lib.</HI> 1. <HI>Cap.</HI> 53. <HI>Sect.</HI> 1.) <HI>&agrave;</HI> &scruple;j. ad &dram;j. or more, every Night till the Cure is compleated, and that without &s;o much as once intermitting them.</P>
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<P N="35">XXXV. <HI>When the Accidents di&s;appear, &s;o that the Virulency is mitigated by the means of</HI> Mercurius Dulcis, <HI>that the Running is not &s;o great, and be|comes pretty white; if an &V;lcer be in tho&s;e Parts that are the Seat of the Gonorrhea.</HI> page 96. line 4.</P>
<P><HI>Salmon.</HI> In this Ca&s;e, if you would do the Cure Arti&s;t like, you mu&s;t po&s;itively pur&s;ue the following Method; which will in four, &s;ix, or eight Days time effectually perform the Work: for by the other Methods, Men (e|ven of great Names) have held their Patients in hand, many more Months, than I have li|mited Days; yea, after ten, twelve, or four|teen Months, have been &s;o far from a Cure, that they have been much wor&s;e than at the beginning; and &s;ome have contracted a per|petual Gleet, which for &s;ome years they could find no Cure for. 1. Inwardly let him take <HI>Hau&s;t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">s albus. Take Turpentine</HI> &ounce;j. <HI>Yolks of Eggs new laid</HI> N^o ij. <HI>mix and di&s;&s;olve by grinding in a Mortar, then add thereto Poppy water a quart: &s;tir them together till they are well mixt:</HI> do&s;e half a Pint at a time, twice a Day: if the Stomach of the Patient be &s;o quea&s;ie, that this white Draught will not down, in place there|of give the following Pills: <HI>Take Chio Turpen|tine</HI> &dram;j. <HI>Bezoar Mineral, Sal Prunellae, ana gr.</HI> xij. <HI>Crabs Eyes in Powder, enough to make it up into Pills for one Do&s;e;</HI> continuing al&s;o at Night to take the <HI>Pilulae Angelicae,</HI> as before directed.
<PB N="33" REF="149">2. For Topicks, you have nothing more to do, but to inject two, three, four, five, or &s;ix times a Day, as need requires, our <HI>Aqua Re|gulata</HI> into the Yard, with a proper Syring for that Part; and al&s;o Syringing two or three &s;everal times at one bout; but let the Patient make Water ju&s;t before the Operation, that he may not do it pre&s;ently after, whereby the Medicine would be wa&s;ht away with the Urine. This Cour&s;e, if followed, will cure an invete|rate Gonorrhaea, and that a in a Weeks time, or a little more; nor is there any danger of &s;welling of the Te&s;ticles by means of their Operation, for the Injection does but only dry and heal the ulcerated Part, which beforehand you clean&s;ed with proper Catharticks and Vulneraries.</P>
<P N="36">XXXVI. <HI>No Injections are to be u&s;ed, if they may be avoided, but &s;ometimes we are at la&s;t obliged to u&s;e them.</HI> Page 97. line 15.</P>
<P><HI>Salmon.</HI> That is true, if they may be avoid|ed; but with our Authors leave, we &s;hall make bold to &s;ay, that there are but few Pati|ents who are affected with this Di&s;ea&s;e, but who are forced to make u&s;e of them: If not, I am morally &s;ure, that the Di&s;ea&s;e will be &s;ometimes &s;ix times, yea, eight or ten times as long in curing as otherwi&s;e it would be, though it falls under the care of the mo&s;t skilful Ar|ti&s;t: And therefore, though it may be &s;ome|times
<PB N="34" REF="150">cured without Injections, yet &s;ince they &s;o very much ha&s;ten and facilitate the Cure, they are not in any wi&s;e to be pretermitted, unle&s;s you po&s;itively de&s;ign to play the Knave with your Patient; after which, as our Au|thor &s;ays, <HI>You will at la&s;t be obliged to u&s;e them.</HI></P>
<P N="37">XXXVII. <HI>Two or three months time is often|times requi&s;ite for perfecting the Cure of a Venereal Bubo.</HI> page 99. line 16.</P>
<P><HI>Salmon.</HI> Our Author means this, according to the old Method of curing them; in that he is very right: he has taken a great deal of pains in the place cited, to refute the &s;aid old Methods, and de&s;ervedly they ought to have his Exprobation, for that they are &s;o unnatural trouble&s;ome, pernicious, and delatory to the true way of curing the &s;ame, which he in his following Di&s;cour&s;e has laid down.</P>
<P N="38">XXXVIII. <HI>If the Solar Praecipitate be u&s;ed every third Day, and Vigo's Empla&s;ter with Mercury be applied to the Bubo, it &s;hall be cured without Danger.</HI> page 100. line 8.</P>
<P><HI>Salmon.</HI> Our Author has here &s;poken to the purpo&s;e, and has &s;aid much in few Words: and indeed it is all that is truly nece&s;&s;ary for the curing of a Bubo, that is not likely to &s;up|purate, being u&s;ed according to the Directions in <HI>Sect.</HI> 18. <HI>and</HI> 21. aforegoing of the&s;e our Annotations, where we have &s;poken of our <HI>Angelus</HI> and <HI>Impetus Mineralis</HI> at large. As for
<PB N="35" REF="150">the Plai&s;ter, you may in&s;tead of Vigo's u&s;e that de&s;cribed by us in <HI>Sect.</HI> 31. aforegoing, which will do full as well; and here is to be under&s;tood, that the whole Cour&s;e of an Uni|ver&s;al Pox is to be run through, in this Cure; for that Bubo's &s;eldom appear, but where there is an Univer&s;al Contamination of the whole Ma&s;s of Blood and Humors.</P>
<P N="39">XXXIX. <HI>But if a Bubo comes to &s;uppurate of it &s;elf, it would in this ca&s;e be very fooli&s;h, to evacuate it by &s;tool, or any other way, than by the part it &s;elf, which ought to be Cauteriz'd or Launced.</HI> page 101. line 10.</P>
<P><HI>Salmon.</HI> If it tends to Suppuration, you ought to promote it by all the means that may be, which being perfected, it is to be opened either by a Cautery, as that of <HI>Lapis Infernalis;</HI> or by the Inci&s;ion-knife: which done keep it open with a Tent of Lint, that it may run as long is any Matter is in it, it being every day clean&s;ed and dre&s;t, for a while as a malignant Apo&s;tem, and then after|wards it is to be cured after the manner of other ordinary Ulcers; but in the mean &s;ea&s;on while this is doing, you mu&s;t be careful to make your Patient take as often as you &s;ee fit our <HI>Impetus Mineralis,</HI> Herculian Diet-drink or Viperin Medicaments, in &s;uch order and me|thod as before we have declared.</P>
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<P N="40">XL. <HI>Rea&s;on, how pregnant &s;o ever it may be of it &s;elf, has ordinarily no power over tho&s;e &mdash; that are engaged by their intere&s;t not to change their method: the continuance of the Di&s;ea&s;e, great numbers of Catapla&s;ms, Pills, Pti&s;ans, maintain the Trade of not a few in the World, and are valuable for the &s;ake of Gain, which is fairly advan|ced,</HI> &amp;c. page 102. line 13.</P>
<P><HI>Salmon.</HI> Our Author here has hit the Nail on the head: for the Vulgar Practi&s;er, for the mo&s;t part, makes a prey upon his Patient by rea&s;on of his Ignorance, nece&s;&s;ity, &s;hame and terror of the Di&s;temper, whereby he can magi&s;terially do with him even what he plea&s;es: and if he be a Man of Wealth, extract what &s;ums of Money he has a Mind to, out of his Pocket, which ba&s;e, unworthy, and unju&s;t way of dealing is a blemi&s;h &s;o great upon the heads of &s;ome, hat I fear will never be obliterat|ed: &s;uch, the Abomination of Mankind, I leave to the ju&s;t Judgment of God.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>From my Hou&s;e at the</HI> Blew Balcony <HI>by the</HI> Ditch-&s;ide <HI>near</HI> Holborn-bridge, <HI>London</HI> <DATE>20. <HI>November,</HI> 1689.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>W. Salmon.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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