part caken away; which, di y-come,co-pafs, chaeshée caufe may-be MMU cated : | | away

roe ai eit La | oubrlets bappned in-hum whoo off aay-be for che ‘moft mnt, filbeonan sc A9 wasi¢heice anointeds;:and! fuch- men often uled the- decoction: ig ont LHPON th sbucthecorrupch nae uch: meth andeeds,1f thé difeste: he it and undtions He corrupt humors being for th gvilthe difestecbes tne p eae ae y are hot fo concagi emofhpare iempcied by.fivea . membt our; of whom thofemali agious,as thofe, who were lately. ink y! wea ters Therefore we co etc humors \have’hor yet beene ly infected with thes: | a difeafedo.nac alw OG ude} though for certaine: reat mptieds ; TEC I fcabb: eale da noc alwaies infe@ ochets : Ine, reaions;, thofe: whovare fick ID fifedo evil, but whohathb ect Orners 5. yer ac this day theres € fick of thigc: } aii edith cy eeminfected b y thereasino mani taken «with chisi f Bites es aay is propagate d dali Pisbigese et from anbthen,:-and {o chis, iia es : lt Ae IU how, and from,what:-caufe Na tent 13 «3 i FRR @ i Mm cvtcle original Europe, Autho bic naan s: chis Difeafe was raifed) . crit | abe eisceah J ved about the one of ; iwettean cheir opintons:;and satis al itfirfta ppearedeini! carted Difease. which are now seillbbed Si yg teh ot agree in chis bufin re themtelves,who lie! is Boe fore we thal only reckon up theit “opinions eee rafinelssty muetolelsIakdieyd = Whether it Fracaftoriu sand cercain if they Opitiions, .. Fhe moft learn porte them;there- mm theyee avere firft of rife was epidemical, and reece d f te ofthis opinion. Thac rhisdsteateer ite sr | Male a ._ boyes, men, ol x ed from a common cauf Giieate atics firtt a dion dsf- writes de Ry Sein alata women, Were wean ene ics firft beginning, pe a ase, chisditeafe by aiienoves ei ino che greaceft part Gfaante ah Pracafirius Bia cheméelves.wichoutan es thath been obierved, chat diumber é Patstonctat ted Big oe thinks a ampoffible ea a dpa have-luffred'this diferte Scheie: infected by | Mary, is not eafily recei . bio imala cime,. contagion whi seer etd! racaftorius | asitist one fleet atthe, Ase ipread.it felf overfo nips rh 6 ac lel isflow, nor 0 ih tes, fo Nesre, iC. was feenan Shas uit. Fr, icisplain that either. at radial nieie Drea ty Bu which ificbe{o,; chereis be ( ance,in Italy and Germany sud a eaiGaace, Be Been fest fal spidemnieabe. Fea'ony Why we thould: nor: A hh mott al Scythia ys Phyfitian, nor of che nei hb yec.chismakes:me doubcful ao i cf difeate to have y {srhen kiowenin-German ite oring placess; hath cakentiriorice u n that ho German »: J things b ftanding they have a68 4 oe times. In which ic appeared in I at this! ei feate rad yh ad in Hungary candt iGaligently defcribed che Englith (w: mMaly » when-norwich= Btn, an But what was hee like! diteates: newly fprting a weating difeafesthe difeate Spats, Authors rece tie. brat epidemious dileale,, ificiwere fi | onan from che faule.of che age a ea indeed they lagtee in huLaR ‘nt a ae | they, differ, Some.we M€ ayre, bur whence the ayre-conuacted 1 natit had: its } Buchs nUpTAOR os igbani pha pati That.chis HliteHahaded RCRA ANE ii: } adiny ope of Rome : tor the S wets, Which hapnedinthe'ti Hhilecs Goo ees Othe ; : tid - s left. by che.wacers, thea ines mer following they think by eae Of Adrian the tixt, | ontago did proceed,,. Buc aiel ets WSS infeéted with putrefagiion aes soe and filchy: | thele ein) fince chach appned chiefte BH evil cannot be impucediroit i . thence this diféafe 1} the Scary fides, hot snundatioos ve lglg buc chis diteafe fctbe posted ten oe ‘waters, HT diealeo, there has.often ha: Ol Waters.are wont rather ¢ Se “G ‘at! Napier} ‘bes | 140, them before, a uh thundlatioushefore, yet fachy "a aes Ms oper and 2 did nefge ihe caufe coche Stars eb an 2 (ifthis difeafe sete det yh cauldby 1) Poche emorb..contag Satie +4ANG DH racajtorius wrices. concerning thi piaemrous'} and isn ufualdileates do ps4 2+ That ir oughtnotco feem y rmng this bulmelss Wb 2200 || kt i . aU Cates GO appeare at cerrain.ti eem wondertiil hat net Je 2e | Reted hoy ries of divers; dif s fain,cimesy, and he proves sthatnew and‘an~ ~ 1} ocher net thag TSMR HEAR oni pais by others,: in ve alate examplesand biftone: | rie ao Lwveat, rhe iene et be rebttihre is commonly known Bite, our LS etait | ting chinks dt DICh We have net read i Ane DY che naine Of fhe CEng +?! | ea hake pcg tale cea ty es whee he) ad praca ficft of al break forch, hown ‘before chiouga tiany wa And th phe y ns ft ere wil come({aich he) other On
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Chap. 4. Of the.Caufes.:
Sti pial sea ie A iT GI RA gw 1eAS iad amr esana ampere a new and unufual fickneffes, when time fhal bring chem 3, aschere was the thing our amongft che, Ancients, which afterwards Was, {een nomore. This fame dye and beexcinguithc, and by and by again wilbe renewed, and feen a Nephews, ¢ven.asin former Ages, it isto be beleeyed, it, was feen b ftcors,for which thereare no {mal ligns yet evidenc. mine, hada book of certain expetiments, very ancien-, amon one amonelt che reft, whofe.ticle was,
gain by our
; eft which was writren For the chick fcabb, which happens with
che paines of che goints ; he therefore when:he difeafe was yery frefh ac fir ft, res.
membring this medicine, asked counfel of {ome Phyficians
| whether he might ule that medicine in thac new contagion, which he thought was fignified by that chick ‘icabb : but che Physicians viewing the medicine, fharply forbad him,becaufe ircon- fifted of quickfilver and ‘ulphur, Happy man it he had not confulced wich thofe phys, littans, being like cobevery rich with an incredible gaine buche obeyed chem, nor durft, not make tryal of bismedicine, which ac laft he did UY, and finding it co be excellent good, he was very forcy thache kad uled it'too lare,che profit being now. carried away by others, Thusfar racaftorius. RT ee
Buc hie refers'che caufe of chis difeafe newly {prung up, tothe conjunction of Saturnz, “Mars, and Fpiter,, which hapnhed act chat cime, Ochers hold cthae in; the yeare, 1 483.In the Ides of Odtober at two of the clock aiter noon, Fhac there
»Ehacthere wasa, *
conjunction made, of Mars, Fupiter, the Sun, and Mercury in Libra houie, which isthe houie of Sickneis.and thac Fupiter was burnc; the fame yeare on the Calends of November in ché {ame boule and figne, there was a.conjunction made of Mars and Venus, alfoot Fupiter. and Venus. Orbers as, Nicolaus Maffa de morb Galic.cap.6.cefer that difeate co che conjunction of Satzrqa, ‘Mars, and Venus, which happened in Scorpio. abour cherile of chis difeafe, Bue. as it is nog impoflible, for certain configucations of che Scars co induce certain difea=. fes, fono man 1s able eafily co render che {pecifick caufe of chis difeate,if 1c were epia. demtous. Truly al the effects of the Stars ate goodand benigne,. and nothing eyilynic. felf doch proceed from.them3yet by accident itmay come co'pa{s,whiles they alrer che ayre & the bodies of men after chis or that manner,that they may produce evil dileas. fes, whenas in their. way, they are, Authors of the generation and corruption of natural things, but chac they could produce chis difeafe wn {pecie, I chink is not yec,explaine ed; and Fracafforius had hopes indeed, chat this dileate was in its old age. in his time, and chac ina lictle while dfter ic would ceafe in che alleaged place; as allo in his Syphilis, in chefe Veries.. poke: For when the Bates fhal. pleafe again, youl fee Erelong, ibat in darknight toil buried be. | But his hopes hath deceived him, whenas now it hach lafted above. a hundred and forty yeares,and hach bared nothing of its cruelcy, asmoft are of opinion... Ochers on thecontrary think this difeale was not epidemious, but {poradical and contagious 3 and firft of al this perfwades many, becaufeic hach lafted even, unto chele umes, whenas epidemious difeafes,. which have heen railed by.che influx, of the Scars, have ceafed a litcle while after. And therefore they donot .caink. chis difeafe ought to be accouinced for epidemical, whenas it hath already lafted: above, 140. years; unlefs perhapschis reafon may be given forthe con’ difeafe, becaufe che infection of thisdifeate isnot fhunned, aschac.o
inthe eight.
‘inuance.of,, this»
. fthe peltilence,. For if che Plague begin to {pread any where,al people, as much as chey.are ables,
and “cis poffible for them, do ily from. the converfation of the fick, and reject al ins
fected houfehold ftuff ; ‘nay in Iraly,if che Plague begin toipread in Germany, or., ocher neighbouring Countries,chey ftop up al publique waies, and deny al: ftran=. gets that are fulpected any, admitcance into, Italy 5, Bur Many men knowingly and) willingly have ¢0.do with fufpected Harlors,and publique Screws. ful} of infected : whores are coleraced ; therefore if the fame diligence and cutiofity, which is ule
in fome places in che time of che peftilence co exclude che infected and fulpected perry, fons,ftom che fociecy of ochers,were made ufe of to reftrain chat ramb
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Of the’ French Pox. pettiaps his difeate alto though it be contagtous, ‘mighe be roored out. egg Yetthe fame men who thuik chis difeate ‘1s HOt epidemous , but fporadical, and contapious , are againe divided into divets Opinions «concerning its Grigi~ nal’: “Forfome were ot thar opinion, chat firft of alit bad ics rife ac Valentia, 10 Hifpania Tarraconenfi, where one fick ofan Elephanttafis, bought'a nigh’ s lod="' ging of a noble Whoretor fitry peices of Gold, and infected her, ‘ahd thence it came
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co pals, that othets who hadco do'wich her were infected, and fo'rm a fhore cine”
thisevil was diffeminared amonefta many.” Buc the Idea of an Elephanciafis is one, aidof the Veneral difeafe anocher, and cheretore O11¢ fick of aE lephatitiatis could not raifechis difeate.: forged ive Dore A Sig. 4 ‘Ochérs think this difeafé-was fitft brOughr out of India by the Spaniards into the’ Freeh Army at Naples,’ who nsainrame that this diigafe was epideniical in, India,’ of which we fpake before, Cap. 1. But for what reaton °cis epidémjous in 1anie Couittiesit India} whecherby che fault of the aire,or water,or provilion, ts noc yet explained by Hrftorians. 4 ae | ibis Leones Leonbardus Fioravanti, a famous Empirtick in his time in Italy, hath a pecu- lrar Opinion of the or iginal at chis difeafe,which Ihave mec withal im no orbér writer, Forhe in his book wrircetriii'thé Lraliaa Tongue, wh ichis enticuled, Capricci “NBS
cinali di™M.’* Leon'aido Pioravanti, Libri tre, wrices cbus of the original. of
chis'difeafe;borh among(t the Mndiansjand 1p the French Atmy at Naples, lib. 1’ Cap. - 26. When faich he, (here was War becween the French and Spaniatd #c Naples, and chieve Was great want'of provilion, efpecially of Heth, chole evil imployed merchants whé broughe vidtualsto the Camp, had privately prepared che Caikailcs of ead foudiersmto divers kind$ of meaces aid dithes, and fold chemi every where about téthe army, which flefh, whanasthey had eac of it a longtime ignorantly, moft of
chem’ were taken with this difeale, and became ful of pulties and paines, and many °
alfohad their haic fal off 5 and he writes, chac he kaowes the bulivefs was lo, from oie’ Pafcbals Gibilottas,a Neapolitan, an old ofan, of ninety eight yeates of ape, who hath cold hia, that ae chat came when’ Fobn the Son oF Renatus, Duke Ande- gavenfis waged wat dgainit Alpbonfus King of Naples, abou the yeare 1456; chat he hath often heard from hys father, who was tuch a Metchanc'un the Army of Ring Alpboufus)? chitin want and icarcity of victuals the Squidiers on both tides by care ine of mats flefh, which they fed'on for along time, Contracted this diteale, aid che fanie Fioravanti, ‘adds, thar he mighe be the fore certain of chis bufidefs, he bred up a Sow in his houle, and added to al her meat fomewhat ot hogs flefh, ‘anid chat within few dayes her briftles atid hatts feloff, ‘andthe became ful of pufties ; then, that he fedadog tor two months obly with’ dogs Hefh, which atterwards be- cane fal of pains and puities, atid {oft his hair. From which experin ents he ccn- cludess!that every livirg ctearure ific be noutitie with the fleth ofits own ipectes wilbeoraken with this difeate, which'at chis day i8 called the French : and he thiiks chis'é thevery caufe, ‘that this difeate is epidemious inthe Indies, becauite there are thoféthan-eatets, which'do feedon mans Heth 7 ‘But tritly Pdo wohdet chat to many Icalians and Frenth, whohave writ ofthis
diféitle Have made no’ menricn of this café, neither dots cherélation of that ald.
Neapolitan feem to fir wich the time. For chat ditcale was not Known in the year
1486) ‘ac'which time Fobn the Son of Rendtus, Duke’ Andegavenfis, waged War,
againittAlpbon|us Kuig ot Napler, but'in the Wat which Charles theeighc Kung of Fratice, waged'with Alpbon(us King of Naples about tiie yeare 1403 Ot 94. then
+ } 4 y 3 oe d Ss ge LS hd ms t 4 ‘ geane ‘ic'be, that ifa creature nounfhe wach the'Heth of chote of its own Kind, ‘be tas_
keii'with puttles and pains, and iuffer the falling off of the hairy yer the queftion
fil would Bey! wherher thar diteafé bethe very, Venetal difeaté,, and fuch as may” be tiansfered by’ contagion to others,’ and efpecially by Venery.”, For the effence of
ché vefietal Uifeate doth norconirft my pultles, andche failing of the Hair, bart in an occu malignicry, ‘by which ‘alfo ics ulcers do differ*trom other “ulcers.” “Yer. icis
Scalp matty ohe to make tiyal, of at which Pioravantt experieiced, “And ifthe sind = ‘4 Y - ,
bulinete
& ho innpll hate proce variou good andi farnil multi produ 4.corrl nate € lfts W Tiguef have hi they by culiar and the world, indie That y the fea bufine fault it miftioy One hay thatdf peculia Manner Ther this die Wing Morb, ( Ofthe ) tracked But ted, is,
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Chap. 4. Of the Caufes. Is bufinefs fhould be confirmed by experience, chat if ananimal nourifht with the fleth oficskind, do contraét this difeafe, chence areafon may be rendered,’ why this difeate is endemious co the people of India, to wit,becaufe its inhabicants do feed on mens flefh : alchough here we meet witha doubc, for al che people of India aré not men-eacers,and therefore we muft enquire out of the Hiftories of the Indies, whe- ther this difeafe be endsmious amoneft che men-eaters only, or amongft the other people of the Indies al{o.
Andreas Cafalpinus, lib. 4. de morb. Cap. 3. writes that he hath another Hifto- ry of che original of this difeate, delivered by chem who were prefent, ca wit, from ¢ an Aretine foldier, who ferved in chat war; he related chat chere isa town in the Vefevian Mount which is called Suma, where there is plency of generous wine which is called Caudy wine, which was privately left by the Spaniards in the night, when the French had befieged it, but they infected their wine by the mixture of blood which they drew from them which were fick in the hofpical of St. Lagarus ; and the French men entering in, when they had filled chemfelves wich that wine, began to be fick of difeafes and {ymptomes, like unto the Elephantiafis. But if chis were true, rather the Elephanciafis chan the veneral difeafe had been thus raifed,
Aurelins Minadous de Virul. Vener. Cap. 30. propoundsa peculiar Opinion, & holds that chis vitulency did firft break forth from the moft filchy wombs, of moft impute Harlots, and for this caufe, becaufe no body that hath lived cleanly,or chat hath converfed wich a cleane woman, is taken wich this evil: but he chinks chis evi} proceeded firft, when women were made very unclean, when they had received a various mixture of feeds. For as faith he one fort of meat,is the caufe of health ina good ftomach, but variety of meats doth opprefs che ftomach, and breeds an acid and nidorous crudity, and every where heaps up excrements; fo one feed only is famnilier and wholfome for one womb, and caufeth fruicfulnefs, on the contrary the multitude and variety of feeds, doth fo affect the womb, chat by its corruption it produceth bad,nay the worft of excrements, and from chat fordid fubftance chere is a corruption hard cobeexplained, or putrefaction which doth generate fuch vene= nate excremencs. But when ashe mighreafily underftand, chat chofe rambling
lufts were in ule not only inthe war at Naples, buc long before when there was pub- Yique Brothel Houfes at Rome, and yet chere Was no fuch difeafe raif*d ; he would have his opinion to be underftood not ofany women, but only of the Indian. For they by the mediation of the Heaven, Air, Waters, and thoje places, by their pe- cular form of feeding did contract this poyfon, which afterwards by C olumbus, and the Spanifh Army was diffeminated in France, arid hence through the whole world. But chough it muft nor be denied, chat the confticuréon of bodies is divers in divers Councries,and 1 remember that I have read in the Hiftortes of Navigation, Thac when cercain people of Exrope, had found cercain Echiopian laffes playing on the fea fhore, and had layn with them, prefantly fome of them died ; yec how thé bufinefs isin America , is worchy of furcher inquificion: and if there be any fuch faulc in thofe women, ’tis probable that comes to pafs, not fo much from the com= miftion of divers feeds, but rather as many Authors report, from this, Thacif any one have to do with a woman in India whiles fhe hath her courfes, he his caken with chatdifeafe; for chat whenas ’cis every where unwholfome, and therefore alfo was peculiarly and feverely forbidden the Jewes by God in holy Writ, may ina {pecial manner be hurcful in che Indies. Therefore lecting thefe pats, let us hold faft this, which isgranted by al, thac The Vene- this difeafe at this day is no orherwife contracted, but by contagion, and chiefly by ral difeafe lying wich thofe that are infected, whence defervedly doth Gabriel Fallopius de is contrac-
Andreas efalpinus.
Aurelius Minadous.
- morb. Gallic. Cap. 13. Wittily deride thofe women, who when they were fick ted only.by
ofche Veneral difeafe neverthelels did boft themfelves co be chaft, and {aid they-con= contagion. tracted chis difeafe by {prinkling themfelyes wich che holy wacer whichwas infected ;
But this contagion, by which only now adayes, we fay this difeafe is diflemina= 2° ™any ted, isreceived'divers waies. For fomecimes cis transferred with thefeed and MED~/f pon may be » ° ttruous contracted.
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Somtimes ftruous blood from the Parents to the Child, and the Difeafe becomes Haredicary; 1s Here for when the blood,out of which che Seedis generated, is nfected.and vitious, che
ditary.
hike Difeafed teed is generated,alfo the Mothers blood beingimpure, wich which the Child is nourifhc, ic Poilutes chat,which pollution afterwards in chote broughs inte the World doth fooner or Jacer fhew 1c felf,according co the greater or Jefler firength of thacvirulency : which manner of original of chis Difeafe,t any one wil deny to be properly by contagion, becaufe ir is not by the contract of cwo bodies, viz. a found
and afick, he may foralme; yet lec himknow this, chat chen chat malignity in
the body of che infant is noc generated, but from the infected parents. by che teed, os the Mothers blood is communicated to the off-ipring.
But by chofe thac areborninco the world, che fame evil may be contractedtwo waies : the firft is, when wich the nourifhment and milk, che evils communicated to infants by imprure Nurfles; which way indeed 1s che powerfulleft of al: for wheuas the milk they fuck is changed inco blood, and that is rhe nourifhment of che whol body, che poyton this way 1s difperfed into che whol body, and infinuates it fell moft intimacely with ir, and therefore chofe chat are chis way infected, are f{ejdome cured, and noc without a great deal of Difficulty.
The other way is by contagion {o called properly, and in fpecy 5. where firft ofal —
’cis enquired, whecher there. be any contagion in the Veneral. Diteafe at a diftance; {o that 1f one do neither couch wath his body one imfected,nor the fuel which conceins in it the contagion, yecnevertheleis may be. infected wich che Veneral Diteafe 5 truly there is no example given of t hiscaule, buc what Manardus .ceacheth, Lib. 7. Epil. 3. andalio {ome othersa firme that. there isa French Ophtbalmy: buc when as this Difeafe ofche Eyes 1n other cafes ts oftentimes contagious, 1¢ 1sno wonder, if one conversing with a fick manchac is troubled witha French Ophthalmy, and earneftly lock upon his Byes, chat healfo may contract fuchan Ophthalmy.. Yee
Beet Ht chiscannor begraated, chat as che Plague may be eransferred by che Air co others in can infet at diftant pieces, foalfo the Veneral Difeafe may be communicated; tor dayly ex
a diftance.
erience doth Teftefie, -thar.Phylitians and many others, dotamihiarly converte with chofe infected, with chis evil, yee are not 1afected by chem.
Therefore chis evi} is chiefly contracted by contact, and trnely moft frequentiy by whorifh Copulation, when that varulence is communicated to the naked genital parts being foft, and porous, from rhe genitals af the orher infected perton 5 afcer which manner this Difeafe was firft brought out of the Indies, by the Spanith Souldiers infected by the Indian Women which were fick of this Difeate, inco Italy, and diffleminaced through the French Camp, and hence {pred throughout all Europe,’ as we {aid before according ro the opinion of many Phyfitians. . And though fome as we {aid even now, who have been infected wich cbis Dileafe, en deavour to renounce the Caufe of it; yer many ifchey live norchaftly, yecthey
How the jive clofely, and Gabriel Fallopins, not without a Caufe de Morb. Gall. cap. 10. Veneral dif- (offs atcertain chaft Matrons, as they boafted themfelves tobe, who taid they eafe may be contracted. chis Difeafe by {prinkling them wich holy. water which was polluced contratted. herhat beleeveschis, lec him beleeve chat too, which Averroes writes, 2. collet.
Horo men
cap: 10. thata woman was got with Childina bach, from fome feed which wicked men had {pent there: or with Vallefias lec him corre the Aphoritme, 36. Sect. 6. becaufe many Monks bave been fick of the Gout before the ule of Venery.
And tculy men contrac this evil from Women chat are infected, becaufe in the
are infetfed-a& by vealon of the concourfe of {pirirs, and the motion, the Womb being heared, by women.in. Vapors are raifed from che Malignant Humors in che womb, which are ducktin by Copulation..che mans yatd being ot a porous confticucion,and are received inco the veins, But.che
man being infeétedymay infect a found woman, either by his yard, if chat be intected
How Wo- and exulcerated,or by his feed,alchough his yard be not ulceraced,or both waies: for men by men. though che feed in men is not always wholly corrupt,whenas we fee many men infect-
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Chap. 4. che
the Ifurecontratts this evil, bucalfoa Woman may be infected by ita eng: i Buc chough this evil be moft frequently contracted by whorith Gopulation,yet by O contagion it may be derived co others, other manner of waies,viz.by {weat,if any one 9 f contagion
fleep in che fame bed wich one infected with the Veneral Difeafe,and be wer wich his {weat 5 chen by che filchand Exccements, orthat flowing from Ulcers, .and fticking on the Linnen, bed, or fhirc, and garments, ifany one he itythem, or put chem on, The fame Difeafe alfo may be communicated by flaver or {pittle,fo lovers are infect= edwichthe Kiffes of Whores fick of this Difeate, and infants by cheir Nucfesy or it any one drink out of a Cup, or fup out of the {poon, «which one fick of this D ifeafe didufe a liccle before; betides, infants may.be infected another way, co wit if, chey, couch che brefts of an impure Nucfe wich their: mouth, andthac fora double reafons. eithec becaulechey fuck che infected and corrupted milk, of which I{pake befores, or becaule the breafts and nibbles’ of the Nucfe are exulcerated: on the contrary, Nurfes may be infected ftom intected infancs, efpecially, ifchey be troubled with Malignanc pufties, oc fome Ulcer inthe mouth; for the Nepples of their breafts whiles. they ace fucke by che Infant, grow hot, and cheir pores are more Opened, wh:reapon they ealier receive in chat virulence. aiatt Baht FO yee ee _ Butno body is eafily infe@ted by the breath, as was faid before, and without danger we may be converfantin the fame chamber with chofe that are infe@ed ; neither are thofe Chyrurgions and Phyfitians which cure the veneral Difeafe, and, dayly,converfe with the fick,any way infected ; and if this Difeafe were contagions by breathing and at adiftance, che whol world would ere now have been French, and the Difeafe would be more than Epidemious, as one writes; yet if anyone: fleep tn bed with oneinfeted, thathe do receive his breath very eer, Iwil nor promife him free from chis evil; whenas I know, Wives that have been infe@ed by their Husbands fick of the Phthifick, and afterwards died of it.
This contagion after ‘tis received into the body, ftaies not in thofe parts in
which it was firft received, but after the manner of other poyfons, penetrates into Ve
the innermoft parts ofthe body: and truely oftentimes difcovers it felf prefencly, ,, within a fewdaies, fomeimes lies hid along while. And Fernelins writes; de abdit. rer. Cau{. Lib. 2. ¢. 14. That it doth fomtimes returne and revive after chir- ty years paft, and for fo long {pace the fewel of the difeafe does lie hid as dormant and neverthelefs. they who think themfelves free from al burt, and chat chey are perfedtly found, docorrupt thofe with whom they lie, and beget an Iffue poffeft with that Difeafe. The fame. is witnefled by Fobn Philippus Ingraffias.. And Hercules Saxonia de lue Vener.cap. 11. relates that he cured an Illuftriffimo ,who had knobs of the French Difeafe came out upon him, : five and twenty years after he had caken the Difeafe.
But what parts chis virulency doth principally affault, we. faid formerly
Authors did difagree, where we treated ofits fubje@; many indeed do hold,thae Wb.
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17
ther waies
How the. neras vi- ulency doth penesrate ‘Into the bon
vay,
this virulency is chiefly an adverfary tothe Membranes, becanfe the pains do are chiefly moft of afarife about the Perioftia, and external parts, where are many Mem- affeéted.
branes, inthe head, Legs, Arms, breaft-bone, and in chem the perioftium being eaten off, areraifed knobs. Butnot only the Membranous parts areaffeced, but others alfo,as the Buboes, Tumors, Ulcersin divers parts, roctenne(s of the bones,
falling of the hair, running of the Reins doteftefie. And therefore we muften-, quire for amore common fubje&, whichwefaid above was the Liver, andthe fimilar. parts dedicated co nutrition, and that have confent with the liver: for af-. ter the contagion hath pierced as far as the Liver (though inthe interim it may, cortupt the parts neerunto that, by whichthe Contagion was received) and hath imprinted a Malignant difpofitionon that, Sanguihcation is hurt, and a Malig- fant quality isimpriated onthat blood, which is generated in, the Liver, and fo
with the blood are generated Malignant Humors, which whenas chey are trouble. fome to Nature, ‘they ate thruft Se Circumference of the body, and, fo,
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not only pains are raifed in the Membranes, but divers Difeafes and Symptomes alfo in other parts; and whereas thebones are not free, but they are oftentimes affeGed with rottennefs, itisno wonder that the neighbouring perioftia are af- fected, and moft cruel pains raifed. Zbemanner from al which it doth eafily appear, whatis the mannerof the generation of of the gene- this Difeafe, to wit, Whenthe contagion of this Difeafe is communicated from ration of the one fick of the Venera! Difeafe, either by the feed and blood ofthe parents, or veneral dif- by the fucking of infected milk, orby Copulation, or by fpittle, or by meat and eafes drink, or by garments and Linnen, to any part of a found body, firft of althe part which receives the contagion is affe@ed and hurt, hence throughthat, the evil creeps into the Veins,and by them penetrates to the Liver,which when it hath put onan evil difpofition, and contra@ted a Malignant Difeafe, it generates viti- ous blood, containing in it che Seeds of the veneral Difeafe, which whenas it is an enemy tothe body, by the expulfive faculty ’tis driven from the more noble parts to the Circumference of the body. And from thence the nourifhment in the whol body is hurt, from whence are raifed fpots, Tumors, and divers bunchings out, Ulcers, falling of the hair, pains,and other evils. The defini- At Sength out of al thofe things which have been faid hitherto of the Nature tion of the 2nd caufes of the veneral difeafe, we make this definition of this Difeafe.' The veneral dif- veneralevii ts an occult Difeafe, and peculiarly Malignant, ‘taken by infedtion,
cafe. and is infectious, chiefly an enemy corhe Liver and nutritive faculty, and there- fore nutrition being hurt inthe whol body, it raifeth divers Difeafes and Symp- tomes. CHAP. Y. bc Of the Differences. of it. The Differ Y fome indeed there are reckoned up very many Differences of this Difeafe, ences: and by Braffavola, 234. but many of them unprofitable; the moft necefla-
ry and profitable are thefe.
Firft of sl, as concerning the very effence of the Difeafe whenas that is unknown, from that of it felf, we can raife no difference: yet be- eaufe its'activity depends on chat effence and occult quality, thefe differences are fetcht from thence, becaufethe aGtivity of this difeafe is{omtimes. greater, fom- times lefs. And Phyfitians have obferved, that fomtimes after unwholfome Co- pulation, the French Symptoms.have prefently come.upon men, but fomewhat gentle, and alittle while after have ceafed again, without the adminiftration of any remedy ; but fomtimes moft grievous Symptoms have prefenly come on them, and the evil hath beenrebellious, and could by no means or very difficulely be
At its firft cured, “And the writers of this difeafe report, That this Difeafe when it firft ap- rife this dif- peared, had far more grievous Sympromes, thannow it bach: but what was the
eafewas Canfe of this bufinels, is not fo clear. That might happen firft of al, from the more grie= difpofition of the bodies that were infeed. For, whenas itappeared firft inthe VOUS. Camps at Naples, andthere was a great fcarcity of proviGion, and a famine,
doubtlefs:in thofe bodies alfo, there was provifion of evil Humors for Difeafes, on which when this contagion fel, there it took ftrengthand increafed: befides this might make fomwhat to that bufinefs, that in the beginning, the cure of.this Dif- eafe was not fufficiently known, whence it came to pafs, rhatthis malignity al- waies grew worfe. This happens alfo inthe Plague, of which the more there die, the poyfon alwaies sraws the more vehement. ‘For the malignity is fermented as itwere, and exalted in the bodies of the fick, unlefsitbe oppofed and overcome _. by Alexipharmacal means. ONietee em Secondly,
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Chap. 5. 0 OP the Differences of it.
Secondly, . its, Differences .are..taken from, the . caufes— and: man- ner of contagion while fomtimes the. Veneral Difeafe is hereditary; “add is derived with the feedand blood from the parents tothe Iffue: but fomtimés eee birth , ts communicated by Copulation, Kiffing, Milk, Garments, and the like.
Thirdly, the third Difference is taken from the Difeafes and Symptoms fuper- venient, that this Difeafe is fomtimes.with Buboes, fomtimes with running of the Reins, fomtimes with falling of the. bair, fomtimes with pains of the joynts, fomtumes wich other Sympromes; neither do the Symptomes which follow it, and fhhal afterwards be reckoned up amongft the figns, alwaies appear the fame inal people: and Euftachius Rudius writes, Lib. 5.de Morb. occult. Cap. 9. Thathe hath obferved a thoufand times, that many young men have on the fame day co-= pulated with one and the fame whore, and yer notwichftanding one hath been taken with the running of rhe Reins, another with a Bubo, anocher with rottennefs, another with pain in the Head, another with fallins of the hair, and. another with another different preternatural affed ; which
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doub:lefs happens, by reafon of the various indifpofition of bodies, ‘and weaknefs _
of parts, andvariety of humors. For weak parts. do more eafily receive vitious Humors, thanthe ftrong. And one body is more clean, another more foul, and abounds with thefe, or thofe Humors, which when they are corrupted by the venenate Humor, do caufe thefe or thofe Difeafes and Symptomes :_ therefore if we fhould number up the Differences according to the variety of Difeafes, and Symptomes, which are fomtimes joyned together and complicated, fomtimes Fewer, fomtimes more, we might make very many indeed, of which’ as was {aid even now, Braffavola reckons up 234. ‘ more Nicely than profitably.
Fourthly, the fourth Difference is from the time, that this Difeafeis fomtimes new, fomtimesinveterate, one in the beginning,another in che augment, another in the ftare. and another in the declination.
Out of which, and efpecially from the Difference of time, andthe variety of Difeafes, and Symptomes that accompany this Difeafe, Fulianus ‘Palmarius, doth commodioufly conftitute four dergees of this Difeafe, de lue Vener. Lib. 1. ;
Degrees of
be veneral
cap.4. The Firftand lighteft degree is, when only the hairs of the Head and difeafe.
beard do by little and little fal off, without any other hurt of the body.- The Second degree is worfe, whenthe whol Skin is fpread over with many {pots not bunching out, and thofe fomtimes fmal, like to a lentil {peck ; fomtimes much broader, and both, fomtimes red, fomtimes yellow. The Third degree is yet more grievous, when not only {pots but true puftles and bunches break forth, firft of alindeed aboutthe forehead, and Temples, and behind the Ears, then every where inthe Head, and at length im the reft of the body. . The Foarth degree is, when now the Difeafe being inveterate, it affaults and corrupts the fo- lid parts, the bones, Ligaments, Membranes, and. Nerves... In which there are. collected many thick, glutinous, and maligne Excrements,. which when they reft about the tendons, orthe Perioftia, and prick and pul the: Membranes from the bones, there are wont to be caufed implacable pains, growing worfe towards. the nighc, from which Excrements alfo by degrees do grow hard knobs, with far greater torment which are equally hardas che bones, Which if they be fixtin, the bones, they do fo enlarge and diftend them, that the bones.oftentimes become of a monftrous bulk and figure: moreover that malignity. and Acrimony doth by degrees eat away, and with rottennefs confume the bones, and forthe moft part
hot hurting the Skin tharliesoverthem: and Palmarius writes there, thache
bath feen many in whom the Pericranium, and the Skul under ir, hath been found wholly eaten away with putrefaction, and confumed with rottennefs as far-as the dura mater, the Skin. of the Head nor being hurt acal, without any Feavers and
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without vomiting, of which’one or two have been feentiving withouta Skul. | inc . rn which by and by fhal be faid more inthe Diagnoftick and Progaoftick ne ens. a
CHAP: VI. ii Of the Diagnoftick Signs. | si
Ue.though out of thofe things which have been fpoken before of rhe Hiftory of | ay Pchis Diieafe, the Diagnoftick figns of this Difeate mighre ealily be ferche yet in 1B inthe this place the fame are ro be propounded in {pecy. Bur firft of a], we mutt Afloat: | qrards chis,chofe figns as Galen teacheth, 1eAphor.17. and elfe where, which ought certain- ned fh ly codenorea Difeaie, which are commonly called Pathognomonica}, ought to be fuch hot only proper but infeparable, fo thac where they are, there is the Difea{e and WP atade _ they being taken away che Difeate is removed. Bucchough as in many yi al dif- | _pentiy The diag- eafes, foin the Venera], there isnoconefign, by which the Dileafe may. be known Vere noftick figns y ec a concourfe of figns, may do the fame. Yet whac chat concourfeis inthe Veneral ment of the canfe. Difeafe, 1 not eafie codéfine: whenasin this Difeafe there is a greac Accumulati- a, va on of Symptoms and Difeafes, and therefore this Difeafe hath affinity with other | eae Diteafes, ..Which thing doth caufe, as was faid before, chat many when they faw bi i almoft the fame concourfe of figns,in chat Epidemious difeafe, which ‘Hippocrates | a propounds, the 3.Epzd. they thought the Veneral Difeafe was defcribed there I tel and others referred it cd the Elephantiafis, but the reafon why 1t is hard to define ie | Geb concourfe of figns in this Difeafe, ischis, becaufé the Liver and nutritive faculty of pon the whol body is chiefly hurt. ° For when che heart or brain is hurc, cheir hurt a@i- | ey ons do éafily appear, being fuch ‘as are fimple, and reftrained to few parts. Buc rit when asthe Liver affords‘nourifhment for. che whol body, from thence if nourifh- a ) menc be butt, do happen divers Difeafes and Symptomes ; for tho ugh the nutrimene | ae _ Of the whol body be one, that is blood, yet almoft an innumerable variecy prefents it Bai felf in évery part, according to the variety of the parts which are nourifht, whenas Biles Pus neceflary that every part do peculiatly affimilace its nourifhmenc yetit we | Naty confidet the precedent caufés, thofe things which ate’ prefent, and what things are eve helpful, what hureful, ot the Remedies, neither can chis Difeafe lie undifco- uae veted: | | | Verscol As concetning the caufes, firft of al if the parents be, or have been fick of this dif= ) them eale, and fome fighs in che infant prefent themfelves, which argue che Veneral dif- peor cafe, thereisicarce any reafon to doubr of the Difeafe. In like manner tis, if an in- a: fant have fucked a nurte fick of this difeafe. tdi, But ifatiy one born of found Patents, and nourifht by the milk of a found Nurfe, | Babob yet have dileates and fome Symptoms, which give fulpition of this Difeafe, we muft ater diligently ‘enquire, whether he hatch had co do with infected perfons ; which if he whol confefs, ‘thie’ cafe isplain, and there néed'no furcher doube of the {pecies of the Dif= wheass eafe; ‘but if, as ic often falsout, oné co preferye his Honor and teputation, deny fl tha chat he hach acted any {uch thing,then we muft enquire into the condition and courte Whack a of the life paft, of the husband or wite, ifthe party be married. For from chefe things bos ay fomtimes We have no flighc conjectures of the infection, But if there be no ground Pitt com for {tich a conjetture,we thuft further erquire,whether he hath flepc in the fame bed ling with one iifected with that Difeafe,or hath ufed hisparmenis. Bucif outofalthefe ~ —__tulit, there canbe had no fitthe conjecture of this Difeafe, the pretent ftate of the pacient fuck to, 1s diligently to be confidered, which indeed ‘is one inthe beginning of the Difeate, ti. another in the tncteafe, and another when ?cis inveterate ; whence alfo the figns of | atten
this Difeate; beginning, encreafing, inveterate; are wont commonly to be delive- ced. And truely to know chis Difeafe when’ cis Inveterate, is not very difficult, as ro alle 4g . thal
tte, mul ithe Die den? | ure things oui e bel chele |
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Chap. 6. Of
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thal be faid by and by: but whiles ic yetlies, and isinthe firftblade, then to Know it. isnot fo eafies For as plants and trees when they are at ful growth, are koaown by the vulgar, butto know them at their firft appearance, is the part only of an artift and good herbarift. So alfo this Difeafe, when it difcovers it felf by diverfe Difeafes, and Symptomes, “tis known even by the vulgar) but when it lirks in obicurity, ‘tis noe difcovered but by experienced Phyfitians,
Yet there are fomefigns, which may difcover this Diteafe, even at the firft be- ginning; the tirftis, that they who are taken with this Difeafe do prefently (with-
out the appearance of any figns ofa Feaver imminent) perceive a kind of weati- nefs and heavinefs in their whol body,and fomtimes a dro
is a vehement and wandering pain, whichis fefr fomtim in the Mufcles, fomtimes about the joynts, and this painis more troublefome to- wards night chan at other times of the day. The freth color of the Face is chan- ged ftransely, and fome write, that there is a Livid circlea fuch as we ufually fee in Women that have their Courfes afadneds, fear, and thofethat before were
es inthe Head, {omtimes
means. And truely if this evil be contra@ed by Co plainly poffeft the Liver, but fticks yet inthe Privities, then chie
Tefticles, and Veffels refembling a varix; the matter which is caft forth is far
» corroding the glans; neither doth it yeild co thofe Remedies, with which a true Gonorrhea is cured. Next of all e bignefs of agrain of Millet, and
ch when they are broken, there re- main white Ulcers which in procefs of the Difeafe Stow deep and callous, of di-
vers colors, and with pain joyned with ‘them. Thirdly, alfo Buboes thow forth themfelves in this Difeafe ; for though fomeimes the Buboes do precede an Eryfi- pelas or a Rofe, yet then there went before thofe caufes which do effec a Rofe, as fear, frights, anger, and che bubo isextended towards the Thighs, as it were by 2 red line, and a little after the Eryfipelas breaking forth, it vanifheth; buc if the Bubo be Veneral, ’tis not extended according to the longitude of the Thigh, bue rather obliquely, and imitates the fituation of the fpermatick Veffels. For if unwholfome Copulation the feminal veffels are eafily. firft of al infeed, which whenas they have their Original from the Vena Cava not far from the Liver i¢ felf, that virulency is eafily communicated to the Liver,which being affe@ed drives it back again by che fame waies from it felf, from whence are caufed both the Bu- boes, and che running ofthe Reins. And thus thefe two Difeafes are for the moft