part complicated, and being Joyned are a {ure fign of the veneral Difeafe, and one

failing, the other is of force ; but if this evil be contraGted without whorifh Co- pulation, and if by kiffing, there are Ulcers raifed about the mouth,’ if by giving fuck to an infected infant, there are inflamations about the breafts, puftles, and clefts; if from Garments and common lying together, there are pultles every where raifed in the Skin.
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Laft of al, if chis evil be inveterace, difeafes and fymptomes of al kinds may hap=
pen, callous, fiftulous, and cancerous ulcers, knobs in divers parts of the body, Sint of an roctennets of the bones in the Leggs, Armes, elpecially inthe Skul, che bone of inveterate
the Palate and Nofe, a Hectick Feaver, Confumption, Pthifick, evilhabic of the Pox.
body, Falling-ficknefs, falling of theirteeth, Deafnefs, Blindnets: Vidus Vidu- ws, lib. 2. de curat, membrat, cap. 18. reports chat he fawact Barciconia a Span= nith Souldier, who bythe French Pox fuffered a rottennefs of Skul, and afcera wards fel into an epilepfy, that filth diftilling from his rottenskul, and pricking che membranes of his brain, from which notwithftanding he was} freed by. cauterj-
zing his Skul with a hoc Iron; and F oreftus lib. 7. Obfervat. 9. in fcbol, relates ofone infected with che French Pox,-chough he feemed co be wel cured,-yet was afl iéted with a long and continual paine of his head; which could be cured by no re= me dies, tilac laft his Sku] being opened, chere was found under it,upon che dura ma- cec f{omwhat black like a wevil,; which worme when it was taken away, thac pain ceaz fedjnor retutnednomore. And Fobannes Schenckius ex D. Georg. . Garneci ob fervat. relates of one fick of che French Pox, thac was il cuted, who wastaken with a great inflamation in his palate, in the five-like bone, in his uvula,andalthe neigh- bouring parts, which preiently curned to a Gangrene, and that toa cancer,that every
day he voided fomwhar, of thofe corrupt and putrefied parts, andthe uvula,- and
next parts, being firft of al caft forth, ac laft he {pic through his mouth his very,
brain witha moff noyfome ftink. And Felix Platerns,lib..t. obfervat. makes mention ofan Abbot who by the French Pox wasmade blind, deaf, and dumb, who could no otherwife underftand and perceive the meaning of others, but if they
with thei finger or a peice of wood drew Jetters, exprefling {ome fentence upon. his
bare arme, ftom al which fingly perceived he madea word, and from many words a fentence : God the juft Judg doth fomcimes punith wandcing luft, with fo grie-
* yous and horrid a punifhmenr. ~ :
As concerning the differences of this yirulency, alchough ics forma] offenceheun- - Signs of known, yet chere is'a certain difference, According to its manner of acting and ihe differen
its vehemeticy, which is known from its effects;for fomtimes more,fomtimes fewer: CeS-
fomeimes the contagion and active power. isgrear, fometimes lels : and Euftachines Rudius reports de morb. occult. lib. 5. cap. 10. that he knew fome whores intected with fo powerful a French Poyfon, that al who hadco dowith chem-were not only prefently infected with che fame evi], but were wholly pofleft wich moft grievous fymptomes, which could norbe removed nor mitigated, by any remedies, orart, nay fome of chem not long after died. But we know the vehemency of this evil, ifas wasfaid even now, {ome be prefently infected, if che painbe mofk crtielg if che erofioa pierce tothe bones, ifmany pucridand ftinking excrements proceed every where from the body. For by how much the evils arethe more, and more grievous, by fo much the power of this virwlency is the greater.
CHAP. FIL Of Progno/ticks.
Uc chat wemay. know, what hopes there is concerning the event of this difeafe,
we muftenquire whecher che difeafe is ikecobefhiort; or longs wherher ealy orhatdcobecured, andaciait what end ic fhalhavee )
But ficft of al concerning this difeafe, “cis wonc co be queftioned amongft fome,
Phyfitians in genera., whether it fhalonce havean end? Fracaftorius indeed did
hope for it,as was faid before,and chought,chat even in his cime this difeafe grewaged thm difealé
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lib. 1. delue Vener. Cap. 5.it was reported, thac this diteafe'atits frit rife was fo filthy, thac that which reigns now is {earee thought to be of the tame kind 5 -for there were innumerable ulcers, rough'and ftanding out, in the figure and bulk ofan acorn, afilchy humor flowing from them, and iucha ftink exhaling that his nofe that it reached, was beléeved prefently tobe infeéted.'. The colour of the puftles was bet ween black and preen, as much rormienting the fick with che fight of them, as withtheir pain. Therefore al people did fhun che fight ot them,end to abftain from: couchiag them, asin no difeafe befidess But Fracafforins his hopes deceived him, for as yec we donot fee this difeafe grow old, much leis ceafe, and though the filchi« nefs ofthe ulcers and puftles be more tolerable, yet in pains and corments it is grown more cruel, asthe fame Palmarius writes. - Itismore likely, that as long as chofe copulations and converfings with infected people, and wandering Jufts fhat indure, follong alfo this difeafe wil laft} and be propagated by contagion. For fuch is the nature of this poyfon that it doth not fuddenly kilaman, inthe interim thofe who are fick of chat difeafe; are infeétious thofe waies, of which we fpake be- fore. Whenastherefore thete are every where many, whoare poluted with thac. difeafe, and others converfe with them, there is yet nohopes that chis difeafe fhould ceafeere long, whenas the effect doth noc ceafe, unlefs che caufebe raken away. Neither 1s that reafon firm enough, which fome who are of a conttary opinion do alledg; for they fay whenas this difeafe isa contagion pietérnatural and violent, te muft neceflarily have an end, whenastho(e things which are preternatural and vio= lent have noc-perpetual caufes, and therefore muft needs ceaferobe; but the ane {wer is eafie 5 nothing indeed that is pretérnatura) and violent, 1s of icfelt perpecual, yecif the caufe be perpetual, that alfo may be perpetual. Thereforechoueh asthe plague is fometimes extirguifhed, fo rhisdifeafe alfo might be, if the fame diligence were ufed, which is in preventing and curing the plague, as wasfaid before: yer becaufe there are alwaies men, whoare fick of this difeale, and. can infect others, and others do not abftain from their fociety, even this difeate fhal'continue folong, as chac contagion fhal laft. | And therefore Euftachius Rudius tightly of this fub- ject, Lib.5. de Morb. occult, Cap. 11. writes, ifthere were one prince of the whol world, or one confpixacy of many of them againft this difeaie, by the help of phyfitians this difeafe:might be wholly rooted out; vize if they whoare lick of this dileafe, ‘were al committed to phyfitiars to becured, in the interim were remo= ved fromthefociety of other men, andthe fame weredone withthe infected with this difeafe,as is Wont to be wich chole infeéted with the plapue or leprofie,there were hopes this difeafe might be extirpated; & for this caufe too,becaufe che V eneral dif> eale is not Contagious aca diftance as the plague is, buc for the moft part 1s communis
cated: by copulation,fomcimes by kifling and garments. Buc here 1s no diligence ufeds)
andas the (ame Rudius faith, T heeves,- robbers, and murderers, and other wicked perfons are fharply punifhed, but publique whores ful of chis difeafe,and who daily deftroy more than a thoufand men, & polute whol Families and Cities, are cherifhc, {moothed up with flateries, and kepc gallantly. But leaving thefe, let us fee whac may be foretold of every particular difeafed-pacienc.
i. Fhe Veneral difeafe for themoft part of ic felf, isa difeafe of long continu= ance, forthisreafon, Becaufe the liver principally, and the nutritive faculty is
infeéted init.’ Buc Galenteaches rightly, 5. delo. affedt. Caps 2.°Thac of dif>
éafes of the heart al people die moft {peedily, of affects ofthe brainmore flowly, bur che life is longer procracted when the‘natnral actions are hurc; and though the Venera] difeafe be alo malignant, ‘and is not undelervedly reckoned amongit poy= fonsinitskind, yer its power inacting is far flower, than thac of other poyions :
et the vebemency or weaknels of this poyfon inthis or that body, and: thedifpo-
fition of the body, may’make {comewhacto the length orfhortnets of this difeates:
for if the poyfon be more vehemenc, ‘the difeafe is the more dangerous, as fhal be faid by and by » if allo the body before did abound with vitious humors, the evilis \. Smo increafed,
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increafed, and made longer : and indeed fometimes the ftubbornnefs of this difeafe is fuch,that chough ic feem fomerimes to be wholly extinét, yet 1¢ hath been obferved that it hach fomecimes grown freth againe after many, nay, thirty years, as was faid before.
2 But whether this difeafe wil be hard or eafieto cure in any patienr, muft be judged from the greatnefs of the difeafe, and ftrengthof the patient, asin other difeates. Firft ofal, as concerning che nature of the difeafe it felt, chouglr this difeafe be far more gentle, chan other venenate difeates, -yet becaufe it is not of the number of themwhich depend on manifeft diftempers, but malignant and cont agions, it may infect ai che humors in the whole body, nay ic may polluce al the Similar pares, and hence tt is hard ro be cured,
3. Yet this difeafe when ’cis new is eafter to cure, than’ whentis inveterate; for inthat new malignant qualicy, it only affects chofe parts, by which cis propagated and for che moft parc che privities, but in che invecerate difeafe, chat very malig= Mant quality is imprinted alfo on che liver, and from the liver again is comminica~ ced tothe blood, and by che blood to al fimilar parts; for iris falfe, as appeares out of thofe chings which have been formerly faidofehe nature of this difeafe, chat the liver here is hurt in fangutficacion, by no difeafe, bur only by reafon of an evil object, which mixt wich the blood and other humors, does pollute them, deprave and make chem vitious, and convert them into ics own nature: indeed’tis not ro be denied, chat vitious humors alfo do corrupt the good, in che interim from good chyle alfo ina liver evil dilpoted is generated bad blood, which appears even from this, thac chrough every parc che nutricion a lictle while after is infected through the whol body, which could noc be, unle(s che liver were bure.
4. Epipb. Ferdinandus wrices, Hift. 17. That he harh learned by experience, and thac other phyfitians have obferved the fame, chat thofe who being oncecured are again infected wich chisdifeafe, are either never, or wich a great deal of difficul- ty recovered.
5- Alchough chemacure of this virulency doth nor confift in any manifeft diftem- per, yer ificlighconabody hotanddry, and efpecially endewed withahot dif= temper of the liver, ’cis more difficulcly cured. For whenas pock-wood, Sarfapa* rilla, and che like, are-hot anddcy, chat hot and dry diftemper is increafed, and fo, chough this very difeafe be nor increafed, yet another damage is brought upon che body, and whenas thofe proper medicines cannor fafely be adminiftred, unlefs the body before were very wel purged, by chefe means *tis heated and dryed the more.
6. Forthefamecaufe, ahoc anddry feafon of che yeare,-as that of the fum= met is, tsnot fo fic forthe cure of this difeafe, whenas che ftrength isthen Exhau- {ted.
7- Ifallo the ftrength be feeble, chat it cannotundergoe chofe {trong medicines which are neceffary, or ifthe fick, out of cuftom or peevifhnefs, wil noc admitof neceffary medicaments, ’cis made hard to cure,
8. Ifalioa teaver, or confumption, or other grievous fymptom, or difeafe be joy= ned, which may hinder the cure, che difeafe cannot eafily beremoved, as was faid even now , of a hot diftemper ofthe liver, and of che whol body.
9» lithere appeare in che joynts, callous, Schirrous, and hard tumors, and thofe commonly called gummofities, cheevilis hard to becured, and isnot rooted out, by moft powerful remedies: for {uch tumors never appear, unlefs che evil be inveterate, and hath taken deep roor, moft of which are fixe in the bones under chem.
to. Buboes in che groins if chey be hard, and are not eafily fuppurated, and thofé which fomeimes break forth, fomecimesvanifh, are hard of cure, becaute they fignifie a ftubborn matcer, anda weakenefs of nature in expelling ic: but ifchey be eafily fuppucated, and che ftrengch be firm, and efpecially the liver ftroug, chey are ar-
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suments of a more benigne Difeafe and matter ; and {uch Buboes, if they be Kepe open along while, may bring perfect health.
11. Aroughne(s of the jaws which is atcended wich hoarfnefs, oran obfcure, or no voice, do fhew che evil to be antieac and ftubborn, and which wil {carcebe cured,
12» Ulcers chat are new in che Yard are eafily Cured, buc in the Arfehole, or abouc it,made difficulcly, for chey fhew the evil is now inveterate : and fuch Ulcers are continually moiftned by the Excrements, and Medicines cannot conveniently enough be appliedco them, .
13. Ulcersal{o in the joynts and other parts are moft hard co cure, bec fignifie an evil now inveterate, and which hath invaded the whole body.
14. Ulcers in the mouth and jaws arenot ealily cured, becaufe alfo they argue the evil cobe ancienr, neither can convenient Medicines be applied co them, and they are continually moiftned, by the Excrements falling from che brain.
15+ Ifche bones ot che nofe be eacen, and there be alfo a flow Feaver, fies an evil incurable, whenas now che difeafe is communicated co the brain ics Membranes.
16. Bunchings cut in chis difeafe, efpecially che broader, are not eafi and they argue an evil hard co be cured.
17. Thecolour of the Skin depraved, and the falling ofthe hair, if convenient means be applied, are nat very hard to cure.
18, Pains efpecially in the Head, and upon the Shins, are oftentimes very ftub- born, chat they yeild cono Remedies, or ac leaft noc under a Jong time.
19. Vertigoes and falling fickneffes are moft prievous and percinacious, for they fhew chat the Venera] Virulency, hath now pofleft the brain ic felf,
20. D.:ftillacions allo are lafting, becaufe they alfo happen, only when che eyjl is inveterate, and the brain is affected ; che which are more dangerous and grievous, afthey falon the breaft and Lungs, and exulcerace them.
21. Alloche noife in che Ears is for che moft part lafting, an@ fc whenas there are divers windings in che Eates, and cheir ex neither can medicines penecrace chicher.
22. The runsing of the Reins alfo for the moft pare islafting, or if it be ftope prievous evils are wont co follow, and moft heavy pains of the Head and Joyues.
23. But chiefly the Nature of che Contagion it felf, from which che fick con- tracted the diieafe, doch manifeft the force and preatnels of chedifeafe; for this poyfon hath fomtimesa greater, fomcimesa Jefs activity, and PhyGtians dorelace who have often had fuch Patiencs incure, chat {omrimes of ten {trong yong men, who have had todo withthe fame Whore, not one of them hath icaped, therefore ificbeknown, from what he or fhe, chis evil was contracted , the Phyfitian may the eafier judg of the evencof the difeate,
24, Ocher things being alike, chis evil is eafieft cured, which is-contraéted by Whorifh Copulation, but chat ishardexco Cure, which the Infant hath fucked in with che milk, whenas the vitulency goes into the ftomach with the milk,and hence in the Liver there is peneraced a virulencblood, which afterwards runs through the whol body, and Polluces thar. Bue the Heredicary evil is hardeft of alto Cure, and that which is communicated from infected Parents, withthe Seed and blood.
25+ As forthe parts affected, ifthe Liver only be affected, the evil isthe eafer Cured, whenas it hath a ftrong expulfive faculcy, and Medicaments can eafily pe= netrate unto ic: bucthe Spleen, Kidneys, Womb, and external joynisare not {6 eafily Cured, but hardeft of all che Brain » and che Lungs, becaufe they ‘have a weaker expullive faculty, and Medicaments do not ealily penetrate thi- cher.
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Chap. 8. Of Prevention.
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‘ by how much the more, and mote grievous difeafes and Symptomes are joyned i (Of with the Veneral difeafe, by fomuch the more the fick are indangered ; by how i vo much the fewer, and lighter, by fo much the lefs: and chofe chiefly die, who ae hk i to their puctid and Malignanc Veneral Difeafe, have {upervenient thofe Feavers | they call Gallical; for che Veneral Virulency whiles it corrupts the Humors, Vie i ra | and induceth a Malignant quality intothem, makes the Feaver worfe, and alfo de= ¢ = ley bilicaces the innate heat, whence neither the Feaver, nor chat Malignane difeafe can i oe atly be overcome by Nature. i Bed | 27. Very many alfo die ofa wafting of the body, and ahectick Feaver, orra= a ee they thera flow, and putrid one: for both che Venerai virulency ic felf, and the pains, y : watchings,and other fymptomes do debilicace the innate hear,hurc nutrition, whence Heh ue follows a wafting of the whol body, to which isjoyneda flow putrid Feaver raifed i hep from the evil Humors. wy 28. Sanguificacion alfo beinghurc, fome die of a Dropfie. i eed ine 29. Many alfo die by reaton of Catarrhes, falling down onthe jaws and Lungs, ee ae | hindering and taking away their breath 5 or the Veflels of the Lungs being eaten by | a fharp Cacarrhe, and firft of al fpiccing of blood being raifed, thena Phthifick, Hiv id, they die. i 30. Somctimes the Veflels being eacen in cwo by the acrimony of che Humors, and ie i rent Vomiting of blood caufed, the fick die by too great a Flux co the ftool, or by the ii r "Ee
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: | i } iE Of Prevention. ou, NE: Henas *cis fafer to prevent a Difeafe, than to cure it, fome Phyfitians en- : wy) | de h, by wh keep himfel Prevention ks ed f deavor co teach, by what means one may keep himfelf clear, though he ai sUy | :
a have had ro do with aninfected Woman. _ Of which bufinefs Fallopius treats in ey | the whol Chapter, 89.de Morb.Galli.and he writes that he fhould feem to have done pie noching unlefs heceach, how one feeinga handfome Woman, and lying wich her i though fhe be infected, may be preferved from the French Difeafe : and he cals the | ammortal God co witnefs, that he hath made cryal of icin cen thoufand men, and ). _ a none of ‘hem was infected : and he propounds there two medicaments, by which the i Contagion received may prefencly be drawn forth, diffipated,or dryed up. Hercules 1 Saxonia, propounds che fame, delwe Vener. cap. 16. and does very much com- | | mend chem, andas Aurelivs Minadous {peaks of this bufinefs, many confide that | being guarded with thofe Medicines as with abuckler, they may enter the moft in- i | fected whores, and freely ramble alche worldover. Euflachius Rudius, alfo propofes che like Medicaments, Lib. 5. de morb. occult. cap. 13. But indeed Ido not mig beleeve, that chofe chings can be taught witha good confcience, by which fo many hg men are encouraged to luft, whem perhaps che fear of chis Difeafe might have frigh= \ ae ted from ic; and therefore we wil fay nothing of tchefe Medicines; but Aurelius oe a “Minadous thks they themfelves are deceived, thac teach fuch things, C ap. 31. dé | Virulentia Venerea. Where he overthrows Fallopius foundation, who thinks chat lo this Diieafe is only communicated by che leaft purulent bodies, which if they be wiped away, extracted, diflipated, this Difeafe may be turned off, and he teacheth | that che Contagion doth not only enter by che external parts of the Privities, but ale fo chiefly by che interna], and runs through the Body, and chat che infected Vapors, and {pirits do pafs through the internal poroficies, and are admitted by the Veins 5 e | and therefore no man can promife bimfelf healch and fafety from wafhing, which on-
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ly reaches to the external parts, nor from other Medicaments oucwardly applied; neither can fuch excernal Medicaments takeaway the Pollution conceived within, | !
= The fafect way therefore co avoid this Difeafe is to abftain from whores, and to fe | F 2 remember °
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Of the French Pox.
alfo co punifh chem in chis Life, with chac moft filthy Difeafe.
Vee Ful. Galmariusy bach another way of prevention of this Difeafe, tro wit, by internal Medicaments, and he writes chat he hath found out an antidote or a Muller, by che ufe.of which mens bodies are rendered {afe againft chis Difeafe, yet he entreats and conjures al Phyfirians and Chyrurgeons, thac they donot comm anicare and make known that Medicine in obedience to luftful people, and that they make no¢ themfelves fofterers of lufts, but to chem only who mutt neceflarily converfe with thofe chacare fufpected or defiled. But he defcribes that Antidote, Lb, I.cap. 8. and thisis it,
Take of the Amulet for the Pox, and of old Mithridate, by Galens defcription, of each fix dramsC onferve of the flowers of Buglofsof broom,of Rofemany of each three drams , mix them, give one dram, oradramandan half, ov teoo drams at the moft, in tbe morning two bours before meat, eight or ten daies together,
But if any one fufpect himfelfto be infected, he admonifhech that he earneftly ufe a greater care for prevention: cherefore lec him cake of the Alexipharmacal Mes
dicine even sow detcribed,fwallowing a dram, or a dram and an half in che morning
and before fuppery for eight or cen dates cogether, whofe Vertue that it may reach the eafier to che more remote pattsy when they have {wallowed ity "Cis expedient they drink prefencly after it fomwhat of this Julep, by whichas its vehicle it may be carried into every parr.
Take of the water of bleffed tbiftle, burnet, Devils-bit, of each tro ounces, of Syrup of the juyce of Sorrel, of Lemmons,yof each anounce and an balf. ‘Make a Fulep for tro dofes, to be drank prefently after the taking of a dram and an balf of the Amulet, in the morning, and two hours before fupper.
But whenas al chofe fimple Medicaments, which are in that Antidote, arenot proper tothis Veneral Difeafe, we muft confule with experience, whether their ver- tue be fogreat, as Palmarius cries ic up for.
CEL Are 1 ey Of Indications.
Re dictions ee Indications which are in other difeafes,are found alfo in this ; co Wit, Lhat
which is taken fromthe Difeafe, called in {pecy Curative: Thac which che caufe doch afford, Prefervatory, whether alfo are referred urgent Symptoimes 3 and laft of al che Vital, for chey defervedly challenge a place in chis difeafe, yet in cheexs plaining of chem Auchors vary much, and as every one thinks of the Natuze of cis Difeafe, fo allo he teacheth concerning itsindication and cure. We infifting on thofe things which we have formerly prepofed of the Nature of this Difeafe, and have ftrongly proved, think thus of indicacions in this Difeafe.
Firft of al, whenas his Difeafe is occult, and Malignant, chief enemy cothe Liver and nutritive faculty, cherefore ic affords a kind of genercial indication, bur no fj pe= cifical and profitable one can be had from thence,. and therefore only experience, which hath found ouc Medicines working by an occult quality, hath adminiftred profitable Medicines in this Difeafe : and unlefs che Spaniards had received from che Indians {uch Medicaments, as Lignum Sanctum, Sarfapariila, China Root > and the boldnets of Ciyrurgions, and efpecially Jacob Carpus, hadnot fallen upon the ufe of Mercury, either by chance or by argumentation, whiles they read chat Aviceny “Mefue, and Ebeodoricus, made ule of quickfilver, in cerrain puftles, and a crufty Scab, pethaps even ro this day the crue Remedies of chis Difeafe would liehid. But thoughche Remedies of this difeafe, were not found cut fo much by indication, as by-expeitences yetaMethod in curing of ic is not wholly excluded, but hath its
. place

place alfo, whenas *tis neceffary that chofe Medicaments found out byiexperience be rightly applied ; and befides allo Tumors, Ulcers,
andthe like Dileaies {pringing from the corruption of Humors, have cheir Method, by which they arecured, Yer in this cafe we muft have acare, that we donot look more on the manifeft qualities,
and known difeates, chan on the occult Nature of the difeafe, in which bulinefs noc. wichftanding many do fail, whoare tedious in curing of divers diftempers, preparing the Humors, and directing their cure co chefe or thofe diteafes. Whenas yer ’tis plain by experience, that ina hot, and in adry diftemper, and inan exuftion of the Humots, as they {peak, and ina Confumption it felf, we domoft happily ufe pock=
wocd, and the like hor and dry things, and the Malignity being overcome, the reft do ealily vanith.
» or abounds with vitious Humors, the malignity is che eafier difleminared intoit, and there is more plentiful matter pre-
pared for purrefaction, and the force of che Alexipharmacal means ig dulled, it is expedient co empty either che fuperfluous blood, or the vitious Humors, thac the
other Medicines after wards may be adminiftred more fafely , More commodioufly, and with greater benefic.
Thirdly, che Diteafe and various Symptomes, difeafe, and arife trom the corruption of Humors, per Manner.
Fourthly, the ftrength is to be preferved, for asnoother dife unlefs there be ftrength ot body, fonorthis ; anda] attempts are 1 leaftwife.we have Nacure willing,
And fo there are four things chiefly to be done in this difeafe - abound, chat muft be dimintfhe, and ifany vicious Humors ab prepared and emptied, and if chere be any manifeft difeafes, pediment co the proper Cure, as obftruétions and the like, ch takenaway. Secondly, che Malignity and virulency as wel that inherent humors, aschat imprinted on the parts, and principally che Liver, is to be deftroied by the proper Alexipharmaca of this difeafe. Thirdly, che fttength isto be pre~ ferved and confirmed, and firft of al chiefe care is co be had of the Liver, which fufs fers in chisdifeafe. F ourthly, the difeafes and Symptomes which are Wont to be
yoyned to this dileafe are co be taken away.
Here we muft cleara controvetfie,co wit, Whecher this difeafe may be cured with out {weating? Some are of this opinion, That this difeafe ma {weat be not provoked: And firft of al they prove it ehus, ina certain hidden quality which cannot be taken away bur dy, whenas contraries are cured by contraries : by che proper vercue of antidotes and decottions ad Next of al chey alledge experience, by which it is evidenc,that by the taking of fuch Medicaments, fome have recovered without {weating. Third]
are al co be removed in their pro-
Nvain,; unlefsat
Aurelius Minadous, contends againft chefe, de Vi firft of al he writes chat he never obferved, chat Phyfit
gs of their own xpeld this way, neither was there ever any one, who ut the help of fome {Weating; s, hebringsthisreaion, That ft ina quality, but inthe body - affected
te AR Of Indications.
19
Preferva- ory.
Firft of al, if blood Four th} ound, they are tobe to be done which may be an im= the Cure o ey muft firft ofall be the Veneral in the difeafe,
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which fupervene to the principal Cyratiae,
afe can be cured, [ig],
Whether the
awa’ cure may be Becaufe this evil confifts perfetted
without Sweating:
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affected with an evil quality : and therefore he bolds, as a quality doth indicate alceration, foabody indicates Evacuation, which though ic may be many waies, yer moft commodioufly by {weating :. whenaschis very thing is a Vaporous body, and is moft rightly and eafily difcuffed by {wear ; and he adds this, whenas there is a great quantity of Excrements abounding in thofe bodies infected with this difeafe, noc ohlyyin one parr, but al over the body’; buc {weac isan univerfal Evacuation, chey are moft’commodioufly emptied by {weating: and he holds hac {weats do ve ry much) profic the Liver efpecially.. For whenas that is the Forge of Humots, which are cartied through the whol body, and they are purged by che-benefit of {weat, and freed froma} defilehhents, alfoche Liver polluted may be this way clean- fed, and chough Nature fomtimes do empty the virulenc humors by {ome other par, as by ftool, or by Urine, and chen her endeavor is not to be hindered, but to be helped forward ; yet he holds that without {weating the whol body cannot be freed from chat -Difeafe, and he thinks that {weat only cau empty from al places both in- ternal, and external, quickly, fafely, and pleafancly, !
But ne:cher of chefe opinions doch fully reachcthe Truth, and both delivers an im= perfect Gure. For whenas the Curative indication fo called in general, is twofold; the one prefervative which istaken from thecaufe; the other in{pecy called Cura- tive, which. jis taken fromthe Dileafe ;.chey who chink chis diieafe may be cured without {weat, becaute i confifts in aceccain hidden and Malignant qualicy, chink right concerning the curative indication, whenas chat malignant qualicy cannot be raken away by iweacing, or other Evacuations, but by proper Alexipharmaca, yec they neglect che prefervative mdication, and che caufe: for whetas itiscertain, chat inthe Veneral difeafe, chere 1s nor only a vitious diipofition, and Malignanr,ia the parts, efpecially the Livery but that al che Humors of the ody are corrupted 5 chere is required then an Evacuation ofthem, which is moft commodioufly done b fwearing, as Minadous rightly proves. For though fomching be ditcuffed in!en- fibly, yee chac mfenfible Ev actuation 1s not fufficients and?cis too flow. Bur Axz- relius Minadous, thwks wel concerning the taking away of the Caufe, andthe Evacuation of vitious Humors, which ismoftrightly done by {weating 5 but he neglects the difeafe 1 felt, or chat Malignane quality, imprinted not only onthe Humors, butialio onche Living parts’ from which it appears, whichis diligently to be taken norice of, charche difpuce of occult difeates, is noc amongtt chofe which Galen calls Logical, but does conceive the very elfence of chete difeafes, and that the ignarance, of |theocculc difeates, doth not only breed Errors in theory, bucalfo in pactice. “ Therefore chough we do grant, that the Evacuation of Humors is wel ordered by fweating, yet Alexipharmaca ate neceflary alfo, againft chat mal-gnanc difpoficion inthe parts, efpecially inthe Liver,and Fernelius, whom Palmarius follows,for this very caule doadd peculiar Alexipharmaca, as fhal be faid, chat chat Malignant dif{pofition may be pulied up by che Roats. For though al the vicious Humors be emptied, and al other dileates and Sympcomes do ceafe after thet emp= cyings yet unlefs chat Malignant dit pefition be caken out of the parts,the evil grows frefh again, and oftentimes a long whileafter. And this I think is the caule, that not only the decoction of Pockwood, Sarfaparilla, and the like, is given inthe morning to provoke {weat, but alfo without fweating is taken as common drink; for che very fame proper Medicines, which dodeftroy che occult caufe and malignity in thehumors, and do empty chevitious humors by {wear, are ablealfo to Eradicate che difpofition imprinted in che parts. ented (
Laft, ofl chismuft noc be paft over, that the indications propoled before, are not neceffary cobe obfecved in every French diteate, but only in chat, which hath almoft invaded the whol body, andelpecially hath poffeffed che Liver. ‘Buc ifthe evil be new, there is no need either co let blood, ortogive purges, whenas the fault is not yetcommunicated co che humors, but it is enough co wipe off, ot cal forth rhe contagion received, which alfo is fuficient in the {cabnewly contracted by contagt- on, where: yet we (mult oblerve, whether thole-puftles, and French waits as
they
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lexip they n dbiox horalt thicke tractin dileate Liver Ulcers, Not tne dif
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they calic, do immediately proceed from contagion, and whorith copulation, for then external medicines do fuffice, or whether they do arife from the Liver now af- fected, for then there is need of evacuations and alexipharmaca,
Chap. X. Of the (ure. And firft of bleeding.
Irft of al therefore as concerning indication prefervative, or the removing of K the caufes, and bleeding at the epinning ; truly che caufe of chis difeafe pro- periy and next of al ts not caken away by letting of blood; yerif blood do abound in the body,and that efpecially be toohor, the proper remedies of this difeafe,which are hot and dry, cannot be fafely adminiftred unlefs the abounding blood be firft di- minifhed.
And truly if che virulence matter have no peculiar motionto any pact, the bafilick veine may firft ofal beopened: buc if the matter have motion to {ome particular part, as coche groin, and nature chruft fortha bubo, bleeding is warily co beufed : for ifthe bubo tend co fuppuration, we muft nor lee blood, and e{pecially in che Arme, left nacure be troubled in herexpulfion, andthe matter be recalled to the inward partse And it hath been obferved, that many fromthe bubo opened, and che macter a long while emptied by it, have become perfectly found; on checontra= ry from unfeafonable bleeding, the evil hath been prolonged ; therefore in bleedin we muft attend che motion of nature, and when the cumor doth not afford hopes of fuppuration, a veine muft be opened in the lower parts, forfo cheche matter is re tracted cowards the lower parts, and by reafon of che efflux of hor blood, *tisafter- wards more eafily {uppurated. After che fame manner a veine is to be opened in the yard, if there be rottennefs in the privicies, or a running of the Reines, and wholl if che parcs below the Liver be affected ; but if che matter ruth roche head,and there caufe moft vehement pains, filchy ulcers, falling of the haire, che cephalick veine in
the Arme is moft commonly opened.
The other precepts which are propounded in general concerning the right admi- niftracion in bleeding, are here alfo tobe obf{erved; which whenas they are not pro= per co chis affect, we fhal no further propofe chem here.
Ifthe ftrength wil noc beare bleeding, inftead thereof che hemorhoidal veines of che Arfe, may be opened, or Cupping-glaffes be applied in convenient places.
Chap. XI Of the preparation, and purging of vicious bumors.
Exe ofal if the body be cacochymical, che vitioushumors muft be em and prepared with convenient medicaments ; whenas in an impure bod lexipharmaca! meanes, and proper remedies of this difeafe, do profit lictle, nay
they may bring hurt, and though that difeafe be overcome, may render che body rly as
obnoxious co other difeafes. For vicious humors collected about che bowels can= not al bedifcuffed and diflipated by {wear, buc che thinner part being difcuffed che thicker is lett, and grows dry, and is taftened in the bowels, and oftentimes con= tcacting an acrimony, doth weaken the fub{tatice of the vellels: from whence chat difeale grows fomrimes more ftubbora to cure, and there arife obftructions of che Liver and Spleen, and {chirrous tumors, hypochondriacal difeafes, ahd creeping
ulcers. ; hae Not yet is purging only to be ufed ia the beginning, and before the proper cure of thedileate, but alfoche whol time ofthe.cure, ifvicious matter be collected again, tis
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Chap. 1. Of the preparation,and purging of vitions humors. 31
P She ‘Prepara* Y4" tion and
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Of the French Pox. tis tobe emptied by intervals: yerifthe evil be now inveterate, and ftick princi- pally intheexternal parts, the viciousmatter is notrathly tobe tecalled ro the in= ward parts by {trong purgers, leaft the Liver, Stomach, and other: bowels be hurc and weakned, but ’cis to be emptied by convenient places, where nature tends.
But concerning che preparation and purging of fumors, though many Authors are large enough,yet whenas chofe chings which are {poke by chem, concerning an univerfal preparation and purging ef humors, arenot proper.co chis difeafe, buc are common co al depending ona cacochymy = icfeems not worth our labor, to dwel} upon thofe generals, which are already known by the cure ot many. other difeafes, We fhal only admonifh you of chefe things 5 firft of al when the difeafeisnew,” We muft abierve, what vatious humors abound in che body, and especially in che fecond tegiony and chofe muft be prepared and emptied. But if the ev:] benow inveterate, becaufe in that forthe moft part, thick and aduft humors are collected, the medi- cins are firft of al co be directed againft them. Next of al chis is tobe obierved,that we have re{pect alfo ro che diftemper of che bowels, and it they have contracted any diftemper, that muft be corrected, and they muftbe ftrengthened wich proper me~ dicaments, ‘Lnirdly, it isneceffary, that we alwaies ad {omwhat co our prepara= tivesand purgers, which doch refiit che Veneral virulency bya‘tpecifick faculty 5 and thevéfore concerning common purging medicines we wilad nothing, whenas they are every where obvious and known, but thistchac many pbyficians do ceftify, That. Mechoacan,to which belongs Jallop, is given: not only for its purping faculey with benefic in this diteate, buc alfo becaufe tis an enemy to chis eyil by a peculiar power, fo chat ic is numbered by {ome amongft the antidotes of this dileafe. © Then
SR SR
by the Chymitts mercury prepared is che ifly commended tor the curing and purg-
ing of chis difcafe,of which fhal be {poken hereafter in particular. Chap. XII.
Of the proper remedies and antidotes and alexipharmaca of the Veneral Difeafe in general.
Frer the body is emptied in convenient manner, the greateft hopes of this cure is in the proper antidotes of this diteafe, asirom which only perfect health can behoped for {o indeed, chat though divers crher difeafes, ariling from the cor- ruption of humors, be oftén joined with chis difeafe, yecaf that malignity betaken away, a little while afcer either they, vanifh of ¢ heir ownaccard, or are ealily cured, but without the help of thefe remedies, no perfect cure can be hoped for by other medicines, under what name foever: andthis too 1s obieryed by many thac theie kind of medicaments though by thew manifefi qualicies chey feem co be adveriaries coahocand dry diftemper, yetcheichor and dry medicaments have been ufed with soft happy fuccefs by many who were endewed wich a hot and diy diftemper of the Liver, nay of the whol body, and who hada Jeane habit ofbody, nay were almoft plainly confumptive, from which very thing appeares, that inchis Giteafe, we ought rather to cake care of che cccule malignity, than ofthe maniiett diftemper. And therefore as foomas the body 1s in fome force prepared and emptied, we mult maturely haften tothofe Alexipharmaca of the Venera! dileafe. But though tome Phy ficians would advance and excol che vertues of chofe medi.
i
Alexipbar- caments which thal prefently be reckoned upswhiles they hold, cthac the decoction maca of ibe of Juniper wood, of the Olive cree, Box, Beech, and other trees may performe the Venera! dif- {ame, as the decoction of Guajacum, fothac a moft flender courte of dyet be ufed, eafe ave Nem as is wont to be obferved wick che decoction of Pock-wood: yet experience hath
long fince taught chat that.ts falfe: forchough it be cercainchac by a moft flender diet fome fymptomes of this difeafe do grow more gentle, yet unlels proper reme- dies be adminiltred, a little while after che difeafeis feen to gtow fiefh again, and
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Of the Indian Wood, and Guajacum.
ceturn more cruel: for {uch medicines indeed wich a flender diet, may confume the vitious humors, but they cannot overcome the matignity : as therefore this difeafe isocculc, and isnot known but by its effects, foalto the remedies which cure this difeafe, are not found outby reafon, buc only by experience.
But what thofe medicaments are, Phytitians again do not fully agree.. Many put their greateft hopes in Quickfilver, and chink chat che only and proper Alexiphar- macum of the Veneral difeafe; ‘others do wholy reject it, of which bufinefs thal be ipoke hereafter. Ochers, and moftmen indeed, undertake the cure of this difeafe with the ufe of Guajacum, Sarfaparilla, China roor, Saffafras wood ; and others doubt of thefe very things, nay fomedeny that this difea(e can be overcome by che ufe of Guajacum only and the like, and therefore they chink their vertue ought co be quickned and increafed by che mixture of other things. Ful. Palmarius lib. de lue Vener. cap. 13. diftinguifheth and thinks that Guajacum is not of fo great force that that alone can wholy extinguifh the rooc,and al the deadline(s of the vene- ral poyfon; neither chat it is {0 weak, chat iccan do nothing withour the help and conjunction of other chings ; he writes indeed that by the ute ofthacalone, the hu= mots beingcomiumed, a! che fympcomes of che difeafe wil at length be allaied, and wholly lie hid, bur yecchevicuient caine of che difeate,which is already in the folid parts, is HOt overcome, and wholy excinguifhed in moft people by that remedy 3 bue that che deadiinefs of the Jarent poy{on be wholy excinguitht, and thac the return of the difeafe be prevented, he thinks other alexipharmaca ought to be adminiftred, which opinion doubsle{s he received fromhis Mafter F ernelius, for he writes that he, as in Jib..1,de.lue Vener. cap. 7. did firft dare to promile a perfect cure of che French Difeafe without che ufe of Quickefilver, and that he took care for the Com- pofition of many Alexipharmaca at his Houle, which he gave apainft this poyfon with Guajacum, and fomtimes without ic, and as he writes in che alleaged Cap. 7. two of thefe medicines which he found to be moft excellent and efficacious, he by the addition’ of other medicines hath reduced into one, which hicherco never failed any man.
But whenas thefe medicaments are compounded of common Alexpharmaca not proper to cis difeafe, we fhal not propofe chem in che firtt place, but hereafrer we fhal {peak fomwhat of chem, » But in che firft place » Wwe fhal treat of thofe chings which moft Phy fitianshave hitherco ufed, and which Jong experience hath now confirmed to be alexipharmaca of chis difeaie, by cheufe of which ic hath been a jong time obferved,. that not only the vitious humors have been emptied , and che fympromes deftroyed ; but the very roots of the difeafe have been pulled up, chac it couldno more returne. Of which fort are your pock-wood, farfaparilla, China root, Saffatras-wood, of which we wilnow fpeak.
Chap. XITI. Of the Indian Wood, and Guajacum.
Nd firft ofal we wil treat of che Indian wood, .asbeing that which challengeth Je Indi- A ale is an wood.
the cheife place amoneft the remedies of this difeafe. For whenas chis dife reported to be endemious in the Indies, che chiefe remedy is alfo fetcht from thence, which they cal the Indian wood ;_ but chis fort of wood, as appeares by Confaln Oviedusa noble Spaniard, who writes of things in che Indies, is two fold ; che one which is commonly known, called Guajacum, the other which is called the ho- . ly wood. For though by many thefetwo woodsare caken for one and the fame, yet the forementioned Author, doth diftinguifh chem both by their marks and pla- ces, concerning which feeFallopins de morb. Gal. cap. 39» yet whenas both woods have the fame force to overcome the French difeafe, ( though it be reported that the holy wood be of greater force againft articular difeafes, | and others, and the holy wood is nowa days feldom bronght over to us) we fhal only {peak of Guajacum. G » * Amongtt
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The Choice of Guaja-
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How the age of thr mood 4s to
be difcerned
Of the French Pox.
A mongft other new Iilands found oucin former Ages, there is onealfo, which the Spaniards the difcoverers have called by the name of Hafpaniola: whenas the Veneral difeafe was reporced to be indemious there, and the decoction of a certain wood ts efteemed there the only remedyof char dileafe, which at this day is called guajacum,& by the inbabicants is pronounced wich gaping Huajacum. The Spaniards
infected with the fame difeafe,having found che fame decoction to be helpful,did afters -
wards difcover iis vertue co others : the cree is reported to be leaved like afh,ché color of che wood within 1s blackifh, che wood ir felf isheavy and ponderous, it floates noc in wacer, but finks; ’cis tulof rozin, and while ic burnes, it fends forth no in- grateful icent, its taftis fomewhac bitter, with ahghe accrimony , pricking the congue.
There is fome doub: amoneft phy ftians concerning the choice of ics fome are of opinion, that which is whitifh, is tobe preferred before the reft 3 whenas by how much the leifer’cis in years, by fomuch rhe whicericis, buc the older ir is, by fo much the blacker ic is: but chat which igolder is deyer, and chat which is yonger is more moift, and more abounding with juyce, and rherefore more powerful. But in= deea whenas thereis a two tould humor in living things, the one primogenious, the fubject of innate heace, or the implamed {piric , apt co cake firey the orher alimentary, more watrifh, and les ape co be fet on fire: che vertues of chis wood, as alfoofother plants, arenot ro be judged from che alimentary and more watrifh humor, buc from chac implanced hear, and primogenious humidity 5 which whenas in *its cender age, both ip infants, and in planes,?cis overwhelmed and obfcu- red by much moilture, many actions in hac age are infirm and weak, which after wards that moifture being {omewhat waited, and che heat hecome more vigorous, in proprefs of cime they become more ftrong,and this heat che cheif inftrumenr ofal ati. ons is wont to confift unchanged cil 1c comes co its ful age, and beigth ; and therefore though che fame innate. heac and radical moifture be alwaies in Guajacum , on whichits vertues do depend, yer becauie inthe yong and ‘ender wood, thac vertue is asic were over whelmed, and reftrained by the abundance of moifture, thac wood which isthe yonger 1s Jefs efficacious, chan thac which isnow ofa ful confirmed growth : and therefore for the cure. of this difeafe, we muft not chule that wood which is yellowifh, oc that is ofabox colour, or chat whichiscut ofa tree not fulgrown, or from the boughs, as being le{s efficacious; but rather char whichis fomewhac black, becaufe char is more roziny, and abounds with tha fac and balfomy fubftaace, in which doch chietly refide that vertue oppolite co veneral virulency. Ic is good therefore to know the age of this wood, that we may choole the moft effectual, _ For thacindeed which hath the inward part black, and islong waies divided with cleftsasic were with cercain lines of a duskith colour, garhered into blackifh rounds, chat as efficacious, but yet ’cis fuch as is cut off either from che arms of trees, or cercainly hath not yet attained its ful maturicy, and therefore “cis of lefs efficacy : for chofe kind of Lines do theretore appeare becaufe thac fatty fub- ftance, which doth chiefly relide in the middle crank of the tree, is not yet fo plen- tiful, ascofilupal the inrernal parcs of the wood: but that which is black al over the internal parts, che fuperficies only being whitifh, that ificbe found, weighty, and odorous, and prick the congue with a lighe acrimony, and either is noc divi= ded wich any lines, or elfe with chofe ful of rozin, aod therefore while it burnes befides che graceful {me} ic fends forth, ic allo yeeldsa blackifh rozm that hath attained the bigheft degree of macurity, and is cut off from the body of rhe tree,and is cherfore moft effectual,buc if 1t be divided with lines,and ful of holes,and neither weighty nor odorous,nor accimonious, and being lighted yeelds no rozin,ic is a fign thac thac is now old, and chevefore ics vercues are grown dul.