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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43019	Little Venus unmask'd, or, A perfect discovery of the French pox comprising the opinions of most ancient and modern physicians, with the author's judgement and observations upon the rise, nature, subject, causes, kinds, signs, and prognosticks of the said disease : together, with several nice questions, and twelve different ways and methods of curing that disease, and the running of the reins by Gideon Harvey.	Harvey, Gideon, 1640?-1700?	1670 (1670)	Wing H1068; ESTC R15361	39,466	169

Little Venus Vnmask'd Or a perfect DISCOVERY OF THE FRENCH POX Comprising The Opinions of most Ancient and Modern Physicians with the Author's Judgement and Observations upon the Rise Nature Subject Causes Kinds Signs and Prognosticks of the said Disease Together With several nice Questions and Twelve different Ways and Methods of Curing that Disease and the Running of the Reins The Second Edition With large Additions of new matter and of a new Tract of a Scorbutick Pox a second Tract of a Mangy Pox and an Appendix of an Hectick Pox together with their several Cures By Gideon Harvey M. D. LONDON Printed for William Thackeray in Duck-lane 1670. INTRODUCTION Reader THe acceptance which many have been pleased to shew to my Venus Unmasked in pur hasing it at a treb●e price to what it was said for at first hath obliged me to gratifie them with this Little Venus being a refined abridgement of the f●rmer and consisting of the choicest matter the other contained Those n●tions that were wrapt up in hard words and obscure descriptions I have here unchained and set free so that the youngest Novices in practice may easily apprehend them Moreover the copious additions of Theoretick and and especial Practical Observations have now rendred this small Volum so compl●at that I may speak out of the mouths of others Absit jactantia dictis it may serve Practitioners instead of a Map to discover the innumerable differences of Venereal Diseases and to ste●r a right course in curing them And I must tell you turn over all the Authors that have writ upon this Disease and the m●st voluminous of them you shall not read any thing material there but what is succinctly proposed to you here and much more than ever they dreamed of for it 's undeniable that the Pox at this present is more propagated in one day than a hundred years ago it was in a month and consequently the number of Venereal Patients so multiplied that the variety of their several cases must needs give occasion to Physicians to be far more knowing and experienced in it than those of the fore-going Ages And as for the variety of this French Disease there is nothing more strange since among Ten Thousand you sh●ll not meet with two that are diseased alike Neither doth this evil vary more in bodies than it doth in Climates In Italy and e●p●cially at Venice and Rome I found the Pox to c●ntin●e for the most part hidden in bodies for s●me years which afterwards would suddenly discover it self in rotten bones In France I perceived the evil to run most upon sc●bby Vlcers and Botches In Holland upon Night-pains Gums and Nodes What it is in Germany I know not since I only passed through the Country without making any great stay The Cure is no less variable for what remedieth one shall render another worse and indeed if a patient have a wrong cure applied it oft leaves him incurable In the South parts of France the Disease is easily cured though far easi●r in Italy especially at Florence and Padua but a Dutch Pox ●is the m●st ●●ffical● to Cu●e 〈◊〉 all others and next to it an English ●ne What this sm●ll Volum●●urther contains the first P●ge will inform you The number of this Impression is very sma●l b●ing unwilling it should fall ●nto vulgar hands on●y in●ending to d●stri●u●e them am●ng such as may employ the advantage they reap then●e to publick g●●d to the s●me intent I am imploying that little time I have over and above my business in abbreviating my Anatomy of English Consumptions and my Book of Fevers both which I ●urpose to adorn with the choicest of my Observations and Cures Farewel From my House in S Dunstans Court in Fl●●tstr●●t Advertisement of the Bookseller to the Reader WELL knowing several Impressions of Venus Unmask'd have been sold in a short time and notwithstanding there being daily inquiry made for the Book I have for your greater satisfaction procured the Author to make large Additions of new matter which was neither contained in the greater Venus nor the lesser as you may observe by the Addition of several new Tracts hitherto not discoursed on by any author I doubt not but they will gratifie your pai●s in the reading which is what is chiefly aimed at By your Friend W. T. THere is a book lately Printed called the Accomplisht Physician the Honest Apothecary and the Skilfull Surgeon There is also in the Press a new Treatise of Consumptions and Hypochondriack Melancholy written by Dr. Gid●●n Harv●y Both are to be sold by William Thackeray in Ducklane LITTLE VENUS UNMASK'D ARTICLE I. Touching the Names and supposed rise of the Pox. 1 TO give you a clear and ample Description of the Pox I shall follow this Method 1. Register all its Names 2. Give you an ample Relation of its first rise or original 3. Set down the causes of it 4. Exactly define its nature or essence 5. Tell you the differences or several kinds sorts stages and degrees of the Pox. 6. Relate the signs and prognosticks 7. Propose several nice and curious questions with their answers upon the Pox and those that are pockified 8. Describe twelve different ways or methods of curing the Pox. 2. In Latin its called Variolae magnae thence in Italian Varole grosse and in French la gr●sse verole all signifying the great or gross Pox. The French do also particularly name it Le mal de Naples or the evil of Naples because it had its first rise among the Spaniards at Naples in the Year 1494. being besieged by the French though the Spaniards say the French bred it at that very time and therefore do call it I● ma● France●e or the French Evil the truth of this you 'l read below Among our Latin Authors its termed the Ind●an evil the Indian Tetter the Venereal Infection the Tetter of the Privities the New Campane Disease the French Leprosie the Spanish Itch the French Disease the Court Disease the Disease a-la-mode Iob's manginess the Dise●se of St. M●viu● whence the Germans to this day call it Meviu● St. Roches Disease the Evil of St. Evagrius a Ierus●lem Frier and S. Se●ents Disease The Dutch call it the Spanish Pox the Indians Las ●ua● Patursa and Pu● What it 's named in Eng●●sh is vulgarly enough known 3. Doctors have for a long time blazed into Heraldry for the Coat of the Pox to discover its first extraction and antiquity of that great Family at length it was held by a general vote that its first descent was from the Neapolitan Spaniards some of whom having been lately abroad with Columbus in the Year 1492 upon the first discovery of the new World or West Indies after two Years absence arrived back to their native Country with a number of new pretty curious fangles and among the rest was this new pocky toy which they soon made present of to several of their dearest Iulietta's at Naples for immediately upon their arrival