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A58573	Prophylaktikon, or, Some considerations of a notable expedient to root out the French pox from the English nation with excellent defensive remedies to preserve mankind from the infection of pocky women : also an advertisement, wherein is discover'd the dangerous practices of ignorant pretenders to the cure of the disease / by L.S., Dr. of physick.	L. S.	1673 (1673)	Wing S112; ESTC R29344	26,159	98

more Elaborate Work For I do intend if God spare my Life and prosper my Endeavours very suddenly to acquaint the World with some remarkable Observations and Secrets in this Disease and also put the Physicians and Surgeons of this Age in a New Way of Curing the Pox far more Expedite Certain and Safe than any bitherto known to the World But in the mean time I conjure and charge you once again to beware of Mountebanks and the Illiterate Rabble of Pretenders to this Cure Farewell L. S. A Notable Expedient to root out the POX CHAP. I. A Summary Account of the Pox. Its Names Which most proper French Pox and Lues Venerea disallow'd Aloys Luisinas noted Anti-venereal Medicaments what The Pox not an Epidemic Disease against Leonicenus Fracastorius and Massa Not a New and Extraordinary Disease Shown to be Sporadic here and Endemial in the W. Indies THis Calamitous Disease has many Names some whereof we pass by as being phantastic and affected or barbarous and blasphemous The most apt Names are Morbus Indicus Hispanicus vel Neapolitanus but the most usual is the French Pox. For most Nations in Europe commonly use that Appellation And Leo Africanus Descrip Afric lib. 1. assures us 't is so called in many parts of Africa as at Tunis in Barbary and in Aegypt as also in Syria in Asia that the Mahometans usual Imprecation is Te Morbus malè perdat Gallicus But methinks 't is pity to affix the Title on the French and rob the Italians of that Honour because 't was first brought from the Indies by Columbus an Italian and at Naples first shew'd it self to Christendome and at this day is more common in Italy than in any other Country in Europe as is generally attested by Italian Physicians themselves But especially because some Italians seem to glory in it HierMercurialis an Italian Physician cap. 2. de Morbo Gallico sayes Ideo laus est Italorum ut abundent hoe morbo quia indulgent Veneri utuntur passim mulieribus infectis ut non mirum sit esse peculiarem morbum nostrarum plagarum And they tell us That since the Pox has been so familiar with them it has done them a double Kindness for 1. It has in good part freed them from the Plague for since the Pox came among them they are seldom troubled with the Test whereas in former Ages 't was far more fierce and frequent than it has been since 2. They observe that since they had the Pox the Leprosy has almost left them so that now every Lazaretto in Italy is filled with Neapolitans Some others in complement to the French forbear the Vulgar Name and call it Lues Venerea But though their Civility deserves Commendation yet this Denomination cannot be allow'd For Lues as Isidorus observes Orig. lib. 4. cap. 6. is the Plague or a Pestilential and Epidemic Disease And as Festus sayes Lues est diluens usque ad nihil tractum à Graeco 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 So in the judgment of all who understand the Propriety of Words Lues denotes an Epidemic or Pestilential Disease proceeding from a Common Cause and killing the greater part of those who receive Infection But the Pox is not an Epidemic but Sporadic Disease 't is not received from any common Infection in the Air but by Contact of infected Bodies Again Lues or the Pest destroyes the greater part of the Infected but most of those who have the Pox live and may be cur'd And lastly Lues is an Acute Disease but the Pox is Chronic 2. Nor can it properly be term'd Venerea For that signifies a Disease received by the use of Venery But this Disease is not alwayes got by Venus for Children get it by sucking Infectious Nurses and Nurses often receive it from infected Infants And most Physicians tell us 't is to be got by profuse kissing of women who have Pockie Vlcers in their Mouths as also by lying in the sheets wherein Neapolitans have sweat That therefore 's an unsufferable Caprichio in Aloysius Luisinus who calls his Collection of Authors who have writ of the Pox 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as if 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Venus and the Pox were one and the same Identic thing I wish Dr. H. would consider the Title of his Book Venus unmaskt Those also fall into the same Errour who call their Medicines against the Pox Anti-venereal Remedies For an Antivenereal Medicine according to the true import of the word is that which is given to luxurious persons to repress the furious desires of Venus as those Aque Castitatis so often mentioned in Authors but especially when they treat of Furor Vterinus Also Anti-venereal may signify those Magic Compositions used by Sorcerers to disable marry'd Persons from Venus Physicians differ about the Origin of the Pox for 1. Some hold it to be an Epidemic Disease and by consequence to proceed from a Common cause and of this Opinion is Leonicenus Fracastorius Nic. Massa and some others But yet these men differ about this Common Cause for some hold it to be a malign Influence deriv'd from a Conjunction of Saturn Mars and Venus c. And this is the Opinion of Massa in his Book of the Pox. But Leonicenus will have it to be a great Inundation of Tyber in P. Alexanders time which drowned the greatest part of Rome and corrupted the Air from whence he imagines the Pox to have had its first Beginning And this he endeavours to confirm by telling us that in P. Pelagius's time Tyber overflow'd his banks and upon that Inundation presently ensu'd the Pest and a strange ill-natur'd Scab or Manginess which the Physicians of that age could not cure And he sayes the like happen'd in P. Bonif 4th's dayes also Here two things are to be remarqu'd 1. That 't is probable the Favourers of this Opinion first called the Pox Lues Ven. supposing it a General Epidemic Disease proceeding from a Common Cause 2. That these men were of opinion it would in time senescere decay and be quite antiquated as other Epidemic Distempers are But the Reasons offered by Fracast and his Partizans have not at all satisfy'd the world or convinced us that 't is Epidemic or that it will in future Ages abandon these parts of the World For 1. We have no Reason to believe it Epidemic or to proceed from a Common Cause as the pernicious Influence of Stars or Corruption of Air because Diseases proceeding from such Causes never continue long but when the bad Influence is at an End and the Air freed from that adventitious venemous quality they end also But the Pox has continued some Ages and with as much fierceness as ever Nor 2. have we any Grounds to believe as some endeavour to perswade us that the Pox does decline and by degrees abate of its former Fury for our daily Observation tells us the contrary and that 't is to the full as fierce and formidable as

a Nation and not their own Interest only Gentlemen these are the Inconveniences I shall voluntarily draw upon my own head by my charitable design to contribute to the publique Good and to help you in this Affair CHAP. IV. The Author demonstrates the Possibility and Facility of his Defensive Method from Reason and Experience and also from the Practice Authority and Testimonies of diverse great and renown'd Physicians BEcause for almost 200 years the World has sate still and not attempted any thing in the Prophylactique Way nor any ways endeavour'd to root out the Pox the greatest part of Mankind have therefore concluded the thing Impossible and do now crroneously believe that the Pox cannot be prevented by any Art whatsoever But for the Honour and Safety of Mankind I shall in this presont Discourse undeceive these misbelieving persons and fully demonstrate from Reason and Experience and also from the Practice Authority and Testimonies of some great Physicians that 't is possible to prevent the Pox and that this way of Prevention is Easie Effectual and Cerstain I prove the Possibility of this Defensive Method thus All Physicians in treating of the Prophylactique way to secure the Body from Poysons and cure 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the dangerous Bites and Wounds of Serpents and other venemous Animals commonly propose two things 1. To fortifie the whole body or that part onely which is most obnoxious to danger and make it impassible Or 2. by Topique Remedies to draw forth the Venom before it has made any considerable impression upon the body Now Reason and Experience tell us that this is to be perform'd in the venemous Bites Wounds and Impresses of the greatest and fiercest of Poysons For example the Bite of a mad Dog is easily cared and the great impendent danger of Hydrophobia most certainly prevented The Bite also and Wound of the Viper Asp Seps Dryinus c. may and have frequently been cur'd and all danger prevented by Topique and Internal Remedies Hence then I argue If the fierce venom of these Beasts some whereof kill in few hours may be prevented by Internal Theriacal Medicines fortifying Nature and thrusting forth the Poyson and also by apt Topique Applications drawing the Venom from the part affected then certainly the Pox also may be prevented by Proper Remedies and Applications For 1. the above mentioned Poysons are far more fierce and quick in operation than that the Pox. And 2. they bring more dangerous Symptoms because they direct their malice chiefly against the Heart and so quickly destroy the whole Oeconomy of Nature But the Venom of the Pox is more dull and sluggish and at first seizes the Glans onely and continues there some hours before it makes any farther Progress or diffuses its malignity to any other part 3. Why may not the Pox be prevented or remov'd when 't is superficiary and in the Genital parts onely For the Remedies prescribed in the following Chapters are the very same that are us'd to an Inward Pox when t' is fix'd and rooted in the body and certainly any Rational man will grant that those Remedies which are able to overcome an old confirm'd Pox where the Venom has taken deep rooting in the body and is as it were naturaliz'd the same may also with greater facility remove a superficiary Impress of Venom and Malignity The Decoction of Guaiacum is a known Antidote against the Pox so also is a Suffiment of Cinnabaris And if Guaiaoum Cinnabaris c. can cure an Inveterate Pox who can deny that the first Rudiments and Primordia of the Pox may be remov'd by the same Let then these Sophisters who envy Man's Honour Safety and Security either give us some solid and satisfactory Reason why this Venom of the Pox when 't is seated in the outward parts onely may not be expell'd by internal Antidotes and drawn forth by Topique Applications as well as other Poysons which are of a far more fierce and malignant nature Or in case they cannot give any such Reason as I am sure they cannot then let 'em yield up the Cause and confess the Possibility of this Defensive Method But that this Defensive Method may be more fully confirm'd and establish'd I shall in the next place shew that it has been also the Sentiment of several learned Physicians of this and the last Ages who have in Latin publish'd Defensives and shew'd how to prevent the Pox. 1. Gabriel Falloppius that learned Physician in his Book de Morbo Gall. cap. 89. sets down at large how to prevent the Pox and attests upon Oath the Certainty and Infallibility of his Defensive Prescription 2. Eustachius Rudius de morbis occultis venen lib. 5. cap 13. has excellently perform'd the same Undertaking 3. Hercules Saxonia has done the like in his Treatise de Lue Venerea cap. 16. 4. Rodericus à Fonseca Tom. 1. Consultat 35. out of Falloppius and Petronius has discuss'd the Question and seems propense to the Affirmative 5. Julius Palmarius de Lue venlib 1. c. 8. believ'd also that it was possible to fortify the body and prevent the Pox. 6. Joannes Varandaeus was of the same mind also as is manifest from the method he sets down in 's Book de Lue Venerea and from those words mirum est eos qui de Lue Venerea hactenus scripserunt nihil de Prophylaxi ejus attigisse sed omnes soli Therapiae incumbere 7. Panarolus a Roman Physician in 's book of Observations has set down a Prophylacticon to preserve Women from the Pox. These are all Physicians of prime Note and they did firmly believe the Possibility of the Thing and have set forth Ways of Prevention But in this one thing they fail'd and were wanting to the Publique Good viz. they did not publish their Defensives in Vulgar Languages as I have done but address'd their Discourses to Physicians only But in the ensuing Chapters I shall teach them to speak English and to their utmost instruct you in this Important Affair CHAP. V. Some Practique Observations concerning the manner of receiving Infection What Persons are most apt to give and receive the Pox. The Author proposes his Expedient and Defensives and shen's how to prevent the Pox by Bandage and Ligature by Lotions Decoctions and Suffiments HAving in the precedent Chapters declar'd the Causes and Reasons of this Undertaking and demonstrated the Possibility of the thing and also made a Search into the Causes why Physicians hitherto have not endeavour'd to root out this filthy Disease I come now to the Grand Business to discover this Prophylactique and lay down this Expedient to root out the Pox. This Expedient consists of two things the first whereof is a laying down some Defensive Remedies to secure particular persons from receiving Infection from Pockie Women The second is a Seclusion of infected Courtizans from Publique Converse but yet so as this Seclusion may be commodious to this Nation and also a design of