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A13316	The hunting of the pox a pleasant discourse betweene the authour, and pild-garlicke : wherein is declared the nature of the dissease, how it came, and how it may bee cured / by J. T. Westminster.	J. T., of Westminster.	1619 (1619)	STC 23624.7; ESTC S1011	13,896	21

THE HVNTING OF THE POX A PLEASANT DIScourse betweene the Authour and Pild-Garlicke Wherein is declared the nature of the Dissease how it came and how it may bee cured By J. T. Westminster LONDON Printed by I. W. for I. T. and are to be sold by Philip Birch at the signe of the Bible neere Guildhall-gate 1619. THE PREFACE to the Reader I Would not wish that any man should here offended be With any thing that hee shall reade that written is by me Ne did I thinke at first to put in print such idle stuffe I writ it for a friend which did esteeme it well enough But after when that Copies were waxt common all about And that some men vnknowne to me in Print would set it out I thought it best begin my selfe since that the Booke was mine And now haue brought to this passe it is not mine but thine And thank Pild-Garlicke if thou find ought worth in this same Booke Hee was the second man I thinke that on the same did looke And how we first acquainted came There will shew to thee For he made mee ●n●a●ge my Booke by conference had with mee Ne haue I writ this silly worke vnto the learned sort Ye● of the twaine I doe submit my selfe to their report Now if some Reader finde such fault himselfe list not to mend Let each mend one for all haue faults so shall we sooner end I. T. A CONFERENCE BETVVENE THE AVthour and Pild-Garlicke concerning his Booke called The Hunting of the Pox and the originall of the Disease VPon an idle day it chaun●t I walkt to see a Play And as I went I ouertooke Pild-Garlike on the way Who all alone a Plimmouth horse went leading in his hand And as a man that 's Male-content his Hatt without a band A Sattin Dublet somewhat torne with bootes and bretch vs sutable He seemd a Gentleman whose minde to fashions was not mutable A falling Band God dambe me call'd a Rapi●r by his side He ware no Cloke for comelinesse a Cloake doeth often hide He had of Spanish Buttons store vpon his forehead mixt And where that they were falne away there Stooles in place were fixt This is the man then did I thinke perhaps hath read my Booke If not I will perswade him too that he thereon will looke God saue you Sir good Sir said I make bold to craue your name Pild-Garlike answered he and s●●nd waxe angry at the same Nay gentle Sir I would not wish your anger any way I meant but speake a word or two if you would please to stay Speake what thou wilt Pild-Garlike said I haue no haste quoth he So thou no money matters aske for that go●s low with me Why then ●ir will you 〈◊〉 a Booke a very fine Booke indeed And such a Booke perhaps the like you scarce shall seldome reade What is thy Booke my honest friend is it a Booke of Newes I Sir and true translated out of French and new sent from the Starres The Hunting of the Pox good Sir and pleasant for to reade And if you keepe it all your life 't will nere once you nob ●ad Ha ha thou art a merry Knave couldst them perswade me so Thy Newes is new no it is stale I read i● long agoe And two I gaue a Waiting Mayd to reade on now and than And shee did giue her Master one the other to his man And so farewell my honest friend to reade the Pox is cost Thrice haue I read it all my selfe and glad now it is lost Nay stay good sir If that you please and drinke a pince of Wine And I will tell a merry iest hope to a friend of mine Of ●ee at Winch●st●r the old where V●●us Temple stood The Stewes men say was founded there and now of late as good A Brothell house and to the same resorted this my friend The Matron of the house which knew his minde and ●o what end Hee vsde to haunt her vnchaste d●nes she counseld one straightway To feast him with a towne-bred Goose if he would please to stay He was content and offered too his helpe this Goose to dresse And some was bro●lde some ros● some boylde three dishes to a messe Is this a Winchester Goose quoth he when he had fed his fill If ere I feast it so againe shall be against my will The Kitchen was too hote he said the Cooke-roome doores were bar'd His Goose and gyblets scal● and burnt and all the feast was mar'd In fine he tooke his towne-bred Goose as shee did giue it him And brought it to a Barbers man that was both neat and t●im A fine young fellow full of skill and aske him if hee could Tell him what vncouth shapen thing it was he did behold Well quoth the Barber what say you you know best what it is As for my part I oft haue s●ene a fayrer beast then this A beast said he nay then thou l●est I soe thou hast no skill I bought it for a towne-bred Goose though now against my will As it falles out to my hard hap Well quoth the Barber then It is no Fowle in forme nor shape no Goose nor Turky-Hen But a plaine French Coulstaffe you haue goe where with ●ou sore haue fought Your weapon which your selfe hath beat it seens your selfe had brought A Coul-staffe said Pild-Garlike then is this the warres in France Then haue I had some blowes therewith by fortune not by chance Yet haue recouerd well enough so might this friend of thi●e And so I pray thee end this tale vntill another time For I haue other things to speake since thou hast made me stay Faine would I know this French-disease which raigneth at this day And which is found in euery Land how might that first beginne For sure if Purgatory be or penance due for sinne Then he who doth endure this paine need feare no other hell He hath enough who hath the Pox that in his bones doe dwell Pild-Garlike I perceiue you speake by great experience sure Doe reade my Booke and see what paines poore Morbu● did endure For there was euen plaine hell indeed if hell on earth might bee For light and darknesse heate and cold did to his paines agree But now to satisfie your minde how this Disease first came So farre as Stories make record I le doe the best I can One thousand foure hundred ninty three the French with pusant power Besieging Naples at that time till Charles the fifth Emperour Came there and brake the siege perforce and in time of his stay Columbus to the Emperour did present vpon a day A company of Indians which the Pox had naturally And they disperst it in the campes of France and Italy Columbus was an Italian borne and first that did discouer West-India sho●● and people there and brought of one and other To shew to Christian Princes what strange Countries they had found What fertill Lands what fruits what mines did in each place abound To

make And for their cure while that doth dure no other drinke they take Saue that some Rubarbe now and then they vse for pleasures sake The French doth vse the Holly-wood which from Domingo came Which causeth vomit and doth purge with ease to euery man And since they are most cunning in decoctions of all kindes With purging sweats and dyet rules as best shall please their mindes The Scots to cure their Spanish-Fleas doe make of dyet drinkes Some for to purge to sweate and drie each man as best he thinkes The Irish they scarce know this griefe till they abroad doe roame And if they poysoned be therewith they heale when they come home If they be sicke or Feuor-like or what disease doth fall Their Shamrok and their Bonny-Clabb is medicen good for all The Flemmings and the Hollanders doe Lignum vitae take And with the Cortex of the same a drying dyet make And sometimes vse a purging drinke some strong another small Sometime a drinke of both effects to drie and purge withall Thus doe we see that God hath sent a salue for eu'ry sore And eu'ry Country to their kinde is fit with Medicens store But since we meane to make compleate this worke wee haue begun And leaue the worke of Nature out and vnto arte to run And lest that other men should iudge vs simple in the same Wee le speake the truth of A●te we know so shall we voyd the blame The Germanes with their Spagirike and Chymick Doctors say That they in curing of the Pox haue found a better way Then heretofore hath practisde bin and how that Mercury Is Lord and Patron of the Pox as euery man may try For whereas eu●ry Planet else in Mutocosmos raignes And rules the Heart the Lungs and Braynes the Artiers and the v●ines This Mercury hath no certaine place but doth vsurpe of all As we doe see how that the Pox in eu'ry place doth fall About the body of a man which makes our iudgement sure As Mercury is the Lord of it so Mercury makes the cure And therefore some take Argent vi●e which Mercury they call The which with Spirits of Vitriale a Turpet makes withall And of the same forme little Pills with pulpe of Apples rost And giue ten graines thereof at once twelue graines must be the most And oft to drinke hot Postell Whaye that hath decoct therein Of C●rdus Benedictus toppes to helpe the Flux begin Then in the Intrim now and then with Venis Treacle sweate And see each thing he take be warme which he shall drinke or eate And wash his mouth with Vineger that hath Rose-water mixt That tween his tongue his teeth and cheeks there lyes no filth betwixt And giue the pills but till you see the Flux begins to come And keepe him from colde ayer and winde vntill the Flux be done Then make a dyet drinke which shall reuert the matter downe And you shall cure as well as the best Barber in the Towne Prouided that no Nodes remaine on Periostion fixt For they are tumors full of paine by tarterous humors mixt Nor doe not the disease mistake in vsing Mercury For feare Ioynt Aches or worse paines you doe procure thereby Nor see that no obstructions be or fragments let remaine For then there will a relaps call the French-man backe againe And one thing more obserue the Moone at Change or Full begin And purge not in a fixed Signe if thou wouldst credit win And for that preparation must in all things goe before Seeke to the learn'd Physition for his counsell euermore I haue beene heere too large in speech I feare I shall be shent But that a rule I thought to forme and that was my intent For all these Turpets which are giuen must worke but one effect Therefore be constant in your cure that Nature be not checkt Which if you doe he dyes for it this Item take of mee The daintier that the body is the sooner dead is he The yellow Turpets which are made with spirit of Vitriall And gold with Mercury constant fixt which some iudge best of all The Petr● ●ade by Phirouant which he extols so hie Of Mercury gold and yron fixt which I thinke few doe trie The Diafortick Mercuries and how to vse the same Mercurius vitae and his vse that beares so great a name The fume or smoake of Synaber the Vnction for to sweat Of euery thing somewhat is spoke or need of to intreat For heere in briefe I leaue them out and send you to the Booke Where you shall finde them eu'ry one at leasure if you looke Nor doe I meane in Chirurgery to spend heere any time To speake of Ca●sti●kes which corrodes the Buboes of the groyne Of Poulders Lotions and such like which Virga doth requier Of Squirts and waters for 't in vse which smarts and burnes like fier Of Launcets nor Incission Kniues nor Candles made of waxe To proabe the sore Caruncula with diuers other knackes The laying bare of Cranium the Nodes vpon the shinnes Then for to raspe and scale the bones the Surgeons gaine beginnes Ne doe we heere deny such things when we haue cause to vse them But he that hath no need thereof were better to refuse them The last are Women-Surgeons which doe carry dyet drinke And Oyntments in a boxe to smeare their Patients till they stinke And will compare with Surgeons all what ranke so ere they bee Against Physitians shee le accept and be as good as hee Shee hath of Medicens which shee knowes we haue no vse of them Nor neuer will her skill reueale to such vnskilfull men Shee hath a Lady which will beare her out in any thing Shee le smell and licke their waters all which people to her bring And she 's the Cunning-woman calde and where some gets a peny Shee le haue a shilling from their purse if money they haue any Assarabacca and the seeds calde Cattapuse of them The Stibbium and the Colliquint and some Eleboris then Spurge-Comfits Aloes and a drinke shall women get with childe And set a Mayden free which doubts some man hath her beguilde Her Fucus and her Blaunching-pots and glasses with complection Her Talcum and her Spaude preparde all of her owne direction These are the secret Medicens which they hold so deare of prise A Iew did bid her keepe them safe from learned and vnwise Ne doe I heere of Ladies speake nor Gentry in this land Who in their Countries doe great cures performed by their hand The which in Christian charity and for no hope of gaine Refuse no counsell nor no cost nor spares for any paine Enough enough Pild-Garlicke said t is time that I were gone To speake of Women-Surgeons now I thinke there 's ten for one That rationall Surgeons be but who can it redresse The more they threate to put them downe the more they doe increase For some are backt by mightie men and Ladies as they say Therefore to make an end of them le ts now no longer stay One word or two and so an end quoth he that made the Booke Wish each good man comes to the hedge before he leape to looke And let him not that hath the Pox thinke for to weare it out But first to seeke for helpe in time for feare of further doubt Who happens in a Surgeons hand where Arte and Vertue dwell Such Patients they are blest of God the others liue in hell Giue mee thy Booke Pild-Garlicke said and lend to me thy hand I neuer met a merryer Knaue in any Realme or Land FINIS THE MEANING OF CERTAINE WORDS OR NAMES which seemeth to some hard to vnderstand in this Booke CVrte●an a Whore by licence Veneris Lechery Superbus Publicus a common noted ●roud man Moth●s Gallicus the French-Disease Act●●n a 〈◊〉 in Ouids Metam●epho●●s Gonorea gallica the ru●●ing of the Rey●●s in that Disease Caruncula 〈◊〉 Excrece●segr-wing in the Yard of a man by lying with vncleane women Bubo venerius is a b●tch in the Groyn which commeth by a sudden stopp●ng the flux of the Reynes Amorons are certaine fleshie excrecenses at the beginning like Mulberries and as they drie like Warts and grow on the head of a mans Yard Glans is the Acorne or head of a mans Yard Alope●ia gallica is meant the falling of the haire in this Disease Spanish-Buttons Pustills and Spanish Fleas are drie Scabbes appearing in the head and forhead and when they fall away they leaue red stooles be●inde like Fl●a-b●ing● Talpa is a virulent Disease and fouleth the vpper table of the Cranium or Scull and raiseth vp the bone as a Mole heaueth vp the earth before him Tophi are grosse humors and viscon●lying vpon Cranium vnder Petiostion and maketh one part of the head or forhead seeme bigger than the other part Periostion is a skinne that couereth all the bones of the body of man and groweth to the same and on that the fl●sh Fissurae are chappes or clifes sometime happening behinde the eares the toes the fundements Scorbutum the Scuruie Canker is a venemous eating vlcer and may be sister to Noli me tangere differing onely in the cure Nodus are bunches on the brow or shin-bones they differ from Tophi in this that Tophi lyeth vnder the Periostion and this lyeth vpon it and therefore most painfullest Crust is a Scabbe which in this Disease runneth all the body ouer like a leperous Scall Herpes and Serpigoes are Tetters and Ring-wormes ingendred of salt-flegme or tumor Erisipelas Formica is a pricking or stinging in the skinne as if a man were bitten with Ants. Furfur is a dust like vnto Branne ingendred of vapoures breathing out of the body and drying on the skinne and after falleth off in scales Hemrods are a painfull Disease breaking out about the Fundement from the Hemrode veines THE AVTHOVRS WHICH haue written of this Disease are diuers and many neither need I to trouble my selfe with searching the multitude of them some for the Names Nature and Medicaments needfull I follow DOctor Lowe Scotchman in his Booke De morbo Hispanico Philip Hermanus vpon Paracelsus in his Booke De Morbus gallico and Doctor Monardus of Ciuil The Method of Physicke by Philip Barrow Penotus a French-man in his Booke De Medicamentis Chymicis and his Denarium Crollius in his Booke Basillica Medicamentis Quercitanus in his Pharmacopaea Phyrouant in his Booke of Secrets Tyrocinium Chymicum Iohannes de Vigo FINIS