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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54491	Observations on the venereal disease with the true way of curing the same / by Charles Peter.	Peter, Charles.	1686 (1686)	Wing P1684; ESTC R29390	23,023	85

restringent injection stop the Running which in a few days break out again and then Be-Gar Sir you have got a fresh one which ten to one but they manage as wisely as they did before but indeed is the first Clap which for the time of it's continuance may serve for two or three Now the true way of curing a Gleete or Weeping is first to observe whether it be really so or not for I have had many persons that have come to me to be cured of a Gleete which when I have viewed I have found to be a virulent Clap which I have both Treated and Cured as such it may therefore be convenient to mention what a Gleete or Weeping really is and then to set down the means of curing the same The Prostate Glandules being either eaten away or too much relaxed and so weakned by the continual Ulceration or otherwise heated and distended by continual strong Purgatives a thin Seminal Matter continually flows from the Yard and this is the true Gleete for Nature hath placed these Glandules at the root of the Yard to hinder the too soon ejecting of the Seed in the Act of Generation and makes them serve as Strainers through which the Seed pressing is more violently emitted and is most plainly proved by those who labour under this Infirmity they being too sensible of the loss of that Natural Force even before the course of Nature can be said to have deprived them of it And from hence it likewise happens that such persons are troubled with the slipping away of a thin and seminal Matter when they go to Stool and that in great Quantities by which the Patient is much weakned and in some time rendred incapable of performing the conjugal Duty The Cure of this Disease doth require much care on both sides for the Patient must be as regular as the Surgeon must be carefull first then let the Patient be Purged gently with such Medicines as are cool and leave a styptick quality behind them purge but once in three or four days at most Use cooling Emulsions and Balsamick Tisans Stiptick Drops in Water is proper or Water and Claret for common Drink Glisters of Decoctions of the cold Seeds are good be sure to avoid all forts of Exercise and all manner of Diet that may inflame be very moderate in the use of Venery but do not forbear altogether use Balsamick Injections but let not them be injected with too much force least they hurt the parts already too tender Avoid all sharp Injections least they hurt the Vrethra and destroy the Tone of the Part take Bloud from the Arm to make Revulsion Bathe the Patient once in two days but let him not Sweat and pray observe that you use no Medicines of Tereb For all such must be avoided for they do more Dilate than Contract and therefore your Balsamicks must be framed after another manner Hypnoticks may be used once in two Nights for they allay sharp Humours and destroy Acids and prevent Inflamation let the Patient be carefull to prevent taking Cold which many times causes a Defluxion of Humours upon the Glandules and Neck of the Bladder with retention of Urine but if by accident such a case should happen take heed of medling with Catheter or Candle the latter of which had like to have destroyed a Friend of mine a Noble Spaniard who being afflicted with this Distemper and his Urine somewhat suppressed he made use of a Candle which he put up to the Root of the Yard and wounding the Glandules causes Inflamation and from thence a Total suppression of Urine followed which indangered his Life for he made not one drop of Urine in ten days notwithstanding I used all proper means having likewise the Assistance of a Learned Physitian At last upon the taking a Dose of the Calom in a proper Vehicle his Urine came away with great quantities of Sordes and was followed by a Sanious Matter flowing from the Vlcer occasioned by wounding the Part therefore I say all care imaginable must be taken in the Treating of this Distemper least your Remedy prove worse than the Disease CHAP. IX The CONCLVSION I Am now arrived at Forty years of Age and must therefore know 't is impossible to please all Men my little Book will be Read by people of all sorts and I must indure the Snarling of Knaves and Fools who neither will nor can do the like to advance the common Good and Fops will find fault with what they cannot mend I have known far greater Authors than my self Censured and that by such indiscerning Wherebes who could not dist guish between the Beauty or De●ormi●y of a Work some perhaps may blame me for too much exposing the Noble Art of Chyrurgery others I am sure will think me too Obstruce but none I hope will blame my Integrity in endeavouring to deliver Mankind from so vast a Labyrinth of Misery as is too often known to proceed from the Subject here treated of Calumnious Tongues will censure the best Works but ingenious persons will always applaude what ever may be instrumental for publick Good and those that herein find something usefull either to their Selves or their Friends will commend it Scinditur incertum studia in contraria vulgus Virg. AEneid lib. c. Some people perhaps may be displeased that I have not been more particular in setting down the Receipts of my Medicines that they might know my Diet-Drinks Tisans Emulsions c. which indeed must be varied according to the Case or Constitution of the Patient for I do not use to let one Pot of my Diet-Drink serve all Patients as some I know do but I prepare such as reason directs Indeed for my Antivenereal-Pill I must needs say I order all Venereal Patients to be Purged where Purging is required by that only and that for many reasons for First there is no Pill yet known that works so effectually and that in so small a Dose for fifteen Grains which is three small Pills is a sufficent Purge for most Men and above a Scruple I give not to any Man Moreover 't is observable that my Antivenereal-Pill doth not debilitate as most other Purgatives do nor doth it Nauseate the Stomack like most Clap Physick but strengthens it and preserves the Appetire causing no unsavory Belches and if ever Cito tuto jucunde were applicable to any Medicine it must be to this and now that I may not amuse my Reader who cannot otherwise imagine but that this Pill must be some Panacea of three pounds and ten shillings a Dose I will plainly tell him that I now mean my common Yellow-Pill that I have this twenty years Sold for four shillings a Box which contains thirty Pills and which many have admired but none ever equalled and why I have so Sold it I will freely declare it has always been known that too many poor R and W will be getting of Claps before they have Money to pay the Surgeon although I have often told them that such Distempers are fit only for the better sort and many poor Wretches have been lost for want of Cure for what can such Persons do in such a Case It 's worth no Man's time to pretend to any other Cure than what may be managed by the poor Patients own Care And if such a Medicine be not to be had that the meaner sort may purchase what miserable Objects should we every where meet To tell a poor Labouring Man of Drinking Tisans and Emulsions or taking Aperitive Salts Balsamick Glisters c. would be only to tantalize him or what shall many a poor Patient do if the Pill were not effectual whose Circumstances are so consining that he cannot have the conveniency of all things requisite without rendering him liable to a discovery which Accident may appear as terrible to him as the Pox it self and whose Reputation may be utterly destroyed by his unhappy and perhaps never before perpetrated Crime 't is therefore absolutely necessary that some extraordinary Medicine may be afforded at a reasonable Rate and that such a Medicine is not to be found among common Pretenders is natural enough to believe but let no Man imagine that I pretend to Cure Claps for the price of any Pills or yet think me so uncharitable as to deny my advice to the Poor Moreover many poor Sinners that have lain under the Torment of Doubt have received no small comfort from the assistance of this one particular Medicine for many times excess in Venery joyned with the Debauch of Wine begets so great an Acrimony in the Urine and the Guilt so far possessing the mind the poor Devil loofes it's little Senses till by taking three or four Doses of the Antivenereal-Pills and no Clap appearing it becomes as joyfull as penitent But now to return to the matter of my Book they which know me will wonder I have not commended that all this while 'T is a great fault I have in being oftimes too passionate in commending my Horse my Dog my Servant c. And indeed 't is hard for me to forbear it for I am sure the substance of my Book is new though the Disease be old I have borrowed from no man I have stoln from no Authour I have Writ nothing but what I have seen and often experimented and that in this Town there is not a word in it but what those that know me have at one time or other heard from me upon occasion in Discourse or in Consultations with Physitians and I hope I may without Vanity say that he which takes the pains to Read it will find something in it either like his own or some Friends case and that it will not be altogether his labour lost FINIS