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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

Sometimes it 's hereditary or got from ones Parents in the Womb other-times it 's got by infection Some kind of Pox is visible and evident other kind lieth hidden for some years before it breaks out Ho●st●us writes of one that got the Pox in his youth and did not appear before he was grown old 〈◊〉 speaks of another who was troubled with a hidden Pox and got two sound Children but the third proved infected with a rank Pox. The Mother of those Children enjoyed her health very well until she was delivered of that last pocky Child and then her Lips and Breast bursted out into the Pox. This pocky Boy was put to Nurse who in few days was infected and thereupon infected her Husband and two Children more that she gave suck to These Children were no sooner taken home but infected their Mothers in short no less than Nine were infected in a Moneths time When I lived at Paris I knew a whole Family that was in the like manner infected by a pocky Nurse Here in London I have likewise taken notice of several Children that died at Nurse of the Pox and therefore People ought to be well-advised to whom they put out their Children ART IV. Containing a further confirmation of the causes of the Pox. 13. MY next business is to treat of the cause of the Pox. I have made it appear to you already that the Pox was not brought from the West-Indies hither neither was it engendred out of Mans flesh for the Cannibals and others that feed altogether upon Mans flesh are seldom troubled with that evil I have likewise proved the Pox was not begotten by a French Leper because of the vast difference there is between the Leprosie and the Pox. Many affirm the Pox was kindled by a malignant constellation of the Planets b●t let me tell you had the ma●gy French crew been diverted from coming to N●ples the Pox would have continued among the Planets Others impute the cause of the Pox to the common trade whores drove with several Nations whose seed being forced and gathered together in one Womb might occasion a kind of a rotten Disease in the privities like several sorts of Meat cause a corruption in the stomach But this seems improbable because there having been whores from the beginning of the World who drove a common Trade they would necessarily have bred the Pox long before the siege of Naples It was the opinion of some that the Pox was sent into the French Camp by a Neapo●it●n Witch whose House they had robbed but this seems ridiculous to those that believe now Miracles are ceased there be no Witches more in Nature Leonicenus believed the Pox took its rise from a great overflowing of the river ●yber which vomited up a deal of stinking rotten bodies into a tract of the Air that drove towards Naples where it soon kindled the Pox. This is unlikely since the same River had overflown many times before without causing such a contagious Disease The 〈◊〉 were of opinion that feeding too oft upon Pease and B●con might bre●d the Pox and therefore their Magistrates forbad the selling of all sorts of Pease This opinion is so unreasonable that it need● no confutation 3. After the recital of all these opinions touching the outward cause or the first occasion of the Pox it 's time I should bend my discourse to a discovery of the inward cause which by the generality of modern Physicians is concluded to be a hidden malignant cause or certain malignant steems that pass from one body into another effecting such pocky accidents or symptoms by hidden means But our modern Authors and Physicians are very full of their hidden causes and hidden diseases which to me signifies no more than ●● fa and therefore shall proceed to give my Reader a plainer and more satisfactory resolve I have already clearly proved to you that the Pox had its first rise from a complication of a Scurvy with a mangy Itch and a commixture of both their causes so that sh●wing the inward causes of a manginess and Scurvy you may thence collect the inward cause of the Pox. The inward cause of a Scurvy is thick dreggish blood that begins to fret and grows fiery salt and gnawing the inward cause of manginess is a burnt red gall or rather adust blood volatilized which through its fieriness renders the blood fiery salt and itching Now suppose a Frenchman that is troubled with an extreme fiery itching manginess by reason of the fieriness of his blood and acting the part of a furious Goat with a fretted Neap●li●●n Whore that 's troubled with a deep fiery Scurvy the very essence of this Salt fiery and itching blood flyeth out in steems into the body of the Ne●p●litan Whore where meeting with the steems of her fiery gnawing scorbutick blood do unite and knit together into perfect little steemy bodies or atoms which you must necessarily conceive to be very malignant ulcering gnawing and fiery so that the next that converses with this Whore must needs draw these ulcering steems into his body where through their gnawing malignant and ulcerous quality they cause a Running of the Reins or Ulcers in the Yard or other pocky accidents Next suppose these little pocky steemy bodies being drawn into the body have a power of breeding and multiplying into other pocky little bodies of their own kind and so having filled the veins and arteries with such pocky gnawing steems they cause scurffy pimples gnawing pains and Ulcers all over the body So now I have in few words and very plainly unfolded the causes of the Pox and all its symptoms which possibly hath not been performed before and if this short Discourse will not satisfie read my greater Venus Unmask'd and that very probably may ART V. Of the Signs Symptoms and Prognosticks of the P●x Running of the Reins B●boes and Shanckers 14. TO describe the signs and symptoms or accidents of the Pox it will be expedient First to set down what pickle a man finds himself in presently after he has convers'd with a pocky Wench namely a sharpness of Urine and pressing to m●ke water though he made water but just before a heat in his Yard which soon after o●●●si●ns an erection and consequently a de●ire to repeat his former action and so having finisht hi● complement once more he immediatly begins to dribble hot and sharp Urin by little and little or sometimes by drops only the next day he finds himself sore all about his Limbs dull heavy and melancholy and a little gleeting at his Yard especially if he squeese it out hard with his hand two or three or four days after he may squeese out a greasie yellow matter some eight ten twelve or fourteen days after in some sooner and in others longer it begins to drop yellow and greenish and stain his shirt which dropping is called a Viru●ent Ghonorrhee or a Pocky Running of the Reins 15. This Pocky Running of the Reins is

the Liver Spleen c. which are proclaimed by m●st Authors to be harths or springs of Pockie steems and yet themselves remain free for a long time from those Pockie accidents A. Because the Pox first seising the Body from without doth the easier injure the outward parts being weaker than the inward ones which are furnisht with strong spirits to keep out the Infection 26. What part is apt to receive the strongest Infection A. The secret parts which consisting of a loose open thin flesh do easily admit infectious steems 27. How many ways doth the Pox distribute its Infection A. By kissing fucking lying in the same Bed and copulation that is thus if ones Mouth or Breast be set with pocky pimples or Ulcers then they are capable of infecting but not if sound though the Body were never so Pocky in the other parts 28. To what distance is the Pox infectious A. As far as the Pocky steems can be transmitted hot which at farthest is not above a Hand bredth or two 29. Two three or more successively mounting a pocky Saddle why should sometimes the first alone come off galled or why other-times the second only and the rest come off clear A. Because in some Women of a cold complexion the venom lies deep and therefore the first not heating his Whore enough to extract the venom comes off clear leaving the second to keep the Iron hot who carries away the pocky prize But if the pocky Wench be of a hot complexion then the first is only in danger of a blast leaving her in a colder temper to deal with his comrads who therefore come off without any dammage 30. When i●'t that a Man disgraced with an inveterate Pox his Wife is nevertheless guarded from the Infection A. It 's possible for a Man to have had the Pox in his lower parts and be cured of it though notwithstunding may have a relick in other parts of his body and therefore may converse with his Wife without doing her the least wrong 31. Whether is Man-kind only subject to this Pockie infection A. The Disease is also common to Dogs for my self have seen a little Curr in Holland that had a virulent Running of the Reins with several crusty Ulcers upon his body Likewise in It●● many refrain eating Turkeys because a great number of 'em are infected with the Pox. 32. Whether a Man that 's troubled with a venereal Running of the Reins doth not render his accident worse by conversing with comm●n W●men A. Doubtless he must for heating himself in so high a degree and thereby opening the pores must necessarily let in the venom deeper into his body 33. Whether a Wom●n tyed to a P●k●e Husband can escape the Infection her self and yet give it to another A. It 's possible and it hath happened though it be a chance among a million 34. Whether over-frequent embraces between a married couple can produce the least spice of the P●x A. It 's vulgarly believed it may many having contracted a yellow or greenish Running of the Reins by being too liberal to their Wives but this is a clear mistake the foresaid running being in no wise virulent neither is' t possible it can ever grow such being only occasioned by weakning the spermatick Vissels and thereby disposed to receive sharp humors that cause the foresaid running by irritation 35. Whether one that 's clapt doth diminish his infection by conversing with a sound Curtiz●n A. On the contrary he rather increases his accident the reason extract out of Par. 30. 36. Whether it be p●ssible for a Man to enjoy his health perfectly so as to eat drink and sleep well and yet carry a hidden Pox about him A. It 's common for Men to look better and have a sharper appetite than ever for six eight t●● somtimes twelve months yet walk about with a green virulent Gonorrhee that being instead of an issue serving to evacuate and drain all the superfluous humours of the body whereby the complexion must needs for a time be render'd clearer and the appetite edged 2 l● I have known some that vaunted to have run the greatest Pocky hazards imaginable without perceiving the least hurt for some Years who notwithstanding after so long a time of perfect health have unexpectly sneezed several small pieces of bone out at their Nose being parts of the Os Ethm●eldes or Crista galli that was insensibly cariated or rotted by subtil pocky steems flying up to the head 3. About a twelve-month since I cured a Gentleman that had a most violent pain on one small part of the Bregma excurring no farther than the bredth of a six-pence being that kind of Head-ach which Physicians usually call Clavus a species of a Cephalaea though Galen as I remember lib de occul terms ●lavus a disease of the eye This torturing head-ach my Patient had patiently endured for three Months without having received the least benefit from any Physician he had applyed himself unto But at last fortune having conducted him to me did make a narrow search and found a small rising on his head not unlike a Node wh●reupon I strictly enquired whether he had not lately or within a Year or two conversed with some suspicious Woman he answered that about four Years ago he had contracted a Running of the Reins but had been so well cured of it that from that time until the arrival of this pain he had possest his health better than ever In short having caused my Chyrurgeon to open the part affected with a po●e●tial cau●ery found the Cranium carīated ruggid and blackish which having ordered to be plained with a Scalprum cured him with my Antivenereal Whence it appears he carried this hidden Pox almost four years about him 4. I have had several Women patients that had cherished a hidden Pox for five or six Years without discovering any sensible Disease all that time ARTICLE X. Touching the Preparative Cure 37. A Venereal Patient in whatever degree if his body be either full or foul first requires bleeding and purging because of making way for other specifick Medicines 2. Before the Patient may be purged it 's requisite his humours should be prepared with a Pocki● Digestiu● as this following which I have oft prescribed with great success Take shavings of Guaiac wood lb ss Spring-water 3. qts Burdeaux Wine s●arpened withʒ ij of Sal Tart. 2. qts Boyl it to the consumption of half adding thereunto Polyp q. Cartham seedsʒ ij E●ithym ʒ ss Liq●orish and Fennil Seeds of each an Ounce Raisins ℥ ij boyl it a little longer and strain it The Dose is from ℥ iv to viij Mornings and Evenings for three dayes This is also a Decoction of excellent vertue against a catarrhous Consumption as you may read in my Anatomy o● English Consumptions The Body being thus prepared you may proceed with any of the following Methods ART XI The Primitive Cure 38. THe Primitive or the first invented Method of Curing the