forme of a little Pill taking it in going to bedde 2. howres after meat Doe the like in the morning obseruing the same order and that night in like maner taking onelie 5. or 6. graines of the same powder mingled with the said Conserues and so continuing euery day or euery two dayes once till the perfect euacuation of the venim be perceiued which will be during the time aboue specified as ye shall cleerely perceiue by the signes of perfect health You shall marke that y e working of this medicament is often by the mouth and seldom by the belly and that like as it is seldom it is also very long Therefore obserue such cautions in the ministring hereof that ye prouoke fluxe of the mouth rather theÌ„ of the belly Yet whether of them ye perceiue nature tend most to you shall doe well to follow nature and doe the best to continue that euacuation giuing no occasion in the coÌ„trary for the hinderance hereof Thys is a reamedy which I haue vsed somtimes to great Personages as a thing most propper for them for two reasons first because it is pleasant and worketh thorowly secondly because it is more costly and therefore not so coÌ„uenient for the common people whose abilitie is vnsufficient to beare the charge thereof The composition of it which will endure the space of three moneths with the true administration of the same in diuers sicknesses are set downe in my Treatise called The poore mans guide The 23. Chapter sheweth the way to cure young infants infected with this disease and first practised by mee SEeing that in the formsr chapters I haue plainly shewed after what method our Auncients and I my selfe in like manner haue cured old folks of this disease now in like manner I will set downe the way to cure young Infants True it is that diuers Practicioners haue of a long time taken paines to find out some certaine method for the same seeing the great number that daily were infected partly by their Parents partlie by their Nurses and such other causes as ye haue heard in the Chapter of the causes of this disease But no true or perfect curation could be found by them because they were contented with some Paleatiue remedies whereby the chyldren seemed to bee healed tyll they came to be 2. or 3. yeeres old in the which time by the acrimonie or sharpnes of the maligne humor the bones doe consume the roofe of the mouth and nose doe fall so that not one amongst a thousand escapeth miserable death Whereupon I considering these things and as I had found out some easie way for old folks so being requested by many of my speciall freends and diuers other honest men whose children were infected to sette out some certaine method for the deliuery of such young infants who vndeseruedly were destroied with this disease after long trauaile I found out 2. or 3. waies the which in deede are good but very painfull so that afterward by mine owne diligence and diligent conference with some of the Docters in Chirurgerie in Paris I founde out thys vvay which is most sure and easie if it be done with good iudgment and with the method that followeth First if the Nurse be infected the child shall be taken from her and nourished with other womens milk or Goates milke otherwise if eyther the Nurse be little infected or els the child so young that it may not be so nourished in that case purge the Nurse with Confection Hamech vsing alwaies good regime like as ye haue heard in the Chapter of electuarie Shee shall also vse a decoction sudoriffick the space of three or foure daies after that a decoction of Salsparil during the time of the cure which should be three weekes or a month vsing euery day till the first sixe dayes be past an ounce of my electuary taking it in the morning like as in the proper chapter or els sixe graines of the powder Arabick which shall be taken as ye haue heard continuing alwaies till you perceiue ful eduction of the venim In the meane tiâ—e the child shall take a little syrrop of Succorie composed with Rubarb afterward you shall make an oyntment of Rosat Mesues or such like putting to a pound of it an ounce of Hydrargire well prepared and extinguished adding to it halfe an ounce of Turpentine and incorporating all together in forme of liniment This being done you shall cause the Nurse or your selfe to rub the liske which is the part betweene the thigh and the body the first daie After that rest a daie or two and rub the thighes a little this will prouoke a fluxe of the belly Then rest two or three dayes to the end the flux be not ouer-violent and then rub a little the armes resting there-vpon 2. or 3. dayes againe next the feete and leggs and rest 2. dayes next the back Heere you must marke that according as you perceiue the working of the medicament you must abstaine somtimes 4. or 5. dayes betweene euerie friction so that the flux of the belly must be entertained without violence for if it were done euerie day it would bee both violent and dangerous In this time the virulencie of the venim shall auoide yet wil it render the child extreame weake by reason of the great euacuation and therefore it shall be most requisite to vse this water following Rec. Medullae Gaiaci vnc 2. Saisaparile vnc 4. Macerentur pâ—r diem in libris 8. Aque fontanae et fiat decoctio ad libras 6. in col ponatur in alembico addendo conseruae Buglossi Borrag Enule Campanae Anthos an vnc 1. sem Cardui Benedicti Sumachi Anisâ— Cardomoni an drag 3. Mithridatij opt et Theriacis antiquae an drag 2. sem Citri et Cort citri conditi an vnc sem Zach. albissimi lib. sem Cinamâ—mi vnc 1. dictillentur in balneo M. Et sumet puer singulis diebus cochlearia tria per diuersas horas By this meanes I haue cured many of diuers ages and some that were not foure months old The time of the cure will be 15. or 20. daies It shall be well done euerie 6. or 8. daies to purge the Nurse so in thys time the cure shall be performed in both persons The 24. Chapter sheweth the tokens of perfect health AFter the generall particuler cure of this disease there remaineth some rest which tormenteth the bodie and maketh the sicknes recidiue yet somtimes verie vneasie to be known if the sick be perfectly cured for this cause as also to the end if anie thing remaineth you may giue order for the taking away of the same yee shall heare certaine signes most assured of perfect health and that nothing remaineth The first and chiefe signe is the ceasing of the dolors both vniuersall and particuler specially in the night and the regeneration of that which was lost as the haire bones putrified desiccation of the vlcers softening of the hard parts and returning
are most necessarie for the true curing of this sicknes declaring first the cause For not knowing the cause it is impossible to find out proper remedies for the cure seeing in all diseases the cause must first be taken away or else the true cure cannot ensue The third Chapter of the causes of the Spanish sicknes HAuing intreated of the definition and originall of this maladie nowe it followeth to shew the causes of the same which are eyther externall or internall The externall consist not onely in things manifest but also in occult and hidden thinges which lye as you haue heard in the former Chapter Heere we will content vs to say onely that this maladie proceedeth cheefely from the act of Venus whē men haue to doe with women polluted with that infection though sometimes it be but small For by reason that the composition of the secret parts of both sexe are composed of rare flesh and spongious it happeneth by the frication they are easily heated and rarified and so the sooner infected And for thys cause those that doe the act soone are not so easilie infected as those who are long in dooing by reason that the long heate dooth extenuate those parts Likewise they which haue the skin fleane of their secret parts take not so easilie the maladie as others because beeing alwaies vncouered it is not so tender and delicate and therefore not so apt to receiue infection It proceeds also by lying in vncleane lynnen by wearing the garments of them which are infected and by lying with such as haue any spyces of it So that we see many by that meanes infected without any company of women Moreouer it proceedes also by sucking the Nurse any way diseased with this sicknes by drinking after them which haue Vlcers in their throat by kissing or receiuing the breath of such as are infected and by sitting on the priuie after them sometimes by treading bare-footed on the spettle of those which haue beene long corrupted Whervpon I will sette downe mine owne experience as followeth I saw Anno 1589. in Monsier Coiutret his house Principall of the facultie of Chirurgery in Paris the number of 26. men women and children infected which were sent vnto him by the Iustice to discouer from whence came the originall of it because it was thought that one infant did infect all the rest Whose Parents and Nurse being both cleane made the cause more difficult to be found out Yet by diligent enquirie the infection was found to haue his beginning frō the Midwife who of a long time had been infected with that disease and by receiuing y e child infected it by first breathing vpon the same as beeing tender delicate so the more easie to receiue such infection Thereafter sucking the Nurse did infect her and sundry other Nurses one after another who by giuing suck to other chyldren did infect them and finally the children did infect their Parents So it was prooued that by that chylde there were infected to the number of threescore lesse and more which persons I saw cured the most part of them my selfe I haue knowne diuers to haue been infected onely by kissing of which nūber I haue healed one in Paris who was infected by kissing a young Gentleman a sutor of hers who had Vlcers in his throat proceeding from the same disease in such sort that shortly after all her hayre did fall with externall paine of the ioynts whom I healed with the help of God and my confection The said Gentlewoman afore her comming to me dyd infect sundry chyldren by lying kissing and drinking with them Some infected onely by drinking with those that were infected afore as you haue heard so that it behoues vs to refraine familiar frequentation with such people I cured also a Gentlewoman in Paris of a great Family a virgin as I found by my visitation which was infected with thys disease the cause whereof I found to haue come by sitting on a Priuie after an infected person Likewise I healed a boy in Paris of the age of 15. yeeres who was infected by going bare-foote vpon his Masters spettle Gallen sayth Lib. de Febribus cap. tertio that it is daungerous to accompany those that be in a consumption and stincking breath'd and those that bee infected with the Plague Leprosie and such other sicknes which come by contagion as thys doth Many others I haue seene which for briefenes I will omit Now let vs come to the internall cause of this malady which is corrupted meats that doe ingender a putred flegmaticke nurature or a burnt mellancholy as diuers sorts of hearbs roots fishes fruites with such lyke rotten foode where-with the French Army was nourished at Naples where thys malady began first to be knowne among Christians Yet will I not affirme that the flegmatick or mellancholick humor is the onely cause of thys disease but also other humors yet the neerer that mens complexions approch to the flegmatick the apter they are to receiue thys infection which ought to be obserued For we see fewer Chollerick or Sanguins infected with thys dysease then the Mellancholick or Flegmatick likewise more difficult to be cured as we finde ordinarily by our experience VVherein we must note that after the Flegmatick complexion followeth the Mellancholick next the Sanguine last of all the Chollerick the which in deed is least altered because among all the humors it simbolizeth least with the sayd Pituitous humor The humor so altered and corrupted dooth actually let the action eyther animall vitall or naturall or two of them together or all thē three as well generally throughout all the body as particularly in one member as ordinarily happeneth in such dyseases Some are of opinion that it commeth of the imbecilitie of the vitall spirits and naturall like as somtyme wee see by experience I knew when I vvas Chirurgian ordinary to the French and Spanish Regiment in Paris that 35. souldiers had carnally to doe wyth a woman infected yet of the sayde 35. onely seauen were infected with the fore-said woman which seauen were cold and weake men of complexion and long in performing that act the rest were hote and robust soone dispatching the act hauing the faculty strong to withstand the venim and for this reason they were not insected therewith Diuers such accidents haue I known Fallopius is of the opynion that the cause of thys infection commeth often of the passion of the minde for when a woman loueth not that man shee hath to doe with she heateth not her selfe but lieth quietly and so thrusteth not forth the venim as some whores doe In this I thinke it a manifest occasion that some bunglers and olde men are not so commonly infected as some young men albeit they haue all to doe with one woman because also old men are dry hauing the skin hard the Gland therefore not so easie to receiue venim as yee haue heard In lyk manner women very common gyue not so easily thys
euill as other women who are lesse infected and not so common The cause is that common women take not so great pleasure because they beeing accustomed night and day to exercise venerie doe not excitat the humor so much as the other who take greater pleasure therein by reason that they vse not the act so often I haue often knowne men infected therewith who haue beene extreamly well loued of the woman by reason she tooke pleasure with him and so the vertue expultrixe was the stronger to put forth y t which was venomous to the great hurt of the man All these occasions doe infect many which infection if it remaine any space in the body sheweth certaine signes as ye shall heare in the Chapter of signes The fourth Chapter of the differences of the Spanish sicknes THE originall and cause of this disease beeing knowne it followeth to intreate of the differences of the same touching the which we must vnderstand that it is somtime gentle and molesteth nothing other whiles by little infection it doth sodainly augment and come to the state of the maladie somtime they passe many moneths and yeares before it be knowne eyther to the infected or to the Chirurgian somtime it occupieth onely the liuer and consequently the vaines somtime it is spread ouer all the body so that the hart and braines are somtime vexed with great accidents according to the varietie of the venim and of the body wherein it happeneth sometime with great simptoms somtime small That which occupieth the haire of the head beard browes without any feeling and hurting of the body is the most simple sort The second kind is worse which occupieth the skin with little spots which waxe greater somtime red somtime yellow which cannot be well extinguished except that the roote of the sicknes be taken away The third kind is greater the which not onely maketh little spots but also Pustulles and Tubercules first in the temples forehead and head thereafter through the whole body these are round and dry without matter Purulent yet in time if they be neglected they increase and become vlcers Virulens and sordides chiefely about the throat nose and fundament because these places are more tender and therefore so much the more easie to be vlcered The fourth kind is that which is infixed in the ioynts and naturall parts which makes great dolour somtime spasme and contraction of one member or of diuers members together The fifth kind is that which makes such relaxation that paralize followes in one member or generally taketh away the motion of the whole body The sixth kind is when it is inueterated so that it possesseth and corrupteth the solide and firme parts as bones sinewes membrans and tendons The seauenth kind is that which causeth dislocation of one or diuers articles The eight kind is that which maketh such corruption fracture in the midst of the bones somtime accompanyed with Herpes and Darters furfurous of the which some appeare in the soles of the feete some in the head some in the hands and some through all the body The ninth kind is that which occupieth diuers parts of ths head with extreame paine but chiefely in the night somtime with alteration of the scull The tenth kind is that which causeth deafenes with difficultie of smelling and also ablation of the fiue sences naturals The eleauenth causeth leprosie which is incurable The twelueth kind is when the sicke becommeth Ethick dyes in a consumption There are a number of others differences of this disease Antonius Musa sayth that there are two hundreth thirtie and foure kinds but these which I haue set downe are the most common vnder the which all the rest are comprehended Furthermore we must vnderstand that when this disease doth degenerate into leprosie it happeneth in those who often times haue been vndiscreetly handled by ignorant persons and when the body is ill prepared eyther by intemperancie of lyse or otherwise VVhen it doth degenerate into a consuming Feauer and doth become Ethick which the Latines call Tabid and that it is neere the noble parts it happeneth in those that haue beene often handled onely by Sudorfficks and dry nouriture as many ignorant persons doe thinking to drie vp the euill humors that way and so drie vp the humor radicall which of necessitie causeth the patient to become Ethick The fifth Chapter of the signes of the Spanish sicknes THE signes of this disease doe commonly follow the temperature of the body diseased As if a person of the Sanguine temperature be infected such a one shall haue ordinarily paine and heauines in the head but chiefely in the forehead and rootes of the eyes in the necke and shoulders in the arme and often times in all the articles great pulsation in the temples appetite to vomit with dulnes of the fiue naturall sences lassitude of all the body chiefely when the partie sleepeth and after sleepe the mouth clammie the vaines of the eyes red vlcers sordids both in the secrets and other parts of the body with inflamation and rednes diuers pustulles in the head face and neck and somtimes through all the body which for the most part are red and inflamed great aboundance of sweat very ill sauours the vrine very red and thicke great paine at such time as the humor Sanguine raigneth which is from three in the morning till nine as ye may see in our Chirurgie in the Chapter of humors If he who is infected with this sicknes be of the humor bilious or Chollerick he shall haue great drought with want of appetite punctions throgh all his body like poynts of needles paine in the right side of the head the body becommeth leane the face and eyes euill coloured the mouth euill tasted falling of haire through all the body with aboundance of drie pustulles which are more plentifull in these two humors than in the other two by reason that these humors be more liquid and so passe more easilie from the centre to the circumference of the body He hath vlcers virulent in diuers parts of the body chiefely in the yard codds and roofe of the mouth and throat great paine at such time as the humor chollerick raigneth which is from nine in the morning till three in the after-noone If the patient be of temperature pituitous or phlegmatick he shall haue paine with heauines of the hinder part of the head neck armes and legs in all the articles and ioynts dimnes of sight little appetite little drought great coldnes in the head and stomack debilitie of the parts neruous trembling palsie vvith attraction of some parts of the body the mouth homide and clammie the face and extremities swelled great aboundance of white pustuls without itch so that the phlegme be not salt If the phlegme be salt there happen Serpins and impetigines which we call commonlie Dortors furfurons or crustous chiefely in the hands and soles of the feete and in the head and somtimes in all the
AN Easie certaine and perfect method to cure and preuent the Spanish sicknes Wherby the learned and skilfull Chirurgian may heale a great many other diseases Compiled by Peter Lowe Arellian Doctor in 〈…〉 of Chirurgy in Paris Chirurgian ordinary to Henry 〈…〉 the most Christian King of Fraunce and Nauarre AT LONDON ⧠Printed by Iames Roberts Anno Dom. 1596. TO THE RIGHT HONOVrable Robert Deuorax Earle of Essex Vicount Herefford Knight of the most noble order of the Garter c. Peter Lowe wisheth good successe in all his woorthie enterprises and high attempts ALthough right honorable this Treatise be far dissonant from your studies yet I haue emboldened my selfe to let it passe vnder your honourable patronage for by Gods assistance I intend heereafter to publish diuers other Bookes of Chirurgie all which shall bee shrouded vnder your honourable shield and protection in regard of your manifold curtesies and liberalitie to all Strangers bountifully extended whereof you cease not euery day to giue experiment but especially in respect of your honours valiant prowesse and rare Martiall exploits in ayding my dread Soueraigne Maister the most victorious King of France so that in honoring him I must loue you and for your heroicall vertues admire your wisedome and courage in prosecuting all venterous and hard attempts as lately hath beene experimented to the terror of the Enemie peaceable welfare of this Realme and immortall fame vnto you your posteritie for euer Then forasmuch as the dedication heereof cannot bring any addition of credite vnto you but rather be the more acceptable vnder the tytle of your honourable patronage most humbly with my selfe I present the same vnto your honours good lyking as one that daylie intermitteth not to wish the aduauncement of your honourable estate Your Honours in all dutie most affectionate Peter Lowe TO THE COVRTEOVS Reader GEntle Reader I haue taken some paines in making thys booke to doe the sicke pleasure and the whole profit that thereby the diseased may recouer theyr health and sound men may preserue themselues from thys maladie And albeit that diuers heretofore of sundry Nations haue published Treatises of this subiect whereby at this present many coppies are extant so it may seeme superfluous to reiterate the 〈◊〉 Yet seeing I by mine owne diligent practise and conference with learned men in this 〈◊〉 haue found out diuers waies to cure this disease more easie certaine and speedâ—â—hen hath been put in vre by any of this age and that learned Artists and skilfull Practitioners in all ages haue written their seuerall iudgements almost vpon euery particulet subiect I thought it pertinent and necessary for the aduauncement of knowledge and case of many afflicted with this maladie to impart my skill herein for the better instruction of the Common-wealth For as this disease is dispersed throughout all Nations Prouinces Citties townes and priuate houses yea so many kindes thereof daily increased and multiplyed whereby men that know the nature of the maladie complexion of the Patient age season climate and other circumstances in the like case considered are of necessitie many times vrged to varie from the common cure and for the better extirpation of newe sorts hereof to deuise vse and apply new remedies so it is needfull for the behoofe of the weale publique enlargement of knowledge and acquitall of euery mans particuler dutie whereby he is bound so much as in him lyeth to aduaunce and further the Common-wealth to publish his experience in and touching the premisses The foresayd reasons moouing mee there-vnto I haue set forth to the view and reading of al men such knowledge herein as by long studie and experience I haue gotten to the intent that a further learning might be added to the Artists skill and such as haue no learning at all may be instructed without any other teaching As in this subiect I haue manifested my cunning for your benefit so I purpose heereafter if GOD prolong my dayes with happie successe to make you pertakers of my labour in the whole course of Chirurgerie and my Booke De partu mulierum by whose helpe I doubt not but many women shall ease shorten their course in trauaile And thus gentle Reader I wish your furtherance of knowledge both in this and all other needfull Arts. P. L. THE PROEM IT is a poynt knowne of all the Philosophers and confirmed by their common confent that the vse and practise of euery Arte is better and of more excellencie then the simple speculation and contemplation of the same as that for the which all rules precepts of Sciences are ordained and to the which they are referred as to the chiefe end the which may more amply appeare by Aristotle Primo Ethicorum et pri Topicorum diuers other Phylosophers throughout their whole works For amongst all humane Arts the practise of Girurgerie is the most excellent and profitable for â—o much as it preserueth man in health and good constitution of bodie in preuenting sicknesses to come by meet fit medicins and beeing sick doth restore him againe to the forme estate which if it were not seene vnto by the skilfull and expert Chirurgian would tend to the dissolution destruction of nature The naturall inclination and disposition of man by the gift of other humane Sciences is onelie bettered and made more prompt As for example Logick furnisheth nature teacheth to reason well Rethorick to speake eloquently the Law shewoth the way to maintaine possessions purchased and to recouer that whereof men are defrauded These gifts are in great estimation amongst men but in respect and comparison of life it selfe which by the learned Chirurgian is maintained and prolonged diseases and maladies cured they are of little account or value For what auaileth it vnto a man to bee a cunning Astrologian a learned Lawyer rich and mightie yea a Monarch of the whole world and in the meane time haue no ioy nor pleasure thereof by reason that he is daily vexed with cruell paine and deadly torments of maladies ready euery howre to giue vp the ghost Is not man then greatly beholding vnto Phisick and Chirurgerie The 〈◊〉 wherof causeth him to enioy and gather the profit of all other worldly Sciences Heereof it proceedeth that Aesculapius Apollo and other inuentors of our Art haue euer for the excellencie of that Science beene deified and esteemed for Gods meaning thereby that like as diuine Authors doe farte exceede worldly inuentors so this Art found out by the Gods is worthy to be preferred by man to all other worldly Sciences For this cause the Greeke Poet Homer doth prefer the professors of this Art to all other professors how excellent soeuer they be Heere vpon I being mooued by the former reasons loue that I beare to the Common-wealth I intend to intreate of a disease whose cure pertayneth to the Arte of Chirurgerie commonlie called the disease of Spaine or Naples The more generall the disease is
and incident to all Nations the greater ought the carefull diligence of the expert Chirurgian be to preuent and cure that maladie Nature by reason of appetite and inclination to carnall copulation doth argue the more is the pitty the vniuersall raigne and common infection of this contagious disease throughout all Nations Citties and Townes Therefore he that would prescribe an easie perfect and true way to oute this disease should greatly benefit the Publique weale in preseruing the life of an infinite number of people who vndeseruedly by infection from others are greeuously oppressed with this detestable maladie Now by daily and long practise conference with men of learning in this matter I haue found out diuers remedies and medicins neuer sette forth by any before this time Neuertheles to make my worke more perfect I will first intreate of the ordinarie cures practized by others which diuers men haue written in diuers manners to the great hurt of the Patient and discredite of the Chirurgian not knowing the true cure which is the cause that manie make a miserable end of their life which shall appeare to the diligent Reader in this my Treatise following The first Chapter of the definition of the Spanish sicknes THIS Spanish sicknes is one indisposition against nature bred cheefely by carnall copulation contagion ioyned with venenositie as saith Ioh. Suessanus Or it may be defined to be an euill intemperature hote and dry in the liuer vaines as saith Francantianus yet more dry then hote and therefore of more difficill curation but because that euill temprature may be without matter and is processe of time with matter and solution of continuitie the which penetrateth and corrodeth the secret parts of men and women with certaine pustulls in the head and forehead with other externall parts of the body which in time cause greefes in the night hardnes on y e bones we call them Tophes or Nodosities with corruption both of the bones and other spermatick parts yet this chaunceth oftenest in the secret parts of men because they bee laxe and soft and therefore easie to receiue infection as also because it doth enter into the capacitie of the Matrix whereof for the most part proceedeth the originall of this disease Thys part being infected with that venim it entereth into the little vaines and afterwarde into the great and lastly into the liuer where it changeth the naturall temperature and so infecteth all the members corrupting the naturall humors in the liuer which should passe for the nourishment of the whole body which if they be very vehement byting they ingender aboundance of externall vlcers and pustls falling of haire both of head browes and beard griefe in the ioynts head leggs and armes with diuers euill accidents according to the varietie of the humor yet chiefely in the night and at such times as the humor is accustomed to make his paroxismes and motions which is most commonly betwixt 3. of the clock in the after-noone and 9. at night as ye shall heare at length in our Chirurgie in the Chapter of humors The second Chapter of the originall and names of the Spanish sicknes THere are diuers learned men of diuers opinions and for the most part doubtfull of the originall of this disease Amongst whom the Theologians be of opinion hold it for a Maxime that for error commeth punition and for sin death and so they thinke that GOD doth send it for a scourge to the people for whordome There are also many famous Authors that haue written of diuers strange sicknesses which diuers times haue happened in Italie Fraunce and other Countries like as wee see somtimes in our owne Country the originall wherof are vnknowne vnto vs. But generally according to their opinion we may no doubt attribute the originall of all diseases vnto the indignation of God as the first cause who recompenceth euery man according to his works For to refraine the filthy lusts of men and women God hath permitted thys sicknes to raigne among them as a punishment for sinne like as we see in the 6. of Exodus that he coÌ„maunded Moses to cast powder in the ayre in the presence of Pharao to the effect the beasts and people of Egipt should be punished and afflicted with Apostums and Vlcers for their sinnes and disobedience But because I will not intermedle holy things with prophane I will not insist further in this matter The Astrologians are of opinion that it commeth and hath the originall from tâ—â— influence of the starres and eclipses of the Sunne as chaunced at that time in the Ile of Calecute when and where it began There are others that think it to be ingendered of a Fornicator and a Lepre in the West Indies Anno Dom. 1490. The most probable of all is the opinion of the Spanish Historiographers and also diuers other learned men that haue written of the same vvho doe report that it was brought among the Christians after y e natiuitie of our Lord 1492. by a Spaniard called Christophorus Columbus with many other Spanyards accompanied with some women who came from the new found Iles occidentalls For this sicknes is as common or rather rifer amongst them then any other disease with vs and doth infect as contagious sicknesses doe among vs. So diuers Souldiers were infected who after their returne not onely infected their owne Country but also diuers others Anno 1493. in the Moneth of December as Nicholaus Leonitius reporteth writing of thys disease when K. Charles the viij of Fraunce besieged Naples with a puissant Armie where hee remained certaine Moneths some of the Spanyards came to him of the which Christophorus Columbus was chiefe and spred this pernitious seed and termed it the Indian sicknes which hath had his course since not onely amongst the Spanyards who call it the Italian sicknes but also among the Italians who call it the maladie of Naples not without cause for it began first to florish in Naples Amongst the Frenchmen it is called the Spanish sicknesse in Enland the great pocks in Scotland the Spanish Fleas and that for two causes the one because it began first amongst the Spanyards the other because when the infection spreadeth first forth in the body it is like vnto red spots called flea-bitings Some call it the vnder foote because that infection often coÌ„meth by treading with the bare foote vpon the spettle of the diseased with this contagion There are some ignorant malicious people who call it the French sicknes without any cause or reason The most part call it the Venerian sicknes because most commonly it proceedeth of the act of Venus Some call it Pudendagra because in many people it breedeth first in those parts in both sexes Now it may be called generall sicknes because it is generally spred throughout all the world but for that these things concerning the originall and names are not greatly materiall I wil passe theÌ„ ouer and onely shew those things that
for it is an enemy to thys dysease vse onely the decoction of Gaiac Salsparill or Chine according to the temperature of the diseased Vse a little exercise for rest is hurtfull except there be great payne in the ioynts or in some other part Let not the exercise be violent for it dissolueth the naturall heate sleepe not long because it fills the head with vapors VVe must also obserue the passions of the minde chiefely mellancholy Be alwaies merry for then the naturall heate doth preuaile and so helpeth much to the cure Greefe feare and anger do much hinder the operation of the Medicines We must take heed to the excrements that the vapors ascend not to the head and other principal parts So the Patient must haue often Clysters made after thys manner Recipe maluae Althea violarea et Mercurialis an ma. i. Beulliant ad lib. 1. Addendo olei Violati vnc quat Cassiae vnc i. Salis drag i. fiat Clyster Which you must vse at the least euery three dayes or euery foure dayes foure drams of my confection Next vnder the Pharmacie we shall obserue all kindes of medicins taken inwardlie namely Decoction Syrrops Aposymes Iuleps Purgations Conserues Electuaries Clysters Gargarismes Pessers and Baths which shall be made onely of running water warmwise which we call Balneum aquaedulcis yet ye may copose it according to the diuersity of the accidents and temperature of the diseases as ye shall heare at large in my surgery in the chapter of Baths Yet commonly we make them of water wherein is put Mallowes Violets Pellitory of the wall Fumitory Patience Plantine Cammomell Mellelot dry Roses of each a handfull and it shall be well done to seeth those hearbs a little before you put them in the Bath The Medicins which be applyed outwardly are comprehended vnder the Pharmacy like as oyntments playsters Serots Oyles Kataplasmes Embrocations Fomentations Epythemes Sassats Synapismes and Perfumes the which things must be vsed according to the kind of the sicknes for to take away the euill humor contayned in the body But first the body and humors must be prepared with conuenient remedies as hereafter you shall heare to the end the euacuation may be the easier surer First of all the body shall bee gently purged with Confection Hamet or some such lyke thing the next day open the vaine most apparant a reasonable widenes if there be plenitude Afterward vse the remedies set downe by Ioh. Deuigo cap. de morbo Gallico for the preparation of the humors or this that followeth Recipe Syru de fumo terrae minori vnc 1. de succo Endiuiae drag 6. Aquary Endiuiae capil ven et fumit vnc 1. The Patient shal vse of thys the space of three or foure dayes one ounce euery day two howres before meate Afterward he shall be purged with thys medicine Recip sol senae mund vnc ss sem foenic. dulcis drag 1. Bullian in s q. decocti pectora Et in col dissole diapr sol drag 2. Syr. ros sol ex agar sena vnc 1. fiat potio quam cap. 3. horis ante insculum Afterwarde hee shall bathe himselfe 3. or 4. dayes and sweat a little in the bed when he is come out of the bath These things being done he shall vse thys syrrop the space of fiue or sixe dayes Re. Fumit cicor capil ven Enula Camp Buglossi Endiuiae an m. 1. ss Pollitrei m. ss Polipod passul Sebesten an vnc 1. Prunor. dam. num 25. Pomor acetosori vnum tantum parum conquassatuâ—â— vini Granatori lib. ss Aquam Endiuiae Fumit Buglossi an lib. 1. ss Bulliant omnia secunduÌ„ artem ad consumpt tertiae partis deinde colentur Et col add Zacli q. 5. Cum vnc 2. Succi Fumit et Endiuiae De quo patiens sumet in aurora vnc 1. ss Vel vnc 2. Cum aquis capil ven et Endiuiae atque Fumiterrae The humors being so prepared the body shall bee purged after thys manner Recipe Cathol drag 10. dissol in decoct cicor Agrim Borag in quo bullierint fol. Senae drag 2. Cum sem foenic. dulcis addendo syr Ros Pallidari vnc ss fiat potio sumenda 3. horis insculum The next day hee must bee let blood in the Basilike or median dexter These things beeing well performed are very needfull for the preparation of the humors And these things must alwaies be vsed before the generall cure The Chirurgian which is the thyrd putteth in execution these thinges if hee be learned and wise as hee ought and well furnished with things belonging to his Art knowing not only the Chirurgery but also the principles of Phisick as well in the Theorick as Practick by reason that it is requisite for him to ordaine both dyet and pharmacy otherwise hee is vnperfect Gallen saith in his introduction to Phisick that Pharmacie hath neede of Diet and Chirurgerie in lyke manner Chirurgerie hath need of Diet and Pharmacie There are three other things to be obserued of the Chirurgian to wit the essence the cause and symptoms of the maladie as ye haue heard the diuesitie of the temperatures and the fit remedies for curing hereof for these things beeing vnknowne the true cure hardlie followeth but onely by hazard and not by rules of Arte as the blind man casteth his staffe For these causes wee must not meruaile at the malignitie and crueltie of thys sicknesse nor the sore torments of the sick for there are manie euill disposed persons in all Countries who endanger a great manie Patients by not vsing of fit remedies taking one medicine for all sorts of this disease which is much against reason For according to the temperature and nature of the parties diseased the remedie must bee changed as Gallen hath written at large in his bookes De locis affectis There are also many who professe to knowe secrets and diabolick charmes for curation hereof but all such things are false the Authors there of are worthie to be most greeuously punished for such things cause the sicknes to waxe more rebellious so that hardlie afterwards it obeyeth anie remedie and then the poore Patient dieth most miserably These things happen by not knowing the nature of the maladie and remedies not the varietie of the bodies and the nature of the partie infected VVee must vnderstand that strong people as Labourers Marriners and such as are vsed to sore labour endure more violent remedies stronger euacuations then those which are weaker and more delicate as women sick folks tender children Eunuches and such like for such persons the medicine must be gentler and the euacuations lesse otherwise in vsing of strong remedies ye put them in danger of death Heereby it may easilie appeare that according to the temperature we must diuersifie the remedies for in sanguine and chollerick complexions we must vse other medicins then in the phlegmatick and melancholick So that those which say they haue secrets and drinks for all sorts are rather to be
called deceiuers and Iuglers then true ministers of our Art The twelueth Chapter sheweth how by nine diuers wayes this disease may be cured THere are diuers learned men who of long time haue sought out and put in practise diuers remedies as well generall as particuler for the extirpation of this maladie of the which our ordinarie practisioners vse commonly foure First by decoction of Gaiac secondly by vnctions thirdly by emplasters fourthly by perfumes or suffumigations But because these wayes for the most part are both dangerous and and vncertaine as I haue often prooued beeing also a thing that bringeth infamie to the diseased by reason that this manner of cure yea though it were certaine could not be performed without the knowledge of many Therefore I haue taken paines both by daily practise and obseruation as also by conference with learned men touching this matter to find a way more certaine for the curation and not so dangerous nor painfull for the patient which may be performed without keeping eyther bed or chamber and that without knowledge of any man except it be inueterate And it is performed by Pils and decoction of white wine decoction of Salsparel by electuarie by my Arabick powder which before me haue not beene practised and I may asâ—ure them all to be most certaine for the curation of this disease to haue beene experimented by me in moe than two hundred patients of diuers Nations in curing of whom there happened no accident but perfect health I can by the like meanes and inuention of mine cure Children of two moneths old Now seeing by Gods helpe I haue found out things so profitable for the recouerie of health in an infinite number of people I will not hide it but publish the same so plainly that euery man by his owne industrie may attaine to the knowledge heereof But first I will set downe the common way daylie practised beginning with the first which is the decoction of Gaiac and so proceede with the rest after the same order to the end that all men may knowe both the vulgar and auncient way and also the newe found out and practised by mine onely dilligence The 13 Chap. to cure the Spanish disease by decoction of Gaiac which is the first way AS for this manner of cure that is done onely by decoction you shall heare the forme hereof after the manner that is ordinarilie vsed like as I haue often proued my selfe But that I euer healed any onely by that way I will not say not withstanding that there is no Surgion in Fraunce that hath cured that disease more then I. Neyther coulde I euer learne of any famous Surgion that would affirme it to be a true cure Yet the Spaniards and Italians be of an opinion that it may be done Their reason is that the first Spaniard that was infected there-with in the occidentall Indies in an Ile called S. Dominick hauing an Indian to his seruant who professed to heale this disease onely by that decoction was healed by him who did also heale many others So by his example diuers others doe vse y t way But I answer At that time the sicknes was not so venimous as now neyther gaue they it leasure to inueterat as we doe nor yet was the people of our temperature being for that cause more easie to be healed Among the foure wayes to heale this disease I esteeme this to be the most weake most vncertaine the which opinion is confirmed by all those that haue written and practised in this matter Neuerthelesse by our experience we find it a remedie albeit not altogether sufficient for the exturpation of this sicknes yet a great helpe to it as also to many other diseases where neede is to heate attenuat prouoke sweat and drie moderatlie So that I thinke it should be rather called a preparation to the cure then a perfect or true cure For seeing it is not sufficient for the cure of a simple sicknes as of a defluxion or Catharre this we see by our daylie practise the which is healed by simple remedies then much more it must be weake for the taking away of this sicknes the which is of such nature as sayth Palmanius that often it receiueth no curation notwithstanding the vse of all proper remedies which make a great euacuation as well laxatiue as others Yet I confesse that there is some hidden facultie that helpeth much by reason that it heateth rarifieth and prouoketh both vrine and sweat and is also somwhat propper against the venim consuming a part of the humors that be most subtill so appeaseth the dolor for a certaine time but the primitiue cause doth remaine with the most part of the humors which be deepe thicke and grosse of the which commeth Tophes and Nodosities in diuers parts of the body chiefely in the leggs armes and head accompanied with dolors Alwayes let it be vsed with a good method regime with preparation of the humors as you haue heard in the generall Chaprer So doing the venim is almost withdrawne if the sicknes be recent and the patient of a good temperature Therefore I will briefely set downe the preparation of this decoction the time propper to vse it and the forme how it shall be vsed with the regime that should be obserued in the vsage heereof at all times As touching the preparation after it be put in powder so much as you will vse you must steepe it 24 houres in water for by the long steeping it receaueth more force the water must be warme and vpon one pound of the tree put ten pounds of water eyther Fountaine or Riuer as counselleth Montanus of Hermodact Drag ij That beeing done it may be made in diuers manners but the most part doe seethe it in a weake fire in a pot of earth or Copper well couered so that no ayre auoyde let it seethe till the second or third or fourth part be consumed which shall be done according vnto the indication and temperature of the person Some doe make it by distillation But whatsoeuer fashion you make it of a little before the full concoction add some Licorice small broken to the effect it be more pleasant so retire it from the fire and being refreshed straine it through a cloth and keepe it close in bottels for thine vse the vvhich shall be in the morning at such time as thou wilt sweat Therafter thou shalt make a second decoction to drink in the meales and in other such houres as shall be found to be expedient It shall be made in this forme Put to the grounds at the rest of the other decoction as much water as before and seethe it as the other but let it not consume so much by reason you shall vse long and much of it VVe put to it for the corroboration of the stomack Coriander Anniseed Cinamon such like The time most propper to vse the first decoction is in the morning and after-noone long time
et Galline an vnc 2. Axungie porci butyri recentis sine sale an vnc 1. Medulle vituline et cernine vnc ss Cum gummatuÌ„ ammoniaci bdellij Galbani et Oppopanacis vnc 2. sem malue lini et Fenugr an vnc ss Olei Liliori Violari et Lumbric an vnc sem fiat linementuÌ„ With this you shall rubbe the parts affected euerie time you come out of the bath Being so continued a certaine space wee adde to some of these Axungies a medicament which is esteemed by our Authors to haue a proprietie manifest or occult for this disease the which is called HydrargiroÌ„ or Quicksiluer But by reason that of it commeth diuers accidents as ye haue heard beeing either euill of himselfe or euill prepared therefore when thou shalt make the vnguent haue recourse to the Chapter of Quicksiluer The 15. Chap. Of the forme of the Friction THE body and humors being prepared as you haue heard the Patient shall be put in a place naturally warme or in the cold weather it shall be made warme by Art exempt of all cold and wind which may penetrate in the body and hinder the operations of the medicaments For this cause those that doe meddle with thys sort of cure should haue a little close Chamber with a chimney where alwaies should be fire the which must be great in the time of the friction and that in the morning at 5. or 6. of the clock as time most propper If the Patient be weak giue him an Egge or some other thing of light digestion an houre before halfe an houre after a drink of the first decoction warme That being done there must be a reasonable fire the which the siâ—â— shall stand before turning alwaies about to the end the heate may penetrate in all y e sides and vniuersally throughout the body Put a cloth about his head another about his belly to the end the vnguent touch neither of these two parts then yee shall begin the friction at the articles as hands shoulders elbowes knees afterward vniuersally throughout the whole body excepting alwaies the head the belly the which is annoynted by some ignorants causing thereby death or some cruell accidents Rub wel to the end it may penetrate the better and let the friction be more copious in the parts affected then in the rest The vnguent being soked in a part you must haue a hote sheete put it about him so laying him in a hote bed which shall be well couered with many clothes not heauie there he shall sweat an houre or two or as long as he may endure If the sweat come not sufficiently put to his feet and shoulders some hote stones or pots of earth or of glasse or some bladders full of the same decoction warme as ye haue heard in the cure by decoction TheÌ„ hauing sweat sufficientlie rub him wel with warme dry clothes til he be almost dry so take the sheete from him and after that rub him a space with warme linnen till he be perfectly dry Be diligent in rubbing well his head afterward let him refresh himselfe softly so two howrs after he may dine and doe the like after-noone and other times when ye shall annoynt him Yet there must be both mediocritie and method in the annoynting for like as our soft annoynting is not able to open the poares in like manner the ouer-strong dooth open the poars of the skin making dolor attraction and commotion of the parts Take alwaies heede to the forces of the sick beware of that which is cause of all dolors and recidiues that is the number of the frictions by reason that some giue ouer-few fearing these accidents and to the contrary some others that gyue ouer-many in such sort that I haue heard men vaunt themselues to haue rubbed the poore Patient 37. times Before I had found out other waies for the cure of this diease I haue rubbed to the number of 5. or 6 times and oft-times but twise or thrice Neuerthelesse the time may not be iustlie limitted but for the greatnesse of the sicknesse and temperature of the sicke wee vse the frictions till we perceiue a reduction of the venimous humors eyther by fluxe of mouth or of belly or of vrine and sometimes by insensible resolution but that is seldome and not certaine If we see in bodies strong and hard that nature will not worke nor obey the frictions by once a day annoynting then they must be twice that is at 6. of the clocke in the morning two or three in the after-noone so that one day that way doth more profit then two daies other waies In weake and tender persons yee must annoynt but once a day and somtimes but once in two dayes by reason that in such people the ouer-oft annoynting maketh a resolution of the spirits and maketh nature weake VVhen the sicke beginneth to spet it is a token that the humors are prepared to auoyde and then once annoynting wil doe more then twice before and it shall be well done to rubbe but once or twice at the most afterward So when nature giueth leysure to expell the venim if we perceiue that the euacuation doth not coÌ„tinue till the whole malice be euacuated theÌ„ to make it continue wee apply Emplaisters on the necke and shoulders composed after the forme as ye shall heare in the chap. of the cure by Emplaisters so that it shall continue the fluxe to the perfect euacuation For the same effect we may vse one Pill or two composed as you shall heare in the cure by Pills In like manner 8. gra of my powder called Puluis Arabicus which shall be taken in Conserue of Roses Somtimes the fluxe of the mouth is so great that we are constrained to stay it by Emplasters astringents as of Mastick Contra rupturum de bolo and such like on the neck and shoulders ventouses also frictions with hote clothes in like manner Gargarismes as ye shall heare in the chapter of vlcers in the mouth In like manner by Clysters emolients to diuertise the humor to ascend to the superior parts somtimes by vsing all these remedies the crise is imperfect so leaues some rest the which by little little doth corrupt the whole masse and so maketh worse accidents then before Somtimes it remaineth in the body halfe a yeere or a yeere sometimes 8. or 10. yeres chiefely in persons mellancholick and cold So the most part of those dieth most miserably by reason of the great internall corruption before any external apperance But to returne to our purpose we must take heede that the remedies be neyther ouer violent nor indiscreetly applyed by reason of the great accidents which ensue there-vpon and chiefely excoriation and corrosion of the intestins consumption of the humor radicall whereof the sicke becommeth tabid or getteth vlcers sordids and putrids in the mouth which oft consumeth a great part of the muscles that moue the iawes so the action doth decay To
to the natural cullour In like manner the appeasing of all the symptoms subiect to that disease helping of the members as before doing all wonted actions without any impediment or hinderance If these signes bee certainly perceiued you may assure your selfe that there remaineth nothing and so wee end thys Treatise The second Treatise sheweth the way to cure the accidents of the Spanish sicknesse The first Chapter SEeing I haue sufficientlie shewed in the former Treatise of the curation of thys dysease which generally happeneth throughout all the body by the which all men that doe professe anie learning and cheefely Chirurgiaâ—s may easily cure the same Now in like manner will I shew the true cure of the accidents of this sicknes which ordinarilie we call the Venerian sicknes perticuler yet of these there be also many sorts for some goe before the malady and if it be not yet confirmed some follow some happen in the cure and some after the cure vnperfectly performed Of those which goe before which we call precedents or forriders is vlcers and cankors of diuers fashions in the yeard burning of vrine Chaudepisses Carnosities Pulluines and such like Yet somtimes any of these may happen without the sicknes Those that followe bee pustuls and vlcers throughout all the bodie cheefely in the secret parts and also in the forhead and diuers other parts of the head in the emunctories in the mouth throat and fundament falling of hayre dolors and nodosities of the ioynts Those that happen in the cure are lack of appetite and walking vlcers in the mouth intestins and conduit of vrine with diuers others which happeneth in diuers manners according vnto the varieties of the waies of cure Those that happen after the vnperfect cure make diuers euill accidents as the fixed greefe of the whole head or some part thereof also of the legs armes and ioynts nodosities with putrifaction of the bones deafenes defluxions of the eyes filthy and creeping vlcers Fissures and Darters in the hands feete and diuers other parts of the body diminution of substance so that the body becommeth leane and atrified Of these symtoms some be cured by the generall cure but heere we shall content vs to speake of those which are cured by particuler cure If not by dulie administring of propper remedies the part affected becommeth rebellious and obeyeth no remedies the Patients are tobe suspected to haue great venenositie in the bodie where-upon for greater assurance to saue them from the vniuersall sicknes I cause them to vse euery morning of my electuary halfe an ounce by that meanes the euill humor doth auoy de which did entertaine the sicknes so is healed easily If it chaunce otherwise it shall bee well done to cause the sicke to vse good regime the space of 10. or 15. dayes during the which time yee shall vse a decoction of Salsparil or Gaiac according to his temperature and some liniment particuler on the part affected as also on the parts adiacents the which liniment shall be composed of Axungie rosat Mesues or Butter adding such quantitie of Mercure as ye shall finde expedient By thys linement and the decoction ye shall haue a great help in the cure The second Chapter sheweth the way to cure those vlcers that happen in the yeard HEere we shall begin at the maligne vlcers in the yeard which take their originall by carnall coniunction laying a part for this time those that happen by diuers other occasions as by hauing to doe with women in the time of theyr flowers and also by the great confrication of some women that be straight hote the which for the most part may be healed of themselues notwithstanding we shall speake of some part of them Of those vlcers which be maligne some happen in the gland called by the Latins Balanus and when they be most copious they be least maligne Others happen in the Prepuce which is the vtter skinne that couereth the gland Those vlcers for the most part be few in number but more dangerous somtimes complicked with virulencie or corrosion with blew or blackish cullour accompanied with callosity sometimes with filthines or rottennesse euill habitude of the body All these accidents must be corrected or els the vlcers cannot be healed the which being neglected in short space become cacoethick and maligne Some doe ende in gangrene or mortification and then we are constrayned to cute the whole member or at the least some portion thereof For the which you may haue recourse to my Chirurgie Chapter of gangrene Somtimes these vlcers doe degenerat into Carcinomes which if so happeneth you may haue recourse to the Chirurgie Chapter of Carcinomes It shall be well done not to neglect the simplest vlcer in the yearde For oftentimes by the neglecting of the vniuersall curation in the beginning and vsing onelie some repercussiue and astringent remedies the disease is healed but for a time so that afterwards it returneth within halfe a yeare or a yeare or two yeares sooner or later according to the habitude of the person diseased I handled in Paris a Gentleman who tenne yeares afore had a simple vlcer in his yearde and being euill cured by sorce of repercussiues the venim did retire to the center of the body So after the ten yeares vlcers and pustuls appeared in his yearde and at the perineum the prostats and parastats became all putrified and in like manner the whole scrotum So he dyed miserably notwithstanding all remedies as many doe when the humor virulent is retired and hidden long time in the body the which may chaunce in old folks For in such it consumeth inwardly before any appearance without But to returne to our purpose for the curation of maligne vlcers in the yearde we must vse some light purgations letting of blood good regime according to the temperature of the body vsing also decoction of Gaiac and Salsparill abstayning from all strong purgatious also bleeding of the arme or any superior part by reason that the strong medicines doe reuoke the humor to the centre of the body the which nature would discharge by the vlcers letting of blood in the armes or any superior parts doeth the same So that if these things be not well obserued the generall sicknes followeth for this cause the purgation shall be weake and the letting of blood in the inferior parts as in the leggs or feete also with such method that the part affected be not irrited As for the simple vlcers that be not maligne but come onely by great rubbing on women that be hote or by great violence on little Maides or by some women y t are ouer-straight which seldome happeneth or by women that haue their purgations and such other as you haue heard we vse onely drying medicaments and without mordication like as pouder of Tutia prepared Terra Sigillata burnt lead Bolus Vera and such like You shall put eyther of these alone or diuers together mingled with some medicament
after all is well regenered as it ought you shall consolide cicatrice the vlcers like as in all other vlcers The 7 Chapter of the Warts that come on the extremitie of the yeard betwixt the prepuce and balanus THere happeneth oftentimes certaine little excressence of flesh like Warts betwixt the gland and prepuce of the which there are two sorts The one proceedeth of the venerian sicknes the other not yet neyther of them both for the most part dollorous but very much troublesome by reason of the great number of them The cause of such as are venimous is the euill indisposition of women accompanied with some infection Those which are not venimous happen by hauing to doe with women in the time of their purgations of the which happeneth not onely that but also many other greeuous diseases both to the men also the children which are conceaued at that time for eyther they become Leapors vniuersally or some particuler part which we call Elephanciasis particuler or if this happen not yet the child is alwayes sickly and of short lyfe for this and diuers other causes it was forbidden in the 18 Chapter of Leuiticus to vse the company of women at that time But to returne to our putpose for the curing of these parts whether they happen of the venerian sicknes or otherwise we must first consider whether they be recent and soft or inueterate and hard as somtime it happeneth If hard and inueterat they must be softened by such remedies as you haue heard in the Chapter of Carnositie and being softened they must be consumed with powder of Sabine and Ocre well puluerized with an Emplaister of Cerus and a little Quicksiluer being consumed vse for the cicatrizing such as you haue heard in Carnositie Our Ancients and chiefely Aetius did cure them by caustick medicaments the which are cruell and not in vse amongst vs. I haue often cutte them with the sheares afterward consumed them with powder Allumenus or water of the same if they be very great I knit them as well betwixt the perpuce and gland as also without the prepuce Touching which I will recite a rare history which happened to me in Paris in time of the last troubles A certaine Noble man of Spaine hauing on the side of the prepuce exterieure a cressence of the quantitie of a great plum and when the erection of the yeard was it waxed as bigg as a tennis ball so that hee could neuer accompany with any woman in such sort that no Chirurgian neyther in Spaine nor Italie would take it in hand at last he sent for me and after I had considered thereof I vsed remedies rosolutiues for a time but finding small profit thereby I did knit it in the presence of Mounsier Le Fort and Mounsier Pineau Doctors in Chirurgie and healed it with good successe after the same maner you may cure all such warts which happen in any part The 8 Chapter of falling of the haire OFtentimes of this sicknes commeth falling of the haire of the head beard and browes with great deformitie for which we must giue order both to take away the cause and also to bring newe haire The cause of this simptom is eyther that the aliment wherewith the haire is nourished is corrupted and consumed or that the skin is dryed and pressed together so that it may not ingender that aliment fuliginous whereby the haire is ingendred and nourished For the cure we must euacust the euill humor generally through all the bodie or at least of the parts affected which may be done two wayes to wit exterior and interior Interior by masticators to prouoke spitting as Pereter Mastick Pepper after which we vse exterior medicines to cause the head to sweat by laying many clothes on the Patient I find no remedie better for it than by a hot house or the reflex of heate which goeth from the fornis to the place where the head shall lye If after euacuation the body be infected there must be generall euacuation for that purpose herein you shall vse the decoction of Salsparill and Gaiac for the space of 15 dayes with a little of my confection euery day which is sufficient to euacuat the humor which offendeth After this prouoke newe haire where it wanteth which may be done sundry wayes yet somwhat painfull for the which I will impart vnto you a very rare secret for growing of haire and of great vallue which I haue vsed in helping of diuers great men when all their haire hath beene fallen and within a short space it grew againe by helpe of this remedie made after this manner Take the rootes leaues of Mallowes put of them in a still one bed then a bed of Honney and so forth one bed of them and an other of Honney till the still be full In the meane time you shall cut two or three Horseleaches small and mingle therewith afterward distill all with a very soft fire then distill that water againe in Balmo Marie and let it stand in the Sunne the space of 15 dayes afterward rub the parts most voide of haire with that liquor 5 or 6 times a day Also this remedie is very well set downe by Fumanellus which is Recipe apes crematas cum melleque commixtas et locum superponito Or this Vnguent Recipe apum vistarum Adianti Vsti Olei Rosati quantum sufficit et fiat Vnguentum Or this that followeth written by Marinellus Recipe cineris cicadarum vstarum cineris apum vstarum Olei Myrtini vel Axungiae quantum sufficit muste et fiat Vnguentum Or this Re. stercorum murium et apum ana vnc ss Vnguenti Populeonis vnc ss miste et fiat Vnguentum de quo vngatur locus sed prius remoueantur crines So by the vsage of these remedies the haire shall easily-come againe The 9 Chapter of Darters which happen in diuers parts of the body OFtentimes after the vniuersall cure of this sicknes there commeth in the face and palmes of the hands feete and through all the body certaine chaps and dry vlcers which oftentimes are very large and are commonly called Darters or Fissures setpiginous which somtime be dolorious other whiles not y e parts where they are be more thicke and dry than the nature of the place is and in rubbing of the part you shall perceaue white things like beaten sugar The cause of the which is a salt pituitous humor and chollerick burnt by the intemperat heat of the lyuer ioyned with some venimous humor which riseth in the part as chaunceth to them who haue vsed too hote medicines in the cure of the generall disease or else because there remayneth some little portion of the venim in the body the which is sent to the externall parts at such certaine times of the yeere as the humor raigneth For the cure heereof it is some-what hard chiefely being inueterate by reason that the liuer is affected yet for the extirpation of the