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A54490	A description of the venereal disease declaring the causes, signs, effects, and cure thereof. With a discourse of the most wonderful antivenereal pill. Prepared onely by Charles Peter, chyrurgeon, and practitioner in physick. And are to be sold at his House in St. Martins-lane, near Long-acre, over against the sign of the Castle.	Peter, Charles.	1678 (1678)	Wing P1682; ESTC R221448	8,267	18

Breath or perhaps it only leaves them a pain in their Joynts Methinks these things considered People should not easily be persuaded to this sort of Cure especially if they did but know what Spasmaes or Convulsions of the Nerves have been occasioned by it I have seen Mouths drawn awry and squinting caused by it Limbs contracted and innumerable more mischiefs to arise from it and I have been more troubled to help those Accidents that have hapned by reason of Salivation than ever I was to cure the Distemper it self Sweating I approve of and likewise of Bathing for being used in due time and place they are very beneficial for they attenuate the Humours make the Body lively and help to evacuate the Matter especially if any viscous Matter have possessed the Joynts they by their moderate heat do help to discuss it As for Issues they serve well enough to attract and discharge the Humour therefore very proper where the Eyes are affected or in any distillation of the Humour or in a Catarrh or Asthma they help much but have no power of themselves to overcome the Malignity But of all ways imaginable there is none like Diet and Purging which if rightly prepared and carefully used do infallibly eradicate the Distemper I can by many years experience say That Purging is the most exeellent way of Curing I mean purging with such noble Medicines as have the power to correct the Malignity of so virulent a Disease for 't is not every of those common Purgers that have power to overcome the Malignity but such Specificks which not onely purge the offending Humour but by their admirable Qualities cleanse the Blood fortifie the Heart Liver and Brain and clearly extirpate the Disease from the Body And indeed the onely Medicine that ever I have found prevalent in these Cases is my Antivenereal Pills which work so safely and so surely that I never knew them fail if taken carefully I never use any other Medicine in all manner of Claps and I could quote vast numbers of People that have been cured by them to my great pleasure and profit but Silence in such cases is and always shall be my resolution In the Pox there have been such strange Cures wrought by this Pill that have made many of my own Profession to admire the Vertues of it Wherefore since it hath pleased God to grant me the knowledge of so wonderful a Medicine I could not rest satisfied in my mind until I published it for the good of the World And now Reader pray be so charitable in thy Opinion of me as not to judge me guilty of encouraging of Lust by my acquainting the World with the Effects of it and the way to get out of the Labyrinth which it generally leaves Men in neither think that I desire more to gain by my Labours than to do good to my Country Quia Nos non nobis nati sumus The ANTIVENEREAL PILL THese Pills are of most wonderful Vertue they work by Stool and Urine and gently move Sweat They work most by Urine for 't is but rational the Distemper should be cast out the same way it was received They work by Stool pleasantly without any gripings or tortions of the Guts They do most admirably correct the virulency and take away the sharpness of Urine in three or four times taking and I assure thee upon the Faith of a Christian that I have many times cured a fresh Clap with eight or nine Doses of them and sometimes with fewer and that safely without any relapse and without any use of Restringent Medicines for 't is a common trick among rash Practitioners that having given half a dozen or more Purges they presently administer Restringents and so stop the Humour which will not lie still but returning into the Body seises the Liver corrupts the whole mass of Blood and consequently confirms a Pox in the Body perhaps to the utter ruine of the Patient These Pills are balsamick as well as cathartick and therefore do all the Intentions of Curing They are to be taken two three or four at a time still observing to alter the Dose according to the strength of the Patient Two may be taken by any one for the first Dose and if they do not work by Stool seven or eight times then increase the Dose the next day They ought to be taken two days together and the Party to rest the third and then to fall to them again but if the Distemper be inveterate let the Patient continue taking them without intermission for they will work onely on the offending Humour The best way of taking them is early in the morning and to lie in Bed and sleep two or three hours after the taking of them Sometimes I order them to be taken at night when the party goes to bed but then the dose must not exceed two or three at the most And note That the party which takes them at night ought to eat no supper but early in the morning to drink something that is warm for they will work by Stool so soon as the party rises Those who take them in the morning whether they lie in bed or not after they have took them they ought in three hours after them to take a draught of warm Ale Posset-drink Water-grewel or Mutton or Veal-broth which will much help the working of them Any one may safely go abroad after they have taken them but it would be better if they keep within till near Noon at Dinner they may eat heartily of fresh Meats and drink Wine provided they exceed not one pint a day for I have found by experience that Wine moderately drank is beneficial in most Diseases and I find that in Claps or any Distemper where the Vrinary passages are affected Wine helpeth much especially White wine This Pill is so safely prepared that it may be taken by any person without danger as Women with Child c. and the operation of it is so free and easie that it is pleasant as well as profitable It hath no corroding quality nor doth it cause any unsavoury belchings as loathsom Boles and Potions do There is no person but may take it and go about their Business as if they ailed nothing nor can any one perceive that the party has taken any thing for it exhilerates all the vital Faculties it being as much cordial as purgative It not onely cures safely pleasantly and quickly but 't is a great preservative against the Infection A Dose taken immediately after the Act either carrieth away all venom with it or causeth it forthwith to shew it self whereby a more speedy Cure is acquired In a word I am certain there is no Medicine in the World mor efficacious in all Effects of the Foul Disease than these most excellent Pills are In all manner of Poxes I have found them most admirable I have cured people which have been afflicted with all the varieties of the Pox by these Pills onely as for example In an old consumptive Pox where the parties have been so weakned by continual pains that they could scarce stir I have administred these worthy Pills which have worked so effectually with correcting the Cause and evacuating the offending Humour and by their nutritive quality corroborating the vital parts they have soon restored the Patients to perfect health Others whose Privy-parts have been covered with Warts which is an absolute demonstration that the Distemper hath taken root in the Body I have given them of these Pills which have eradicated the Distemper that the Warts have consumed without any local Applications I have cured many of large Nodes by the use of these Pills for they dissolve them and purge away the dregs of the Disease These Nodes are caused by the phlegmatick part of the Venom left behind in ill managed Cures they are very painful Swellings sometimes on the Shins onely and many times in many parts of the Body and the Bones are often fouled by them if not great care taken I have met with many rebellious Vlcers in the Privy-parts and in many other parts of the Body which have resisted the force of many good Medicines outwardly applied In all such cases I have used these Pilla which has so changed the ill habit of the Body of the Patients that their Sores have easily yielded to the same Medicines and incarnated handsomly and have been cured without any relapse Reader I could relate much more of the Virtues of these excellent Pills but I suppose what I have already said may be satisfactory enough but if thou art dubious of any thing that thou hast read here I shall be very willing to satisfie thee in it and I question not but to justifie what I have here published to the World Those to whom Pills are troublesom to swallow may take them in the pulp of an Apple a stew'd Prune a Raisin or a preserv'd Cherry or they may put them into a piece of Leaf-Wafer and take them in a spoonful of Ale or any other Liquor as they best like These Pills are put up in Tin Boxes and sealed with my Coat of Arms each Box containing Thirty Pills and are sold for Four shillings the Box. They are sold at my own House and the following places Mr. Thomas Burrell 's Book-seller at the Golden Ball under St. Dunstans Church in Fleet-street And at the Sign of the Printing-Press in the Piazza on the South-side of the Royal-Exchange I have in my House most convenient and cleanly Bathes likewise very good Conveniencies of Sweating by all the several ways used here or in Foreign Parts

A DESCRIPTION OF THE VENEREAL DISEASE DECLARING THE CAUSES SIGNS EFFECTS And CURE thereof With a DISCOURSE of the most Wonderful ANTIVENEREAL PILL Prepared onely by CHARLES PETER Chyrurgeon and Practitioner in Physick And are to be sold at his House in St. Martins-lane near Long-acre over against the Sign of the Castle LONDON Printed for the Author 1678. READER I Have for the Common Good made publick my Antiveneral Pill I doubt not but some will cavil at my Endeavours and those prehaps some of my own Profession though themselves either cannot or will not advantage the Good of the Publick The great number of People which I have seen in many Parts of this Kingdom to have perished for want of Help by the Venereal Disease hath occasioned me to unfold to the World what I never did intend to do as touching the Disease For the confidence of many Persons that pretend to cure this Distemper and the ignorance of those Persons that adventure their Lives into the Hands of such Impostors who without fear of God or compassion to Mankind promise Cure let the Distemper be never so bad taking Money in hand and giving many ineffectual Doses either destroy the Patient or make him worse perhaps throw him into a dangerous Salivation and so to his Grave The which while I have often deplored I thought my selfe bound in Conscience to inform the People of a nearer and a better way of Curing than is too commonly practised by many bold Vndertakers What Mischiefs many illiterate Persons have caus'd by their ill-prepared Doses many miserable Patients can witness the greater the shame while we live in a Kingdom so well Furnished with Learned Physicians and Skilful Chyrurgeons whose Knowledge in Anatomy and daily Experience make them the onely Persons capable of undertaking so dangerous a Malady A Disease not to be trifled with For although generally we find in our Weekly Bills of Mortality that Consumption is intituled the greatest Executioner of Deaths Commands yet I am of the opinion that the Venereal Distemper is the greater Destroyer of Mankind I will therefore give thee an Account of the Nature of this Hydra with a Discourse of my Pill which I assure thee is the choicest Remedy that can be used in all Effects of the Venereal Distemper COncerning the Original of the Venereal Disease Authours are various and differ much in the Name of it The Italians call it Morbus Gallicus the French call it Scabiem Hispanicam and Morbum Italicum in Spain they call it Morbum Neopolitanum and several other Names it has which for brevity I do omit The French say that the Italians first brought it among them the Spaniards they lay it on the French and both Italians and French accuse the Spaniard and say that Columbus brought home his Men infected with it from the Indies But I think it matters not from whence it came or what 't is called since 't is known we have it in England as much as any where The Common People here call it The French Pox and I shall treat of it by the Name of Lues Venerea under which Name I shall comprehend the Grand Pox and the Gonorrhaea and all Effects of either of them The Causes of the Lues Venerea THE Causes of this Distemper are twofold The first of an occult Quality being as a Scourge laid on Mankind by the Almighty to restrain our too wanton Lusts the other is by an impure touch or contagion especially in copulation a Man receiving of an infected vapour or filthy sanies into the pores of the skin or into the Vrethra which is the Conduit of the Yard in the time of copulation as well before the ejecting of the seed as after the Woman having either a Gonorrhaea or else an Vlcer from the latter of which I have known to proceed so virulent an ichorous matter that it hath penetrated the Yard immediately and caused an Vlcer There are several other ways by which this Disease may be gotten as by Sodomy c. I have known some to get it by kissing for if either party have an Vlcer in the Throat or in the Mouth from which a slimie juyce proceeding and the lips being moistned thereby may very easily infect Children are very subject to be infected this way for by reason the pores of their skin being open and apt to attract they are soon injur'd by an unwholesom kiss The venom is very often communicated from Nurses to Children and as often Nurses are infected by Children therefore Parents ought to be careful in chusing Nurses and Nurses ought to take heed whose Children they suckle for a very small matter is able to infect either and many Families have been undone by receiving the Distemper this way 'T is dangerous to sweat in a Bed with one that has the Pox or to sit over a Close-stool where the excrements of a pockie person are For drinking with them 't is not dangerous unless their Mouths being ulcerated they leave a pockie slime on the edges of the Cup nor can their breaths infect I am sure though some are of a contrary opinion There is a great deal of variety in Bodies some being far more easily infected than others as sanguine and phlegmatick persons but are more easily cured than cholerick or melancholy persons are as for example I have known several Men to be concerned with one Woman one soon after the other and some to come off without being hurt and the others dangerously pepper'd The Signs of the Lues Venerea THe signs of this Distemper are various according to the strength and constitution of the Patient The general signs are these viz. A great debility of the whole Body as if wearied by much labour stiffness of all the Joynts espeecially about the Hips and Thighs great pulsation of the Arteries a shooting pain in the Groins pain in the Cod itching about the root of the Yard sherpness of Vrine a pricking pain in erection a flowing of yellow sanies from the Yard and oft-times pain in the Back and in the Head These are the infallible signs of a Gonorrhaea some of them hapning to one and some to another and I have known all of them to happen to one person and at one time Sometimes Caruncles do stop up the Vrethra sometimes Buboes do arise in the Groins which if once suppurate and opened handsomly the Cure is performed with much ease but if they are drove back into the body they make the Distemper more inveterate seise the Liver and confirm a Pox. Some persons immediately after the receiving of the Infection are taken with a giddiness in the Head and most terrible pains in the Eyes and Ears and break out with small red pimples which presently return into the Body and a while after break out with foul scabs some moist and spreading though generally they are dry and hard and very nearly represent the cup of an Acorn both in shape and colour Some have Vlcers