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A50434	The history and mystery of the venereal lues concisely abstracted and modelled (occasionally) from serious strict perpensions, and critical collations of divers repugning sentiments and contrary assertions of eminent physicians: English, French, German, Dutch, Spanish, and Italian dissenting writers. Convincing by argument and proof the traditional notions touching this grand evil, and common reputed practice grounded thereon, as erroneous and unfound. Solving the most dubious and important quæries concerning the abstruse nature, difficult and deceitful cures of this popular malady. With animadversions upon various methods of cure, practised in those several nations. By E. Maynwaringe doctor in Physick.	Maynwaringe, Everard, 1628-1699?	1673 (1673)	Wing M1493; ESTC R218836	80,945	223

defining the nature of this Disease says it is excrementum toto genere praeter naturam quod nultifariam laedere potest hominem genitum ex humana substantia à simili Excrementum this Author here sets forth the nature of the Venereal virulency Arguitur by an excrement or degenerate matter in mans body as if it were the product or consequent of some vitiated digestion and had its rise and dependance wholly from internal causes and defections in nature not by any contamination from external primitive Causes and contagious infection received ab extra Toto genere praeter naturam This part of the definition may as well agree and be applied to Worms that are generated in Mans body as to this Lues and does not at all distinguish and discover the subtle nature thereof and therefore this Philosopher did miss the matter very much in explicating and laying open the abstrusity of this Lues which is the intention and scope of every definition Macolon a Scotchman Doctor in this faculty and Professor at Pisa above fifty years since put forth a Book of this Disease wherein he calls the Galenists to an account severely for their determinations upon this malady recites their opinions and rejects them as frivolous in a very few words At last he produceth his own judgment and results the whole disceptation into this theorem Macolon theor Chym. Luis Vener Cap. 5. Lues venerea impuritas est salis Mercurii specifica contagiosa prognata è seminibus quae prius in superiore orbe delitescentia posleaque germinantia quaedam corpora humana parata ad ea suscipienda primò invasere ad alios contage vel haereditario jure propagata sunt If any one can pick out his meaning and set forth a rational probability of truth comprised herein it is more than I shall undertake to do By the Narrative and Series of these reports you may plainly see how far the opinions of learned Men in this Profession do lye asunder and how hazardous it is to presume upon any single judgment though Men of Fame and great repute in their times To comment and inlarge upon every extravagant opinion would give the Reader more trouble than profit therefore in short I only name some of them and pass on others I insist upon that you may be acquainted with the variety of perswasions upon this subject whereby you will be better able to establish and fix your judgment when you meet with the truth After all we come now to inquire of Sennertus one sufficiently known to be a judicious grave Writer that hath gleaned up many good notions that lies scattered here and there in antique and modern Writings besides the additions and improvements of his own that are very learned and considerable This Author after he had perpended various opinions concerning the nature and causes of this malady sets down his judgment of it in this definition Lues Venerea est morbus occultus peculiariter malignus Sennert pract lib. vi pars 4. Cap. 4. contagione in ductus contagiosus hepati facultati nutrienti inprimis adversus propterea nutritione in toto corpore laesa varios morbos symptomata excitans I need not render it in English being very plain and intelligible to the meanest Capacities in the Latine tongue as for others I doubt the discourse will not be very beneficial We will examine this definition in the several parts distinctly as coming from one whose authority perswades much being a general approved Author for Conduct in practice his works summarily comprising the most and best of what hath been written before him But since his time we have had great discoveries and much of that Doctrine is laid aside by the most ingenious sceptical Philosophers of this Age And had that laborious Author been so fortunate as to be acquainted with what some notable heads are masters of now I doubt not but he would have reformed his works rebuilt physick laid it upon another foundation therefore let none think it strange to set aside this Authors opinions though a man of great worth and industry in his time to the purpose in hand then Est morbus occultus Sennertus here adhering to the Doctrine of occult and manifest qualities Sennert defi●●●tio disceptatur and not finding the nature of the Venereal Lues amongst the manifest qualities assigns it to an occult Which indeed is as much as to say I know not of what nature the Venereal Lues is and herein consents with our Author Minadous Fernelius Mercatus and others as to the occult nature yet they differ about it whether a quality or substance But I see no reason why we should take shelter under this Asylum ignorantiae that this Lues should be occult in its nature since it does discover it self by manifest Characters resulting from its peculiar nature as Gonorrhaea Pustuls Vlcers c. and when we come to Philosophise upon these we may trace them in their causation as far and with as much satisfaction as we can do any other Disease arising from manifest qualities as they call them The Stone and Worms are not accounted occult Diseases yet when they come to render an account of their production they will meet with as many difficulties as in laying open the nature of the Venereal Lues and Spiritus Virulescens may be as good Philosophy and as evident and plain as Spiritus Lapidescens and Lumbrificans and so they are equally manifest and no more occult the one nor the other As for the Generation of Stones it is very learnedly discoursed by a late * Dr. Sherly's Philosoph Essay of petrification Writer worth your perusal Who knows any thing more in Causes than what is discovered and manifest to us by the effects we know nothing à priori and if so then I can see no reason but that the Venereal Lues is as truly to be accounted a manifest Disease as a common Feaver I do not say that all Diseases are equally manifest and discoverable alike to all persons in regard some Diseases are more rare and infrequent not obvious to every eye and some are more intricate implicite and intangled with other Diseases therefore not so easily to be determined of because sometimes disguised with other complicated affects of a semiotic or signal affinity as the Pox and Scurvy not to be judged of by common heads but this is not sufficient to give a denomination of occult but only of difficult Therefore true it is this Lues is not a manifest Disease to every Emperick though impudently they undertake it and as imprudently some resign themselves into such hands to be abused nor yet to every legal Professor it is not so patent in its nature as some other Diseases but to the most acute sagacious Physician it lies open and discoverable as a Feavor in its nature and diagnostick signs A Feaver you 'l say is easily known by a

Characters of this Lues Therefore we must seek out some other part that may rightly be stiled proprium subjectum the constant place of residence or chief seat of its abode Others by a parallel argument with the former as Leonicenus Gasper Torella Rondeletius and others would prove the frontier or exterior parts of the body to be the chief seat being thus perswaded from the defaedations of the skin that frequently are conspicious on persons contaminated with this Disease as spots pustuls tettars scabs Vlcers that erupt upon the superficies of the body And upon this error Torrella Physician to Pope Alexander the sixth grounds his definition of this Lues in these words Gasp Tor. tract de Pudendagra Est defaedatio universalis cutis corporis cum dolore excoriatione modica As if this Disease were seated only upon the superficies of the body and did not reside in the inward parts which is against all reason for the juices of the body being first tainted and alienated from their balsamic natural good state cause those eruptions and external appearance and to make this Disease to be only or chiefly a defaedation of the skin when oftentimes the intrinsic parts are more injured corrupted and putrid is against common experience to affirm And although I do not deny but that this infections Lues may be caught by external contact only as the common itch may be taken and goes no deaper than the surface of the body rarely yet most commonly those external Characters that flourish the skin are the pullulations and blossoms that put forth and spring from a radix that hath a deep insertion and is profoundly planted in the body Guliel Rondelet lib. de morb gallico And Rondeletius then Chancellour and Regius Professor at Monpelier runs upon the same rock in defining this Lues to be an evil distemper of external parts For although the external parts be sometimes disfigured and branded with this foul Disease yet it is not always so and then for the most part erupting from within therefore the exterior parts are ill assigned to be subjectum morbi and the definition to point thither only or chiefly Herc. Saxon de Lue Ven. Cap. 3. Hercules Saxonia will have the subject of this Disease to vary according to the progress thereof and assigns the natural spirits for its place of residence in the beginning of this evil but the excrementitious humours to be the chief seat in the increment and the alimentary humours in the state and vigour of this malady Some stand for the genitals to be the chief seat and part primarily affected because most commonly this Lues makes its ingress and invasion here and presently stamps manifest impressions of its contagious nature upon these parts as dysury gonorrhaea inflammation tumor Vlcers c. which gradually coming on gives notice and plainly declares that this subtle enemy hath made entrace is planted and seated here as the chief place where to exercise and appear in its severe malign power and grandeur Notwithstanding the major party and more eminent men as Fallopius Massa Tomitanus Brassauolus Mercatus Montanus Forestus Sennertus c. give in their suffrages for the Liver to be the principal seat of the Venereal Lues and this part carries it from the rest by many Votes Massa a Venetian Physician assigns these two reasons for his opinion first that the Liver is membrum generativum massae humoralis the fountain from whence ariseth all the humors of the body secondly that from thence nutrition and the natural faculties are derived But these Hypotheses on which his opinion is grounded are found to be erroneous from the new Doctrine of circulation and exploded by most in these times and therefore our Author arguing exfalsò suppositis we need not answer further to the arguments offered Fallopius upon the same error gives in his verdict for the Liver Tomitanus does the like Mercati argumentum lib. de morb gallic Cap. 1. Mercatus also the learned Spaniard being biassed with that doctrine urgeth the same argument and moreover adds that the venom of this Lues by a peculiar propension to and sympathy of parts does fly to the Liver and infect there as an opthalmy or sore eye does hurt a sound eye or a phthisis of the Lungs is apt to set a tabid impression upon the Lungs of another by intimate and near approaches so the Venereal virulency dischargeth it self upon the Liver particularly and especially from the mutuation and consent of parts But notwithstanding this Author be grave and solid in his Writings yet I cannot admit of his reasons to prove what he contends for Arguitur And although I grant that an opthalmy or phthisis may send forth injurious miasms and dart upon the like parts to infest them with the same Disease yet here he begs the question and supposeth a concession that the Liver is always tainted in this Disease which I altogether deny where then is the sympathy of parts and although we concede and do admit that the Liver is vitiated in some persons yet then I do not allow that the Liver does more infect another Liver than any other part nor are the effluviums carried to another Liver sympathically or antipathically but promiscuously are transmitted and received into another body by this or that other part where the passage or pores are patent or otherwise infirm and liable to be tainted Besides the comparison will not hold nor is there that parity of reason between Liver and Liver as between eye and eyes or lung and lungs for a transmission communication and reception As for the eyes they act and react upon one another by Vision directly and have no power upon any other part darting and working eminently upon each other which might be illustrated amply and by this means many strange effects are wrought otherwise they have no power nor could one eye infect or hurt another but by gazing long or often and fixing upon each other But from liver to liver there is no such direct passage no such correspondence between them nor operation upon each other nor is their any probability for it And as for a phthisis why that should be infectious to the lungs of another there is good reason for it because the corrupt breath going out of the phthisical person is drawn in and received by another in their near approaches and coming into the aspera arteria of the sound person is by that canale immediately conveighed through various ramifications into the whole parenchyma of the Lungs which being totally pervious and of a spongious substance is very susceptible and obnoxious to alterations from the quality of inspired air And having imbibed phthisical corruptive miasms in the breath may lodge and six there changing the natural tone of the lungs into a tabid and corruptive state but from liver to liver there is no such speedy conveyance no such capacity to receive nor aptitude to act

preternatural heat and burning which is manifest and likewise I say the Venereal Lues is as easily known to an expert Physician by a Gonorrhaea Pains Pustuls Scabs c. But here is the difference a Feaver is known in the common titular notion only by heat alone which is but one signal the Pox by a syndrome or concurrence of many So likewise the Scurvy Plague and others are not manifested by a single diagnostic but by a Convent consenting But this Feaver which is so easie to be known and apparent by heat as you say If I inquire of you the true nature thereof what this preternatural heat is and how it does kindle from what principle and where the radix or fomes morbi is I fear that this Feaver will be an occult Disease also to a great many of our Professors who knows nothing beyond tradition and the old erroneous Doctrine of Feavers A Feaver takes its denomination from heat a general signal which attends all sorts of Feavers but if you know no more of a Feaver than what this common Character does discover and manifest your knowledge is very shallow and avails little to adapt a Cure thereby for Feavers as different as the Causes from whence they arise and they are many their nature very different and various and as secret in their Causes as this Lues requiring a different method of Cure Colds heats repletion of indigested matter obstructions surfits discordant food intemperate drinking watchings small Pox Worms and the verminous putredinous matter of which they are generated c. which Feavers are more abstruse in their Causes and little thought of in their Cures whereby the common way of Curing Feavers becomes so fatal to many and this I am perswaded to believe from the imprudent irrational practice that most commonly is used in the Cure of Feavers by bleeding blistering and Julips for did they understand aright what it is that does aestuate and raiseth a febril heat and the occasional causes or provocation thereto they would take more proper courses for remedy and institute other manners of Cure but of this more at large elsewhere Tract of the Scurvy Chap. 11. therefore I pass on that I may not disjoint our main intended discourse with too long digressions The generating of Worms in Mans body is mustered up amongst the manifest Diseases but this strange production is not to be ascribed to any of the manifest qualities therefore lumbrisication is as occult as the venereal virulency and oftentimes is a more latent and abstruse Disease for as much as the symptoms or preternatural effects attending are common to many other Diseases not distinguishable certainly to whom they belong but conjecturally and probably But the first and second qualities being more familiar to us and more frequently occurring therefore they must be manifest the rest must be occult and this * Sennert Author with others of the same Tribe in distinguishing and setting forth the difference between manifest and occult qualities seems to be very exact and says those are occult quae non sensibus ratione Institut med lib. v. pars 1. Sect. 1. Cap. 2. sed sola experientia deprehenduntur and those he calls manifest quae sensus nostros afficiunt quarum causa manifesta reddi potest First Here I would fain know what qualities properties results or emanations from causes are so occult as does not affect some of our senses and whether we do take cognisance of any thing but by their effects which are the objects of some sense Secondly I would also understand and do demand wherein the causes of the first qualities are so eminently patent above others as to be called manifest Truly for my part I can see no such manifest causation the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the effects are plain the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is obscure dark enough in the Fountain from whence such effects do emane and spring forth The fire heats and burns that 's plain but why Our Author makes this answer Ibidem ignis id praestat quia calidus Pray where is the manifest causation now it is so because it is so but he seems to Philosophise something better in the same Chapter where he complies with the opinion of those that determine both manifest and occult qualities to issue primariò forma substantiali and he will have the manifest qualities to emerge from the substantial form and peculiar mixtion of the Elements but the occult from the substantial form alone Now if we examine and inquire why Water is cold and moist manifest qualities and desire the reasons of such a nature the answer then according to this Philosophy must be that it is so from the substantial form and mixture of Elements and if we ask why poisons occult qualities work such strange effects the answer is that such energies proceed from their substantial form alone Now judge whether are more manifest in their causes the former or the latter for my part I think both alike and the distinction of manifest and occult to be useless as having no real foundation From this discourse wherein I might have enlarged if it were necessary we may set aside the occult nature of the Venereal Disease and allow it to be as manifest as other Diseases to judicious men being so well known by the sensible products and apparent effects that follow and assurge from thence and other Diseases are discovered in like manner à posteriori which gives occasion to discourse of and assign their causes from the greatest probabilities and strongest perswasions of reason Now we shall dismiss this and come to the next considerable in the definition Et peculiariter malignus Our Author here determines and distinguisheth the Venereal Lues by a peculiar malignity which being the Constitutive specific difference in the definition must be understood as the proper inseparable distinguishing Character univocally agreeing with the whole species morbi and the same in every individual person seized with this Disease and according to this Doctrine are the Cures promiscuously instituted and appointed without distincton save only a respect had to the fictitious temperaments arising from elementary mixtion But I am otherwise perswaded and must assert contrary to this Doctrine that Lues venerea non est morbus peculiariter 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 malignus à specifica quadam proprietate corruptionis ortus The Venereal virulency is not of one univocal specific nature but diversified and variously different in several individuals tainted with this Venereal malignity The reasons inducing me to this opinion are both theorical and practical drawn from the rules of Art and therapeutic observations in different Cures First Argu. 1. A dissimilitudine symptomatum seu phoenomenw̄n Quia non semper sibi similis this Disease hath a different aspect and is Characterised variously in several persons and although symptomatical and signal dissimilitude is procured upon some other accounts yet this equivocal nature