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A28375	New and curious observations on the art of curing the veneral disease and the accidents that it produces in all its degrees explicatd by natural and mechanical principles with the motions, actions, and effects of mercury and its other remedies : wherein are discovered on the same subject the errours of some authors ... / written in French by Monsieur de Blegny ; Englished by Walter Harris.	Blégny, Monsieur de (Nicolas), 1652-1722.; Harris, Walter, 1647-1732.	1676 (1676)	Wing B3186; ESTC R23701	76,734	217

a Ptisanne for his ordinary Drink with French-Barley and the Roots of wild Succory Sorrel and white Lilies to which you may add some Lycorice and a little Lemmon to render it more agreeable and cooling Broths and boil'd meat must serve for his nourishment which you must diminish the quantity of by little and little so that the Patient may find himself insensibly reduced to the constant use of liquid Aliments toward the end of his Preparation 5. Excess of Repletion Moisture is chiefly found in Bodies of a cold Phlegmatick Temper which you may correct by evacuating and drying them with the following Remedies You may frequently give them Clysters made of the Decoction of the Leaves of Mallows Marsh-mallows and Mercury the Flowers of Camomile and Melilot Seeds of Anise and Fenugreek adding to them Honey of Mercury You may here practise Blood-letting without any scruple and repeat it several times if you judge the Plenitude of the Vessels to be very considerable An Infusion of three Drachms of Senna one drachm of Agarick Trochiscated and as much of the Salt called Polychrest mixed with half an Ounce of the Confection Hamech and an Ounce of Syrup of Peach flowers will make up a Purge that may serve to evacuace abundance of Phlegm if you repeat it seven or eight times every second day You may prepare your Ptisanne with two Quarts of ordinary Water two Handfuls of French Barley and three Ounces of Guaiacum which you must have steeped beforehand in a hot place with a Pint of white Wine and you may render it fit and easie to drink by adding to the things aforesaid a little Cinnamon Coriander-seed Licorice or Lemmon according to the Taste and Palate of your Patient You may make him sweat every evening by giving him a good large Glass of the foresaid Ptisanne to drink in which you shall have dropt fifteen or twenty drops of the Spirit of Harts-horn remembring to warm his Bed and Chamber as much as you can and to put at the feet of such as difficultly sweat Bottles filled with hot water But if these things are not able to cause some persons to sweat you will infallibly force them to sweat sufficiently by making them receive the Vapour of the Spirit of Wine in a certain Stove made on purpose You must diminish his Nourishment by degrees as I have already told you in the former Preparation only you may make those I now speak of fast with much less danger than any others and you must prefer Rost-meat before Boiled as being much more drying because the Particles of Fire do act more directly upon it Besides the Middle Temperament and two Extremes of which I have now spoken you will find many Bodies that require a less alteration whether by Heat or Cold. In such cases you must use Remedies of a more moderate strength and for such as are but indifferently Replete and Phlegmatick you must lay aside the strong Sudorisicks and only use the Decoctions of Sassafras China and Sarsaparilla according as there is more or less necessity of drying In like manner you may bath less those that are very hot and dry or else forbear the other cooling Moistning Ptisanne Lastly for them all you must be careful in augmenting or diminishing the strength of Purgatives and in general of all Remedies that serve for Preparation according to the foresaid Considerations CHAP. III. Of the different ways of making Mercury to enter into the Bodies of such as are infected with the Pox. 1. General Division of the wayes and that the practice of giving it by mouth is none of the best The Preparations of Mercury that are given inwardly 3. The different wayes of making it enter by the Pores of the Body and first of Plaisters that serve for this effect 4. Of Ointments 5. Of Troches for Fumigations 1. HAving let you see after what manner you ought to prepare the Bodies in which you would have Mercury to operate it is now time to speak of the several ways of using it and the choice that ought to be made of them according to the degrees of the Disease the supervening Accidents and unhappy Circumstances in which persons thus diseased do sometimes find themselves Mercury is usually made enter into their bodies two manner of ways either in at the Mouth or else universally by the Pores It is worth observing before we proceed further that the first of these ways is indeed none of the best because the Mercury that is thus taken at the Mouth descends presently into the Stomach whence it is suddenly Sublimated upwards by the Heat of this part which causes the Salivation that is raised by this means to continue but a very little time and not to terminate completely the universal Pox unless the Natural Heat be found strong enough to supply this defect by vigorously following the Motion of Mercury I know well enough that some persons do mix Purgatives with it which do hinder its Sublimation by precipitating it downwards But this custom seems to have as little certainty as the former because only passing through the Guts it cannot purify at most but that which is called the second Region of the body for there is no likelihood at all that it should be able to penetrate into the most remote parts to mix with all the Acid Humours that are there extravasated and so draw them into the places I have spoken of by a contrary Motion By this way of arguing and by the proof that I have made in this matter and seen others make too I cannot but think such as indifferently practise this way of administring it and make it pass for infallible in all that have the Pox and in all the degrees of it ought to be esteemed Ignorant or Impostors and Patients should in all reason rather rely upon the Honesty and Experience of true Physicians who do find but too many Occasions for discovering this truth and are not wanting to advertise ingeniously such as have an unhappy inclination to run the hazard of a false palliative Cure because they have been once falsly perswaded or because they are engaged by particular Motives to search out Remedies they fancy more easy and less troublesom I do not mean but there may be found abundance of persons who will maintain they have been cured by taking Mercury this way But you must observe that among them there are many who never had the Pox but only in their imagination that in some Nature did procure a Critical Motion of her own accord near about the time they made this use of Mercury that in others she had been strongly moved to the same effect by the activity of other Remedies which have been mixed with it lastly that those who have used it in the first degree of this universal Pox that is to say when its matter remains still in the Vessels and hath not yet caused the ebullition of the blood and consequently diffusion of serosities might

the application you would make of it but only perhaps for the opening and dilatation of the passages that serve for Expulsion of Excrements in such as are of a good Temper or else to correct the faults of those that are remote from this good Constitution For if you should offer to desiccate a Body that is of a middle Age moderate Temper and that rightly performs all its natural Functions 't is certain it must receive great Alteration and this Alteration must necessarily remove it from the Equality and Moderation it was in before which nevertheless is exactly the estate in which Nature keeps its true vgour and in which consequently it must be better able to second the force of Remedies whence it follows that it comes to be less proper for the Critical motions which do follow the application of Mercury in those in whom a sufficient quantity of acid Humours may be found to stop and detain the Mercury in the several parts for the time it ought to remain in them But if this Alteration can be so considerably pernicious even to such as are in a state of perfection you will not at all wonder if the Salivation cannot be safely procured in Dry Cholerick or Melancholick Bodies that have been prepared after this manner nay you will find on the contrary that all the parts will receive injury from the activity of Mercury seing it is now agitated by an extraordinary Heat and finds nothing that is able to fix and detain it It is no less dangerous to make use of things that cool and moisten for the preparation of those that are replete and phlegmatick for by this means the repletion is augmented and the Humours become so disposed for Fluxion that Mercury soon draws them along with it in great abundance and very often all the parts about the Throat do fill and swell in such manner that the Patients are soon suffocated thereby But now speaking of the danger there is in making use of the same Remedies in all different Subjects it comes into my mind that I have read in a famous Author a certain Dispute that he raises and resolves himself 't is whether those that have the Pox ought to be bled in their Preparation he relates some Authorities and Reasons Pro and Con and at last concludes in favour of Blood letting of which he makes so general a Rule that he will not except even such as are Hectict Whereupon you must observe that this Maxim doth seem so much the more authentick as it appears to be established by a Learned Doctor and founded on the examination and comparison of contrary Opinions from whence we may conclude that the faults which are committed by such as blindly observe it are so much the more excusable as they are often irreparable since there are a great many persons who never dare go a step further than the Ideas of those that taught them But I dare say it is a shameful thing disparages Physick very much that the greatest part of those who practise it do apply themselves so little to things of such moment and that many who have by their own industrry acquired some particular knowledges are so covetous and fearful of communicating them that they affect to keep them secret even when they pretend to teach and discover them Let this be said by the by 2. Nevertheless you must not imagin that infallible Rules can be given for correcting exactly all the degrees of Temperaments and several dispositions of all Bodies that are of different Constitutions For besides that there are some inward and secret dispositions which can no way be known the number of such as may be known are in a manner infinite and the endeavour I might here make for reckoning them up would cause nothing but confusion in this place Notwithstanding it is certain a sufficient Idea may be given of the Method that ought to be followed for well preparing those that are infected with the Pox by the discovery of such Remedies as may very happily serve to dispose Bodies of a good Constitution and correct the faults of such as are extremely removed from this good estate by Repletion and Inanition because these patterns may serve to discover the comparison of the Mean and two Extremes from whence Formules may easily be drawn for all the greater and lesser degrees by joyning a good Judgment Application and Experience which are Qualities absolutely necessary for establishing a sure practice to the following Rules and Observations 3. You may cause a light Emotion in Bodies of a good Disposition and middle Age by some gentle Purge such as may be an Infusion of two Drachms of Senna mixt with an Ounce of new-drawn Cassia which will sufficiently open the way by siege if you continue to repeat it four times every Second day In the intermediate days you may Bathe your Patient morning and evening to dissolve the coagulated Humours and dispose the Pores of the Body for a dilatation During all this time you may make the following Ptisanne serve for his ordinary Drink which will open the Pores too and also the passages of Urine that serve for expulsion of Serosities Take half a Pint of good white Wine in which infuse and steep before-hand half an Ounce of Guaiacum then take two Ounces of French Barley four Quarts of common Water and so much Licorice as may be sufficient for rendring your Ptisanne pleasant enough to drink in each Quart you must mix ten or twelve Drops of the Spirit of Vitriol 4. The faults which are opposite to this good Temperament of which I now spoke are chiefly Inanition and Siccity or else Repletion and Humidity The former are the effects of a boyling Heat and therefore require for Correctives whatsoever is capable of moistning and cooling at the same time whence it comes to pass that Blood-letting which cools by allaying the Ebullition of the Blood is notwithstanding dangerous and to be suspected on this occasion because it also carries off the Humours which are there already in too small a quantity You may thence judge that Purges and chiefly such as are violent are also dangerous for besides that they consume the little Moisture which remains they are extreme hot too which are two Qualities absolutely contrary to the Intention you ought to have It will be good nevertheless to keep the Body open by giving every morning half a Pint of Whey in which you must infuse every fourth day a Drachm of Senna and half a Drachm of Crystal Mineral to dissolve in it afterwards half an Ounce of new-drawn Cassia Seing Clysters that serve to cleanse the Guts are able to cause some Alteration you must have a care of giving them unless it be a Decoction of cooling Pot-herbs with two Ounces of Honey of white Lilies in each You must Bathe him morning and evening for fifteen days together and take care that the Bath be not hot enough to provoke Sweat You may prepare

than he that is able to live like other men by advancement of years Notwithstanding there is no necessity of giving different Methods for all Ages because the many various Intentions Respects and Remedies which I have already mentioned may also serve for the Cure of Infants only observing a due proportion of them to their small condition But it is needful nevertheless to prescribe the particular Method of curing well the smallest of all that so having examples before you of the greatest and least you may the more easily judge of the quality and quantity of things which ought to be employed in the different degrees of mediocrity 3. So soon as you shall have discover'd the Pox in an Infant that sucks you must first of all endeavour to discover the person that did communicate it to the end you may remove such person before you entreprise any thing After which you must choose a good Nurse to contribute towards the purification of his blood by the use of wholsom Milk which you must carefully preserve in all its purity by prescribing her a good Dyet and separating your little Patient from her and you must give him Milk only with a little spoon or else with fine Linnen that he may suck after 't is dipt in it But you must know that the Milk of a Goat well fed is infinitely to be preferred before that of an unsound Woman It will be necessary to purge him in the beginning of all with a little Water of Cassia or the Syrup of Roses and repeat this Purge several times according as he is more or less replete You may prepare a Ptisanne for him with a handful of French-Barley and three or four drachms of China-root which you may boil in three Quarts of common Water to the diminution of the third part adding to it toward the end a little Licorice after you have passed it ten grains of Crystal Mineral for to give him to drink or suck of from time to time day and night After having opened by this means the common passages of the Excrements you may rub the bottom of his Feet every third day with a drachm of the following Ointment Take a drachm or a drachm and a half of Mercury revived from Cynnabre and kill it in two ounces of the Balsom of Arceus adding afterwards six ounces of Hogs-grease well washed and make use of it six or eight times the way I have told you If these first Frictions don't procure a Flux or do cause some other sort of Crisis you must even continue them without other Mystery as long as they shall be thought necessary or else you may make them stronger by the augmentation of the Dose of the fore-said Ointment with half a drachm or more for each Friction and by employing it partly on the Feet and partly on the hands During the time of the Critical Evacuations you may give him every six days two or three grains of the volatil Salt of Vipers dissolved in a little of the Tisanne described before and you may prefer this same Remedy before all the Treacle Philosophical and Sudorifick Waters from whence some Authors do promise such false wonders Now the most important precept I have to give you on the account of little Infants is to treat them as gently as they have but little strength and to spare neither time nor pains to encrease their small strength or at least to preserve it for if you weaken them by the force of your Remedies you 'll miserably drive them into an inevitable death instead of curing them as you designed seeing the Operation of Medicaments is always either dangerous or unuseful if it be not seconded by the efforts of Nature CHAP. VII Of the Misfortunes which may follow the Application of Mercury 1. The Causes of the Death of some that are infected with the Pox and the Causes of the Accidents which sometimes happen after the Application of Mercury 2. What are those Accidents 3. General Remedies that serve to put a stop to their Violence 4. Particular Remedies for the Cure of them 1. THough the Pox be not a Disease mortal of it self and I hold it curable in all its degrees it is true nevertheless that Men may dye of it as I have said before when its matter hath corrupted or destroyed the parts without which there is no living when one infected with it hath fallen into the unhappy practices of Ignorants and Impostors Lastly when careless Physicians do not soon enough remedy the Accidents which sometimes happen after the Application of Mercury Not but the precepts which I have given are almost infallible for curing this Disease suddenly easily and surely and hardly can they fail in one of a thousand when they are regularly observed But there are some dismal Circumstances which it is impossible to remove For besides that Men are necessarily mortal the true Cause of their Death is often unknown the time of it cannot be avoided and the Cacochymie of bodies is now then so very great that it cannot possibly receive Correction to which may be added that there are some inward Dispositions which can no way be known or there is no possibility of taking away Whence it comes to pass that the success of this undertaking is not always so happy as we could wish and Accidents may indeed happen which could in no wise be expected to which nevertheless we ought to adhibite Remedies with all manner of care and exactness which are things greatly necessary in all Occasions where Life and Death are concerned 2. Now though all these Causes are of the same consequence it would be but a vain attempt to deliver the means of destroying them all since that some of them cannot be known and others cannot possibly be removed It may be sufficient to say something of the ill Tempers of Bodies and the too great quantity of Mercury which may be made enter into them because they are the usual Causes of all the Accidents which follow its application and there are none but may happen by reason of them For when all the things that cool and moisten have been used to no purpose for quenching the Fire and correcting the dryness of an extraordinary Melancholick body there is often found to follow a loosness accompanied with unsufferable gripes pains and which soon leaves a constipation behind that causes an Inflammation of the Entrals Brest Throat and Mouth with difficulty of Breathing Swallowing and Speaking which Symptoms soon begin a Fever that in a small time becomes violent enough to sublimate the Mercury up to the Brain and thereby cause Swoonings Phrensies Convulsions and very often Deafness and Blindness Apoplexies and Palsies or lastly Death it self if care be not suddenly taken to prevent it by due applying fit Remedies against this train of misfortunes In like manner if the Dyet drying Decoctions and strong Sudorificks have not been used sufficiently to make a convenient alteration of a very