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A57714	De venenis, or, A discourse of poysons their names, natures, & vertues : with their several symptomes, prognosticks, and antidotes / by W.R., M.D.; De venenis	Ramesey, William, 1627-1675 or 6.	1663 (1663)	Wing R204; ESTC R21071	116,727	326

thereof by an example of a certain young man being bit by a Mad Dogg at first neglecting the wound Did after four Moneths time begin to rave abhorring all manner of Meat and Drink and at length Dyed miserably through hunger and thirst Of the same Judgement is Petrus Salius and the aprovedest Authours Hercules De Saxonia Forestus Sennertus and every one Thus by what hath been said you may Collect divers Signes of such as are bitten or any other manner of way infected with this Poyson yet there are severall other worth your noting which I shall nominate that so you may discover and know it the better As Signes of such as are bitten by a Mad Dogg In regard in principally seiseth upon the Brain and Spirits it makes them pensive sadd solitary desiring to be alone refraining all Company and the Light Likewise they are very fearfull of every thing but especially of Doggs and liquid things As him in Florentinus Sermon 4. Tract 4. Cap. 15. who being bitten by a Mad Dogg and finding no pain extraordinary in the wound neglected it and followed his business 35. dayes after but on the 36. day he began to stand and bark like a Dogg at his wife and being by her reprehended he fell a laughing yet persisted to practise this foolery severall times that day at night he was wholly deprived of his reason and Dyed the 40. Day Casting himself upon the ground many times as the nature of that Disease is to avoid Doggs if possible by running as it were into the earth Such like instances as also that they are prone to bark like Doggs is frequent in the writings of the Learned As that before quoted from Rhasis Lib. 8. Cap. 10. Ad Almans Another he hath in Lib. 20. Cap. 2. c. That they are excessive thirsty and yet will not drink is apparent from that of Forestus observat med Lib. 10. observat 25. of a VVoman of Delfe that miserably perished thereby And of the young man or youth in the same Town recorded likewise by him in the same Observation qui bibere not potuit They are likewise froward waspish and testy seldome answering to any thing in question they grievously grate with their teeth especially at the beginning of their Distemper and phansie strange Chymeroes in their Dreames Their Phansie Memory Reason nay all the senses and faculties of the Soul are generally Depraved and Disturbed So that they often times fall foule upon their dearest and best friends biting scratching and beating them raving and mad some times like that VVoman before mentioned in Forestus that could not be scarce held down in her bed biting at and spitting upon the standers by foaming at the mouth c. Yet they do not alwayes rage and become furious as Petrus Salius Lib. De affect Partic. well observes in severall that he sayes did not rage at all to their dying Day Sometimes also as he likewise notes Pag. 358. Loc. Citat They are subject to a Feaver but this is rather to be attributed to the aptness and disposition of the Body and humours then any peculiar property in the venome it self as he thinks and Sennertus agrees They are frequently troubled with cold sweats And from the wound or bite issues a green faetid matter The Urine pale clear and like fair water if the distemper be at any highth And many times wholly suppressed by the strength of the Poyson and extraordinary Drought under which they intollerably labour partching up the Heart and Vitalls powerfully subverting and suffocating both Vitall Animall Spirits and consuming the Brain do at length dye frantick mad or moped These are such like sumptomes commonly follow the effects of this Poyson according to the consent generall of the most approvedst Authours extant As touching that of Avicenna that small peices of flesh in their Urine are to be discerned in the form and shape of Doggs or whelps and such other Phansies I willingly pretermit being as I conceive rather the product of his Phansie then of reason or experience This only I shall here by way of advice add That if any be either bit or infected any other way which hath been before related that they seeke out for speedy remedy and defer not till it be too late Let that of Baldus the Laywer be a warning to them who neglecting that small bite of his little Dogg miserably perished notwithstanding when it was too late he had used all kind of medicines Forestus in that Observation so often quoted where he mentions that Woman of Delfe advised all those whom she had spit upon to be ducked over head and ears in water forthwith and thereby they were all saved preventing what might otherwise have happened for indeed few who have used remedies in time have perished Leaping into the water and ducking themselves in this manner is the Common Cure in the Country But the best way is to have recourse to the writings of the most approvedest Physicians For this as Ponzet to the Cardinall Lib. De venenis notes hath been used many times to little purpose Although sometimes it will effect it As Cornelius Celsus Petrus Salius and others attest and as we may see by that Philosopher in Aetius who being infected and fearfull of water leaping couragiously into a Bath and in the water beholding the shape of the Dogg that bitt him at first made a stand as being terrified but after a little pause being ashamed thereof he immediately cryed out Quid Canicum Balneo and so threw himself forcibly into the water Drinking some of it without the least fear And so was freed from his distemper and depraved Phansie And the rather do I admonish all such as have cause to suspect the infection of this Poyson to seek out for present remedy in that the bite or part venomed for the present doth not rage or paine the Patient more then an ordinary wound which may make them apt to be careless of themselves lying lurking in the body and no wise manifesting it self till it have reacht and seised upon the noble parts So that indeed it is not an casie matter at the first to know whether one be bitten or infected Yet for the discovery thereof Rhasis and Avicenna have advised that a bit of the crommy part of bread be wet in the blood matter of the wound and so given to a Dogg to eat the which if he refuse to eat or smell too being hungry or grow mad or dye after he hath eaten t It is a most sure token they say that the party is infected whereby you may discover the malignity of the Poyson although the wound be not extraordinary painfull nor swell nor burn c. As wounds from other venemous Creatures do Neither for this reason only have you reason to be cautious but also for that when once it hath seised on the Brain Heart and the more noble parts so that the party become phrantick groveling upon the ground epileptick

illius Aquae sunt ʒiiij vel per se vel cum Aquae alicujus distillatae Cor●ialis vel vi●a Oderati pari quantitati SECTION VII Of the Dryinus and its Antidotes 7. DRyinus is a most hurtfull and venenious Serpent or Worm bred as some think a● ther●o● of an Oak So pernitious that as Galen Lib. De Theria●● ad Pisonem contends if any chance at 〈◊〉 war●s to tread upon it it excoriateth the so●le of the foot and causeth the legg to swell nay and hurts the hand no less that toucheth it the which Sennertus confirmes Pract. Med Lib. 6. Part. 8. Cap. 11. Adding that it offends also by biting nay and so forcibly that Men are killed thereby Likewise that the very savour thereof is of sufficient power to deprive Men of their senses The common signes of such as are poysoned by the bite of this Creature are these There usually issueth as the Learned have noted out of the wound a kind of black faetid and purrulent blood after which the part or member affected swells exceedingly and about the wound ariseth certain blackish pustules grievous paynes accompanyes and macerates the whole Man the skin is generally Dry rough and hard The stomach is molested with vomitings and hickops and that which is cast up is for the most part Choller or Blood Extream thirst likewise tormenteth the party and intollerable pains and gripings in the bowells All the naturall actions are so impedited and destroyed that there is no emission of either urine or the feces of the belly Neither are the Vitalls lesse affected for they can neither breath nor speak without great difficulty and the Heart is subject to swoundings and faintings and the Animall faculties also are so confounded and molested that there followes not only a depravation dimness of sight but likewise Frensies Dotage Delirium and madness In a word the whole Man Body and Soul with all its operations Vegetall Vitall and Animall are thereby destroyed so that the whole lump becomes odious and the very exhalations and breathings through the ●ores extreamly offensive And lastly if not maturely prevented brings Death and utter Destruction Curatio Petatur ex iis quae supra De Viperae morsu dicuntur In specie tamen ad Dryini morsus commendantur Origanum ut Docet Sennertus item trifolium marubium vel e●rum succus Radix item Aristolochiae nec non glandes cujuscunque quercus concisae et cum vino generoso sumptae Eaedem quoque Contusae et cum Melle mixtae extra plagae imponantur Dolorem leniunt etiam ilicis radices tusae et applicatae SECTION VIII Of the Serpent Stellio and its Antidoces STellio is a kind of Lizzard which because it hath certain spots upon its back like stars it hath its name Stellio à Stella a Star De Stellione Ita scribit Galenus in Libro De Theriaca ad Pisonem Stellio visus à Scorpionibus substringit ipsos et perimit It is likewise very pernitious to Mankind as well by biting them as by being eaten by them or the water Drink or other liquor in which they are by chance drowned For either of these wayes it causeth in Man no less but the very same symptomes as you have heard before of Cantharides Wherefore for brevities sake I shall not here make the least Repetition Et in Curatione sive venenum Stellionis haustum ore sumptum sive morsu Communicatum fuerit Alexipharmaca nullo modo negligenda sed ea quae contra Serpentum morsus hactenus proposita sunt usurpanda SECTION IX Of the Aspe and its Antidotes ASpis an Aspe a Creature so poysonous that Nicander affirmes it to be the most venemous of all other Serpents whence perhaps it is Sennertus when he treats of the Poysons of Serpents begins with the Aspe But however whether compared with the rest it be the worst or no this is most certain it is a Deadly Poyson or as Moses ●●ut 32.33 Terms it a Cruel Venim For if it chance to fall upon any member of a Man or Woman although they were not ●●ten i● becomes thereby immediately inflamed ●ed and angry molests the whole M●n and causeth Death it self if not timely prevented nay and all the symptomes that follow upon their bite though not altogether so for●●able As their heads that are herewith i●●ten are for the most part heavy and ●ail their foreheads molested with convulsive switchings their ●lyes and sight is obsu●cated and darkned their ey-lids and theeks tremble they are sleepy and drowsie subject to ●upors and soporificall distempers Their whole senses are perverted and confused their face is generally pale often yaune and reach Their whole Body is possessed with frigidity and chilness and at length slain by the King of fears if not immediately prevented So dangerous so cruell so deadly is this poyson of the As●e that many think it is incurable Paraeus and others think one wounded herewith can continue with life but the third part of a Day But this Sennertus and the Learned say is various according to the nature and difference of the kind of Aspe for Galen Libro Citato Ad Pisonem speaks of three sorts of Aspes the one he calls Hirundinaceus the second Terrestris the third Pryas The first of which kills so suddainly and effectually that it is thought to be incurable The other in three or four hours time The third a little more slowly The truth is the most mild is sufficiently malignant and mortall and that the rather because its wound is so small that it is hardly Discernable As some write no bigger then the eye of a needle insinuatingly hurting and destroying the lives of such as they wound and yet hardly seem to make any impression or breach upon the Body As back-biting slandering and flattering people do their Neighbours whence the Apostle Saint Paul alluding to the nature of this Creature Rom. 3. And speaking of the wicked seems to strike at such malicious tale-bearers and slanderers Verse 13. Where he sayes Their Throat is an open Sepulchre with their Tongues they have used deceit the poyson of Aspes is under their Lipps The wound that is made by these Creatures doth commonly grow angry and inflamed but doth not swell little blood issueth out of it and that of Colour black It affecteth the stomach also with paines The speech and sight is presently lost the whole Man immediately languisheth a cold sweat possesseth all the parts palpitation of the heart and Death it self as hath been said in a very few hours as that good man was in every particular taken recorded by Schenkius Lib. 7. De Venenis Fol. 962. And so within four hours Dyed Curatio in g●nere petatur ex ijs quae supra De Viperae morsu Dicebantur In specie tamen commendatur Theriaca vel Mithridatium in vino vel Aceto dissolut ad vuln Abluend Item pars Aspidis sputo infecta urina puerorum impubium v●l spiritu vini in