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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

for the place of its birth and original descent but quit themselves and lay the imputation upon another Country hence it is called by the French the Neapolitan Disease as taking its rise or being first known in Europe at the Siege of Naples the Italians return it back again and call it the French Malady and in England it is commonly known by the French Pox as being first transported hither from France in the Low Countries it commonly goes by the name of the Spanish Pox being brought by the Spanish Souldiery into the Netherlands but the Spaniards to quit themselves from the original extract of this evil call it Patursa or the Indian Disease as having brought it over with them from West India in that Voyage Columbus made about the year 1492. to discover the Western parts of the World Secondly Ratio 2. The various opinions among Writers concerning the nature and rise of this Disease hath caused it thereby to be known by several names answering such their Conceptions Fracastorius calls it Syphilis some pudendagra because commonly seated in the privities others mentagra and some call it the great Pox to distinguish it from Variolae the small Pox but Fernelius terms it Lues Venerea from the usual procuring cause which appellation we retain chiefly through the progress of this discourse and although there are other Diseases arising from Venus by excess or defect thereof yet this exceeding all the rest in cruelty and pertinacy may well carry the title from the rest and be stiled eminenter the Venereal Lues CHAP. II. The Antiquity and Rise of the Venereal Disease ABout the original descent of this malady Writers do much differ and vary in their opinions some would have it a new Disease others plead for its Antiquity some would have it to take its rise from this Nation and Country others from another Region that you may be acquainted with the several perswasions of learned grave Authors touching this matter I shall give you some brief account of their different judgments in this point worth your observation and then abstract my own determination from the most valid reasons and probability of truth Some will have this Disease to take its rise at the French Camp before Naples in the year 1494. and till then was not known others will have the West-India to be its native place where it is endemical and that Columbus his Souldiers at their return from discovering the Western World brought it thence into Spain who upon their arrival were dispatched away to Naples being then besieged by the French did propagate this venereous evil amongst the Italian Women and that they spread it amongst the French in whose Army it raged very fiercely The French returning home brought it into their own Country and from thence it came into England wherefore in England it is called the French Pox the French not willing to owne this foul Disease call it the Neapolitan and Spanish Pox the Spaniard to free himself from the scandal call it the Indian Pox. Sebast Aquilanus a Galenist Sebast Aquilanus Tract de morb gallic that lived under Ludovicus Marquess and Bishop of Mantua about the year 1508. contends for the Antiquity of this Disease in a Treatise de morbo gallico of this Venereal Malady but will have it the same with the Elephantiasis the Leprosie which is a Disease of great Antiquity and this he endeavours to prove from a parity of symptoms that attend the one and the other and compares Galens description of the Elephantiasis with this Venereal Lues Leonicenus a Physician of note at Ferrara about a hundred and forty years ago Leonicen lib. de morb gal writ of this Disease and saith it is ancient long before the Seige of Naples but does not agree with Aquilanus that it is the Elephantiasis or those that would have it the lichenae nor the saphatum of the Arabians but pustulae rising upon the skin from the corruption of air and counts it one of Hipocrates his Epidemical Diseases 3. Epid. Sect. 2. of this opinion likewise is Reusner in his Book de Scorb and also Vallesius 1. Epid. Com. 1. Scanarolus consents with the determination or Leonicenus Scanarolus and writes a Tract in his defence against Montesaurus a Physician of Verona that had opposed it Cataneus will have it a new Disease sprung up in Italy in the year 1494. Catan tract de morb gal exortus est in Italia monstrosus morbus nullis ante seculis visus totoque in orbe terrarum in cognitus Vlyricus de Huten a German who wrote of this Disease in the year 1519. is of the same opinion Wendelin Hock Wendelin Hock de morb gal a Doctor of Bononia who wrote of this Disease a little before de Huten pitches upon the same time that it brake forth and ascribes the original cause of this Disease to a position of the Planets in the year 1483. Laurentius Frisius a German Laurent Frisius de morb gal a great assertor of Avicen who wrote of this Disease in 1532. agrees with Hock and de Huten concerning the time that this malady brake forth Joanes Almener a Spaniard calls it morbus gallicus or patursae ascribes the first rise to Coelestial influence afterwards propagated by Contagion Fernelius a famous Physician of Paris Fernel lib. 2. de abdit rerum causis Cap xiv in his Dialogue of this Disease declares himself negatively that it came not from Coelestial influence or any popular cause but agrees with Cataneus and others concerning the time and place where it first manifested it self namely at the Seige of Naples in 1493. Baptist Mont an tract de morb gal Montanus a Doctor of Padua in great esteem there about the year 1540. does not agree with the opinion of Fernelius and others that gives this Disease no longer standing in the World than from the Seige at Naples but believes rather that it came from America with Columbus Falopius alfo a Padua Doctor Falop. much esteemed about the year 1554. is of the same opinion with Montanus his Tutor that it came out of the India's is a new Disease in Europe but of ancient standing in its own Country Forestus Forest Sennert and Sennertus also two Judicious and Learned Writers reckons up the different sentiments of some chief Authors but rather adheres to this opinion that it was brought first into Europe with Columbus his followers Mercatus a learned Spaniard chief Physician to Philip the II. and Philip the III. Kings of Spain Mercat lib. de morb gal wrote of this Disease recites several opinions of Authors before him concerning the rise of it but does not determine this point nor declare plainly to whom he adheres Some will have this Disease to arise from an inundation of the River Tyber in the time of Pope Alexander the Sixth that in the Summer following this infectious Disease began from the filth cast up

upon the land which infected the air and so begate this Disease Joannes Benedictus a German Benedict who wrote above a hundred years since will have this Disease to be of late standing unknown to Hipocrates Galen Avicen or other ancient Physicians and calls it the Disease of St. Maevus Hieronimus Fracastorius Fracastor lucubrat de syphil thwarts this opinion and would have this Disease to be antique to have its risings and settings to appear and disappear for a long time and that after such intermission at its first advent it hath been accounted new Gasper Torrella writ a Tract of this Disease and calls it Pudendagra Torella because commonly seated in the Privities of Man or Woman Ferrarius gives it the same name others call it Mentagra Aurelius Minadous Minadous a Physician of Venice put out a Tract of this Disease in the year 1596. after he hath reckoned up several opinions he produceth his own in these words ego sum ex illorum Classe qui putant fuisse semper hunc morbum Cum enim considero eadem natura praeditos homines eodem Coelo natos sub iisdem syderibus educatos cum idem sit mundus qui fuit olim cumque nec dierum nec horarum nec omnino nino temporum ordo sit immutatus non potest mihi aliter in captum mentis pervenire quam omnes fuisse semper eisdem morbis obnoxios potuisse semper vigere haec mala multa non esse nova ex se sed nobis videri nova causas naturales milies easdem extitisse similem morbum ex causis similibus etiam superioribus aetatibus potuisse contingere which words are much what the same with Leonicenus that writ of this Disease 90. years before him Leonicen libell de Epidem and was the first Italian Physician that put forth a Book of this Malady To be brief I shall sum up the number of dissenting Authors and divide them into two Companies as I find them to stand opposite in opinion recorded in their own Works And first for the novelty of this Disease are these Physicians following men of repute and fame especially in those times and places when and where they exercised this Profession Scriptores pro novitate hujus morbi litigantes Bapt. Montanus Jacob Cataneus Nichol. Massa Joan. Benedictus Vlrychus de Hutten Windel Hoch Laur. Phrysius Aloysius Lobera Pet. Maynardus Anton. Benivenius Fallopius Fernelius Petronius Rondeletius Forestus Sennertus On the contrary party who contend for the Antiquity of this Disease are these Physicians men of note Sebast Aquilanus Nicol. Leonicenus Medici pro antiquitate luis vener disceptantes Anton. Scanarolus Joan. Paschalis Bened Victorius Franc. Vallesius Reusner ●inadous Joan. Langius Having shewed you the different opinions of Authors concerning this point Authoris determinatio it remains I should give in my own sentiment and determine the controversie First I allow that all Diseases incident to humane nature Judicatio 1. did not appear in the World together but have their priority of existence in several Ages sutable and answering to the condition of places as they came to be inhabited as also the various state and alteration of bodies by the commixture of people of different Climates or variously tainted with Diseases ingenerating with each other also by spontaneous declensions and degeneration of depraved nature by various diaetetic causes strange accidents and unwonted procurements from whence new Diseases do assurge and sprout forth old Diseases become rare and commute Secondly 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I must affirm That the Pox is not always the Parent of the Pox but untainted persons using immoderate unusual and bestial Venery may procure the first symptoms leading to this Lues which neglected may introduce and settle the Pox. Thirdly That Venery and the enormities thereof being antique the product Lues we may well judge antique also Fourthly That the Venereal Evil is no new Disease as some do imagine but antique though not mentioned by Hippoc. Galen and the Ancients under those Titles it now goes by yet the symptoms of those Diseases which they describe are very like to those belonging to this malady and probably might issue from the same procuring causes and sprout forth from the same Seminary Fifthly That the variation of some symptoms now in this Disease by time persons or places is not sufficient to denominate it new except you can find out a new radix or spring from whence it doth arise for else all Diseases upon the same account may be called new from their unwonted Phaenomena and different appearance and this of necessity will be and hath ever been from diversity of bodies different complications with other Diseases and individual propriety which sets as it were a new face and different garb upon every Disease though the same in specie in radice modo generationis and as nature is not constant in her uniform and regular actions and the due oeconomy of humane bodies much less may we expect it in her disorder and preternatural motions Sixthly That the Venereal Pox being something changed and altered in the symptoms now from what it was at its first breaking forth at the Seige of Naples or rather their more plain discovery in Europe may upon good grounds be supposed to have then not its rise but augmentation and aggravation since many and most of the attending symptoms were observed by the ancients long before Seventhly That this Venereal malady was not so familiar was not so much noted and inquired into before the Seige of Naples but being brought over from America as an additional taint to propagate and spread more plentifully in Europe and to make it more fierce and raging which busied the heads of Physicians to inquire more nicely into the matter to denominate it peculiarly to invent methods for Cure and new Medicines CHAP. III. The Progress and propagation of the Venereal Lues into several Countries Luis Vener historica narratio IN giving you the Historical Narrative of this Disease we shall take our rise but from the year 1492. about which time the Spaniards made a Voyage under the conduct of Columbus into America to discover that part of the unknown World And although this Lues bears an ancienter date and derives its Pedegree far before that time yet we have so little account of it recorded by Writers that it will not well admit of a Narration But after this expedition of the Spaniards it became so notorious that many since have spent their judgments in remarking what was most considerable and obvious to their reasons in the various passages that frequently occurred We must then in this part of our discourse depend upon the credit of Authors and collect the Historical Account from the most authentick Writers The Spaniards arriving in that Septentrional part of America about the latitude of Florida where confidently 't is reported this Lues is endemical

improper diet He forbids Cheese and other milk meats but yet he hath a good mind to allow of milk Ibidem Attamen lac nisi esset hepatis stomachi ardor propter conformitatem quam habet hic morbus cum lepra admitteretur his own words He allows of baked fruits and condescends to the use of Mace and Cinnamon sparingly Pet. Maynardus forbids Mutton Pet. Maynard de morb gal tract 2. Cap. 1. Beef and Pork all salt meats all Fish except those in gravelly Waters Disapproves of Geese Ducks and all Water Fowl but allows of others prohibits all Pulse except red Cicers commends Veal Kid rear Eggs and baked fruits Allows Borrage Bugloss Endiue Lettice Hops and Spinage Admits of Wine in the Cure red Wines no white or blackish Wines Ferrus a Neapolitan Alphons Ferrus de morb gal lib. 4. a Cap. 1. ad 6. Professor in this faculty waves all the Diaeteticks save only Wine of which he discourseth something largely and would prove the use of Wine in this Disease as conducing to the Cure and brings in the Authority of Abenzoar an Arabian Physician to back him who said nec cibum nec medicinam vino unquam privari debere And therefore appoints the common decoction to be made with Wine by analogy from other medicated Wines that are proficuous in other Diseases and for the kind he chuseth white Wine before others and to be old Wine if the Disease be ancient But if the Patient be of a sanguine or choleric Complexion and hath a hot Liver and the season be hot then he allows of water for the decoction Victorius forbids Wine as noxious in this Disease Bened. Victor lib. de morb gal and instead thereof commends hydromell a drink of hony and water wherein hyssop and betony is boiled He forbids Beef Venison Mutton Pork and Goats flesh as difficult of concoction and producing a faeculent and gross bloud and disallows all salt meats And because he determined this Disease to be cold and moist he therefore opposeth it with that is hot and dry in his opinion and commends young Rabbets Leveretts Capons Pigeons Hens Partridge Pheasant all wood Fowls and small Birds But condemns Geese Ducks and all water Fowl also Lamb because it is too moist and all fish upon the same account as promoting the corruption of humors in this Lues He allows of Hen Eggs boil'd and commends the yolk but not the white as being viscous cold and moist a strange phansie he prohibits milk and milk meats as being offensive to the head and praecordia and cites Hippoc. and Galen to confirm his opinion Amat Lusitanus is very short in his Amat Lusitan diaetetic Precepts Epist tert Cent. Med. Curat the chief are these he appoints hard Ship Biscuit but made with Sugar after the Venetian manner Commends Sugar very much in this Disease also hony But forbids salt vinegar and all acid or acrid things he will not allow of any salt in bread nor any meats seasoned with salt and commends boiled meat before rost But why salt should be so strictly forbidden I see no reason since it opposes the products or effects of this Disease viz. a superfluous or degenerate moisture and from thence proceeds to a corruption of humors now salt desiccates roborates and corrects a depraved abounding moisture helps digestion is preservative from putrefaction and promotes some intentions of Cure being discreetly used wherefore moderately seasoned meats are better than fresh Petronius does not allow of hard Biscuit Alexand. Trajan Petron de morb gal lib. 3. Cap. 7. especially to such who are costive of a dry body and weak stomach and quotes Hippocrates lib. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 where he appoints Biscuit to such as are hydropical and therefore Petronius conjectures it too dry in this Disease and brings in Galen to second Hippoc. quint. de simp Cap. 9. Yet afterwards this Author allows Biscuit to such who have a moist and strong stomach He prefers boild meat before rost and says rost is harder of digestion choleric dry and astringent but is not curious concerning the kinds of flesh whether this or that modo quae solita est eligatur prefertim si magis jucunda fuerit Forbids salt and all salt meats severely and gives strange reasons for that opinion He prohibits all Spices Onions Leeks Garlick and Mustard also milk and milk meats all sorts of pulse fish and fruits especially Figs if the eyes or skin be affected Ferrerius commends rost meat before boiled Auger Ferrer de pudenda gra lib. 1. Cap 5. yet allows of flesh broths panadoes and almond milks He forbids all salt meats and acrid but approves of acids as Verjuce Vinegar juice of Sorrel Citrons Oranges and Pomgranates He appoints Wine but diluted with Water and instead of Wine allows barly water sugar'd water or hony and water he approves of wheat bread leavened with some bran in it for abstersion forbids Biscuit and condemns a spare dyet Tomitanus is large in his Diaeteticks concerning this Disease Bernard Tomitan de morb gal lib. 2. Cap. 5. the chief heads are these a spare dyet inclining to cooling and moistning yet he prohibits Lamb and Pork as being too juicy and raw fruits also fish upon the same account except some of the better sort He condemns salt meats and Spices also Fennel Parsly and Mint because they are too hot as he thinks and Spinage because too moist and Sorrel because binding and obstructing allows Sparagus which makes a stinking Urine and is worse than all the rest prohibits sweet things acrid austere acid and acerb and approves of boild meats before rost This is his sense Sennertus waves all Diaetick Precepts Sennert and is silent in that part of the Cure I have here presented to your view the practice and approbations of our Predecessors of several Countries in dyeting their Patients that were affected with the venereal Lues and by this collection you see the several sentiments of Authors and their different appointments touching this subject worth your observation many more I might have laid before you but what hath been delivered is sufficient for you to descant and deliberate on I find amongst these and other Authors Authoris animadversio variety of opinions twharting each other in appointing a dyet proper and fit against this Disease and can see no agreement in any one thing that is either meat or drink but one approves and another condemns in every particular their reasons and arguments alledged though sometimes the thing contended for be right are many of them light and vain being founded upon false hypotheses and erronious traditional doctrines that are or must be exploded They most of them acknowledge the Disease to be occult yet all their aims are at manifest qualities and lay a great stress here as matters of much importance and great moment in Cure some for a drying dyet others for a moist some for heating