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A67222	Lues venera wherein the names, nature, subject, causes, signes, and cure, are handled, mistakes in these discovered, rectified, doubts and questions succinctly resolved / by John Wynell ...	Wynell, John, fl. 1660-1670.	1660 (1660)	Wing W3775; ESTC R31852	27,312	95

secondarily the seat and Subject of it Why the whole body is not alwayes afflicted of this disease but the Members of generation the mouth and instruments of sense and motion no greater reason can be given then the tendernesse of those parts their impotency to resist such an enemy and their exquisite sense That the humors first and next the spirits are the chief seat this amounts to a reason undeniable that the disease so speedily spreads the whole body Besides the spirits having their chief residence in those parts the genitalls and seminary vesse●ls for generation the Liver according to old opinion and the Veines heart and masse of blood according to the new and in the head for sense and motion these parts must needs be first and more taken of this disease then the outward parts which with their nourishment must of necessity afterwards successively have this defilement conveyed unto them also Neither may any one think that the humors and spirits are no living bodies and therefore not the subject of this disease Though I could grant the consequence yet the Antecedent can never be made good For can they be the first receivers instruments and conveyers of Life unto the other parts and yet have no life in themselves Are they nourished augmented diminished which are properties of living bodies and yet be no living bodies We conclude then the humors and spirits to be the subjects of this disease For they have the requisite conditions of a true subject which are these That primarily and of themselves and not by the intervention of any other and alwayes while the disease abides in the body it is seated in them though not alwayes in them onely The truth of this opinion you will the more rest in and with the greater evidence if I avoid the pretended claime that other parts of the body are supposed to have to be the seats of this disease There be three options only amongst many others which are worthy to be taken into this contest For some have seated this disease in them members of generation others in the Liver and a third sort in the Head First R●●son and experience both will discharge the Genitalls from being the subject of this disease Reason For then there were no such disease in the body but of necessity they must be offended and injured but we often find men strongly taken of this disease without Ulcer Tumor or any other signe of wrong to the proper actions of those parts Besides if they were the subject and the diseases lodged in them then supposing them to be amputed the disease were cured and the body rendred uncapable of it which cannot be granted For many receive this disease by inheritance in the seed of their parents one or both and give it to their Nurses Many receive it from the venereous milk of their nurses the genitalls of both which for a long while remain sound So that the members of generation are discharged Next to quit the Liver 's claim to be the seat of this disease which hath been the opinion of many Physitians of note against whom I argue thus That part which is primò and per se offended is the subject of that offence or disease injuring but that 's not the Liver for Ulcers and Tumors arise in the genitalls from this disease and that sometimes very speedily which if by seasonable and fit remedies they were Cured the Liver and whole body would remain sound If any doubt whether these Ulcers and Tumors be effects and do shew the presence of this disease let them enquire How their bodies were contaminated and by what Contact also by what specificall remedies they were cured and they will cease to doubt If then these effects discover the disease present then that disease being an accident must have a subject proper to it which we have proved the genitalls themselves though offended cannot be much lesse the Liver which for a time remains untouch't the disease being as yet not propagated so farre Therefore either the accident must be without a subject or there is some other for the Liver must cease its claime Besides it is well known that the disease is propagated by Contact and contact is not of the Liver which is far distant Now if the disease enter the body by Contact it is then immediately in its proper subject or not If not then the disease passeth from subject to subject and so hath no proper subject Further If the Liver were the proper subject then to speak in their language the sanguifying faculty must necessarily be presently vitiated as soon as the disease enters For if a bowell be vitiated its proper faculty and work must necessarily be forthwith vitiated Galen will tell you that where sanguification is vitiated Fiunt fluxus sanguinei aut vitiatus color The body nourished by virulent blood the whole habit of it becomes virulent For as is the blood so is the flesh and consequently the colour of the same throughout the whole body But that dark squalid fuscous dull flowerlesse colour that usually accompanieth and discovereth this disease grown appeareth not of a long time in many infected in whom the disease lurks as curbed and corrected by stronger spirits and bowells and is in its progress resisted Nature endeavouring her own prefervation and to keep her quarters secure Now for the third opinion of those that make the Head the seat and subject of this disease If not the Liver or Genitals much lesse the Head can be for many have the disease grown as appears by afflicting-symptoms and yet find no sensible injury thereby in their heads Again The Head is never primarily and immediately affected but because some other parts of the body have been first taken with this disease and therefore not the Subject Besides the effects of this disease have often been removed from the Head and yet this Pest remained in other parts of the body which sufficiently evinceth the opinion asserted and confuteth the contrary Now though grievous symptoms as flames pustules hard tumors ringing in the ears dimnesse of sight falling away of the hair and many other effects of this disease appear in the head Yet these are caused by the contagion carried along in the humours and vitall spirits which are distributed through the whole body who especially moving towards the head and having this disease lodged in them produce these effects there For the spirits being light substances thin and passable do naturally move upwards and by their tenuity do pierce and passe through all the parts of the head yet the disease hath not its seat there for the reason in the former Section delivered For the proper and principall operations of the animal faculty are not offended by it as Imagination Reason Memory And if the sensory parts be offended vitiated and weakened by the disease it is rather by reason that they are naturall bodies nourished by such blood and spirits than that they are the instruments

LUES VENEREA WHEREIN The Names Nature Subject Causes Signes and Cure are Handled Mistakes in these discovered Rectified Doubts and Questions Succinctly Resolved BY JOHN WYNELL M.D. Desidia Luxuria haec duo priùs in Graecia corpora vitiârunt deinde apud nos afflixerunt ●um reclè curaturum esse dicunt quem prima origo causae non fefellerir Alii putant interesse non quid morbum faciat sed quid tollat Celsus LONDON Printed by W.W. for the Author and are to be sold by H. Herringman in the lower Walk in the new Exchange 1660. To my deservedly honoured Friend James Boevey of Upper-Chelsey Esq SIR IT is the Sanction of long-liv'd Custom that no one appear to publick view without Dedication to some considerable Friend And while others affect to chuse Nobles by Nativity and mutable Titles I one Noble by Nature and a better portion of her endowments the most primary true and immutable dignity which is not in honorante nor in the power of Men or Laws to give or take away but immures it self in your Principles and sheds its beams of love and favour on all ingenious men known of what faculty soever Sir Bountifull Nature to give an instance of what she can do hath bestow'd on you not lavish'd much more than a child's part the lesse she hath for some others for her store is not infinite I write not this to make you known whom all Europe knows already Much lesse would I offer dirty Wits an occasion to slurre you by this Dedication as if the Argument ensuing spake your disease and therefore fittest for your view study and countenance No Eagles are not wont to prey on carrion Great minds sublime fancies furnished with Arts Tongues enriched with the advantages of Travell kept in busiest speculative employments I say Great Souls whose activity the locall world is too narrow to circumscribe are above these carnall inescations leave them condemn'd to those whose souls dwell in their senses This Treatise hath lien in broken papers some years past penned for private use and had never seen more light but by your encouragement And now being got abroad first offers self to you to pay its birth duty and respects for publick freedom It lies in a small bulk and without Rhetoricall ornament for it intends the diseased to make them known to themselves appales to abide the narrow scan of your curious fancy which knows neither bonds nor rest the more 's your danger For let me tell you Sir you have a mind whom to supply with necessary animal-spirits is able to depauperate the most just and equilibrious Temper And provident Nature will store her Head-quarters and not fail to send enough to her Court and University though the lower Towns and Villages of the Microcosm fail and pine for it For the animal spirits luminous and aetherial fit to irradiate the soul's commands through the imperforate Nerves are raised out of the Vitall in the Plexus Choroides by further elaboration whence Nature amaunds the more foeculent part to the sewers of the Brain and the residue by the veines to the Heart for further concoction Hence the weak and depopulate bodies of busiest minds Hence those troublesome floods of rheums and destillations in them whose nature delights to dwell largely in the Animals especially quibus natura mater fortuna noverca And such would be your condition did not Fortune and Prudence conspire to prompt you a more elegant and defoecated diet to prevent it But what do I setting up my Candle to your Torch casting my Mite of advice into the Treasury of your prudentiall Rules Your Tongue and Pen drop little else and your loving Soul can do no lesse than to publish and enlarge the stock of Learning with your methodicall Digests All the divertisement that I shall further give your serious employment is to signifie and assure you that I am SIR Your affectionate Servant JOHN WYNELL Duresm-Yard 3d Nonas Decemb. 1659. To the Reader Reader BEfore thou enter the Treatise following peruse well this Epistle directed unto thee wherein thou hast 1 The Occasion that induced the penning and publishing of it 2 My Scope or End therein 3 The advanragious Use that thou maist make thereof 1. The Occasion was made up of these Observations following 1 Of the stupendious grouth and spreading of two depopulating diseases the Venercous and the Scurvy And enquiring thereupon into their effects in the yearly Bills of Mortality I found them so benign that it gave me occasion to admire the mystery of concealment I observed the Consumption in this sulphury aire to have slain its thousands and the Venereous disease scarce its hundreds I concluded thereupon that Latet dolus in generalibus Consumption's back is broad enough to bear such mocks I perceived also that the Scurvy had scarce a constant name in the killing Catalogue though it destroy more than any ten of its fellowes but the Dropsie Feavours of many kinds c. have great numbers dead at their feet I concluded thence that Filiae devorârunt matrem 2 I observed the mortality and pining of great noble and generous Families their generations gasping and soon run out one treading on the heels of another which gave me to enquire what should be the occasion And guiding my thoughts by that rule Causa Effectus sunt simul I accused their pampering diet effeminate education praemature marriage indiscreet covetousnesse in taking a weak crooked rickety woman for her Portion to be mater familiâs But my thoughts reasoning against the sufficiency of this enumeration as not of sufficient consideration carried me with greatest reason to their diseases And finding the Venereous disease amongst them as in its head-quarters I was strong in my conjecture that this traduced in the seed of parents and mi1k of nurses hindring nature in accomplishing her intention of perfection hath brought this calamity on great Families Haeret semini lethalis arundo 3 I observed further that hereby one principall end of Marriage to propagate a strong healthy and numerous posterity fit to traduce the being name and memory of parents to such an eternity as their mortall condition is capable of was much made void For in this wanton painting patching perfuming Issuing age a man knows not whom or what he takes to himself or his son in marriage a blessing or a curse Whereby not onely our own bodies are endangered damnified but posterity primarily foundamentally corrupted extirpated hearts of yoke-fellowes alienated iealousie let in of non-faithfulnsse after having lost their girdle before and indeed an uncomfortable life together because they cannot asunder like two dogs in a chain ever snaring and all because abusefull deceit in the marriage Manet altâ mente repôstum And now no securing evidence from the Hymen as amongst the Jews antiently being found Nature now in formation rarely plating any such transverse membrane the weeping breach whereof may assure the husband he is not deceived in his

about which three things are to be observed 1. That all these at the entrance of the disease are lesse visible and more mild but as the disease growes on do more appear and rage 2. That as it is not necessary that all these signes concurr where ever the disease is so it is hard to find a venereous body on which one of these appears alone for if there befalling of the hairs there are also Ulcers Tumors and manifold Pains and so of all the rest For you shall never find one labouring under this disease growen but many of these signes conspire to blab and discover it and the reason is because the fomes of this disease is seated in the humors as is before said which are dispersed throughout the body from which each bowell and member with its nourishment having its defilement filement so that it cannot be the disease should have but one window to look out at 3. That most of these signs are produced by other diseases yet in two things they differ One is The contumacy or stubbornnesse of this disease and its accidents beyond those of other diseases The other is The disobedience and opposition that this disease makes to all ordinary remedies When you find a disease seeming another throughout not obedient to the remedies left us by the Antients you may vehemently suspect to be Venereous CHAP. IX Of the Signes Prognostick or discovering the Event of this Disease THis disease of it self is seldom and slowly mortall I say Of it self for it may and oft doth beget or is accompanied with another more nimbly mortall for diseases seldom go alone Unlesse it fall on a flaming constitution It is no acute but chronick disease and therefore worst in old men Hippocrates gives the reason 2 Aph. Old men are lesse subject to sicknesse than the younger but their diseases are wont to be long and accompany them till death Again This disease contracted by coition onely is easiest cured next when brought on by the brest and hardest when inherited Besides they that purge well by childbed termes or flowing haemorrhoides are lesse subject to or afflicted by this disease and on them it is more easily cured they having many ordinary Sewers for corruption Likewise if there be a falling away of hairs a pronenesse to sweat the disease is the safer for when it falls outward and the skin open it appears the sooner to be removed but the deeper the disease lodgeth the harder the cure Also if the disease be joyned with a feaver the more considerable the feavour the harder the cure For the remedies which remove the venereous disease being hot and dry encrease the feaver Lastly diseases by relapse the oftner the worse For if rationall means could not remove the bodie 's disposition to this disease it becommeth still more prone and succumbent to it therefore in such cases the patient needs a more prudent and well-furnished Artist And so much for the signes Before I enter upon the Cure it will be necessary to remove some doubts which tend to the clearing of what hath been delivered and make way to the Cure CHAP. X. Doubts and Questions Resolved 1. QUest Why doth this disease which hath such cruell symptoms and sometimes such as are commensurate with life it self ordinarily kill so slowly Answ Death comes not but when the heart is vehemently injured and Nature ever what it can preserves and defends that fortresse especially against this disease Besides this disease of it self begets no feaver but by accident In this disease Respiration is not changed but rarely and at last extremity The Pulse is not altered for there are no diagnostick signes from thence of this disease a good evidence that Nature defends the Heart But de Modo quaeritur which take thus The vital spirits are the most mighty instruments of Nature to secure themselves and her Their fire is ever in opposition to and depuration of and from what is heterogenious and against what is most opposite most active And the oftner they passe the elaboration of the heart the more strong they become That which Aristotle saith of Choler how truly I do not affirm Quarto de part Animal That the heart will not suffer choler to come near it because choler is a great enemy to the heart the like do I say of this venereous poison The heart will not suffer it to come near it but ever by the vital spirits oppugns it because it is a great enemy unto it and the heat of the heart is ever in depuration of them As impure gold is by the fire-heat and separating ability illustrated purified perfected so the humours and spirits venereously defiled by the hearts heat are purified and preserved the lesse and more slowly corrupted Quest 2. Whether this disease be curable Whether it be true which some affirm that it never makes peace but truce onely Answ Experience evidenceth the contrary It is true that unlesse this disease be seasonably set on and restrained it takes deeper roots and though at beginning it hath secret and under-ground workings and do lesse or not at all appear for reasons formerly shewed yet with time it takes encrease and discovereth it self Now one reason why this disease is so seldom cured ariseth from the Patient who being by the industry of the Physitian once delivered from fierce symptoms and sense of pain too hastily becommeth confident of being cured declines obedience to further indeavours so that the disease-still lurks in the humors and with them imbibed by the bowels and members and breaks forth again Hence hath risen that proverbiall speech that it admits a truce not a peace Quest 3. Whether as time was when this disease was not for it is a stranger unto us not endemicall so time shall be when it shall cease Whether it shall have but a season onely as the Mentagra and Gemursa in Italy and the Sweating sickness in England Ans It is propable that it shall be so and this I am induced to think from these conjectures 1 Because other diseases formerly not known nor being had but their seasons and now are antiquated and extinct as is instanced in the question 2 Because since this disease began in Europe it is much abated of its rage and that which may abate may abolish If you ask me how this should come to passe I answer many wayes 1. By diet and manner of living men will become more choise and frugall 2. They have and will learn more prudence in coition and as time teacheth men discretion so will they more avoid this contagion 3. Cleanlinesse about the body will do much to effect this as in answer to the seventh question I shall further give probability to this opinion by answer to another Question thus Why was the plague of Pestilence and Leprosie so frequent formerly and now so rare Or if the Pestilence break forth is oft so soon quelled No reason as to men can be given but that men have