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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30115	A new discovery of the French disease and running of the reins their causes, signs, with plain and easie direction of perfect curing the same / by R. Bunworth.	Bunworth, Richard.	1662 (1662)	Wing B5476; ESTC R29144	21,177	95

Cause of this disease as the Galenists affirm is a certain venom which preys upon the blood is hurtful to the liver and works by second qualities heat and drowth The Chymists not much differing from them define it to be a venemous ferment that like a stink seizeth upon the solid and liquid parts of the body But most commonly it associates it self with the excrements which are the matter of diseases that have not the power to resist its virulences This contagious disease is contracted many wayes as by touch in coition by reason that the active force of the poyson communicates its venome by means of that corrupt matter or those stinking vapours that proceed from the infected person Now because that cannot happen but by touch it follows that the signs of the disease must first appear in those parts which first are lyable by that contaction to receive the infection And therefore we alwaies find the first symptoms in the privie parts Sometime it is contracted by lying together in the same bed by reason that the sweat and impure vapours that exhale from a defil'd body corrode and penetrate the skin of him that is sound In the same manner the chaps are infected by drinking together the nostrills by receiving the evil sents of his body As to the parties receiving some whose skins are soft and tender their vessels larger their spirits more subtile and more inflam'd their blood more thin and hot have a less force to resist and are consequently more apt to receive this poyson So we see the tenderest parts of the same body soonest infected as the privities which are very tender and still heated and rarefy'd by copulation The mouth also and jaws are in the same danger by reason of the softness and thinness of the subject Young men also are sooner infected then aged and the weaker young men sooner then those who are of stronger constitutions But women are less subject to infection then men by reason of the coldness of their temper as also because those parts are wash'd by their natural evacuations CHAP. II. Of the signs and symptomes of this disease THE signes and symptomes how you shall know those that are infected with this grief appear by the following effects Now because the signs doe proceed and are taken either from the nature of the effects or from the causes of the sickness and also from some symptoms or causes thereof and also because this disease beginneth in the liver which cannot be look'd into let us not look for any signs which may be common to other diseases but let us seek for such signs as can give certain testimony and shew thereof as being contained under the effects and consequently proceeding immediately from the disease Of these signs there be two sorts some are symptoms as falling off of the hair aches in the head and members and small infection of the skin But those which I call diseases proceeding from the disease are those sore and vehement ulcers tumors of the shins and other parts of the body with pustules Of these symptoms some happen at the beginning some when the disease is grown more prevalent and vigorous Those of the first sort are these that follow When a man is first infected He feels a certain weariness come upon all his members without any outward occasions such as walking or violent exercise There will be also a lumpish heaviness over the whole body a dulness faintness and slowness to move in all the members The occasion of this is the infection of the natural spirits which are the immediate instrument that give livelyness to the whole body which being infected it must of necessity follow that the whole body should be more weary and heavy then it was before There is moreover a certain pain or ache which wandreth throughout all the body and the several parts thereof First the head aketh then it leaveth the head and goeth into the shoulders by and by it leaveth one shoulder and goeth into another out of the shoulders it flyes to the leggs sometimes in one leg and sometimes in another The cause of this is a certain vapor which taketh it's course from the liver 'T is true that the evil humour is not yet quite begotten but by reason of the fervent heat of the liver which is caused by the infection there is a certain small vapour ingendred which is the cause of these pains that wander up and down the body Now after that the disease hath a little prevailed the colour of the face is quite altered Those that before were of most lively and clear complexions are in very short while all discoloured The lively spirit of the eyes and the comely colours of the mouth and cheeks will be altogether of another Hew and besides this there will be under the eyes of a wan colour'd or blewish circle such as appears in women that have Their stomachs will be much taken off from their meat they will have pains in the night coming upon them much about the time they goe to sleep will many times wake them out of their sleep They are colder then ordinary and more over they have an itching pain in their shin-bones which abates no longer then while you are gently rubbing of the part Besides all this they will be troubled with drowsiness or a disposition to sleep which shall be often interrupted There is wont also to be a notable heat in the palms of the hands and soles of the feet though it be in the winter time Neither is sadness of the mind to be left out for though the party infected should be of a pleasant and merry nature yet will this disease cause him to be sad even to such a height as to groan therewith The infection now increasing burneth the blood which causes a feaver by reason of the heat which is about the distemper'd parts By this appears the putrify'd matter which is a sign to discover the malady for when you see this putrify'd matter yet in small quantity about the yard knowing no occasion thereof to have gone before you may safely pronounce it to be the French disease For this matter cannot proceed but from two causes either because of the corruption of the womans Matrix which may have eaten and gnawn the fine skin of the yard or else by reason that the contagion being imparted unto the Liver by the naturall spirits the liver therefore expells those infected spirits and sanious matter down again upon the privie parts Besides these common signs there are others of another nature as bubo's which are small tumors in the armholes or groyn and privie parts afterward a general itching over the whole body and sometimes sore and angry pustules or breakings out in the head face and other parts CHAP. III. Of the cause of the coming forth of those pustules and other tumours THE chief cause why these pustules break forth are first because the infected matter is sent thither by

Red sage a small handfull Senna an ounce Coriander seeds prepared three drams boyle them over night in white wine and spring water of each three pints untill half be wasted Then while it is hot put into the decoction two drams of Rhubarb sliced and let it infuse in the liquor all night with the rest of the ingredients in the morning strein away the ingredients and put to the liquor four ounces of syrrup of Cichory with Rhabarb Let the patient drink twelve spoonfulls of this Apozeme fasting so long as it shall last The next day after he hath taken all his Apozeme let him begin to take of this following electuary Take of Lenitive Electuary three ounces Cassia lately extracted in red rose water and Venice turpentine wash'd in plantain water ana an ounce and a half The powder of Senna and Anniseeds of each a dram and a half Rhubarb finely powdered a dram mix them according to art into an electuary Of this Electuary let him take the quantity of a wall nut fasting and as much at four of the clock in the afternoon so long as it shall last When he begins to take of this electuary let him take this following plaister and lay it athwart his back letting it continue on as long as will stick Take of Venice Turpentine an ounce Virgins wax half an ounce melt them together in a brass ladle or smal earthen pot over a gentle fire and when it is almost cold stir into it three dramms of white sealed Earth finely powdered spread it upon Allome leather to be apply'd as aforesaid This way of cure best agrees with those that are of a hot constitution CHAP. XXIII The third way of curing the Running of the reines FIrst give the patient this following vomit Take of the infusion of Crocus metallorum an ounce Oxymell simplex two ounces oyle of Cinamon a drop mix them together give it him in a morning fasting with due observation according to the custome of vomiting After he hath taken this vomit two days after give half a dram of extractum rudii and twelve grains of mercurius dulcis mixt together made into four pills Two days after he hath taken the pills sweat him with this following sweating potion Take treacle water two ounces Antimonium diaphoreticum ten grains syrrup of wood-sorrel an ounce and a half mix them together The next day after he hath sweat let him begin to take this following Apozeme Take China Sarsaperil Senna rootes of water Lillies of each an ounce Raisins stoned four ounces black hellebore half an ounce Caraway seeds and Cinamon of each three dramms boyle them altogether in three quarts of water over a gentle fire in an Earthen vessel close covered untill half be wasted strain away the ingredients and sweeten the liquor with six ounces of common Treacle Give him four ounces of this Apozeme at a time every morning fasting for the space of twenty days in the mean time let him swallow every night when he goes to bed five pills as big as large peas of Cyprus Turpentine This cure is most proper for those that have a violent Gonorrhea or running of the reines which may have some tincture or smatch of the French disease CHAP. XXIV The fourth way of curing the Gonorrhea TAke of Rhabarb Crema Tartar of each four ounces Cassia newly extracted and Venice Turpentine as much as will thicken it into the form of an electuary Let the patient take of this electuary in the morning fasting as much as will amount to the quantitie of a wall nut and at night also when he goes to bed the same quantity drinking after it a glass of whay or if he find any sharpness in his urine a glass of milk and water Let him doe this for a fortnight or three weeks together He may goe about his business without any disturbance only keeping a temperate dyet and abstaining from much drinking and taking tobacco If the person be of a sanguine complexion he may let blood before he begins to take his Electuary Let this cure be used only when the disease is taken in time before the venome of the disease hath proceeded two farr CHAP. XXV The fifth way of curing the Gonorrhea FIrst purge the patient with a bolus of Cassia newly extracted causing him to drink after it a little broth without any salt in it After this let him take half a dram of Chrystallum minerale in six ounces of whey two howrs before meals morning and evening and at meals let him use this following dyet drink Take of barly grass topps of Mallows plantain leaves agrimony maidenhaire ana a good handfull liquorice as much as will suffice boyle it high and make thereof a Ptisan and to every foure pints of this Ptisan add half an ounce of Chrystallum minerale use this for fifteen or sixteen days or three weeks This with great ease stopps the gonorrhea of it self But if it be an old running after you have made use of the former prescription the due time set down take of this following mass of pills Take of Salt of Coral rectifyed twice or thrice with spirit of Guaiacum one ounce extract of Amber one ounce Terra sigillata three drams Crocus Martis astringent reverberated half an ounce Extract of tormentill Pilosell golden rod great Sanicle of each two ounces Venice Turpentine evaporated with a soft heat till the consumption of the third part Mix with the hot Turpentine first the extract of amber then the salt of coral and the terra sigillata mingled with the other extracts then the Crocus Martis stirring with a spatula till they be all exactly mixed Make a mass thereof and let the patient take thereof two scruples made into pills morning and evening till he find himself well You may also use injections into the yard made of the decoction of Tormentil golden rod pilosell and great Sanicle dissolving a dram of Saccharum Saturni in one dram of the said Liquor CHAP. XXVI The chymical way of curing a virulent Gonorrhea IN the curing of the Gonorrhea chymically green precipitate is thus made Take of mercurie three ounces and dissolve it in two ounces of aqua fortis of Venus one ounce and dissolve it in two ounces of Aqua fortis mix the two solutions together and distil them out of the sand through a retort toward the end of the distillation urging the fire more Vehemently whereby the greatest parts of the corrosive spirits may be taken away pound that which remains behind in a mortar and with vinegar digest it six days in the ashes then boyl it that the greatest part of the mercurie may be dissolved in the vinegar when it it impregnated with the vinegar take it and distil it with a soft fire till it be come very drie and there will remain in the bottome a green precipitate of this give four five six or seven grains according to the strength of the patient in conserve of roses CHAP. XXVII