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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65692	An elenchus of opinions concerning the cure of the small pox together with problematicall questions concerning the cure of the French pest / by T. Whitaker ...	Whitaker, Tobias, d. 1666.; Whitaker, Tobias, d. 1666. Questions problematical concerning the French pest.	1661 (1661)	Wing W1715; ESTC R38589	32,343	140

Small Pox is not to be adhibited neither in the beginning o● the ebulition nor eruption of the pustules neither is any blou● to be drawn safely or withou● danger insomuch that neithe● Riverius nor any other Autho● can afford any certain assuranc● of the practise of phlebotomy i● this disease but rather thes● contradictory oppositions between the most Learned Antients and Modern Professors of highest judgement and observation do prove this scope of cure by bloud-letting to be an unsafe and doubtfull remedy in the Small Pox and therefore I thought it my duty to publish so much to my own Nation and in their own tongue that they may be instructed and enabled to avoid the danger of unsafe or rash proceeding in the curing of this disease and if these expressions be insignificant to any persons of another sense I shall leave them as couragious and valiant adventurers and wish their returns may be more successful then of late they havebin I have now most plainly expressed my own sense of bloud-letting in this disease of the Small Pox particularly yet it will admit of a more generall extension to all circumferential motions in nature for without dispute the intention in all afflictions is to expell all peccant and peternaturall causes from the Centre to the universal emunctory or to some particular place of reception from a more noble to a less noble part according to its power in resisting the cause for if it cannot effect a universal evacuation circumfercntial nor an extreme impulsion from the most noble to the most ignoble part such as is from head to foot or from the brest to the back then it moveth obliquely to some emunctory which may obtain the term of a perfect diversion to the next vicine part or else to some neutral which hath a vicinity with both As from the head to the Glandules of the throat Glandules of the groyne which are more remote and so proveth neither a proper diversion nor proper revulsion And in these motions phlebotomy may be indicated either ●or diversion or revulsion or universal evacuation which in Art ought to precede a particular evacuation by which remedy some internal oppilations or obstructions in via may be removed and Nature enabled more universally to free it self of a congestion But since I have not consented to phlebotomy in the Small Pox I am obliged to declare an undenyable regimen in this disease with considerable remedys both external and internal to be applyed and although phlebotomy be in the Catalogue of external remedies yet so of no use in this case by reason that it is as difficult in this disease to find a proper indication to sense as a simple intemperies in a veletudinary person that is such a disease as is without any other complication such a disease imaginary there may be but not demonstrative to sense But if any proper indication with a necessity of coaction for drawing of bloud doth present it self to the agent then as I said in my precedent discourse the application of cupping-glasses upon the shoulders arms and thighs with scarification is the safest remedy with this caution that the scarification be superficiall and not deep lest they enter upon a vein or artery and the evacuation be stopped with much difficulty and danger to the patient And this applicatition thus performed nature is assisted in its circumferentiall motion if there be also a great care and circumspection in the contemperation of the ambient aire of the place that it be not so hot as to suffocate the spirits nor so cold as to repell the humour in motion to the Centre or so congregate and condense the intrinsecall causes that in conatu naturae or in the endeavour of nature to dissolve and open the porosities be inflamed and the disease augmented or totally stop the eruption of the pustules and therefore to be advisedly ordered there are other externall remedies which are to be used in the state of this disease unto the declension for the prevention of Escars and these remedies are commonly the complement of every experienced Nurse But I shall first acquaint the Reader with such remedies as are ordained by Learned and antient practitioners viz. when the matter of the pustules doth corrode and make a deep impression in the face Senertus appointeth a sufficient quantity of Mallow roots to be boiled in the Urine of the Patient Some other Physicians and old Nurses have used an astringent wash which in my sense is not to be andibited because it stoppeth or is the cause of retention of the humor in the face and fixeth the cicatrix Riverius ordaineth oyle of sweet Almonds new prest to anoint the face and as an Anodine to contemperate the acrimony of the humour which in some persons as aqua fortis hath penetrated the bone according to the relation of Gartius Fernelius applaudeth this subsequ●nt oyntment Take sweet Almonds white Lillies of each one ounce Capons grease three drams the powder of the root of paeonie flower de lys Lithargy of Gold of each halfe the scruple Sugar-candy one scrup●e mixe all these in a hot Morter and straine them through a lin●en cloath and anoint the 〈◊〉 morning and night and after this anointing wash the face with water distilled from Calves feet Gartius out of his observation recommended his unguentum citr●num to be in curing the cicatrix a proba●um and my self shall present the oyle of Eggs to be most incarnative and generating flesh which doth fill up those cavities and prevent circatrising or vulgarly pittings the flesh not 〈…〉 when they come to 〈…〉 to open them with a 〈…〉 instrument least by the per●●nency of the pustulate 〈◊〉 there be a greater impression of the cicatrix Some other Physicians I know not upon what basis dispute against this order of opening the pustules when they come to maturity and I find their reason for it as weak as their opinion for they urge such a diminution of naturall heat in letting out the puruleut matter upon full maturity that nature is so debilitated that it is disabled to incarnate and by want of this incarnation the cicatrix is more profound but upō consideration of the opening of an Apostema when it is mature it is a levamen to nature as much as the taking of the burthen from a Porter doth refresh him and doth prevent the tediosity of naturall industry in mellowing or rotting the Coat in which the matter is involved and consequently a proportionable corroborative to naturall heat and motion and more especially when they are supplyed with remedies that are mundificative and carnative as is before directed in the oyle of Eggs. But because I hate prolixity I do passe over a multitude of other Medicaments well knowing the vanity of being over-active when a less motion is more satisfactory frustra fit per plura quod fieri potest per pauciora And therefore out of my own experience and quotidian practise I have