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A28375	New and curious observations on the art of curing the veneral disease and the accidents that it produces in all its degrees explicatd by natural and mechanical principles with the motions, actions, and effects of mercury and its other remedies : wherein are discovered on the same subject the errours of some authors ... / written in French by Monsieur de Blegny ; Englished by Walter Harris.	Blégny, Monsieur de (Nicolas), 1652-1722.; Harris, Walter, 1647-1732.	1676 (1676)	Wing B3186; ESTC R23701	76,734	217

though oftentimes the gentlest desiccatives are sufficient to cure them in three or four days These Ulcers may indeed happen in all parts of the body because they are all capable of an impure Contact but the more tender and delicate ones are most subject to them by reason that the impure Salts do more easily stick in their susceptible substance whence it comes to pass that the Yards in Men the Privities in Women the Teats in Nurses and the Mouth in Infants are the parts which are most commonly infected with them 3. That which ought to be done towards their Cure while they are in this condition consists principally in drying them up like other Ulcers only regard must be had to the matter that causes them and proper Desiccatives employed for breaking the points of the Salts they contain and to oppose their penetration which is so much the rather to be feared as it is done insensibly The following Liquours will very well answer this first respect if you wash the Ulcers twice a day with them and lay Tents upon them that are dipt in these Liquours observing always to give such a strength to them as is most agreable proper to the particular Temperaments of the bodies and parts on which you shall apply them and this by encreasing the quantity of Pouders to render them the stronger or else that of the Waters to make them the weaker Take of the seventh Water of unslakt Lime one pound Spirit of Vitriol Salt of Saturn and Verdegrease of each half a drachme Or else Rose and Plantain Water of each half a pound Aqua-vitae two ounces Orpiment a drachme and a half Verdegrease two scruples Aloes half a drachm Or again white Wine a pound Rose and Plantain Water of each four ounces Orpin two drachmes Verdegrease one drachm Mirrh and Aloes of each a scruple Make the Liquours according to Art for the use above mentioned To answer the second respect that I remarked you must use both Purgatives and Diureticks if the Ulcers are upon the Yard of a Man the Genitals of a Woman or about the Groin of either of them or else you may use inwardly Sudorisicks that drive from the Center to the Circumference if they are in any other parts 4. It must be especially observed that the Purgatives which you shall make use of for this effect be strong enough to move Nature and help it to drive by Stool any impure matter that might have penetrated a little more inwardly than the Ulcers which appear to you and also that they be not violent enough to attract the Humours from the remoter parts for this attraction would help the matter to make a further penetration then it would otherwise have been able to do of it self and so cause by this means the universal Pox which you do endeavour to avoid And here you may take notice that the greatest part of Men are themselves the causes of the frauds and deceits that are done to them for there are very many who will never think themselves well purged unless they have felt excessive pains and cruel gripes in their guts and unless they go to Stool fiveteen or twenty times at least though to speak the truth Nature can never endure these extraordinary and violent Motions without the diminution or depravation of their Functions which nevertheless are the principal Agents in the separation and expulsion of Impurities If you desire therefore to avoid these excesses you 'll find nothing more safe than an Infusion of Senna with Salt of Tartar in which you may also dissolve the Syrups of Roses or Peachflowers proportionating the doses to the age and strength of the Patient you take in hand 5. The Diuretiks you must make use of to repel by Urine are Crystal Mineral which you may give from half a drachm to two or three and the Spirits of Vitriol and Sulphur from six to thirty drops in Pellitory Water or an Aperitive Ptisanne you may prepare with the Roots of Strawberries wild Succhory Grass and Dandelion Those of Parsly Fennil Sperage and Rest-harrow are much more aperitive than the former and divers forms of Ptisannes may be prepared with them that are useful indeed to some but may have very ill effect on persons extremely hot and dry as well as Radish-seed bruised and taken in white Wine which is notwithstanding a most powerful Aperitive For the Sudorisicks that are taken inwardly you may successively make use of the Spirit of Harts-horn which you may give in half a Glass of Carduus-water from six to twenty drops or a like number of grains of its volatile Salt dissolved in the same Water But among all you 'll find none to have a greater effect than the Pouder or volatile Salt of Vipers if you give the first from ten to thirty grains and the latter from five to fiveteen in equal parts of Cinnamon and Carduus-waters or in the Water that remains in the distillation of this same Salt 6. It remains to say that these Evils do not long continue under the Name of Ulcers simply for it is well known that the matter which causes them doth sometimes insinuate more deeply and by this means doth make another degree of the Pox but it more often happens that by long continuance in the exulcerated part it makes the Ulcers turn into Chancres after the manner I spoke of before Wherefore it is good to observe that you dress them in this condition with Escaroticks and Suppuratives because you must consume the hardness that is found in them for fear of leaving a ferment in the parts that might produce afterwards a far greater Evil than you are going to destroy They who follow the ordinary Practice in this case are content to apply Red Precipitate which in truth makes a skar when it is good but that a light and superficial one such as is not able to hinder the hardness from encreasing in latitude and profundity and from remaining also after their Cicatrice what time soever is employed towards their consumption Some do make use of sublimate Corrosive but besides that it causes intolerable pains during the Operation it attracts watry fluxions on the parts it is applyed to which are very hard to dissolve and do besides dispose the parts to a Gangrene and this principally in those parts that are near the passages which serve for expulsion of the Excrements The causes of these misfortunes and many others is an Errour of some ancient Authors that every body may easily be convinced of yet hath nevertheless been received by way of Tradition by the greatest part of those who have written ever since or do still write on this subject according to which Errour they represent Quicksilver to be like a Ferret that goes and searches out the Venereal matter in all parts of the body for to expel it thence presently as this little Animal doth the Connies out of their Holes For which Opinion nevertheless they have had no other proof

often the only cause of the duration of this Disease Now none of this happens when Stiptick Remedies that are taken inwardly are used with prudence for they close the Spermatick Vessels by little and little which by this restriction or compression do discharge themselves of their remaining Impurities so that you may always make use of them with good success observing only that you give them at first in a very small quantity and this a little after the Purgatives spoken of before To this we must add nevertheless that it is sometimes needful not to make use of them at all and that Circumstances do sometimes happen wherein they are unprofitable or dangerous For it is remarkable in the greatest part of those that are thus affected that the matter which runs out toward end of their Cure is nothing else but the Virus of some of the Ulcers in the passages so consequently its effluxion must not be hindred by any other Remedies than such as are cleansing and desiccative Sometimes also the extraordinary heat of the Bowels doth nourish and continue the Inflammation and Dilatation of the ejaculatory Vessels so that the alteration and loss of Seed cannot be hindered but by a proper Dyet and cooling Remedies At other times again the Gonorrhea is caused by Virulent serosities that fall into the Testicules and cannot be consumed but by the use of the Decoctions of China-root Salsaparilla and the other Sudorificks Lastly it may be perpetual and incurable in Men when the Caruncula Mammillaris which shuts the Holes through which the Seed passes into the common passage from the Glandulae Prostatae hath been unhappily consumed by some Ulcer or else by corrosive Medicaments But you must observe that the greatest of these Exceptions do not commonly come to pass and you must consider the Astringents of which I have spoken as the most assured Remedies in the Cure of Gonorrheas besides it is by the use and effects of them that you may best judge of the necessity of these others wherefore you may always try them without danger and make use of to this purpose for Example a great Glass of Water wherein you shall have boiled half a quarter of an hour half an ounce of Myrobalans beaten together Or else of the Tincture of red Roses drawn in common Water or the Juyce of Berberries with the Spirit of Vitriol and given Morning and Evening from two to six ounces Or again four parts of Electrum or instead of it Amber with one part of Camphire poudered and incorporated into the Conserve of Roses the weight of both to give of it every Morning from half a drachm to a drachm and a half But among all the Remedies that may be used to this intention you 'll find none more assured in their Operation than the following Pills Take of Mastick in Tears red Coral and chosen Amber of each two drachms Camphir one drachm Laudanum eight grains make Pills according to Art with a sufficient quantity of Syrop of Quinces to make a Mass of which you may give from a scruple to a drachm for each Dose As for the Ulcers which may happen in the passages you may mundifie them with detersive Injections made with the decoction of French Barley and Agrimony in which you shall mix the Syrop of Wormwood or Honey of Red Roses with some drops of the Spirit of Vitriol After the detersion you may dry them with the seventh Water of unslackt Lime in which you shall dissolve a little Salt of Saturn Or else take white Vitriol Iris of Florence and Camphire of each half a drachm Roch-Alum one drachm Rose and plantain-Plantain-water of each eight ounces make Collyres for the foresaid intention The Troches of Abbot Rhafis mixt in the same Waters in the Water of distilled Alum or its dissolution in common Water may also serve to the same effect 3. When the Patients way of living is very irregular and licentious or else when the matter hath been driven back too soon by astringent Injections lastly when it hath been precipitated by Purges that are too violent or inconsideratly given it spreads into the proper Membranes of one of the Testicules or of both together where it causes a great and painful Tumour which sometimes creates more trouble to cure than all the other Accidents The situation of the parts where the Evil lyes doth indicate to you the necessity of repose the defluxion of Humours Inflammation and great pain that draws them thither do also indicate to you the necessity of revulsive Phlebotomys and Anodyne and cooling Clysters which you must reiterate as often as shall be found necessary to stop or divert the Motion of the matter Cataplasms made of Cows-milk Crums of White-bread Yelks of new-laid Egs and Oyl of sweet Almonds are here very profitable at the beginning Fomentations and Cataplasms made with Mallow-leaves Marsh-mallow roots Flowers of Camomille and Melilote Line-seed and Fleawort-seed may much contribute to the Cure of this Indisposition When the Inflammation and pain shall be taken away by all these Remedies and the Tumour a little mollified you may begin to use resolvent Cataplasms such as are made with the four sorts of Farine or Meale boiled in Oxymel adding to them a little Oyntment of Roses and Saffran Cummin-seed well bruised and boil'd also in Oximel to the consistence of a Cataplasm Lastly the Balsom of Sulphur applyed alone or mixed with Myrrh in the consistence of a Cere-cloth as it is described by Rulandus 4. If the Ulcers of the passages have not been cleansed and dryed as they should be the remaining matter thickens and fixes the Humour which flows into the ulcerated part in so much that the Flesh there grows hard rises by little and little and at last hinders the entrance of the Yard when it happens in the neck of the Womb of a Woman but doth more often hinder the passage of the Urine in both Sexes if it be not consumed before it possesses the Circumference of the Ureter It is more particularly requisite in Men to take care of preventing this extremity and endeavouring to consume these excrescencies so soon as ever it is perceived that the Urine doth not make so large a stream as usually or that it runs out forked and divided For when it comes to go out but only drop by drop or is altogether thus suppressed we are almost always obliged to open the Perineum by an Incision or at least to introduce a Catheter into the Bladder which in passing along doth cause very grievous pains You may easily consume a Carnosity in its beginning by excoriating it with a Catheter and applying thereupon by the means of a little Candle made of Wax and Turpentine red Precipitate calcined Alum Verdegrease the pouder of Sabine and yellow Orpiment of which Drogues you may prepare several sorts of Remedies But when it is become very great and hard you must first of all try to render it tractable by the

a Ptisanne for his ordinary Drink with French-Barley and the Roots of wild Succory Sorrel and white Lilies to which you may add some Lycorice and a little Lemmon to render it more agreeable and cooling Broths and boil'd meat must serve for his nourishment which you must diminish the quantity of by little and little so that the Patient may find himself insensibly reduced to the constant use of liquid Aliments toward the end of his Preparation 5. Excess of Repletion Moisture is chiefly found in Bodies of a cold Phlegmatick Temper which you may correct by evacuating and drying them with the following Remedies You may frequently give them Clysters made of the Decoction of the Leaves of Mallows Marsh-mallows and Mercury the Flowers of Camomile and Melilot Seeds of Anise and Fenugreek adding to them Honey of Mercury You may here practise Blood-letting without any scruple and repeat it several times if you judge the Plenitude of the Vessels to be very considerable An Infusion of three Drachms of Senna one drachm of Agarick Trochiscated and as much of the Salt called Polychrest mixed with half an Ounce of the Confection Hamech and an Ounce of Syrup of Peach flowers will make up a Purge that may serve to evacuace abundance of Phlegm if you repeat it seven or eight times every second day You may prepare your Ptisanne with two Quarts of ordinary Water two Handfuls of French Barley and three Ounces of Guaiacum which you must have steeped beforehand in a hot place with a Pint of white Wine and you may render it fit and easie to drink by adding to the things aforesaid a little Cinnamon Coriander-seed Licorice or Lemmon according to the Taste and Palate of your Patient You may make him sweat every evening by giving him a good large Glass of the foresaid Ptisanne to drink in which you shall have dropt fifteen or twenty drops of the Spirit of Harts-horn remembring to warm his Bed and Chamber as much as you can and to put at the feet of such as difficultly sweat Bottles filled with hot water But if these things are not able to cause some persons to sweat you will infallibly force them to sweat sufficiently by making them receive the Vapour of the Spirit of Wine in a certain Stove made on purpose You must diminish his Nourishment by degrees as I have already told you in the former Preparation only you may make those I now speak of fast with much less danger than any others and you must prefer Rost-meat before Boiled as being much more drying because the Particles of Fire do act more directly upon it Besides the Middle Temperament and two Extremes of which I have now spoken you will find many Bodies that require a less alteration whether by Heat or Cold. In such cases you must use Remedies of a more moderate strength and for such as are but indifferently Replete and Phlegmatick you must lay aside the strong Sudorisicks and only use the Decoctions of Sassafras China and Sarsaparilla according as there is more or less necessity of drying In like manner you may bath less those that are very hot and dry or else forbear the other cooling Moistning Ptisanne Lastly for them all you must be careful in augmenting or diminishing the strength of Purgatives and in general of all Remedies that serve for Preparation according to the foresaid Considerations CHAP. III. Of the different ways of making Mercury to enter into the Bodies of such as are infected with the Pox. 1. General Division of the wayes and that the practice of giving it by mouth is none of the best The Preparations of Mercury that are given inwardly 3. The different wayes of making it enter by the Pores of the Body and first of Plaisters that serve for this effect 4. Of Ointments 5. Of Troches for Fumigations 1. HAving let you see after what manner you ought to prepare the Bodies in which you would have Mercury to operate it is now time to speak of the several ways of using it and the choice that ought to be made of them according to the degrees of the Disease the supervening Accidents and unhappy Circumstances in which persons thus diseased do sometimes find themselves Mercury is usually made enter into their bodies two manner of ways either in at the Mouth or else universally by the Pores It is worth observing before we proceed further that the first of these ways is indeed none of the best because the Mercury that is thus taken at the Mouth descends presently into the Stomach whence it is suddenly Sublimated upwards by the Heat of this part which causes the Salivation that is raised by this means to continue but a very little time and not to terminate completely the universal Pox unless the Natural Heat be found strong enough to supply this defect by vigorously following the Motion of Mercury I know well enough that some persons do mix Purgatives with it which do hinder its Sublimation by precipitating it downwards But this custom seems to have as little certainty as the former because only passing through the Guts it cannot purify at most but that which is called the second Region of the body for there is no likelihood at all that it should be able to penetrate into the most remote parts to mix with all the Acid Humours that are there extravasated and so draw them into the places I have spoken of by a contrary Motion By this way of arguing and by the proof that I have made in this matter and seen others make too I cannot but think such as indifferently practise this way of administring it and make it pass for infallible in all that have the Pox and in all the degrees of it ought to be esteemed Ignorant or Impostors and Patients should in all reason rather rely upon the Honesty and Experience of true Physicians who do find but too many Occasions for discovering this truth and are not wanting to advertise ingeniously such as have an unhappy inclination to run the hazard of a false palliative Cure because they have been once falsly perswaded or because they are engaged by particular Motives to search out Remedies they fancy more easy and less troublesom I do not mean but there may be found abundance of persons who will maintain they have been cured by taking Mercury this way But you must observe that among them there are many who never had the Pox but only in their imagination that in some Nature did procure a Critical Motion of her own accord near about the time they made this use of Mercury that in others she had been strongly moved to the same effect by the activity of other Remedies which have been mixed with it lastly that those who have used it in the first degree of this universal Pox that is to say when its matter remains still in the Vessels and hath not yet caused the ebullition of the blood and consequently diffusion of serosities might