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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

reading of this Book will sufficiently enable Ignorant men to become Bold Undertakers They are very much mistaken who think the printing of an English Dispensatory as hath been of late years indeed done but with the needless Additions of the most uncouth and silly Drollery that ever Learned men have had the ill fortune to be abused in and this by one who thought himself forsooth abundance wiser than so deservedly renowned a College but must expect to be thought so only in some poor Chimney-corners and over the Winter-tales of some few harmless deluded people who must be pitied as well as himself 't is not such a business I say that can set up Good women for the Practising of Physick Much sweat and many great Advantages both Inward and Outward God knows are required to the right performing so weighty an employment The most exquisite Fabrick in the Universe or the Anatomy of the Microcosm must be throughly understood the most profound Principles of this Art must be maturely considered and well digested in the understanding the Nature of Diseases their several Motions and different Symptoms be diligently searched into either through those great assistances men usually meet with in other Countreys in all manner of respects or the particular Introduction of some Friend here at home the spacious Field of the Materia Medica must be often walk'd into the many curious productions of Nature known and the excellent Compositions that Art abundantly furnishes us with must deserve Good Consideration If these things were but indifferently weighed and the severe Obligations that lye on every Honest man's Conscience to the right performing what he undertakes of this high nature were but a little soberly thought on it might be able to deter many from so presumptuously venturing on the lives of others and turning Mountebanks with a few Receipts It is a sad and bleeding reflection what infinite mischiefs and frequent Murthers are daily committed in this Great City by those who slily lurk in corners or else who impudently paste their senseless pretensions in all the publick but stinking places of the Town And indeed it is a thousand pities that Able men had not more commonly a Declared Honesty and Known readiness to supply the wants of the Multitude who find themselves in a manner constrained through the Pride and Avarice of some and the Laziness of others to commit the most precious of all Temporal Blessings their Health into the Merciless Hands and Dangerous Experiments of such unsufferable Enemies to the Publick Good But the College now intends in a short time to prevent the encrease or continuance of these unhappy mischiefs by their particular Care and Charity and they may thereby expect more blessing from Heaven on their daily endeavours For let prophane Bravo's or conceited Naturalists scoff or smile at the particular Dependence I presume every man's Health and Affairs certainly have on the Influence and Providence of Heaven above us if they will but seriously glance into the History of their own past actions and the most important events of their lives they 'll be easily confounded at their former folly and sufficiently convinced of the the truth of what I assert Those therefore who love their Healths in earnest do not place it in the reach of Universal Pills High-named Elixirs and suspected Arcanums may be further pleased to know that Man's Body is a Machine of so very curious a Nature that its Diseases and Infirmities are capable of as great variety of circumstances and alterations as there are infinity of different parts in it that since Luxury and ease have so far prevailed upon us as to render us uncapable of enduring those hardships little Cottages do still suffer and thereby receive the benefit of since there is such variety of circumstances in our several ways of living and so great an inconstancy both in the quaility and quantity of what we eat and drink Diseases even of the same kind must needs have a very great Latitude not only in different persons according to their several Constitutions but even in the same person at different times Nature doth sufficiently declare the truth of this in the various configuration of men's Faces for seeing there is so great curiosity shewn in the outward contexture of so small dimensions that not two persons in all the World can ever be found exactly alike if they are closely compared together what may we then think or how many little instruments must we imagine requisite within us for the orderly motion of the whole Mass We have no reason therefore to wonder that not only different Nations but also particular persons we are once acquainted with may be easily known or distinguished by their outward Gest and particular Martch because the subtil diversity of their infinite little Organs and various disposition of the whole Fabrick must needs incline them to very different motions I shall not endeavour to fore-stall you with any Collection of the most considerable Remarks of this Book A very little Patience will be able to conquer them all Only I shall take notice to you that he makes the Pox to be as Ancient as Fornication and Adultery that wanton men in the days of Old were the Fathers of it and Harlotry its Mother when and wheresoever Beastliness and Uncleanness have much prevailed on the practice of men The Confusion and Corruption of so pretious a substance as is the Seed is here supposed to degenerate into so high a malignancy when the Seed of many different persons do meet together in the Womb are there cherished by the natural heat and at length exert their acttivities in this heterogeneous Fermentation and we may the easier conceive the truth of this if we consider what strange and dismall effects how numerous and dreadful Diseases the Womb is often the Mother of by Corruption of the Seed in one Woman alone how much more exalted then must the putrefaction be and the unhappy Parent of how degenerate an Off-spring when the additional successions of many new Corruptions do still conspire to the same end and still contribute to a further Advancement Now though this and several other things here are very prettily conceived and have my entire approbation of them yet I would by no means be thought implicitely to embrace whatsoever is here established or at random defend all the delights of his thoughts the scattered productions of his or any man's wandering Fancy Every man hath his roving as well as lucid intervals and though they may very often be in the right yet they may sometimes be in the wrong too We have all indeed our particular Talents and it will be certainly required of us how we have employed or advanced them It will not be enough for us sluggishly to say we have had such or such a Learned Master and carefully laid up the Treasure he committed to our charge unless some improvement be made of it or at least we shew our endeavours

be desired to maintain my Opinion yet I do not pretend to make it pass for a thing altogether unquestionable both for that it is possible to be false and because there might have been some unknown Abuses under equal and as good appearances I therefore leave all curious persons the liberty of making what other Experiments they please and to every one in particular that of judging the other circumstances of this Opinion according to their own Ideas or particular Observations as things Problematical and no way absolutely necessary to the Art of curing the Pox. 4. After having sufficiently explicated what I mean by the Original Cause or Generative of the Pox it is now necessary to observe the several sorts of Contact that can conduce to its Communication which are here considered as Causes of this Disease because it is by them principally gained But we must not imagine that this second Cause is always found in Coition as the first it matters not after what manner the Contact is made provided that it permits an adhesion or entrance to some part of the Venereal matter it may be made either directly or indirectly and here 's an Example of it A Woman with Child who in the Company of one that hath the Pox shall attract into her Womb the corrupted Seed that shall be there ejaculated will catch the Pox immediatly by reason of the Coition and Contact that preceded and the Infant that shall be in her Womb will be also infected with it by reason of the same Coition but not by reason of the Contact because the remoteness of the Infant hinder'd the Infection from being direct in respect of it The same thing may be said of Infants that are engendered of divers like Seeds according to the ordinary course of Nature or by way of Superfetation Besides the Example that I just now gave many other sorts of Contacts may be found which are made by other ways and yet fail not to cause the Pox For Example if one should happen to drink after him that hath the Pox and by chance put the Lips to the same place of the Glass where some little Poison of the Ulcers of his mouth or else some of his spittle fill'd with Venereal Salts shall have stuck it often happens that this either causes other Ulcers by superficially adhering to the parts or else without delay the universal Pox when the Salt that they contain is volatil and penetrant enough to enter into the Veins and Arteries without leaving any marks of its passage for let ever so little of it be once mixt with the Blood it will work like Leaven in a great deal of Dough or rather it ferments and corrupts as other Poisons do which are always more pernicious by their quality than by their quantity Another Example of this nature may be drawn from those who are infected with this Disease for having unfortunately lain in the sheets wherein one in the Pox had sweated or in which there might remain some of the matter that run from his Ulcers Besides these sorts of Contact all others may be said to be immediate because they are made by the application of one part against another Among them all the most ordinary is Coition because this Disease doth for the most part begin in the parts that serve for Generation and its matter is not always dispersed universally through the Body In this action if a Man hath Venereal Ulcers on his Yard some part of the Poison that nourishes them and which is nothing else but a dissolution of the Salts that constitute the Pox doth almost always stick in some part of the Womb or else in the wrinkles of the neck of her Womb that he lies with wherein he often causes other Ulcers by adhering to the skin or pellicules that cover those parts on which matter it may be observed that I have just reason to add this last circumstance by reason that this matter doth not always necessarily adhere in Women either because the Membrane that covers the Vagina is very smooth polished and cover'd with a slimy Humour or because the Seed that is therein ejaculated doth often slide out at the same time and carries away with it this Virulent matter so much the more easily as it hath not had time to adhere and as the scituation and form of this part do much contribute to its easier sliding out it is also for this reason that common Strumpets do sometimes give hurt to others though they have none at all themselves because the approaching them a little after they have enjoyed the Company of other men that are impure doth give some part of the impurity they received though themselves may be exempt from any adhesion or effect of the remaining matter by the means that I have mentioned It is observable that a virulent Clap and the universal Pox are able equally to render the Seed impure in so much that if that of a Man who is infected with it be attracted and retained in the Womb of a Woman it may cause in her either a Virulent Clap by adhering particularly to the spermatick Vessels or else the universal Pox by passing through the Oririfices of the Arteries and Veins that terminate in this part In a word a Woman that shall suffer such Indispositions may in like manner communicate them to a sound Man that shall converse with her by the adhesion or entrance of the matter that can cause them It is also observeable that the Impurities of the Mouth of a little Infant that hath the Pox are able to infect the Nurse by adhering to her Teats or else the air of his Respiration that can easily penetrate them through the pores that give passage to the Milk In like manner an infected Nurse can impart her Disease to the little One by an adhesion of the matter of her Ulcers or by the use of the corrupted Milk that is suckt from her Teats To ly with one that hath the Pox and touch him naked while he sweats or when he hath Ulcers and Pustules on his skin is a thing that may well be believed very dangerous and chiefly for those that have their pores very open and therefore do easily receive the impression of any thing that touches them The custom of Kissing with open Mouth is another very dangerous business for the reasons I have spoken of Lastly there are so many different Contacts which are capable of giving the Pox to those who have it not that when you shall once know it assuredly by its Signs you need not trouble your self but little about the manner how it was communicated since you cannot always find it out and since it is often unknown even to the persons sick themselves CHAP. III. Of the Differences of the Pox which may serve to make a Prognostick 1. An Advertisement on this Subject and general Division of the Degrees from whence may be drawn some Differences 2. Explication of the

Menstrual Furthermore I have sufficiently explicated otherwise what I mean by Virulent Claps and after what manner I conceive them to be produced that there is no need of making repetitions here I believe also that all the divisions which I could make of it be altogether useless because I do not intend to speak but only of those that are caused by the entrance and adhesion of some Venereal Salt or else because its Accidents do sufficiently distinguish it from such as happen by violent Exercises by the use of fermented Liquours and by other causes Therefore I believe it will suffice to give you in this Chapter the circumstances it is necessary to observe for the curing successfully all the Accidents that accompany this I am now going to speak of or else for assuredly preventing the universal Pox that might otherwise follow 2. Inflammation may be said to be the most pressing Accident of all that happen in this degree of the Pox for 't is by it that the matter which runs out is rendered the more sharp and corrosive that the Ulcers of the passages become greater and more profound that the pains grow insupportable and lastly that the means of making Urine become so extream difficult nay and sometimes in a manner impossible 'T is therefore requisite to take care betimes of preventing or else curing it by cooling Remedies such as may be those I am now going to propose Some persons whom we must by no means imitate do begin with Blood-letting in the Arm which may be apt to attract or drive the Venereal matter more inwardly into the body and must consequently be suspected as dangerous others are not afraid to let Blood in the Foot which also may have the same effect or else precipitate the Defluxion into the Stones wherefore you should abstain from them both and prefer the use of the following Ptisanne which will serve at the same time to cool the parts drive the matter outwards and diminish its Acrimony Take the Roots of white Lillies and Marsh-Mallows of each a pound Sorrel half a hand full Liquorish a sufficient quantity Barley three hands full Linseed two ounces common Water four and twenty pounds make a Ptisanne the usual way remembring to press the remainder well for to draw out the Mucilage the better Add in every Bottle of this Ptisanne ten or twelve drops of the Spirit of Vitriol and make your Patient drink of it as much as his stomach will bear and this indifferently at any hour day or night Though this Ptisanne be often sufficient to answer the intentions I have named when you begin in good time to make use of it yet it is found every day in some persons that the malignity of the matter and disposition of the body and parts do cause the Inflammation to grow so great as to communicate it self to the Reins and neck of the Bladder so that the Patients do suffer extreme pains when they are in Bed during the erection and in urining but this more particularly in Men for the Convulsion of the Nerves of their Yard which by retiring toward their origine do swell and thereby render this part crooked or bended doth cause the degree of the Pox in which it is said to be corded and stringed and in which also you must add to the fore-named Ingredients for the Ptisanne two ounces of the Cold Seeds half an ounce of white Poppy Seed and the Juyce of two or three Limons for to render it more Anodyne more refreshing and agreable You shall also give from time to time emulsions made of Whey sweet Almonds and the Seeds and Juyce I have now named You may for the same intention rub the Reins and Perineum with the Cerecloth of Galen which you must afterwards cover with Linnen dipt in Oxyerat that is made of one part of Vinegar and six of Rose-water The use of cooling Clysters must be frequent too as well as Injections of this quality which must be made into the Yard by means of a little Syringe and this with luke-warm Milk for Example which is marvellous for this effect and one may make use of it much more successfully than of common Water to dip the Yard in whil'st he urines and so facilitate the passage of the Urine Some of those who do not esteem things that are common chuse rather to make use of the Waters of Night-shade Roses and Plantain to make Injections which are indeed Refrigerant and Anodyne because they hinder the matter from flowing and drive it back by their astriction but it is a dangerous thing to do so and therefore you must have a care of using them unless the matter be grown thick and hath run sufficiently Turpentine of Chios or in defect of it that of Venice hath a marvellous effect for asswaging and qualifying the matter and driving it out because it very easily slides into those parts and is very Diuretick You may give it in Bolus or Pills from two drachms to half an ounce or its Spirit drawn Chymically from five drops to fifteen in Aperitive Waters or Ptisannes Experience will let you know that the Salt which is called Polychrest is a powerful Remedy to drive out the Venereal Salts if you dissolve two drachms of it in two glasses of the former Ptisanne or of Pellitory-water to give it a little after the Inflammation is past and reiterate it after this manner two or three times augmenting the Dose each time with a drachm more After the use of these Remedies you must begin to purge gently with a light Infusion of Senna Crystal Mineral and Cassia and may reiterate this Purge some days afterwards augmenting the Dose or else adding other Medicaments that are most convenient to the present Dispositions When the matter shall come to run more white more thick in less quantity you may then hinder its effluxion for altogether shutting up and closing the Spermatick Vessels by astringent and inward Remedies whil'st you are cleansing and desiccating the Ulcers of the Ureter with detersive and desiccative Injections Some of those that abuse Physick and its Remedies do strive to stop the matter that runs in Claps only with astringent Injections which causes the matter to sink into the more inward parts and so consequently there happens a greater Evil then they pretended to cure or at least the effluxion begins again so soon as they have left off the use of these pretended Remedies in so much that they are compelled sometimes fifteen or twenty times to reassume the use of them without attaining the end they proposed themselves For these Injections cannot go in Men further than the inward extremity of the common passage to the Seed and Urine nor in Women further than the neck of the Womb or the neck of the Bladder but this happens chiefly because by this means they hinder the evacuation of such Impurities as may still remain sometimes after the Operation of the former Medicaments and are too