Little Venus Unmasked: Or, a perfect DISCOVERY OF THE FRENCH POX. Comprising, The Opinions of most Ancient and Modern Physicians, with the Author's Judgement and Observations upon the Rise, Nature, Subject, Causes, Kind's, Signs, and Prognostics of the said Disease.  
Together, With several nice Questions, and Twelve different Ways and Methods of Curing that Disease, and the Running of the Reins.  
The Second Edition. With large Additions of new matter, and of a new Tract of a Scorbutic Pox, a second Tract of a Mangy Pox, and an Appendix of an Hectic Pox, together with their several Cures.  
By Gideon Harvey, M. D.  
LONDON, Printed for William Thackeray in Duck-lane, 1670.   

INTRODUCTION.  
Reader,  
THe acceptance which many have been pleased to show to my Venus Unmasked, in pur hasing it at a treb●e price, to what it was said for at first, hath obliged me to gratify them with this Little Venus, being a refined abridgement of the f●rmer, and consisting of the choicest matter the other contained. Those nation's that were wrapped up in hard words, and obscure descriptions, I have here unchained, and set free, so that the youngest Novices in practice may easily apprehend them. Moreover, the copious additions of Theoretic, and and especial Practical Observations have now rendered this small Volume so complete, that I may speak out of the mouths of others, (Absit jactantia dictis) it may serve Practitioners instead of a Map to discover the innumerable differences of Venereal Diseases, and to ste●r a right course in curing them. And I must tell you, turn over all the Authors, that have writ upon this Disease, and the m●st voluminous of them, you shall not read any thing material there, but what is succinctly proposed to you here, and much more than ever they dreamt of; for it's undeniable, that the Pox at this present is more propagated in one day, than a hundred years ago it was in a month, and consequently the number of Venereal Patients so multiplied, that the variety of their several cases must needs give occasion to Physicians to be far more knowing and experienced in it, than those of the foregoing Ages. And as for the variety of this French Disease, there is nothing more strange, since among Ten Thousand you sh●ll not meet with two that are diseased alike. Neither doth this evil vary more in bodies, than it doth in Climates; In Italy, and especially at Venice and Rome, I found the Pox to c●ntin●e for the most part hidden in bodies for s●me years, which afterwards would suddenly discover itself in rotten bones. In France, I perceived the evil to run most upon sc●bby Ulcers, and Botches; In Holland upon Night-pains, Gums, and Nodes. What it is in Germany I know not, since I only passed through the Country without making any great stay. The Cure is no less variable; for what remedieth one, shall render another worse; and indeed if a patiented have a wrong cure applied, it oft leaves him incurable. In the South parts of France the Disease is easily cured, though far easier in Italy, especially at Florence, and Milan; but a Dutch Pox ●is the m●st ●●ffical● to Cu●e 〈◊〉 all others, and next to it an English ●ne. What this sm●ll Volum●●urther contains, the first P●ge will inform you. The number of this Impression is very sma●l, b●ing unwilling it should fall ●nto vulgar hands, on●y intending to d●stri●u●e them am●ng such as may employ the advantage they reap then●e to public g●●d; to the s●me intent, I am employing that little time I have over and above my business in abbreviating my Anatomy of English Consumptions, and my Book of Fevers, both which I purpose to adorn with the choicest of my Observations and Cures.  
Farewell. From my House in S Dunstan's Court in Fl●●tstr●●t.   

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LITTLE VENUS UNMASKED.  

ARTICLE I. Touching the Names, and supposed rise of the Pox.  
1 TO give you a clear and ample Description of the Pox, I shall follow this Method. 1. Register all its Names, 2. Give you an ample Relation of its first rise or original. 3. Set down the causes of it. 4. Exactly define its nature or essence. 5. Tell you the differences, or several kinds, sorts, stages, and degrees of the Pox. 6. Relate the signs and prognostics. 7. Propose several nice and curious questions, with their answers upon the Pox, and those that are pockified. 8. Describe twelve different ways or methods of curing the Pox.  
2. In Latin its called Variolae magnae, thence in Italian Varole gross, and in French la gr●sse verole, all signifying the great, or gross Pox. The French do also particularly name it, Le mal de Naples, or the evil of Naples, because it had its first rise among the Spaniards at Naples, in the Year, 1494. being besieged by the French; though the Spaniards say, the French bred it at that very time, and therefore do call it I● ma● France●e, or the French Evil; the truth of this you'll read below. Among our Latin Authors its termed the Indian evil, the Indian Tetter, the Venereal Infection, the Tetter of the Privities, the New Campane Disease, the French Leprosy, the Spanish Itch, the French Disease, the Court Disease, the Disease a-la-mode, Iob's manginess, the Disease of St. M●viu● (whence the Germans to this day call it Meviu●) St. Roches Disease, the Evil of St. Evagrius a Ierus●lem Friar, and S. Se●ents Disease. The Dutch call it the Spanish Pox, the Indians Las ●ua●, Patursa and Pu●. What it's named in English is vulgarly enough known.  
3. Doctors have for a long time blazed into Heraldry for the Coat of the Pox, to discover its first extraction, and antiquity of that great Family; at length it was held by a general vote, that its first descent was from the Neapolitan Spaniards, some of whom having been lately abroad with Columbus, in the Year 1492, upon the first discovery of the new World, or West Indies, after two Years absence, arrived back to their native Country, with a number of new pretty curious fangles, and among the rest, was this new pocky toy, which they soon made present of to several of their dearest Iulietta's at Naples; for immediately upon their arrival in Spain, they were hurried away to Naples, to reinforce that Garrison, then in possession of A●phonso, King of Arragon, and blocked up by 80000. French under command of Charles the Eighth of France. The besieged being straitened of Provisions, were forced to dismiss their Mistresses, (already sufficiently rubbed with the Indian Loadstone,) into the Enemy's Camp, where they met with very good quarters among those hungry Mushrooms, almost starved for want of women's fles●● which they found so well seasoned and daubed with Mustard, that in few Weeks it took them all by the Nose. By this you observe, it's supposed the S●aniards first brought the Pox from the West Indies, where they said it was as natural to the Inhabitants, as the small Pox is elsewhere. F●●ravan●i denies that the Spaniards brought it from the West Indies, but affirms, the French being almost famished, first got the Pox, at the foresaid siege of Naples, by eating dead Men's Carcases, which he further makes proof of, by feeding a Sow with Sow's flesh, likewise an Owl and a Whelp with flesh of their own kind, which he found afterwardsmarkt with spots, botches, and pimples, like those of the Pox. Par●celsus saith, this Disease was bred between a French Leper, and a Neapolitan Whore, whilst she had her courses upon her. Astrologers write, the Pox was caused by an unlucky meeting of some of the Planets: though others again say, it was caused by Greek Wine, dashed with Le●ers blood, which the French drank, being purposely left for them at Sum● by the Sp●n●a●d●. Some report a Leper of Valentia in S●ain first gave a noble Whore this disease, who since dispersed it among many others. Divines impute the rise of it to God's Judgement upon Adulterers and Fornicators.  
After all this many will have it, that the Pox reigned in the World long before the Year 1494. and therefore say, that Hypocrates makes mention of some, that lost their Hair, and were troubled with malignant Ulcers about their Privities. Likewise Valescus, Salicetus, and Gordonius, (who lived 800. years before the siege of Naples,) wrote of Ulcers and Botches, contracted through the immoderate use of Women. It's likewise discoursed, that the Ethi●pians have for some hundred years been subject to a filthy Disease about their Groin and Privities, which they got by an over-wanton lechery; the same is also confirmed by Agatharcides. Avicenna writes of a Sehaphatum or scabby Head, with many other accidents attending it, not unlike the Pox. Others say, the Pox is nothing but a kind of Leprosy, a St. Antony's Fire, or a kind of Plague.  
4. Those that conceive job, St. Mivus, St. Evagrius, St. R●che, or St. Cement, to have been tormented with the Pox, or that the Pox had a being in Hippacrates, Avicen, V●lescus, Salic●tus, or Gordonius their times, some hundred years before the foresaid siege of Naples, must needs find their mistake, in comparing the symptoms of those holy men, or those mentioned by the Author's before-written, with the symptoms of the Pox. Neither can any rationally suppose, the Pox to be a kind of Leprosy, since they do altogether differ from one another in symptoms, and manner of Infection. Neither can I believe, the Spaniards brought the Pox first from the West Indies because a West-India Pox is no Epidemic, but an Endemick Disease, which is caused by a particular disposition of the Air, and their putrid diet; and therefore is equivalent to a Scurvy. Nevertheless it's most certain the Pox was first bred among those Spaniards, that were arrived from the West-Indies at Naples, and the French that besieged the Town, though in another manner than is generally reported, as this following History of the Nativity of the Pox will confirm to you, being collected by me from several circumstances; that attended it at its birth.   

ART. II. Containing the true History of the Pox, with the Author's discovery of its rise and causes.  
5. THe French with their entailed manginess marching into Ital● in the Year 1493. under Charles the VIII. of France, against Alphonso King of Arragon, did daily fret, and promote their evil by drinking gross Italian Wines, eating salt Meats, and broiling under a hotter Sun; and as their Wines grew stronger, Victuals salter, and Sun hotter, by their deeper inroad into the Country, so their disease accrued in greater scabs and malignity. At last being come to their Journeys end, and seated before Naples, they felt themselves encompassed with a more scorching Air, and feeding upon powdered Boars flesh, they were pressed to gorge down Rivers of Wine, hotter and stronger than before; all which had sublimed (or heightened) their Disease to so extreme an high pitch of manginess, that consisting in inflamed itching scurf, and damnable infection, it was communicated to their inward parts, in as furious a degree, as to their outward. This inward and outward itching brined & pickled diet, meeting with a dust (or burnt) melancholy tempers, could not but kick and spur some of them into a most detestable rage of lechery, who encountering with rank Jades, (being pernicious through their menstruous steams, and disgraced with the worst degrees of Scurvy, crept in upon them by their ill Diet within the surrounded City,) fell foul of the handsomest, that probably had been overriden, galled, inflamed, and set on Fire by their Comrades before. In this sharp conflict showers of morbific emissaries (or diseased steams) darted from each party, confronted, united, embraced, and were knitted together into entire compound minimal (or very small) Bodies, which were the flower, soul, and abridgement of the whole clot, whereout they were sublimed (or forced) and consequently did partake of the worst of their qualities and symptoms, which now are become the genuine (or true) pocky ones.  
6. The truth of this Narrative depends upon the proof of ●hese four circumstances. 1. That ●he French army was at that tim● troubled with the scabby Itch. 2. That the Itch can be sublimed, or raised to a higher pitch, in manner aforesaid. 3. That the Neapolitan Courtesans were troubled with the Scurvy. 4. That the Pox was begotten by a mangy Frenchman and a Ne●politan Whore, that was troubled with the Scurvy; or in short, that the Pox is caused by a commixture of a scabby itch, and an inveterate Scurvy.  
7. In relation to the first, it's most certainly known, that a Frenchman upon the least change of Air, ever contracts the Itch; or if it should fail him Spring, or Fall, immediately doubts of his health; moreover where any one is accustomed to Wine, and a sharp hot Diet, as peppered, Onion, Anchovy, and Garlic Sauces, and is slovenish in his Linen, living besides in a hot Climate, its impossible he should escape the Itch, much less in an Army, where they are all slovens in their Linen, and clothes, in the highest degree, and one infects the other, and feeds the D●●●ase with a brined and pickled Diet. In fine, ●ever did a French Army pass a Campane, without being tormented with theItch in the worst degree; what pickl the French Army used to be in Flanders, where the Air is far more temperate than in I●aly, myself have been an eye-witness. As to the second, it's generally observed, that by continuation of a hot Diet, and not shifting of Linen, a small Itch, with little black h●●ds, will change into red mattery pimples, and those into s●aling scabs, which at length will turn into great broad scurf, like a Leprosy. To the third, as most Towns that are situated upon the Sea, are subject to some endemick Disease or other, so Nap●es hath ever been disposed to an imperfect Scurvy, which being besieged, and the Inhabitants penned up in Rooms, using no exercise, and di●ting upon course dreggish powdered Boars flesh, old hard mouldy Biscuit, and slimy musty Water, (for their Fountains were filled with dirt, and the Air with stinks of Carrions, dead Carcases, and putrid saltish vapours of the Sea,) they must unavoidably have been forced into a very deep. Scurvy; for the adequate cause being put into action, the effect must necessarily follow. The fourth is, that the Pox is begotten, between a mangy Frenchman and a Neapolitan Whore, that was troubled with the Scurvy; or to speak more plain, the Pox is a complicated, mixed, or compounded Disease, that's engendered, bred, and knitted together out of a deep Scurvy, and a fiery malignant manginess. That it is a mixed Disease, is discovered by the mixed signs, symptoms, (or accidents) some issuing from the scabby Itch, others from the Scurvy. First, I'll demonstrate the Pox to be a true Scurvy. 2ly. That it's also a perfect manginess. 3ly. That it is neither a Scurvy nor manginess singly by themselves, but a Disease that is engendered or bred out of a Scurvy and manginess, being complicated and knit together. 4. That the Scurvy, whereof the Pox doth consist, is not such a common Endemick Scurvy, as the Air doth breed here in England; but an Epidemic Scurvy, much differing from the other. As to the first, that the Pox is a true Scurvy, may rationally be granted, because the time and place of the rise, or beginning, growth, height, ending, signs, or symptoms, properties, causes, and cure of the Scurvy and Pox are the same, as will appear to you in every particular. The Pox it's agreed by most Authors had its birth at Naples, and so had the Scurvy; for before the year 1495. it was never heard of, nor mentioned by any, but is recorded by several to have received its birth and name at Naples in the Year aforesaid. It was then called Scorno-Bo●ca, or foul mouth, (from Scorno a foul or shameful thing, and bocca mouth,) and from thence the other names Scorbutum and Sc●rbeck were derived. The next year after, it was observed to be spread among the Hollanders, and Flemings, being transported thither by the Spanish Soldiers, that were sent from Naples to Garrison among them, who from the Italian named it Scorbeck. The P●x generally gins with a lassitude or soreness of ones Limbs, weakness of the Knees and Legs, with a small pain about the Shins, and oppression about the middle, blossoms into Pinck-colour spots like fleabites, etc. Even so gins the Scurvy. The P●x in its growth buds into red, yellow, or duskish pimples, especially about the forehead, and appears with a great change of the complexion, and a deep melancholy, and so doth the Scurvy. Being arrived to its height, it's attended with foul Ulcers scattered over the Body, and flying retching pains, racking the Body most in the night, etc. Exactly so doth the Scurvy appear in its height. At last the Pox ends into fistules, rottenness of the Bones, torturing fixed pains, Dropsies, Consumptions, Fevers, etc. Into which likewise the Scurvy makes its ending. In short, there is no sign, or symptom in the Pox, but it's observed to be in the Scurvy, so likewise there is scarce a sign in the Scurvy, but it's discerned in the Pox, which is the reason why Physicians do daily mistake, in judging some to be troubled with the Pox, that are troubled with the Scurvy; and others to be diseased with the Scurvy, that are infected with the Pox. Moreover it's a property of the Pox never to appear with the same signs in two Bodies, but in one Body is attended with such signs, in another quite different; which is also proper to the Scurvy. Lastly, the Pox is oft cured with Vegetables, that are of a biting stinging nature, and contain a great deal of mordicant volatile Salt, as Guaiacum, Soapwort, Persic●ria, etc. which are also proper remedies for the Scurvy. To the second, that it is a manginess, is evidently discovered by its itching, running scabs, and scurf, besides Pocky Ulcers are generally covered with mangy scabs. To the third, though the Pox and the Scurvy be so very like, it's visible enough, they be not the same, but differ in malignity or fierceness of symptoms; for though the Pox and Scurvy are both featured with pimples, borches, and Ulces, yet those in the Scurvy are less painful, and less inflamed, and better coloured. 2. In infection, the Pox being far more infectious than the Scurvy. 3. In itching scabs, and crusty Ulcers, which are not discovered in the Scurvy. So that you may plainly discern the Scurvy to be a kind of mild Pox, and wants nothing but malignity of symptoms, a stronger sting of infection and itching scabs and scurff; all which the beforementioned manginess doth contribute to it; and so consequently out of their union and coalescence the Pox must necessarily result. Furthermore, that manginess is so near a kin to the Pox, the cure doth plainly confirm Mercury being a known and experienced remedy for them both, besides the Night pains and crusty pustles and Ulcers, that attend manginess, do fully demonstrate it. Lastly, do but observe the mangy symptoms recorded by Hugo Senensis, Consti. 73. the cu●. inf. and Gasper Torrel. Cons. 5. adv. pud. And you must necessarily grant a malignant manginess to be Pocky, as those do that call the Pox ●eb's manginess. St. Lazarus, or St. Sement's disease. But those that are curious to be better resolved upon that point, let them endeavour to procure my great Venus unmasked. Here you may be resolved, why the Pox proves so infectious by copulation, viz. because it's engendered out of two very infectious Diseases, and conveyed by the Seed, which as it is the spirits contracted, and flower of all the blood of the Body, so must it likewise consist of the spirits contracted, and flower of all the infection, or infected blood of the whole Body. To the 4th Note, 1. There are two sorts of Scurvy, one Endemick that's engendered by the Air, and constitution of the place where it reigns, as this here in Englan●, & that of Lisbon, or Holland. The other is Epidemic, and is by far more malignant, durable, and of a more difficult cure, and is only propagated or dispersed by infection, which is that Scurvy, which was engendered at Naples, and is commonly left in the Body after the sting of the Pox is taken off. This Scurvy is very common also here in England, and being mistaken for the other kind of Scurvy by our Hackney-Physicians, is the cause why many are left incurable. This is that deep Scurvy, that was engendered at Naples, by their most putrid feeding, stinking Air, and particular constellation at that time, which then proved to be the Mother of the Pox.   

ART. III. Of the nature and kinds of the Pox.  
7. MY fourth particular puts me in mind of the definition of the Pox, which Ferrerius defines to be a putrefaction of humours, contracted for the most part through infection by copulation, by communicating venomous exhalations and infected Spirits. Steeghius describes the Pox to be a venomous quality, which for the most part is taken by a venereal contract, causing several kinds of pimples, Ulcers, pains, and other accidents, Mercurial saith, it's a disposition against Nature, injuring the Natural Operations, through unknown means. The generality of Physicians define the Pox to be a hidden Disease, contracted by malignant vapours, that are communicated from a pocky Body. These definitions being partly false, and very imperfect, shall set down one that's more full and plain, though not so perfect, as that I proposed in my greater Venus Unmasked, that being framed only for Scholars. I say then, The Pox is an universal movable Disease, caused by venomous infectious steams, and attended with the worst and mildest, most and fe●rest, changeable and uncertain symptoms of all ●inds. The sense of this description I'll further explain to you. The Pox is an universal Disease, i. ●. in respect of the parts where it's seated, for sometimes it's seated in the Liver, and then it's attended with spots, pimples, and Ulcers; sometimes in the brain, and then it's accompanied with pocky rheums and defluxions, Night-pains, Ulcers in the Palate, and Nose; other-times it's seated about the privities only, or about the breast, or any other part. 2. The Pox is an universal disease, in regard it comprehends all kinds of diseases; for sometimes it's a hot disease, witness the heat of Urine in the Running of the R●ins, hot botches, pimples, buboes, rubi●s of the forehead, and pocky Fevers; othertimes, it's cold, as appears by those cold pocky Night-pains, and cold hard swell; it's likewise a moist Disease, as you may observe by its Ulcers, pocky Gouts, rheums, or defluxions. It's not seldom found to be a dry Disease, namely, when it turns into a pocky hectic. Lastly, levelled Noses, devoured Palates, and Limbs put out of joint by pocky nodes conclude the Pox to be a Disease of conformation, number, magnitude, situation, and discontinuated unity. In short, the Pox is a Monarch, all other Diseases are its subjects, for there is no Disease, but one time or other is noted to accompany it. The Pox is movable in three particulars. 1. It's movable, skipping like a Grass-hopper, from one part to another, to wit, from the part that was first infected to the Liver, thence to the brain, and so patroules round, till it hath made an entry and seisin upon the entire manor of the body. 2. In moving out of one disease into another, from a hot, to a cold Distemper, from an inflammation into an Ulcer, from an Ulcer into a carnosity, thence into a constirpation or stoppage. 3. It moves from one symptom to another, from a scalding Urinal, into the Running of the Reins, thence to pocky spots and pimples, and thence to Ulcers & Night-pains, and thence again into consumptions and hectic Fevers. I said the Pox was attended with the ●orst and mildest, m●st and fe●est symptoms, that is, sometimes the Pox is ushered with very malignant torturing accidents or symptoms, as racking Night-pains, and filthy Ulcers or running sores, other times again it's accompanied with very mild accidents, as spots only or pimples, or some slight joint-pains; sometimes again the Pox hath a great many followers; often times very few, it may be a pimple, two or three, or a botch three or four only, etc. Lastly, the symptoms of the Pox are very changeable and uncertain; for among five thousand pocky bodies▪ you shall scarce find two troubled alike with the same accidents.  
8. The Pox is usually distinguished into a slighter, and worse sort, the slightest sort of all is, when only the hair of the head and beard sheds, and then the venom consists in a vapour, that's flown to the roots of the hair: The second kind is somewhat worse, wherein the whole skin is marked with red yellow spots, and there the venom sits in the thinnest of the blood. The third sort is yet worse, and is the true Pox, where red and yellow pimples do 〈◊〉 brea● out about th● forehead and temples, and near the ears, afterward on the head, and over the whole body: they are round and dry without matter, which afterwards are cov●●ed with a dry scab, and of● turn into foul running sores. Here the venom is in the Liver, and the whole mass of blood. The fourth and last degree, is, when the Pox gets into the bones and sinews.  
9 The Pox is also distinguished into a ne●r or fresh Pox, when it's not of above a years standing; into ro●ted or confirmed, which is from a year or two or three years; and into an inveterate Pox, when it's above three years old.  
10. My practical observations upon the motion of the Pox, have discovered to me a far more proper distinction. 〈◊〉 The Pox like a Pilgrim on his road makes four stages. The infection being yet seated in the outward part that was first assaulted, namely, the jaw, the lips, groin, tets, etc. may properly be called a Liminary P●x, because it's set as it were in the threshold or entrance of the Body. The second stage is at the fleshly membrane, (Membrana carn●sa) where encountering with another stand, it is constrained to halt for a while; hitherto we may term it the Frontier Pox, because it is yet tracing the frontiers or confines of the body; thence passing through the flesh of the muscles, and other membranes, makes a third halt at the proper membranes (or skins) of the entrails; here meeting the Pox at midway, we may properly style it the M●d●ay P●x. Thence it gallops straightway to the depth of the entrails, where with an authority it's proclaimed a ●ho●ou P●x. In this manner you may be assured the Pox moves, having traced its motion exactly in some hundreds of bodies.  
11. The Pox is sometimes styled mi●d, when possibly it gins with a dozen of pimples, a glancing pain of the thighs, or shins, a small gleetnig at the Yard, etc. Other ●●●es it's termed rough, and malignant, assaulting the Patient with a green running of the Reins, two Buboes, and a Crystallin, raging Shankers, a burning Strangury, and a Fever through fierceness of the pain, in the increase, start up foul eating Ulcers, racking Night-pains.  
12. Some sorts of Pox are more infectious, others less. Sometimes it's hereditary, or got from ones Parents in the Womb; other-times it's got by infection. Some kind of Pox is visible and evident; other kind lieth hidden for some years, before it breaks out. Ho●st●us writes of one, that got the Pox in his youth, and did not appear before he was grown old. 〈◊〉 speaks of another, who was troubled with a hidden Pox, and got two sound Children, but the third proved infected with a rank Pox. The Mother of those Children enjoyed her health very well, until she was delivered of that last pocky Child, and then her Lips and Breast bursted out into the Pox. This pocky Boy was put to Nurse, who in few days was infected, and thereupon infected her Husband, and two Children more, that she gave suck to. These Children were no sooner taken home, but infected their Mothers; in short, no less than Nine were infected in a Month's time. When I lived at Paris, I knew a whole Family, that was in the like manner infected by a pocky Nurse. Here in London, I have likewise taken notice of several Children, that died at Nurse of the Pox, and therefore People ought to be well-advised, to whom they put out their Children.   

ART. iv Containing a further confirmation of the causes of the Pox.  
13. MY next business is to treat of the cause of the Pox. I have made it appear to you already, that the Pox was not brought from the West-Indies hither; neither was it engendered out of Man's flesh, for the Cannibals, and others, that feed altogether upon Man's flesh, are seldom troubled with that evil. I have likewise proved, the Pox was not begotten by a French Leper, because of the vast difference there is between the Leprosy, and the Pox.  
Many affirm, the Pox was kindled by a malignant constellation of the Planets; b●t let me tell you, had the ma●gy French crew been diverted from coming to N●ples, the Pox would have continued among the Planets. Others impute the cause of the Pox to the common trade whores drove with several Nations, whose seed being forced and gathered together in one Womb, might occasion a kind of a rotten Disease in the privities, like several sorts of Meat, cause a corruption in the stomach. But this seems improbable, because there having been whores from the beginning of the World, who drove a common Trade, they would necessarily have bred the Pox long before the siege of Naples. It was the opinion of some, that the Pox was sent into the French Camp by a Neapolitan Witch, whose House they had rob; but this seems ridiculous to those, that believe now Miracles are ceased, there be no Witches more in Nature.  
Leonicenus believed, the Pox took its rise from a great overflowing of the river tiber. which vomited up a deal of stinking rotten bodies, into a tract of the Air, that drove towards Naples, where it soon kindled the Pox. This is unlikely, since the same River had overflown many times before, without causing such a contagious Disease.  
The 〈◊〉 were of opinion, that feeding too oft upon Pease and B●con might bre●d the Pox, and therefore their Magistrates forbade the selling of all sorts of Pease. This opinion is so unreasonable, that it need● no confutation.  
3. After the recital of all these opinions, touching the outward cause, or the first occasion of the Pox, it's time I should bend my discourse to a discovery of the inward cause, which by the generality of modern Physicians is concluded to be a hidden malignant cause, or certain malignant steams, that pass from one body into another, effecting such pocky accidents (or symptoms,) by hidden means. But our modern Authors and Physicians are very full of their hidden causes and hidden diseases, which to me signifies no more than ●●, fa; and therefore shall proceed to give my Reader a plainer and more satisfactory resolve. I have already clearly proved to you, that the Pox had its first rise from a complication of a Scurvy, with a mangy Itch, and a commixture of both their causes; so that showing the inward causes of a manginess and Scurvy, you may thence collect the inward cause of the Pox. The inward cause of a Scurvy is thick dreggish blood, that gins to fret, and grows fiery salt and gnawing; the inward cause of manginess is a burnt red gall, or rather adust blood volatilised, which through its fieriness renders the blood fiery, salt, and itching. Now suppose a Frenchman, that is troubled with an extreme fiery itching manginess, by reason of the fieriness of his blood, and acting the part of a furious Goat, with a fretted Neapolitan Whore, that's troubled with a deep fiery Scurvy, the very essence of this Salt, fiery and itching blood flieth out in steams into the body of the Ne●p●litan Whore, where meeting with the steams of her fiery gnawing scorbutic blood, do unite and knit together into perfect little steemy bodies, or atoms, which you must necessarily conceive to be very malignant, ulcering, gnawing, and fiery, so that the next that converses with this Whore must needs draw these ulcering steams into his body, where through their gnawing malignant and ulcerous quality, they cause a Running of the Reins, or Ulcers in the Yard, or other pocky accidents. Next, suppose these little pocky steemy bodies being drawn into the body, have a power of breeding and multiplying into other pocky little bodies of their own kind, and so having filled the veins and arteries with such pocky gnawing steams, they cause scurffy pimples, gnawing pains and Ulcers all over the body. So now I have in few words and very plainly unfolded the causes of the Pox, and all its symptoms, which possibly hath not been performed before; and if this short Discourse will not satisfy, read my greater Venus Unmasked, and that very probably may.   

ART. V Of the Signs, Symptoms, and Prognostics of the P●x, Running of the Reins, Buboes, and Shanckers.  
14. TO describe the signs and symptoms, or accidents of the Pox; it will be expedient, First, to set down what pickle a man finds himself in presently after he has conversed with a pocky Wench, namely a sharpness of Urine, and pressing to m●ke water, though he made water but just before; a heat in his Yard, which soon after occasions an erection, and consequently a de●ire to repeat his former action, and so having finished hi● compliment once more, he immediately gins to dribble hot and sharp Urinal by little and little, or sometimes by drops only; the next day he finds himself sore all about his Limbs, dull, heavy, and melancholy, and a little gleeting at his Yard, especially if he squeeze it out hard with his hand; two, or three, or four days after, he may squeeze out a greasy yellow matter; some eight, ten, twelve, or fourteen days after, (in some sooner, and in others longer,) it gins to drop yellow and greenish, and slain his shirt, which dropping is called a Virulent Ghonorrhee, or a Pocky Running of the Reins.  
15. This Pocky Running of the Reins is sometimes accompanied with a terrible hot pricking and smarting Urinal, and an often erection of the Yard, feeling hard, and knotty like a Cord, and therefore it's called a Cordee, which Cord●● is extremely pricking and painful, insomuch that one cannot endure to touch himself, nor suffer any thing else to touch him; besides the extremity of the pain causes the head of the Yard to turn downward, and seem crooked.  
16. This is the common case men find themselves in, though some again may trade with the same Wench, that gave others a Running of the Reins, and may get off with heat and sharpness of Urinal, a few slight flying pains of the Shins, Thighs, and Arms, without any thing else. Others again escape the Running of the Reins, and sharpness of Urinal, and some seven or eight Days after, or longer, get an eating Ulcer, or sore upon the head of the Yard, or the Skin that covers it, or in the passage they make their water through; This sort of eating Ulcer is called a Shanker, which oft proves so malignant, that in few days it will rot and eat off the whole Yard. Sometimes when there is a Shanker, or eating sore in the Vrethra, or passage of the Urinal, there will be apt to grow proud flesh out of it, which causes one to piss in double streams, and in time doth quite stop up the passage, and so hinder one from making Water; this is called a Caruncle. Some upon a pocky adventure escape these forementioned accidents, but instead of 'em, they get a painful little button in their groin, which is named a Poula●n; this in few days will grow bigger, red, and inflamed; sometimes to the bigness of a Pigeons or Hen's Egg, and then it's termed a Bub●, feeling full of pain, looks very red and angry, and for the most part the party hath a Fever with it, and a scalding Urin. Other times there will appear a blain or blister upon the Glans or head of the Yard, commonly called a Crystallin. Venereal, or Pocky Wharves generally grow about the Prepuce, (or the top of the Skin, that covers the Yard,) and upon the glans, and sometimes all over the Yard, Pocky grandoes are little hard knots, of the bigness of a Pea, appearing in the same places pocky Wharts do. Women are troubled with the same accidents, and some others, viz. virulent Courses, that look yellow or deep red, and are very hot & smarting. Likewise Virulent Whites, being thick streeky, and sometimes thin, sharp, and gnawing. These are most of the accidents or symptoms of a Liminary Pox. Before I proceed further, I will tell you the different opinions of Physicians upon a Running of the Reins. Most do judge the running to proceed from Ulcers of the Prostats, being small bladders lying at the root of the Yard, that are made for little Cisterns to keep the Seed in. This certainly is erroneous, for if those Prostats, being spermatick, should be Ulcered, and in part eaten away, they could never be healed up, and so consequently a man would be troubled with the running for ever. Others are of Opinion, the running proceeds from a weakness of the said spermatick, or seedy Vessels, and so are rendered incapable of retaining the Seed. Here they suppose the matter, that drops out at the Yard, to gleet from the Pr●stat●▪ if so, then necessarily they would be ulcered by the gnawing quality of the infected Seed, and so consequently as I shown before, be rendered incurable. But after all, it's certain, that the matter that drops out at the Yard, is neither Seed nor seedy; for Seed be it never so much altered, hot, yellow, or green, yet it will keep its clamminess, and be ropy, so that it may be drawn from one another between ones fingers; whereas that which gleets in the Running of the Reins, is not at all clammy or ropy, nor can it be drawn between the fingers, but falls all into small drops, and is perfect matter, such as is bred in Ulcers. Besides, should all that dropping in a pocky running be Seed, it would waste a Man to nothing; moreover, it's common for Men, that have a pocky running upon them, to beget such Children; which is a sign the Seed is free from infection for some time. Wherefore I conclude the pocky Running of the Reins to be an Ulcer of all the whole Yard, where the infection turns its clammy blood into perfect matter (or Pus,) which gnaws its way out, through the Urethra, or passage of the Urinal: that this is so, is evident. 1. In a Gonorrhee the Yard is generally swelled all over. 2. The Yard is hot, and full of pain all over, by reason of the gnawing pocky matter it contains within the pores of its spongy flesh. 3. That that virulent or pocky matter doth sweat through, or gnaw its way through into the Urethra, doth appear hence, that if one press the Yard close about the middle, so that no matter may pass from the root, (where the Pr●stats are supposed to be,) and with his other hand gently squeeze it near the Glans, or the top, he shall in so doing press out a great quantity of matter out of the body of the Verge, which cannot be supposed to come from the Pr●sta●s, because this other hand intercepts or keeps that in, which otherwise might be thought to proceed thence. Besides there is a pricking pain all along in the Vrethra, which is nothing but the gnawing biting matter, that boreas through, out of the body of the Yard into the Urethra. Lastly, observe that though for a long time this matt●● is not seedy, yet afterwards it grows seedy, by reason the Pocky steams do at length so weaken the Prostats, that they are apt to shed Seed, which is also the cause, why the gleeting proves seedy at last, when a running of the Reins is almost Cured.  
To these I'll add a new symptom of a Liminary Pox, former Ages have not been subject unto, viz. A retraction or Contraction of the Verge: Which in some appears so much retracted in the body as it were, that scarce any part else remains visible b●t the Glans. This symptom hath seldom any other accompanying it than a sharpness and heat of Urine, and a frequent de●ire to make water. The cure hereof is very difficult, which not being performed according to Art, turns into a more malignant Pox.  
Likewise all about the neck of the Matrix in women.   

ART. VI Comprehending the Signs of a Frontier, Midway, and Ther●n-Pox.  
17. THe Signs of a Frontier Pox, or the beginning of a true French Pox, are, when the Skin is flourished with red or yellow spots, like Fleabites; sometimes the forehead only is disgraced with round hard pimples, like Mulberries, a little crusty a top, and marked with black specks, some being dry, others moist, and are oft dispersed to the Ears, thence to the Neck, Arms, Shoulders, Breast, but chief to the Groin and Perinae●●. These Pimples do oft vanish, and suddenly appear again, or sometimes change into adust (or burnt) Ulcers. They are likewise subject to an universal itching of the Body, and a certain feeling, as if their whole Skin were pricked with Nettles. Some grow bald on their Head, others beardless and browless. They are oft troubled with lassitude, or sore Limbs, (especially at waking from sleep,) and a bloated Face, or sometimes a shrunk Visage; their Eyes looking one time hollow, other times swelled.  
18. The signs of a Midway Pox are a strange changeable soreness of the Gums, sometimes feeling lose, as if the Teeth would fall out, other times bound or pinched; an itching, red, yellow, or bluish swelling of the Gums, a walking or twingeing Jaw-ach, and Chin-ach; a pain of the Head a little above the Nape of the Neck, a swimming of the Brain, a continual tinning noise in the ears, aptness to be deaf and hard of hearing; sharp defluxions into the throat, (whence proceed those Pocky hoarsnesses, and loss of the palate) Nose, and other parts; a filthy dand●●f of the Head, Beard, and Brows, a yellow or bluish circle about the Eyes; thinness of the upper and under Eyelids; swell and botches of all colours; rotten or straining cough; a hot belching of the Stomach; a rotten, stinking breath, stinking sweats in the Night; a drabby white Urinal, with few or no contents; quick, low, soft, Pulses. Their blood after bleeding looks bluish, or like Ashes. Heats rising from the Loins to the Stomach, Breast, Shoulders, up the Head; aptness to be Feverish every day; some grow very lean with the Pox, others grow fat with it, but their fat is yellowish, greenish, or waterish; their looks are very changeable, sometimes for a day, three or four, they will look very well, afterwards▪ again they look with an unwholesome colour, it may be yellow, greenish, bluish, or swarthy; Ulcers that are foul, hard, and callous, or overcrusted with a blackish scurf, the flesh being raw and deep red. Walking pains between the Joints; deep, hard fissures in the Plants of the Feet, Palms of the Hands, Te●●, Fundament, Lip●, and P●erygomata; thick, sore, inflamed Lips, gleeting a thin sharp water, covered sometime with a black Skin, or thin limber scurf, that easily peels off; broad, dry uneven scabs; straggling about the body; outward crusty Ulcers of the Nose, and rotten eating Ulcers within it, a rottenness of the bones of the Nose; a malignant Polypus, or purpre piece of flesh growing within the Nose; malignant Fistula's or issues about the Eyes; Pocky painful Piles, malignant swell and fistulas of the Fundament; eating Ulcers and inflammations of the Pal●t, and Almonds under the Ears, a Cancered creeping thrush, scabby Eyelids, a malignant inflammation of the Eye, a bleer dimness of the Eyes, the Whites whereof oft turn yellow, reddish, or bluish, great ugly Warts about the Hands, Lips, and Face; Tetters of the Face, Breast, Belly, and Privities.  
19 The signs 〈◊〉 T●o●om-Pox, are furious Night-pains in the Joints, fixed insufferable headaches, gnawing worse in the Night; immovable, bruising, retching, & pricking Shin-pains, shoulder and wrist pains; deep gnawing, devouring gangrenous Ulcers, and deep rottennesses of the Bones; inward Ulcers of the spleen, kidneys, bladder, and liver; a pocky Physic, or a pocky consumption and hectic Fever; a Pocky blindness, Tophes or hard knots about the Joints, nodes or bumps about the Head and Joints; gums or soft broad swell of the bigness of an Egg, or sometimes of a penny Loaf, bursting out into a white glaw, others are flat hardnesses, as those that grow to the Shins, Skull, and, ●●m-bones. Imposthums of 〈…〉, etc.  
20. 〈◊〉 gets the Pox ofttimes from a Pocky Nurse, by sucking her Breasts, and then it appears in eating scabs, and purple blains at the Lips, likewise small, red b●rning Pimples about the Lips, Ringworms about the Chin, inflammations of the Lips and inside of the Mouth, a malignant fiery Thrush.  
21. The s●me signs appear, when a Man gets the Pox by kissing pocky Lips. The signs of a pocky N●rse, are creeping purple Pimples about the Nipple, with black spots upon 'em; the Nipple inflames, and is apt to be cloven. A●ter all this take notice, that seldom or never all the signs do meet in one body, but only such as are agreeing with the complexion; as those of a sanguine complexion, are troubled with red spots, pimples about their forehead, and over their whole body; others of a phleg●●●tick constitution, with Night-p●ins, and hard swell. Pocky Ulcers commonly attend choleric Bodies. Some again are marked with a great number of signs, others with two or three only. Lastly observe, that many of these forementioned signs do accompany other Diseases, as Pimples, Ulcers, and Night-pains, wherefore I'll instruct you how to distinguish them. 1. If Pimples, Ulcers, or pains do appear after a Man hath had to do with a common Woman, it's very probable they are pocky. 2. If a Man be troubled with Pimples, Ulcers, or pains, upon a running of the Reins, swelling in the groin or eating sore of the Yard, they are likewise pocky. 3. Pocky pimples generally have a black speck a top, which peels off like scur●. Pocky Night-pains are for the most part felt in the mcardle of a Limb, between the two Joints, deep in the flesh, and next to the bone. They begin to rage's in the Evening, and cease in the Morning at Sunrising.  
Women are troubled with the same symptoms Men are, viz. being clapped, their Urinal is hot, pricking, and smarting, carries a strong stink with it when it's made, and is full of whitish sands and darkish hairs; they moreover feel themselves so sore in those parts, that they cannot endure the least touch without a wry face. They are likewise oft troubled with a running of the Reins, in every particular resembling that in men, which they oft find themselves mistaken in, judging it another accident, which they term the Whites. They are likewise subject to Buboes, Sha●ckers, Cordees of the Clitoris, Wharts, Pastles, Ulcers, and Night-pains.   

ART. VII. A true e Chronology of the P●x.  
22. THe Pox at it● first birth in the Camp at N●pl●, was far rougher than now it is; for then where it seized, it instantly lamed the Patient in all his limbs, dozed his intellectuals, and cast him into a continual sleeping posture, frights, fears, melancholy, and an estranged countenance. Oft times they were surprised with an eating Shancker, which in a day or two at most would ●at off the whole Yard; soon after their eyes, nose, lips, and palate of the Mouth, would be rotten off, whereupon followed a hoarseness, some spoke whispering, others quite lost their speech, and all their Teeth, after this they would break out into cancerous eating 〈◊〉 or sores, all their Bodies over, that would rot the bone in few hours, moreover they were wracked with most raging headaches, and pain● about their bones, that never suffered them to sleep, b●t slumber, and then they were apt to be frighted with most horrid dreams and visions; their sweat stunk at a great distance, all which in few days guided the Patient to his Tomb. This f●ry the Pox continued for Thirty y●●rs, and then grew somewhat milder, not rotting the Eyes, Nose, nor Teeth; decreased in pimples, and appeared most in gums and pains. Some Thirty Years after that, the Pox did not show itself in any pimples, but decreased in pains, Ulcers, and Tumours. Thirty Years after that again, the Pox appeared with four new symptoms; the first was a shedding of the 〈◊〉 of the Head, Brows, Eyelids, and Beard. The second new comer was a running of the Reins. The third was the loss of the Nails; and the fourth a tinning noise in the Ears. About this time the Eyes and the Teeth began to suffer again. In what particulars its changed since, you may easily gather from the foregoing Discourse.   

ART. VIII. Comprising the Prognostics of the P●x.  
23. What state and danger misfortuned Patients are placed in, aught to be set down next: a Venereal scalding of the Urinal if neglected, changes into an excoriation of the ●ret●ra, thence unto eating Ulcers, which oft devour great pieces of flesh, and bore holes quite through, through which the Urinal oft passes, as they make it. Those sores or Ulcers afterwards tend to incurable Fistules, or else grow out into proud flesh, thence called a Caruncle, which immediately causeth a stoppage of Urinal, a symptom of very dangerous importance. A Venereal scalding of the Urinal and a dribbling, otherwise called a Sir●ngury, do oft through their neighbourhood turn into an Ulcer of the Bladder, which for the most part proves incurable, if in the membranous part; though in the fleshy part admits sometimes of a difficult cure. A Shanck●r if neglected, threats to devour the whole Member. A Shancker not being tightly cured, turns into a callosity, which afterwards proves of a very difficult cure. These callosities sometimes appear in the shape of a hard pustle; oth●rtimes grow flat and are subject to vary in colour. A 〈◊〉 returning into the Body, foretells a Pox; if hard and difficult to ripen signifies a strong infection. A Running of the Reins after ●ight Months proves obstinate. A second G●norrhee upon a former, though cured, is oft of a worse consequence than a single Frontier Pox without a Gonorrhee. A third Gonorrhee after a tedious Cure sometimes leaves an incurable gleeting behind it. A Gonorr●ee issuing immediately in a yellow or greenish matter, is instantly attended with a Cord●e, and foretells a long cure. A Gonorrhoea that did not burst out before ten, fifteen, or twenty days▪ after the infection, proves to be of a difficult cure. A yellowish G●unorrhee upon amendment turns white and thick, thence white and thin. A Gonorrhee that's stopped by adstringent medicines immediately bursts out into joint pains, Baby's, or inflammations of the Cod. A Ghonorrhee grows much worse upon frequent converses with Wenches before a Cure. Some inveterated G●n●rrhees are absolutely incurable, since proceeding from a total devoration and corrosion of the Prostats, whence necessarily the Sperm must continually distil down as fast as it's conveyed through the Vasa deferentia, not being retained by the Prostats. A necessary consequence of this accident is a Consumptio 〈◊〉 salis, and can be no otherwise prevented than by erecting the testicles. Sometimes a G●norrhee will stop of itself, and then commonly bursts out again more violently, it may be a Month after, and sometimes eight, ten, or twelve months after; as I have observed in several, without the least renewing of their accident: The same happens now and then if a Gonorrhee be stopped by adstringents. I have known the cure of an ordinary virulent Gonorrhee continued a whole year together, and that with as much exactness as experience and the Rules of Art could prescribe, though to little purpose; Which notwithstanding I have cured by frequent bleedings, two or three Bol●sses of Cassia and Manna, with a Decoction of Mallows and Plantain, and the addition of the mucillage of Gum Arabic. So that you are to suppose that the virulency was extinguished by the former cure; and the flux of acrimonious and torrid humours diverted by the bleedings and purges; and the Acrimony obtused by the Decoction, whereupon the spermatick parts soon recovered their former temperament, together with their retentive faculty. A Confirmed Pox succeeding a pustulous French Pox, proves of an easy Cure. A Pox upon a Bubo that's hard, or is struck inwards, turns to a Night Headache, Nades, Gums, and Ulcers of the palate, and stoops to no slight Cure; a Pox upon a Running of the Reins turns to Pustles, and straggling Ulcers, and is easier Cured than the former; upon a scalding of the Urinal it turns to some few pus●uls of an easy Cure; upon a Shancker, changes into Nocturnal Night-pains, and those stubborn. In general, a Liminary Pox, as a Gonorrhee, Shancker, etc. are easily Cured. A Frontier, and a Midway Pox being chronical are of an indifferent submission to remedies; but a Thor●● Pox is incurable. A Maiden Pox promises an easy Cure, but a relapsed Pox, or a Pox upon a former Pox is difficult. Rough venereal pains, or Gums, Tophes, or gnawing Ulcers without the foregoing or attendance of Pustles, threaten more mischief, than if they were attended with them. Joint-pains without Ulcers, or malign Ulcers without pains increase the evil. Malignant symptoms, as many devouring sores, furious pains, Tophes, Gums, Nodes, rottenness of the Nose, a devoured palate, etc. argue an ill business; and so the case differs, according to the fierceness of symptoms, the age of the Disease, strength and temperament of the Patient. The breaking out of many red Pustles, not painful, and easily ripening, likewise soft tumours require no tedious Cure.  
The Pox of itself kills no man, but after a long travail fixes at last upon one symptom, as a Pocky hectic, Ulcer of the Kidney or Bladder, Consumption of the Lungs, Megrim, Node, Tophe, Dropsy, Night-pains, etc. Which seldom leave the Patient on this side the grave. A Tinning within the Ears, deafness, blindness, and loss of speech are unrecoverable. Boys or Girls as they are more exposed to infection, so their Cure is easier. Old folks are in less danger of a blast, but once stormed by an infection, seldom or never are rescued. A Man is easier infected, and easier cured than a Woman. An Hereditary Pox is more refractory, than an infection by drinking, kissing, or sucking, and that's worse than an infection by copulation. Pocky hectics, Dropsies, Gouts, are much easier mollified, than if occasioned by other causes. Lastly, any sort of Pox, unless it be dextrously cured, is apt to leave an incurable Scurvy behind it.   

ART. IX. Containing some nice Questions relating to venereal Infection.  
24. IN what part of the Body is the principal Seat of Pocky Infection?  
A. In the Spleen certainly, that consisting of a thick course substance, and a strong sharp ferment, seems the more disposed to engender such salin armoniac steams, that cause the Pox.  
25. Why are the outward parts being remote, more liable to Pocky Ulcers, pains, and tumours, than the Entrails, as the Liver, Spleen, etc. which are proclaimed by m●st Authors to be harths, or springs of Pocky steams, and yet themselves remain free for a long time from those Pocky accidents?  
A. Because the Pox first seizing the Body from without, doth the easier injure the outward parts, being weaker than the inward ones, which are furnished with strong spirits to keep out the Infection.  
26. What part is apt to receive the strongest Infection?  
A. The secret parts, which consisting of a lose, open, thin flesh, do easily admit infectious steams.  
27. How many ways doth the Pox distribute its Infection?  
A. By kissing, fucking, lying in the same Bed, and copulation; that is thus, if one's Mouth, or Breast be set with pocky pimples, or Ulcers, than they are capable of infecting, but not if sound though the Body were never so Pocky in the other parts.  
28. To what distance is the Pox infectious?  
A. As far as the Pocky steams can be transmitted hot, which at farthest is not above a Hand breadth or two.  
29. Two, three, or more, successively mounting a pocky Saddle, why should sometimes the first alone come off galled, or why other-times the second only, and the rest come off clear?  
A. Because in some Women of a cold complexion the venom lies deep, and therefore the first not heating his Whore enough to extract the venom, comes off clear, leaving the second to keep the Iron hot, who carries away the pocky prize. But if the pocky Wench be of a hot complexion, than the first is only in danger of a blast, leaving her in a colder temper to deal with his comrades, who therefore come off without any damage.  
30. When iced, that a Man disgraced with an inveterate Pox, his Wife is nevertheless guarded from the Infection?  
A. It's possible for a Man to have had the Pox in his lower parts, and be cured of it, though notwithstunding may have a relic in other parts of his body, and therefore may converse with his Wife without doing her the least wrong.  
31. Whether is Mankind only subject to this Pocky infection?  
A. The Disease is also common to Dogs; for myself have seen a little Cur in Holland, that had a virulent Running of the Reins, with several crusty Ulcers upon his body. Likewise in It●● many refrain eating Turkeys because a great number of 'em are infected with the Pox.  
32. Whether a Man that's troubled with a venereal Running of the Reins, doth not render his accident worse, by conversing with comm●n W●men?  
A. Doubtless he must, for heating himself in so high a degree, and thereby opening the pores, must necessarily let in the venom deeper into his body.  
33. Whether a Wom●n tied to a P●k●e Husband, can escape the Infection herself, and yet give it to another?  
A. It's possible, and it hath happened, though it be a chance among a million.  
34. Whether over-frequent embraces between a married couple can produce the least spice of the P●x?  
A. It's vulgarly believed it may, many having contracted a yellow or greenish Running of the Reins, by being too liberal to their Wives; but this is a clear mistake, the foresaid running being in no wise virulent; neither is't possible it can ever grow such, being only occasioned by weakening the spermatick Vissels, and thereby disposed to receive sharp humours, that cause the foresaid running by irritation.  
35. Whether one that's clapped, doth diminish his infection by conversing with a sound Courtesan?  
A. On the contrary, he rather increases his accident; the reason extract out of Par. 30.  
36. Whether it be p●ssible for a Man to enjoy his health perfectly, so as to eat, drink, and sleep well, and yet carry a hidden Pox about him?  
A. It's common for Men to look better, and have a sharper appetite than ever, for six, eight, t●●, & sometimes twelve months, yet walk about with a green virulent Gonorrhee, that being instead of an issue, serving to evacuate and drain all the superfluous humours of the body, whereby the complexion must needs for a time be rendered clearer, and the appetite edged. 2 l●. I have known some, that vaunted to have run the greatest Pocky hazards imaginable, without perceiving the least hurt for some Years, who notwithstanding after so long a time of perfect health, have unexpectly sneezed several small pieces of bone out at their Nose, being parts of the Os Ethm●eldes, or Crista galli, that was insensibly cariated or rotten by subtle pocky steams flying up to the head. 3. About a twelvemonth since, I cured a Gentleman, that had a most violent pain on one small part of the Bregma, excurring no farther than the breadth of a sixpence, being that kind of Headache, which Physicians usually call Clavus, a species of a Cephalaea; though Galen, as I remember, lib de occul. terms ●lavus a disease of the eye. This torturing headache my Patient had patiently endured for three Months without having received the least benefit from any Physician, he had applied himself unto; But at last fortune having conducted him to me, did make a narrow search, and found a small rising on his head, not unlike a Node, whereupon I strictly enquired, whether he had not lately, or within a Year or two, conversed with some suspicious Woman; he answered, that about four Years ago he had contracted a Running of the Reins, but had been so well cured of it, that from that time until the arrival of this pain, he had possessed his health better than ever. In short, having caused my Chirurgeon to open the part affected with a potential cautery, found the Cranium carinated, rugged and blackish, which having ordered to be plained with a Scalprum, cured him with my Antivenereal. Whence it appears he carried this hidden Pox almost four years about him. 4. I have had several Women patients, that had cherished a hidden Pox for five or six Years, without discovering any sensible Disease all that time.   

ARTICLE X. Touching the Preparative Cure.  
37. A Venereal Patient in whatever degree, if his body be either full or foul, first requires bleeding, and purging, because of making way for other specific Medicines. 2. Before the Patient may be purged, it's requisite his humours should be prepared with a Pocki● Digestive; as this following, which I have oft prescribed with great success. Take shave of Guaiac▪ wood lb ss. Spring-water 3. qts. Bordeaux Wine sharpened withʒ ij. of Sal Tart. 2. qts. Boyl it to the consumption of half, adding thereunto Polyp. q. Cartham. seedsʒ ij. E●ithym. ʒ ss. Liquorish and Fennil Seeds of each an Ounce. Raisins ℥ ij. boil it a little longer, and strain it. The Dose is from ℥ iv. to viij. Mornings and Evenings, for three days. This is also a Decoction of excellent virtue against a catarrhous Consumption; as you may read in my Anatomy o● English Consumptions.  
The Body being thus prepared, you may proceed with any of the following Methods.   

ART. XI. The Primitive Cure.  
38. THe Primitive, or the first invented Method of Curing the Pox, consisted in purging the Patient with the decoction of Sen●, and anointing his joints in a hot Room for 30. days together, with a drying Ointment, composed chief out of Alom, Nitre, Brimstone, etc. The Unguent Saracenis. described by Villa Nova, was in great esteem among them. Observation. The Pox in its primitive partaking more of a scabby Itch, than a Scurvy, was properly enough, and with good success, cured with a drying ointment, especially when they began to mix Mercury with it; But now the Pox rather more resembling the features of its Mother Scurvy, than those of its Father Manginess, requires a C●re much different from the former.   

ART. XII. The Hermaphroditick Cure.  
39 THe Hermaphroditick Cure is so called from the commixture of Heterogeneus Minerals. Viz. Antimony and Mercury, used in manner following.  
Take Antimony received from gr. 4. to gr. 8. or 10. Sublim▪ Dul. from gr. 15. to 25. Conserve of Roses as much as will make it to a Bole. This is to be taken every other day, for three times. The following four days these Pills are to be taken. ℞ A●tim. ter de●on. a gr. 15. ad gr. 30. Cerus. Ant. a gr. 5. ad 10. Sublim. Diaphor. a gr. 7. ad 15. Fl●r. Sulphur. a gr. 6. ad 10. Ol. juni●. a gut. 2. ad 4. syr. meli●. q.s. M.f. Pil. 3. prouna dosi. After that, the Patient is to take the forementioned Bowl over again, and then to repeat the sweeting Pills for four or five days. And last of all to take the Bowl once over again.  
Obseru. With this sort of cure I have remedied many a Frontier Pox; Though in a Midway, and Th●row Pox prevails little, and therefore it's no wonder many hav● fallen short in imitating me in this Cure; since it's impossible for any but an experienced Physician, ●●ther to prepare the Medicines exactly, or being prepared to apply 'em to the right degree of the Disease.   

ART. XIII. The Herculean Cure.  
40. THe Herculean Cure handles the Disease with great force, by raising a fluent salivation, being performed by taking this Bowl 4, 5, 6, or 7. times. ℞ Mer. dull. a ℈ j ad ℈ ij. Agar. ●. ●rochise. a gr. 6. a● 12. Thereb. ven. q. s. m. f. Bol. or make use of this following, being somewhat stronger. ℞ Praec. alb. d. a gr. 5. ad 15. Antim. Diaph. a gr. 4. ad 10. Thereb. ven. q. s. m. f. Bol. Another, Take Subls. Corr. abstract from it once or twice Aq. Reg. Put to this as much crude merc. and grind them well together in a Gl●ss-mortar, and dulcify it.  
Take of this M●r. sibl. d. from gr. 6. to 12. Fl●r. Mer●. Argent. from gr. 1. to 2. Bezaart. mint. from gr. 3. to 6. Syr. A●th. enough to make it into a Pill or two. Another, Take Praec. rub. d. from gr. ● to 6. Turb. Mind. Lond. from g●. 2. to 4. Conserve of Ro●es, enough to make it into a Bole. This, if too weak, may be rendered stronger by adding half a grain, or a grain or two grains at most of Prae●: Corr. to a Dose.  
Obseru. No Cure is attended ●ith greater danger, than that ●hich is endeavoured by salivation, and yet none mo●● practised by Chyrarg●ons, and some ●●sh Physicians too. Some eight Years ago my Apothecary, that lived in Basin Lane, brought to me an elderly Man, who upon an impure copulation g●t a large Bu●o, which I ordered should be brought to suppuration, and prescribed him a Dose of Pills, to expel the venom out of the inward parts. The next Day neglecting my course, was advised by a friend to a Chirurgeon, who immediately puts him into a salivation, which on the eight Day carried him off. Likewise a certain Woman I saw in Holborn, 〈◊〉 in the midst of her salivation b●d her friends good night. It's also publicly known, that a Physician not long after the Plague-Year was Indicted at the Sessions, to give a reas●n of his Patient's miscarriage in the middle of his salivation. In short, I m●st tell you, that hundreds have been shuffled out of their lives here in London by this sort of cure, and that for neglecting to praepare the Patient's body, and the want of skill to prepare their Medicines: Though of late many have made use of my Bowl prescribed in this Art: and find a small quantity of Agarick doth much obtund the malignity of the Mercury, and cause an easy fluent salivation. Yet notwithstanding all this, all venereal Diseases will not be cured by salivation, but are (like Cancers) sometimes rendered worse, and unfit for other cures. In the Year 66. A very worthy Gentl●m●n applied h●mse●f to me for cure, h●ving been salivated four times, and last of all with the unction; his Nig●t-pai●s were r●ther increased, and the Ulcer he had in his P●lat grown larger. Finding his body to be extremely dried and exhausted, advising him to a nourishing moist breath for a Month, and afterwards I cured him with ease in five Weeks. On the other side, there are some bodies, and some kinds of Pox, that are easily cured by Salivation, (provided it be performed by a judicious ●and▪) and will not stoop to any other sort of Cure. What bodies and kinds of infection those are is the greatest mystery to discover.   

ART. XIV. The Gigantean Cure.  
41. THE Gigantean Cure is only proper for such bodies as cannot be salivated by the l●st forementioned, and therefore must steer the course prescribed here. viz. Anointing the Wrists, Palms of the Hands, and Feet, Shins, Shoulders, Elbows, and sometimes the Backbone, once a Day, and sometimes twice, for three, four, five, or six days but preparing the body before, by purging with Confectio Hamech, our before mentioned Antivenereal Bowl, Mercurius vitae, etc. and bleeding, if necessary. The form of the Unguent, which I have sometimes prescribed to Soldiers, that were brought to the Hospital I was Physician to, is as followeth. Take Mercury being well washed with Vinegar, an● extinguished with spittle, juice of Lemons, or Turpentine, from three Ounces to six, Antimony crude from one Ounce to an Ounce and half; Hogs grease ten Ounces, Oil of Buyest 〈◊〉 Ounces; make it up into an oinment. This is to be rubbed into the parts aforesaid, from half an ounce, to an ounce and half.  
Obseru. This Cure carries much more danger with it than the foregoing, and therefore is not to be thought upon, without the advice of an experienced Physician, several having miscarried in it. And indeed a Patient had better half hang himself than undergo this Cure, there being nothing comparable to the pain in their mouth, anguish about their heart and sides, and the extreme thirst they endure, having like Tantalus their Mouth full of Water, and yet ready to perish for want of drink. Neither is this all, some growing phrenetick in the Cure, others paralytic, and apoplectic. Further, I have known several, who before their salivation had their Nose and palate sound, and afterwards lost part of ●oth by the stream of malignant humours, 〈◊〉 were conveyed thither by salivation.   

ART. XV. The Vulcanous Cure.  
42. THe Vulcanous Cure is only applied to coarse Bodies, affected with a difficult Pox. It's performed smoking the Patient into a salivation with trochisces made after this form. Take of the best Vermission from one ounce to ten drams, Benzoin, gum guaiac. Frankincense of each one ounce, liquid storax enough to make it into trochisces of half an ounce weight.  
Obseru. This Cure is a kin t● the former, but overtops it in danger, and causing ill symptoms, though notwithstanding hath its use in some cases.   

ART. XVI. The Cure a Posta.  
43. THe Cure a Posta concerns only curing a fresh Maiden Pox, in six or seven days, by offering the Patiented a just dose of Arc. Coral. from gr. 3. to 6. Praec. Penoti from gr. 2. to 4. Turb. m. Paracelsi, not that of London, from gr. 2. to 4, or 5. three or four days together, or every other day. Upon this he is to drink a Decoction of Lign. Sanct. for a fortnight.  
Obseru. The Tools of this Cure have a very sharp edge, and therefore he that uses 'em, aught to know the nature of 'em, and where they are made. An English Gentleman at Venice, having stained his Skin with some Pocki● spots, took a Dose of Praecip. from a Chirurgeon, which having wrought well, took another Dose with the same success; but being desirous to clear his body beyond all suspicion, ventured upon a third Dose, which blowed him up to the Planets. The same fate befell a Trooper at Westminster upon the taking a Dose of the same from a great Army-Surgeon.   

ART. XVII. The Grand Diet.  
44. THE Grand Diet is so called from the strict Diet Patients are enjoined to, viz. to Dine upon Meat rotten roasted, and sup upon Biscuit and Raisins. After the body is well prepared in a manner before mentioned, the Patient is to take a Decoction (made of Lign. Guaiac. Sarsa, and Antimony crude tied in a rag) twice a Day, sweeting upon it for an hour, and drinking no other Liquor for his ordinary Drink than a second decoction. As for China Root, I have wittingly omitted, containing no more virtue than Sawdust.  
Obseru. This Cure is no less tedious, than the foregoing are dangerous, six Weeks being the ordinary time Patients are confined to in their Chambers; and perhaps after they have been thoroughly roasted in their Tub●, they come ●ut as rotten as they went in; and therefore in Venice the Physicians to make sure work, protract their Grand Diet to three months, by which means I remember, several have been dried into Hectic Fevers, and soon after into their Tombs.   

ART. XVIII. The Indian Cure.  
45. THE Indian Cure is most successfully performed in St. I●hn's Island, where such as cannot be cured in Europe, are certainly remedied in a Fortnight, with a Decoction of fresh twigs of Guaiacum, and a particular Diet upon Serpents, Frogs, and Toads roasted.   

ART. XIX. The Negligent Cure.  
46. THE Negligent Cure is so called, because it doth not require so strict an observance of Rules, but may be performed without keeping the House, by taking Pills framed out of Crude Mercury, for 30. days in form following. ℞ Arg. viv. suc. limb. extinct. gum. guaiac. an● ℈ ij. Diagryd. ℈ j ol. junip. ●ut. 15. Thereb. ven. q. s. m. f. Mass. pill. Dos. a gr. 15. ad 25.  
Obseru. I have known several that have been frustrated by this Cure, though they had continued it for six, and some to ●ight Weeks, whom afterwards I cured in less than three. Moreover crude Mercury partaking of a great part of lead is very poisonous, and therefore no wonder, if be, that essayed to take Pil. Barbar. at first, fell down dead upon the the Bridge of Avenion.  
Obseru. 2. It's within a few days of my remembrance, that a Gentleman demanded my sentiment upon his misfortune, which was no other than a Callosity upon the Glans, being the remainder of an Empirical cure of a Liminary Pox, performed by an unskilful Chirurgeon. The apprehension of the danger that might ensue, was more discommodious than the pa●● (which was little or nothing,) or any other exorbitancy of that symptom. This proved a moving cause of rendering himself to the hazardous cure of several Empirics, but particularly to one, who treated him with the Blue Pill, vulgarly so called from the blue tincture, the crude Mercury contributes to the Mass; otherwise it is called Pil. Barbarossee from the inventor; The Basis or principal ingredient being Quicksilver. Three Weeks use of this Pill, deprived the party forementioned of a great part of his hearing and speech; and by conducting the ●●rrent of his infected humours to the throat, had occasioned two Ulcers there. For the remedying of this his tragical state of body, was put into a symptomatick Cure by an able Physician and a noted Surgeons (& therefore refused to receive him into my care) but I advised him he should require ●is Doctor, to prescribe him a sudorific course with a confinement, that being the necessary and the only effectual means to remove the malignant impression of the Mercury, with the remainder of his preceding disease. But since those miscreant and effroyable accidents are necessary consequents of this negligent cure, and notwithstanding all that is undergone, for its conveniency of being performed without a confinement, and therefore is a most egregious veil for the shamefaced Mounsieur, I will set down a negligent course, which has proved no less successful to many, than secure from all danger. For the preparation of the Blue Pill; the Crude Mercury must be exactly cleansed from all dust and mineral recrements, by running it through a Shammey leather two or three times; afterwards must be as oft washed in good Wine vinegar, to free it from those leaden particles, generally united with it, as appears by the ●aeses, when the Vinegar is separated by exhalation from the black. Thirdly, it must be forced twice through a Retort from Calx vive; which serves to amortize those arsenical mixtures, all Crude Mercury doth so frequently exert its malignity through. After all these various tormentations of the Mercury, your sight shall discover to you, that for purity, splendour, fluidity and renuity, it's the Mineral that may be reputed the materia of Gold and Silver, and in respect of security and immunity from danger, may as confidently be offered to many bodies, as Manna. Of this refined Mercury take what proportion you please, and amortize it with a small quantity of Venice Turpentine, by grinding them together in a Marble Mortar with a wooden Pestle; by this means you will find, the Acid spirits that are latent in the Turpentine, have opened the body of the Mercury, and by coagulation detained its volatile and fugitive spirits, whereby it's capacitated to work gently upon the malignities of infected bodies, and through the sulphurous unctuousness, or mollifying ol●aginosity of the Turpentine, the sensible parts, as stomach, guts and nerves, are wonderfully defended from the corrosive spirits of the Mercury. Whence I conclude this, the safest of all mercurial extinctions, since what is extinguished by juice of Lemons and other Acids, is not void of corrosion. Take of Mercury thus refined and amortized one dram, Extract of Guaiac. two scruples, B●zoard. Mineral. half a dragm. Volatile Salt of Succinum fifteen grains, Extract e duobus half a dragm, Venice Turpentine as much as suffices to make them into a Mass. The Dose is from half a scruple to half a dragm.  
For the Method of this Cure observe these rules. First, cleanse the body of all its excrements and abounding humours, with a Dose of Mercurius vitae, from two grains to six. But note, I do not mean that preparation in the London Dispensatory, being in most a fatal one. The next or the second day after, extract a proportionable quantity of blood out of the right arm. The third day present the Patient with a Dose of those Blue Pills, and half an hour after, cause him to drink a Dose of our Antivenereal Decoction, prescribed in the last Article; repeating the same decoction at four in the afternoon, and at eight. This I can assure you is the safest and the most effectual method of all negligent Cures, that have hitherto been discovered, and now from a Charitable disposition is presented to you, to prevent those various disasters the daily practice of Surgeons and Apothecaries do occasion. Read my greater Venus, where you will meet with other Methods of the negligent Cure.   

ART. XX: The Petty. Cure.  
47. THe Petty Cure relates only to a slight Infection, as a pocky scalding of the U●in, commonly cured with an Emulsion of the greater cold seeds, a Purge two or three of Cassia, R●●barb and Cream of Tartar. A G●norrhee, or Running of the Reins is vulgarly cured, with a Purge two or three of Cassia; A Bowl of Turpentine, Rhubarb, and Gum G●ajac. for 30.40. or sometimes 50. days. Some do much commend Quere●●ans Water of T●erebint. Others prefer green Precipitate for 8. or 10. days. It's a secret among some Physicians beyond Sea, to use the Infusion of Cantharideses. A B●●o is cured by purging the blood with an Antivenereal, and bringing it to maturation or discussion.  
Obseru. A Gonorrbee being situated in a remote part of the body, is not very easy of cure; ordinary Medicines fainting in their virtue before they can arrive thither. However, if it be not exactly cured, it doth most certainly first or last, (like all other Liminary infections do,) turn to the Pox. Moreover, it's not to be doubted, but few are well cured, because so many hundred: do fall into that contagious Lake. I could here insert some very remarkable cures of most inveterate Gonorrbees, did not my design of brevity countermand.   

ART. XVI. The Symptomatick Cure.  
48. THE Symptom●tick Cure directs Medicines for curing urgent Pocky symptoms; Viz. Ulcers, Nodes, G●ms, etc. for which this following is most excellent. ℞ Merc. Subls. cor. ʒ vj. Praec. rub. cor. ʒ ij. Spir. vi●. rec. lb ss. f. Digest, per bo●● 24. dein decant. liq. With this you must but just wet the Ulcers, or Fissures, and afterwards apply tents or pledgets, that have soaked in the same Liquor, and are dried again. For Nodes, and Gums, I never found any thing more excellent than my Emplaster of Cinabar●, described in my other V●n●● Unmasked.  
Obseru. 1. Eat applying any unctuous ter occasions that horrible deformity of a flat N●s●. Here take notice, that nothing is a more frequent cause of a Cancerous Ulcer ●f the palate, than a Salivation by Mercury, conveying all the malignity of the body to th● palate and Nose, where in very few days it devours both. Neither have I ever seen in any Country so many levelled Noses, and devoured Palates, as here in England, and all caused by Mercurial Salivations. Therefore observe this at a strict rule, if the least malignity appear abaut the palate, Tonsils, or Nose, to refrain salivations beyond all remedies, and rather endeavour to expel the ven●m downwards, or through the P●r●s, or els● certainly you will for ever disgrace 〈◊〉 Patient. M●r●●l over, strive to hinder the fr●tting of the malignity in those par●●by the unctuous Medicines, (as O●ls, Liniments, or Unguents,) to venereal Ulcers, since they are apt to dispose 'em to rot.  
Obseru. 2. It's not the smallest dexterity in Physic t● appease the urgent symptoms of the Venereal evil, which chief are, 1. Nocturnal pains. 2. That ravenous Vicer of the Palat. 3. The Caries or rottenness of the bone of the Nose. 4. A Pocky Hectic, or Consumption. These four symptoms threatening either a miserable death, or an abiding disgrace, require immediate help, and that before the Cure of the dis●ase. Nocturnal pains are solaged, with an Antivenereal Anodyne. The Ulcer of the palate ought to be stented with all possible speed, or else the steams that fume thence to the Nose, will immediately rot the bones, which soon after the speediest means. As for pocky Hectics, their help is chief situated in Medicines that are moderately moistening and apt to oppose the Disease.  
Lastly observe, that all Diseases, whe●ber Fever, Gout, Headache, Pi●sick, Jaundice, etc. b●pning in bodies that have been formerly troubled with any venereal in●ection, though then cured, are to be remedied with having a particular regard to the foregoing infection. Therefore it's very necessary in such Fevers, to use quantities of Bezoard. Mineral. In Gouts, Sassasras, etc.  
I have now imparted to you the surest and most choice Methods of curing the Pox, whereby I have formerly cured some hundreds; but having of late years found a Method more easy, certain, and far quicker for curing Liminary, and inveterate Infections, I make no further use of 'em: Though I must once again tell you, that some of 'em are most excellent methods, and far better than any the vulgar makes use of.    

A TREATISE OF THE Scorbutic Pox.  

CHAP. I. Comprising the Description of a Scorbutic Pox, and a necessary division thereof.  
IN Article 2. and 4. the Parentage of the Pox hath been manifestly declared to you, and if this Pocky ' darling be more resembling its mother Scurvy than Manginess, you may thence conclude; it emulates her nature in sluggishness, obstinacy. and other malign qualities; For as the Scurvy is observed to move slow in its symptoms, which are not very fierce, but sufferable, though very importune, and of a most radicated fixation, so is a Scorbutic Pox. On the other hand a Mangy Pox appearing in Scabs, and crusty Ulcers, being more masculine, is a more rugged guest, and a quick traveller, that gives smart spurs to its fiery nag, and therefore gallops post through the body, which consequently must soon jade the Patient. From this discourse you may deduce a most necessary distinction, viz. That the Pox is either a Scorbutic Pox, or a Mangy Pox, or a Scorbutick-Mangy Pox partaking of both. The use of this division is such, that unless well understood, it's impossible any one should dexterously cure that disease. Wherefore when a venereal Patient recommends himself to your cure, you will show yourself a● Artist in making the forementioned distinction; for concluding its a Scorbutic Pox, you must apply a method distinct, from what cures a mangy one.   

CHAP. II. Of the Causes and Dragnostick signs of the Scorbutic Pox.  
2. IN this Part I am to give you my Observations on the Scorbutic Pox, which I shall extract from several of my Venereal Patients, and set down those prescriptions, which for your further satisfaction you may find on several Apothecaries files in London.  
By a Scorbutic Pox, in a large acception, may be understood a Scurvy, gotten by a Venereal infection, and of such I have treated more than a few; but strictly it's a Pox, whose chief symptom is a sort of fugitive flying pains, that sometimes cause a distension in the musculous parts of the arms, other times in the legs, breast, head, belly especially, & sides. Hereof I have observed two degrees. The first is, small tinkling pains in the parts aforesaid, running sometimes to the toes, and fingers ends. Those of the second degree, are more evident, and very offensive pains; they are distinguished from Venereal night-pains, by their appearance at all times of the day or night, but especially at the Patients awaking from sleep; upon the least course of Physic they disappear, but certainly return after a short intermission. Their immediate cause is a virulent wind, distending and corroding the membranes of the muscles. Touching their previous and remote causes take these Observations. First, those that are subject to a Scorbutic Pox are chief such, whose Parents were pockified, and but imperfectly cured at the time they were begotten, so that here is an hereditary pocky disposition in all their parts, spermatick and sanguine, whence receiving a new infection, immediately penetrates into the substantials, and unites with their very principles of nature, where it lies so firmly entrenched, that the Art of man can scarce dislodge it. Some months since, a disastered Patient applied himself to me for cure, his symptoms were only fugitive, distending inordinate pains, flying promiscuously into all parts, and at all times: Upon inquiry made into the occasion of this ill adventure, I found he had contracted it by one single converse with an hired woman, with whom also several of his comrades had negotiated, though but with small gains, it may be of a small Gonorrhee or Shancker, both which he had escaped. A month after he was put in mind of his transgression by wild inordinate pains, running through his body, as if spirits had bee● hunting one another in a Wilderness. For the removing of this, he was put into a salivation twice, each flux lasting three Weeks; but these means proving ineffectual, he was advised to essay the virtue of a Sudorific course, which recompensed his pains as little as the former. It was in the Winter when he desired my help, a season not very propitious for so difficult a work, however I put him into a very strict Method, at the termination whereof, ho found himself free from all pains and symptoms. In this case it's not to be doubted but this was a Scorbutic Pox, occasioned by virulent steams soon passing the spermatick parts, and in a short time penetrating and lodging themselves in the most retired seats of his body, where they were readily admitted into a previous hereditary pocky disposition, whereas had there been no such previous disposition, the foresaid virulent fumes would have been intercepted by the spermatick parts, where they would have occasioned a Gonorrhee, Shancker, or some other Liminary infection, as they did in his Comrades. A second Observation is, that a Scorbutic Pox is also engendered in those, who were scorbutic before, and had received their infection from a Scorbutic hired woman. A third is, that most scorbutic Venereal Diseases are occasioned, when the infected steams are received into the body, without engendering a Liminary Pox.   

CHAP. III. Of the Prognostic signs of a Scorbutic Pox.  
THE Prognostic of a Scorbutic Pox implies in the general, it's the most difficult of all other kinds of Pox. In particular, a Scorbutic hereditary Pox, is for the most part incurable, in some few its palliable, and in very few curable.  
A simple Scorbutic Pox doth not admit of an easy cure, but requires both skill and dexterity; and therefore is not to be attempted by every Empiric.  
Lastly observe, that scar●● any sort of a Scorbutic Pox is curable by a single course, but requires a second, and sometimes third repetition of the same course, whereby it is gradually oppugned, and at length totally expelled.   

CHAP. IU. The true Method for curing a Scorbutic Pox.  
THE directions for curing this obstinate disease, comprehend strict rules for Diet, preparative digestions, deplenishing the vessels of some part of their humours to make way for specificks, and lastly the manner of administering the said specificks; the Diet must for the beginning be moderate in relation to quantity, and inclining to dryness. In the process of the cure must be spare and drying, at last must be very drying.  
First prescribe the Patiented a Dose of Mercurius vi●ae, from gr. 2. to 6. or give him a just Dose of Antimon. rediu. and Merc. Dule. either of these are incomparable in this case. The next day, or after a day's intermission, extract some blood out of the right arm. Next morning recommend to him this following digestive Apozem, to be used mornings, afternoons, and evenings, for three days.  


℞ Rasur. lign Gu●iac. lb ss.  
Rad. maiv ℥ ij.  
Sal. tart. ℥ j  
Aq. Sont. lb viij. seq. a. l consumpt.  
il nius 3. sub ●i●. adde●do  
Pol●pod. a. sem. Car●ham. con●. ●● ℥ ij. ●pithim. ℥ j  
Glyc●r. ras. sem. fan. dole a ℥ j ss.  
Uvar. P●ssar ℥ iij. cole●r.  
M. f. Ap●z.  
Does. lb ss.    
The Humours being now partly digested, are to be evacuated with another Dose of Mercur. vitae, or our black Pill, which effected, is to be succeeded by this, or the like Antivenereal Decoction.  


℞ Scob. lign. Guaiac. ℥ viij.  
C●rt. ejusd. contus. ℥ iiij.  
Lign. Sassafr. minu●. council. ℥ ij.  
Post debit. digest. ●n Aq. fen●. lb fourteen.  
Spir. Gaaiac. acid. ℥ j ss.  
Coq. ad consum●t. mediet.  
Sub fin. addendo R●d. Bardan.  
Petasit. a ℥ iij. Rad. Al●h. ℥ j  
Colet. & reservet. in amp. vi●●.  
Resid. affund. cand. quant. aq.  
decoq. ad 2● 31 sub fin. addend  
Uvar p●ss. ℥ iiij. sem. corland●  
℥ ss. coletr. pro▪ pot. ordinar  
Tinct. Antimon.   

℞ A●●m●●. Di●●●or. ℥ iij.  
S●l●tar●a●. ℥ j  
Spir. vin. se●il●rectif. lb j  
F. digest. per 4. dies in aren  
drin f●●r. per▪ chart. empo●  
affundatur 〈◊〉 tincture. decoct.  
suprascript. primar. cujus commixed sit. Does. lb ss. Ter. p●● diem boris medicis.  
per boram mane supersudando.    
Once a Week instead of the Decoction take a Dose of Mere. vitae.  
This course being continued five or six Weeks, performs a cure beyond the expectation of the Patient; but if in a very inveterated Scorbutic Pox this should fail in that happy success you propose to yourself, then after a months or six Weeks intermission, repeat the same Method, and then you need not doubt of the effect. In an obstinate cure, I use to add to each Dose 20. drops of my spir. antile●l. 10. grains of my Magister. nigr. and 5. grains of my Magister. alb.  
Upon the preceding prescription, the Reader may possibly be so curious, as to demand, why Sarsaparil, a drug so no●ed for its efficacy against venereal pains, is omitted. I resolve you; because for the generality the Sarsa our Druggist's expose to sale, is so rotten, that the worth of it scarce answers the tenth part of what it is sold for, especially at this time, since what is tolerable, namely large, white and mealy, is not to be purchased under ten or a dozen shillings the pound, and that probably is such, as hath been kept two or three years in their Warehouses for a dear year; whence considering its chief virtues to consist in volatile sulphurous particles, you may justly conclude, it may very well be passed by, having wholly evaporated its virtue; especially since I can assure you, I have observed effects more admirable in those two hedge-roots, But●erbur and Burdock, being taken up fresh in the Autumn, and dried in the shadow, than ever I did in Sarsa. Notwithstanding, if you suppose yourself skilful enough to discern the goodness of Sarsa, you may purchase a quantity of the Druggist, and send three or four ounces of it sliced to the Apothecary, to be added to the aforesaid Decoction, and question not, but it will recompense your pains by a successful cure. But on the other hand, should you commit it to the honesty of the● Apothecary, believe certainly he will either wholly omit it, and yet not forget to place it down particularly to the account, or put in that of three and six pence the pound, a kind of Sarsa, that is black, rusty, small and rotten, serving for no other use, than for extinguishing the virtue of the other ingredients. Concerning these sorts of refined Cheats, and other gross ones, you may abundantly satisfy yourself in, by perusing a Treatise, called, The Accomplished Physician, and the Honest Apothecary, which will render you wise enough to expostulate the case with your Apothecary, if he appears too peremptory in his accounts. Of those Tracts, if there be any to be had, I believe it's in Ducklane.    

A Second TREATISE OF THE Mangy Pox.  
AS a Scorbutic Pox is that sort our experienced Monsieurs entitle a Dutch Pox, so this Mangy Pox is that, which may most properly be styled the 〈◊〉 Pox, that sort being most popular among 'em.  
That it is a venereal disease, discovering itself chief in scabs and scurf, you may easily understand by what it's her 〈…〉. I shall not judge it a 〈…〉 lost, if I relate to you the several kinds and differences of Venereal scabs and scurf.  
Venereal scabs take their rise from malignant deep inflamed pustules, that feel sore, and immediately conceive a black or duskish speck on the head of 'em, which in a very short time is converted into a rough scab of the same extent the pustule was off, and peeling it off with your hand (for of itself it doth not easily come off) you shall find a sordid matter or puss, that hath corroded the flesh very uneven, which in less than a night is dried up into another variegated scab.  
Instead of those pustules, nature doth at length expel the venomous matter in greater bumps of 〈…〉 colour, which after 〈◊〉 have contracted a large scab, the virulent moisture underneath corrodes into a deep Ulcer; or oft times two or three of those pustules meeting, and communicating their virulency, are converted into ichorous malignant Ulcers, or moist running sores.  
Venereal scurf is a plain broad scab, even with the skin, or sometimes deeper in the flesh, so as the skin appears higher than it, taking its original from a large extent of a great number of small eruptions like red gum, which communicating their venom, are converted into a large scab of a very ill colour, without any elevation above the skin. This skurf i● rising on the head in thin limber scales, is called a Venereal dandrif, which is usually a forerunner of a malignanter scurf, that is soon like to follow.  
Both Venereal scabs and scurf do most frequent the head, forehead, temples (especially scurf) face and neck, not long after they overrun the whole body, and particularly the back.  
The difference between simple scabs, and those that are Venereal is, that those latter never itch unless when they are almost cured, and then they begin to exercise the nails a little.  
What concerns the cause of a Mangy Pox, it's certain those scabs and scurfare occasioned by steams, that consist of a more armoniac, or an alcalized ●●ery and venenous principle; Which being also very volatile and alcolized, renders them apt to disperse themselves to the circumference of the body, and conveying with them a part of the adust humours of the Vessels, appear in other shapes of scabs, scurf, and dandrif.  
For the Prognostic of this sort of evil, you may confidently assure the patiented, it's easier cured than any other Pox, and therefore it's no wonder, the French Physicians have the repute of excelling others in the curing that distemper, since those Venereal diseases that reign in France, are generally Mangy, & consequently yield to a facile cure; but if at any time they meet with an Hectic Pox, or a Scorbutic, or any other mi●t Pox, they are much to seek, and commonly render the disease worse.  
A Mangy Pox doth not hid itself long, but appears within a few Months after the infection, and moves quick and violent, insomuch that if it be not suddenly checked, it shows itself in corroding and Phagedenick Ulcers, which contracting a glutinous sordid matter, are apt to corrupt a whole member in a short time.  
gallic scabs growing blackish, turn Cancerous, and signify a difficult cure; those scabs or scurf if they are apt to fall off of themselves, or are easily pulled off, it's a sign, your case is in no manner desperate: but supposing they stick on fast, are painful, and cover a dilacerated corroded flesh, signifies an ill case. Likewise from the matter you may take your Prognostic, which the nearer it comes to a perfect Pu●s, the more curable your disease is. From the colour, hardness, and deepness of the scabs, you may also take your dimension of the difficulty or facility of the Cure.  

The Cure of a Mangy Pox.  
IT's universally known, that any sort of venom being admitted into the body, it usually takes its seat or root in those humours, that most partake of its own nature, wherefore we are to look for those mangy seminaries in the adust or rather saline alculized fluidities of the Vessels; Whence you may deduce this Indication, that they are to be expelled out of the body, by purging those foresaid fluors, wherein they are chief inherent. To this intent we must pitch upon such purgers, experience assures us to be most effectual; and in that case I must recommend to you our Black Pill, which I shall exactly describe to you here.  
Take a sufficient proportion of Hungarian glittering Antimony, add thereunto an anatick quantity of S●l Armoniac: grind them well together in a mortar; put the mixture into a Sublimatory, and sublime it into red ' and yellow flowers. These convey into a Bolls head, and affuse upon them Acet. dist●●. ad eminent. palm. uniu●; after digestion in B. abstract the liquor by distil. or eva●or. grind the whitish residue, and edulcorate it with warm water, whereby it's ultimately reduced to its pristine colour; and so having left behind its ferocity, malignity and venom, results a most gentle vomitory & dejectory, accommodated to all ages, sexes, and climes, radically curing all oppilations, jaundises, severs, dropsies, Asthmas initial P●●bises, Convulsions in Children; but more particularly I have removed with it several agues in children, obstructions of Me●str●a in women, and many incipient Consumptions in men. Insumma Cr●cus metal. or vitr. Ant. are poisons in comparison to this preparation, which I call Antimonium Resuscitatum. For the composition of this black Pill, take of this Antimon. Resusc. from gr. 4. to 8. Praetip. alb. dulc. from gr. 3. to 6. with a drop or two of syr. ros. to mix into a black Pill. The effect hereof is generally a copious and large evacuation downwards without vomit, unless in some few that are disposed. In stead of the white Pr●cip▪ you may substitute Merc. subls. dulc. from gr. 15. to 30. but than it usually vomits. In reference to the method, you are to present the said black Pill four times to your mangy Patient, that is to say every other day, with confinement that day he takes it.  
No less success you may expect from four Doses of Turbith Mineral, but not of that crude preparation described in Pharm●co●. Lond. but of the prescription of Paracelsus. But because examples are the best demonstrations, I shall insert one out of many of a very speedy cure of a Mangy Pox. A Wine-Cooper of a Carnous habit of body, of temperament sanguine and melancholy, aged 27. and robust; likewise in the internal constitution of his bowels sound and healthful; was disgraced with a number of most loathsome scabs in his face, and down his back. A practising Apothecary had entitled his disease a surfeit, against which according to the Rules of Trap he had ordained him a course for two months, but to no purpose. Applying himself to me, I gave it the name of a Mangy Pox, a tone that sounded a note above Ela in my Patient's ears; but assuring him of a perfect cure in eight days, was harmonically enough understood. In order thereunto, ● tried his body with a Dose of the black Pill, viz. Eight gr. of A●●m. Resus●. mixed with fix gr. of Praecip. alb. dul●. this pleasured him with eight or nine good motions downwards. ● intermitted one day, and then recommended the same Pill to him, with the addition of one grain to each ingredient; the effect hereof consisted in the same number of motions. According to the same order I ascended one grain each time, which maintained his motions much in the same tenor. Upon the second exhibition of the pill, his scabs scaled, and the ulcerous skin underneath dried up; so that before the expiration of the time he found himself perfectly cured, and so hath continued.  
Furthermore you are to observe, though this cure is potent enough against a milder sort of a Mangy Pox, those kinds that partake of a greater malignity are to be cured by Salivation, or other peculiar medicines; for in these cases Guaiacum or Salsa do rather render the disease worse; likewise on the other hand a Scorbutic Pox is not to be attacked by any Mercurial medicine, unless there be a complication of Manginess.    

An Appendix of an Hectic Pox.  
THis is that sort of Pox, that for the most part puts a stop to the recreations of the debauched Gallant; and therefore will prove a charitable work, to give him some insight into his case for a warning, that so he may draw stakes, and give over his game in time.  
By a Hecktick Pox, if you suppose a Venereal disease, which is radicated and habitual, in opposition to a schetical Pox that's easily cured, you will misapprehend me, but my meaning points at a pocky indisposition, that hath corrupted the innate temperament of the heart, and brain, occasioning a fetid and impure vital sulphur in the former, and a most acrimonious▪ H●midum cerebrosum in the latter, whence consequently follows a quick inordinate pulsation, and a great weakness in all the nervous and locomotive parts, a stinking sweat all over the body, especially in the night● likewise a short vulpin cough, indigestion, want of appetite, extreme dryness of parts, etc.  
An Hectic Po● oft comes at the heels of a Venereal disease, that has been frequently repeated, and imperfectly cured. Likewise it's a consequent of a Scorbutic Pox in a Scorbutic body, of a Mangy Pox in a sulphurous hot constitution, and of a Scorbutic hereditary Pox. Moreover, a Pox that lurks in the body, without giving the least notice through malignant symptoms, doth certainly tend to an Hectic Pox.  
How to foreknow an Hectic Pox is difficult, neither can a dexterity in the prognostic of that evil be acquired by any other means, than by frequent observations of such as are Hectically pockified. Such was the case of the forementioned Cooper's wife, no symptoms appeared neither external, nor internal, to suspect her otherwise than perfectly disposed. Notwithstanding I endeavoured to persuade her to a course, or else in the space of three months she would be advanced beyond all humane cure; But feeling herself so well in health made her slight this advice. The time I had prognosticated was no sooner determined, but the unfortunate woman grew indisposed, her aspect turned cadaverous, and the mole of her body shrunk extremely, being also incommoded by a short cough. This sudden change compelled her to implore my assistance; but it was too late. I advised her to prepare for another retreat, for nothing was more certain, than that she would finish her course in very few months. Dismissing her without any other advice, applies herself to another Physician, who promises her cure in a fortnight; to that purpose order her to bleed out of the foot, and prescribes a pectoral decoction; this rendering her worse, goes into the Country for air, where in the very month I had predicted she expires. Several of these instances I could produce, but time and the limits of a Compendium prevent me; wherefore shall conclude with this dictate, that the best c●re of a Hectic Pox is by prevention.  

The Cure of an Hectic Pox.  
SInce the degrees of an Hectict Pox are not easily discerned, and that some, namely in the beginning and growth; admit of a cure, as besides the records of several Treatises, myself can produce some instances of Pocky Hectics restored to their health, it's a sufficient argument, to encourage Physicians, to attempt some course or other to recover their disastered patients, or at least to advise something to palliate, and prolong their days. In this case the generality of Authors frame two indications, the one, and which in the cure is preferred, is▪ to moisten the withered and tabefied parts; the other is, to expel and extinguish the virulent venom of the Pox. The for●●ost of these is accomplished, or at least endeavoured, by a nutritive and humecting diet, and other medicines of the same faculty; namely by Cock-broath wherein is boiled French B●rley, Bugloss or borage roots, liquorish, the four cordial flowers, Dates, Jujubees, Sebesten, Currant, the four greater cold Seeds, and sometimes a small proportion of Poppie-seeds, all which besides the liquorish is to be sweetened with Rose sugar, if the party be Rheumatic, or if not, with sugar of Marsh-mallows. From a fortnight's continuance hereof, three or four times a day, it's expected the Patient should be somewhat incarned, moistened, and strengthened, which commemorates the Physician of his latter indication of resisting and oppugning the venom, to which purpose he prescribes a proportion of C●ina r●ot and Sa●, to be added to the broth forementioned. I● upon another fortnight's use of this the Patient seems to mend, and appears less cadaverous in his aspect; he gins to think of steering another course▪ and so either wholly casts off the broth, or at least diminishes the use of it, and prescribes a formal decoction of Gu●●●acum, Salsa, and Chini, others omit the former of these three, being suspicious its too h●t and drying, and so might precipitate the Gallican to his former emaciated habit. This is to be diligently drunk for six weeks or two months, the length of time being supposed to recompense the omission of those violent sweats, which are ordinarily enjoined upon an antivenereal decoction; though in this method some short gentle sweats are advised. That the result of this sort of cure hath been a perfect recovery of confirmed pocky Hectics, many Author's do confidently assert in their Volumes, as Poterius, R●verius, F●nseca and others, though I am more than certain, that their patients were only emacerated, but not Hectically. However it's apparent by the testimonies of these so reputed Physicians, C●in● root obtains a most energick virtue, for restoring Emaciated pocky Hectics, which the Reader possibly may observe, I have more than once contradicted in this treatise. Besides, that its virtue is not exhaled, though transported through such hot climes, and kept seven, eight, or ten years before it's called into use, seems evidently demonstrated by the sanguine tincture it contributes to the liquor in a decoction or broth, which doubtless must be derived from a potent Sulphur that is deeply latent in the ro●t, and by a long continuated ebullition is only extracted, and consequently is not exposed to exhalation. Moreover it might be argued, that the chief energy of oppugning this virulent venom, is not inherent in the volatile parts of antivenereal drugs, but rather in their fixed salts, which a long ebullition doth melt and extract, as may be instanced in Guaiacum, which its age is universally imagined doth render fit for use and exalted to a more puissant faculty, as if length of time were requisite to concoct its parts, and perduce its l●t●nt Sulphur to maturity. My answer to th●se objections imports, that the antivenereal virtue, which is attributed to C●in● and Sa●s●, is chief lodged in its volatile saline particles, the Indian's sca●ce reposing any confidence of virtue in the former, unless fresh taken out of the ground, experience convincing them, that few own their cure to it, after it hath been exposed ● or 10 days to the air. Moreover the evident manner, which is conceived that drug doth exert its activity through against the Pox is by sweat, which I could never detect in a sole decoction of Chin●. Neither can any manifest qualities be discovered in its fixed particles, which by a long decoction are aimed to be extracted, whereby it should melt & attenuate humours, and so profuse a sweat, and with it the venomous miasms; if so, there is little certainty of its antigallick virtue, unless reposed in its hidden powers, which few now a days can confide in. On the other hand Guaiacum declares its virtue by its manifest qualities, residing in its fixed salin and sulphurous particles, or an acid salt, and a potent expansive sulphur, as the Anatomy of 〈◊〉 parts by sire doth evidently represent to you, by the acid spirit, and a strong sulphurous oil it yields, through the former attenuating and penetrating into those humours, that harbour the infection, and through the latter deterging, colliquating, diffusing and propelling the said humours out at the pores, together with the virulent miasms, Moreover it must not be doubted, but the oldest and longest cut G●●acum is most prevalent for a podkie purpose, time seeming to concoct its ● póur and exalt its particles to a greater energy, or rather time opening the pores of that hard wood, & disuniting the sulphurous parts from the salin, (whose ●idum and close connexion is the cause of the hardness of the said wood) whereby it afterwards results more apt and capable of rendering its sulphurous and salin particles to any liquor, by a far shorter ebullition, than if the said wood were ●●wer. That time doth so considerably exalt and sublime the virtues of bodies, will be plainly attested to you by the volatization of the spirit of Vitriol, which I imagine few can show besides myself, having the possession of a spirit so volatile, that it diffuses itself to a very great, distance, not without a pleasant scent to the olfactive organ, and a most subtle insinuation into the remotest effuges of the brain, and being dropped into a liquor, proves diaphoretic, which is accounted an excellent virtue when accompanying an acidity. The manner it's prepared is thus, calcine your Vitriol to a Colcother, and place it in a Garret, leaving it there 2 or 3 years, afterwards distil it after the usual way, and you shal● collect a deep yellow volatile spir● of Vitriol, as is here described Which confirms my assertion, tha● time doth maturate, volatilize, an● exalt the sulphurous particles, an● renders them apt for sequestration● from its more drossy and feculent parts. This by the way. And re●turning to my former subject, I 〈◊〉 once more assert, Guaiacum the only certain and manifest vegetabl● for curing the Pox. The metho● I have sometimes prescribed is th● following. Take a young Co●● and bruise it well, add to it thre● ounces of the shave of old Guaiacum wood, four handfuls of Mallow leaves, two ounces of the fo● greater cold seeds, one ounce ● sweet Almonds blanched, 20 Dates and two ounces of blue Currant● spring water four quarts, boil i● gently two hours in a diet potstrain & keep it 〈◊〉 glass cl●s● stopped. Hereof let the Patient drink a quarter of a pint four times a day. In stead of water in some cases, I have ordained the same quantity of Whey, or water distilled of Milk, or Mallow water. After ten day's continuance of this Anti-hectick broth, it's requisite to add two ounces of excellent new Sarsaparil, or if such is scarce to be procured, the like quantity of Burdock roots. If upon twenty days use hereof, the Patient seemed somewhat incarned, I judged it convenient to purge him gently with Di●sen●● and Mercur. subls. sulc. and so exhort him to two or three small sweats a week. By degrees I detracted those moistening ingredients, until I arrived to the use of of my two Magisteria. Furthermore I have now and then observed some Gallicks surprised with particular A 〈◊〉 of some o● their members, in that case I a● vised three ounces of Red worm● taken out of a horses dunghill, an● well-washt in white Wine to b● added to the nutritive decoction● Likewise I perceived that a score of well cleansed Vineyard Snails added to the broth aforesaid, di● very much contribute to its nutritive faculty. After that, the Patient being reduced to a more florid aspect, and somewhat impinguated, you may proceed with such a method, as his present symptoms may indicate, according to those observations I have lately communicated to you.  
FINIS.