Προφυλακτικὸν OR, Some Consideration OF A Notable Expedient To root out the FRENCH POX From the English Nation. With Excellent Defensive Remedies TO Preserve Mankind from the Infection of POCKY Women.  
Also an Advertisement, wherein is discovered the dangerous Practices of Ignorant Pretenders to the Cure of this Disease.  
By L. S. Dr. of Physic.  
〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  Demost. ad Laidem. 
London, Printed in the Year. 1673.   

The Printer to the Reader.  
Gentlemen,  
BE pleased to take notice, that the Doctor has lately left his former Habitation, and for the more private reception of his Patients, lives now in Hyde-Street near Bloomsbury-Market; the House he lives in is near the Sign of the Clock, and has a Porch with Rails before the door.   

AN ADVERTISEMENT To all Persons concerned in the POX.  
Gentlemen,  
I Have spent some years in studying to help you in this important Affair. And surely I may (without any breach of Modesty) pretend to some skill in this Business as well as my Neighbours. For I have perused no less than three hundred sixty and eight Authors, who have learnedly treated of this Disease. I have travelled also, and consulted some prime Physicians abroad, and carefully remarked the Secrets of their Practice. I have had plentiful Experience upon the worst of Patients, i. e. those who have been spoiled by Mountebanks and unskilful Surgeons, and also forlorn, despaired of, and quite given over by learned Physicians. Many of these unfortunate Persons by my Care have been in a short time restored to perfect health; but some have perished: and indeed (if Miracles are not to be expected) how could it be otherwise? the Natural parts were so corrupted, the Bones so carious and rotten, and the whole Compages of the Body so ruinous and desperate, that none but an Apollo could promise either to himself or the Patiented any real performance upon a Disease in those desperate Circumstances.  
I have diligently compared what I read in Authors with what I daily observed in my own Patients, and remarked in the Practice of others: out of all which I have compiled a Treatise of the Pox, fully showing its Fssence, Origin, Causes, Disserences, Symptoms, Signs, and Prognostics, with all the several Ways of Care now in Use. This Treatise I have finished, and keep by me ready for the Press, expecting only some spare time for the setting out a Work of that high Concern. But, as Suctonius relates of the furious Caligula, who being wearied in butchering Mankind by Parcels, wished all the people of Rome had but one neck, that he might dispatch them at a Blow: So in my Treatise of the Pox, my endeavours were against the Pox in particular persons only, but in this ensuing Tractate I have laid the Axe to the root, and given it such a fatal Blow, that in a short time this Nation may be secured from any Attaques of that Filthy Disease.  
Gentlemen, I well foresee that a Treatise of this Nature will not be well resented by All. For some formal Persons will endeavour to  the Charitable Design of this Work, and allege, that the Pox is a beastly Disease, which few or none have, but such as well deserve it; and that the Obscenity of it is the cause why Eminent Physicians meddle not with it, but have hitherto left the business wholly to Surgeons, Barbers, Tooth-drawer's, and Mountebanks.  
Answ. 'Tis confessed, that the Pox is a nasty Disease. But, does it therefore follow, that the Cure is to be managed only by Tooth-drawer's, Mountebanks, and Empiriques? Or, that 'tis below the Concern of an Eminent Physician to meddle in this Case? For my part I never yet understood, that 'twas any Crime in a Physician to help Mankind in filthy Diseases, but rather that 'twas an Undertaking which ought to be cherished and countenanced by all good Men. The more loathsome the Disease, the more Commiseration is required, and the Physician is obliged to a more tender Care. I will assure you, that my Intentions in compiling this Tractate, were Modest and Good; not to countenance Debauchery, but to root out this Exotic Plant, and defend Innocent Persons from the Fury of a Cruel Disease. I will faithfully promise you, that the ensuing Discourse shall be managed with all the Modesty and Civility of Expression imaginable, so that the oculi emissitii (as Plautus phrases it) of Envy itself shall not be able to find any Offence in that kind.  
This foul Disease is a complicate Evil, and as it were a Combination of the worst of Diseases, advanced to a strange degree of Malignity. And as its Effects are most dreadful and terrible, so also is the Cure abstruse, arduous, and difficult, and not to be attempted by that Illiterate Rabble of Mountebanks, Tooth-drawer's, and Ignoramusses, who in three days may do you more hurt, than you shall ever claw off while you breath, You are therefore carefully to avoid those Persons as Enemies to Mankind, Men full of Words and Promises, but without any Performance at all. We daily see and lament the signal Miscarriages of these Men; how Thousands every Year lose their Lives, and Ten thousands their Noses. And whereas in one Month the Malignity might be carried off, and the Disease perfectly cured, these men by their preposterous handling the Disease do so affix it to the Patient, and so root it in his bones, that 'tis afterwards impossible to be removed. Be wary therefore, and keep out of the Talons of these Harpies, who use many Artifices and Insinuations to draw you in. You are to address to learned Physicians and expert Chirurg. for help in this Case. For let me tell you, There's scarce one among a hundred of those who profess this Cure that throughly understand the Nature of the Disease, the Cause of its Symptoms, or any ready or certain Way of Cure. And this is the reason so many perish of the Pox, who might easily have been cured had they fallen into the hands of skilful Physicians.  
Gentlemen, I have one thing more to acquaint you with, and it is this, several Doctors in this Town seeing the admirable Effects of my Antidotes and Bezoartiques upon the worst and most profound Pox, have with some importunity solicited me to a Discovery. But I have not as yet discovered them to any. Not, that I should be backward in any thing which might in the least promote or advance the Public Good: but this Expedite way of Curing the Pox (which was not wholly of my own Invention, but in part communicated by those excellent Physicians Monsieur de Bodé and Monsieur Balloon of Paris, the most skilful, not only of France, but of all Christendom, in the Expedite and happy Cure of this Disease) I am unwilling to put into the hands of some few to be monopolised, and made use of for their Interest only, because I have designed a Discovery to all, and to print them for the benefit of the whole Nation.  
This little Tractate therefore is but a forerunner of a greater and more Elaborate Work. For I do intent (if God spare my Life, and prosper my Endeavours) very suddenly to acquaint the World with some remarkable Observations and Secrets in this Disease; and also put the Physicians and Surgeons of this Age in a New Way of Curing the Pox, far more Expedite, Certain, and Safe than any bitherto known to the World. But in the mean time I conjure and charge you once again to beware of Mountebanks, and the Illiterate Rabble of Pretenders to this Cure. Farewell.  
L. S.   

A Notable Expedient to root out the POX.  

CHAP. I. A Summary Account of the Pox. Its Names. Which most proper. French Pox and Lues Venerea disallowed. Aloys. Luisinas' noted. Anti-venereal Medicaments what. The Pox not an Epidemic Disease, against Leonicenus, Fracastorius and Massa. Not a New and Extraordinary Disease. Shown to be Sporadic here, and Endemial in the W. Indies.  
THis Calamitous Disease has many Names, some whereof we pass by, as being fantastic and affected; or barbarous and blasphemous. The most apt Names are Morbus Indicus, Hispanicus vel Neapolitanus: but the most usual is the French Pox. For most Nations in Europe commonly use that Appellation. And Leo Africanus (Descrip. Afric. lib. 1.) assures us, 'tis so called in many parts of Africa, as at Tunis in Barbary, and in Egypt, as also in Syria in Asia: & that the Mahometans usual. Imprecation is, Te Morbus malè perdat Gallicus. But methinks, 'tis pity to affix the Title on the French and rob the Italians of that Honour; because 'twas first brought from the Indies by Columbus an Italian, and at Naples first showed itself to Christendom, and at this day is more common in Italy than in any other Country in Europe, as is generally attested by Italian Physicians themselves. But especially because some Italians seem to glory in it. HierMercurialis an Italian Physician (cap. 2. de Morbo Gallico) says, Ideo laus est Italorum ut abundent hoe morbo, quia indulgent Veneri & utuntur passim mulieribus infectis, ut non mirum sit esse peculiarem morbum nostrarum plagarum. And they tell us, That since the Pox has been so familiar with them, it has done them a double Kindness; for,  
1. It has in good part freed them from the Plague, for since the Pox came among them, they are seldom troubled with the Test, whereas in former Ages 'twas far more fierce and frequent than it has been since.  
2. They observe that since they had the Pox, the Leprosy has almost left them, so that now every Lazaretto in Italy is filled with Neapolitans.  
Some others in compliment to the French forbear the Vulgar Name, and call it Lues Venerea. But though their Civility deserves Commendation, yet this Denomination cannot be allowed. For Lues, as Isidorus observes (Orig. lib. 4. cap. 6.) is the Plague or a Pestilential and Epidemic Disease. And as Festus says, Lues est diluens usque ad nihil, tractum à Graeco 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉. So in the judgement of all who understand the Propriety of Words, Lues denotes an Epidemic or Pestilential Disease, proceeding from a Common Cause, and killing the greater part of those who receive Infection. But the Pox is not an Epidemic but Sporadic Disease; 'tis not received from any common Infection in the Air, but by Contact of infected Bodies. Again, Lues, or the Pest, destroys the greater part of the Infected: but most of those who have the Pox live, and may be cured. And lastly, Lues is an Acute Disease, but the Pox is Chronic. 2. Nor can it properly be termed Venerea. For that signifies a Disease received by the use of Venery. But this Disease is not always got by Venus: for Children get it by sucking Infectious Nurses; and Nurses often receive it from infected Infants. And most Physicians tell us 'tis to be got by profuse kissing of women who have Pocky Ulcers in their Mouths: as also by lying in the sheets wherein Neapolitans have sweat. That therefore's an unsufferable Caprichio in Aloysius Luisinus, who calls his Collection of Authors who have writ of the Pox 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, as if 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Venus and the Pox were one and the same Identic thing. I wish Dr. H. would consider the Title of his Book, Venus unmasked. Those also fall into the same Error, who call their Medicines against the Pox Anti-venereal Remedies. For an Antivenereal Medicine, according to the true import of the word, is that which is given to luxurious persons to repress the furious desires of Venus: as those Aque Castitatis so often mentioned in Authors, but especially when they treat of Furor Vterinus. Also Anti-venereal may signify those Magic Compositions used by Sorcerers to disable married Persons from Venus.  
Physicians differ about the Origin of the Pox: for, 1. Some hold it to be an Epidemic Disease, and by consequence to proceed from a Common cause: and of this Opinion is Leonicenus, Fracastorius, Nic. Massa and some others. But yet these men differ about this Common Cause; for some hold it to be a malign Influence derived from a Conjunction of Saturn, Mars and Venus, etc. And this is the Opinion of Massa in his Book of the Pox. But Leonicenus will have it to be a great Inundation of Tiber in P. Alexander's time, which drowned the greatest part of Rome, and corrupted the Air: from whence he imagines the Pox to have had its first Beginning. And this he endeavours to confirm by telling us, that in P. Pelagius' time Tiber overflowed his banks, and upon that Inundation presently ensued the Pest and a strange ill-natured Scab or Manginess, which the Physicians of that age could not cure. And he says the like happened in P. Bonif. 4th's days also.  
Here two things are to be remarked: 1. That 'tis probable the Favourers of this Opinion first called the Pox Lues Ven. supposing it a General Epidemic Disease proceeding from a Common Cause. 2. That these men were of opinion it would in time senescere, decay, and be quite antiquated, as other Epidemic Distempers are.  
But the Reasons offered by Fracast. and his Partisans have not at all satisfied the world, or convinced us that 'tis Epidemic, or, that it will in future Ages abandon these parts of the World. For, 1. We have no Reason to believe it Epidemic, or, to proceed from a Common Cause, as the pernicious Influence of Stars, or Corruption of Air; because Diseases proceeding from such Causes never continue long, but when the bad Influence is at an End, and the Air freed from that adventitious venomous quality, they end also: But the Pox has continued some Ages, and with as much fierceness as ever. Nor, 2. have we any Grounds to believe (as some endeavour to persuade us) that the Pox does decline, and by degrees abate of its former Fury: for our daily Observation tells us the contrary, and that 'tis to the full as fierce and formidable as ever.  
2. Some others affirm the Pox to be a New and Extraordinary Disease, sent by Heaven as a punishment to the extravagant Lusts of Mankind. And these men are so far from believing as the others, viz. That it does decline and abate of its former fury, and will in time abandon these parts, that on the contrary they think it advanced to a higher Degree of Malignity, and attended with crueler Symptoms than 'twas in the beginning. Rudius not only thinks it will continue to the end of the world, but fears that in a matter of 80 years 'twill infect all Mankind. Et forsitan, quod Deus avertat, 80. aut paulo plurium annorum spacio omnem humanam progeniem invasura. (de Morb. occ. & ven. lib. 5. cap. 11.) And a certain London Physician has asserted that all this Nation has a Touch of the Pox and Scurvy.  
3. The Third Opinion is of those woe affirm the Pox with us to be a Sporadic Disease received only by contact of infectious bodies: but in some part of the West Indies 'tis Topic and Endemial engendered by bad diet, bad water and unwholesome Air, as the Leprosy in Egypt, Great Spleens and the Scurvy in Holland. This Opinion of all others seems truest, as I have fully demonstrated in my Treatise of the Pox. The first Opinion is already confuted, the Second is also false: for the Pox is not a New and Extraordinary Disease sent by Divine Justice; for 'twas brought into Christendom from the West Indies by Columbus and the Spaniards, and propagated by Contagion and Infection, as is notoriously known and attested by all. Nor is it now more fierce than 'twas in the beginning, but continues still the very same. The Ground of this Mistake I conceive to be this: These men did not take a full and comprehensive view of the Pox, as 'tis in the several parts of the World, but only considered it as it now shows itself in some Northern cold Country. For the Pox does notably differ according to the temper and quality of the Country. In the Torrid Zone 'tis mild and gentle, so also in Barbary, Egypt, and among the Asiatic Turks 'tis not outrageous. But in Spain and Italy 'tis more cruel. So the farther Northward you go, the more fierce you'll find it: for in Germany, Holland and Great-Britain it handles the Patient more roughly than in Italy, Spain or France. And the Danes, the Swedes and the Russians will inform you that it deals more rudely with them than with us or the Hollander. The Disease in itself without doubt is just as it was in the beginnnig, but if the Hollander finds his Pox not accompanied with such mild Symptoms as the Spanish or Italian Physicians mention, let him not think there's any Alteration made in the Disease; but let him impute it wholly to the difference of Climates, and to the cold, foggy Air of that humid Region. In like manner those who embrace the first opinion, viz. that it does decline and abate of its former fury, aught to consider, that now Physicians have found out an Expedite Way to cure it, and abate its Symptoms; but at first they had no certain Remedies, but let it run on to its height. And, besides, the French Army before Naples feeding upon unwholesome diet, the Infection met with Bodies full of ill humours and strangely disordered: All which might increase the Disease, and raise its malignity to an higher degree in that Army at that time, than 'twas in other places where their Bodies were not so disposed. So that still the Disease is the same, and as furious as ever: but now 'tis checked and kept under, and formerly 'twas not.   

CHAP. II. The Author commiserates the condition of Incontinent Persons, and resolves to help them to the utmost. He declares his modest Intentions, his Charity, and the Causes of publishing this Treatise.  
THE very name POX, sounds terrible to English Ears, and makes an Impression of Horror upon us. For this aggregative Evil is like 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 's Box, out of which all other Diseases and Mischiefs issue. When a man is attaqu'd with the Pox, he has not one single Disease alone, but a Legion of Maladies presently after seize his miserable Body; viz. Gonorrhoeas, Buboes, Chancres, Caruncles, Stranguries, stoppages of Urine, Chironian and Telephian Ulcers, Fistulas, ill-natured Scabs, Tetters, Erosion and Rottenness of Bones, Loss of hair, Falling of Noses, consuming of the  of the Mouth, Loss of Speech, Deafness, Blindness, terrible racking Night-pains, Invincible Headache, loss of Sculls, Falling-sicknesses, Convulsions, Apoplexies, dangerous Catarrhs and Defluxions of Rheum, whence ensue perilous Asthmas, spitting of Blood, Consumptions. Hectic Fevers, wonderful Extenuation of Body, Gummosities, Nodes, and Tophaceous Excrescencies. These, and an hundred more are the dire Companions of the Pox. And who can but wonder, that miserable man should be so desperately hardy, and so absorbed in Sensuality, as for one moment of vanishing pleasure, to involve himself in such an Abyss of lasting Miseries? But, when I consider the Imperious and charming Power of a Good Face, the bewitching Artifices of Women, and Man's natural Propension to Venus, the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and rapid violence of his Passion, it draws me from Admiration to Commiseration. For we are all 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, subject to the same Passions, to the same Propensions and Inclinations of Nature. That man said excellent well in the Comedy, Homo sum, humani à me nihil alienum puto. For though some have that Fortitude not to be hurried along with this brutish Passion; yet are they not to insult over others, who have more of Passion, and less of Prudence than themselves. For Greenness of years, and Vehemency of the Temptation, though before God they avail the Delinquent nothing at all; yet ought they to merit Compassion from us, who have been ourselves too often assaulted by these impetuous Motions tumultuantis Nature. It was therefore Commiseration that caused me to spend so many good hours and years in studying to holp these miserable Persons. Formerly I did believe that all those, who had once felt the fury of this Disease, would afterwards be more wary; but I was deceived, and my constant Observations have now satisfied me to the contrary. For many do so indulge this brutish Passion, that as soon as they are out of the Physician's Hands, they run presently into the Arms and Embraces of infected Courtesans. Nay, too frequently we find, that whilst they are under Cure, they secretly continue the same Courses.  
Deum contestor, I call the Eternal and Immortal God to witness, whem I door and serve, and who is conscious to all my Thoughts and Secrets, that I have not published this Treatise with any design or desire to indulge or countenance incontinent persons in their Lusts and detestable Lives; but merely for the Good of their Persons, for the Safety and Security of the Sober part of Mankind, and for the Honour of the English Nation.  
1. I have published this Defensive Method for the Good of the Debanchée himself. His Vices & his Incontinency I hate, but his Person I pity and love. Nor can this Expedient justly be thought any Encouragement to him, to go on in his Debauchery; for we see with our eyes, that notwithstanding the Pox is such a fierce and formidable Evil, and the very Endemial and Topique disease of Bawdy-Houses, yet the Greatness of the Danger, and the Commonness of the Disease do not at all deter men from such Courses and Company, but still they rush into most manifest danger, brutishly preferring one hours' Contentment before Health, Life and Heaven itself. Moreover, if we reflect upon former Ages (before Columbus' Voyages to the Indies) when this Discase was unknown to these parts of the world, we shall find that men were then far more continent than now; then Debauchery was not at such height. But since the Pox has invaded Europe, and attaqu'd Bawdy-Houses, and been the familiar Companion of Courtesans, they are wonderfully increased, and far more frequented than formerly; Nitimur in vetitum. The more we are restrained, the more impetuously we rush on. This Hurricane by its rapid violence, drives miserable Mortals into these Fornices & Cryptae, where they are sure to be stung by these 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, i. e. Courtesans ten times more venomous than the Serpents of Lybia. What shall we do in this case? you'll say, Let 'em go on and perish in their wickedness. This is indeed a most compendious way of reforming Mankind, to cut off the Offenders. But we find not that God, or any good Prince ever made use of this rough way. Apage Carnifices! Away with these uncharitable Persons! and let us discharge our Duty, and endeavour to preserve their Bodies from the Fury of this Pest, leaving their better part to the Care and Prudence of Good Divines.  
2. This Treatise is designed for the Safety and Security of the Sober Part of Mankind. How many chaste Matrous, tender Infants, innocent Nurses, are ruined by this Disease? When I sadly reflect upon the miserable Condition of some virtuous Women: how profoundly debauched some Husbands are: and, how frequently the Pox is made use of as a ready Expedient to dispatch Wives, and send 'em to another World; I lament the Misery of those Women, and detest the execrable Villainy of those Husbands. It is therefore for the Safezy of these sober Persons, and to prevent those Hellish Practices that I have set forth this 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉. These innocent Matrons, conversing only with sober company, are utterly unacquainted with the Signs and Symptoms of the Pox. Hence when unkind Husbands give them the Running of the Reins, they innocently believe it nothing but the Whites, and so let the Disease run on. So also they imagine those racking Night-pains of the Pox, to be the Effects of the Scurvy only, (so apt is this Nation and Age to reduce all Diseases to the Scurvy.) This Ignorance of the Disease, as also the ingenit and natural Modesty of that Sex, are too often the Causes why the business is deferred, and the Disease concealed, until 'tis so rooted in the Body beyond a possibility of Cure. And so these miserable persons are hurried out or this World by a filthy Disease. I dare confidently avouch it, that one half of Infected Persints are Innoce●…t●: and further; that where one debauched person dies of the Pox, five of the sober part of Mankind die of the some Disease: & the Reason is, because the Debanchéé is confident, and discovers his Disease, and in time gets help. But the other not being skilled in the business, let it run to its height, before they understand what it is: and when they do understand it, such is their invincible Shamefae'dness, that they choose rather to endure its utmost Fury, than to discover themselves attainted with so scandalous a Malady. Add also those miserable Infants, who bring a Congenit or Connatural Pox into the World with them; and also those Innocent Babes who get it from wicked Nurses, whose Cries, Tears, and piteous Moans, deserve some regard. All which, I say, being duly considered, are enough to move any heart (unless flinty) to commiseration and pity. This Treatise therefore is chief designed for the benefit of sober Mankind, viz. chaste Matrons, tender Infants, and innocent Nurses, and not for Bawds and Courtesans. For I hearty wish such damned Prostitutes, who make Lechery a Trade, may either perish of the Pox, or be so just to themselves, and kind to Mankind, to end their cursed lives with an Halter. The End therefore and Scope of this present Undertaking, is, not to remove the Pox from Bawdy-houses and Courtesans, but from Marriage-beds and Cradies, from innocent and undeserving Persons.  
3. I have published this Defensive Method for the Good and Hontour of this Nation. The Pox is a Reproach to Mankind itself, and infected Persons may justly be ranked among the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, or Venomous Animals. For, what Serpents in: the Deserts of Africa ejaculate more filthy Venom than Pocky Men and Women? This dire Venom of the Pox transcends that of Vipers and Adders, and is far more extensive of its malice. That kills Creatures of a different kind only, this poisons those of its own species; and when Men and Women by the Impulse of Venus come together, they poison one another. In some hot Countries, almost the moiety of Mankind is infected with this disgraceful Malady. And who can but be mightily concerned to see one half of Mankind come in the number of pernicious Animals, and Creatures that ejaculate poison? If you enter into a serious (I am sure 'twill be a sad) Consideration, and attentively remark what footing the French Pox has got upon English Ground: what huge Multitudes of Pocky Patients come every year under Healing Hands; you'll quickly grant that this Expedient is very seasonable, and that there's an absolute Necessity of proposing some Defensives to repress the Fury and farther spreading of this diffusive Evil. A multitude of Lawyers is an Argument of many Lawsuits. And if we argue from this Topic, we may easily conclude the Pox to be prodigiously spread in this City. For, setting learned Physicians aside; you'll find an incredible multitude of Persons who live (and some very splendidly too) chief upon the Cure of this Disease. The numerous multitudes of Surgeons, Chemists, Practising Apothecaries, Mountebancks, Empiriques, Tooth-drawer's and Ignoramusses who deal in the Pox, upon a sober Inquiry have been found to amount to near one thousand and five hundred. And if so many Persons live upon the Pox, judge how many thousands suffer by the contagion of that spreading Disease. It will therefore be a generous and Heroio Undertaking to endeavour by some bealing Advice to help this Nation, and repress and check the enormous spreading of this popular Distemper. And that person who shall well perform it, will truly merit to be esteemed, a Benefactor to Mankind. I have broken the Ice, and made a good Ouverture, let others follow my Example, facile est inventis addere.   

CHAP. III. A Search into the Causes, why Physicians bitherto have not endeavoured the Prevention and Extinction of the Pox. Three Reasons assigned, viz. Pride, Covetousness, and Ignorance. The Author remonstrates the great Inconveniencies and Hazards he voluntarily thrusts himself upon for the public Good, and for the Honour and Safety of the English Nation.  
IT's now almost two Hundred years, since the French Army at Naples was first infected with the Pox. I cannot but greatly admire that all the Physicians in the world have sat still; and let it run on thus long, and done nothing in the Defensive Way, towards its Prevention or Extinction. They have indeed writ whole Volumes and Treatises how to cure it, but they have not set forth in Vulgar Languages any Defensive Methods to prevent the Infection or farther spreading of that abominable Disease. They have not proposed any Expedient to root it out from the Européan part of Mankind. Certainly it is a far more excellent piece of skill, to preserve Mankind from Diseases, than to cure him when infected. And surely all Christian Physicians ought to have joined their Forces, and bend their, best Endeavours to have quelled so formidable and furious an Enemy, and, which so insolently menaces Mankind with Ruin and Destruction. But, 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, not one word of this. None have yet instructed Mankind in this weighty Affair. There is, I confess, a matter of a dozen among the many Authors who have writ of this Disease, that have laid down Defensive Methods against the Pox; but their Discourses are in Latin, and add rest to Physicians only, so that the generality can receive no benefit by them, unless translated and adapted to their Capacities. But what is the Cause of this Silence in a matter of such important Concern? I have made search into the Business, and I find the Reasons chief to be these.  
1. Most of the Eminent Physicians of this City and Nation have always looked upon this Disease as a thing below them; and so not at all concerned themselves either with its Cure or Prevention, but wholly remitted the business to others of an inferior Class.  
2. Those others who have studied the Disease, have been so great Gainers by it, that in stead of endeavouring its Prevention or Extinction, they have withed its increase and farther Propagation ' so greedy is Mankind of Profit! These men have carried it fair to the World, and craftily difguized their Avarice with the specious pretence of Conscience, alleging that the Discovery of ways of Prevention might be an Incentive to Lust. Whereas they have been Eye-witnesses of the contrary, and have daily seen, that the Greatness of the Dunger, and Commonness of the Disease have not at all deterred men, or kept them within the Bounds of Continency.  
3. Illiterate Surgeons, Empiriques, & Mountebanks, who pretend to this Cure, being persons ignorant in the very Rudiments of Physic, conceive the thing to be impostible; and so never attempt any thing in the Prophylactique Way. These poor Hearts consult Vulcan more than Apollo; they spend their time in Laboratories among Furnaces and Crucibles, where they piteously torture themselves, and the poor Minerals, to extort and draw forth Elixirs, Quintessences, Spirits, etc. and vainly promise to themselves and others the effecting of Wonders. But they are so far from performing any solid Cure, and especially in the Pox, that they either murder the poor Patient with their malignant Medicines of Antimony and Quicksilver; or so affix the disease to him, that 'tis afterwards impossible to be removed. That was a notable Saying of a Gentleman, who had been guilty of this Imprudence, in addressing to Illiterate Surgeons for help in this Case: I carried, says he, a Clap to the Surgeon, and he gave me the Box for it. For these men have an Excellent Faculty that way; for in driving in Buboes, and unwary suppressing Gonorrhoeas, they usually bring a slight superficiary Clap to a Grand Pox. And when they meet with a Confirmed Pox, by their dangerous Medicines and preposterous handling the Patient, they commonly exasperate the Malady, weaken the sick person, and in the end make his Disease desperate and incurable.  
These therefore I conceive to be the Causes, why none have stood up to vindicate Mankind from this reproachful Disease; why none have made it their business to endeavour the Prevention and Extinction of this pernicious Evil. The Physicians of prime Note have been too fine-fingered to meddle with this foul Disease. The others who have studied the Case, have forborn to set forth any Prophylactique Method, because they have not studied the Public Good, but their own private Interest. And lastly, the rabble of ignorant Surgeons, Empiriques, and Mountebanks, have not helped Mankind in this important Affair, because the Enterprise is too heavy for their weak shoulders.  
I alone am the Singular Person that stand up, to help the unfortunate Debauchée, to defend and secure the Sober part of Mankind, Venerable Matrons, Innocent Nurses, and tender Infants from the fury of the Pox; to vindicate the Honour of this Nation, and draw a considerable part thereof from among the venomous and pernicious Beasts. Neither am I ignorant of the grand Inconveniencies and dangers which by this Charitable Design I shall voluntarily draw upon my own head. For  
1. Some peevish and restless Spirits will open their venomous mouths, and endeavour to misrepresent the Causes and Ends of this present Undertaking.  
2. In discovering this Prophylactique Method, I shall draw upon myself the Envy of some Physicians; the high displeasure of Surgeous, and the Hatred of Emperiques, and Mountebanks. And indeed not without some Cause: for in taking the Pox away from this Nation, I shall rob these men of the best Flower in their Garden. Hine ille lachrymae!  
3. The setting forth this Expedient to root out the Pox, is such a strange piece of Sulf-denyal, and so infinitely repugnant to my own Profit and Interest, that many will condemn me for it, as much wanting to my own Good. For, I, who for almost this twenty years, have had considerable Practice in the Cure of this Disease, now to issue out a Treatise to prevent and root out the Pox, what is it but to lay the Axe to the root of the Tree, and cut off all hopes of any further Profit? It is so, I confess: but herein I have had regard only to the public Good, to the honour and fifety of Mankind, and not at all to my own Interest. Gentlemen, I have ever looked upon the Practice of Physic, not as a Sordid, but Sacred thing; and have always hated those base Spirits, who prefer the heaping up of Riches, before the welfare of Mankind. Those pedantic Reserus and Concealments of Knowledge become Empiriques and not rational Physicians, who ought generously to mind the public Concern of a Nation, and not their own Interest only.  
Gentlemen, these are the Inconveniences I shall voluntarily draw upon my own head, by my charitable design to contribute to the public Good, and to help you in this Affair.   

CHAP. IU. The Author demonstrates the Possibility and Facility of his Defensive Method from Reason and Experience, and also from the Practice, Authority and Testimonies of divers great and renowned Physicians.  
BEcause for almost 200 years the World has sat still, and not attempted any thing in the Prophylactique Way, nor any ways endeavoured to root out the Pox; the greatest part of Mankind have therefore concluded the thing Impossible, and do now crroneously believe that the Pox cannot be prevented by any Art whatsoever. But, for the Honour and Safety of Mankind, I shall in this presont Discourse undeceive these misbelieving persons, and fully demonstrate from Reason and Experience, and also from the Practice, Authority and Testimonies of some great Physicians, that 'tis possible to prevent the Pox, and that this way of Prevention is Easy, Effectual, and Cerstain.  
I prove the Possibility of this Defensive Method thus. All Physicians in treating of the Prophylactique way to secure the Body from Poisons, and cure 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, the dangerous Bites and Wounds of Serpents and other venomous Animals, commonly propose two things, 1. To fortify the whole body, or that part only which is most obnoxious to danger, and make it impassable. Or, 2. by Topique Remedies to draw forth the Venom, before it has made any considerable impression upon the body. Now Reason and Experience tell us, that this is to be performed in the venomous Bites, Wounds, and Impresses of the greatest and fiercest of Poisons. For example, the By't of a mad Dog is easily cared, and the great impendent danger of Hydrophobia most certainly prevented. The By't also and Wound of the Viper, Asp, Seps, Dryinus, etc. may, and have frequently been cured, and all danger prevented by Topique, and Internal Remedies. Hence than I argue; If the fierce venom of these Beasts (some whereof kill in few hours) may be prevented by Internal Theriacal Medicines fortifying Nature, and thrusting forth the Poison, and also by apt Topique Applications, drawing the Venom from the part affected: then certainly the Pox also may be prevented by Proper Remedies and Applications. For, 1. the above mentioned Poisons are far more fierce and quick in operation than that the Pox. And 2. they bring more dangerous Symptoms, because they direct their malice chief against the Heart, and so quickly destroy the whole Oeconomy of Nature. But the Venom of the Pox is more dull and sluggish, and at first seizes the Glans only, and continues there some hours, before it makes any farther Progress, or diffuses its malignity to any other part. 3. Why may not the Pox be prevented, or removed when 'tis superficiary, and in the Genital parts only? For the Remedies prescribed in the following Chapters, are the very same that are used to an Inward Pox, when 'tis fixed and rooted in the body, and certainly any Rational man will grant, that those Remedies which are able to overcome an old confirmed Pox, where the Venom has taken deep rooting in the body, and is as it were naturalised; the same may also with greater facility remove a superficiary Impress of Venom and Malignity. The Decoction of Guaiacum is a known Antidote against the Pox; so also is a Suffiment of Cinnabaris. And if Guaiaoum, Cinnabaris, etc. can cure an Inveterate Pox, who can deny that the first Rudiments and Primordia of the Pox may be removed by the same?  
Let then these Sophisters, who envy Man's Honour, Safety and Security, either give us some solid and satisfactory Reason, why this Venom of the Pox, when 'tis seated in the outward parts only, may not be expelled by internal Antidotes, and drawn forth by Topique Applications, as well as other Poisons, which are of a far more fierce and malignant nature. Or, in case they cannot give any such Reason as I am sure they cannot) then let 'em yield up the Cause, and confess the Possibility of this Defensive Method.  
But that this Defensive Method may be more fully confirmed and established, I shall in the next place show, that it has been also the Sentiment of several learned Physicians of this and the last Ages; who have in Latin published Defensives, and showed how to prevent the Pox. 1. Gabriel Falloppius, that learned Physician, in his Book de Morbo Gall. cap. 89. sets down at large how to prevent the Pox, and attests upon Oath the Certainty and Infallibility of his Defensive Prescription. 2. Eustachius Rudius de morbis occultis & venen. lib. 5. cap 13. has excellently performed the same Undertaking. 3. Hercules Saxonia has done the like in his Treatise de Lue Venerea, cap. 16. 4. Rodericus à Fonseca, Tom. 1. Consultat. 35. out of Falloppius and Petronius, has discussed the Question, and seems propense to the Affirmative. 5. Julius Palmarius de Lue venlib. 1. c. 8. believed also that it was possible to fortify the body, and prevent the Pox. 6. Joannes Varandaeus was of the same mind also, as is manifest from the method he sets down in is Book de Lue Venerea, and from those words, mirum est eos qui de Lue Venerea hactenus scripserunt, nihil de Prophylaxi ejus attigisse, sed omnes soli Therapiae incumbere. 7. Panarolus, a Roman Physician in is book of Observations, has set down a Prophylacticon, to preserve Women from the Pox. These are all Physicians of prime Note, and they did firmly believe the Possibility of the Thing, and have set forth Ways of Prevention. But in this one thing they failed, and were wanting to the Public Good, viz. they did not publish their Defensives in Vulgar Languages, (as I have done) but addressed their Discourses to Physicians only. But in the ensuing Chapters I shall teach them to speak English, and, to their utmost, instruct you in this. Important Affair.   

CHAP. V Some Practic Observations concerning the manner of receiving Infection. What Persons are most apt to give and receive the Pox. The Author proposes his Expedient, and Defensives; and shen's how to prevent the Pox by Bandage and Ligature, by Lotions, Decoctions and Suffiments.  
HAving in the precedent Chapters declared the Causes and Reasons of this Undertaking, and demonstrated the Possibility of the thing; and also made a Search into the Causes why Physicians hitherto have not endeavoured to root out this filthy Disease: I come now to the Grand Business, to discover this Prophylactique, and lay down this Expedient to root out the Pox. This Expedient consists of two things, the first whereof is, a laying down some Defensive Remedies to secure particular persons from receiving Infection from Pocky Women. The second is a Seclusion of infected Courtesans from Public Converse, but yet so as this Seclusion may be commodious to this Nation, and also a design of Charity to the Prostitutes themselves. We shall discourse of this Seclusion towards the end of this Treatise. But in the first place we will inquire after the Defensives, and lay them down in a plain, familiar, and intelligible Method; and also call in a dozen of the learnedst Physicians in Christendom, to give their Sentiments in the Case; whose Judgements and Prescriptions will farther explicate, confirm, and enlarge the whole business.  
But first we are to consider three things: First, what kind of Pocky Women are most dangerous and infectious, and when? Secondly, what men are most apt to receive Infection? and Thirdly, the Way or Manner how the Pox is imparted to the body.  
1. What kind of Pocky Women are most dangerous? I answer, that young Women are more infectious than Ancient: so also those who are of a spare, thin, choleric Constitution of body, and also such as are of a sanguine, hot, and moist complexion; and lastly, those who have the Pox complicate with the Scurvy. The Reason is manifest: for young women are more hot and moist than old, and by consequence, the Venom in such bodies must needs be more diffusive of itself, than 'tis in an old, dry, and cold body. The Pox is very malignant in a choleric, hot, and dry Constitution; because by the great heat of the Body the Venom is calcined and advanced to a high degree of Malignity. In bodies which are sanguine, hot and moist, the Venom is active, spirituous, and quick, because Heat and Moisture increase Putrefaction and Corruption of Humours; and being diffusive qualities, soon communicate and spread the Venom. And lastly, the Scurvy, in the judgement of all who have writ of it, is a venomous contagious Disease, and something of kin to the Pox; so according to the Proverb, Vis unita fortion, a combination of Venom's is most forcible. But of all Women, she who is dull, sluggish, and of a phlegmatic, gross, cold Constitution is the least infectious: for such a woman, if she have no Gonorrhoea, nor Ulcers in the uterin Passage, does not very quickly communicate the Pox, but many times the first that converses with her, receives no damage at all; but the second, who comes upon her when her body is heated, and the Venom agitated and stirred, receives the Pox. A Gonorrhoea and Ulcers in the Vterin Passage may be guessed at by the Lubricity and Moisture of those parts.  
The other part of the Question is, When are Pocky Women most infectious? Answ. When the Venom and Humours are most agitated and heated with Wine, Hearing Drinks, and burning Lust. For all these things heat the body, agitate the infectious Humours, and diffuse the Venom. But above all the most dangerous time to meddle with such women, is, when they have their Courses. For at that time Nature mightily endeavours to discharge all the Venom and impurities of the whole Body that way, so that of necessity they must be exceeding pernicious at such times.  
2. The second Thing to be considered, is, what men are most apt to receive Infection? I Answer, Young people receive it far sooner than Ancient, so also those who are of a sanguine, hot, and moist constitution of body, but especially when they are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 under the greatest 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and most rapid Commotion of Lust. And lastly, those who have the Glans covered with the Praepuce. Now that this is so, is manifest from Observation: and it's also attested and confirmed by that learned Physician Gabriel Falloppius, in's Book dè morbo Gallico, cap. 22. who gives this Reason of it, viz. the Glans, by reason 'tis constantly covered with the Praepuce, is most tender, soft, and susceptive of the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and venomous Impresses of the Pox: but on the contrary, when that part is bare and uncovered, it becomes more firm, compact and hardened, and does not so easily admit the Venom. Hercules Saxonia; dè Lue Venerea, cap. 4. grants the thing to be true, but he thinks Falloppius mistaken in the cause: for he is of opinion, that 'tis not because the part is more soft and tender, but because the Venom does insinuate between the Glans and Praepuce, and afterwards impart its malignity to the whole body. For my part, I believe these learned men are both in the right: for without doubt, as Fallappius asserts, when the Glans is perpetually covered, the skin must of necessity be more lose, thin and warm, and much easier admit the Venom than when 'tis otherwise. So also, according to Saxonia, the Venom does insinuate between the Glans and Praepuce, and more closely attaque the Patient. But of this we have discoursed more largely in our Treatise of the Pox.  
3. The Way or Manner how the Infection of the Pox is communicated to the Body, is thus: when a Woman gets the Pox from a Man, the Infection is sometimes received from the Chancres on the Genital, but most commonly from his infectious Sperm. When a Man receives it from a Woman, the Contagion insinuates into the Glans from the Vterin Passage, which commonly is full of Pocky Ulcers, or besmeared with the virulent matter of a Gonorrhoea. These Ulcers emit a venomous sanies, which infects that tender part called the glans. These impressions of Venom remain some time upon the Glans only, and afterwards (if let alone) insinuate into the humours and spirits, and so infect the whole body. You are also to understand, that a Woman may in Coition give the Pox to her Gallant, notwithstanding she has no Gonorrhoea, nor Ulcers in the Vterin Passage.  
This being premised, we come now to the Defensive Method. And here it would be vain and fruitless to think to secure the body by Internal Antidotes only, and wholly neglect Topique Applications, seeing that the inward parts at first are entire and free, and the Venom lies only in the glans. We therefore 〈◊〉 this Defensive Method are to propose two things. 1. To make the Genital part or member 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, firm and as it were impassable. This has been attempted by Falloppius, and since by others, who to this purpose prescribe Stiptic Lotions, and Linen Rags impregnated with such decoctions, and apply them to the Glans in men, and to the Vterin Passage in women, both before and after Coition, as you shall see in the ensuing Chapters. 2. By Lotions, Fomentations, Attractives, Suffiments, etc. to draw forth the Venom whilst it is in the genital part only, before it get to the internal parts. For this Venom, if compared with that of other venomous beasts, is somewhat dull and sluggish, and for some hours moves not, but afterwards (if let alone) it gets into the blood, and by a continuity of parts soon infects the whole body. You are therefore presently after Coition to make water, for that cleanses the inward part of the genital. Then use Bandage or strict ligature to that part of the Genital next the belly: for this Ligature compresses the Vessels, and hinders the circulation of the Blood and Humours, and cousequently it hinders the Venom from insinuating with the blood into the inward parts. Then foment it with warm Urine, or (which is much better) with white Wine as hot as can be endured. Wash all the members, but especially the Glans. Do so several times in the day, for two or three days together. Or, this Decoction: boil Guaiacum, Chamaepitys, Germander, Horehound, Scordium, Ash-leaves and Keys, Dictamnus Creticus, Gentian, etc. in white Wine, (if you add a little Praecipitate 'twill be far more efficacious) and foment the Glans and whole Part with it often in a day. After the first day, take off the Ligature. The Ligature is to be loosened when the Patient makes water, or when the Part erects itself and swells. After every bathing apply Pigeons or Whelps newly dissected and hot. Some commend a Lineament of Mithridate or Venice Treacle. For these things have great virtue to draw forth Venom. You may also sweat four mornings together with an Apozeme of Guaiacum.  
Here I conjure and charge all persons concerned, not to be wanting to their own good, nor to neglect these Remedies, or defer the time, but immediately after Venus to wash and mundify the parts with the aforesaid Lotions: and they may be confident of the Cure. But if they defer the time, and let the Venom get head, and take rooting in the body, the fault is their own, I have given them fair warning. Note also that none is to converse a whole night with an infectious woman, for in twelve hours' time the venom may do much hurt, and insinuate into the inward parts beyond a possibility of Extraction by Topique Applications. Mundify therefore the part, and wash off the poisonous matter with warm Urine presently after the Act, then get the aforesaid Remedies. Principiis obsta—  
Sometimes after meddling with infected Women, the Patient will feel an Itching in the Genital. In this case I advise you to use Falloppius' Suffiment described in the next Chapter, or that of Varandaeus, set down in the eleventh Chapter of this Treatise. Take a little earthen Pot with some live coals in it, and put some of the Powder upon the coals, and place an artificial Funnel over it, so as you may admit the smoke to the glans, or whole Part: be sure you do it dexterously, that you admit not the cold Air to the part, nor the Smoke to the Patient's Nose or Mouth, and when you have done, wrap it in warm Cotton. Do so three mornings together. This Suffiment is a potent Medicine, and to be administered with discretion: put not too much powder upon the coals; neither are you to continue the Operation too long. These Suffiments, if prudently used, are of admirable virtue to prevent the Pox.  
What has been already said is sufficient to prevent the Pox, and secure any person whatsoever. Yet that our Defensive Method may be complete and full, I shall annex the Prescriptions of a dozen of the greatest Physicians of this and the last Ages.   

CHAP. VI Falloppius his Defensives to prevent the Pox. Of the Use and Way of preparing his Medicinal Linen. His two Suffiments of excellent virtue in this case.  
FAlloppius de Morbo Gallico, cap. 89. lays down this Defensive Method, to preserve the body from Chancres and the Pox. Ego nihil fecisse videor, etc. I might seem, says be, to have done just nothing, unless also I teach you a way, how, any person seeing a beautiful Siren, and conversing with her, although she be infected, may yet be secured from the Pox. I was always of Opinion, that there was some way to be used, to prevent Chancres and the Pox. But what is this way? I told you formerly, that these Chancres (or Ulcers on the Genital) were caused by little venomous bodies, imparted from the infectious woman, and being received into the porosities of the glans, cause an Eruption of Ulcers: therefore 'tis necessary, that after Venus we forthwith cleanse away this venomous matter from the Glans. But if it has insinuated into the Pores, notwithstanding we wash the parts with Wine, Urine or Water, yet we cannot wash off the matter. And this frequently falls out in those, who have the glans tender, and covered with the praepuce. How therefore must we proceed? I ever believed that we might lay down some Remedy, which has power of its own nature to penetrate the skin, and disperse the malignant matter, or else to draw it forth, or dry it up, and overcome it. Therefore I have invented this ensuing Remedy. But because we must court these Courtesans, and win their Affections, it is not convenient to carry Ointments and Salves along with us; therefore I have found out the use of a fine linen Rag, imbued and impregnated with a Medicinal virtue, which may conveniently be carried with us.— As oft therefore as any shall pollute himself with these Strumpets, let him (if possibly he can) wash the Genital part: afterwards let him apply the Medicinal Rag, being cut and exactly proportioned to cover the whole glans: let him, I say, after coition apply it to the glans, and cover it with the Praepuce. If you fear Ulcers in the urinary passage, put this Preservative Linen into that passage. I have experimented this Remedy in a thousand; and, I call the Immortal God to witness, that not one was infected. Observe also that any clean linen has a great preservative virtue: also new soft Cotton, wrapped about the naked glans, after you have mundifyed it with detersive Washeses, wonderfully preserves; when the Patient takes off this Lint, let him look upon it, for he shall see it sanious, and discoloured with a yellowish, pale, or blackish colour. Let the person always wrap this Linen upon the Glans for four or five hours. The way of preparing this defensive Linen is excellent, and is as follows.  
Take Gentian, all three sorts of Birthwort of each a drachm, white and red , Wood of Aloes, of each two Scruples; red Coral, Spodium of Ivory, burnt Harts horn, of each half a drachm, Scordium, Sowthistle, Betony, Seabious, Tormentil, of each one handful; Rose-leaves a handful and half, Guaiacum two ounces, Squama Aeris two drachms, Praecipitate prepared a drachm and of the best Muscadel of Crect one pint and half, waters of Sowthistle and Scabious two pints. Take the Wine and the Water, and infuse the Guaiacum therein 24 hours: then add the other things, and let them boil till half be consumed. Then strain forth the Decoction. In this Decoction a pure linen cloth is steeped all night, and afterwards dried in the shade: this is performed three times; for we macerate it thrice, & dry it thrice. After that we cut it inpieces of a just proportion to involve the glans, & they are always to be kept in readiness.— The same Author gives us another Description of this Preservative Linen; and also further prosecutes the business.  
Take round Birthworth, Gentian, white Dittany, of each two drachms, Scordium, Sowthistle, Rue, of each an ounce and half; Wood of Aloes, all three sorts of , seeds of Citron, of each a drachm, Rhubarb, Tormentil, St. Johns-wort, of each half a drachm, Mithridate two drachms, Guaiacum two: ounces, the best Muscadel, water of Sowthistle, of each one pint and half. Let the wood be first steeped a whole day in the water and wine: afterwards boil it until the third part be wasted; then put in the other things, and let them be macerated a day; after that boil them until half be consumed: then strain it out. Be careful that the vessel, wherein your Medicaments boil, be well closed. It would be best if it were done in B. M. This being done, take the Linen, and steep it in the Decoction three days: then dry it in the shade in a hot place; wet it and dry it again: do so three times, or oftener, if you please. This Linen being well dried, keep it for use, wrapped up in paper, or in Linen. I might commend this Remedy much, but do you try it, yourselves shall be witnesses of its virtue. But, if you are fearful, and desire a more potent remedy, and begin to feel an Itching in the Genital, go home, and suffumigate the Praepuce with the ensuing Suffiment.  
Take am carthen pot, in which put a live coal or two, sprinkle upon the coals this powder, and by degrees hold the genital part over the Smoke; afterwards take the prepared Linen or clean Cotton and put it upon the glans, and the venomous matter will be drawn from the Liver. The Powder is this.  
Take powder of red Roses, Wormwood, red Sanders, of each one scruple and a half, Benjamin, Camphire, Frankincense, Aloes, Myrrh, of each two Scruples, Cinnabaris one drachm and a half, Praecipitate one drachm. Mix them, and reduce them to a gross powder, With this we suffumigate the part, and prevent Ulcers in the glans.— If the Courtesan be so deeply infected that a stronger Remedy is required when you come home you shall take off the Preservative linen, and take an earthen Pot with a live Coal or two, then fold a sheet of paper round, in form of a Horn and artificially place it over the Pot: put a little Powder upon the fire, and three or four times suffumigate the Glans and Praepuce, having been first cleansed and dried: & tutissimi eritis. The Powder is this.  
Take powder of red Roses, Wormwood, Sandaracha rubra, of each a scruple and half, Benjamin, Camphire, Frankincense, of each two scruples, Cinnabaris 2 scruples. Mix them and reduce them to powder. Thus Falloppius.   

CHAP. VII. Rudius' Prophylactique Method to prevent the Pox.  
EVstachius Rudius de morb. occ. & venen. lib. 5. cap. 13. proposes this Method. It is to be observed (says he) that when any has lately conversed with an infected woman, though as yet there appear no signs of infection; yet before the Venom insinuate too far in the body, it ought to be revealed from that part wherein 'twas first received, not by Erictions only, but by other Attractives which the part affected can admit and endure. Wherefore as in Contagious Diseases by the By't of Venomous Animals, a strict Ligature is applied a little above the part affected; and then the Venom with apt Remedies is drawn forth. So after converse with an infected Woman, it is not improper forthwith to take a Linen Band of the breadth of ones finger, and strictly bind the root of the Genital: which Band is to be relaxed when the Patient makes water, and the part distends itself. Then foment the whole part with a new sponge dipped in a Lie made of twigs of Vines or Figtree, or in Posea wherein has been boiled some Guaiacum, or sharp Pickles Brine, Sea-water, or the like Attractive Medicamem.— If the band wherewith the root of the genital is bound, be spread with a Defensive of Bole Armeny, Mastic, Sarcocol, fine flower and the white of an Egg, it will be far more Excellent. If, after binding the part, the whole Genital be involved in this following Remedy, it will be most powerful to draw the Venom from the inward parts, and to secure the Patient.  
Take Guaiac 6 ounces, water 4 quarts, Boyl them until two third parts of the water be consumed: then add roots of wild Cucumbers, roots of Mallows, roots of Marsh mallows of each an ounce, Iberis, Thapsia of each a handful. Let the roots be bruised and put in; and after it has boiled a little, let it be removed from the fire, and strained. Macerate fine linen in this Decoction and dry it in the shade. After Venus having bound the root of the genital apply this defensive linen to the whole part: keep it bound on 2 days or more: but the Ligature at the bottom or root after the first day is to be taken off. Likewise if before Venus we use those medicines which bind and strengthen the Genital, the Venom may be kept out. Take yellow Myrobalans and Chebul Myrob. of each half an ounce, Cypress Nuts 15. Pine Nuts 4. red Rose leaves a small handful, Pontic Wormwood a handful, Galls, Myrtel berries, seeds of Sumach, of each an ounce. Let them all be bruised and steeped in black austere Wine and the water of Pine-nuts, and be destilled in a Bath. Let Linen Rags dipped in this water warmed be applied between the glans and praepuce: also herewith let the part be washed. For it's an excellent Antidote and has often been experimentally approved. Thus Rudius.   

CHAP. VIII. Saxonia's Way of Prevention.  
Hercules' Saxonia has also set forth a Preservative Method to prevent the Pox, cap. 16. De Due Venorea.  
First, let them wash the parts with styptic austere Wine, wherein has been boiled Guaiac, Roses, Myr tel-berries, Balanstia, Acacia, Hypocistis: and after Lotion let 'em take Linen impregnated with Falloppius' Decoction, and dried; and keep it on the glans. Notwithstanding I much esteem Falloppius' Decoction, yet perhaps it may be more infirm than the following one.  
Take Gentian, round and long Birthwort, Calamint, Dittany, Scandium of Crect, Tormentil, Angelica, Masterwort, of each one ounce, Scabious, Fumitary, Betony, Wormwood, of each a handful, Wood of Aloes, 2 drachms, all three sorts of , Rasping of Ivory, Hartshorn burnt, of each a drachm and half, Acacia, Hypocistis, Balaustia, Roses, of each half an handful, Guaiacum a pound, true Muscadel of Crect two pints, waters of Scabious, Fumitary and Roses of each a pint, Water of Plantain 3 pints, the best Praecipitate 2 drachms. Infuse the wood in the waters and wine, and let it boil until half be wasted; towards the end let the rest of the Ingredients be put in; when they have boiled a little, let them stand in infusion 24 hours, then boil them until the third part be wasted: when you have pressed forth the Decoction, take Linen proportioned to the bigness of the glans or vulva, steep them in the Decoction, and dry them in the shade, do so the second and third time. This Linen applied before Venus hardens the parts, dries up superfluous moistures, hinders putrefaction, so that Falloppius has attested that of 1000 to whom he gave this Antidote, not one was infected. Nor are those things to be omitted, which after Venus may conduce to the preservation of the party: those are Washing the Privity with Urine or Hot water; but warm or hot Lie is better than that; and White Wine hot excels all. With this wash not the glans only, but the whole part, as also the Testicles, not once or twice, but often, and at least two days. But, if after Venus any have heat in their Urinal, or excoriation in the glans, than stronger Remedies are to be used; the Venom is to be drawn forth, the Passages are to be intercepted that the contagion may not have passage to the inward parts. We must use internal Antidotes to subdue the Venom, and Topique Applications to draw forth the Malignity; as Decoctions of Dictamnus, Calamint, Scordium, Gentian, Guaiacum, made in Wine: as also Suffiments of Cinnabaris, Frankincense, Myrrh, Wood of Aloes, Saffron. The same also is done with exenterate Animals, as Pigeons, Chickens or the Lungs of Whelps applied hot to the Privities.— If there appear no Chancre, ulceration or Inflammation, than foment it with Aqua vitae, or apply a Lineament of Venice Treacle, Mithridate, or an Ointment of Figs, Nuts and juice of Rue— To intercept the passage of the Venom apply a Defensive Ointment to that part of the member next the belly— As concerning internal Antidotes use Venice Treacle, Mithridate, Diascordium: and generally those Antidotes which are Praeservatives against the Pest are very good in this case— But if the Patient has the glans ulcerated or inflamed, we are not presently to judge it requires the grand Diet-drink; for many times this accident happens immediately after impure Venus, and without damage in any other part whatsoever.— In this case Praecipitate is an excellent Remedy, if duly used. Take of Praecipitate a drachm, of Unguent. Ros. or frest: butter an ounce, mix them. Use this not continually, but between times use a warm and emollient Lotion, est the Praecipitate cause a callosity upon the part. Therefore after 24 hours take it off, and wash the part with a decoction of Mallows, Linseed and a little Guaiacum: and if need require, apply the Praecipitate again.— If the body be full, purge gently with some Lenitive, lest strong Purges draw the Venom (which is in the outward part only) to the inward. Forbear Bleeding, unless the Chancre has an Inflammation connexed with it: if there is Inflammation, bleed in the foot rather than in the arm. Thus Hercules Saxonia.   

CHAP. IX. Minadous his Prophylacticore.  
AVrelius Minadous de Virulentiâ Venereâ cap. 33. lays it down thus:— I return, says he, to the principal Design, proposing the Opinion of those, who believe that if after Venus the genitals were all covered with warm Horse-dung, it would be a sovereign Remedy to prevent Infection; or rather of notable force to draw forth and disperse the venom. For they believe that in that Dung there's a certain innate faculty of drawing forth and dispersing Pocky venom. And joan. Costaeus affirms that 'tis discovered by the Experiment of some modern Physicians, that if one who has the Pox, cover his whole Body in Horse dung, permitting himself only the liberty of breathing, it will perfectly cure him. But if this Medicine can cure the body when 'tis throughly infected, how much more is it to be commended, if applied to the Genital only [by way of Prevention.] Thus Minadous.   

CHAP. X. The Defensives of Panarolus, Fracastorius, Torrella, Cataneus, Fonseca, Petronius, Silvius, etc.  
PAnarolus in is Book of Observations proposes a Way of preventing the Pox for Women with new Sponges; and he says 'tis infallible.  
Fracastorius bids after the Combat, Wash the endangered part with Aq. Ros. and then foment it decocto aluminis & aerug. aeris, and anoint that and the vicine parts with a certain Theriac Unguent▪ As for Internals he bids, give Theriaca or Mithrid.  
Torrella, and out of him Cataneus advise to take an equal proportion of Bole-Armeny and Sang● draconis, and with juice of Plantain and Vinegar to be tempered and spread on a linen cloth and bound about the root of the Genital, to compress the Veins; and intercept the passage of the Venom. Then to draw forth the Poison, he scarifies the lips of the Chancre, or applies Soap with Chalk: or Mithridate; or the deplumed Fundament of a live Pigeon to the Ulcer. And lastly, for a Bezoartique to expel the Infection by sweat, he gives a drachm of Theriaca in Sorrel-water.  
Fonseca (Tom. 1. Cons. 35.) lays down the Defensives of Falloppius, Rudius, Saxonia, etc. all which you may see in the Precedent Chapters.  
Petronius derides Falloppius' Defensives, and advises after Venus to wash the parts with warm Urine, Wine, or the Decoction of Guaiuc; and after washing to apply clean Linen or a fine Sponge, for that extracts the Venom and infection's Moisture.  
Joan. Silvius (de Morbo Gallico Declam.) bids them presently after the Act wash the parts with warm Water, or white Wine, which is much better.   

CHAP. XI. Palmarius' Defensive Method summarily laid down. Varandous his Prophylacticon.  
PAlmarius tells us that as K. Mithridates with his Autidate fortified his body, and made it impassable; so he, desiring the Safety of Mankind, and the Extinction of this Disease, has invented an Amulet, by the due use whereof Man's Body may be secured, and made impregnable. But withal he conjures Physicians not to discover it to luxurious persons. I have omitted this Amulet, because of its length and my intended brevity; and also because 'tis much such another Composition as Theriaca Andromachi or Mithridatium.  
If I may be permitted to give my Opinion of Palmarius' Prophylacticon, I judge it a potent Sudorific to cure the Pox, but not at all proper as a Defensive to prevent the danger of this Disease. For, in our Case, the Blood, Humours, Inward parts, and whole Habit of the Body are all sound and entire; the Privities only are attaqu'd: in those parts there's a superficiary Impress of Venom. And certainly Internal Medicines alone can never reach the Venom when 'tis in a remote part, and extrinsic only; but it must be thrust out by Bezoartique, and drawn forth by Topique or Local Medicines. But Palmarius' Defensive Method is a tedious Prescription of Internal Remedies continued many days together, and in my opinion, ineffectual to this purpose, because no regard is had to the part affected.  
In the last place comes Varandaeus. This learned man in is Book de Lue Ven. prescribes a Decoction, much after the manner of those of Falloppius and Saxonia, and appoints Linen to be macorated in it, and afterwards dried in the shade, and applied to the parts before and after Venus' Exercise. He bids also to make water, and wash the parts with white Wine, and to apply the Medicate Linen or Cotton: impregnated with the same Decoction: as also to thrust into the Urinary Passage the said Cotton in form of a Tent. For if the Scort be infectious, the Cotton in an hour or two will appear sanious and discoloured, the filth which was in those passages being attracted and drawn to it.— He tells us that Empiriques esteem the following Suffiment a most approved thing.  
Take red Roses, Wormwood, Scordium, Dittany, red Sanders, of each a drachm, Styrax Calamita, Cinnabaris, and Praecipitate well prepared, of each a Scruple Reduce them to a gross powder, whereof let a little be cast on the coals, and the smoke, by a sunnel artificially placed on the Coals, be admitted to the genital: let the part afterwards be carefully covered and kept warm. Do so 3 mornings together. Thus Joan. Varandaeus.  
Gentlemen, I have now dispatched the first part of the Expedient, concerning the Defensives: which I have carefully selected out of the learned Works of the greatest Physicians in Christendom. I have communicated them chief for the use of those whom the Greeks call 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, i. e. Persons so furiously transported with brutish Desires that they are resolved to run the greatest hazard imaginable rather than deny themselves any Satisfaction in that kind. But, I hope sober persons ' will still be wary, and not repose too much Confidence in any Defensives whatsoever, but still believe the POX a most perilous Disease, and in some Women most desperately contagious. Rudius (de Morb. venen. lib. 5. c. 10.) tells us that some Scorts are so profoundly poxed, that all who meddle with them are incurably clapped, and soon after dispatched to another World. And (lib. 5. c. 8.) he tells a remarkable Story of a wanton young fellow, who by kissing a Courtesan got such a desperate Pox upon his Tongue, that the best Physicians and Chirurgeous in the City could not cure it, but he soon after miserably expired.  
I do really believe and avouch it that among all the Common Prostitutes in this Town there's scarce one but has the Pox.  
And me thinks the very thoughts of that nasty Disease should be a potent 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to repress any man's desires though never so impetuous.   

CHAP. XII. An Expedient for rooting the Pox out of England, Transportation of incurable Prostitutes propesed, commended, and urged from Divine Laws, and the Institutes of Christian Nations.  
GEntlemen, I have faithfully discovered the Secrets of this Disease: I have instructed you in its Cure: I have furnished you with Defensives. You are now your own Doctors; you have Excellent Medicines both to prevent and cure the Pox. It only remains now that we consider of some Expedient to root out this Disease, that Englishmen hereafter may never hear more of it. The only way to effect this, will be to remove from this City those pernicious Animals, Common Pocky, and Incurable Prostitutes. But you'll reply, they're so numerous, what shall we do with them all? I will propose an Expedient, which may be Commodious to this City: Advantageous to his Majesty's Interest in his Plantations: and a Design of Charity to the Wretches themselves: which is, to transport them to Jamaica and Barbados. The Transportation of these Common and Incurable Courtesans, 1. Will be Commodious to this City; For, will it not be a marvellous Contentment to all, to see this huge City cleared of these pestilent Creatures, and to have your beds secured from the Pox? I am sure as the case stands now, many substantial Citizens are daily ruined by these women, and that not always by their own extravagancies, but too often by the debauchery of their Prentices, who usually caress these Courtesans out of their Master's Coffers. 2. It will be Advantageous to his Majesty's Plantations, which want people, and may be mightily supplied and enlarged by the Access of so numerous a Party, which here are wholly unprofitable. And 3. It will be a Work of Signal Charity to the Prostitutes themselves, to remit them and the Pox to the Indies from whence it came. For 1. It will be a work of Charity to them in respect of their Bodies: for this is the only way for them to attain a Speedy and Perfect Cure. Here in this cold Climate all the Art of Man is not able ever to cure them, the Pox is so profoundly rooted in their bones. But in those hot Countries the Pox, which here could not possibly be overcome, has often in a fortnight been throughly cured, as has been experimentally attested by several. 2. It will be a Design of Charity to their Souls, to remove them from their cursed Company, and transport them to places of better Employment and Society. And 3. the very thoughts of Transportation will hereafter be such a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and Terror to luxurious women, that 'twill fright them into better manners; and probably may have greater influence upon that numerous party than any other Menaces or Restrictive Laws whatsoever.  
Moreover I urge this Transportation of Incurable Courtesans; 1. From the Laws of God, which command that Lepers and infected persons should be separated from the rest of Mankind. 2. From the Institutes and Customs of all Civil Nations, who have ever used to seclude from Public Converse those who have the Pest, Leprosy, or other contagious Diseases. Why then should Pocky Strumpets be permitted the freedom of Public Converse, or liberty to infect Mankind? I am sure Rudius and Sennertus lament the partial and uneven hand of Public Justice, which so severely punishes Felons, and yet permits these Common Scorts (so profoundly poxed, and beyond a possibility of Cure) to ruin thousands, and infect whole Families, Cities and Kingdoms.  
I conjure and beseech all Good Divines, that, as I have taken Care of the Body, they would take Charge of the Soul, and by their Good Doctrine and Exemplary Lives institute these Extravagants in the Ways of Continence and Temperance.  
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