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             An elenchus of opinions concerning the cure of the small pox together with problematicall questions concerning the cure of the French pest / by T. Whitaker ...
             Whitaker, Tobias, d. 1666.
             Whitaker, Tobias, d. 1666. Questions problematical concerning the French pest.
          
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           AN
           Elenchus
           OF
           OPINIONS
           Concerning
           the
           Cure
           OF
           THE
           SMALL
           POX
           .
           
             Together
             with
          
           Problematicall
           Questions
           Concerning
           the
           Cure
           OF
           THE
           FRENCH
           PEST
           .
           By
           T.
           WHITAKER
           Physician
           in
           Ordinary
           to
           His
           Majesty
           and
           House-hold
           .
        
         
           LONDON
           ,
           Printed
           by
           
             I.
             G.
          
           for
           
             Nath.
             Brook
          
           at
           the
           Angel
           in
           
             Cornhill
             ,
             1661.
          
           
        
      
       
         
         
         
           THE
           EPISTLE
           TO
           THE
           READER
           .
        
         
           
             Candid
             Reader
             ,
          
        
         
           I
           Have
           been
           studious
           to
           salute
           my
           Nation
           with
           some
           acceptable
           present
           .
           It
           is
           not
           as
           yet
           a
           complete
           year
           since
           my
           
           Landing
           with
           
             His
             Majesty
          
           in
           England
           ,
           and
           in
           this
           short
           time
           have
           observed
           as
           strange
           a
           difference
           in
           this
           subject
           of
           my
           present
           discourse
           ,
           as
           in
           the
           variety
           of
           opinions
           and
           dispositions
           of
           this
           Nation
           ,
           with
           whom
           I
           have
           discoursed
           .
           This
           disease
           of
           the
           
             Small
             Pox
          
           ,
           was
           Antiently
           and
           generally
           in
           the
           common
           place
           of
           Petit
           and
           Puerile
           diseases
           ,
           and
           the
           Cure
           of
           no
           moment
           .
           The
           contagion
           that
           infected
           Rebellious
           Spirits
           ,
           is
           known
           to
           come
           ,
           and
           be
           received
           from
           the
           malicious
           breath
           of
           some
           venene
           Natures
           ;
           and
           hath
           been
           permanent
           for
           many
           yeares
           ,
           and
           conveyed
           to
           severall
           parts
           of
           this
           Region
           (
           not
           extinct
           at
           this
           
           day
           .
           )
           But
           from
           what
           present
           constitution
           of
           the
           ayre
           this
           childish
           disease
           hath
           received
           such
           P●st●lential
           Tinctures
           I
           know
           not
           ,
           yet
           I
           am
           sure
           ,
           that
           this
           disease
           ,
           which
           hath
           for
           hundreds
           of
           yeares
           ,
           and
           b●fore
           the
           practise
           of
           medicine
           was
           so
           Exquisite
           ,
           hath
           been
           as
           commonly
           Cured
           as
           it
           hapned
           ;
           therefore
           in
           this
           age
           not
           incurable
           ,
           as
           upon
           my
           own
           practise
           I
           can
           testifie
           :
           therefore
           I
           have
           publickly
           indeavoured
           to
           cast
           my
           weak
           dart
           at
           death
           ,
           and
           to
           abate
           the
           severity
           of
           this
           disease
           in
           those
           that
           are
           afflicted
           with
           it
           .
           If
           I
           have
           not
           given
           full
           satisfaction
           to
           my
           Country
           either
           in
           the
           matter
           or
           manner
           of
           my
           presentation
           ,
           
           yet
           I
           have
           presented
           my
           velle
           and
           best
           respect
           unto
           them
           ,
           with
           as
           much
           indeavour
           to
           fulfill
           their
           own
           desire
           .
           And
           in
           effecting
           thus
           much
           ,
           I
           have
           snatcht
           many
           houres
           from
           my
           sleep
           and
           other
           employments
           ,
           well
           knowing
           I
           was
           not
           born
           onely
           to
           serve
           my self
           ,
           nor
           can
           I
           be
           confident
           of
           much
           longer
           time
           to
           serve
           others
           .
           I
           am
           no
           sooner
           past
           the
           diseases
           of
           Youth
           ,
           but
           in
           daily
           Expectation
           of
           the
           infirmities
           of
           Old
           Age.
           And
           thus
           Mankind
           is
           in
           
             perpetuo
             fluere
          
           ,
           from
           the
           Cradle
           to
           the
           Saddle
           ,
           and
           from
           thence
           to
           the
           grave
           ;
           therefore
           I
           do
           put
           my self
           upon
           action
           for
           the
           generall
           good
           of
           my
           Country
           
           so
           long
           as
           I
           have
           time
           amongst
           the
           Living
           ,
           till
           I
           shall
           passe
           away
           and
           be
           seen
           no
           more
           .
           It
           is
           well
           known
           I
           have
           been
           buryed
           in
           Exile
           from
           my
           own
           Country
           the
           major
           part
           of
           three
           Lives
           ,
           and
           by
           the
           same
           providence
           am
           raised
           and
           restored
           again
           ;
           and
           by
           the
           same
           providence
           expect
           another
           Resurrection
           ,
           being
           assured
           tbat
           really
           I
           must
           enter
           into
           the
           Terrestrial
           womb
           of
           my
           Mother
           before
           this
           Corruption
           shall
           put
           on
           Incorruption
           .
           This
           short
           tract
           is
           my
           Will
           ,
           In
           which
           I
           bequeath
           the
           All
           I
           have
           done
           at
           present
           ,
           to
           those
           that
           please
           to
           accept
           it
           ,
           and
           wish
           there
           were
           more
           in
           my
           present
           possession
           
           to
           bequeath
           .
           And
           this
           Donation
           at
           this
           time
           ,
           is
           wished
           may
           be
           with
           as
           much
           respect
           received
           ,
           as
           it
           is
           presented
           from
        
         
           
             A
             faithful
             Friend
             and
             Country-man
             T.
             WHITAKER
             .
          
        
      
    
     
       
         
           
             
             
               AN
               Elenchus
               of
               Opinions
               In
               Curing
               of
               the
               SMALL
               POX
               .
            
             
               THere
               are
               various
               Affects
               which
               besiedge
               the
               body
               of
               man
               ,
               and
               are
               continually
               storming
               and
               laying
               battery
               to
               it
               ;
               such
               as
               are
               Luxury
               and
               intemperance
               in
               dyet
               and
               exercise
               ;
               also
               the
               distemper
               of
               the
               ayre
               and
               popular
               infection
               ,
               with
               many
               other
               causes
               ,
               some
               from
               
               Celestial
               influence
               without
               us
               ,
               others
               from
               various
               firmentations
               within
               us
               ;
               all
               subjecting
               humane
               bodies
               to
               depend
               upon
               remedies
               ,
               and
               in
               these
               remedies
               either
               simple
               or
               compound
               ,
               are
               contained
               the
               mystery
               of
               healing
               ,
               with
               the
               industry
               of
               the
               Physician
               ,
               expertly
               and
               regularly
               to
               dispence
               ,
               and
               with
               judgment
               and
               experience
               specifically
               to
               apply
               them
               :
               and
               this
               is
               the
               onely
               useful
               faculty
               of
               the
               Physician
               ,
               producing
               all
               contemplation
               into
               act
               ,
               not
               debasing
               or
               undervaluing
               the
               Theorical
               part
               of
               Physick
               ;
               which
               argueth
               
                 à
                 priore
              
               ,
               from
               the
               cause
               to
               the
               effect
               ,
               and
               as
               the
               Sun
               doth
               clearly
               discover
               the
               atoms
               ,
               and
               occult
               mysteries
               of
               science
               ,
               and
               present
               them
               to
               publick
               view
               .
               For
               though
               an
               argumen●
               
                 à
                 posteriore
              
               ,
               from
               the
               effect
               to
               the
               cause
               ,
               and
               from
               experience
               ,
               be
               
               most
               sensible
               ;
               yet
               when
               it
               receiveth
               a
               lustre
               and
               illumination
               from
               reason
               ,
               't
               is
               more
               satisfying
               because
               more
               discoursive
               ;
               (
               as
               for
               example
               )
               The
               Smith
               shall
               forge
               out
               a
               piece
               of
               Iron
               into
               several
               figures
               ,
               and
               if
               he
               be
               demanded
               the
               reason
               why
               he
               doth
               first
               put
               it
               into
               an
               intense
               fire
               ,
               he
               will
               answer
               you
               ,
               because
               his
               Master
               ever
               did
               so
               ;
               but
               when
               he
               shall
               be
               informed
               that
               the
               subtile
               quality
               in
               fire
               doth
               open
               ,
               segregate
               and
               soften
               the
               hardest
               body
               ,
               which
               maketh
               it
               malleable
               ,
               and
               so
               fitteth
               it
               for
               to
               receive
               the
               impression
               of
               the
               hammer
               :
               this
               reason
               will
               adde
               a
               greater
               satisfaction
               to
               his
               sense
               ,
               as
               the
               complement
               and
               perfection
               of
               every
               Artist
               .
               And
               by
               this
               conjunction
               of
               Theory
               with
               Experience
               ,
               I
               shall
               extract
               my
               subsequent
               Discourse
               concerning
               the
               most
               proper
               remes
               
               dies
               in
               the
               Small
               Pox.
               
            
             
               There
               will
               never
               be
               wanting
               as
               many
               varieties
               of
               Opinions
               ,
               as
               distinctions
               in
               complexions
               ;
               but
               in
               no
               age
               so
               many
               separatists
               in
               Arts
               and
               Sciences
               ,
               as
               in
               this
               present
               age
               ;
               nor
               any
               Region
               so
               insane
               and
               ill-principled
               at
               present
               ,
               as
               this
               Region
               of
               England
               hath
               lately
               been
               ;
               our
               Universities
               for
               more
               than
               two
               Ages
               rather
               an
               Amsterdam
               of
               Opinators
               ,
               then
               the
               learned
               schools
               of
               well-grounded
               Philosophers
               ;
               
                 O
                 tempora
                 !
                 O
                 mores
              
               !
               My self
               hath
               been
               so
               many
               years
               dead
               in
               exile
               ,
               that
               in
               this
               my
               resurrection
               I
               neither
               find
               the
               same
               places
               nor
               faces
               as
               I
               left
               them
               ;
               as
               if
               the
               restless
               spirit
               of
               that
               mad
               Vanhelmont
               had
               set
               up
               his
               rest
               in
               the
               spawn
               of
               this
               late
               production
               :
               The
               subject
               of
               this
               Discourse
               is
               now
               disputed
               ,
               whether
               it
               be
               a
               Disease
               ,
               or
               any
               
               disposition
               praeternatural
               ?
               but
               I
               presume
               this
               is
               but
               a
               gymnastick
               exercise
               ,
               
                 argumentandi
                 gratia
              
               ,
               tossing
               each
               to
               other
               a
               few
               canting
               terms
               :
               for
               any
               well-instructed
               Physician
               will
               soon
               espye
               it
               to
               be
               a
               vitiation
               of
               the
               figure
               ,
               and
               a
               disease
               Organical
               in
               general
               ,
               such
               as
               is
               the
               disproportion
               of
               parts
               ;
               and
               that
               it
               is
               a
               disfiguration
               is
               manifest
               to
               common
               sense
               ;
               therefore
               as
               a
               disease
               it
               is
               the
               subject
               of
               my
               following
               Discourse
               .
            
             
               This
               Disease
               ,
               which
               the
               English
               nominate
               the
               
                 Small
                 Pox
              
               ,
               is
               much
               questioned
               amongst
               Authors
               ,
               whether
               it
               were
               known
               to
               the
               Ancients
               or
               not
               ;
               amongst
               whom
               I
               find
               
                 Ioannes
                 Manardus
              
               ,
               famous
               for
               his
               excellent
               knowledge
               ,
               to
               understand
               the
               Small
               Pox
               to
               be
               the
               same
               disease
               which
               Galen
               nameth
               Exanthemata
               ,
               in
               
                 lib.
                 5.
                 
                 De
                 
                 morbis
                 curandis
                 ,
                 cap.
                 2.
              
               where
               he
               discourseth
               of
               pestilential
               Pustules
               in
               the
               internal
               coat
               of
               the
               
                 aspera
                 arteria
              
               ,
               and
               such
               as
               are
               in
               the
               external
               parts
               of
               the
               body
               ,
               by
               no
               other
               appellation
               than
               
                 in
                 nomine
                 Exanthematum
              
               :
               and
               the
               same
               Author
               in
               his
               Commentarie
               upon
               Hippocrates
               his
               Vulgar
               Diseases
               ,
               there
               doth
               affirm
               ,
               that
               amongst
               other
               diseases
               in
               pestilential
               constitutions
               ,
               there
               doth
               appear
               Ecthimata
               ,
               which
               are
               great
               flourishing
               pustules
               in
               the
               skin
               ,
               arising
               out
               of
               the
               ebullition
               of
               gross
               humors
               ,
               by
               which
               he
               doth
               apparently
               demonstrate
               by
               what
               name
               the
               Small
               Pox
               ,
               or
               Variola
               ,
               passed
               amongst
               the
               Ancients
               .
               And
               
                 Sebastianus
                 de
                 morbis
                 puerorum
              
               ,
               with
               many
               other
               Writers
               ,
               are
               of
               the
               same
               opinion
               ;
               from
               whom
               
                 Marcus
                 Antonius
              
               ,
               the
               Florentine
               Physician
               ,
               doth
               differ
               ,
               
               
                 quaest
                 .
                 22.
              
               grounded
               upon
               the
               Authority
               of
               
                 Galen
                 4
                 de
                 sanitat
                 .
                 tuend
                 .
              
               saying
               ,
               Where
               there
               is
               a
               complication
               of
               lassitude
               with
               those
               pustules
               ,
               which
               the
               Grecian
               nominateth
               Exanthemata
               ,
               from
               those
               we
               may
               soon
               di●cover
               the
               particular
               excrement
               ,
               which
               cannot
               signifie
               the
               Small
               Pox
               ,
               because
               other
               pustules
               do
               render
               the
               special
               excrement
               ,
               with
               the
               same
               distinction
               of
               pure
               choller
               ,
               burnt
               choller
               or
               phlegme
               ,
               with
               their
               quality
               of
               saltness
               and
               sharpness
               :
               therefore
               my
               endeavour
               must
               be
               to
               discourse
               of
               that
               kind
               of
               Pox
               ,
               which
               assaulteth
               humane
               bodies
               but
               once
               in
               the
               whole
               course
               of
               life
               ,
               (
               except
               rarely
               .
               )
               Valeriola
               ,
               whose
               memory
               is
               honourable
               ,
               doth
               endeavour
               to
               prove
               the
               Small
               Pox
               or
               Measles
               which
               appear
               critically
               in
               inpestilential
               Fevers
               ,
               not
               to
               be
               by
               Galen
               nominated
               
               Exanthemata
               ,
               with
               whose
               opinion
               I
               do
               consent
               ,
               because
               the
               appellation
               is
               of
               general
               extent
               to
               all
               kind
               of
               pustules
               ,
               and
               of
               choller
               's
               ,
               as
               is
               verified
               in
               his
               book
               
                 De
                 atra
                 bile
              
               ,
               (
               where
               he
               affirmeth
               )
               in
               deceased
               persons
               ;
               where
               excretion
               by
               the
               lower
               belly
               is
               not
               sufficient
               ,
               in
               such
               persons
               the
               whole
               body
               is
               affected
               with
               pustules
               ,
               
                 quae
                 nigris
                 exanthematis
                 similes
                 essent
                 ,
                 circum
                 undique
                 scatuit
              
               ;
               and
               in
               other
               places
               (
               he
               speaketh
               )
               of
               white
               pustules
               ,
               (
               which
               Pliny
               nameth
               papulas
               )
               and
               of
               these
               
                 Cornelius
                 Celsus
              
               maketh
               more
               kinds
               of
               rough
               and
               sharp
               eruptions
               upon
               the
               skin
               ,
               
                 magis
                 &
                 minus
              
               being
               the
               onely
               distinction
               of
               them
               :
               and
               many
               Moderns
               conceive
               these
               Pox
               to
               proceed
               from
               maternal
               menstruosity
               ,
               others
               conceive
               them
               to
               be
               intercutaneal
               ,
               ill
               juices
               or
               ●eccant
               humours
               ,
               
               fermented
               by
               an
               intense
               heat
               in
               the
               superficies
               of
               the
               skin
               which
               corrupt
               humours
               (
               according
               to
               Fracastorius
               )
               are
               generated
               by
               corrupt
               dyet
               ,
               and
               therefore
               in
               his
               book
               
                 De
                 morbis
              
               ,
               he
               placeth
               this
               disease
               of
               the
               Small
               Pox
               amongst
               diseases
               Epidemical
               ;
               and
               as
               it
               is
               an
               affect
               cutaneal
               and
               epidemical
               ,
               so
               it
               doth
               infect
               all
               children
               and
               young
               persons
               ,
               because
               their
               temper
               is
               properly
               more
               moist
               and
               hot
               than
               old
               age
               ,
               it
               being
               cold
               and
               dry
               in
               it self
               ,
               but
               excrementitiously
               moist
               ,
               onely
               by
               the
               decay
               of
               natural
               heat
               ,
               and
               altogether
               indisposed
               to
               receive
               the
               impression
               of
               it
               ;
               old
               age
               being
               properly
               ,
               
                 &
                 per
                 se
              
               ,
               cold
               and
               dry
               in
               temper
               ,
               if
               otherwise
               ,
               it
               is
               
                 mirandum
                 in
                 morbo
              
               ,
               and
               for
               such
               wonders
               in
               diseases
               I
               shall
               refer
               the
               Reader
               to
               Skenkius
               and
               
                 Pe●rus
                 Forestus
                 ,
                 &c.
              
               
               There
               are
               
               not
               wanting
               ●ome
               Physicians
               ,
               that
               are
               〈◊〉
               of
               that
               opinion
               of
               the
               Small
               Pox
               ,
               that
               it
               is
               hereditary
               to
               those
               that
               are
               affected
               with
               it
               ,
               and
               not
               to
               be
               avoided
               by
               their
               natural
               issue
               ,
               let
               them
               be
               of
               any
               age
               or
               temper
               ,
               and
               therefore
               no
               more
               to
               be
               admired
               than
               the
               Gout
               ,
               Stone
               ,
               Consumption
               ,
               with
               Paralytick
               and
               Hydropical
               diseases
               ,
               especially
               and
               more
               generally
               the
               Small
               Pox
               :
               against
               whose
               Opinions
               Fernelius
               is
               evidently
               opposite
               ,
               (
               especially
               )
               to
               all
               Physitians
               that
               affirm
               the
               Small
               Pox
               to
               proceed
               from
               maternal
               menstruosity
               ,
               but
               especially
               caused
               by
               the
               malignity
               of
               the
               air
               ,
               conjunct
               with
               vitious
               humours
               ,
               whose
               opinion
               is
               most
               reasonable
               ,
               because
               the
               Vehicle
               of
               universal
               infection
               is
               the
               ambient
               air
               ,
               which
               apprehendeth
               suddenly
               all
               matters
               subject
               and
               disposed
               
               to
               receive
               contagion
               .
               Moreover
               ,
               when
               the
               Small
               Pox
               are
               universally
               spreading
               ,
               they
               frequently
               usher
               in
               the
               grand
               Pest
               ,
               upon
               a
               stronger
               infection
               of
               the
               air
               :
               and
               that
               it
               is
               a
               malignity
               especially
               of
               the
               air
               ,
               hath
               been
               frequently
               proved
               by
               the
               creatures
               of
               the
               air
               ,
               which
               have
               fallen
               dead
               to
               the
               earth
               ,
               and
               killed
               by
               the
               poyson
               of
               the
               air
               .
               Again
               ,
               if
               this
               disease
               were
               conveyed
               in
               the
               principles
               of
               Nature
               ,
               from
               maternal
               bloud
               ,
               which
               is
               administred
               to
               the
               production
               of
               all
               animals
               ,
               then
               there
               were
               an
               universal
               reception
               of
               this
               disease
               ,
               not
               onely
               in
               humane
               nature
               ,
               but
               also
               in
               all
               animals
               whose
               production
               is
               
                 ex
                 semine
                 &
                 sanguine
              
               .
               But
               this
               disease
               is
               apprehended
               by
               no
               subject
               matter
               indisposed
               to
               receive
               the
               impression
               of
               such
               venemosity
               ,
               as
               is
               of
               this
               nature
               ;
               nor
               is
               all
               mankind
               capable
               
               of
               such
               reception
               ,
               although
               Riverius
               will
               not
               have
               one
               of
               one
               thousand
               of
               humane
               principles
               to
               escape
               it
               ,
               yet
               in
               my
               conjecture
               there
               is
               not
               one
               of
               one
               thousand
               in
               the
               Universe
               ,
               that
               hath
               any
               knowledge
               or
               sense
               of
               it
               ,
               from
               their
               first
               ingress
               into
               the
               world
               ,
               to
               their
               last
               egress
               out
               of
               this
               world
               ;
               which
               could
               not
               be
               if
               it
               were
               so
               inherent
               a
               concomitant
               with
               maternal
               bloud
               and
               seed
               ;
               but
               the
               Small
               Pox
               is
               dedicated
               to
               Infants
               more
               particularly
               ,
               which
               are
               most
               moist
               ,
               and
               some
               more
               than
               others
               ,
               abounding
               with
               vitious
               humours
               ,
               drawn
               from
               maternal
               extravagancy
               and
               corrupt
               dyet
               in
               the
               time
               of
               their
               gestation
               ;
               and
               by
               this
               aptitude
               are
               well
               disposed
               to
               receive
               infection
               of
               the
               ayre
               upon
               the
               least
               infection
               ,
               according
               to
               
                 Epiphanius
                 Ferdinandus
                 ,
                 His
                 cum
                 
                 quicquid
                 recipi●ur
                 ,
                 recipitur
                 in
                 subjectum
                 benè
                 disposit
                 um
                 .
              
               Moreover
               ,
               the
               want
               of
               motion
               is
               a
               stagmatizing
               cause
               in
               Infants
               ,
               by
               which
               their
               best
               humours
               may
               be
               altered
               into
               put
               refaction
               ,
               and
               prepare
               that
               particular
               matter
               to
               a
               form
               fit
               for
               such
               matter
               ;
               for
               Infants
               have
               no
               other
               exercise
               to
               digest
               their
               nutriment
               ,
               but
               crying
               (
               according
               to
               Aristotle
               ;
               )
               and
               common
               observation
               will
               manifest
               ,
               that
               the
               most
               quiet
               Infants
               are
               of
               least
               duration
               ,
               and
               most
               morbifical
               :
               the
               causes
               of
               the
               Small
               Pox
               (
               therefore
               )
               are
               upon
               the
               corrupt
               disposition
               of
               the
               humorable
               masse
               internal
               ,
               and
               these
               two
               causes
               do
               produce
               that
               one
               effect
               which
               Galen
               nominateth
               Obstruction
               of
               all
               distribution
               internal
               ,
               and
               Transpiration
               external
               ,
               the
               permanency
               and
               continuation
               whereof
               doth
               effect
               
               an
               ill
               habit
               ,
               and
               consequently
               all
               diseases
               ,
               both
               similary
               ,
               dissimilary
               and
               common
               ,
               and
               thus
               I
               proceed
               to
               the
               signs
               of
               this
               particular
               disease
               .
            
             
               Although
               the
               signs
               by
               which
               this
               disease
               is
               signified
               and
               distinguished
               from
               other
               affects
               ,
               are
               many
               ,
               which
               are
               rendred
               from
               the
               
                 Greeks
                 ,
                 Arabians
              
               and
               Latines
               ,
               yet
               from
               none
               of
               them
               more
               exactly
               than
               
                 à
                 Ioanne
                 Pascalio
                 medico
                 Valentino
              
               ,
               in
               their
               order
               ,
               the
               first
               sign
               of
               them
               being
               a
               Pain
               of
               the
               back
               :
               the
               second
               ,
               Itching
               of
               the
               nose
               :
               the
               third
               ,
               Fearful
               and
               troubled
               sleeps
               :
               the
               fourth
               ,
               a
               compunction
               of
               the
               sensible
               and
               nervy
               parts
               of
               the
               body
               :
               the
               fifth
               ,
               a
               Heaviness
               or
               ponderosity
               of
               the
               whole
               body
               :
               the
               sixth
               ,
               a
               flourishing
               colour
               in
               the
               face
               :
               the
               seventh
               is
               ,
               the
               Lacrymation
               of
               the
               eyes
               :
               the
               eighth
               ,
               a
               Burning
               
               heat
               and
               fervency
               of
               the
               whole
               body
               :
               the
               nineth
               ,
               a
               Gaping
               ,
               yauning
               and
               stretching
               of
               the
               whole
               body
               :
               the
               tenth
               is
               ,
               a
               Palpitation
               intercutaneal
               :
               the
               eleventh
               is
               ,
               a
               Compression
               and
               shortnesse
               of
               breath
               :
               the
               twelveth
               ,
               a
               Raucedo
               or
               hoarsness
               :
               the
               thirteenth
               is
               ,
               a
               thick
               spitting
               from
               much
               heat
               :
               the
               fourteenth
               is
               ,
               the
               heaviness
               of
               the
               head
               :
               the
               fifteenth
               is
               ,
               the
               trembling
               of
               the
               heart
               :
               the
               sixteenth
               is
               ,
               a
               great
               siccity
               or
               drouth
               and
               driness
               of
               the
               mouth
               and
               tongue
               :
               the
               seventeenth
               is
               ,
               the
               perturbation
               of
               the
               mind
               ,
               with
               Convulsive
               motion
               :
               the
               eighteenth
               is
               ,
               the
               soreness
               of
               the
               throat
               :
               the
               nineteenth
               ,
               the
               trembling
               of
               the
               hands
               and
               feet
               :
               the
               twentieth
               is
               ,
               a
               perturbed
               and
               pale
               Urine
               .
               These
               are
               the
               Pathognomical
               and
               proper
               signs
               of
               this
               disease
               in
               fieri
               
               and
               in
               facto
               ;
               the
               prognostick
               of
               hope
               or
               fear
               in
               the
               course
               and
               motion
               of
               this
               disease
               ,
               dependeth
               upon
               the
               mutation
               and
               alteration
               of
               these
               signs
               and
               symptomes
               ,
               in
               the
               time
               and
               manner
               of
               their
               eruption
               conjunct
               with
               the
               colour
               of
               them
               as
               followeth
               .
            
             
               The
               signs
               of
               discouragement
               after
               their
               eruption
               ,
               taken
               from
               their
               colour
               ,
               is
               when
               they
               appear
               black
               or
               green
               ,
               the
               black
               being
               worst
               and
               most
               mortal
               .
               Again
               ,
               they
               are
               more
               dangerous
               when
               their
               eruption
               is
               exceeding
               in
               quantity
               ,
               than
               when
               they
               are
               but
               few
               in
               number
               ;
               because
               the
               impurity
               is
               sooner
               corrected
               and
               exhausted
               ,
               and
               the
               spirits
               lesse
               exercised
               in
               the
               expulsion
               of
               them
               ;
               those
               also
               are
               of
               more
               difficulty
               that
               are
               great
               and
               large
               ,
               than
               the
               small
               ;
               according
               to
               Aetius
               ,
               and
               a
               contradiction
               
               diametrical
               to
               Avicen
               ,
               (
               who
               saith
               )
               the
               largest
               Pox
               are
               most
               void
               of
               danger
               ;
               his
               words
               are
               these
               translated
               ,
               
                 scil
                 .
                 The
                 white
                 are
                 best
                 and
                 safest
                 when
                 they
                 are
                 few
                 in
                 number
                 and
                 large
                 in
                 quantity
                 .
              
               Yet
               upon
               consideration
               the
               difference
               may
               be
               reconciled
               between
               them
               without
               much
               litigation
               ,
               if
               Avicen
               be
               understood
               in
               this
               sense
               ,
               That
               the
               greatest
               in
               quantity
               are
               best
               in
               judgment
               ,
               because
               they
               educe
               with
               them
               from
               the
               centre
               to
               the
               circumference
               ,
               a
               greater
               proportion
               of
               peccant
               humour
               ,
               which
               is
               a
               great
               disoneration
               or
               disburthening
               of
               Nature
               :
               and
               Aelius
               to
               judge
               the
               largest
               in
               quantity
               ,
               to
               indicate
               a
               greater
               fulnesse
               of
               the
               peccant
               cause
               ,
               and
               more
               dangerous
               than
               the
               least
               in
               quantity
               ,
               because
               the
               largest
               are
               significants
               of
               redundancy
               in
               the
               cause
               :
               and
               herein
               
               they
               both
               agree
               ,
               that
               the
               plenitude
               of
               matter
               is
               the
               cause
               of
               danger
               ,
               because
               not
               without
               more
               expence
               of
               spirit
               to
               be
               cast
               out
               ;
               but
               if
               the
               same
               internal
               redundancy
               of
               the
               cause
               be
               equal
               ,
               then
               the
               larger
               eruption
               is
               the
               greatest
               levamen
               to
               Nature
               .
               Besides
               this
               redundancy
               there
               are
               many
               other
               concurrences
               of
               circumstance
               ,
               which
               are
               symptoms
               of
               as
               great
               danger
               in
               this
               disease
               ,
               such
               as
               are
               the
               strictnesse
               and
               loosenesse
               of
               the
               belly
               ,
               for
               any
               spontaneous
               flux
               of
               the
               belly
               must
               be
               of
               an
               ill
               signification
               ,
               though
               the
               cause
               be
               plenitude
               ,
               and
               the
               evacuation
               be
               
                 à
                 potentia
                 naturae
              
               ,
               because
               it
               is
               a
               retraction
               of
               the
               matter
               in
               motion
               from
               the
               circumference
               to
               the
               centre
               ,
               which
               manifesteth
               (
               almost
               )
               an
               irrecoverable
               disorder
               in
               natural
               motion
               ,
               and
               very
               few
               upon
               
               such
               accidents
               do
               escape
               death
               :
               and
               Physicians
               cannot
               behold
               this
               accident
               of
               spontaneal
               purging
               or
               vomiting
               in
               this
               disease
               ,
               without
               narrow
               hope
               ;
               some
               rare
               escapes
               there
               hath
               been
               reported
               ,
               of
               which
               I
               can
               be
               no
               witnesse
               of
               any
               such
               recovery
               .
               Thus
               having
               fulfilled
               my
               own
               intention
               in
               applying
               my self
               to
               the
               meanest
               capacity
               ,
               for
               observation
               and
               use
               of
               my
               own
               Country
               ,
               which
               hath
               given
               me
               leave
               once
               more
               to
               breath
               in
               it
               ,
               where
               I
               find
               this
               disease
               ,
               heretofore
               of
               no
               moment
               ,
               to
               be
               now
               of
               as
               great
               consideration
               ;
               therefore
               as
               hitherto
               I
               have
               plainly
               presented
               to
               common
               view
               the
               causes
               both
               internall
               and
               externall
               ,
               with
               the
               signs
               of
               it
               
                 in
                 fieri
                 &
                 in
                 facto
              
               ,
               I
               shall
               proceed
               according
               to
               my
               ingagement
               ,
               to
               the
               reason
               of
               cure
               ,
               and
               what
               remedies
               are
               most
               proper
               ,
               and
               
               when
               to
               be
               used
               or
               applyed
               .
            
             
               In
               the
               curing
               of
               this
               disease
               the
               principal
               scope
               of
               the
               Physician
               is
               to
               assist
               Nature
               in
               its
               regular
               motion
               ,
               in
               the
               beginning
               with
               temperate
               correctives
               of
               the
               cause
               by
               dyet
               and
               ayre
               ,
               the
               dyet
               according
               to
               
                 Paulus
                 Aegineta
              
               ,
               must
               be
               moderate
               in
               quantity
               ,
               neither
               too
               much
               ,
               nor
               too
               sparingly
               adhibited
               ,
               nor
               too
               hot
               nor
               too
               cold
               in
               quality
               ;
               if
               the
               dyet
               be
               too
               thin
               ,
               the
               spirits
               will
               be
               enfeebled
               ,
               and
               of
               no
               force
               or
               power
               to
               move
               the
               peccant
               cause
               to
               the
               circumference
               ,
               which
               is
               the
               universal
               Emunctory
               of
               the
               body
               ;
               and
               if
               the
               ayre
               of
               the
               place
               be
               over-hot
               ,
               the
               feverish
               distemper
               is
               augmented
               ,
               and
               the
               spirits
               in
               danger
               of
               suffocation
               :
               therefore
               upon
               this
               hinge
               of
               moderation
               turneth
               the
               safety
               of
               every
               person
               affected
               with
               this
               disease
               ,
               
               and
               this
               course
               being
               ordered
               with
               judgment
               and
               care
               ,
               is
               
                 instar
                 ommum
                 medicamentorum
              
               ,
               for
               there
               will
               be
               little
               use
               of
               any
               other
               application
               ,
               except
               externally
               to
               preserve
               the
               beauty
               and
               comlinesse
               of
               the
               face
               :
               Yet
               according
               to
               my
               Theme
               I
               shall
               publish
               the
               variety
               of
               opinions
               in
               the
               curing
               of
               this
               disease
               ,
               and
               after
               a
               little
               more
               enlargement
               of
               my
               own
               sense
               ,
               I
               shall
               leave
               my self
               and
               all
               my
               Collations
               to
               the
               consideration
               of
               our
               English
               world
               ,
               as
               well
               knowing
               other
               Regions
               to
               differ
               as
               much
               from
               us
               in
               Practice
               as
               Language
               ,
               and
               set
               a
               value
               upon
               their
               own
               c●stom
               as
               will
               admit
               of
               no
               precept
               to
               the
               contrary
               ,
               it
               appearing
               in
               a
               latitude
               to
               be
               an
               undervaluing
               of
               their
               own
               ;
               nor
               can
               any
               man
               perswade
               the
               major
               part
               of
               strangers
               ,
               but
               that
               they
               can
               ride
               any
               horse
               in
               the
               world
               ,
               
               with
               as
               much
               ●ase
               and
               confidence
               ,
               as
               they
               do
               their
               owne
               Hobby-horses
               and
               Asses
               ,
               for
               in
               truth
               those
               that
               they
               do
               so
               ride
               ,
               are
               esteemed
               by
               the
               best
               Caballarist
               to
               be
               no
               other
               .
               But
               to
               inlarge
               my self
               ,
               or
               explain
               my
               sense
               in
               the
               regimen
               of
               this
               disease
               ,
               the
               whole
               work
               consisting
               in
               moderation
               of
               ayre
               and
               dyet
               ,
               without
               any
               other
               mixtures
               of
               violence
               or
               bland
               impediments
               ,
               which
               may
               altogether
               pervert
               ▪
               or
               in
               or
               by
               a
               lesse
               force
               retard
               Nature
               in
               it●
               motion
               ,
               the
               motion
               of
               Nature
               in
               this
               case
               being
               from
               the
               beginning
               of
               this
               disease
               to
               the
               eruption
               of
               the
               Pustules
               Critical
               ,
               and
               in
               Critical
               motions
               the
               least
               application
               of
               any
               medicament
               is
               so
               dangerous
               ,
               that
               no
               expert
               Physician
               will
               admit
               ▪
               For
               Nature
               hath
               at
               this
               time
               set
               her self
               in
               a
               Batalia
               posture
               ,
               to
               
               encounter
               the
               enemy
               
                 vi
                 &
                 armis
              
               ;
               and
               if
               upon
               the
               charge
               it
               shall
               make
               discovery
               of
               assistance
               ,
               it
               will
               retard
               the
               present
               encounter
               ,
               which
               addeth
               courage
               to
               the
               enemy
               ,
               and
               giveth
               him
               a
               greater
               choice
               of
               ground
               ,
               but
               if
               any
               of
               these
               auxiliaries
               should
               put
               Natnre
               into
               a
               disorder
               by
               conjunction
               with
               it
               ,
               the
               enemy
               will
               not
               neglect
               the
               opportunity
               of
               conquest
               :
               and
               in
               this
               argument
               a
               Simile
               may
               become
               this
               place
               ,
               though
               it
               be
               not
               a
               perfect
               demonstration
               ,
               because
               diseases
               are
               as
               mutineers
               against
               natural
               government
               ;
               &
               Nature
               ,
               when
               it
               is
               it self
               and
               without
               disturbance
               ,
               will
               give
               no
               entertainmeut
               to
               a
               resisting
               ,
               rebellious
               and
               heterogeneall
               quality
               ,
               to
               incorporate
               it self
               into
               the
               most
               noble
               parts
               ;
               but
               upon
               disorder
               and
               disturbance
               ,
               then
               false
               appetites
               break
               in
               ,
               
               and
               open
               t●e
               gates
               to
               all
               heterogeneality
               ,
               to
               the
               ruine
               of
               the
               whole
               government
               ;
               therefore
               when
               Nature
               is
               harmoniously
               set
               ,
               the
               course
               is
               to
               preserve
               it
               so
               ,
               by
               winding
               up
               any
               string
               at
               the
               first
               relax
               ,
               which
               maintaineth
               harmony
               ,
               and
               preserveth
               that
               string
               from
               contracting
               it self
               by
               rest
               ,
               and
               grow
               so
               stubbor●
               ▪
               that
               it
               cannot
               be
               wound
               up
               again
               without
               fear
               of
               ruption
               ,
               which
               at
               the
               first
               slip
               might
               have
               b●en
               effected
               with
               much
               ease
               ,
               and
               little
               fear
               of
               dismembring
               the
               Instrument
               ,
               and
               disturbing
               the
               harmony
               ;
               but
               if
               the
               relaxation
               by
               permanency
               hath
               over-stiffned
               and
               contracted
               this
               fiver
               of
               the
               Instrument
               ,
               yet
               the
               musician
               will
               not
               use
               any
               violent
               motion
               to
               extend
               it
               ,
               and
               reduce
               it
               to
               its
               former
               posture
               ;
               but
               gradatim
               wind
               it
               up
               till
               it
               be
               properly
               si●ed
               and
               
               harmoniously
               fitte●●
               to
               consent
               with
               the
               rest
               of
               the
               members
               of
               the
               instrument
               ;
               the
               same
               order
               is
               to
               be
               taken
               in
               the
               curing
               of
               this
               Disease
               ;
               for
               although
               this
               affect
               by
               some
               malignity
               be
               exasperated
               ,
               yet
               the
               motion
               being
               critical
               will
               admit
               of
               no
               violence
               ,
               and
               therefore
               a
               moderate
               dyet
               and
               temperate
               aire
               is
               only
               to
               be
               continued
               :
               the
               dye●●eing
               
                 alimentū
                 medicamentosum
              
               ,
               〈◊〉
               as
               is
               milk
               with
               Saffron
               ,
               with
               flowers
               of
               Calendula
               especially
               ,
               before
               the
               eruption
               of
               the
               ●ox
               ;
               there
               being
               neither
               art
               or
               reason
               violently
               to
               move
               crudities
               in
               the
               beginning
               of
               any
               Disease
               ,
               without
               antecedent
               preparation
               ,
               which
               preparation
               in
               this
               case
               is
               nothing
               else
               but
               the
               quiet
               of
               nature
               ,
               and
               fomenting
               of
               it
               with
               seasonable
               and
               moderate
               aliment
               ,
               which
               is
               the
               best
               refrigerium
               or
               comfort
               to
               the
               spirits
               ,
               
               whose
               spiritual
               motion
               is
               the
               
                 unum
                 necessarium
              
               in
               this
               Disease
               .
               I
               am
               not
               ignorant
               of
               young
               conceptions
               in
               this
               point
               ;
               nor
               is
               it
               my
               intention
               to
               neglect
               any
               objection
               that
               may
               be
               urged
               by
               my self
               or
               any
               other
               Author
               ,
               either
               ancient
               or
               modern
               ,
               that
               may
               give
               more
               satisfaction
               to
               the
               Reader
               ;
               who
               is
               (
               
                 quatenus
                 medicus
              
               )
               ignorant
               of
               several
               Sects
               of
               Physitians
               ,
               as
               there
               are
               of
               Divines
               in
               Theology
               amongst
               us
               ;
               the
               Erasistrateans
               will
               admit
               of
               no
               remedy
               in
               diseases
               ,
               especially
               of
               plenitude
               ,
               but
               fasting
               and
               abstinence
               from
               dyet
               :
               Hippocrates
               commendeth
               a
               thin
               diet
               in
               the
               beginning
               of
               all
               acute
               distempers
               ,
               and
               more
               plen●iful
               in
               the
               declination
               .
               Gale●
               in
               the
               beginning
               of
               all
               firmentation
               universally
               adviseth
               Phlebotomy
               or
               bloud-letting
               ,
               as
               a
               general
               evacuation
               of
               all
               humours
               
               as
               they
               are
               mixt
               up
               in
               the
               masse
               of
               bloud
               ,
               whose
               opinion
               wil
               be
               the
               basis
               of
               all
               my
               future
               discouse
               ;
               there
               are
               many
               ,
               and
               Physitians
               are
               Galenists
               in
               this
               point
               ,
               and
               more
               especially
               ,
               and
               universally
               the
               French
               Nation
               which
               make
               bloud-letting
               the
               principal
               and
               sole
               remedy
               in
               all
               Diseases
               ,
               Climes
               ,
               Times
               ,
               &
               Ages
               ;
               and
               the
               greatest
               argument
               to
               confirm
               this
               practise
               (
               is
               the
               mode
               of
               France
               :
               )
               by
               the
               same
               argument
               they
               would
               prove
               stinking
               and
               putrid
               flesh
               ,
               both
               of
               fish
               and
               fowl
               to
               be
               most
               comfortable
               to
               the
               sense
               ,
               and
               corroborative
               to
               the
               animal
               spirits
               ;
               and
               if
               their
               Rhetorick
               be
               no
               better
               then
               their
               Logick
               to
               perswade
               persons
               of
               reason
               and
               sense
               to
               accept
               of
               their
               mode
               ,
               it
               is
               most
               probable
               it
               wil
               prove
               the
               Nummismata
               of
               Galen
               ,
               which
               is
               a
               quaere
               that
               will
               pass
               no
               farther
               
               
               
               
               
               then
               their
               own
               Country
               ,
               and
               those
               that
               are
               satisfied
               with
               such
               invalid
               arguments
               must
               suffer
               the
               successe
               ;
               for
               one
               errour
               in
               a
               logical
               brain
               being
               rooted
               ,
               is
               without
               satisfaction
               ;
               or
               extirpated
               with
               exceeding
               great
               difficulty
               .
            
             
               Therefore
               I
               shall
               not
               hope
               to
               perswade
               any
               of
               those
               modish
               persons
               from
               such
               rash
               practise
               ,
               no
               more
               then
               to
               cleanse
               the
               Negro
               of
               his
               blacknesse
               .
               I
               call
               it
               rash
               and
               inconsiderate
               practi●e
               in
               this
               Disease
               ,
               because
               it
               is
               a
               doubt
               indetermined
               amongs●
               the
               most
               Learned
               Professors
               〈◊〉
               all
               Nations
               ,
               both
               
                 Greeks
                 ,
                 Ar●bians
              
               ,
               and
               Latins
               ,
               and
               all
               othe●
               principled
               from
               them
               ;
               bein●
               all
               of
               them
               unresolved
               of
               Phl●botomy
               in
               the
               small
               Pox
               ,
               upo●
               any
               indication
               to
               be
               a
               safe
               remedy
               ;
               and
               if
               the
               Disease
               b●●onjunct
               with
               an
               undeniab●●
               
               plethory
               of
               bloud
               ,
               which
               is
               the
               proper
               indication
               of
               Phlebotomy
               ;
               yet
               such
               bleeding
               ought
               to
               be
               by
               scarification
               and
               cupping-glasses
               without
               the
               cutting
               of
               any
               major
               vessel
               ,
               because
               the
               Section
               of
               such
               veins
               do
               not
               only
               evacuate
               too
               much
               spirit
               ,
               〈◊〉
               also
               retract
               the
               peccant
               cause
               to
               the
               Centre
               which
               is
               intended
               to
               the
               circumference
               ,
               and
               effected
               by
               a
               shallow
               scarification
               upon
               the
               arms
               ,
               back
               and
               thighs
               ;
               by
               which
               course
               there
               is
               a
               diminution
               of
               the
               cause
               in
               its
               mixture
               ,
               and
               assistance
               to
               nature
               in
               its
               circum●erential
               motion
               ,
               with
               little
               expence
               of
               sixt
               or
               fluent
               spirit
               ,
               which
               is
               a
               great
               support
               to
               universal
               nature
               in
               its
               conatus
               to
               discharge
               the
               most
               noble
               parts
               from
               danger
               of
               ruine
               .
               Contrarily
               ,
               in
               the
               behalf
               of
               bloud-letting
               ,
               I
               have
               been
               urged
               much
               with
               the
               example
               of
               the
               now
               
               then
               their
               own
               Country
               ,
               and
               those
               that
               are
               satisfied
               with
               such
               invalid
               arguments
               must
               suffer
               the
               successe
               ;
               for
               one
               errour
               in
               a
               logical
               brain
               being
               rooted
               ,
               is
               without
               satisfaction
               ;
               or
               extirpated
               with
               exceeding
               great
               difficulty
               .
            
             
               Therefore
               I
               shall
               not
               hope
               to
               perswade
               any
               of
               those
               modish
               persons
               from
               such
               rash
               practise
               ,
               no
               more
               then
               to
               cleanse
               the
               Negro
               of
               his
               blacknesse
               .
               I
               call
               it
               rash
               and
               inconsiderate
               practise
               in
               this
               Disease
               ,
               because
               it
               is
               a
               doubt
               indetermined
               amongs●
               the
               most
               Learned
               Professors
               〈◊〉
               all
               Nations
               ,
               both
               
                 Greeks
                 ,
                 Arabians
              
               ,
               and
               Latins
               ,
               and
               all
               other
               principled
               from
               them
               ;
               being
               all
               of
               them
               unresolved
               of
               Ph●●botomy
               in
               the
               small
               Pox
               ,
               upo●
               any
               indication
               to
               be
               a
               safe
               remedy
               ;
               and
               if
               the
               Disease
               〈◊〉
               conjunct
               with
               an
               undeniab●●
               
               plethory
               of
               bloud
               ,
               which
               is
               the
               proper
               indication
               of
               Phlebotomy
               ;
               yet
               such
               bleeding
               ought
               to
               be
               by
               scarification
               and
               cupping-glasses
               without
               the
               cutting
               of
               any
               major
               vessel
               ,
               because
               the
               Section
               of
               such
               veins
               do
               not
               only
               evacuate
               too
               much
               spirit
               ,
               but
               also
               retract
               the
               peccant
               cause
               to
               the
               Centre
               which
               is
               intended
               to
               the
               circumference
               ,
               and
               effected
               by
               a
               shallow
               scarification
               upon
               the
               arms
               ,
               back
               and
               thighs
               ;
               by
               which
               course
               there
               is
               a
               diminution
               of
               the
               cause
               in
               its
               mixture
               ,
               and
               assistance
               to
               nature
               in
               its
               circumferential
               motion
               ,
               with
               little
               expence
               of
               ●ixt
               or
               fluent
               spirit
               ,
               which
               is
               a
               great
               support
               to
               universal
               nature
               in
               its
               co●atus
               to
               discharge
               the
               most
               noble
               parts
               from
               danger
               of
               ruine
               .
               Contrarily
               ,
               in
               the
               behalf
               of
               bloud-letting
               ,
               I
               have
               been
               urged
               much
               with
               the
               example
               of
               the
               now
               
               French
               King
               ,
               who
               in
               this
               case
               was
               Phlebotomized
               about
               ten
               or
               eleven
               times
               (
               as
               I
               remember
               )
               my self
               being
               at
               St.
               Germain
               the
               same
               time
               ,
               and
               upon
               this
               example
               they
               will
               ground
               a
               precept
               for
               universal
               practise
               ;
               I
               do
               not
               deny
               ,
               but
               that
               such
               rare
               escapes
               have
               been
               in
               all
               Diseases
               ;
               but
               for
               the
               universal
               and
               common
               successe
               of
               such
               practise
               ,
               I
               shall
               leave
               to
               the
               observation
               and
               judgement
               of
               the
               Universe
               ,
               regulating
               my self
               according
               to
               reasonable
               axioms
               which
               are
               eternal
               &
               of
               undeniable
               validity
               ,
               if
               they
               be
               studiously
               followed
               and
               separated
               from
               phanatick
               ebulitions
               of
               an
               ill-principled
               brain
               :
               and
               if
               by
               this
               argumentation
               any
               person
               of
               an
               other
               sense
               shall
               be
               offended
               ,
               they
               do
               most
               honourably
               for
               themselves
               to
               publish
               more
               certain
               ,
               reasonable
               and
               assured
               
               grounds
               of
               their
               practise
               ,
               to
               the
               great
               satisfaction
               of
               the
               unsatisfied
               vulgar
               ;
               which
               can
               take
               no
               notice
               of
               any
               intervenient
               cause
               ,
               but
               censure
               all
               practise
               according
               to
               successe
               ;
               it
               will
               also
               be
               a
               great
               instruction
               to
               others
               that
               are
               unacquainted
               with
               their
               mystery
               or
               solid
               ground
               upon
               which
               they
               limited
               their
               Doctrine
               and
               practise
               ,
               to
               the
               glory
               of
               their
               Nation
               wherein
               they
               were
               educated
               and
               born
               ,
               otherwise
               it
               will
               become
               them
               to
               acquiesce
               in
               the
               Doctrine
               and
               practise
               of
               the
               most
               learned
               ,
               antient
               and
               modern
               professors
               of
               healing
               ,
               and
               not
               like
               Van●elmont
               ,
               to
               blaspheme
               all
               University
               and
               School-education
               and
               methodicall
               proceedings
               ,
               contradicting
               all
               principles
               in
               Doctrine
               and
               practise
               ,
               putting
               out
               all
               light
               ,
               and
               leaving
               the
               world
               to
               grope
               in
               darkness
               without
               any
               spark
               
               of
               light
               from
               them
               ;
               if
               they
               be
               wise
               their
               lip●
               preserve
               it
               ,
               for
               nothing
               proceedeth
               from
               them
               of
               any
               such
               tincture
               ,
               as
               if
               they
               did
               suppose
               we
               ought
               to
               know
               their
               meaning
               which
               the
               Devil
               doth
               not
               know
               ,
               (
               nor
               themselves
               their
               own
               according
               to
               vulgar
               apprehension
               :
               )
               for
               what
               can
               silence
               prove
               more
               ,
               then
               a
               plain
               acknowledgment
               of
               such
               an
               error
               as
               will
               not
               indure
               the
               light
               of
               reason
               ,
               nor
               reduce
               any
               contrary
               disputant
               to
               an
               incommodum
               ,
               but
               leave
               a
               censure
               upon
               the
               art
               it self
               ,
               and
               all
               other
               that
               professe
               it
               ,
               as
               if
               art
               were
               onely
               a
               conjecture
               ,
               and
               healing
               or
               curing
               of
               Diseases
               were
               but
               an
               accident
               ,
               as
               if
               causes
               had
               no
               relation
               to
               their
               effects
               ,
               nor
               the
               sublation
               of
               them
               artificially
               to
               any
               substantial
               predicament
               ;
               which
               otherwise
               hath
               had
               an
               equall
               reputation
               of
               excellency
               in
               all
               
               Ages
               ,
               and
               the
               professors
               thereof
               amongst
               all
               Nations
               .
               Witness
               very
               many
               Kings
               which
               have
               esteemed
               the
               contemplation
               and
               practise
               of
               medecine
               ,
               as
               the
               one
               chief
               Jewel
               in
               their
               Crown
               ,
               as
               hath
               been
               more
               largely
               expressed
               in
               my
               former
               writings
               .
               But
               to
               return
               from
               this
               digression
               ,
               I
               shall
               resume
               my
               discourse
               of
               Phlebotomy
               ,
               and
               shew
               how
               unresolved
               and
               unsetled
               a
               remedy
               it
               is
               in
               this
               Disease
               .
               All
               the
               chief
               professors
               of
               medicine
               ,
               establish
               it
               upon
               the
               indications
               either
               of
               plenitude
               of
               humours
               or
               magnitude
               of
               Diseases
               ,
               these
               being
               most
               proper
               and
               universal
               indications
               of
               phlebotomy
               :
               and
               although
               it
               be
               a
               generall
               precept
               according
               to
               the
               Doctrine
               of
               Galen
               ,
               yet
               it
               is
               not
               without
               exception
               ,
               and
               more
               especially
               excepted
               in
               this
               case
               of
               the
               small
               Pox.
               Because
               in
               this
               operation
               
               a
               retraction
               of
               the
               peccant
               humour
               from
               the
               circumference
               to
               the
               Centre
               cannot
               be
               avoided
               ,
               which
               remedy
               must
               be
               as
               dangerous
               as
               unreasonable
               ;
               because
               no
               person
               of
               reason
               will
               allow
               a
               revulsion
               from
               an
               ignoble
               part
               to
               the
               most
               vitall
               and
               noble
               parts
               ;
               and
               although
               plenitude
               of
               humours
               be
               an
               indication
               for
               evacuation
               ,
               yet
               it
               doth
               not
               solely
               indicate
               phlebotomy
               ,
               except
               it
               be
               a
               fulness
               and
               redundance
               of
               bloud
               in
               predominance
               ,
               for
               impure
               plenitude
               is
               a
               contra-indicant
               of
               phlebotomy
               ;
               the
               bloud
               offending
               more
               in
               quantity
               ,
               then
               in
               quality
               ,
               being
               the
               most
               proper
               indication
               of
               bloud-letting
               :
               and
               though
               there
               be
               some
               predominancy
               of
               bloud
               ,
               yet
               bloud-letting
               in
               such
               a
               case
               hath
               never
               proved
               a
               curative
               remedy
               ,
               nor
               did
               I
               ever
               see
               a
               sanguineous
               apoplexie
               cured
               
               by
               bloud-letting
               ,
               and
               yet
               the
               indication
               of
               phlebotomy
               is
               proper
               ,
               yet
               not
               curative
               ,
               because
               it
               is
               not
               
                 per
                 se
              
               the
               cause
               of
               the
               Disease
               ,
               for
               where
               the
               cause
               is
               external
               as
               a
               confusion
               in
               such
               case
               ,
               though
               there
               be
               a
               predominancy
               of
               bloud
               ,
               yet
               bloud-letting
               doth
               prove
               a
               remedy
               of
               no
               moment
               .
               There
               is
               also
               an
               exception
               against
               phlebotomy
               ;
               though
               there
               be
               an
               apparent
               magnitude
               of
               disease
               .
               As
               for
               example
               ,
               there
               is
               
                 magnitudo
                 morbi
              
               ,
               in
               a
               lucuphlegmatia
               or
               dropsie
               ;
               so
               also
               in
               a
               Cacexia
               ,
               and
               yet
               in
               these
               and
               such
               like
               cases
               phlebotomy
               can
               be
               no
               remedy
               ,
               nor
               is
               it
               indicated
               from
               the
               magnitude
               of
               these
               Diseases
               ;
               in
               the
               Small
               Pox
               also
               ,
               there
               is
               magnitude
               of
               disease
               ,
               and
               though
               it
               be
               complicated
               with
               plethory
               of
               bloud
               ,
               yet
               the
               〈◊〉
               of
               a
               ●ein
               is
               not
               a
               proper
               or
               
               safe
               remedy
               especially
               ,
               from
               the
               beginning
               to
               their
               eruption
               ,
               because
               the
               motion
               of
               nature
               is
               critical
               :
               therefore
               those
               that
               practise
               phlebotomy
               upon
               the
               precept
               of
               Galen
               without
               distinction
               of
               cases
               ,
               must
               consequently
               incur
               the
               censure
               of
               inconsiderate
               and
               rash
               practisers
               ,
               or
               such
               as
               will
               abound
               in
               their
               own
               sense
               which
               is
               non-sense
               :
               and
               such
               Phanaticks
               there
               are
               in
               medicine
               equall
               to
               those
               in
               Theology
               ,
               as
               doth
               appear
               by
               voluminous
               indigestions
               belched
               out
               in
               this
               Age
               ,
               some
               of
               them
               meer
               ebullitions
               of
               bitterness
               ,
               and
               others
               of
               heresie
               ,
               fomenting
               faction
               and
               mutiny
               in
               the
               Schools
               of
               learning
               ,
               as
               much
               as
               in
               the
               Common-weal
               .
               Some
               such
               Sectaries
               there
               are
               in
               Physick
               that
               deny
               phlebotomy
               to
               be
               a
               remedy
               in
               any
               case
               or
               disease
               ,
               such
               as
               are
               the
               off-spring
               of
               
               Vanhelmont
               ,
               others
               that
               make
               it
               the
               sole-remedy
               in
               all
               cases
               ,
               and
               their
               instructions
               are
               from
               the
               mode
               of
               France
               ;
               which
               mode
               is
               of
               no
               Antiquity
               in
               that
               Nation
               ,
               nor
               ever
               so
               commonly
               used
               by
               any
               of
               their
               Antient
               professors
               ,
               which
               do
               ordain
               it
               as
               it
               is
               in
               it self
               ,
               a
               great
               remedy
               ,
               if
               properly
               adhibited
               ,
               viz.
               where
               there
               is
               magnitude
               and
               violence
               of
               disease
               conjunct
               with
               plethory
               of
               bloud
               and
               consisting
               age
               ,
               yet
               not
               without
               distinction
               of
               causes
               and
               diseases
               with
               other
               circumstances
               of
               time
               and
               clime
               .
               And
               those
               that
               do
               read
               the
               most
               learned
               of
               that
               Nation
               can
               find
               them
               no
               otherwise
               principled
               :
               yet
               I
               have
               heard
               Fernelius
               ,
               which
               I
               take
               to
               be
               a
               glory
               to
               that
               Nation
               ,
               to
               have
               had
               a
               most
               sad
               censure
               by
               some
               of
               Parisian
               practisers
               ,
               and
               that
               it
               had
               been
               better
               for
               their
               Nation
               that
               he
               had
               
               been
               unborn
               .
               I
               have
               heard
               this
               language
               in
               discourse
               ,
               but
               could
               never
               conceive
               from
               what
               part
               of
               his
               learning
               they
               extracted
               their
               bitternesse
               .
               But
               to
               return
               to
               my
               Theme
               of
               phlebotomy
               in
               the
               Small
               Pox
               ,
               in
               which
               case
               the
               agent
               standeth
               onely
               like
               Archimedes
               in
               expectation
               of
               a
               place
               to
               fix
               his
               foot
               to
               dislodge
               the
               earthen
               Globe
               ,
               for
               untill
               such
               an
               assurance
               of
               certainty
               to
               depend
               upon
               ,
               doth
               manifest
               it self
               ,
               there
               will
               be
               no
               well-grounded
               assurance
               of
               curing
               this
               Disease
               by
               phlebotomy
               ,
               not
               denying
               the
               practise
               upon
               just
               indications
               from
               the
               cause
               and
               disease
               rightly
               apprehended
               to
               be
               a
               most
               effectual
               remedy
               :
               but
               in
               this
               case
               although
               conjunct
               with
               plenitude
               of
               bloud
               ,
               which
               doth
               most
               properly
               indicate
               evacuation
               ,
               yet
               this
               evacuation
               by
               bloud-letting
               is
               insufficient
               ,
               because
               
               according
               to
               Galen
               in
               his
               Books
               
                 de
                 Multitudine
                 ,
                 de
                 Element
                 .
                 de
                 Morbis
                 vulgaribus
              
               (
               saying
               )
               that
               bloud
               is
               most
               temperate
               ,
               because
               it
               is
               an
               equall
               mixture
               of
               all
               humours
               
                 ad
                 justitiam
              
               ;
               and
               therefore
               Phlebotomy
               to
               be
               an
               equal
               evacuation
               of
               all
               humours
               conjunct
               with
               naturall
               spirits
               ,
               and
               by
               this
               operation
               the
               bloud
               is
               left
               in
               its
               predominancy
               according
               to
               proportion
               ,
               only
               the
               universall
               plenitude
               is
               equally
               lessned
               :
               and
               the
               morbificall
               cause
               still
               mixed
               with
               the
               remainder
               answerable
               both
               in
               quantity
               and
               quality
               to
               its
               first
               impression
               upon
               the
               whole
               masse
               ,
               so
               that
               the
               disease
               is
               not
               extinguished
               by
               this
               remedy
               but
               lessened
               in
               the
               cause
               .
               And
               although
               ,
               according
               to
               this
               Doctrine
               of
               Galen
               ,
               there
               is
               an
               equall
               evacuation
               of
               humours
               ,
               yet
               the
               Spirits
               do
               at
               this
               orifice
               
               unequally
               transpire
               ,
               for
               in
               all
               bloud-letting
               there
               is
               a
               passe
               of
               fixed
               and
               innate
               spirit
               with
               the
               fluent
               ,
               and
               these
               cannot
               come
               within
               the
               compasse
               of
               equality
               ,
               because
               the
               fluent
               spirit
               is
               daily
               repaired
               :
               but
               the
               fixed
               never
               :
               otherwise
               if
               it
               came
               within
               the
               compasse
               of
               repair
               ,
               man
               should
               be
               eternall
               upon
               this
               earth
               ;
               but
               every
               evacuation
               of
               this
               nature
               doth
               abreviate
               humane
               life
               ,
               and
               hasten
               old
               Age
               ,
               as
               may
               be
               observed
               in
               the
               French
               Children
               ,
               which
               by
               this
               frequent
               Phlebotomising
               are
               withered
               in
               juvenile
               Age.
               Therefore
               Phlebotomy
               is
               not
               a
               common
               remedy
               ,
               but
               in
               such
               extremity
               ,
               as
               the
               person
               must
               lose
               some
               part
               of
               his
               subsistance
               to
               save
               the
               whole
               .
            
             
               Moreover
               in
               this
               universall
               evacuation
               there
               may
               be
               an
               expence
               of
               some
               humours
               which
               
               are
               necessary
               to
               be
               preserved
               in
               the
               masse
               ,
               because
               they
               are
               not
               so
               suddainly
               repaired
               again
               ,
               and
               from
               this
               cause
               nature
               may
               want
               a
               vehicle
               of
               motion
               ,
               and
               suffer
               tyranny
               from
               the
               disease
               ▪
               as
               when
               the
               Phlegmatick
               part
               of
               humours
               is
               drawn
               from
               the
               cholerick
               ,
               the
               bilious
               humor
               is
               left
               as
               fire
               to
               tyrannize
               over
               the
               remaining
               humours
               and
               the
               spirits
               ,
               which
               are
               more
               apt
               to
               be
               inflamed
               ,
               and
               for
               this
               reason
               an
               universall
               evacuation
               by
               Phlebotomy
               in
               the
               Small
               Pox
               is
               and
               must
               be
               a
               doubtful
               remedy
               ,
               because
               no
               man
               can
               justly
               prove
               that
               in
               a
               Phlebotick
               operation
               ,
               he
               shall
               let
               out
               the
               predominant
               cause
               more
               or
               lesse
               ,
               or
               equall
               to
               any
               of
               the
               mixture
               in
               the
               masse
               of
               bloud
               .
               Therefore
               if
               the
               principal
               scope
               of
               the
               agent
               be
               to
               relieve
               nature
               offended
               and
               oppressed
               by
               the
               predominance
               
               and
               turgency
               of
               a
               single
               peccant
               cause
               ,
               the
               remedy
               indicated
               must
               be
               a
               particular
               correction
               ,
               separation
               and
               extinction
               of
               that
               particular
               predominance
               which
               is
               not
               to
               be
               effected
               by
               cutting
               a
               vein
               ,
               because
               the
               evacuation
               is
               universall
               and
               equally
               of
               the
               whole
               mass
               of
               humours
               ,
               leaving
               the
               predominant
               humour
               (
               according
               to
               proportion
               )
               as
               turbulent
               as
               before
               ,
               and
               consequently
               it
               can
               be
               no
               specifical
               remedy
               in
               such
               a
               case
               where
               the
               scope
               of
               cure
               is
               indicated
               from
               the
               quantity
               of
               the
               humour
               in
               predomination
               .
               And
               thus
               I
               pass
               to
               the
               circumstance
               of
               clime
               which
               doth
               prohibit
               Phlebotomy
               universally
               to
               be
               used
               in
               all
               Regions
               .
            
             
               I
               am
               not
               ignorant
               of
               the
               Doctrine
               of
               Galen
               ,
               nor
               of
               his
               precepts
               in
               this
               point
               of
               Phlebotomy
               ,
               nor
               of
               Augenius
               his
               17.
               
               
               Books
               upon
               the
               same
               Subject
               ;
               and
               although
               Galen
               in
               very
               many
               places
               affi●meth
               Phlebotomy
               to
               be
               an
               universal
               and
               equal
               evacuation
               of
               the
               mixt
               mass
               of
               bloud
               ,
               yet
               not
               granted
               without
               his
               own
               exception
               to
               be
               an
               universall
               remedy
               in
               all
               Diseases
               ,
               nor
               in
               all
               Regions
               :
               Therefore
               I
               shall
               now
               passe
               or
               urge
               his
               own
               exception
               against
               himself
               ,
               which
               consisteth
               in
               the
               distinction
               of
               Regions
               and
               diversities
               of
               climes
               ,
               which
               as
               they
               are
               distinct
               in
               the
               degrees
               of
               aire
               ,
               so
               also
               distinct
               in
               their
               dyet
               ,
               which
               doth
               maintain
               nature
               in
               its
               
                 perp●tuo
                 fluere
              
               ;
               and
               as
               every
               Region
               hath
               a
               customary
               dyet
               ,
               so
               is
               their
               customary
               or
               common
               aire
               most
               agreeable
               to
               the
               inhabitants
               as
               mud
               is
               to
               Eeles
               ,
               and
               these
               are
               principally
               their
               subsistance
               ,
               and
               much
               disordered
               upon
               any
               alteration
               of
               their
               aire
               
               and
               dyet
               :
               and
               if
               this
               accident
               had
               not
               hapned
               to
               
                 William
                 Parr
              
               (
               of
               our
               own
               Nation
               )
               his
               principles
               of
               nature
               might
               have
               lasted
               to
               this
               day
               unquenched
               :
               and
               it
               is
               a
               large
               vulgar
               errour
               to
               defend
               the
               death
               of
               any
               person
               to
               be
               just
               according
               to
               the
               power
               of
               his
               principles
               :
               nor
               could
               any
               person
               perswade
               Sir
               
                 Thomas
                 More
              
               upon
               the
               Scaffold
               ,
               but
               if
               it
               had
               been
               the
               Kings
               pleasure
               he
               might
               have
               lived
               many
               more
               years
               upon
               the
               principles
               of
               nature
               ;
               but
               these
               changes
               are
               accidental
               .
               But
               as
               every
               distinct
               Region
               hath
               their
               particular
               aire
               and
               dyet
               ,
               so
               are
               the
               remedies
               or
               medicinall
               ingressions
               of
               their
               own
               clime
               most
               proper
               for
               their
               common
               and
               vulgar
               distempers
               ,
               and
               those
               remedies
               will
               be
               more
               specifically
               sanative
               in
               that
               Region
               then
               any
               other
               aliu●de
               or
               contracted
               from
               
               another
               clime
               :
               and
               out
               of
               a
               general
               observation
               Galen
               hath
               excepted
               against
               his
               general
               precept
               of
               Phlebotomy
               in
               his
               9th
               .
               Book
               
                 de
                 methodo
                 medendi
              
               ,
               where
               he
               saith
               in
               the
               extraction
               of
               bloud
               ,
               there
               are
               many
               scopes
               observable
               and
               to
               be
               considered
               by
               the
               Physitian
               ,
               viz.
               custom
               ,
               strength
               of
               spirit
               ,
               consisting
               Age
               ,
               with
               the
               temper
               of
               the
               Region
               and
               place
               of
               Habitation
               ;
               as
               also
               the
               time
               of
               the
               year
               with
               the
               State
               of
               the
               Heavens
               :
               and
               by
               reason
               of
               these
               circumstances
               ,
               though
               bloud-letting
               be
               necessary
               ,
               yet
               without
               a
               necessity
               of
               coaction
               not
               to
               be
               adhibited
               ,
               and
               if
               there
               be
               such
               a
               necessity
               ,
               it
               is
               to
               be
               drawn
               sparingly
               and
               with
               great
               consideration
               as
               by
               these
               expressions
               of
               Galen
               ,
               the
               whole
               universe
               may
               take
               cognizance
               ,
               that
               as
               he
               esteemeth
               Phlebotomy
               to
               be
               a
               grand
               
               remedy
               ,
               so
               he
               adviseth
               the
               use
               of
               it
               with
               as
               great
               circumspection
               and
               judgement
               :
               and
               the
               non-establishment
               of
               this
               remedy
               neither
               by
               the
               antient
               nor
               modern
               Professors
               of
               healing
               ,
               is
               the
               cause
               of
               so
               much
               difference
               in
               consultation
               :
               every
               man
               imbracing
               his
               own
               commentary
               upon
               it
               ,
               which
               maketh
               the
               remedy
               more
               doubtful
               ;
               otherwise
               it
               were
               (
               according
               to
               Gantius
               the
               Portugal
               Physitian
               )
               the
               most
               pleasant
               and
               suddain
               remedy
               in
               all
               diseases
               ,
               for
               it
               is
               quickly
               done
               and
               with
               as
               little
               trouble
               and
               pain
               .
               And
               now
               I
               pass
               to
               the
               circumstances
               of
               time
               to
               be
               observed
               in
               this
               operation
               .
            
             
               Riverius
               (
               I
               conceive
               )
               amongst
               all
               the
               Moderns
               to
               be
               the
               greatest
               assertor
               of
               Phlebotomy
               in
               
                 variolis
                 &
                 morbillis
              
               ,
               which
               are
               the
               Small
               Pox
               and
               Measles
               .
               
               And
               yet
               without
               the
               circumstances
               of
               time
               ,
               age
               ,
               and
               plethory
               of
               bloud
               ,
               he
               will
               not
               adhibit
               phlebotomy
               ,
               nor
               upon
               redundance
               of
               bloud
               if
               there
               appear
               any
               sign
               of
               their
               eruption
               ;
               neither
               doth
               he
               admit
               of
               any
               inordinate
               sleep
               ,
               
                 Si
                 pustulae
                 erumpunt
              
               ,
               and
               for
               this
               reason
               
                 quia
                 motus
                 motui
                 contrarius
              
               ,
               for
               sleep
               doth
               colligate
               the
               sense
               and
               retract
               the
               spirit
               and
               humors
               to
               the
               Centre
               ;
               and
               for
               the
               same
               reason
               Phlebotomy
               is
               prohibited
               .
               And
               the
               same
               Author
               saith
               ,
               those
               that
               will
               begin
               the
               cure
               with
               bloud-letting
               ,
               must
               be
               sure
               that
               the
               foresaid
               indications
               of
               Age
               and
               redundance
               of
               bloud
               be
               compleated
               .
               Moreover
               it
               is
               very
               rare
               to
               meet
               with
               such
               a
               conjunction
               of
               indicants
               ;
               plethory
               it self
               according
               to
               the
               proper
               signification
               is
               a
               fulnesse
               and
               redundance
               of
               the
               purest
               
               bloud
               ,
               and
               such
               a
               redundance
               as
               is
               
                 ad
                 distentionem
                 vasorū
                 ▪
              
               and
               very
               rarely
               discovered
               in
               Diseases
               :
               &
               therfore
               the
               remedy
               doubtfull
               ,
               and
               being
               uncertain
               it
               must
               be
               rashnesse
               or
               debility
               of
               intellect
               to
               apply
               such
               remedy
               .
               The
               same
               Author
               saith
               also
               ,
               that
               if
               the
               Physitian
               shall
               not
               be
               invited
               at
               the
               first
               ebullition
               ,
               when
               this
               disease
               is
               in
               its
               first
               firmentation
               ,
               and
               before
               there
               be
               any
               signification
               of
               eruption
               or
               very
               few
               in
               number
               and
               quantity
               ,
               that
               at
               such
               time
               Phlebotomy
               may
               be
               profitable
               ,
               and
               in
               the
               next
               lines
               contradicteth
               himself
               diametrically
               ,
               where
               he
               saith
               ,
               upon
               the
               eruption
               of
               the
               Pustules
               ,
               the
               fervency
               and
               symptoms
               are
               abated
               :
               and
               the
               whole
               operation
               is
               left
               to
               the
               motion
               of
               nature
               ,
               which
               is
               then
               propelling
               the
               cause
               to
               the
               skin
               from
               the
               centrall
               
               parts
               to
               the
               circumferential
               ,
               and
               then
               Phlebotomy
               is
               unnecessary
               and
               of
               no
               use
               .
               Again
               the
               same
               Author
               affirmeth
               ,
               that
               if
               this
               pustulous
               eruption
               be
               intense
               and
               conjunct
               with
               a
               difficulty
               of
               breathing
               ,
               it
               is
               a
               sign
               that
               nature
               is
               onerated
               or
               over-burthened
               ;
               and
               therefore
               bloud-letting
               is
               to
               be
               ordained
               for
               disoneration
               of
               nature
               ,
               and
               enabling
               it
               to
               encounter
               the
               remainder
               ;
               which
               is
               reasonable
               ,
               if
               such
               a
               part
               of
               the
               onerating
               humour
               might
               solely
               
                 &
                 per
                 se
              
               be
               extracted
               without
               the
               losse
               of
               spirit
               ;
               for
               the
               support
               ofspirit
               is
               the
               principal
               sco●e
               of
               cure
               in
               this
               disease
               ,
               which
               is
               no
               way
               effected
               by
               bloud-letting
               .
               Therefore
               this
               practise
               is
               insignificant
               ,
               otherwise
               the
               argument
               would
               be
               acceptable
               to
               all
               Logical
               persons
               ,
               and
               as
               inacceptable
               to
               the
               whole
               Sect
               of
               Galenists
               
               which
               affirm
               phlebotomy
               to
               be
               an
               equall
               evacuation
               of
               all
               humours
               with
               fixt
               and
               fluent
               spirits
               ,
               which
               are
               the
               principal
               prohibition
               of
               this
               practise
               in
               this
               case
               .
               Otherwise
               upon
               an
               universal
               oneration
               ,
               it
               were
               reasonable
               disburthening
               of
               nature
               ,
               and
               properly
               indicated
               ,
               if
               seasonably
               administred
               and
               upon
               a
               critical
               motion
               .
               But
               to
               conclude
               with
               the
               determination
               of
               this
               Author
               ,
               he
               in
               one
               wor●
               saith
               ,
               bloud-lettings
               in
               the
               Small
               Pox
               is
               not
               to
               be
               adhibited
               neither
               in
               the
               beginning
               o●
               the
               ebulition
               ,
               nor
               eruption
               of
               the
               pustules
               ;
               neither
               is
               any
               blou●
               to
               be
               drawn
               safely
               or
               withou●
               danger
               ,
               insomuch
               that
               neithe●
               Riverius
               nor
               any
               other
               Autho●
               can
               afford
               any
               certain
               assuranc●
               of
               the
               practise
               of
               phlebotomy
               i●
               this
               disease
               ,
               but
               rather
               thes●
               contradictory
               oppositions
               between
               
               the
               most
               Learned
               Antients
               and
               Modern
               Professors
               of
               highest
               judgement
               and
               observation
               ,
               do
               prove
               this
               scope
               of
               cure
               by
               bloud-letting
               to
               be
               an
               unsafe
               and
               doubtfull
               remedy
               in
               the
               Small
               Pox
               ;
               and
               therefore
               I
               thought
               it
               my
               duty
               to
               publish
               so
               much
               to
               my
               own
               Nation
               and
               in
               their
               own
               tongue
               ,
               that
               they
               may
               be
               instructed
               and
               enabled
               to
               avoid
               the
               danger
               of
               unsafe
               or
               rash
               proceeding
               in
               the
               curing
               of
               this
               disease
               :
               and
               if
               these
               expressions
               be
               insignificant
               to
               any
               persons
               of
               another
               sense
               ,
               I
               shall
               leave
               them
               as
               couragious
               and
               valiant
               adventurers
               ,
               and
               wish
               their
               returns
               may
               be
               more
               successful
               then
               of
               late
               they
               havebin
               .
            
             
               I
               have
               now
               most
               plainly
               expressed
               my
               own
               sense
               of
               bloud-letting
               in
               this
               disease
               of
               the
               Small
               Pox
               particularly
               ;
               yet
               it
               will
               admit
               of
               a
               more
               generall
               
               
               
               
               
               extension
               to
               all
               circumferential
               motions
               in
               nature
               ,
               for
               without
               dispute
               the
               intention
               in
               all
               afflictions
               is
               to
               expell
               all
               peccant
               and
               peternaturall
               causes
               from
               the
               Centre
               to
               the
               universal
               emunctory
               ,
               or
               to
               some
               particular
               place
               of
               reception
               ,
               from
               a
               more
               noble
               to
               a
               less
               noble
               part
               ,
               according
               to
               its
               power
               in
               resisting
               the
               cause
               :
               for
               if
               it
               cannot
               effect
               a
               universal
               evacuation
               circumfercntial
               ,
               nor
               an
               extreme
               impulsion
               from
               the
               most
               noble
               to
               the
               most
               ignoble
               part
               ,
               such
               as
               is
               from
               head
               to
               foot
               ,
               or
               from
               the
               brest
               to
               the
               back
               ;
               then
               it
               moveth
               obliquely
               to
               some
               emunctory
               which
               may
               obtain
               the
               term
               of
               a
               perfect
               diversion
               to
               the
               next
               vicine
               part
               ,
               or
               else
               to
               some
               neutral
               which
               hath
               a
               vicinity
               with
               both
               .
               As
               from
               the
               head
               to
               the
               Glandules
               of
               the
               throat
               ,
               Glandules
               of
               the
               groyne
               
               which
               are
               more
               remote
               ,
               and
               so
               proveth
               neither
               a
               proper
               diversion
               ,
               nor
               proper
               revulsion
               .
            
             
               And
               in
               these
               motions
               ,
               phlebotomy
               may
               be
               indicated
               either
               ●or
               diversion
               or
               revulsion
               ,
               or
               universal
               evacuation
               ;
               which
               in
               Art
               ought
               to
               precede
               a
               particular
               evacuation
               ,
               by
               which
               remedy
               some
               internal
               oppilations
               or
               obstructions
               
                 in
                 via
              
               may
               be
               removed
               ,
               and
               Nature
               enabled
               more
               universally
               to
               free
               it self
               of
               a
               congestion
               .
               But
               since
               I
               have
               not
               consented
               to
               phlebotomy
               in
               the
               Small
               Pox
               ,
               I
               am
               obliged
               to
               declare
               an
               undenyable
               regimen
               in
               this
               disease
               with
               considerable
               remedys
               ,
               both
               external
               and
               internal
               to
               be
               applyed
               ;
               and
               although
               phlebotomy
               be
               in
               the
               Catalogue
               of
               external
               remedies
               ,
               yet
               so
               of
               no
               use
               in
               this
               case
               ,
               by
               reason
               that
               it
               is
               as
               difficult
               in
               this
               disease
               to
               find
               a
               proper
               
               indication
               to
               sense
               ,
               as
               a
               simple
               intemperies
               in
               a
               veletudinary
               person
               ;
               that
               is
               ,
               such
               a
               disease
               as
               is
               without
               any
               other
               complication
               ,
               such
               a
               disease
               imaginary
               there
               may
               be
               ,
               but
               not
               demonstrative
               to
               sense
               :
               But
               if
               any
               proper
               indication
               with
               a
               necessity
               of
               coaction
               for
               drawing
               of
               bloud
               ,
               doth
               present
               it self
               to
               the
               agent
               ,
               then
               as
               I
               said
               in
               my
               precedent
               discourse
               ,
               the
               application
               of
               cupping-glasses
               upon
               the
               shoulders
               ,
               arms
               ,
               and
               thighs
               with
               scarification
               ,
               is
               the
               safest
               remedy
               ;
               with
               this
               caution
               that
               the
               scarification
               be
               superficiall
               and
               not
               deep
               ,
               lest
               they
               enter
               upon
               a
               vein
               or
               artery
               ;
               and
               the
               evacuation
               be
               stopped
               with
               much
               difficulty
               and
               danger
               to
               the
               patient
               .
               And
               this
               applicatition
               thus
               performed
               ,
               nature
               is
               assisted
               in
               its
               circumferentiall
               motion
               ,
               if
               there
               be
               also
               a
               great
               
               care
               and
               circumspection
               in
               the
               contemperation
               of
               the
               ambient
               aire
               of
               the
               place
               ,
               that
               it
               be
               not
               so
               hot
               as
               to
               suffocate
               the
               spirits
               ,
               nor
               so
               cold
               as
               to
               repell
               the
               humour
               in
               motion
               to
               the
               Centre
               ;
               or
               so
               congregate
               and
               condense
               the
               intrinsecall
               causes
               ,
               that
               in
               
                 conatu
                 naturae
              
               ,
               or
               in
               the
               endeavour
               of
               nature
               to
               dissolve
               and
               open
               ,
               the
               porosities
               be
               inflamed
               ,
               and
               the
               disease
               augmented
               ,
               or
               totally
               stop
               the
               eruption
               of
               the
               pustules
               :
               and
               therefore
               to
               be
               advisedly
               ordered
               there
               are
               other
               externall
               remedies
               which
               are
               to
               be
               used
               in
               the
               state
               of
               this
               disease
               unto
               the
               declension
               for
               the
               prevention
               of
               Escars
               ,
               and
               these
               remedies
               are
               commonly
               the
               complement
               of
               every
               experienced
               Nurse
               .
               But
               I
               shall
               first
               acquaint
               the
               Reader
               with
               such
               remedies
               as
               are
               ordained
               by
               Learned
               and
               antient
               
               practitioners
               ,
               viz.
               when
               the
               matter
               of
               the
               pustules
               doth
               corrode
               and
               make
               a
               deep
               impression
               in
               the
               face
               ,
               Senertus
               appointeth
               a
               sufficient
               quantity
               of
               Mallow
               roots
               to
               be
               boiled
               in
               the
               Urine
               of
               the
               Patient
               .
               Some
               other
               Physicians
               and
               old
               Nurses
               have
               used
               an
               astringent
               wash
               ,
               which
               in
               my
               sense
               is
               not
               to
               be
               andibited
               ,
               because
               it
               stoppeth
               ,
               or
               is
               the
               cause
               of
               retention
               of
               the
               humor
               in
               the
               face
               ,
               and
               fixeth
               the
               cicatrix
               .
               Riverius
               ordaineth
               oyle
               of
               sweet
               Almonds
               new
               prest
               to
               anoint
               the
               face
               ,
               and
               as
               an
               Anodine
               to
               contemperate
               the
               acrimony
               of
               the
               humour
               ,
               which
               in
               some
               persons
               (
               as
               
                 aqua
                 fortis
              
               )
               hath
               penetrated
               the
               bone
               ,
               according
               to
               the
               relation
               of
               
                 Gartius
                 .
                 Fernelius
              
               applaudeth
               this
               subsequ●nt
               oyntment
               ;
               Take
               sweet
               Almonds
               ,
               white
               Lillies
               ,
               of
               each
               one
               ounce
               ,
               Capons
               grease
               three
               
               drams
               ,
               the
               powder
               of
               the
               root
               of
               
                 paeonie
                 ,
                 flower
                 de
                 lys
                 ,
                 Lithargy
              
               of
               Gold
               ,
               of
               each
               halfe
               the
               scruple
               ,
               Sugar-candy
               one
               scrup●e
               ;
               mixe
               all
               these
               in
               a
               hot
               Morter
               and
               straine
               them
               through
               a
               lin●en
               cloath
               ,
               and
               anoint
               the
               〈◊〉
               morning
               and
               night
               ;
               and
               after
               this
               anointing
               wash
               the
               face
               with
               water
               distilled
               from
               Calves
               feet
               .
               Gartius
               out
               of
               his
               observation
               recommended
               his
               
                 unguentum
                 citr●num
              
               to
               be
               in
               curing
               the
               cicatrix
               a
               proba●um
               ;
               and
               my self
               shall
               present
               the
               oyle
               of
               Eggs
               to
               be
               most
               incarnative
               and
               generating
               flesh
               ,
               which
               doth
               fill
               up
               those
               cavities
               and
               prevent
               circatrising
               (
               or
               vulgarly
               pittings
               the
               flesh
               )
               not
               〈…〉
               when
               they
               come
               to
               〈…〉
               to
               open
               them
               with
               a
               〈…〉
               instrument
               ,
               least
               by
               the
               per●●nency
               of
               the
               pustulate
               〈◊〉
               there
               be
               a
               greater
               impression
               
               of
               the
               cicatrix
               .
               Some
               other
               Physicians
               (
               I
               know
               not
               upon
               what
               basis
               )
               dispute
               against
               this
               order
               of
               opening
               the
               pustules
               when
               they
               come
               to
               maturity
               ;
               and
               I
               find
               their
               reason
               for
               it
               as
               weak
               as
               their
               opinion
               ,
               for
               they
               urge
               such
               a
               diminution
               of
               naturall
               heat
               in
               letting
               out
               the
               puruleut
               matter
               upon
               full
               maturity
               ,
               that
               nature
               is
               so
               debilitated
               ,
               that
               it
               is
               disabled
               to
               incarnate
               ;
               and
               by
               want
               of
               this
               incarnation
               the
               cicatrix
               is
               more
               profound
               :
               but
               upō
               consideration
               of
               the
               opening
               of
               an
               Apostema
               when
               it
               is
               mature
               ,
               it
               is
               a
               levamen
               to
               nature
               as
               much
               as
               the
               taking
               of
               the
               burthen
               from
               a
               Porter
               doth
               refresh
               him
               ,
               and
               doth
               prevent
               the
               tediosity
               of
               naturall
               industry
               in
               mellowing
               or
               rotting
               the
               Coat
               in
               which
               the
               matter
               is
               involved
               ;
               and
               consequently
               a
               proportionable
               corroborative
               to
               naturall
               
               heat
               and
               motion
               ,
               and
               more
               especially
               when
               they
               are
               supplyed
               with
               remedies
               that
               are
               mundificative
               and
               carnative
               ,
               as
               is
               before
               directed
               in
               the
               oyle
               of
               Eggs.
               But
               because
               I
               hate
               prolixity
               ,
               I
               do
               passe
               over
               a
               multitude
               of
               other
               Medicaments
               ,
               well
               knowing
               the
               vanity
               of
               being
               over-active
               when
               a
               less
               motion
               is
               more
               satisfactory
               ,
               
                 &
                 frustra
                 fit
                 per
                 plura
                 quod
                 fieri
                 potest
                 per
                 pauciora
                 .
              
            
             
               And
               therefore
               out
               of
               my
               own
               experience
               and
               quotidian
               practise
               ,
               I
               have
               recommended
               and
               presented
               this
               short
               direction
               of
               Government
               in
               this
               disease
               ,
               to
               those
               that
               please
               to
               accept
               of
               it
               as
               the
               most
               safe
               and
               successful
               .
               There
               remaineth
               now
               only
               one
               consideration
               in
               externall
               remedies●
               ,
               and
               then
               I
               shall
               conclude
               this
               brief
               discourse
               of
               the
               Small
               Pox
               ,
               not
               doubting
               
               but
               to
               render
               as
               much
               satisfaction
               to
               those
               that
               do
               perpend
               it
               ,
               as
               is
               needful
               to
               be
               received
               from
               any
               publication
               upon
               the
               same
               subject
               .
               And
               so
               I
               return
               to
               the
               last
               external
               remedy
               in
               this
               disease
               ;
               and
               this
               is
               from
               the
               first
               eruption
               unto
               the
               time
               of
               maturation
               ,
               in
               which
               time
               there
               is
               great
               inquietude
               and
               itching
               ,
               principally
               in
               the
               plants
               of
               the
               feet
               ,
               where
               the
               skin
               is
               most
               callous
               ,
               hard
               and
               thick
               .
               And
               in
               this
               time
               I
               observe
               Riverius
               above
               all
               other
               Authors
               to
               ordain
               the
               bathings
               of
               the
               hands
               and
               feet
               ,
               by
               reason
               of
               the
               density
               of
               these
               parts
               ,
               in
               some
               more
               dense
               than
               in
               others
               ,
               as
               in
               Smiths
               ,
               Carpenters
               ,
               and
               Foot-posts
               ,
               whose
               hands
               and
               feet
               are
               harder
               than
               persons
               of
               a
               more
               tender
               and
               sedentary
               Trade
               or
               Profession
               .
               I
               cannot
               but
               acknowledge
               that
               humectation
               
               and
               attenuation
               to
               mollifie
               those
               parts
               is
               properly
               indicated
               ;
               but
               the
               mode
               of
               this
               application
               is
               observable
               ,
               because
               upon
               the
               opening
               of
               the
               porosities
               by
               bathing
               ,
               the
               ambient
               aire
               may
               obtaine
               the
               advantage
               of
               repelling
               the
               inquination
               of
               the
               morbisical
               matter
               from
               these
               ignoble
               and
               extreme
               parts
               to
               the
               more
               noble
               ,
               by
               the
               ambient
               aire
               in
               the
               course
               of
               sanguineous
               circulation
               ,
               and
               hath
               proved
               fatall
               in
               such
               as
               have
               rare
               and
               tender
               skins
               ,
               as
               is
               proved
               by
               the
               bathing
               the
               Illustrious
               Princess
               Royal.
               Therefore
               I
               shall
               rather
               ordain
               aperient
               fomentations
               in
               their
               bed
               ,
               to
               assist
               their
               cruption
               and
               move
               sweat
               :
               and
               thus
               I
               conclude
               all
               external
               remedies
               .
            
             
               As
               I
               have
               plainly
               and
               briefly
               expressed
               my
               sense
               and
               practice
               concerning
               externall
               remedies
               
               in
               this
               disease
               ,
               I
               am
               now
               obliged
               to
               passe
               orderly
               to
               such
               remedies
               as
               are
               internally
               to
               be
               adhibited
               ;
               and
               according
               to
               my
               former
               method
               ,
               I
               shall
               in
               the
               first
               place
               entertain
               you
               with
               the
               practise
               of
               the
               best
               Professors
               and
               Authors
               in
               medicine
               from
               the
               beginning
               of
               this
               disease
               to
               the
               increment
               ,
               from
               the
               increment
               to
               the
               state
               ,
               and
               from
               the
               state
               to
               the
               declination
               ;
               and
               then
               shall
               take
               boldness
               to
               enter
               my self
               into
               their
               Society
               ,
               with
               all
               submission
               to
               Seniority
               ,
               in
               joyning
               my
               own
               Vote
               amongst
               them
               .
               The
               first
               internal
               remedy
               ,
               according
               to
               all
               Antient
               order
               ,
               is
               the
               dyet
               in
               this
               disease
               ,
               which
               by
               the
               order
               of
               
                 Paulus
                 Aegineta
              
               ,
               must
               be
               moderate
               in
               quantity
               and
               temperate
               in
               quality
               :
               Such
               as
               is
               Almond
               milk
               ,
               or
               as
               temperate
               as
               the
               bloud
               ought
               to
               be
               in
               heat
               
               and
               moisture
               ,
               and
               we
               call
               it
               
                 medicamentum
                 alimentosum
              
               .
               As
               for
               other
               internal
               Medicaments
               they
               are
               corroborative
               ,
               and
               such
               as
               support
               the
               spirits
               naturall
               in
               the
               expulsion
               of
               the
               peccant
               cause
               ,
               or
               Cathartical
               ,
               or
               such
               as
               do
               purge
               and
               evacuate
               the
               humorall
               cause
               :
               but
               such
               medicines
               whether
               the
               form
               of
               glister
               or
               any
               other
               form
               ,
               are
               universally
               censured
               as
               a
               motion
               contrary
               to
               the
               intention
               and
               industry
               of
               nature
               ,
               because
               the
               quickness
               of
               such
               motion
               over-heateth
               the
               spirits
               ,
               and
               lesseneth
               them
               in
               their
               quantitative
               power
               to
               force
               the
               cause
               to
               circumferential
               porosities
               ,
               consequently
               to
               the
               ruine
               of
               the
               patient
               .
               Who
               is
               there
               of
               any
               observation
               that
               hath
               not
               the
               sad
               experience
               of
               purging
               glisters
               in
               the
               increase
               of
               this
               disease
               ,
               and
               upon
               their
               eruption
               more
               
               especially
               pernitious
               ,
               and
               in
               my
               opinion
               more
               mortall
               then
               bloud-letting
               ?
               it
               being
               the
               least
               evill
               because
               it
               doth
               more
               equally
               evaculate
               all
               humours
               ,
               
                 sine
                 conatu
                 naturae
              
               ,
               and
               a
               lesse
               impowering
               of
               the
               spirits
               ,
               because
               all
               purging
               Medicaments
               must
               be
               procured
               into
               act
               by
               the
               power
               of
               nature
               principally
               ;
               &
               yet
               some
               patients
               have
               superviv'd
               such
               rash
               practice
               ,
               yet
               not
               to
               be
               received
               as
               abhoristicall
               ,
               nor
               logically
               proved
               ,
               more
               then
               an
               accident
               to
               be
               a
               substance
               .
               But
               for
               the
               Ancient
               ,
               and
               most
               Learned
               Moderns
               of
               all
               Ages
               ,
               they
               are
               in
               this
               disease
               upon
               the
               scope
               of
               propeling
               Medicaments
               from
               the
               Centre
               to
               the
               circumference
               ,
               or
               from
               the
               internal
               to
               the
               external
               skin
               ;
               such
               as
               are
               decoctions
               of
               figs
               ,
               Calendula
               flowers
               ,
               and
               Saffron
               ,
               in
               their
               just
               proportion
               boyled
               in
               milk
               ,
               and
               
               all
               astringent
               Medicaments
               to
               be
               prohibited
               in
               the
               beginning
               of
               ebullitior
               ,
               because
               their
               astringency
               is
               a
               Remora
               and
               delay
               to
               nature
               in
               propelling
               the
               peccant
               cause
               ,
               except
               some
               supervenient
               flux
               of
               the
               belly
               shall
               urge
               it
               ;
               but
               the
               precedent
               ordinance
               ,
               I
               recommend
               as
               the
               safest
               from
               the
               beginning
               of
               this
               disease
               ,
               to
               the
               declension
               ,
               〈◊〉
               healing
               ,
               expelling
               ,
               and
               nourishing
               .
               And
               let
               it
               be
               a
               note
               in
               the
               Margent
               that
               this
               disease
               is
               most
               safely
               cured
               by
               regular
               Government
               and
               little
               medicine
               ,
               and
               in
               this
               Land
               or
               Nation
               of
               English
               ,
               to
               whom
               I
               appeal●
               the
               most
               successful
               .
            
             
               And
               we
               must
               not
               rashly
               reject
               the
               Antient
               ,
               national
               and
               successful
               Government
               of
               our
               own
               Nation
               ,
               ridiculously
               to
               perish
               by
               the
               mode
               of
               another
               ,
               
               as
               much
               unknown
               to
               us
               ,
               as
               we
               to
               them
               in
               Education
               ,
               Humour
               ,
               and
               Intellect
               ;
               and
               as
               manifest
               a
               difference
               in
               all
               ,
               as
               is
               in
               the
               originall
               of
               colours
               :
               and
               every
               Nation
               doth
               build
               upon
               their
               own
               basis
               ,
               and
               their
               own
               observations
               and
               experience
               ,
               both
               natural
               and
               moral
               ,
               which
               are
               the
               rule
               of
               their
               own
               Government
               and
               Commerce
               with
               strangers
               ,
               which
               rule
               is
               natural
               to
               them
               ,
               and
               the
               opposition
               as
               diametricall
               contrary
               as
               black
               and
               white
               ;
               and
               such
               a
               pass
               from
               one
               extreme
               to
               the
               other
               is
               equally
               unreasonable
               ,
               and
               such
               hasty
               motion
               can
               prove
               but
               Phaetontical
               and
               insuccessful
               .
               The
               mode
               of
               strange
               habits
               in
               apparell
               may
               be
               received
               according
               to
               appetite
               and
               fancy
               without
               perill
               of
               life
               ;
               and
               artificers
               of
               severall
               Regions
               must
               be
               most
               dexterous
               in
               their
               operation
               ,
               
               and
               more
               compliant
               with
               the
               humour
               and
               fancy
               of
               the
               natives
               thereof
               ;
               but
               the
               gift
               of
               healing
               is
               not
               equally
               dispensed
               in
               every
               Region
               :
               Hippocrates
               condemneth
               all
               the
               Gnydian
               Physicians
               as
               the
               worst
               orderers
               of
               dyet
               in
               diseases
               of
               that
               age
               ;
               and
               a
               great
               distinction
               there
               is
               between
               Physicians
               of
               all
               Nations
               in
               their
               successe
               :
               so
               that
               the
               gift
               of
               healing
               is
               not
               equally
               dispensed
               to
               all
               the
               Sons
               of
               Art
               and
               Learning
               ,
               for
               I
               have
               known
               as
               Learned
               Professors
               as
               are
               in
               the
               World
               ;
               and
               the
               want
               of
               success
               in
               their
               practise
               ,
               hath
               caused
               some
               to
               relinquish
               their
               Profession
               :
               therefore
               a
               disposition
               naturall
               gaineth
               more
               in
               a
               short
               time
               of
               Excellency
               ,
               then
               any
               compulsion
               can
               effect
               .
               And
               this
               naturall
               difference
               in
               dispositions
               is
               the
               proper
               subject
               of
               that
               gift
               of
               
               healing
               ,
               the
               donor
               a
               free
               agent
               ,
               the
               recipient
               a
               subject
               fitted
               to
               receive
               the
               full
               impression
               without
               resistance
               ,
               either
               to
               science
               or
               success
               ;
               and
               these
               are
               Hippocrates
               his
               Sons
               of
               the
               gods
               by
               whom
               he
               swore
               ,
               and
               that
               (
               plurality
               of
               deity
               excepted
               )
               was
               an
               Oath
               not
               over-matched
               by
               any
               Christian
               form
               of
               swearing
               ;
               and
               his
               prayer
               at
               the
               Altar
               was
               a
               Sacrifice
               of
               the
               highest
               Antiquity
               .
            
             
               Besides
               this
               distinction
               ,
               of
               Artists
               ,
               especially
               Physicians
               of
               whom
               there
               can
               be
               none
               so
               expert
               &
               satisfactory
               in
               his
               applications
               to
               a
               native
               of
               a
               different
               clime
               and
               custome
               as
               the
               person
               who
               is
               born
               and
               Educated
               in
               the
               same
               place
               ,
               and
               those
               ingredients
               to
               their
               remedy
               which
               will
               not
               agree
               with
               the
               curiosity
               nor
               reason
               of
               a
               strange
               Artist
               ,
               shall
               prove
               by
               their
               custom
               
               to
               be
               a
               specifical
               remedy
               to
               those
               Natives
               in
               their
               own
               Region
               :
               as
               in
               Holland
               ,
               their
               butter-milk
               and
               apples
               is
               their
               most
               cordial
               refershment
               in
               all
               diseases
               ,
               and
               in
               all
               those
               places
               ;
               and
               of
               more
               esteem
               then
               any
               other
               remedy
               ,
               and
               most
               prescribed
               by
               their
               Native
               Physicians
               ;
               and
               if
               you
               meet
               with
               the
               prescript
               of
               a
               pickled-herring
               ,
               with
               an
               order
               to
               prepare
               it
               ,
               you
               have
               then
               a
               Probatum
               in
               all
               diseases
               ;
               for
               there
               is
               no
               full
               satisfaction
               given
               to
               any
               of
               that
               Nation
               ,
               if
               these
               remedies
               be
               prohibited
               .
               And
               answerably
               there
               is
               a
               natural
               adherence
               in
               all
               Nations
               to
               their
               own
               custom
               ,
               
                 Suum
                 cuique
                 pulchrum
              
               ,
               the
               Crow
               conceiveth
               her
               own
               bird
               the
               fairest
               ,
               and
               so
               doth
               the
               Negro
               .
               And
               both
               man
               and
               beast
               ,
               as
               they
               have
               an
               aliment
               proper
               to
               their
               own
               Nature
               ,
               so
               naturally
               
               they
               elect
               their
               own
               Physick
               ;
               the
               fowles
               that
               feed
               according
               to
               their
               kind
               upon
               corn
               ,
               worms
               ,
               and
               carrion
               ,
               when
               they
               are
               diseased
               will
               seek
               out
               stones
               to
               cool
               them
               ,
               and
               other
               disgorging
               remedies
               they
               find
               out
               ,
               as
               the
               dog
               doth
               grass
               :
               therefore
               
                 non
                 omnia
                 omnis
                 fert
                 tellus
              
               .
               But
               of
               all
               terrestrial
               inhabitants
               ,
               the
               English
               do
               most
               distast
               the
               productions
               of
               their
               own
               Country
               in
               Nature
               and
               Education
               ,
               which
               presenteth
               an
               invitation
               to
               all
               Nations
               to
               supplant
               and
               impoverish
               the
               Natives
               and
               off-spring
               of
               our
               own
               Country
               ,
               or
               else
               inforceth
               them
               to
               stamp
               a
               strange
               name
               ,
               especially
               upon
               pieces
               of
               Art
               ,
               to
               make
               them
               vendible
               ,
               to
               the
               great
               incouragement
               of
               strangers
               and
               impoverishing
               our
               own
               Nation
               :
               amongst
               whom
               there
               may
               by
               encouragement
               be
               pickt
               out
               
               an
               equality
               to
               the
               whole
               Universe
               ;
               the
               neglect
               whereof
               doth
               as
               much
               infeeble
               the
               persons
               as
               the
               plants
               ,
               without
               support
               answerable
               to
               their
               capacity
               .
               I
               have
               lived
               a
               long
               time
               amongst
               divers
               Nations
               ,
               and
               according
               to
               my
               time
               have
               had
               as
               much
               conversation
               with
               all
               sorts
               of
               people
               and
               professions
               ;
               and
               (
               without
               National
               indulgence
               )
               could
               not
               apprehend
               any
               excellency
               unmatchable
               in
               England
               ,
               especially
               ,
               before
               these
               latter
               Rebellious
               Ages
               ,
               which
               was
               the
               discouragement
               of
               all
               Artists
               ,
               and
               suppression
               of
               Arts
               and
               Sciences
               ;
               and
               in
               policy
               fomented
               by
               all
               neighbouring-Nations
               for
               the
               universall
               advance
               of
               their
               profit
               ,
               and
               reputation
               of
               their
               Nation
               :
               and
               by
               their
               Industry
               and
               our
               own
               rebellious
               spirits
               ,
               the
               Gallantry
               ,
               Honour
               ,
               Education
               and
               Antient
               
               renown
               of
               our
               own
               Country
               hath
               been
               sepulted
               in
               oblivion
               .
               And
               now
               those
               Sects
               of
               Sadduces
               ,
               that
               would
               not
               entertain
               the
               faith
               of
               a
               resurrection
               ,
               are
               now
               forced
               with
               grief
               and
               shame
               to
               confesse
               it
               ,
               and
               without
               doubt
               shall
               daily
               see
               this
               corruption
               to
               put
               on
               incorruption
               ,
               and
               our
               Nation
               to
               return
               to
               their
               former
               principles
               more
               purified
               by
               this
               fiery
               tryall
               ,
               and
               to
               re-erect
               the
               Antient
               Memory
               and
               Monuments
               of
               all
               the
               Antient
               Professors
               of
               Arts
               ,
               and
               Sciences
               so
               odious
               to
               the
               spawn
               of
               this
               last
               Age
               ,
               some
               of
               which
               were
               then
               thankfull
               they
               had
               forgot
               the
               Lords
               Prayer
               ;
               and
               others
               that
               had
               turned
               all
               the
               Schools
               of
               Antient
               Philosophy
               into
               furnaces
               and
               luxurious
               houses
               for
               sweating
               intemperate
               persons
               ;
               and
               these
               are
               the
               off-spring
               of
               Phacton
               driving
               on
               
               their
               fiery
               Chariot
               ,
               till
               they
               have
               crackt
               their
               skulls
               with
               their
               own
               sublimation
               of
               spirits
               ,
               for
               ayre
               rarefied
               must
               find
               vent
               or
               force
               it
               .
               
                 Iohannes
                 Crato
              
               is
               not
               to
               be
               condemned
               because
               his
               Tutor
               Educated
               him
               in
               Chymistry
               ,
               but
               to
               be
               highly
               applauded
               for
               his
               non-profession
               of
               it
               upon
               the
               uncertainty
               in
               the
               operation
               ,
               
                 quia
                 totum
                 opus
                 constat
                 in
                 regimine
                 ignis
                 ,
              
               and
               as
               a
               Mathematician
               ought
               to
               be
               a
               King
               according
               to
               Proverb
               ,
               because
               of
               the
               expence
               his
               variety
               of
               instruments
               doth
               charge
               him
               with
               ;
               so
               ought
               the
               operatour
               to
               have
               more
               money
               then
               Learing
               ,
               to
               fit
               himself
               with
               a
               furnace
               for
               that
               equall
               heat
               which
               shall
               without
               dispute
               separate
               his
               Homogeneals
               from
               his
               Heterogeneals
               ;
               without
               which
               Regiment
               of
               fire
               it
               cannot
               be
               effected
               .
               And
               this
               is
               the
               reason
               why
               
               every
               pretender
               to
               excellency
               in
               Chymistry
               spendeth
               his
               whole
               industry
               in
               the
               figure
               of
               his
               furnace
               ,
               and
               though
               he
               doth
               rejoyce
               and
               warm
               himself
               at
               his
               own
               external
               furnace
               ,
               yet
               those
               infiered
               spirits
               of
               minerals
               are
               to
               the
               spirits
               of
               animals
               and
               innate
               heat
               as
               over-powering
               ,
               as
               the
               Sun
               is
               to
               all
               Culine
               fire
               which
               putteth
               it
               out
               ;
               and
               so
               it
               hath
               proved
               to
               all
               operators
               which
               have
               been
               exact
               in
               their
               office
               ;
               they
               have
               been
               buryed
               very
               young
               in
               it
               .
               And
               this
               was
               a
               great
               observation
               of
               Crato
               ,
               that
               Paracelsus
               which
               proclaimed
               eternity
               to
               himself
               in
               this
               World
               ,
               did
               not
               live
               above
               45.
               years
               ;
               nor
               the
               Germane
               Princess
               ,
               used
               to
               those
               medicall
               preparations
               .
               And
               himself
               as
               a
               Galenist
               boasteth
               of
               living
               with
               three
               Emperours
               ,
               and
               creating
               his
               own
               Grand-child
               
               Doctor
               of
               the
               Chair
               :
               but
               all
               such
               observations
               are
               out
               of
               date
               and
               superannuated
               ;
               nor
               can
               an
               old
               man
               perswade
               children
               from
               playing
               with
               fire
               till
               they
               have
               burnt
               themselves
               .
               But
               more
               clearly
               to
               signifie
               my
               own
               sense
               in
               Chymical
               operations
               ,
               I
               cannot
               but
               approve
               the
               employment
               out
               of
               curiosity
               ,
               because
               it
               is
               a
               great
               discovery
               of
               mixt
               bodies
               ,
               and
               their
               mixture
               ,
               which
               is
               a
               great
               pleasure
               to
               sense
               ,
               but
               not
               as
               medicinal
               remedies
               to
               be
               acceptable
               or
               homogeneal
               to
               humane
               tempers
               :
               but
               the
               preparation
               of
               Vegetals
               without
               exception
               ,
               exceeding
               usefull
               in
               the
               composure
               of
               medicaments
               ,
               because
               they
               are
               prepared
               in
               the
               womb
               or
               furnace
               of
               the
               Earth
               by
               a
               perfect
               temper
               of
               fire
               ,
               and
               need
               nothing
               but
               a
               separation
               from
               their
               
                 terra
                 damnata
              
               ;
               and
               their
               
               tincture
               very
               useful
               .
               And
               as
               it
               is
               more
               pleasure
               to
               the
               operator
               ,
               so
               is
               it
               free
               from
               danger
               which
               cannot
               be
               avoided
               in
               working
               upon
               mineral
               and
               metalical
               bodies
               ,
               as
               may
               be
               observed
               from
               Goldsmiths
               ,
               the
               major
               part
               of
               them
               being
               enervated
               and
               paralytick
               before
               they
               are
               of
               any
               considerable
               age
               of
               consistency
               ;
               and
               had
               they
               not
               their
               remedy
               always
               at
               hand
               ,
               they
               would
               be
               soon
               ruined
               and
               useless
               in
               the
               world
               .
               The
               same
               accidents
               happen
               to
               miners
               that
               work
               in
               the
               earth
               amongst
               minerals
               and
               metals
               ,
               who
               very
               often
               are
               suffocated
               or
               strangled
               in
               the
               place
               .
               These
               experiments
               being
               undenyable
               are
               arguments
               of
               sufficient
               force
               and
               demonstration
               to
               prove
               their
               non-agreement
               or
               consent
               with
               humane
               principles
               ;
               but
               for
               the
               advancement
               of
               Art
               and
               Science
               ,
               
               adventures
               must
               be
               made
               and
               adventures
               rewarded
               with
               respect
               and
               applause
               .
               The
               Navigator
               maketh
               discovery
               by
               the
               light
               of
               the
               Sun
               in
               its
               full
               splendor
               :
               but
               he
               that
               searcheth
               into
               the
               bowels
               of
               the
               earth
               hath
               no
               immediate
               assistance
               from
               that
               planet
               ,
               therefore
               their
               discovery
               is
               more
               obscure
               ,
               laborious
               and
               dangerous
               ,
               and
               their
               reward
               ought
               to
               be
               more
               ample
               .
               And
               now
               I
               return
               to
               my
               proper
               subject
               ,
               and
               briefly
               to
               the
               conclusion
               of
               this
               discourse
               of
               the
               specifical
               internal
               remedies
               in
               this
               disease
               of
               the
               Small
               Pox
               ,
               about
               which
               there
               is
               much
               litigation
               and
               dispute
               between
               the
               Ancient
               and
               Modern
               professors
               of
               medicine
               ,
               sufficient
               to
               stuff
               up
               a
               Volume
               of
               paper
               :
               therefore
               I
               shall
               upon
               my
               own
               experience
               and
               successe
               recommend
               to
               my
               Country
               the
               sole
               use
               of
               Saffron
               
               and
               Milk
               ,
               as
               a
               Probatum
               in
               this
               puerile
               disease
               ,
               and
               according
               to
               the
               custom
               of
               our
               English
               Nation
               without
               alteration
               from
               the
               beginning
               to
               the
               declension
               of
               the
               disease
               ,
               and
               for
               these
               reasons
               ,
               because
               the
               milk
               is
               sufficiently
               nutritive
               and
               healing
               ,
               and
               the
               Saffron
               a
               cordial
               propellent
               of
               the
               cause
               in
               ebullition
               from
               the
               Centre
               to
               the
               circumference
               ;
               and
               for
               a
               common
               drink
               in
               the
               place
               of
               Ptysan
               to
               use
               a
               small
               decoction
               of
               Sulfur
               ,
               which
               moveth
               by
               sweat
               to
               the
               universal
               emunctory
               of
               the
               skin
               ,
               and
               dryeth
               up
               superfluous
               moisture
               ,
               lesseneth
               the
               quantity
               of
               matter
               ,
               and
               giveth
               
                 a
                 levamen
              
               to
               the
               naturall
               spirits
               in
               their
               motion
               ;
               and
               for
               this
               practise
               I
               must
               return
               my
               acknowledgment
               and
               respect
               to
               Gartias
               the
               Portugal
               Physician
               .
               
                 Amatus
                 Lucitanus
              
               with
               other
               
               Moderns
               of
               the
               same
               sense
               ,
               prescribeth
               for
               an
               ordinary
               drink
               in
               this
               disease
               ,
               the
               decoction
               of
               barley
               with
               Sorrel
               ,
               which
               cannot
               be
               so
               siguificant
               as
               the
               decoction
               of
               Salsa
               ;
               because
               their
               refrigeration
               constantly
               will
               debilitate
               natural
               heat
               ,
               and
               by
               reason
               of
               such
               a
               check
               the
               motion
               of
               nature
               is
               impedted
               ;
               and
               therefore
               Fernelius
               affirmeth
               that
               hot
               diseases
               are
               more
               unsafe
               in
               their
               cure
               then
               diseases
               of
               cold
               ;
               because
               cold
               remedies
               are
               altogether
               used
               as
               a
               contrary
               remedy
               to
               heat
               ,
               by
               which
               cold
               correction
               of
               preter-naturall
               heat
               ,
               natural
               heat
               it self
               is
               also
               extinguished
               ,
               for
               which
               cause
               the
               application
               of
               constant
               Apozems
               ought
               to
               be
               moderately
               hot
               and
               moist
               ,
               there
               may
               be
               much
               more
               argumentation
               upon
               the
               point
               ,
               but
               very
               little
               more
               I
               conceive
               
                 à
                 proprio
              
               ,
               for
               it
               is
               not
               argumentation
               
               that
               cureth
               diseases
               ,
               but
               the
               seasonable
               application
               of
               specificall
               remedies
               ;
               and
               he
               that
               will
               make
               more
               haste
               then
               good
               speed
               shall
               have
               little
               comfort
               in
               his
               undertakings
               ,
               and
               much
               less
               if
               his
               remedy
               be
               improper
               ;
               for
               it
               is
               the
               specifical
               quantity
               of
               the
               remedy
               that
               cureth
               every
               disease
               ;
               and
               cures
               according
               to
               Sanctorius
               ,
               consist
               not
               in
               pluralities
               of
               medicaments
               ,
               but
               the
               property
               of
               them
               answerable
               to
               the
               disease
               ;
               and
               this
               is
               the
               reason
               why
               an
               old
               woman
               doth
               often
               by
               her
               experience
               of
               an
               imperical
               medicament
               make
               a
               cure
               of
               some
               particular
               affect
               relinquished
               by
               Learned
               practisers
               both
               in
               medicine
               and
               Chyrurgery
               :
               neither
               are
               all
               diseases
               cured
               by
               a
               contrary
               remedy
               ,
               (
               though
               the
               rule
               of
               contrary
               be
               universal
               ,
               because
               it
               admitteth
               exception
               ,
               as
               burning
               is
               sooner
               
               cured
               by
               the
               scorching
               heat
               of
               fire
               ,
               then
               by
               any
               other
               cold
               remedy
               ;
               so
               also
               a
               〈◊〉
               is
               a
               convulsive
               motion
               :
               and
               cured
               by
               sternation
               which
               is
               a
               like
               convulsive
               motion
               ,
               so
               also
               a
               lassitude
               by
               exercise
               is
               cured
               by
               the
               like
               exercise
               .
               Thirdly
               ,
               a
               fever
               is
               a
               hot
               and
               dry
               distemper
               ,
               but
               this
               distemper
               is
               cured
               by
               hot
               and
               dry
               remedies
               ,
               ●rgo
               the
               disease
               is
               cured
               by
               its
               simile
               ,
               for
               if
               a
               tertian
               or
               ardent
               fever
               be
               cured
               by
               Rhabarb
               and
               
                 Scammonie
                 ,
                 &c.
              
               which
               are
               hot
               &
               dry
               ,
               then
               the
               remedies
               convein
               to
               the
               cause
               and
               not
               to
               the
               fever
               as
               a
               disease
               ;
               and
               according
               to
               
                 Galen
                 lib.
                 6.
                 
                 Epid.
              
               one
               pain
               is
               cured
               by
               another
               .
               
                 Hippocrates
                 lib.
                 2.
                 
                 Aph.
                 46.
              
               the
               greater
               and
               most
               vehement
               pain
               obscureth
               the
               less
               pain
               ,
               
                 lib.
                 2.
                 aphor
                 .
                 26.
              
               a
               fever
               supervening
               a
               convuision
               is
               good
               ▪
               but
               not
               a
               convulsion
               
               upon
               a
               fever
               in
               his
               4th
               .
               Book
               
                 aphor
                 .
                 57.
              
               in
               a
               convulsion
               or
               distention
               of
               the
               nerves
               if
               a
               fever
               shall
               supervene
               ;
               it
               absolveth
               the
               disease
               in
               his
               5.
               
               Book
               
                 aphor
                 .
                 21.
              
               so
               also
               is
               vomiting
               cured
               with
               vomiting
               ,
               and
               purging
               with
               purging
               .
               Fourthly
               ,
               a
               Tetanus
               is
               cured
               by
               pouring
               water
               upon
               the
               head
               ,
               
                 lib.
                 5.
                 aphor
                 .
                 25.
              
               but
               a
               return
               is
               from
               a
               cold
               cause
               ,
               and
               cured
               by
               a
               cold
               remedy
               according
               to
               
                 Epiphamus
                 ,
                 Ferdinandus
              
               and
               
                 Avicen
                 lib.
                 fen
                 .
                 4.
                 cap.
                 1.
              
               saith
               ,
               that
               all
               diseases
               are
               not
               to
               be
               cured
               by
               contraries
               ,
               because
               some
               are
               cured
               by
               dyet
               ,
               as
               is
               expressed
               formerly
               in
               the
               Small
               Pox
               ,
               others
               by
               their
               simile
               ,
               as
               is
               before
               said
               .
               Fifthly
               ,
               those
               diseases
               are
               onely
               to
               be
               cured
               by
               contrary
               remedies
               that
               can
               obtain
               their
               contrary
               remedies
               ,
               for
               many
               diseases
               want
               their
               〈◊〉
               remedy
               ,
               
               such
               as
               are
               diseases
               
                 in
                 via
                 &
                 numero
              
               .
               Sixthly
               ,
               an
               apoplexia
               ever
               endeth
               in
               a
               Paralysis
               ,
               which
               is
               ,
               a
               resolution
               of
               the
               nerves
               ,
               with
               a
               deprivation
               of
               sense
               and
               motion
               in
               the
               part
               .
               
                 Gal.
                 lib.
                 4
                 de
                 loc
                 .
                 affect
                 .
              
               So
               that
               one
               disease
               
                 quantum
                 ad
                 causam
              
               is
               cured
               by
               the
               simile
               .
               In
               the
               7th
               .
               place
               according
               to
               Arist.
               one
               contrary
               is
               corroborated
               by
               the
               other
               contrary
               being
               present
               ;
               therefore
               cures
               cannot
               onely
               be
               effected
               by
               contraries
               .
               To
               conclude
               ,
               curing
               sometimes
               is
               effected
               by
               occult
               qualities
               ,
               acting
               from
               the
               property
               of
               the
               whole
               substance
               ,
               such
               as
               are
               Bezoarticks
               ;
               therefore
               not
               by
               contraries
               ,
               nor
               is
               this
               last
               proposition
               true
               in
               all
               things
               ,
               because
               
                 Hipp.
                 lib.
                 5.
                 aphor
                 .
                 19.
              
               cold
               parts
               are
               alwaies
               to
               be
               warmed
               except
               in
               a
               flux
               of
               bloud
               ,
               so
               that
               by
               this
               argumentation
               all
               diseases
               
               are
               to
               be
               cured
               by
               their
               specifical
               remedy
               ,
               and
               not
               by
               the
               multiplication
               of
               ingredients
               In
               my
               sense
               the
               least
               variety
               of
               medicaments
               in
               this
               disease
               of
               the
               Small
               Pox
               ,
               is
               most
               successful
               ;
               for
               various
               and
               often
               applications
               and
               mixture
               in
               remedies
               doth
               perturb
               nature
               as
               much
               ,
               if
               not
               more
               then
               continual
               eating
               and
               drinking
               in
               a
               sane
               body
               ,
               and
               by
               irrecoverable
               vexation
               of
               the
               patient
               ,
               doth
               frustrate
               the
               expectation
               of
               the
               agent
               .
               To
               conclude
               ,
               what
               I
               have
               written
               is
               agreeable
               to
               Antient
               and
               Learned
               Authority
               ,
               and
               no
               fanatick
               conception
               ,
               to
               make
               the
               world
               believe
               that
               these
               truths
               were
               not
               established
               before
               by
               Learned
               Professors
               ,
               though
               not
               so
               far
               extended
               to
               vulg●r
               apprehension
               .
               I
               am
               none
               of
               that
               society
               that
               dispute
               against
               that
               old
               
               axiome
               ,
               
                 quod
                 nihil
                 dictum
                 quod
                 non
                 dictum
                 prius
                 ,
              
               nor
               hath
               it
               been
               hitherto
               my
               fortune
               to
               cast
               any
               eye
               upon
               any
               Modern
               that
               had
               not
               his
               ante-delineation
               from
               some
               precedent
               ,
               and
               deduced
               from
               a
               former
               illumination
               ;
               but
               the
               addition
               to
               invention
               is
               common
               and
               frequent
               in
               every
               age
               ,
               there
               are
               differences
               in
               Writers
               as
               much
               as
               in
               painters
               ,
               but
               none
               did
               ever
               pensil
               a
               draught
               to
               life
               by
               a
               meer
               copy
               ,
               nor
               can
               they
               do
               it
               without
               copy
               .
               So
               that
               the
               difference
               is
               in
               the
               aptitude
               of
               some
               above
               other
               to
               present
               the
               copy
               more
               lively
               ,
               that
               only
               ,
               that
               is
               the
               proceed
               of
               meer
               fancy
               ,
               is
               to
               sense
               nothing
               but
               confusion
               and
               void
               of
               any
               signification
               ;
               nor
               will
               appear
               in
               art
               any
               thing
               but
               a
               monstrosity
               ,
               and
               in
               science
               some
               vulgar
               errors
               ,
               some
               will
               have
               the
               Philosophy
               of
               Ducartus
               to
               be
               a
               
               new
               Philosophy
               of
               his
               own
               coyning
               ,
               but
               himself
               will
               not
               deny
               his
               illumination
               was
               from
               Aristotle
               .
               Dr.
               Harvy
               his
               circulation
               of
               bloud
               was
               by
               the
               Antients
               nominated
               a
               motion
               of
               bloud
               by
               the
               continuation
               of
               parts
               ,
               of
               which
               none
               were
               ignorant
               ,
               though
               not
               expert
               in
               dissection
               of
               living
               bodies
               :
               so
               also
               is
               the
               
                 nova
                 medicina
              
               laboratory
               infired
               by
               the
               antient
               luminaries
               ,
               and
               bellowsed
               up
               by
               operators
               of
               several
               and
               different
               fancies
               ,
               and
               these
               additions
               are
               ordinary
               to
               invention
               ;
               and
               such
               addition
               is
               but
               the
               extention
               of
               a
               first
               invention
               ,
               as
               one
               that
               in
               his
               travel
               maketh
               a
               discovery
               of
               a
               land
               unknown
               before
               ,
               cannot
               say
               that
               land
               was
               not
               in
               being
               before
               ;
               and
               if
               by
               the
               exact
               travell
               of
               a
               second
               person
               a
               larger
               discovery
               be
               made
               ,
               this
               discovery
               is
               but
               an
               inlargement
               and
               
               extension
               of
               the
               first
               discovery
               ,
               and
               so
               may
               be
               a
               succession
               of
               discoveries
               
                 ad
                 infinitum
              
               ,
               and
               so
               it
               is
               generally
               in
               all
               invention
               :
               as
               in
               medicine
               ,
               the
               first
               invention
               of
               remedies
               was
               from
               experience
               deduced
               from
               observation
               ;
               and
               upon
               further
               observation
               of
               more
               exacter
               intellects
               ,
               the
               reason
               of
               such
               applications
               ,
               and
               the
               specificall
               qualities
               of
               the
               remedy
               more
               exactly
               discovered
               ,
               which
               is
               an
               addition
               to
               the
               first
               observation
               .
               Moreover
               ,
               the
               motion
               of
               the
               bloud
               was
               by
               the
               continuation
               of
               parts
               ,
               as
               veins
               and
               arteries
               ,
               and
               no
               farther
               discovered
               ,
               untill
               my
               most
               learned
               Predecessor
               by
               his
               exact
               observation
               demonstrated
               the
               manner
               of
               its
               motion
               to
               be
               circular
               ,
               which
               is
               a
               farther
               extension
               of
               the
               first
               observation
               .
               And
               thus
               one
               Artist
               differeth
               from
               the
               other
               in
               the
               
               invention
               about
               the
               first
               discovery
               ,
               which
               was
               the
               originall
               copy
               and
               compass
               by
               which
               they
               steered
               .
               And
               thus
               I
               have
               steered
               this
               discourse
               to
               a
               haven
               where
               my
               intention
               is
               to
               lodge
               my
               vessel
               ,
               and
               if
               the
               unlading
               prove
               profitable
               to
               my
               Countrey
               ,
               let
               them
               take
               it
               at
               their
               own
               valuation
               .
            
             
               FINIS
               .
            
          
        
      
       
         
           
             
             
               QUESTIONS
               PROBLEMATICAL
               Concerning
               the
               
                 French
                 PEST
              
               .
               By
               
                 Tebias
                 Whitaker
              
               M.
               D.
               Physician
               in
               Ordinary
               to
               the
               King
               and
               his
               Houshold
               .
            
             
               LONDON
               ,
               Printed
               for
               
                 Nath.
                 Brook
              
               at
               the
               Angel
               in
               
                 Cornhill
                 ,
                 1661.
              
               
            
          
        
         
           
             
             
             
               Questions
               Problematical
               Concerning
               the
               FRENCH
               PEST
               ,
               &c.
               
            
             
               NAtural
               motion
               is
               from
               imperfection
               to
               perfection
               ,
               and
               according
               to
               nature
               I
               do
               now
               move
               from
               the
               disease
               of
               children
               which
               is
               nominated
               the
               
                 Small
                 Pox
              
               ,
               to
               the
               grand
               disease
               of
               man-kind
               ,
               which
               is
               nominated
               the
               
                 French
                 Pest.
              
               From
               whence
               they
               contracted
               it
               ,
               is
               not
               now
               the
               question
               ,
               but
               other
               questions
               of
               more
               subtilty
               ,
               are
               my
               
               present
               Subject
               of
               Discourse
               as
               followeth
               .
            
             
               
                 QUEST
                 .
                 I.
                 
              
               
                 Why
                 this
                 French
                 disease
                 should
                 lodge
                 in
                 humane
                 bodies
                 for
                 many
                 years
                 without
                 signification
                 or
                 discovery
                 ,
                 and
                 then
                 appear
                 with
                 its
                 proper
                 symptoms
                 of
                 malice
                 and
                 contagion
                 .
              
               
                 Mercurialis
                 affirmeth
                 that
                 the
                 poyson
                 in
                 a
                 mad
                 dog
                 is
                 so
                 lodged
                 for
                 many
                 years
                 before
                 it
                 appeareth
                 in
                 act
                 ;
                 but
                 giveth
                 no
                 farther
                 reason
                 why
                 it
                 is
                 so
                 ;
                 which
                 is
                 my
                 present
                 undertaking
                 .
                 As
                 for
                 the
                 reality
                 of
                 it
                 that
                 is
                 obvious
                 to
                 sense
                 ,
                 and
                 doth
                 visibly
                 appear
                 ,
                 and
                 how
                 it
                 is
                 for
                 longer
                 or
                 shorter
                 time
                 so
                 lodged
                 ,
                 will
                 be
                 as
                 apparent
                 to
                 sense
                 ,
                 as
                 may
                 be
                 argued
                 from
                 the
                 containing
                 subject
                 more
                 or
                 less
                 ,
                 or
                 in
                 a
                 longer
                 or
                 shorter
                 time
                 
                 disposed
                 to
                 produce
                 this
                 occult
                 quality
                 into
                 act
                 ,
                 conjunct
                 with
                 activity
                 of
                 motion
                 sooner
                 ,
                 or
                 impotency
                 of
                 natural
                 power
                 which
                 doth
                 retard
                 it
                 ,
                 and
                 lodgeth
                 it
                 for
                 a
                 longer
                 time
                 without
                 any
                 symptom
                 of
                 eruption
                 ,
                 and
                 the
                 malice
                 is
                 more
                 according
                 to
                 the
                 quantity
                 of
                 matter
                 impregnated
                 with
                 a
                 virulent
                 quality
                 .
                 And
                 that
                 it
                 doth
                 so
                 lodge
                 without
                 impediment
                 or
                 hinderance
                 to
                 the
                 naturall
                 action
                 of
                 the
                 person
                 in
                 whom
                 it
                 lodgeth
                 ,
                 is
                 manifest
                 to
                 sense
                 in
                 the
                 menstruosity
                 of
                 women
                 ,
                 which
                 cast
                 a
                 venene-spot
                 upon
                 the
                 speigle
                 or
                 looking-glasse
                 and
                 yet
                 in
                 health
                 ,
                 and
                 
                   sine
                   actione
                   laesa
                
                 in
                 themselves
                 :
                 and
                 as
                 it
                 is
                 a
                 venemous
                 quality
                 in
                 their
                 bloud
                 ,
                 so
                 hath
                 it
                 lodged
                 in
                 them
                 untill
                 their
                 time
                 of
                 puberty
                 without
                 any
                 such
                 discovery
                 .
                 And
                 so
                 doth
                 the
                 French
                 disease
                 lodge
                 in
                 
                 the
                 Spermatick
                 matter
                 of
                 humane
                 bodys
                 some
                 years
                 before
                 it
                 appeareth
                 ,
                 and
                 for
                 such
                 time
                 without
                 sensible
                 offence
                 to
                 them
                 :
                 but
                 the
                 time
                 of
                 latency
                 longer
                 or
                 shorter
                 dependeth
                 upon
                 quality
                 of
                 the
                 recipient
                 matter
                 in
                 which
                 it
                 is
                 contained
                 ,
                 as
                 the
                 putrifying
                 quality
                 in
                 those
                 that
                 are
                 subject
                 to
                 the
                 Stone
                 ,
                 which
                 disturbeth
                 some
                 tempers
                 sooner
                 and
                 stronger
                 then
                 others
                 according
                 to
                 the
                 quality
                 of
                 the
                 matter
                 in
                 which
                 it
                 is
                 involved
                 :
                 as
                 is
                 observable
                 in
                 all
                 poysons
                 which
                 work
                 according
                 to
                 the
                 capacity
                 of
                 the
                 recipient
                 matter
                 more
                 or
                 lesse
                 disposed
                 to
                 receive
                 impression
                 .
                 As
                 in
                 minerals
                 ,
                 sulphur
                 will
                 sooner
                 fire
                 then
                 amber
                 ,
                 and
                 in
                 vegetals
                 flax
                 will
                 sooner
                 be
                 fired
                 then
                 wood
                 ;
                 and
                 though
                 these
                 be
                 sensible
                 ,
                 yet
                 there
                 are
                 occult
                 qualities
                 in
                 poyson
                 imperceptible
                 in
                 their
                 
                 motion
                 ,
                 and
                 yet
                 sensible
                 in
                 their
                 effects
                 and
                 productions
                 ,
                 as
                 may
                 be
                 urged
                 from
                 the
                 springing
                 up
                 of
                 hearbs
                 and
                 grass
                 ,
                 which
                 moveth
                 imperceptibly
                 ;
                 and
                 yet
                 that
                 it
                 doth
                 move
                 is
                 sensibly
                 discovered
                 by
                 its
                 growth
                 in
                 a
                 short
                 time
                 ,
                 and
                 would
                 appear
                 in
                 perfection
                 at
                 the
                 first
                 reception
                 of
                 the
                 form
                 ,
                 were
                 it
                 not
                 impedited
                 and
                 delayed
                 by
                 the
                 indisposition
                 of
                 the
                 matter
                 informed
                 
                   à
                   vi
                   plastica
                
                 ,
                 and
                 this
                 is
                 the
                 reason
                 of
                 the
                 latency
                 of
                 this
                 disease
                 so
                 long
                 time
                 invisible
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 QUEST
                 .
                 II.
                 
              
               
                 Why
                 this
                 French
                 Pest
                 should
                 be
                 generated
                 in
                 men
                 and
                 women
                 free
                 from
                 any
                 venereal
                 act
                 or
                 impure
                 congression
                 .
              
               
                 That
                 it
                 may
                 be
                 so
                 generated
                 ,
                 and
                 that
                 it
                 is
                 so
                 ,
                 common
                 experience
                 doth
                 present
                 to
                 every
                 
                 eye
                 ;
                 and
                 the
                 Ancients
                 testifie
                 ,
                 
                   viz.
                   Galen
                   de
                   loc
                   .
                   affect
                   .
                   5.
                
                 in
                 these
                 words
                 translated
                 ,
                 affirmeth
                 ,
                 that
                 the
                 retention
                 of
                 seed
                 and
                 suppression
                 of
                 menstrual
                 courses
                 doth
                 terminate
                 in
                 such
                 poyson
                 as
                 will
                 effect
                 any
                 disease
                 according
                 to
                 the
                 disposition
                 and
                 temperament
                 of
                 the
                 body
                 ,
                 and
                 make
                 impression
                 upon
                 other
                 materials
                 different
                 in
                 nature
                 from
                 animals
                 ,
                 as
                 before
                 I
                 have
                 urged
                 concerning
                 women
                 with
                 their
                 aspect
                 upon
                 looking-glasses
                 in
                 the
                 time
                 of
                 menstruosity
                 ;
                 and
                 at
                 the
                 same
                 time
                 pollute
                 all
                 herbs
                 within
                 the
                 sphere
                 of
                 activity
                 or
                 contact
                 ,
                 and
                 so
                 observable
                 amongst
                 the
                 French
                 people
                 ,
                 that
                 they
                 will
                 not
                 permit
                 any
                 of
                 the
                 female
                 Sex
                 within
                 the
                 circuit
                 of
                 such
                 years
                 of
                 puberty
                 to
                 descend
                 their
                 Wine-cellars
                 or
                 approach
                 their
                 Vineyards
                 :
                 which
                 upon
                 observation
                 hath
                 been
                 so
                 
                 destructive
                 to
                 their
                 Vintage
                 ,
                 and
                 upon
                 any
                 impure
                 congressiō
                 with
                 women
                 at
                 such
                 time
                 ,
                 are
                 received
                 some
                 mortall
                 and
                 in
                 curable
                 diseases
                 ,
                 as
                 the
                 feprosie
                 ,
                 odious
                 a
                 curse
                 to
                 mankind
                 :
                 and
                 the
                 venereal
                 congression
                 with
                 women
                 at
                 such
                 time
                 ,
                 was
                 not
                 only
                 pr●h●bited
                 by
                 the
                 Iewes
                 ,
                 but
                 also
                 the
                 entrance
                 into
                 any
                 bath
                 with
                 the●
                 ;
                 therefore
                 if
                 the
                 bathing
                 such
                 persons
                 be
                 of
                 necessity
                 to
                 effect
                 their
                 health
                 ,
                 my
                 order
                 should
                 be
                 for
                 every
                 such
                 single
                 person
                 to
                 have
                 a
                 fresh
                 bath
                 to
                 themselves
                 and
                 their
                 own
                 private
                 use
                 .
                 And
                 thus
                 I
                 have
                 proved
                 that
                 this
                 disease
                 may
                 be
                 generated
                 in
                 a
                 man
                 out
                 of
                 his
                 own
                 impurity
                 ,
                 and
                 without
                 any
                 impure
                 congression
                 or
                 venereal
                 act
                 .
              
            
             
               
               
                 QUEST
                 .
                 III.
                 
              
               
                 After
                 what
                 manner
                 this
                 Pest
                 is
                 lodged
                 so
                 long
                 time
                 imperceptible
                 .
              
               
                 This
                 question
                 is
                 not
                 void
                 of
                 difficulty
                 to
                 resolve
                 ,
                 for
                 if
                 there
                 were
                 any
                 opposition
                 or
                 repulsion
                 from
                 nature
                 ,
                 then
                 the
                 venene
                 quality
                 upon
                 such
                 opposition
                 must
                 necessarily
                 beget
                 such
                 a
                 conflict
                 as
                 would
                 appear
                 sensible
                 ,
                 or
                 such
                 a
                 suppression
                 as
                 will
                 very
                 little
                 differ
                 from
                 a
                 total
                 extinction
                 of
                 such
                 venen●
                 motion
                 ;
                 therefore
                 my
                 answer
                 is
                 ,
                 that
                 viscosity
                 and
                 tenacity
                 of
                 the
                 humours
                 in
                 which
                 the
                 spirits
                 are
                 involved
                 ,
                 and
                 in
                 which
                 they
                 move
                 ,
                 or
                 their
                 extreme
                 coldness
                 ,
                 by
                 which
                 both
                 spirits
                 and
                 humours
                 are
                 so
                 congregated
                 ,
                 as
                 without
                 the
                 reflection
                 of
                 a
                 hotter
                 beam
                 ,
                 they
                 cannot
                 effect
                 any
                 motion
                 ;
                 or
                 by
                 neglect
                 of
                 timely
                 remedies
                 to
                 discharge
                 the
                 mass
                 of
                 bloud
                 of
                 such
                 malignity
                 ;
                 
                 for
                 diseases
                 not
                 resisted
                 in
                 the
                 beginning
                 do
                 insinuate
                 and
                 enter
                 into
                 the
                 subject
                 matter
                 insensibly
                 ,
                 untill
                 their
                 eruption
                 be
                 inavoidable
                 .
                 Other
                 causes
                 may
                 rise
                 from
                 irregularity
                 of
                 dyet
                 ,
                 or
                 want
                 of
                 exercise
                 to
                 rarefie
                 the
                 spirits
                 ,
                 attenuate
                 the
                 humours
                 ,
                 and
                 mundefie
                 the
                 masse
                 of
                 bloud
                 ;
                 for
                 the
                 want
                 of
                 such
                 motion
                 the
                 bloud
                 is
                 contaminated
                 ,
                 as
                 is
                 apparent
                 in
                 water-vesselled
                 up
                 from
                 the
                 motion
                 of
                 ayre
                 ,
                 without
                 which
                 motion
                 all
                 waters
                 would
                 be
                 but
                 an
                 Ocean
                 of
                 putrefaction
                 ,
                 to
                 the
                 ruine
                 of
                 all
                 creatures
                 upon
                 the
                 land
                 as
                 in
                 the
                 Sea.
                 Moreover
                 ,
                 the
                 want
                 of
                 exercise
                 doth
                 incrassate
                 the
                 humours
                 ,
                 and
                 include
                 the
                 malicious
                 quality
                 in
                 such
                 manner
                 ,
                 that
                 it
                 cannot
                 so
                 suddainly
                 break
                 out
                 into
                 act
                 ,
                 but
                 is
                 covered
                 like
                 fiery
                 embers
                 under
                 ashes
                 ,
                 which
                 send
                 forth
                 neither
                 light
                 nor
                 heat
                 
                 till
                 they
                 be
                 stirred
                 up
                 .
                 And
                 after
                 this
                 manner
                 this
                 disease
                 is
                 lodged
                 in
                 the
                 subject
                 matter
                 impreceptibly
                 ,
                 as
                 is
                 reported
                 by
                 Belocatus
                 ,
                 that
                 this
                 French
                 disease
                 was
                 lodged
                 in
                 certain
                 noble
                 persons
                 of
                 Verona
                 thirty
                 years
                 before
                 any
                 Path●gnomical
                 symptom
                 did
                 appear
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 QUEST
                 .
                 IV.
                 
              
               
                 Why
                 this
                 disease
                 doth
                 apprehend
                 some
                 persons
                 most
                 maliciously
                 at
                 the
                 first
                 co●tion
                 ,
                 and
                 leave
                 other
                 persons
                 void
                 of
                 contagion
                 ,
                 though
                 very
                 frequent
                 in
                 the
                 act
                 of
                 Venery
                 and
                 of
                 impure
                 tempers
                 ,
                 according
                 to
                 sense
                 most
                 ap●
                 to
                 receive
                 the
                 impression
                 of
                 such
                 poyson
                 .
              
               
                 I
                 have
                 in
                 my
                 former
                 discourse
                 expressed
                 the
                 differences
                 of
                 capacities
                 ,
                 to
                 receive
                 the
                 impression
                 of
                 distinct
                 poyson
                 sooner
                 or
                 later
                 ,
                 and
                 in
                 that
                 discourse
                 
                 the
                 answer
                 to
                 the
                 first
                 part
                 of
                 this
                 question
                 is
                 included
                 ;
                 that
                 some
                 tempers
                 are
                 like
                 tinder
                 infired
                 and
                 infected
                 at
                 the
                 first
                 stroke
                 or
                 allision
                 of
                 the
                 ayre
                 between
                 two
                 hard
                 bodies
                 ,
                 when
                 such
                 sparks
                 will
                 make
                 no
                 impression
                 upon
                 straw
                 or
                 flax
                 ,
                 which
                 in
                 their
                 own
                 nature
                 are
                 very
                 combustible
                 ;
                 so
                 also
                 are
                 the
                 different
                 constitutions
                 of
                 humane
                 bodies
                 ,
                 some
                 shall
                 be
                 by
                 this
                 Pest
                 infected
                 in
                 the
                 first
                 act
                 ,
                 when
                 other
                 persons
                 of
                 corrupt
                 mixture
                 and
                 in
                 sense
                 most
                 disposed
                 to
                 receive
                 inquination
                 or
                 pollution
                 shall
                 not
                 be
                 apprehended
                 with
                 this
                 disease
                 though
                 very
                 frequent
                 in
                 impure
                 congression
                 :
                 for
                 that
                 there
                 must
                 be
                 a
                 more
                 proper
                 aptitude
                 to
                 receive
                 this
                 contagion
                 in
                 the
                 first
                 act
                 by
                 that
                 proper
                 temper
                 so
                 infected
                 ,
                 then
                 in
                 the
                 other
                 which
                 is
                 a
                 disposition
                 more
                 sensibly
                 
                 disposed
                 to
                 receive
                 such
                 contamination
                 in
                 a
                 higher
                 degree
                 ;
                 and
                 yet
                 they
                 are
                 not
                 so
                 really
                 disposed
                 as
                 the
                 first
                 ,
                 which
                 receiveth
                 a
                 sensible
                 pollution
                 .
                 And
                 this
                 must
                 be
                 an
                 occult
                 quality
                 more
                 latent
                 then
                 patient
                 in
                 them
                 ,
                 which
                 will
                 incorporate
                 with
                 any
                 mixture
                 ,
                 which
                 is
                 not
                 generally
                 observable
                 in
                 mixture
                 ;
                 as
                 for
                 example
                 ,
                 oyle
                 will
                 not
                 incorporate
                 with
                 water
                 ,
                 but
                 will
                 separate
                 each
                 from
                 other
                 ;
                 and
                 yet
                 they
                 are
                 both
                 humid
                 bodies
                 :
                 and
                 though
                 not
                 capable
                 of
                 incorporation
                 together
                 ,
                 yet
                 capable
                 of
                 distinct
                 impregnation
                 either
                 of
                 ●altnesse
                 or
                 sweetnesse
                 ;
                 but
                 oyle
                 will
                 not
                 receive
                 these
                 tinctures
                 so
                 suddainly
                 nor
                 completely
                 as
                 water
                 ;
                 and
                 therefore
                 poysons
                 of
                 the
                 sharpest
                 quality
                 are
                 impedited
                 and
                 resisted
                 in
                 their
                 corrosion
                 by
                 oyly
                 substances
                 .
                 And
                 this
                 is
                 the
                 reason
                 
                 why
                 some
                 dispositions
                 receive
                 pollution
                 more
                 fully
                 and
                 speedily
                 then
                 others
                 :
                 but
                 where
                 there
                 is
                 an
                 homogeneality
                 and
                 samenesse
                 in
                 the
                 matter
                 of
                 mixture
                 ,
                 there
                 will
                 be
                 a
                 perfect
                 incorporation
                 ,
                 although
                 they
                 be
                 specifically
                 distinct
                 ,
                 as
                 the
                 mixture
                 of
                 wine
                 and
                 water
                 in
                 the
                 plant
                 ,
                 for
                 there
                 is
                 in
                 the
                 juice
                 of
                 that
                 plant
                 both
                 a
                 vinos●
                 and
                 aquose
                 quality
                 so
                 mixt
                 ,
                 that
                 it
                 is
                 difficult
                 to
                 sense
                 to
                 discover
                 any
                 distinction
                 from
                 samenesse
                 or
                 perfect
                 homogenealities
                 ;
                 but
                 where
                 there
                 is
                 no
                 disposition
                 capable
                 to
                 receive
                 contagion
                 it self
                 ,
                 yet
                 it
                 may
                 prove
                 a
                 vehicle
                 of
                 conveyance
                 to
                 a
                 subject
                 that
                 is
                 disposed
                 .
                 For
                 many
                 persons
                 that
                 have
                 been
                 in
                 Venereal
                 and
                 impure
                 congression
                 with
                 an
                 infected
                 person
                 ,
                 though
                 not
                 infected
                 themselves
                 ;
                 yet
                 upon
                 the
                 first
                 act
                 shall
                 conveigh
                 it
                 to
                 
                 another
                 person
                 well-disposed
                 to
                 receive
                 the
                 contamination
                 ,
                 for
                 
                   q●●cquid
                   recipitur
                   ,
                   recipitur
                   secundum
                   modum
                   recipientis
                
                 ;
                 and
                 is
                 proved
                 by
                 daily
                 observation
                 ,
                 that
                 Cats
                 ,
                 Pigeons
                 and
                 other
                 creatures
                 that
                 have
                 commerce
                 with
                 houses
                 infected
                 with
                 the
                 Pest
                 ,
                 are
                 not
                 infected
                 themselves
                 with
                 the
                 plague
                 ,
                 yet
                 do
                 conveigh
                 it
                 to
                 other
                 persons
                 disposed
                 to
                 receive
                 the
                 impression
                 of
                 such
                 contagion
                 .
                 And
                 according
                 to
                 the
                 observation
                 of
                 Sanctorius
                 ,
                 the
                 breath
                 of
                 a
                 Cat
                 in
                 a
                 room
                 will
                 affect
                 a
                 consumptive
                 disposition
                 ,
                 with
                 difficulty
                 of
                 breathing
                 and
                 fainting
                 sweats
                 ;
                 though
                 the
                 Cat
                 be
                 unseen
                 by
                 the
                 person
                 affected
                 ▪
                 which
                 he
                 made
                 the
                 rule
                 of
                 discovery
                 of
                 a
                 Consumptive
                 inclination
                 in
                 such
                 persons
                 as
                 come
                 within
                 the
                 sphere
                 of
                 the
                 forenamed
                 creature
                 .
                 And
                 although
                 
                 the
                 disposition
                 of
                 the
                 subject
                 be
                 the
                 principal
                 cause
                 of
                 receiving
                 the
                 impression
                 of
                 this
                 French
                 disease
                 and
                 production
                 of
                 it
                 into
                 act
                 ,
                 yet
                 not
                 the
                 onely
                 cause
                 ,
                 for
                 the
                 continuance
                 or
                 long-stay
                 in
                 venereal
                 act
                 ,
                 and
                 over-heating
                 themselves
                 with
                 so
                 long
                 and
                 laborious
                 motion
                 is
                 the
                 cause
                 of
                 infection
                 in
                 that
                 act
                 ;
                 which
                 otherwise
                 might
                 be
                 avoided
                 ,
                 when
                 these
                 that
                 Sparrow-like
                 are
                 not
                 infected
                 with
                 many
                 impure
                 congressions
                 ;
                 nor
                 is
                 any
                 contamination
                 so
                 active
                 as
                 that
                 which
                 proceedeth
                 from
                 lively
                 animals
                 by
                 the
                 association
                 of
                 their
                 intense
                 heat
                 ;
                 as
                 for
                 cold
                 poyson
                 they
                 are
                 potentiall
                 ,
                 and
                 according
                 to
                 their
                 potentiality
                 more
                 slow
                 and
                 dull
                 in
                 their
                 motion
                 and
                 production
                 of
                 their
                 effect
                 .
              
            
             
               
               
                 QUEST
                 .
                 V.
                 
              
               
                 What
                 power
                 this
                 is
                 which
                 is
                 nominated
                 potential
                 ,
                 and
                 how
                 it
                 dedu●eth
                 this
                 venenosity
                 into
                 act
                 ,
              
               
                 This
                 term
                 potential
                 ought
                 to
                 be
                 made
                 clear
                 to
                 sense
                 ,
                 because
                 any
                 cold
                 poyson
                 potential
                 cannot
                 be
                 active
                 of
                 it self
                 ;
                 nor
                 can
                 nature
                 as
                 an
                 agent
                 natural
                 produce
                 it
                 into
                 act
                 ,
                 but
                 rather
                 a
                 contemperation
                 or
                 commoderation
                 ,
                 Nor
                 is
                 it
                 agreeable
                 with
                 my
                 reason
                 ,
                 that
                 nature
                 should
                 produce
                 poyson
                 into
                 act
                 ;
                 because
                 nature
                 is
                 most
                 adverse
                 to
                 poyson
                 ,
                 and
                 poyson
                 a
                 contrary
                 opposite
                 to
                 nature
                 ,
                 except
                 
                   Epiphanius
                   Ferdinandus
                
                 can
                 perswade
                 me
                 to
                 the
                 contrary
                 ,
                 for
                 he
                 will
                 have
                 something
                 alimentable
                 in
                 all
                 poyson
                 ;
                 and
                 if
                 there
                 be
                 not
                 something
                 nutri●ive
                 in
                 all
                 poyson
                 according
                 to
                 
                 his
                 sense
                 ,
                 there
                 can
                 be
                 no
                 part
                 of
                 poyson
                 ,
                 as
                 poyson
                 ,
                 reduced
                 into
                 alimentable
                 act
                 by
                 nature
                 .
                 Therefore
                 it
                 i●probable
                 ,
                 that
                 although
                 every
                 ●art
                 of
                 poyson
                 is
                 poyson
                 ,
                 and
                 as
                 poyson
                 opposite
                 and
                 contrary
                 to
                 nature
                 ,
                 as
                 it
                 is
                 simple
                 poyson
                 ,
                 and
                 cannot
                 be
                 alimentable
                 ,
                 but
                 as
                 a
                 mixt
                 body
                 ;
                 something
                 may
                 be
                 extracted
                 that
                 may
                 be
                 reducible
                 into
                 aliment
                 ,
                 or
                 the
                 whole
                 mixture
                 so
                 contemperated
                 with
                 an
                 alimentable
                 ,
                 may
                 receive
                 such
                 admission
                 into
                 our
                 natural
                 principles
                 as
                 may
                 impregnate
                 as
                 much
                 as
                 the
                 recipient
                 subject
                 is
                 capable
                 to
                 receive
                 ,
                 and
                 gradatim
                 produced
                 into
                 an
                 act
                 of
                 the
                 same
                 mixture
                 from
                 whence
                 it
                 was
                 extracted
                 according
                 to
                 the
                 quality
                 of
                 the
                 poyson
                 ,
                 totally
                 hot
                 or
                 cold
                 ;
                 yet
                 Galen
                 doth
                 urge
                 another
                 cause
                 of
                 nature
                 ,
                 its
                 production
                 of
                 poyson
                 into
                 act
                 ,
                 which
                 〈◊〉
                 
                 from
                 the
                 repugnancy
                 of
                 nature
                 with
                 poyson
                 ,
                 by
                 which
                 contestation
                 poysons
                 a●e
                 so
                 rare●●ed
                 ,
                 and
                 by
                 the
                 repugnancy
                 of
                 nature
                 made
                 more
                 subtile
                 and
                 forcible
                 to
                 enter
                 the
                 principles
                 of
                 nature
                 ,
                 and
                 by
                 this
                 power
                 produce
                 themselves
                 into
                 act
                 ,
                 and
                 the
                 principles
                 of
                 nature
                 into
                 such
                 compliance
                 as
                 is
                 not
                 much
                 different
                 from
                 iden●ity
                 with
                 themselves
                 :
                 and
                 upon
                 s●ch
                 forceable
                 ●●trance
                 ,
                 though
                 it
                 be
                 poyson
                 
                   in
                   tota
                   〈◊〉
                
                 ,
                 and
                 void
                 of
                 any
                 alimentable
                 condition
                 ,
                 yet
                 it
                 receiveth
                 entertainment
                 by
                 nature
                 without
                 any
                 sensible
                 impediment
                 to
                 natural
                 action
                 ;
                 and
                 then
                 digested
                 ,
                 and
                 so
                 altered
                 by
                 naturall
                 heat
                 as
                 maketh
                 it
                 alimentable
                 ,
                 and
                 prepared
                 for
                 assimilation
                 .
                 And
                 this
                 reason
                 is
                 consented
                 unto
                 by
                 
                   Gal●n
                   ,
                   lib.
                   3.
                   de
                   simplic
                   .
                   medic
                   .
                
                 where
                 he
                 affirmeth
                 cold
                 poysons
                 to
                 be
                 attenu●ted
                 ,
                 
                 made
                 hot
                 and
                 changed
                 by
                 the
                 power
                 of
                 natural
                 heat
                 ,
                 by
                 which
                 mutation
                 and
                 alteration
                 I
                 conceive
                 a
                 full
                 change
                 of
                 its
                 own
                 property
                 into
                 another
                 nature
                 ,
                 otherwise
                 it
                 will
                 sooner
                 or
                 later
                 return
                 to
                 its
                 own
                 natural
                 body
                 again
                 ,
                 as
                 Gold
                 by
                 the
                 power
                 and
                 ●orce
                 of
                 heat
                 dissolved
                 ,
                 and
                 seemingly
                 mixed
                 with
                 other
                 metals
                 and
                 mineral
                 substances
                 ,
                 it
                 s
                 own
                 property
                 being
                 unalterable
                 by
                 heat
                 ,
                 doth
                 separate
                 from
                 all
                 other
                 mixture
                 ,
                 and
                 returneth
                 to
                 its
                 own
                 proper
                 and
                 naturall
                 body
                 ;
                 nor
                 can
                 I
                 conceive
                 how
                 Gold
                 by
                 the
                 force
                 of
                 any
                 fire
                 should
                 lose
                 any
                 atome
                 of
                 it self
                 ,
                 except
                 St.
                 Anthony
                 his
                 fire
                 ,
                 which
                 ef●ected
                 his
                 
                   aurum
                   potabil●
                
                 ,
                 which
                 challengeth
                 entrance
                 amongst
                 vulgar
                 errors
                 .
              
            
             
               
               
                 QUEST
                 .
                 VI.
                 
              
               
                 Why
                 a
                 woman
                 not
                 infected
                 her self
                 ,
                 should
                 infect
                 another
                 person
                 with
                 this
                 disease
                 ,
              
               
                 This
                 node
                 seemeth
                 difficult
                 to
                 unwedge
                 ,
                 as
                 being
                 contradictive
                 to
                 reason
                 ,
                 that
                 any
                 thing
                 should
                 give
                 that
                 to
                 another
                 which
                 it
                 hath
                 not
                 in
                 it self
                 to
                 give
                 ,
                 or
                 that
                 any
                 person
                 should
                 receive
                 that
                 which
                 is
                 not
                 in
                 being
                 ;
                 therefore
                 it
                 cannot
                 be
                 understood
                 of
                 a
                 meer
                 non-entity
                 ,
                 which
                 is
                 neither
                 in
                 act
                 nor
                 in
                 power
                 ,
                 but
                 of
                 an
                 occult
                 quality
                 
                   latens
                   in
                   massa
                   sanguinea
                
                 ,
                 without
                 any
                 sensible
                 discovery
                 ,
                 till
                 a
                 Masculine
                 agitation
                 shall
                 make
                 it
                 effectuall
                 and
                 visible
                 in
                 those
                 that
                 upon
                 such
                 motion
                 receive
                 the
                 contamination
                 ;
                 and
                 such
                 inquination
                 or
                 pollution
                 is
                 many
                 times
                 received
                 from
                 women
                 
                 who
                 have
                 no
                 symptom
                 of
                 infection
                 perceptible
                 in
                 themselves
                 ;
                 and
                 therefore
                 I
                 conceive
                 it
                 to
                 be
                 their
                 own
                 proper
                 venene
                 temper
                 contigent
                 in
                 them
                 ,
                 as
                 in
                 Scorpions
                 and
                 Aspes
                 and
                 such
                 other
                 venemous
                 creatures
                 ;
                 or
                 else
                 contracted
                 al●unde
                 ,
                 and
                 from
                 venene
                 aliment
                 ;
                 the
                 use
                 whereof
                 hath
                 made
                 it
                 a
                 naturall
                 nourishment
                 to
                 themselves
                 and
                 poyson
                 to
                 others
                 ,
                 as
                 was
                 observed
                 by
                 Avicen
                 in
                 that
                 Puella
                 that
                 fed
                 upon
                 nothing
                 but
                 poysons
                 ,
                 and
                 was
                 nourished
                 with
                 them
                 as
                 an
                 aliment
                 inoffensive
                 and
                 very
                 nutritive
                 to
                 her
                 ,
                 so
                 as
                 in
                 common
                 view
                 she
                 appeared
                 to
                 be
                 of
                 a
                 most
                 wholesome
                 constitution
                 ,
                 and
                 yet
                 her
                 breath
                 poysoned
                 all
                 other
                 within
                 the
                 sphere
                 of
                 it
                 ,
                 and
                 with
                 whom
                 she
                 had
                 any
                 commerce
                 or
                 conversation
                 .
                 Thus
                 every
                 man
                 doth
                 receive
                 the
                 infection
                 
                 of
                 this
                 disease
                 ,
                 that
                 hath
                 c●ition
                 with
                 a
                 woman
                 of
                 such
                 venene
                 temp●r
                 ,
                 though
                 not
                 infected
                 her self
                 ;
                 and
                 this
                 is
                 the
                 reason
                 why
                 some
                 such
                 constituted
                 women
                 do
                 abbreviate
                 the
                 lives
                 of
                 all
                 men
                 that
                 have
                 any
                 congression
                 with
                 them
                 in
                 Wedlock
                 or
                 otherwise
                 ,
                 and
                 this
                 venene
                 quality
                 is
                 also
                 in
                 many
                 men
                 ,
                 which
                 infect
                 all
                 they
                 comply
                 with
                 ,
                 except
                 those
                 of
                 their
                 own
                 venene
                 temper
                 ,
                 and
                 such
                 tempers
                 are
                 most
                 homogeneally
                 matched
                 together
                 ;
                 and
                 if
                 I
                 were
                 a
                 professor
                 of
                 the
                 Law
                 ,
                 I
                 should
                 judge
                 any
                 sound
                 and
                 wholsome
                 temper
                 so
                 conjoyned
                 in
                 Matrimony
                 to
                 such
                 a
                 venene
                 constituon
                 ,
                 their
                 Matrimony
                 to
                 be
                 unlawful
                 because
                 unnaturall
                 .
                 And
                 Sir
                 
                   Francis
                   Bacon
                
                 in
                 his
                 Vtopia
                 doth
                 very
                 much
                 agree
                 with
                 me
                 in
                 this
                 opinion
                 and
                 judgement
                 ,
                 where
                 he
                 admitteth
                 of
                 no
                 Matrimoniall
                 
                 conjunction
                 without
                 a
                 strict
                 paternal
                 and
                 materna
                 inquest
                 concerning
                 the
                 temper
                 of
                 each
                 person
                 and
                 homogeneality
                 in
                 nature
                 ,
                 and
                 the
                 hereditary
                 diseases
                 they
                 are
                 subject
                 unto
                 ,
                 as
                 the
                 Gout
                 ,
                 Stone
                 ,
                 and
                 
                   French
                   Pest
                
                 ;
                 that
                 their
                 propagation
                 may
                 be
                 sound
                 ,
                 strong
                 and
                 comely
                 for
                 the
                 strength
                 and
                 duration
                 of
                 his
                 new
                 common-weal
                 .
                 And
                 this
                 may
                 be
                 the
                 reason
                 rather
                 then
                 the
                 Religion
                 of
                 the
                 Haunder
                 ,
                 who
                 maketh
                 it
                 lawful
                 for
                 the
                 man
                 and
                 woman
                 to
                 make
                 tryal
                 each
                 of
                 other
                 after
                 they
                 be
                 undertrood
                 for
                 some
                 time
                 before
                 they
                 are
                 joyned
                 together
                 in
                 Matrimony
                 ,
                 and
                 if
                 in
                 that
                 time
                 they
                 have
                 cause
                 of
                 mislike
                 ,
                 they
                 may
                 abstain
                 from
                 Marriage
                 without
                 any
                 censure
                 of
                 impiety
                 or
                 breach
                 of
                 their
                 Law
                 ,
                 or
                 imputation
                 of
                 dishonour
                 .
              
            
             
               
               
                 QUEST
                 .
                 VII
                 .
              
               
                 Whether
                 there
                 be
                 any
                 defensative
                 against
                 infection
                 in
                 the
                 act
                 of
                 Venery
                 with
                 such
                 persons
                 as
                 are
                 maliciously
                 infected
                 with
                 this
                 disease
                 .
              
               
                 There
                 are
                 not
                 wanting
                 ,
                 and
                 other
                 Mountebanks
                 upon
                 every
                 Stage
                 and
                 Market-place
                 to
                 quack
                 of
                 various
                 remedies
                 of
                 defence
                 ,
                 and
                 specifical
                 preparations
                 they
                 have
                 extracted
                 to
                 this
                 purpose
                 ;
                 though
                 my self
                 hath
                 known
                 many
                 of
                 them
                 ,
                 and
                 some
                 Physicians
                 that
                 have
                 forfeited
                 their
                 palat
                 and
                 noses
                 in
                 this
                 venereal
                 combat
                 ,
                 and
                 proved
                 their
                 defensatives
                 to
                 be
                 more
                 fabulous
                 then
                 effectual
                 ,
                 because
                 necessarily
                 in
                 all
                 coition
                 there
                 must
                 be
                 attrition
                 of
                 the
                 genitals
                 which
                 heateth
                 and
                 forceth
                 open
                 all
                 porosities
                 in
                 the
                 Members
                 ,
                 and
                 must
                 of
                 necessity
                 give
                 entrance
                 
                 to
                 any
                 venenosity
                 of
                 this
                 disease
                 which
                 doth
                 contaminate
                 the
                 spirits
                 ;
                 and
                 if
                 they
                 can
                 prepare
                 no
                 condensing
                 remedy
                 to
                 shut
                 up
                 the
                 porosities
                 in
                 the
                 genitals
                 ,
                 then
                 their
                 defensative
                 is
                 a
                 meer
                 aiery
                 discourse
                 ,
                 void
                 of
                 demonstration
                 and
                 appear
                 a
                 mist
                 cast
                 before
                 the
                 eyes
                 of
                 the
                 spectators
                 .
                 For
                 there
                 is
                 no
                 such
                 condensing
                 medicine
                 or
                 remedy
                 of
                 any
                 effect
                 ,
                 because
                 the
                 friction
                 of
                 the
                 genitals
                 will
                 relax
                 and
                 open
                 the
                 porosities
                 of
                 the
                 parts
                 ,
                 and
                 the
                 spirits
                 must
                 inavoidably
                 receive
                 the
                 contamination
                 of
                 the
                 disease
                 in
                 contempt
                 of
                 all
                 opposition
                 to
                 the
                 contrary
                 .
                 For
                 this
                 poyson
                 moveth
                 distinctly
                 from
                 other
                 poysons
                 received
                 at
                 the
                 mouth
                 into
                 the
                 body
                 ,
                 for
                 they
                 descend
                 into
                 the
                 ventricle
                 ,
                 and
                 are
                 not
                 so
                 suddainly
                 mixed
                 with
                 the
                 spirits
                 because
                 they
                 are
                 dispersed
                 and
                 scattered
                 amongst
                 
                 the
                 Viscera
                 ,
                 and
                 receive
                 their
                 contamination
                 gradatim
                 ;
                 but
                 this
                 contagion
                 is
                 conveighed
                 to
                 the
                 spirits
                 in
                 the
                 turn
                 of
                 an
                 eye
                 ,
                 and
                 communicated
                 to
                 them
                 by
                 the
                 nearest
                 consent
                 which
                 is
                 between
                 the
                 genitals
                 ,
                 and
                 most
                 noble
                 parts
                 of
                 the
                 body
                 .
                 And
                 these
                 are
                 the
                 reasons
                 of
                 my
                 non-consent
                 to
                 any
                 defensative
                 against
                 the
                 pollution
                 of
                 an
                 unclean
                 women
                 ,
                 and
                 if
                 any
                 medicament
                 be
                 ordered
                 of
                 preservation
                 from
                 this
                 Pest
                 ,
                 they
                 must
                 be
                 such
                 Antidotes
                 as
                 do
                 cure
                 it
                 ;
                 and
                 no
                 remedy
                 of
                 cure
                 more
                 specifick
                 then
                 Guiacum
                 :
                 and
                 this
                 remedy
                 by
                 daily
                 experience
                 we
                 see
                 will
                 not
                 do
                 it
                 ,
                 nor
                 will
                 any
                 chymical
                 medicament
                 ,
                 though
                 it
                 doth
                 seemingly
                 cure
                 the
                 disease
                 ,
                 yet
                 it
                 will
                 not
                 preserv●
                 them
                 from
                 reinfection
                 :
                 and
                 very
                 many
                 persons
                 that
                 account
                 themselves
                 cured
                 at
                 present
                 ,
                 and
                 
                 take
                 boldness
                 to
                 make
                 another
                 adventure
                 ,
                 are
                 infected
                 again
                 before
                 their
                 bodies
                 are
                 cleared
                 of
                 their
                 former
                 medicaments
                 ;
                 and
                 though
                 I
                 said
                 something
                 of
                 curative
                 remedies
                 ,
                 let
                 me
                 not
                 be
                 understood
                 of
                 absolute
                 cure
                 ,
                 for
                 there
                 is
                 no
                 such
                 Cure.
                 
              
            
             
               
                 QUEST
                 .
                 VIII
                 .
              
               
                 Why
                 this
                 French
                 disease
                 of
                 it self
                 killeth
                 no
                 man.
                 
              
               
                 'T
                 is
                 doubtlesse
                 and
                 without
                 question
                 that
                 many
                 persons
                 of
                 both
                 Sexes
                 do
                 daily
                 die
                 with
                 this
                 disease
                 upon
                 them
                 ,
                 because
                 it
                 admitteth
                 of
                 no
                 perfect
                 cure
                 in
                 any
                 that
                 are
                 infected
                 ;
                 and
                 if
                 any
                 person
                 perswade
                 the
                 contrary
                 ,
                 I
                 shall
                 give
                 them
                 leave
                 to
                 comfort
                 themselves
                 with
                 a
                 false
                 delight
                 and
                 pleasant
                 dream
                 :
                 but
                 that
                 this
                 
                   French
                   Pest
                
                 is
                 not
                 Necant
                 in
                 it self
                 ,
                 is
                 the
                 question
                 to
                 
                 be
                 argued
                 ,
                 to
                 which
                 I
                 answer
                 with
                 
                   Galen
                   ,
                   lib.
                   de
                   Marasmo
                
                 ,
                 that
                 the
                 principle
                 conatus
                 of
                 nature
                 is
                 to
                 defend
                 the
                 heart
                 ,
                 especially
                 from
                 poyson
                 of
                 any
                 quality
                 ;
                 and
                 that
                 it
                 doth
                 most
                 strenuously
                 defend
                 it
                 from
                 the
                 contagion
                 and
                 poyson
                 of
                 this
                 disease
                 .
                 Another
                 reason
                 is
                 because
                 this
                 disease
                 in
                 it self
                 is
                 void
                 of
                 a
                 febri●e
                 distemper
                 ,
                 and
                 if
                 any
                 symptom
                 of
                 frebricitation
                 doth
                 appear
                 ,
                 it
                 is
                 accidentall
                 ,
                 and
                 from
                 the
                 complication
                 of
                 some
                 other
                 cause
                 .
                 Thirdly
                 ,
                 this
                 disease
                 is
                 void
                 of
                 the
                 difficulty
                 of
                 breathing
                 ,
                 except
                 in
                 the
                 highest
                 extremity
                 .
                 Fourthly
                 ,
                 in
                 this
                 disease
                 the
                 pulse
                 is
                 never
                 altered
                 ,
                 neither
                 are
                 there
                 any
                 signs
                 of
                 it
                 to
                 be
                 taken
                 from
                 the
                 pulse
                 ,
                 and
                 these
                 are
                 demonstrative
                 arguments
                 to
                 prove
                 the
                 heart
                 to
                 defend
                 it self
                 powerfully
                 from
                 the
                 malignity
                 of
                 this
                 disease
                 .
                 And
                 
                 this
                 defensive
                 power
                 according
                 to
                 my
                 opinion
                 must
                 principally
                 depend
                 upon
                 the
                 power
                 of
                 the
                 vitall
                 spirits
                 ,
                 which
                 are
                 more
                 robust
                 then
                 the
                 natural
                 spirits
                 ,
                 as
                 doth
                 appear
                 by
                 their
                 containing
                 vessels
                 of
                 eac●
                 ;
                 for
                 the
                 arterie
                 that
                 containeth
                 the
                 vital
                 spirits
                 is
                 double
                 coated
                 ,
                 else
                 the
                 spirits
                 contained
                 in
                 them
                 would
                 make
                 eruption
                 through
                 them
                 because
                 of
                 their
                 inherent
                 force
                 ;
                 and
                 the
                 veines
                 but
                 single
                 coated
                 because
                 their
                 spirits
                 in
                 activity
                 and
                 strength
                 is
                 so
                 much
                 lesse
                 then
                 is
                 the
                 vital
                 ;
                 and
                 by
                 the
                 force
                 of
                 this
                 vital
                 spirit
                 the
                 heart
                 is
                 defended
                 against
                 the
                 invasion
                 of
                 this
                 Pest
                 :
                 and
                 by
                 this
                 vitall
                 spirit
                 the
                 heart
                 defendeth
                 it self
                 against
                 the
                 assault
                 of
                 choler
                 ,
                 which
                 is
                 so
                 great
                 an
                 enemy
                 to
                 it
                 according
                 to
                 
                   Arist.
                   4.
                   de
                   part
                   .
                   animal
                   .
                
                 And
                 yet
                 this
                 question
                 is
                 not
                 cleared
                 from
                 the
                 exception
                 
                 of
                 many
                 Physicians
                 ,
                 who
                 reasonably
                 do
                 affirm
                 the
                 generation
                 of
                 vital
                 spirits
                 to
                 proceed
                 from
                 the
                 naturall
                 ;
                 and
                 if
                 the
                 naturall
                 spirits
                 have
                 received
                 contamination
                 ,
                 how
                 shall
                 the
                 vitall
                 spirits
                 which
                 are
                 begotten
                 of
                 them
                 be
                 free
                 from
                 pollution
                 ?
                 nor
                 could
                 it
                 be
                 otherwise
                 ,
                 but
                 from
                 the
                 purification
                 they
                 receive
                 from
                 the
                 heart
                 ;
                 after
                 the
                 same
                 manner
                 as
                 Gold
                 is
                 separated
                 from
                 drosse
                 and
                 other
                 aliene
                 tincture
                 ▪
                 by
                 the
                 activity
                 of
                 ●ire
                 ,
                 so
                 also
                 doth
                 the
                 heart
                 by
                 its
                 cordial
                 fire
                 inherent
                 in
                 it self
                 ,
                 purge
                 and
                 clense
                 the
                 natural
                 spirits
                 from
                 all
                 pollution
                 ,
                 and
                 the
                 heart
                 by
                 its
                 own
                 power
                 desendeth
                 it self
                 from
                 the
                 contamination
                 of
                 this
                 disease
                 ,
                 which
                 is
                 the
                 cause
                 in
                 chief
                 why
                 this
                 disease
                 of
                 it self
                 doth
                 not
                 kill
                 the
                 person
                 affected
                 with
                 it
                 .
              
            
             
               
               
                 QUEST
                 .
                 IX
                 .
              
               
                 Whether
                 this
                 disease
                 be
                 the
                 proper
                 disease
                 of
                 one
                 particular
                 Region
                 .
              
               
                 That
                 every
                 Region
                 hath
                 diseases
                 inherent
                 in
                 themselves
                 ,
                 and
                 not
                 contracted
                 〈◊〉
                 ,
                 with
                 remedies
                 of
                 their
                 own
                 more
                 specifical
                 ,
                 then
                 any
                 contracted
                 from
                 alien
                 and
                 different
                 Regions
                 ;
                 and
                 that
                 there
                 is
                 a
                 ,
                 much
                 difference
                 as
                 between
                 clime
                 and
                 clime
                 ,
                 or
                 East
                 and
                 West
                 ,
                 〈◊〉
                 without
                 doubt
                 is
                 the
                 〈◊〉
                 Catholica
                 of
                 all
                 Nations
                 ;
                 but
                 what
                 Region
                 may
                 be
                 the
                 proper
                 womb
                 of
                 this
                 
                   French
                   ;
                   〈◊〉
                
                 is
                 a
                 present
                 dispute
                 between
                 the
                 French
                 and
                 Neopolit●●
                 the
                 one
                 will
                 have
                 it
                 the
                 proper
                 dis●ease
                 of
                 the
                 Indians
                 ,
                 and
                 the
                 French
                 will
                 have
                 it
                 proper
                 to
                 the
                 Neopolit●ns
                 ;
                 but
                 because
                 it
                 hath
                 
                 made
                 so
                 great
                 impression
                 in
                 〈◊〉
                 ,
                 most
                 Modern
                 Writer●
                 〈◊〉
                 it
                 the
                 French
                 disease
                 so
                 that
                 they
                 challenge
                 the
                 Right
                 to
                 it
                 from
                 Custom
                 and
                 long
                 prescription
                 ,
                 and
                 I
                 know
                 no
                 Nation
                 challenge
                 any
                 of
                 their
                 priviledge
                 ;
                 but
                 as
                 they
                 have
                 spread
                 their
                 tongue
                 very
                 far
                 in
                 Europe
                 and
                 other
                 Continents
                 ;
                 so
                 this
                 disease
                 hath
                 commerce
                 with
                 the
                 generality
                 of
                 Nations
                 and
                 Religions
                 ,
                 both
                 
                   Mahumeta●
                   ,
                   Iew
                   ,
                   〈◊〉
                
                 and
                 Heathen
                 .
                 But
                 some
                 particular
                 Regions
                 may
                 be
                 after
                 this
                 manner
                 affected
                 from
                 their
                 vicious
                 ayre
                 an●
                 dyet
                 ,
                 witnesse
                 those
                 painful
                 botches
                 of
                 the
                 Arab●●as
                 affirmed
                 by
                 Galen
                 and
                 Av●cen
                 ,
                 that
                 they
                 are
                 generated
                 from
                 the
                 Locusts
                 which
                 they
                 so
                 greedily
                 feed
                 upon
                 ,
                 as
                 also
                 in
                 〈◊〉
                 the
                 〈◊〉
                 from
                 their
                 delicacy
                 in
                 dyet
                 ,
                 and
                 frequent
                 use
                 of
                 Venery
                 .
                 Insomuch
                 ,
                 
                 that
                 according
                 to
                 the
                 dyet
                 and
                 ayre
                 ,
                 severall
                 Regions
                 have
                 their
                 particular
                 diseases
                 .
                 But
                 the
                 French
                 disease
                 proceedeth
                 neither
                 from
                 the
                 ayre
                 of
                 the
                 place
                 nor
                 dyet
                 ,
                 but
                 from
                 meer
                 Venery
                 and
                 impure
                 Congression
                 ,
                 and
                 therefore
                 it
                 is
                 an
                 Universall
                 disease
                 more
                 common
                 in
                 Venereal
                 and
                 hot
                 Countries
                 ,
                 where
                 the
                 Women
                 are
                 more
                 salacious
                 th●n
                 in
                 cold
                 Regions
                 ;
                 this
                 Sex
                 being
                 in
                 their
                 temper
                 more
                 cold
                 then
                 men
                 ,
                 by
                 the
                 heat
                 〈◊〉
                 the
                 Region
                 are
                 prov●●ed
                 and
                 more
                 hot
                 in
                 pleasure
                 ;
                 by
                 which
                 themselves
                 and
                 others
                 in
                 conjunction
                 with
                 them
                 are
                 inflamed
                 ,
                 insomuch
                 that
                 in
                 those
                 places
                 this
                 French
                 dis●ase
                 proveth
                 Hereditary
                 ,
                 and
                 is
                 conveyed
                 from
                 Family
                 to
                 Family
                 in
                 the
                 principles
                 of
                 nature
                 ;
                 as
                 is
                 the
                 
                   Small
                   Pox
                
                 according
                 
                 to
                 some
                 opinions
                 conveyed
                 in
                 maternall
                 menstruosity
                 .
                 And
                 thus
                 I
                 have
                 concluded
                 the
                 discourse
                 of
                 both
                 Great
                 and
                 Small
                 according
                 to
                 my
                 promise
                 .
              
               
                 FINIS
                 .