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Alberti Ottonis Fabri medici regii exer. Suec. Paradoxon de morbo Gallico libr. II, or, A paradox concerning the shameful disease for a warning to all against deceitful cures / translated out of the High-Dutch by Johan Kauffman.
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Faber, Albert Otto, 1612-1684.
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this unchast Lust is changed and altered into an unchast now-mortal flesh and blood which now differs not at all from the common mortal created flesh and blood of the beasts as Cows Oxen and the like in all its motions and being especially in the working of the unchast Lust-disease and its efficacy 19. And this is the root from whence ariseth that Disease which we speak of CHAP. II. From whence the shameful Disease hath its off-spring 1. NOw as we have heard the unchast Lust and Wantonness is so deep sunk into mans nature and is firmly united with flesh and blood as much as ever any Gold â—incture can be united with Mercury and this makes out of a corruptible volatile Mercury a fix'd Gold permanent in the fire even so the Unchast-Lust hath made an impure and corruptible body out of that which was pure and incorruptible so we intend from hence to search how out â—ut of it is engendered the shamesul Disease and yet so to speak of it that he who is addicted to unchast Liâ—â— and Conversation may not so easiâ— apprehend or understand us lest he as it is written put forth his hand aâ— and also take of the Tree of Life and eaâ— live for ever namely in his impure fleshly-lust and concupiscence which were an abomination above all abominations and without compare before the face of the Lord whom no unclean person shall see 2. When a young man is inflamed in the heat of his flesh and forbear and will not yeild to the instinct oâ— provocation of his flesh it is a precious and acceptable Sacrifice before God For they are those as it is written which are not defiled with women for they are Virgins and follow after the Lamb whithersoever he goeth 3. But I saw a wild Buck leaping from one Hill to another till he at last fell into a deep pit full of mire and stink from thence he could not escape without boiles nastiness and wounds Now when he looked about him for a good path he was stung beâ—re he was aware of it by a very venemous Adder This poyson disperâ—ed it self all over the body and penetrated to the bones and marrow 〈◊〉 Summer if a puddle stand long in place it grows stinking and he that â—rinketh of it will find himself ill after it And what availeth it when â—essels Dishes and the like are kept â—ure and clean outwardly and withâ—â— are full of nastiness and dead mens â—ones It is good fishing in muddy â—aters but the fish favour of the â—ud And when Wine is mingled with water can it again be separated 4. All other Diseases have one only Principle viz. the Cure which â—ent forth over the Earth whose â—uit and growth we must partake of 〈◊〉 we will live and thus we drink in the Curse like water against which we are bâ—d to pray viz. Bless these thy gifts O heavenly Father for the blessing keeps off the curse but the shameful Disease arises from the fountain of the Unchast-lust wherewith Adam was already overcome and we parâ— take of in him even before the earth was accursed 5. So we see now that the Curse is one thing and the Unchast-lust another The Curse is fallen on the Earth but not on man contrary to Nature but the Unchast-lust is fallen in Man and hath united its self to Nature So every Difease also generated of the Curse is easier and sooner cured than that which springs up from the Unchast-lust because the other hath its Principle from the Curse against Nature but this springs forth out of man himself from the principle of Concupiscence with Nature 6. Other Sins which man commits are without the body as namely Idolatry Unrighteousness Swearing Blaspheming Disobedience Murther Man-slaughter Thieving false-witness and the like as it is written All sins which man commits are without the body such are not hereditary to Children viz. If the Father hath been an Idolater unrighteous covetous a Drunkard and the like it follows not that the Son must needs tread in his Fathers steps But this viz. Lust is inherited ever since the beginning of the transgression of Adam by all his posterity from children to childrens children uncessantly unavoidably neither grief nor penitence can help against nor deliver from it Every child born of man must follow his fathers footsteps and bear the Lust-disease about him as long as he liveth Therefore take heed of that Disease which is engendered thence and consider of it 7. For the Curse is of God incorporated into the Earth yet not essentially as if its Being were changed into somewhat else but its operation was only this as is written That the Earth should henceforth afford her strength and virtue no more but bear thorns andthistles 8. But now against this Curse the Blessing was opposed whereby the thistles and thorns which prick and torment us may be rooted out again And thus the blessing abundantly over-ballanceth the Curse so that the thistles and thorns and the Diseases which the Curse ingendereth in us through the fruits of the Earth cannot rightly possess the point and center of life 9. But the Unchast-lust was of man incorporated into man and that essentially insomuch that thereby the immortal being of man was changed into a mortal stinking flesh and blood of the which afterward the Son of God our Saviour Jesus testifieth that it availeth nothing unto eternal life as that which cannot inherit the Kingdom of heaven 10. To this end and purpose the Regeneration was given to this flesh and blood spoiled by concupiscence and unfit for the Kingdom of God through which new birth man is changed and fitted for the Kingdom of God to see God And therefore the Regeneration of the corrupted unchast flesh and blood which is received through faith is the onely means to be saved 11. Seeing then that the Curse and the Concupiscence or Unchast-Lust are thus far distinguished that the one doth not possess man himself but onely the earth but so that it doth not change it neither doth it reign over the Center of mans life with its thistles and thorns but the other doth not possess the earth but man himself and that not onely rightfully but also hath changed him inso much that he with all his Soul and with all his strength in the Lust-act is plunged deep into the Lust-disease and falls head-long into it What shall wee inferr from hence this we will say that the Disease which existeth from thence namely the shameful Disease possesseth not only the point and center of life rightfully but it dallies with the life it self in the principle of Concupiscence and stands in such an union that it seemeth impossible to separate the same from it again unlesse it be by an Analogisme of Regeneration of this the Proverb is Non cuivis medico contingit adire Corinthum 12. And therefore because the shameful disease stands in union with the life in its off Spring namely of the fleshly pleasant
already 22. Seeing then that the Corrosive in sublimed Mercury is by all held for a deadly poison why then art thou Barber-surgeon so bold to poison any Patient with Mercurius Dulcis Knowest thou not yea thou shouldest know it and seest thou not that the falsly up-cried Mercurius dulcis is no other than sublimed Mercury which Sublimate thou and all others acknowledge to be poison Or doest thou think that it is enough that ye put crude Mercury to the Sublimate though the poisonous Acrimony of the Corrosive in the Sublimate penetrates into the crude Mercury and so the whole Masse becomes insipid but â—s not sweet as thou callest it is therefore the poisonous Corrosive taken from it Indeed it is disguised and covered with a Mask wherewith thou deceivest thy Patient and bereavest him of his life according to thine own confession for the reason that Metcuâ—ius dulcis whether it be sharpish or sweet that is without taste turns not again unto Quick-silver is because the Corrosive of the Sublimate binds him 33. Go therefore and learn not to dissolve but to coagulate Mercury into a brittle Masse so that it may be ground and beaten and not be able to turn again into Quick-silver though the Corrosive be nearly and cleanly separated from it and then boast that thou havest a Mercurius Praecipitaetus and dulcis wherewith thou canst cure the French-Pox But surely this wil be hid from thine eyes and Mercury will be to thee an unchangeable Water 34. In the mean while take notice ye Patients and be not deceived it concerns you for they do not care whether you live or dye And seeing it is a Disease of which you are ashamed and would hide therefore they are the more bold to torment you with their Corrosive Mercury whether you live or die 35. And that ye may rightly understand me I wil speak in plain terms We call Corrosive a Water like an Aquafort or the like which eats all in pieces and turns it to a slime be it Steel Cloath Iror Linnen Quicksilver Pearls Corals Stones or any thing else The Vulgar sort of Chymists call this a Dissolving and I call it a corroding eating in pieces and turning to slime or dust Now when the Corrosive turns to slime the said things it 's sharpest parts by degrees fasten on the atoms or particles that it corrodes and unites or binds it self therewith firmly that although afterward the remaining weak Corrosive Water be evaporated with a strong fire yet that same Corrosive power or quality wil not leave the corroded Iron or Mercury and bestows on it an a crimonious and sad bitter tast which the ignorant seek to conceal by adding of fresh Mercury and this shall be then your Medicament 36. Be it therefore known unto you that as long as out of the stomach there doth not come into your body any sowre Acrimonie or Corrosive aciditie you are in health but as soon as there is a Corrosive admitted flesh and blood abhors such a strange guest and begins to tremble at it and in case it cannot shake it off nor without help cannot expel it then this Corrofive proceeds according to the nature of its poisonous property and causes a putrefaction and rottenness in the flesh and blood which from day to day and from year to year unperceivably encreaseth so much til there be no more help for it But the like corrosive ariseth also out of the carnal concupiscence or Lust-disease from which in the privy part arises a stinking corrosive quality which by degrees slips into the blood and flesh where the Lust-disease keeps its residence and becomes one with it propter Symbolum from thence is ushered in a radical putrefaction of the flesh and blood in man which commonly is called the French-disease 37. Now observe concerning the Corrosive of sublimed Mercury how it penetrates into the crude Mercury added to it and so disperseth it self that the former austere and bitter taste of the sublimate is altogether unperceivable on the tongue but the hurtful Corrosive is not therefore removed but hideth his poysonous quality in the added fresh Mercury by way of extension Now when ye take inwardly such insipide sublimate in case the stomach is strong enough then it keeps the Corrosive in awe or vomits it up and suffers it not to have its will And this is the reason that sometimes one escapes out of such a dangerous Cure and gets away whether he be sound or no. 38. And in case he thinks that he is again in health then let him know that even as the Corrosive of the Sublimate is drawn into the Crude Mercury which is added and is become insipid and for that reason is thenceforth called Mercurius dulcis soalso may the Corrosive of the shameful Disease drawn into the Mercurius dulcis and not to be perceived but the gnawing poyson and corrosive of the French Pox is not therefore taken away though its poisonous putrifying quality be for a time allayed by the addition of Mercurius dulcis and this appears because the same putrifying quality again manifests it self by little and little in all manner of new symptoms the quality of the Mercury being dispersed and expired then the gnawing poison of the French Disease gets loose again and begins to rage as formerly yea sometimes when Nature is too weak to drive out wholly the Mercurius dulcis it stirs up greater and more dangerous symptomes than there were before whereby the Patient learns to know how he was deceived by a palliating cure CHAP. IV. Of the right way of curing the Shameful Disease Htherto have we proved that the Shameful Disease hath its original not from the Curse of the earth as other diseases but from a lustful Corrosive and this Corrosive from the Concupiscence of the flesh or last disease and the fleshes concupiscence from the pleasant fruit of the Paradisical Tree even before the curse went out over the earth we have also made known what kind of remedies they are wherewith Barber-surgeons Hot house-keepers and Mountebanks and such like have hitherto gone to work with palliative Cures and there remains something to be spoken concerning the right and sundamental Cure 2. And if therefore the immediate cause of the shameful Disease is not indeed the concupiscence of the or Lust-disease which cannot possibly be rooted out without the Regeneration of the corrupted body in death but the from thence arisen Corrosive which consequently causeth such a putrefaction of the flesh it is easie to understand that if the lustful Corrosive be cured or taken away then the effect also is taken away and that then also the from thence derived putrefaction must cease and may be removed by the nature of the Archeish powers of man without any further help 3. Now the abolishing of the lustful Corrosive consists in its being mortified And this is the cure of the French disease 4. And that such mortifying cannot be effected with Mercury and its Corrosives