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A28375	New and curious observations on the art of curing the veneral disease and the accidents that it produces in all its degrees explicatd by natural and mechanical principles with the motions, actions, and effects of mercury and its other remedies : wherein are discovered on the same subject the errours of some authors ... / written in French by Monsieur de Blegny ; Englished by Walter Harris.	Blégny, Monsieur de (Nicolas), 1652-1722.; Harris, Walter, 1647-1732.	1676 (1676)	Wing B3186; ESTC R23701	76,734	217

to make an encrease I am very confident nothing in all the World hath ever put so considerable a stop to the successive career true Science would daily make as a blind Suffrage and mean submission to the dictates of persons we have a good opinion of And for this reason I cannot but commend and admire the declared designs of some Worthy men among us who though they do not transact Wonders every Month and shew themselves Chosen Sons of Nature yet sure they deserve good words at least and that Petulancy with which some do daily nibble at them might methinks be well spared But to return again as I do not profess my self a Disciple of this Gentleman in all things he is pleased to utter so I cannot but give him his due and commend him much for his ingenious Attempts For whether Mercury be of such absolute importance to the cure of this Disease when Fermented a while in the Blood and grown a little inveterate as this Author would have it or whether the Ceremony of omission of a Flux in some persons of Quality and especially Women be not the True and Latent Cause of their continual Indispositions I leave to every man to judge by his own Discretion and Experience For my part as I do not assent to those who violently maintain that nothing at all can be done without Mercury so I much pity the poor Spirit of those who think of it as a Hobgoblin and are as apprehensive of giving or receiving the administration of it as they would be of meeting a hungry Lyon Men ought indeed to be Wonderful Cautious how they presume to make use of so suspected a Medicine yet he hath seen but little into the Nature of things or is wholly involved in a popular prejudice who knows not that Quicksilver as quick as it is may be tamed by Art and may sometimes by Discreet Masters be very seasonably employed to good purpose I know 't is very hard to speak of this subject without being mistaken on without being thought to have too great a kindness for it if one doth not utterly Declare War against all who magnifie its effects Nevertheless I am sure all knowing men will interpret what I have now said favourably enough There 's a famous Doctor in Paris one of the King's Professors of Physick but one who can never hear speak of Mercury without presently reckoning up twenty Mortal Diseases it must needs be apt to produce This person hath told me when I took occasion to speak of the Salivation that he hath performed a Flux before some Doctors of his Faculty without the assistance or use of Mercury and that he mixed the Ingredients and gave them the Patient faithfully before their faces The truth of it is I had so little Faith in the possibility of raising a Flux or at least a sufficient one without Mercury and had so much condescention as rather to submit with a complacent nod than offer to dispute so considerable and perhaps beloved an asseveration that I had not curiosity enough to enquire the manner how it could be done though I know the person to be the greatest enemy in the World to such things as Secrets But I am apt to believe that those Mortal Diseases he so zealously Fathers upon Mercury do rather arise from the indiscreet use of it and gross abuse that is easily made of so Active a Medicine when Quacks or Ignorants boldly take it into their hands Whatsoever is the Nature and how dangerous or beneficial soever are the effects of Mercury certainly the Author of these Observations hath made a fair progrese towards the clear Explication of its various Activities and deserves to be commended for so considerable a Design If the French are able to begin well lead the way with Courage our English I am sure can not only do the same but be very useful to them in a brave prosecution of what they undertake Let the French with their nimble Fansies start and Invent things sometimes the solid Judgment of an English man is required to bring them to a due Perfection As particular persons so particular Kingdoms have their peculiar Genius Abilities we must and ought to assist one another with our Communications One man's head is not big enough to comprehend or sufficiently contain the vast extent of the Great or Infinite Curiosities of the Little World And the necessity of this mutual correspondence and free intelligence among men especially of different Countreys whereby Envy and Jealousie are not able to breed the Poyson they usually do upon the same spot puts me in mind of those Advantages a Traveller may therefore meet with in Forreign Countreys more than the Natives themselves are capacitated to enjoy For if he be not too raw and young he shall easily gain admittance into the Closets of their most Ingenious men all the Rarities they pretend to and Observations they have made will be discovered by them 't is doubtful whether with more Ambition of Delight Lastly all their Arcanums and close Reserves of Knowledge shall with a slight Promise of silence while among them be submitted to his open view The truth of what I now say I have indeed experimented more than I could any way pretend to from several Ingenious persons abroad and particularly from the Worthy Author of this present Treatise into whose House I had a long time free access there to see the several Degrees of the POX treated not Speculatively but Practically according to the different Progress it usually makes The Approbations of the Chief Physicians of the Royal Family I Vnderwritten Counsellor of the King in his Counsels Chief Physician of his Majesty do Certifie that I have read and examined the Book of Monsieur de Blegny treating of Venereal Diseases in which I have found his Principles well established his Therapeutick part very Methodical and his Observations Good Curious and such as must needs be very useful to the Publick At Versailles this 15th of March 1674. Signed Daquin I Vnderwritten Chief Physician of the Queen of Sueden and the Prince of Condè do Certifie that I have read and examined the Book of Monsieur de Blegny containing many exact and useful Observations from which he draws good consequences for the Knowledge and Cure of the Venereal Disease his Reasonings are very clear the whole Work is very solid and Experience does confirm it So that I cannot but testifie my Approbation of this Book At Paris this 20th day of May 1674. Signed Bourdelot I Vnder-written Doctor of Physick Counsellor of the King Physician in Ordinary to his Majesty and chief Physician of Madam do certifie unto all to whom it may appertain that the New and Curious Observations made by Monsieur de Blegny the Queen's Chirurgeon on The Art of curing Venereal Diseases are very advantageous for all such as are afflicted with them and do contain the most assured means of curing them At Paris the 16th of

there is no reason besides for considering what they have proposed on this subject as one of its degrees since it is not at all likely that these Spirits they pretend infected are able to circulate about the body to penetrate the narrowest pores cause Itchings Inquietudes and fall of Hair the consequences of it without mixing with the blood by penetrating the Vessels I now spoke of which are but too porous for this effect and are generally dispersed into all parts of the body 5. Moreover it may be said that the differences which may be drawn from the Accidents the Pox produces are very considerable for it may be said to be Mobile during the ebullition of the blood the dispersion and motion of its matter that is to say when it yet causes those wandring pains or other Accidents that appear and vanish away successively one after another and on the contrary it may be considered as in a fixt condition when this dispersed matter doth adhere more particularly to some parts out of which it is not able to get neither of it self nor by the endeavours that Nature uses unless seconded by proper Remedies which also do become useless in those that have their Internal and Principal parts much injured by the adhesion and action of this matter But as the dispersion of it as well as of all other Humours that are extravasated is caused most commonly in the Extremities the most familiar Example of this degree may be observed in those that suffer in the night fixt pains of these same parts the elevation and corruption of bones and cartilages Lastly it may be seen by what I have said that these differences are able to furnish us with the most important consequences for the better making a good Prognostick of the Pox because we can easily judge that the degree in which its matter continues still in Motion can be carried off with easiness enough without leaving any impression at all of its ill effects and on the contrary we may judge it sometimes incurable where this same matter is absolutely stopt fixt because it hath made us see in some persons all its effects on those parts that are necessary to life and it is also rarely carried off in those I mentioned for the ordinary Example without leaving the sad marks of its activity since it is sometimes impossible to regenerate those parts that have been consumed for Example the bones and among others those of the Palate Nose which are often consumed in this degree and leave after their entire corruption very considerable deformities that can never be repaired CHAP. IV. Of the Judgment of the Pox. 1. It s division and how ignorant Men and Impostors do commit Abuses in this Disease 2. Many notorious Deceits and Impostures on this subject 3. A general division of the Signs that make us know this Disease 4. Particular division of the Symptomes that happen in all its degrees by the means of which the Prognostick of it may be assuredly made 1. THe Judgment of the Pox consists in knowing its Essence or Prognosticating as I have already said the easiness difficulty or impossibility of its Cure The Signs by which these things may be judged of are the Symptomes that accompany this Disease in all its degrees and are of a very great number and do therefore deceive ignorant Men because they do not all happen at a time and Symptomes do often happen that much resemble them though they are indeed produced from other causes This is that which gives occasion to Impostors to make but ill use of the credulity of those that doubt of the condition they are in and therefore find themselves engaged in this uncertainty to ask Counsel and require succour of those from whom they in Justice ought to expect it if they had but Honesty and Charity which are things very necessary for all such as do profess Physick The Reason that I have to speak after this manner ●● that the greatest part of those who pretend to cure this Disease now-a-days do make the smallest appearances pass for undoubted degrees of the Pox and they do not fear to establish their Reputation at the cost of those who are not wise enough to know their own Folly and yet have a blind confidence on others so mighty ingenious as to run the hazard of losing all their Employments their Estates and Lives for to be cured of an imaginary or supposed Disease Though I have learnt an infinity of Cheats of this nature by the report of those who have come to consult me after others on this subject and by what I have seen my self by feigning my self sick and several other ways yet I will not by relating them encrease the bulk of my Book without profit and I believe it will suffice to relate some of the most remarkable of these Impostures to serve for an Advertisement or Warning to those who may be for the future in the like perplexities 2. The greatest part of those who think they know the World well do believe themselves sufficiently assured if they have escaped from falling i●●o the hands of Empiricks and such as distribute secret Remedies nevertheless it is too true that there are many of those who are contrary to this sort of Men that are not really Honest but only in appearance and do indifferently make profit of all the occasions they meet with This truth is sufficiently known to many curious persons who have feigned themselves to have the Pox have found among those I spoke of persons that love their interest enough to confirm them in this Opinion upon the smallest suppositions and I have seen my self by chance that there are some among them who do not so much as endeavour to hide their Impostures by affected appearances but without any fear make ill use of the ignorance and easiness of those that go to consult them with a very strange piece of confidence The story that I am going to relate may serve so much the better for a proof of what I here affirm as it happened to a man of good credit that is now living and might be able to assert the truth of it This man came to consult me upon the account of several hard Pustules that grew over all his skin Upon this occasion I made all the necessary remarks on his past Life his Temperament the present condition of his person his Wife and Children and by this examination I knew it was nothing else but what Physicians call the Gnawing or Corrosive Herpes and I therefore proposed to him the use of a Bath and other Remedies both general and particular that ordinarily serve for the cure of this Distemper But because he was afraid he had the Pox and people often think they have the misfortunes they are afraid of he still continued in the apprehension he was in before and came to desire me some few days afterwards to conduct him to some famous Practitioner to see