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A59205	Two treatises The first, of the venereal pocks: Wherein is shewed, I. The name and original of this disease. II. Histories thereof. III. The nature thereof. IV. Its causes. V. Its differences. VI. Several sorts of signs thereof. VII. Several waies of the cure thereof. VIII. How to cure such diseases, as are wont to accompany the whores pocks. The second treatise of the gout, 1. Of the nature of the gout. 2. Of the causes thereof. 3. Of the signs thereof. 4. Of the cure thereof. 5. Of the hip gout or sciatica. 6. The way to prevent the gout written in Latin and English. By Daniel Sennert, Doctor of Physick. Nicholas Culpeper, physitian and astrologer. Abdiah Cole, Doctor of Physick, and the liberal arts.; De lue venerea. English	Sennert, Daniel, 1572-1637.; Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654.; Sennert, Daniel, 1572-1637.; Cole, Abdiah, ca. 1610-ca. 1670.	1660 (1660)	Wing S2547; ESTC R221594	267,038	173

danger so bitter hazard but that quick-silver may be applied to external and contumacious Ulcers is known to every body But to evacuate vitious Humors it may be used three manner of waies How many ways quick-silver doth Evacuate either to move by stool and vomit or to cause sweat or to cause Salivation and spitting Coneerning the giving of quick-silver to move by stool or vomit is already spoken before and the Chymists are large in the praise of it and do extol it with wonderful commendations By stool and vomit and Crollius calls Mercury the Balsome of Nature in which there is both a vertue incarnative and regenerative which doth wonderfully renew and purge from al impurities and therefore cals it a divine Medicine to whom Beguinus assents who in Lib. 2. Tyrocin Chym. cap. 3. writes that Mercury is the chiefest Alexipharmacum against al corruption and putrefaction from whom though Platerus do not wholly dissent while he teacheth that this Disease may easily be cured by purging with Mercury and truly in no long time but very speedily being scarce drank twice or thrice from whence is raised a plentiful flux of the belly and also vomiting somtimes also sweat and Urin is provoked yet he cannot deny that it doth perform this by a violent irritation of Nature and not without danger But I would have a Physitian rather timorous than bold and rash in the use of this Medicine 'T is to be given warily for that which Pliny said was the poyson of al things Lib. 37. cap. 6. that wil not spare mans body but offends the stomach Liver Guts and al the bowels and is especiallly an enemy to the Nerves and brain but though the Chymists affirme that being prepared it may grow more mild and that it may not hurt they precipitate it sublime it and prepare flowers of it Aquilam Aurum vitae and other things yet though you expel Nature with a fork she wil stil returne for as it was said even now out of Platerus it purges violently and not without danger and as Fernelius Lib. de lue Vener cap. 17. writes of this business upon the giving of prepared Mercury doubtless he meant precipitate presently from the compass of the whol body Humors of al sorts break forth upwards and downwards with so great force and so violent that the spirits being exhausted and the strength wasted the sick do either die presently or lie some daies without strength like unto dead men somtimes al the mouth is inflamed and contracts a Gangreen putrid Ulcers and very stinking and somtimes the jaws swel that the Patient for some daies is not able to swallow at al although somtimes it work more gently yet it purges violently enough But if it do work more mildely either it retaines the nature of that which is crude or being fixt it doth almost put on the nature of a fixt mettal of the first sort is metcurius dulcis of which Angelus Sala saith in the riper aged it works little unless it be given in a great dose to wit thirty five grains and then it easily raiseth salivation and that this is true a certain Physitian wel known to me learnt to his cost and found it so by experience as we have said de consens et dissen cap. 18. but if it be more fixt it doth not move the belly therefore it must needs be that it have a middle nature if it ought to purge that it may stimulate nature where yet alwaies to hold that medium is very difficult Yet amongst those medicines we have nominated of prepared mercury that which is called mercurius vitae doth easily challeng the first place so that I think it would be needless to make mention here of more medicines prepared out of mercury but we must note this concerning mercurious vitae that it is no pure mercurial medicine but there is contained in it some part of antimony as appears by the vitrum and Regulus which may be made out of the mercurius vitae but can by no art be prepared out of mercury alone but that they may be made of antimony is wel known Yet when we are minded to administer mercurius vitae When it is to be given in the Venereal disease and other mercurial medicines we must diligently consider Mesues rule that it is a grane of wisdom not to come to strong medicines but where weak ones wil not satisfy If therefore this evil be new and gentle which may be cured by gentler purgers and by the decoction of Guajacum or Sarsaparilla we must not rashly come to the use of quicksilver But if the evil be stubborn and inveterate and there be many virulent humors in the body mercurial medicines may be given without danger for then 't is not easily to be feared that it should assail mans body when it hath vicious humors enough to work upon And oftentimes necessity compels us to come to the use of quicksilver and some do hope in vain to affect the same buismess by weak medicines often repeated as by stronger taken plentifully at once For experience hath long since taught us that we do oftentimes spend our time in vain in such medicines given against pertinaceous diseases On the contrary that strong in 〈◊〉 and amongst them quicksilver after once or more times taking have happ●ly overcome pertinacious diseases whose cause was about the stomach the cavety of the liver the spleen pancreas the cal and from thence was communicated to other 〈◊〉 Sweating medicines made of quicksilver Secondly out of quicksilver are prepared sweating medicines to wi●the whitspirit of mercury or the white or red oyl of mercury one drop of which or two are given to drink in treacle water and spirits of Guajacum or some such like decoction to move sweat as also other preparations and fixt medicaments of quicks●●ver and in case that quicksilver performe that for which end it is given and move sweat and discuss the vitious humors by it 't is not so dangerous a medicine Salivation by quick-silver The third way is by Salivation and many indeed do place al their hopes of the cure of this disease in Salivation so that Platerus writeth unless that in the cure by quicksilvet Salivation be raised by the use of it And at last be supervenient the cure doth not succeed neither is it fitting so much to condemne the use of it and wholy to reject it for the faults which happen in the mouth in this cute or for other accidents amongst which convulsions are cheifly to be feared which are wont somtimes to happen if there be any great error committed in the use of it whenas afterwards in the cure the faults of the mouth are easily corrected again On the contrary Fernelius de lue Vener cap. 6. doth exactly set forth this manner of cure and describes its inconveniences so great saith he is the cruelty and harshness of this unguent that the patient presently begins

is rasped and that being masticated doth bite and leave a bitterness behind it and whiles it is cut it appeare solid with an even superficies not rough and ful of holes the wood is good The Bark of this wood is endewed with great acrimony and bitterness The bark of Guajacum and therefore dries attenuates and digests more powerfully than the wood but because that occult vertue which is opposite to this disease is rather in that fatty and moist and balsamical substance the wood is alwaies preferred before the bark and besides the bark is not so conveniently given in hot and dry bodies As concerning the vertues of Guajacum it is hot and dry as may be perceived from its tast smel and acrimony and that in the second degree The vertues of Guajacum and 't is also of thin parts whence it hath power to attenuate crass things to cut and cleanse clammy humors to open obstructions to move sweat and urine and to dissipate and wast superfluous cold humors but this pockwood is not chiefly given for those qualities whenas there are found in Europe medicaments endewed with those qualities that there was no need to transport them out of the Indies but principally for that peculiar and occult power By which it is opposed to the Veneral virulency and truly al physitians almost doe agree that pockwood doth deserve the first place amongst the alexiplarmaca of the veneral disease for though Fernelius would somewhat lessen its vertue because al that are affected with this disease are not cured by the use of it yet this is no sufficient cause since there is found no such alexipharmacum or other medicine which can cure diseases past hope But this wood is by an occult quality and propriety opposite to the Veneral virulency it self and is a friend to the radical moisture and natural balsom which doth most of al suffer by this virulency inimicous to the nutritive faculty and doth so strengthen it that it hath been observed that those also who had a liver and whol habit of body hot and dry and who have been almost consumed with the veneral disease as was said before by the use of the decoction of this wood though by its heat and dryness adverse to them have been restored and become better habited and more corpulent Some indeed have dared to write that the decoction of this wood doth nourish as much as chicken broath but these seem to me to be excessive in the praise of this wood for though it be a vegetable and perhaps may leave some alimental juyce in the decoction yet I think no body that is in his right mind wil easily deny that a chicken hath not more convenient nourishment for a man than Guajacum Whether pock-wood do nourish but that some after this disease become more corpulent is accidental for whenas by reason of the Veneral virulency nutrition was hurt in the whol body when that is discussed and extinguisht the body begins again to be nourisht wel and to be augmented the like of which happens also in some other diseases especially in feavers before which whenas men were not wel flesht by reason of evil nourishment the vitious humors being waisted by the disease afterwards they begin to be nourisht wel and become more corpulent Fr. Arcaeus also lib. de curand vulner rat gives the † Whether the decoction of Guajacum sarsaparilla sassafras China root do fatten Decoction of Guajacum for ulcers of the Lungs and the ptisick and he writes that bodies though they be wasted are not offended by it but rather grow fat upon it nay there are some who attribute a nutritive power to Guajacum and write that it is no less nourishing than chicken broath The same vertues also others do attribute * The decoction of Guajacum Sarsa Sassasras China root nourish not but by accident to Sarsaparilla Sassafras and especially to China root but indeed though it be found by experience that in the ptisick Veneral disease scab and other diseases bodies extenuated have been restored again and made fat by the use of these decoctions yet this comes to pass not of it self because these decoctions have a nutritive faculty as other nourishments but by accident in as much as they take away the cause of leanness In ptisick bodies the case is plain for whenas that wasting of the body proceeds from an ulcer of the Lungs the ulcer being dried up by the use of Guajacum the body begins to be wel nourisht again the same happens in other diseases as the French the Scab and the like For whenas that leanness and consumption doth proceed from bad nourishment but bad nourishment for the most part from acrid and falt humors which do both consume the good blood and hinder the agglutination of it to the body those vitious humors being wasted by the decoctions and discussed by sweats the bodies begin to be nourisht wel again nay grow fat But this wood hath not only an alterative power and by its occult quality to extinguish that malignity of the Veneral virulency imprinted both on the humors and the solid parts but also to evacuate both sensibly by sweating and insensibly by insensible transpiration and therefore the way of curing the French disease by Guajacum and medicines of affinity with that is most in use For though by reason of the length of the cure and the pains of sweating and the slender dyet it cause some trouble to them yet it is far safer than that way which is by quicksilver where if there be an error the patient is in no smal danger But there are prepared out of Guajacum divers medicaments Medicines made out of Guajacum and those either in a liquid forme or in a solid and in substance but those given in a liquid forme are most effectual whenas they are easily deduced into act and penetrate into the whol body and do irritae the expulsive faculty of al parts to cast off what is hurtful but in a solid forme whenas that part in which the vertue of the medicine doth chiefly reside is not yet separated from the earthy and thick part 't is not so easily deduced into act The decoction therefore as most convenient is most in use yet if any by reason of the continued use of this medicine be weary of it and nevertheless do feare least there be some reliques of the evil humor remaining or their course of life wil no longer admit of the use of the decoction as it ought to be taken to such medicines made out of this wood may be given in another form Amongst which extracts and spirits as shal be said are most efficacious and far more excellent than pouders But the manner of boy ling this wood is various The manner of preparing a decoction of the wood Whether it ought to be boyled in Wine both in respect of the liquor in which the decoction is made and of the

quality of the liquor for some boyl the wood in water some in Barly water some in distilled waters others in wine others in Whey and others in broth of Flesh L. Septalius lib. 7. adnimadu nu 204. reprehends those who deny that the decoction of this wood may be made in wine only when as nothing is more fit to extract the faculties of medicines than wine and the water of wine he had spoke righter than the spirit of wine and therefore he prepares his decoction with wine which he useth when the disease is inveterate with an evil habit of body and a cold matter predominant after this manner eight ounces of the bark of the best holy wood grossely poudered being infused in forty two physical pints of the best white wine for two days the wine being first heated and alwaies kept hot those two days in a double vessel or in the ashes afterwards with a slow fire boyl it away in a double vessel to the consumption of the third part which let the sick make use of both in the morning instead of a syrup and for his drink at meales let him take in the morning seven ounces an hour after move sweat but at dinner and supper let him not exceed fourteen ounces But though we grant that wine is most commodious to extract the vertues of vegetables yet this cannot be denied that by boyling the strength of wine doth vanish and when the spirit is exhaled there is left a nauseous phlegme less profitable than plain simple water And therefore I am of that opinion that either the wood is to be boyled in water and towards the end the wine is to be added or else the wood is only to be a long while infused in wine or to be boyled in a double vessel that nothing be lost but by no means to the Consumption of the third part Therefore most commonly and rightly the decoction is made in pure water which doth both a little correct the Heat and driness of the Medicine and further the distribution and provocation of sweat yet if the body and especially the stomach be cold and weak and the Patient accustomed to wine Wine is not unprofitably mixt with it as was said even now and shal be said hereafter for by the admistion of Wine the stomach is less hurt and the vertue of the Medicine doth the easier penetrate to al the parts And a different proportion of the wood to the water is observed according to the age constitution of the body and season of the year The proportion of wood to the water and they take to twelve pound of water from three ounces of the wood to twelve for if the season of the year and the body be hot 't is safest to take a less quantity of the wood and in a longer time to perfect the Cure than by too strong a Medicine to damnesie the patient especially at the beginning of the cure and before the superfluous Humors in the body be abated and sweat begin to flow easily and exquisitly and the patient be accustomed to the Decoction afterwards by degrees you may take more of the Wood which unless it be observed the Patient is easily brought into danger And Eustachius Rudius writes Lib. 5. de Morb. occult Cap. 13. That he hath seen patients who by this error viz. too great a quantity of the wood given on the first daies have fallen into a Feaver that afterwards they have been forced to abstaine from the use of the decoction to their great detriment but where there is no such thing to be feared in those of ripe years we commonly add to one pound of the wood rasped or turned smal twelve pound of water in an earthen Vessel glased and let it infuse twenty four hours in a warm place afterwards the vessel being wel covered boyle it with a gentle fire til half or the third part remain and let the decoction cool in this vessel stil covered afterwards strain it Fallopius Lib. de morb Galli cap. 46. After what manner 't is to be boyled disputes whether it be better to boyle it with an open fire or in a double vessel as was said or in Balneo Mariae and reprehends them who hold that the decoction made in Balneo is more dilute or less powerful and that the decoction made in Balneo is more excellent than that which is made with an open fire he endeavors to prove by the example of distilled waters which by the balneum are made most excellent when as there is no adustion in them but the greater eliquation which is made in that hot and moist doth render the decoction more excellent but experience teacheth otherwise which reason also doth confirme For though out of some moister plants as Roses Violets Lilly of the vallies and the like being fresh whose vertue consists in the volatile part as the Chymists speak the best waters are made in balneo without the affusion of water yet in hotter plants especially in Roots and woods whose vertue consists in the oyly part their vertue can never be extracted by the too gentle heat of a Balneum as happens also in many seeds but they must be distilled by a † Vesica through which by the vehicle of the water A chymical Vessel those more fixed parts may be elevated when as then the whol vertue of Guajacum doth consist in that oyly and rozeny part and there is need of strong boyling that that may be extracted the gentle heat of a Bolneum cannot do it but it must be boyled in an open fire which nevertheless causeth no adustion if there be added a sufficient quantity of water Some for the better gust and that the bitterness and acrimony may be abated a little before 't is boyled enough add of Raison and Liquorish of each one ounce and you may add Sugar or some Julep to rellish it Aurelius Minadous de virulen Vener Cap. 4. holds the Decoction ought chiefly to be Dulcorated with Honey for he thinks that a smal quantity of Honey if it be boyled with it and Skimmed wil rebate al the bitterness and the Decoction acquire a greater power to cleanse attenuate open and make fusil the Humors and strengthen the parts which we grant may take place in phlegmatick bodies and especially in a cold stomach so whenas honey doth easily turn to Choller we think it cannot safely be used in chollerick bodies hot and dry but more conveniently and safely Raisons Liquorish or Sugar Some also in those who have a hot and dry Liver do add towards the end of the decoction a root or two of Succory one or two handfuls of Endive Sowthistle but whenas such decoctions are to be continued along while we must have a care least by the admistion of such things they be made ingrateful and provoke nauseousness in the Patient besides whenas for the most part there is boyled at one time Decoction enough for many daies but the