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A43019	Little Venus unmask'd, or, A perfect discovery of the French pox comprising the opinions of most ancient and modern physicians, with the author's judgement and observations upon the rise, nature, subject, causes, kinds, signs, and prognosticks of the said disease : together, with several nice questions, and twelve different ways and methods of curing that disease, and the running of the reins by Gideon Harvey.	Harvey, Gideon, 1640?-1700?	1670 (1670)	Wing H1068; ESTC R15361	39,466	169

records of several Treatises my self can produce some instances of Pockie Hecticks restored to their health it 's a sufficient argument to encourage Physicians to attempt some course or other to recover their disastered patients or at least to advise something to palliate and prolong their dayes In this case the generality of Authors frame two indications the one and which in the cure is preferred is to moisten the wither'd and tabefied parts the other is to expel and extinguish the virulent venom of the Pox. The for●●ost of these is accomplisht or at least endeavoured by a nutritive and humecting diet and other medicines of the same faculty namely by Cock-broath wherein is boiled French B●rley Bugloss or Borrage roots liquorish the four cordial flowers Dates Jujubees Sebesten Currants the four greater cold Seeds and sometimes a small proportion of Poppie-seeds all which besides the liquorish is to be sweetned with Rose sugar if the partie be Rhumatick or if not with sugar of Marsh-mallows From a fortnights continuance hereof three or four times a day it 's expected the Patient should be somewhat incarn'd moistned and strengthned which commemorates the Physician of his latter indication of resisting and oppugning the venom to which purpose he prescrib●s a proportion of C●ina r●ot and Sa● to be added to the broath forementioned I● upon another fortnights use of this the Patient seems to mend and appears less cadaverous in his aspect he begins to think of steering another course and so either wholy casts off the broth or at least diminishes the use of it and prescribes a formal decoction of Gu●●●acum Salsa and Chini others omit the former of these three being suspicious it's too h●t and drying and so might precipitate the Gallican to his form●r emaciated habit This is to be diligently drunk for six weeks or two months the length of time being supposed to recompence the omission of those violent sweats which are ordinarily enjoyned upon an antivenereal decoction though in this method some short gentle sweats are advised That the r●sult of this sort of cure hath been a perfect recovery of confirmed pockie Hecticks many Autho●s do confidently assert in their Volumes as Poterius R●verius F●nseca and others though I am more than certain that their patients were onely emacerated but not Hectically However it 's apparent by the testimonies of these so reputed Physicians C●in● root obtains a most energick vertue for restoring Emaciated pocky Hecticks which the Reader possibly may observe I have more than once contradicted in this Treatize Besides that its vertue is not exhaled though transported through such hot climes and kept seven eight or ten years before it 's called into use seems evidently demonstrated by the sanguine tincture it contributes to the liquor in a decoction or broath which doubtless must be derived from a potent Sulphur that is deeply latent in the ro●t and by a long continuated ●bullition is only extracted and consequently is not exposed to exhalation Moreover it might be argued that the chief energy of oppugning this virulent venom is not inherent in the volatile parts of antivenereal drugs but rather in their fixt salts which a long ebullition doth melt and extract as may be instanced in Guaiacum which its age is universally imagined doth render fitter for use and exalted to a more puissant faculty as if length of time were requisite to concoct its parts and perduce its l●t●nt Sulphur to maturity My answer to th●se objections imports that the antivener●●l vertue which is attributed to C●in● and Sa●s● is chiefly lodged in its volatile saline particles the I●di●ns sca●ce reposing any confidence of vertue in the former unless fresh taken out of the ground experience convincing them that few owe their cure to it after it hath been exposed ● or 10 dais to the air Moreover the evident manner which is conceived that drug doth exert its activity through against the Pox is by sweat which I could never detect in a sole decoction of Chin● Neither can any manifest qualities be discovered in its fixt particles which by a long dec●ction are aimed to be extracted whereby it should melt attenuate humours and so profuse a sweat and with it the venomous miasms if so there is little certainty of its antigallick vertue unless reposed in its hidden powers which few now a daies can confide in On the other hand Guaiacum declares its vertue by its manifest qualities residing in its fixt salin and sulphurous particles or an acid salt and a potent expansive su●phur as the Anatomy of 〈◊〉 parts by sire doth evidently represent to you by the acid spirit and a strong sulphurous oil it yeilds through the former attenuating and penetrating into those humors that harbour the infection and through the latter deterging colliquating diffusing and propelling the said humors out at the pores together with the virulent miasms Moreover it must not be doubted but the oldest and longest cut G●●acum is most prevalent for a podkie purpose time seeming to concoct its ● póur and exalt its particles to a greater energie or rather time opening the pores of that hard wood disuniting the sulphurous parts from the salin whose ●idum and close connexion is the cause of the hardness of the said wood whereby it afterwards results more apt and capable of rendring its sulphurous and salin particles to any liquor by a far shorter ebullition than if the said wood were ●●wer That time doth so considerably exalt and sublime the vertues of bodies will be plainly attested to you by the volatization of the spirit of Vitriol which I imagine few can shew besides my self having the possession of a spirit so volatil that it diffuses it self to a very great distance not without a pleasant scent to the olfactive organ and a most subtil insinuation into the remotest effuges of the brain and being dropt into a liquor proves diaphoretick which is accounted an excellent vertu when accompanying an acidity The manner it 's prepared is thus calcine your Vitriol to a Colcother and place it in a Garret leaving it there 2 or 3 years afterwards distil it after the usual way and you shal● collect a deep yellow volatil spir● of Vitriol as is here described Which confirms my assertion tha● time doth maturate volatilize an● exalt the sulphurous particles an● renders them apt for sequestration● from its more drossie and feculen● parts This by the way And re●turning to my former subject I 〈◊〉 once more assert Guaiacum the only certain and manifest vegetabl● for curing the Pox. The metho● I have sometimes prescribed is th● following Take a young Co●● and bruise it well add to it thre● ounces of the shavings of old Guaiacum wood four handfuls of Mallow leaves two ounces of the fo● greater cold seeds one ounce ● sweet Almonds blanched 20 Dates and two ounces of blew Currant● spring water four quarts boil i● gently two hours in a diet potstrain keep it 〈◊〉 glass cl●s● stopt Hereof let the Patient drink a quarter of a pint four times a day In stead of water in some cases I have ordained the same quantity of Whey or water distild of Milk or Mallow water After ten daies continuance of this Anti-hectick broath it 's requisite to add two ounces of excellent new Sarsaparil or if such is scarce to be procur'd the like quantitie of Burdock roots If upon twenty daies use hereof the Patient seem'd somewhat incarn'd I judged it convenient to purge him gently with Di●sen●● and Mercur. subl ●ulc and so exhort him to two or three small sweats a week By degrees I detracted those moistning ingredients until I arrived to the use of of my two Magisteria Furthermore I have now and then observed some Gallicks surprized with particular A 〈◊〉 of some o● their members in that case I a● vised three ounces of Red worm● taken out of a horses dunghil an● well-washt in white Wine to b● added to the nutritive decoction● Likewise I perceived that a score of well cleansed Vineyard Snails added to the broath aforesaid di● very much contribute to its nutritive faculty After that the Patient being reduced to a more florid aspect and somewhat impinguated you may proceed with such a method as his present symptoms may indicate according to those observations I have lately communicated to you FINIS