An elenchus of opinions concerning the cure of small pox : together with problematicall questions concerning the French pest / by T. Whitaker.

Tobias Whitaker

Date:: 1661

Credit: An elenchus of opinions concerning the cure of small pox : together with problematicall questions concerning the French pest / by T. Whitaker. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$a _ TheFrench Pe. x9. much; that according to the “dyet andayre, feveral] Regi- ons haye their particular dif. | -eafes. But ‘the French difeate }] proceedeth- aeither°fiom the Ib} ayre of the place nor dyet, but at) from. meer Venery and im. Ne} pure Congteflion, and there. iN} foreit is an Univerfall difeafe ‘}] more common in: Vencreal and wt}: hot Countries, where the Wo- i} men are more falacious then. ie in-cold Regions; this Sex *\ being in: their temper more | cold then men, by the heat of | the Region are provoked ,and more hot in- pleafure ; il} by which themfelves and: tt) others in conjunction with them are inflamed,. infomuch that it thofe’ places this French ‘dif... pe | cafe proveth Hereditary , and i) | is conveyed’ from Family to od} Family inthe principles of ma. os | ture; as is the: Small Pox accor... i$