De morbo Gallico. A treatise of the French disease, publish'd above 200 years past / by Sir Ulrich Hutten ... Translated soon after into English by a canon of Marten-Abbye [T. Paynell]. Now again revised and recommended to the press, with a preface to the same, and a letter at the close, to Mr. James Fern, surgeon, concerning a very singular suppos'd infection. By Daniel Turner.

  • Ulrich von Hutten
Date:
1730
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Credit: De morbo Gallico. A treatise of the French disease, publish'd above 200 years past / by Sir Ulrich Hutten ... Translated soon after into English by a canon of Marten-Abbye [T. Paynell]. Now again revised and recommended to the press, with a preface to the same, and a letter at the close, to Mr. James Fern, surgeon, concerning a very singular suppos'd infection. By Daniel Turner. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    A Letter to Mr. James f ern. Surgeon» concerning a very fingular fuppos’d Infe&ion, '■ S I R, I Doubt not but you may remember [though it is now many Months pad] that Mr. C’& hadcock recommended to me a fober honed Wo¬ man, in much Prafticeas a Midwife, for my Ada vice ahout her Finger * the Top of which, and indeed the whole fir It Joint, I perceived much tumefy’d, with the Skin crack’d, or as it were burfl on each fide of the Nail, yet differing widely from the Paromchia, having never any ferous Contents under the Cuticula as in the htnign, not Mifchief threatning deeper, from any violent Pain, as in the malign Species thereof, only the Bulk fo enlarged as had rendered it in a manner ufe* lefs, which feemed to me at that time great* ly owing to an emollient Application or Ga- taplafm fhe had worn for fome Days pad upon the fame ; and for Security whereof, on the Joint below, had tied a finall Thread feveral times round, which by the drift Impreffion, it was manifed had dop’d the Courfe of the Blood, and doubtlefs aggravated the Complaint. Upon the fame Arm appeared two or three pudulous Eruptions, which though as likely to Eroceed from a fcorbutick5 as a venereai Progeny, ad given ajealoufy however of this lad, which I found fo riveted in the poor Woman’s Thoughts, that fhe was in a manner perfuaded the Malady took itsfRife from her having laid a foul Woman, where both Child and Mother, fhe obfyered after, were fadly tainted with this .Difeafe,