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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    very bad, taking but little Reft a-Nights through her Pains, and that file had fome Scabs upon her Arm, I now defired the fame Perfon to let her know that I fhould be glad to fee her $ and I had a Vifit the Day following, when I found the dif- eafed Finger reduced almoft to its natural Shape, the Motion and Senfe pretty well retrieved : A- bout the Carpus there appeared fome Fejligia of the old Scabs fallen off, and higher up towards the Bend of the Cubit ^ a Serpigo of theCompafs of a Silver three Pence, without any Callofity about its Bafis, appearing fretful for want of Digeftion, having nothing thereon but a Gum Patch fhe laid over to hide it $ and this was the whole of the outward Appearance. I now enquired after her inward Complaints, particularly her Pains, which by her own Defcription I difeovered to be chiefly lumbal, or of the nephritick Kind, accom¬ panied oftentimes with Cholicks, but very little of the Head, Shoulder or Shin Pains 5 although if fome fuch had attended, they might have been deduceable from a diverfe Indoles, or excited from a Fomes of a different kind, fince on the fecond Internode of one of her Fingers [I remember not truly which] there was now a painful, nodous Tumour, like thofe in theChiragra, or, as com¬ mon in many arthritic and fome rheumatick Pa¬ tients. I farther asked after her Management fince flie had been with us, and fhe told me fhe believed* had fhe profecuted that we recommended to her, fhe might long fince have got clear of her break¬ ings out, the Swelling on the Top of her Finger gradually abating after fhe had followed our Di¬ rections for fome little time, but by her continu¬ ally going out a-Nights in the difeharge of her Function, and the Weather alfo cold, fhe had negleCted her purging, and taken but little of the alterative