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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    Woman to catch the Infe£fcion thereby: And then fecondly, If fuch a Finger as you fee this Wo¬ man had, admit her palling it into the Vagina or through the Cervix Uteri, could communicate a Lues Venerea to her Woman in Travel. There are feveral Venomes it mud be granted which have peculiar Ways of affe&ing our Bo¬ dies, either externally preft down upon the Skin, where they ftrangely alter the cuticular Compagesr and create very great Difturbance thereon : Thus the fine Down of the Phafeolus Zurratenjis, or Couhage, vulgarly Cowitch, being rub’d upon any Part thereof, will quickly after raife a mod into¬ lerable itching thereon j the Capftcum bruifed a- gainft the Rim of a Cup or Glafs will occafionas infufferable Heat or Smart upon the Lips of him who cometh unawares foon after to drink out of the fame. I need not tell you what the dead Cant bar is, the living Culex, the Jpes, Vefpa, Bruchus, and many other little Infe&s, can effedb upon the fame Part, either by their Stings behind, or their Probofcidei before; but thefe are not com¬ municable from the Infected to the Sound, nei¬ ther in common handling or fingering do the for¬ mer of them, viz. the Couhage, Capficum or Can* tharides give any Difturbance. Or elfe entering imperceptibly by the Pores of the fame part, received with the Saliva by Deglutition into the Stomach , or by Re- fpiration palling to the Lungs, are thence con¬ veyed to the Blood, where imbuing fome particu¬ lar Humour therein with their feveral malign Taints or Impreflions, diverle furprizing and often fatal Symptoms, fooner or later [according to their feveral Properties] are produced. There is one Difeafe, and I think one only, that like this Difeafe fpreads its Contagion in the fame way by a fimplc Contact* the Pruritus I mean, or Itch, from the Difturb-