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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    tfiac, Cinnabar, Vermilion, Coral, burnt Salt, <?y* Brafs, Litharge, of Iron, Refine of Tur¬ pentine, and all manner of the bed Oils ^ as of ifoy, Eofes, 'Turpentine, Juniper, [and of yet greater Power] the Oil of Spike \ alfo Hogs-Lard, Neats-Foot Oil, May Butter, GWr and DdW Virgin Honey, Worms dried to Powder, or boiled up with Oil, Camphire, Euphorbium, C aft or. With thefe, fewer or more, they anointed the fick Man’s Joints, his Arms, Thighs, his Neck and Back, with other parts of his Body. Some tiling thefe Anointings once a Day, fame twice, others three times, and four times, others * the Pa¬ tient being fhut up in a Stove, with continual and fervent Heat, fome twenty, fome thirty whole Days. Some lying in Bed within the Stove were thus anointed, and covered with many Clothes, being compelled to fweat 5 Part at the fecond anointing begin to faint > yet was the Ointment of fuch Strength, that whatfoever Di- flemper was in the upper Parts it drew it into the Stomach, and thence to the Brain $ and fo the Difeafe was voided both by the Nofe and Mouth, and put the Patient to fo great Pain, that except they took good heed, their Teeth fell out, and their Throats , their Lungs , with the Roofs of their Mouths, were full of Sores $ their Jaws did fwell, their Teeth loofen’d, and a {link¬ ing Matter continually was voided from thefe Places. What Part foever it touched, the fame was ftrait corrupted thereby, fo that not only their Lips, but the in fide of their Cheeks, were grievoufly pained, and made the Place where they were, (link mod abominably 5 which fort of Cure was indeed fo terrible, that many ehofe rather to die than to be eafed thus of their 'Sicknefs. Howbeit, fcarce one fick Perfoiv in a hundred could