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
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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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    this is the order of Diet* which fame obferve throughout * others only for fourteen Days, which they think enough, and on the twenty fourth Day they grant two Meals a Day * but let them take heed that give this Liberty, for indeed this Remedy required] that the Sick be reduced as low as may be by Abdinence, although fome may chance to have their Cure, and that in half the time of others, with {lighter Difcipline alfo. With their Meat they drink thefecond Decoc¬ tion, not warmed but cold, which is the whole of the Regimen as to Diet, and which none ought to exceed, notwithftanding the Phyficians Pre¬ cepts. 1 would not altogether defpife thofe who tell us, that many Dangers may chance to dry and hot Bodies, from this very (pare Diet, for which they quote both Galen and Hippocrates, who feem in many Places to be again!! this (lender feeding. Bpt of all thofe who ufed this Wood, I never faw one who was in Jeopardy by the fame, and I gather my Precepts from Experience, and not from the Doftrine of any Books. And farther, I myfelf am of fuch hoc and dry Comple£tion? and yet this Hunger brought me neither to a Ptifick9 nor yet a Heftick^ of which thefe Phyfi¬ cians are fo fearful* forafmuch however as it may be thought Prudence to provide againft all Dan*? ger, I will that if any Man has thefe Fears con¬ cerning himfelf, let him have his Phyfician to di- red! him herein, which is all I fball fay conccrn- ' ing this thing, whilft 1 now proceed to others. In the time then of this Cure the Sick mud lay afide all Bufinefs and fad Thoughts, reding from Care and keeping his Mind eafy and quiet , forbearing Studies and whatever may difquiet his Mind, which muft be now loafed from his Affairs * and this thing is to be undcrilood of all, but efpecially fuch as are inclined to Me-