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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    fore proceed we toother Matter j yet firft I muft acquaint you in concluding this Chapter, that Guajacum will not fuffer a Belly thus replenished with Food, or inwardly puffed up with Flatus, but rather one that is well purged and cleanfed from all grofs Humours. CHAP. XVL How Hunger may eafily be fuftained during this Cure. THIS {lender Diet at this time may not only but eafily be borne alfo, and that thro’ the Property of this Wood, which after the Body is reduced, will both fuftain Life, and caufe that the Sick require no other Support : Therefore have I not without Caufe advifed that the Sick abftain as much as pofllble from Meat, and when feeble or faint he may be refrefhed, not with fuch, but with fweet Savours or Smells, as I have before obferved, efpecially thofe of hot Bread put to his Mouth > but if any be fo feeble as to fancy himfelf finking quite away, which I think can rarely fall out, [and in myfelf nothing like it did happen,] as to require any manner of Help, then I would advife what Pliny hath recommended, that is, Butter and Liquoriih, a little whereof ta¬ ken, will both ftay Hunger and fiackenThirftj or elfe let us follow the Counfel of Celfus, who faith this thing particularly muft be regarded, that the Phyfician frequently vifit the fick Man at fuch times, fitting by him, confidering how his Strength holds out, and to perfuade him, fo long as he is able, to bear his Abftinence from Meat, and when he begins to fear his Weaknefs, to allow what he thinks neceffary. Except any 1 z had