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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    we aredefpifed. Is there fo much as a Child in Italy5 that knoweth us by any other Name than that of Drunkards ? Seeing therefore that other Foreigners do cry out rather of our Vices than of our Humanity or good Conditions, is it not time to change our way of Life? Are we not afhamed to be fo dif- honourably fpoken of? Or ihall we think it no Scandal to lofe our Dignity and antient Title, which was fo great Glory once unto us ? Can we believe that fober Men and wife will long con* tent themfelves under the Dominion of a drunken and barbarous Nation, void of all Goodnefs, of all Humanity ? But if our Countrymen will yet be ftupid and underftand no Counfel, let them know however the Approach of their own Ruin; and if we fet fo little by the Lofs of our Glory, and the Re¬ buke of our Minds, that we will not leave our Luxury and extravagant Living, let us at lead: have fo much Senfe as to preferve our Healths, which will at length be utterly deftroyed by fuch Feaftings, Surfeitings and Carowfings, concern¬ ing which the fatyrick Poet faith thus Cir cum filet Agmine faffo Morborum omne Genus. That great Crowds of all kinds of Difeafes will foon attend. But furely Germany hath loft its Wits and Un- derftanding, and hath forgot herfelf; not all Ger■? many, I hope, but many in Germany^ fuch as draw out their Dinners unto Supper time, and their Supperings unto Midnight : Thefe by their dis¬ orderly Living have occaftoned a ftrange Poet, but on bad one [for hefeerneth to abhor bad Men] *