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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    Thou woulft have ligthfome Joints and [a Jlrong Body in Age: Tea, but the full Difloes and the fat Dain¬ ties the Gods nor Jupiter will grant thereto. And Cicero bringeth in Cato faying, That a libidinous and intemperate Youth maketh a feeble old Man ; Upon which he advifeth, that we eat and drink fo much only as may fuflain cur bodily Strength and not opprefs it $ intimating,' that nothing can be fo un¬ friendly to the Mind of Man [which he calleth a heavenly Gift] as is Voluptuoufnefs* for fo long as Luft and Pleafure bear rule, Temperance can have no room, nor can Virtue take Place whilfi: thefe are predominant j and it is their Opinion that we ought highly to rejoice in Age, wherein we have leaffc Inclination to forbidden Pleafures. Tor Voluptuoufnefs, faith Cato, being an Enemy to Re afon, hinder eth all good Advice, and blindeth our Minds againf virtuous Precepts. Upon which Ac¬ count he thinketh old Men happy, who lacking Feafis, full Diflies, and the often handing about the Cup, lack alfo Drunkennefs, Rawnefs of Sto¬ mach, being no ways cumber’d in their Sleep with Dreams, from Fumes and Vapours of Wine, ufually attending thofe who are addidled to In¬ temperance > for Hierom well obferves, that many Difeafes come of too much Feeding or Glut¬ tony. There is a pretty Jeff of a certain Phyfician of this Country that had a fick Man under his Cure with running Legs, who notwithftanding was given to Banquetting and exceffive Drinking, yet complained that his Medicines prevailed not, but flill his Sores ran falter than they did at the be¬ ginning: Truly, faid the Phyfician, thy Legs would ceafe running out, if thou could ceafe pouring in. Galen affirmeth, that thofe great Chuffs, whofe Life and Occupation lies in feeding, can neither live long nor enjoy Health, and that their Un- 4 derftandings