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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    derftandings are fo clouded by much Blood and Corpulency [as buried in fo much Mire] that they are incapable of Divine Meditation, but are always taken up in Stuffing, Quaffing and Farting. The old Romans called that feeding only wholfome that was (lender and fparing, and a- mong the Greeks, the fame fpare Diet was moflly approved. The Effenes, which were a certain fort of Phi- lofophers among the old Jews, are commended of Jofephus, becaufe they had made Abftinence as it were habitual to them, as he likewife doth the Con¬ tinence of the Pharifees: He, I fay, who would once have us deftroyed, I think nevertheleis was defirous this laudable Co (lorn fhould take place with usj and feeing Marcus Cato, as Pliny writes, was greatly fearful left the Greeks fhould poifoa Italy with their wanton Living : Which of our Forefathers hath taken the like Care, that none of thefe gay Silks and fweef- fmelling Spices fhoold be fold in Germany, that we might cry farewel Pepper, farewel Saffron, as well as Silk $ or if there be ufe of thefe among other Nations, would to God this of ours had never known it, and Chrift fend our Countrymen once again this Mind to re- cal the Frugality of their Anceftors, and accuftom themfelves to their honeft Farfimony. How greatly doth Jnacharfes extol his plain Method of Life? Unto me, faith he, Hunger is the fweetefi Morfel, the Ground is my Bed, a Scythian Cloak (that is the Skin of fame Beaft) is my Garment. Sober Demofthenes drove drunken JEfcbir.es our of the City 5 and Socrates abhorring the 'Tavern- Hunters, and fuch who took chief Delight in their Throats ufed to fay, That as many Men lived only that they might eat and drink 5 that he only eat to live. A wife Man furely, and worthy even L z of