Two treatises. The first, of the venereal pocks ... The second treatise of the gout ... Written in Latin and English / By Daniel Sennert ... [tr. by] Nicholas Culpeper ..., Abdiah Cole.

  • Daniel Sennert
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1660
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Credit: Two treatises. The first, of the venereal pocks ... The second treatise of the gout ... Written in Latin and English / By Daniel Sennert ... [tr. by] Nicholas Culpeper ..., Abdiah Cole. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    And therefore feeing chat this Humor (the caufe of the Gout) is contained wichin the »‘hert the Veins and Arteries, and out of them pouted forth into the Joynts. without doilbt it muff ofnecefTicy bcg^-neratedinfomeConcoftionoftheBlood, and indeed fuch a Concoftion out of which the Veins and Arteries receive that Humor which they contain: and this we ^eJrMiea, determine to be in the Liver and Spleen, the Sanguification being there hurt jn its owli *”^]Burnow, tbeCaufes (by reafon of which this humor is generated) are two: the fotm^r whereof is fomthingamils in the Liver and Spleen, and more efpecially theexctfiive beat and drinefs of thofe parts *, and then the other caufe thereof (this being indeed the chief and ^ principal) isfuch a Kind of Alirhenc from Meats and Drink as maketh a continual fupply of 4uch a like Tacfarblis matter. ^ ^ ^ir As for the firft of thefe, The Stortach ttiay,indeed likewife confer fomwhat hereunto, if in it the Chyle be not rightly elaborated; and if that after this Concoftion the Tartafous' y feces or dregs be not moft of them inftantly fepafated : and hehce it is alfo that a t PhyficiaHs warn us in the preventing of the Gout, to have a fpccial regard unco the ficft Concoction ; and yet not witbftandmg that hurt Concodion of the ftomach doth not moft immediately con¬ duce unco the generating of the Gout, but that there is a neccfiicy that the Conco^ioti in the Liver and Spleen fhould likewife be hurt. For if chete be any thing thefe (which cannot indeed very eafily and decermtnatdy be d^monftrated and made to appeacj‘'k then cometh to pafs that the unufeful parts, fait and cartarous (which are in the Chyle) carf noc be rightly feparatcd, but remain mingled with the blood, and together with id are deri¬ ved uncoche Veins. And by reafon of this Vice and fault of thefe Bowelsit happenpth chat oftentimes from Meats and Drinks in themfelves not very hurtful fome perfons are very ea^ fily offended j and on the contrary j others chat have ftronp^^ Bowels ( in whom the Coheo- aion of the blood, and the reparation of the exaeraencs is rightly performed) although tbej^ ufually feed upon meats apt to breed the Gout, Snd fil chemidves alfo with Wine (and chat ^ .. likewife none of the wholfomeft ) they ate n!oE yet for al this at al troubled with the But what this diftemper of the Liver and Spleen is, cannot fo eafily be e jtplained and un^ n'bdt kind folded. And yet neverchelefs, if any one fhal determine it to be a hot and dry drlfempcr, I«/ d}(lm^ ftial not at al gain-lay him. But in what manner this hoc and dry diftemper doth effect what hath been fatd, this is not fo deer. <FranciJcu^ VaBefmi cels us for a truth. That by this di- ftemper there is ftrongly preffed forth a water from the reft of the Joyces; which is not pro- bable, unlefs it be fitly explained. For this we willingly grant. That if the Liver be more hot and dry than what naturally it ftiould be, inftead then of a moderate Elixacion or boy- ling there wil be a certain Affation or roff ing 5 and fo the blood chat is generated muft needs beftiarp. Others affum ( and indeed not unfitly) that the Liver and Spleen when they are rehemently and incemperarcly bor, accraft thefetous and faiejuyeein the Food, which ought to have been feparaced and evacuated in the fil ft ConcodSion, and fo it comes to be mingled together with the blood. Yea, and haply ail'd in the diftempered Liver it fdf and Spleen the Blood i^not wel elaborated 5 and fomebihg there is left remaining therein^ tbac ought by right to have been feparaced, which being afterwards beap'ed up in the Veini is thcf c^uleof the Gout. , v l l And lam of Opinion that the very fame happeneth in the Liver and Spleen,' that bappe- neth in the Reins. For many there are that cat Chcefe and other meats chat are very apt to’ breed the Scone, and yet notwithftanding ebey do not generart chd fame i ^hefea’s' p^ers on the contrary, in whole Reihs there is a fandy, gravelly, and ftohy confticucicm ( as ‘Fcr- neliifs calleth It ) or a power in the Reins Of breeding the ftone, chele are eafily pifehded by the meats aforefaid. And I Conceive that the cafe is the fame in the Gout j’ a^nd tlraCthcre is a certain vicious conft itution imthe Bowels of thofe that are troubled with’ftie Gdiit y aild I am ofOpinion chat this vicious Conftitucion is the efficient caufe of chaeSMr. orT^fcaf,; by reafon of which that Humor which is the caufe of the Gout is produced. Which when id once cometh to abound, it is then afterwards chruft forth unto the Joynts. , And this ricibus confticQCion is communicked unco fome from their Barents; and by others it is coritr'a^e'd from the ufe of Meat and Drink of a like Nature, and likewife from the Errors they coffimis in the whoi courfe of their Dyer. ^ And moreover, Although the faculty of the Bowels be wel coriftitutcd; yet if the Meat and Drink abound with fuch a like Tarcarous matter, it cannot al of it be evacuated by Na¬ ture in regaKl chat neither in the firft Concoftion, nor yet in the fecond, it cannot be ted a*8 it ought to be, but remams ftil mingled with the Blood. But yet ia thc mean ctoe
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