Little Venus unmask'd, or, A perfect discovery of the French pox comprising the opinions of most ancient and modern physicians, with the author's judgement and observations upon the rise, nature, subject, causes, kinds, signs, and prognosticks of the said disease : together, with several nice questions, and twelve different ways and methods of curing that disease, and the running of the reins by Gideon Harvey.

INTRODUCTION.

Reader,

THe acceptance which many have been pleased to shew to my Ve∣nus Unmasked, in pur hasing it at a treb••e price, to what it was said for at first, hath obliged me to gratifie them with this Little Venus, being a refined abridgement of the f••rmer, and consisting of the choicest matter the other contained. Those n••tions that were wrapt up in hard words, and obscure descriptions, I have here unchained, and set free, so that the youngest Novices in practice may ea∣sily apprehend them. Moreover, the copious additions of Theoretick, and and especial Practical Observations have now rendred this small Volum

so compl••at, that I may speak out of the mouths of others, (Absit jactan∣tia dictis) it may serve Practitioners instead of a Map to discover the in∣numerable differences of Venereal Diseases, and to ste••r a right course in curing them. And I must tell you, turn over all the Authors, that have writ upon this Disease, and the m••st voluminous of them, you shall not read any thing material there, but what is succinctly proposed to you here, and much more than ever they dreamed of; for it's undeniable, that the Pox at this present is more propagated in one day, than a hundred years ago it was in a month, and consequently the number of Venereal Patients so mul∣tiplied, that the variety of their se∣veral cases must needs give occasion to Physicians to be far more knowing and experienced in it, than those of the fore-going Ages. And as for the variety of this French Disease, there

is nothing more strange, since among Ten Thousand you sh••ll not meet with two that are diseased alike. Neither doth this evil vary more in bodies, than it doth in Climates; In Italy, and e••p••cially at Venice and Rome, I found the Pox to c••ntin••e for the most part hidden in bodies for s••me years, which afterwards would sud∣denly discover it self in rotten bones. In France, I perceived the evil to run most upon sc••bby Vlcers, and Botches; In Holland upon Night-pains, Gums, and Nodes. What it is in Germany I know not, since I only passed through the Country with∣out making any great stay. The Cure is no less variable; for what reme∣dieth one, shall render another worse; and indeed if a patient have a wrong cure applied, it oft leaves him incu∣rable. In the South parts of France the Disease is easily cured, though far easi••r in Italy, especially at Flo∣rence,

and Padua; but a Dutch Pox ••is the m••st ••••ffical•• to Cu••e 〈◊〉〈◊〉 all others, and next to it an Eng∣lish ••ne. What this sm••ll Volum•• ••urther contains, the first P••ge will inform you. The number of this Im∣pression is very sma••l, b••ing unwil∣ling it should fall ••nto vulgar hands, on••y in••ending to d••stri••u••e them a∣m••ng such as may employ the advan∣tage they reap then••e to publick g••••d; to the s••me intent, I am imploying that little time I have over and a∣bove my business in abbreviating my Anatomy of English Consumpti∣ons, and my Book of Fevers, both which I ••urpose to adorn with the choi∣cest of my Observations and Cures.

Farewel.

From my House in S Dunstans Court in Fl••••tstr••••t.