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.
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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.
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Harvey, Gideon, 1640?-1700?
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London :: Printed for William Thackeray ...,
1670.
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Smallpox -- France.
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"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A43019.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 14, 2024.
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ART. XI. The Primitive Cure.
38. THe Primitive, or the first invented Method of Curing the Pox, consisted in purging the Patient with the de∣coction of Sen••, and anointing his joints in a hot Room for 30. dayes together, with a drying Oyntment, composed chiefly out of Alom, Nitre, Brimstone, &c. The Unguen•• Saracenis. descri∣bed by Villa Nova, was in great esteem among them. Observati∣on. The Pox in its primitive partaking more of a scabby Itch, than a Scurvy, was properly e∣nough, and with good success, cured with a drying Oynment, especially when they began to mix Mercury with it; But now the
descriptionPage 85
Pox rather more resembling the features of its Mother Scurvy, than those of its Father Manginess, re∣quires a C••re much different from the former.
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