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.

ART. XVI. The Symptomatick Cure.

48. THE Symptom••tick Cure directs Medicines for curing urgent Pocky symptoms; Viz. Vlcers, Nodes, G••ms, &c. for which this following is most excellent. ℞ Merc. Subl. cor. ʒ vj. Praec. rub. cor. ʒ ij. Spir. vi••. rec. lb ss. f. Digest, per bo•••• 24. dein decant. liq. With this you must but just wet the Ulcers, or Fissures, and afterwards ap∣ply tents or pledgets, that have soakt in the same Liquor, and are dryed again. For Nodes, and Gums, I never found any thing more excellent than my Empla∣ster of Cinabar••, described in my other V••n•••• Vnm••••k'd.

Observ. 1. Shun applying any unctuous

ter occasions that horrible defor∣mity of a flat N••s••. Here take notice, that nothing is a more fre∣quent cause of a Cancerous Vlcer ••f the Palat, than a S••livation by Mercury, conveying all the malignity of the body to th•• Palat and Nose, where in very few dayes it devours both. Neither have I ever seen in any Country so many level'd Noses, and devoured Palats, as here in England, and all caused by Mercurial Saliva∣tions. Therefore observe this at a strict rule, if the least malig∣nity appear abaut the Palat, Ton∣sils, or Nose, to refrain saliva∣tions beyond all remedies, and ra∣ther endeavour to expel the ven••m downwards, or through the P••r••s, or els•• certainly you will for ever disg••••ce 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Patient. M••r••••l over, strive to binder the fr••tting of the malignity in those par••••by

the unctuous Medicines, (as O••ls, Liniments, or Unguents,) to venereal Ulcers, since they are apt to dispose 'em to rot.

Observ. 2. It's not the smallest dexterity in Physick t•• appease the urgent symptomes of the Venereal evil, which chiefly are, 1. N••ctur∣nal pains. 2. That ravenous Vi∣cer of the Palat. 3. The Caries or rottenness of the bone of the Nose. 4. A Pockie Hectick, or Consumption. These four sym∣tomes threatning either a mi∣serable death, or an abiding dis∣grace, require immediate help, and that before the Cure of the dis∣••ase. Nocturnal pains are sola∣ged, with an Antivenereal Ano∣dyne. The Ulcer of the Palat ought to be stented with all possible speed, or else the steems that fume thence to the Nose, will immedi∣ately rot the bones, which soon af∣ter

the speediest means. As for po••kie H••cticks, their help is chi••fly si∣tuated in Medicines that are mo∣derately moistning and apt to op∣pose the Disease.

Lastly observe, that all Diseases, whe••ber Fever, Gout, Head-ach, Pi••sick, I••undies, &c. b••pning in bodies that have been formerly troubled with any venereal in••ecti∣on, though then cured, are to be remedied with having a particular regard to the fore-going infection. Therefore it's very necessary in such Fevers, to use quantities of Bezoard. Mineral. In Gouts, Sas∣sasras, &c.

I have now imparted to you the surest and most choice Methods of curing the Pox, whereby I have formerly cured some hundreds; but having of late years found a Method more easie, certain, and far quicker for curing Liminary, and

inveterate Infections, I make no further use of 'em: Though I must once again tell you, that some of 'em are most excellent methods, and far better than any the vulgar makes use of.