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. VI. Comprehending the Signs of a Frontier, Midway, and The∣r••n-Pox.

17. THe Signs of a Frontier Pox, or the beginning of a true French Pox, are, when the Skin is flourished with red or yellow spots, like Flea-bites; sometimes the fore-head only is disgraced with round hard pim∣ples, like Mulberries, a little cru∣sty a top, and markt with black specks, some being dry, others moist, and are oft dispersed to

the Ears, thence to the Neck, Arms, Shoulders, Breast, but chiefly to the Groin and Peri∣nae••••. These Pimples do oft va∣nish, and suddenly appear again, or sometimes change into adust (or burnt) Ulcers. They are likewise subject to an universal itc••ing of the Body, and a cer∣tain feeling, as if their whole Skin were prickt with Nettles. Some grow bald on their Head, others beardless and browless. They are oft troubled with lassi∣tude, or sore Limbs, (especially at waking from sleep,) and a bloated Face, or sometimes a shrunck Visage; their Eys look∣ing one time hollow, other times swell'd.

18. The signs of a Mid-way Pox are a strange changeable soreness of the Gums, sometimes feeling loose, as if the Teeth

would fall out, other times bound or pincht; an itching, red, yellow, or blewish swelling of the Gums, a walking or twinge∣ing Jaw-ach, and Chin-ach; a pain of the Head a little above the Nape of the Neck, a swim∣ing of the Brain, a continual tin∣ning noise in the ears, aptness to be deaf and hard of hearing; sharp defluxions into the throat, (whence proceed those Pocky hoarsnesses, and loss of the Palat) Nose, and other parts; a filthy dand••••f of the Head, Beard, and Brows, a yellow or blewish cir∣cle about the Eyes; thinness of the upper and under Eye-lids; swellings and botches of all co∣lours; rotten or straining cough; a hot belching of the Stomach; a rotten, stinking breath, stink∣ing sweats in the Night; a drab∣by white Urin, with few or no

contents; quick, low, soft, Pul∣ses. Their blood after bleeding looks blewish, or like Ashes. Heats rising from the Loins to the Stomach, Brest, Shoulders, up the Head; aptness to be Feaver∣ish every day; some grow very lean with the Pox, others grow fat with it, but their fat is yel∣lowish, greenish, or waterish; their looks are very changeable, sometimes for a day, three or four, they will look very well, afterwards▪ again they look with an unwholsom colour, it may be yellow, greenish, blewish, or swarthy; Ulcers that are foul, hard, and c••llous, or overcrusted with a blackish scurf, the flesh being raw and deep red. Walk∣ing pains between the Joints; deep, hard fissures in the Plants of the Feet, Palms of the Hands, Te••••, Fund••ment, Lip••, and P••e∣rygomata;

thick, sore, inflamed Lips, gleeting a thin sharp water, covered sometime with a black Skin, or thin limber scurf, that easily peels off; broad, dry une∣ven scabs; stragling about the bo∣dy; outward crusty Ulcers of the Nose, and rotten eating Ul∣cers within it, a rottenness of the bones of the Nose; a malignant Polypus, or purpre piece of flesh growing within the Nose; ma∣lignant Fistula's or issues about the Eyes; Pocky painful Piles, malignant swellings and fistula's of the Fundament; eating Ul∣cers and inflamations of the Pa∣l••t, and Almonds under the Ears, a Cancer'd creeping thrush, scab∣by Eye-lids, a malignant infla∣mation of the Eye, a bleer dim∣ness of the Eyes, the Whites whereof oft turn yellow, reddish, or blewish, great ugly Warts a∣bout

the Hands, Lips, and Face; Tetters of the Face, Breast, Belly, and Privities.

19. The signes 〈◊〉〈◊〉 T••o••om-Pox, are furious Night-pains in the Joints, fixt insufferable head∣aches, gnawing worse in the Night; immoveable, bruising, retching, & pricking Shin-pains, shoulder and wrist pains; deep gnawing, devouring gangrenous Ulcers, and deep rottennesses of the Bones; inward Ulcers of the spleen, kidneys, bladder, and li∣ver; a pocky P••isick, or a pocky consumption and hectick Fever; a Pocky blindness, Tophes or hard knots about the Joints, nodes or bumps about the Head and Joints; gums or soft broad swellings of the bigness of an Egg, or sometimes of a penny Loaf, bursting out into a white glaw, others are flat hardnesses, as

those that grow to the Shins, Skull, and, ••••m-bones. Impost∣hums of 〈…〉〈…〉, &c.

20. 〈◊〉〈◊〉 gets the Pox oft∣times from a Pocky Nurse, by sucking her Breasts, and then it appears in eating scabs, and pur∣ple blains at the Lips, likewise small, red b••rning Pimples about the Lips, Ring-worms about the Chin, inflamations of the Lips and inside of the Mouth, a m••lig∣nant fiery Thrush.

21. The s••me signes appear, when a Man gets the Pox by kis∣sing pocky Lips. The signs of a pocky N••rse, are creeping p••r∣ple Pimples about the Nipple, with black spots upon 'em; the Nipple infl••mes, and is apt to be cloven. A••ter all this take notice, that seldom or never all the signs do meet in one body, but only such as are agreeing with the

complexion; as those of a san∣guin complexion, are troubled with red spots, pimples about their fore-head, and over their whole body; others of a phleg∣••••••tick constitution, with Night-p••ins, and hard swellings. Pocky Ulcers commonly attend chole∣rick Bodies. Some again are mark'd with a great number of signs, others with two or three only. Lastly observe, that many of these fore-mentioned signs do accompany other Diseases, as Pimples, Ulcers, and Night-pains, wherefore I'le instruct you how to distinguish them. 1. If Pim∣ples, Ulcers, or pains do appear after a Man hath had to do with a common Woman, it's very pro∣bable they are pocky. 2. If a Man be troubled with Pimples, Ulcers, or pains, upon a running of the Reins, swelling in the groin

or eating sore of the Yard, they are likewise pocky. 3. Pocky pimples generally have a black speck a top, which peels off like scur••. Pocky Night-pains are for the most part felt in the m••••••¦dle of a Limb, between the two Joints, deep in the flesh, and next to the bone. They begin to rage in the Evening, and cease in the Morning at Sun-rising.

Women are troubled with the same symptoms Men are, viz. being clapt, their Urin is hot, pricking, and smarting, carries a strong stinck with it when it's made, and is full of whitish sands and darkish hairs; they more-over feel themselves so sore in those parts, that they cannot en∣dure the least touch without a wry face. They are likewise oft troubled with a running of the Reins, in every particular re∣sembling

that in men, which they oft find themselves mistaken in, judging it another accident, which they term the Whites. They are likewise subject to Bu∣••oes, Sha••ckers, Cordees of the Clitoris, Wharts, Pastles, Ulcers, and Night-pains.