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. VII. A tru e Chronology of the P••x.

22. THe Pox at it•• first birth in the Camp at N••pl••, was far rougher than now it is; for then where it seised, it in∣stantly lamed the Patient in all his limbs, dozed his intellectuals, and cast him into a continual sleeping posture, frights, fears, melancholly, and an estranged countenance. Oft times they were surprised with an eating Shancker, which in a day or two at most would ••at off the whole Yard; soon after their eyes, nose, lips, and Palat of the Mouth, would be rotted off, whereupon followed a hoarsness, some spoke whis••••ring, others quite lost their speech, and all their

Teeth, after this they would break out into cancerous eating 〈◊〉〈◊〉 or sores, all their Bodies over, that would rot the bone in few hours, more-over they were wrackt with most raging Head∣aches, and pain•• about their bones, that never suffer'd them to sleep, b••t slumber, and then they were apt to be frighted with most horrid dreams and visions; their sweat stunck at a great di∣stance, all which in few days guided the Patient to his Tomb. This f••ry the Pox continued for Thirty y••••rs, and then grew somewhat milder, not rotting the Eyes, Nose, nor Teeth; de∣creased in pimples, and appeared most in gums and pains. Some Thirty Years after that, the Pox did not show it self in any pim∣ples, but decreased in pains, Ul∣cers, and Tumors. Thirty Years

after that again, the Pox appear∣ed with four new symptoms; the first was a shedding of the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 of the Head, Brows, Eye-li••s, and Beard. The second new com∣mer was a running of the Reins. The third was the loss of the Nails; and the fourth a tinning noise in the Ears. About this time the Eyes and the Teeth be∣gan to suffer again. In what par∣ticulars its changed since, you may easily gather from the fore∣going Discourse.