A new method of curing the venereal disease much safer and easier than any hitherto used. With a confutation of the old hypotheses concerning that distemper. To which is added, a relation of two extraordinary cures ... perform'd by the author ... Done out of the French / [Jacques Bouëz de Sigogne].

  • Bouëz de Sigogne, Jacques
Date:
1724
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Credit: A new method of curing the venereal disease much safer and easier than any hitherto used. With a confutation of the old hypotheses concerning that distemper. To which is added, a relation of two extraordinary cures ... perform'd by the author ... Done out of the French / [Jacques Bouëz de Sigogne]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    no longer pay the Monthly Tribute, which Nature requires; and in this manner we conceive Grief to caufe a Ceffation of it; and thus it was fepprefs’d in the Patient we are fpeaking of. Let us now trace the Circumftances, and ice by what Mechanifm the Monthly Evacuations being ftopt, do caufe liich grievous Difbrders; or, which is the fame thing, let us examine rhe Nature of the Difeafe it felf, which is the fe- cond thing I have made the following reflection upon: but in order to argue with feme certainty, let us lay down fome certain Principles as a Foundation of our reafening. ’Tis certain thePaflions, but fpecially Grief, do immediate¬ ly afledt the Stomach, becaufe it feeras more immediately to feize upon the ^Nerves, than the gayer Paflions, and that there is in the Stomach a parcel of the moil conflderable Nerves call’d the Plexus Nervofus. The Patient loofes his Appetite, becaufe prefently after he is feiz’d with Grief, he feels a Bit- ternefe, Drynefs, and Thirfl in the Mouth, and foon after is tormented with Acid and Squamifh Crudities and Flatulen¬ cies, Tenflons in the Hypocondria, and all other Symptoms which prove a vitiated Chyle; and if any Difeafe follows it will not be cur’d till the Caufe be taken away, or if it feems to be cur’d, it will appear foon after in another Shape. The Chyle being thus become Acid, Vifcous, and Glutinous, is apt to caufe any kind of Difeafe infenflbly: The Blood and Li¬ quors it affords become of the feme Nature with it, and the Secretions and Excretions as well as Perforation, are every where obffru&ed. For whilft thefe are duly perform’d, it proves the Spring and Fountain of Health ; and of all Dife eafes, when they are obffru&ed or totally fupprefs’d; which feldom happens, and perhaps never but in an incurable Drop- fie. From this Principle we may eaflly underhand how the Thicknefs of the Blood hinders it, on the one hand, from flowing freely in the Capillary Veffels of the Matrix which are fubfervient to thofe periodical Excretionsj and how on the other Hand, the Nerves being continually contracted by the irritation which is caufed by the Acidity of the Jui¬ ces they contain, clofe up the Diameter of the Blood Veflels