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A65692	Whitaker, Tobias, d. 1666.	An elenchus of opinions concerning the cure of the small pox together with problematicall questions concerning the cure of the French pest / by T. Whitaker ...	1661		.xml	application/xml	17311	291	25	I call it rash and inconsiderate practise in this Disease , because it is a doubt indetermined amongs● the most Learned Professors 〈◊〉 all Nations , both Greeks , Arabians , and Latins , and all other principled from them ; being all of them unresolved of Ph●●botomy in the small Pox , upo● any indication to be a safe remedy ; and if the Disease 〈◊〉 conjunct with an undeniab●● plethory of bloud , which is the proper indication of Phlebotomy ; yet such bleeding ought to be by scarification and cupping-glasses without the cutting of any major vessel , because the Section of such veins do not only evacuate too much spirit , but also retract the peccant cause to the Centre which is intended to the circumference , and effected by a shallow scarification upon the arms , back and thighs ; by which course there is a diminution of the cause in its mixture , and assistance to nature in its circumferential motion , with little expence of ●ixt or fluent spirit , which is a great support to universal nature in its co●atus to discharge the most noble parts from danger of ruine . Valeriola , whose memory is honourable , doth endeavour to prove the Small Pox or Measles which appear critically in inpestilential Fevers , not to be by Galen nominated Exanthemata , with whose opinion I do consent , because the appellation is of general extent to all kind of pustules , and of choller 's , as is verified in his book De atra bile , ( where he affirmeth ) in deceased persons ; where excretion by the lower belly is not sufficient , in such persons the whole body is affected with pustules , quae nigris exanthematis similes essent , circum undique scatuit ; and in other places ( he speaketh ) of white pustules , ( which Pliny nameth papulas ) and of these Cornelius Celsus maketh more kinds of rough and sharp eruptions upon the skin , magis & minus being the onely distinction of them : and many Moderns conceive these Pox to proceed from maternal menstruosity , others conceive them to be intercutaneal , ill juices or ●eccant humours , fermented by an intense heat in the superficies of the skin which corrupt humours ( according to Fracastorius ) are generated by corrupt dyet , and therefore in his book De morbis , he placeth this disease of the Small Pox amongst diseases Epidemical ; and as it is an affect cutaneal and epidemical , so it doth infect all children and young persons , because their temper is properly more moist and hot than old age , it being cold and dry in it self , but excrementitiously moist , onely by the decay of natural heat , and altogether indisposed to receive the impression of it ; old age being properly , & per se , cold and dry in temper , if otherwise , it is mirandum in morbo , and for such wonders in diseases I shall refer the Reader to Skenkius and Pe●rus Forestus , &c.	cache/A65692.xml	txt/A65692.txt
