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re rente betwixt a Venereal and a Peitilenfial Venom > 
This prefently attacks the Spirits, and if it does not 
quickly overcome them, it may enter likewife the Lym}>h % 
and then a Salivation may be a Remedy towards curing 
the Diftemper $ but the other, viz>. the Venereal ¥e» 
nom is not reckon’d at all dangerous in this Age, nor 
does it want any Prefervative, provided you avoid the. 
Occafion of it. 
Having thus decfar’d my Opinion about Prefervation, 
and what is to be obferved therein, I (hall now pro- 
ceed to the Cure, and relate the Remedies which I found 
good in this Di(eafe. It is certain that at the Time of 
the Contagion a Phylician could not always exa&ly ob- 
ferve every Indication. Many Prognoftick Signs appeared 
very often at the firft Onfet, which fo infallibly came 
to pafs, that we needed not to attend to the Diagnofticks ; 
and though necelTary Means were not Tor that Rea- 
fon negle&ed, yet we found that the Diftemper difpifed 
and fcorn’d all our Care and Remedies. 
If we (hould have treated the Patient according as ie 
ufual in other Diftempers, then it would have been ne° 
ceflary to have confider’d what was moft proper in the 
threefold Fountain, of Dyet, Pharmacy and Chirur- 
gery. But the Cafe was fucb, that the Patients would 
frequently abfhin from thofe Things which might be in- 
jurious to them, and that of their own accord, by a meer 
Natural difiike, fo that there was no need to give them 
Caution againft them. Notwithftanding, fome would 
venture coo foon, (when they were in a good way of 
Recovery) into the Air, which prefently occafioned a 
Relapfe that coft them their Lives. 
Many in the beginning abftained from Eating and 
Drinkings and when at laft they defired to have a Giafs 
of Wine, or the like, we could not refufe it. Commonly a 
fmall and well brewed Beer agreed with the Infefted the 
heft. As to Sleeping and Waking, feeing they came 
Symp- 
