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Its Situation, about an Hundred and Fifty Years be- 
fore any of thofe Gentlemen obliged the World with 
their learned Labours. 
Having, I hope, fufficiently made it appear, the 
*BUtninS was a Difeafe very early among us, and 
given the Defeription of it, I lhall proceed to fay fome- 
thing of the ancient Method that was made ule of to 
cure it. We are not to expecS: the Meafures our Pre- 
deceflbrs, in thofe early Times, made ufe of, fliould 
be calculated for the removing any Malignity in the 
Mafs of Blood, or other Juices, according to the Pra- 
< 5 lice in Venerial Cafes at this Time; becaufe they 
looked upon the Dileafe to be entirely local, and the 
Whole of the Cure to depend upon the Removal of 
the Symptoms .* Hence ’twas they recommended fuch 
Remedies as were accommodated to the taking off the 
inward Heat of the Part, and cure the Excoriations or 
Ulcerations of the Urethra. The Procefs for the ac- 
complilhing of this, I lhall fet down from the before- 
mentioned John Arden, who wrote about the Year 
1380. his Words are as follow. Contra Incendium. Item 
contra incendium Virga Fir tits inter ius ex calore ^ exco- 
riatione, fiat talis Syringa (" i. e. inje^io ) ienitiva, Ac- 
cipe Lac mulkris mafculum nutrientisy & parum zucariim. 
Oleum viola © ptifana, quibus commix t is per Syr ingam 
infundatur, ^ fi pradiHis admifeueris lac Amigdalarum me^ 
lior erit medicina. There is no doubt but this Remedy, 
being ufed to our Patients at this Time, would infal- 
libly take off the inward Heat of the Part, and cure 
the Excoriations or Ulcerations of the Urethra, by which 
means what illued from thence would be entirely ftopt; 
and this was all they expedfed from their Medicines, 
forafmuch as they were entirely unacquainted with the 
Nature of the Dillemper ; and did not in the lead ima- 
gine, but if the Symptoms that firft attack'd the Parc 
were removed, the Patient was entirely cured. I 
