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commonly known at this Day, than that after the v& 
nereal ingagement with an impure Woman, the Penis 
is the part where the Scene is fird laid for the fuc- 
ceeding Tragical appearances ; and there, and in the 
eignbouring Parts, do the Symptoms of the Difeafe 
as its retainers, always fird ademble, till the malig- 
nant Poylon taints the Blood and other Juices ; which 
being convey d over the whole Frame of the human 
Fabrick, if not check’d, foon brings about its total 
Corruption. 
What I have further to add in relation to this, is, 
becaule we do not find the Difeafe mentioned by 
Gafcoigne , was diftinguifh’d by any particular Name, 
and that great Numbers mud unavoidably die of the 
Venereal Malady at that time, from the imperfect 
knowledge of thofe who had the treatment of the 
tirfl Degrees of it, it mud neceflarily follow, that 
when the whole frame of the Body had received 
a taint from the Venereal Poyfon, (o as to occafion 
its breaking out in Scabs and Ulcers, almod all over 
its Surface it mud generally be called by the Name 
of fome particular Difeafe) whofe appearances had 
fomewhat of an Affinity to it. Now if we examine 
the Nature of all the Difeafes that attack the Human 
Body, we ffiall not find the Venereal Malady, when it 
arrives at this State, to bear a greater Similitude to 
any than the Leprofy, as it is defcribed by the An- 
cients : Nay fo great was the Analogy betwixt thefe 
Difeafes fuppofed to be, that Sebafiianus Aquilanus has 
endeavoured to prove from Galen , Avicen, Pliny y & q. 
That the Pox is only one Species of f he Leprofy ; and 
Jacobus Cataneus, a Writer almod as early as the rife 
of the Njme of the Pox, tells us ’tis not only pofc 
fible there may be a tranfition, from one of thefe 
Difeafes into the other; but that he faw two Perfons 
