Little Venus unmask'd, or, A perfect discovery of the French pox comprising the opinions of most ancient and modern physicians, with the author's judgement and observations upon the rise, nature, subject, causes, kinds, signs, and prognosticks of the said disease : together, with several nice questions, and twelve different ways and methods of curing that disease, and the running of the reins by Gideon Harvey.

Title

Little Venus unmask'd, or, A perfect discovery of the French pox comprising the opinions of most ancient and modern physicians, with the author's judgement and observations upon the rise, nature, subject, causes, kinds, signs, and prognosticks of the said disease : together, with several nice questions, and twelve different ways and methods of curing that disease, and the running of the reins by Gideon Harvey.

Author

Harvey, Gideon, 1640?-1700?

Publication

London :: Printed for William Thackeray ...,

1670.

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Smallpox -- France.

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"Little Venus unmask'd, or, A perfect discovery of the French pox comprising the opinions of most ancient and modern physicians, with the author's judgement and observations upon the rise, nature, subject, causes, kinds, signs, and prognosticks of the said disease : together, with several nice questions, and twelve different ways and methods of curing that disease, and the running of the reins by Gideon Harvey." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A43019.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 21, 2024. content_copy

Contents

• title page
• INTRODUCTION.
• Advertisement of the Bookseller to the Reader.
• publisher's advertisement
• LITTLE VENUS UNMASK'D.
  • ARTICLE I. Touching the Names, and sup∣posed rise of the Pox.
  • ART. II. Containing the true History of the Pox, with the Authrs discove∣ry of its rise and causes.
  • ART. III. Of the nature and kindes of the Pox.
  • ART. IV. Containing a further confirmation of the causes of the Pox.
  • ART. V. Of the Signs, Symptoms, and Pro∣gnosticks of the Px, Running of the Reins, Bboes, and Shanckers.
  • ART. VI. Comprehending the Signs of a Frontier, Midway, and The∣rn-Pox.
  • ART. VII. A tru e Chronology of the Px.
  • ART. VIII. Comprising the Prognostick of the Px.
  • ART. IX. Containing some nice Questions re∣lating to venereal Infection.
  • ARTICLE X. Touching the Preparative Cure.
  • ART. XI. The Primitive Cure.
  • ART. XII. The Hermaphroditick Cure.
  • ART. XIII. The Herculean Cure.
  • ART. XIV. The Gigantean Cure.
  • ART. XV. The Vulcanous Cure.
  • ART. XVI. The Cure a Posta.
  • ART. XVII. The Grand Diet.
  • ART. XVIII. The Indian Cure.
  • ART. XIX. The Negligent Cure.
  • ART. XX: The Pety. Cure.
  • ART. XVI. The Symptomatick Cure.
• A TREATISE OF THE Scorbutick Pox.
  • CHAP. I. Comprizing the Description of a Scorbutick Pox, and a necessa∣ry division thereof.
  • CHAP. II. Of the Causes and Dragnostick signes of the Scorbutick Pox.
  • CHAP. III. Of the Prognostick signes of a Scor∣butick Pox.
  • CHAP. IV. The true Method for curing a Scor∣butick Pex.
• A Second TREATISE OF THE Mangy Pox.
  • The Cure of a Mangy Pox.
• An Appendix of an Hctick Pox.
  • The Cure of an Hectick Pox.