A treatise of the venereal diseases ... / [John Marten].

  • Marten, John, -1737
Date:
1711
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Credit: A treatise of the venereal diseases ... / [John Marten]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Chap J. INTR0DVCT10N\ Ilium ruin’d, and many Kingdoms have been depo* pulated .* Parts which by their peculiar Inchant- ments are able to drive the Minds of moll Men, and thofe the moil Prudent, to DiftraCtion, and yet, fays he, if we confider rightly, are Parts in themfelves not fo amiable, being feated in the moil remote and abjetl Part of the Body, the ve¬ ry fink of it, as if Nature was afham’d of them, or thought them unworthy of Notice. And tho9 the Venereal Difeale is what unthink¬ ing People bring upon themfelves by their folly in feeking after thofe Pleafures, we ought yet to ufe our utmoft endeavour for their Cure *, it belong¬ ing to God Almighty to punifh them for their Guilt, and not to us, it being without doubt our Duty to help the Miferable as much as we can, and not fuffer them to languifh by any Difeale, or fo much as vex them with our Cenfares in this. And indeed, to fee what Miferies fome People undergo by means of taking that falfe flep, either by their own neglecl afterwards, or ill manage¬ ment of thole that have them in Cure, would move the hardeft Heart to commiferate, rather than ag¬ gravate or upbraid them, though at the lame time I can’t but acknowledge they fuffer no more (iome of them at leaftj than what they have juft- ly deferv’d but as my delign in delivering what I have obferv’d and try’d in this Difeale, is -not to make Men worfe but better, and is in order to cure their Bodies, which is only my BufmefsI fhali not concern my felf about their Sin any other-4 wife, than as it is the part of a Chriftian to ad- raonifh then! to avoid the like for the .future, and that they would only remember, how that repeat¬ ed Infections produce more ftubborn, and often¬ times irretrievable Evils, efpecialiy when managed by Quacks, as was the Cale of (and may be feen by the following Epitaph upon) one Thomas Earn ford B