I shall now, as a farther Confirmation of what I have advanced, proceed to prove, that by this _Brenning_ or _Burning_ is meant the _Venereal Disease_, by demonstrating that succeeding Historians, Physical and Chirurgical Writers, and others, have all along with us in _England_ used the very same Word to signify the Venereal Malady. In an old Manuscript, I have, written about the Year 1390. is a Receipt for _Brenning of the Pyntyl, yat Men clepe ye Apegalle; Galle_ being an old English Word for a running Sore. They who know the _Etymology_ of the Word _Apron_, cannot be ignorant of this. And in another Manuscript, written about 50 Years after, is a Receipt for _Burning_ in that Part by a Woman. _Simon Fish_, a zealous Promoter of the _Reformation_ in the Reign of _Hen._ VIII. in his Supplication of Beggars, presented to the King, in 1530, says as follows, _These be they_ (speaking of the _Romish Priests_) _that corrupt the whole Generation of Mankind in your Realm, that catch the Pockes of one Woman and bear them to another; that be_ Burnt _with one Woman and bear it to another; that catch the Lepry of one Woman and bare it unto another_. But to make this Matter still more evident, I am to observe, that _Andrew Boord, M. D._ and Romish Priest, in the same Reign, in a Book he wrote, entitl’d _The Breviary of Health_, printed in 1546, speaks very particularly of this sort of _Burning_; one of his Chapters beginneth thus, _The 19th Chapiter doth shew of_ BURNING _of an Harlot_; where his Notion of communicating the _Burning_ is very particular. He adds, that if a Man be _Burnt_ with an _Harlot_, and do meddle with another Woman within a Day, he shall _Burn_ her; and as an immediate Remedy against the _Burning_, he recommends the washing the _Pudenda_ 2 or 3 times with White Wine, or else with Sack and Water; but if the Matter have continued long, to go to an expert Surgeon for Help. In his 82d _Chapter_, he speaks of _two_ sorts of _Burning_, the _One_ by _Fire_, and the _Other_ by a _Woman_ thro’ carnal Copulation, and refers the Person that is _Burnt_ of a _Harlot_ to another Chapter of his for Advice, what to do, _yf he get a Dorser or two_, so called from its Protuberancy or bunching out: For I find about that Time the Word _Bubo_ was mostly made use of, to signify that sort of Swelling which usually happens in pestilential Diseases. From hence it appears, the _Burning_, by its Consequents, was _Venereal_; since every Day’s Experience makes it evident, that the ill Treatment of the first Symptoms of the Disease, either by astringent Medicines, or the removing them by cooling and healing the excoriated Parts, will generally be attended with such Swellings in the Groin, which we rarely observe to happen from any other Cause whatsoever.