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Admirable and memorable histories containing the wonders of our time. Collected into French out of the best authors. By I. [sic] Goulart. And out of French into English. By Ed. Grimeston. The contents of this booke followe the authors aduertisement to the reader; Histoires admirables et memorables de nostre temps. English
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Goulart, Simon, 1543-1628.; Grimeston, Edward.
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touch it with my finger After shee had vomited so much water she began to cast forth lumps of haire at her mouth some as long as a mans finger some more some lesse such as wee see fall from olde Dogges in great quantitie for certaine daies enough to haue stust whole dozens of Tennice Balles She cast them vp with great heauing at the heart and much paine falling one night into wonderful transies Hauing found her in a manner like vnto one that was readie to giue vp the Ghost and carefully obseruing all things beeing layd vpon her belly I did see her cast her selfe so so dainlayd from one side vnto the other as if she had not beene presently stai'd she had beat her head against the wall oragainst the bed post She held her hands so strongly together as it was impossible to open them Sometimes she beat her breast so violently as she was like to kill her selfe This fit continued from seuen of the clock at night vntill nine and then shee knew not any one Oftentimes as in the suffocation of the Matrix she grewe wonderfully red and seemed very weary and toyled with some beginning of a Feauer Once or twise she fomed about the mouth And an other time beeing in the extremity of her fit shee fell sodainly into a great laughter and then presently wept bitterly Being come vnto her selfe and falling presently into a long extasie she began in an instant to speake as if she had addressed her selfe vnto GOD holding her hands vp to Heaueh shee spake these words in effect O great GOD seeing thy beauty is so great and incredible how long shal we remaine here when wilt thou take mee out of this World that I may inioye thee hauing said thus as it were awaking and looking on them that were about her she said Which of you hath done mee this wrong to call mee backe into this valley of misery and into the prison of darkenesse when as I did rest so sweetly and did sport my selfe in the goodliest Gardens that could be immagined I do not thinke that a simple and ignorant Maide as this was could vtter such words but in extasie In the meane time she cast vp great lumpes of hayre mixt with much white matter and very thicke and somtimes like vnto the dung of Pigions or Geese In this abundance of filth appeared little peeces of wood and shreds of Parchment A little after she had an other vomiting of a matter as black as coles you would haue said properly it had beene Inke or rather coles beaten to pouder and mixt with water the which continued a good while two or three pounds euery day sometimes with such store of white haire long hard as it would haue made a good Ball. After two dayes she did vomit about two pounds of pure bloud as if a veyne had bene opened This monstrous casting continued a whole weeke comming still at a certaine houre and then the fits of the Epilepsie wherewith she was dayly tormented ceased the which notwithstanding continued sometime once in three dayes and in the end euery seuenth day In the meane time she did still cast haire but not so aboundantlie as before but blacker and shorter as if they had beene cut small and with it a slimie humour like vnto thick matter About the middest of September she did vomit great peeces of parchment halfe a spanne long like vnto the thicke and fleshie skinne of a mans body Afterwards she cast vp others that were thinner but all black In the end shee did vomit some that were very thinne but strong amongst the which there were three a foote long made in fashion of lozenges with strange markes and figures After these skinnes followed an infinite number of stones which shee did cast vp at a certaine houre euery night with great noise and sounding such as is heard in walles that are pulled downe some were thick others pointed vnequall in forme and of a darke coullour they were all small and yet such as they did still feare the maide would haue beene strangled some were couered with Chalke and cymented together in such sort as they might be sayd to haue beene pulled out of a wall Once in my presence she did vomit a pointed stone as big as two Chest-nuts This stone remained aboue a quarrer of an houre in her throate during the which she had no pulce nor respiration so as laying a light feather vpon her mouth it did not moue her hands and feete grew colde and her body stiffe as if it had beene an Image Thinking that she had finished her course and that paine had ended all her miseries I went out of the chamber saying that she was dead when as the Mother called me sodenly back againe saying that her daughter did stirre and opened her eyes As soone as I was returned she did cast vp this stone with great violence I did see it come forth and heard the noise thereof falling into a bason the which did amaze both my selfe and all that were in the Chamber At the same instant she did spit out a peece of wood as bigge as ones thombe but with lesse difficultie then the stone and withall some black haires but few There followed after an other accident almost incredible where-with the maide had almost beene choakt for shee did vomit vp a bone of a Triangle forme sollide without and hollow and spungious within The next day shee cast vp little boanes of diuers formes and proportions Amongst all these were seene stones and haire and then peeces of Glasse and Copper CORNELIVS GEMMA sets downe the remedies which he did apply and maintaines that part of her infirmitie grew by naturall causes and part by the Impostures and illusions of the Diuill who was a chiefe Agent in these accidents which wee haue reported This Historie is written by MARCELLVS DONATVS in his second Booke of his Admirable Histories of Phisicke the first Chapter A false accusation seuerely punished MAister IVLIAN TABOVE the Kings Atturney generall in the Parliament of Chambery being incensed for some admonitions that were made vnto him by the Court goes into the Countrie and ingageth his honor by an accusation which he framed against Maister RAYMOND PELISON President IOHN BOISONNE Priest LEWIS GAVSLERANT called ROZET GRAFFINS and other councellors of the said Court charging them with many corruptions and false-hoods vnder his hand both before the great Councell and the Parliament of Grenoble vpon thirteene Acts proceeding from the foresaid President PELISSON and the aboue named Councellors The first was a sentence giuen in the sayd Parliament of Chambery for the Count de la Chambre the 11. of May 1539. The second a decree for Maister ANDREVV PILLET the 13. of Iune the same yeare Other two decrees for the Bishop of Morienne the 19. of March and 20. of December in the yeare 1540. The 5. the admonitions dated the 11. 13. and 18. of Ianuary 1541. made and deliuered to the said TABOVE
this acte This was on Easter-day 1556. The Incision began on the right side of the belly a finger lower then the Nauill and aboue foure fingers distant from it and so descending directly vnto the priuy parts without touching the Muscles on the right side from the which it was distant aboue about three fingers and beneath some-what lesse The incision beeing made with-out much bleeding the wombe appeared plainely the which hee also cut some-what largely that the wound might be sufficient to drawe forth the child beeing yet aliue with his skin that wrapt him in the wombe more easilye Then hee stitcth it vp after the vsuall manner of wounds not the Matrix but the Muscles and the skinne ouer the bowels with fiue stitches as I did well obserue going thether to visit her presently after my recouery The which I haue oftentimes noted in her since to cure a rupture which she hath had euer since eyther for that it was not well stitcth vp or for that she did rise so soone And you must note that this Barber was ignorant both of the Muscles and skinne that couereth the bowels Proceeding in this action as if hee had launced an Impostume or cut out some peece of flesh with a sharpe knife as Maist. MAVRICE CORDE doth obserue in his Commentary vpon Hipocrates treating of womens diseases lib. 1. text 11. About a yeare and a halfe after her husband beeing dead and she married againe to PETER CHANCLOV she conceiued and was deliuered of a daughter naturally liuing nowe at Nangeuille where there are yet many witnesses of this strange Spectacle The same Author At Vri in Biere neere vnto Fontainbleau two leagues from Nemours COLLETTE BERANGER wife to SIâ—…ON 〈◊〉 GARDE passing the 10. month after her conception and carrying her fruite long in her bodye dead the lower parts neuer opening to deliuer it forth in the ende she sent for VINCENT VALLEAVA Surgion of Nemours who hauing no other apparent meanes to helpe her in the end of Ianuary hee cut her in the yeare 1542. not on the right side but on the left a litle higher then the womaÌ„ of Nangeuille first cutting the Abdomen or outward part of the belly and then the Matrix from whence he drew the dead child swelled and stincking with the skinne that wrapt him already rotten Then without sowing the Matrix by chance or catelesly he gaue fiue stitches in the skinne and some small part of the Muscles as it appeared plainely long after hauing nothing but a very skin cicatrized vpon her bely Her lying in was but a month and a halfe Two yeares after the which time she had a daughter naturally and two yeares after that a son called PETER DE LA GARDE afterwards a Smith by his profession Shee became afterwards a Mid-wife at Vri seruing other women aud receiuing their children The same AGNES BOYER wife to IOHN COMPAN a Laborer at Villereau nere vnto Neufuille in Beause after shee had beene for the space of foure dayes broken with the importunity of Mid-wiues and nothing eased she was opened on the right side by PHILIP MIGNEAV a Barber of Neufuille in the yeare 1544 and then the Muscles and the skinne were grosly sticht vp as hee could Of which incision shee was soone cured but the contusions which the Mid-wiues made in the priuy parts troubled the Surgion aboue seuen months to cure them shee had also a fayre Daughter which liued healthfully aboue seuen moneths but on the eyght shee fell sicke beeing at nurse in the same Village whereof shee died A while after shee grewe great and bigge againe carrying the child hanging alwayes towards the rupture which remained as in others but without any paine But shee could not be deliuered no more then before for one of the aboue named causes as it is to be presumed And therefore she did voluntarily desire to haue an incision made as before the which shee could not obtaine by any intreaty of two yong Surgions sent thither expresly from Neuffuille wheras they kept after PHILIP who died of the plague which was the cause that both she and her fruite dyed pitifully together through theyr faintnesse if the weakenesse of the Woman or some other pittifull accident did not stay them from doing it The same In the yeare 1576 the 22 of Iuly at Ambedoye nere to S. Brisson in the territorie of Gien ANTO INETTE ANDRE Wife to LEVVIS GARNIER a Handi-crafts man was also opened by Maister ADAM AVBRY borne at Pithuiers a Surgion remaining at Aubigny who made the report vnto mee Afterwardes hauing conceiued againe shee was naturally deliuered of an other liue child The same And of latter dayes in the yeare 1578. the first of February IONE MICHEL borne at Argent Wife to GEORGE RENAVLD liuing in the sub-vrbes of Aubigny hauing beene big with child aboue ten moneths she carryed her fruite along time dead not leauing notwithstanding to follow her businesse till in the ende she was forced to betake her selfe to her bed where after shee had beene long tormented in vaine by Mid-wiues in the end she sent for the aboue named ADAM AVBRY and for WILLIAM COLLAS a learned Surgion who hauing cut of the childs arme beeing al blacke and dead which came forth long before by the Mothers nature but not able to take hold of the rest of the body they made an incision on the right side something bending and with a small Orifice to spare the mother which caused her to feele great paynes in the extraction of the child for that the Matrix could not deliuer the child for the straitnesse of the ouerture which paynes notwithstanding ceassed presently when as the child and that which followes were deliuered So after the ordinary discharges of a woman in child-bed which came as well as if she had bin naturally brought in bed within a while after shee did rise and had her termes accustomed at the ende of fiue weekes and presently after shee conceiued againe in the ende of May beeing somewhat troubled with the fresh remembrance of that was past taking care what might happen of her beeing nowe with child at which time she was deliuered naturally And although the child did at the first present but one of the legges which was a bad beginning yet the same beeing put backe by the Mid-wife all succeeded happely Since which time beeing with child againe shee had a happy deliuery and was afterwards very healthfull The same About the yeare 1582. IOHN IAOOT a Surgion dwelling in a Village neere to Auxerre called Tirouaille meeting with Maister IOHN ALIBOVX a Phisition of Sens going to practise desired him to turne a little out of his way to a nere village called Marry to ease a poore woman from whom some fewe houres before hee had drawne a child by section of the Bellye ALIBOVX amazed at the boldnes of this Surgion called the Seigneor of Vaux Bailiffe of Auxerre and his wife to visite this woman lying in Child-bed their Castle beeing