And Take of it half a pound add eight ounces of Wine in a glass set it in the embers stir it and let it boyl twelve simmers tâl you see it âroath and grow a little thick then pour the âroath and all into another vessel do thus four times and then let it be gently boyled till it be thick as Honey Then Take Parsley Carrot seed Diacurcuma Diarrâodon each a dram and half Cinnamon a dram Steel so prepared six drams with Honey make an Electuary give three drams or five after exerâise If the Spleen be stopt Take Steel prepared a pound wash it with Vineâar then strain it and lay it on a clout and add pouder of Cloves hâlf an ounce Let them stând so a day and a night then put them in a glassed vessel ad ten ounces of white Wineâ Diarrhodon Harts tongue Senna and Capar baâksâ then stir them then set them in the Sun for a day or in an Oven do this ten daies til the Steel be melted in the Wine and little or nothing at the bottom Give two ounces of this in the morning afâer purging and exercise Or Take Steel prepared an ounce Cinnamon Aniseeds each two drams Diamosâhu without musk a dram Sugar an ounce make a Pouder give a dram drink white âine and Mugwort water aftâr it Steâled Wine Take Steel in poudâr three ounces Cinnamon half an ounce white Wine three pints set them in a close glass eight dâies in the Sun stir them every dayâ Give six or eight ounces four hours aâore dinner for fifteen or twenty dâies and walk after it At first give a Steel-medicine to prâpare As Take Steel filings four ounces âât iâ in an irân ãâã âiblâ or Ladle thân cast it into two pints of water of Hâps Grass Mâdder Borage or Spring-water stââin it and do so ââven timâs Then Take so many ounces oâââw Steel and cast it into water as befâre strain and add Syrup of Violets Borage or ãâã of Râses four ounces give three ounces in the morning âfter exârcise Prepare thus three or four times and ââen use stronger Aââeâ Steel use Sâorzonera stââpt all night in Wine give ãâã the morning This hath cured obstructiâ ãâ¦ã Bezââr ââone ââith Mercatus opens obstructions in my exâerience and rehâts venom give six or seven gââins Steel is beât Spring and Fall purge and exercise before and after it that it may be better dispersed Use Preparatives Purges and strengtheners often and for a long time and change the forms least the patient loath them If water spread about the body cool the body and make it heavy Use Sweats as Baths natural or artificial of Mugwort Calamints Nep Danewort Sage Bays Rosemary Mercury Ivy Briony roots Orris Elicampaâe After puâging and opening obstructions all the Symptoââs wil vanish if not see for the Symptoms of the womb Let the air be temperately hot The meat of good juyâe and easie digestion pot-herbs and green fââits must be avoided fish milk lettice Make Sâuâe with Sage and Cinnamon Drink Wine lât bread âe well leavened with âennelsââdâ drink no watââ noâ Broaths at first and in the deâliââtion of the disease use exercise and Vânâry Let sleep be moderate Question 1. Whether may the woman in this Disease be allowed the absurd things they long for They are Virgins or women with child that long for such things Virgins must not be allowed them as chalk c. for they will increase the disease Women with child must be pleased with fair woâdsâ to abstain from them but if the appetite wil not be allayed rather grant them then suffer an abortion or mark upon the child Question 2. Is motion and exercise good in the Green-sickness They are better then idleness which heaps up crudities they raise the languishing heat in the bowels and help the nourishment to be distributed therefore they are to be used before the disease be great and in the declination they discuss the humors But use moderation least you weaken the body or choak themâ First therefore use Frictions then watching then more exercise after convenient purging Question 3. Whether is Venery good for Maids in the Green-sickness It is probable and agreeable to reason and experience that Venery is good Hippocrates bids them presently marry for if they conceive they are cured John Langius âaith this disease comes in the ripeness of age or presently after Venery heats the womb and the parts adjacent opens and loosens the passages so that the terms may better flow to the womb But if there be a great Cacochymy take that away before she be married and then Venery may do more then Physick But use it not in the vigor of the disease nor in weakness Question 4. Whether is Blood-letting good in this Disease A Cachexy beginning with coldness of the whole body seem to deny bleeding and because the crude humors are in fault rather then blood But Hippocrates adviseth bleeding at the first If it be a new disease and comes from stopt terms and blood abound that is stopt and not turned into another humor you may boldly bleed provided the strength permit and the passages be open But in an old disease when crude flegm abounds bleed not for it will increase the disease Chap. 3. Of Symptomes from the Womb and Mother-fits in General IT is not to be expressed what miserable diseases women are subject to both Virgins and others from the womb and its consent with other parts For when terms or blood are stopt there are great Symptoms and while they putrefie or get evil qualities the Symptoms are grievous and almost unexpressible One woman may have divers Symptoms from the womb at the same time when the seed and terms are mixed with other humors after they are corrupted and there is more sometimes and such noble substance as seed and terms being corrupted are like poyson The consent with other parts is from likeness of parts nearness or connexion of vessels And because the womb is membranous it hath a great consent with the membranes and nerves Also the parts adjacent are easily infected And thirdly it hath consent with all the body by veins arteâies and nerves It consents with the brain by the nerves and membranes of the back-marrow it consânts with the heart by the arâeries with the liver by the veins which are great in the womb and therfore the blood and bad humors go back to the ââver It consents with the stomach by Anastomosis in the veins of the Mesentery and by the arteries through foul humors and vapors go from the womb to the Mesentery and stomach It conâents with the spleen by the arteries therefore many women that had not their terms enough in their youth and have hot blood are âfter Hypochondriack and a Physitian can scarce distinguish these diseases of the womb and spleen nor cure them severally It consents with the papps by veins and nerâes and the heart Diaghragma head brain and all
liâtle of the Electuary of the juâce of Roses If there be a chronick diâease she may also be purged safely especially if she be used to it and strengtheners be applied to the navel Question 4. Whether purging or bleeding is most dangerous for a Woman with Child We sââwed in the last Question the necessity of purging and its danger by the great motion of humors which if iâ reach to the womb causeth abortion because it causeth pain in the belly and provokes the teâms But bleedinâ diââurbs the humors less nor doth hurt any way but by taking nourishment from the childâ And this you need not fear if there be too much blood Thereâore puâging is more dangerous then bleeding Question 5. Whâther is it lawful to cause an Abortion to preserve the Mother A Christian may not cause an abortion for any cause for it is wickedâ and the Gentiles in Hippâcrates his time never allowed it they would not hinder Conception much less would they destroy it when made Nor must the moâher be pâeserved by the loss of the child For we must not do evil that good may come thereby But if to preserve the mother the Physitian purge or bleed and the abortion follow the fault is not the Physitian that intended it not but in the weakness of Nature and of the child and is better to preserve the mother then by neglecting the lawful means let both die Also the dead child must presently be thrown out Question 6. Whether are Clysters Diureticks and Sweaâs propâr for a Woman with Child Though women deny Clysters to them yet if they have been used to them they may be given in a ãâã quantity such as only molliâie and supâle noâ do thây more hurt thân Lenitives Diââeticks or things that provoke urine are âât safe because they pâovoke the tââms You ãâã not give gântle Sweats for Nature will reââive strength by the castinâ off of her enemies âou may use Alterers thât are proper as this Syrup Take the juyce of unripe Grapes about the beginning of September three galons add Pomââitrons or Lemons bruised halâ a pound boyl them ãâã they are soft and strain them and with half a pouââ of Sugar make a Syrup Chap. 4. Of the Symptomes that befal Women with Child in in the first months THey are loathing of meat Pica or evil appetite pewking vomiting belly-ach flux of the belly tooth and headach giddiness These all come from the stoppage of the terms especially in a Cacochymy or evil juyce for it goes to the stomach and so to the head Fiâst ââey loath meat which Hippocrates âaith is a sign of Conception And this is when the child takes the purest blood and leaves the impure which gets into the mouth of the stomach and insects it and hence comes the loathing of some sorts oâ meats Sometimes this ceaseth of it self but if there be danger of a Consumption in the mother leââ the child should be in danger for want of food give a gentle Vomit or Stomach-pills with thingâ that strengthen the Stomach As Take Coâserââ of red Roseâ half an ounce of Bettony an ouncâ pââserved Quinces three dramâ Aromaticum ãâã half a dram Pearl prepared half a scruple ãâã Syrup of green Ginger and Quinâes make an Eââctuary Anoint the stomach with oyl of Mastich ãâã Quinces Wormwood Mirtles c. Give ãâã and powerful things with ãâ¦ã roasted rather then boyled Pica is when they desire strange and absurd things as coals ashes c. as she that longed for her husbands flesh and though she loved him very well she killed him eat part and poudered up the rest Of this disease we spake in the third Book Juyce of yong Vine-âeaves with syrup of Quinces is good against this or the water that drops in May from the Vines This keeps the child from suffering by the mothers appetite Or this Spirit Take Citron peels Oranges Pââny roots as much as you please add Malmsey di ãâ¦ã them some daies then beat the roots and peels ad more Malmsey and distil them The third is loathing and vomiting from an evil vapor or humor in the stomach from blood retained If vomiting gives her ease stop it not but leave it to Nature it wil cease after a month or two If it be with trouble give a gentle Vomit or strengthen the stomach or give a little Rhubarb The fourth is pain of the belly fâom wind and humors about the womb that go to the guts discuss them as in Chap. 3. of the Colick Avoid moist Fomentations give Cinnamon water or spiced Wine The fifth is a loosness which must be suddenly stopt least it cause an abortion First give a âentle Clenser and strengthener âs Rhubarb with âââup of Roses solutive then Quinces at the first course at meals and Rice Starch Almonds Conââââe of Roseâ Quinces Apply to the navel a Pul ãâ¦ã of Quincâs Mastich Nutmegs Mace Cloves The sixth is the toothach from a shârp humor ââom retention of the terms that goes to the râot ãâã some tooth and hurts the membranes It ceaseth commonly of ãâã self yet if it be great use a Plaister of Mastich and Tacamahacca to the temples and hold in the mouth the Decoction of Fern rootâ Cinquefoyl Snakeweed Sage Mulberry baâââ c. The seventh is headach when the vapors fâom the terms stopt ascend and twitch the membâaneâ of the brain it must be repelled and abated with Lenitives of which in Lib. 1. Part 3. Sect. 1. Cap 3. of Headach The eighth of the Megrim from the vapors disturbing the Spirits that go to the head by the veins and arteries or by the gullet If it cease not discuss vapors and strengthen the brain inwardly and outwardly as in Vertigo Chap. 5. Of the Symptoms in Women with Child in the middle months THey are cough heart-beating fainting watching pain in the loyns and hips and bleeding 1. The cough is from a sharp vapor that comes to the jaws and rough artery from the terâs or from a thin part of that blood gotten into the âeins of the breast or falling from the head to the breast This endangers abortion and strength âails from watching therefore purge the hâmors that fâll from the head to the breast with Rhubarb Agariâlâ and strengthen the head as in a Câtarrh and givâââeet Lenitives as in ãâã Cough 2. Palpitation of heâât and fainting is fââm vapors that go to it by the ârteries or fâom blâââ that aboundeth and caÌnot get out at the womb but ascends and oppreâleth the heart Use Cordials as in Syncope inwardly and outwardly If it be from too much blood as in Plethory open a vein 3. Watching is from dry sharp vapors that trouble the animal Spirits Then use Frictions and wash the feet at bed-time and give Syrup of Poppies dried Roses Emulsions of sweet Almonds and white Poppy seeds 4. There is pain in the loyns and hipps from the weight of the child or from the terms stopt or growth
better remedy Then temper and evacuate the humors if theâ be adust and there be madnessâ use strongââ Then have a Bath of Lettice Willow Water-lillies Vine-leaves Purslane Venus navel red Roses Violets Waterlillies Let her sit twice â day in it and not sweat To take away the sharpness of the seed use Lettice Violets Waterlillies and things that quenâh seed by a secret quality as Agnus castus âeed Leaves and Flowers of Champhyre hereâââer Asâ Take leaves of Waterlillies Agnus castus Willow each three handfuls Lettice Purslane Veâââ navel each a handful Lettice Poppy sâed the ãâã great cold Seeds each half an ounce Dill seed ãâã drams Waterlillies a handful Violets half a âândful beat them with juyce of Lemons distil them ââer twenty four hour add to every pint a dram of âmphire give an ounce Or Take Agnus caâââieaves Rue Willow each two handfuls Mints ãâã of Dill each a handful and half Waterlillies ââlf a handful Agnus castus seeds Hemp Coriââder Lettice seed each half an ounce beat them ând distil them with water add a pint of juyce of Leââns rectifiâ it to half An Emulsion Take Lettice and white Poppy ãâã and the four great cold Seeds each half an ounce ãâã of Lettice Waterlillies Willow each four ounâs Syrup of Violets two ounces Magistery of Coâââ dram An Electuary Take Conserve of Waterlillies âââlets of Agnus caâtus topââ eââh an ounce of Roââ hâlf an ounce red Câral Smaragds eâch a dram ãâã and Lettice candied each an ounce with ãâã of Violets and Waterlillies make an Electuary Or make Baths of the same As Take tops Aânus castus Lettice Rue Waterlillies Dâl ãâã ãâã them anoint with Oyl of Lillies ânguânt of Roseâ with Camphire afââr that Or lay a Plaister of Mercury and Marsh-lentils to the breast and loyns Lây a Plate of Lead to the Back and give a Pessary of juyce of Plantane Pââslane Gourds These that work by an occult quality are fittest for numnesses that must not marry but they that will marry must forbear them because they cause barâânness Let diet be thin and of little nourishment no Eggs Beef is good and fresh fish Also Lettice Purslane Succoây Sleep littleâ think not of Venery labour and avoid idleness Question Whether is Camphire cold or hât or doth it quench Venery It is hot because it burns flames is thin pieâceth is sharp and bitter But it hath cold effects as curing of burnes and inflammations and hââ headaches but this is from the likeness of thâ substance because it draws hot vapors to it anâ discusseth as Linseed oyl that cures burnes Noâ hath it a double substance cold and hot that maâ be separated Scaliger denies it by experience to quench Vânery but if it be taken often it doth he tâieâ it but once Chap. 6. Of the Melancholy oâ Virgins and Widdows IT is a Dâliriââ with sadness trouble and weââing sââtimes laugâing without a Feavââ It differs from others by the efficacy only of the efficient cause for it hath divers pains besides ââdness especially on the left side near the heart in the papâ this is by occasion at a distance The Cause is a melancholick vapor from a melancholick blood in the vessels near the heart that infects the animal Spiâits hurts the Fancy and so the reason For melancholick blood abounding in the vessels of the womb comes back to the great arteries about the heart by the arteâies of the womb and infects both vital and animal Spirits and causeth trouble of heart and deâââium while this blood is quiet in the arteries theâe is no vapor that riseth but when it is heaâed or sâirred up by any cause the arteries about the back and spleen beat more then ordinary and the vapors arise and trouble the heart They aâe sad and âull of thoughts and trouble at the heart and cannot express their grief all things are tedious to them they weep and lâugh without a cause they sleep little and with trouble and âear they have a pain on the left side and somtimes the left breast their jaws are dây al which are the effects of a melaucholick vapor and when that is discussed all cease If it be old it turns to madness and then they are ãâã silent then pââtlers and think they see Gâoââs At first it is easier cured but if it last long and ââe âesist not imagination and will not rejoyce âith her Gossips it is dangerous They often despair and desire death or hang themselves or dâown themsâlves If the manners are chanâed ãâã tuââs to madness Observe what progress the disease hâth made At first if blood be hot oâen a vâin oâten iâââe arm if the terms be not stopt if they be bleed in the ankle some daies before they use to flow Let her be merry and prepare and purge melancholy thus Take Borage and Balm water each three ounces Syrup of the juyce of Borage and Bugloss each an ounce and half Mix them for two Doses repeat them somtimes Then purge Melâncholy As Take Senna six drams Agarick a dram and half Borage flowers and Violets each a pâgil âitron peels two drams infuse them in Rhenish wine for six hours strain them ad Syrup of Violets an ounce Or Take Scorzonera roots two ounces Borage ân ounce Balm a handful Senna four ounces Agarick half an ounce Citron peels six drams Zedoary two drams Cordial stowers a handful add half a pint of the juyce of sweet-scented Apples and of Rorage and Bugloss steep them two daieâ then strain them ad Sugar and half an ounce of Cinamon make a Syrup give two or three ounces Also give Cordials Confection of Hyacinths Species Exhilerants and Confection Alkermes to such as can bear it Cure it as Melancholy only the matter comes from the womb therefore still regard that it dry not the body too much but use a moistning Diet. Chap. 7. Of an Epilepsie from the Womb. THis Falling-sickness is worst then from other causes because there are greater symptoms for that malignant vapor doth not onely fall into the nerves but the veins and arteries The same malignant vapor that causeth suffocation causeth this for when it ascends by the veins or arteries it begets other diseases but when it gets to the nerves or to the fountain of them it causeth the Epilepsie In some the whole body hath a Convulsion in others some part only as the eyes head tongueâ hand or leg and the outward senses are diversly taken Some see not some hear not some see and cannot speak some dote and think they see strange things some cry out and know not why All loose the sense oâ feeling If the vapor be nât very malignant they reâuân to their work after the fit as if they had not âeen ill It is known by what hath been said for here ãâã not only a Convulsion as in other Epilepsies âât diveâs Symptomes as in Suffocation of the âomb They seldom âoam at the mouth
the orisice and take away the Callus and heal it as an ordinary ulcer Chap. 9. Of straitness of the passages of the Breasts VVHen the veins and arteries are not wide enough to contain blood to be turned there is no milk They are stopt by thick humors as the vessels of the womb are the cause is the stoppage of the terms or hard tumors in the Breasts that stop or press When the nipâle hath no hole for the child to suck it is from the birth or a wound or ââar after an ulcer There is little milk and the Breasts pine If the Breasts swell and milk cannot be suckt out the fault is in the papps or the veins of milk An obstruction from gross humors may be cured If it be from a Scirrhus or Scar after an ulcer it is incurable and so is the nipple born without a hole If it be from thick ãâã or blood attenâate it with proper things as Fennel Dill Pârsley Aniseeds Pease Rockeâ feed or Earth-worms made into Cataplasms oâ Fomentations Often rubbing of the Breasts opens the milk-veâs Chap. 10. Of strange things bred in the Breasts HAirs stones and worms have been found in the Breasts A worm breeds from putâid blood and is like a hair the same may be in the back and navel as I shewed And a good Author writesâ that a woman pained in her breasts could not âe eââed till imâosthuânes broke and worâs câme forth Levinus Lemnius ââw stones that grew in the Breast Chap. 11. Of the Diseases of the Nipples THey are either wanâinâ or lie hid one or bothâ which hinders giving suck If it be from the birth it is searce cured as also when the Nipple is eaten off by an ulcer When they come forth first use a sucking instrument and then apply Puppy-dogs to suck If there be no hole from birth or ulcer healed it is incurable iâ it be a little often sucking will enlarge it The cleâts in the Nipples is an usual evil and causeth great pain in Nurses and if it continue long it turns to foul ulcers and they cannot give ââck To prevent this evil in the two last months of being with child wear two cups of wax over the Nipples with a little Rosin They are cured thus with Oyl of Wax Mirâles Oyntment of Lead Tutty Or Take Tutây prepareâ a scruple Allum âalf a dram Campââire six grains with Capons grease and Oyntment of Râââs make an Oyntment Or Take Pomatum an ounce and half Mastich a âââuple pouder of Gum ârâganth and red Roses ââch half a scruple Or Take Oyntment of Lead Pomatum each half an âânce Frankincense Bole each half a scruple mix them When the inâant is to suck wash the Breasts âârst with whitâ Wine and Rose-water That the child may suck without pain to the âoman let her have a Tin or ââlver Nipple and ââver it with the pap of a new killed Cow and let the child suck that THE FOURTH BOOK THE THIRD PART THE SECOND SECTION Of the Symptoms of the Breasts Chap. 1. Of want of Milk and not giving of suck THERE are many Câuses of want of milk either there is little blood to breed it or the milk making faculty in the breast that makes milk is not right or the instruments for blood-making are distempered Somtimes the matter is consumed by a sâaver or fasting when they loath meat or from care or labour evacuations sweats or loose belly Or from weakness of the infant that cannot draw hard Also sadness fear and the like may hinder blood from flowing to the breasts Milk is wanting when the breasts are flaggie and swell not and little milk is sucked out The signs of the causes thus If it be from the liver there will be signs of its distemper if from great evaâuation that is known the fault is known to be in the breasts if as oft as they lie in they have no milk and the breasts are âââal and wrinkled or if Medicines to keep down the breasts have been applied she will tell you or if it be from weakness of the child or passions of mind The inconvenience is little to the Nurse but gâeat to the child therefore get another Nurse or âure her To breed milk give tâângs that breed much and good blood of easie concoction Medicines to bâeed milk are Fennel roots and all green and thinâs that heat and are not very dry which aâe few but inâinite are they that hinder milk as things hot and dry and cold things These increase milk roots of Smallage seeds of Parslây Dill Basil Anise Rocket Earth-worms washt in juyce of Fennel and dâied or burnt in a pot a dram or two fasting for some mornings or Crâstâl or Milk-stone a dram Compounds are Take green Fennel Parsley each a handful Barley two pugils red Pease half an ounce boyl them and with Sugar sweeâen them or in Chiâken broath Or Take green Fennel six drams Barley two pugils boyl them in broath and strain them Or Take Fennel seed six drams Anise a dram and half Rocket seed half a dram give a dram or two in Broath Or Take Cows Udder sliced dry it in an Oven and pouder it Take half a pound of it Anise Fennel seed each an ounce Cummin seed two ounces Sugar four ounces make a Pouder Hot Fomentations open the breast and attract blood as the Decoction of Fennel Smallage or stampt Mints applied Or Take Fennel and Parsley green each a handful boyl and stamp them aââarley meal half an ounce Gith seed a dram Storax calamite two drams Oyl of Lillies two ounces make a Pultis A Dropax and Synapisme or Plaister of Mustard are good if often changed Chap. 2. Of too much Milk THis is when much blood flows to the breasts and the mother will not give suck or weans the child for the infant cannot suck it as fast as it breeds when there is much blood and good breasts that can make Milk If Milk be kept and cannot be suâked out by the child there are swellings inflammations pains curdlings and corruption Children that suck much if they be full bodied have a Convulsion The fiâst coming of Milk is not to be stopt but when there is more then the child can suck it is abated with a slender diet of little nourishment as Barley Pot-herbs water By letting blood or cupping or by Repellers to the veins under the arms above the breasts Mints Calamints Smallage Agnus castus Coriander Hemlock to abate Milk Mints and Smallage are doubted Compounds Take Smallage Mints Mallows each a handful Faenugreâk Cummin seed each half an ounce Chamoâil Melilot flowers each a pugil boyl them and foment add a little Wine or make a Pultis of them with Bean flour and Oxyâel Or Take Cummin seed boyl iâ in Vinegar and with a Spunge foment They which will not give suck let them foment with this Decoction Take Mallowâ âays Fennel
the straitness and largeness of the Orifice Page 1 Chap. 2. Of the Mentula or Yard in a Woman 3 Chap. 3. Of Atretae or Closures and straitness of the Neck and Mouth of the Womb 4 Chap. 4. Of Pustles and Roughness of the Privities 6 Chap. 5. Of Condyloma in the Neck of the Womb Page 7 Chap. 6. Of Warts in the Neck of the Privities and Womb 8 Chap. 7. Of the Haemorrhoids of the Womb. 9 Chap. 8. Of the Ulcers in the Neck of the Womb 11 Chap. 9. Of the Clefts in the Neck of the Womb 14 Chap. 10. Of Fistulae's in the Neck of the Womb 15 Chap. 11. Of a Cancer in the Womb 16 Chap. 12. Of a Gangrene and Sphacel in the Womb 18 THE CONTENTS OF THE FOURTH BOOK THE SECOND SECTION Of the Diseases of the Womb. CHap. 1. Of the Knowledg of the Temper of the Womb. 20 Chap. 2. Of the hot Distemper of the Womb Page 22 Chap. 3. Of the cold Distemper of the Womb 24 Chap. 4. Of the moist Distemper of the Womb 25 Chap. 5. Of the dry Distemper of the Womb 26 Chap. 6. Of Compound Distempers and first of cold and ãâ¦ã Chap. 7. Of the ill shape of ãâã Womb and âirst of the ãâã of it and its Vessels ãâã Chap. 8. Of the opening of tââ Vessels of the Womb besides Nâture 3â Chap. 9. Of a double Womb tââ wanting of a womb and evil shaââ of the womb and strange thingâ found in it 3â Chap. 10. Of the Magnitude oâ the Womb increâsed and first of tâe ãâ¦ã of the womb 35 Chap. 11. Of the Dropsie of the Womb Page 38 Chap. 12. Of a Tumor in the Womb from Blood in its Veins 42 Chap. 13. Of Inflammation of the Womb ibid. Chap. 14. Of a Scirrhus and Cancer in the Womb 45 Chap. 15. Of the displacing of the Womb and first of the Ascent of it 47 Chap. 16. Of Falling out of the Womb 49 Chap. 17. Of the Rupture of the Womb 54 Chap. 18. Of Wounds and breaking of the Womb ibid. Chap. 19. Of Ulcers and rottenness of the Womb 55 Chap. 20. Of the Diseases of the Stones and Vessels of Procreation in Women ibid THE Contents OF THE FOURTH BOOK THE SECOND PART Of the Symptomes in the Womb and from the Womb. CHap. 1. Of Weakness of the Womb Page 57 Chap. 2. Of the Itch of the Womb 59 Chap. 3. Of pain in the Womb 60 Chap. 4. Of the Diseases of the Womb that come from sweet scents and stinks 63 THE CONTENTS OF THE FOURTH BOOK THE SECOND SECTION Of the Symptoms in the Terms and other fluxes of the Womb. CHap. 1. Of the flux of the Terms Page 66 Chap. 2. Of the Terms flowing too soon 69 Chap. 3. Of want and stoppage of the Terms ibid. Chap. 4. Of fewness of the Terms 78 Chap. 5. Of Dropping of the Terms 79 Chap. 6. Of the over-flowing of the Terms 80 Chap. 7. Of the Terms flowing with pain and Symptoms 85 Chap. 8. Of evil discoloured Terms 86 Chap. 9. Of Terms coming before their time 87 Câap 10. Of Terms that come after their usual time 88 Chap. 11. Of the Terms voided another way 90 Châp 12. Of the Whites ib. Câap 13. Of a Gonorrhaea 94 Chap. 14. Of strange things voided by the Womb 95 THE CONTENTS OF THE FOURTH BOOK THâ THIRD SECT ON Of the Symptoms that befâ Virgins and Women in their Woâ after they are ripâ oâ Age. CHap. 1. Of Virginity 96 Chap. 2. Of the Green-sickness or white Feaver 100 Chap. 3. Of Symptoms from the Womb and Mother-fits in General Page 106 Chap. 4. Of Suffocation of the Womb 108 Chap. 5. Of the Frenzie of the Womb. 115 Chap. 6. Of the Melancholy of Virgins and Widdows 118 Chap. 7. Of an Epilepsie from the Womb 120 Chap. 8. Of pain of the Head from the Womb 122 Chap. 9. Of the Diseases of the Heart and beating of the Arteries in the Back and Sides from the Womb 124 Chap. 10. Of the Diseases of the Spleen and the Hypochondriack disease from the Womb 125 Chap. 11. Of the Distemper of the Liver from the Womb and of a Beard growing by consent from the Womb. 127 Chap. 12. Of the Diseases of the Stomach that come from the Womb Page ibid THE CONTENTS OF THE FOURTH BOOK THE FOURTH SECTION Of âhe Symptoms which are in Conception CHap. 1. Of the desire of Venery hurt 130 Chap. 2. Of Barrenness and want of Conception 131 Chap. 3. Of Barrenness for the time and conceiving seldom 139 Chap. 4. Of Conception and forming of the Child 141 Chap. 5. Of the Generation of Twins and many Children 142 Chap. 6. Of Sâperfoetation Page 144 Chap. 7. Of the ill Formation of the Child 145 Chap. 8. Of a Child turned into Stone 147 Chap. 9. Of a Mole 148 Chap. 10. Of Monsters 151 Chap. 11. Of false Conception and Swelling 153 THE CONTENTS OF THE FOURTH BOOK THE SECOND PART THE FIFTH SECâION Of the Government of Women with Child and preternatural Distempers in Women with Child CHap. 1. Of the signs of Conception 155 Chap. 2. Of the Government and Diet of Women with Câiââ Page 156 Chap. 3. Of the Cure of Women with Child in general 158 Chap. 4. Of the Symptoms that befal Women with Child in the first months 162 Chap. 5. Of the Symptomes in Women with Child in the middle months 164 Chap. 6. Of the Symptoms that are in the last months 166 Chap. 7. Of Weakness of the Child 167 Chap. 8. Of Crying in the Womb 168 THE Contents OF THE FOURTH BOOK THE THIRD PART THE SIXTH SECTION Of Symptoms that happen in Childbearing CHap. 1. Of Childbearing in General Page 170 Chap. 2. Of Abortion 172 Chap. 3. Of the Signs of Natural Birth and the manner and Government of such as bring forth 175 Chap. 5. Of Natural hard Travel 177 Chap. 6. Of a vitious disorderly Birth or difficulty preternatural Page 179 Chap. 7. Of a slow Birthâ 180 Chap. 8. Of a Child dead in the Womb 181 Chap. 9. Of the Caesarean Birth 183 THE CONTENTS OF THE Fourth Book THE Seventh Section Of the Government of Women in Child-bed of the Diseases that come after Travel CHap. 1. Of the Government of Women in Child-bed Page 186 Chap. 2. Of the Secundine or After-birth or a Mole that is left after Childbearing Page 187 Chap. 3. Of the Purgation after Childbearing diminished âr detained 189 Chap. 4. Of too great a Flux of blood after Childbearing 191 Chap. 5. Of the pains after Travel and torments in the Belly 192 Chap. 6 Of the Tearing of the Vulva to the Arse and coming forth of the Womb Inflammation Ulcer Suffocation and Falling out of the Fundament 193 Chap. 7. Of Watching Doting and Epilepsie of Women in Child-bed 194 Chap. 8. Of the Swelling of the Womb Belly and Feet after Child-bearing 195 Chap. 9. Of Vomiting Loosness Bâlly bound and not holding of ârin in Women in Child-bed ibid. Chap.
for the desire of Venery is increased in that and the rubbing of the cloaths upon it cause lust but in an excrescence of flesh they cannot for pain enduââ copulation but you may cut off this better then a Clitoris because it is all superfluous Chap. 3. Of Atretae or Closures and straitness of the neck and mouth of the Womb. THey are threeâold it is either in the oriâice or the neck or in the middle it is alwaies huttful either to copulation or the terms or to conception and childbearing I saw one that had the first the oriâice was very little onely fit to purge the terms and receive seed she conceived and the Midwives discovered in time of childbearing and the Chirurgion opened it and she was happily delivered but how the seed was spent into it is not to be understood Flesh or a membrane is from evil conformation or a wound or ulcer of which Benivenius ãâã and Hildanuâ The âleât also may be closed by a wound oâ ulcer as in a woman who with the French âox had all eaten off and it grew together after only there was a little passaâe for urin This is either when the sides grow togethââ fââm aâ uâcer or âhen proud âleâh ââops it uââ âhich is somtimes in the French pox When it is in the privities it is to be seen but âhen in the neck or oriâice of the womb it is not ânown but when the terms are to âlow or when âhey copulate and it is either broken by the âorce of blood or there is pain and being virâins they are taken to be with child for iâ it âast long the womb swells and the whole body is âlewish These either hinder the termâ from the neck âf the womb or from the veins of it If inâlamâation or ulcer was before this disease may be âuspected to be if there the closing be by the membrane the place is white if by âleâh it is red ând it is known by the touch for the membrane âs âarder then flesh The inconveniences are great either in copulation conception or child bearing especially for the child cannot get forth without hazard of it self or mother It is easier cured when it is from a membrane only because it is easily cut or broken that in âhe orifice of the womb is not to be cured because the instruments cannot reach it Take away that which stops the passage a membrane that is outward is easily cut but iâ it be in the neck of the womb or be flesh it is hard for if the cut be large there is pain and bâeâding and the wound is hard to be cured because the neâk of the bladder is easily hurt thereby ãâ¦ã teacheth this operation in his Observations And Hippocrates in his Book of Sterility shâws how a membrane may be taken away without cutting Iâââeâh grow frâm an ulââr aâtâr purging use dââers and discussers to dimiâiââ it âith Frânkincense Birthwort Roses Pomegranate floweâs ãâã Myârâ Aloes c. as in Chap. 2. Somâ think this disease may come from driââss but it is incredible Iâ it come stom a hard tun or soften and dissolve it with Butter Oyl of sweeâ Almonds Lillies c. Chap. 4. Of Pustles and Roughness of the Privities ROughnâss and Itching come from Pustles in the nâck of the womb and privities âith scurff and swellings which iâch and pain They are ârom an adust humor maliânant and sharp which abounding evacuate themselves by thâse looâe and moist parts and there stiâking exasperate the flesh this is in the French pox They ââcâare it themselves It is stubborn long and inâeâtious to men and hard to be cured Iâ the adust sharp humors come from the wholâ body prepare with Boraâe Fumitory Succory Endive and the likâ then evacuate tââm wiâh Sennaâ Epithymum syrâp of Apples Violâââ Roses Catholicon Consectio hâmeâh âilâs of Fumitory Tartar Lât âlood iâ there be âulness first in the Arm then in the Ankle but if it be from the Frenâh pox first uâe Guajacum and Sâââa and the like Foment the âaât often with a hot decâction oâ ãâ¦ã Fââiâory Hâps Pâlliââây oâ uâe this Oyntmânt Take ãâã and Rose ãâã ââch ãâã âânceâ Sâl gem Nâââr Allum âach thrââ drâms Subâiââââ a ãâã ând half boyâ tââm âo the third part strain them and add Verdigrease a ââruple then use gentler means two daies after till the Pustles fall off and new flesh appear and then use the Oyntment again Let the diet be to resist evil humors of good âuyââ avoid salt sharp and âour things Chap. 5. Of Condyloma in the neck of the Womb. COndyloma is a tubercle or excrescens with heat and pain for these parts are wrinkled and when the wrinkles swell there is a Condyloma somtimes it is without inflammation and sâât or with inflammation and hard It is usual n the privities and fundament of such as have the French pox They are from a sharp malignant humor which is alwaies in the Pox and somtimes they follow hard clefts or chaps They are pain and burning the skin is wrinkled and when they are many they are like a bunch of Grapes They are hard to be cured if they are from tâe Pox first cure that and then they often vanish of themselves Aâter general evacuations proper against the Pox use Topicks first see if there be inflammation and then abate painâ As Take oyl of Lineseed and Rosâs âach an ounce oyl of Eggs half an ounce mix âhem in a Leaden mortar Or Take Pâllâtorâ Mallows Althaea each half a handful Chamomil flowers two pugils Lineseed and âaeâugreek each half an ounce boyl them to a pânââdd oyl of Rosâs three âunces inâect it wâth a Syâing If there be no inflammation use driers and repellers as Vervain Ivy Acacia Pomegranate peels and slowers for Baths and Fomentations and after add Discussers as Chamomile and Thyme If it be old and hard first soften it with the same and after thrice using them âse digesters and driers that are strong as a pouder Take round Birthwort a dram Savine Hermodacts burnt âach two drams burnt Allum two drams red Lead a dram Chalcitis half a dram sprinkle it upon the loose flesh Or Take Aloes Frankincense Mirrh each a dram Ammoniacum dissolved in Vinegar a dram and half Allum two drams rea Lead two drams Galls half a dram Turpentine Oyl of Tarâar each a dram with Oyl of Roses and Wax make an Oyntment This is very strong Take Turpcmine an ouncâ Oyl of Nutmegs two ounces red Lead two drams Allum Vitriol each a dram Verdigreece half ãâã dram Sublimate a scruple with Wax make an Oyntment or of Balsom of Mercury If Medicines will not do the Ancients advise burning of which see Aetius Chap. 6. Of Warts in the neck of the Privities and Womb. THey are from a gross seculent and malâgnant humor sent to the skin and turned to a node They are known by
their shape the malignant are known by their hardness and heat and blewness filâh and pain They are often hard to be cured because the pox is with them and they are in a place to which Medicines are hard to be applied and to continue The Myrmeciae are not cut off but they leave a great ulcer the Thymi and Clavi grow again Acrochordones once cut leave no root After Universals and order of diet either use Medicines or cut or burn them to discuss then use Sage dried with Figs Organ Rue burnt dry Savin Frankincense with Wine and Vinegar or Snakes skins with Figs these also dry These corrode eat and burn as juyce of wild Cowcumbers with Salt Milk of Figgs Sheeps dung Goats gall with Niter Aqua fortis Spirit of Vitriol Sulphur Butter of Antimony Take heed that you hurt not the parts adjacent but defend them with Bole sealed Earth Rosewater and Vinegar if you put the Corrosives into Nut-shells change them twice or thrice in a day and wash the part with a clensing Decoction and then cut or burn Chap. 7. Of the Haemorrhoids of the Womb. THe veins that end in the neck of the womb often swel like the Haemorrhoids it is from gross blood that comes to these veins out of the time of the terms Inordinate flux of terms may occasion it when tâây slow out of the usual time they grow thick and cannot get out of the veins but swel them They are to be touched and with a Speculum matricis to be seen There is pain and bleeding without order she is pale and lazy Correct the blood purge and bleed in the arm to derive and revel of which in the diseases of the womb If pain be abate it by sitting in a Decoction of Mallows Althaea Chamomil Mâlilot flowers Moulin Lineseed Foenugreek of which also make Fomentations and Oyntments with Butter Populeon and Opium if there be pain Take Populeon Oyl of Roses and sweet Almonds fresh Butter each half an ounce Saffron a sâââple with the yolk of an Egg make an Oyntment Or Take Muâilage of Quinces Althaea eaâh half an ounce Oyl of Roses and Hens greâse each a dram the yolk of an Eg and Saffron half a dram mix them in a leaden Mortar If pain be gone or abated and they bleed not use Dryers of Bole Earth of Lemnos Acacia Ceruss froath of Silver Lead burnt and washed long Birthwort Allum Verdigreece If they swell with blood evaporate it or âoment with the Decoction of Mallows Althaea Pellitory Chamomil flowers Moulin Melilot seeds of Line and Foenugreâk If they do not good open them by Fig leaves rub'd upon them or by Horsleeches of which Chap. 2. If there be proud flesh take it oât as is shewed If they bleed gently lât Nature alone to the work for it is good and ârees from other diseases If the flux be gâeat and abate the strength open a vein in the arm divers times and do as in over slowing of the terms Question How do the Haemorrhoids differ from the Terms flowing or stopt Mercurialis saith That though a flux of terms be immodârate yet it hath its periods and is without pain and makes not the body lean but it is contrary in the Haemorrhoids But this is not true for the body is not made lean alwaies by the Haemorrhoids nor do the courses keep their periods alwaiâs Besides the pain which is almost alwaies in the Haemorrhoids they differ in that the terms flow from the veins of the womb and its neck but the Haemorrhoids are when the blood flows too much to the veins that nourish the privities and there either sticks or is evacuated Chap. 8. Of Ulcers in the Neck of the Womb. THey are seldome cured in the body of the womb and they are simple and clean or âordid and malignant Are a flux of sharp humors that lasts long in the Pox and Gonorrhaea Corrupt afterbirths and courses after childâearing detained inflammations turned to imposthuiâesâ these are the internal The external are sharp Medicines hard travail a reat child taken out by âorce violent leâhery wounds falls strokes Are pain and constant biting that increaseth ââââcially in coâulation or when Wine or Hydrâmel is injected You may also see it with a Speculum also there is matter gentle or âilthy if the ulcer go towards the bladder they piss hot and often there is pain in the roots of the eyes to the hands and fingers fainting and a little âever somtimes The external Causes are to be related by the patient If it be from the pox or Gonorrhaea the signs of them will appear of which Hippocrates They are hard to be cured because they are in a part fit to receive humors soft and moist and that hath consent with many parts Hence are divers Symptoms the great old and foul are worst when they corrode and are hollow they are seldome cured they that may easily have Medicines applied to them are easieât cured First stop the flux of humors to the part if it be either from the whole body or any part And amend the distemper of the womb that it may neither breed nor receive bad humors If the French pox be with it resist that first If there be pain first abate that with Milk steeled or with three whites of Eggs and Mucilage of Fleabane or an Emulsion of Poppy seeds Or Take Althaea roots an ounce Dill seed two drams Barley a pugil Faenugreek and Lineseed each an ounce Fleabane and Poppy seed each half an ounce boyl them in Milk Of which in pain of the womb In a foul ulcer first use Clensers as Whey Barley water Honey Wormwood Smallage Orobus Orris Birthwort Mirrh Turpentine Allum As Take new Milk boyled a pint Honey half a pint Orris pouder half an ounce Use it hot often every day When that which was injected is voided wash with the decoction of Mallows and put up this Pessary Take Eruum and Lentils in pouder and Orris each two drams with Honey Or Take Diapompholigos with Frankincense Mastich Mirrh Aloes as the ulcer requires Or use Fumes As Take Frankincense Mastich Mirrh Storax Calamite Gum of Juniper Labdanum each an ounce make a Pouder or Troches with Turpentine If there be suspicion of the French pox add a little Cinnabar In a very foul ulcer and Aegyptiacum or Apostolorum or a little Spirit of Wine In a creeping corroding ulcer with clenâers mix cold drying and astringent Medicines Allum water Plantane and Rose-water with Pomegranate flowers boyled and Pomegranate peels and Cypress-nuts is also good and with Aloes After clensing fill it with flesh and heal it up As Take Tutty washed half an ounce Litharge Ceruss Sarcocol each two drams with Oyl of Roses and Wax make an Oyntment Or smoak the privities with Mirrh Frankincense Gum or Juniper Labdanum two drams in pouder with Turpentine make Troches Or use Sulphur or Allum Baths and Plaisters
receiving pleasure in the time of copulaâion when they spend their âeed The terâs are fleâmatick thiâk and ââimâ and flow not righâlyâ there is wind in the womb the seed is crude waterishâ with a Gonorâhaea It is the cause of obstructions and barrenness and is hard to be cured Use things proper to heal the womb as this Wâteâ Tâke Galangaâ Ciânamonâ Nutmeg Mace Cloves each twâ ãâã Gingâr Cubebâ Zedoary âardamoâs eâch ân ounce grains of Paradise long Pâpper each half an ounce beat them and put them iâ six quârtâ of âine for eiâht daies then add Saâe Minâs Balm Motherwârt eacâ three handfâls lât them stand âight daies more then pour âff the âine and beât the herbs and the Spiâes and thân pour on the Wineâ and distil them Another Take Cinnamon Nutmegs Clâvâs Mace Gingerâ Cubebâ Cardamomsâ grains of Pâradise âach an ounâe and halâ Galânâal six drams long âepper haâf an ounâe Zedoary five drams bruise them and add six quarts of Wine put them in a Cellar nine daiâs daily stirring them then add Mints two hândâuls then let them stand fourteen daies pour off the Wine and bruisâ them and then pour on the Wine againâ and distil them Querceâan hath an Hâsterick Exâract a âreater and a less use outwardly Fomentations Bathsâ Baggs of hot Roots as Birthwort Lovage Valeâian Angelica Burnet Mâsterwort Calamus Mâdder Elicampane Orâis and Herbs as Mugwort Balm Motherwort Savin Pennyroyal Calamints Organ Dittany Maâjoram Rue Bettony Rosemary Lâvender Sage Stoechasâlowers Seeds of Smallage Parsley Rueâ Carrots Anise Fennel Cummin Lovage Parsley Anoint with Oyl oâ Lillieââ Rueâ Aâgelica Bays Cinnamon Cloves Mâce Nutmeg Or Take Labdaââm twâ ounces Frankinceâse Mastich âiquid Storax âach half an ounââ Oyl of Cloves Nuâmegs each halâ a scruple Oâl of Lillies Rue âach an ounce with Wax make a Plaister A Fâme Take Frânkincense Mirrh Mastich âach a dram Bayberries a dram and half Labdaâum two dramsâ Sâârax Clovesâ eacâ a dram Gum Arâbick and Wine make Troches or Pessaries of âhe same Let the diet be warming and the air the meat âf easie concoâtion seasoned with Anise Fenâel Thyme Avoid Milk-meats and raw fruits Chap. 4. Of the moist Distemper of the Womb. THis is âommoâly joâned with a coâd distemper aâd causeth bârrenness aâd ãâ¦ã the same causes as a cold distemper for commonly cold things do moisten It is commonly in women âhat are idle They that have moist wombs abound in courses but they are waterish and thin the privities are wet they have the Whites and desire not copulation much and delight not in it they retâin not the seed and if they conceive when the child is big they aborte or miscarry If it last long it is hard to be cured if it be much they conceive not It is by Dryers and things that cure the cold distemper are good againââ the moist because all Healers have a drying power Use sulphur Baths and in Injections beware of astâingents least the evil humors be stopâ and the disease iâcreased Chap. 5. Of the dry Distemper of the Womb. IN this the womb is hardened of it self it is fleshy and soft and moistned by blood foâ conception It is somtimes from the birth or old age when they are past childbearing if it be from drâing causes they are barren before they are old Diseases and Medicines dry the womb as inflammations feavers and when blood flows noâ to it nor goes to the bottom of it by reason ãâã the straitness of the veins or obstructions as iâ Viragoe's and such as never conceived and iâ they void any blood it is fâom the neck of thâ womb and not from the bottom They void little âeed and are âlow in Veneryâ the terms are few the mouth of the womb is dry and they are slender of a dry constitution their lower lip is alwaies chapt and blackish red This disâemper is hard to be cured in any part especially if it be old Use moistners as Borage Bugloss Mercury Mallows Althaea Violets sweet Almonds Pistâchaes Pine nuts Jujubes Dates Figs Raisons Of which are made Syrups Conserves Emulsions Candies c. Outward Remedies are made of the same adding Time Faenugreek seeds Lillies Branckurlin Pellitory c. Fomentations are made with Milk and after bathing anoynt the region of the womb and the belly to the privities with oyl of sweet Almonds Lilliâs Lineseed Jesamin fresh Butter Hens and Goose grease Let the Diet be moistning the Air moist the Meât fatning of much nourishment and small excâement let sleep be a little longer then usual great labour anger sadness fasting do hurt Chap. 6. Of compound distempers and first of cold and moist THere is seldom a simple distemper in the pârt and commonly there is matter which âeeds itâ it is usually cold and moist which gaâheâs excâements of that sort either in the wholâââdy or in the womb after the terms Are all things that breed cold and flegmatick humors in the whole body or the womb They conceive not and are of an ill habit of body the terms seldom flow right and they have somtimes the whites It is harder to cuâe then a simple distemper The cold humor is in fault therefore prepare it with syrup of Mugwort Mints Bettony Hysop with a decoction proper As Take Fennel roots an ounce Valerian Elicampane Masterwort each half an ounce Penny-royal Mugwort Motherwort Nep Marjoram each a handful Rosemary and Sage flowers each two pugils Siler Montane Fennel Aniseed Parsnep seed each a dram boyl them to ten ounces strained add Sugar syrup of Mugwort two or three ounces Cinnamon water half an ounce make a potion for three doses Then purge it with Agarick Mechoacan Turbith and if other humots be mixed with flegm add Senna and the like or use Pills de tribus Aloephanginae Mastich of Hiera with Agarick Sine quibus Or Take Agarick a dram and half Senna two drams infuse them in Mugwort water to three ounces strained add Diaphaenicon or Diacarthaemum twâ drams strain and add syrup of Mugwort half an ounce Cinnamon water half a dram After universal evacuations use Pessaries As Take Mercury bruise it and put it in a bag of white Silk anoynt it with Butter or Honey of Roses Or Take Benedicta laxativa three drams Agarick two drams Giâh seed a dram Pease meal six drams with juyce of Mercury make Pessaries in a Sarsnet Bag. Or Take Hiera a dram Agarick âalf a dram âdellium a dram with Honey make a Pessary or make it with pouder of Agarickâ and Troches of Coloquintida or give sweats of Cuajaâum China and Sarsa As Take Guajacum a pound and eighteen ounces inâaâe them in twelve pints of water twenty four hours âhen boyl them to the consumption of the third part âive six or eight ounces âot in the morning and leââer sweat Pour water to the reliques and boyl them to âhe consumption of the third
and from an evil sangâifiâation in the liver and ââleen fâom âhâir weakness oâ fâom errors in diet or from weakness of the womb from hard travel or often mischances cold air or water or whatsoever hurts the heaâ of the womb Also stoppage of the terms doth cause gathering of water for the water useth to be evacuated with them Many take this for the only cause Somtimes the tunicles of the womb may be divided in some place and water may be gathered between them Hippocrates saith The terms are âewer and cease before the time the bottom of the belly swells and the papps are soât without milk and she thinks she is with child by these you may know it is a Dropsie But because Doctors and Midwives are often deceived you must distinguish this from other swellings When a woman is sound and useth a sound man the womb by degrees swells and the child moves in its time but often there is a Dropsiâ with conception before or after therefore in a Dropsie the tumor is equal according to the largeness of the womb and âelly and noâ pointed as in a woman with child Secondly iâ the woman be in years and hath not conceived before and hath a good colour it is a sign of a Dropsie rather then conception If the tenth month be past and the child moves not nor the breasts swell but are soft say there is a Dâopsie of the womb Thirdly in a true conception women are bâtter after some months and the Symptoms abate but in a Dropsie they increase still It is distinguished from a mole by the weight in the bottom of the belly From an inflationâ because the belly is stâetched in that and sounds being striken but is soât in a Dropsie It differs from the Dropsie of the belly because the face is pale or wane in that from the distemper of the liver there is thirst but in the won bâdropsie she is of a good colour except the liver be also bad It differs from inflammation of the womb for that is âith a constant feaver and the Symptoms oâ it and ârom other tumors which are harder but in a Dâopsie of the womb if the belly be preââedâ it yiâldâ You shal know whether it be from the fault in the woâb ârincipally or ââom some other part thus Iâ tâe woman be of a good colour and there were onely some diseases and causes that might hurt the wombâ as abortion hard travel stoppage of terms or too many of them then the womb is chiefly affected but if there be signs of a distemâer in the whole body or in the liver or spleen aâd the colour is bad it is by consent from other parts You shall knâw whether the water be in bladdeâs or in the cavity of the womb thus If you find the oriâice oâ the womb closed and there is little pain it is in the cavity but if the oriâice be open and there is great pain it is in bladders or without the cavâây If the humor in the womb be not corrupt this disease is of long continuance but may be easily cured it is eaâier cured in the cavity then when it is in bladders and between the âunicles A woman after conception having a Dropsie of the womb her child diâth and she is in danger When it is froâ stâppage of terms and new and the stâength âirm open a vein in the legs otherwise bleed not Purge according to the humor with respect to the womb as in Chap. 6. of a cold Distemper Then purge Water Take Angelica and Madder roots each half ân ounce Calamintsâ Penny-royal Mugwort Lovage eâch a handful Savin a pugil boyl them in wine sweeten it with Sugar Or make Broaths with the same Take Dianisum Diagalangal each half a dram Oyl of Aniseeds Cloves each five drops Sugar three ounces make Rouls Inject into the Womb as in Dropsies Take Asarum roots târee drams Pennyroyal Calamints eaâh halâ a handful Savin a pugil Mechoacan a dâam Aniseed Cummin each half a dram boyl taâe six ounces strained Oyl of Elder and Orris each an ounce make a Clyster Or use Peââaries Take Agarick a dram Coloquintida half a dram Gniâium ten grains with Honey and Wool make a Peââary Make Fomentations and Baths of Danewort Me cury Elder Pennyroyal Organ Chamomil-flowers Baâberries wild Cowcumbers Broom Carrot Rue seeds And anoint after with Oyl of Elder Danewort Orris with drops of Oyl of Angâlica Anise Caraway Sâlphur Baths are good and those of Niter oâ the Plaister of Bayberries or Snails to the bottâm of the belly Vomiting and neesing break the bladders Give Clysters at the fundament as in Dropsies Take Mercury leaves Danewort Soldanella Mugwortâ Motherwort each a handful Chamomil Elder Broom flowârs each a dram boyl and to ten ounces strained add juyce of Beets Mercury Danewort ea h six drams Boys urine an ounce and half Hiera six drams Honey half an ounce make a Clyster Let the Diet be drying as in Chap. 5. Chap. 12. Of a Tumor in the Womb from blood in its Veins THis disease makes Women think they are with child also for blood long detained in the vâins about the womb stretcheth them outwardly and twisteth them and the veins in the substance of the womb are ful and stretched and make it larger but when the terms flow it falleth again except there be a Cachexy or Dropsie This is onely from stoppage of terms and is cured by provoking them Chap. 13. Of Inflammation of the Womb. IF the blood that comes to the womb get out of the vessels into its substance and grow hot and putresie it causeth inflammation either all over or in paât before or behind above or below on the right or left side Blood is the immediate Cause which is pure or mixed therefore the inflammation is either an Erysipelas Oedema or Scirrhus as flegm melancholy or blood abound Blood is either sent to or drawn by the womb by heat or painâ it is sent to it when it aboundeth or is hot or thin and when the blood is moved by hot air exercise passions as anger or hot diet There is a tumor with heat and pain in the râgion of the womb with stretching and heaviness in the privities and if you put in your âinger you 'l feel the heat and the more pain there is a feaver somtimes called Lipyria when there is cold without and heat within The tongue is dry and blâck with watching doting toââing to and fro the breasts are pufft up and pained There is headach to the roots of the eyes and a pain in the groyns hips midrif pleura and shoulders short wind and like a Pleurisie with loathing vomitinâ hickets The belly is bound the pulse is small and often and weak but at first darting and quick And Hippocrates âaith If the womb be inâlamed the terms are stopt and the neck of it is liââ a Spiderâ web with many small veinâ c. Iâ
it be inflamed before the pain is about the ââbes and the urin is stopt If behind it is in the âoyns and the belly is bound If it be inflamed in the bottom the pain is towards the navel If it be from pure blood the Symptoms are less if from choler stronger the thiâst is more the watching greater if from melancholy all are worse If it be all over the womb it is dangerous and few escape it An Erysipelas in a woman with child is deadly because there is an abortion and the Mother dies the worse the Symptomes the greater is the danger And it is safer to discuss an inflammation then to ripen it if it turn to a Schirrus it is lasting and makes ãâã Dropsie If it be not after abortion or a flux of blood open a vein in the Arm or cup and scarifie the shoâlders Bleed nât in the foot least you draw blood more to the womb but afterwards to derive if it be from terms stopt you may Galen âaith You may divert the blood by bleeding in the arm or cupping the breasts and you maâ derive it by âpening the ankle-ankle-vein and cupping upon t e hips If there be cholerâ purge it with Syrup of Roses Manna Rhubarb Diacatholicon and use not strong movers of the terms Use Alteâers and Coolers as Juleps and Emulsions and provoke sleep and if there be dotage give Narcoticks Aâter Univârsals use Repellers and Aâodynes As Take Housleek Purslane Lettiââ Venus-navelâ Vine leaves each half a handful boyl them in wine add Barley meal two ounces Pomegranaâe fiowers two drams Bole a dram with Oyl of Roses âake a Pultis Or Take Diachylon simple twââunces jâyce of Venus-navel and Plantane each haâf an ounce Oyl of Roses an ounce Sugar of Lead a dram make an Oyntment in a leaden Mortar Make Injections of the same Herbs or of Milk and Rosewater Or Take Plantane Venââ-naâel Lettice each a hanâful reâ Râses two pââilâ boyl and ad Oyl of Mirtles an ounce Rosâ-vinegar half an ounce make an Inââction Make Clysters of the sâme Plants in a small quantity least they oppress the woâb Tâke Alâhaea roots an ounce Mâllows Violets Lettice each a handful Nightshade half a handful Violets Roses each a pugil sweet Prânes ten Linseed half a dram boyl them in Barley watâr to six ounces ad Oyl of Roses three ounces make a Clysâer An anodyne Fomentation Take roots of Althaea Mallows and Viâlets each a handful red Roses Melilot Câamomil flowers each a pugil boyl them for a Fomentation Or use a Cataplasm of white Bread and Milk Iâ the progress disâuss As Take pouder of Althâea roots an ounce Chamomil and Meliâot ââowers eââh two drams Mugwârt half an ounce Barley and Bean flour âach an ounce boyl them in sharp wine add Hogs grease Oyl of Chamomil and Lilliââ ââch an âunce make a Caâaplasm If the inflammation turn to matter ripen it As Take poâder of Altha a râots Chamomil floâârs Mâlilâtâ Lineseed Faeâugreekâ each an ounce Figgs eight boyl them add yolkâ of âour Eggs and haââ a scruple of Saââron make a Pultis Aââer it is ripe break it by motion of the body coughing neâsing cupping or by Peââaries As Take âiggs an âunce Rue half a handâul boyl them ãâã ad Honey and Leaven each half an ounce Pigeons dung Orris roots each half a dram with wool make a Pessary Aâter it is broken the pain abates thân cleâse and heal the ulcer as in Sect. 1. c. 8. of an ulcer of the womb If it break about the bladder give an Emulsion of cold Seeds Whey and Syrup of Violets Let the diet be cool with Barley water warm Abstain from Wine to the deâlination of the disease let the belly still ãâã kept looâe Chap. 14. Of a Scirrhus and Cancer in the Womb. AN earthy matter left after an inflammation makâs a hard tumoâ called a Scirrhus and sâmtimes it is without an inflammation It is a pâoper Sâirrhus when there is neither sense nor pân it is impâoper when there is a little sense It is soâtimes as big as a mans head somtimes the whole womb is a Sâinhus sâmtimes onely pârt of it The immediate Cause is a thiâk earthâ huâor as nâtural melanââolyâ whân a thiâk humor is gathered in the womb there is a Scirrhus without inflammation aforegoing this iâ usual in melancholy women and such as are noâ clensed by their terms or have the Pica or green-sickness and are fifty years old Other humors somtimes breed a Scirrhus afteâ inflammation when cold astringents have been used disorderly for then the humor is fixed to the part and hardned The same may be from hot discussers which send forth the thin matter in an inflammation and fasten the thick The tumor is to be felt it yields not and is without pain the terms flow not at first or very little afterwards there is a great flux of blood If an inflamation went before and the part is heavy and burdened it is a sign of a Scirrhus She is unweeldy âloathful and you may know from what humor it is by the signs of the humors predominating in the body and the part pained will shew you in what place it is A Scirrhus easily turns to a Cancer And when the terms are stopt there is a Dropsie of the womb or belly It is easier cured in the neck then in the womb it self Moisten and heat the cold and dry humor with Borage Bugloss Fumitory Succory Epithymum Polypodâ Then purge with Polypody Senna black Hellebore and the like As Take roots of Althaea Lilliâs eâch two ounces Mallows Viâlâtâ Alâhaea Brankursine each a handâul Mugâort Calamints Chamomil flowers each half a handful âaeââgreek and Linâeâd each half an âunce bââl them âor a Fomentatiân or Bath or to a Catapâasm with Lineseeâ Faenugreek âa h an âuncâ Fiâs six Orris pâuder âwo drams Saââron half a dram Henâ grease and Oyl of sweet Aâmonds as much as is âit Or Take Bdellium Ammoniacum Galbanum each as much as you please beat them in a Mortar with Oyl de Been and Lillies add Mucilage of Faenugreek Lineseed Figgs make a Liniment or with wax a Plaister Or Take Oyl of Capars Lillies sweet Almonds Jesamine each an ounce fresh Butter Hens grease Goose grease each half an ounce Mucilage of Faenugreek Althaea and Oyntment of Althaea eaâh six drams Ammoniacum dissolved in wine an ounce with wax make an Oyntment Make Injections thus Take Bdellium dissolved in wine Oyl of sweet Almonds Lillies Chamomil each two ounces marrow of a Veal bone Hens grease each an ounce with the yolk of an Eg. In a bastard Scirrhus you may use healers and digesters better and Ammoniacum and hotter Fat 's Internal Medicines are steel c. of which in obstruction of the Womb and Scirrhus of the Spleen As for diet abstain from breeders of gross and slimy humors and from hot dryers Cancer of the Womb. What may be said of
the body and it could not form the child ãâã would Nature make milk of it Therefore menstrual blood onely offends quantity and not in any maniâeât or hidden qâlity But it hath strange qualities when it is ãâã with bad humors or is kept too long in body to be corrupted and cause great Syâtoms but this is when it is mixââ with bad mors or is out of its vessels and so corrupts Question 3. Of the âext of Aristotle 7. de hist Animalium câpââ and how it is to be understâod Aristotle writes thus Constantly every month âome have their Terms but most in the third as âf he should say Few women have their courses âvery month but many have them every third âonth This is against Galen and against expeâience for it is certain that among six hundred women scarce one hath them every third month Therefore there is either an errour in the Greek Text or in the Translation or great Men do often ãâã which is probable and so did Arist tle in this of Physick Therefore it is in vain to defend their ârrour Chap. 2. Of the Terms flowing too soon ORdinarily they begin at fourteen but many have had them sooner A child of eleâen daies old had a bloody humor flowing from ãâã privities Another of five years old had eveây month a moderate flux Fernel reports that Girl of eight years old had the Terms but these ãâã rare and for the most part very lecherous ãâã short lived Chap. 3. Of want and stopping of the Terms SOme Women have them not till eighteen or twenty Some before and then they stop for a time without either giving suck or being with child Some have been without them three five or seven months and then they came agaiâ This is an evil constitution or suppression of thââ which it ought to flow from the fault of the blood and stoppage of the passages When Terms are wanting either blood is wanting oâ stopt It is wanting either beâause it iâ not made or dispersed or turned to other useâ for nature being more sollicitoâs to preserve the individual person then to propagate the speciâs spends ãâã in preserving of the person Blood is not made from divers causes as aâe cold constitution of âiver Heart or a disease which distempers the ââwels Or often bleeding from great vessels or ââom having many issues which take from the blood It is spent other waies as before ripe age anâ when women are with child or give suck or iâ hot Natures and fat women in whom it is tuâned to fat It is in vain to provoke Terms iâ these There are other external evident causes of sâââping of the Terms as too great labour troubleââadness fear but these last do not only wast ãâã blood but cool and corrupt it and cause obsââctions as Hippocrates speaks of Phatusa the ãâã of Pytheus The proper causes are the straitness of ãâã passages or evil conformation of the ãâã through which it should slow Or the closinâ the womb of which we spake but I speak ãâã of the veâsels The usual cause of obsââuction is thick ãâã humors fâom the blood too thiâk or mixed ãâã melancholy which comes with it to the veiââ the womb and stops them This thick blood comes from a cold distemper of the stomach liver and spleen from thick and gross food and drinking cold water when the Terms flow So thought Galen in his time of the Roman women that drank Snow-waterâ and had few or no coursesâ Straitness is when the body of the womb is made thicker either by Nature or other causes as a cold and dry or hot and dry disteâper Thirdly straitness is from compression of the vessels by a Scirrhus or hardness of the parts adjacent as the straight gut or by the stone in the bladder and the womb displaced Fourthly the flesh may grow together by a membrane that grows to the vessels or a ââar after a wound Or after a mischance when the veins annexed to the Secundine grow so together that they cannot be opened of which in the first Question They are not the same in women and Virgins for blood stopt in Virgins goes to and âro changeth the colour and brings Feavers especially the white Feaver or Green-sickness But in women it goes more to the womb and brings Symptomes as loathing vomiting and Pica Galen hath other signs as heaviness a lazy pain in the loyns neck and behind in the head that reacheth to the roots of the eyes from the spâeading of the blood stopt through the whole body This laziness is chieâly in the thighs and leggs by reason of the veins there consenting with the womb And are of a green complexion and hairy with a beard and shrill voice You may know women with child from such aâ want their Terms only by pââper signs First the women with child keep their colour but the other are pale and ill-câloured they are merry the other sad 2. Their Symptoms daily grow milder but in the other they daily grow worse 3. You may feel the child move 4. It is perceived in a month You shall know from what causes the Terms are stopt thus If the Liver be cold there is no blood made that is superfluous and there are signs of a âold Liver and you may know that blood is not sent to the womb when there is no heaviness pain or tumor about the womb the liver or spleen are stopt If it be ârom flegm or melancholy which is oâten there are signs of their abounding as lazâness paleness seldom pulse crude urin Hippocrates saith That if the Terms stop therâ are diseases in the womb tumors imposthumes ulcers and barrenness and diseases in the whole body Green-sickness Leucophlegmacy Dropsie Vomiting of blood Heart-ach Cough And the longer they have been stopt the haâder they are to be opened If the blood stopâ go out at the nose it is good If it have great Symptomes there is fear of death You must not give Medicines to move the Terms to extenuate lean persons nor to such as want blood and have a weak Liver but they must be sed high First see iâ bloâd abound and then aâter a Leniâive open a veinâ and lât that blood which is in the veins be drawn to the womb Galââ took thâee âints of blood at three times fâom ãâã leân womân and cured her of an old stopping ãâã the Terms You must open the ankle veinâ the firât day the right the next the left four or five daies before the time Or you may cup and ââariâie the Leggs And bind the parts below and rub them after general evacuation opening of the Haemorrhoids doth hurt and so do Issues because they draw from the womb Hiera picra halâ an ounce or Pills de Tâibus oâ Hiera simple are good first Then prepare as Take water of Mugwort ãâã Maidenhair âaâh three âuâces Syrup oââhe five Roots and of Mugwort each two ounces maâe
it for two doses Or Take opâning Roots half an ounce Madder Burnââ eaâh three ounces Mugwort Bettony Germandâr Calamints âach a handful red Pease half a handfulâ flowers of Bugloss Dill each a pugil boyl and sweeten it with Sugar For flegmatick Bodies take the Decoction of Guajacum Saââaphras Dittahy for fifteen dââes without sweating Then evacuate with Agarick Mechoacan Turbith Scammony Coloquintida blaâk Hellebore As Take Agarick two drams infuse it in Mugwortââter two ounces Oâymel an ounce strain and the Eâtract of Michoacan a sâruple Or Take opâninâ Roots half an ounce Mugwort Bettony ââch ãâã pugils Senna ââlâ an âunce Agariâk two draââ ãâã and Aniâââd each a ââruââe ãâã haââ a dram Râsâmary flowers ãâã âugil inâââe ãâ¦ã thââe ounâââ anââaâf âd Sârup of Senna ân ãâã aââ halââ ãâã ãâã hâlâ a dram Or if they dâink Wiâe Tâke Tarââth ãâã ãâã eaâh twâ dâams Senna an ãâã aââ haââ Maiâââhair âalm Râsâmary eaââ two pugils Cinnamon Galangal each a dramâ hang them in Wine give six ounces with half an ounce of Manna Or Take Diaturbith with Râubarb half an ounce Mechoacan two drams Agarick a dram Diarrhodonâ Cinnamon each half a dram Steel prepared a dram with Raisons make an Electuaryâ give as much as a Wall nut Or give Pills of Agarick foetidae and so continue purging and âreparing if the matter be stubborn Or Take Agarick two drams Mader a dram with Syrup of Mugwort make Pills Or Take Aloes three drams de Tribus oâe dram with juyce of Savin make Pillsâ If the stomach is soul give a Vomit leât it gââ into the veins Then give provokers of the Terms which are hot and thin about the time they used to flow they are three degrees in strength and many soâtâ of Medicines are made of them A Pouder Take Cinnamon a dram Ambârâ sâruple Saffron half a scruple Or Take Trochu of Mirrh of Wallâflowers each a scruple Saffron five grains Or Take Castor Pennyroyal each a scruple with Wine or proper Waters Physical Wine Take Madder roots an ouncâ Orrâs half an ounce Balm Pennyroyal Mugwortâ Rosemary eâch a handful Wall-flowers half a pâgil Cinnamon an ounce Galangal half an ounââ with Wine give four ounces Or Take the Dâcâction of red Pease Or Take Smallage Fennel roots each half an ounce Mugwort Bettâny Pennyroyal Balm each a handful red Peââe half an handful Juniper-berries half aâ ounce ãâã all flowers a pugil boyl and sweeten it Oâ Take âen ounces of it with thrââ ounces of Mugwâââ for three doses Querââtan commends this Take Gromwelsâeds Anise Mâsletâ of the Oak each three drams Dittany a dram Saffron a sâruple âruiââ and keep them twenty four hours in Wine then boylâthem give fââr ounces for three daiâs together Or make the Womans âqua viââe Or Take Balm âttâny Pennyroyal Mââwort Nâp Motheâwort Dittany âach four handfuls Wine thirty pints distil them add three handfuls of each hârbs and distil them again and ad Fennel seed Calamus Cinnamon Cassia lignâa Cardamoms each half an ounce distil them again Or give Syrup of Calamintsâ Mugwort Or Take water of Pennyroyal Savin Calamints each four ounces Syrup of Mugwârt ââur ounces Cinnamon water an ounce give it at fâur times Rouls Take Extract of Savin a scruple of Angelica half a sâruple of Elicampane six grains Oyl of Cinnamon five drops of Cloves two drops with Sâgar dissolved in Balm waâer Or make an Electuary of Steel six ounces Cassia lignea Cinnamon each two drams Cloves a dram Raisons two ounces with Sugar dissolved in Mâgwort water Or Take Troches of Mirrh a dram Extract of Gentian and Savin each a scruple âastor half a ââruple make Pills give two scruples or give every third day pills of Hierâ Use outward Mediâines but pâovoke not sweat ây them Take Althaea and Lillâ roâts each two âunces ãâã an âunâe Mâllâwâ Mârâury Mâgwort ãâ¦ã Mâtherwort Calamintâ Pânnâroyal Mârââram Bayââââach tââ haâdâulâ flowers of ãâã âââânder Cheirâ each a âândful Faenugreâââ sââd an ouncâ Juniper anâ Bayberriâs each âalf a hanâââl bââl âhâm in Water ãâã wiâh âpââges And then anoint with this Take Oyl of Lillies an ounce oâ Lavender seeds stilled halâ a dram Calamints and Gith pouder each a dram Storax calamint a scruple To Virgins that must take no Pessaries give Fumes with the head defended they wil âpen the mouths of the vessels and cut thick humors As Take Mirrh Bdellium Storax each a dram Benzoin two scruples Gallia mosâhata ivet each half a scruple with liquid Storax make Troches Then use Clysters and Injections into the Womb with Purgers As Take Calaminâs Pennyroyal each a handful Gith seed Turbiâh each a dram Coloquintida half a dram boyl it in wine inject it into the womb If it be hot aâter it inject the Decoction of Mallows with Milk or Barley water And because the neck of the womb lies upon the strait gut give Clysters Take Lilly roots an ounce Orris Valerian âach half an ounce Mercury two handfuls Mugwort Savin each a handful Chamomil Lavender flowers each a pugil Caraway Gith seed each a dram boyl add Hiera and Beânedicta laxativa each half an ounce Oyl of Cheir two drams Electuary of Bayberries half an ounce If she be no Virgin put Mercury bruised in a Bag for a Pessary with Centaury flowers Or Garlick beaten with Oyl of Spike Begin still with the mildest as Mugwort Mercury Pennyroyal Marjoram Rue and then add Mucilages and Juyces to loosen the wombâ let âot Pessaries lie long least they cause a Feaver If it be from a tumor provoke not the Terms but loâk to the tumor Let diet be hot and attenuating of good juyce with Parsley Savory Rosemary Cloves Cinamon Little sleep and much exercise Question 1. Whether are the other Causes of stoppage of the Terms Some say the blood going to other parts is a cause but it is rather contrary and the suppression of Terms is cause of that âor the veins of the womb are large enough to evacuate blood Others say the strength of the womb is a cause which thiâkens the vessels that they receive no blood But the womb is made to receive it when it abounds Others accuse the strength which is to be denied but when it is so strong that it is too hot or too dry and will not receive the blood and that is a sign of weakness But there must be strength in the whole body to cast out superfluous blood or there will be other mischiefs Question 2. What Veins must be opened when the Terms are sâopt Authors disagree in this as Aetius and Galen who alwaies speaks of the ankle veins and most are of his mind being it is rational For a vein opened in the arm doth rather revel from the womb then draw the blood to it but in the ankle brings it to its place and opens obstructions and doth both lessen and bring blood to the womb and move that which is in the womb âixed Open the ankle therefore twice
or thrice rather then the arm once Therefore Galen commends Hippocrates that he opened a vein in the ankle in the Servant of Schimarg though she had a Plâthoryâ But in other diseasâs of the womb as inflamâation dropping or too many Terms it is good to open a vein in the arm The Saphena is opened by putting the foot in warm water before and after Question 3. At what time must a Vein be opened against the sââppage of the Terms Galen saith It must âe when Nature may be helped be the blood moved that is three or four daies before the usual time of their coming as if she had them alwaiâs in the ful of tâe Moon and they have been stopt some monthsâ bleed three or four dâies before the full to puâ nâture in mind of her duty and to make the blood run again Chap. 4. Of fewness of the Terms IT is when they flow less then they use or ought to âlow It is either from the blood or in the expulsive faculty in the passages As if blood âe little the Terms are few and slow if the retentive faculty is weak and the expulsive strong they come at due time but in small quantity If the Terms are slow the fault is in the quality of the blood being too thick Also straitness of the passages may be a cause for if they be not wide enough the blood cannot flow fâeely The patient will tell the disease but the cauâe of it is to be found in the Chapter aâoregoing Few Terms from little blood is not dangerous if they be stopt from thick blood there follow diseases as Erysipelas Scirrhus or Cancer See the Chapter aforegoing for the Cure and and if it be from thickness of blood it is often cured by a general Purge for the whole body Chap. 5. Of Dropping of the Terms THis is a flux and lasts long and there is pain The blood flows not conveniently at the due time and manner and the privities are alwaies wet as when the urin drops Are from the blood and the passages of it and the retentive faculty as when the blood is too thiâk and sharp which stir up Nature to let it out and because it stretcheth the membranes theâe is pain Also the weakness of the retentive faculty is a cause The women declare it but if it be from thick blood and sharp and strait passages there is a sââetching pain about the womb If it be from câudity of blood and weakness of the retentive âaculty the blood flows without pain and is not much âelt It is troublesom to women and if it last long âauseth ulcers and inflammations It is all in mending of the thick and sharp âlood and in opening the passages which are âhe two chief causes of it of which we spake at ârge If blood be superfluous loose it not nor open the ankle-ankle-vein lest you draw it more to the womb but take away the Cacochymy If it be from weakness of the retentive faculty strengthen the womb with dryers and ash ingents Chap. 6. Of the overflowin of the Terms IT is when it is too much or too long and hurâs any woman and brings diseases but a certain proportion of bleeding is not to be deâined but too much is lost when the actions are hurt The immediate Cause is the opening of the vessels and the mediate cause is the blood in quantity or quality offending or by its force or disorderly motion Vessels are opened by Anastomosis Diapedesis Diaeresis or ruption or by Diaurosis or coârosion Anastomosis is from a moist distemper of the vesselsâ which loosneth the orifices or from external causes as Baths hot and moist or usâ of Aloes The flux is seldom too great from a Diapedesis for it is but a sweating through Ruption is from plethory when the Terms have long been stopped and then break out and when the blooâ is hot by air baths c. The outward causes are falls strokes hard travel great burdens lifted Erosion is from sharp blood or humor or from Medicines that corrode as Pessaries long kept For this great flux is chiefly from the veins in the bottom of the womb The flux of blood is too great when the strength abateth and Cachexy âollows with paleness swollân feet and the blood that comes from the bottom of the womb is blacker and âlottedâ That from the neck is redder and thinner The signs of the causes If it be from muâlr blood there are signs of plethory and it easily âlotteth together If the blood be sharp and cholârick it is putreâied in the womb you shal know waterish blood by its colour and the signs of that humor abounding and if you dip a clout in it and dry it in the shade you may see it If the womb be too moist such causes went before If it be from breaking of veins they will tell you of violence If it be from corrosion it is little and slow somtimes pure somtimes âerous It weaânâth the whole body the liver and bowels there is swounding the Whites and paleness and Dropsie somtimes That which hath been longâ is hard to be cured and causeth death and in an old woman it is deadly If there be fulness abate the blood and keep it from flowing to the womb revel it râpâl cool and astringe it that it may not flow so faââ and then amend the blood If it is from plenty of blood open the liver-Liver-vein in the right arm bleed little and often because it makes better revulsion and weakens not open the Salvatella if there be weakness and cup âhe Back and Breast aâainst the Liver beneath âhe papps where are veins from the womb cup âot beneath but in the shoulders or back and ârms with scarification but scaâiâie not under âhe breaâts Bind and rub the aââs and shouldeâs and temâer and thicken the sharp thin humors with Deââctiâns and Waters of Plantane Purslane Sorrelâ Knotgrass Shepherds-purse Pomegranate-Syrup and of dried Roses Sorrel Puâslane Coral Conserve of Roses Bole sealed Earth If it be urgent use Naâcoticks Syrup of Poppies Treacle Philonium Laudanum If it still continue it is fed with choler thereâ fore purge it with Syrup of Roses Manna Rhubarb Senna If it be fed with serous blood help the âeins that do not their duty and the Liver and sweat with China You must not provoke urin but use astringents As Take the juyce of Ass-dung Syrup of Mirâlâs each half an ounce Plantane water an ounce Give it her and let her not know what it is Decoctions Take Comfrey roots Tormenâil âach two drams Purslune Plantane each a handful boyl themâ add to six ounces Syrup of Curranâ Quinces Mirtles each six drams giveâ it at twice Or Take Syrup of Purslane juyce of Neââles each two ounces Purslane water four ounces Troches of Amber of sealed Earth each a dramâ Bloodstone half a dram give two spoonfuls every day
A Water Take eight pinâs of Waâer âiâh Starch Barley meal and Rise dried Roses a handful juyce of Yarrow Plantane each half a pinâ Comfrey roots and all three ounces Horsâail Bloodwort each half a handful Pears and Quinces Pomegranate flowers all Sanders each half an ounce Masâich an ounce distil them and give twâ ounces with half an ounce of Syrup of Roses or Purslane Electuaâies Consârve of Rosâs two ounces Quinces an ounce and halfââroches of burnt Ivory arâ sealed Earth each a dram Crocus Martis Bâle red Coral prepared Mastich each half a dram wiââ Syrup of Mirâles make an Electuaryâ Poâders Take Mastich red Coral prepared âach a dramââearl Smaragâs prepared ãâ¦ã a sâruple Bloodstone half a sâruple Bâle hâlâ drâm make a Poâder Michael Paschal cured many with this Pouder Take two Egâshâllâ burnt Frankinceâse Mastich âach half an ounce Pearl red Coral and Amber âach two drams Bloodstone Smaragds prepareâ âââh half a sârâple Barley âlour twâ pugils whites of four Eggs with âiâelâd Water make Câkes Give from half a dram to a drâm in pouder with Trotter broath in the morning Or give every day a dram of the pouder of Mulberry tree roots Or Take a plump Turtle drawn and pluckt wash it in Roseâwater and red Wine put an ounce of Mastich in the belly of it stick it on and roast it and bast it with Vinegar of Roses Then put it into a glass close luted to be dried in an oven then beat all of it to pouder Give a spoonful with Plantane water or an astringent Dâcoction Anoint the bottom of the belly âeins and groyns with the dropping of it Or make Rouls thus Take Bole half a dram Magistery of Coral a dram Pearl prepared a scrâple Sorrel and Plantane seed each half a dram Aromaticum rosatum Traganth each half a dram with Sugar dissolved in Plantane water make Rouls In the use of cold Asâringents take heed you sâop not the veins and the heat be cooled If these help not use Narcoticks aâ Troches of sealed Eaâth and Amber with Oâiâm these astringe also Uâe no Pessaries except the veins in the neck oâ the woâb be open As Take Snâkeweed Tormentil each half an ounce Pomegranate flowers Plantane seed each two drams Comfrey roots ãâ¦ã Frankincense Mastich each a dram Acâciâ Sanguis Draconis each two scruples Blood-stone Starch each a dram and half with the whiâe of an Eg and Gum traganth dissolved in Rose water make Pessaries with red Silk Womb-clysters Take juyce of Yarrow Solomons seal each two âunces Mucilage of Gum Arabick made in Plantane water two ounces make a Clyster A Fume Take Frankincense Mastich each two drams Mirtles Labdanum each a dram red Roses Pomegranate flowers each half a dram with Gum traganth make Troâhes to be burnt Oyntments Take Oyl of Mirtles Quinces each two ounces juyce of Plantane Solomons seal Horstail each an ounce boyl the juyces away ad Bole Plantane seed Mirtle berries Ceruss each half an ounce with Wax make an Oyntment Or use the Countesses Oyntment to the loyns and pecâen Cataplasms Take Quinces Pears boyled in red Wine add Bole Mastich Sanguis Draconis Acâcia make a Cataplasm or a Cerot Or Take Sorrâl and Plantane seed Purslane seed Bole Sanguis Draconis each two drams Frankincensâ Mastich Mirrh each three drams Turpentine an ounce wiâh juyce of Plantane and Yarrow and Wax make a Cerot after the juyces are boyled away Fomentations are better then Baths for they make the humors flow more Let them be astringent and cool Or wash the legs and hips in cold water Lay Epithems to the Liver Oyntments Cerots or Plaisters If choler offend give Rhubarb and Consârve of Roses to evacuate the Cacochymy If blood flow from a vein broken use Coral Bole Mirtles Comfrey Acacia Hypocistis or apply a Pultis of whites of Eggs and astringent Pouders If it come from a vessel corroded use stoppers and glutinaters that aâe slimy as Dropwort roots a dram with a rear Eg. Let the diet be as the Physick is In a flux from plethory eat little and that of little nourishment and in other cases give things to close the vessels Sleep long and use little Venery little or no exercise Anâer hurts and other passions Question Whether Frictions or Ligatures in the Legs may be made for Reâulsion Hippocrates and Galen are misconstrued in his 8. Book of Blood-letting and they are not to be used in the flux of the Terms Chap. 7. Of the Terms flowing with pain and Symptoms THe Symptomes are pain in the loyns or thighs head-ach biting at the mouth of the stomach pain in the belly and loyns fainting They are as in suppression of Terms but less vehement and are in them that have not conceived There is obstruction thick and gross blood that stretcheth the vessels and the blood flows not orderly A little before the Terms there is head-ach biting at the stomach pain in the loyns and bottom of the stomach with beating at the heart and âainting When the pain is from thick blood it comes forth in âlodds and the pain is worse beâore If it be from wind it is sudden and stâies not in a place and there is rumbling in the belly Take heed it tuân not to the stoppage of terms if it be neglected It is greater in barren women and Virgins then in those have had children Take away the cause if they be thick humors evacuate them after they are prepared if sharp temper them These attenuate blood water of Grass roots Maidenhair Decoctions of the opening Roots Syrup of Maidenhair oâ the five Roots Treacle and the like in the stoppage of the Terms Against pain âse the Fomentations and Oyntments in the Chapter of pain of the Womb. Chap. 8. Of evil discoloured Terms THis is called the Terms depraved by bad humoâs and so they are voided Blood is foul either from evil diet or evil humors or stoppage of it The humors are flegm choler or melancholy mixed with it and then the Teâms are either pale blew green or black and stinkingâ or white and flegmatick They are so from a fault in the stomach The pale and yelloâ are aâe from too great heat in the liver The blaâk arâ from the spleen disordered Thaâ blood which is naturalâ is different fâom the bâd in colour and substance it is like that âf a new ââain sheep noâ thiâker nor thinner and âhe âad Terms come noââeâsonably but soonââ or laterâ of which Hippocrates You may know by the colour what humor predominates and by the subâtance The flegmatick and melaâcholy are long in coming and the cholerick waterish Terms come qâicker The more they diââer from the natural sâate the worse they are black and stinking are worst The matteây are woâst of all If these flow seven eight or nine dâies she is cured if they ulcerate the womb she is barren Hippocrates saith they must be purgâd and prepared
with proper things as we shewed in the distempers of the Womb. But take heed that you move not the Terms when you attenuate for that wil melt the âerous humors and fix them more in the vessels use neither Vinegar noâ sharp things After purging consume the reliques by sweat if choler be in fault that must not be sweated out discuss it with warm Baths and do so in melancholy Use Pessaries Fomentations and Fumes to the womb Give Treacle Mithridate or the Decoction of Anâelica roots if cold humors are the cause Chap. 9. Of Terms coming before their time THese shew an ill constitution And it is a depraved excretion of the Terms that comes for the time often fâr somtimes they flâw sooner or twice in a month The immediate Cause is hurt of the retentive and expulâive faculty so that the blood flows not or sooner or lateâ or oftner the cause why they come sooner is in the blood that stirsâup the expulsive faculty in the whole body or in the womb somtimes all causes meet the blood is too much or too sharp and hot and if the retentive faculty in the womb be weak and the expulsive strongâ and of quick sense it is sooner A fall stroke or passion are the evident Causes They will relate it and the signs of the causes are these If it be from much blood there are the signs of plethory heat thinness and sharp humors are known by the distemper of the whole The weakness of the retentive faculty and loosness of the vessels is known from a loose and moist habit of body It is not dangerous but troublesom and hinders conception Iâ they come too soon from hurt in the faculty provoked by too much plethory Let blood use a spare diet and much exercise If it be from sharp blood temper it by good diet and Medicines as in the choleriâk distemper of the womb Use Baths of Iron-water that corrects the distempers of the bowels then evacuate If it come from the retentive faculty and loosness of the vessels correct the cold and moist distemâer with gentle astringents Iâ it be from a stroke or fall cuâe it as the vessels opened are cured of which before Chap. 10. Of Terms that come after their usual time VVHen they stay longer then ordinary and return without order at no set time the causes are little and thick blood straitness of the passages weakness of the expulsive faculty and dulness Either of these causes may stop the Terms buâ if all meet the disease is worse For if blood be not bred in such a quantity that it may prick Nature forward to expel it the purging of it is diââered till there be enough to stir up Nature to expel it If thiâk humors are in the blood the passages stopt and the faculty weak the Terms muât needs be disordered and the purging of them differed longer If it be from want of blood she hath either lived poor in diet or exercised too much and she âinds no inconvenience by the want of her Terms If it be from gross slimy blood there are signs of Cacochymy The weakness of the faculty is known by the cold distemper of the womb It is not so dangerous as stoppage of the terms but it is bad enough in a plethorick or cacochymical body If little blood be use a âuller diet and exercise not If blood be gross and foul make it thin and cut it and after Preparatives let the humors mixed therewith be evacuated It is good to purge presently after the Terms and to use Calamints and to purge often Also four or five daies before the Terms scaâiââe the ankles and hold the feet in warm waâââ âub the legs apply Cuppâng-glasses without Sâââification to the inside of the thighs and use Fumes and Pessaries Anoinâ the bottom of the belly with things to provoke the Terms If there be a numness use things against the Palsie Chap. 11. Of the Terms voided another way SOmetimes they come out at the nose or are vomited up or flow out by the Haemorrhoid veins Hence Hippocrates saith that a woman that vomits blood is cured by having her târms or by a bloody flux Somtimes they are pissed âorth Dodonâeus saies that they come out at the eyes like tears somtimes Amaâus Lusitanus saith they will come forth at the Teats of the breasts and at the navel at the little finger or ring-âinger every month as Mercatâs observed thrice Are stoppage of the Terms from straitness of the vessels in the womb or evil conformation of the womb It is more troublesom then dangerous and hinders conception It is best when they come out at the nose for it is a part that Nature useth to disburden her self by First bring the blood to the womb again and abate it Open the ankle-ankle-vein three daies before she begins to bleed Or cup the thighs or rub them Or use Baths Fomentations Oyntments Womb-clysters Pessaries and the like mentioned in Suppression of the Terms Chap. 12. Of the Whites IT is a âoul excretion from the womb white and somtimes blew or green or reddish no at a set time nor every month but disorderly longer or shorter Before or after the Terms and when they are stopt Virgins seldom have this disease and women with child have it somtimes It differs from the running of the reins for it is in less quantity whiter and thicker and at a greater distance It differs from night pollution which is onely in sleep with imagination of Venery The immediate Cause is an excrementitious humor flegm choler or melancholy Somtimes it is like waterish blood It is gathered in the whole body or in the stomach liver or spleen For they who have crudities in the stomach are subject to this disease Somtimes the womb alone is distempered after often mischances or when the womb is very cold and moist This matter flows through the veins of the womb or of the neck of it which use to carry blood and Nature abuseth them to carry excrements especially if they are bred in the womb The remote causes are whatsoever doth breed âad humors some have it after strong purges or long bathing Somtimes they are pale somtimes blew red waterish and green somtimes slimy or cold or sharp or stinking In young people it is reddish The face is discoloured the urin thick there is loathing and heartach If the humor be sharp and corrupt there is a Feaver If it be flegmatick and much the ligaments of the womb are loose and it falls out thus Hippocrates and there are saith he swelled eyes evil colour and short breathing If it be not bred in the womb the humor is from a Cacochymy If it be from a fault in another part the signs of that wil appear If it come only from the womb there will be but little if from the whole body there will be more It is often long
or broke it there is no blood after copulation Therefore Deut. chap 22. the Law of Moses is taken for that which happeneth often and for the most part And there can be no more gaâhered fâom hence but bleeding is an undoubted sign of Virginity The same may be said of the African custom Question 3. Whether is the straitness of the priviâies a sign of Virginity The privities are straiter in some according tâ age habit of body and other circumstances and Virgins are straiter then women that have been at it But I deny that straitness is a certain argument of Virginity For after many acts of Venery it may be made so strait by astringent Medicinesâ that Whores may be taken for Virgins as we shewed concerning a Wench that was married and to appear a Virgin she used a Bath of Comârey roots Question 4 Whââher is Miâk iâ the breasts a sigâ oâ Virginity lost Some say that there can be no milk in the bâeasts tiâl a woman hath conceived and Virgins have neither the cause nor the end why milk is made And the terms stoât do rather coârupt then turn to milk And though there be alwaies in the breasts a faculty to make milk yet doth it not shew its power but upon an object and for some end Some say that Virgins may have milk and urge this Saying of Hippoâraâes If any have milk whân she is neither with child nor breedingâ thâir âerms are stopt Galen is of the same opinion and though it be seldom âet he saith it is possible And Alexander Benedictus and Christopher de Vega saw it We shall not contradict Hippocrates and expeâience but there is a twoâold milk The one of Virgins The other of those that have brought forth or conceived The first is made of blood that cannot get out at the womb but goes to the breasts and this is nothing but a superfluous nourishment of the breasts that turns milk by âhe faculty of the breasts without the company âf a man or concâpâion Tâe other is only when âhere is a child of this milk it is true what Hipââârates writes It is a certain sign of a Mole when ârâat bâllââd women haâe no milk in their breasts ând true milk in the breasts is a sign of a live âhild in the womb These milks differ in respect of the blood and diversity of the veins that bring it to the breasts and though both are white yet that of Virgins is thinnest noâ is it so much nor so sweet this may breed in the veins according to Aristotle from the supersâuous nourishment of the breasts and if Virgins have it they are not to be termed ânchast Chap. 2. Of the Green-sickness or white Feaver THis is in Virgins fit for a man it is callâd the Virgins disease and the white Feaver not that there is alwaies a feaver but because their face is like people in a feaver It is thus defined The Virgins diseaâe is the changing of the natural colour into a pale and green with faintness heaviness of body loathing of meat palpitation of heart difficult breathing sadness swelling of the âeet eyelids and face from depraved nourishment The first Cause is stoppage of terms The next is the gathering of bad humors for when the way to the womb is stopt the blood returns to the great vessels and bowels and choaks theiâ heat and stops the vessels and spoils the making of blood and then there are crudities which being brought to the habit of the body cannot bâ united perfectly to the partsâ and cause a Cachâxy which is the way to a Dropsie and Leuâophlegmacâ and divers Symptoms The causââ of the oâstructions of the vessels of the womb are crude humors and âlegmatick âlimy bloodâ from evil diet and drinking oâ vinegar or eating raw corn chalk ashes lime earth âlay and the like There is a pale and green colour the face is sâollen and the eye-brows in the morning after sleep especially the ankles swell and the whole body is loose and moist from much water the lâggs are lazy the pulse is little and often in the neck temples and back The heart beats the breath is short when they go up stairs they loath meat Some have the Pica or desire to eat absurd things The terms are stopt the Hypochoâdria are swollen somtimes they vomit if vapors ââie to the head there is thirst and headach and if melancholy be mixed the animal actions are hurt These are not all in all people but most are in most and in some all It is often turned to a Dropsie Some after death have had a Scirrhus hard liver some die suddenly the heart being oppressed If the stomach be much afflicted it is dangerous and they loath meat much If it come from the womb alone it is easier cured It is best to begin in the Spring or Summer after a Clyster open a vein the ankle Then heat the thick cold humor and make it thin andâbecause it is too much to be purged at once prepare and purge often and mix attenâaters and cutters with your purges When the humors are above the stomach and Mesentery it is good to vomit those that can easily vomit and to give liver-physick or spleen or womb-physick even as in Leucophlegmacy âee the Chapter of Terms stopt But in this disease alwaies consider the liver spleen and Mesentâry the obstructions of which are cuâed with things mentioned At firââ open the the obstructions of these paââs wiâh âomââew things that provoke terms and ââter âive more Thus Take opening Roots an ounce Maddâr ãâã Orris Eâââampane Citron pâels dried Sarââââââh hâlf an âunâe Mugwort Agrimony âârmânder each a handful Savin two pugils Cârâhamâs seeds an ounce Senna two ounces Meâhoacan Agarick each half an ounce Stââchas ãâã two pugils Fennel Aniseed Galangal each two drams bââl them to a pint and half sweeten it aâd adâ Cinnamon water three dramâ Or infuse ââem all with Sea-wormwood half a handful common âââmwood two pugils Or Take Agarick pills of Râubaââ eaâh a dram Quercetân's Pills of Tartar and of Ammâniacumâ each half a dram Spike a sâruple Oyl of âinnamon thâee drops Extract of Wormwood half a scruple make Pills give a scruple an hour before meat Or Take juyce of Mârcury clarified Honey or Sugar each an ounce add Gith seed Senna âaâh two drams Mechoacan a dram make a Mass or give Conserve of Marigold flowers Stâel is an excellent remedy after Preparatives with proper Drinks or Ingredients And iâ the vessels of the stomach are stopt give a Vomit and then gross pouder of Steel If the Mesentery be stopt Take Diarrhodon Diacurcuma Agarick each a dram Cârthamus seeds two drams red Dock roots Cârrot seed each ãâã dram and half Cloves a dram Steel prepared two ounces with clarified Honey make an Elâctuary give two or four drams If she vomit stop it not If the Livâr be chiefly stoâtâ let the Stââl be âinely poudereâ
because âe brain is not so shaken as to cause âoaming âor is the vapor so fixed in the roots of the nerâes but they often do hear It is grievous and hath grievous Symâtoms âut it is not so bad as a true Epilepsie and if you âve proper Medicines it never returns The Cure of the Fit Use things as in Suffocation of the womb or âther-sits as Rue and Castor are good against ãâã Also out of the sit you must cure it as the Moââ using things that respect the womb and the ãâã Asâ Take Piony roots Sâorzonera Misleââ tââ Oâk each half an ounce Polypâdy of the ãâã an ounâe Rue Pennyroyal Calamintâ each a ãâã Seseli Pionâ Agnus castus seeds each ââdramâ Carthamus sâeds brâised half an ounce ãâã of Rosemary Sâge Sâaehas Borage eâch two pugils boyl them to a pinâ and half strain and adâ juyce of Bettony Yarrow Mercury Mugâârt Sânâa five ounces Agarick Epithymum each half an ounce Rhubarb Cloves each two drams Aniâââ I ânnel sâed each three drams boyl strain with Sâgar and half an ounce of Cinnamon make Syrup give two ounces And these Pills twice in a week a scruple oââ dram an hour afore Supper Take Piony roâââ Senna each half an ounce Mugwort Bottoââ Rue Yarrow each half a handfulâ boyl them clârifie the Decoction add juyce of Mercury an ounce Aloes an ounce and half let it settle pour of the cleaâ add Rhubarb sprinkled with Cinnamon water ãâã drams Agarick half an ounce Mastich Epilâpââ pouder each half a dram with Syrup of Mugwââ make Pills To strengthen the Head and the Womb and to mend its Distemper Take Fecula oâ Pimââ dram of Briony Amber Misleto of the Oak eâââ half a dram Bezoar stone Mans sâull each a sârâple make a pouder give half a dram with Scorzonââ or Tile flower water or with Sugar make Rouls An âlectuary Take Conserve of Balm Tiâ flâwers Rosemaryâ Lilly coâvals Scorzonera ãâã âanâied each an ounce Diamoschâ dulce a draâ pouder of Agnus castus seeds and Piony roâts ãâã two drams with Syrup of Stââhas Chap. 8. Of pain of the Heââ from the Womb. MAny ââins come from the Womâ buâ ãâã chief and greatest are in thâ Head âââver or on one side oâ in the eyes Matter ascends to the membranes of the head by the veins and arteries from the womb It is a ââpoâ or humor from blood and humors somtimes bad blood that is thin goes from the womb vessels to the great vessels and gets to the head tâ the membranes there and causeth a stretching ulceâated or pricking or beating pain when it is carried through the arteries being âul of blood They think their head will be torn and the membranes and it is behind in the head or when the terms flow or arâ disordered from consent with the womb If it be from a vapor there is no hââviness and it ceaseth presently if from a humoâ there is heaviness Thesâ paââs are great and cause waâching We have spoken of the headach but here it is ââom the womb therefore consider what humoââ offend in the womb and let them be purged and the distemper of the womb amended as wâ shewed in the Distemper of the Womb. There is also a pain in the loyns because bad hâmors go from the veins of the womb and arteâies to the great vessels and so are sent by the ââpillââ veins into the membranes and stretch them and cause pain these humors must have âââper Purges âââstion In what part of the Head is the pain that comes by consent from the Womb Iâ iâ in the crown before and behind but chiefly âehind by reason of the joyning of the Back with the womb for the womb is nervous and âoâsânts âith the membranes of the brain by the membranes of the âarrow of the âack and so âerves âuffâââith nârves âiâher by communiââtion of matter or pain and because the original of the nerves is in the hinder part of the head women are more pained there then men because of the Womb. Chap. 9. Of the Diseases of the Heart and beating of the Arteries in the Back and sides from the Womb. THe heart beats and the arteries also as we shewed in the Green-sickness and it is by ââil vâpors sânt by the ââteries to the heaât from the womb that aâise from terms and evil humâââ gathered in the womb and this is known by âther Signs and Symptomes of a distempered womb To discuss the malignant vapors from the heart give Cordials as in Chap. 3. of palpiââtion of the Heart as Aqua vitae Cinnamenwater and Epithems Baggs and Liniments The arteries also beat with the heart as iâ Widdows on the lefâ Hypochondrion and Bacâ where there is a great artery and the artery thââ beats in the Back is part of the great artery they which beat in the Hypochondrion are the lesseâ splenitiâk and mesenterick branches therefoâe the beating is moâe in the Back then in the Hypochondrion but both pulsâtions come froâ the same cause The inflammation of the aâteries is the Cause of this beating when evil humors are sent frââ the womb iâto the great branches of the arteâââ and there bââtâ the heart being over-hot Somtimes the motion of this artery is all the body over and from a hot humor the hot humors go to the heart and cause a feaver but because there is little putrefaction it vanisheth presently If the heat of the humors go to the brain by the arteâies there is madness Some seek the cause in the vâins and say that the arteries suffer from the ãâã ãâã in them You mây feel it wiâh your hand laid upon the Hypochondrion and there are signs of a distempered womb and melancholy from the womb if heat continue in the arteries and go to the whole âody it consumeth it It is seemingly a small disease but it is not âithout danger because it comes from a bad cause that weakens the bowels It is cured as melancholy from the womb and ââopping of the terms and as Hypochondriack melancholy from the womb which follows Chap. 10. Of the Diseases of the Spleen and the Hypochondriack Disease from the Womb. SOmtimes the Spleen and the Hypochondria suffer from the womb so that you may doubt âhat disease it is ãâã from the womb by the arteries the womb ãâ¦ã one from the preparing arteries ãâã from the Hypogastrick aâtâry That from ãâ¦ã goes almost to all parts of the ãâ¦ã and ãâã branches of the spleen there ãâ¦ã bââ blood is ââed in the womb and ãâ¦ã âpwaâd to the ãâ¦ã gâââ easâây from thencâ to the ãâ¦ã ââd tâ the sâleen and the parts adjacent in the abdomen and the sooner ãâã Nature useth to send bad humors to ignââââ parts These humors are gathered by suppreââiââ of terms which though they seem to be onelâ ãâã the veins yet they get to the arteries by their Anastomosis Therefore those women that âavâ
hot blood and their terms flowed not orderly iâ their youth are splenitick and Hypochondriaââ in their age It is known by a pain in the left side and bâeââ to the throat there is short breath often ãâã the belly is bound they are sad and solââ When thin blood grows hot there is inââamation over all the body and chiefly the âace which suddenly vanisheth and there are otheâ signs of Hypochondriacks These cannot enduââ sweet scents to their nose If it be not speedily cured it turns to worââ diseases as the Scirrhus of the spleen The blood is commonly too hot therefore open a vein especially when it is from the terms stopt You may also open the Haemorrhoidsâ and then purge gently and often with Pills oâ Tartar by Quercetan of Ammoniacum of ãâã or Birthwort by Fernel or give Steel and things as in the Hypochondriack diseases lib. 3. par 5. and in the Chapter of Terms stopt and Melancholy from the Womb. Chap. 11. Of the Distemper of the Liver from the Womb and of a Bâard growing by consânt from the Womb. THe womb hath many and great veins moâe then other parts If then there be too much blââd in them it easily goes back to the hollow âein and choaks the heat of the Liver and so the Liver is distempered according to the humor It ââeeds crude and flâgmatick blood which sânt ovââ the body causeth a Cachexy and what disââses come by the Liver are by consent fâom the ââmb as in stoppage of the Terms and Greenâââkness Hippocrates speaks of a womans Beard in Phaâuâa the Wiâe of Pythius for haiâs have their beâinning and growth from the reliques of the ãâã of the noble parts that is from the exâââmentitious part of the blood And if terms be âââpt and the vitious humors that use to be âvaâuated with them are sent over the body they ââuse divers diseases and Symptoms and among âhe ââst the body of a woman is made hairy and ââe hath a Beârd which is rare Chap. 12. Of the Diseases of the Stomach that come from the Womb. Sâmetimes from consent with the womb the appâtite ãâã lost diminished increased or depraved or there is Hictets or vomiting belching pain or heart-ach This is when malignant vapors the way beiââ large rise from the arteries of the womb and gâ to the coâliack artery and through the Hypogastrick And if they are hot they cause thiâst ãâã cold they hurt concoction and many times caâââ strong Symptoms from their malignity and ãâã qualities whose causes are not known Hence it is that women desire absurd things as these vâpors get into divers parts of the stomach You may know when the stomach is affected by consent from the womb because the Symptoms abate and return again when the vapââ comes to the stomach there are also other signs of the womb distempered and of the Spleen and Mesentery by the vessels of which the matteâ is sent from the womb to the stomach The Symptomes are worse when they come from the womb then when they come from the stomach first nor are they curable except the womb be first cured It is to be directed to the womb and stomachâ For if it come onely by consent and there is nâ disease by propriety when you have cured the womb the stomach-disease vanisheth of it âelâ if you do but strengthen the stomach If the stomach be first affâcted look onely to thatâ Therfore first evacuate the humors that ãâã in the stomach as we shewed in its ãâã with matter or the humors will be infected ãâã the malignant vapors A Vomit is here pââper To âelp the Womb see for the ãâã and Suââocation and for the Chapter of the Dâstemper of the Womb with matter then strengthen the Stomach thus Take Aromaticum ãâã a dram Extract of Angelica half a scruple Oâl of Cloves Cinnamon eaâh fivâ drops with Sugar two ounces make Roules Or give Pills of Aloes and Mastich often THE FOURTH BOOK THE FOURTH SECTION Of the Symptoms which are in Conception Chap. 1. Of the desire of Vânery hurt THERE are two Symptomeâ in women about copulation The first lâchery lost when ãâã doth not willingly entertain â man or cannot long enduâe him or if she endures she finds little or no pleasure no more then if she were outwardly handled The other is too great lust as in Frenzie of the womb when they cannot be satisââââ by many mââ The defect of apâetite in lust is fââm ãâã âeed or when it is cold or there wants ãâã the seed-vessels The causes of want of âeed ãâã lib. 3. pâr 9. sâct 2. c. 1. Somtimâs it is ãâã âââl conformation of the âeed-vessels Women discover this to their Husbands that gâ to the Physitians for counsel These women have not fruitful âeed and therâââe are barren For that see lib. 3. of Barrenness of men where ãâã Liniments and Oyntments for the loyns and pâvities of women but that ââe may take mâre pleasure let the man anoint the head of his yard âith Civet or Hens gall or the gall of a Pickâd Too much Lechery not of it self hinders conâeption but wandering lust that follows lechery doth The Causes are the same with those of womb ââenzie as plenty of seed sharpness and commotion sharpness of seed from hot meat and Medicines that provoke lust and sharp humors in the womb and seed Thus lust or lechery is abated by Medicines that extinguish the plenty of seed and allay its sâârpness Chap. 2. Of Barrenness and want of Conception MAn or woman may be lustful and copulate and yet there may be no conception or ãâã may concâive too many as Twins or more ãâã have one âonception after another which is ãâã Suâerâââtâtion or ãâã conceives a Mole or ãâã Conâeption is of fruitful seed spent by a man ând miâed with a womans sââd to perâection for ãâã making of a child by the retentive and altering faculty of the womb hence it is necessary that both seeds be fruitful that is hot âul of Spirits and well tempered and a fit subject for a Soul and that both spend at a time and there be mixed and retained together to produce a child Also the sucking of the womb is necessary and that it should lay it up and embrace it so that there be no space between the seed and the womb Somtimes the womb greedily snatcheth and embâaceth the seed but doth not keep it buâ lets it come forth two or three daies after or keeps it to no purpose and brings it not to action as in a false conception or mole Moreover there must be blood in readiness to get the child or be sprinkle it when it is first âormed and to nourish it after Therefore if teâms be wanting as in girls oâ be stopt or gone as in old âolk expect no conception If they flow not by reason of labor and too much exercise the conception is not
causes of ârrouâ ãâã Formation and imagination ââlps by ãâã up the appetite These are the common errors of formation Others are deteâminate errors not simply from the imagination by the pallions which have no determination to such a thing but no other cause can be besides the imagination but how she directs the forming faculty for the producing of such effects it is hard to be understood but there must be some imagination and the forming faculty that it may impart the species sent from the external senses to the forming faculty And this is the cause of the consent of the upper and lower faculties for the âoul is the same in the whole body and every where âitted with the same faculties but it doth not exercise all in all parts but by the proper determinate organs ââ instruments And though the child hath its âoul yet while it is in the womb it depends upon the âoul of the mother as the fruits partake of the life of the tree while they are upon it therefore it is probable that whatsoever moves the faculties of the âoul in the mother may move the same in the child Hence it is that while the forming operateth in the seed and womb of the mother if any species be sent to the imagination of the mother which she strongly receives it may make an impression upon the child yet every imagination cannot make this impression but that which makes a great admiration or terrour in the mother when the forming faculty is at work as when she beholds one with six fingers she brings forth the like or when shâ produâeth hair whââe it should noâ be or the lââeness of a beast in anâ limb or when she âeeth any thing cut or divided with a Cleaver she brinâs âorth a divided part oâ a Hare-lip Chap. 8. Of a Child turned into Stone JOhn Albosius Doctor at Senon and Simâon Provânchâr of Lingo Physitian of Senon writ of of this in French and Latin I shall give my opinion with others Two things are to be observed in this wonderful history first why the Child in the time of traâail being dead in the womb did not stink as is usual or kill the mother suddenly or was not âast out by degrees being rotten secondly by what force the child was turn'd into Stone For the first The mother lived twenty eight years after she had this Child therefore it is not credible that the womb was so cold that it might hinder putreâaction as some think It seems more probable to me that these questions explanation depend upon one principle for the cause that made the stones hardness kept the child from putreâaction but what that is it is obsâure Many fly to the efficienây of the fiâst qualities others to driness others to coldness others to both I acknowledg heat cold and driness to be helping causes for bâeeding of Stones in mans body but the chief cause is a Stone breeding juyce or spirit of which I have spoken at large The principles of generation were weak in this child and impure and this stone-breeding âââce was mixed with the blood in the humors hence it is that it was not born alive as in a wole bred in the womb which women have âiâl they aâe old and die with it and yet it sâiââs ãâã no more then stones bred in most parts But there is but this History of such a Birth Chap. 9. Of a Mole IT is âlesh and a mass without bones or bowels gotten of an imperfect conception instead of a child The Latins cal it a Mole from the weight because it is troublesom to women as a Milstone in Latin called Lapis molaris Somtimes it is unshapen flesh without bones only ful of veins with a skin over it and nothing within but like the Parenchyma of the bowels Somtimes it is membranous and âibâous without shape Somtimes it is long round or like a quary of glass or like a brute beast Some have brought forth three Moles like mens yaâds Some are like congealed blood or the Placenta of the womb into which the navel-vessels are inserted some grow and are nourished and some have an obscure sense Somtimes they are sent out alone somtimes withâ or before the child of which there are many Histories Some bring âorth Monsters for Moles It is from the error of the forming âaculty but the Cause of that is obscure I suppose it is from both seeds when the forming faculty is weak and the seed little and not good and overcome by much blood and can make onely veins and membranes and not a whole child Somtimes ãâã is in Widdows onely from their own seed and blood A Mole is sooner bred when the blood is impuâe and unfit to nourish and is made when they copuââte in the flowing of the terms that are unclean It is âeither from heat nor cold principally but from the error of the forming faculty They are hard to be known before the fourth month then they are known by such as can distinguish between the motion of wind and a child â If a woman turn from side to side it âalls like a stone to that side she lies on and is heavy If it have any motion it is trembling and beating with constriction and dilatation like a Spunge If after the time that the child should move there be no motion and the belly swells and there is no sign of a Dropsie it is a sign of a Mole Thirdly in women with child there is milk about the fourth month but in a Mole the breasts swel but there is no true milk 4. They are more pained and faint and have more pain in their back and groyns If it be with a quick child it is hard to be known but it is known by its weight in the womb which she perceives when she gets up to walk or moves from side to side some are then strong and well coloured It hurts the womb and whole body if it be divided it is less dangerous when it is soft it is cast out the third or fourth month Somtimes it ulcerates or tears the womb and causeth great bleeding Some have been cast out or drawn out without danger some grow old with them in ând find no inconvenience but the weight To prevent take heed of Venery in the terms oâ before the terms or when the body is foul or ââstâucted or the womb When it is take it away presently with thinâs ââât âând foâth a dead child Hippoârates shewâth the âââe in few woâdââ First âoment the whole Therefore if she be plethoriâk let blood largely in the foot at divers times Then purge often with strong Physick Takâ Althaea Lilly roots each half an ounce Althaea Mercury Pellitory Brankârsine each a handful Chamomil Melilot flowers each half a handful Fâânugreek and Lineseed eâch six drams boyl them in Broath to a pint add sweet Butter Oyl of sweet Almonds Lillies each an
of the child that stretcheth the ligaments of the womb and parts adjacent if there be Plethory bleed If it be from weight of the child hold it up with swathing Bands about the neck 5. There is flux of blood at the womb nose oâ Haemorrhoids from plenty or from the weakness of the child that takes it not in or from evil humors in the blood that stir up Nature to send it forth Also the vessels of the womb may be broken or torn by motion fall cough or trouble of mind This is dangerous of which Hippocrates saith The child cannot be well if it be from blood only there is less danger so it âlows by the veins of the neck of the womb for it takes aâay Plethory or take not nourishment from the child If it be from the weakness of the child that draws it not abortion often follows or hard travel or she goes beyond her time If it slow by the inward veins of the womb there is moâe dangâr by the openness of the womb If it come fâom evil blood the danger is alike from Cacochymy which is like to fall upon both If thârâ be Plethory open a vein warily and use astringents As Take Pearls prepared a scruple ãâã Coral two sâruples Mace Nutmeg eaâh a dram Cinââmon halâ a dram make a Poâder or with Sugar Râuâs or give this Pouder in Broath Tâkâ red Coral a dram Pearl half a dram precious stonââ eaâh half a scruple red Sanders half a dram Boââ a dram sealed Earth Tormentil roots eâch two sâruples with Sugar of Roses and Manus Christi ãâã Pearl six drams make a Pouder You may strengthen the child at the navelâ Iâ there be Cacochymy alter the humoâs and if you may evacuate You may use Amulets in the hands and about the neck In flux of Haemorrhoids beware of the pain Let her dâink hot Wine with a roasted Nutmeg Chap. 6. Of the Symptomes that are in the last months FIrst the urin is stopt from suppression of thâ neâk of the bladder Let her then lie dâwnâ and let bladder be fomented with a Bag of Pâllitoây Parâley rootsâ Mâllows Lineseed and the like oâ use the Câtheter 2. The belly is bound from a hot dry liveââ when the child dââws all the moisture to it ãâã the guts Let her then use Moistâers ãâã Butter Mâllows Borage in Broaths or take Clysters in a small quantity 3 The veins appear in the hips and leggs aâ varicâns onâly then keep them from walkingâ and let thâiââeet be laid upon a stool 4. The lâggs swell from âerous blood but thiâ goes away with the aâterbirth and is the signs ãâã a female child but if she cannot walk foment âith a Lye made of Vine branches and Wine or with a Decoction of Organ Pennâroyal Chamomil Calamints Or Take Bean and Lupine flour each twââunces Tartar an ounce Pigeons dung half an âunce with âeeled water and juyce of Coleworts make a Pultis Râb and wash the feet with salt water in which Châmomiâ Organ and Dill were boâled 5. The skin of the belly is cleât with stretchâng after the fourth month therefore use loosning Limments to keep off deformity as marrow of Veal and Sheeps legs Oyl of sweet Almonds Hens grease 6. The water gathered in time of being with âhild between the membranes that hold the âhild comes forth too soon because the membranes are broken by leaping or a conâusion This makes difficult birth for that water was to moisten the parts Therefore let her keep a good diet and strengthen the âhild inwardly and outwardly Chap. 7. Of Weakness of the Child THis is either from weak seed or little nourishment or bad and causeth many diseases in the child To hinder abortion and death of the child know rightlâ the weakness as Hippocrates saith They that will abort have first breasts that âal away which iâ from want of nourishment in the common veiâs of the womb and breasts Hippâcrates âath a seâond signâ which is thisâ Iâ a Wâman with Child hath much milk flowing from her breast her Child is weak 3. If the terms flow often the nourishment is taken from the child 4. A mother often and long being sick shews that her child is weak because her blood is not good and the bad humors with the blood go to nourish the child which makes him sick 5. When the mother hath a flux of the belly the child is weak 6. WheÌ it begins to move and is scarce felt it is weak If it be from these causes take them away and strengthen the child first âeed the mother high with meats of good juyce and sweet Almonds steept in Honey Raisons Quinces outwardly thus Take Malmsey three pints dissolve it in oyl âf Nutmegâ by exprâssion half an ounce add pouder of Cloves Rue each half an ounce Rose Sage Marâoram Pennyâoyal water each a pint Aqua vitae three ounces Dip Spunges in it and apply them under the leât breast to the arm-pits hams pulses soles of the feet and when they dry wet them again Chap. 8. Of Crying in the Womb. CHildren have somtimes cryed in the womb as Fabricius saith in his Epistle to his Brother James Finâel and Wâinridiâk of Monsters writes thus In this City of Bressa a child was heard to cry in the womb three daies before the travel when he was a man he was misârable with poverty and disâasâs till he died Andreas Libaviââ writes the same and others Some saâ it portends evil to the Mother or Child or Countrey It is a vâice by the expulsion of the air thâouâh the âough arteây and some air may in the câvities from vapors or Spirits as in eggs when chickens pip in them And if the child have a rough artery lungs and breasts which are the organs of breathing âound and the child is strong there is no hinderance but it may utter a voice But somthing whatsoever it is must stir it to make this noise THE FOURTH BOOK THE THIRD PART THE SIXTH SECTION Of Symptoms that happen in Childbearing Chap. 1. Of Child-bearing in General WHEN the child can no longer be contained in so small a place being grown and requiring moâe nourishment it kiâks and bâeaks the membranes and Ligaments that hâld it and thâ womb by an expelling fâculty sends it forth with great strainingâ and this is called âravel It is either naturâl or not natural legitimaâe or illigitimate The natural is when the child âomes with the head forward and heels upwards with his hands and arms to his thighs and so the other parts easily follow then the Amnios is broken and the water that was laid up in time of being with child flows forth and moistens the passaâes then the child with more force breaks the Acetabula from which the Secundine is separated and the other membranes are broken and the blood flows into the cavity of the womb and the child gets out by the expulsive faculty with such force that
of many diseases First endeavor to evaeuate the blood from the womb by Frictions Ligatures and Cupping iâ they will not do open a vein in the foot Then open the passâges with external and internal meansâ anoint the Belly with loosning Oyls or soment thus Take Lilly roots Birthworts Briony Angelâca each half an ounce Mercury Mugwort Pennyroyal Savin Calamints each a handful Tansey Chamomil and Elder flâwers each half a handful Faenugreek and Linseed each two drams bruise them grosly and put them in a bag and boyl them in Water and Wine lay it to the privities and bottom of the belly Give emollient Clysters and if some daies are paââ purge with Agarick Rhubarb Senna Or Take Lilly roots Alâhaea each half an ounce Birthworts two drams Pellitory Mercuryâ Althiea each a handful Calamints Chamomil Elder floâers each two pugils Faenugreek and Lineseed each two drams boyl them to ten ounces strained âdd Oâl of Dill Lillies each an ounce Hiera simple half an ounce Oyntment of Sowbread three drams make a Clyster Or give Pessaries that provoke the Terms Give things to melt and attenuate the blood As Take opening Roots three drams Bettony Maidenhair Endive Schaenanth each two pugils Anise Fennel seed each a scruple red Pease a spoonful boyl them to a pint and half add Cinnaâon water two drams Syrup of the five Roots three âânces give four ounces Chap. 4. Of too great a flux of blood after Childbearing THat is too much which makes weak It is blood abounding which haââ been gâthered nine months in the womb It is thick or spends the Spirits and weakens There is loathing of meat pain the Hypochondria belly-ach weak and often pulse dark sight noise in the ears fainting and Convulsion It is dangerous when long and with fainting and Convulsion Therefore observe the pulse least she die suddenly See what strength she hath and stopt it not ââddenly Iâ it be not very gââat order a diet of âoasâed Hens basted with red Wine or Pomegraââe of Staâch Almonds Rice Quinces Conâââve of Roses steeled Water and make Revulââns use gentle things and strengthen the loose ââââges Anoint the belly with oyl of Roses Mirtles cup under âhe breasts and sides without scariâication Apply a Cataplasm of red Roses Bole and Rosâ-water to the Liver Then use stronger and give a higher diet oâten in small quantity and give Syrups to stop blood As Take old Conserve of Roses two ounces of Tormentil an ounce of Quinces without speciââ half an ounce Bole red Coral each half a dram with syrup of Currans and Coral make an Electuaây Anoint the belly with the Oyntment of the Countess and other Astringents or use astringent Fomentations or let her take into the womb a Fume of Mastich Frankincense red Roses c. Then open a vein in the arm and let blood by degrees See Sect. 2. Chap. 6. of overflowing of the Terms Chap. 5. Of the Pains after Travel and torments in the Belly THese are not in the body and bottome of the womb but in the vessels and membranes by which the womb hangs and that goes to the sides and belly They are from a constant labor in travel when the bottom of the womb is pricked to send forth from cold air let into it or clotted blood detained or sharp blood sticking to the womb and pricking it They are in the womb it self you mây know iâ they came from cold by what hath been done clotted blood will manifest it self They weâken much and are very troublâsom therefore they must be abated First take away the cause or abate the pain and make that which hurts the womb fit to be evacuated by these Pills Take Cinnamon a dram Saffron a scruple Diaâymini Diagalangal Zedoary each half a dram make a Pouder give a dram in Pennyroyal or Cinnamon water Or Take of Cummin seed steept in Spirit of wine and dried again a dram Ameos sâeds and Ginger each half a dram Cinnamon a scruple Castor half a scruple make a Pouder If she faint ad Cordial Waters As Take Diacyminum a dram Diamargariton frigid Citron peâls Zedoary each half â dram make a Pouder If she be cholerick or the humor thin and sharp cure it as a Colick from Choler As Take Syrup of Violets Borage each an ounce Mucilage of Quince seeds made with Violet water half an ounce water of Borage Scorzonera each two ounces give it at twice Extenuate the humors and loosen the passages outwardly Take Bean flour Faenugreek and Linseed each an ounce Chamomil flowers and Cummin seeds each half an ounce boyl them in Oyl of Lillies for a Cataplasm You may sume the womb with Decoctions of Herbs Chap. 6. Of the tearing of the Vulva to the Arse and coming forth of the Womb Inflammation Ulcer Suffocation and falling out of the Fundament THe tearing iâ in hard travel when the motheâ is tendeâ and the child great of which ââforââ The womb comes forth from the violent extraction of the child or afterbirth when the ligaments are streâched The Cure is mentioned but you must not hinder the after flux by astringents let her therefore rest and lie one her back with her âeet drawn up with Sweets to her nose and stinks to the womb so the womb will be retained and the flux continued after this is past you may use Astringents If there be inflammation from hard travel hinder not the afâer-flux of blood by Coolers If it turn to an ulcer let the after-flux flow and then cure it Suffocation after childbearing is from the ââinking after-blood which sends up stinking vapors which kill many It is cured by Friction of the leggs Ligatures and Cupping with Scarification applying stinks to the nose as Castor Partridgâeathers burnt Rue And applying Sweets to the privities You must cure the âalling out of the Fundament from straining in Delivery as formerly shewed Chap. 7. Of Watching Doting and Epilepsie of Women in Child-bed THese are from the motion of the blood aâd huâorsâ when the after-blood flows nât kindlyâ and there is a âeaver of which in ââe ãâã Book And from vapors sent from the ãâã there is an Epilepsie which is cured by Râvââsion oâ vapors and humors downwaâdâ and âââfect Evacuation of the aâter-blood which done all these Symptoms cease Chap. 8. Of the Swelling of the Womb Belly and Feet after Childbearing IT is commonly from cold gottân into the womb and the belly sometimes swells as if there were another child It is cured by hysterical or mother Fomentations or with the skin of a new âlain sheep and hard wine if in travel they keep a bad diet or drink too much the humors go into wind and if they fall into the legs they swel then take heed of much drink and after the flux is past make Evacuation with things that expel wind As Take Câleworts and Chamomil each as you please boyl them in Wine and âomeât the parts Or Take
Wormwââd Sâuthernwood Bettonyâ Calamints Organ Chamomil flowers Anisâeds Rue Caraway as much as will sârve for a Fomentation for the feet Chap. 9. Of Vomiting Loosness Belly bound and not holding of urin in women in Child-bed THey âaââ up crude and iâdigâsted meat somtimeâ from weakâââs of the stomach by consent from the womb or from the humors that ãâã to the âââmach from the parts near the womb when the after flux doth not âlow they somtimes vomit blood or when it is disordered For the blood not getting out goes to the great veins and liver and in its hollow part by plenty and sharp it opens the veins and it gets into the stomach Sometimes a vein is broken from hard travel the strength will âail and there will be no maââer to make milk ofâ if the food be vomited If other humors they may cause a feaver by their motion If blood be vomited from a vein of the liver broken or opened a Dropsie is to be feared therefore stop it whatsoever it be in this case If it be of the meat give that which will be easily digested that oppress not the stomach which must be strengthened If bad humors are vomited up stop it not so soon but âlense with gentle Medicines and âpen the way by stool In vomiting of blood make Revulsion to the lower parts by rubbing cupping them or bleeding in the ham or ankle and provoke the after-flux The flux of the belly is dangerous if it be great for it weakneth and threatneth to bring a Dysentery or Tenesmusâ or Needing Nor is it safe to stop it presently least you stop the after-flux with it If it be from food not well concocted let her keep a better diet and let the stomach be strengthened outwardly If this will not do give internal remedies so that they help the stomachâ and hurt not the womb as the Decoction of Baâley Syrup and Honey of Roses Give Clysters âlso to temper the sharp humorsâ and âlenâe Or give Syrup of Roses Pulp âf Tamaâinds or Rhubaâb And Aââingents of Roses Plântanâ Tormentâl Quinces Coral and the like If they be wholly stopt the belly must not be bound But first give Rhubarb and Astringents outwardly and provokers of Terms Also the belly is bound in women in childbed then give a Suppository of Soap or Honey and after four or five daies give emollient Clysters and Manna or Caââia If they cannot hold their urin after hard travel use a Bath of Bettony Sage Bayes Rosemaryâ Pennyroyal Organ Stoechas and presently after anoint with this Take âat Puppy-dogs âoyled in Oyl of Worms Lillies and Foxes till the flesh fall from the bones then take the Fat and add Frankincense Storaâ calamite Benzoin Opopanax Mace each a dram Oyl of Nutmegs by expression âalf a dram with Goose grease and Wax make an Oyntment Chap. 10. Of the Wrinkles of the Belly after Child-bearing and mending of the largeness of the Privities AFter the âourth month Women prevent wrinkles by carrying a clout upon the bellyâ dipt in Oyl of sweet Almonds Jesamine Oyl of Lillies to loosen the skin that it may stretch better without cleââs If the belly be alreadly wrinkled Take Sheeps ãâã Goats ââet Oyl of sweet Almonds each an ounce Sperma Câââ two drams with Wax make an Oântment After the flux is pastâ add Oâl of ãâã or Râsâs or make Aetiâs his Cataplasm Chap. 11. Of Feavers and acute diseases in Women in child-bed THey have ofteÌ coÌtinual Fevers The âââst is th Feaver of milk about the fourth or third day from the motion of the blood from the womb to the breasts it is not of many daies and continuance and is not dangerous But take heed you mistake not a putrid âeaver for a milk-âeaver for labour and pain somtimes inflame the humors and cause putrââaction and though the Symptomes appear not the next day after delivery yet there may be the beginning of putreâaction from the heat of the humors in âravelâ especially if the after-flux be stopt from which time you must count the beginning of the diseases For a feaver cannot be long concealed nor the motion from travel last long therefore it is probable the motion is ceased and the âeaver comes of another cause which I shal declaâe presently They are the stoâpage of the after-flux or the diminishing of it or the âoul humors that were gathered in the time of being with châld and stirred ân travel Too great purging of the afâeâafâeâblood or Lochia signifies Cacochymy or a Feaver that will come long after travel If the Lochia âlow not in due time or be stopt then the blood and âoul humoâs go back to the great veins and liver and make a putrid Feaver or inflame those parts A Feaver from milk comes the fourth day and tâere is heaviness âf back and shoulders and the Lochia flow wel if not there is the sign of a ââver If the humors putriâie in the wombâ there is âoul stinking matter voided the belly is swollen and is pained when touchâ If the feaver be not from milk and the Lochia âlow it comes from bad humors especially if when she was big with childâ she kept not a good diet A Feaver from milk is without danger and ceaseth the eighth or tenth day that which comes from suppression of the Lochia or after-flux is dangerous and often deadly except there follow a flux of the belly If black stinking matter âlow from the womb they escape If the feaver come from a Cacochymy before Delivery it is worse because it argues much humors which Nature cannot discharge by the after-flux and the strength is dejected by hard travel A Feaver from milk requires only good diet and sweating must not be hindered for it cures That which is from stoppage or diminishing of the Lochia must be cured by provoking the after-flux or by another evacuatioÌ instead of it as purging bleeding in the âoot to provoke the flux or by âcarifying of the thighs and legs after cupping while the time is that the after flux should âe not afterwards For if that time be past if âârength permit open a vein in the arm bleed plentifully For purging some purge them in a Pleurisie after the seventh day but beware by reason of the weakness after travel and because Purges may hinder the after flux which is dangerous it is good to evacuate onely by the womb but if the flux of blood cease and Nature would puâge somthing from the womb you may give a gentle Purge of Rhubarb Cassia Manna Syrup of Roses Senna Alterers are thus to be ordered Avoid too cold and sharp things leât the evacuation by the womb should de diââurbed by cold things Let it be thin the first daies of lying in then thicker and so increasing take heed of too much drink especially of cold drink Question What Veins are to be opened in women that lie in and have a Pleurisie They
have Symptomatical âeavers also from inââammation of the Pleura Jaws or Liver because some of the âoul humors are sent to some private part and makes an inflamation to which the âeaver is joyned and the causes are as before mentioned If there be a Pleuriâie she is in great danger The question is whether she must bleed above or below I say thus First this âeaver is not properly Symptomatical but primary and hath the inflammation its associate while Nature sends part of the matter to the Pleura or other part Secondly note that Nature is in an erâor while she sends the vitious humors which she should expel by the womb to the Pleura Thirdly note that the vitious moâion of Nature is not to be helped therefore which should be done if you should presently open a vein in the arm but the blood is to be voided by the womb which is Natures way Fourthly iâ the Pleuriâie be not abated by oâening a vein in the aâkle for revulsion but the Sympâoms continue or increase you must not continue to open the veins beneath because they evacuate not from the part affected which is neâessâry in such a dangerous disease It is a sign that the matter is fastned to the part that it cannot again be brought to the womb by revulsion Therefore then you may open a vein in the arm on the same side to evacuate and derive the blood from the part or there about or she will be in danger of death And fear not that Nature will be taken from her ordinary motion towards the womb thereby for the vein that was opened in the foot prevented that and if you fear any danger you may prevent it by Frictions and cupping of the leggs while you let blood in the arm And you may give Clysters that may cause the humors moving upwards to come down and loosen the passages of the womb that blood may flow out the better As Take Pellitory of the Wall Mallows Althaea red Coleworts each a handful Chamomilââowers half a handful Faenugreek and Linseed each half an ounce boyl them in Water to a pint strained add lenitive Electuary an ounce Diacatholicon or Cassia half an ounce Oyl of Violets two ounces make a Clyster If the Feaver abate and the time of the flux of the Lochia be past give a gentle Purge Cure the rest as an ordinary Pleurisie onely take heed that while the after-flux lasts you give no binding Medicine Also she may have a Quinzie while she lies in while the vitious matter flows to the jaws The âure of which bleeding is to be done as in the Pleurisâe but the rest is to be done as in the Quinââie And if the Liver be inflamed by the motion of the humors to it you must bleed as in the Pleurisie and Quinzie Yet it is not so needful in the arm as in the Pleuriâie by reason of the greater distance of the Liver from the arm for the Pleura and the breast are nearer and consent more with the arms but the vein in the legâ is near to the hollow vein as the distribution of the upper veins to the arms The rest of the Cure of the inflammation âf the Liver is in Lib. 3. onely observe that you must not use too great Coolers or Binders in women in Child-bed but things that are of thin parts least the flux called Lochia or after-blood should be stopped THE FOURTH BOOK THE THIRD PART Of the Diseases of Womens Breasts THE FIRST SECTION Of Diseases of the Breasts Chap. 1. Of the increased number of Breasts and grâatness extraordinary THOUGH Nature hath ordained two in all women yet some have Breasts like men others have had two on each side that had milk The figure of the Breasts is round pointed at the nipple a little it ought not to be soft nor hard and of an indifferent bigness and it is better they be indifferent though thây hold not so much milk least they be subject to Cânâers and inâlammations and when they are too big they have not a temperate heat The Causes of over-great Breasts is much blood and the âââength of heat attracting and âoncoâting it these are remote causes but the immediâte cause is the laâgeness of the passages and loosness which is in the first conformation and furthered by idlâness much sleep and few terms and often handling of the Breasts by whiâh the blood and the heat is drawn to the Breasts It is easier to keep them from growing great then to abate them when too big with good diet and Topicks that repel by cooling and binding and drying As Take Mirtle leavesâ Horstayl Plantane Mints red Roses each a handful Pomegranate flowers two pugilâ boyl them in red Wine and Vinegar and with a Spunge apply it to the breastsâ and let it dry or apply Hemloâk bruised with Vinegar Or Take pouder of Comârââroots two drams Pomâgranate flowers red Râââs Frankincense Mastich each half an ounce âââley ââour red Oakre each an ounce and half with Rose-watââ the white of an Eâ and â little Vinegâr make a Cataplasme These may be laid to the Breasts and under the arm-piâs to astringe the vessels and hinder the blood from flowing to them Hemlock Henbane and other Narcoticks are forbidden because they weaken the natural heat and hinder the breeding of milk Dryers and Discussers are good in women tâat have great Breasts after weaning to consume the moisture As Take Bean and Orobus meal each twâ ounces and half Comârey roots in pouder half an ounce Mints three drams Wormwood Chamomil flâwers anâ Roses eaâh two drams boyl and add two ounces of Oyl of Mastich make a Cataâlasme The Breasts are too little when the flux of blood to the Breasts is hindered diminished intercepted revelled or turned another way or when the blood is not drawn by the Breasts as in a dry Liver-famine much labour or in watchings feavers and other diseases that consume the body The same is when the radical moisture of the Breasts is conâumed You must remove the cause that breeds it and ââten friction wil attract blood and foment with warm water in which Emollients have been boylâd with white Wine and then anoint with Oyl of sweet Almonds or of Indian-nuts Loosness of the Breasts is cured by astringents Chap. 2. Of Swelling of the Breasts with Milk VVHen the milk carrying veins are too full the Breasts swell all over or in âaââ and are pained by stretching and red Somâââes the milk congealâth and is a hard Tuâââ âhâ cause is abundance of milk or blood that ââkes it or the weakness of the child that cannot âuâk oâ because he is weaned Iâ oâtân âââseth without remedies Somtimes ãâã is an inâââmmation or the milk hardens to a ãâã You must hinder the breeding of much milk of which hereafter and consume that which is bred in women that give suck the child will draw them or a Puppy Or use a Glass to suâk with they which wil not give
suck may use this Take Barley meal of Lentils Althaea roots Chamomil flowers and Mints each half an ounce Agnus castus seeds two sâruples boyl them in Wine ad a little Vinegar Oyl of Dill two ounces make a Cataplasme Chap. 3. Of Inflamation and Erysipelas of the Breasts SOmtimes the tumor in the Breast is inflamed from blood for though plenty of milk cauâe an inflammation blood is the immediate cause for milk as it corrupts and grows hot increaseth pain and so the blood staying in the fmal capillar veins being out of the vessels is hot putrid and inflamed There are other causes as strokesâ falls straitness of cloaths and other hurts of thâ Breasts A hard and red swelling shews inflammation with beating pain and a Feaver These inflammations are commonly withouâ danger but because the Breasts are so loose and have many kernels and little heat they turn to Cancers and Scirrhus If you fear a great flux of blood that will increase the inflammation let blood in a plethorick bâdy But if it come from stopping oâ thââârms or after flux first open the vein in thâ ankle and sâarifie the leggs then if need be âpen the arm If bad humors coming to the Breasts nourish the inflammation give a gentle Purge of Manna Senna and the like If the blood be too hot or mixt with hot humors that help the motion oâ the blood Use Alterers as Lettice Endive âurslane Plantane Waterlillies and the like Use Repellers after these but such as are weak and not too cold as a clout dipt in Water and Honey with Oyl of Roses applied to the breasts Orâ Take Lettice Purslane each a handful red Râsâs half a handful boyl them in Water add Viââgar two ounces make an Epithem Orâ Take Nightshâde Lettice each a handful bâyl them stamp them and ad Bârley meal two ounâs pouder of Chamomil flowers half an ounce Oxymâl Oyl of Roses each a dram make a Cataplasm When the beginning of the inflammation is past ad Discussers with your Repellers As Take white Bread crums Barley flour each an ounce and hâlâ Bean and Foenugreek flower each half an ounce pouder of red Roseâ and Chamomil flowers ââch two drams boyl them add Rose-vinegar an âunce Oyl of Roses and of Chamomil each an ounce make a Cataplasm At length use only Disâussers Aââ Take Bean ãâã and of Lupines and of Faenugreek and ãâã and pouder of Chamomil flowers each an ounce maâe a Cataplasm If the matter grow hard use Emollients and ãâã As Take Mallowâ a handful boyl ãâã till they are soft add pouder of Lineseed ãâã aââ Chamoâil flowers each an ounceâ boyl them ãâã add Oâl of Jâsamââe ân âunce maâe a ãâ¦ã Iâ it tend to Suppuration lay a Plaister of ãâ¦ã Or Take Mallows and Althaea each half a handfâl boyl them till they are sâât stamp them and ad pouder of Althaea roots two ounces pouder of Line and Faenugreek seeds each aâ ounce Leaven half an ounce ad Oyntment of Aâthaea two ounces make a Cataplasm When tâere is matter and the imposthumes breaks of its own accord it is well otherwise open it with a Lancet or some sharp Mediâine and let out the matter and then clense it thus Tâke Turpentine Honey of Roses each an ounce Mirrh a scruple The ulcer will be hard to be cured except you dry up the milk in the other Breast by reason of much blood that will flow thither to breed milk Question Whether the Inflammation of the Breasts be from blood alone or from milk alsoâ The inflammation and swelling in women in Child-bed upon their Breasts is from the aââlux of too much milk and it is with redness and pain and beating or pulsation and it is not only from blood for tumors as in other parts aâe seldom pure or unmixed but there are other humors with it Therefore it is certain that when blood is drawn by heat or pain or comes of iâ self to the Breasts and begins to corrupt the milk also may be corrupted Of the Erysipelas of the Breasts This Erysipelas is from fright or angâr and iâ turns presently to a Phlegmon and is cured as the inflammation of the Breast Lay no cold astringent Repellers or fât thingsâ but things that sweat as Harts-horn sealâd Earth Carduus must be given with Elâer waterâ to discuss the thin blood that causeth the inflammation Apply outwardly hot a Pledgât dipt in Elder-water Chap. 4. Of the Ocdema of the Breasts THis flegmatick tumor is in cachectick women that havâ the white Feaver it is cold and white and pits because the part is loose and spungie Are a loose tumor almost insensible of pain and the âinger laid on leaves a pit It is larger when the terms are at hand and abateth when they are past If it come from a Cachexy and a disease of the womb it is dangerous but it commonly ends by resolution or dissolved The Cure is by dry and hot means and if it is from a Cachexy or want of Terms they must first be removed then use Topicks that discuss and ââsolvâ and strengthen let them be but temperately hot least you discuss the thin and leave the thick which will cause a Scirrhus Make therefore Fomentations of a Lixivium of Vine and Colewort ashes and Sulphur or a Decoction of Hysop Sage Organ Chamomil-flowers Then anoint with Oyl of Chamomil Lillies Bayes Or Take Barley flour four ounâââ of Lineseeds Faenugreek Dill Chamomil floâââs each half an ounce Aâthaea rootâ an ounce with Oyl of Chamomil and Dill make a Cataplasm Chap. 5. Of the Scirrhus of the Breasts IT is a hard tumor without pain from melâncholy gathered in the veins that flows to the Breast or it is thick flegm dried Sometimes both humors are mixed together or more which makes a bastard Scirrhus And if burnt humors abound most it turns to a Cancer and if melancholy be most it is not a Scirrhus but a Cancer There are two signs of a true Scirrhus hardness and want of pain if it be fixed Iâ is somtimes white somtimes black or blew as the humor is If it be a bastard Scirrhus there is heat and pain and if they increase it turns to a Cancer and the veins grow blew about and begin to swell The bigger and the harder it is the more hard it is to be cured If hairs grow upon a Scirrhus it is incurable and it easily turns to a Cancer After Universals and the Cause is removed from the womb or the whole body let the containing cause be softned made thin and discussed But beware of two things First that the thin parts be not discussed by too hot medicines and the thick left for so it will be incurable and as hard as a stone Secondly that you âerment not the matter by moistning Emollients so that it turn to a Cancer The Ancients either used none or a dryâng or a moistning Mediâine only You
the sharp bones whence is great pain watching and inflamation of gums feaver loosness and convulsions especially when they breed their eye-teeth First it is known by the usual time as the âeginning of the seventh month Also they put their âingers in their mouths to allay pain 3. They hold the nipple faster then before 4. The gum is white where the tooth begins to come and there are divers Symptomes mentioned before The feaver that follows breeding of teeth comes from cholerick humors inflamed by watching pain and heat The longer teeth are breeding the greater the danger so that many die of feavers or convulsions They are best that have their belly loose These have no convuision a feaver consumes the humoâs Hard breeding of teeth is from thickness of the gums therefore molliâie and loosen them rub them with the finger dipt in Butter and Honey or a Virgin Wax Candle is to be chewed upon Or anoint with âucilage of Quinces made with Mallow water or with the brains of a Hare Foment the cheek with the Decoction of Althaea and Chamomil flowers and Dill or with juyce of Mallows and fâesh Butter If the guâs are inflamed add juyce of Nightshade and Lettice Let the Nurse keep a temperate diet inclining to cold as Barley broaths or Watergrewel rear Eggs Prunes Lettice Endive Avoid salâ sharp biting and peppered meats and Wine Chap. 15. Of Loosing of the Tongue and of the Frog WHen the tongue is tied they cannot freely suck This must be done by skilful Artists or use this Liniment Take clarified Honey and boyl it gently till it may be poudered Then Take yolks of hard Eggs dried in a glass in an Oven till they may be poudered a dram ârankincense and Mastich each a scruple burnt Allum six grains with Honey of Roses make a Liniment The Frog is when the veins under the tongue are filled with bad blood and if flegm sweat out and stick in the passages there is a tumor like Mushrooms which causeth stamering It is cured thus Take Cuttlebone Sal gem Pepper each a dram burnt Spunge three drams make a Pouder or with Honey a Liniment rub under the tongue Lay under the chin a Plaister of goose dung and Honey boyled in Wine till the Wine be consumed Chap. 16. Of Catarrh Cough and difficult Breathing WEE have spoken of these before but because Hippocrates reckons them in Childrens diseases I shall touch upon them The general Cause of a Catarrh in a child is a moist brain and much milk that burdens the stomach from whence many vapors fil the brain and if the brain be full of excrements it is easily dissolved or melted either by heat or cold and goes to the nose ââws or lungs which cause a cough or Asthma Moreover much food makes crudities in the first passages and flegmatick blood is bred of crudity and thick chyle in the liver This is sent by the arâerial vein into the lungs and prâssing the Bronchia or pipes of the lungs causeth difficult breathing and Asthma It is known to be from a hot humor if it be thin they often neese the face is red and the jaws the breath is short and the Nurse âinds it in her nipples If difficulty of breathing come from the head there will be a cough and snorting in breathing and a noise in the lungs when the air passeth not freely through them If it come from the parts below there is neither Câtarrh nor cough but hardness about the Liver and a tumor In children a great Catarrh with short breath is hard to be cured because they cannot take Physick First let it and the Nurse keep a good diet fil not the stomach with milk nor other diet but let the Nurse forbear sharp salt peppered âour things and things that fill the head with vapors And give her a Pectoral Decoction Take Figs âujubes each ten Sebestens thirty Raisons stoned âen drams Liquorish two drams Maidenhair Hysop Violets each half an ounce boyl them in three pints of Water to the consumption of the third part Let her take six ounces every morning Keep the belly open with Syrup of Roses or Cassia or a Clyster with oyl of sweet Almonds with Sugar candy or juyce of Fennel with Milk or hold down the tongue and provoke Vomiting Give Syrup of Jujubes Maidenhair If the matter be thick give Syrup of Hysop or Horehound or an Emulsion of oyl of sweet Almonds Pine-nuts Scabious water Or give a Lohoch of Diaireos Diatragacanth frigid Peâidies with Syrup of Jujubes If it be hot give Emulsions of the âour great cold Seeds with Mallows Pellitory with Diatragacanth frigid To dry up the matter lay outwardly a stuph of Hemp hot and sprinkled with pouder of red Roses and Frankincense Apply Basil and Marjoram to the nose to make it sneese Chap. 17. Of the Hickets IT comes from corruption of the food in the stomach or from milk âilling it or from cold ãâã these hurt the expulsive faculty and it is ââârred up to expel what is hurtful If iâ come from reâletion of milk the belly swells and there is vomiting after If from corruption of milk the Nurse hath bad milk the child cries and is pained and the excrements sânââl of stinking milk Hiâkets is commonly not dangerous in children and cease when the cause is taken away Iâ it be from a vehement cause and goes to the nerves there follows a Convulsion or Epilepsie and death That from corruption of nourishment is cured by vomit with a feather dipt in Oyl to tickle the throat then strengthen the stomach with hot things As Syrup of Mints Bettony and soment it with Decoction of Mints Organ Woâmwood then anoint with Oyl of Mints Mastich Dill. Or Take Mastich an ounce Frankincense Dill seed each two drams Cummin seed a dram with juyce of Mints and Flax apply them to the stomach There is a disease like the Hiâkets in children from anger or grief when the Spirits are much stiâred and run from the heart to the Diaphragma forceably and hinder or stop the breath Somtimes they have a shril voice the Spirits suddenly breaking forth but when the passion ceaseth this Symptom ceaseth Chap. 18. Of Vomiting IT is from too much milk or bad milk or fâom flâgm that fals from the head to the stomach but this is seldom in children It is ofâen from a moist loose stomach for as driness retains so loosness le ts go If it be from much milk they are better after vomiting If it be from corruption of milk that which is vomited is yellow green or otherwise ill coloured and stinking worms are known by their signs It is for the most part without danger in children and they that vomit from their birth are the lustiest for the stomach being not used to meat and milk being taken too much oftentimes crudities are easily bred or the milk is corrupted and it is