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A61956	Mulierum amicus: or, The womans friend plainly discovering all those diseases that are incident to that sex only, and advising them to cure, either 1. By those receipts prescribed. Or, 2. By certain secret arcanums and specifical medicines. The author hereof living at the sign of the Golden Ball and Flower-Pot in Mark-Lane in Tower-street, and is lycensiate in physick, and student in chymistry; known commonly by the name of Nich. Sudell.	Sudell, Nicholas.	1666 (1666)	Wing S6143; ESTC R222116	48,072	115

Mulierum Amicus OR The Womans Friend Plainly discovering all those Diseases that are Incident to that Sex only and advising them to cure either 1. By those Receipts prescribed OR 2. By certain Secret Arcanums and Specifical Medicines The Author hereof Living at the Sign of the Golden Ball and Flower-Pot in Mark-Lane in Tower-Street and is Lycensiate in Physick and Student in Chymistry known commonly by the Name of Nich. Sudell Printed for the Author and is to be sold by J. Hancock in Popes-head-Alley in the Year 1666. Courteous Reader BE thou man or woman thou must know that to further the knowledge and understanding and to supply with medicines for diseases those that know not what I have writ nor were capasitated to do as now by this they may are the Persons whom in special I intended it for And therefore if thy attainment be so high and thy ability reach so far as this directeth to thou art not the person for whom this pains is taken yet in some respect it may not be unprofitable nor unserviceable unto thee though I must confess to others more to whom I commend it and advise them to consider what they read in order to practice to themselves and others according as their wisdom shall think fit And I intreat all not to condemn disdain or enviously to quarrel with this little Book the end of which its coming into the world whatsoever the work may be was to do good Farewell and love your Friend N. S. To the truly Vertuous and most accomplished Lady The Lady Bloodworth Wife to the Right Honourable Sir Thomas Bloodworth Lord Mayor of the City of London TOGETHER With the Noble Ladies and Gentlemomen Wives to the Right Worshipful Knights and Gentlemen the Sheriffs Aldermen and Common Counsel and to either of them the Author hereof wisheth happiness and well-being here and hereafter Most Noble Ladies and Gentlewomen SOlomon the wisest of men tells us there is a time for every purpose That this is a fit time for my purpose is unquestionable to me the season calling for doing good and according as my station is I would be found improving my talent But possibly my being a stranger though not to all yet to the most of you may cause some admiration of this my Dedication but before you judge me in this case I beseech you peruse these ensuing lines that I present you with and then if my crime be beyond your clemency to pardon I must submit to your censures but if not passing over my presumption and failings I hope this my first endeavours in this nature will be favoured with your good-will 〈◊〉 and acceptation besides my Ladies and Gentlewomen there is a four-fold consideration which emholdned me to offer this my single Quiller unto your protection and acceptation 1. By reason of the weakness of the Author Though the matter herein be of weight and concernment and I doubt not but will be to the service and advantage of many but my self being of no great name in the world never endeavouring it possibly though the book were never so profitable might not be so esteemed That therefore it may be of more general service and be prized as it deserves I took the boldness to put your names at the front hereof knowing that those gardens flowers or Galleries that you delight to gather and walk in is enough to oblige and encourage others and that your generosity ingenuity and authority will add a luster to these my mean labours and endeavours neither let any despise nor undervalue these lines because of my acknowledgment of my own weakness considering that he that is wise in his own conceit there is more hope of a fool than him and the way to be wise is to become a fool but let them read before they judg I dare warrant without it be of them who know more to whom this is not intended neither my self for writing nor you Ladies for accepting shall receive any thing save thanks and respect 2. In regard of the fitness of your Persons for indeed works of this nature are not fit to be presented to all persons though of your own sex unless there be that sobriety and those qualifications that such a work of such a nature doth require The Proverb is It is not good to cast Pearl before Swine There is many a choice Pearl in this little book and that they might come or be cast before such as know what Pearl is and the vertues and use thereof I were ambitious to lay it before you not questioning or doubting of those choice and enriched endowments as are suitable to such a subject and thereby will become profitable and advantagious unto you which brings me to the third thing and that is 3. To further your knowledge a things doubtless desired amongst you that those things which you understand and see not through the Pride and Malice of men you may apprehend and perceive 1. What you are 2. What liable unto And 3. What assistance you have 1. That you may the better apprehend and perceive what you are that is how you stand distinct from man and that in the one particular in special the womb I have shewed you what it is to what end created the figure of it the form of it the nourishment of it and the supporters of it and no more may be expected from me here not intending anatomical lectures or endeavouring after that which as a good man saith is too wonderful for me 2. What you are liable unto for although the womb be a gallant piece curiously wrought by the best of workmen if I may so say with reverence yet it is subject to innumerable company of diseases and calamities which I have endeavoured to unfold unto you by dividing it into three parts giving you the diseases that are incident to either in the easiest and plainest method I can And then 3. That you may perceive what assistance you have for as I have told you the womb is subject to very many infirmities so there are very many supplies and remedies God having provided in his love in that case as well as laid punishment to shew his justice in the other and that which hath most troubled me is that many good women have suffered in many distempers though things by or easie to be had by reason of their being ignorant of the vertues of them might have been made and given either by themselves or some good Gentlewoman their neighbour and been relieved Now in this you will find to every disease a certain receipt or medicine for the same with directions concerning it and they none of the meanest so that you may plainly apprehend that you have a plentiful supply in all cases though notwithstanding possibly in some cases and to some persons the medicines there directed to may not always cure yet in that case I leave you not destitute having mentioned several secret Arcanums and specifical medicines in my

I must not favour my own sex no further than it may be with conveniency may be known 1. By the diseases of the genital parts as inability to raise his yard want of seed swelling of his stones running of the reins c. 2. By his being faint hearted and womanish by nature and be slow in casting forth his seed and that be cold 3. If he want a beard and have little or no lust to carnal imbracements and perceive very little pleasure therein These are signal tokens and discover unto us barrenness in the man as well as the other in the woman I come now to the curative part only I must mind you of this that you may not expect here variety of medicines according as the disease proceeds from this or the other cause which the signs aforesaid discover no that would be too large but only such a medicine as is suited and fitted in order to this business for all sorts of barrenness only in that barrenness from the wombs closure it to be understood something else is to be done there before the medicine be used Cure Take Eryngus roots and Satyrion of each four ounces Ameos seed Rocket seed Water cresses seed of each two ounces Filbert-kernels Pine-kernels and Pislachios of each one ounce two pair of the stones of a Bore-pig Mace Cinnamon Cloves and Ginger of each two drams beat bruise and slice as they ought to be and then put them into a pottle of Muscadine mixed with a quart of old Sack cover it close and let it boil softly to the loss of a quart strain it and let the woman drink a quarter of a pint three times a week going to bed and in the morning following let her company with her Husband and observe that as soon as her husband is passed from her she immediately cross her legs putting a warm cloth next her body and lie a full hour afterwards and never to taste her husbands benevolence in that nature but of those mornings which follow after the drink Many more directions are to be given in this point only necessary it is that the parties may be known because directions of this nature must be varied as there may be occasion either in the one or the other And certainly if women were so wise as to admit or look out there are but few that are barren but might by Gods blessing be holpen thereby we hope to bring joy to Parents and a better life of love between party and party which sometimes occasions great differences or at least clouds happiness for the general tone is Give me Children or else I die And herein I speak the more confidently because never yet any one failed of cure that came to me upon this score that were willing diligent and patient in taking my medicines whereof that aforementioned was ever one and observing those rules and directions that I laid before them Secondly Of acute and chronical diseases of women with child the acute and chronical diseases of women with child are the same in essence or nature and have the same signs with the like diseases in women not with child or in men wherefore I must not run out here to the signs of those diseases that are incident to women with child or to speculate there upon they being to be found else where But although the signs as aforesaid either in the one or the other differ not yet the cure of the aforesaid diseases in women with child doth remarkably differ in point of Diet and Physick and especially those two grand remedies blood-letting and purgation As for matter of diet a more fuller and larger diet may be allowed unto a woman with child under a disease than to others and that in regard of the infant yet care must be taken also that the diet do not exceed so as to heighten and augment the feaver however remember that errour in this point which is in point of fulness is the more tollerable for recovery is chiefly to be expected from the strength of the mother and child As for bleeding and purging they are allowable and frequently practised by me and many other ingenious and sober Doctors with very great and satisfactory success the errour about it I refute at the latter end of my book and therefore here shall only say further That the time when and the quantity which are the things of enquiry in this case for at sometimes there may be more blood taken than at othersome and so likewise at some times there may be a bigger Dose given than at other some But in these cases I shall be silent because I would not incourage any woman whatsoever to these things without the advice of a sound judicious and conscientious Doctor fearing they miscarrying they should endeavour to hide and wrap their action in that nature and attribute their sin upon that occasion to this little book of mine which I writ for contrary ends and purposes viz. their good happiness and advantage in this life But then thirdly of abortion or miscarriage Abortion or miscarriage is the bringing forth of an imperfect or unripe child and consequently a child dead in the womb is not counted an abortion till it be excluded so whether a live or dead child be brought forth not being ripe nor having attained to the just term of growth which it ought to have had in the womb it is to be termed an abortion or miscarryed child Signs The signs of present abortion are manifest of themselves but such as go before abortion or miscarriage and do prognosticate the same are these 1. An unusual heaviness of the loins and hips 2. A lothness to stir with loss of appetite 3. Shivering and shaking coming by fits 4. Pain in the head especially about the roots of the cyes 5. A straitning of the sides and of the belly above the Navel 6. The flaging or failing and extenuation of the Dugs 7. Plenty of milk roping from the dugs voluntary argues miscarriage 8. Frequent pain and almost continual about the reins and loins reaching toward the share with a certain endeavour of going out or pressing down of the womb And observe in this latter sign flowing from the womb if any pure blood or wheyish matter or water follow the aforesaid pains and endeavour of coming out miscarriage is not far and at that time notice being taken the situation or posture of the child is changed for whereas it lay high and possessed the middle of the womans belly like a Sugar-loaf bearing out it is now gathered round like a foot-ball and rowled down towards the water-gate and then sometimes though not alwayes there follows grievous symptoms as shivering trembling palpitation of the heart swooning and abounding in bleeding c. I have been the larger upon those signs because I would willingly instruct women for their good for by these truly and wisely observed miscarriage and all those dangerous consequences which attend it may be prevented by timely