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A25811	Aristotle's manual of choice secrets, shewing the whole mystery of generation : with receipts to prevent barrenness, and cause conception : very necessary to be known and practiced by all midwives, nurses, & young married women / translated out of Latin by J.P.	Aristotle, pseud.; P. J.	1699 (1699)	Wing A3688B; ESTC R172506	27,224	144

the Baking continue firm and very close if the Milk of a Boy if not it will be Spungy The Right Side of the Belly will be bigger and more Coppid than the Left The stirring of the Womb is oftener and more lively The Male Child lieth above the Navel by reason of it's heat The Mother will be quick and Nimble and of a healthful Constitution in her condition c. If it be a Girl it lieth low in the Belly as it were at the bottom because of the Coldness and Weight of the matter that forms it The Mother at sundry times has a Pale Heavy and Dusky Complexion her Eyes not bright and sparkling or Lively She is Froward Fretful and often Pained in the Back and Shoulders Her Left Breast bigger than the Right the Milk thin and blewish her Belly often flatting and the Motion lieth on the Left side and is seldom quick till the fourth Month The Veins of her Thighs and Groin are bigger and knottier on the Left side than on the Right To make a further Experiment take an equal quantity of Claret and the first Urin in the Morning put them in a Urinal and let them stand twelve hours and if a gross Cloud appear in the middle it denotes a Girl but if at the bottom a Boy if nothing that she is not with Child CHAP. V To know whether a Woman shall have Two Children at a Birth THe Signs of having two Children at a Birth seldom appear before the third or fourth Month and then the Motions must be carefully observed as also the Swelling of the Belly For if the Motion be strong and forcible on either Side at one Instant it denotes two Children in the Womb. Likewise if the Belly appear more swollen and bigger than in other Child-bearing and the Sides rise higher than the Middle of the Belly so that there seems a kind of a valley or Line of separation from the Navel downwards if the Burthen be born with difficulty and the Belly often fall on the Thighs and Hips there is no great doubt of giving Judgment as to the premises and whether they be Boys or Girls or both I refer you to consider and compare the former observations CHAP. VI. How a Woman during her going with Child ought to be Dieted and what kind of Meats and Drinks are most proper and conducing to her Health and safe Delivery THIS much concerns childing Women to be careful in observing if they would enjoy perfect Health and bear strong and healthful Children and in this I shall observe what things are particularly required and what to be Avoided In the first place let her Dwell in a good and temperate Air neither too hot cold or waterish not subject to Foggs Mists cold North-Winds or to moist South ones For Hippocrates is of the Opinion That bad Airs or Cold or Moist Winds blowing strongly frequently cause Miscarriage especially to those of nice and tender Breeding by afflicting them with Rheums Distillations troublesome Coughs All ill Scents and Noisome Vapours are subject to do the like so that Aristotle forbids Women with Child to come within the smell of the Snuff of a Candle newly put out lest it cause Abortion Miscarriage or untimely Labour Dyet must be so chosen as it may be seasonable and properly nourishing on this occasion breeding good juice and moderately drying the Quantity sufficient for more than her own proper Nourishment at other times Nor must she give her self to Fasting especially to any Considerable degree for if the Child wants it's due Nourishment in the Womb it will either not encrease to the purpose or dwindle away when it is increased and being Born will become Weakly and subject to Diseases Too great a Quantity is however to be avoided for that many times stifles a Child through too much abundance of Nourishment or makes it so unweildy it cannot keep in its Place and therefore is constrained to come forth before it's time or grow Sickly in the Womb. All Meats which are eitheir too Hot too Cold or too Moist must be avoided especially in the beginning of Meals Salt Meats and those heated with Spice are hurtful Aristotle forbids all manner of Baked Meats to Childing Women Her bread must be good Wheat well Kneaded and Baked and the most agreeable Meats are Pullets Chickens Capons Young Pidgeons Pheasants Turtle Doves Partridges Larks Veal Mutton and Broth with a mixture of Hot and Cooling Herbs For Sallads Lettuce Endive Borrage Bugloss Sorrell or in lieu of these to close the Stomach after Dinner and temperate the Heat cooling moderate Fruits as preserved Pears baked Wardens Quinces or Marmalades Damisons Plumbs Apricocks Ripe Grapes Goosberries Currants but of none of these too much least they Create Phlegmes and they cause offensive Coughing c. And tho' I may here prescribe notwithstanding all a Woman with Child has sometimes such a disorderly Appetite by reason of a full and sharp Humour which is contained within the Membranes of the Stomach that many times they desire things against Nature as Couls Chalk Charcole white-wall c. that can be no manner of Nourishment but certainly offensive These tho' unruly Appetite Crave or make them as they say Long for them yet be ruled by Reason Let a Woman consider she is a Rational Creature and ought to be guided by Reason and not run into Extravagancy to hurt her self where that contradicts it When any Impatient Longings happen for things that are hurtful the Mind must by degrees be turned from that to something that is more agreeable and so by degrees they may wean themselves from all Extravagancies As to Drinks good nourishing Wine not too strong nor too much at a time as Canary Malago Sherry Claret also Ale that is not Foul or Mudy Beer not too Stale Rasberry Cherry or Currant Wines new Milk but very little either of Whey Cyder or Gooseberry Wine or any sharp things by reason they cause Gripings and do much harm to Childing Women CHAP. VII Of Sleep Exercise Labour and great Noises as they tend to the Advantage or Prejudice of Women with Child AS for Sleep it must be Moderate and in seasonable times in the Night lying soft and easie shifting sides as often as she wakes Exercise Moderately performed helps the Birth by Loosing the Cotiledons or vessels of the Matrix whereby the Infant acquires it's Nourishment going a moderate Pace or riding softly is well but Jolting in Coaches Waggons or on Horse-back is very much to be avoided by reason they frequently occasion Abortion Too much Labour is hurtfull Yet as Aristotle observes moderate Labour contributes to a safe and easie Delivery because thereby those Excrements are Consumed which Sloath and Idleness would retain or rather Ingender And to keep her Belly soluble which in this Case is required she may take some Broth wherein Pruins are boiled stewed Apples Sugar with a little Butter Buglos Borrage Purslain Lettuce with a little of the

and by sweat to thrust it out from the interriour Principal Parts For which purpose the following Drink is excellent good Take a quart of Posset-ale and a handful of Fennel-seed boil them together till a third part be consumed then strain it and add thereto one dram of Treacle and one scruple of Saffron in Powder mix them together and give two three or four ounces thereof to drink Mornings and Evenings as the case requireth But if the Child be so weak that it cannot expel the Disease in convenient time then Epithemate the heart with the following Epithemation â„ž Aquarum ros Melissae Card. B. 6. Bugloss Morsus Diaboli vini alb of each 4 ounces Aceti Ros two ounces and a half Pul. Ros Rub. Trium Sanal Cinamoni Elect. Diamorg frigid of each half a dram Mithridate one ounce Treacle four drams mix all these together and let them boil a little and so warm Epithemate the heart When you have done this give some expulsive Drink or Electuary as the Cause requires and cause him to sweat upon it When the Pox are come out to prevent Dis-figuring the Face as Pitting besure let them alone till they grow white and come to maturation and then open every Pustula on the top with a Pin and then thrust out the Matter very gently with a soft Linnen Cloth and if you perceive them to fill again open them as you did at first for if you suffer the Matter which is in them to remain overlong it will fret and corrode the Flesh which causes those Pits that remain after the small Pox is gone When you have done this anoint the place with the following Oyntment Take Elder-leaves one handful Marigolds two handfuls French Mallows one handful Barrows Grease six Ounces bruise the Herbs in a Morter and then boil them with the Grease in a Pewter Dish on a Chafing-dish of Coals until the Juice of the Herbs be consumed then strain it and anoint the face therewith The best time to make it is in the middle or latter end of May. You must anoint the place grieved with a Feather and as it drieth in anoint it again and so continue it and it will soon dry them up and keep the place from Pits and Holes Also if you annoint the Pox with the Oyl of Sweet-Almonds newly drawn three or four times a day which you must besure to do as soon as the Pocks are grown white and come to maturation it will Cure them without Pits or Spots and easeth the Pain and burning If after the Pocks are come out they do not grow to Maturation you may help it by this decoction Take Mallows one handful Figs twelve in Number Water a quart cut the Figs small and boil all together until half or more be Consumed and then wet a fine soft Linnen Cloth therein and touch the Place therewith oftentimes and it will soon bring them to Maturation CHAP. XX. Of Barrenness Shewing the Signs of Insufficiency in Men and Women and Remedies against it With other choice Secrets IF it be a Blessing to have Children as certainly it is then Barrenness must needs be a great Curse We will therefore enquire into the different kinds and occasions of it Barrenness is Natural and Accidental Natural Barrenness is that which happens to Women when there appears no visible obstruction either in her or her Husband Which may proceed from a Natural Cause for where both Men and Woman are of one Complexion or Constitution they rarely have any Children For if the Constitution of the Woman be hot and dry as well as of the Man there can be no Conception and if on the contrary the Man should be of a cold and moist Constitution as well as the Woman the effect would be the same And the way to help this is for Young People before they Marry to observe each others Constitutions if they design to have Children For Discordant Natures make the only harmony in the work of Generation There is another Cause of Natural Barrenness also which is occasion'd by letting Young Virgins Blood in the Arm before their Monthly Courses are come down which is usually in the fourteenth and fifteenth Years of their Age and sometimes perhaps before the thirteenth but never before the twelfth For being before those Purgations usually indisposed by fulness of Blood they commonly open a Vein in the Arm which being often repeated diverts the Blood from its proper Channel that it comes not down into the Womb which by that means dries up and the Young Woman is thereby rendred Barren The way to prevent which is to let no Virgin Blood in the Arm till her Courses are well come down but rather in the Foot which will be a means to draw the Courses downwards Another Cause of Barrenness is the Debility of Persons in Copulation if Persons perform not that Act with all the Heat and Ardour that Nature requires they may as well let it alone and expect to have Children without it For Frigidity and Coldness never produces Conception To help this such things are to be taken as do increase the Seed and stir up to Venery and further Conception viz. Eggs Milk Rice boil'd in Milk Sparrows Brains Flesh Bones and all the Stones and Pizzles of Bulls Bucks Rams Boars also Cock-stones Lamb-stones Partridge Quails and Pheasants Eggs. And take this for a Rule That whatever any Creature is addicted unto they stir up the same quality in the Man or Woman that Eats them And therefore Partridges Quails Sparrows c. being extreamly addicted to Venery work the same effect in those Men and Women that Eat them And in what part of the Body the Faculty which you wou'd strengthen lies take the same part of the Body of another Creature in whom that Faculty is strong as a Medicine As to the present purpose The Procreative Faculty lies in the Testicles therefore Cock-stones Lamb-stones c. are proper to stir up Venery This also is a choice Secret That all Creatures that are fruitful being eaten makes them fruitful that Eats them But that it may be known whether the Cause of Barrenness be in Man or Woman I shall briefly shew the signs of Insufficiency in either Signs and Causes of Insufficiency in Man may be the Vitiousness in the Yard by being Crooked distorted or broken whereby the ways and passages through which the Seed should flow come to be stopped Also the Weakness and Tenderness of the Yard whereby it is not strongly enough erected to inject the Seed into the Womb Also if the Stones are hurt so that they cann't perform their Office in producing Seed or if they be oppress'd with any Tumor or Inflamation or drawn up within the Belly not appearing outwardly These are Signs of Insufficiency and Causes of Barrenness Drunkenness and Gluttony and other Excesses do also hinder Men from Fruitfulness and make 'em unfit for Generation Signs and Causes of Insufficiency in Women are many Little Women are generally more apt to conceive than Great and Slender than Gross also those that are Black than those that are Pale and Wan To have the Veins very conspicuous and the Breasts large betokens Fruitfulness And the others are the contrary The Irregularity of the monthly Courses the straitness of the Pudenda or Privities whereby Women become Imperforate the Immoderate moisture of the Womb which destroys the Seed also the Immoderate heat of the Womb are all Signs of Insufficiency and Causes of Barrenness in Women If you would know whether the fault lies in the Man or the Woman Sprinkle the Mans Urine upon one Lettice Leaf and the Womans upon another and that which dries away first is unfruitful Also take five Wheat Corns and seven Beans put them into an Earthen Pot and let the Party make Water therein let this stand seven Days and if in that time they begin to Sprout then the Party is fruitful but if they Sprout not then the Party is Barren whether it be Man or Woman This is a certain Sign FINIS