followeth â„ž Ol. Mastich Cydonior an â„¥ j. ol Nardin â„¥ s Coral rub Caryophyl Menth. Calam. aromat nucis Mosch an â„¥ s. Cerae q. s. ad formam Cerati â„ž Cortic. Citri â„¥ j. fol. Meliss Absynth ana M. ij Coquantur in aq com pistentur passentur addendo olei Nard Mastih an â„¥ j. fiat Cataplasma They may vse Galens Cerote for the stomacke or that of Aecius made with Quinces Saffron and a little oile of Spicknard Concerning generall purgations which may euacuate downeward part of this superfluitie they must not be administred when a woman is yoong with childe but with very great care and good aduice not vsing any strong purgers But if there bee need and that the disease ceaseth not by light medicines then may be giuen a little infusion of Rubarbe and a gentle decoction of Sene taking the aduice of the learned Physitian And therefore we must onely haue a regard to their vomiting which at these times doth commonly molest and trouble them taking heed of staying it except it be immoderate as Auicen saith or too violent For otherwaies it helpeth to cure this disease euacuating part of those ill humours whereby it is nourished and increased And if wee perceiue she hath a desire to vomit and that the expulsiue facultie be not strong enough to helpe it let her take a little Hydromell warme and if the matter in the stomacke be tough and clammie adde thereto a little vineger the better to attenuate and cut it I haue beene the longer in this Chapter because it is an accident that doth much annoy women with childe thereby the better to instruct the yoong Chirurgion when there is no Physitian neere at hand Of Distastfulnesse and Hicket CHAP. IX MOst women as soone as they are with childe be so distasted and doe so loath and abhorre meat that they cannot endure either to eat see or smell it yea and some are sicke euen with the very hearing of it named which makes them goe often times two or three daies without any desire to eat This disease hapneth vpon the same reason we gaue before of the depraued appetite because the stomacke is filled and stuffed with diuers excrements that oloy a great bellied woman which by little and little are there gathered together by the flowing backe of the courses that be stopped which cannot bee put forth much lesse consumed by the little one and so come into the stomacke and fill it But when these corrupted and ill humours abide longer in the stomacke there happens another accident commonly called the Hicket or Yeaxing which is a violent and conuulsiue motion of the stomacke which seemeth to discharge it selfe of those bad humours which are contained in the capacity and membranes thereof and offend either in quantitie or qualitie or both together From hence comes it that the stomacke willing to put them forth casts vp with all the meat and food the woman hath taken to the preiudice of her selfe which cannot keepe any thing for her owne sustenance and of the Child who cannot find sufficient bloud to nourish him which at length makes them both weake and causeth the Mother either to be deliuered before her time or else to breed a faint and feeble Child and oftentimes one that will be sickly all his life time For the remedying of this queasinesse we must haue recourse to those medicines written in the Chapter of depraued Appetite Both for the dyet and remedies And touching the Hicket when it comes through emptinesse or want of eating then the woman must nourish her selfe taking often good meat and in small quantitie as yelkes of egs cullis veale broth hennes and chicken and let her belly be annointed with oyle of sweet Almonds and Violets If the cause proceed of any sharp or biting humour it must be drawen and purged downward gently as we haue said already or else by vomit without much straining Cow milke and the milke of an Asse are verie much commended as also the vse of syrups of Violets and Nenuphar are verie profitable The Hicket may also come of some inflamation that is in the Spleene Liuer or other bowels neere the stomacke and so is impart to it this hapning it will be verie necessarie to let her bloud and that she vse meats which moderately coole as also medicines of the same nature both inwardly and outwardly consulting thereof with the Physitions Of the Vomiting which happens to Women with Child CHAP. X. THere be some women who as soone as they be with child yea the verie first daies are subiect to Vomit casting vp store of water and slime by the mouth and this vomiting continueth euen till they are quicke with child and with some it remaineth all the time of their going which I saw happen vnto a great Lady of this kingdome who from the second day after she had conceiued vomited and affirmed constantly that she was with child When this Vomiting hapneth it must not be staied sodainly if so be it continue gently and without violence for being stopped there is such store of humors heaped and gathered together in their stomacks that they are ready to be stifled or stuft vp which being by little and little cast vp without violence they are much eased for by this euacuation of noysome excrements the first region of the belly feels it selfe free discharged and vnburthen'd of many long and grieuous paines The cause of this accident proceeds commonly of the abundance of humours gathered together in the stomacke or else of some sharpe and biting humour that doth stir and prouoke it and chiefly the vpper orifice thereof aswell by reason of the ill meats they eate and that in great quantitie as also because they fill themselues too much with good meat which doth putrifie and corrupt the naturall heat being weake and requires rather to be cast forth then kept in the bodie But it hapneth oftentimes that this Vomiting is so violent that euen the meat and sustenance which the Mother taketh to nourish her selfe and the child is cast vp and then it must be remedied Likewise if this accident come from some weaknesse of the stomack or by the default of the retentiue facultie which is not able to retaine and kepe the meat although it were of good iuice and in finall quantitie or by some maligne vapour which ariseth from the wombe by reason of the feed and naturall courses retained they maybe help'd by these meanes following First if the great quantitie of meates whether good or bad which the woman hath taken be the cause then let her abstaine from eating them obseruing the aboue mentioned Dyet vsing good meats and in little quantitie thereby to roule it forth If the ouermuch quantitie or ill qualitie of sharpe and biting excrements be the cause then must they be gently taken away and purged Notwithstanding we must refraine from giuing them any
good iuice Contrariwise she that is too leane must vse good meates and such as breed good iuice and that in good quantity If too much eating and drinking or the vse of bad meates that breed ill iuice be the cause then must she absteine from them And when it doth proceed from the fulnesse and aboundance of humors water as it happeneth in full bodied young women or which before their being with child were subiect to some euacuations as bleeding at the nose Hemorrodes or abundance of ordinary purgations and whites then will it also be very needful to purge and let them bloud and before their beeing with child to make them vse the dyet and especially those that haue the ligaments of the womb loose and soft and the vessels full of thicke and slimy matter to whome likewise may be administred cleansing strengthening iniections drying perfumes Baths with sulphur and emplasters for their backes which shall heereafter be set downe And when they shall be gone about foure moneths and a halfe it will be very fit to purge them gently let them bloud the which may be done more plentifully and boldly not all at once but at sundry times in those who before their being with child were vsed to more copious and frequent euacuations For experience doth shew that by this meanes those which were wont to be deliuered before their time haue not onely born their children to the ordinary time but thereby also haue beene brought a bed more easily and with lesse pain and trouble So that the child shall neither be in daunger to bee stifled by drawing more food then is needfull for his nourishment nor of growing too big by turning it into his owne sustenance which might bee a meanes through his exceeding greatnesse to breake and teare the ligaments that support him or else though he stay his ful time being thus big that he should not be able to come easily into the world To helpe the abortment whereof the child is cause being naturally either weake or sickly it will be very necessary that the mother put to her helping hand as much as she can possibly Wherefore she must be merry quiet as well in body as in mind not fretting or vexing her selfe and especially about the time she was wont to bee deliuered shee must keepe her bed vsing meates of easie digestion and distribution and drinke good claret wine let her take euery two houres a good space from her meate some of this opiate Opiate ℞ Cons. Borag Buglos an ℥ i. Cons. Rosar Anthos an ʒ vi Cort. Citri cond Myrobal condit an ℥ s. Margarit splendid Coral rub an ʒ i. ossis de corde cerui ʒ s. Cum syr Conser Citri fiat Opiata capiat ʒ i. vt dictum est If shee like not this Opiate let her vse these Lozenges Lozenges ℞ Sp. Diamarg frig ℈ ij Corall rub Corn. cerui vsti an ʒ s. priapitauri ℈ iiij Sacchar in aqua Buglos dissolut ℥ iij. fiat electuarium per tabellas ponderis ʒ s. vel ℈ ij pro dosi capiat vt dictū est Let her belly bee annointed with this ointment as well to comfort the Matrice as also to giue strength vnto the child ℞ Olei Mirtill Cydonior Mastich an ℥ s. Coral rub santal rub an ʒ i. maioran Absynth an ℈ iiij vng Rosat Mes. ℥ s. Cerae q. s fiat Linimentum Let there bee laide vpon her backe and os sacrum some such emplaster Some women haue found good by applying vpon their Nauell a tost dipt in good red wine strowing vpon it the powder of Roses Grana tinctorum Coral and a little Cinamon The Emplaster ℞ Gallar Nuc. Cupress sang Dracon Balaust mirtil Ros rub an ʒ i. s. Mastic Myrrhae an ʒ ij Thur. Hypocist acaciae gum Arabic Bol. armen an ʒ i. ladani ℥ i. Terebinth venet ℥ is picis Naualis ʒ v j. Cerae ol Mastich an q. s vt fiat secundum artem emplastrum The emplaster must be often taken off for feare of the itching and put on againe and if there happen any heate to the part annoint it with Mesues ointment of Roses If you perceiue that the child be too great and big to the end that he receiue not so much nourishment whereby he may grow bigger and larger the mother must absteine from all meates that are so iuicy and nourishing and keepe herselfe quiet hauing her belly stayed vp with a fit roler that it hang not downe and least the ligaments which hold the child might stretch and so by the waight be torne and broken a sunder The like may bee obserued and practized in the causes annexed ioined to the mother as if there bee any Scyrrhus Mole Dropsie Warts Impostums excrescence of flesh or other indisposition of the wombe The which must bee cured before the woman bee with childe according as the disease doth require it beeing very hard for a Woman to proue with child when she is troubled with any of the aforesaid accidents And in regard of outward causes wherin we did comprehend the Ague Laske Fluxe of bloud vomiting and the like These accidents must bee preuented according as the case doth require taking the aduice of the learned Phisitian as we haue said before But concerning medicines which must bee more particularly applied to outward causes as falls blowes and violent exercises let them haue recourse to the medicines described for the childe that is weake and sickly to which these following may be added as beeing profitable for both causes As if there appeare any bloud or red waters that begin to flow and come forth by then naturall passage this medicine is excellent ℞ Granor. tinct ʒ s. Coral rub margarit elect an gr vi germina duor ouor misce exhibeatur cum vitello vnius oui vel ℞ Mastich subtil pul ʒ s. seric subtiliter incisae ℈ s. germina duor ouor capiat cum vitello oui She may likewise take in the morning a Lozenge of Diarhodon of the waight of a French Crowne This powder also is very commendable ℞ Sp. Diamarg frigid ʒ s. Coral rub vst lot in aq Rosar pryap Tauri sic an ℈ ij Eboris Bol. Armen terrae sigillat an ℈ iiij Sachar rosat tabulat ℥ is Capiat mane sero ʒ ij pro vnaquaque dosi Of this powder also may bee made Lozenges Let there bee applied to her backe the former Emplaster or this that followeth Emplaster to retaine or keepe in the child ℞ Mastich Mirrh gum Arab. an ʒ ij Menth. sicc Absynth rad Bistort Nucum fol. Cupress an ʒ i s. Cortic. granat ʒ ij s. Styrac calam Colophon picis Naual an ʒ iij. Cerae Citrin ℥ j. Terebinth von ℥ s. Ol. Mirtill q. s fiat emplast extendat super alutam ad vsum If the emplaster breed any inconuenience let them vse this ointment Ointment ℞ Ol. Cydonior Mastich Mirtill an ℥ i s. Bol.
backes and raines called in Languedocke Masquelon and of the Latins Morbus pilaris CHAP. XXXV IT had been more agreeable and conuenient to haue set downe this disease in the Chapter of the Vnquietnesse and Crying of little children But as this booke was euen almost printed Mr Toignet a Barber Chirurgion of Paris put me in mind of this disease that happens vnto little Children which is verie common in Languedocke and is called in their language Masquelon Hauing enquired of diuers Physicions about this disease and amongst the rest of Mons Riollan Doctour of Physicke in Paris and the Kings Professor in Chirurgerie a verie learned and painfull gentleman he told me that Montanus had written of it and that he called it Pilaris affectio As soone as little Children are taken with this disease they crie and take on extreamely and yet one can not perceiue any cause why they should do so which brings them oftentimes euen to their graue for that this disease drawes along with it Epylepticall convulsions because the Sinewes which come foorth of the backe-bone and are scattred on each side are ouer burthened and fill'd with some fuliginous vapour of which Haires are bred and they by their great length and continuitie are carried directlie to the braine whither when they are come they cause this disease The women of the Countrie of Languedocke because it is a common disease with them make no great reckoning of it and doe helpe it in this manner With the palme of their hand they do rub the bottome of the childs backe and raines downe to the crupper bone so long till they feele through the pores of the skin the tops of verie stiffe and pricking Haires to come foorth like vnto hoggs bristles which as soone as they see that they are come foorth they pull them away by and by with their nayles or else with such little pincers as women vse to pull the haire from off their eye-browes The same Montanus counselleth the woman to rub her hand first with some new Milke which being done and the Haires pull'd away the child presently recouers his health and leaueth his ordinarie cries and laments There may also happen vnto little Children diuers other diseases besides these that I haue spoken of But because they bee common as others are and such as may happen to one of any age as Wounds Vlcers Impostumes Fractures Luxations and sorenesse of the Head we haue willinglie omitted them for breuitie sake And also for that you may haue recourse to those that haue written thereof more particularly in their Chirurgerie The end The Chirurgions must beware of iudging rashlie A story Another Directions for the Chirurgion Signes of coÌ„ception taken from the man Experiment Signes taken from the woman The wombe shuts it selfe Some women when they be with child haue their courses Hippocrates Signes taken from vrines Experiment of Fernelius Hippocrates Hydromell is made of hony and water boiled together Auicen Truest signes gathered from the Child Signes gathered by the Midwife A pleasant answere The difference of sexe is hard to foretell Aristotle Obseruation Hipp. Aph. Signes of a boy â—â—gnes gaâ—hered out â—f Auicen Signes of a wench Hippocrates lib. de stipilitate An experiment Another experiment of Liuia The meanes how to begeâ— a sonne or a daughter To know whether a woman will bring two children What a false conception is Mola is either true or false Mola bred together with the child Hippocrates Cause of the flesh Mole Windie Mole Watry Mole Humorall Common signes Signes of false conception Signes from the motion The child moueth of it selfe and not the Mole True signes Signes of the windy Signes of the watry and humorall Difference betweene the Watry and Humorall Good Aire fit for a woman with child The Cough naught for women with child Bad smells to be auoided Her Dyet Too much meate stifleth Salt meates bad Fit meates Hearbs Diureticall and windy meates are naught Accidents that may happen Lib. 2. Aph. 38. Cibus potus deterior suauior tamen melioribus quidem sed insuauioribus est anteponendus Her Drinke Her Sleepe Exercise Causes of Abortment Great noyses hurtfull Violent exercise hurtfull Sentence of Aristotle Opinion of Plato Women that labour are easily deliuered Venus forbidden Aristotles opinion Her belly must be soluble Clisters Lib. 5. Aph. 34. Mulieri grauidae si aluus prosusior sit abortionis periculum imminet Lib. 5. Aph. 21. A Woman with Child may be purged Opening medicines must be auoided Lib. 5. Aph. 60. Considerations concerning Bloud-letting Passions of the mind An obseruation For great bellied women She must take need of lacing her selfe too hard To preserue the breasts A Fomentation What must be done the 3. and 4. Moneth Another Liniment Another The maner to prepare it Another easie to be prouided Obseruation Gouernment of the ninth Moneth The Bath The Ointment A Drinke A Woman must haue a care of her Beautie Health must be preferred Aristotle Hippocrates Vitruuius Why women with Child are sicke Diuers diseases of women Boulimos Canina appetentia Sitis immodica From whence it is called Pica Storie of Fernelius Diuers causes of Pica Wherefore they desire diuers things The beginning of the Pica The breeding of the haire causeth the Pica Their diet in Pica Meats fit for those that haue the Pica Auicen Aetius Oribasius Aegineta Much drinking is naught in the Pica Lozenges Another A Cataplasm Discretion in purging Auicens precept The Cause The Hicket Discommoditie of the Hicket Cure Straining bad for women with child Women with child Vomit often Vomiting must not be stopt on the suddaine Cause Accidents of Vomiting A good precept Emplaster An approued medicine Causes of wind Wind inclosed in the wombe Dyet Admonishment The diuers situation of the child Hipp. Cause of these paines The Cure A good obseruation Cause of the trembling of the Heart The wisedom of Nature in all her works How a woman with child must be let bloud The hart must be garded The wombe desireth good smels Inconueniences of the cough Cause Cure Dyet Generall medicines Cautery Frictions Another A medicine to take away the roughnes of the throat Sleeping stoppeth fluxes Contrary accidents in women with child Cause of Costiuenesse Other causes of Costiuenes Cure Brothes to loosen the belly Fluxe of the belly dangerous Prouerbe Women with child are subiect to loosenesse of the belly The Cure A wotrhy storie How to proceed therein Her Diet. A Drinke Cause of the swelling of the face Who are not subiect to the swelling Aduertisement concerning the cure Binding necessarie Lye of Vine ashes verie good A tried remedie An obseruation A tried remedie Causes of Abortment Causes from the child Causes from the mother Leannes causeth Abortment Fulnesse is cause of Abortment They which haue their naturall courses do often miscarry Things annexed to the mother which doe cause abortment Signes of abortment Hippoc. lib. 5. Aphoris 37.38 Loosenes of the belly causeth abortment
purgations with Diagredium or Coloquint and also from such as do much soften and moisten as Cassia Electuar Lenitiuum and the like because through their moisture they relaxe the stomacke and so consequently all the meanes which haue correspondence and traficke with the Matrice for the similitude of their neruous substance Their purges therefore must be of Rubart infusion and also in substance of the compound syrup of Cichory with Rubarbe which besides that they euacuate doe likewise coroborate and strengthen as also of the Syrup of Damaske Roses Maâ—na and other which with drawing away the water doe dry withall But aboue all pills are very fit for them because they dry both for their forme and also for the drying ingredients whereof they are compounded as those of Rubarb and Sene made with a little conserue of roses adding thereto if there be any suspition of some maligne or bad quality a little of the confection of Hyacinthvs This rule must be obserued in the purging of women with child and hereof must be had the counsel of the learned Phisitian If some maligne vapour be the cause they must vse cordials as a little confection of Hyacinthe the electuary of Gemmis these cordiall Lozenges or the like Cordiall Lorenges â„ž Corali vtriusque Ê’ s. lapid bezoard rasura vnic an ℈ s. pulu electuar diarrh abbat ℈ i. confect de Hiacintho Ê’ s. saccar cum aqua card bened dissol â„¥ ij fiant tabellae ponder Ê’ i. capiat singulis dicbus vnam mane alteram à prandio longe à pastu While they shall vse the aforesaid remedies it will be very necessarie to comfort the stomacke as also if the vomiting proceed through some weakenesse the stomacke not being able to retaine and hold the meate the fore mentioned Lozenges are very good as also Lozenges of Diarrhodon if they should prooue distasteful let them vse Codigniack or some Citron pill condited They may likewise take some digestiue powder after meales Let there be prouided some such fomentation for their stomacke as this Fomentation â„ž Mentae Ab sinthij rosar rub an m. s balaust Ê’ ij gariophilor santalor an Ê’ s. carnis cidoniorum â„¥ i. corticis citri Ê’ i. fiat decoct in vino austero profotu Then let them haue this ointment Liniment â„ž Olei mastich cidonior an â„¥ s. olei de absinthio Ê’ ij pulueris coralli rub gariophil an ℈ i. croci parum fiat litus admoueatur praemisso fotu This Emplaster is very fit which must be applied after the ointment and remain there a good space â„ž crustae panis assati â„¥ iiij macerent in vino rubro succo cidonior pul rosar rub absinthij an Ê’ i. ligni aloes gariophilor an Ê’ s. pul coralli rubri ℈ iiij olei de absinthio â„¥ i. fiat cataplasma If all these forenamed medicines helpe not the patient Master Mercator doth set downe a remedy very easie to be practised and of incredible vertue as he saith which cannot bring hauing often tried it any danger nor cause the woman to be deliuered out of her time which is to let her blood in the Saluatella of the right hand CHAP. X. Of the paine of the sto acke stancks and belly which happens to a woman with child THere is great store of grosse winds bred not onely in the stomacke and guts but also about the Liuer Spleene Mesenterium and Nauell by meanes of a weake and feeble heat which is not able wholly to consume and scatter them from whence proceedeth a great distention of the belly and other parts neere and chiefly about the Nauell which in some oftentimes stands out and is as big as a goose egge The which winds being thus inclosed and not hauing free passage cause such intollerable paine that euen the breathing is thereby hindred and the pulse almost lost which at length might cause the woman to be deliuered Sometime also the wind is shut vp within the womb for I haue knowen some women that haue voided them with such a sound noise as though it had bene by the fondament and this must be remedied after this sort First shee must shunne all manner of moist and windy meats liue after the order before prescribed If it bee needfull to purge her let it be done as is already set down Then let there be applied some dry fomentations to the place affected as this Quilt â„ž flor camo anethi an m. ij rosar rub p. ij se minis annisi foenicul an Ê’ ij baccar lauri Ê’ i. fiat omnium puluis grossus de quibus fi aut sacculi duo irrorati cum vino rub tepide admoueantur parti affectae The same quilts may be boyled in wine and fomitations made of the said wine with soft spunges But you must obserue that the too long vse of moist fomentations oyles and fats is forbidden women with child for feare least by too much moisture and oylinesse the ligaments and vessels of the matrice bee made too loose and soft which at length may cause the woman to abort Apply vnto her belly and to me parts pained in forme of a Pultesse this that followeth Pultesse â„ž Vitell. ouorum n. iiij puluis anisi foeniculi dulcis an Ê’ s. pul absinthii Ê’ s. cum oleo anethino camomil q. s fiat fricatum Let them chaw Fennil or Anniseed or a little Cinamon and take a tost dipt in Hippocras Some haue tolde mee that the distilled water of Citron Pills drunke is very singular good And it will not be amisse sometimes to take a spoonfull or two of this water A Claret water â„ž Aquae vitae â„¥ s. cinamo Ê’ i. macerent spatio xiiij hor. deinde affunde aque rosar â„¥ iii. saccari candi â„¥ s. fiat aqua clareta capiat coclear vnum If ye perceiue that shee is much troubled with paine you may giue her a Clister as this A Glister â„ž Folior maluae matrica an m. i. flor camom meliloti et summitat aneti an M. ss seminis anisi foenic. an Ê’ iii. bulliant in iure capit veruec vel vituli de quo accipe quart iij. in quibus dissolue Ol. Aneth Chamamel an â„¥ ij Sachar eub. â„¥ j. s Butyr recent â„¥ j. Vitell. duor ouor fiat Clyster Neuerthelesse I am of opinion if it may be done possibly that they should abstaine from Clysters because I haue seene women sometimes through as small a Clyster as this fall into great torments yea and euen into throwes nature being thereto prepared and ready which turned to the Chirurgions disgrace Wherefore let her vse these Lozenges following Lozenges â„ž sem Anis foenic. dulc an Ê’ s nucis Mosch ℈ j. spec Diacumin Diarrhod Abbat ana ℈ s sacchar in aq Cinamon dissolut â„¥ ij fiant tabulae capiat vnam singulis auroris She may vse Sugar of Roses which to euery ounce hath two or three drops of the oile
suppression whereof doth cause paines gripings suffocation an ague and many other accidents Now when the woman shall be thus accommodated she must be kept from sleeping though shee bee very desirous thereof and let her in the meane time be entertained with some discourse and let her nurse looke to her brests applying such things thereunto as shall be set downe in the third booke in their proper place After the woman hath beene kept three or foure houres from sleeping you may giue her some broth made with a knuckle of Veale or a Chicken or in stead thereof a couple of yelkes of egges and so let her take her rest and if she haue any desire to sleep shee may which must bee some three or foure houres after her deliuery the dores and windowes of her chamber being close shut not making any noise And so let this suffice for the naturall trauaile or deliuery wherein there hath beene no difficulty the woman beeing neither much troubled nor hauing had any greate paines but those that are ordinary and such as God hath which is that In sorrow a woman should bring forth Of a painfull and difficult deliuery with the causes thereof CHAP. VIII WOmen are brough a bed very hardly and with much paine vppon diuers reasons which is an occasion that many repaire vnto Phisitians and Chirurgions to haue their helpe since there be few Midwiues found skilful that can giue them much aide or succour in these cases A Chirurgion beeing called thither ought diligently to inquire what may be the cause and consider carefully thereof now the cause may be referred to foure things either to the mother or to the child or to things that are annexed vnto the child or else to outward things and so accordingly must they frame the remedy In the number of outward things I comprehend those persons that are about the woman in trauail who if they be displeasing vnto her are to be intreted gently to withdraw and absent themselues Whether it be by reason that the woman hath any feare apprehension or any mislike and loathing vnwillling to haue them so neare her when shee is in her trauaile and anguish or else being ashamed to see her selfe in that case 2 Pliny writeth that the ancients held an opinion that the deliuery might bee hindred and prooue difficult if there were any in the womans chamber which held her fingers lockt or shut one within another and produceth for an example Alcmena who could not be deliuered of Hercules but with much difficulty 3 Likewise the outward aire being too cold may hinder the deliuery because it cooleth the woman shutting vp her body and especially those parts which ought to be inlarged and dilated As also the aire being too hot spendeth the spirits and makes the woman lose her strength remaining weake and feeble and as it were fainting without any power or courage And therefore the aire must be temperate yet rather hot then cold 4 Pleasing smels as of Muske Ciuet Amber Grise or the like if she haue such about her the vapour whereof may strike vp into her nose doe hinder the deliuery because they draw the wombe vpward If the cause of difficult deliuery be in the mother her selfe it comes either by reason of her person or her age or her naturall disposition or of some other accident she hath had or may haue or by being deliuered before or after her time 1 Her person or body may be the cause thereof as if shee be too fat and full for in such women I haue seene great store of fat come down into their naturall parts which stopped the passage And in others I haue seene the caule come downe which did so presse and crush together both the inward and outward necke of the wombe that it could very hardly open it selfe yea and being dilated and inlarged did euen close presse it together againe In some I haue seene and felt part of the bladder present it selfe at the entrance of the wombe A woman that is too leane and bare as also one that is too little may likewise bee deliuered with much difficulty And when this happeneth it cannot be remedied as one would desire 2 Now concerning their age both they that are too yoong as being too straight and also they that are old hauing also their naturall parts too much shrunke together and dryed and the bones too closely ioyned together the cartilages very hard which cannot so well yeeld and bee dilated as in youth I say both of these bee deliuered with very much difficulty 3 Their naturall disposition likewise may bee a cause that they are deliuered with much paine 1 As if they be weake of constitution nice tender timerous and afraid of paine which makes them that they will not force themselues nor make their paines and throws effectuall and when the child is euen ready to come forth they shrinke in themselues with the very feare they haue to feel such paine 2 Hippocrates saith that women which haue an Ague when they are with child and become very leane without a manifest cause doe bring foorth their children with great difficulty paine and danger And if they doe miscarry or abort then they are in danger of their liues The same Author saith that those women which giue but little nourishment to their children are sooner deliuered and contrariwise they that feede too much are longer ere they be brought a bed 3 They that haue beene troubled with any sicknesses as the bloudy fluxe or other fluxe of the belly Convulsions fluxe of bloud or that haue any tumor vlcer or scarre which hath happened by being heeretofore badly deliuered or any other accident that hath made the necke of the wombe hard close and straight which is a meanes that it cannot be dilated and inlarged or else which haue the entrance or passage stopt with some flesh or membrane that is naturall vnto them that is to say which they haue had from their birth All these I say are deliuered with great paine and difficulty yea and oftentimes doe lose their liues thereby Now some will thinke it very strange and almost incredible to find a woman that should bee with child and yet a maide there being euen from her birth a membrane that stoppeth the passage and hindreth the man from entring Where as it is necessary for conception that a woman should haue the entire fruition or company of the man and that he should not onely enter within the outward passage of the womb but euen to the inner necke therof to carry thether the seed and there to mingle it with the womans But stories in this kinde make vs beleeue the contrary seeing there is no such necessity that the mans seede should be carried and cast so deepe For in some Women the wombe is so greedy and lickerish that it doth euen come down to meet
the parts of his bodie are not strong and able enough to draw vnto them sufficient nourishment This difficultie of deliuerie happens also when the child is either sicke or dead and is not able to help it selfe as likewise when he is too big in all his bodie and chiefly in the head or if he be a Monster hauing two heads two bodies foure armes or legs or if they be Twins th' one hindring the others comming foorth which will be euident by the bignesse of the Mother or if he be ill placed to come foorth putting formost an arme or a leg or both the shoulder buttockes side or belly comming formost 4 Now concerning that which is annexed to the child the deliuerie proues difficult if the membranes that containes the water wheron the child doth floate and swim be firme solide and hard that it cannot but verie hardly be broken or that the said membrane be so thin that it breakes too soone and before the child be well turned and ready to follow the said water which serues to carrie him and make him come foorth the easier For the child that remaines drie commeth into the world with much paine Likewise if the after-burthen offer it selfe first and that it stop the passage or if there be a Mole or false Conception As also if the woman haue not been lately at stoole or made water the which is cause that the great gut being full may close the necke of the wombe as likewise the bladder being full may presse it downe because it is placed betweene them both Whence it is commonly said in the prouerb Que l'enfant est situé enter le boire le manger which is That the child is seated between the meat and the drinke And therefore all the aforesaid accidents must be remedied accordingly The meanes to help Women that are deliuered with difficultie CHAP. IX THat a Woman which is deliuered with difficultie and much paine may be help'd the Chirurgian ought to know what is the cause thereof and from whence this difficultie doth proceed that he may the better cure it If it be because the Mother is to grosse or fat and chiefly in her naturall parts as also if there be any store of fat offer it selfe as I haue seen it oftentimes happen in great striuing and throwes yea and that in such sort that it did euen stop the passage of the child Then the Chirurgion as gently as he can possibly must thrust backe and put aside with one hand the said fat not tearing or hurting it least it be spoiled and corrupted afterwards holding it still downe on the one side till the child be come foorth of the wombe keeping it alwaies from falling downe into the passage and among the bones when the child is readdy to come foorth But when part of the bladder is sunke downe and relaxed and is manifestly perceiued in the entrance of the wombe then must he do the like as he did to the fat holding it aside vpward with the flat of two or three of his fingers vntill the childs head be past the Os Pubis If he find then as it may so come to passe that the said bladder be full of vrine the woman in trauaile not hauing made water a good while before then must he cause her to make water by putting a fit instrument gently into the bladder For it is seen in some that the fibres which doe contract the bladder and make it driue out the vrine are so weakned and also the whole bodie thereof that the vrine cannot come foorth Some women haue been deceiued by taking the said bladder thus full with vrine for the waters which come before the child causing the said bladder to be broken the which is worthy of great consideration Also the said necke of the bladder may be stop't by reason of some Carnositie Inflammation or stone which I haue seen an honest woman there being a stone fallen down into the necke in her bladder that stopt her vrine which being put aside by the probe she made water Neuerthelesse when the child was ready to come foorth the stone returning in to the said necke of the bladder againe did so fret and hurt it through the long stay that the childs head made in the passage that it grew to an Impostume and suppuration which made a little hole through the which she hath long time made her water not being able to hold or retaine it which is a storie worthy to be mark'd But as the vrine may be sometimes stop't so likewise the excrements of the great gut may be retained which hapning it will be more then necessarie for the cure thereof to giue the woman a Clyster that may both vnload her of her excrements and likewise help and make her deliuerie the more easie I my selfe was present at the trauaile of a poore sicke woman that had not been at stoole in ten daies before whose great gut was so fild and stuft with excrements as hard as a stone that it was impossible for her to receiue a Clyster and we were constrain'd before she could be deliuered to get out all the said excrements otherwise it had been impossible to haue taken foorth the child To help and succour one that is lean and barren or else of little stature as also such as are either too old or too young they must haue recourse long before hand vnto medicines that shall mollifie moisten and relaxe not onely the membranes which ought to be dilated and stretch'd that they may be made more souple and gentle But likewise you must annoint the Cartilages and Ligaments that ioine the Os pubis Sacrum Os Coccygis and Ilium which must be done with oyntments already set downe and euen in the verie houre of the deliuerie annoynt all the said parts therewith Some mislike not about the end of the ninth moneth to bathe the woman either with a generall or particular bath as we haue heretofore appointed as likewise to giue her euery morning eight or ten daies before her lying in this Drinke A Drinke to make easie the deliuerie Take Oile of sweet Almonds drawen without fire an ounce water of Parietary two ounces mingle thâ—m together and let her drinke it The which I haue oftentimes tried in many women and among the rest in Madame Capp who before had been many times deliuered with much paine and sorrow of her children dead But since I counsell'd her to vse this medicine she hath been deliuered thankes be to God verie fortunately of many children liuing The same remedies do likewise serue for them that haue any Callositie or hardnesse in the passage of Nature The weake and dainty women must be fed with yelkes of egges cullis a tost with wine and sugar or Hyppocras and that a little at a time and often you may also giue them a little confection of Alhermes dissolued either
then the woman dyes presently but if it be voided by the mouth or nose then she may escape The causes of this suppression are of two kinds either inward or outward The outward causes are sadnes griefe suddain apprehension of some ill newes feare frighting and such like passions of the mind Likewise cold which the woman hath taken which shutteth vp the veines of the Matrice a bad dyet and amongst other things drinking of colde and raw water which hath beene noted by Hippocrates to be very hurtfull vnto women with child Now concerning the inward causes the same Author writes that the vlcers which happen by reasen of a long and troublesome deliuery doe cause an inflammation and swelling which makes the side of the wombe come together and shuts vp the orifices of the veines thereof from whence proceedes suppression of the after-Purgins Likewise the ouer great quantity of thicke and grosse bloud may bee the cause as also the weakenesse of the Matrice the which because it hath beene sore wearied and troubled in the deliuery and thereby lost all strength is not able to disburden and free it selfe of the bloud whereof it is full Hippocrates also in the same place giues another cause which is when the mouth of the said womb is shrunke or turned awry or else because the sides of it are sunke downe shut together and inflammed For the Cure heereof shee must obserue an order of dyet which shall be moistning and opening Her meate and drinke must be such as we haue formerly prescribed for one newly deliuered Shee shall take operitiue Broths thereby to open the orifices of the veines which are much stopt and according to the cause so the remedies must be fitted as if it come by any sudden apprehension griefe or anger then must she be plasant and make her selfe as merry as she can If it proceed of any inflammation or heate that hath thickned the bloud then must she vse medicines that shal moderately cool moisten as Apozemes made with the leaues and rootes of Succory Burnet Endiue Agrimony Maydenhaire Couchgrasse or Gramen Hoppes rootes of Persely and Asparagus Violet flowers with the sirups of Maydenhaire and de quinq radicibus If it be needfull to attenuate and cut or to euacuate any grosse and clammy humors which shut vp the orifices of the veines it will not be amisse to vse this fomentation so that there be no great inflammation of the part A. somentatiō ℞ Malu Bismal Parietar Matricar an m. i. Abrotan Origan Aneth Calamint Artemis an m. s. Flor. sambuc Chamaemel Melilot an P. i. sem Linifoenugraec an ʒ ij fiant sacculi duo Coquantur in aq Communi addendo sub finem vini albi parum pro fotu Of the foresaide ingredients you may likewise prepare fumes halfe baths and also iniections for the Matrice If the said after-purgings are suppressed because the inner orifice of the matrice is closed or turned aside then will it be very necessary for the Chirurgion after he hath considered that there is neither paine nor distemperature to set it right againe by putting vp pessaryes which shal prouoke and bring downe the after purgings as this following A Pessary ℞ Cerae nouae ℥ iiij Mell. ℥ i. styrac liq ℥ s. Ol. muschell ʒ ij liquefiant omnia simul addendo Myrrh Aloes an ʒ is farin Lupinor ʒ vi auferendo ab igne impone telam ex Canabe de qua cooperiatur pessarium ad vsum You shall first frame a pessary and then it shall be couered with the said cloth or else dipped and couered with the said medicine You may also make little round bags of a fingers length in the forme of a pessary which you shall fill or stuffe with the herbe Mercury first brused or beaten and this may serue for a pessary this herb is very much commended If it be needful to haue the pessary stronger you may put thereto a little Mugword Sauine and Balme It will be very profitable to bind the thighs hard and to rub the legges and thighs especially on the inside all along the crurall veyne you may also apply great Cupping glasses in the saide places Let her legges and thighs be washed with that decoction which was set downe before for the fomentation The same decoction also may serue for Clysters dissoluing therein Hiera or Benedict Laxatiua and mel mercuriale But we must preferre before all these medicines that which is the most soueraigne which is letting of bloud in the foote out of the Saphena or in the Poplitica which is in the bending of the gartring place For by this meanes we shall manifestly meet with the cause of the sicknesse And heerein wee shall follow the example of Hippocrates who caused the woman seruant of Stymargus to be let bloud be cause her sicknesse or purgings were stayed after she was deliuered and by this meanes she was well discharged of them although before she had bene in great and generall Convulsions The same Author saith that a woman that hath these purgings staide must haue present helpe for feare least there happen some great inflammation to the part so that except she be presently let bloud she is in danger of death Her belly also must be kept loose by Clisters and if she can vomit easily she must be helped that way also Galen saith that hee hath brought downe these purgings in women that was pale leane and weak by letting her bloud in good quantity I haue not heere set downe any medicines to bee taken by the mouth because I haue written many of this kind in the Chapters going before wherein I haue treated of the meanes how to make the child or after-birth come foorth when they bee staide which medicines haue power also to prouoke the courses or after purgings Of the false Conception stayed and abiding in the woman after her deliuery CHAP. IX IT may happen to some women that after they haue been well deliuered of their children there may stay with them one or more false conception Some of these false conceptions sticke fast to the wombe some are vnfastned and loose If they be small they come foorth together with the purgings but if they be big they oftentimes stay and abide within And in this case the Chirurgion must be carefull for if they bee bigge and cleaue to the wombe they may bring much inconuenience to the woman by their long staying behind So then it will be necessary for him to know whether there be any of this kind and of what nature it is which he shal learne of the Mother by demanding of her how she found her selfe all the time shee went with child First then let him enquire of her whether she were very big at that time and if she had any hardnesse in any part of her belly whether shee hath beene vsed to any such accident with her other children for there are women which
the first point which is the changing of the child that may easily come to passe because as soone as the child is borne and Christned the Mother presently deliuers it to the Nurse to bee carried into the Country Where the child being wholly left to the discretion of the Nurse may by some ill chance be stifled ouer-laid be let fall and so come to an vntimely death or else may be deuoured spoiled or disfigured by some wild beast Wolfe or Dogge and then the Nurse fearing to be punished for her negligence may take another child into the place of it which can hardly euer be marked and distinguished And indeede when children grow somwhat big and are brought home from Nurse if they proue not like their parents in body in conditions and wit the Prouerbe goes That they are chaunged at Nurse Which sometimes may bee truer then they are aware of The Historiographers report that Arthebar King of the Epirotes being old had one only sonne whose nurse was corrupted with great gifts to change him and to take a Gentlemans sonne into his place But when the King was dead the Nurse repenting her selfe of this wickednesse reuealed the error wherupon ensued such terrible wars betweene the lawfull and the supposed son that both of them lost their liues in a battaile Vpon this occasion Thomistus the seuenth King of the Lacedemonians leauing two sonnes behind him when he dyed the Lacedemonians chose the younger of them for their King because he had beene nursed by the Queene his Mother and reiected the eldest who had beene brought vp by a strange woman fearing least he had bene changed by his Nurse 2. For the second point which is naturall affection without doubt that cannot bee so earnest either from the Mother toward the child or from the chlld toward the Mother if shee haue not nursed him and giuen him sucke For if she nurse him he sucks and draws her owne bloud Whereupon grows a familiar inwardnes and the child when he comes to yeares of discretion finds himselfe bound to his Mother for many benefits both in that she hath borne him nine Moneths in her womb and also because shee hath nursed him watched him and often made him cleane In recompence whereof he endeuours to shew her a thousand delights to make her forget or take in good part so much care and paines as shee hath taken with him Hee playes a number of apish trickes about her he kisseth her strokes her haire nose and eares he flatters her he counterfeits anger and other passions and as he groweth bigger hee finds other sports with her which causeth that they beare one another such an affection as cannot be expressed makes that they can neuer be parted When hee is bigge and comes to be weaned if one chide his nurse he cries and stamps and if one offers to take him out of his nurses armes he will flye in their faces and if it were possible he would euen pull out their heart and all this proceeds from that inward affection of the child to which no loue can bee compared And heereupon Plato iustly said That children would neuer loue their parents so well but that their fathers doe often beare them in their armes and the mothers giue them sucke at their owne breasts And heereof wee haue a memorable example in Cornelius Scipio who when he had condemned ten of his most valiant Captaines to death he would not heare his owne Brother Scipio Africanus intreating for them and yet granted their pardon to one that had bin his Foster-brother and sucked the same Nurse which being obiected to him by his owne Brother saying That they had been borne both of one Mother He answer'd him That his Nurse-Mother had deserued better of him than his owne Mother had done One of the familie of the Gracchi returning from the warre met his owne Mother and his Nurse together but he addressing himselfe first to his Nurse presented to her a Girdle of gold and then to his Mother a Iewell of of siluer which she taking indigâ—ely and rebuking him with reproaches he replyed I know Mother that you bore me nine Moneths in your wombe yet that was out of necessitie because you could do no otherwise but when I was borne then you forsoke me and my Nurse-mother willingly intertain'd me carried me three yeares in her armes and nourish'd me with her owne bloud 3. As for the maners and conditions of the child there is no doubt to be made but that they are better bred and fashioned by the Mother than by the Nurse For first it is deliuered by learned writers that the Manners and conditions of the mind do follow the temperament of the bodie and the temperament ariseth out of the nourishment so that commonly such as the humours are such proue the manners Hence must we conclude that the child that suckes a Nurse that is vitious and wicked sucketh also from her her faults and vices And beside when the child comes to vnderstanding and obserues what the Nurse speakes and doth he retaines that saies it after her and imitates her and that which is imprinted from the infancie will hardly or neuer be rooted out For this cause Plato warnes vs not to speake or shew any thing before a child which is not decent and honest and Aristotle forbids to let a child see any wanton or lasciuious picture Then to returne to our Nurse we may be assured that the Milke wherewith the child is nourish'd two yeares together hath as much power to make the children like the Nurses both in bodie and mind as the seed of the Parents hath to make the children like them For although the child be borne of honest Parents neuerthelesse the bad nurture of a wicked Nurse will make the child vicious and wicked For as the prouerbe is Nurture preuailes more than Nature This may be plainly obserued in all things that haue life for a faire and flourishing tree which hath been bred in a good and fat ground if it be transplanted into a barren ground becomes a shrub and beares no fruit that is good and tastfull Likewise the graine that is sowed in good ground will beare a faire and odoriferous flower but if it be cast into bad ground it will bring foorth a bastard flower without any good or pleasing smell It is reported that a certaine child was nourish'd with the milke of a Bitch But he would rise in the night and houle with other dogges Plato going about to giue a reason why Alcibiades was so hardy although he were an Athenian who naturally were milde and timerous resolues it thus because the said Alcibiades had been nursed by a Lacedaemonian woman which is a verie stout and valiant Nation 4. As for the imperfections of the bodie which children may borrow from their Nurses although they bee very many yet consider only those which the corpulencie and diseases of the Nurse may bring them Tacitus writeth that the
this practiâ—â— The Caesarian Section reproued Cold hurts the spermaticall parts Dyet The nurses must not bee alwayes harkned to She must see sparingly Her meats A drinke Capon water for Ladyes Another drinke Noise is hurtâ—full Sleepe The vse of Coleworts Sadnes to bee auoided Women tâ— are Virgins after child bearing An ointmâ—â—â— to keepe 〈◊〉 milke from curdling Fomentations for the parts First Bath 〈◊〉 Summer The manâ—â—â— of making How long she must stay in the Bath To make the skin smooth The manner of vsing the perfume Means to hâ—â—den the breâ—â—â— A Pultesse for the Belly and Breasts The vertue 〈◊〉 Myrrhe Tranchees The first cause The second The third Sentence of Hippocrates Fomentation A Drinke A powder Gripings The Cure of the Fundament fallen Foment Sâ—c morb Mulier Lib. 1. Why women are subiect to the Hemorrâ—â—des The differences of Hemorrhodes Vesicales or vuales Verrucales Morales Dyet An experiment of the Authors Rhasis medicine An approued remedy A fome 〈…〉 The belâ—â— must be 〈◊〉 â—e Morb. muli Comment in lib. j. Aphorism How long tâ— purgings should flow Hip. de Natuâ—pueri Leuit. chap. 12 Lib. de morbis Malier Signes to know whether a woman in child-bed be in health or no. Comment in 6. Epidemior De mor. Mulier Inward causes Hippocrat morbis Mulâ— The Cure Dyet Diuers remedies An experiment seen by the Authour Galen Lib. Exper. An Iniect 〈…〉 Porrhetic Sect. 2. What Lâ—câ—â—â— are A sentence of Hippocrat The stopping of the After-purging cause death Outward causes Lib. de Aâ—râ—lâ—cis Aquâ— Lib. 1. de morâ— Mulier Inward causes Hippoc. loco citato Dyet The meanes to set the wombe right Ligatures and frictions Opening a veine in the foote is the most soueraign remedy De Morbis mulier lib. 1. Epidem 6. Difference oâ— false conception A story Signes The prognosticke Hip. lib. de sterilibus Cure De Morbis mul. lib. 2. Hippocrat lib. 2. de morb mulier de natura mulieb et 2. Epidem Hippocrat Epidem 2 Plato How the matrice moueth Gal. in lib. 3. de Articul com How the matrice chaungeth place The first falling of the matrice Hipp. Lib. de natura Pueri Hipp. Lib. de natura Muliebri The second kind Hipp. Lib. de Sterilibus de morb Mulier The third kind Gal. lib. 14. de vsâ— partium Outward causes Inward causes Hippocrat Epidem 2. Hippocrat Epidem 6. Hipp. de Natura Mulier 2. Hippocrat de Eiectione Foeâ—us Gal. de facult Natur. lib. 3. A Comparison Both old and young may be cured hereof The Cure The way to put it vp A good obseruation The second meanes to help vp the matrice When astringent medicines are to be shun'd Hipp. de natura Muliebri Hipp. de morb Mulier lib. 2. Vomiting is necessarie Cupping glasses She must hauâ— sundry smels The third meanes to strengthen the mother Ill smels to be put into the Pessaries Hipp. Lib. de natura Muliebri The cause Gal. lib. de 〈…〉 sectione vter 〈…〉 Cure The practise Must take heed of leting it grow together againe A story Metrop Salisb. Epise 36. Scolion ad Tertul lib. 9. de Anim Aug. lib. 3. de ciuit Dei cap. 31 Metaph. 10. Martij Lipom. com 7. The difficulty of finding a good nurse 1. Her Lignage 2. Her Person Her Stature A red hair'd Nurse discommended Her Countenance A Nurses perfections Hipp. lib. 2. Epidemiar 3. Her Manners 4. Her Mind Gal. de Sanitat tuenda The qualitie of good Milke Quantitie of Milke The colour of good Milke The smell The tast A proofe of the goodnesse of Milke in quantitie A trial of the quantity The choice of a Nurse by her child Auicen What meat a nurse must refrain from What meates she shall vse Her Bread Her broth Her drinke A kinde of drinke which they vse in France which they call Bouchet Aristotle Her exercise Her sleepe How to fashion the childs head The childs eares must be cleansed The eyes clensed The nose must be clensed For the clensing of the mouth Care to bee had of the fundament For the armeâ— and legs A Precept of Galen de sanitat tuend Gal. de arte medica Inconuenience of hard swathing the hips Gal. decaus morber How to order the Cradle How to lay the child The place where the Cradle shall be set The manner how to giue the child sucke What quantitie of milke the child may sucke Hippocrat lib. de princip Gal. de Sanit tuenda Gal. lib. 1. de sanitate tuenda The childs foode That is in France where they haue not Ale or beere Hippocr lib. 3. aphoris 24. Lib. 3. aph 25. The Cause The cure of Phisocephalos Outward medicines Hydrocephalos Auicen The roofe of the mouth cleft The hare lip A hystoric Extraordinarie number of fingers A storie Of the diseases of the eies Of the nose Of the eares Aphthae or the vlcers of the mouth A Gargarism for the vlcers of the mouth An experimeÌ„t of the Author The Cure A Gargarism A medicine for the necke and iawes How to cut the string of the tongue Another way The causes of the cough The cough is dangerous for children Medicines against the Cough Means to stay the cough The cause of the swelling of the nauell The Cure The Cure 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Cure Rhasis opinioÌ„ Hippoc. lib. 3. Aphoris 25. The ill accidents which breeding of the teeth brings to children Aelius sem 4. cap. 9. An experimeÌ„t Auicen Aecius Auicen An experience of the Author Hip. de Aero loc Aquis Morbus puerilis Mater pueroruÌ„ An Aphorism of Hippocrates Diuers causes of a Convulsion The Prognosticke Hippo. de morbe Sacro Good sentences of the Ancients The Cure Vomiting good for the child Cupping glasses Dioscorides Balsamum Anserinâ—m A soueraigne medicine Hippoc. lib. 3. Aphorismor Whereby a child may be hindred from sleeping Signes that the child is amisse The Cure Diuers means to make a child sleep Gal. in Hip. lib. 3. Aphoris 24. The signes to know whether a childe be frighted in his sleepe Aristot de histâ—r anim lib. 4. cap. 10. The Cure The diet that the Nurse the child must keepe They must not sleepe presently after meate Medicines for the child The diuers kinds of ruptures The causes of ruptures The Cure Rest necessary for the child The dyes which the child must keepe His drinke How the child must be laid The cause why children can hardlie pisse Children must be often held out to pisse Hippocr lib. 3. Aphoris 26. The Cure A Diet for the Nurse An experience of the Author The childe must bee put in minde to make water Medicines of the Ancient Phisicions Fomentations for the Perinquin The cause of excoriation or galling The Cure Common medicines Diuers imperfections of the PraeputiuÌ„ Phimosis Paraphimosis An obseruation of Aristotle lib. 4. cap. 4. de generatione Animalium What happens when the Praeputium is closed The order of cutting the Praeputium The Paraphimosis of little children The Authors opinion The method of doing it An other way Cornelius Celsus appointeth this kind of Cure Aeginetas opinion A good obseruation The Cure Difference in figure Matter The Cure The order to do it Aristot lib. 4. cap. 4. de gene raâ— Animal The manner of doing it A pessary of Lead The fundament that is shut vp must be speedily remedied The Cure How the euen Cure must be performed A story Lactumen Lactitium Cerium The Cause The Cure Few children escape the small pocks What the measels and the pocks are Difference Cause A good comparison Signes Good signes Bad signes The signes of the Measels Hippocrates How the Pocks must be help'd The Cure The Place His Diet. Broths His Drinke A lenifying and soupling Drinke His sleepe Bloud letting To preserue the eies Auicen To preserue the Nose Eares Mouth and Throat The Lungs An approued medicine Diuers accidents To preserue children from the Measels small Pocks The Nurses and the childs dyet Their sleepe Purging Letting bloud Signes The Cure Her diet The vse of the Decoction Aqua Theriacalis The vse Morbus Pilaris