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A11278	The sicke vvomans private looking-glasse wherein methodically are handled all uterine affects, or diseases arising from the wombe; enabling women to informe the physician about the cause of their griefe· By Iohn Sadler, Doctor in Physicke at Norwich.	Sadler, John, 1615-1674.; Droeshout, John, d. 1652, engraver.	1636 (1636)	STC 21544; ESTC S116338	43,151	302

from the urine from the infant and from experiment Signes collected from the woman are these The first day after conception shee feeles a light quivering or chillinesse running through the whole body a tickling in the wombe and a little paine in the lower parts of the bellie Ten or twelve dayes after the head is affected with giddinesse the eyes with a dimnesse of sight then followes red pimples in the face with a blue circle about the eyes the brests swell and grow hard with some paine and pricking in them the belly suddainly sinketh and riseth againe by degrees with a hardnesse about the navill The nipples of the brests wax red the heart beats inordinately the naturall appetite is dejected yet shee hath a longing desire after strange meates The necke of the wombe is retracted that it can hardly bee felt with the finger being put up and this is an infallible signe She is suddainly merrie and as soone melancholie her monthly courses are stayed without any evident cause the excrements of the guts are unaccustomedly retained by the wombe pressing the great gut and her desire to Venus is abated The surest signe is taken from the infant which begins to move in the wombe the third or fourth month and that not in the manner of a mole from one side to another rushing like a stone but mildely as may bee perceived by applying the hand hot on the bellie Signes taken from the urine The best clerks doe affirme that the urine of a woman with child is white and hath little motes like those in the Sunne beames ascending and descending in it and a clowd swimming aloft of an opall colour the sediment being devided by shaking of the urine appeares like carded wooll In the middle of her time the urine turneth yellow next red and lastly blacke with a red cloud Signes taken from experiment At night going to bed let her drinke water and hony afterward if shee feeles a beating paine in her bellie and about her navill shee hath conceived Or let her take the juce of Card●us and if she vomiteth it up it is a signe of conception Cast a cleane needle into the womans urine put in a brasen bason let it stand all night and in the morning if it bee coloured with red spotts shee hath conceived but if it bee blacke or rustie shee hath not Signes taken from the Sex to shew whether it bee male or female Being with childe of a male the right brest swells first the right eye is more lively then the left her face well coloured because such as the blood is such is the colour and the male is conceived of purer blood and of more perfect seede then the female Red motes in the urine setling downe to the sediment foretell that a male is conceived but if they be white a female Put the womans urine which is with childe into a glassen bottle let it stand close stopt three dayes then straine it through a fine cloth and you shall finde little living creatures if they be red it is a male if white a female To conclude the most certaine signe to give credit unto is the motion of the infant for the male moves in the third moneth and the female in the fourth CHAP. XV. Of untimely birth WHen the fruite of the womb comes forth before the seventh moneth that is before it comes to maturity it is said to bee abortive And in effect the child proves abortive I meane not to live if it bee borne in the eight moneth And why children borne in the seventh and ninth moneth may live and not in the eight moneth may seeme strange yet it is true The cause hereof by some is ascribed unto the Planet under which the childe is borne for every moneth from the conception to the birth is governed by his proper planet and in the eight moneth Saturne doth predominate which is cold and dry and coldnesse being an enemy unto li●e destroys the nature of the childe Hypocrates gives a better reason The infant being every way perfect and compleate in the seventh moneth desires more aire and nutriment than it had before which because hee cannot obtaine hee labours for a passage to goe out and if his spirits bee weake and faynt and have not strength sufficient to break the membrances and come forth it is decreed by nature that he should continue in the womb untill the 9th month that in that time his wearied spirits might be againe strengthned and refreshed but if he returnes to strive againe in the eight moneth and bee borne hee cannot live because the day of his birth is eyther past or to come for in the eight moneth sayth Avicen hee is weake and infirme and therefore b●ing then cast into cold ayre his spirits cannot but sinke Cause Vntimely birth may bee caused by cold for as it maketh the fruit of the tree to wither and fall downe before it be ripe so doth it nip the fruit of the wombe before it comes to full perfection and make it to be abortive Sometimes by humidity weakening the faculty that the fruit cannot be retain'd untill the due time by drinesse or emptinesse defrauding the childe of his nourishment by one of the three alvine fluxes by phlebotomy and other evacuations by inflammations of the wombe and by other sharpe diseases Sometimes it is caused by joy laughter anger and especially by feare for in all but in that especially the heate forsakes the wombe and runnes to the heart to helpe there and so the cold strikes into matrice whereby the ligaments are relaxt and abortion follows Wherefore Plato in his time commanded that the woemen should shunne all temptations of great joy and pleasure and likewise avoyd all occasions of feare and griefe Abortion also may bee caused by the corruption of the ayre by filthy odours and especially by the smell of the snuffe of a Candle also by falls blowes violent exercise leaping dancing c. Signes Signes of future abortion are extenuation of the brests with a flux of watrish milke payne in the womb heavinesse in the head unaccustomed wearinesse in the hippes and thighes flowing of the courses Signes foretelling the fruit to bee dead in the wombe are hollownesse of the eyes griefe in the head aguish horrours palenesse of the face and lippes gnawing of the stomacke no motion of the infant coldnesse and loosenesse of the mouth of the wombe the thicknesse of the belly which was above is fallen downe waterish and bloody excrements comes from the matrice A regiment or rule for breeding women THe prevention of untimely birth consists in the taking away of the forementioned causes which must bee effected both before and after conception Before conception if the body bee ever hot cold dry or moyst correct it with the contraries if cacochimiall purge it if plethoricall open the liver veine if too grosse extenuate

after great study and care instantly accompanying with their wives often beget doting children A hot and moyst aire is most convenient as appeares by the women in Aegypt which usually bring forth three or foure children at one time CHAP. 12. Of the Mola or halfeconception THis disease is called of the Greekes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and the cause of this denomination is taken from the loade or heavy weight of it it being a moles or great lump of hard flesh burdening the woman It is defined to bee an inarticulate peece of flesh without forme begotten in the matrice as it were a true conception In which definition wee are to note two things First in that a mole is sayd to be inarticulate and without forme it differs from monsters which are both formata and articulata Secondly it is sayd to bee as it were a true conception which puts a difference between a true conception and a mole which difference holds good three waies First in the Genus in that a mole cannot be fayd to bee animall Secondly in the Species because it hath no humane figure and beares not the character of a man Thirdly in the Individuum for it hath no affinity with the parent eyther in the whole body or any particle of the same Cause About the cause of this affect amongst learned authours I finde variety of judgements Some are of opinion that if the womans seed goes into the wombe and not the mans thereof is the mole produced Others there be that affirme it is ingendred of the menstruous blood but if these two were granted then mayds by having their courses or thorough nocturnall polutions might be subject unto the same which never any yet were The true cause of this fleshy mole proceeds both from the man and from the woman from corrupt or barren seed in the man and from the menstruous blood in the woman both mixed together in the cavity of the wombe where nature finding her selfe weake yet desiring to maintaine the perpetuity of her species labours to bring forth a vitious conception rather than none and so instead of a living creature generates a lumpe of flesh Signes The signes of a mole are these The months are supprest the appetite is depraved the brests swell and the belly is puffed up and waxeth hard Thus farre the signes of a breeding woman and of one that beareth a mole are all one I will now shew you how they differ The first signe of difference is taken from the motion of a mole it may bee felt to move in the wombe before the third moneth which the infant cannot yet that motion is not to be understood of any intelligent power in the mole but of the faculty of the wombe and of the seminall spirits defused through the substance of the mole for it lives not a life animall but vegitative in the manner of a plant Secondly in a mole the belly is suddenly puft up but in a true conception the belly is first retracted and then riseth againe by degrees Thirdly the belly being prest with the hand the mole gives way and the hand being taken a way it returnes to the place againe But a child in the wombe though prest with the hand moves not presently and being removed returnes slowly or not at all Lastly the childe continues in the wombe not above eleven moneths but a mole continues sometimes foure or five yeeres more or lesse according as it is fastned in the matrice I have knowne when a mole hath fallen away in the fourth or fifth moneth If it remaines untill the eleventh moneth the leggs waxe feeble and the whole body consumes onely the swelling of the belly still increaseth which makes some thinke they are hydropicall though there be little reason for it for in the Dropsie the legges swell and grow bigge but in a mole they consume and wither Prognostickes If at the delivery of a mole the Flux of blood bee great it shewes the more danger because the parts of nutrition having beene vitiated by the flowing back of the superfluous humors whereby the naturall heate is consumed and then parting with so much blood the woeman thereby is so weakened in all her faculties that she can hardly subsist Cure Wee are taught in the schoole of Hippocrates that phlegbotomy causeth abortion by taking away that nourishment which should sustaine the life of the child Wherefore that this vitious conception may bee deprived of that vegetative sappe by which it lives open the liver veyne and then the saphena on both feet Fasten Cupping-glasses to the loynes and sides of the belly which done let the uterine parts be first mollified and then expulsive faculty provoked to expell the burden To laxate the ligatures of the mole ℞ m.iij. Chammomile Melilot Pellitory of the wall Violet leaves Mercury roots of Fenell Parsly ana m. ij Lineseed Faengrecke ana lb. i. boyle them in water and let her sit therein up to the navill At the going out of the bath annoynt the privities and reines with this unguent following ℞ oyle of Chammomile Lillie● and sweet Almonds ana ℥ i. fresh butter Labdani Ammoniaci ana ℥ s. with the Oyle of Lineseed make an unguent Or instead of this may be used ●nguentum Agrippa or Dialtheae ℞ of Mercury roots of Althea ana m. s. fol. Branchae Vrsinae m. s. Lineseed Barley meale ana ℥ vi boyle all these with water and honey and make a playster Make pessaries of the gumme Galbanum bdellium Ammoniacum Figgs Hogges suer and Honey After the ligaments of the mole are loosed let the expulsive faculty be stirred up to expell the mole for effecting of which all medicaments may bee used which are proper to bring downe the courses ℞ troch de myrrha ℥ i. castor aristolochia Genti●● dictam ana ℥ s. likeʒi in ℥ iiij of Mugwort water ℞ of Hypericon Calamint Penny-royall Betony Hysope Sage Horebound Valerian Madder Sabine with water make a decoction take ℥ iij. of it with ℥ is of Sirrupe of Feverfew ℞ of Mugwort Myrrh Gentiane pil coch ana ℈ iiij anaʒs assa foetida Cinnamon Iuniper berries Borage ana ʒi with the iuce of Sabine make pills to be taken of every morning Make insessions of Hysope Bay leaves Assrum Calamint Bayberries Chammomile Mugwort Sabine ℞ of Sagapenum Marjerom Gentiane Sabine Cloves Nutmegge Bay-berries ana ℈ ij Galbanumʒi hierae picrae blacke Hellebore ana ℈ i. with Turpentine make a pessary But if these things prove not availeable then must the mole bee drawne away with an instrument put up into wombe called a Pes griphius which may be done with no great danger if it bee performed by a skilfull Chirurgeon After the delivery of the mole by reason that the woman hath parted with much blood already let the flux of blood bee stayed as fast as may bee Fasten Cupping-glasses to the shoulder and ligatures to the armes If these help not open the

liver-veine on the right arme The aire shall bee moderately hot and drie and her diet such as doth mollify and attenuate shee may drinke white wine CHAP. XIII Of the generation of monsters BY the Ancients monsters are ascribed to depraved conceptions and are defined to bee excursions of nature which are vitious one of these foure wayes In figure situation magnitude or number In figure when a man beares the character of a beast as did the monster in Saxonia which was borne about the time of Luthers preaching In magnitude when one part doth not equalize with another as when one part is too bigge or too little for the other parts of the body and this is so common amongst us that I need not produce a testimonie for it In situation as if the eares were on the face and the eyes on the brest or legges of this kinde was the monster borne at Ravenna in Italy in the yeare 1512. In number when a man hath two heads or foure hands of this kinde was the monster borne at Zarz●ra in the yeere 1540. I proceed to the cause of their generation which is either Divine or Naturall The Divine cause proceeds from the permissive will of God suffering parents to bring forth such abominations for their filthie and corrupt affections which are let loose unto wickednesse like brute beasts that have no understanding Wherefore it was enacted amongst the ancient Romans that those which were any wayes deformed should not be admitted into religious houses And S. Hierome in his time grieved to see the deformed and lame offered up to God in religious houses And Keker●a●e by way of inference excludeth all that are mishappen from the presbyteriall function in the Church and that which is of more force then all God himselfe commanded Moses not to receive such to offer sacrifice amongst his people and hee renders the reason Least hee polute my sanctuaries because the outward deformity of the body is often a signe of the polution of the heart as a curse layd upon the child for the parents incōtinency Yet there are many borne depraved which ought not to bee ascribed unto the infirmity of the parents Let us therefore search out the naturall cause of their generation which according to Aristotle and Avicen which have dieved into the secrets of nature is either in the matter or in the agent in the seed or in the wombe The matter may bee in fault two wayes by defect or by excesse By defect when as the childe hath but one legge or one arme By excesse when it hath three hands or two heads The agent or wombe may be in fault three wayes First in the formative facultive which may be too strong or too weake by which is produced a depraved figure Secondly in the instrument or place of conception the evill conformation or disposition whereof will cause a monstruous birth Thirdly in the imaginative power at the time of conception which is of such force that it stamps the character of the thing imagined upon the child so that the children of an adultresse may be like unto her owne husband though begotten by another man which is caused through the force of the imagination which the woman hath of her owne husband in the act of coition Aristotle reports of a woman who at the time of conception beholding the picture of a Blacke more conceived and brought forth an Aetheopian I will not trouble you with any more humane testimonies but I wil conclude with a stronger warrant Wee read how Iacob having agreed with L●ba● to have all the spotted sheep for the keeping of his flocks to augment his wages tooke hasell rodds and pilled white strakes in them and layd them before the sheep when they came to drinke and the sheep cuppling there together whiles they beheld the rods conceived brought forth spotted young The Imagination also workes on the child after conception for which wee have a pregnant example of a worthy gentlewoman in Suffolcke who being with child and pas●ing by her butcher-killing of meat a drop of blood sprung on her face whereupon she said that her childe would have some blemish on the face and at the birth it was found marked with a red spot Some are of opinion that monsters may be ingendred by some infernall spirit Of this minde was Egidius Facius speaking of that deformed monster borne at Cracovie And Hieroni●us Cardamus writeth of a maid which was got with child by a Divell shee thinking it had been a faire young man The like also is recorded by Vincentius of the Prophet Marliu that he was begotten by an evill spirit But what a repugnancie would it bee both to religion and nature if the Divells could beget men when we are taught to believe that not any was ever begotten without humane seed except the Sonne of God The Divell then being a spirit having no corporall substance but in appearance and therfore no seed of generation to say that hee can use the act of generation effectually is to affirme that hee can make something of nothing and consequently the Divell to be God for creation solely belongs to God alone Againe if the Divell could assume to him a dead body and enliven the faculties of it and make it able to generate as some affirme hee can yet this body must beare the image of the Divell and it is against Gods glory to give permission so farre unto him as out of the Image of God to rayse up his owne of-spring In the schoole of nature wee are taught the contrary viz. that like begets like therefore of a Divell cannot man be borne Yet it is not denied but that Divells transforming themselves into human shapes may abuse both men and women and with wicked people use the works of nature Yet that any such conjunction can bring forth a human creature is contrary to nature and religion CHAP. XIV Of the signes of Conception IGnorance makes women become murderers to the fruit of their owne bodies For many having conceived and thereupon finding their bodies to bee out of cource and not knowing rightly the cause doe either run to the shop of their own conceit and take what they thinke fit or else as the custome is they send to the Physitian for cure and he perceiving not the cause of their griefe seeing that no certaine judgement can bee given by the urine prescribes what hee thinks best peradventure some strong diureticall or catharticall potion whereby the conception is destroyed Wherefore Hippocrates saith there is a necessity that women should bee instructed in the knowledge of conception that the parent as well as the childe might bee saved from danger I will therefore give you some instructions by which every one may know whether shee bee with child or not The signes of conception shall bee taken from the woman