blood-warm Against terms it Child-bearing Lastly if whilst she goeth with child she perceiveth her terms let her eat milk made boyle with red-hot steel and in that let Plantain and Comfrey be boyled But in all these cases let her advise with learned Physitians which will direct them with medicines and advice from time to time I shall now treat of some few distempers incident to child-bed and leave you some choice Remedies in the following Sections and then wind up all SECT XXX Of the Retention of the Lochia in Child-bed known by the name of Courses though improperly so called and of their immoderate Flux THE retention or suppression of the Lochia in Child-bed Hippoc. lib. de natura pueri by the consent of Hippocrates as well as other Learned Doctors to which daily experience may be added brings the greatest inconveniences to women Purgations of women in Child-bed Hippo. ibid. and often death it self I shall therefore in this Section treat of the purgations of women in Child-bed which Hippocrates determines to be at the most but 40 daies By the Levitical Law 33 daies was in case of a male Levit. cha 12. verse 4. and for a female 66 daies ve 5. if the women bring forth a female and 30 daies to a male But withal saith that a woman is passed all danger after 20 daies purgation Now if women be not sufficiently purged in Child-bed either it causeth a great * A swelling hot and red Phlegmon in the womb by reason of the inflammation of the blood or else those lochia being carried to some higher part bring dangerous affects to the part that receiveth them as Squinancies Pleurisies Fevers Frenzie Nauseousness Unquietness Dropsies and what not Cause The cause of their retention is generally cold by reason of the ambient air which the woman receiveth in her delivery Ambient air perhaps through the improvidency of Midwives who most commonly take more care of the child than of the woman or else by reason that the woman may be delivered in some cold moist room which cold suddenly rushing into the inward parts of the womb suddenly stoppeth them See Sect. the fifth Therefore Midwives must not only be very wary in this case as hath been already hinted in the latter end of the fifth Section to which I refer you but also proceed to the Cure The Cure A Glyster First then this Clyster may be given Take of the roots of Marshmallows * Aristolchia â—…ga 〈◊〉 long round Birthwort of white Lillies of each half an ounce of the leaves of Mallows Pellitory of the wall Mercury and Violets of each half a handful of Chamomel flowers Melilot flowers Elder flowers each two * A pugill is as much as may be held betwixt the thumb and two fingers pugills of the seeds of Dill Foenugreek and Seseli of each two drachms let these be boyled in spring-water till a third part be consumed strain it and to ten ounces of the straining dissolve the yelk of two eggs of Sal-Gemm and unguent de Arthanita each one drachm oyle of Dill and of Bayes each half an ounce of these make a Glyster A bagg You may also make a bagg triangular whereof you see a description with its use in the xxvth Section in which you may quilt these herbs following being grosly bruised and pounded Take of the roots of long and round Birth-wort of Gentian Angelica Bryonie * Cyclamine Sowbread of the herbs of Mugwort Balm Savin Orgamint and Calamint of each one handful of the flowers of Chamemile Ingredients for the bagg Tansy and Elder each half a handful of the seeds of Dill Caraway Anniseeds and Seseleos each one drachm These being mash'd and pounded and quilted into a bagg big enough to cover the lower part of her belly and privities and well secured with strings must be boyled in spring-water and applyed warm Two baggs best to be applyed the one hot whilst the other groweth cold but it were better to have two bags to apply as they grow cold The belly hips and thighs which by reason of the consent of parts must consequently sympathize with great pains may be anointed with this ointment Take of the oyle of Chamomile The ointment Lumbricorum Catellorum Hipericonis Dill and of the oyle of Eggs oyle of Worms whelps St. John's-wort with these mixed anoint the parts abovesaid warm At night you may let this Julep be given take of the waters of Balm A Julep and Mugwort of each one ounce of the water of Cinamon distilled without wine one ounce Confection of Alkermes half a drachm of Laudanum two grains of syrup of Poppy half an ounce the bagg may be renewed as need shall require warming it in the liquor in which it was first boyled the next day you may repeat both the Glyster and the bagg and expect good success After which if the woman be plethorick A Purge you may purge her with Manna and syrup of Roses in broth and this may be given after seven daies lying in I come now to speak somewhat of the immoderate flowing of them Immoderate flowing of the Lochia which must be considered as well as being stop'd there being danger in either for 't is well observed by Hippocrates 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hipp. Aph. 51. Lib. 2. Omne nimium vertitur in vitium The Causes that every thing wherein is excess is an enemie to nature Therefore let us endeavour to stop them in their over-much flowing with a very great caution lest by stopping them all together there follow worse effects It happens many times that both after the birth and miscarrying that there floweth out such a quantity of blood by reason of the eruption or apertion of the vessels immoderately or by reason of the great fervor of the blood proceeding from the use of over-hot Remedies in laborious births To remedy them Then First use such alimentary food as may incrassate and thicken the blood Cure by Diet. as Panadoes Gellies Rice in the broth of Calves-feet Pears boyled Quince and Roast-meats whereon the juice of Pomegranates have been sprinkled yelks of eggs Drink Their drink may be red Wine mix'd with water wherein steel hath been quenched then the blood may be drawn by revulsion to the upper parts either by Phlebotomy or Cupping-glasses under the papps c. Stupps dipp'd in vinegar water applyed to the loynes with an ointment The whole belly must be swathed there may be stupps dipp'd in Oxycrat and applied to the loyns after which take of Unguentum Comitissae two ounces of juice of Plantane one ounce beaten well together these things being not hard to be gotten I tender to you but when they will not be stop'd by these means 't were best to have recourse to Learned Physitians for advice SECT XXXI Of the Fever of Milk EUtrap Quest You have already
by prescribing it Your Obliged Friend Richard Sampson An INDEX containing the Contents Alphabetically A. ABortion what with its causes and sings Page 104 c. How prevented and cured pag. 112 c. Air ambient dangerous in child-bed p. 111.116 After-pains what their causes and cure p. 133 c. After-burden what it is p. 84 c. Why so called p. 90 91 92 c. Must be brought away and why It s danger being left behind How it is hindred in its coming forth How drawn out ibid. Aged women commonly bring forth females and why p. 101. They are subject to the falling down of the womb p. 163 Age of the best nurse described p. 141 Allantois part of the secundine in beasts but not to be found in men and is as a girdle p. 90 Amnios the inward membrane of the secundine p. 89 c. Anger in nurses naught p. 143 Aorta what arterie and how generated p. 8 Arterial vein what it is ibid. Astringent powder useful for Midwives p. 30 B. BAgg described Page 76. c. In use Behaviour of nurses to be enquired into p. 124 c. Birth natural what and how described p. 24. How facilitated 110.130 Blood after conception distinguished three waies p. 14. Bones generated from the seed p. 12. Botches in children their causes p. 115.145 Brains how generated and for what p. 9 c. Breath stinking argues a child dead and putrified in the womb p. 79 Breasts sore to cure p. 101 Breeding women what forbidden them p. 101 C. CApsula of the heart generated p. 6 Cake of the womb what p. 88 89 c. Cartilages whence generated p. 11 Cataplasms against a loosness in child-bed 137. Against miscarrying to be applyed to the navil p. 118 Cataplasme in case of sore breasts p. 102 Caudles in after-pains and in case any of the secundine be left behind p. 134 Causes of immoderate flowing of the Lochia in child-bed with their cure p. 119 120. Cautions to Midwives in their business p. 28 29 a Caution to the Irish women in a loosness p. 105 Child when so properly called p. 112 Child-bearing women ought to be cheerful p. 110 Children how overlaid with the reasons p. 141. Of their pining away 150 Chorion what and why so called p. 88 Coats of the Arteries whence p. 11 Cold in child-bed dangerous with its cure p. 124 Cold dangerous in Child-bearing 111 Calostrat what children p. 144 Conception with its signs 95 96 c. Conception in Nurses make the child diseased p. 144 Conditions of Nurses to be inquired into with her complexion p. 143 Convulsion-fits in infants whence and how cured 134 135 Cordials against fainting fits p 112. A general excellent Cordial-water p. 113. Against a nauseous stomack p. ibid. Costiveness the cause of difficult birth p. 35 Costivenes in breeding women naught how it may be prevented p. 112 Cotyledons of the womb what p. 104 Courses why stop'd after conception p. 14. How they are to be provoked p. 115 c. They are stirred up by the use of Venery are destructive to milk p. 144 Cranium what how generated p. 10 Critical Fevers in child-bed their cure p. 123 c. Crying in children discovers want of milk p. 151 Cupping-glasses how and where to be applyed p. 147 D. DAncing in the child-bearing women or running naught for the child p. 110 Dancing of the child a good exercise for the Nurse p. 147 Danger from being not well purged in child-bed p. 115 c. a Decoction against too much milk p. 148 Dead child how delivered of p. 93 c. signs of a dead child p. 102 c. 108.131 Diet prescribed for breeding women p. 111. For child-bed women p. 120 Diarrhaea see Loosness in p. 131.136 Different postures of infants in the womb why p. 78 Difficult births their causes p. 34 c. Distinction of parts when p. 12 Dreams in the infant discover want of milk p. 151 Dropsies how distinguished from a Mola or false conception p. 82 Drunkenness not to be indured in nurses p. 140 The dura mater how generated p. 10 E. EAting flesh in child-bed the cause of Fevers p. 124 Eating and drinking to be observed by nurses p. 143 Eight moneths birth not like to live p. 19 c. The reasons ibid. Emplaster against abortion p. 113.132 Against Convulsions in infants p. 135 c. Against the inconveniency of milk to be applyed in the breasts p. 122.146 Embryon what p. 87 Epar uterinum that is the liver of the womb what its use and why so called p. 86 88 Exercise attenuates milk p. 146. In the nurse good for the child p. 147 Experiments to know if a woman hath conceived or no p. 98 c. Experiments to try milk p. 126 The Excrements are not voided by the fundament whilst the child is in the womb p. 16 c. F. FAlse conception what p. 79. How it differs from a true conception p. 81. How distinguished from a Dropsie p. 82. How delivered of p. 94 Falling out of the womb p. 162 c. Fainting fits in breeding women how prevented p. 112 Fevers in child-bed in general and of a Fever of milk what it is with the cures p. 121 Female when conceived and how known p. 200 Fibres in the first generation what p. 2 Figure of a child of 18 daies old p. 12 Fume or suffumigation in fits of the mother p. 160 G. GAlea is part of that coat of the secundine called the Amnios p. 87 a General cordial water against all fainting fits at all times p. 128 a Gibbous infant the cause of a difficult birth p. 35 Glysters for a looseness in child-bed p. 136 c. For the retention of the Lochia then p. 116 Gluttony in nurses condemned p. 143 Great breasts and great nipples in nurses not commendable why p. 141 Grief in nurses naught for the child p. 143 Naught for child-bearing women p. 110 Gripes in the belly of infants whence p. 149 H. HAndsome children why some so why others unhandsome p. 21 Hastiness in the Midwife not good p. 27 29 Hasty rising up of the mother naught for the child in the womb p. 110 Hard breasts the signs of the infants thriving in the womb p. 101 Haemorrhoids the cause of difficult birth p. 35 Heart generated when p. 6 Heat of the seed the cause of generation of males they are generated in the right side p. 21 Helmet called the Galea part of the Amnios p. 87 Heavy burdens carried by the mother are naught for the infant in the womb p. 111 Hysterick fits see Strangulation of the womb and mother-fits p. 155 c. I. INnate heat in infants requires constant aliment p. 150 Infant when said to be p. 16 How it lyeth in the womb p. 33 c. How nourished in the womb p. 14 It attracts the purest blood ibid. Hath more from the mother then from the father ibid. Why like their Parents p. 21 To know
Another Betony Vervain each a handful Confection of Alkermes A scruple is twenty grains a scruple and half Sugar and Cinamon as much as will suffice to aromatize it the herbs being first boyled in posset-brink I shall give one general Cordial water which I shall not only commend to Midwives to have ever by them but also to other Gentlewomen it being a general Cordial water against most distempers Thus then Take Baulm Betony Pellitory of the wall A general Cordial-water sweet Marjoram Cowslip flowers of the flowers of Rosemary and Sage each a great handful of the seed of Annis sweet Fennel and Coriander Caraway and Gromel of each half an ounce of Cinamon Licoras and Nutmeg all bruised each one ounce of Juniper-berries one ounce and half let the herbs be shred and infused in a gallon of Brandy in an earthen pot well leaded for the space of a fortnight afterwards strein it and put in twelve ounces of Loaf-sugar Note that a gallon of Brandy added to the ingredients after streining makes as good water as the former if ordered so and of Musk and Ambergreece each two grains tyed up in silk and hang'd in the glass you may put in another gallon of Brandy after the first is streined Against immoderate flux of the Courses Take of the roots of Tormentill two drachms Bole-armeniack the best one drachm the species of Hyacinth Powder half a drachm all made into fine powder of which take half a drachm once in three hours in this following Julep The Julep Take of the a Res Aq. Scordii composit compound water of Scordium b Dracontii Dragon-water c Ulmariae Meadsweet of each three ounces of d Aceti Theriacalis Treacle-vinegar an ounce syrup of Coral two ounces burnt Harts-horn half a drachm make a Julep To facilitate the Birth drive out the Secundine false Conception and dead Child Take of the Trochischs of Myrrh one scruple of Borax half a scruple of Saffron three grains make a powder of these and take them in white-Wine or the decoction of Mugwort in Posset-ale after which drink a draught of the same Posset with some few drops of oyle of Amber or oyle of Juniper-berries infused in it Or this A Posset Take Mother of Time one handful of Pellitory of the wall and Chamomel-flowers of each half a handful of Fennel-seeds and Licoras each half an ounce Figs slit no. six boyl these in three pints of Posset-ale till one pint be consumed then sttein it and of this drink a good draught thrice in a day The next Receipt shall be directed to the false Conception and dead Child As thus Take Styrax Calamita Myrrh Cinamon Cassia lignea From the Apothecaries To provoke the flowers expell a dead child and false Conception of each half an ounce Mummy two drachms Saffron half a drachm make all these into fine powder this may be taken in white-Wine a drachm at a time for a week together or more To prevent Abortion Take Sanguis Draconis Red Coral both made into powder A powder to be taken in broth c. of each one drachm of Ambergreece three grains of Bezoar stone four grains of this powder a scruple at a time may be taken either in Mace-ale or Broth or Posset-drink wherein Plantane Comfrey Knot-grass Bramble-leaves Periwinckle with some Cinamon have boyled Or this A second powder Take Kermes-berries two drachms red Coral and white of each one drachm and half of Amber one scruple make these into powder and put them into a Poch'd-egg and sup it up do so till all be done Or this A third powder Take Mastich Frankincense Sang. Dracon Myrtill-berries Kermes-berries Bole-armeniack each half a scruple and take a drachm of the powder and fill the hole whence the stone is taken out in a Date moysten it in sack and wrap it up in a paper and put it under hot embers to be warmed and let those that fear Abortion eat it often A Caraplasme to the navil Take a hot manchet out of the oven cutting off the crust dip it in Muscadine and strew it with the powder of Nutmegs and Cinamon each as much as will suffice and apply this hot to the navil of the woman A plaister from the Apothecaries Take of Emplaster ad Herniam Caesaris each half an ounce Cocci Baphici one drachm made into powder Emplaster of Diacalcythios one ounce and with as much oyle of Myrtles as will suffice make a Plaister to be spread on leather and applyed between the hips Here may be used Unguentum Comitissae to the loins Unguent Of After-pains Causes of After-pains After-pains may proceed from the acrimony of the blood being thinn and sharp or from the grumous part of it being thick and clotted which nature endeavouring to discharge it self of as to the setling of the womb causeth these pains Inflations Ambient air As also Inflations by reason of the ambient air seems to imitate those pains with the Child-bearing which are not only Sympathetical but Symptomatical this being so usual few women are free from it And Cure because they often cease within two or three daies they seldome require a Physitians help Nevertheless that Julep before-mentioned in the 32th Section is very useful Or else The Julep in the 32th Section marked with this * Asterisk Take the inward bark of an Elm-tree and burn it to ashes to which adde Cinamon made into powder some 10 grains of Cinamon to one drachm of the ashes and drink it with white-Wine Or else Take of oyle of sweet Almonds two ounces syrup of Violets one ounce water of Penniroyal half an ounce for a draught Potion After-pains from windiness If the cause be from wind you may give a drachm of Barberries in powder in the water of Vervain or Baulm But most usually these pains are eased by Caudles made with half white-Wine Caudles and half water wherein Spermints Baulm Penniroyal or Mugwort have been boyled I will give you the form of a Caudle which is not only of great use in the sending forth of the secundine in case any piece of it should be left behind as sometimes it may happen but also to help nature in its work of throwing out this grumous blood which is the cause of the After-pains And this is it A Caudle in case any part of the Secundine be behind Take Oatmeal and Hempseed of each a sufficient quantity with a top of Baulm boyl these in a sufficient quantity of white-Wine and water of each a-like and with the yelk of one egg make a Caudle Of Convulsion-fits in infants newly born Take the best Sack and Sugar mull'd and give it the first thing it takes this will discharge the stomack of that viscuous flegm that ever accompanyeth infants Convulsions from viscuous phlegm possessing the stomack and nerves and not only warm the stomack
〈◊〉 word which signifieth The womb It is called by most women The Mother Fits and that from another Greek b 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 word which signifieth the Matrix which is from another word which signifieth a Mother because women after they have brought forth are Mothers and hence Fits of the Mother Which is What is the suffocation of the womb a retraction of the womb to the upper parts making the principal parts fellow-sufferers of the distemper For although the womb may be concluded to be moved out of its place yet except it be carried downwards it never causeth a suffocation for a suffocation is nothing else but a defect in breathing Therefore it is necessary that the upper parts that serve for Respiration be affected The parts affected what and how and carried upwards by reason of that suffocation and amongst all the chiefest are the heart lungs the midriff and the brain to which the force of the affection cometh viz. to the heart by the veins and arteries and so to the lungs to the brain and midriff by the nerves and membranes of the spine of the back The cause is from the womb The causes which being full of some naughty humor as menstuous blood Menstruous blood Vitious seed or vitious and putrid seed offendeth the noble parts with some stinking malignant sharp griping cold vapours The symptoms The symptoms that follow are various either according to the greatness of the efficient cause or the variety of some qualities or natures for some women are without any sense or motion and seem to have no pulse at all or at least that very small and weak and sometimes lye without any manner of breathing at all that can be perceived Others there are that neither want sense nor motion and seem not to be troubled with any passion of the mind but they faint and very hardly fetch breath some also seem to have Convulsions in their joynts as in their hands arms feet but these generally are the signs of the fit at hand viz. a Signs of the Fit coming in augmente A dulness of the mind a laziness weakness of the thighes paleness and clamminess about the face b Signs of the Fit present but when the fit is come then there cometh a c 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 profound sleep like those in an Apoplexy or Lethargy the mind is dotish the senses are intercepted the voice ceaseth the thighes are contracted the cheeks look red and the face is swelled Signs of the declination of the distemper But when the suffocation declineth a certain moysture distilleth from the privities with great rumbling and murmuring of the belly and the womb by little and little is relaxed and so the sense returneth This disease is moved also by d Suppose of the moon course as is the Falling-sickness and doth most of all infest young women desirous of husbands and that about Autumn and the Winter as also those that are childless or unfruitful or such whose womb is chilled upon any account This differs from * How it differs from a Syncope or swouring fainting Fits in this viz. In a Syncope there is no pulse but in the strangulation of the womb there is ever a pulse though small rare weak In fainting Fits or swounings there are cold sweats and paleness of the face but in this the countenance is plump How from an Apoplexy and ruddy It differs also from an Apoplexy for women that have these Fits have not their parts deprived of sense and motion and although their senses be benummed yet if they are pinched or pricked they are sensibly disturbed and will make signs with their hands that they are strangled now it is clean contrary in an Apoplexy And again those in an Apoplexy do snore which is never seen in these hysterick Fits How they differ from an Epilepsie or Falling-sickness Spasmus Cinicus A distortion of the mouth Lastly these Fits differ from an Epilepsie or Falling-sickness in this that these parts affected are not contracted with Spasmes or Convulsions neither do they foam at mouth except the woman be vehemently suffocated and especially when an Epilepsie is not stirred up out of the womb it self as oftentimes it doth happen Having thus discoursed of the causes symptoms and signs we now come to the Cure The Cure First then let the lower parts be strongly rubbed with clothes and tyed with strong ligatures as also let Cupping-glasses Cupping-glasses how to be used be applyed to the hips groynes * Os pubis or Pectinis Beware the navil share-bone but not to the navil Next sneezing is commended to which Hippocrates agrees 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Aphor. lib. 5. 35. And though I have given you one Receipt for a sneezing-powder in the beginning of the 31th Section which is proper not only in difficult births but here also I now will leave with you the Receipt of another powder A sneezing powder which shall be this Take white Pepper Mustard-seed Pellitory of Spain Castoreum of each a scruple Euphorbium and white Hellebore of each one scruple Twenty grains make a scruple and make a subtile powder which may be used so long as there is no redundance of humors perceived in the head Suppositories Suppositories are good as Take of Agarick Troschisc of the species of Hiera logodii of each a drachm 60 Grains make a drachm of Rats-dung Figs Rue-leaves and Cummin-seeds all made into powder and with honey made up into a Suppository An Ointment Take oyle of St. Iohn's-wort of Orange-flowers of Rue of each one ounce oyle of Mace by expression half an ounce of a Beasts gall dryed and powdered six drachms Venice-Treacle half an ounce Spiders alive in number forty infuse all these for ten hours in a vessel well stop'd on the embers that it neither boyle too fast not evaporate too much of this make an Ointment with which anoint the back and loynes and the navil avoiding all cold A fume to sit over A Suffumigation of Nutmegs powdered and set in a close-stool to burn receiving the smoak by sitting over it is excellent Stinking things to smell to Stinking things are ever best to smell to such as are Partridge-feathers old Leather Brimstone burnt all Assafoetida Castoreum Galbanum Rue malaxed with Vinegar Contrarily all sweet things are proper to be tyed to the thighes in a bag but not smell'd to Sweet things best to be tyed to the thighes The scrapings of Goats-horns and Assafoetida mixed and burnt is excellent Take Assafoetida dissolved in distilled vinegar of Castor prepared into powder Pills of each a scruple Laudanum two grains made into six Pills and taken just before the Fit Lastly if these Fits proceed from the stoppage of the flowers those medicines must be given proper to provoke them but if from the retention of the
seed Quod si ex retento semine affectio proveniat nullum proponerem nffectae mulieri praestnntius auxilium quam viri sui frequeates amplexus Hieronymus Pulverinus Cap. XCI de Strangulatione Uteri then let nature here be their best director except they could construe the authority of * Learned Physicians with whom let them advis SECT XXXV Of the coming forth of the womb IN the last Section Mistriss I described how the womb might be moveable upwards yea from side to side I now come to speak of its motion downwards which sometimes is so low that it cometh forth and is to be seen outwardly and that which hangs out doth appear like a soft The signs Scrotum and round tumor and like the Testicles of a man but the pain and the heat possess the privities and bottom of the belly and the urine distilling by some and some vexeth the privities The causes may be many as The causes First when a woman from on high falleth upon her hips those skins and membranes which support the womb and tye it to the neighbouring parts being broken The second cause is by extraction of the Secundine as hath been formerly set forth in the 26th Section that through the unskilfulness of the Midwife The third Cause is by a sudden and immoderate flux of blood as is usually in Abortions as hath been shewed in the 5th Section The fourth Cause is by an artificial extraction of a dead child or overmuch holding the breath to blow or carrying of too great a weight The fifth is oftentimes through overmuch humors and the defluxions of them and often bearing of children which makes those Appendices to which the womb depends relaxed and loosed The sixth and last is through some vehement passion of the mind being affrighted with the sudden tydings of the loss of children incursions of enemies dangerous Sea voyages and sometimes from neither of these Old age but from old age it self or much weakness But now as to the Cure in which observe these Prognosticks by the way Prognosticks That when this affection is new the womb is easily reduced to its proper place and being right put up it continues there especially in the prime of age and may both conceive and bring forth again but in riper years it becomes contracted it may be put up truly but upon the least occasion slips out again And in short this All fallings down of the womb which are not and cannot be cured by proper means shew that the Appendices as aforesaid are either laxed or broken The Cure The Cure is First to provide Glysters to be administred by which the strait gut may be discharged of gross and hard excrements and the bladder of its urine by some pipe fitted for the purpose for sometimes it happens that the womb being in a streight betwixt those two Nascimâ—… inteâ—…stercus Urinam cannot be reduced into its proper place The first may be done by Glysters the latter with a pipe put up in the neck of the bladder Fistula urinaria which done the womb may be put up by this following method Let the Patient lye with her face upwards her hamms bent backwards and thighes spread abroad after which foment it with the decoction of Beets Mallows Marsh-mallows Lineseed and Foenugreek A fomentation made in spring-water Then make a pledget of wooll wrap'd up in a linnenrag to the proportion of the privypart which being dipped in the juice of Acatia and Hypocistis dissolved in red Wine apply it to the womb To be bought at the Apothecaries and so without violence press up all that which is come forth After which foment the whole * The share-bone Another fomentation Pecten with this fomentation Take red Wine a quart red Rose-leaves Bramble-leaves Plantain Myrtle-berries Shepherds-purse Hagtaper Horse-tail and Comfrey-roots applyed with sponges using afterward the oyles of Mastich and Myrtles to the place and Unguentum Comitissae to anoint the Reins Now because the main of our drift is to cure the falling out of the womb upon difficult births adde this method to the former First purge her with one drachm of Pulvis sennae compositus major A Purge to be bought at the Apothecaries given in broth or Mace-ale twice or thrice then Take the leaves of Plantain of Withy of Medlars of the Oake of Sloes of red Brambles of red Roses of each a handful of the roots of Tormentill Comfrey and Bistort of * Balaustia Pomegranat-flowers of Cypress-nuts of each an ounce of the seeds of Annise two ounces let these be grosly bruised and sewed up in a bag A bag used of which you have a description in the 24th Section of this Book Boyle these in Smiths water such as they use to quench iron and apply it warm four times a day wearing it continually well trust up Si quid novisti rectius istis Horat. Candidus imperti si non his utere mecum 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 FINIS Imprimatur Tho. Tomkyns Ex Aed Lamb. Maii ult 1671.
whether it thrive in the womb or not p. 101 Infants participate of the nurses food and physick p. 151 How to be received by the Midwife p. 29 Impurities are communicated to them by the Qualities of the milk p. 151 Inflations the cause of after-pains p. 133 Inflammations of the womb the cause of difficult birth p. 35 Intemperance in nurses the ruine of their nurseries p. 140 Immoderate flowing of the Lochia in child-bed dangerous p. 118 c. Juleps in case of retention of the Lochia in child-bed p. 118 c. Against Convulsion-sits in infants p. 135 K. KNots as many as are to be observed in the navil-string so many males p. 103 L. LAdies may nurse their own children with the greatest conveniencies p. 135 Leprous infants how so begoten p. 102 Liver first generated after the coats by the Vena bifurca p. 4 c. Is a concrete blood ibid. Lochia retained in child-birth dangerous p. 115 Flowing over-much dangerous also p. 119 Loosnes in child-bed dangerous p. 131.135 Lungs when and how generated p. 8 M. MAle conceived how known p. 99 Man his dignity and titles vid. Pref. Manner of generation p. 2 3 Marrow of the bones what with its use p. 11 Matrix to be anointed in difficult births p. 40 Meats to be avoided by nurses what p. 144 Medicines usual in Fevers of child-birth p. 124 Members distinguished by the tenth day p. 7 Menstrua the cause of strangulation of the womb or fits of the mother p. 156 Midriff how made p. 7. The best Midwife described p. 27 Her posture p. 28 c. Her office Number of her assistants Her furniture ibid. Midwives are not to take more care of the infant then of the mother p. 93 94 Milk how generated p. 14.98 It is the cause of Fevers p. 121 Driven back too soon dangerus with the reasons of it p. 122 fried by its colour and quality p. 145 Of milk too thick corrected p. 146 c. Too thin corrected ibid. How to cure the too great abundance p. 147. The want of milk supplyed ibid. No milk at all the worst p. 150 Mirth good in breeding women p. 110 In the nurse best for the child p. 141 Mola or false conception what p. 79 Mother contributes more to the infant then doth the father p. 15 Motion too violent in the nurse naught for the child and so in the mother p. 147 Mourning either in the mother naught for the infant in the womb p. 43 Or for the nurse ibid. Mothers if able fittest to nurse their own p. 152 Mother-fits see strangulation of the womb p. 155. How cured p. 159 Mucilage what p. 126 N. NAtural form of birth what it is p. 24 Nauseousness prevented p. 113 Navil how generated p. 3. How to be cut ib. How it atracts blood for nourishment p. ib. Cords of the navil so many twins 103 Needing what p. 108 Nerves of the back their original p. 11 How dispersed through the whole body by a figure p. 13 Nipples what are the best p. 141 c. Sore nipples to cure p. 137 c. Nurses the best described p. 140 c. Not to be chosen in poverty p. 150. Nurses purged to cure the child why p. 15â— Nurses not to rock the infant too violently presently after suckling it why p. 153 O. ORiginal of the nerves p. 10 Of the spine of the back ibid. Oxycrat what p. 129 Oyles what fit for Midwives p. 26 Their use in difficult births p. 41 Ointment in case of the Lochia suppressed p. 118 in case of too immoderate flux of them p. 120 An excellent ointment in a difficult birth p. 41.126 For sore nipples ibid. In Hysterick fits p. 160 P. PArsly an enemie to milk p. 144 Passions in the nurse hinder good milk p. 143 Pains in child-bearing whence they are p. 23.133 Pains after the child-birth what p. 52.116.124 Pericardium generated with the heart Piles in hysterick fits p. 161 Planets their aspect the cause of good features and forms in children and of bad p. 21 Placenta uteri what p. 86 88. But one though there be never so many infants Its use ibid. Plenty of milk ever best p. 142 Postures of the infant many p. 37 c. Postures of the infant naturally how p. 33 Many praeternatural postures described in sixteen several figures from p. 37 to p. 72 Their helps resolved by way of Dialogue ibid. Potions useful in difficult births p. 134 Powders for sneezing in difficult births p. 127 c. Against Abortion p. 131 Against Convulsion-fits in infants p. 136 Against immoderate flowings of the Lochia in child-bed p. 119 Pulsatile veins from the great Artery of the heart p. 7 Purgation of women how long p. 115 Not being well purged dangerous ibid. Purge not to be given till seven daies after the birth in case the Lochia be stop'd p. 117 Pustules and whelks in infants their cause p. 149 Q. QUalities of milk pass into those that are suckled by that milk p. 152 Quarrelsomeness in nurses naught p. 143 Quicken when women do p. 17 R. REmedies over-hot in difficult births how inconvenient p. 126 c. Retention of the Lochia in child-bed dangerous with its causes and cure p. 116 Riding in the mother naught for the infant p. 110 Rocking of the infant too vehemently presently after sucking naught p. 153 Running in the mother naught for the infant p. 110 S. SColding in nurses not tollerable p. 142 a Scruple what p. 128 Scull how generated p. 10 Seventh moneth birth may live p. 19 Secundine what p. 84 Described by figures p. 85 Sexes distinguished p. 99 Sixth moneth birth cannot live p. 19 Signs mortal by the infants motion in the womb p. 20 Sleep in the mother good for the infant p. 11 Often sleep in nurses is good for the infant p. 141 Sluttish nurses make nasty children p. 140 Sneezing good in difficult births p. 127 c. And in fits of the mother p. 159 Soul when infused p. 17 Spine of the back how generated p. 11 What it is ibid. It s use ibid. Stature of the nurse p. 104 Stinking things and smells how useful in mother-fits p. 161 Stool for Midwives described p. 28 Stone in the bladder the cause of difficult birth p. 35 Stopping of the terms no sure sign of conception p. 95 Strangulation of the womb a fierce distemper p. 155 Its definition What it is ibid. Parts affected what the causes p. 156 Signs of the fit in its augmentation state and declination p. 157 How it differs from a Syncope or Swouning 158 c. How from an Apoplexy ibid. How it differs from an Epilepsie p. 159 Its cure ibid. Strength how to be restored p. 123 a Suffumigation in fears of Abortion p. 113 In hysterick fits 160 Superfoetation what 102 Suppositories p. 124 For infants p. 136 In the strangulation of the womb p. 255 Sweet smells how used in fits of the mother p. 161 Symptoms grievous in breeding women
is conveyed upwards into the breasts Milk how generated and there is prepared for milk Eighthly the thighs swell with pains but the body is weaker and the face pale Ninthly the belly is costive by reason of the compressure of the intestines The urine is white with a cloud swimming at the top wherein are to be seen many atomes like those observable in the beams of the sun but when in the first moneth many of these sink to the bottom and the vessel in which it is being shaken it seems to be drawn out like to wooll In the later moneths the urine is reddish or yellow it becomes blackish with a red cloud at the top I will here-with relate to you two experiments Experiments by which it may be known whether or no a woman hath conceived First And the first is this Stop up a womans urine three daies in a urinal at the end of which strain it or rather drop it through fine linnen and if she hath conceived you shall see little creatures like to lice if these be red 't is a token of a male Signs of a Male. but if white they portend a female But this is said to be sure Experiments If a womans urine be put in a brass Bason and stand there one night if you put into it a bright needle if she hath conceived that needle will be bespeckled with red spots but if otherwise it will be rusty all over Dr. Philadel These 't is true Quest may be promiscuous signs of Conception But Mrs. how know you the Sex whether male or female Eutrapelia By these signs Sir Answer First usually as First If she hath conceived a male the right eye moves oftner and is better as to its native colour than the left The belly is sharper about the navil Second The right breast groweth turgid before the left and the nipple is sooner changed Thirdly The milk increaseth sooner and if it be milked out and set in a glass in the sun it will grow into a clear mass not unlike to an oriental pearl as also if the courses appear about the 40th day after the Conception The right cheek is redder Fourthly and the whole colour of the face better neither is she so heavy as otherwise and the first stirring on the right side is the sixtieth day and that strongly too and the right foot moves first in walking and in arising from a seat the right foot is first apt to bear up the body The pulse is more frequent on the right side than on the left Fifthly Signs of a Female Now the signs of a female are contrary and these are most commonly the signs The first motion after conception is selt the 90th day The 90th day and that first in the left side Secondly Females are born with more sickness the thighs and privities swell the colour is paler the appetite stronger and yet apt to loath that which is contrary to it Thirdly the Courses appear about the 30th day after conception Youth bring males Fourthly the age of the woman is very considerable for the younger women most commonly bring males by reason of their greater heat in the womb And the more aged females Aged females by reason of the defect of heat contracted in the matrix by their age and females are more often generated by such Patents that are more cold and moist by nature and of seed that is too moist cold and liquid Dr. Philadel Since you have given such a character of the signs of Conception Quest and the distinction of Sexes let me know by what signs you apprehend the infant to be well and thrive in the womb or not Answer Sign of the infants thriving Eutrapelia I shall Sir And first if it be well the breasts will be hard but if otherwise they will be flaccid and a waterish humor will flow out of them like to milk of its own accord Secondly if the courses flow too often out of the womb in the time of child-bearing it is an argument of an unhealthy child And moreover the fattest women commonly bring forth the weakest insants Thirdly if a woman bring twins the one a male the other a female there is great danger of the female because they are nourished by a different aliment in the womb but if they be both females there is the less danger Fourthly if the child be gotten in the time of the monethly terms they are mix'd with untoward humors from whence it is experienced that many leprous infants are begotten Superfaetation what Aristot Hist Animal Lib. 7. C. 4. Fifthly if there be superfaetation the last conception seldom liveth Now superfaetation is when a woman having once conceived conceiveth again after a certain time which sometimes happeneth Hence the Poets feign Iphicles and Hercules to be twins by Alcmaena the wife of Amphitrio the first begotten by Amphitrio but the last viz. Hercules begotten by Jupiter But this by the way although more instances might be alledged nearer home Signs of a dead child Sixthly if a Dropsie overtake the praegnant woman and that her nose cars and lips look red it is a sign of a dead child Seventhly if the infant come forth after the ninth moneth 't is oftentimes very weak Eighthly if a virgin conceive before her first flowers it proves a lusty and perfect child Lastly all these things praemised Note Midwives also usually observe that as many knots as they find in the navil-string of an infant so many males they say she will have But so much for Conception Tell me now somewhat of Abortion with its Causes and Signs SECT XXVIII Of Abortion DR Philadel Tell me Quest Mrs. Eutrapelia what is that which you call Abortion or miscarrying Eutrap Answer It is to bring forth an untimely birth which may proceed from divers causes and those either internal or external First from internal causes as from the infant it self Internal Coâ—yledons what as when the Cotyledons that is the mouths of the vessels ending in the womb through vvhich the blood is conveyed into the vvomb from all parts of the body are so infirm that those vessels by reason of their rarity and vveakness are sooner broken and so of consequence and Abortion Secondly if the tunicles that is the secundine vvherein the infant is vvrapped be so vveak that it break and the humor contained therein flovv out by vvhich the matrix is slippery vveak and the infant being destitute of those humors faileth And also vvhen virulent moistures flovv forth and provoke the expulsive faculty of the vvomb Thirdly the third cause is vvhen the Woman is so vveak and consuming in her self that she vvithdravvs the nourishment from the infant insomuch that it hath neither matter to grovv by nor to generate the parts and members of it Fourthly the fourth cause may be the wideness of the orifice of the womb and
child to suck it away or else to use some other way as Young whelps killed with sucking of women by the use of young whelps whom I have oftentimes seen dye with sucking womens milk surely the reason must be because the milk was * Of another nature heterogeneous or else because grumous and corrupted or milked out some other way especially when the Nurse perceives her self prejudiced by it But it is ever best Plenty of milk ever best that she abound rather than want milk and then in this case it is best they be big though all Nurses need not have big breasts for there may be as much milk if not more in a lesser brest than in a great one Our next enquiry will be into the manners and behaviour of a Nurse The best Nurse then is she that is mild chaste The Nurses Conditions sober courteous chearful lively neat cleanly and handy because bad conditions as well as good are suck'd in with the milk and so radicated that it is a hard matter to pull out the bad conditions and leave the good behind but that there will be a remainder of the bad conditions perhaps so long as they live wherefore let not the Nurse be of an angry malepert and saucy disposition shameless scolding or quarrelsome not gluttonous but so careful of her nursery that she neither eat or drink that which may be hurtful to the infant Her care in eating and drinking That she do nothing to anger her self to grieve or sad her self Passion hinders the good milk Mirth for such passions will presently distribute themselves to the prejudice of the infant than which there is nothing of more efficacy to destroy the goodness of the milk Neither is it sufficient that they abstain from the use of their husbands Abstinence from Venery not sufficient but when they have wanton thoughts and lascivious minds wholly upon Luxury and Venery they cast off all care of their nurseries and dreaming at night of that which their minds run on in the day Somnians dixit quae vigilans voluit Terent. Comaed and by other filthy pollutions they infect the milk So also by the use of their husbands the Courses are stirred up by which both the plenty and goodness of milk is derived another way and so the child robbed of its nutriment or else the Nurse conceiveth with child and so the infant becometh * Colostrati diseased and Ricketty by sucking grumous curdy and unwholsome milk and is the worse for it during life Therefore let all those things be avoided Meats to be avoided by Nurses that either do or are supposed to provoke lust as junkets made with spices also onions leeks garlick and all salt meats are to be avoided persly Persly an enemy to milk and smallage some say have a peculiar malice to the increase of milk besides that it doth increase lust and is an enemy to the growth of infants Again that Nurse were best that hath lately been brought to bed of a boy if to nurse a boy the milk of such a Nurse being better tempered The vertues of the milk of a male and of a female For the milk of a male child will make a female nursery more spritely and a manlike Virago and the milk of a girl will make a boy the more effeminate As to the milk let it be a mean The conditions of the milk betwixt thick and thinn which you may perceive by dropping it upon the thumb-nails for if it be too thinn it will run off the sooner but if thicker Tryal of the milk it will stay the longer let it be sweet and pleasant both to the smell and taste not offending the palate with rancidness sourness sharpness or saltness or the nostrils with any strange quality Let it be can did to the sight By its Quality in it self equal in each particles not infested with brown yellow green blue Colour or any other evil colour or as sometimes with various colours and substance as with lines and streaks upon it but let that milk be most praise-worthy that makes as much curd as whey which may be tryed by this Experiment Experiment viz Put some of this milk into a glass and put in some Myrrh or Rennet which being stirred together will curd and then may the contents be seperated the tryal is that if there be most whey then is the milk thinner in its substance but if most of curd 't is thicker yet all these may be corrected and amended for that which is too thick may be mended by an extenuating diet Correctives of milk too thick Vomit and the flegmatick matter may be avoided by a vomit of Oxymel and Exercise before meat the better to consume and attenuate the thickness of it Of milk too thinn Diâ— Alica The thinness of milk is amended by contrary food such as doth incrassate it as Formenty of Wheat and Rice Hogs-feet Calves-feet Trotters and sweet Wine unless somewhat else be in the way to hinder it Sometimes it happens that the milk is more tart than it ought to be Sharpness c. wherefore then all diligence must be had to feed upon such meats as are of the best juice till that acrimony at least be attempered Want of milk the Causes Sometimes there is little or no milk in the breasts as after some sickness or notable distemper now turned into a chacochymical habit or any other of what kind soever that possesseth those parts or is the morbifick cause but that shall not be our business to consider of now Now if these be not the causes let the Nurse use supping meats as Broths Possets c. and eat plentifully and use frictions to her breasts and duggs Exercise and dancing of the child good for the Nurse Cupping-glasses Fomentations exercising her hands and her arms by domestick Employments or instead thereof let her dance the child by which the aliment may be recalled into those parts Sometimes cupping-glasses to the breasts with a fomentation of emollient herbs boyled in water and applyed warm either sponges or wollen-clothes after which Embrocation embrocating them with oyle of Lillies The seeds of Fennel and the roots of Parsnips boyled in Barley-water What food is best and buttered The broth of Hens or Capons with Cinamon and Mace Or Poch'd-eggs with the seeds of Annis and Dill and all things else that are hot in the first and second degree are good Earth-worms Worms such as come out of the earth not out of a dung-hill six or seven of them dried and powdered and drank in Barley-water sugared for a fortnight together All these may be of good use in the defect of milk But now let us see to the inconveniency if there be any in too much milk If the milk abound too much Milk in too great abundance A Decoction which sometimes is though