judgement that it sendeth and committeth to Memory to be reserved as it were in a treasury or store-house and to be directed concerning his acts and effects 2. The Sensitive faculty The second vertue is the Sensitive faculty the which although we know that it is variable and diverse in respect of the senses yet we may understand that it is caused and effected in this manner The Animal spirit whose place of late we said to be in the braine proceeding from the interiour and inward little caves and ventricles of the braine The Animal Spirit doth forme and frame the senses by the mediation and assistance of certaine subtile and slender sinewes doth forme and frame the Senses and by his vertue through the ministry and furtherance of the sinewes directeth and transposeth sight to the eyes smelling to the nostrills hearing to the eares and tasting to the palate of the mouth which senses wee see onely to be numbred and nominated of the senses of the head The third is the Moving vertue 3. The Moving faculty ingendred and bred in the braine to whom it is said to be proper to move and give motion For as the Animal spirit disposeth and directeth the orders and properties of the senses The Animal spirit directs the motions as is before declared so by the benefit of the same facultie the motions also are directed by which the vertues and faculties of the Spirit are dilated opened and enlarged and are likewise conveyed and sent abroad to the other members But for the perfection and complement of all these vertues and faculties Spirit is necessarily required Spirit necessary for the perfection of the former faculties by whose benefit and continuall motion as well the senses as the faculties are instigated and provoked to performe and finish their faculties and actions And they say that the Spirit is a certaine airy substance which continually exciteth and stirreth up the powers and faculties of the body to fulfill and accomplish their actions And indeed this Spirit is a certaine subtile body What spirit is ingendred by the force of heat because of blood flowing and streaming in the Liver attracted and drawne by breathing and the Arteries and afterward diffused by the veines to all the members quickning the bodies serving to promote and further motion by the meanes and aide of the nerves and Muscles But first this is directed and conduced to the Liver in this manner Heate remaining in the blood How naturall spirit is ingendred there is caused a certaine boyling in the Liver from whence a certaine fume or vapour issueth and proceedeth forth which eft-soones being purified by the veines of the Liver is changed and transmuted into a certaine airie substance and is called Naturall Spirit which purifieth and clarifieth the blood and afterward is sent and distributed to the particular and severall members Afterward the same Spirit is transferred and carried from the Liver by certaine veines to the Heart How vitall spirit is ingendred where by the motion of the parts of the Heart and a mutuall coagitation it is made more pure and is converted into a more subtile and finer Nature and beginneth to be Vitall and truely Spirit because is diffuseth and spreadeth it selfe from the Heart by Arteries to the members of the whole body and doth augment and further the vertue of Naturall Spirit And againe How Animal spirit is ingendred the same Spirit mounting and penetrating upward from the Heart through Arteries to the little caves and ventricles of the braine is there more exactly laboured and refined and is transmuted and altered into the essence and substance of the Animal Spirit Animal Spirit most pure which is most pure of all from whence streight-way it is sent and conducted againe by the organs and instruments of the senses to corroborate and strengthen those senses in some measure Although therefore it be the selfe-same one Spirit yet because of his divers offices and functions in divers parts Why the Spirit is called Naturall Vital Animal it is diversly taken and understood as in the Liver it is named Naturall in the Heart Vitall and in the braine Animal But we must not beleeve that this Spirit is the immortall soule infused into man of God Whether the Spirit be the Soule but it is onely the instrument and as it were the Charriot of the same The Spirit but the instrument or Charriot of the Soule For by the meanes alone of this Spirit the soule is conjoyned and united to the body neither yet also is there any perfect exercise of the soule without the ministry and service of this spirit which thing might easily be proved but that already this discourse concerning the faculties and Spirit hath beene overlong CHAP. V. Of the true Generation of the parts and the increase of the Feature according to the daies and moneths A little while after also a veine directed by the Navell A two-forked veine ingendred attracteth the grosser blood confused in the seed fit and convenient for nourishment whereby a two-forked veine is ingendred according to the forme of this Figure And these veines doe attract sucke and draw unto them the hottest the most subtile and purest blood of which the heart is ingendred in the membrane or skinne of the heart involving and lapping the same round about named in Latin Pericardium and the heart is fleshie What the Heart is and of a grosse substance by nature as is necessary for such a hot member But the notable and great veine Vena cava spreading out himselfe and penetrating into inward concavitie vault or privie-chamber of the right side of the heart deriveth and carrieth blood thither for the nourishment of the heart The unmoveable and still veine Also from the same branch of that veine in the same part of the heart a certaine other veine doth spring up named of some the unmoving or still veine in Latine Vena immota vel tranquilia so named because it doth not beat and move as other pulsive moving veines of the heart doe named in Latine Venae pulsatiles but lieth hidden being calme and still ordained and destinated to this office namely The office of the unmoveable and still veine that it should conduct and convey blood digested in the Heart unto the Lungs and Lights which veine is environed and lapped about for which cause it is named Vena arteriosa an arteried veine with two coats like unto the Arteries But in the concavity hollow of the left part in the heart a most great and notable pulsive or beating veine Aorta called Aorta doth spring up diffusing and sending abroad vitall and lively spirit by the blood of the heart into all the pulsive and moving veines of the body For as Vena cava is the originall fountain and spring of all the veines by which the body attracteth and draweth to it the whole nutriment of blood Even so
that meanes the Matrix will both be drawne backe and also retained and held still being reduced into her proper place But that the Matrix being reduced and brought into the wombe may remaine and continue there nor suddenly fall downe againe it must be strengthened according to these precepts and rules following First let the woman lie a whole day upon her backe after the reducing of the Matrix into her proper place But the next day let her sit in a bathe boiled with these herbes about the space of one houre Take red Roses Myrtles seede of Sumach A Bathe leaves of the Medler-tree of a Service-tree the bark of an Oke Acornes Origanum Sage Rue Comfrey of each a handfull let them all be mixed and beaten together and let a decoction or bathe be made with them in raine water or in water in which burning-iron hath beene quenched When she commeth out of the bathe let her drinke this powder boiled in Wine very hot Take Rue Mugwoort of each halfe a handfull Castofeum two drams mingle them and make a powder of them Then take the best white Wine so much as sufficeth straine it and to the straining adde two drams of Mithridate And let a hot Potion be made of it Afterward the secrets are to be Fomented and bathed nine daies together and likewise Pessaries are to be used A Plaister And the tenth day this Plaister following spread upon white Leather shall be laid to the lowest part of the belly and to remaine there for some weekes together But let the Cerot or Plaister be made in this manner Take Frankincense Masticke Opopanax Turpentine Galbanum Serapium Rosine of the Pine-tree Styrax liquida Colophonie of each two drams yellow wax three drams temper them together and let a Cerot be made with them Or else Take Galbanum halfe a dram Gallia Muscata one dram Cloves halfe a dram Rosine of the Pine-tree and Colophonie so much as sufficeth mixe them and let a Cerot or Cerecloth be made of them We let passe here of set purpose nor without great cause something in this Cure which is onely knowne to the learned and skilfull which may be demanded of them so often as neede shall require Further you shall consider that when the aforesaid sicknesse shall arise from cold wind or over-much moistnesse of the Matrix that you must proceede altogether in the same manner which wee have prescribed and set downe before discoursing of the windie and waterish false conception named Mola I say concerning a Tympany and Hydropsie CHAP. X. Of the superfluities of the Termes and of the Cure of the same EVen as the Termes may be stopped contrary to the course of Nature so they may issue forth too immoderately contrary to the custome of Nature and as by them being stopped so by them flowing abundantly many diseases are caused unto women as Hippocrates doth advise us But as the naturall issue of the Termes which otherwise we call the Menstruall The unnatural issuing forth of the Termes or monthly purgation should issue forth every Moone naturally in women being well disposed in body and age I say from the third or fourth day after the new-Moone untill the eighth day although in this case there be many differences of ages complexions and disposition of body so wee say that issuing forth of the Termes not to be naturall which passeth beyond that time And we say that this doth happen two waies that is outward and inward Causes The outward causes are these Externall Causes as if some little veine be broken in the mouth or necke of the Matrix through immoderate exercise or some hurt chancing unto it as over-lifting stroke fall violence or exulceration Also some such like thing may be caused by aborcement and hard birth and also by the ulcers or fores of the Matrix Notwithstanding it happeneth sometime that Fluxes and issues are found to be in women conceived with childe every moneth yet they are never the weaker by them neither doe they substract or withdraw any nourishment from the Infant Inward causes are to be judged and discerned from Nature it selfe or from the blood Internall Causes From Nature when shee being strong doth expell the blood or being feeble and weake cannot hold or retaine it For the blood when it is too hot or sharp or over cold and thinne againe when by idlenesse immoderate meate and drinke too much nourishment is afforded to the blood Moreover certaine signes doe happen Signes of the Causes by which it may certainly be found out whether they come from an outward or inward cause If the Flux happen from an outward cause as from a veine being broken through some immoderate exercise by some hurt or fall then the colour of the blood will be red at the first but by and by blackish or blacke If it issue forth straight-way it will appeare in his naturall colour but being retained sometime in the Matrix it will issue forth with an ugly and thicke colour if it shall remaine there long it will be altogether full of corrupt matter But if the blood shall issue forth because of ulcers and sores of the Matrix First it will be cleare and thin but by by it wil be ful of filthy matter without all colour If the strong and mighty force of Nature doe expell it then it will be done without paine that also the body is alleviated and eased by it because Nature voideth no more of that which is ingendred but that which is superfluous either in quality or quantity If it shall happen by defect of retentive vertue it will issue forth by drops by little and little and disorderly without any intermission and the woman which shall be affected and afflicted with this issue shall waxe pale leane and very feeble in all her members but the blood doth retaine still his naturall colour and flowing abroad it doth not burne bite or molest with any paines But the cause of this Flux for the most part doth happen to women having passed beyond the fiftieth yeere when as their Termes doe generally depart away When it chanceth to young women oftentimes it h ppeneth by vehement and grievous fits of a Tertian Quartan Ague and paines of the head For these things doe dissipate and drive away Naturall vertue and power and do easily bring upon them such a Flux and immoderate issue If it proceed and be caused by intemperate heate or acrimony and egernesse of the blood the issue doth burne bite inflame and corrode the entrance and mouth of the Matrix The woman pained with this passion doth endure intolerable thirst and her lips are grieved with chaps bred and caused by most sharpe and hot vapours of the blood fuming and steaming upward Most grievous dolours and paines are felt in the niples of the Dugs by reason of the affinity and fellowship that they have with the Matrix The blood resembleth the colour of Saffron and is
Plantane the lesser or Ribwoort Galls Psidia of each one dram Let all of them be mixed and incorporated with juyce of Plantane and Rue and let Pessaries be made of them Or else take unripe Galls burn'd quenched with Vinegar two drams Gumme Arabick halfe a dram Sanguis Draconis powder of the roots of Walwoort or Asse-eare Sumach Masticke Acorn-cups Hypocisthidos Acacia Harts-horne burnt Colophony Myrrh drosse of Iron of each one dram Camphire one scruple mingle and incorporate all together with the juyce of Knot-grasse Housleeke Night-shade Wormegrasse or Stonegrasse and of Plantane as much as sufficeth and let a Pessary be made of it Or otherwise Take the ashes of Egs-shels burn'd the shels of Crab-fish Sanguis Draconis Bole Armenie Oxe-dung dried of each two drams leaves of Silver or Gold most diligently beaten one dram Haire of Goats of Hares Cotton all burned of each halfe a dram temper them with the juyce of Rue and Plantane so much as may suffice and let a Pessary be made of it But if intemperate heate of the blood shall inforce the Fluxe If the Flux do arise from the heate of the blood how it is to be cured and shall ingender great thirst the diet shall be directed to a cold and dry temperature and the use of all outward things to be ordained and disposed of as they may strengthen and make the body prosper Let her drinke Water wherein red-hot Steele hath beene quenched mingled with syrup of Pomegranates And such an Electuary may first be prepared of which let her eate morning and evening and after meat a little morsell the bignesse of a Chesse-nut Take old conserve of Roses one ounce Diaolibanum two ounces red Corall prepared one dram Pearles prepared one scruple Cummin-seed infused the space of a day in Vinegar one dram and a halfe dry Mints foure scruples Olibanum two scruples Mastick Cypress-nuts roots of Bistort of each halfe a dram Spica Indica one scruple Let al things that are to be beaten to powder be powdred and let an Electuary gilded be made of them being tempered with syrup of Pomegranates so much as sufficeth Also she shall use these pills following five of them taken in the morning or three houres before supper the waight of a dram Take Frankincense Mastick Mumia Allom Harts-horne burn'd washed Cypresse-nuts Runnet of a Hare or Kid of each a dram Gumme Arabicke one dram mixe them and let a masse or lumpe be made wherewith pills may be formed with the juyce of the Thistle named Carduus Mariae our Ladies Thistle or white Thistle Here also Pilulae de Bdellio prepared with the juyce of a Leeke This Plaister prepared either in a hard or liquid forme after the manner of an Vnguent shall have great efficacy by annointing the woman with it before and behind Take oile of Masticke two ounces oile of Myrtles juyce of Mints red Roses of each one ounce powder of Mastick two ounces Cypressenuts Mumia Bistort Olibanum Myrtles red Roses of each two drams Chalk burnt Allom Galls Acorne-cups of each one dram Bole Armeniack Terra Sigillata of each halfe a dram white Waxe so much as sufficeth and let a Plaister be made of them After shee hath beene annointed with this Vnguent shee shall weare this Cere-cloth following continually laid before and behind upon her Take Masticke one dram and a halfe Ladanum Olibanum of each two drams Galls Cypresse-nuts Bistort Mumia of each one dram Myrrhe Galbanum Terra sigillata of each two scruples temper them with Oyle of Masticke and Wax so much as sufficeth and let a Cere-cloth bee made of it which being spred over white Leather must bee laid upon the woman before and behind afflicted with this unnaturall flux Hot Bathes do profit and availe in this case not such as consist of Brimstone but of Copper and Allome But if the flux of blood shall arise only from a cold cause then you must proceed altogether in the same manner as we have prescribed before in curing barrennesse engendered of a phlegmaticke humour CHAP. XI Of the the Causes and Cure of the stopping of the Termes BVt because in the former Chapter we have given instructions concerning the immoderate Fluxes and issuings of the Termes and of the Cure of the same The next thing is that wee should also speake a little concerning the retention and stopping of them For thereby many sicknesses and diseases are bred and ingendred if they be detained contrary to Nature nor doe not issue forth in such a quantity as they should every Moone in women well disposed in respect of age and constitution of body And we must understand that this happeneth by outward and inward Causes Outward causes of the stopping of the Termes Externall causes are the aire intemperately hot cold and dry meats over hot and binding whereby the humours are burned the body dried and concoctions are hindred also meats which are too cold congealing and freezing as it were the rest of the humours of the body by their coldnesse and letting them from issuing forth by restraining and binding them To these causes also these following doe pertaine too much watching immoderat fasting every unseasonable and sudden commotion or perturbation of the body as great anger sudden fury great sadnesse great lamentation over-much solitarinesse great labour any great diseases sharp fits a Quartane Fever paine of the Head the Fever Hecticke too much fatnesse issuing forth of the blood of the nostrils or any other member Vlcers and great Apostems Inward causes Inward causes are partly bred by the corruption of some humour and partly without the corruption of any humour Causes without the corruption of the humour are over-much heat coldnesse and drinesse For to those which are cholericke the humours are exsiccated and dried up through immoderate heat and therefore the Termes are stopped But to the melancholicke The corruption of the qualities the same thing happeneth by immoderate coldnesse and drinesse But when they happen without the corruption of the humour we must allege the qualities to be the cause and we may observe certaine signes from what quality they doe proceede and againe whether from a simple or a compound quality If they happen from coldnesse and drinesse the issue of the Termes is little the colour will be pale no desire of Venus the urine thin white and without any convenient subsidence or grounds in the bottome If they chance from hotnesse and drinesse the Termes will be few the colour redder the greater desire of Venus the urine thinne reddish but almost no subsidence or dregs in the bottome of it But for the most part this retention and stopping of the Termes The corruption of the humours doth happen by the corruption and fault of some humour as of Phlegme Choler and Melancholy but not of blood at all because they are onely retained and stopped through the other humours bearing sway in the blood Moreover common signes by which it is
Ephesius the sonne of Demostratus when hee hated women had carnall company with an Asse which in processe of time brought forth a most beautifull Maiden-childe named Onoscelin Aristotle being author of it in the second of his Paradoxes And againe when as Fulvius Stellus did disdaine and hate women he had carnall company with a Mare which the Months of bearing being passed over brought forth a very beautifull Maiden-child which he named Epona peradventure Hippona A Goddesse which taketh care of Horses And indeede there is a goddesse of this name which taketh care of Horses as Agesilaus writeth in his third booke of the affaires of Italy Againe of one Fulvius and a Mare the Maiden-child Hippo is said to be borne as wee reade in Plutarch And even as Nature doth change and alter her self in man In Helvetia A Mare brought forth a colt or rather a Cowe so experience doth teach that it may also happen so in beasts For among the Helvetians a Mare being covered of a Bull at the due time brought forth a colt In France a Mare brought forth a colt the hinder part like a Hart. onely having horses feet but in shape haire and taile he was like unto a Cowe And in France a Mare being covered of a Hart brought forth a colt in the hinder part like unto a Hart whom no other Horse could equall match in running and Ludovicus the King received him for a gift of the owner CHAP. IIII. Of the causes and signes of aborcement or untimely births and also of all manner of cure of such as suffer abortion WE must understand The causes of aborcement are two-fold that it happeneth from inward and outward causes that women suffer aborcement that is to say bring forth an immature Feature or an untimely fruit The inward causes Inward causes are considered from the Feature it selfe or from the Matrix If it happen by the Feature it is caused for that the Cotilidons are over-weake which are veines by which the conception is tied and fastned in the Matrix by whose feeblenesse and weaknesse the mouthes or specks of the veines in the Matrix named in Latine Acetabula are caused to be quickly dissolved and broken and aborcement doth follow Againe if the coats or caules also wherein the childe is wrapped and infolded in the womb be loosed dissolved and broken through debility and weaknesse and the retained and inclosed humours doe issue forth by which fluxe the Matrix is made slippery and feeblish and the Feature destitute of moist nourishment doe perish and be destroyed and also likewise if venomous humours flow and issue forth and stirre and pricke forward the expulsive faculty of the Matrix It chanceth also sometime that abortion is caused in respect of the Matrix by an inward cause that happeneth when the woman is weake and waxing feeble and faint doth substract and withdraw nourishment from the Feature that it hath no augmentation nor sufficient matter to ingender and procreate the members Further in respect of the Matrix the wide and ample largenesse of the mouth of the Matrix and the immoderate humidity and moistnesse of the same the evill disposition and distemperature of the qualities also ventosity or vapours inclosed within the Matrix and the ulcers and Apostumations of the same doe minister and afford a cause and occasion of aborcement And also other maladies and infirmities as an immoderat flux of blood an unkinde loosenesse of the belly the disease Tenasmus which is a desire to goe to stoole when nothing can be voided the cough Tenasmus continuall sneesing and what things soever do shake the body over-much yea likewise every sharp sicknesse which doth so molest the body of the woman that it disperseth the nutriments of the Feature Outward causes Besides the externall or outward causes which chance outwardly and hasten and procure aborcement are also many such as are falls running leaping or dauncing riding immoderate exercise and blowes Also inconvenient and intemperate application and use of things which are without the body as of the aire too hot or too cold For great coldnesse doth destroy the Feature but overmuch heate intercepteth and keepeth away the aire from the Infant and stifleth and strangleth him in the wombe Hot bathes also effect the same thing if women doe use them the first three moneths after conception Also noysome stinckes and savours doe provoke and procure abortion as of Lamps or Candles newly put out as Aristotle witnesseth Likewise an intemperate using of unkinde meate and drinke as by the greedy desire of an unnaturall appetite to eate immoderate store of Salt to eate coales dirt or such things by which naughty and corrupt humours or hurtfull drinesse is caused and procured Also great hunger doth hurt the Feature very much and over-much repletion and surfeting the waies and passages of nourishment being soone stopped doth suffocate and choke him Further immoderate exercise intemperate labours immoderate sleep also unseasonable and over-much watching or continuall sluggishnesse and slothfulnesse doe harme and endamage the Feature Likewise other accidents and chances such as are sudden fury great danger exceeding great feare over-much sorrow sudden joy dull appetite desire of things not to be gotten immoderate Venus unfaciable lust And these things concerning the causes Moreover the signes of aborcement to come Signes of aborcement whether they proceed from internall or externall causes are two-fold First before conception there are some fore-shewing tokens belonging to these women which are wont to abort and bring forth unripe fruit as superfluous moisture sudden and unaccustomed fatnesse as if they wax fat contrary to their nature which alwaies were wont to be of a leane and slender body Or such women will suffer aborcement which have a continuall paine about the Kidnies or else doe suddenly fall into other perilous and dangerous diseases Next after conception be thou most certaine and sure of an aborcement to ensue by these signes and notes when you shall perceive the dugs suddenly to waxe soft and lancke which before were plump and hard if immeasurable fluxes and the Flowers shall issue forth continually Further also if the shivering Agues coldnesse and paines of the head with a mistinesse and dimnesse of the eyes shall suddenly ceaze upon the woman conceived with childe All which things do prognosticate and signifie that Aborcement shall follow quickly after How it is to be observed that the childe is dead in the wombe But that the Feature is dead in the wombe hereby it is evident when no motion is felt any more in the wombe when the eyes of the impregnant and conceived woman doe wax hollow when her colour is changed into a swartish whitenesse when great wringings and gripings happen about the Navell and loynes whereby it cōmeth to passe that the lower parts are pressed and clunged together The Strangury and Tenasmus do happen Also the Strangury and Tenasmus doe happen the former
blacke neither doth it issue forth copiously although it be constrained If it arise through subtility and thinnesse of the blood then the blood is pure and cleare and the Flux is small If heate be mixed with it it shall easily be discerned in the Matrix and by other tokens and signes If cold be mixed with it it shall in like manner be observed and found out If the blood shall issue forth because it is liquid and thin the cause of this is the evill disposition and state of the body and the debility of the concoctions caused and ingendred by abundance of many moistures and winds or vapors inclosed and imprisoned in the Matrix But if you will have certaine knowledge of the humor constraining this unnaturall issue looke upon a linnen cloth sleightly coloured and dipped in the menstruous blood If the colour of it doth incline to rednesse you may know that the cause of the Fluxe doth proceed from blood If it bend toward Citrine or yellow colour from Choler if it incline to whitenesse from Phlegme But if it incline to a black colour you may know the cause of the Fluxe to arise from Melancholy What Fluxes are to be stopped Further you shall consider when as the Flux shall be tolerable and easie to be indured which doth not make the body leane nor weaken it but doth dis-burden it and make the same more light and nimble that such a Flux is inforced and moved by naturall vertue and power only expelling and voyding that which is superfluous in the blood and therefore such Flux and issue ought not to be restrained or stopped But if the contrary thing happen it is to be restrained and staied altogether lest it bring the Patient to cholerick Fevers because that blood being evacuated and exhausted Choler doth beare the whole sway and play the Tyrant and being freed from his bridle doth furiously vex and torment the Patient For blood as it is commonly said is the bridle of Choler But because also naturall colour is nourished cherrished with blood that flowing away it is necessary that a defect and decay of heat must follow and ensue and by that all the members and parts of the body to waxe cold the whole body to be debilitated and weakened the whole appetite to be taken away the concoctions to be hindred the Consumption and Hydropsie and also other most miserable diseases at the last to hasten after the same But because it is not sufficient to know the diversities of the diseases onely unlesse wee be resolved likewise of the fit and convenient cure of repelling them wee will hereafter also declare a few things of many which shall seeme to be the choisest and most speciall concerning the cure and remedy of these evills And as the Causes of these Fluxes and issues are inward and outward so the cure shall be inward and outward also The inward cure of unnaturall Fluxes And truely first of all if this unmeasurable or unnaturall Fluxe shall happen by some inward cause before all things the diet and use of all outward things shall be ordered and directed to a cold and dry temperature that blood may decrease and be diminished Therefore it will greatly profit to decoct and seethe all convenient and agreeable meats in Milke or Water in which Steele red-hot hath beene quenched and to eate Colewoorts boiled with Lentills or Beanes Or if it please you such a decoction shall first be prepared wherein other meats afterward shall be boiled Take Plantane-leaves flowers of Wool-blade or Lungwoort with the leaves of each one handful the roots of Symphytum or comfrey one ounce mingle them together and boile them with water or Milk in which burning Iron hath beene quenched straine it and squeise it out hard With this decoction all other meates may be prepared as Almonds Lentills Beanes the graine Milium Rice Amylum and the like things rosted flesh is to be preferred before sodden Also sauces may be prepared of the juice of Goose-berries Sorrell and Barberries to be mingled with other meats Let her abstaine from Spices and all things which are of a hot nature but specially from Saffron Let her drinke thicke red Wine allaied with water wherein Steele hath beene quenched It will likewise be profitable that Gold should oftentimes be extinguished and quenched in that Wine after it hath beene made red-hot in the fire Let her use no exercise but as much rest as may be Let her use much sleep let her wholly shake hands with Venus and flie from her as from a deadly poison Her belly being constipated and bound by reason of this continuall Fluxe shall be relaxed and unloosed with a gentle Clyster but thou shalt not by any meanes restraine and stop the Flux unlesse it shall induce and bring debility and feeblenesse lest thou oppose thy selfe against Nature of her owne accord expelling and voiding out superfluous things when thy resistance shall procure great evill When and how Fluxes are to be restrained But when necessity shall require then at last it will be convenient and profitable to binde and stop this Flux And first of all you shall use this powder of which you shall give one dram to be drunke at a time in water in which Gold heat red-hot hath bin quenched And the powder shall be thus prepared Take Terra Sigillata Carabe or Amber Succus Acacia of each halfe an ounce Hypocistis or Hypoquistidos Harts-horne washed and burnt the Runnet of a Kid or Hare of each two drams red Corrall prepared and beaten to powder one dram Gumme Arabicke Costus Sanguis Draconis Bole-Armeniacke prepared of each one dram and a halfe Comfrey flowers of Quinces the pills or rindes of Pomgranates of each one dram Pearles prepared one scruple Mumia halfe a dram Myrtles Olibanum of each one dram Lapis Haematites or the Blood-stone roots of the water-Lilly of each one dram and a halfe Mix them all together and let a powder be made of them Also you shall not unprofitably give this powder following to be eaten in an Egge Take Bole-Armenie prepared Terra Sigillata red Sanders Anthera of each one scruple and a halfe Rindes of Pomegranates Acorne-cups Nut-meg of each halfe a dram Mixe them and make a Powder Or let her use this Electuary morning and evening Take of the Antidote Athanasia Micleta of each one ounce old conserve of Roses one ounce and a halfe Rindes of Pomegranates Acorne-cups Nut-meg Corall prepared of each one scruple and a halfe Pearles prepared halfe a scruple Terra Sigillata halfe a dramme Sanguis Draconis Bole-Armenie prepared Lapis Hematites of each one scruple Temper them with syrup of Pomegranates as much as sufficeth and let an Electuary be made of it Adde to it if neede be Philonium Persicum one dram Moreover against Thirst Water wherein red-hot Steele hath beene quenched mingled with the syrup of Quinces and Pomegranates and with the juyce of Gooseberries and Acetosa simplex shall