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
〈◊〉 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
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
infant indangered by this only but by a double motion The first is that when after the motion of the seventh moneth it is born the eighth moneth as aforesaid The next is because by reason of the influence of the stars every seventh moneth produceth a dangerous and hurtful motion to the infant for the Sun is ever standing in an opposite sign at that time and because the 8th moneth is ever nearest unto Saturn an enemie to all that receive life And it is to be conceived The difference of the sex Hippocrates Aphor. v. Book and 48. that the males are generated in the right side of the matrix but females in the left out of the left testicle for the right side by reason of the Liver is hotter but the left cooler but principally the abundant heat of seed is the cause of the generation of males Of infants being like their parents And because males are sometimes like their parents is from the virtue of the seed that the infant should most resemble those whose seed is most in virtue But 't is believed that the motion of the stars can do somewhat Stars have influence The reason of handsome and unhandsome children as when the seed is conceived under the aspect of some good Planets this makes an excellent form but when under the aspect of some untoward Planet then it produceth an ugly shape and unbeautiful form This figure sheweth the Womb Anatomized and how the Infant lyeth in it The parts are described in the following page Câ—oss sculpsit SECT IV. Of the due time and form of the Birth and what are the causes of pains in Child-bearing THe ninth moneth being now at hand the nourishment of the infant in the womb beginneth to fail by reason of that bigness to which the infant is grown or now being big it requires much nourishment which because it cannot longer attract by the small veins and by the navil it is moved with great struglings and force in the womb insomuch as it breaketh the ligaments the veins and coats in which the infant is involved I mean the secundine with the other coats of which hereafter and according to this figure fitteth it self toward the birth What are the pains in Child-bearing By this indication Midwives and other women which sometimes are assistant unto pregnant women may observe the true pains of a woman in travail which in truth are nothing else but the force of the infant now perfect by which they are enforced and tossed and with which they contend downwards that they may go forth for the membrane being broken by that force and the womb open the humors begin to flow down of which the infant being now freed he presently is sensible of the air and being desirous of this life is turned toward the out-let of the matrix with his head towards the orifice of the same And this see the precedent figure is the form of a natural birth A natural birth what if the head tend forth to the out let with the hands drawn down to the sides and plac'd on the hips as in the last figure An unnatural birth of which more at large God willing hereafter may be said to be where any of these conditions are wanting or defective therefore let the Midwife take care that she be timely prepared for the reception of any birth with all necessary A Naturall Birth Cross sculy conveniences as with a fit stool The Midwives furniture a sharp knife astringent powder a sponge swathes c. warm oyle of Lillies with which she may aptly anoint both the womb of the woman and her own hands but of that also more particularly hereafter Let us now in the next Section make inquiry for the fittest and best Midwife with whom we may discourse There is a good woman called Mrs. Eutrapelia who promised to undertake the office and to be satisfied with directions And see here she comes and offers discourse SECT V. A Dialogue between Eutrapelia the Midwife and Philadelphos the Doctor Eutrap Sir I understand you are inquiring after a woman that may make a fit Midwife the employment being such a necessary and publick good I should be willing if your Worship and other Learned Physicians think me fit to be serviceable in my generation and to take upon me that employment Dr. Philadelphos Your name I beseech you Mistress Eutrap Sir my name is Eutrapelia and I am she that last night promised to wait on you this morning Philad Are you she Welcome Mrs. Eutrapelia your name bespeaks you fit for the work as being a well-bred woman therefore give me leave to tell you what kind of person a Midwife ought to be and that in the subsequent description A good Midwife described The best Midwife is she that is ingenuous that knoweth letters and having a good memory is studious neat and cleanly over the whole body healthful strong and laborious and well instructed in womens conditions not soon angry not turbulent or hasty Exo. 1.15 Shiphrah Puah Exod 1.17 and ver 20 and 21. unsober unchaste but pleasant quiet prudent not covetous but like the Hebrew Midwives such as fear God that God may deal with them and that the people may multiply and increase after their hands and that the Lord may build them houses By this description I tell you only how the best Midwife must be qualified let me hear from you somewhat of your experience and skill that I may the better judge of your abilities and approve of them First then Mrs. let me know how women are delivered B. the Back of the Stoole o o o o. the feete a a. rests for the hands r r. the ring in shape like the Moone c c c c. the Cloth round the ring to keepe out the Aire etc Crofs sculpsit An astringent powder â„ž of Aloes Frankincense Dragons-blood of each a drachm of burnt Harts-horn sealed earth called Terra sigillata fine flour of each two drachms of the wooll of Hares shread small half an ounce of these make a fine powder As to the washing of the child and swathing I need not give you any account I suppose you take it for granted that most women understand that I only here shew you the shape of the stool I use which I hope you will not disapprove of though all Midwives nay few have them or use them Dr. Philadelphos I like Mrs. the use of your stool as being most useful and especially by reason of the skirt of cloth that usually ought to be about n = * Of a black colour it to keep away the air which gives me occasion to give you one necessary admonition by the way A Caution Therefore let all Midwives take heed that they expose not their women that are in labour to the cold air but rather that they cover the privities with the secundine also whilest it is yet hot or else with warm clothes presently after the
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
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.