because âe brain is not so shaken as to cause âoaming âor is the vapor so fixed in the roots of the nerâes but they often do hear It is grievous and hath grievous Symâtoms âut it is not so bad as a true Epilepsie and if you âve proper Medicines it never returns The Cure of the Fit Use things as in Suffocation of the womb or âther-sits as Rue and Castor are good against ãâã Also out of the sit you must cure it as the Moââ using things that respect the womb and the ãâã Asâ Take Piony roots Sâorzonera Misleââ tââ Oâk each half an ounce Polypâdy of the ãâã an ounâe Rue Pennyroyal Calamintâ each a ãâã Seseli Pionâ Agnus castus seeds each ââdramâ Carthamus sâeds brâised half an ounce ãâã of Rosemary Sâge Sâaehas Borage eâch two pugils boyl them to a pinâ and half strain and adâ juyce of Bettony Yarrow Mercury Mugâârt Sânâa five ounces Agarick Epithymum each half an ounce Rhubarb Cloves each two drams Aniâââ I ânnel sâed each three drams boyl strain with Sâgar and half an ounce of Cinnamon make Syrup give two ounces And these Pills twice in a week a scruple oââ dram an hour afore Supper Take Piony roâââ Senna each half an ounce Mugwort Bottoââ Rue Yarrow each half a handfulâ boyl them clârifie the Decoction add juyce of Mercury an ounce Aloes an ounce and half let it settle pour of the cleaâ add Rhubarb sprinkled with Cinnamon water ãâã drams Agarick half an ounce Mastich Epilâpââ pouder each half a dram with Syrup of Mugwââ make Pills To strengthen the Head and the Womb and to mend its Distemper Take Fecula oâ Pimââ dram of Briony Amber Misleto of the Oak eâââ half a dram Bezoar stone Mans sâull each a sârâple make a pouder give half a dram with Scorzonââ or Tile flower water or with Sugar make Rouls An âlectuary Take Conserve of Balm Tiâ flâwers Rosemaryâ Lilly coâvals Scorzonera ãâã âanâied each an ounce Diamoschâ dulce a draâ pouder of Agnus castus seeds and Piony roâts ãâã two drams with Syrup of Stââhas Chap. 8. Of pain of the Heââ from the Womb. MAny ââins come from the Womâ buâ ãâã chief and greatest are in thâ Head âââver or on one side oâ in the eyes Matter ascends to the membranes of the head by the veins and arteries from the womb It is a ââpoâ or humor from blood and humors somtimes bad blood that is thin goes from the womb vessels to the great vessels and gets to the head tâ the membranes there and causeth a stretching ulceâated or pricking or beating pain when it is carried through the arteries being âul of blood They think their head will be torn and the membranes and it is behind in the head or when the terms flow or arâ disordered from consent with the womb If it be from a vapor there is no hââviness and it ceaseth presently if from a humoâ there is heaviness Thesâ paââs are great and cause waâching We have spoken of the headach but here it is ââom the womb therefore consider what humoââ offend in the womb and let them be purged and the distemper of the womb amended as wâ shewed in the Distemper of the Womb. There is also a pain in the loyns because bad hâmors go from the veins of the womb and arteâies to the great vessels and so are sent by the ââpillââ veins into the membranes and stretch them and cause pain these humors must have âââper Purges âââstion In what part of the Head is the pain that comes by consent from the Womb Iâ iâ in the crown before and behind but chiefly âehind by reason of the joyning of the Back with the womb for the womb is nervous and âoâsânts âith the membranes of the brain by the membranes of the âarrow of the âack and so âerves âuffâââith nârves âiâher by communiââtion of matter or pain and because the original of the nerves is in the hinder part of the head women are more pained there then men because of the Womb. Chap. 9. Of the Diseases of the Heart and beating of the Arteries in the Back and sides from the Womb. THe heart beats and the arteries also as we shewed in the Green-sickness and it is by ââil vâpors sânt by the ââteries to the heaât from the womb that aâise from terms and evil humâââ gathered in the womb and this is known by âther Signs and Symptomes of a distempered womb To discuss the malignant vapors from the heart give Cordials as in Chap. 3. of palpiââtion of the Heart as Aqua vitae Cinnamenwater and Epithems Baggs and Liniments The arteries also beat with the heart as iâ Widdows on the lefâ Hypochondrion and Bacâ where there is a great artery and the artery thââ beats in the Back is part of the great artery they which beat in the Hypochondrion are the lesseâ splenitiâk and mesenterick branches therefoâe the beating is moâe in the Back then in the Hypochondrion but both pulsâtions come froâ the same cause The inflammation of the aâteries is the Cause of this beating when evil humors are sent frââ the womb iâto the great branches of the arteâââ and there bââtâ the heart being over-hot Somtimes the motion of this artery is all the body over and from a hot humor the hot humors go to the heart and cause a feaver but because there is little putrefaction it vanisheth presently If the heat of the humors go to the brain by the arteâies there is madness Some seek the cause in the vâins and say that the arteries suffer from the ãâã ãâã in them You mây feel it wiâh your hand laid upon the Hypochondrion and there are signs of a distempered womb and melancholy from the womb if heat continue in the arteries and go to the whole âody it consumeth it It is seemingly a small disease but it is not âithout danger because it comes from a bad cause that weakens the bowels It is cured as melancholy from the womb and ââopping of the terms and as Hypochondriack melancholy from the womb which follows Chap. 10. Of the Diseases of the Spleen and the Hypochondriack Disease from the Womb. SOmtimes the Spleen and the Hypochondria suffer from the womb so that you may doubt âhat disease it is ãâã from the womb by the arteries the womb ãâ¦ã one from the preparing arteries ãâã from the Hypogastrick aâtâry That from ãâ¦ã goes almost to all parts of the ãâ¦ã and ãâã branches of the spleen there ãâ¦ã bââ blood is ââed in the womb and ãâ¦ã âpwaâd to the ãâ¦ã gâââ easâây from thencâ to the ãâ¦ã ââd tâ the sâleen and the parts adjacent in the abdomen and the sooner ãâã Nature useth to send bad humors to ignââââ parts These humors are gathered by suppreââiââ of terms which though they seem to be onelâ ãâã the veins yet they get to the arteries by their Anastomosis Therefore those women that âavâ
the orgâns of sense and motion with the liver spleen stomach belly mesentery bladder strait âut back hips arms and legs and causeth symâtoms As Galen âaith the mother or hysterical ââââion is one name but hath under it innumeââble Symptoms Chap. 4. Of Suffocation of the Womb. IN this they seem to be strangled And there are so many Symptoms at once that it is impossible to define it by one Sometimes there is only short breath sometimes the animal actions are hurt the whole body is cold from a malignant vapor sent up from the womb The immediate Cause is a vapor malignant and venemous sent up by the arteries veins and nerves that hurt the actions of the parts it goes to This vapor is like air or wind thin and little but very strong to get presently through the whole body it chieâly ascends to the gullet and causeth choaking as eating of Mushrooms Hellebore and other poysons There is often short difficult breathing with heart-ach vomiting and loathing If the vapor go first to the heart the motion of it ceaseth and there is swounding and she falls down If it go to the brain the animal actions are hurt When âeed and terms corrupt in the womb with other bad humors they breed this evil vapor because they are the best substance and the beginning of generation they are worst when corrupted especially seed to hurt the whole body Somtimes it is in women with child when they have not their after puâging but evil humors aâe leât and corrupt in the womb The chief cause of this humor is in the trumpet of the womb and stones the body of which is hollow and loose the stones being in bladders and have hollowness full of water which in hystârical women is yellow and thicker then ordinary This trumpet and the stones are often taken for the womb it selfâ when they are swollen with corrupt seed and humors and wind and reach to the navel of which in the Chapter of ascent of the Womb. This disease is breeding sooner or longer as the matter is more or less somtimes corrupt humoâs lie still and if they be stirred they send a venom or vapor to the whole body now in women subject to this disease sweet sâents to the nose or taken in or anger will move these huhumors and vapors They are according to the variety of the symptoms and efficient cause or venemous humors for corrupt blood especially seed puts on another Nature That Suffocation is at hand it appears by laziness weakness of the legs paleness sad countenance and the motion of somthing like a ball in the belly with noise like Froggs Snakes or Crows so that some think it devillish There is also belching yawning yexing short wind heart-beating loathing dulness laughture at the coming of the fit ârom the vapor gâtting into the membrâne of the breast that tickle them some cry some both laugh and cry These Symptoms increase when the fit comes and the jaws are closed that she seems to be choaked and sense and motion is gone or depraved Some have Convulsions some hâar what is done about them but cannot speak the âulâe iâ less the whole body is cold and the eyes ãâã as if they were dead When the âit declines humors sâow from the ârivââiâs the guâs rumble the eyes open the cheeks grow red and the body warm the animal actions return and the patient sighs and comes to her self It is known to be from corrupt seed if the terms are in order and short breath and low voice Suffocation and Convulsions and all Symptomes are then more vehement and at the end of the fit there flows a humor like seed out of the privities It is from the terms if they be stopt or flow not orderly and if there be a disâase in the womb it is neither from the seed noâ the terms 1. If there come swounding or a great Convulsion or quenching of natural heat it is deadly 2. Suffocation from corrupt seed is more dangerous then that which is from the terms mixt with melancholick humors 3. The longer it lasts and the worse the symptoms the more is the danger It ceaseth in yong women when they begin to bear children 4. The oftner the fit comes the more you may âear the quenching of the natural heat by weakning of the heart often and if she foam at the mouth she dies The Cure of the Fit In the fit you must discuss the malignant vapors that riseth from the womb and turn it fâom the principal parts and you must evacuate the matter that breeds it and prevent its return Cal upon her loud pluck the hairs of her privities and ears make strong Ligatures and Frictions cup the legs and thighs and gâoyns hold stinks to the nose as Partridg-feathers burnt hairs Leather Horn Castor Assa foetida Galbanum oyl of Amber Rue the warts on Horses legs dried and the pouder upon coals burnt makes a âume which if taken in the nose suddenly raised them Apply sweet Scenâs to the priviâies as Civeâ Musk Gallia and Alâpta mosâhata or pouder of Cloves Or Take Storax calamita Benzoin each a dram Gallia moschata half a sâruple make Troâhes with Gum Trâganth and let the Fume be taken into the womb by a Funnel A Liniment Take Storax Benzoin each a dram Gallia moschata half a scruple Civet four grains liquid Storax half a scruple with Cotton put it into the womb Clysters to discuss wind draw down the matter Take the Carminative Dâcoction a pint Electuary of Hiera six drams Benedicta laxativa an âââce Oyl of Rue and Bayberriâs each a dram Use Womb-clysters and Pessaries to women that have known man Take Electuary of Hiera and Diaphaenicon each two drams Turpentine half an ounce Honey of Mercury an âunce Castor halâ a dram ââth Wool make a Pessary Oyl of Tin applied to the navel doth remove the sit Or Rue Castor and sneesing Pouders As Take white Hellebore halâ a scruple long Pepper ând Ginger each half a dram or put Oyl of Amâââ into the Nose and Eârs Apply to the Womb this Take Oyl of Rue âaâs each two ounââs Cummin seed Câstâr dissolâââ in Vinâgar eâch two drams with Wax make a ãâã Or use a âlââsââr of ââlbânum Caâor and Aââa foetida A compound distilled Water Take Zedoary ââsmp sââds Lovage âââts each two ounââs Mirrh Castor each half an oânce Piony roots four ounâââ Misteto of the Oak gathered in the wain of the Moân three ounces ad water of Motherwort four pinâs anâ half Spirit of Wine a pint and half steep them eigââ daies distil and give a spoonful with Tile-flower or Mugwort water or Oyl of Amber some drops Or Take Castor Mirrh Assa faetida each a sâruplââ Pepper half a scruple with syrup of Mugwort mâlâ Pills give three The Cure out of the Fit First prevent the âeed from corrupting in the womb and if it be corrupt evacuate it presenâây
causes of ârrouâ ãâã Formation and imagination ââlps by ãâã up the appetite These are the common errors of formation Others are deteâminate errors not simply from the imagination by the pallions which have no determination to such a thing but no other cause can be besides the imagination but how she directs the forming faculty for the producing of such effects it is hard to be understood but there must be some imagination and the forming faculty that it may impart the species sent from the external senses to the forming faculty And this is the cause of the consent of the upper and lower faculties for the âoul is the same in the whole body and every where âitted with the same faculties but it doth not exercise all in all parts but by the proper determinate organs ââ instruments And though the child hath its âoul yet while it is in the womb it depends upon the âoul of the mother as the fruits partake of the life of the tree while they are upon it therefore it is probable that whatsoever moves the faculties of the âoul in the mother may move the same in the child Hence it is that while the forming operateth in the seed and womb of the mother if any species be sent to the imagination of the mother which she strongly receives it may make an impression upon the child yet every imagination cannot make this impression but that which makes a great admiration or terrour in the mother when the forming faculty is at work as when she beholds one with six fingers she brings forth the like or when shâ produâeth hair whââe it should noâ be or the lââeness of a beast in anâ limb or when she âeeth any thing cut or divided with a Cleaver she brinâs âorth a divided part oâ a Hare-lip Chap. 8. Of a Child turned into Stone JOhn Albosius Doctor at Senon and Simâon Provânchâr of Lingo Physitian of Senon writ of of this in French and Latin I shall give my opinion with others Two things are to be observed in this wonderful history first why the Child in the time of traâail being dead in the womb did not stink as is usual or kill the mother suddenly or was not âast out by degrees being rotten secondly by what force the child was turn'd into Stone For the first The mother lived twenty eight years after she had this Child therefore it is not credible that the womb was so cold that it might hinder putreâaction as some think It seems more probable to me that these questions explanation depend upon one principle for the cause that made the stones hardness kept the child from putreâaction but what that is it is obsâure Many fly to the efficienây of the fiâst qualities others to driness others to coldness others to both I acknowledg heat cold and driness to be helping causes for bâeeding of Stones in mans body but the chief cause is a Stone breeding juyce or spirit of which I have spoken at large The principles of generation were weak in this child and impure and this stone-breeding âââce was mixed with the blood in the humors hence it is that it was not born alive as in a wole bred in the womb which women have âiâl they aâe old and die with it and yet it sâiââs ãâã no more then stones bred in most parts But there is but this History of such a Birth Chap. 9. Of a Mole IT is âlesh and a mass without bones or bowels gotten of an imperfect conception instead of a child The Latins cal it a Mole from the weight because it is troublesom to women as a Milstone in Latin called Lapis molaris Somtimes it is unshapen flesh without bones only ful of veins with a skin over it and nothing within but like the Parenchyma of the bowels Somtimes it is membranous and âibâous without shape Somtimes it is long round or like a quary of glass or like a brute beast Some have brought forth three Moles like mens yaâds Some are like congealed blood or the Placenta of the womb into which the navel-vessels are inserted some grow and are nourished and some have an obscure sense Somtimes they are sent out alone somtimes withâ or before the child of which there are many Histories Some bring âorth Monsters for Moles It is from the error of the forming âaculty but the Cause of that is obscure I suppose it is from both seeds when the forming faculty is weak and the seed little and not good and overcome by much blood and can make onely veins and membranes and not a whole child Somtimes ãâã is in Widdows onely from their own seed and blood A Mole is sooner bred when the blood is impuâe and unfit to nourish and is made when they copuââte in the flowing of the terms that are unclean It is âeither from heat nor cold principally but from the error of the forming faculty They are hard to be known before the fourth month then they are known by such as can distinguish between the motion of wind and a child â If a woman turn from side to side it âalls like a stone to that side she lies on and is heavy If it have any motion it is trembling and beating with constriction and dilatation like a Spunge If after the time that the child should move there be no motion and the belly swells and there is no sign of a Dropsie it is a sign of a Mole Thirdly in women with child there is milk about the fourth month but in a Mole the breasts swel but there is no true milk 4. They are more pained and faint and have more pain in their back and groyns If it be with a quick child it is hard to be known but it is known by its weight in the womb which she perceives when she gets up to walk or moves from side to side some are then strong and well coloured It hurts the womb and whole body if it be divided it is less dangerous when it is soft it is cast out the third or fourth month Somtimes it ulcerates or tears the womb and causeth great bleeding Some have been cast out or drawn out without danger some grow old with them in ând find no inconvenience but the weight To prevent take heed of Venery in the terms oâ before the terms or when the body is foul or ââstâucted or the womb When it is take it away presently with thinâs ââât âând foâth a dead child Hippoârates shewâth the âââe in few woâdââ First âoment the whole Therefore if she be plethoriâk let blood largely in the foot at divers times Then purge often with strong Physick Takâ Althaea Lilly roots each half an ounce Althaea Mercury Pellitory Brankârsine each a handful Chamomil Melilot flowers each half a handful Fâânugreek and Lineseed eâch six drams boyl them in Broath to a pint add sweet Butter Oyl of sweet Almonds Lillies each an
their shape the malignant are known by their hardness and heat and blewness filâh and pain They are often hard to be cured because the pox is with them and they are in a place to which Medicines are hard to be applied and to continue The Myrmeciae are not cut off but they leave a great ulcer the Thymi and Clavi grow again Acrochordones once cut leave no root After Universals and order of diet either use Medicines or cut or burn them to discuss then use Sage dried with Figs Organ Rue burnt dry Savin Frankincense with Wine and Vinegar or Snakes skins with Figs these also dry These corrode eat and burn as juyce of wild Cowcumbers with Salt Milk of Figgs Sheeps dung Goats gall with Niter Aqua fortis Spirit of Vitriol Sulphur Butter of Antimony Take heed that you hurt not the parts adjacent but defend them with Bole sealed Earth Rosewater and Vinegar if you put the Corrosives into Nut-shells change them twice or thrice in a day and wash the part with a clensing Decoction and then cut or burn Chap. 7. Of the Haemorrhoids of the Womb. THe veins that end in the neck of the womb often swel like the Haemorrhoids it is from gross blood that comes to these veins out of the time of the terms Inordinate flux of terms may occasion it when tâây slow out of the usual time they grow thick and cannot get out of the veins but swel them They are to be touched and with a Speculum matricis to be seen There is pain and bleeding without order she is pale and lazy Correct the blood purge and bleed in the arm to derive and revel of which in the diseases of the womb If pain be abate it by sitting in a Decoction of Mallows Althaea Chamomil Mâlilot flowers Moulin Lineseed Foenugreek of which also make Fomentations and Oyntments with Butter Populeon and Opium if there be pain Take Populeon Oyl of Roses and sweet Almonds fresh Butter each half an ounce Saffron a sâââple with the yolk of an Egg make an Oyntment Or Take Muâilage of Quinces Althaea eaâh half an ounce Oyl of Roses and Hens greâse each a dram the yolk of an Eg and Saffron half a dram mix them in a leaden Mortar If pain be gone or abated and they bleed not use Dryers of Bole Earth of Lemnos Acacia Ceruss froath of Silver Lead burnt and washed long Birthwort Allum Verdigreece If they swell with blood evaporate it or âoment with the Decoction of Mallows Althaea Pellitory Chamomil flowers Moulin Melilot seeds of Line and Foenugreâk If they do not good open them by Fig leaves rub'd upon them or by Horsleeches of which Chap. 2. If there be proud flesh take it oât as is shewed If they bleed gently lât Nature alone to the work for it is good and ârees from other diseases If the flux be gâeat and abate the strength open a vein in the arm divers times and do as in over slowing of the terms Question How do the Haemorrhoids differ from the Terms flowing or stopt Mercurialis saith That though a flux of terms be immodârate yet it hath its periods and is without pain and makes not the body lean but it is contrary in the Haemorrhoids But this is not true for the body is not made lean alwaies by the Haemorrhoids nor do the courses keep their periods alwaiâs Besides the pain which is almost alwaies in the Haemorrhoids they differ in that the terms flow from the veins of the womb and its neck but the Haemorrhoids are when the blood flows too much to the veins that nourish the privities and there either sticks or is evacuated Chap. 8. Of Ulcers in the Neck of the Womb. THey are seldome cured in the body of the womb and they are simple and clean or âordid and malignant Are a flux of sharp humors that lasts long in the Pox and Gonorrhaea Corrupt afterbirths and courses after childâearing detained inflammations turned to imposthuiâesâ these are the internal The external are sharp Medicines hard travail a reat child taken out by âorce violent leâhery wounds falls strokes Are pain and constant biting that increaseth ââââcially in coâulation or when Wine or Hydrâmel is injected You may also see it with a Speculum also there is matter gentle or âilthy if the ulcer go towards the bladder they piss hot and often there is pain in the roots of the eyes to the hands and fingers fainting and a little âever somtimes The external Causes are to be related by the patient If it be from the pox or Gonorrhaea the signs of them will appear of which Hippocrates They are hard to be cured because they are in a part fit to receive humors soft and moist and that hath consent with many parts Hence are divers Symptoms the great old and foul are worst when they corrode and are hollow they are seldome cured they that may easily have Medicines applied to them are easieât cured First stop the flux of humors to the part if it be either from the whole body or any part And amend the distemper of the womb that it may neither breed nor receive bad humors If the French pox be with it resist that first If there be pain first abate that with Milk steeled or with three whites of Eggs and Mucilage of Fleabane or an Emulsion of Poppy seeds Or Take Althaea roots an ounce Dill seed two drams Barley a pugil Faenugreek and Lineseed each an ounce Fleabane and Poppy seed each half an ounce boyl them in Milk Of which in pain of the womb In a foul ulcer first use Clensers as Whey Barley water Honey Wormwood Smallage Orobus Orris Birthwort Mirrh Turpentine Allum As Take new Milk boyled a pint Honey half a pint Orris pouder half an ounce Use it hot often every day When that which was injected is voided wash with the decoction of Mallows and put up this Pessary Take Eruum and Lentils in pouder and Orris each two drams with Honey Or Take Diapompholigos with Frankincense Mastich Mirrh Aloes as the ulcer requires Or use Fumes As Take Frankincense Mastich Mirrh Storax Calamite Gum of Juniper Labdanum each an ounce make a Pouder or Troches with Turpentine If there be suspicion of the French pox add a little Cinnabar In a very foul ulcer and Aegyptiacum or Apostolorum or a little Spirit of Wine In a creeping corroding ulcer with clenâers mix cold drying and astringent Medicines Allum water Plantane and Rose-water with Pomegranate flowers boyled and Pomegranate peels and Cypress-nuts is also good and with Aloes After clensing fill it with flesh and heal it up As Take Tutty washed half an ounce Litharge Ceruss Sarcocol each two drams with Oyl of Roses and Wax make an Oyntment Or smoak the privities with Mirrh Frankincense Gum or Juniper Labdanum two drams in pouder with Turpentine make Troches Or use Sulphur or Allum Baths and Plaisters
feaver with horror all over the body then the colour changeth in the part it is black and blew without pulse or sense when iâ is cut or pricked it stinks and the strength decayes and the heart faints It is very dangerous and worse when it goes to the womb then outwards Some have had the womb fall out and have lived which besides grave Histories We saw at Avinion in an old Noble woman Anno 1635. Stop the puâreâaction take away that which is rotten by sâarifying if you can then wash with the Deââction of Wormwood Lupinâs and with Aegyptiacum and apply this Cataplasm Take Oââbus and Beanflower âach two âunâes Oâymââ a pint boyl them add Lupineâ Wormwood and Mirrh Cut off the dead flesh strengthen the principal parts the heart leâst the Spirits be infected with evil vapors that ââie up by the arteries Give Conserve of Borage Bugloss Gilliflowers Diamargariton ârigid Electuary of Gems frigid Confection of Hyacinthsâ Syrup of Sorrel âomegranates Borage and applâ Epithems to the heart Vuierus cured a Noble woman aged twenty five she had a pustle in her privities in the Dog-daies from violent Lechery with her Husband and she used a Cataplasm from a sillâ Chirurgion and in a few daies it rotted grew black and mortified and went towards the fundament very fast THE FOURTH BOOK THE SECOND SECTION Of the Diseases of the Womb. Chap. 1. Of the Knowledg of the Temper of the Womb. MARK Anthony Vlmus Physitian of Bononia shews the temper of the womb he saith that a beard in women shews that they have a hot womb and hot stones it comes with the beginning of the terms and when the breasts swell and is hard to be seen Aristotle saith That some women have hairs in their chin when their courses stop and when they have a hot womb and stones But there are more certain signs of heat 1. When hard hair comes âorth suddenly thick black and long and large about if they come forth slow thin soft yellowish and but few not spreading the womb is cold Also when the terâs come forth at twelve years of age it is a âign of a hot womb and when they last long the blood is red hot but not very much In an old constitution they come later and the blood is cold and waterish and they end sooner If it be hot and moist they flow plentifully and last till after fifty If it be hot and dry the blood is yellow thin and sharp and pricks the privities If it be cold and moist the blood comes late forth with difficulty and it is whitish and thin If it be cold and dry the terms come forth very late and with difficulty and seldom continue till forty and the blood is thick and little The third sign is from Lechery for they who have hot wombs desire copulation âooner and more vehemently and are much delighted thârwith They who are cold do the contrary The hot and moist are not tired with much Venery The hot and dry have great lust and a Frenzie if they want it but they are quickly âired because there are but few Spirits If it be cold and moist they are not soon lecherous and are âasily satisfied and if they miscarry often the womb is made colder and they delight not in the sport but copulation doth them good and makes them more youthful If it be cold and dry they desire not a man in a long time and take no delight because the Spirits are few The fourth sign is from often conception for the hot conceive often and bring forth males or Viragoe's if the seed of the man agree with it The cold doth the contrary A hot and moist womb is very fruitful if the man be wel tempered and though he be old and weak yet she will conceive by him sometimes they have twins or over do and have a mole Hot and dry are fruitful but not so much as the former Cold and moist are hard to conceive especially when they are in years when they are yong and the seed of the man is hot and dry they conceive males but seldom wel shaped or healthful and the woman while she is with child is sickly A cold and dry womb is commonly barren and if they conceive the mans seed is hot and moist they bring forth âemales and if males they are tall and quickly look old Chap. 2. Of the hot Distemper of the Womb. HEat of the womb is necessary for conception but if it be too much it nourisheth not the seed of the man but disperseth its heat and hinders the conception This preternatural heat is from the birth somtimes and makes them barren if afterwards it is from hot causes that bring the heat and the blood to the womb from internal and external Medicines too much hot meats and drinks and exercise They are prone to luât have few courses yellow or black or burnt or sharp they have hairs betimes upon their privities they are subject to the headach and there are signs of much choler their lips are dry When this distemper is strong they have few terms and out of order they are âad and hard to flow and in time they are Hâpâââondriaâks and for the most part barren and âhere is somtimes a Frenzie of the womb Use Coolers so that they offend not the vessels that must be open for the flux of the terms Therefore Use inwardly Succory Endive Violets Waterlillies Sorrel Lettice Sanders and Syrups and Conserves made thereof As Take Conserve of Succory Violets Waterlillies Borage each an ounce Conserve of Roses half an ounce Diamargariton frigid Diatrionsantalon each half a dram with Syrup of Violeâs or juyce of Citrons make an Electuary Outwardly use Oyntment of Galens Cooler Oyntment of Rosesâ Cerot of Sanders Oyl of Roses Violets Waterlillies Gourds Venus navel to the back and loyns or make Cataplasâs of Barley meal Roses poudered Violets Water-lillies Sanders with juyce or water of Plantane Waterlillies Succory Lettice Oyl of Roses Violets Waterlillies Baths are good to sit in and cooling âomentations and after let her take some of the Coolers mentioned In great heat use this cooling Pessary Take Opium a sâruple Goose grease two scruples Wax and Honey each four scruples Oyl an ounce whites of two Eggs. This was from an opinion the Ancients had that Opium was cold but take heed of the using it too much least the narcotiâk quality hurt Let the air be cool her garments thin let her meat be with Lettice Endive Succory Barley give no hot meaâs nor strong Wine except it be watââish and thiâ rest is good both in body and mind she mâst not coâulate but she may sleep much Chap. 3. Of the cold Distemper of the Womb. THis causeth many evils and barrenness They are contrary to those of a hot distemper cold air rest and idleness and cooling Medicinesâ It is known by their not desire of leâhery noâ
this is said before only a Cancer may seize upon the substance of the womb but it is more usually in the neck of it Chap. 15. Of the displacing of the Womb and first of the Ascent of it WHen the womb falls out of the privities it is called Procidentia uteri this is ordinary but the asceÌt or going up of the womb is more unknown Many grave Anatomists hold thaâ the womb doth ascend if sweet things are applied to the nose if to the privities that it descendâ if stinking sâents come the womb flies from thââ and it is to be seen by breathing altered and by some meats that the womb greedily desires and catcheth up Galen overthrows this opinion and saith that the womb doth move after a sort and ascend but it is very little and not to be demonstrated nor can it arise to the stomach it is tied with such strong ligaments to its place and when it falls out the ligaments are extended by moisture and falling of it down And there is no reason why the ligaments though loose or wet it should go up so speedily and come down again forâ falling down is by degrees and it is not soon brought up again And though it be enlarged in conception it is by degrees and equally not suddenly in one side Nor are the ligaments made very loose in conception and the bottom of the womb is not tied the ligaments being onely on the sides But this cannot be denied which women affirm that they feel a body or ball moving about the navel and a Physitian or Midwife may feel it Therefoâe let us enquire what it is if it be not a womb That body which you may feel stir is the stones and that blind vessel which Fallopius found out which he compared to the great end of a Trumpet called Fâllopius his Trumpet For the stones hang and the body of the Tâumpet is lâke a pipe loose and moving and when they are full and swell with corrupt seed and vapoâs they move to and fro and ascend as high as the navel And the stones with the Trumpet make this round tumor of the womb which is felt in women as Riolanus observes Whatsoeveâ makes corrupt seed in the stones of a womaÌ and fils them âth evil âapors or wind is the cause of which in suffocation of the womb for the cause is alike in both only in suffocation the Symptoms are worseâ because the evil vapors are then more freely carried by the veins arteries and nerves and asilict the principal parts The woman and others may feel a round body and she âindeth a pain at her heart and short breath without sleeping or doting or other symptoms and there weâe causes that disturbed the womb It is not dangerous yet not to be slighted for it may turn to the strangling of the womb when these evil vapors move to the noble parts Let the aim be at the corrupt seed and vapors which must be dis ussed and evacuated as in suffocation of the Womb. Chap. 16. Of falling out of the Womb. SOmtimes it falls to the middle of the thighs oâ to the kneâs almost or hangs a little out The womb changeth its place when the âigaments by which it is bound to the other parts âre not in order There are four two above âroad and membranous that come from the Peâitonââum and two âelow that are nervous âound and hollow âââideâ it is bound to the âreat vesâels by veins and aâtâriâs and to the âack by nerves Now the place is changed when it is down another way or when the ligaments are loose and it falls down by its own weight it is drawâ on side when the terms are stopt and the veinâ and arteries âre full those namely which go to the womb if it be a mole on the one side thâ liver or spleen caâse it by the livââ veins on the rigât side or the spleen on the left as they are ãâã more or less I also falls down by the loosning of the parââ to which it is fastned but how that can be it is not clear Hippocrates saith It comes from external causâ as frâm âold of the âeeâ or loyns from leaping or fear cutting of woodâ or rââning dâwn a âill and the likâ these make the ligââents moist and loosâ Also it may be from cold after childbearing getting into the womâ when the âârms flow âtting upon a cold stone and the like Others say it comes from the solution of thâ connâxion of the sibrous neck and the parts adjââent and that is froâ the weight of the womâ descending thiâ we deny not But then the ligaments must be loose or broken But women in a dâopâe could not be said not to have the woââ fâll down if it came only from loosness Bââ the âause in them is the ââltness of the waterâ which dries more then it moistneth Iâ there be â little tumor within or without the prâvities like a skin stretched or a weight âelt about the pâivities it is onely a descent of the womb but iâ there be a tumor like a Goose egâ and a hole at the bottom there is at first a gâeaâ pain in the parts to which the womb is âastnedâ as the loyns the bottom of the bâlly anâ the prâvitiâs and tâe os sâcrum ââom the streââhing ãâã breaking of the ligaments but a little after the pain abateth and there is an impediment in walking Somtimes blood comes forth from the breach of the vessels and the dung and urin are stopt and a Fâaver and Convulsion When it is new it is easily cured when old it is haâd to be cured but not deadly onely it is troublesom and nasty It hindeâs conception and keeps terms fâom flowing orderly If it be with âain Feaver or Convulsion it is deadly especially in women with child That which comes from corrosion of the ligamentsâ is dangerous First put it up before the air alâer it or it be inââamed or swollen Therefore firât give a Clyster to remove the excrements Then lay her âpon her baâk witâ her lâgs abroad and thighs liftâd up her heâd down and take the tumor in your hands and thrust it in without violence Iâ it be swollen by alteration and cold soment it with the Dâcoction of Mallows Althaea Linâ Foenugreek seed Chamomil flowers Bayberries and anoint iâ with oyl of Lilliâs and Hââs grease If thâre be an inflammation put it not up yet It may be ârighted in by shewing of a red hot iron and actinâ as if you would burn it First sprinkle upon it the poâder of Mastich ââââkincense and the like As Take Frankinâânsâ Mâstââh each two drams Sarcâcol steept in Milk â dram Mummy Pomegranate âââwers Sangâiâ Draconiâ each half a dâam Whân it is put up let her lie with her leggs stretched and one upon the other for eight or ten daiâs and mâke a Peâââââ like a Pâarâ of Cork
the body and it could not form the child ãâã would Nature make milk of it Therefore menstrual blood onely offends quantity and not in any maniâeât or hidden qâlity But it hath strange qualities when it is ãâã with bad humors or is kept too long in body to be corrupted and cause great Syâtoms but this is when it is mixââ with bad mors or is out of its vessels and so corrupts Question 3. Of the âext of Aristotle 7. de hist Animalium câpââ and how it is to be understâod Aristotle writes thus Constantly every month âome have their Terms but most in the third as âf he should say Few women have their courses âvery month but many have them every third âonth This is against Galen and against expeâience for it is certain that among six hundred women scarce one hath them every third month Therefore there is either an errour in the Greek Text or in the Translation or great Men do often ãâã which is probable and so did Arist tle in this of Physick Therefore it is in vain to defend their ârrour Chap. 2. Of the Terms flowing too soon ORdinarily they begin at fourteen but many have had them sooner A child of eleâen daies old had a bloody humor flowing from ãâã privities Another of five years old had eveây month a moderate flux Fernel reports that Girl of eight years old had the Terms but these ãâã rare and for the most part very lecherous ãâã short lived Chap. 3. Of want and stopping of the Terms SOme Women have them not till eighteen or twenty Some before and then they stop for a time without either giving suck or being with child Some have been without them three five or seven months and then they came agaiâ This is an evil constitution or suppression of thââ which it ought to flow from the fault of the blood and stoppage of the passages When Terms are wanting either blood is wanting oâ stopt It is wanting either beâause it iâ not made or dispersed or turned to other useâ for nature being more sollicitoâs to preserve the individual person then to propagate the speciâs spends ãâã in preserving of the person Blood is not made from divers causes as aâe cold constitution of âiver Heart or a disease which distempers the ââwels Or often bleeding from great vessels or ââom having many issues which take from the blood It is spent other waies as before ripe age anâ when women are with child or give suck or iâ hot Natures and fat women in whom it is tuâned to fat It is in vain to provoke Terms iâ these There are other external evident causes of sâââping of the Terms as too great labour troubleââadness fear but these last do not only wast ãâã blood but cool and corrupt it and cause obsââctions as Hippocrates speaks of Phatusa the ãâã of Pytheus The proper causes are the straitness of ãâã passages or evil conformation of the ãâã through which it should slow Or the closinâ the womb of which we spake but I speak ãâã of the veâsels The usual cause of obsââuction is thick ãâã humors fâom the blood too thiâk or mixed ãâã melancholy which comes with it to the veiââ the womb and stops them This thick blood comes from a cold distemper of the stomach liver and spleen from thick and gross food and drinking cold water when the Terms flow So thought Galen in his time of the Roman women that drank Snow-waterâ and had few or no coursesâ Straitness is when the body of the womb is made thicker either by Nature or other causes as a cold and dry or hot and dry disteâper Thirdly straitness is from compression of the vessels by a Scirrhus or hardness of the parts adjacent as the straight gut or by the stone in the bladder and the womb displaced Fourthly the flesh may grow together by a membrane that grows to the vessels or a ââar after a wound Or after a mischance when the veins annexed to the Secundine grow so together that they cannot be opened of which in the first Question They are not the same in women and Virgins for blood stopt in Virgins goes to and âro changeth the colour and brings Feavers especially the white Feaver or Green-sickness But in women it goes more to the womb and brings Symptomes as loathing vomiting and Pica Galen hath other signs as heaviness a lazy pain in the loyns neck and behind in the head that reacheth to the roots of the eyes from the spâeading of the blood stopt through the whole body This laziness is chieâly in the thighs and leggs by reason of the veins there consenting with the womb And are of a green complexion and hairy with a beard and shrill voice You may know women with child from such aâ want their Terms only by pââper signs First the women with child keep their colour but the other are pale and ill-câloured they are merry the other sad 2. Their Symptoms daily grow milder but in the other they daily grow worse 3. You may feel the child move 4. It is perceived in a month You shall know from what causes the Terms are stopt thus If the Liver be cold there is no blood made that is superfluous and there are signs of a âold Liver and you may know that blood is not sent to the womb when there is no heaviness pain or tumor about the womb the liver or spleen are stopt If it be ârom flegm or melancholy which is oâten there are signs of their abounding as lazâness paleness seldom pulse crude urin Hippocrates saith That if the Terms stop therâ are diseases in the womb tumors imposthumes ulcers and barrenness and diseases in the whole body Green-sickness Leucophlegmacy Dropsie Vomiting of blood Heart-ach Cough And the longer they have been stopt the haâder they are to be opened If the blood stopâ go out at the nose it is good If it have great Symptomes there is fear of death You must not give Medicines to move the Terms to extenuate lean persons nor to such as want blood and have a weak Liver but they must be sed high First see iâ bloâd abound and then aâter a Leniâive open a veinâ and lât that blood which is in the veins be drawn to the womb Galââ took thâee âints of blood at three times fâom ãâã leân womân and cured her of an old stopping ãâã the Terms You must open the ankle veinâ the firât day the right the next the left four or five daies before the time Or you may cup and ââariâie the Leggs And bind the parts below and rub them after general evacuation opening of the Haemorrhoids doth hurt and so do Issues because they draw from the womb Hiera picra halâ an ounce or Pills de Tâibus oâ Hiera simple are good first Then prepare as Take water of Mugwort ãâã Maidenhair âaâh three âuâces Syrup oââhe five Roots and of Mugwort each two ounces maâe
or thrice rather then the arm once Therefore Galen commends Hippocrates that he opened a vein in the ankle in the Servant of Schimarg though she had a Plâthoryâ But in other diseasâs of the womb as inflamâation dropping or too many Terms it is good to open a vein in the arm The Saphena is opened by putting the foot in warm water before and after Question 3. At what time must a Vein be opened against the sââppage of the Terms Galen saith It must âe when Nature may be helped be the blood moved that is three or four daies before the usual time of their coming as if she had them alwaiâs in the ful of tâe Moon and they have been stopt some monthsâ bleed three or four dâies before the full to puâ nâture in mind of her duty and to make the blood run again Chap. 4. Of fewness of the Terms IT is when they flow less then they use or ought to âlow It is either from the blood or in the expulsive faculty in the passages As if blood âe little the Terms are few and slow if the retentive faculty is weak and the expulsive strong they come at due time but in small quantity If the Terms are slow the fault is in the quality of the blood being too thick Also straitness of the passages may be a cause for if they be not wide enough the blood cannot flow fâeely The patient will tell the disease but the cauâe of it is to be found in the Chapter aâoregoing Few Terms from little blood is not dangerous if they be stopt from thick blood there follow diseases as Erysipelas Scirrhus or Cancer See the Chapter aforegoing for the Cure and and if it be from thickness of blood it is often cured by a general Purge for the whole body Chap. 5. Of Dropping of the Terms THis is a flux and lasts long and there is pain The blood flows not conveniently at the due time and manner and the privities are alwaies wet as when the urin drops Are from the blood and the passages of it and the retentive faculty as when the blood is too thiâk and sharp which stir up Nature to let it out and because it stretcheth the membranes theâe is pain Also the weakness of the retentive faculty is a cause The women declare it but if it be from thick blood and sharp and strait passages there is a sââetching pain about the womb If it be from câudity of blood and weakness of the retentive âaculty the blood flows without pain and is not much âelt It is troublesom to women and if it last long âauseth ulcers and inflammations It is all in mending of the thick and sharp âlood and in opening the passages which are âhe two chief causes of it of which we spake at ârge If blood be superfluous loose it not nor open the ankle-vein lest you draw it more to the womb but take away the Cacochymy If it be from weakness of the retentive faculty strengthen the womb with dryers and ash ingents Chap. 6. Of the overflowin of the Terms IT is when it is too much or too long and hurâs any woman and brings diseases but a certain proportion of bleeding is not to be deâined but too much is lost when the actions are hurt The immediate Cause is the opening of the vessels and the mediate cause is the blood in quantity or quality offending or by its force or disorderly motion Vessels are opened by Anastomosis Diapedesis Diaeresis or ruption or by Diaurosis or coârosion Anastomosis is from a moist distemper of the vesselsâ which loosneth the orifices or from external causes as Baths hot and moist or usâ of Aloes The flux is seldom too great from a Diapedesis for it is but a sweating through Ruption is from plethory when the Terms have long been stopped and then break out and when the blooâ is hot by air baths c. The outward causes are falls strokes hard travel great burdens lifted Erosion is from sharp blood or humor or from Medicines that corrode as Pessaries long kept For this great flux is chiefly from the veins in the bottom of the womb The flux of blood is too great when the strength abateth and Cachexy âollows with paleness swollân feet and the blood that comes from the bottom of the womb is blacker and âlottedâ That from the neck is redder and thinner The signs of the causes If it be from muâlr blood there are signs of plethory and it easily âlotteth together If the blood be sharp and cholârick it is putreâied in the womb you shal know waterish blood by its colour and the signs of that humor abounding and if you dip a clout in it and dry it in the shade you may see it If the womb be too moist such causes went before If it be from breaking of veins they will tell you of violence If it be from corrosion it is little and slow somtimes pure somtimes âerous It weaânâth the whole body the liver and bowels there is swounding the Whites and paleness and Dropsie somtimes That which hath been longâ is hard to be cured and causeth death and in an old woman it is deadly If there be fulness abate the blood and keep it from flowing to the womb revel it râpâl cool and astringe it that it may not flow so faââ and then amend the blood If it is from plenty of blood open the Liver-vein in the right arm bleed little and often because it makes better revulsion and weakens not open the Salvatella if there be weakness and cup âhe Back and Breast aâainst the Liver beneath âhe papps where are veins from the womb cup âot beneath but in the shoulders or back and ârms with scarification but scaâiâie not under âhe breaâts Bind and rub the aââs and shouldeâs and temâer and thicken the sharp thin humors with Deââctiâns and Waters of Plantane Purslane Sorrelâ Knotgrass Shepherds-purse Pomegranate-Syrup and of dried Roses Sorrel Puâslane Coral Conserve of Roses Bole sealed Earth If it be urgent use Naâcoticks Syrup of Poppies Treacle Philonium Laudanum If it still continue it is fed with choler thereâ fore purge it with Syrup of Roses Manna Rhubarb Senna If it be fed with serous blood help the âeins that do not their duty and the Liver and sweat with China You must not provoke urin but use astringents As Take the juyce of Ass-dung Syrup of Mirâlâs each half an ounce Plantane water an ounce Give it her and let her not know what it is Decoctions Take Comfrey roots Tormenâil âach two drams Purslune Plantane each a handful boyl themâ add to six ounces Syrup of Curranâ Quinces Mirtles each six drams giveâ it at twice Or Take Syrup of Purslane juyce of Neââles each two ounces Purslane water four ounces Troches of Amber of sealed Earth each a dramâ Bloodstone half a dram give two spoonfuls every day
with proper things as we shewed in the distempers of the Womb. But take heed that you move not the Terms when you attenuate for that wil melt the âerous humors and fix them more in the vessels use neither Vinegar noâ sharp things After purging consume the reliques by sweat if choler be in fault that must not be sweated out discuss it with warm Baths and do so in melancholy Use Pessaries Fomentations and Fumes to the womb Give Treacle Mithridate or the Decoction of Anâelica roots if cold humors are the cause Chap. 9. Of Terms coming before their time THese shew an ill constitution And it is a depraved excretion of the Terms that comes for the time often fâr somtimes they flâw sooner or twice in a month The immediate Cause is hurt of the retentive and expulâive faculty so that the blood flows not or sooner or lateâ or oftner the cause why they come sooner is in the blood that stirsâup the expulsive faculty in the whole body or in the womb somtimes all causes meet the blood is too much or too sharp and hot and if the retentive faculty in the womb be weak and the expulsive strongâ and of quick sense it is sooner A fall stroke or passion are the evident Causes They will relate it and the signs of the causes are these If it be from much blood there are the signs of plethory heat thinness and sharp humors are known by the distemper of the whole The weakness of the retentive faculty and loosness of the vessels is known from a loose and moist habit of body It is not dangerous but troublesom and hinders conception Iâ they come too soon from hurt in the faculty provoked by too much plethory Let blood use a spare diet and much exercise If it be from sharp blood temper it by good diet and Medicines as in the choleriâk distemper of the womb Use Baths of Iron-water that corrects the distempers of the bowels then evacuate If it come from the retentive faculty and loosness of the vessels correct the cold and moist distemâer with gentle astringents Iâ it be from a stroke or fall cuâe it as the vessels opened are cured of which before Chap. 10. Of Terms that come after their usual time VVHen they stay longer then ordinary and return without order at no set time the causes are little and thick blood straitness of the passages weakness of the expulsive faculty and dulness Either of these causes may stop the Terms buâ if all meet the disease is worse For if blood be not bred in such a quantity that it may prick Nature forward to expel it the purging of it is diââered till there be enough to stir up Nature to expel it If thiâk humors are in the blood the passages stopt and the faculty weak the Terms muât needs be disordered and the purging of them differed longer If it be from want of blood she hath either lived poor in diet or exercised too much and she âinds no inconvenience by the want of her Terms If it be from gross slimy blood there are signs of Cacochymy The weakness of the faculty is known by the cold distemper of the womb It is not so dangerous as stoppage of the terms but it is bad enough in a plethorick or cacochymical body If little blood be use a âuller diet and exercise not If blood be gross and foul make it thin and cut it and after Preparatives let the humors mixed therewith be evacuated It is good to purge presently after the Terms and to use Calamints and to purge often Also four or five daies before the Terms scaâiââe the ankles and hold the feet in warm waâââ âub the legs apply Cuppâng-glasses without Sâââification to the inside of the thighs and use Fumes and Pessaries Anoinâ the bottom of the belly with things to provoke the Terms If there be a numness use things against the Palsie Chap. 11. Of the Terms voided another way SOmetimes they come out at the nose or are vomited up or flow out by the Haemorrhoid veins Hence Hippocrates saith that a woman that vomits blood is cured by having her târms or by a bloody flux Somtimes they are pissed âorth Dodonâeus saies that they come out at the eyes like tears somtimes Amaâus Lusitanus saith they will come forth at the Teats of the breasts and at the navel at the little finger or ring-âinger every month as Mercatâs observed thrice Are stoppage of the Terms from straitness of the vessels in the womb or evil conformation of the womb It is more troublesom then dangerous and hinders conception It is best when they come out at the nose for it is a part that Nature useth to disburden her self by First bring the blood to the womb again and abate it Open the ankle-vein three daies before she begins to bleed Or cup the thighs or rub them Or use Baths Fomentations Oyntments Womb-clysters Pessaries and the like mentioned in Suppression of the Terms Chap. 12. Of the Whites IT is a âoul excretion from the womb white and somtimes blew or green or reddish no at a set time nor every month but disorderly longer or shorter Before or after the Terms and when they are stopt Virgins seldom have this disease and women with child have it somtimes It differs from the running of the reins for it is in less quantity whiter and thicker and at a greater distance It differs from night pollution which is onely in sleep with imagination of Venery The immediate Cause is an excrementitious humor flegm choler or melancholy Somtimes it is like waterish blood It is gathered in the whole body or in the stomach liver or spleen For they who have crudities in the stomach are subject to this disease Somtimes the womb alone is distempered after often mischances or when the womb is very cold and moist This matter flows through the veins of the womb or of the neck of it which use to carry blood and Nature abuseth them to carry excrements especially if they are bred in the womb The remote causes are whatsoever doth breed âad humors some have it after strong purges or long bathing Somtimes they are pale somtimes blew red waterish and green somtimes slimy or cold or sharp or stinking In young people it is reddish The face is discoloured the urin thick there is loathing and heartach If the humor be sharp and corrupt there is a Feaver If it be flegmatick and much the ligaments of the womb are loose and it falls out thus Hippocrates and there are saith he swelled eyes evil colour and short breathing If it be not bred in the womb the humor is from a Cacochymy If it be from a fault in another part the signs of that wil appear If it come only from the womb there will be but little if from the whole body there will be more It is often long
or broke it there is no blood after copulation Therefore Deut. chap 22. the Law of Moses is taken for that which happeneth often and for the most part And there can be no more gaâhered fâom hence but bleeding is an undoubted sign of Virginity The same may be said of the African custom Question 3. Whether is the straitness of the priviâies a sign of Virginity The privities are straiter in some according tâ age habit of body and other circumstances and Virgins are straiter then women that have been at it But I deny that straitness is a certain argument of Virginity For after many acts of Venery it may be made so strait by astringent Medicinesâ that Whores may be taken for Virgins as we shewed concerning a Wench that was married and to appear a Virgin she used a Bath of Comârey roots Question 4 Whââher is Miâk iâ the breasts a sigâ oâ Virginity lost Some say that there can be no milk in the bâeasts tiâl a woman hath conceived and Virgins have neither the cause nor the end why milk is made And the terms stoât do rather coârupt then turn to milk And though there be alwaies in the breasts a faculty to make milk yet doth it not shew its power but upon an object and for some end Some say that Virgins may have milk and urge this Saying of Hippoâraâes If any have milk whân she is neither with child nor breedingâ thâir âerms are stopt Galen is of the same opinion and though it be seldom âet he saith it is possible And Alexander Benedictus and Christopher de Vega saw it We shall not contradict Hippocrates and expeâience but there is a twoâold milk The one of Virgins The other of those that have brought forth or conceived The first is made of blood that cannot get out at the womb but goes to the breasts and this is nothing but a superfluous nourishment of the breasts that turns milk by âhe faculty of the breasts without the company âf a man or concâpâion Tâe other is only when âhere is a child of this milk it is true what Hipââârates writes It is a certain sign of a Mole when ârâat bâllââd women haâe no milk in their breasts ând true milk in the breasts is a sign of a live âhild in the womb These milks differ in respect of the blood and diversity of the veins that bring it to the breasts and though both are white yet that of Virgins is thinnest noâ is it so much nor so sweet this may breed in the veins according to Aristotle from the supersâuous nourishment of the breasts and if Virgins have it they are not to be termed ânchast Chap. 2. Of the Green-sickness or white Feaver THis is in Virgins fit for a man it is callâd the Virgins disease and the white Feaver not that there is alwaies a feaver but because their face is like people in a feaver It is thus defined The Virgins diseaâe is the changing of the natural colour into a pale and green with faintness heaviness of body loathing of meat palpitation of heart difficult breathing sadness swelling of the âeet eyelids and face from depraved nourishment The first Cause is stoppage of terms The next is the gathering of bad humors for when the way to the womb is stopt the blood returns to the great vessels and bowels and choaks theiâ heat and stops the vessels and spoils the making of blood and then there are crudities which being brought to the habit of the body cannot bâ united perfectly to the partsâ and cause a Cachâxy which is the way to a Dropsie and Leuâophlegmacâ and divers Symptoms The causââ of the oâstructions of the vessels of the womb are crude humors and âlegmatick âlimy bloodâ from evil diet and drinking oâ vinegar or eating raw corn chalk ashes lime earth âlay and the like There is a pale and green colour the face is sâollen and the eye-brows in the morning after sleep especially the ankles swell and the whole body is loose and moist from much water the lâggs are lazy the pulse is little and often in the neck temples and back The heart beats the breath is short when they go up stairs they loath meat Some have the Pica or desire to eat absurd things The terms are stopt the Hypochoâdria are swollen somtimes they vomit if vapors ââie to the head there is thirst and headach and if melancholy be mixed the animal actions are hurt These are not all in all people but most are in most and in some all It is often turned to a Dropsie Some after death have had a Scirrhus hard liver some die suddenly the heart being oppressed If the stomach be much afflicted it is dangerous and they loath meat much If it come from the womb alone it is easier cured It is best to begin in the Spring or Summer after a Clyster open a vein the ankle Then heat the thick cold humor and make it thin andâbecause it is too much to be purged at once prepare and purge often and mix attenâaters and cutters with your purges When the humors are above the stomach and Mesentery it is good to vomit those that can easily vomit and to give liver-physick or spleen or womb-physick even as in Leucophlegmacy âee the Chapter of Terms stopt But in this disease alwaies consider the liver spleen and Mesentâry the obstructions of which are cuâed with things mentioned At firââ open the the obstructions of these paââs wiâh âomââew things that provoke terms and ââter âive more Thus Take opening Roots an ounce Maddâr ãâã Orris Eâââampane Citron pâels dried Sarââââââh hâlf an âunâe Mugwort Agrimony âârmânder each a handful Savin two pugils Cârâhamâs seeds an ounce Senna two ounces Meâhoacan Agarick each half an ounce Stââchas ãâã two pugils Fennel Aniseed Galangal each two drams bââl them to a pint and half sweeten it aâd adâ Cinnamon water three dramâ Or infuse ââem all with Sea-wormwood half a handful common âââmwood two pugils Or Take Agarick pills of Râubaââ eaâh a dram Quercetân's Pills of Tartar and of Ammâniacumâ each half a dram Spike a sâruple Oyl of âinnamon thâee drops Extract of Wormwood half a scruple make Pills give a scruple an hour before meat Or Take juyce of Mârcury clarified Honey or Sugar each an ounce add Gith seed Senna âaâh two drams Mechoacan a dram make a Mass or give Conserve of Marigold flowers Stâel is an excellent remedy after Preparatives with proper Drinks or Ingredients And iâ the vessels of the stomach are stopt give a Vomit and then gross pouder of Steel If the Mesentery be stopt Take Diarrhodon Diacurcuma Agarick each a dram Cârthamus seeds two drams red Dock roots Cârrot seed each ãâã dram and half Cloves a dram Steel prepared two ounces with clarified Honey make an Elâctuary give two or four drams If she vomit stop it not If the Livâr be chiefly stoâtâ let the Stââl be âinely poudereâ
better remedy Then temper and evacuate the humors if theâ be adust and there be madnessâ use strongââ Then have a Bath of Lettice Willow Water-lillies Vine-leaves Purslane Venus navel red Roses Violets Waterlillies Let her sit twice â day in it and not sweat To take away the sharpness of the seed use Lettice Violets Waterlillies and things that quenâh seed by a secret quality as Agnus castus âeed Leaves and Flowers of Champhyre hereâââer Asâ Take leaves of Waterlillies Agnus castus Willow each three handfuls Lettice Purslane Veâââ navel each a handful Lettice Poppy sâed the ãâã great cold Seeds each half an ounce Dill seed ãâã drams Waterlillies a handful Violets half a âândful beat them with juyce of Lemons distil them ââer twenty four hour add to every pint a dram of âmphire give an ounce Or Take Agnus caâââieaves Rue Willow each two handfuls Mints ãâã of Dill each a handful and half Waterlillies ââlf a handful Agnus castus seeds Hemp Coriââder Lettice seed each half an ounce beat them ând distil them with water add a pint of juyce of Leââns rectifiâ it to half An Emulsion Take Lettice and white Poppy ãâã and the four great cold Seeds each half an ounce ãâã of Lettice Waterlillies Willow each four ounâs Syrup of Violets two ounces Magistery of Coâââ dram An Electuary Take Conserve of Waterlillies âââlets of Agnus caâtus topââ eââh an ounce of Roââ hâlf an ounce red Câral Smaragds eâch a dram ãâã and Lettice candied each an ounce with ãâã of Violets and Waterlillies make an Electuary Or make Baths of the same As Take tops Aânus castus Lettice Rue Waterlillies Dâl ãâã ãâã them anoint with Oyl of Lillies ânguânt of Roseâ with Camphire afââr that Or lay a Plaister of Mercury and Marsh-lentils to the breast and loyns Lây a Plate of Lead to the Back and give a Pessary of juyce of Plantane Pââslane Gourds These that work by an occult quality are fittest for numnesses that must not marry but they that will marry must forbear them because they cause barâânness Let diet be thin and of little nourishment no Eggs Beef is good and fresh fish Also Lettice Purslane Succoây Sleep littleâ think not of Venery labour and avoid idleness Question Whether is Camphire cold or hât or doth it quench Venery It is hot because it burns flames is thin pieâceth is sharp and bitter But it hath cold effects as curing of burnes and inflammations and hââ headaches but this is from the likeness of thâ substance because it draws hot vapors to it anâ discusseth as Linseed oyl that cures burnes Noâ hath it a double substance cold and hot that maâ be separated Scaliger denies it by experience to quench Vânery but if it be taken often it doth he tâieâ it but once Chap. 6. Of the Melancholy oâ Virgins and Widdows IT is a Dâliriââ with sadness trouble and weââing sââtimes laugâing without a Feavââ It differs from others by the efficacy only of the efficient cause for it hath divers pains besides ââdness especially on the left side near the heart in the papâ this is by occasion at a distance The Cause is a melancholick vapor from a melancholick blood in the vessels near the heart that infects the animal Spiâits hurts the Fancy and so the reason For melancholick blood abounding in the vessels of the womb comes back to the great arteries about the heart by the arteâies of the womb and infects both vital and animal Spirits and causeth trouble of heart and deâââium while this blood is quiet in the arteries theâe is no vapor that riseth but when it is heaâed or sâirred up by any cause the arteries about the back and spleen beat more then ordinary and the vapors arise and trouble the heart They aâe sad and âull of thoughts and trouble at the heart and cannot express their grief all things are tedious to them they weep and lâugh without a cause they sleep little and with trouble and âear they have a pain on the left side and somtimes the left breast their jaws are dây al which are the effects of a melaucholick vapor and when that is discussed all cease If it be old it turns to madness and then they are ãâã silent then pââtlers and think they see Gâoââs At first it is easier cured but if it last long and ââe âesist not imagination and will not rejoyce âith her Gossips it is dangerous They often despair and desire death or hang themselves or dâown themsâlves If the manners are chanâed ãâã tuââs to madness Observe what progress the disease hâth made At first if blood be hot oâen a vâin oâten iâââe arm if the terms be not stopt if they be bleed in the ankle some daies before they use to flow Let her be merry and prepare and purge melancholy thus Take Borage and Balm water each three ounces Syrup of the juyce of Borage and Bugloss each an ounce and half Mix them for two Doses repeat them somtimes Then purge Melâncholy As Take Senna six drams Agarick a dram and half Borage flowers and Violets each a pâgil âitron peels two drams infuse them in Rhenish wine for six hours strain them ad Syrup of Violets an ounce Or Take Scorzonera roots two ounces Borage ân ounce Balm a handful Senna four ounces Agarick half an ounce Citron peels six drams Zedoary two drams Cordial stowers a handful add half a pint of the juyce of sweet-scented Apples and of Rorage and Bugloss steep them two daieâ then strain them ad Sugar and half an ounce of Cinamon make a Syrup give two or three ounces Also give Cordials Confection of Hyacinths Species Exhilerants and Confection Alkermes to such as can bear it Cure it as Melancholy only the matter comes from the womb therefore still regard that it dry not the body too much but use a moistning Diet. Chap. 7. Of an Epilepsie from the Womb. THis Falling-sickness is worst then from other causes because there are greater symptoms for that malignant vapor doth not onely fall into the nerves but the veins and arteries The same malignant vapor that causeth suffocation causeth this for when it ascends by the veins or arteries it begets other diseases but when it gets to the nerves or to the fountain of them it causeth the Epilepsie In some the whole body hath a Convulsion in others some part only as the eyes head tongueâ hand or leg and the outward senses are diversly taken Some see not some hear not some see and cannot speak some dote and think they see strange things some cry out and know not why All loose the sense oâ feeling If the vapor be nât very malignant they reâuân to their work after the fit as if they had not âeen ill It is known by what hath been said for here ãâã not only a Convulsion as in other Epilepsies âât diveâs Symptomes as in Suffocation of the âomb They seldom âoam at the mouth
it seems to fall rather then be expelled and the bones of the privities must needs be divided That which follows the birth is above humane capaâity namely the transmutation of the navel vessels and lungs and heart in the infant and why Nature ordered it of which Galen elegantlâ in the 15. Book of the Use of Parts and 6. Chapter There is also a legitimate birth when it is accoâding to the Law of Nature and an illegitimate when it is before or after the time Hippocraâes saith that a birth in the seventh month is vital and legitimate And it is sooner fâom the strength of the faculty and matter âit for formation yet it is commonly weak except the âeventh month be compleat Of the eighth month Hippocrates âaith thus None liveâ that is born in the eighth month because iâ cannot bear the two afflictionâ to follow but the reason of the Arithmeticians is better that say an even month is imperâect The ninth and tenth month are the best as Hiâpâcrateâ âaith A child is born in ten months at tâe fârthest and so âaies the wisest Salomon Some say that a child may âe born in the eleventh month and Peter Apponensis was so born and some say they have been born in the fourteenth and fifteenth month but rare things are not to be counted the Law of Nature Generally Physitians agree with Hippocrates though some dissent Chap. 2. Of Abortion IT is the exclusion of a child not perfect nor living before legitimate time This time is defined by Hippocraâes Whosoever conceiveth doth it within seven daies but they are properly abortions that come before the seventh day and though some are in the fifth and sixth month that have lived yât that must not dârogate from the common Law of Nature Some differences of Abortion are from the time and bigness of the child For that which is cast out is little and round without distinction of members at first like a Grape Somtimes as long as a âinger and members may be distinguished And somtimes the child is almost perfect The immediate Cause is the expulsive faculty stiâred up and that is done by three means from Galen from the weight bigneâs and pain There are more causes which we shal place in two Ranks The first is of the manner of the causes that provoke the expulsive faculty The other is that which âindeth out these waies by all the causes The expulsive fâculty is first provoked by the child being weak either from evil seed or being dead The child is weak for want of food and from the mothers diseases either in her whole body or in the womb or parts adjacent that consent as Feavers Inflammations Fainting Convulsions Pain Vomiting Neesing Cough that move the Spirits and humorsâ and shake the child and stir up Nature to expel it Also straitness of the womb causeth Abortion by which means it cannot contain a great child Alâo shortness of the navel-vessels which Fabricius first observed The outward Causes are cold air after hot and moist which gets into the womb and provokes it and huâts the child The Astrologers add the malignant aspects of the Stars also too much or too little meat Great watchings purging and flux of blood by the womb and Haemorrhoids Also violent motion as leaping carrying of burdens strokes on the belly or baâk Also passions as anger fear sorrow Also bleeding purging fasting âmel of brimsâone or ashes hoofs burnt or stink of the snuââ of a candle If the breasts be less or much milk flow from them or she feel much and often pain about thâ belly or loyns that go to the Pubes and Os sacâum with a deâire of thrusting forth in the womb If the child change its place and if it fâl lower when it was in the middle of the belly there is fear of miscarrâing It is dangerous alwaââs because it is with violence there are also great Symptoms they are in lââs danger that have already brought forth a âhild ââârefore the âirst is most dangerâus and ãâã mouââs of the vessels arâ toân and they commonlâ become barren Abortion is moât dangeâoâs in the sixth seventh and eighth month beâââse thâ inâant being ââeater ââuseth greater pain and breaks the Ligaments worse To preserve from Abortion Consider the constitution before she is with child and prevent every cause If it be like to come from Plethory before Conception open a vein and after Conception in the fourth or âiâth month in the arm Iâ it be from Cacochymy purge the whole body and purge the womb with Pessaries and strengâhen it of which in the cold and moist distemper of the Womb If she have conceived open a vein before the time she used to abort iâ there Cacochymy purge gently at times If there be a cold distemper of body by flegm that hurts the womb give the dâcoction of China or Sarâa with strengtheners of the child Avoid the external Causes of Abortion and if they have done hurâ help it presently Lât nât the belly be bound if the child be weak ââmove the causes of weakness and strengthen iââ Use things that strengthen the womb and child as Coral as Kermes-berries Or Take Magistery of Coral a dram Pearl pââpared half a dram Ivory shaved a dram Maââiââ half a dram grains of Kermes a dram Manus ââristi with Pearl two drams make a Pouder Iâ thâ Abortion be at hand and the pains increase give this Pouder with a rear Eg Or Take Conâârââ of red Roses two drams red Coral aââ Maââiâh âââh a scruple give iâ presently Use the âounteââes Oyâtment outwardly to the Loyns Râins Pâcâân and Perinaeum Or Take Oyl of Roses Mirtâes Maââiâh Qâinces eaââ two ounces Oyl of Mints an ounce Bdellium ãâã in Vinegar liquid Storax each two ounces Oyl of Nutmegs by expression a dram with Wax make an Oyntment Of the same with Pitch Rosin Colophony you may make Pâaisters Let her hold a Loadstone in her hand or tie it to her navel or wear an Eagle stone under her arm-pits or Coral Jaspar Smaragds Diamonds If these will not keep the child up you must give over Aââringents and use Leniâives Question Whether the straitness of the Womb is the Cause of Abortion Hippocrates 1. de morb saith That the Womb may cause Abortion if they be windy thicâ great ãâã little and he shews in another place that Abortion may be from the straitnâss of the womb And in another place he saith Iâ a woman in the third âourth or fifth mânth miââarry often aââ at the sâme time it is because the womb wil not stretch And Galen confirms the same and iâ stânds to reason for natural birth is when the womb cannot contain the child for its growth Thârâforâ iâ it be ââeternaturally too little it iâ the cause oâ Morââon And though Nâture hath made the womb âo hold the child yet iâ iâ be not made large enough it cannot âântain
it so the stomach iâââmtimâs so strait that it cannot hold an indiâfââent quantity of meât as others can Chap. 3. Of the Signs of Natural Birth and the manner and Government of such as bring âorth AT her timâ of her bâinâ tâ be delivâred lât âer takâ hââd of âstâingânâs and thicânââs but let her eat meat of easie concoction and oâ good juyce and sit every fourth day in a hât Bath Of Mallows Foenugreek Linseed Mugwort and Chamomil flowers and after let hââ back loynsâ belly and privities be anointed witâ the Mucilagâ of Althaea seed and Oyl of Lilliesâ and let thâ child bâ stâengthened But when ââe hath pains from the navel to the groynâ and in the back then the ligaments aââ vessels are broken by which the child growâ ãâã the womb And because the womb violently strains to discharge it the membranous âibâes are extended and commonly there are very great pains and throws or the child will not be born and it is an evil sign when throwâ cease because the expulsive faculty is weakenâd And let not the Midwiâe provoke throws till the time When the membranes are broken the water flows out that comes from the urin and sweat oâ the child first little then more then wateâish blood and the oriâice of the womb begins to open to let out the childâ And before this time you must not provoke throws Then let the Midwiâe put her âinger into the oriâice of the womb and she shall perceive somthing round and hard as an egg Let her not lie on her back flat but with her back up that she may breathe more freely After the child is born you must press the blood in the navel-vessels towards the navel of the inâant and take heed that you loose not muâh blood in cutting off the ââvel-string for it haââ destroyed weak children and you must lâboââo ãâã out the Sââuâdine with the child iâ it bâ in the womb anoint your hands with âaâm oyâ ând âuâ them iâto the womb and âetch iâ out Chap. 5. Of Natural hard Travel THough Child-bearing since Eves sin is ordained to be painful as a puniâhment theroâ yet sometimes it is more painful then ordinary The first is from the mother and the expulsive faculty 2. From the Child 3. From the passage From the mother as when the womb is weak and the mother is not active to expell from weakness or diseases or want of spiâits of which Hippocrates It is from the birth when there are twins or more and both strive to go forth at a âime or if the child stick to a Mole or be so weak that it cannot break the membrane or if it be too big all over or in the head only or if the Navil vessels are twisted about his neck It is from the passages when the membranes aâe thick the oriâice too strait and the neck of the womb is not open sufficiently as in such as labour of the first child or are very fat The passages are pressed and straitned by tumors in the adjacent parts or when the bones are too fiâm and wil not open then the mother and child aâe both in danger or when the passages are not âââippâry or when they are broken too soon by reason of the thin membranes or the water flows âââth sooner then it ought You may know haâd Travel by ââint throws that come at a great distance And you must consider all things concerning the mother womb ââd child In hard Travel the mother and child are in danger and the Perinaeum sometimes breaks with the skin from the privities to the Arsehole If a woman be four daies in travel the child scarce escapes All things that move the terms are good to make easie delivery As Myrrh white Amber in white Wine or Lillywater two scruples or a dram Some give a drop of oyl oâ Amber in Vervain water or a scruple of mineral Borax or half a dram but begin with gentle things as a spoonful of Cinnamon water Or Take Cassia Lignea Dittany each a dram Cinnamon halâ a dram Saffron a scruple make a Pouder give a dram Or Take Borax mineral a dram Cassia Lignea a scruple Saffron six grains give it in Sack Or Take Cassia Lignea a dram Dittany Amber each half a dramâ Cinnamon Borax each a dram and half Saffron a scruple give half a dram Or give some drops of oyl of Hazel in convenient liquor or two or three drops of oyl of Cinnamon in Vervain water some prepare the secundine thus Take the Navel string and dry iâ in an Oven Take two drams of the pouder Cinnamon a dram Saffron half a scruple with juyce of Savin make Troches give two drams or wash the Sââurdine in Wine and bake it in a pot then wash it in Endive water and Wine Take half a dram of it long Pepper Galangal each half a dram Piantâne and Endiâe seed each a dram and half Laâender seed four scruples make a pouder Or Take Labdanum two drams Storax caâamiâe âeâââin each half a dram Musk and Ambergrease each six grains make a pouder or Troâââs for a ââme oâ use pessaries to provoke the biâth Tâke Galbânuâ ãâã in Vineâââ an ounââ Myrrh two drams Saffron a dram with oyl of Orris make a Peââary An Oyntment for the Pecten and Navil Take oyl of Keir two ounces juyce of Savin an ounce of Leeks and Mercury eaâh half an ounce boyl them to the consumption of the juyce add Galbanum dissolved in vinegar half an ounce Myrrh two drams Storax liquid a dram round Birthworâ Sowbread Cinnamon each half a dram Saffron a scruple with Wax make an oyntment Also neesing provoke the birth and Amulets As a Snakes skin about her middle the Aegle-stone bound to her thigh If weakness be the cause refresh her with Wine and sops to the nose Consect Alkernies Diamose Diamarg If there âe twins let the Midwife order them with her hands and help the foremost If the passages be not slippery use an emollient Fomentatâon and oyl of sweet Almonds Hens or Ducks grease c. If the belly be bound give a Clyster or Suppository When medicines wil not do it break the membrane with the âingers dipt in oyl or cut them When the Child is stil âorn let the Mâdwife âhew Spices and blow in its moâth or drop Aqua vitae in it or anoynt it with Honey Chap. 6. Of a vitious disorderly birth or difficulty preternatural IF the head come not forth first and the hands and âeet are upwards there is an ill birth Hippocrates reckons two causes the largeness of the womb and disorderly motion of the mother from pain also the thickness of the membrane which when it cannot break with the head it attempts to do with the feet and hands The midwife may perceive in what figure the child comes forth All disorderly coming forth is dangerous to mother and child
of many diseases First endeavor to evaeuate the blood from the womb by Frictions Ligatures and Cupping iâ they will not do open a vein in the foot Then open the passâges with external and internal meansâ anoint the Belly with loosning Oyls or soment thus Take Lilly roots Birthworts Briony Angelâca each half an ounce Mercury Mugwort Pennyroyal Savin Calamints each a handful Tansey Chamomil and Elder flâwers each half a handful Faenugreek and Linseed each two drams bruise them grosly and put them in a bag and boyl them in Water and Wine lay it to the privities and bottom of the belly Give emollient Clysters and if some daies are paââ purge with Agarick Rhubarb Senna Or Take Lilly roots Alâhaea each half an ounce Birthworts two drams Pellitory Mercuryâ Althiea each a handful Calamints Chamomil Elder floâers each two pugils Faenugreek and Lineseed each two drams boyl them to ten ounces strained âdd Oâl of Dill Lillies each an ounce Hiera simple half an ounce Oyntment of Sowbread three drams make a Clyster Or give Pessaries that provoke the Terms Give things to melt and attenuate the blood As Take opening Roots three drams Bettony Maidenhair Endive Schaenanth each two pugils Anise Fennel seed each a scruple red Pease a spoonful boyl them to a pint and half add Cinnaâon water two drams Syrup of the five Roots three âânces give four ounces Chap. 4. Of too great a flux of blood after Childbearing THat is too much which makes weak It is blood abounding which haââ been gâthered nine months in the womb It is thick or spends the Spirits and weakens There is loathing of meat pain the Hypochondria belly-ach weak and often pulse dark sight noise in the ears fainting and Convulsion It is dangerous when long and with fainting and Convulsion Therefore observe the pulse least she die suddenly See what strength she hath and stopt it not ââddenly Iâ it be not very gââat order a diet of âoasâed Hens basted with red Wine or Pomegraââe of Staâch Almonds Rice Quinces Conâââve of Roses steeled Water and make Revulââns use gentle things and strengthen the loose ââââges Anoint the belly with oyl of Roses Mirtles cup under âhe breasts and sides without scariâication Apply a Cataplasm of red Roses Bole and Rosâ-water to the Liver Then use stronger and give a higher diet oâten in small quantity and give Syrups to stop blood As Take old Conserve of Roses two ounces of Tormentil an ounce of Quinces without speciââ half an ounce Bole red Coral each half a dram with syrup of Currans and Coral make an Electuaây Anoint the belly with the Oyntment of the Countess and other Astringents or use astringent Fomentations or let her take into the womb a Fume of Mastich Frankincense red Roses c. Then open a vein in the arm and let blood by degrees See Sect. 2. Chap. 6. of overflowing of the Terms Chap. 5. Of the Pains after Travel and torments in the Belly THese are not in the body and bottome of the womb but in the vessels and membranes by which the womb hangs and that goes to the sides and belly They are from a constant labor in travel when the bottom of the womb is pricked to send forth from cold air let into it or clotted blood detained or sharp blood sticking to the womb and pricking it They are in the womb it self you mây know iâ they came from cold by what hath been done clotted blood will manifest it self They weâken much and are very troublâsom therefore they must be abated First take away the cause or abate the pain and make that which hurts the womb fit to be evacuated by these Pills Take Cinnamon a dram Saffron a scruple Diaâymini Diagalangal Zedoary each half a dram make a Pouder give a dram in Pennyroyal or Cinnamon water Or Take of Cummin seed steept in Spirit of wine and dried again a dram Ameos sâeds and Ginger each half a dram Cinnamon a scruple Castor half a scruple make a Pouder If she faint ad Cordial Waters As Take Diacyminum a dram Diamargariton frigid Citron peâls Zedoary each half â dram make a Pouder If she be cholerick or the humor thin and sharp cure it as a Colick from Choler As Take Syrup of Violets Borage each an ounce Mucilage of Quince seeds made with Violet water half an ounce water of Borage Scorzonera each two ounces give it at twice Extenuate the humors and loosen the passages outwardly Take Bean flour Faenugreek and Linseed each an ounce Chamomil flowers and Cummin seeds each half an ounce boyl them in Oyl of Lillies for a Cataplasm You may sume the womb with Decoctions of Herbs Chap. 6. Of the tearing of the Vulva to the Arse and coming forth of the Womb Inflammation Ulcer Suffocation and falling out of the Fundament THe tearing iâ in hard travel when the motheâ is tendeâ and the child great of which ââforââ The womb comes forth from the violent extraction of the child or afterbirth when the ligaments are streâched The Cure is mentioned but you must not hinder the after flux by astringents let her therefore rest and lie one her back with her âeet drawn up with Sweets to her nose and stinks to the womb so the womb will be retained and the flux continued after this is past you may use Astringents If there be inflammation from hard travel hinder not the afâer-flux of blood by Coolers If it turn to an ulcer let the after-flux flow and then cure it Suffocation after childbearing is from the ââinking after-blood which sends up stinking vapors which kill many It is cured by Friction of the leggs Ligatures and Cupping with Scarification applying stinks to the nose as Castor Partridgâeathers burnt Rue And applying Sweets to the privities You must cure the âalling out of the Fundament from straining in Delivery as formerly shewed Chap. 7. Of Watching Doting and Epilepsie of Women in Child-bed THese are from the motion of the blood aâd huâorsâ when the after-blood flows nât kindlyâ and there is a âeaver of which in ââe ãâã Book And from vapors sent from the ãâã there is an Epilepsie which is cured by Râvââsion oâ vapors and humors downwaâdâ and âââfect Evacuation of the aâter-blood which done all these Symptoms cease Chap. 8. Of the Swelling of the Womb Belly and Feet after Childbearing IT is commonly from cold gottân into the womb and the belly sometimes swells as if there were another child It is cured by hysterical or mother Fomentations or with the skin of a new âlain sheep and hard wine if in travel they keep a bad diet or drink too much the humors go into wind and if they fall into the legs they swel then take heed of much drink and after the flux is past make Evacuation with things that expel wind As Take Câleworts and Chamomil each as you please boyl them in Wine and âomeât the parts Or Take
have Symptomatical âeavers also from inââammation of the Pleura Jaws or Liver because some of the âoul humors are sent to some private part and makes an inflamation to which the âeaver is joyned and the causes are as before mentioned If there be a Pleuriâie she is in great danger The question is whether she must bleed above or below I say thus First this âeaver is not properly Symptomatical but primary and hath the inflammation its associate while Nature sends part of the matter to the Pleura or other part Secondly note that Nature is in an erâor while she sends the vitious humors which she should expel by the womb to the Pleura Thirdly note that the vitious moâion of Nature is not to be helped therefore which should be done if you should presently open a vein in the arm but the blood is to be voided by the womb which is Natures way Fourthly iâ the Pleuriâie be not abated by oâening a vein in the aâkle for revulsion but the Sympâoms continue or increase you must not continue to open the veins beneath because they evacuate not from the part affected which is neâessâry in such a dangerous disease It is a sign that the matter is fastned to the part that it cannot again be brought to the womb by revulsion Therefore then you may open a vein in the arm on the same side to evacuate and derive the blood from the part or there about or she will be in danger of death And fear not that Nature will be taken from her ordinary motion towards the womb thereby for the vein that was opened in the foot prevented that and if you fear any danger you may prevent it by Frictions and cupping of the leggs while you let blood in the arm And you may give Clysters that may cause the humors moving upwards to come down and loosen the passages of the womb that blood may flow out the better As Take Pellitory of the Wall Mallows Althaea red Coleworts each a handful Chamomilââowers half a handful Faenugreek and Linseed each half an ounce boyl them in Water to a pint strained add lenitive Electuary an ounce Diacatholicon or Cassia half an ounce Oyl of Violets two ounces make a Clyster If the Feaver abate and the time of the flux of the Lochia be past give a gentle Purge Cure the rest as an ordinary Pleurisie onely take heed that while the after-flux lasts you give no binding Medicine Also she may have a Quinzie while she lies in while the vitious matter flows to the jaws The âure of which bleeding is to be done as in the Pleurisâe but the rest is to be done as in the Quinââie And if the Liver be inflamed by the motion of the humors to it you must bleed as in the Pleurisie and Quinzie Yet it is not so needful in the arm as in the Pleuriâie by reason of the greater distance of the Liver from the arm for the Pleura and the breast are nearer and consent more with the arms but the vein in the legâ is near to the hollow vein as the distribution of the upper veins to the arms The rest of the Cure of the inflammation âf the Liver is in Lib. 3. onely observe that you must not use too great Coolers or Binders in women in Child-bed but things that are of thin parts least the flux called Lochia or after-blood should be stopped THE FOURTH BOOK THE THIRD PART Of the Diseases of Womens Breasts THE FIRST SECTION Of Diseases of the Breasts Chap. 1. Of the increased number of Breasts and grâatness extraordinary THOUGH Nature hath ordained two in all women yet some have Breasts like men others have had two on each side that had milk The figure of the Breasts is round pointed at the nipple a little it ought not to be soft nor hard and of an indifferent bigness and it is better they be indifferent though thây hold not so much milk least they be subject to Cânâers and inâlammations and when they are too big they have not a temperate heat The Causes of over-great Breasts is much blood and the âââength of heat attracting and âoncoâting it these are remote causes but the immediâte cause is the laâgeness of the passages and loosness which is in the first conformation and furthered by idlâness much sleep and few terms and often handling of the Breasts by whiâh the blood and the heat is drawn to the Breasts It is easier to keep them from growing great then to abate them when too big with good diet and Topicks that repel by cooling and binding and drying As Take Mirtle leavesâ Horstayl Plantane Mints red Roses each a handful Pomegranate flowers two pugilâ boyl them in red Wine and Vinegar and with a Spunge apply it to the breastsâ and let it dry or apply Hemloâk bruised with Vinegar Or Take pouder of Comârââroots two drams Pomâgranate flowers red Râââs Frankincense Mastich each half an ounce âââley ââour red Oakre each an ounce and half with Rose-watââ the white of an Eâ and â little Vinegâr make a Cataplasme These may be laid to the Breasts and under the arm-piâs to astringe the vessels and hinder the blood from flowing to them Hemlock Henbane and other Narcoticks are forbidden because they weaken the natural heat and hinder the breeding of milk Dryers and Discussers are good in women tâat have great Breasts after weaning to consume the moisture As Take Bean and Orobus meal each twâ ounces and half Comârey roots in pouder half an ounce Mints three drams Wormwood Chamomil flâwers anâ Roses eaâh two drams boyl and add two ounces of Oyl of Mastich make a Cataâlasme The Breasts are too little when the flux of blood to the Breasts is hindered diminished intercepted revelled or turned another way or when the blood is not drawn by the Breasts as in a dry Liver-famine much labour or in watchings feavers and other diseases that consume the body The same is when the radical moisture of the Breasts is conâumed You must remove the cause that breeds it and ââten friction wil attract blood and foment with warm water in which Emollients have been boylâd with white Wine and then anoint with Oyl of sweet Almonds or of Indian-nuts Loosness of the Breasts is cured by astringents Chap. 2. Of Swelling of the Breasts with Milk VVHen the milk carrying veins are too full the Breasts swell all over or in âaââ and are pained by stretching and red Somâââes the milk congealâth and is a hard Tuâââ âhâ cause is abundance of milk or blood that ââkes it or the weakness of the child that cannot âuâk oâ because he is weaned Iâ oâtân âââseth without remedies Somtimes ãâã is an inâââmmation or the milk hardens to a ãâã You must hinder the breeding of much milk of which hereafter and consume that which is bred in women that give suck the child will draw them or a Puppy Or use a Glass to suâk with they which wil not give
suck may use this Take Barley meal of Lentils Althaea roots Chamomil flowers and Mints each half an ounce Agnus castus seeds two sâruples boyl them in Wine ad a little Vinegar Oyl of Dill two ounces make a Cataplasme Chap. 3. Of Inflamation and Erysipelas of the Breasts SOmtimes the tumor in the Breast is inflamed from blood for though plenty of milk cauâe an inflammation blood is the immediate cause for milk as it corrupts and grows hot increaseth pain and so the blood staying in the fmal capillar veins being out of the vessels is hot putrid and inflamed There are other causes as strokesâ falls straitness of cloaths and other hurts of thâ Breasts A hard and red swelling shews inflammation with beating pain and a Feaver These inflammations are commonly withouâ danger but because the Breasts are so loose and have many kernels and little heat they turn to Cancers and Scirrhus If you fear a great flux of blood that will increase the inflammation let blood in a plethorick bâdy But if it come from stopping oâ thââârms or after flux first open the vein in thâ ankle and sâarifie the leggs then if need be âpen the arm If bad humors coming to the Breasts nourish the inflammation give a gentle Purge of Manna Senna and the like If the blood be too hot or mixt with hot humors that help the motion oâ the blood Use Alterers as Lettice Endive âurslane Plantane Waterlillies and the like Use Repellers after these but such as are weak and not too cold as a clout dipt in Water and Honey with Oyl of Roses applied to the breasts Orâ Take Lettice Purslane each a handful red Râsâs half a handful boyl them in Water add Viââgar two ounces make an Epithem Orâ Take Nightshâde Lettice each a handful bâyl them stamp them and ad Bârley meal two ounâs pouder of Chamomil flowers half an ounce Oxymâl Oyl of Roses each a dram make a Cataplasm When the beginning of the inflammation is past ad Discussers with your Repellers As Take white Bread crums Barley flour each an ounce and hâlâ Bean and Foenugreek flower each half an ounce pouder of red Roseâ and Chamomil flowers ââch two drams boyl them add Rose-vinegar an âunce Oyl of Roses and of Chamomil each an ounce make a Cataplasm At length use only Disâussers Aââ Take Bean ãâã and of Lupines and of Faenugreek and ãâã and pouder of Chamomil flowers each an ounce maâe a Cataplasm If the matter grow hard use Emollients and ãâã As Take Mallowâ a handful boyl ãâã till they are soft add pouder of Lineseed ãâã aââ Chamoâil flowers each an ounceâ boyl them ãâã add Oâl of Jâsamââe ân âunce maâe a ãâ¦ã Iâ it tend to Suppuration lay a Plaister of ãâ¦ã Or Take Mallows and Althaea each half a handfâl boyl them till they are sâât stamp them and ad pouder of Althaea roots two ounces pouder of Line and Faenugreek seeds each aâ ounce Leaven half an ounce ad Oyntment of Aâthaea two ounces make a Cataplasm When tâere is matter and the imposthumes breaks of its own accord it is well otherwise open it with a Lancet or some sharp Mediâine and let out the matter and then clense it thus Tâke Turpentine Honey of Roses each an ounce Mirrh a scruple The ulcer will be hard to be cured except you dry up the milk in the other Breast by reason of much blood that will flow thither to breed milk Question Whether the Inflammation of the Breasts be from blood alone or from milk alsoâ The inflammation and swelling in women in Child-bed upon their Breasts is from the aââlux of too much milk and it is with redness and pain and beating or pulsation and it is not only from blood for tumors as in other parts aâe seldom pure or unmixed but there are other humors with it Therefore it is certain that when blood is drawn by heat or pain or comes of iâ self to the Breasts and begins to corrupt the milk also may be corrupted Of the Erysipelas of the Breasts This Erysipelas is from fright or angâr and iâ turns presently to a Phlegmon and is cured as the inflammation of the Breast Lay no cold astringent Repellers or fât thingsâ but things that sweat as Harts-horn sealâd Earth Carduus must be given with Elâer waterâ to discuss the thin blood that causeth the inflammation Apply outwardly hot a Pledgât dipt in Elder-water Chap. 4. Of the Ocdema of the Breasts THis flegmatick tumor is in cachectick women that havâ the white Feaver it is cold and white and pits because the part is loose and spungie Are a loose tumor almost insensible of pain and the âinger laid on leaves a pit It is larger when the terms are at hand and abateth when they are past If it come from a Cachexy and a disease of the womb it is dangerous but it commonly ends by resolution or dissolved The Cure is by dry and hot means and if it is from a Cachexy or want of Terms they must first be removed then use Topicks that discuss and ââsolvâ and strengthen let them be but temperately hot least you discuss the thin and leave the thick which will cause a Scirrhus Make therefore Fomentations of a Lixivium of Vine and Colewort ashes and Sulphur or a Decoction of Hysop Sage Organ Chamomil-flowers Then anoint with Oyl of Chamomil Lillies Bayes Or Take Barley flour four ounâââ of Lineseeds Faenugreek Dill Chamomil floâââs each half an ounce Aâthaea rootâ an ounce with Oyl of Chamomil and Dill make a Cataplasm Chap. 5. Of the Scirrhus of the Breasts IT is a hard tumor without pain from melâncholy gathered in the veins that flows to the Breast or it is thick flegm dried Sometimes both humors are mixed together or more which makes a bastard Scirrhus And if burnt humors abound most it turns to a Cancer and if melancholy be most it is not a Scirrhus but a Cancer There are two signs of a true Scirrhus hardness and want of pain if it be fixed Iâ is somtimes white somtimes black or blew as the humor is If it be a bastard Scirrhus there is heat and pain and if they increase it turns to a Cancer and the veins grow blew about and begin to swell The bigger and the harder it is the more hard it is to be cured If hairs grow upon a Scirrhus it is incurable and it easily turns to a Cancer After Universals and the Cause is removed from the womb or the whole body let the containing cause be softned made thin and discussed But beware of two things First that the thin parts be not discussed by too hot medicines and the thick left for so it will be incurable and as hard as a stone Secondly that you âerment not the matter by moistning Emollients so that it turn to a Cancer The Ancients either used none or a dryâng or a moistning Mediâine only You
Oyl of Roses Mastich each half an ounce red Sanderâ Coral each a scruple with Wax mix it If the feaver come from breeding of it abate the pain and give the Alterers of which Chap. 14. of Bleeding of Teeth Of Meazles and small Pox. There are Epidemical feavers at certain times that cast out Meazles and small Pox of whicâ before The cause is not only from the impurity of the terms but from the malignity of the air for they are more or less as the air is purer or impurer Somtimes it is infectious and the humors are so coârupt that worms breed under the scabs and corrode the bones and internal parts as hath been seen in bodies opened dead of this disease If the disease be very infectious before there is a âeaver it is good to preserve by change of air and Antidotes when many die of it but when few die it is not amiss to let them alone leaââ they have it in a more dangerous time for most will have it only give a gentle Purge and âortifie Nature that she may better expel them If there be a âeaver use no more Preservatives âut labour to get them forth by Medicines mentioned and defend the eyes and throat and ââevent deformity of which before Chap. 3. Of the Milkey Scab Achores and Favi THe milkey Scab is at the first sucking the Achoâes are after The Achores are scabs not white and the white scab is not only in the face but all over the body The Achores are only in the head but they are cured alike They are all ulcers chiefly in the head with holâs that run with matter constantly They come from excrementitious humors waterish and sharp mixed of thick and thin very âalt Therefore they are sometimes yellow or white or red or black but alwaies salt and biâing and itching that makes them scratch They are gâthered in the womb and from corruption of the milk The Vulgar think they are healthful when they run because Nature sends them forth and if they strike in they cause diseases and Epilepâies They cure in time âf themselves but if the matter be very bad it pierceth the skull Dry these not rashly so they disfigure not the ââcâ nor hurt the eyes But drive them forth with ââabious Cârduus water and Cordials Use no Coolers nor Astringents least the matter be stroke in Let the Nurse forbear salt and sharp ând spiced things and strong Wine Pepare the humors with Borage Sâââory Bugloâs Fumitâây Hops Polypody and Dock roots Then purge with Senna Polypody Epithymum Rhuâââb and strengthen thâ Bowels As Take Conserve of Borage Bugloss Violets Fumitâry Succory each an ounce Succory roots and Citrons candied each half an ounce Diarrhodon Diamargartion ârigid Harts-horn each a sâruple with ãâã oââ Gâââi-ââoâârs makâ an Electuary Let the Nurse take every day two drams Or Take Harts-horn prepared two drams Magâstery of Coral a dram Diamargariton frigid half a dram give half a dram or a dram of this Pouder Let the child be purged with Manna or Raisons laxative If you fear great putrefaction under the scabs and that wil turn to a scald head or eat the skul wash the head with Decoction of Mallows Barley Celandine Wormwood or with Althaea-roots boyled in Boyes urine and Barley water And then anoint with Oyl of Roses bitter Almonds and a little Litharge Or Take ashes of Mirtles and Nut shells each a dram Tutty a dram and half Butter washed with Rose-water an ounce Or Take juyce of Beets Celandine each an ounce Hogs grease two ounces Sulphur a dram Or Take Cerâss Litharge each two drams Pomegranate flowers and Agarick eâch a dram with Oyl of Roses and Vinegar make an Oyntment or wash with Soap and then with the Decoction When the skull is bare use Honey of Roses and Spirit of Wine and after round Birthwort and Balsom of Peru and Turpentine with Tobacco water Chap. 4. Of a scald Head IF Achores or Favi last long or are ill cured They turn to a Scald which is a scabby ulcer that corrodes the skin and stinks it is called Tinâa or Moth which eats garmentsâ as this doth the flesh Achores are moist ulcers in the head and body Tinea is a dry ulcer in the head only The immediate cause is a salt and sharp humor melancholick from the mothers blood or bad milk it infecteth others by the clouts or caps Some are like a bran or scurfe with scales some are slimy and when the scab is off there appears red quick nobs of flesh like the insides of sigs some are malignant some not some new some old There are dry scabs in the head yellow or ash coloured that run little and that which is voided stinketh It is hard to be cured If it be new or the matter yellow or the like it is easier An old Scald ash-coloured and black is stubborn aâtâr cure the hair will scarce grow there again because the skin is so hard if it will not grow red after rubbing there is no hopes of hair coming again First take off the Scab with âlensers a little sharp and because the humors make the skin dry and thick moisten with Hogs grease upon Beet or Colewort leaves Or Take juyce of Fumitory Coleworts Docks Elicampâne each an âunce and half Litharge half an ounce with Hogs grease oyl of Rue and Wax make a sofâ Oymment When the Child is of age and strong make first universal evââuation with Senna Rhubarb Agarick then take off the Scab with Sulphur two drams Mustard half a drain Stavisacre Briony roots each a dram Vinegar an ounce Turpentine half an ounce and Bears grease Or beat Watercresses with Hogs gâease and apply it the scab wil fall off in twenty four hours continue it After the scab is off pull the hair out by the roots with instruments or medicines commonly they use a pitched cap and pull it off violently which brings away the hair Or Take Starch or Wheat flour two ounces Rosin half an ounce boyl it in water for a Pultis lay it upon the several Sâaldâ and let it stick some daies then pluck it off suddenly Then use Emollients that correct the dry distemper Also use things to take the excrements out that lie deep in the skin As Take roots of Althaea Docks Lillies each an ounce Mallows Fumitory Sage each two handful boyl them in Liâ add Vinegar wash the head with it every day Thenâ Take Ostratium Sulphur each half an ounce oyl of Eggs an ounce with Hogs grease After that Take Briony and Dock roots and Elicampanâ roots each an ounce Fumitory Celandine Scabious each two handful Chamomil and Balm each a handful boyl them in Lie and wash the head twice a day therewithâ or foment it then rub the head with a course cloth or with oyl of Staphesacre or of Raddish till it grow red to draw out the bad humors that lie deep
better to vomit these up then keep them in If Vomiting last long it causeth Aârophy When it is from too much milkâ give it less if it be from corrupt milk amend it as I shewed Clense the child with Honey of Roses and strengthen the stomach with Syrup of Mints Quinces Or Take Wood-aloes Coral Mastich each half a dram Galangal half a scruple with Syrup of Quinces make a Lincâus If the humor be sharp and hot give Syrup of Pomegranates Currans Coral Apply to the belly the Plaister of Bread the Stomach-cerot or Bread dipt in Wine hot Or Take Oyl of Mastich Quinces Mints Wormwood each half an ounce of Nutmegs by expression half a dram Chymical Oyl of Mints three drops Coral hath an occult propriety therefore it is hung about their necks Chap. 19. Of the torments or pains of the Belly IT is often with the flux of the belly and from milk alone that breeds wind and sharp humors When it is corrupted it gets to the guts and causeth a gnawing pain worms staying in the guts do the same They cry continually hate the breast and toss to and fro If it be from wind it ceaseth somtimes the belly swells and they break wind If it be from humors it is constant if it be tough flegm the belly is bound and the dung is slimy If it be sharp there is a flux yellow and green If from worms there are signs of them and of crudities and wind If this pain lasts long they are weak or have Convulsions or Epilepsie it is worse when ârom corrupt milk and worms and is dangerous If it be from crude humors and wind give a Clyster Take Pellitory Chamomil flowers each a handful boyl them in Chicken broath to three or four ounces add Honey of Roses an ounce with the yolk of an Eg make a Clyster This may be given safely to a child of two monthâ old Or give oyl of sweet Almonds with Sugar candy and a scruple of Aniseeds it purgeth new born Babes from green choler and stinking flegm If it be given with Sugar Pap it allays the crying pains of the belly Anoint the belly with Oyl of Dill or lay Pellitory stampt with Oâl of Chamomil to the belly Or Take Chamomil flowers Dill tops each a handful Faenugreek and Lineseed each half an ounce boyl them in Wine foment the belly twice a day before meat If pain be from corrupt milk âhat is sharp give Syrup of Roses or Honey of Roses or Syrup of Succory with Rhubarb or a Clyster of the Decoction of Bran Pellitory with Sârup of Roses And use outwardly Oyl of Roses Dill and Chamomil Chap. 20. Of puffing up of the Belly and Hypochondria WHen they suck too much the belly is swelled under the ribs for want of concoction and there are crudities in the stomach and wind and also in the parts adjacent The Hypochondria are hard and pussed up and there is straitness in the mouth of the stomach and short breath It is easily cured with good diet Give a thinner diet that the crudities may be coâcocted Give no fresh nourishment til thâ first be digested then give Honey of Roses to purge Or the Decoction of Cardiaca which is good for the heart and mouth of the stomach it opens obstructions and clenseth flegm Or pouder of Piony roots Cummin seed Jesamine or make it up with Honey Oyl of sweet Almonds or Sugar for a Liniment Foment the sides with the Decoction of Cardiaca Chamomil flowers and Cununin seed Chap. 21. Of the Flux of the Belly IT is 1. From breeding of teeth with a feaveâ commonly and the concoction is hindered and the nourishment corrupted 2. From much watching 3. From pain 4. From stirring of the humors by a feaver 5. When they suck or drink too much in a feaver Somtimes they have a flux without breeding of teeth from outward cold in the guts or stomach that hinders concoction If it be from teeth it is known by the signs in breeding of teeth if from external cold there are signs of no other causes If from a humor flowing from the head there are signs of a Câtarrh and the excrements are âroathy If crude humors are voided there is wind belching and flegmatick excrements If they be yellow green and stink the ââux is from a hot and sharp humor It is best in breeding of teeth when the belly is loose but if it be too greatâ and you fear Atrophy it must be stopt if black excrements are voided with a feaver it is bad A sucking child needs not cure so much as the Nurse you must chiefly observe the condition of the milk and mend it if not change the Nurse let her not eat green fruit and things of hard co-coction If the child suck not take away the causes of the flux with purges that bind after as Syrup or Honey of Roses or a Clyster Take the decoction of Milium My robalans each two or three ounces with an ounce or two of Syrup of Roses make a Clyster After clensing if the cause be hot give Syrup of dried Roses Quinces Mirtles Coral Currâns or the pouder of Diamarâariton Coral Mastich Harts-horn red Roses or pouder of Miâtles with a little Sanguis Draconis Anoint with Oyl of Roses Mirtles Masâich Or Take red Roses an ounce Mirtles Masâich each two drams with Oyl of Mirtles and Wax make an Oyntment Orâ Take red Roses Moulin each a handful Cypress roots two drams make a Bag boyl it in red Wine apply it to the belly or use the Plaister of Bread or Stomach oyntment If the cause be cold and excrements white give Syrup of Mastich and Quinces with Mint-water Use outwardly Mints Mastich Cummin As Take Rose seeds an ounce Cumminâ Aniseeds each two drams with Oyl of Mastichâ Wormmood and Wax make an Oynâmenâ Chap. 22. Of binding of the Belly IT is from a cold and dry distemper of the guts from birth in some 2. From slimy flegm that wraps the dung which sticks in the guts This is from bad milk when the Nurse eats gross food slimy and astringent or drinks little 3. It is from a hot distemper of the kidnies or liver that dries the excrements 4. It is when choler doth not stir up the guts to expel If it be from a dry distemper of the guts it is hard to be cured if it be from slimy flegm the dung is wrapt in it If choler comes not to the guts to provoke them to stool the dung is white and the body yellow It is best in children to have a loose belly and they are more healthful for if it be bound the belly is pained and there is headach First take away the cause if it be from a hot distemper of any bowel or dry wash the child often to moisten and cool it in a Bath of Succory and Leââice boyled In a cold distemper use hot for
the stomach and in a dry use moist things as Oyl of Lillies Dialthaea Hens grease Butter Let the Nurse avoid astringent meâts as Qâinâes Medlars Beans and use Emollients If the chiâd be big give juyce or Decoction of red Colwoâts worts with a little Salt and Honey If it be from slimy flegm give Honey or Syrup of Roses Correct the hot distemper of the Liver and Reins with Syrup of Violets and Emulsions of the four great cold Seeds If choler come not from the Gall to the Guts give the Decoction of Grass-roots Fennel Sparagus Maidenhair Give Clysters to cut and clense tough flegm As Take Alâhaea roots Mallows Pellitory each half a handful Faenugreek and Lineseed each a dram Chamomil flowers a pugil boyl and to three or six ounces ad three drams of Cassia Oyl an ounce and the yolk of an Eg. To the Navel apply Hens grease and Ox gal Or Take Aloes two drams Ox gall a dram Scamony a scruple with Buttâr make an Oyntment Fill a Walnut shell with it and apply it to the Navel Anoint the belly with Emoillients Take fresh Butter Goose and Hens grease each half an ounce Oyl of sweet Almonds and Lineseed each two drams Veal marrow Dialthaea each two drams with Wax make an Oyntment Bran and juyce of Danewort make a loosning Cataplasm for the belly Only keep it from the stomach as you must do other Cataplasms Chap. 23. Of the Worms IT is observed that children have had worms in their mothers belly and voided them after they were born But they are chiefly bred by mixing milk with other meats in a hot and moist constitution and from sweet meats which woâms love and Summer-fruits they are round and long or broad and little Besides what is said in Lib. 3. Part 2. Sect. 2. Cap. 5. Worms are known to be in a body when there is much spittle and a stinking breath troublesom sleep gnashing of teeth crying and bawling a dry cough loathing vomiting hickets want of appetite or too much thirst a belly swelled or bound or too loose thick white urin with pain when the belly is empty and the worms want food There is a cold sweat over the face and a high colour with sudden paleness sometimes a feaver and convulsion which ceaseth presently These are the signs of round worms rather then of the flat Infants are often long troubled with worms without any great inconvenience sometimes there are great Symptomes The long round worms are worst and have eaten sometimes the guts and belly through with a feaver they are more dangerous few are better then many and small then great white are better then those of other colours The other Prognosticks are mentioned in other places Preservation It is better to prevent the breeding of worms then to expel them by eating of meats of good juyce with Oranges and Pomegranates and avoiding sweet fat and slimy meats fish milk and Summer-fruits and figs. Drink thin Wine and Grass and Sorrel water with it and with pouder of Harts horn Let the belly be kept loose with Clysters foâ children or give the Decoction of Sebestens before meat or of Wormwood and Scordium but children will not take bitter things therefore give Grass water and juyce of Lemons or Citâons or a drop or two of Spirit of Vitriol When you know by the signs that there are worms kill and expel them with pouder of Coralline Wormseed Harts horn or eight grains of Mercurius dulcis Infuse them a night in gâass water and cast away the substance oâ the Mercury and give the Water Or Take Woâmseed two drams Coralline Harts horn prepared each a dram roots of Piony Dittany Magistery of Coral each a scruple make a Pouder or give the Essence of Peach flowers or the Decoction of Fern-water half an ounce or an ounce If there be a feaver use colder as juyce of Lemons Pomegranates Oranges Vinegar Harts horn Bezoar Confection of Hyacinth or this Potion Take Grass water four ounces Syrup of juyce of Citrons an ounce of Violets half an ounce Spirit of Vitriol two drops give two spoonfuls Give bitter things at the mouth and sweet at the fundament as a Clyster of Milk Or Take Raisons ten Figs seven boyl them in water take of it four ounces add Sugar an ounce and half make a Clyster Use varieties that the worms may not be too familiar with one Apply Peach leaves to the Navel bruised or a Cataplasm of Ox gall Wormwood and St. Johns-wort Or Take pouder of Wormwood Gith Centaury Wormseed Lupines each half an ounce with Oyl of Wormwood and Wax half an ounce make an Oyntment Or Take Treacle half an ounce with juyce of Wormwood apply it to the navel or make a Bath of Peach leaves and Wormwood put the child into it up to the navel If there be a Feaver use colder things mentioned Chap. 24. Of the Rupture IT is from the Peritonaeum loose or broken when the sâall guts fall into the cods from crying cough straininâ at stoolâ and from vehement motion or a fall Sometimes the Peritonaeum is well and a water falls from the belly into the cods The tumor is visible if it be from a gut it is in one part only as the right or left and it may be felt and the hole also âhrough which it fel. If from water it is even all over and there was no cause of other Rupture It is easier cured in infants then in elder persons for it is safer but worse then that of water which goes away of it self when the water is consumed Let the belly be kept open let not the child cry Avoid vehement motion lay him upon his back and thrust it up gently and apply this Plaister Take Lambs tongue Sanicle each half an ounce Lentils and Lupines and red Roses in pouder each two drams Frankincense a dram Allum half a dram with the white of an Eg. Or Take Frankincense Cypress nuts Aloâs Acacia each two drams Mirrh a dram with Izinglass make a Plaster Or apply Gum Elemni steept in Vinegar till there be a Cream at the top and with oyl of Eggs make a Cerot Inwardly Take Sanicle Lambs tongue each half a handful Agrimony a handful Comfrey the greater half an ounce boyl them to a pint strained ad Sugar give it often Or give pouder of Mousear or Moonwort with Wine If it be from water anoint with Oyl of Elder Bayes Rue or apply a Cataplasm of pouder of Beans âoenugreek Lineseed Chanââmil flowers Cummin seeds with these Oyls Chap. 25. Of sticking out of the Navel IT is without inflammation 1. When it was not well tied and too much left that sticks out 2. When the Peritonaeum is loose and hath water or wind in it from crying or coughing 3. When the navel is ulcerated and the guts fall into it this is called properly Exomphalon The navel yeilds to the touch but in an inflamation it is hard there is
Intertrigo IT is thâ separation of the scarf-skin from the true in the Hips that causeth pain and unquâetness It is from sharp piss when the clouts are not changed often in such as are fat to whom filth sticks easily The Skin is off and it looks red It is troublesom by reason of the pain and causeth want of sleep and ulcârateth if it be not cured Change the clouts often wash and clense the child often sprinkle on âhis fine pouder Of Litharge of Silver seeds and leaves of Roses burnt Allum and Frankincensâ or anoint with white oyntment and Diapompholigos Chap. 32. Of Leanness and Fascination SOmtimes children and men grow lean the elder from Feavers Consumptions and other diseases but children pine away and the cause is not known and though they eat and perform other actions they are not nourished noâ grow The causes of Consumption in Infants are little or bad milk by which no blood is bred fit to nourish the body so that they thrive not till they change the Nurse The second is worms that suck away the nourishment The third is worms about the body without âs in thâ Back Aimsââr Legâ and all parts these are very small aâd brâed inâââufculous parts and stick in the skin and never come wholly out but after rubbing in baths thây put forth their heads like black hairs and run in when they feel the cold air they breed of ââimy matter shut up in the capillar veins which turns to worms from transpiration hindered The fourth cause in the opinion of people is fascination or witchcraft either from the eyes of Witches or by vapors or by touch or by words from a Witch these are alleadged by many Authors I neither allow nor plainly deny all these waies of fascination though it is not credible that a child should suffer by words or looks only I deny not but diseases may be sent from sick bodies to others as the Leprosie the French Pox Consumption and the like and may infect Infants And I believe that they may be hurt by Witches and malicious persons by the help of the Devil and Gods permissioâ as Basil the great writeth for wicked people make a league with the Devil that they may hurt such as they look enviously and angerly upon And I add one thing a habit of body that is grown very excellent is in most danger as Hippocraââs âaith when children come to be very healthfull and fair they fall suddenly into a disease and the vulgar not knowing the cause of it impuâe it to Witchcraft The signs of the causes if they be lean from a feaver or other disease it is easily known If these causes be not view the Nurses milkâ whether little or her breasts âlag without milk and that is the cause of leanness in the child if she have milk see if it be not hot and dry and cholerick And consider her constitution If the milk be blameless see if it be not from worms either in the Guts or in the skin the woâms in the skin are known by putting the child into a bath and rubbing it especially on the back with the hands and with Honey and Bread and then you shall see little ash coloured or black hairs come out of the skin If there be no outward nor inward cause you may mistrust a venemous vapor or witchcraft If it be for want of milk change the Nurse If it be from worms in the skin it is not hard to be cured if it be from an occult quality or from Witchcrafâ it is hard to be cured because we know not the nature of the malignity If the Nurse have any Disease or be contrary to the constitution of the child change her kill and cast out the worms If it be from worms in the back rub it and anoint it with Honey and Wheat bread and when their heads come forth kil them with a Razor or crust of breadâ do this often There are many superstitious things carried about against witchcraft some hang Amber and Coral about the childs neck nor is it impossible that plants and Gemms should have power against witchcraft As Briony root and Elks hoof are âood against the Epilepsie also there are Amulets against other diseasesâ âf leanness be from a dry distâmper of the whole body there is no better Remedy theâ often bathing in a decoction of Mallows Althaea Branckursine Sheeps heads and the like and anoint after with the oyl of sweet Almonds If he be hot and dry add to the bath Lettice Endive Violets Poppy heads and anoint after with oyl of Roses and Violets FINIS Several Physick Books of Nich. Culpeper Physitian and Astrologer and Abdiah Cole Doctor of Physick commonly called The Physitian 's Library containing all the Works in English of Riverius Sennertus Platerus Riolanus Bartholinus Viz. 1. A GOLDEN Practice of Physick after a new easie and plain Method of knowing foretelling preventing and curing all Diseases incident to the body of Man Ful of proper Observations and Remedies both of Ancient and Modern Physitians Being the fruit of one and thirây years Travel and fifty âears Practice of Physick By Dr. Plater Dr. Cole and Nich. Culpeper 2. Bartholinus Anatomy with very many larger Brass Figures than any other Anatomy in English 3. Sennertus thirteen Books of Natural Philosophy Oâ the Nature of all things in the world 4. Sennertus Practical Phyââck the first Book in three Parts 1. Of the Head 2. Of the Hurt of the internal âânses 3. Of the external Senses in five Sections 5. Sennertus Practical Physick the second Book in four Parts 1. Of the Jaâs and Moâth 2. Of the Breast 3. Of the Lungs 4. Of the Heart 6. Sennertus Third Book of Practical Physick in fourteen Parts treating 1. Of the Stomach and Gullet 2. Of the Guââ 3. Of the Mesentery Sweetbread and Omentum 4. Of the Splâeâ 5. Of the Side 6. Of the Sâurvey 7 and 8. Of the Liver 9 Of the Ureters 10. Of the Kidnies 11. and 12. Of the Bladder 13. and 14. Of the Privities and Generation in men 7. âânnârtââ âourth Book of Practical Physick in three Parts Parâ â Of the Diseases in the Privities of women The first Section Of Diseases of the Privie Part and the Neck of the Womb. The second Section Of the Diseases of the Womb. Part 2. Of the Sâmptoms in the Womb and ââom the Womb. The second Section Of the Symptoms in the Teâââânâ other Fluâes of the Woâââ The third Section Of tââ Symptoms that bâââl al Viâgins and Women in their Wombs after they are ripe of Age. The fourth Section Of the Symptoms which aâe in Conception The fiâââ Section Of the Governmeââ of Women with Child and preternatural Distempers in Women with Child The sixth Section Of Sympââââ that happen in Childbearâââ The seventh Section Of the Government of Women iâ Child-bed and of the Diseases that come after Trâvâl The first