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A02362	Child-birth or, The happy deliuerie of vvomen VVherein is set downe the gouernment of women. In the time of their breeding childe: of their trauaile, both naturall, and contrary to nature: and of their lying in. Together with the diseases, which happen to women in those times, and the meanes to helpe them. To which is added, a treatise of the diseases of infants, and young children: with the cure of them. Written in French by Iames Guillimeau the French Kings chirurgion.; De l'hereux accouchement des femmes. English	Guillemeau, Jacques, 1550?-1613.; Guillemeau, Jacques, 1550?-1613. De la nourriture et gouvernement des enfants.	1612 (1612)	STC 12496; ESTC S103545	201,032	403

actuall Cauterie If you perceiue that these Epilepticall convulsions doe proceed from the Wormes in the childs guts then you may giue him this Clyster A Clyster ℞ Hidromel simpl ℥ iiij Butir recent ℥ j. Aloes pulu ʒ ss fiat Clyster Some giue this Powder A powder for the Wormes ℞ Pul. Lumbricor terrest in vino albo lotorum extinct ʒ ij Sacchar ℥ j. misce Capiat singulis diebus ʒ ij per se velcum aqua vel succo Portulacae You may giue a child that is somewhat big as of eight or ten moneths old a dredge powder made of Worme seed or of Rubarbe Besides there be many other medicines which I haue already set downe in their proper place as Emplasters Sirups and Purgations for this disease to which place I refer you If these convulsions come of some ill and maligne vapour the child may take some Bezoards stone and Vnicornes horne three or foure graines at a time of them both or either of them with a little Purcelane water or else you may mingle fiue or sixe graines of Triacle or Mithridat with the said water and so giue it him Let the Nurse vse to take some of this Opiate verie often which the child also may do when he is growne somewhat big An Opiato ℞ Rad. Poeniae subtil pul ℥ ss Theriac veter ʒ ij Cons Rosar Borag Buglos an ʒ vj. syrup conseruat Citri q. s fiat Opiata de qua Nutrix capiat singulis diebus ʒ j. mane Infans ℈ ss cum aqua Cardui Benedicti As for Vomiting Scouring or being bound in the bodie which accidents happens to little children I refer you to that which I haue set downe heretofore for the Mother onely diminishing the quantitie because I would auoid often repetition Of Watchings wherewith young Children are troubled CHAP. XXV ANd not without good cause doth Hippocrates say that too much watching in a child is a disease because sleep is naturally proper to a child And when it fals out that he cannot sleep there must needs be somewhat that troubles and offends him A child may be hindred from sleeping by lying in a chamber that is either too light too hote or full of smoake or else because the clothes lie too heauie on him or because of much noise or paine as it happens to them when they breed Teeth as likewise by hauing a pin that prickes them or else because they are not cleane Besides the child may be hindred from sleeping through the ouermuch quantitie of milke that he hath sucked as also though it be taken in small quantitie if it chance to corrupt because as Auicen saith by meanes of this putrifaction there is commonly bred wind and vapours in the braine The signes hereof are euident enough as when the child crieth continually and cannot be still'd or quieted at all by the teat Then as Gordonius saith their ey-browes seeme swolne and sometimes their countenance becomes verie wan and pale which comes so to passe as Auicen saith through the dissipation of the spirits and because the braine is fill'd full of vapours and exhalations Concerning the Cure we must take away the cause that nourisheth this watching if it be by lying in a place that is too light and open to the aire then must the windowes be shut making it darker if the chamber where he lyeth be too hote or if the child haue too many clothes on him then must he be laid cooler and haue fewer clothes and be without any noise If breeding of Teeth be the cause then shall it be help'd as hath been already said Besides the child shall be vnswath'd and laid in cleane clouts and then the Nurse shall looke whether there be any pin or fold of his clothes or any other thing that hurts him She must neither giue him sucke so often nor in so great quantitie and to helpe to void the corruption that may be in his stomacke it will be good to giue the child some little Clyster or gentle purgation Likewise the Nurse must rocke and sing to him and if you find that he cannot take any rest by all these meanes then may you giue him a little Barley water or Barley creame with a few white Poppie seeds in it or else you may let him take a spoonfull of Syrup of Violets and Diacodium mingled together But you must abstaine by all meanes from giuing him any Narcoticall or stupifying medicines according to the opinion of all Practicioners Rhasis bids vs annoint the inside of the childs nose with Oile of Violets and iuice of Lettuce putting thereto also a little iuice of Henbane and yet he goes farther for he addeth some Opium to it But herein we must be verie warie and circumspect and rather forbeare the vse of it Of the affrightings startings and raging which happens to young Children CHAP. XXVI ALl children are naturally very greedy and gluttenous and therefore many times and especially when they grow somwhat big and are wained they doe fill them selues with much milke or with store of diuers other victuals Beside they are subiect to breed wormes which dying abide still in their guts by reason of which there grows much corruption both in the stomack and guts and also in the mesenterie and this corruption growing hot by the heat and moisture of the child it sends vp vapors to the brain from the aforesaid parts which mingling themselues with the spirits which are there placed doe cause dreames frights and startings in the sleepe and as Auicen witnesseth makes children afraide of things which are not at all to be feared Galen teacheth vs that this feare happens then when the stomacke of the child is weake and the meate which he taketh corrupts in it which causeth vapors and fumes to rise to the head and so bring these terrors This may also happen to those which are more in yeares by the vse of bad meates especially if the mouth of the stomacke be weake and feeble And therefore Auicen saith that bad concoction makes bad dreames As for the signes that belong heere-unto there can none be obserued in children that can not speak but onely as Pliny saith that as soone as they bee awake they wil screech and cry out as if they were out of their wits and vtterlye cast away and commonly you shall finde them all of a water and quaking euery part of them And if you aske them why they cry they which can speake will say that they were made afraide and that they saw some thing in their sleepe Moreouer they that are thus frighted are much giuen to vomiting they are pale of countenance and somtimes very red and also they doe hide their faces and if anyone come neare them they cry out and are afraid of him Thus may we easily obserue that such dreames and frights happen not to young children but when they bee ill at ease and full of bad humors And this is witnessed

the heart and matrice are delighted with pleasant odors let those that are troubled with this disease vse good smels sweet but neither strong nor piercing CHAP. XIIII Of the Cough ONe of the most grieuous and almost insupportable accidents that can happen to a woman with childe is the Cough the which being violent oftentimes causeth head-ach pain of the sides flanks and belly vomiting watching the woman not being able to sleepe or take any rest for the great concussion and agitation which is made through the whole body which oftentimes puts the woman in danger to be deliuered before her ordinary time For the most part it proceedeth of some sharpe and biting vapours which arise from the nether parts or else by the distillation of some thinne humor that comes from the braine and falleth trickling vpon the Trachea Arteria or wind pipe the lungs which prouokes them to cough yet bringing vp little or nothing the distilation may also be of some thicker humor which falleth downe vpon the said parts Therefore wee must haue respect to the antecedent cause by hindering such vapors and humors from breeding then staying those which may flow or fal downe if there be any cause or matter ioined with it already fallen and impacted in the lungs brest then must it be brought vp by spetting For the helping hereof they must auoide all salt and spiced meates as also those that are sharp and biting especially if it be caused by some vapours or destillation of a thinne or serous humour Concerning generall medicines if it bee accompanied with a feuer or some great heat it will not be amisse to draw a little bloud then the better to turne the course of the distillation which causeth the cough to apply cupping glasses vpon the shoulders with some light scarification And if the cough should bee of so long continuance I would counsell you to lay a cautery in the hollownesse of the nape of the neck which I haue practised with good successe but it must not be done before you haue tried the medicines following and when the cough is great and violent The rubbing of the armes shoulders and backe must not bee omitted as also when the haire is shauen away to apply Emplasterum de Betonica vpon the head to stay the Rhume If the cough be dry proceeding from some thin and sharpe humor or vapour it must bee thickned contrariwise if the humour be tough and thicke it must be cut and attenuated by concocting both and therefore in this case the vse of Medicines that do dull the sence therof are very profitable to mittigate violent Coughs of which kind are these that follow If the humor bee thin and sharpe this Iulep taken twice or thrice is very fitte â„ž Syrup rosarum sicar de iuiubis an Ê’ vi syrupi de nenuph. â„¥ s. aquae cardui vngulae cabalinae an â„¥ ij s. fiat Iulap reiteretur ter quater-ue vt artis est If the humor be slimy thicke and tough she may vse this Iulep Iulep â„ž Syrupi capill veneris de liquirit an Ê’ vi oximelit simplic â„¥ s. aquae betonicae vngul cabal an â„¥ ij s. fiat Iulap reiteretur vt supra Let them often hold in their mouth suger candy especially that which gathers about the pot side wherein sirop of Violets or the like hath beene put Let them vse Trochiscks iuice of Licorise and sometime chawe a peece of Lichorise in their mouth The Lozenges of Diatragacanthum frigidum Diairis simplex and suger of Roses are very good The vse of Lohocs is very distastfull but in steed thereof let them vse Syrup of Iuiubes of dryed Roses and a little diacodium mingled together I haue seene this medicine doe much good especially when the cough is great and that they feele some excoriation and roughnes in the throat â„ž olei amigd dul sine igne recent extract â„¥ i. s. saccari canda subtilit pulueris â„¥ s. mucag. seminis psilij cydoniorum cum aqua rosar leuiter extract an Ê’ ij misce omnia diligenter Let them take of this medicine in a spoone swallowing it down verie gently that so some of it may the better slide downe the sides of the windpipe It will be very fit to rub their breast all ouer with fresh butter or oyle of sweet Almonds and if they finde any heat let them vse oyle of Violets washed with Barley water well boyled And because there is nothing that stayeth destillations better then sleepe and that those who haue the cough sleepe little it will be very good to make the patient sleepe without giuing any violent sleeping medicine this Iulep may bee giuen very safely Drink to stay the Rheume â„ž Syrupi de Iuiubis violati diacodij sine specieb an â„¥ s. cum decocto portulacae lactucae boraginis betonicae trium flor cordial fiat potus capiat hora somni This remedy procureth sleepe and so by consequence stayeth the Rheume If you haue any good Laudanum you may giue safely three or four grains thereof which I haue seene practised with prosperous successe CHAP. XV. of Costiuenes wherwith women with child are troubled AMongst many other accidents wherewith women with child are troubled there are two the one contrary to the other whereunto they be much subiect that is either they are bound and cannot go to the stoole but with much inconuenience and very seldome or else they are alwaies loose and subiect to the fluxe Both may put the woman in danger of miscarrying For when she is bound with much strayning and that violently to vnburthen nature the ligaments may bee loosened or some veine opened and cause fluxe of bloud which may make her fall into trauaile and therefore it is fit to prouide for it The retention of the excrements and costiuenes of the belly may happen either because they haue vsed to be so naturally or by alteration and change of yeares for as Hippocrates saith they who haue their belly moist in their youth in their age will haue it hard and drie and so contrariwise This accident happens to others because the guts are not prouoked stirred vp by the clister of nature which is the gall that they may expell and thrust foorth their excrements There might bee alledged many more reasons which at this time I will leaue to speake of and onely frame my selfe to that which most commonly is the cause of it in women with child which is referred to two points either because the guts are pressed by the vneuennes of the wombe which is too full and beeing placed vpon them and chiefly vpon the great gut crushes and thrusts them one against another in such sort that they haue no meanes to inlarge and dilate themselues thereby to uoid the excrements contained within them The other is because the guts and the excrements within them are commonly very hard and

by resolution as Master Pietrae I my selfe saw a Chirurgion who was very confident and did assure himselfe to make it resolue only with new waxe spread and laid vpon it But in the end we were constrained to launce the humor and in few daies it was perfectly healed vnder my hands Of the greatnesse and swelling of the head which happens to little Children CHAP. XIII IT chaunceth oftentimes that the childs head after he is born is bigger then naturally it ought to bee an accident which is very dangerous and hard to be cured whereof there bee three kinds The first is called of the Greekes Macrocephalos which is when the head is bigger then naturally it should be and yet this comes naturally as when the bones of the head bee large and of great compasse containing great store of brayne and proportioned to the compasse and circuit of them there being neither winde nor waters nor any other humors that are the cause thereof Nature hauing thus proportioned it and it is so heauy and vnwildy that the child cannot hold it vpright his necke beeing constrained to bow vnder it with the very waight so that it had neede to bee prop't vp with some thing or other Now there is contrary to this another which is called Microcephalos that is a little head such a one had Thersites the Grecian and one Triboulet who was a French man Both these accidents are very hard to bee cured yea almost impossible The second kind is called Hydrocephalos which is when the head becomes big by reason of some waters therein contained Of the which there are diuers sorts for either the waters are contained betweene the skin and the Pericraneum or betwixt the Pericraneum and the bone or betweene the bone and the membranes called Dura mater and Pia mater Some of them are particular and possesse but onely one part of the head others are generall and affect it wholy Some of them haue their spring and beginning euen from the Mothers wombe which hapneth when the Mother while shee was with childe through an ill Diet gathered store of crudities and raw humours whereof there is bred a watrish and flegmatike bloud with the which the child being fed and not being able to digest or consume it much lesse to euacuate and void it by the passages appointed by nature the watrish matter gathers it selfe together in the head It may also proceed from the child being not well purg'd of the superfluities which are gathered in his braine and diffused ouer all the head or part thereof whereunto we may adde the ill nourishment which the child receiueth from his Nurse whose milke is either serous and watrish or ouer-heated which causeth diuers vapours to ascend vp into the braine which are there conuerted into watrish humors The third kind is called Phisocephalos when there chanceth to be a wind which runneth betweene the skin of the head and the bone and also betweene the skull and dura mater which causeth the head to be so swolne and puft vp as Auicen saith that there haue been diuers children which haue dyed of it the bones of the head being verie much thrust outward which is verie painfull And certainly there is nothing that causeth greater distention or more paine then when there is some wind inclosed in what part soeuer it be of the bodie The watrie swelling hath almost the like causes by reason of some watrish matter that is bred in the braine which through the weaknesse of the naturall heat cannot well be dispersed and so it is turned into wind or else through some vapours which arise from the neather parts which do also distend and stretch out the parts of the head They are all of them different one from another for the Macrocephalos or great headed yeelds not any impression when it is crush'd because it is the bones which make it so big and swolne but in the watrish swelling the finger enters easily and leaues an impression as an O Edema doth But if you presse the windy swelling it leaues no marke or print but presently it riseth vp againe like a foot-ball Now to know whether the water be contained betwixt the bones of the head and the membranes of the braine it may easilie be discerned by the paine and by the accidents as if there happen any Vertigo or Epilepsy to the child and that he sleep little or not at all as also his continuall crying doth witnesse it The Cure of the windie swelling shall be performed by appointing the Nurse to keep a good Diet vsing meates that shall neither breed wind nor crudities Concerning outward medicines it is good to vse Fomentations for such kind of medicines surely may do him verie much good if the wind be contain'd between the skin and the Pericraneum or betwixt the Pericraneum and the skull But if the said wind be inclosed betweene the skull and dura mater it will be a verie difficult disease to be cured except the wind be but in small quantitie The Fomentation is this A Fomentation ℞ Fol. Salu. Betonic Agrimon Calaminth Origan an m. j. sem Anis Foenicul an ʒ ij flor Chamoemel Melilot Rosar rubr an m. j. Coquantur in aqua communi addendo Vini parum fiat fotus And with this Fomentation warme you shall bath all his head with fine spunges and then applie this Plaster afterwards An Emplaster ℞ Ol. Aneth Amygdal amar an ℥ j. Ol. Chamaemel ℥ j. ss Baccar Lauri Iuniper an ʒ ij sem Anis Foenicul an ʒ j. ss Vini alb lib. j. Bulliant omnia simul ad vini consumpt passaturae adde Terebinth Venet. ℥ ss Ceraeq s. vt inde fiat Emplastrum extendatur portio admoueatur capiti As for the watrish swelling according to the quantitie and qualitie of the humour that makes it and the place where in the said humour is contained it will be either easie or hard to be cured for if the humour be thin and in small quantitie and that it be contained betweene the skin and the Pericraneum or else betweene the Pericraneum and the skull or betweene the membranes of the skull then Auicen makes a doubt whether it can be cured But if it be curable the best way will be to vse the Fomentations and Plasters following which haue power to digest and drie vp the said watrishnesse A Fomentation ℞ Fol. Absinth Puleg Serpil Betonic an m. j. Rosar rub flor Stoechad an pug j. Nucum cupress Balaustior Irid. florent an ʒ ij Coquantur perfectè in lixiuio ciner sarment caulium fiat fotus cumspongia After the Fomentation shall be applied this emplaster An Emplaster ℞ Pul. Betonic Salui Absinth an ʒ ij Ol. Chamaem Rosar an ℥ ij vng comitiss ℥ j. Cerae q. s. fiat emplastrum You must likewise applie the Magistrall emplaster de Bettonica Some take Snayles shels and all and beat them putting vnto them a little powder of