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A88902	De morbis fœmineis, the womans counsellour: or, The feminine physitian. Modestly treating of such occult accidents, and secret diseases, as are incident to that sex, which their too much modesty, too often to their sorrow, causes them to conceal from others, for a remedy whereof, they are here taught to be their own helpers; especially in these particulars: of barrenness and abortion: of natural, and unnatural births: of the suppression of the termes, the immoderate flux thereof, and other infirmities. Dicereque puduit, scribere jussit. With a brief appendix, touching the kindes, causes, and cures of dropsies, and tympanies of all sorts. / Translated out of Massarius de morbis mulier. By R.T. philomathēs.; Praelectiones de morbis mulierum. English	Massaria, Alessandro, 1510-1598.; Turner, Robert, fl. 1654-1665.	1657 (1657)	Wing M1028; Thomason E1650_3; ESTC R209118	65,102	229

breast Take Crums of white bread Barley meal Mustard-seeds Fennel and Holly hocks rosted under the ashes of each a like quantity pound them all well together and make a Plaister thereof with oyl of Camomile and apply it warm to the breasts For hardness and inflammation in the breasts through congealed milk A Pultis Take flowers of Mallowes Violets Celendine Daisies Cinquefoil of each 1 handful boyl them together in two quarts of water till it come to a pint then strain it and mingle it with Wheaten meal to the thickness of pap then put to it Hens grease or Hogs Lard and boyl it again to a Pultis spread it on a Cloth about the thickness of a finger and lay it morning and evening upon an inflamed sore breast Another for the same Take Bean meale Mints in Powder each 3 quarters of an ounce prepared Coriander Pease meal of each 1 dram Roses half a dram fresh butter 2 ounces Muscilage of Linseed one ounce Muscilage of Fenegreek 3 quarters of an ounce Sheeps Suet Ducks grease of each 1 ounce oyl of Turpentine half an ounce Saffron three grains temper them all together to a salve or oyntment and lay it upon the breasts For Tumors or swelling of the breast Take Purslain Plantain of each one handful Camomile Melilot of each one ounce Barley meal 4 ounces stamp the Herbs in a morter to a pap and then incorporate therewith oyl of Violets and Roses enough to make it a salve and lay it on the sore brests Another Medicine for swelling in the breasts much profitable and easie to be had Take a good quantity of Peach leaves and Rue and stamp them small and boyl them in water to a Pultis and lay it on the grieved place this will ripen the Imposthume and ease the pain A Plaister for the same Take Plantain Mallowes of each one handful Housleek 6 handfuls boyl them together till they come to be like grout then strain it and adde thereunto Oyl of Roses 3 ounces Camomile Melilot both beaten of each an ounce Barley meal 4 ounces Bdellium 1 quarter of an ounce dissolve the Bdellium in Vineger and then boyl them all together to the thickness of a Plaister and spread it on a Cloth and apply it to the grieved place For Impostumations in the breast Impostumations do breed oftentimes likewise in the breasts through the congealing of the milk and ill humours setling and putrifying there bringing with them the Canker Gangrene and such like griefs to the great anguish and misery of the Patient if not to death by reason of the tenderness of the place And many times it happens by reason of an obstruction of their termes which turns our cause of the superfluous blood thither And therefore if when there happens any swelling or anguish in the breasts in this case if the termes be stopt use all means possible to provoke them speedily if you mean to abate the swelling and pain and if the swelling increase then the Liver vein must be opened or the median And afterwards take oyl of Roses and Vineger and seeth a little Camomile therein and then dip a Cloth in it and lay it on the breasts four times a day refreshing it If the Impostumation in the breasts be caused of superfluity of blood the sign to know it is it causeth great pain in the breast redness and much beating If it proceed from Choler then is the pain more raging and the brest redder and yellowish with greater Agues and the Inflammation is hotter then that which proceeds of blood If Flegme be the ingendring cause thereof then the Tumor is but small the breast white the pain moderate and no Ague with it An excellent Plaister to consume and cleanse all swellings of the breasts and also of other members Take clarified Honey 6 ounces Barley meal 3 ounces and a half two yolks of Eggs Mirrhe Sarcocolla of each half a dram Honey of Roses 4. ounces oyl of Roses 3. ounces powder that which is to be powdered and boyl the Honey and the meal together till it be thick and then stir the yolks of Eggs amongst it and the other things and so make a Plaister of it and apply it to the grieved place When the Tumor or swelling comes to maturity and breaks then cleanse it with this Salve Take Honey the juyce of Smallage yolks of Eggs and Turpentine of each a sufficient quantity and make a Salve thereof and so apply it Or else use this Salve following with a tent of Lint Take Wheat-meal 3 quarters of an ounce clarified Honey and juyce of Smallage of each an ounce mix them all into a Salve and use them as hath been directed this is good to be used with a tent to cleanse any sore Fistula or Carbuncle But if in case the Tumor as many times it unhappily doth grow to a Canker or Fistula then must orher means be used to prevent the eating or spreading thereof the Patient must be purged of melancholy humours and avoid such things as ingender Choler and melancholy and to seek to prevent the increase of the same for which this drink following is very effectual Take Time 1 quarter of an ounce Polipody Sene each 1 dram Violets Seeds of Gourds Cucumbers Pompeons each 1 dram and a half Cynamon Rapeseed of each 1 scruple Hops 1 ounce boyl them all together in 8. ounces of water till half be consumed then strain it and take one ounce of this decoction in 3 ounces of whay of Goats milk and fast 6 houres after it Then use outwardly this Plaister following Take Fenegreek Barley meal of each two Ounces Mallows 3. handfuls Housleek 8 handfuls Oyl of Roses 6 ounces bray the Oyl of Roses in a Leaden Morter with a Leaden Pestle and seeth the Herbs in wh●y till they be so tender you may beat them to a pap and mix the other things amongst them and boyl it again in 6 ounces of Nightshade-water till it be consumed and so make a Plaister of it and first annoint the sore with Oyl of Roses and then lay the Plaister thereupon If the Canker corrode and spread abroad then take Barley meal 4 ounces Oyl of Violets oyl of Roses each three ounces Tutty prepared 2. ounces Blood-stone 1 ounce Bray the oyl of Roses with 4 whites of Eggs a good while in a Leaden Morter and likewise beat the Blood-stone in water of Lillies then temper them all together and dip small tents in it and lay them all on the sore Then take one ounce and a half of oyl of Roses prepared in a Leaden Morter as before and two ounces of the juyce of Nightshade 1. ounce of starch and an ounce and an half of Bolus mix and temper them all together in a Leaden Morter and therewith often annoint the breasts round about the Canker or Fistula A Plaister for the Fistula Take Mummey Bolus juyce of steel Frankincense Hipocistis Mastick of each 3 drams Acorn Cups Cipers Nuts Galls Isinglasse

naturally flies from stinking smells therefore as in the ascention or rising of the Mother you are to use stinking things to the nose and sweet to the Womb so contrariwise in the falling down or discention of the Mother you are to apply sweet perfumes to the Nose and stinking to the Matrix to the end the same may thereby be drawn up again into its due place For this Disease it is good to hold to the Nose Assa foetida galbanum old Woollen Clouts or Shooes burnt Hair or Feathers or such stinking things that may be gotten speedily And apply sweet odoriferous things to the Matrix beneath for which purpose this Powder following is very good A Powder to be used in the nature of a Pessary against the suffocation of the Matrix or fits of the Mother Take red Storax Lignum Aloes Cloves of each a dram Musk Amber of each half a dram Make them altogether into a Powder and then bind it up in a Cloth in the form of a Pessary and put it up into the Matrix Another for the same Take an Ounce of Oyl of Lillies Musk Saffron of each 3 grains bruise all well together and make a Pessary thereof with Wooll or Cotton and put it up into the place A Fumigation for this Disease Take Gallia Moscata Cassia wood Cynamon Time of each a like quantity mix these together and make a perfume thereof and let the smoke be received up into the Matrix through a tumel for that purpose If the Patient be a Maid a Husband is the best Medicine if she can get one but in case that cannot be then let her abstain from strong Wines and flesh meat and all such things as increase natural sperme And use letting blood such meats and drinks as are cooling and amongst the rest this Confection following is very good A Confection against the fits of the Mother Take Polipody Roots 6 Ounces Sene Violets Prunes Sebastins Dates Currans of each an Ounce and a half seeth these altogether in two quarts of water till half be consumed away then strain it out hard and infuse in the decoction while it is hot 6. Ounces of the Seeds of Fleawort till the Muscilage be drawn out of them then put to this decoction 24 Ounces of fine Sugar and take thereof once in 2 or 3 dayes and fast after it 6 hours Take silver Mountain Madder Penyroyal the innermost rinds of Cassia Pipes Pomegranat Kernels Piony Roots Calamy of each 3 drams Mulcus and Spica Indie of each half a dram make all these together into Pills with the juyce of Mugwort of these she may take a dram every day before Supper if she take not the Confection the same day It is also good for this Disease to open the Saphea vein in the foot and afterwards give the Patient a dtam of the Powder of Betony in Featherfew-water It is also good to anoint the Belly with the Oyl of Mastick and so much for this affliction of the suffocation or ascention of the Matrix we come next to speak of the discention or falling down of the same Chap. VII Of the falling down of the Womb. This is another great evil wherewith many poor Women labour and is of no small consequence and danger for as in some cases and for some causes the Matrix in some Women is drawn up and ascendeth out of its due place so on the contrary it sometimes descends downwards out of the Body This accident is caused sometimes by hard labour and heavy births falls bruises too much astringency in the body taking great cold violent sneesing overmuch stirring and the like It may likewise be caused by reason of ill humours predominant in the Body which fall down to the Womb forcing it out of its natural place and many times brings with it the Palsie and Falling Sickness as also Ulcers and Imposthumes in the Womb. If this Disease happen by means of any outward accident the Patient her self can best discover the cause thereof If it come from some inward cause then respect is to be had to the Constitution of the party whether she be lean or fat moystor dry and to the Symptomes the disease which causeth pain in the lower part of the Back-bone and also about the secret parts sometimes an Ague with it the Urine staies and the Body is astringent If the passage of the neck of the Womb bee smooth and open then it is not moved downwards but if it be stopped then be sure it is descended although it appear not out of the Body and if it do continue displaced any long time it will be very difficult if not impossible to reduce the same to its natural place again Now to seek Remedies for this Disease you must instead of applying sweet things to the Matrix as you were directted in the ascension of the Matrix or the fits of the Mother to draw it down you must now apply stinking things to the Matrix and sweet smells to the Nose to draw it up againe A Fume for the falling down of the womb Take Tormentil Bistort juyce of Sloes of each 3 drams Pomgranate pills the blossoms thereof of each a quarter of an ounce Assa foetida an ounce Mastick Frankincense Galbanum of each 2 drams and a half Cypress Nuts Galls Mirtle seed of each five drams stamp mix all these together strew thereof upon a red hot brick let the patient receive the fume thereof beneath Let it not come at her Nose but in the mean time let her smell to Musk Amber Violets and such sweet smells which draw up the Mother and cause it to ascend again Another for the same Take a stinking rotten addle Egg that a Hen hath sat on and dip Cotton in it and lay it upon the neck of the Matrix it causeth it to ascend again A Fume for the same by a Decoction Take Camomile Marjoram Carraway of each one handful Linseed one handful and a half boyl these altogether in water and receive the Fume thereof into the Matrix The vapour of Housleek bruised and laid on a hot brick is good for the same if there be heat or inflammation in the Matrix A Fomentation for the same Take Roses three ounces Mirtle seed Violet leaves Marigolds Fetherfew of each one handful Assa feetida five drachms bruise them together and tie them up in a bag and seeth them in red Wine and lay it upon the place after the vapour is received An Oyntment for the falling down of the VVomb Take the Ointment of Hollyhocks which is called at the Apothecaries unguent de Althea mix therewith some marrow of an Ox or other beast the grease of a Hen or Capon and some oyl and herewith annoint the neck of the Matrix and all the parts about it when you go to bed you may also make a plaister hereof and apply it all night as before Another Ointment for the same Take oyl of Myrtles of Lillies of Mastick of each

taken quite away hindred or impedited or depraved as it happens in all other actions and motions of the body If Conception be quite taken away in a Woman so that she can never conceive this affection is called barrenness or this may be called a barren Woman which you please But if a Woman do conceive sometimes though rarely and seldom this is a weak and diminutive conception or the conceiving faculty is feeble and diminutive And to this kind of debility and weakness may be referred abortive and untimely Births when the Woman doth conceive but through weakness cannot bring the conception to the due time of the birth There is also a depraved conception when in the Womans Womb is contained some unnatural conception as Monsters Mola or superfluous unshapen flesh water wind or the like filling up the Womb and receiving the form of a conceived substance the causes and Remedies of these we shall proceed to declare The holy Scripture makes mention what reproach and how odious and detestable a thing barrenness was accounted in the antient times there was hardly any greater defamation to a woman so that Rachel could cry out to her Husband for Children or else her life lay on it rather then bear the reproach of barrenness and some Women have preferred their Maids to their Husbands so that the Child might be reputed theirs to take away their blemish of barrenness but you will find few Women of that mind now a dayes Therefore we come to speak of the causes of this grief which the Physitians do account many and divers Hippocrates accounteth the principal causes of barrenness to be these Hippoc. lib. de sterilitate if the mouth of the Womb be disterred and turned aside out of its place contrary from the pudenda if the mouth of the Womb appear too big or more wide then is convenient or if the mouth of the Womb be fallen down or hang out below the pudenda then is such a Woman unfit for conception these are therefore great causes of barrenness Many other are the causes of barrenness sometimes more sometimes lesse as Galen excellently teacheth The head and principal beginning of the invention Gal. 3. de Symp. Caus and finding out of all causes which bring hurt or are obnoxious to the faculties of the body is no other but the knowledge of the meanes whereby these faculties perform their actions in the time of health and soundness of body And whereas it hath been already declared that to produce any natural conception there is a necessity of conjunction and carnal copulation both of the man and woman therefore it ought first to be made manifest that the cause of barrenness may be through some defect in the man or in the woman and sometimes in both Although at this time our intent is only to treat of such Diseases as are incident to Women yet nevertheless since the Women have in this case a great interest and a dammage too if the fault be in the man because they may help their Husbands defect and in so doing pleasure themselves if they finde the imperfection to lie in him we shall not praetermit it And again since there is a necessity of the Copulation of man and woman or else there can be no generation and that they be both furnished with fit Instruments for that purpose as the man with the yard stones and seed the woman with Pudenda testes You may easily know what I mean the womb seed and menstruous blood Then all reason tells you that if there be any disaffection or defect in nature in any of these members or parts belonging to this work the fruitfulness and conception must necessarily be either impedited diminished or quite taken away Barrenness in men Few Women do complain of this fault One cause of barrenness on the mans part which is of all Authours condemned is penis longus or the overmuch length of the yard by reason whereof the seed is refrigerated and taketh cold in the passage of the yard before it can be injected from the stones into the womb But although this be a general received reason Avicen lib. 3. tract 1.8 amongst almost all Philosophers yet it may seem vain and suffer contradiction for the seed passing through the Conduit or channel of the yard is cherished and kept hot by the pudenda of the woman so that it seems impossible that it should take cold in the passage but rather the contrary that the long penis is most fit and commodious to further and perfect the Conception by injecting the seed into the inner parts of the womb which is done without any interval or space of time And also contradictive to this Opinion is the relation of Averroes which is credited by Aristotle and other good Philosophers That a certain Maid conceived with Child by standing in a Bath where some seed of man had been cast the Womb drawing the same into it by its natural magnetick attractive faculty which draweth and attracteth to it self the seed of man as the Loadstone draweth Iron But whereas many will have it that the too long yard is unfit for conception This is the worst fault in womens account so there are others on the contrary that affirm the short penis to render men unfruitful and that to be as bad if not a greater fault then the other And this is the more probable reason that the short penis may be more defective then the long one because it cannot so well inject the seed into the inner parts of the womb But to speak freely neither of these causes either of the length or shortness of the yard can be firm reasons of the barrenness or fruitfulness of man or to cause barrenness in the man since it is confirmed by experience of both parts that have had plenty of Children But a greater reason of barrenness in the man may be some vitiousness or defect in the yard as if the same be oblique or crooked if any of the ligaments thereof be distorred or broken whereby the wayes and passages through which the seed should flow be corrupt stopped or vitiated or some Disease or imperfection be either in the proper or in the vicious parts thereof Another cause of barrenness by the defect of the yard is too much weakness and tenderness thereof so that it is not strongly enough erected to inject the seed into the womb for the strength and stifness of the yard very much conduces to conception by reason of the forcible injection of the humane seed into the womb A second cause of barrenness of men may be some natural vice or laesion in the stones Gal. 14. usu part 1. de sem 11 16. if they are so made by nature that they cannot exercise their gift properly in producing seed The stones may be the cause of barrenness by reason of their evil composition or accidents and distempers or continual solution The stones may labour

De Morbis Foemineis THE Womans Counsellour OR The Feminine Physitian MODESTLY Treating of such occult accidents and secret Diseases as are incident to that Sex which their too much modesty too often to their sorrow causes them to conceal from others for a Remedy whereof they are here taught to be their own helpers especially in these particulars Of barrenness and Abortion of natural and unnatural Births of the suppression of the Termes the immoderate Flux thereof and other infirmities Dicere quae puduit Scribere jussit With a brief Appendix touching the Kindes Causes and Cures of Dropsies and Tympanies of all sorts Translated out of Massarius de morbis Mulier By R. T. φιλομαθης 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 London Printed for John Streater and are to be sold by the Booksellers in London 1657. To the Reader Courteous Reader I Am now to write to two Sexes both Masculine and Feminine This Treatise is composed useful for both Men and Women for men who are English Students in the excellent works of nature the knowledge of Physick who want some English subject of this nature there being nothing of it yet extant And this Authour comming to my hands almost worn out with the Canker of Time I have bestowed the pains to new dresse and revive with many additions there being no subject more useful To the Feminine Gender Women of all sorts be they Maids Wives or Widows what private and occult infirmities they are subject to are here described with their causes and Cures Those that are or intend to take on them the honourable practice of Midwives may be instructed in some difficulties that will happen in their Offices whereby they may be helpful to those they undertake I mean not the Theorical part of a Midwives Office and Duty what appertains to that they are sufficiently and excellently directed by that late deceased and yet living English Apollo Mr. Culpepper in his Midwives Directory and here followes the practical part directing what means is to be used in any accident there or that followes or precedes Child-birth I have bestowed the pains plainly to English the Receipt of every Medicine in words at length and not in figures that every one may understand them and thereby over modest Maids and VVomen may help themselves in many private infirmities which oftentimes they languist under and will not discover Then make use hereby as you have occasion and as you finde the Benefit give God the prayse who hath given power to his weak Creatures the Herbs of the Field to be your helpers and preservers which is the desire of R. T. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 A TABLE OF THE Contents of the Chapters OF Womens Diseases in general The Introduction Chap. 1. Of the Menstrue or Termes C. 2. Of the suppression or stopping of the Termes Chap. 3. Of the immoderate Flux of the Termes Chap. 4. Of the Flux of the Womb or the Whites Chap. 5. Of the Fits of the Mother or suffocation and drawing up of the Matrix Chap. 6. Of the falling down of the Womb. Chap. 7. Of natural Conceptions Chap. 8. Of Barrenness Chap. 9. Of monstrous and unnatural births C. 10. Of the unnatural fleshy Conception in the Womb called Mola Chap. 11. Of weakness of Children in the Womb. Chap. 12. Of Mischances and to prevent the same Chap. 13. To expel and drive forth a dead Child out of the womb Chap. 14. Of hard Labour find meanes to procure easie Delivery Chap. 15. Of superfluity of milk and other accidents happening after the Birth as sore breasts Chap. 16. Meanes and Remedies for Nurses that want milk Chap. 17. Of Dropsies and Tympanies an Appendix THE WOMANS COUNSELLOUR The Introduction Chap. I. Of Womens diseases in generall THis being a Subiect which too much modesty or indeed as it is simple folly of many of the female Sex hath hindred them from attaining to and others to fill their purses have and do still endeavour to conceale But the want thereof being much and the benefit great to save the health and sometimes the lives of many poor women whom God made as like himself as he did the greatest Queen in the world is the cause of bringing this so much necessary work to every ones capacity And to treate peculiarly of the Diseases and Infirmities incident to women which as they want a particular Treatise so they require a peculiar and proper Cure Hipp. I. de morbis mul. 331. as Hippocrates at large teacheth For the women do much differ from the men from their beginning and therefore do labour under and suffer many Diseases peculiar and proper only to that Sex which men can never surfer neither are they incident to them Wherefore Is it not requisite to call such infirmities womens diseases and for them to instittute not only a proper Treatise but a special Cure Neverthelesse it hath been and perhaps still is contended against by some learned and famous men who would account this Treatise needlesse and seem to averre that there is no such vast distinction to be used between the Male and Female but their Diseases having only respect to the Sex may be cured by one and the same general method And this indeed may be true in some common and generall Diseases usual to both sexes but in such infirmities as appertain only to the women and are not at all contingent to the men their falsity plainly appears And therefore Galen Hippocrates Dioscorides and many others have taken the pains to write whole Commentaries meerly upon the Diseases of women but yet their works are much incused by the corruption of time though full of much variety of speech gravity and excellency of Learning This Treatise of the Diseases of women is so occult intricate and difficult to perform that there is nothing to be found in all the Cabinets of nature or secrets of the medicinal Art more abstruse and difficult The causes of this are many as Hippocrates numbers them in his Book Hipp. de morbis mul. pag. 331. De morbis mul. pag. 131. The first cause is that women carry Diseases a long time about them and root it in them and yet are either voluntarily or foolishly ignorant thereof either they do not know or else are so superfluously modest as they will not discover the same until time and necessity too late to their pain teaches them to know them by experience And from hence it followes that their Cure is not onely difficult but oftentimes their Diseases are incurable The second cause Hippocrates numbreth to be this That a great many women that are troubled with some secret Disease and do well know the same yet are so shamefac't and modest as rather to suffer under the same than to communicate their minds to the Physician Whereas he that wears the shoo best knows where it wrings and amongst other Causes the information of the Patient discovers to the Physician the knowledge and so consequently the Cure of

the Disease may be the easier effected Now the Physician being destitute of that help by reason of the silence of the women the knowledge of the Disease is the more hard to find out and consequently the Cure more difficult This also may be added for a third cause the too much verecundity or timidity of the Physicians dealing too carelesly with the women being too shamefac'd or bashful to deal plainly with them and to inquire of them diligently and perfectly the causes of their infirmities and also absconditos locos suos attingere tractare which is necessary and needfully required Of which negligence Hippocrates doth much reprove and reprehend many Physicians who do not accurately and carefully study to search out and understand the true Causes of womens Diseases without the knowledge whereof their going about to Cure them is rash and indiscreet But to passe by these Causes which are of no small moment it will not be amiss to add another that the ignorance of Midwives not knowing the internal secret parts of nature nor how to exhibite in word or outward remedies may cause to the women difficult and hard labours From all which is consequently gathered that the Causes finding out the matter and knowledge of womens Diseases containeth in it many secrets and great difficulties But these difficulties carry with them and comprehend in themselves a recompence of jucundity and profit For what is more delightful to man than to understand so great secrets and mysteries of Nature And what can be more profitable to a Physician than to finde out and know the way and manner of curing and helping the infirmities and diseases of women For since that the infirmities which do most frequently afflict miserable women are very many most acute and grievous in so much that their complaints may be heard almost continually from the very Womb certainly Physicians in the study of their Cure shall not only gain great esteem and honour but much profit This therefore induceth me to render this Treatise plainly in the English tongue that the women themselves may be their own Physicians The first thing therefore here intended to be handled is of the Conception of man and therein the first thing to be noted is the distinction and difference of the Sexes of man and woman without which no Conception can be had nor the Course of nature maintained of which that it may be fully and perfectly understood by you we shall speak plainly I say therefore as the Philosophers teach that all things whatsoever that are have a twofold ens or being some ingenerative incorruptible eternal as Intelligences and Heaven others generative corruptible and momentary as these inferiour Elements and those things which consist of the Elements Although the Elements as to the whole are ingenerative and incorruptible neverthelesse according to the parts they are generated and corrupted and are subject to continual transmutation But the Cause thereof is the materia prima or first matter which alwaies desires new forms as the Phylosophers in their Physicks every where teach But to let passe all other circumstances Gal. 14. cap. 11. Galen tells you there was a man so studious in the secrets of Nature as to seek if it were possible to be immortal and bring immortality upon the Body But the materia prima or which if you will call it God himself knew this to be unlawful and this Galen sufficiently declareth Gal. 1 cap. 1. For that which consisteth of Arteries Veins Nerves Bones and Flesh is the compound of Nature and therefore is subject to corruption for the Frabricatum or building of Nature is a plain way yet impossible to bring a man to immortality his structures are subject to fall The greatest of Cities and the wisest of men be their Counsels never so great or their people never so many and their wisdom and their providence never so much time will bring them all to nothing Therefore the workes of Nature are wonderful as that as one dies another lives and instead of one another succeeds and by that Rule you may call nature to be immortal but this is no other but the continual Generation of mankind Gal. 6.7.14 3 De usu part so teacheth Philosophy and so the learned write There is no part of the Body but is necessary to be used and competent to the protection of life as the Brain the Heart the Liver the Eyes the Nose the Ears but if we should particularly instance the primum mobile of Nature we must then speak of the four principal parts which carry a distinction between the Male and the Female and are the preservers and continuers of mankind I 'le presume so much modesty as to give you these tearms in the old tongue Turner my meaning cannot be unknown 't was lawfull for Ovid to write what he would not speak and you may know my meaning the parts following which we must treat of are the maintainers and continues of the World before the confusion of Babel called pudenda testes utert You know my mind if you do not his in English such things as have the best sense of feeling Of this which we said before we intend only to discriminate the Sexes without which no Generation can be had in any Creature whatsoever without the perfect mixture of Male and Female And therefore Aristotle in all his works Arist. de gen c. 2 counted the Earth to be the Mother of all Creatures the Sun the Father and begetter of them so saith likewise Plato and all others that the Man and the Woman consist of two Elements of the Sun and Moon the Father and begetter to be the Fire or Sun the woman or conceiver to be the Earth or Moon of which the whole World is built and consists As the Macrocosmus or great world consists Turner and is properly supported by the Sun and Moon which are the male and female of the same great World so the Microcosmus Man by the woman which is the Moon of the man and the Earth of the Microcosmus and the field of his generation products the continual generation of mankind To speak of the differences of Sects and parts between man and woman would take up a Volume in Philosophy beyond our present intention which intends only the infirmities incident to the Moon of the man or that Creature which we call a woman Something may be said how the Sun and Moon of the Microcosme or the man and the woman differ in parts and nature Philosophy largely teacheth it but we say no more but only they differ in Faculty For the Man or the Sun of the Microcosme hath a power or faculty to ingender in another that is in the Moon but the woman hath also a faculty in power of generating or bringing forth in her self by the help of the Sun her husband without which mutual conjunction no Generation can be had I hope you have wit enough to know

The use of these Lotions and Baths is twofold First to wash and Bathe the Thighs and lower parts of the Woman with the water decocted and secondly for the woman to sit in a Bath up to her middle The second sort of external medecines are injections or medecines to be injected into the Womb and Pessaries or Suppositories to be put into the Womb and remain there a space Suppositories are made of medecines wrapt up in wooll or bombast or some such like thing and so put up into the Womb and there a great while to be detained But alwaies remember that you tie a string thereunto put about the Thigh that it may again be taken out when you please A Pessary for the Terms Take the leaves roots and juyce of Mercury and make thereof a Pessary and apply it alone it may also be mixed with other Medicaments Pessaries of odoriferous things and Aromaticks are very good An Aromatick Pessary to draw down the Flowers Take of Gum Ladanum the best two parts of Belzoine and Mirrh of each one part of Musk one part mix the Aromaticks with oyl of white Lillies a sufficient quantity to make it into a fit form and so put it up Pessaries more strong in operation are such as are made of Coloquintida Briony Scammony and the like an example whereof take following A Pessary to move the Terms Take of Ox gall the juyce of Briony of each one ounce Pulp of Goloquintida two drams of Mirrh one dram make this into a Pessary as before is directed and so apply it In the third place outward means to be used are fumes and suffumigations and they are best to be made of odoriferous Aromatick things whereof take this example A Fumigation to procure the Terms Take Belzoinum Storax Calamint Mirrh Bdellium of each a dram These you may have at the Apothecaries Gallia Muscata Mes half a dram Libethum half a scruple Storax liquid or oyl of Spike perfumed a sufficient quantity to make it into Pills or Trochis This is to be put on a moderate fire that the fume may ascend and the Woman is to be so comodiously placed that she may receive the fume up into the Matrix through a vessel or funnel fit for that purpose which is to be made broad at that end next the fire that it may receive all the smoke and with a narrow neck like a funnel to inject the fume into the Matrix But these Fumigations as Hippocrates teacheth Hipp. 5. Apho. 28. use to cause the Headach Therefore the Woman ought to be well covered fortified with clothes that the vapours may be kept from ascending to the Head In the fourth place amongst the external Medicines unguents and plaisters are to be used and applyed to the Abdomina or secret places Letting of blood is also to be used in the Foot or else where as need requires us An Oyl good to bring down the Flowers Take oyl of sweet Almonds two ounces of white Lillies one ounce Oyl of Anniseed two drams Mixe them and therewith anoint c. it is very effectual for infirmities in those parts A Plaister to apply to move the Terms Take of Penny-royal Calamint Ditanny Mugwort of each one handful Cinamon Cloves Mirth Balsom of each a dam meal of Pease a pound mixe them with White-wine upon the fire and make thereof a plaister and apply it to the pundenda An Ointment for the same Take Mussilage of Fleawort and Linseed of each an ounce Butter Unsalted two ounces Hens grease Ducks grease Goose grease Marrow of Calves bones of each half an ounce Ammoniacum a quarter of an ounce oyl of Sesanum oyl of sweet Almonds of each five drams Wax sufficient to make it into a salve With this Ointment anoint the Body behind and before from the Navel downwards but not before you have used all other inward means and outward of Bathing letting blood Fumes Pessaries c. A Plaister for the same Take Confectio benedicta half an ounce Turbith a quarter of an ounce Nigella seed three drams clarified Honey enough to make it into a Plaister This Plaister is to be applyed over the Privities as before is directed If you perceive the Courses begin to appear then take this drink following Take Mugwort Sene leaves and Penny-royal of each half a handful Cinamon half an ounce Mace three drams boil these altogether in three pints of good Wine until the fourth part be wasted boil it in a pot stopt close in boiling water otherwise called Balneo Mariae In the last place is to be used frictions or often rubbing of the Thighs and inferiour parts to draw the humour downwards Ligatures or binding the Thigh hard with a string Cupping glasses to be applyed to the Hips and Thighs and the inferiour parts both with scarification and without Let the sick party beware of all slimy meat and hard meat and from all salt cold binding things as are hard of digestion omit hatred sorrow and melancholinesse and alwaies in these cases begin with the mildest Medicines first of which you have sufficient before directed And thus far for the suppression or stopping of the Terms we proceed to the extraordinary Flux an evil also incident to Women and the remedies thereof Chap. IIII. Of the immoderate Flux of the Terms HAving hitherto fully declared the Symptomes Causes and Cure of that great Feminine infirmity the stopping or obstruction of the termes ' we provide now in order to treat of the immoderate Flux or overflowing of Womens courses which oftentimes brings to the party afflicted there with many other infirmities and great weakness and sickness pains in the back and stomack losse of appetite ill digestion and many other diseases as Dropsie Consumption and others This infirmity may and often times is caused by some fall blow thrust over-straining too much exercise over-heating the body and thereby making the blood thin and fluxible It is also caused by some unnatural and untimely birth breaking of a vein or some bruisings in the womb some vein there being broken or through some weakness in the retentive faculty and too much strength of the expulsive too much moysture and slipperiness in the Matrix Many suppose the immoderate Flux of the termes and the continual Issue of women to be one and the same disease but they are besides the Cussion for they are 2 several distinct diseases as Galen plainly teacheth for in the superfluous Flux of the termes blood only issueth as it useth to appear in the natural monthly purgations but only it flowes immoderately but in the issue or Flux of Women not only blood but various excrements sometimes watry and of another substance are evacuated The Termes or courses are said to flow immoderately after a twofold manner First when they flow excessively and beyond measure in a small time Secondly When this evacuation continues many dayes beyond its natural course and time And to this purpose writes Galen when he saith

lib. 3 de sym caus cap. 4. Menstrua alba profluvium uteri as Galen This Disease hath great affinity with the Gonorrhea or the involuntary issue of natural seed called the running of the Reins And this Flux also proceeds from two Causes either too much cold or unatural heat and the differences of this Issue are very many as may appear by the colour of the Excrements which flow or issue which are sometimes red sometimes pale sometimes yellow sometimes black sometimes white and sometimes green sometimes thick and sometimes watery from Species may be gathered the quality of the peccant humour as for example If the Flux be of a red colour it declares that the issue flowes from the blood and is thereby caused If it be pale or yellow it denotes black Choler is the cause thereof if white it proceeds from flegm if it be thin and watery superfluous humours do abound in the Body But above all things be sure to know whether this Flux be a Gonorrhea that is an involuntary issue of the natural Sperm which is the running of the Reins the self same Disease being also incident to men as well as women and proceedeth in both Sexes from one and the same cause and that women as well as men do labour under the same Symptom But is general among women to call this disease the Whites though it be a Gonorrhea or the running of the Reins under which infirmitie many do a long time labour to the great wasting and Consumption of their Bodies the principal cause thereof proceeding either from immoderate excessive or unlawful Venery It is generally agreed that the lawful and proper cause of the Whites is too much superfluity of Excrements but as touching the place and manner where and how these Excrements are ingendered Authors disagree Some say the cause is a daily begetting of corrupt humours in the principal parts Others that it proceeds only from the Womb and Spermatick Vessels Others that it flows only from the Reins the Womb being not at all afflicted thereby But Galen plainly demonstrates 6. de locis affect loc 5. that the whole Body is affected with this Issue although it purge through the Womb and evacuate it self from the Reins and that this Disease is most incident to flegmatick and weak women It remaineth before we come to speak of the method of the cure of this infirmity that diligence be used as we said before to find out whether it proceed from a Gonorrhea that is a Running of the Reins or Flux of humane seed or not the knowledge whereof must be rather conjectural then to be demonstrated from any certain sign other then the Patients own relation But the flowing of the Seed is more thick and floweth in lesse quantity and is not so corrupt and of a whiter colour On the contrary the other Excrements are more thin do flow more abundantly are more filthy and putrified and are not alwayes of the same colour But to proceed to the manner of the Cure of this Disease Respect in the first place is to be had to the purging and cleansing of the whole Body and if the Disease be a Gonorthea and proceed of heat unlawfully or however gotten the Body must first be purged with Medicines appropriate to the Reins before you attempt in any wise to stop the same for which this following is very good An Electuary to purge the Reins Take Cassia newly extracted one ounce Rheubarb in powder one dram mix them together with syrup of white water Lillies a sufficient quantity to make it into an Electuary put this into a penny pot of White-wine or a little posset drink which comes first to hand stir it well together till it be all dissolved in the drink and so take it in the morning fasting and go about your business if you have any thing to do about two hours after take some broth or posset drink This Medecine you may take twice or thrice as you see occasion resting alwaies a day between Afterwards you may take every other day a dram of Trochis de Carabe in Plantane water You may also give the Patient every second or third day a dram of the filings of Ivory in Plantane water it is very good Sweating is also much commended in this case which may be thus done Take Barley water three ounces strong Wine two ounces give it the Patient very warm and so let her sweat Afterwards prepare a Clyster in this manner A Clyster for the Whites through heat or running of the Reyns Take Beets Violet-leaves and Night-shade of each one handful seeth them well together and take 12 Ounces of the decoction or boyled liquor which you please to call it and to it add Sugar 1 Ounce and a half Yolks of Eggs Oyl of Water-Lillies Oyl of Roses of each 2 Ounces Salt a dram and a half give this Clyster in the afternoon a little before meat A Confection for the same Take Comfrey-roots 3 Ounces Pompeon-seed Water-Lillies of each a dram Juyce of Liquorice 2 scruples Coral prepared Bolus Mirtle-seed Roses of each 10 grains Gun Traganth half a dram Syrup the Comphrey Roots cleave and slice them small and seeth them in Red Wine until they be so tender that you may beat them to grout or pap then pill the Pompeon-seeds and beat them together with the other things to fine Powder then incorporate them with the pap or grout made of Camphrey-Roots and then put to them Sirrup of Citron Pills and of Orenges as much as you please and then boyl them together to a Confection And take every morning a spoonful thereof before break-fast Conserves of Roses and Marmalade are exceeding good for this purpose either to be taken alone or mixt together with prepared Bolus and take thereof a dram at a time An excellent Sirrup for the same Take the Seeds of Purslain Lettice and Water-Lillies of each an Ounce prepared Coriander Water Lilly-Roots Dandelion Night-shade of each half an Ounce Camphire half a dram Dates chopt small 2 Ounces Rue-Seeds Mountain Mints parched Gomin of each 1 dram Steep the Dates 8 dayes in Vinegar then seeth them together in 2 quarts of water till half be wasted strain it and put to it 12 Ounces of the juyce of Quinces Sugar 36 Ounces and boyl them all together to a Sirrup and so clarifie them Of this Sirrup take 2 Ounces with 3 Ounces of Plantain water or Purslain-water This is an excellent proved Sirrup for this purpose Drinks and Waters good for this Disease Take Comphrey Roots and boyl them in water and drink thereof 3. of 4. Ounces at a time with Sugar Also water wherein the filings of Steel have been steeped and then Myrtle-seeds boyled therein is very good to drink for the same Simple waters good for this infirmity are the waters of Plantain Sorrel Purslain and Cithorie The decoction of Mallows and the Roots of Hollyhockles is also very good to drink for this Disease An

under distempers either simple or compound either with or without matter As if the stones be oppressed with any inflammation or tumour wound or Ulcer or drawn up within the belly not appearing outwardly all such causes of the stones may be the reason of barrenness in the man Also the man may be barren by reason of the defect of the seed and that may come from a twofold cause The first If he ingender and cast forth no seed at all or in lesse substance then is needful And secondly If the seed generated and cast forth be vitious and unfit for generation The seed is hindred from generation in those bodies which are grosse and fat the matter of it being defective And on the other side too much leaness or a continual wasting or consumption of the body destroyes the seed nature turning all the matter and substance thereof into nutriment for the body The seed may also be corrupt and vitious by reason of many internal and external causes If the Instruments and Vessels of seed be intemperate or disaffected or in any wayes corrupted that they cannot attract the matter of the fruitful seed and so that they cannot concoct the attracted matter and retain the same so long until it can receive its whole and perfect absolution as for examples sake it frequently happens to those who have a long time laboured with the Gonorrhea or running of the Reins or if the principal parts of the body be so ill affected that they conceit ill nutriment that causeth vitious seed to be generated unfit for conception Likewise many outward causes may so alter and disaffect our bodies as that they may cause the seed to be vitious and unfruitful Too frequent carnal Copulation Gal. 1. de sem Cap. 16. is one great cause of barrenness of men which attracteth the seminal moisture from the stones before it is sufficiently prepared and concocted as all other members of the body by the institution of nature do use to draw their accustomed juyce to themselves So if any one by daily Copulation do exhaust and draw out all the moysture of his seed then do the stones draw the moyst humours from the superior veins unto themselves and so having but a little blood in them they are forced of necessity to cast it out raw and unconcocted and thus the stones be violently deprived of the moysture of their veins attract the same from the other superior veins and the superior veins from all the other parts of the body for their proper nutriment to the great violating of the body depriving the same of the vital spirits It is therefore no wonder if those that use immoderate Copulation are very weak in their bodies seeing the whole body is thereby deprived of its best purest blood of the vital spirits insomuch that many who have bin too much addicted to the pleasure have killed themselves in the act But chiefly It is no wonder if such seed not well concocted and digested be unfit for generation Gluttony and drunkenness do also much hinder men from fruitfulness and maketh them unfit for generation But amongst other causes of barrenness in men this also is one that maketh them barren and of the nature of Eunuchs the incision or cutting of their veins behinde their ears which for a Disease many times is done This saith Hippocrates causeth barrenness in them Gal. Lib. de genitur whose veins behinde their eares are cut to which Galen agrees for he saith that especially more then from any other parts of the body the seed flowes from the brain by those veins behinde the eares which also Aristotle confirms From whence it probably appears that the transmission of the seed is impedited by the Section of the Veins behinde the eares so that it cannot at all descend to the lower parts of the body or else very crude and raw And thus have we shown the causes of barrennesse in men Now we come to speak of barrennesse in women Although there are many causes of the barrenness of women yet the chief and principal are internal and they may be all referred to the privy parts of the Body the Seed or the menstruous blood Therefore Hippocrates speaking of the easy and difficult Conception of Women saith thus The first consideration is to be had of their Species for little Women are more apt to conceive then great slender then grosse white and fair then ruddy and high coloured black then pale and wan Those which have their Veins conspicuous are more apt then others but to be very fleshy is evil to have great swelling Breasts good The next thing to be considered is their Courses or monethly purgations whether they have them duty every Moneth if they flow plentifully and are of a good colour whether they have them equal every moneth at their certain daies and times for so their purgations ought to be Then the Womb or place of Conception is to be considered it ought to be clean and sound dry and soft the Womb not retracted nor drawn up nor prone or descended downwards and the mouth thereof ought not to be turned awry nor everst nor too close shut But to come to consider of these Causes more distinctly and particularly The first parts therefore to be spoken of are the pudenda that is the privie member and the Womb which parts are shut enclosed either by nature or against nature from hence such women are called inperforate For in some Women the mouth of their Womb continueth compressed closed up from the time of their Birth until the time of the ripeness of their Courses and then on a sudden when their Terms provoke forwards to purgation they are molested with great pain and sickness some break of their own accord others are dissected and opened by Physitians to some it brings death or else they are forced to break or never break at all And this Aetius distinctly handles who writeth that the Wombs of women are shut three manner of waies which hinders Conception The first is When the lips of the Pudenda do grow or cleave together Secondly Although the lips seem open yet there are certain Membrances growing in the middle part of the Matrix within The third Though the lips and bosome of the Pudenda may appear fair and open yet the Mouth of the Womb may be quite shut up all which three kinds of Closures are impediments to the Conceptions of women They do hinder in the first place the performance of three offices the use of man their purgations and their Conception In the second place they are two impediments the communication with men and Conception thereby And thirdly two other impediments to themselves Purgation and Conception there might also fall in by the way a discourse of the Hymen or that Membrane which is so called but that only serves for the testimony of true virginity to them that know it which lock the losse of a Maidenhead opens

but that seems a digression from this intention But amongst all causes of barrenness in a Woman in the instruments of generation it is certain that the greatest is in the Womb for the Wombe is the field of generation and if this field be corrupt and not well disposed it is in vain to expect any fruit let it be never so well tilled and sown for the Womb is subject to many diseases and thence it followes that it may be often unfit for generation distempers many are subject to it as over much heat and over much cold Women whose Wombs are too thick and cold cannot in any wise conceive because coldness extinguisheth the natural heat of the humane Seed Another cause of barrenness may be immoderate moisture of the Womb which destroys the Seed of the man as Corn sown in ponds and marshes A third cause of barrenness of the Woman is over much dryness of the Womb so that the humane Seed perisheth for want of nutriment and becomes as Corn sown upon stones or sandy ground A fourth cause of womens barrenness is the immoderate heat of the Womb which scorcheth up the Seed of man as Corn sown in the drought of Summer for immoderate heat hurts all the parts of the Body and no Conception can live or be nourished in that woman Many other may be the distempers which the Womb is subject to that may render it unfit for Conception and be the cause of barrenness as when unnatural humors are ingendred in the Womb too much flegm Tympanies worms wind water or any such peccant humour abounding contrary to nature But amongst all other causes which produce fertility or barrenness to a woman the monethly Terms are greatly to be respected as hinderers or furtherers thereof if they come not in due order it must necessarily cause barrennesse of that woman to follow but of them we have already spoken and given directions how to promote and further the same But having sufficiently spoken of the causes of barrenness in man and woman we shall methodically proceed for procreation sake to lay down such remedies as may naturally serve to prefer generation and hinder accidental barrenness in either But if in men the cause be and that in the shortness of the penis I cannot help that the women must in that case help themselves as well as they can of any too long there is seldom any complaint A woman may also have some other accidentall causes which may hinder her conception as sudden frights and anger fear grief and perturbations of the mind too violent exercise or stirring after Carnal copupulation leaping dancing running or the like If the cause of barrenness be in the man through over much hear in his Seed the woman may easily see that in receiving it If the nature of the woman be too hot and by that cause she is unfit for Copulation it may appear by these Signs Such a woman whose cause of barrenness is by reason of too much heat she hath her Terms or Flowers very little and they are mixt with some yellownesse such a woman is very hasty and Chollerick quick witted and crafty thirsty and desirous after Carnal Copulation her pulse very swift Some say that by these signes you may know where the fault lies whether in the man or the woman Sprinkle both Urines of the man and of the woman upon a Lettice leave and that which dries away first is unfruitful Also take five Wheat corns seven Barley corns and seven Beans put them all into an earthen pot and pisse thereon and let it stand seven daies if they begin to sprout the party is fruitful if they rot then barren be it man or woman Another way to know whether a woman be fruitful Take Mirth red Storax and some such like odoriferous things and make a perfume thereof which let the woman receive into the neck of the Womb through a tunnel if the woman feel the smoke ascend through her Body to her Nose then she is fruitful Another experiment for the same Take Garlick and beat it and let the woman lie on her Back upon it and if she feel the sent thereof to her Nose it s a sign of fruitfulnesse But I could tell you a more infallible rule for either the man or woman to find out where the fault lies but they are too apt to learn it without teaching therefore I passe it by If the barrenness be proceeding from a hot cause then take these directions Let such beware of hot air and hot dwellings if they can and that they use not too hot cloths about the sinews and parts of the Womb. Let them avoid hot meats I speak now to women hot Spices strong Wine fat meats warm hearbs use not over much watching lye not much on the Reins and Kidneys and as much as possibly may be eschew great labour anger heaviness and all such motions as disturb the mind and use moderately cooling things as thus To further Conception and take away barrenness proceeding of hot causes Take oftentimes Conserve of Roses cold Lozinges made of Dragagant the Confections of Triasantali and use to smell to Camphire Rose water and Saunders It is also good to breathe the Basilica or Liver Vein and take out four or five ounces of blood and then take this purge A Purge against Barrenness through heat Take Electuarium de Epithymo de succo rosarum of each two drams and a half whey of milk four ounces mix them well together and take it in the morning fasting sleep after it about an hour and an half and fast four hours after it and then drink a good draught of Whey about an hour before you eat any thing Another for the same Take water Lilly water four ounces Mandrogara water one ounce Sassron half a scruple beat the Safron to powder and mix it with the waters and drink them warm in the morning use this eight daies together Pills against Barrenness Take Broom flowers Smallage Parsley seed Comin Mugwort Fetherfew of each half a scruple Aloes half an ounce Indy Salt Saffron of each half a dram beat mix them all well together put to it five ounces of Fetherfew water warm stop it up close let it stand and dry in a warm place and thus do two or three times one after another Then make each dram into 6 Pills and take one of them every other day before supper all the while the said Potion is used and afterwards when the drink is done take one of these Pills every third or fourth day And after that Potion proceed with this purging Medecine following Take Conserve Benedicta lax one quarter of an ounce de Psillio three drams Elect. de Succo rosarum one dram mix them together with Fetherfew water and drink it in the morning betimes About three daies after the Patient hath taken this purge let her be let blood four or five ounces in the Median vein in the right foot And then

of an Asses hoof or of a Horses if you cannot get the other and make a fume thereof and let the woman sit over it Basilium is good for the same to be used in like manner and so is likewise the fume of Laudanum and Galbanum A Bath to expel a dead Child Take ten handfuls of Mints and boyl them well in a sufficient quantity of water and let the woman sit therein up to the middle Chap. XV. Of hard Labour and means to procure easie Delivery THat all women should bear children with pain and sorrow was a punishment inflicted on them by God for the disobedience of the first Mother for which cause they undergo more anguish and peril in bringing forth then any other Creatures Yet nevertheless there may be many causes and accidents which render the delivery more dangerous and difficult in some then in others for which our purpose is here to prescribe some remedies A most excellent Plaister to strengthen women with child to wear all the time they be with child Take oyl Olive two pound four ounces red Lead one pound Spanish Sope twelve ounces Incorporate them altogether in an earthen pot and when the Sope cometh upwards put it upon a small fire of coals and continue it an hour and a half stirring it with an Iron or stick then drop a drop of it upon a trencher if it cleave not it is enough spread it on cloths or lay it on a board till it cools then make it up into Rolls it will last twenty years the older the better and when you have occasion to use it for this purpose spread a Plaister of it and apply it to the Back● and when you have tryed it you will give me thanks for it It is likewise good for the bloody Flux Running of the Reins or any weakness in the Back for any bruise to draw out a Thorn out of the flesh and easeth Cornes and is good for a strain and for the Head-ach being applyed to the Temples But to proceed when the woman with child begins to draw near her time then let her use such meats and drinks as nourish well but use no excesse of either but especially let her take care to keep her Body soluble for which and also to prepare the Body for an easy delivery this Bath is very good to be used A Bath good for women with Child when they draw near their time to procure easie delivery Take Holly-hock roots and leaves two handfuls Mallows Betony of each one handful Mugwort Marjoram Mints Camomile of each half a handful Linseed two handfuls bruise the Linseed grosly and put that together with the hearbs into two bags and boyl them well in water enough to make a Bath for the woman to sit in up to the Navel when it is warm and let her sit upon one bag and hold the other upon her Navel And afterwards use to annoint the Belly Back and privities with this Salve following being warmed A preparative Salve to cause easy delivery in Child bearing women Take oyl of sweet Almonds of Lillies Violets of each-half an ounce Linseed Holly-hock roots Fenugreek Butter Hens grease of each one quarter of an ounce Quince kernels Dragagant of each an ounce stamp the seeds small and slice the roots and boyl them all together in rain water then take out the Muscilage and temper the same with the oyl then let the powned Dragagant and Hens grease boyl so long till the Muscilage be consumed then make thereof a Salve and annoint therewith as before is directed Another Ointment for the same Take oyl of sweet Almonds of Lillies of Violets each half an ounce Hens grease Ducks grease three drams mix them together with Wax as much as is needful to make a Salve and use it as the other With any of these Salves a woman is to be annointed about the parts before mentioned every day the space of five or six weeks before her time Now when the time of Labour is come then use any of these things which follow as the cause requires but above all things this powder following is most effectual An excellent Powder for women in travel with Child-bearing Take Dittany of Crete Penny-royall Aristolochia round each half a scruple Cinamon Saffron of each twelve grains Let them be all beaten into a fine powder and given in Wine or some convenient decoction as the decoction of red Pease of Penny-royal or of Parsley For outward Medecines there be many things used to be held to the privities as Egrimony with the roots to be held to the Matrix and immediately after the birth to be thrown away lest it draw down the Matrix also Henbane roots Polypody roots Bistorta are very good for the same Also take Polypody roots and Mallows of each a handful and a handful of Mugwort bruise them small and boyl them well and apply it moderately warm upon the Matrix and after the Delivery immediately take it away Some use to tie a Snakes skin about the Thigh but what vertue there is in that they know that have tryed it Bay-berries beat and applyed to the Navel are good to further the Birth but inwardly this Powder is commended Take Cinamon Mirrh of each half a dram make them into powder and give it with a little White-wine Another for the same Take Cinamon one dram Saffron half a dram Cassia wood Cassia pipes of each two scruples scrape off the uttermost black bark from the Cassia Pipes and make it all into fine powder and give it four or five times in the decoction of red Pease Pills for the same Take Mirrh Bever-cod red Storax of each half a scruple Cinamon Savin of each half a scruple make it into Pills with the decoction of red Pease and so give it Another for the same Take Mirth Costus red Storax of each half a dram Ammoniacum Savin of each half a dram beat them very small and give it in the decoction of red Pease use it three or four times If the throws be too weak or do not continue let all sweet savours as Musk or the like be kept from the woman in labour for that hinders throwes and holds back the Birth But to forward the Birth make this decoction Take Betony three handfulls Mugwort one handful Camomile Penny-royal Hysop of each one handful Linseeds two handfuls bruise the Linseed grossly and cut the hearbs small and put them all in a bag and boyl it well in Wine and water with this decoction foment the Matrix five or six times with a spunge and then annoint the place with the oyl of Wall-flowers even to the Neck of the Mother if it can be done with conveniency But if this help not then give her a good draught of this Potion following every two hours Take Mugwort Penny-royal Hysop of each half a handful Betony one handful boyl all these in a pint and a half of Renish Wine till the fourth part be consumed strain