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A11278	The sicke vvomans private looking-glasse wherein methodically are handled all uterine affects, or diseases arising from the wombe; enabling women to informe the physician about the cause of their griefe· By Iohn Sadler, Doctor in Physicke at Norwich.	Sadler, John, 1615-1674.; Droeshout, John, d. 1652, engraver.	1636 (1636)	STC 21544; ESTC S116338	43,151	302

and so put it up The aire must be temperate Grosse viscuous and salt meats are forbidden as Porke Bulls-beefe Fish old cheese c. CHAP. 10. Of the dropsie of the wombe THE uterine dropsie is an unnaturall swelling ellevated by the gathering together of winde or flegme in the cavity membranes or substance of the wombe by reason of the debility of the native heat not digesting the aliment received and so it turnes into an excrement Cause The causes are over much cold and moystnesse of the Milt and Liver immoderate drinking eating of crude meats all which causing a repletion doe suffocate the native heate It may bee caused likewise by the overoflowing of the courses or by any other immoderate evacuation To these may bee added abortion ulcers phlegmons and schirrosities of the wombe Signes The signes of this affect are these The lower parts of the belly with the genitals are puffed up and payned the feete swell the natu●all colour of the face decaies the appetite is depraved and the heavinesse of the whole body concurres If she turnes her selfe in the bed from one side to the other a noyse like the flowing of water is heard Water sometimes comes from the matrice If the swelling bee caused by winde the belly being hit with the hand sounds like a drum the guts rumble and the winde breakes thorough the necke of the wombe with a murmuring noyse This affect may be distinguisht from a true conception many waies as will appeare by comparing this chapter with the 14. It is distinguisht from the generall dropsie in that the lower parts of the belly are most sweld Againe in this the s●nguificative faculty doth not apppeare so hurt nor the urine so pale nor the countenance so soone changed neyther are the superiour parts so extenuated as in the general dropsie Prognostickes This affect foretels the totall ruine of the naturall functions by that singular consent the wombe hath with the liver and therefore that a cachexia or a generall dropsie will follow Cure In the cure of this disease imitate the practice of Hypocrates First mittigate the payne with fomentations of Melilote Mercury Mallows Line seed Chammomile Althea Then let the humour be prepared with syrrupe of Staechas Hysope Calamint Mugwort de bisant With the distilled waters or decoctions of Dodder Marjorum Sage Origan Sperage Penny-royall Betony Purge with sene Agaricke Rhubarb Elaterium ℞ Specierum hierae Rhubarb trochisckes of Agaricke ana ℈ i. with the juce of Ireos make pills Or ℞ pill de Rhubarbaro ℥ s. pill de mezereo ℈ i. with Mugwort water make pills In diseases which have their being from moystnesse purge with pills and in those affects which are caused by emptinesse or drynesse purge with potions Fasten cupping glasse to the belly with a great flame and also to the navill especially if the swelling be flatulent Make an issue on the inside of each leg a handfull bredth below the knee ℞ anaʒij Sugar lb. i. with Betony water m●ke Lozenges take of them two houres before meales Apply to the bottome of the belly as hot as may bee indured a little bagge of Chammomill Cummin and Melilot boyled in Oyle of rue Anoynt the belly and secret parts with Vnguentum Agrippae and Vnguentum 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 mingling therewith Oyle of Ireos Cover the lower parts of the belly with the playster of bay berries or with a cataplasme made of Cummin Chāmomill Briony rootes adding thereto Cows and Goats dung Our Moderns ascribe a great vertue to Tobacco water distilled and poured into the wombe by a metrenchyta ℞ of Baume Sothern wood Organ Wormewood Calamint Bayleaues Marjorom ana m i. Iuniper berries ℥ iiij with water make a decoction of this may be made fomentations injections and insessions Make pessaries of S●yrax Alloes with the roots of Dictam Aristolochia and Gentiane Instead of this you may use the pessary prescribed pag. 77. Let her take of Electuarinus aromaticum diasat●rion and Eringo roots condited every morning The are must be hot and dry moderate exercise is allowed Much sleepe is forbidden She may oate the flesh of Patridges Larks Chickens mountaine birds Hares Conies c. Let her drinke be thin Wine CHAP. 11. Of Barrennesse IN times past before woemen came to the marriage bed they were first searched by the midwife and those onely which she alowed of as fruitfull were admitted I hope therefore it will be thought a needles labour to shew how yee may prove your selves and turne the stonny ground into a fruitfull soyle Barennesse is a deprivation of life and powre which ought to bee in the seed to procreate and propagate for which end both man and woman were made Cause It is caused by overmuch heat or cold that drying up the seed and making it corrupt this extinguishing the life of the seed making it watrish and unfit for generation It may be caused also by the not flowing or overflowing of the cources by swellings ulcers and inflammations of the wombe by an excrescence of flesh growing about the mouth of the matrice by the mouth of the wombe being turned unto to the backe or side by the grossenesse and fatnesse of the body whereby the mouth of the matrice is closed up by being prest with the Omentum or caule and the matter of the seed is converted into fatnesse Or if shee bee of a leane and exhaust body to the world shee proves barren because though shee doth conceive yet the fruit of the wombe will wither before it comes to perfection for want of nourishment Aetius and Sylvius ascribe one maine cause of barrennesse to compeld copulation as when parents enforce their daughters to have busbands contrary to their liking therein marrying their bodies but not their hearts and where there is a want of love there for the most part is no conception as appeares in women which are deflowred against their will Another maine cause of barrennesse is attributed to the want of a convenient moderating quality which the woman ought to have with the man as if hee bee hot shee must be cold If hee bee drie she must bee moist But if they bee both drie or both moyst of constitution they cannot propagate and yet simply considered of themselves they are not barren for he or she which before was as the barren fig-tree being now joyned with an apt constitution becomes as the fruitfull Vine And that man and women being every way of a like constitution cannot procreate I will bring nature it selfe for a testimonie who hath made man of a hotter constitution then woman that the quality of the one may moderate the quality of the other Signes If barrennesse proceeds from the overmuch heat shee is of a drie body subject to anger she hath blacke haire quicke purfe her purgations flow but little and that with paine shee loves to play in the courts of Venus But if

from the urine from the infant and from experiment Signes collected from the woman are these The first day after conception shee feeles a light quivering or chillinesse running through the whole body a tickling in the wombe and a little paine in the lower parts of the bellie Ten or twelve dayes after the head is affected with giddinesse the eyes with a dimnesse of sight then followes red pimples in the face with a blue circle about the eyes the brests swell and grow hard with some paine and pricking in them the belly suddainly sinketh and riseth againe by degrees with a hardnesse about the navill The nipples of the brests wax red the heart beats inordinately the naturall appetite is dejected yet shee hath a longing desire after strange meates The necke of the wombe is retracted that it can hardly bee felt with the finger being put up and this is an infallible signe She is suddainly merrie and as soone melancholie her monthly courses are stayed without any evident cause the excrements of the guts are unaccustomedly retained by the wombe pressing the great gut and her desire to Venus is abated The surest signe is taken from the infant which begins to move in the wombe the third or fourth month and that not in the manner of a mole from one side to another rushing like a stone but mildely as may bee perceived by applying the hand hot on the bellie Signes taken from the urine The best clerks doe affirme that the urine of a woman with child is white and hath little motes like those in the Sunne beames ascending and descending in it and a clowd swimming aloft of an opall colour the sediment being devided by shaking of the urine appeares like carded wooll In the middle of her time the urine turneth yellow next red and lastly blacke with a red cloud Signes taken from experiment At night going to bed let her drinke water and hony afterward if shee feeles a beating paine in her bellie and about her navill shee hath conceived Or let her take the juce of Card●us and if she vomiteth it up it is a signe of conception Cast a cleane needle into the womans urine put in a brasen bason let it stand all night and in the morning if it bee coloured with red spotts shee hath conceived but if it bee blacke or rustie shee hath not Signes taken from the Sex to shew whether it bee male or female Being with childe of a male the right brest swells first the right eye is more lively then the left her face well coloured because such as the blood is such is the colour and the male is conceived of purer blood and of more perfect seede then the female Red motes in the urine setling downe to the sediment foretell that a male is conceived but if they be white a female Put the womans urine which is with childe into a glassen bottle let it stand close stopt three dayes then straine it through a fine cloth and you shall finde little living creatures if they be red it is a male if white a female To conclude the most certaine signe to give credit unto is the motion of the infant for the male moves in the third moneth and the female in the fourth CHAP. XV. Of untimely birth WHen the fruite of the womb comes forth before the seventh moneth that is before it comes to maturity it is said to bee abortive And in effect the child proves abortive I meane not to live if it bee borne in the eight moneth And why children borne in the seventh and ninth moneth may live and not in the eight moneth may seeme strange yet it is true The cause hereof by some is ascribed unto the Planet under which the childe is borne for every moneth from the conception to the birth is governed by his proper planet and in the eight moneth Saturne doth predominate which is cold and dry and coldnesse being an enemy unto li●e destroys the nature of the childe Hypocrates gives a better reason The infant being every way perfect and compleate in the seventh moneth desires more aire and nutriment than it had before which because hee cannot obtaine hee labours for a passage to goe out and if his spirits bee weake and faynt and have not strength sufficient to break the membrances and come forth it is decreed by nature that he should continue in the womb untill the 9th month that in that time his wearied spirits might be againe strengthned and refreshed but if he returnes to strive againe in the eight moneth and bee borne hee cannot live because the day of his birth is eyther past or to come for in the eight moneth sayth Avicen hee is weake and infirme and therefore b●ing then cast into cold ayre his spirits cannot but sinke Cause Vntimely birth may bee caused by cold for as it maketh the fruit of the tree to wither and fall downe before it be ripe so doth it nip the fruit of the wombe before it comes to full perfection and make it to be abortive Sometimes by humidity weakening the faculty that the fruit cannot be retain'd untill the due time by drinesse or emptinesse defrauding the childe of his nourishment by one of the three alvine fluxes by phlebotomy and other evacuations by inflammations of the wombe and by other sharpe diseases Sometimes it is caused by joy laughter anger and especially by feare for in all but in that especially the heate forsakes the wombe and runnes to the heart to helpe there and so the cold strikes into matrice whereby the ligaments are relaxt and abortion follows Wherefore Plato in his time commanded that the woemen should shunne all temptations of great joy and pleasure and likewise avoyd all occasions of feare and griefe Abortion also may bee caused by the corruption of the ayre by filthy odours and especially by the smell of the snuffe of a Candle also by falls blowes violent exercise leaping dancing c. Signes Signes of future abortion are extenuation of the brests with a flux of watrish milke payne in the womb heavinesse in the head unaccustomed wearinesse in the hippes and thighes flowing of the courses Signes foretelling the fruit to bee dead in the wombe are hollownesse of the eyes griefe in the head aguish horrours palenesse of the face and lippes gnawing of the stomacke no motion of the infant coldnesse and loosenesse of the mouth of the wombe the thicknesse of the belly which was above is fallen downe waterish and bloody excrements comes from the matrice A regiment or rule for breeding women THe prevention of untimely birth consists in the taking away of the forementioned causes which must bee effected both before and after conception Before conception if the body bee ever hot cold dry or moyst correct it with the contraries if cacochimiall purge it if plethoricall open the liver veine if too grosse extenuate

the left side as well as in the right In the bottome of the cavity there are little holes called the Cotyledones which are the ends of certaine veines and arteries serving in breeding women to conveigh sustenance to the childe which is received by the Vmbilicall veine And in others to carry the cources into matrice Now touching the menstruals They are defined to bee a monethly flux of excrementitious and ●●profitable bloud In which we are to note that the matter slowing forth is excrementitious which is to be understood of the superplus or redundancie of it for it is a excrement in quantity in quality being pure and incorrupt like unto the bloud in the veines And that the menstruous bloud is pure and simply of it selfe all one in quality with that in the veines is proved two wayes First from the the finall cause of this bloud which is the propagation and conservation of mankinde that man might bee conceived and being begotten hee might bee comforted and preserved both in the wombe and out of the wombe And all will grant it for a truth that the childe while it is in the matrice is nourished with this bloud and it is as true that being out of the womb it is still nourished with the same for the milke is nothing but the menstruous bloud made white in the breasts and I am sure womans milke is not thought to bee venomous but of a nutritive quality answerable to the tender nature of an infant Secondly it is proved to be pure from the generation of it it being the superfluity of the last aliment of the fleshie parts It may be objected if the bloud bee not of a hurtfull quality how can it cause such venomous effects as if the same fall upon trees and herbs it maketh the one barren and mortifies the other And Averroes writes that if a man accompany with a menstruous woman if she conceive she shall bring forth a Lepar I answer this malignity is contracted in the wombe for the woman wanting native heat to digest this superfluity sends it to the matrice where seating it selfe untill the mouth of the wombe be dilated it becomes corrupt and venomous which may easily be considering the heat and moistnesse of the place This bloud therefore being out of his vessels offends in quality In this sense let us understand Pliny Fernelius Florus and the rest of that torrent But if frigidity bee the cause why women cannot digest all their last nourishment and consequently that they have these purgations It remaines to give a reason why they are of so cold a constitution more than men which is this The naturall end of mans and womans being is to propagate and this iniunction was imposed upon them by God at their first creation and againe after the deluge now in the act of conception there must be an Agent and a Patient for if they be both every way of one constitution they cannot propagate man therefore is hot and dry woman cold and moist he is the Agent she the Patient or weaker vessell that she should be subject unto the office of the Man It is necessary likewise that woman should be of a cold constitution because in her is required a redundancy of matter for the infant depending on her for otherwise if there were not a superplus of nourishment for the child more than is convenient for the mother then would the infant detract and weaken the principall parts of the mother and like unto the Viper the generation of the infant would be the destruction of the parent These monethly purgations continue from the 15. yeare to the 46. or 50. Yet often there happens a suppression which is either naturall or morbifficall They are naturally supprest in breeding women and such as give sucke The morbificall suppression fals now into our method to bee spoken off CHAP. II. Of the retention of the months THe suppression of the Termes is an interception of that accustomary evacuation of bloud which every moneth should come from the matrice proceeding from the instrument or matter vitiated The part affected is the wombe and that of it selfe or by consent Cause The cause of this suppression is either externall or internall The externall cause may bee heat or drinesse of the aire immoderate watching great labour vehement motion and the like whereby the matter is so consumed and the body so exhaust that there is not a superplus remaining to be expelled as is recorded of the Amozonites who being active and alwayes in motion had their fluxions very little or not at all Or it may bee caused by cold which is most frequent making the bloud viscuous and grosse condensing and binding up the passages that it cannot flow forth The internall cause is either instrumentall or materiall in the wombe or in the bloud In the wombe it may bee divers wayes by Apostoms Tumors Ulcers by the narrownesse of the veines and passages or by the Omentum or kell in fat bodies pressing the necke of the matrice but then they must have Hernia Zirbalis for in mankinde the kell reacheth not so low By overmuch cold or heat the one vitiating the action and the other consuming the matter By an evill composition of the uterine parts by the necke of the wombe being turned aside and sometimes though rarely by a membrane or excrescence of fl●sh growing about the mouth or necke of the wombe The bloud may bee in fault two wayes in quantity or in quality In quantitity when it is so consumed that there is not a superplus left as in Viragoes and virill women who through their heat and strength of nature digest and consume all their last nourishment as Hippocrates writes of Phaetusa who being exiled by her husband Pythea her termes were supprest her voyce changed and had a beard with a countenance like a man But these I judge rather to be Anthropophagae women-eaters than women-breeders because they consume one of the principles of generation which gives a being to the world viz. the menstruous bloud The bloud likewise may be consumed and consequently the termes stayed by bleeding of the nose by a flux of the Emroides by a Dysenteria commonly called the bloudy flux by many other evacuations and continuall and chronicall diseases Secondly the matter may bee vitious in quality as suppose it bee sanguineons flegmaticall bilious or melancholious every one of these if they offend in grosnesse will cause an obstruction in the veynes Signes Signes manifesting the disease are paines in the head necke backe and loynes wearinesse of the whole body but especially of the hips and legges by reason of a confinity which the matrix hath with these parts trembling of the heart Particular signes are these if the suppression proceeds of cold she is heavie sluggish of a pale colour and hath a slow pulse Venus