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A75579	Aristotle's master-piece compleated in two parts: the first containing the secrets of generation, in all the parts thereof. Treating, of the benefit of marriage, and the prejudice of unequal matches, signs of insufficiency in men or women; of the infusion of the soul; of the likeness of children to parents; of monstrous births; the cause and cure of the green-sickness: a discourse of virginity. Directions and cautions for mid-wives. Of the organs of generation in women, and the fabrick of the womb. The use and action of the genitals. Signs of conception, and whether of a male or female. With a word of advice to both sexes in the act of copulation. And the pictures of several monstrous births, &c. The second part, being a private looking-glass for the female sex. Treating of the various maladies of the womb; and of all other distempers incident to women of all ages, with proper remedies for the cure of each. The whole being more correct, than any thing of this kind hitherto published.; Aristotle's Masterpiece.	Aristotle, attributed name.; Salmon, William, 1644-1713.	1697 (1697)	Wing A3697kA; ESTC R230121	84,412	197

Nature viz. raw or burnt Flesh Ashes Coals Old shoes Chalk Wax Nut-shels Mortar Lime Oat-meal Tobacco Pipes c. which occasion not only a Suppression of the Menses but likewise obstructions through the whole Body Therefore the first thing necessary to eradicate the Cause is Matrimonial Conjunction and such Copulation that may prove to the satisfaction of her that is afflicted for by that means the menses will begin to flow according to their natural and due course and the Humours being dispersed will soon waste themselves and then no more matter being administred to increase them they will vanish and a good temperament of Body will return But in case this best Remedy cannot be had so soon as necessity requries then let her be let Blood in the Ankle and if she be about 16 you may likewise do it in the Arm but let her bleed but sparingly especially if the Blood be good If the Disease be of any continuance then is it to be eradicated by Purging Preparation of the humour being first consider'd which may be done by the Virgins drinking Decoction of Guaicum with Dittany of Creet But the best Purge in this case ought to be made of Aloes Agarick Senna Rhubarb And for strengthing the Bowels and opening Obstructions Chalibiat Medicines are chiefly to be used The Diet must be moderate and sharp things be by all means avoided And for the freeing of the Humour take Prepared Steel Bezoar Stone the Root of Scorzonera Oyl of Chrystal in small Wine and let the Diet be moderate but in no wise let Vinegar be used therewith nor upon any other occasion And in so observing the Humours will be dilated and dissipated by which Means the Complexion will return and the Body be lively and full of Vigour And now since Barrenness daily occasions discontent and that Discontent creates Difference between Man and Wife or by immoderate Grief frequently casts the Woman into one or other violent Distemper I shall in the next place treat thereof Of Barrenness In times past before Women came to the marriage Bed they were first searched by the Midwife and those only which she allowed of as fruitful were admitted I hope therefore it will be thought a needless labour to shew how they may prove themselves and turn the stony ground into a fruitful soil Barrenness is a deprivation of life and power which ought to be in the seed to procreate and propagate for which end both man and woman were made Causes of Barrenness 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 over-flowing of the Courses by Swellings Ulcers and Inflammations of the Womb by an excrescence of flesh growing about the mouth of the Matrix by the mouth of the Womb being turned unto the back or side by the grossness and fatness of the body whereby the mouth of the matrix is closed up by being prest with the Omentum or Caule and the matter of the seed is converted into fatness Or if she be of a lean and exhaust body to the World she proves Barren because though she doth conceive yet the fruit of the Womb will wither before it comes to perfection for want of nourishment Aetius and Sylvius ascribe one main cause of Barrenness to compel'd copulation as when parents enforce their daughters to have Husbands 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 appears in Women which are deflowred against their will Another main cause of Barrenness is attributed to the want of a convenient moderating quality which the Woman ought to have with the Man as if he be hot she must be cold If he be dry she must be moist But if they be both dry or both moist 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 joined with an apt constitution becomes as the fruitful Vine And that Man and Woman being every way of a like constitution cannot Procreate I will bring Nature it self for a testimony who hath made Man of a hotter Constitution than Woman that the quality of the one may moderate the quality of the other Signs of Barrenness If Barrenness does proceed from overmuch heat she is of a dry body subject to anger she hath black Hair quick pulse her purgations flow but little and that with pain she Loves to play in the courts of Venus But if it comes by cold then are the signs contrary to those even now recited If through an evil quality in the Womb Make a suffumigation of red Storax Myrrh Cassia wood Nutmeg Cinnamon and let her receive the fume of it into the Womb covering her very close and if the odour so received passeth through the Body up into the Mouth and Nostrils of her self she is fruitful But if she feels not the fume in her Mouth and Nose it argues Barrenness one of these ways that the Spirit of the seed is either through cold extinguisht or through heat dissipated If any Woman be suspected to be unfruitful cast natural Brimstone such as is digged out of the Mine into her Urin and ●f Worms breed therein of herself she is not barren Prognosticks Barrenness maketh Women look young because they are free from those pains and sorrows which other Women are accustomed to bring forth withall Yet they have not that full perfection of health which fruitful Women do injoy because they are not rightly p●rged of the menstruous blood and superfluous seed the retaining of which two are the principal cause of most Uterine Diseases Cure First the cause must be removed and then the Womb strengthened and the Spirits of the seed enlived If the Womb be over-hot Take Syrrup of Succory with Rhubarb Syrrup of Violets Endive Roses Cassia Purslain Take of Endive water Lillies Borage flowers of each a handful Rhubarb Myrobolans of each 3 Drams with water make a Decoction add to the straning of the Syrup Laxative of Violets one ounce Syrup of Cassia half an Ounce Manna 3 drams make a potion Take of the Syrup of Mugwort one ounce Syrup of Maiden hair 2 ounces water of Succory Borage Fennel of each 3 ounces Pulv. Elect Triasand one dram make a Julep Take Pru. Solut. Elect. Ros Mesuae of each 3 drams Rhubarb one Scruple and make a Bolus Apply to the reins and privities fomentations of the juice of Lettice Violets Roses Mallows Vineleaves and Night-shade Anoint the secret parts with the cooling unguent of Galen If the power of the seed be extinguisht by cold Take every Morning two spoonfuls of Cinnamon water with one Scruple of Mahridate Take Syrup of Calamint Mugwort Bettony of each one ounce water of

saith Avicen he is Weak and Infirm and therefore being then cast into cold Air his Spirits cannot but sink Cause Untimely Birth may be caused by Cold for as it maketh the Fruit of the Tree to wither and fall down before it be Ripe so doth it Nip the Fruit of the Womb before it comes to full Perfection and make it to be Abortive Sometimes by Humidity weakening the Faculty that the Fruit cannot be restrain'd until the due time by Dryness or Emptiness defrauding the Child of his Nourishment by one of the three Alvine Fluxes by Phlebotomy and other Evacuations by Inflammations of the Womb and by other sharp Diseases Sometimes it is caused by Joy Laughter Anger and especially by Fear for in all but in that especially the Heat forsakes the Womb and runs to the Heart to help there and so the Cold strikes into the Matrix whereby the Ligaments are Relaxt and so Abortion follows Wherefore Plato in his time Commanded that the Women should shun all Temptations of great Joy and Pleasure and likewise avoid all Occasions of Fear and Grief Abortion also may be caused by the Corruption of the Air by filthy Odours and especially by the smell of the Snuff of a Candle also by Falls Blows violent Exercise Leaping Dancing c. Signs Signs of future Abortion are Extenuation of the Brests with a Flux of watrish milk pain in the Womb heaviness in the Head unaccustomed Weariness in the Hips and Thighs flowing of the Courses Signs foretelling the Fruit to be dead in the Womb are hollowness of the Eyes grief in the Head anguish horrours paleness of the Face and Lips gnawing of the Stomach no motion of the Infant coldness and loosness of the mouth of the Womb the thickness of the Belly which was above is fallen down watrish and bloody Excrements comes from the Matrix CHAP. XIV Direction for Breeding Women THe prevention of Untimely Birth consists in the taking away of the aforementioned Causes which must be effected both before and after Conception Before Conception If the Body be over hot Cold Dry or Moist correct it with the Contraries if Cacochimical Purge it if Plethorical open the Liver Vein if too Gross Extenuate it if too Lean Corroborate and Nourish it all Diseases of the Womb must be removed as I have shewed After Conception let the Air be Temperate Sleep not overmuch avoid Watching Exercise of Body Passions of the Mind loud Clamours and filthy Smells Sweet Odours also are to be rejected of those that are Hysterical Abstain from all things which provoke either the Urine or Courses also from Salt sharp and windy Meats a moderate Diet shall be observed If the Excrements of the Guts be retained Lenifie the Belly with Clysters made of the Decoction of Mallows Violets with Sugar and common Oyl Or make Broath with Borrage Bugloss Beets Mallows taking in the same a little Manna On the Contrary if she be troubled with Loosness of the Belly let it not be frayed without the Judgment of a Physitian for all Uterine Fluxes have a malign Quality in them which must be Evacuated before the Flux be stayed The Cough is another Accident which accompanieth breeding Women and puts them into great danger of Miscarrying so by continual Distillation falling from the Brain to prevent which shave away the Hair on the Coronal and Sagittal Commissure and apply thereon this Plaister Take Resinae half an Ounce Ladani one Dram Citron-peels Ligni Aloes Olibani of each one Scruple Stirachis Liquidae et Siccae a sufficient Quantity dissolve the Gums in Vinegar and make a Plaister At night going to Bed let her take the Fume of these Trochisks cast upon the Coals Take of Frankincense Stirax pouder of Red Roses of each one dram and a half Sandarachae 3 Drams Mastick Benjamin Amber of each one Dram with Turpentine make Trochisks Apply a Cautery to the Nape of the Neck and every Night let her take of these Pills following Take Hypocistidis Terrae Sigillatae fine Bole of each half an Ounce Bistort Acatiae Stinacis Calamitae of each two drams Cloves one Dram with Syrup of Mirtles make Pills In breeding Women there is a corrupted matter generated which flowing to the ventricle dejecteth the appetite and causeth vomitting and the stomach being weak not able to digest this matter so●etime sends it unto the guts whereby is caused a flux of the belly which greatly stirreth up the faculty of the Womb. For the eschewing therefore of all these dangers the stomach shall be corroborated as followeth Take Ligni Aloes Nutmeg of each one dram Mace Cloves Mastick ●adanum of each 2 Scruples Oyl of Spike one Ounce Musk 2 grains Oyl of Mastick Quinces Wormwood of each half an Ounce make an Unguent for the stomach to be applied before Meals Instead hereof may be used Cerotum Stomachale Galeni Take of conserve of Borage Bugloss Anthos of each half an Ounce Confect de Hyacintho Lemon Pills condited Specierum Diamarg Pulv. de Gemmis of each 2 drams Nutmeg Diambrae of each 2 Scruples Peony-Roots D●acoralli of each one dram with Syrup of Roses make an Electuary of which she shall take twice a day two hours before Meals Another accident which perplexeth Women with Child is swelling of the legs which happens the first three Months by superfluous humours falling down from the stomach and liver for the cure whereof Take of Oyl of Roses 2 drams Salt Vinegar of each a dram shake them altogether until the salt be dissolved and anoint the legs hot therewith chafing it in with the hand But purging is more proper if it may be done without danger as it may in the fourth 5th and 6th Month of pregnation for a Child in the Womb is compared to an Apple on the tree The first three months it is weak and tender subject with the Apple to fall away but afterwards the Membranes being strengthened the fruit remains firmly fattened in the Womb not apt to mischances and so it continues until the seventh month then growing near the time of maturity the ligaments are again relaxt like unto the Apple that is almost ripe and grow looser every day until the time of delivery If therefore her Body hath need of purging she way purge without danger in the 4th 5th or 6th month but not before nor after unless in some sharp disease in which the Mother and Child both are like to perish Apply Plaisters and Unguents to the reins to strengthen the fruit of the Womb. Take of Gum Arabick Galangale Bistort Hypocistid Storax of each one dram Fine bole Nutmeg Mastick Belaust Sang Draconis Myrtle-berries one dram and half Wax and Turpentine a sufficient quantity Make a Plaister Apply it to the reins in the Winter time and remove it every 14 days lest the reins be over hot therewith In the interim anoint the privities and reins with Vnguentum Comitissae But if it be summer time and the reins hot this plaister following is

Convulsions Epilepsies Appoplexies Palseys Hectick Fevers Dropsies Malignant Ulcers c. And to be short there is no Disease so bad but may proceed from the evil Quality of it How necessary therefore the Knowledge of these things are let every Vnprejud●ced Reader Judge For that many Women labour under them thro' their own Ignorance and Modesty as I said before woful Experience makes manifest Here therefore as in a Mirror they may be acquainted with their own Distempers and have suitable Remedies without applying themselves to a Physitian against which they have so great a Reluctance ARISTOTLE's MASTER-PIECE COMPLEATED PART I. OF THE Secrets of Generation In all the PARTS thereof CHAP. I. Of Marriage and at what Age Young Men and Virgins are capable of the Marriage-Bed and why they so much desire it Also how long Men and Women are capable of having Children THERE are very few except some profess'd Debauchees but what will readily agree That Marriage is Honourable being Ordain'd by Heaven in Paradise and without which no Man or Woman can be in a Capacity honestly to yield obedience to the first Law of the Creation Increase and multiply And since it is Natural in young People to desire those mutual Embraces proper to the Marriage-Bed it behoves Parents to look after their Children and when they find them inclinable to Marriage not violently to restrain their Affections and oppose their Inclinations which instead of allaying them makes 'em but the more impetuous but rather provide such suitable Matches for them as may make their Lives comfortable Lest the crossing of their Inclinations should precipitate them to commit those Follies that may bring an indelible stain upon their Families The Inclination of Maids to Marriage is to be known by many Symptoms For when they arrive to Puberty which is about the Fourteenth or Fifteenth year of their Age then their Natural Purgations begin to flow And the Blood which is no longer taken to augment their Bodies abounding stirs up their Minds to Venery External Causes also may incite them to it for the Spirits being brisk and inflam'd when they arrive at this Age if they eat sharp salt things and Spices the Body becomes more and more heated whereby the Desire to Venereal Embraces is very great and at some times almost insuperable And the use of these so much desir'd Enjoyments being deny'd to Virgins is many times follow'd by dismal Consequents as a green Weasel-colour short Breathings Trembling of the Heart c. But when they are married and their Venereal Desires satisfied by the Enjoyment of their Husbands those Distempers vanish and their former Beauty returns more gay and lively than before Also their eager gazing at Men and affecting their company sufficiently demonstrates that Nature prompts them to desire Coition which their Parents often neglecting or refusing to provide by procuring them Husbands they break the Bounds of Modesty and satisfie themselves in unlawful Embraces The same may be observed in young brisk Widows who cannot be satified without that Due Benevolence which they were wont to receive from their Husbands At Fourteen Years of Age commonly the Menses in Virgins begin to flow at which time they are capable of Conceiving and so continue generally to Forty-four at which time for the most part they cease bearing unless they be very healthful and strong of Body and have always been addicted to Temperance such indeed have born Children till Fifty-five years but this rarely happens altho' the Menses flow a longer time in some Women than in others but many times such Efflux proceeds not from a natural Cause but by reason of some violence offer'd to Nature or some other Morbifick matter which often proves of fatal consequence to the Party And therefore those Men that are desirous of Isue must marry Women within the Age aforesaid or blame themselves if they meet with disappointments Tho' if an old Man not worn out by Diseases and Incontinency marry a brisk lively Lass there is hopes of his having Children to Threescore and Ten nay if extraordinary lusty even till Fourscore Hipocrates is of Opinion that a Youth at Sixteen years or between that and Seventeen having much vital strength may be capable of getting Chi'dren and also that the Force and Heat of Procreating Matter constantly increases till Forty-five Fifty and Sixty-five and then begins to flag the Seed by degrees becoming unfruitful the natural Spirits being extinguished and the Humours dried up Thus it is in general but as to particulars as I have before mentioned it often happens otherwise Nay it is reported by a credible Author That in Sweedland a Man was married at a hundred years old to a Bride of Thirty and had many Children by●●r but looked so fresh that such as knew him not took him not to exceed half that Age. I Campania where the air is clear and temperate men of Fourscore years old usually marry young Virgins and have Children by them which shews that age in men hinders not Procreation unless they be exhausted in their Youth and their Yard shrivel'd up If any would know why a Woman is sooner Barren than a Man they may understand that the natural Heat which is the Cause of Generation is more predominant in the latter than in the former For since a Woman is more moist than a Man as her Monthly Purgations demonstrate as also the softness of her Body it is also apparent that he doth exceed her in her Native Heat which is the chief thing that concocts the Humours into proper Aliment which the Woman wanting grows fat when a Man through his Native Heat melts his fat by degrees and his Humours are dissolved and by the benefit thereof they are elaborated into Seed And this may be also added That Women generally are not so strong as Men nor so wise and prudent nor have so much Reason and Ingenuity in ordering of Affairs which shews that thereby the Faculties are hindred in their operation CHAP. II. How to get a Male or Female Child and of the Embryo and Perfect Birth with the fittest time for Copulation WHEN a young Couple are married they naturally desire Children and therefore make use of those means that Nature has appointed to that end But notwithstanding their Endeavours they must know the Success of all depends on a Blessing from on high for Children are the Blessing of the Lord and not only so but the Sex whether Male or Female is from his disposal also tho' it cannot be deny'd but secondary Causes have an influence therein especially two First The Genital Humour which is brought by the Arteriae Preparantes to the Testes in the form of Blood and there Elaborated into Seed by the Seminifical Faculty resident in them To which may be added the desire to Coition which fires the Imagination with unusual Fancies and by the sight of a brisk charming Beauty may much inflame the Appetite But if Nature be enfeebled there are fit

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 principal parts of the Mother and like unto the Viper the Generation of the Infant would be the Destruction of the Parent These Monthly Purgations continue from the 15th Year to the 46th or 50th Yet often there happens a suppression which is either Natural or Morbifical They are naturally supprest in breeding women and such as give suck The Morbifical suppression falls now into our Method to be spoken of CHAP. II. Of the Retention of the M●nses THe suppression of the Terms is an intercaption of that accustomary Evacuation of Blood which every Month should come from the Matrix proceeding from the Instrument or matter vitiated The part affected is the Womb and that of it self or by Consent Cause The Cause of this Suppression is either External or Internal The External Cause may be heat or dryness of the Air immoderate watching great labour vehement motion c. whereby the matter is so consumed and the body so exhausted that there is not a Superplus remaining to be expelled as is Recorded of the Amazones who being active and always in motion had their Fluxions very little or not at all Or it may be caused by Cold which is most frequent making the Blood Viscous and Gross condensing and binding up the Passages that it cannot flow forth The Internal Cause is either Instrumental or Material in the womb or in the blood In the womb it may be divers ways by Aposthumes Tumours Ulcers by the narrowness of the veins and passages or by the Omentum or Kell in fat Bodies pressing the neck of the Matrix but then they must have Hernia Zirbalis for in mankind the Kell reacheth not so low By over much Cold or Heat the one vitiating the action and the other consuming the matter By an evil Composition of the Uterine parts by the neck of the womb being turned aside and sometimes tho' rarely by a membrane or excressence of flesh growing about the mouth or neck of the womb The blood may be in fault two ways in quantity or in quality In quantity when it is so consumed that there Is not a Superplus left as in Viragoes and vi●● 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 Terms were supprest her voice 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 blood The blood likewise may be consumed and consequently the Terms stayed by bleeding of the Nose by a flux of the Emerhoids by a Dysenteria commonly called the bloody flux by many other evacuations and continual and chronical Diseases Secondly the matter may be vitious in quality as suppose it be Sanguineous Phlegmatical Byleous or Melancholious every one of these if they offend in Grosness will cause an Obstruction in the veins Signs Signs manifesting the Disease are pains in the head neck back and loyns weariness of the whole body but especially of the hips and legs by reason of a Confinity which the Matrix hath with these parts trembling of the heart Particular signs are these if the Suppression proceeds of cold she is heavy sluggish of a pale Colour and hath a slow Pulse Venus combats are neglected the Urin is crude waterish and much in quantity the excrements of the Guts usually are retained If of heat the signs are contrary to those but now recited If the retention be natural and come of Conception this may be known by drinking of Hydromel that is water and honey after Supper going to bed and by the effect which it worketh for after the taking of it if she feels a beating pain about the Navel and lower parts of the Belly it is a sign she hath Conceived and that the Suppression is Natural if not then is it vitious and ought Medicinally to be taken away Prognosticks With the evil quality of the Womb the whole body stands charged but especially the Heart the Liver and the Brain and betwixt the Womb and these three principal parts there is a singular Consent First the Womb communicates to the Heart by the mediation of those Arteries which come from Aorta Hence the Terms being supprest will ensue Faintings Swoonings intermission of Pulse cessation of Breath Secondly It communicates to the Liver by the veins derived from the hollow vein Hence will follow Obbructions Cachexies Jaundice Dropsies hardness of the Spleen Thirdly It communicates unto the Brain by the nerves and membranes of the back Hence will arise Epilepsies Apoplexies Frenzies melancholy Passions pain in the after-parts of the Head fearfulness in ability of speaking Well therefore may I conclude with Hippocrates If the Months be supprest many dangerous Diseases will follow Cure In the Cure of this and of all the other following Affects I will observe this order The Cure shall be taken from Chirurgical Pharmaceutical and Diaeretical means This Suppression is a Plethorick Affect and must be taken away by Evacuation And therefore first we will begin with Phlebotomy In the midst of the menstrual period open the Liver vein and for the reversion of the Humour two days before the wonted evacuation open the Saphena on both feet I● the repletion be not great apply Cupping-glasses to the legs and thighs And altho' there be no hope to remove the Suppression as in some the Cotyl●dones are so closed up that nothing but Copulation will open them yet it will be convenient as much as may be to ease Nature of her burden by opening the Emerhoid veins with a Leach After Phlebotomy let the Humours be prepared and made Fluxile with Syrup of Staechas Calamint Betony Hysop Mugwort Hore-hound Fumetary Maiden-hair Bathe with Camomile Penny-Royal Savin Bay-leaves Janiper-berries Rue Marj●ram Feverfew Take of the leaves of Nep Maiden-hair Succory Betony of each one handful make a Decoction take thereof three Ounces Syrup of Maiden-hair Mugw●rt Succory mix of each half an Ounce After she comes out of the Bath let her drink it off Purge with Pil. de Agaric Elephang Coch. Foetid Galen in this Case commends Pilula de Hiera cum Colocyntida for as they be proper to purge the humour offending so also they do open the passages of the Womb and strengthen the faculty by their Aromatical quality If the stomach be over-charged let her take a vomit yet such a one as may work both ways lest working onely upward it should too much turn back the humour Take Trochisks of Agarick 2 drams infuse them in 3 Ounces of Oximel in which dissolve of the Electuary Diasarum One Scruple and half Benedic Laxat half an Ounce Take this after the manner