for the desire of Venery is increased in that and the rubbing of the cloaths upon it cause lust but in an excrescence of flesh they cannot for pain enduââ copulation but you may cut off this better then a Clitoris because it is all superfluous Chap. 3. Of Atretae or Closures and straitness of the neck and mouth of the Womb. THey are threeâold it is either in the oriâice or the neck or in the middle it is alwaies huttful either to copulation or the terms or to conception and childbearing I saw one that had the first the oriâice was very little onely fit to purge the terms and receive seed she conceived and the Midwives discovered in time of childbearing and the Chirurgion opened it and she was happily delivered but how the seed was spent into it is not to be understood Flesh or a membrane is from evil conformation or a wound or ulcer of which Benivenius ãâã and Hildanuâ The âleât also may be closed by a wound oâ ulcer as in a woman who with the French âox had all eaten off and it grew together after only there was a little passaâe for urin This is either when the sides grow togethââ fââm aâ uâcer or âhen proud âleâh ââops it uââ âhich is somtimes in the French pox When it is in the privities it is to be seen but âhen in the neck or oriâice of the womb it is not ânown but when the terms are to âlow or when âhey copulate and it is either broken by the âorce of blood or there is pain and being virâins they are taken to be with child for iâ it âast long the womb swells and the whole body is âlewish These either hinder the termâ from the neck âf the womb or from the veins of it If inâlamâation or ulcer was before this disease may be âuspected to be if there the closing be by the membrane the place is white if by âleâh it is red ând it is known by the touch for the membrane âs âarder then flesh The inconveniences are great either in copulation conception or child bearing especially for the child cannot get forth without hazard of it self or mother It is easier cured when it is from a membrane only because it is easily cut or broken that in âhe orifice of the womb is not to be cured because the instruments cannot reach it Take away that which stops the passage a membrane that is outward is easily cut but iâ it be in the neck of the womb or be flesh it is hard for if the cut be large there is pain and bâeâding and the wound is hard to be cured because the neâk of the bladder is easily hurt thereby ãâ¦ã teacheth this operation in his Observations And Hippocrates in his Book of Sterility shâws how a membrane may be taken away without cutting Iâââeâh grow frâm an ulââr aâtâr purging use dââers and discussers to dimiâiââ it âith Frânkincense Birthwort Roses Pomegranate floweâs ãâã Myârâ Aloes c. as in Chap. 2. Somâ think this disease may come from driââss but it is incredible Iâ it come stom a hard tun or soften and dissolve it with Butter Oyl of sweeâ Almonds Lillies c. Chap. 4. Of Pustles and Roughness of the Privities ROughnâss and Itching come from Pustles in the nâck of the womb and privities âith scurff and swellings which iâch and pain They are ârom an adust humor maliânant and sharp which abounding evacuate themselves by thâse looâe and moist parts and there stiâking exasperate the flesh this is in the French pox They ââcâare it themselves It is stubborn long and inâeâtious to men and hard to be cured Iâ the adust sharp humors come from the wholâ body prepare with Boraâe Fumitory Succory Endive and the likâ then evacuate tââm wiâh Sennaâ Epithymum syrâp of Apples Violâââ Roses Catholicon Consectio hâmeâh âilâs of Fumitory Tartar Lât âlood iâ there be âulness first in the Arm then in the Ankle but if it be from the Frenâh pox first uâe Guajacum and Sâââa and the like Foment the âaât often with a hot decâction oâ ãâ¦ã Fââiâory Hâps Pâlliââây oâ uâe this Oyntmânt Take ãâã and Rose ãâã ââch ãâã âânceâ Sâl gem Nâââr Allum âach thrââ drâms Subâiââââ a ãâã ând half boyâ tââm âo the third part strain them and add Verdigrease a ââruple then use gentler means two daies after till the Pustles fall off and new flesh appear and then use the Oyntment again Let the diet be to resist evil humors of good âuyââ avoid salt sharp and âour things Chap. 5. Of Condyloma in the neck of the Womb. COndyloma is a tubercle or excrescens with heat and pain for these parts are wrinkled and when the wrinkles swell there is a Condyloma somtimes it is without inflammation and sâât or with inflammation and hard It is usual n the privities and fundament of such as have the French pox They are from a sharp malignant humor which is alwaies in the Pox and somtimes they follow hard clefts or chaps They are pain and burning the skin is wrinkled and when they are many they are like a bunch of Grapes They are hard to be cured if they are from tâe Pox first cure that and then they often vanish of themselves Aâter general evacuations proper against the Pox use Topicks first see if there be inflammation and then abate painâ As Take oyl of Lineseed and Rosâs âach an ounce oyl of Eggs half an ounce mix âhem in a Leaden mortar Or Take Pâllâtorâ Mallows Althaea each half a handful Chamomil flowers two pugils Lineseed and âaeâugreek each half an ounce boyl them to a pânââdd oyl of Rosâs three âunces inâect it wâth a Syâing If there be no inflammation use driers and repellers as Vervain Ivy Acacia Pomegranate peels and slowers for Baths and Fomentations and after add Discussers as Chamomile and Thyme If it be old and hard first soften it with the same and after thrice using them âse digesters and driers that are strong as a pouder Take round Birthwort a dram Savine Hermodacts burnt âach two drams burnt Allum two drams red Lead a dram Chalcitis half a dram sprinkle it upon the loose flesh Or Take Aloes Frankincense Mirrh each a dram Ammoniacum dissolved in Vinegar a dram and half Allum two drams rea Lead two drams Galls half a dram Turpentine Oyl of Tarâar each a dram with Oyl of Roses and Wax make an Oyntment This is very strong Take Turpcmine an ouncâ Oyl of Nutmegs two ounces red Lead two drams Allum Vitriol each a dram Verdigreece half ãâã dram Sublimate a scruple with Wax make an Oyntment or of Balsom of Mercury If Medicines will not do the Ancients advise burning of which see Aetius Chap. 6. Of Warts in the neck of the Privities and Womb. THey are from a gross seculent and malâgnant humor sent to the skin and turned to a node They are known by
Inwardly give vulnerary Potions As Take Agrimony Burnet Plantane Knotgrass each two pugils China three dramâ Coriander seed half a dram Currans half an ounce boyl them in Henbrâath give it âwice a day or give Turpentine and Sââar ââr a month or a dram of Pills of ãâã ãâã If the body consume give Asses milk with ãâã of Roses for a month Chap. 9. Of Clefts in the Neck of the Womb. THese are long ulcers that are âinal like those in the hands and feet in Winter they eat oâ the skin and are somtimes deep with hard lips if old somtimes they are dry or somtimes bleed They come from hard travel when some paâts in the neck of the womb are broken by a great child or violent copulation or flux of sharp humors that stick in the parts and corrode If it be new it is hidden somtimes and known in copulation by pain and bleeding The new are easier cured then when they are old and callous If they come from hard travel make a Clyster of the Decoction of Roses Plantane Birthwort Bole Sanguis Draconis Frankincense or with the white of an Egg a Pessary If from sharp humors after universal Evacuations use Topicks that bind without biting if the clefts be not callous as Oyl of Linseed and Roses with the yolk of an Egg and jâyce of Plantane mixed in a leaden Mortar Or Take Oyl of Roses eight ounces stir it in a leaden Mortar till it is black and thick then put in the pouders of Litharge of Silver and Câruss If they are callous make an Oyntment of oyl of Lillies Marrow of a Deer Turpentine and Wax if they are malignant cure them as ââstula'es of which in the Câapter following If there be itch or pain Take Diapompâoligââ Pâpulâon âaâh an ounce Sugâr of Lead âamphire each a scruple make an Oyntment Let the diet be moist of good juyce Chickens Veal Kid rear Eggs Mallows Bugloss Borage abstain from sharp and salt meats Chap. 10. Of Fistulae's in the Neck of the Womb. MAny times there are ulcers in these parts because they are soft and easily corroded and âre hard to be cured Some of them are âârait others crooked some ãâã others hollow If matter stay there it corrodes and makes burroughs and divides the parts and makes a Callus and when the matter is voided the parts divided cannot unite It is known by the âigure of the ulcer there is a callous lip and thin evil matter when it is pressed flows out there is no pain except it reach a sensible part Somtimes it reacheth the bladder and then the urin comes forth at the fistula somtimes the fundament and then the dung appears in the Fistula A new Fistula is easier cured then an old and a strait then a crooked it is scarce to be cured in a cacochymical old body and when it pierceth into the parts adjacent First use Universals and good diet then see if it may be cured by Medicines or better left to Nature to evacuate excâements thereby Iâ the last is best use a palliative Cure by often purging and sweating twice in a year and injections anâ strengtheners and lay on a Plaiââer of ãâã If you hope for a Cure after Universals givâ drying vulnerary Drinks of male Fern roots Centaury Agrimony Bettony Ladies-mantle c. Then use Topicks fiâst dilate the orisice iâ it be strait with a Spunge or Gentian âoots theâ consume the Callus but first make it soft wiââ Oyl of Lillies Deer's Marrow Tuâpentine and Wax Three things consume a Callus Medicines cutting and burning there in a new strait Fistula use Gentian black Hâllebore Aegyptiacum oâ Vigo's Pouder with a Pencil Or Take Sublimate half a scruple Rose or Plantane water six ounces set it upon embers If it be towards the womb take heed of strong Medicines If it be callous and âoul burn it either by a Caustick or hot iron These are good in the ouâward part of the neck then clense and heal Chap. 11. Of a Cancer in the Womb. IT is seldom seen and never cured but here I shall speak of that in the neck of the womb which is ulcerated or not ulcerated It is from terms burnt and hot burnt humors that are black that flow thither it is after long ââirrhous tumors that have been immoderately softned It is first not ulcerated and when the humors are more corrupt it is ulcerated They are hard to be known at first because it is a tumor without pain and after there is a pricking in it and a pain in the groyns loyns and bottom of the belly The tumor is hard blew with blew stinking lipps When it is ulcerated the Symââââs are all worse and there is a thin blaâk sâinking mattâr Somtimes much blood tâat is dangerous a genâle âeaver loathing tââuble of mind thâ cheekâ are red from the vapoâs that fliâ up from the womb It is hard to be cured because mild Medicineâ are noââelâ and strongâ exâspârate and the part makâs it more hard because it is neglected at the âârât and increaââth ãâã the âhysitian p eâent ulceration or if it bââo hiâdââ the incrââsâ of it lât diet be against mâlânâholâ pââpare and purge melâncholy Tâis Pouder for many dâies given is excellâât Take Smârâgdââ Sapâirs and Eâst ââzâarstone eâch a dram give every day three or four grains with Sâabious or Carduus water Let the Topicks not be biting at âirst But foâent with Jayâe of Plantane Nightshade Pursââne or use Diapompholigos Or Takâ jâycââf Plantane Nightshaâe Purslanâ eââh two ounces Muâilage of Fleabane an âunâe Oâl of Rosââ three âouncesââtiâ them in â leaden Morââr Or Take Oâl of Râsâs of Eggs âach anounce and half Suâgâr of Lead a dâam âtir them in a leaden Mortar then add Litharge Cerâss each three drams Tutty a dram Camphire a sâruple Or Take jâyce of Nightshâde six ounces Tutty and burnt Lead eâch two drams aâphire half a dram ââir thââ long in a leadân Mortar and add pouder of âraysââh Injâât a Decâction of Crayfish and iâ pâin be greaâ ãâã with Malloâs Althaea Wateâlilâies Coâiânder Dill âleabane âeed with Sasâroa in Milk or make a Cataplâsâe of the âame Some use Antimony Arsenick c. which are good in other parts But this cannot bear them A Noble woman had on the right side of her face an ulcerated cancer and when al the French Italian German Spanish Physâtians could noâ cure her a Barber cured her only with Chiâkens sliced thin and laid on often every day Chap. 12. Of a Gangrene and Sphacel in the Womb. SOmetimes the whole womb is gangrenated and it is from the privities that receive many excrements apt to corrupt It is from an inflammation and ulcer not well cured because the part hath many excrements which easily quench the natural heat and then the part mortifies There is an usual heat in the neck of the womb and a
because âe brain is not so shaken as to cause âoaming âor is the vapor so fixed in the roots of the nerâes but they often do hear It is grievous and hath grievous Symâtoms âut it is not so bad as a true Epilepsie and if you âve proper Medicines it never returns The Cure of the Fit Use things as in Suffocation of the womb or âther-sits as Rue and Castor are good against ãâã Also out of the sit you must cure it as the Moââ using things that respect the womb and the ãâã Asâ Take Piony roots Sâorzonera Misleââ tââ Oâk each half an ounce Polypâdy of the ãâã an ounâe Rue Pennyroyal Calamintâ each a ãâã Seseli Pionâ Agnus castus seeds each ââdramâ Carthamus sâeds brâised half an ounce ãâã of Rosemary Sâge Sâaehas Borage eâch two pugils boyl them to a pinâ and half strain and adâ juyce of Bettony Yarrow Mercury Mugâârt Sânâa five ounces Agarick Epithymum each half an ounce Rhubarb Cloves each two drams Aniâââ I ânnel sâed each three drams boyl strain with Sâgar and half an ounce of Cinnamon make Syrup give two ounces And these Pills twice in a week a scruple oââ dram an hour afore Supper Take Piony roâââ Senna each half an ounce Mugwort Bottoââ Rue Yarrow each half a handfulâ boyl them clârifie the Decoction add juyce of Mercury an ounce Aloes an ounce and half let it settle pour of the cleaâ add Rhubarb sprinkled with Cinnamon water ãâã drams Agarick half an ounce Mastich Epilâpââ pouder each half a dram with Syrup of Mugwââ make Pills To strengthen the Head and the Womb and to mend its Distemper Take Fecula oâ Pimââ dram of Briony Amber Misleto of the Oak eâââ half a dram Bezoar stone Mans sâull each a sârâple make a pouder give half a dram with Scorzonââ or Tile flower water or with Sugar make Rouls An âlectuary Take Conserve of Balm Tiâ flâwers Rosemaryâ Lilly coâvals Scorzonera ãâã âanâied each an ounce Diamoschâ dulce a draâ pouder of Agnus castus seeds and Piony roâts ãâã two drams with Syrup of Stââhas Chap. 8. Of pain of the Heââ from the Womb. MAny ââins come from the Womâ buâ ãâã chief and greatest are in thâ Head âââver or on one side oâ in the eyes Matter ascends to the membranes of the head by the veins and arteries from the womb It is a ââpoâ or humor from blood and humors somtimes bad blood that is thin goes from the womb vessels to the great vessels and gets to the head tâ the membranes there and causeth a stretching ulceâated or pricking or beating pain when it is carried through the arteries being âul of blood They think their head will be torn and the membranes and it is behind in the head or when the terms flow or arâ disordered from consent with the womb If it be from a vapor there is no hââviness and it ceaseth presently if from a humoâ there is heaviness Thesâ paââs are great and cause waâching We have spoken of the headach but here it is ââom the womb therefore consider what humoââ offend in the womb and let them be purged and the distemper of the womb amended as wâ shewed in the Distemper of the Womb. There is also a pain in the loyns because bad hâmors go from the veins of the womb and arteâies to the great vessels and so are sent by the ââpillââ veins into the membranes and stretch them and cause pain these humors must have âââper Purges âââstion In what part of the Head is the pain that comes by consent from the Womb Iâ iâ in the crown before and behind but chiefly âehind by reason of the joyning of the Back with the womb for the womb is nervous and âoâsânts âith the membranes of the brain by the membranes of the âarrow of the âack and so âerves âuffâââith nârves âiâher by communiââtion of matter or pain and because the original of the nerves is in the hinder part of the head women are more pained there then men because of the Womb. Chap. 9. Of the Diseases of the Heart and beating of the Arteries in the Back and sides from the Womb. THe heart beats and the arteries also as we shewed in the Green-sickness and it is by ââil vâpors sânt by the ââteries to the heaât from the womb that aâise from terms and evil humâââ gathered in the womb and this is known by âther Signs and Symptomes of a distempered womb To discuss the malignant vapors from the heart give Cordials as in Chap. 3. of palpiââtion of the Heart as Aqua vitae Cinnamenwater and Epithems Baggs and Liniments The arteries also beat with the heart as iâ Widdows on the lefâ Hypochondrion and Bacâ where there is a great artery and the artery thââ beats in the Back is part of the great artery they which beat in the Hypochondrion are the lesseâ splenitiâk and mesenterick branches therefoâe the beating is moâe in the Back then in the Hypochondrion but both pulsâtions come froâ the same cause The inflammation of the aâteries is the Cause of this beating when evil humors are sent frââ the womb iâto the great branches of the arteâââ and there bââtâ the heart being over-hot Somtimes the motion of this artery is all the body over and from a hot humor the hot humors go to the heart and cause a feaver but because there is little putrefaction it vanisheth presently If the heat of the humors go to the brain by the arteâies there is madness Some seek the cause in the vâins and say that the arteries suffer from the ãâã ãâã in them You mây feel it wiâh your hand laid upon the Hypochondrion and there are signs of a distempered womb and melancholy from the womb if heat continue in the arteries and go to the whole âody it consumeth it It is seemingly a small disease but it is not âithout danger because it comes from a bad cause that weakens the bowels It is cured as melancholy from the womb and ââopping of the terms and as Hypochondriack melancholy from the womb which follows Chap. 10. Of the Diseases of the Spleen and the Hypochondriack Disease from the Womb. SOmtimes the Spleen and the Hypochondria suffer from the womb so that you may doubt âhat disease it is ãâã from the womb by the arteries the womb ãâ¦ã one from the preparing arteries ãâã from the Hypogastrick aâtâry That from ãâ¦ã goes almost to all parts of the ãâ¦ã and ãâã branches of the spleen there ãâ¦ã bââ blood is ââed in the womb and ãâ¦ã âpwaâd to the ãâ¦ã gâââ easâây from thencâ to the ãâ¦ã ââd tâ the sâleen and the parts adjacent in the abdomen and the sooner ãâã Nature useth to send bad humors to ignââââ parts These humors are gathered by suppreââiââ of terms which though they seem to be onelâ ãâã the veins yet they get to the arteries by their Anastomosis Therefore those women that âavâ
the womb If you cannot make him sleep by singing nor rocking noâ the like it is a disease Are diveâs in mân and children in these it is from milk corrupt in the stomach from which sharp humors arise and disturbe the animal Spirits and infect them and if there be sad fancies frights âollow of which before If it cries alwaies and cannot by any art be made to sleep it is a sign of a diseaâe of watching which is dangerous because children use to sleep much And hence come Cataârhs Convulsions Driness and Feavers The bad milk musâ be amended and the corâupt meat prevented If it be from a feaver or pain âemove them Galen adviseth you ofâen to change the bed and place Sleeping Medicines are not safe but hurt but are rather to be given the Nurse moderately as sweet Almonds Lettice Poppy seeds Wash the feet with Decoction of Dill tops Chamomil flowers Sage Oâiers Viâe leaves Poppy heads Cool not the head too much nor use Narcoticks These are saâe Oyl of Dill to the temples Oyl of Roses with Oyl of Nutmegs with Poppy seed Breast-milk Rose or Nightshade water with Saffron In great driness of the brain let the coveâing of the cradeles head âe wet Chap. 10. Of Epilepsie and Convulsion IT is either by consent from parts below when the milk corrupts in the stomach or from an ill quality in it from the Nurses bad diet or from worms in the guts or from vapors from bad humors that twitch the membranes of the brain as in the Meazles and âmall Pox. It is somtimes from the brain first as when the humors are bred in the brain that cause it either from the parents or from distemper or bad diet It may come from toothach also when the brain consents and from a sudden fright It is manifest You shall know by the signs of the diseases whether it comes from bad milk worms or teeth If from a fright the people wil tell you If these all are absent it is certain that the brain is first affected It is a great disease and kills for the most part young children But when in older and it comes at a distance it vanisheth by age If it come with Pox or Meazles it ceaseth when they come forth if Nature be strong enough Give this Pouder to prevent it to a child as soon aâ it is born Take male Piony roots gathered in the decrease of the Moon a scruple Magistery of Coral half a scruple with Leaf-gold make a Pouder Or Take Piony roots a dram Piony seeds Misâeto of the Oâk Eâkes hoof Mans skull Amber each a scruple Musk two grains make a Pouder The Florentines burn behind in the head to dry the brain and Celsus saith it is the last Remedy Aegineta saith that children cannot endure such cruelty for the pain and watching would kill them See Sylvaticuâ The best part of the cure is in the Nurses dietâ which must not be disordered If it be from coârupt milk provoke vomit thus hold down the tongue and put a quill dipt in sweet Almonds down the throat If it come from worms give things that kill worms with Piony roots and the like If there be a feaver respect that also Give Coral Smaradgs and Elkes hoof In the âit give Epileptick water as Lavender-water and rub with the Oyl of Amber or hang a Piony root Elkes hoof or Smaragd about the neâk Of a Convulsion This is when the brain laboâs to cast out what troubles it The matter is in the marrow of the âack and fountain of the nerves It is a âââbborn disease and often kills In the âit wash the body especially the backbone with decoction of Althaea Lilly roots Piony Chamomil flowers And anoint with Mans and Goose grease Oyl of Worms Orris Lillies Foxes Turpentine Mastich Storax calamite The Sun flower is good boyled in water for to wash the Child Chap. 11. Of Strabismus or Squint-eyes THis is when they lie in the cradle with their head from the light or on one side and they still look towards the light which causeth distortion of the eyes or it may come from the Epilepsie or by birth If by birth it is not curable nor if it come from an Epilepsie If it come from custom and be new it is curable You must put a candle on the contrary side or a picture so long till the eyes come to be right Chap. 12. Of pain in the Ears Inflammation Moisture Ulcers and Worms OF these in the first Book But here we shal speak of inâantsâ the brain in them is very moist and hath many excrements which Nature cannot send out at its proper pâssages these get often to the ears and cause pain and flux of blood with inflammation and matter with âain In children pain and inflammation are hard to be kâown they cannot relate it only it is kâown by constant crying and feeling their ears and will not let others touch them sometimes the parts about the ears are red It is dangerous because it brings watching and Epilepsie the moisture breeds worms there and fouls the spungy bones and at length deafness incuâable Presently allay the pain but children must not have strong remedies Only use warm milk about the ears Oyl of Violets or the Decoction of Poppy tops To take away moisture use Honey of Roses and Aqua Mellis to be dropt into the ears Or Take Virgins Honey half an ounce red Wine two ounces Allum Saffron Salt-peter each a dram mix them at the fire Or drop in Hemp seed Oyl with a little Wine Chap. 13. Of the Thrush Bladders in the Gums and Inflammation of the Tonsils THese are from bad milk or from âoul humors in the stomach for the mouth is tender and connot endure the sharp milk nor the vapors from the stomach because the coat is the same as in Lib. 2. Part. 1. Cap. 18. The bladders in the gums are thus cured Take Lentils busked pouder them lay it upon the gumâ Or Take Milium in flour half an ounce with Oâl of Rosâs make a Linimem The inflammation of the Tonsils is more from eleven to thirteen for then the parts aâe harder and hold the humors longer and they cannot sweat out For Cure keep the belly ãâã bâ ãâã the like use Repellers at first then Resolvers with Repellers and at last Resolvers alone but not too hot in age Gargles are best in infants anoint with Honey of Roses Mirtles Pomegranates Diamoron inwardly Outwardly use Oyl of sweet Almonds Chamomil St. Johns-wort c. Chap. 14. Of Breeding of Teeth THis is a necessary evil in all children and very great by reason of the variety of symptoms joyned with it It is about the seventh month first the fore-teeth then the eye-teeth and last of all the grindersâ First they feel an itching in their gums then they are pierced as with a needle and pricked by
their shape the malignant are known by their hardness and heat and blewness filâh and pain They are often hard to be cured because the pox is with them and they are in a place to which Medicines are hard to be applied and to continue The Myrmeciae are not cut off but they leave a great ulcer the Thymi and Clavi grow again Acrochordones once cut leave no root After Universals and order of diet either use Medicines or cut or burn them to discuss then use Sage dried with Figs Organ Rue burnt dry Savin Frankincense with Wine and Vinegar or Snakes skins with Figs these also dry These corrode eat and burn as juyce of wild Cowcumbers with Salt Milk of Figgs Sheeps dung Goats gall with Niter Aqua fortis Spirit of Vitriol Sulphur Butter of Antimony Take heed that you hurt not the parts adjacent but defend them with Bole sealed Earth Rosewater and Vinegar if you put the Corrosives into Nut-shells change them twice or thrice in a day and wash the part with a clensing Decoction and then cut or burn Chap. 7. Of the Haemorrhoids of the Womb. THe veins that end in the neck of the womb often swel like the Haemorrhoids it is from gross blood that comes to these veins out of the time of the terms Inordinate flux of terms may occasion it when tâây slow out of the usual time they grow thick and cannot get out of the veins but swel them They are to be touched and with a Speculum matricis to be seen There is pain and bleeding without order she is pale and lazy Correct the blood purge and bleed in the arm to derive and revel of which in the diseases of the womb If pain be abate it by sitting in a Decoction of Mallows Althaea Chamomil Mâlilot flowers Moulin Lineseed Foenugreek of which also make Fomentations and Oyntments with Butter Populeon and Opium if there be pain Take Populeon Oyl of Roses and sweet Almonds fresh Butter each half an ounce Saffron a sâââple with the yolk of an Egg make an Oyntment Or Take Muâilage of Quinces Althaea eaâh half an ounce Oyl of Roses and Hens greâse each a dram the yolk of an Eg and Saffron half a dram mix them in a leaden Mortar If pain be gone or abated and they bleed not use Dryers of Bole Earth of Lemnos Acacia Ceruss froath of Silver Lead burnt and washed long Birthwort Allum Verdigreece If they swell with blood evaporate it or âoment with the Decoction of Mallows Althaea Pellitory Chamomil flowers Moulin Melilot seeds of Line and Foenugreâk If they do not good open them by Fig leaves rub'd upon them or by Horsleeches of which Chap. 2. If there be proud flesh take it oât as is shewed If they bleed gently lât Nature alone to the work for it is good and ârees from other diseases If the flux be gâeat and abate the strength open a vein in the arm divers times and do as in over slowing of the terms Question How do the Haemorrhoids differ from the Terms flowing or stopt Mercurialis saith That though a flux of terms be immodârate yet it hath its periods and is without pain and makes not the body lean but it is contrary in the Haemorrhoids But this is not true for the body is not made lean alwaies by the Haemorrhoids nor do the courses keep their periods alwaiâs Besides the pain which is almost alwaies in the Haemorrhoids they differ in that the terms flow from the veins of the womb and its neck but the Haemorrhoids are when the blood flows too much to the veins that nourish the privities and there either sticks or is evacuated Chap. 8. Of Ulcers in the Neck of the Womb. THey are seldome cured in the body of the womb and they are simple and clean or âordid and malignant Are a flux of sharp humors that lasts long in the Pox and Gonorrhaea Corrupt afterbirths and courses after childâearing detained inflammations turned to imposthuiâesâ these are the internal The external are sharp Medicines hard travail a reat child taken out by âorce violent leâhery wounds falls strokes Are pain and constant biting that increaseth ââââcially in coâulation or when Wine or Hydrâmel is injected You may also see it with a Speculum also there is matter gentle or âilthy if the ulcer go towards the bladder they piss hot and often there is pain in the roots of the eyes to the hands and fingers fainting and a little âever somtimes The external Causes are to be related by the patient If it be from the pox or Gonorrhaea the signs of them will appear of which Hippocrates They are hard to be cured because they are in a part fit to receive humors soft and moist and that hath consent with many parts Hence are divers Symptoms the great old and foul are worst when they corrode and are hollow they are seldome cured they that may easily have Medicines applied to them are easieât cured First stop the flux of humors to the part if it be either from the whole body or any part And amend the distemper of the womb that it may neither breed nor receive bad humors If the French pox be with it resist that first If there be pain first abate that with Milk steeled or with three whites of Eggs and Mucilage of Fleabane or an Emulsion of Poppy seeds Or Take Althaea roots an ounce Dill seed two drams Barley a pugil Faenugreek and Lineseed each an ounce Fleabane and Poppy seed each half an ounce boyl them in Milk Of which in pain of the womb In a foul ulcer first use Clensers as Whey Barley water Honey Wormwood Smallage Orobus Orris Birthwort Mirrh Turpentine Allum As Take new Milk boyled a pint Honey half a pint Orris pouder half an ounce Use it hot often every day When that which was injected is voided wash with the decoction of Mallows and put up this Pessary Take Eruum and Lentils in pouder and Orris each two drams with Honey Or Take Diapompholigos with Frankincense Mastich Mirrh Aloes as the ulcer requires Or use Fumes As Take Frankincense Mastich Mirrh Storax Calamite Gum of Juniper Labdanum each an ounce make a Pouder or Troches with Turpentine If there be suspicion of the French pox add a little Cinnabar In a very foul ulcer and Aegyptiacum or Apostolorum or a little Spirit of Wine In a creeping corroding ulcer with clenâers mix cold drying and astringent Medicines Allum water Plantane and Rose-water with Pomegranate flowers boyled and Pomegranate peels and Cypress-nuts is also good and with Aloes After clensing fill it with flesh and heal it up As Take Tutty washed half an ounce Litharge Ceruss Sarcocol each two drams with Oyl of Roses and Wax make an Oyntment Or smoak the privities with Mirrh Frankincense Gum or Juniper Labdanum two drams in pouder with Turpentine make Troches Or use Sulphur or Allum Baths and Plaisters
this is said before only a Cancer may seize upon the substance of the womb but it is more usually in the neck of it Chap. 15. Of the displacing of the Womb and first of the Ascent of it WHen the womb falls out of the privities it is called Procidentia uteri this is ordinary but the asceÌt or going up of the womb is more unknown Many grave Anatomists hold thaâ the womb doth ascend if sweet things are applied to the nose if to the privities that it descendâ if stinking sâents come the womb flies from thââ and it is to be seen by breathing altered and by some meats that the womb greedily desires and catcheth up Galen overthrows this opinion and saith that the womb doth move after a sort and ascend but it is very little and not to be demonstrated nor can it arise to the stomach it is tied with such strong ligaments to its place and when it falls out the ligaments are extended by moisture and falling of it down And there is no reason why the ligaments though loose or wet it should go up so speedily and come down again forâ falling down is by degrees and it is not soon brought up again And though it be enlarged in conception it is by degrees and equally not suddenly in one side Nor are the ligaments made very loose in conception and the bottom of the womb is not tied the ligaments being onely on the sides But this cannot be denied which women affirm that they feel a body or ball moving about the navel and a Physitian or Midwife may feel it Therefoâe let us enquire what it is if it be not a womb That body which you may feel stir is the stones and that blind vessel which Fallopius found out which he compared to the great end of a Trumpet called Fâllopius his Trumpet For the stones hang and the body of the Tâumpet is lâke a pipe loose and moving and when they are full and swell with corrupt seed and vapoâs they move to and fro and ascend as high as the navel And the stones with the Trumpet make this round tumor of the womb which is felt in women as Riolanus observes Whatsoeveâ makes corrupt seed in the stones of a womaÌ and fils them âth evil âapors or wind is the cause of which in suffocation of the womb for the cause is alike in both only in suffocation the Symptoms are worseâ because the evil vapors are then more freely carried by the veins arteries and nerves and asilict the principal parts The woman and others may feel a round body and she âindeth a pain at her heart and short breath without sleeping or doting or other symptoms and there weâe causes that disturbed the womb It is not dangerous yet not to be slighted for it may turn to the strangling of the womb when these evil vapors move to the noble parts Let the aim be at the corrupt seed and vapors which must be dis ussed and evacuated as in suffocation of the Womb. Chap. 16. Of falling out of the Womb. SOmtimes it falls to the middle of the thighs oâ to the kneâs almost or hangs a little out The womb changeth its place when the âigaments by which it is bound to the other parts âre not in order There are four two above âroad and membranous that come from the Peâitonââum and two âelow that are nervous âound and hollow âââideâ it is bound to the âreat vesâels by veins and aâtâriâs and to the âack by nerves Now the place is changed when it is down another way or when the ligaments are loose and it falls down by its own weight it is drawâ on side when the terms are stopt and the veinâ and arteries âre full those namely which go to the womb if it be a mole on the one side thâ liver or spleen caâse it by the livââ veins on the rigât side or the spleen on the left as they are ãâã more or less I also falls down by the loosning of the parââ to which it is fastned but how that can be it is not clear Hippocrates saith It comes from external causâ as frâm âold of the âeeâ or loyns from leaping or fear cutting of woodâ or rââning dâwn a âill and the likâ these make the ligââents moist and loosâ Also it may be from cold after childbearing getting into the womâ when the âârms flow âtting upon a cold stone and the like Others say it comes from the solution of thâ connâxion of the sibrous neck and the parts adjââent and that is froâ the weight of the womâ descending thiâ we deny not But then the ligaments must be loose or broken But women in a dâopâe could not be said not to have the woââ fâll down if it came only from loosness Bââ the âause in them is the ââltness of the waterâ which dries more then it moistneth Iâ there be â little tumor within or without the prâvities like a skin stretched or a weight âelt about the pâivities it is onely a descent of the womb but iâ there be a tumor like a Goose egâ and a hole at the bottom there is at first a gâeaâ pain in the parts to which the womb is âastnedâ as the loyns the bottom of the bâlly anâ the prâvitiâs and tâe os sâcrum ââom the streââhing ãâã breaking of the ligaments but a little after the pain abateth and there is an impediment in walking Somtimes blood comes forth from the breach of the vessels and the dung and urin are stopt and a Fâaver and Convulsion When it is new it is easily cured when old it is haâd to be cured but not deadly onely it is troublesom and nasty It hindeâs conception and keeps terms fâom flowing orderly If it be with âain Feaver or Convulsion it is deadly especially in women with child That which comes from corrosion of the ligamentsâ is dangerous First put it up before the air alâer it or it be inââamed or swollen Therefore firât give a Clyster to remove the excrements Then lay her âpon her baâk witâ her lâgs abroad and thighs liftâd up her heâd down and take the tumor in your hands and thrust it in without violence Iâ it be swollen by alteration and cold soment it with the Dâcoction of Mallows Althaea Linâ Foenugreek seed Chamomil flowers Bayberries and anoint iâ with oyl of Lilliâs and Hââs grease If thâre be an inflammation put it not up yet It may be ârighted in by shewing of a red hot iron and actinâ as if you would burn it First sprinkle upon it the poâder of Mastich ââââkincense and the like As Take Frankinâânsâ Mâstââh each two drams Sarcâcol steept in Milk â dram Mummy Pomegranate âââwers Sangâiâ Draconiâ each half a dâam Whân it is put up let her lie with her leggs stretched and one upon the other for eight or ten daiâs and mâke a Peâââââ like a Pâarâ of Cork
By its publick action it serves for generation If the private faculty be hurt and the nourishmânt not well made there is a superâluous moisture and then weakness without other fault of the organ or unity divided The first Cause is distemper when the manifest qualities are changed or when the natural heat is suffocated or dispersed or when the occult qualities are changed Heat in the womb makes a hot distemper if it be too much by which the womb sucks more then it can concoct this is not propeâly weakness but that distemper iâ weakness when the action is either not done or weakly done But cold rather makes weakness in the womb by which it cannot make the sufficient quantity of nourishment hence excremenâs are heaped up and it cânnot perform its actions Also a moist distemper makes weakness by which it can neither keep seed nor child it is also weak from loosness Little desire of Venery and no pleasure therin argue weakness of the womb flux of seed often abortion pain in the loyns and pubes when the terms are coming âarts from the womb head-ach and the like The signs of a cold and moist distemper with or without matter are already declared It is a great disease by reason of the diverâ Symptoms in women that have conception hurt It is worst when it comes from dispersing and extinguishing of the natural heat We have shewed how distempers of the womb are cured but the dispersing of the Spirits and natural heat is cured by things that hinder thâ loss of Spirits and strengthen the womb as Spices Cinnamon Cloves Nutmeg Mace Diacalaminth Aromaticum rosâtum Diaxilaloes rosâta Novella Treacle Mithridate Outwardly by Oyl of Lillies Nard Lavender and Astringents when the womb is loose Things that help the womb in the whole subsâânâe are in the Chapter of the cold and moist Diââemper as Aqua vitae for Women Or this Take Castor three ounces Saffron two ounces extract thâm siâgular add to both Extract of Mugwort two oânces of Angelica a drâm Magistery of the mother of Pearl â dram Oyl of Cloves a sâruple of Angeliââ and of Amber and of Nutmegs each half a scruple Let her eaâ meat of much nourishmânt and drink good Wine Chap. 2. Of the Itch of the Womb. THis is more in old then young womeââ and must be distinguished from the Frenzie of the womb for here is only a desire to scrath the privities so that they cannot sleep Nor is it with desire of copulation as in the fury of the womb It is a salt humor that is serous and adust that causeth it that is sent to the neck of the womb and the privities How it comes there I shewâd in Ulcers of the privities It is known by her relation and often putting her hand to the privities It is more troublesom then dangerous becauââ it hinders sleep First purge the whole body and if there aââ signs of plethory and strength permits bleed iâ the arm Then qualifie the sharp âalt hâmors with cold and moist means and râmovâ them from the privities Foment with a Dâcoction of Lettice Plantane Willow Dock rooâs and then anoint with Galenâ Cooler Or dip â Pessary in this Oyntment and put it in Oâ Tâke Allum Nitâr Sulphur each six drams Sââphisager an ounâe with Rose-vinegar and fresh Butter make a Linimens If these wil not cure use stronger as the oyntment of Elicampane with Quickâilver Or Take black Soap Staphisacre âach a dram quiâk Brimstone half an ounce Quick silver two drams wiââ Rose-vinegar and Hogs grease make an Oyntment Let the meât be of good juyâe coolinâ and moistââng Take heed of Spices sharp and salt meats Chap. 3. Of pain in the Womb. THere is pain in the body of the womb witâ other diseases sometimes as the Coââckpains woven in the bottom of the belly and in the loyns and hips and is called the Pain of thâ Womb. It is often in women with child as the inflammation of the womb it is burning and beating it binds the belly and stops the urin Solution of unity is the Cause of all pains and this is from the stretching of the womb and its vessels or corrosion Stretching is from wind or clotted blood in the cavity oâ it and when Nature cannot expel it by reason of the straitness of the paât there is pain Also pain is from stretching of the vessels beâore the terms flow when they are close and the blood thick and this pain is increased by external cold especially after heat Somtimes there is a gathering oâ humors about the womb when the terms ââow and are âoul and they get into the membranes and stretch them The same may be from corrupt seed that stretcheth the vessels Or from sharpness and corrosion in the neck âf the womb when sharp humors flow through it and twâtch it The pain is manifest but let us look at the âigns oââhe causes If it be from clotted blood there was a flux of the same and the pain is fixed about the oriâice of the womb If there were external causes the patient will relate If it be from seed there is suffocation of the womb The greater the cause is and the more vehement it works the more is the danger If there be pain and fear of fainting look to that before the cause with Anodynes and Narcoâicks if need be If it be from windâ see inflation of the womb If iâ be from clotted blood diââolve and evaâuate it with hot and attenuating Medicines made into Fomentations Baths and Oyntmenâs It is good to apply Treacle to the region of the womb or put it in with Rue and Honey Or give a Clyster to the womb of Ruâ Foenugreâk sâed and Oyl of Rue and Orris Or give ãâã and Cinnamon water If the vessels of the womb are not open enough for the terms See in the stoppage of the terms If there be wind make a Clyster thus Takâ Merâury Mugwort Calâmints Pennyroyal eaâh ãâã handâul Chamomil and Melilot flowers each haââ a handâul ãâã anâ Lineâeed each an ounâe boyl them in a pint strained dissolve Hiera Beâtdicta laxativa each half an ounce âaâe a Clââââr Give Mugwort Zedoary water Essence of Caâââr Treacle or âomens Aquâ vitâe of whiâh before Make a Clyster for the Womb thus Takâ Mugwort Calamints Bettony each hâlâ a handâââ Gith Cummin Carrot Aniseedâ eaâh a dram Spiâe Schoenanth Nutmeg Cinnamon eââh ãâã dram boyl them in Wine Then fill an Ox bladder half full with Oyl of Lillies and Dill and apply it to the belly Or Tâke Oyl of Lillies Orris each an ounâe distilled Oyl of Angelicâ a dram Goose and Heâs gâeâse each half an ounce Muciââgâ of Linâ aâd Faenugreek seed made with Muâwârt wââer eaâh three drams seeds of Cummin Cârrâts Carawaâ each a dram with Wâx mâke a soft Oyntment Oâ Take Peââitorâ two handâuls Mercury a handful beat them add Chamomil flowers Cummin Anise
with proper things as we shewed in the distempers of the Womb. But take heed that you move not the Terms when you attenuate for that wil melt the âerous humors and fix them more in the vessels use neither Vinegar noâ sharp things After purging consume the reliques by sweat if choler be in fault that must not be sweated out discuss it with warm Baths and do so in melancholy Use Pessaries Fomentations and Fumes to the womb Give Treacle Mithridate or the Decoction of Anâelica roots if cold humors are the cause Chap. 9. Of Terms coming before their time THese shew an ill constitution And it is a depraved excretion of the Terms that comes for the time often fâr somtimes they flâw sooner or twice in a month The immediate Cause is hurt of the retentive and expulâive faculty so that the blood flows not or sooner or lateâ or oftner the cause why they come sooner is in the blood that stirsâup the expulsive faculty in the whole body or in the womb somtimes all causes meet the blood is too much or too sharp and hot and if the retentive faculty in the womb be weak and the expulsive strongâ and of quick sense it is sooner A fall stroke or passion are the evident Causes They will relate it and the signs of the causes are these If it be from much blood there are the signs of plethory heat thinness and sharp humors are known by the distemper of the whole The weakness of the retentive faculty and loosness of the vessels is known from a loose and moist habit of body It is not dangerous but troublesom and hinders conception Iâ they come too soon from hurt in the faculty provoked by too much plethory Let blood use a spare diet and much exercise If it be from sharp blood temper it by good diet and Medicines as in the choleriâk distemper of the womb Use Baths of Iron-water that corrects the distempers of the bowels then evacuate If it come from the retentive faculty and loosness of the vessels correct the cold and moist distemâer with gentle astringents Iâ it be from a stroke or fall cuâe it as the vessels opened are cured of which before Chap. 10. Of Terms that come after their usual time VVHen they stay longer then ordinary and return without order at no set time the causes are little and thick blood straitness of the passages weakness of the expulsive faculty and dulness Either of these causes may stop the Terms buâ if all meet the disease is worse For if blood be not bred in such a quantity that it may prick Nature forward to expel it the purging of it is diââered till there be enough to stir up Nature to expel it If thiâk humors are in the blood the passages stopt and the faculty weak the Terms muât needs be disordered and the purging of them differed longer If it be from want of blood she hath either lived poor in diet or exercised too much and she âinds no inconvenience by the want of her Terms If it be from gross slimy blood there are signs of Cacochymy The weakness of the faculty is known by the cold distemper of the womb It is not so dangerous as stoppage of the terms but it is bad enough in a plethorick or cacochymical body If little blood be use a âuller diet and exercise not If blood be gross and foul make it thin and cut it and after Preparatives let the humors mixed therewith be evacuated It is good to purge presently after the Terms and to use Calamints and to purge often Also four or five daies before the Terms scaâiââe the ankles and hold the feet in warm waâââ âub the legs apply Cuppâng-glasses without Sâââification to the inside of the thighs and use Fumes and Pessaries Anoinâ the bottom of the belly with things to provoke the Terms If there be a numness use things against the Palsie Chap. 11. Of the Terms voided another way SOmetimes they come out at the nose or are vomited up or flow out by the Haemorrhoid veins Hence Hippocrates saith that a woman that vomits blood is cured by having her târms or by a bloody flux Somtimes they are pissed âorth Dodonâeus saies that they come out at the eyes like tears somtimes Amaâus Lusitanus saith they will come forth at the Teats of the breasts and at the navel at the little finger or ring-âinger every month as Mercatâs observed thrice Are stoppage of the Terms from straitness of the vessels in the womb or evil conformation of the womb It is more troublesom then dangerous and hinders conception It is best when they come out at the nose for it is a part that Nature useth to disburden her self by First bring the blood to the womb again and abate it Open the ankle-vein three daies before she begins to bleed Or cup the thighs or rub them Or use Baths Fomentations Oyntments Womb-clysters Pessaries and the like mentioned in Suppression of the Terms Chap. 12. Of the Whites IT is a âoul excretion from the womb white and somtimes blew or green or reddish no at a set time nor every month but disorderly longer or shorter Before or after the Terms and when they are stopt Virgins seldom have this disease and women with child have it somtimes It differs from the running of the reins for it is in less quantity whiter and thicker and at a greater distance It differs from night pollution which is onely in sleep with imagination of Venery The immediate Cause is an excrementitious humor flegm choler or melancholy Somtimes it is like waterish blood It is gathered in the whole body or in the stomach liver or spleen For they who have crudities in the stomach are subject to this disease Somtimes the womb alone is distempered after often mischances or when the womb is very cold and moist This matter flows through the veins of the womb or of the neck of it which use to carry blood and Nature abuseth them to carry excrements especially if they are bred in the womb The remote causes are whatsoever doth breed âad humors some have it after strong purges or long bathing Somtimes they are pale somtimes blew red waterish and green somtimes slimy or cold or sharp or stinking In young people it is reddish The face is discoloured the urin thick there is loathing and heartach If the humor be sharp and corrupt there is a Feaver If it be flegmatick and much the ligaments of the womb are loose and it falls out thus Hippocrates and there are saith he swelled eyes evil colour and short breathing If it be not bred in the womb the humor is from a Cacochymy If it be from a fault in another part the signs of that wil appear If it come only from the womb there will be but little if from the whole body there will be more It is often long
the orgâns of sense and motion with the liver spleen stomach belly mesentery bladder strait âut back hips arms and legs and causeth symâtoms As Galen âaith the mother or hysterical ââââion is one name but hath under it innumeââble Symptoms Chap. 4. Of Suffocation of the Womb. IN this they seem to be strangled And there are so many Symptoms at once that it is impossible to define it by one Sometimes there is only short breath sometimes the animal actions are hurt the whole body is cold from a malignant vapor sent up from the womb The immediate Cause is a vapor malignant and venemous sent up by the arteries veins and nerves that hurt the actions of the parts it goes to This vapor is like air or wind thin and little but very strong to get presently through the whole body it chieâly ascends to the gullet and causeth choaking as eating of Mushrooms Hellebore and other poysons There is often short difficult breathing with heart-ach vomiting and loathing If the vapor go first to the heart the motion of it ceaseth and there is swounding and she falls down If it go to the brain the animal actions are hurt When âeed and terms corrupt in the womb with other bad humors they breed this evil vapor because they are the best substance and the beginning of generation they are worst when corrupted especially seed to hurt the whole body Somtimes it is in women with child when they have not their after puâging but evil humors aâe leât and corrupt in the womb The chief cause of this humor is in the trumpet of the womb and stones the body of which is hollow and loose the stones being in bladders and have hollowness full of water which in hystârical women is yellow and thicker then ordinary This trumpet and the stones are often taken for the womb it selfâ when they are swollen with corrupt seed and humors and wind and reach to the navel of which in the Chapter of ascent of the Womb. This disease is breeding sooner or longer as the matter is more or less somtimes corrupt humoâs lie still and if they be stirred they send a venom or vapor to the whole body now in women subject to this disease sweet sâents to the nose or taken in or anger will move these huhumors and vapors They are according to the variety of the symptoms and efficient cause or venemous humors for corrupt blood especially seed puts on another Nature That Suffocation is at hand it appears by laziness weakness of the legs paleness sad countenance and the motion of somthing like a ball in the belly with noise like Froggs Snakes or Crows so that some think it devillish There is also belching yawning yexing short wind heart-beating loathing dulness laughture at the coming of the fit ârom the vapor gâtting into the membrâne of the breast that tickle them some cry some both laugh and cry These Symptoms increase when the fit comes and the jaws are closed that she seems to be choaked and sense and motion is gone or depraved Some have Convulsions some hâar what is done about them but cannot speak the âulâe iâ less the whole body is cold and the eyes ãâã as if they were dead When the âit declines humors sâow from the ârivââiâs the guâs rumble the eyes open the cheeks grow red and the body warm the animal actions return and the patient sighs and comes to her self It is known to be from corrupt seed if the terms are in order and short breath and low voice Suffocation and Convulsions and all Symptomes are then more vehement and at the end of the fit there flows a humor like seed out of the privities It is from the terms if they be stopt or flow not orderly and if there be a disâase in the womb it is neither from the seed noâ the terms 1. If there come swounding or a great Convulsion or quenching of natural heat it is deadly 2. Suffocation from corrupt seed is more dangerous then that which is from the terms mixt with melancholick humors 3. The longer it lasts and the worse the symptoms the more is the danger It ceaseth in yong women when they begin to bear children 4. The oftner the fit comes the more you may âear the quenching of the natural heat by weakning of the heart often and if she foam at the mouth she dies The Cure of the Fit In the fit you must discuss the malignant vapors that riseth from the womb and turn it fâom the principal parts and you must evacuate the matter that breeds it and prevent its return Cal upon her loud pluck the hairs of her privities and ears make strong Ligatures and Frictions cup the legs and thighs and gâoyns hold stinks to the nose as Partridg-feathers burnt hairs Leather Horn Castor Assa foetida Galbanum oyl of Amber Rue the warts on Horses legs dried and the pouder upon coals burnt makes a âume which if taken in the nose suddenly raised them Apply sweet Scenâs to the priviâies as Civeâ Musk Gallia and Alâpta mosâhata or pouder of Cloves Or Take Storax calamita Benzoin each a dram Gallia moschata half a sâruple make Troâhes with Gum Trâganth and let the Fume be taken into the womb by a Funnel A Liniment Take Storax Benzoin each a dram Gallia moschata half a scruple Civet four grains liquid Storax half a scruple with Cotton put it into the womb Clysters to discuss wind draw down the matter Take the Carminative Dâcoction a pint Electuary of Hiera six drams Benedicta laxativa an âââce Oyl of Rue and Bayberriâs each a dram Use Womb-clysters and Pessaries to women that have known man Take Electuary of Hiera and Diaphaenicon each two drams Turpentine half an ounce Honey of Mercury an âunce Castor halâ a dram ââth Wool make a Pessary Oyl of Tin applied to the navel doth remove the sit Or Rue Castor and sneesing Pouders As Take white Hellebore halâ a scruple long Pepper ând Ginger each half a dram or put Oyl of Amâââ into the Nose and Eârs Apply to the Womb this Take Oyl of Rue âaâs each two ounââs Cummin seed Câstâr dissolâââ in Vinâgar eâch two drams with Wax make a ãâã Or use a âlââsââr of ââlbânum Caâor and Aââa foetida A compound distilled Water Take Zedoary ââsmp sââds Lovage âââts each two ounââs Mirrh Castor each half an oânce Piony roots four ounâââ Misteto of the Oak gathered in the wain of the Moân three ounces ad water of Motherwort four pinâs anâ half Spirit of Wine a pint and half steep them eigââ daies distil and give a spoonful with Tile-flower or Mugwort water or Oyl of Amber some drops Or Take Castor Mirrh Assa faetida each a sâruplââ Pepper half a scruple with syrup of Mugwort mâlâ Pills give three The Cure out of the Fit First prevent the âeed from corrupting in the womb and if it be corrupt evacuate it presenâây
it seems to fall rather then be expelled and the bones of the privities must needs be divided That which follows the birth is above humane capaâity namely the transmutation of the navel vessels and lungs and heart in the infant and why Nature ordered it of which Galen elegantlâ in the 15. Book of the Use of Parts and 6. Chapter There is also a legitimate birth when it is accoâding to the Law of Nature and an illegitimate when it is before or after the time Hippocraâes saith that a birth in the seventh month is vital and legitimate And it is sooner fâom the strength of the faculty and matter âit for formation yet it is commonly weak except the âeventh month be compleat Of the eighth month Hippocrates âaith thus None liveâ that is born in the eighth month because iâ cannot bear the two afflictionâ to follow but the reason of the Arithmeticians is better that say an even month is imperâect The ninth and tenth month are the best as Hiâpâcrateâ âaith A child is born in ten months at tâe fârthest and so âaies the wisest Salomon Some say that a child may âe born in the eleventh month and Peter Apponensis was so born and some say they have been born in the fourteenth and fifteenth month but rare things are not to be counted the Law of Nature Generally Physitians agree with Hippocrates though some dissent Chap. 2. Of Abortion IT is the exclusion of a child not perfect nor living before legitimate time This time is defined by Hippocraâes Whosoever conceiveth doth it within seven daies but they are properly abortions that come before the seventh day and though some are in the fifth and sixth month that have lived yât that must not dârogate from the common Law of Nature Some differences of Abortion are from the time and bigness of the child For that which is cast out is little and round without distinction of members at first like a Grape Somtimes as long as a âinger and members may be distinguished And somtimes the child is almost perfect The immediate Cause is the expulsive faculty stiâred up and that is done by three means from Galen from the weight bigneâs and pain There are more causes which we shal place in two Ranks The first is of the manner of the causes that provoke the expulsive faculty The other is that which âindeth out these waies by all the causes The expulsive fâculty is first provoked by the child being weak either from evil seed or being dead The child is weak for want of food and from the mothers diseases either in her whole body or in the womb or parts adjacent that consent as Feavers Inflammations Fainting Convulsions Pain Vomiting Neesing Cough that move the Spirits and humorsâ and shake the child and stir up Nature to expel it Also straitness of the womb causeth Abortion by which means it cannot contain a great child Alâo shortness of the navel-vessels which Fabricius first observed The outward Causes are cold air after hot and moist which gets into the womb and provokes it and huâts the child The Astrologers add the malignant aspects of the Stars also too much or too little meat Great watchings purging and flux of blood by the womb and Haemorrhoids Also violent motion as leaping carrying of burdens strokes on the belly or baâk Also passions as anger fear sorrow Also bleeding purging fasting âmel of brimsâone or ashes hoofs burnt or stink of the snuââ of a candle If the breasts be less or much milk flow from them or she feel much and often pain about thâ belly or loyns that go to the Pubes and Os sacâum with a deâire of thrusting forth in the womb If the child change its place and if it fâl lower when it was in the middle of the belly there is fear of miscarrâing It is dangerous alwaââs because it is with violence there are also great Symptoms they are in lââs danger that have already brought forth a âhild ââârefore the âirst is most dangerâus and ãâã mouââs of the vessels arâ toân and they commonlâ become barren Abortion is moât dangeâoâs in the sixth seventh and eighth month beâââse thâ inâant being ââeater ââuseth greater pain and breaks the Ligaments worse To preserve from Abortion Consider the constitution before she is with child and prevent every cause If it be like to come from Plethory before Conception open a vein and after Conception in the fourth or âiâth month in the arm Iâ it be from Cacochymy purge the whole body and purge the womb with Pessaries and strengâhen it of which in the cold and moist distemper of the Womb If she have conceived open a vein before the time she used to abort iâ there Cacochymy purge gently at times If there be a cold distemper of body by flegm that hurts the womb give the dâcoction of China or Sarâa with strengtheners of the child Avoid the external Causes of Abortion and if they have done hurâ help it presently Lât nât the belly be bound if the child be weak ââmove the causes of weakness and strengthen iââ Use things that strengthen the womb and child as Coral as Kermes-berries Or Take Magistery of Coral a dram Pearl pââpared half a dram Ivory shaved a dram Maââiââ half a dram grains of Kermes a dram Manus ââristi with Pearl two drams make a Pouder Iâ thâ Abortion be at hand and the pains increase give this Pouder with a rear Eg Or Take Conâârââ of red Roses two drams red Coral aââ Maââiâh âââh a scruple give iâ presently Use the âounteââes Oyâtment outwardly to the Loyns Râins Pâcâân and Perinaeum Or Take Oyl of Roses Mirtâes Maââiâh Qâinces eaââ two ounces Oyl of Mints an ounce Bdellium ãâã in Vinegar liquid Storax each two ounces Oyl of Nutmegs by expression a dram with Wax make an Oyntment Of the same with Pitch Rosin Colophony you may make Pâaisters Let her hold a Loadstone in her hand or tie it to her navel or wear an Eagle stone under her arm-pits or Coral Jaspar Smaragds Diamonds If these will not keep the child up you must give over Aââringents and use Leniâives Question Whether the straitness of the Womb is the Cause of Abortion Hippocrates 1. de morb saith That the Womb may cause Abortion if they be windy thicâ great ãâã little and he shews in another place that Abortion may be from the straitnâss of the womb And in another place he saith Iâ a woman in the third âourth or fifth mânth miââarry often aââ at the sâme time it is because the womb wil not stretch And Galen confirms the same and iâ stânds to reason for natural birth is when the womb cannot contain the child for its growth Thârâforâ iâ it be ââeternaturally too little it iâ the cause oâ Morââon And though Nâture hath made the womb âo hold the child yet iâ iâ be not made large enough it cannot âântain
Wormwââd Sâuthernwood Bettonyâ Calamints Organ Chamomil flowers Anisâeds Rue Caraway as much as will sârve for a Fomentation for the feet Chap. 9. Of Vomiting Loosness Belly bound and not holding of urin in women in Child-bed THey âaââ up crude and iâdigâsted meat somtimeâ from weakâââs of the stomach by consent from the womb or from the humors that ãâã to the âââmach from the parts near the womb when the after flux doth not âlow they somtimes vomit blood or when it is disordered For the blood not getting out goes to the great veins and liver and in its hollow part by plenty and sharp it opens the veins and it gets into the stomach Sometimes a vein is broken from hard travel the strength will âail and there will be no maââer to make milk ofâ if the food be vomited If other humors they may cause a feaver by their motion If blood be vomited from a vein of the liver broken or opened a Dropsie is to be feared therefore stop it whatsoever it be in this case If it be of the meat give that which will be easily digested that oppress not the stomach which must be strengthened If bad humors are vomited up stop it not so soon but âlense with gentle Medicines and âpen the way by stool In vomiting of blood make Revulsion to the lower parts by rubbing cupping them or bleeding in the ham or ankle and provoke the after-flux The flux of the belly is dangerous if it be great for it weakneth and threatneth to bring a Dysentery or Tenesmusâ or Needing Nor is it safe to stop it presently least you stop the after-flux with it If it be from food not well concocted let her keep a better diet and let the stomach be strengthened outwardly If this will not do give internal remedies so that they help the stomachâ and hurt not the womb as the Decoction of Baâley Syrup and Honey of Roses Give Clysters âlso to temper the sharp humorsâ and âlenâe Or give Syrup of Roses Pulp âf Tamaâinds or Rhubaâb And Aââingents of Roses Plântanâ Tormentâl Quinces Coral and the like If they be wholly stopt the belly must not be bound But first give Rhubarb and Astringents outwardly and provokers of Terms Also the belly is bound in women in childbed then give a Suppository of Soap or Honey and after four or five daies give emollient Clysters and Manna or Caââia If they cannot hold their urin after hard travel use a Bath of Bettony Sage Bayes Rosemaryâ Pennyroyal Organ Stoechas and presently after anoint with this Take âat Puppy-dogs âoyled in Oyl of Worms Lillies and Foxes till the flesh fall from the bones then take the Fat and add Frankincense Storaâ calamite Benzoin Opopanax Mace each a dram Oyl of Nutmegs by expression âalf a dram with Goose grease and Wax make an Oyntment Chap. 10. Of the Wrinkles of the Belly after Child-bearing and mending of the largeness of the Privities AFter the âourth month Women prevent wrinkles by carrying a clout upon the bellyâ dipt in Oyl of sweet Almonds Jesamine Oyl of Lillies to loosen the skin that it may stretch better without cleââs If the belly be alreadly wrinkled Take Sheeps ãâã Goats ââet Oyl of sweet Almonds each an ounce Sperma Câââ two drams with Wax make an Oântment After the flux is pastâ add Oâl of ãâã or Râsâs or make Aetiâs his Cataplasm Chap. 11. Of Feavers and acute diseases in Women in child-bed THey have ofteÌ coÌtinual Fevers The âââst is th Feaver of milk about the fourth or third day from the motion of the blood from the womb to the breasts it is not of many daies and continuance and is not dangerous But take heed you mistake not a putrid âeaver for a milk-âeaver for labour and pain somtimes inflame the humors and cause putrââaction and though the Symptomes appear not the next day after delivery yet there may be the beginning of putreâaction from the heat of the humors in âravelâ especially if the after-flux be stopt from which time you must count the beginning of the diseases For a feaver cannot be long concealed nor the motion from travel last long therefore it is probable the motion is ceased and the âeaver comes of another cause which I shal declaâe presently They are the stoâpage of the after-flux or the diminishing of it or the âoul humors that were gathered in the time of being with châld and stirred ân travel Too great purging of the afâeâblood or Lochia signifies Cacochymy or a Feaver that will come long after travel If the Lochia âlow not in due time or be stopt then the blood and âoul humoâs go back to the great veins and liver and make a putrid Feaver or inflame those parts A Feaver from milk comes the fourth day and tâere is heaviness âf back and shoulders and the Lochia flow wel if not there is the sign of a ââver If the humors putriâie in the wombâ there is âoul stinking matter voided the belly is swollen and is pained when touchâ If the feaver be not from milk and the Lochia âlow it comes from bad humors especially if when she was big with childâ she kept not a good diet A Feaver from milk is without danger and ceaseth the eighth or tenth day that which comes from suppression of the Lochia or after-flux is dangerous and often deadly except there follow a flux of the belly If black stinking matter âlow from the womb they escape If the feaver come from a Cacochymy before Delivery it is worse because it argues much humors which Nature cannot discharge by the after-flux and the strength is dejected by hard travel A Feaver from milk requires only good diet and sweating must not be hindered for it cures That which is from stoppage or diminishing of the Lochia must be cured by provoking the after-flux or by another evacuatioÌ instead of it as purging bleeding in the âoot to provoke the flux or by âcarifying of the thighs and legs after cupping while the time is that the after flux should âe not afterwards For if that time be past if âârength permit open a vein in the arm bleed plentifully For purging some purge them in a Pleurisie after the seventh day but beware by reason of the weakness after travel and because Purges may hinder the after flux which is dangerous it is good to evacuate onely by the womb but if the flux of blood cease and Nature would puâge somthing from the womb you may give a gentle Purge of Rhubarb Cassia Manna Syrup of Roses Senna Alterers are thus to be ordered Avoid too cold and sharp things leât the evacuation by the womb should de diââurbed by cold things Let it be thin the first daies of lying in then thicker and so increasing take heed of too much drink especially of cold drink Question What Veins are to be opened in women that lie in and have a Pleurisie They
have Symptomatical âeavers also from inââammation of the Pleura Jaws or Liver because some of the âoul humors are sent to some private part and makes an inflamation to which the âeaver is joyned and the causes are as before mentioned If there be a Pleuriâie she is in great danger The question is whether she must bleed above or below I say thus First this âeaver is not properly Symptomatical but primary and hath the inflammation its associate while Nature sends part of the matter to the Pleura or other part Secondly note that Nature is in an erâor while she sends the vitious humors which she should expel by the womb to the Pleura Thirdly note that the vitious moâion of Nature is not to be helped therefore which should be done if you should presently open a vein in the arm but the blood is to be voided by the womb which is Natures way Fourthly iâ the Pleuriâie be not abated by oâening a vein in the aâkle for revulsion but the Sympâoms continue or increase you must not continue to open the veins beneath because they evacuate not from the part affected which is neâessâry in such a dangerous disease It is a sign that the matter is fastned to the part that it cannot again be brought to the womb by revulsion Therefore then you may open a vein in the arm on the same side to evacuate and derive the blood from the part or there about or she will be in danger of death And fear not that Nature will be taken from her ordinary motion towards the womb thereby for the vein that was opened in the foot prevented that and if you fear any danger you may prevent it by Frictions and cupping of the leggs while you let blood in the arm And you may give Clysters that may cause the humors moving upwards to come down and loosen the passages of the womb that blood may flow out the better As Take Pellitory of the Wall Mallows Althaea red Coleworts each a handful Chamomilââowers half a handful Faenugreek and Linseed each half an ounce boyl them in Water to a pint strained add lenitive Electuary an ounce Diacatholicon or Cassia half an ounce Oyl of Violets two ounces make a Clyster If the Feaver abate and the time of the flux of the Lochia be past give a gentle Purge Cure the rest as an ordinary Pleurisie onely take heed that while the after-flux lasts you give no binding Medicine Also she may have a Quinzie while she lies in while the vitious matter flows to the jaws The âure of which bleeding is to be done as in the Pleurisâe but the rest is to be done as in the Quinââie And if the Liver be inflamed by the motion of the humors to it you must bleed as in the Pleurisie and Quinzie Yet it is not so needful in the arm as in the Pleuriâie by reason of the greater distance of the Liver from the arm for the Pleura and the breast are nearer and consent more with the arms but the vein in the legâ is near to the hollow vein as the distribution of the upper veins to the arms The rest of the Cure of the inflammation âf the Liver is in Lib. 3. onely observe that you must not use too great Coolers or Binders in women in Child-bed but things that are of thin parts least the flux called Lochia or after-blood should be stopped THE FOURTH BOOK THE THIRD PART Of the Diseases of Womens Breasts THE FIRST SECTION Of Diseases of the Breasts Chap. 1. Of the increased number of Breasts and grâatness extraordinary THOUGH Nature hath ordained two in all women yet some have Breasts like men others have had two on each side that had milk The figure of the Breasts is round pointed at the nipple a little it ought not to be soft nor hard and of an indifferent bigness and it is better they be indifferent though thây hold not so much milk least they be subject to Cânâers and inâlammations and when they are too big they have not a temperate heat The Causes of over-great Breasts is much blood and the âââength of heat attracting and âoncoâting it these are remote causes but the immediâte cause is the laâgeness of the passages and loosness which is in the first conformation and furthered by idlâness much sleep and few terms and often handling of the Breasts by whiâh the blood and the heat is drawn to the Breasts It is easier to keep them from growing great then to abate them when too big with good diet and Topicks that repel by cooling and binding and drying As Take Mirtle leavesâ Horstayl Plantane Mints red Roses each a handful Pomegranate flowers two pugilâ boyl them in red Wine and Vinegar and with a Spunge apply it to the breastsâ and let it dry or apply Hemloâk bruised with Vinegar Or Take pouder of Comârââroots two drams Pomâgranate flowers red Râââs Frankincense Mastich each half an ounce âââley ââour red Oakre each an ounce and half with Rose-watââ the white of an Eâ and â little Vinegâr make a Cataplasme These may be laid to the Breasts and under the arm-piâs to astringe the vessels and hinder the blood from flowing to them Hemlock Henbane and other Narcoticks are forbidden because they weaken the natural heat and hinder the breeding of milk Dryers and Discussers are good in women tâat have great Breasts after weaning to consume the moisture As Take Bean and Orobus meal each twâ ounces and half Comârey roots in pouder half an ounce Mints three drams Wormwood Chamomil flâwers anâ Roses eaâh two drams boyl and add two ounces of Oyl of Mastich make a Cataâlasme The Breasts are too little when the flux of blood to the Breasts is hindered diminished intercepted revelled or turned another way or when the blood is not drawn by the Breasts as in a dry Liver-famine much labour or in watchings feavers and other diseases that consume the body The same is when the radical moisture of the Breasts is conâumed You must remove the cause that breeds it and ââten friction wil attract blood and foment with warm water in which Emollients have been boylâd with white Wine and then anoint with Oyl of sweet Almonds or of Indian-nuts Loosness of the Breasts is cured by astringents Chap. 2. Of Swelling of the Breasts with Milk VVHen the milk carrying veins are too full the Breasts swell all over or in âaââ and are pained by stretching and red Somâââes the milk congealâth and is a hard Tuâââ âhâ cause is abundance of milk or blood that ââkes it or the weakness of the child that cannot âuâk oâ because he is weaned Iâ oâtân âââseth without remedies Somtimes ãâã is an inâââmmation or the milk hardens to a ãâã You must hinder the breeding of much milk of which hereafter and consume that which is bred in women that give suck the child will draw them or a Puppy Or use a Glass to suâk with they which wil not give
must either use Moistners and Emollients with Digesters by turns or mixed âoment with the Decoction of Mallâws Althâââ Foenugreek and Lineseed Bâank-ursine and Chamomil âlowersâ Then anoint with Oyl of sweet Almonds Chamomil Hens grease Veal marrow Oyntment of Althââa Or apply this Cataplasm Take Althâea Mallows Brank-ursine Fennel tops each a handful boyl them soft stamp them ad Barley and Bean flour Linseed pouder of Althaea roots Chamomil flowers each an ounce Or lay on the great Diachylon Plaster and that of ârogs Then sprinkle Wine upon a hot stone and let the Fume be received And apply a Plaster of Ammoniacum dissolved in Vinegar If it be a bastard Scirrhusâ you may fear a Cancer Then after Universaâs and bleeding take away the disposition of the bowels that breeds black humors If you fear a flux of humors use oyl of Roses and juyce of Plantane and if there be heat stir them first in a Leaden mortar till they change their colour then add Ceruss Litharge each three ounces with Wax make an Oyntment Chap. 6. Of the Glandles or Kernels in the Breasts being swollen or of the Scrofula and Struma in the Breast CElsus saith the Struma and Scrofula in the Breast are rare It is from a thick humoâ flegm or melancholy Struma is with pain sometimes and and is like a Cancer or seems to turn to a Cancer but continues many years at a sâandâ But let the cause ãâã âat it will it âomes fâom stoppage or disorder of the terms by reason of the great consenâ of the womb with the Breast The Glandles or Kernels are to be felt though not before there is one great unmoveable tuumor and the rest are small It is hard to be cured for two causes the eaâthiness of the matter and the deep lying of it They which are near the skin are easily dissolved After purging and bleeding use Emollients and Discussers that are strong as in Scirrhus Take Orris roots three ounces boyl them in Oxymâl stamp them add Turpentine Oyntment of Althaea each three ounces Mucilage of Faenugreek seed an ounce Or Take roots of Althaea two ounces Briony-roots an ounce Orris roots half an ounce boyl them soft in white Wine stamp them add Ammoniacum dissolved in Vinegar and Bdellium dissolved in Wine each an ounce with Pitch and Wax make a Plaster If it cannot be discussed suppurate or cut it but this is troublesom and dangerous Chap. 7. Of the Cancer of the Breasts HIppocrates saith That an occult Cancer is better not cured then cured â for if cured they prâsently die but if not they live long Many women have lived long with good order of diet having a Cancer as if they had no disease so saith Wâlliam Fabricius and that if the Cancer be not ulcerated they may live forty years without pain and if you lay on Emolâients and Suppuraters they die in half a year The Breasts are spungy and loose and therefore Cancers breed often there but the Cause is from the womb when they are of a hot and dry constitution with burnt blood and when the terms stâp and then the humors flie to the womb and and mâke a Cancer either with or without a tuâor asâregomg A Cancer that ârâseth of it self is hard to be discerned at first for it is like a little tubercle no bigger then a pease and grows up by degrees and spreads out roots with veins about it And when the skin is eaten through it is a stinking ulcer and the lipps are hard and the matter black It is hard or never cured because the black humor that causeth it is very troublesom and hath a peculiar malignity which is fermented and made worse with Emollients and Suppuraters which loosen the vessels and dilate them so that the humor flows easier to the part and the corrupt humors get easier to the parts adjacent and infect them A Cancer not ulcerated is to be let alone by the counsel of Hippocrates But let blood and purge melancholy often But use no Topicks that may rot or provoke the part but things that by experience take away pain as Nightshade-water Snails boyled and Frogs in Oyl and with ashes of Frogs made into an Oyntment or Medicines of Lead As Take Oyl of Roses two ounces juyce of Nightshade berries an ounce and half Ceruss washâd Sugar of Lead each a dram Pompholygos half an âunce mix them in a Leaden mortar till they aâe thick Or use Craysiâh ashes and the ashes of the inward ward rind of an Ash-tree or Herb Robert Arcaeus teacheth how to cut them out and then burn the part if they be deep and ulcerated But Fabriâius shews that you must burn after to consume the reliques and stop the blood after it is âlensed Take Herb Robert Verbascum or Moulin Scabious Caprifolium or Honeysucâles Diââ Mans grease each equal parts burn them take three ounces and with six ounces of Nightshadâ water in â Leaden mortar mix them After cutting out the root purge melancholy often and provoke terms or Haemorrhoids least it return Give Treacle Mithridateâ with juyce of Boâage Sorrel Craysish broath and Asses milk This Water is good against all Cancers Take Moulin roots Clowns all-ââal each two ounces Dropwort Ceterach Herb Robert Agrimony Tormentil Scabious Avens Flâxweed each a handful Nettle seed three drams Elder and Rosemary-flowers each a pâgil boyl and sweeten it with Sugar Foment and waâh the Cancer with one part of it and let the dreggs be applied as a Pultis Fuchsius his blessed Pouder Take white Arsenick that shineth not like glass an ounce poudâr it pour Aqua viâae upon it and pour it off add fresh Aqua vitae every third day for fifteen daies Then Take roots of great Dragons gathered in July or August sliced and dried in the wind two ounces Thirdly âake bright clear Soote of the Chimney three drams make a Pouder Keep it close ââopt in a glass the older the better use it not till after a year For a palliative Cure keep it from increasing and take away pain with this Wateâ Take Scrâphularia roots and Herb Robert each a handful Lambs-tongue Nightshade Bugloss Borageâ Purââane Eâebright ââttony each half a handful a Fâog and two whites of Eggs with Quince seeds and Faenugreekâ each an ounce Rose and Eyebrightâater each a pint distil them in a Leaden still Use not Cancers as other ulcers for Emolliântâ Healers and Drawers exasperâte and kill wiââ greât pain Chap. 8. Of Ulcers and Fistulaes of the Breasts AFter Universals dry up the milk and if the Breasts hang down bind them up that the humors flow not down and move not the arm on that side Then clense it with the Docoction of Rhapontick Zedoary and Agâimony Heal thus Take strong Wââe six quarts Rhois Obsoniorâm Cypress-nuts each four ounces green Galls two ounces boyl them to the consistenâe of Honey If you fear a Fiâtula enlarge
Oyl of Roses Mastich each half an ounce red Sanderâ Coral each a scruple with Wax mix it If the feaver come from breeding of it abate the pain and give the Alterers of which Chap. 14. of Bleeding of Teeth Of Meazles and small Pox. There are Epidemical feavers at certain times that cast out Meazles and small Pox of whicâ before The cause is not only from the impurity of the terms but from the malignity of the air for they are more or less as the air is purer or impurer Somtimes it is infectious and the humors are so coârupt that worms breed under the scabs and corrode the bones and internal parts as hath been seen in bodies opened dead of this disease If the disease be very infectious before there is a âeaver it is good to preserve by change of air and Antidotes when many die of it but when few die it is not amiss to let them alone leaââ they have it in a more dangerous time for most will have it only give a gentle Purge and âortifie Nature that she may better expel them If there be a âeaver use no more Preservatives âut labour to get them forth by Medicines mentioned and defend the eyes and throat and ââevent deformity of which before Chap. 3. Of the Milkey Scab Achores and Favi THe milkey Scab is at the first sucking the Achoâes are after The Achores are scabs not white and the white scab is not only in the face but all over the body The Achores are only in the head but they are cured alike They are all ulcers chiefly in the head with holâs that run with matter constantly They come from excrementitious humors waterish and sharp mixed of thick and thin very âalt Therefore they are sometimes yellow or white or red or black but alwaies salt and biâing and itching that makes them scratch They are gâthered in the womb and from corruption of the milk The Vulgar think they are healthful when they run because Nature sends them forth and if they strike in they cause diseases and Epilepâies They cure in time âf themselves but if the matter be very bad it pierceth the skull Dry these not rashly so they disfigure not the ââcâ nor hurt the eyes But drive them forth with ââabious Cârduus water and Cordials Use no Coolers nor Astringents least the matter be stroke in Let the Nurse forbear salt and sharp ând spiced things and strong Wine Pepare the humors with Borage Sâââory Bugloâs Fumitâây Hops Polypody and Dock roots Then purge with Senna Polypody Epithymum Rhuâââb and strengthen thâ Bowels As Take Conserve of Borage Bugloss Violets Fumitâry Succory each an ounce Succory roots and Citrons candied each half an ounce Diarrhodon Diamargartion ârigid Harts-horn each a sâruple with ãâã oââ Gâââi-ââoâârs makâ an Electuary Let the Nurse take every day two drams Or Take Harts-horn prepared two drams Magâstery of Coral a dram Diamargariton frigid half a dram give half a dram or a dram of this Pouder Let the child be purged with Manna or Raisons laxative If you fear great putrefaction under the scabs and that wil turn to a scald head or eat the skul wash the head with Decoction of Mallows Barley Celandine Wormwood or with Althaea-roots boyled in Boyes urine and Barley water And then anoint with Oyl of Roses bitter Almonds and a little Litharge Or Take ashes of Mirtles and Nut shells each a dram Tutty a dram and half Butter washed with Rose-water an ounce Or Take juyce of Beets Celandine each an ounce Hogs grease two ounces Sulphur a dram Or Take Cerâss Litharge each two drams Pomegranate flowers and Agarick eâch a dram with Oyl of Roses and Vinegar make an Oyntment or wash with Soap and then with the Decoction When the skull is bare use Honey of Roses and Spirit of Wine and after round Birthwort and Balsom of Peru and Turpentine with Tobacco water Chap. 4. Of a scald Head IF Achores or Favi last long or are ill cured They turn to a Scald which is a scabby ulcer that corrodes the skin and stinks it is called Tinâa or Moth which eats garmentsâ as this doth the flesh Achores are moist ulcers in the head and body Tinea is a dry ulcer in the head only The immediate cause is a salt and sharp humor melancholick from the mothers blood or bad milk it infecteth others by the clouts or caps Some are like a bran or scurfe with scales some are slimy and when the scab is off there appears red quick nobs of flesh like the insides of sigs some are malignant some not some new some old There are dry scabs in the head yellow or ash coloured that run little and that which is voided stinketh It is hard to be cured If it be new or the matter yellow or the like it is easier An old Scald ash-coloured and black is stubborn aâtâr cure the hair will scarce grow there again because the skin is so hard if it will not grow red after rubbing there is no hopes of hair coming again First take off the Scab with âlensers a little sharp and because the humors make the skin dry and thick moisten with Hogs grease upon Beet or Colewort leaves Or Take juyce of Fumitory Coleworts Docks Elicampâne each an âunce and half Litharge half an ounce with Hogs grease oyl of Rue and Wax make a sofâ Oymment When the Child is of age and strong make first universal evââuation with Senna Rhubarb Agarick then take off the Scab with Sulphur two drams Mustard half a drain Stavisacre Briony roots each a dram Vinegar an ounce Turpentine half an ounce and Bears grease Or beat Watercresses with Hogs gâease and apply it the scab wil fall off in twenty four hours continue it After the scab is off pull the hair out by the roots with instruments or medicines commonly they use a pitched cap and pull it off violently which brings away the hair Or Take Starch or Wheat flour two ounces Rosin half an ounce boyl it in water for a Pultis lay it upon the several Sâaldâ and let it stick some daies then pluck it off suddenly Then use Emollients that correct the dry distemper Also use things to take the excrements out that lie deep in the skin As Take roots of Althaea Docks Lillies each an ounce Mallows Fumitory Sage each two handful boyl them in Liâ add Vinegar wash the head with it every day Thenâ Take Ostratium Sulphur each half an ounce oyl of Eggs an ounce with Hogs grease After that Take Briony and Dock roots and Elicampanâ roots each an ounce Fumitory Celandine Scabious each two handful Chamomil and Balm each a handful boyl them in Lie and wash the head twice a day therewithâ or foment it then rub the head with a course cloth or with oyl of Staphesacre or of Raddish till it grow red to draw out the bad humors that lie deep
receiving pleasure in the time of copulaâion when they spend their âeed The terâs are fleâmatick thiâk and ââimâ and flow not righâlyâ there is wind in the womb the seed is crude waterishâ with a Gonorâhaea It is the cause of obstructions and barrenness and is hard to be cured Use things proper to heal the womb as this Wâteâ Tâke Galangaâ Ciânamonâ Nutmeg Mace Cloves each twâ ãâã Gingâr Cubebâ Zedoary âardamoâs eâch ân ounce grains of Paradise long Pâpper each half an ounce beat them and put them iâ six quârtâ of âine for eiâht daies then add Saâe Minâs Balm Motherwârt eacâ three handfâls lât them stand âight daies more then pour âff the âine and beât the herbs and the Spiâes and thân pour on the Wineâ and distil them Another Take Cinnamon Nutmegs Clâvâs Mace Gingerâ Cubebâ Cardamomsâ grains of Pâradise âach an ounâe and halâ Galânâal six drams long âepper haâf an ounâe Zedoary five drams bruise them and add six quarts of Wine put them in a Cellar nine daiâs daily stirring them then add Mints two hândâuls then let them stand fourteen daies pour off the Wine and bruisâ them and then pour on the Wine againâ and distil them Querceâan hath an Hâsterick Exâract a âreater and a less use outwardly Fomentations Bathsâ Baggs of hot Roots as Birthwort Lovage Valeâian Angelica Burnet Mâsterwort Calamus Mâdder Elicampane Orâis and Herbs as Mugwort Balm Motherwort Savin Pennyroyal Calamints Organ Dittany Maâjoram Rue Bettony Rosemary Lâvender Sage Stoechasâlowers Seeds of Smallage Parsley Rueâ Carrots Anise Fennel Cummin Lovage Parsley Anoint with Oyl oâ Lillieââ Rueâ Aâgelica Bays Cinnamon Cloves Mâce Nutmeg Or Take Labdaââm twâ ounces Frankinceâse Mastich âiquid Storax âach half an ounââ Oyl of Cloves Nuâmegs each halâ a scruple Oâl of Lillies Rue âach an ounce with Wax make a Plaister A Fâme Take Frânkincense Mirrh Mastich âach a dram Bayberries a dram and half Labdaâum two dramsâ Sâârax Clovesâ eacâ a dram Gum Arâbick and Wine make Troches or Pessaries of âhe same Let the diet be warming and the air the meat âf easie concoâtion seasoned with Anise Fenâel Thyme Avoid Milk-meats and raw fruits Chap. 4. Of the moist Distemper of the Womb. THis is âommoâly joâned with a coâd distemper aâd causeth bârrenness aâd ãâ¦ã the same causes as a cold distemper for commonly cold things do moisten It is commonly in women âhat are idle They that have moist wombs abound in courses but they are waterish and thin the privities are wet they have the Whites and desire not copulation much and delight not in it they retâin not the seed and if they conceive when the child is big they aborte or miscarry If it last long it is hard to be cured if it be much they conceive not It is by Dryers and things that cure the cold distemper are good againââ the moist because all Healers have a drying power Use sulphur Baths and in Injections beware of astâingents least the evil humors be stopâ and the disease iâcreased Chap. 5. Of the dry Distemper of the Womb. IN this the womb is hardened of it self it is fleshy and soft and moistned by blood foâ conception It is somtimes from the birth or old age when they are past childbearing if it be from drâing causes they are barren before they are old Diseases and Medicines dry the womb as inflammations feavers and when blood flows noâ to it nor goes to the bottom of it by reason ãâã the straitness of the veins or obstructions as iâ Viragoe's and such as never conceived and iâ they void any blood it is fâom the neck of thâ womb and not from the bottom They void little âeed and are âlow in Veneryâ the terms are few the mouth of the womb is dry and they are slender of a dry constitution their lower lip is alwaies chapt and blackish red This disâemper is hard to be cured in any part especially if it be old Use moistners as Borage Bugloss Mercury Mallows Althaea Violets sweet Almonds Pistâchaes Pine nuts Jujubes Dates Figs Raisons Of which are made Syrups Conserves Emulsions Candies c. Outward Remedies are made of the same adding Time Faenugreek seeds Lillies Branckurlin Pellitory c. Fomentations are made with Milk and after bathing anoynt the region of the womb and the belly to the privities with oyl of sweet Almonds Lilliâs Lineseed Jesamin fresh Butter Hens and Goose grease Let the Diet be moistning the Air moist the Meât fatning of much nourishment and small excâement let sleep be a little longer then usual great labour anger sadness fasting do hurt Chap. 6. Of compound distempers and first of cold and moist THere is seldom a simple distemper in the pârt and commonly there is matter which âeeds itâ it is usually cold and moist which gaâheâs excâements of that sort either in the wholâââdy or in the womb after the terms Are all things that breed cold and flegmatick humors in the whole body or the womb They conceive not and are of an ill habit of body the terms seldom flow right and they have somtimes the whites It is harder to cuâe then a simple distemper The cold humor is in fault therefore prepare it with syrup of Mugwort Mints Bettony Hysop with a decoction proper As Take Fennel roots an ounce Valerian Elicampane Masterwort each half an ounce Penny-royal Mugwort Motherwort Nep Marjoram each a handful Rosemary and Sage flowers each two pugils Siler Montane Fennel Aniseed Parsnep seed each a dram boyl them to ten ounces strained add Sugar syrup of Mugwort two or three ounces Cinnamon water half an ounce make a potion for three doses Then purge it with Agarick Mechoacan Turbith and if other humots be mixed with flegm add Senna and the like or use Pills de tribus Aloephanginae Mastich of Hiera with Agarick Sine quibus Or Take Agarick a dram and half Senna two drams infuse them in Mugwort water to three ounces strained add Diaphaenicon or Diacarthaemum twâ drams strain and add syrup of Mugwort half an ounce Cinnamon water half a dram After universal evacuations use Pessaries As Take Mercury bruise it and put it in a bag of white Silk anoynt it with Butter or Honey of Roses Or Take Benedicta laxativa three drams Agarick two drams Giâh seed a dram Pease meal six drams with juyce of Mercury make Pessaries in a Sarsnet Bag. Or Take Hiera a dram Agarick âalf a dram âdellium a dram with Honey make a Pessary or make it with pouder of Agarickâ and Troches of Coloquintida or give sweats of Cuajaâum China and Sarsa As Take Guajacum a pound and eighteen ounces inâaâe them in twelve pints of water twenty four hours âhen boyl them to the consumption of the third part âive six or eight ounces âot in the morning and leââer sweat Pour water to the reliques and boyl them to âhe consumption of the third
part for an ordinaây drink You may use China and Sarsa the same way ând because in a decoction some strength is lost ând so great a quantity is tedious for womân âou may distill them and give a less quantity âith things proper for the womb As Take Guajacum a pound or Sarsa eight âunces Angelica Elicampane each an ounce âugwort two handfuls Diâtany half a handful ad âx pints of water or wine steep them two daies then âistill them and give two ounces of the water Let her meat be roasted birds hens capons âartridges mutton sweet Almonds Raisons ât her abstain from âalt and sharp things If these sweats are unpleasant give them in âe third and fourth Chapter internal and exterâal As Take conserve of Marjoram Rosemary âettony each two ounces of Balm an ounce Diaâoschu dulcis Diamârgarion calid each a dram ândied Eryngus and Citrons each half an ounce âith sârup of Mugwort make an Elâctuary and use âaths to ãâã in mentioned Drying Spaw-waters are good to drink or to ãâã in Let the diet be as in Chap. 3. and 4. give the flesh of wild Mountain âowl Pigeons Hens Capons Mutton roasted and spiced and old wine and let her exercise Of the hot and dry distemper of the womb with Choler Do as in Chap. 5. purge the Choler whetheâ it be from the whole body or from the Liver with syrup of Roses Manna Tamarinds Rhubarb Senna c. Chap. 7. Of the ill shape of the womb and first of the straitness of it and its vessels THis is a disease of evil conformation from nature when it can be stretched out no further this makes an abortion in the fourth or fifth month But it is wonderful in its natural shape when it wil stretch according to the proportion of the child and after childbearing be as small as aâ first Of straitness of the vessels of the Womb. This is usual and hinders the flux of the terms and conception it is in the vessels of the womb and of the neck thereof Are thick tough humors that stop the mouthâ of the veins and arteries these are bred of groââ or much nourishment when the heat of thâ womb is so weak that it cannot attenuate the humors these either âlow from the whole body oâ are gathered in the womb Somtimes vessels are closed by inflammatioâ or Sâirrhus oâ other tumor 3. They are stopt by astringenâ Medicines 4. By compression 5. From a Scar or flesh or a membrane that gâows after a wound Stoppage of the terms shews straitness which hiâders conception and this stoppage is known by crudities abounding in the body which are known by their signs Sometimes thick flegm comes from the womb if there was a wound before or the Secundine was pulled out by force Stoppage of terms from an old obstruction by humors is hard to be cured if it be from disorderly use of astringents it is more curable if it be from a Scirrhus or other tumor that compresseth or closeth the vessels that cannot be cured the disease is incurable Obstructions are taken away by the means mentioned in the cold and moist Distemper of the Womb âleâm must be purged and she must be let blood as in stoppage of the terms After Universals come to the obstruction with Medicines that move the terms these take away the cause as in the Chapter of the cold distemper of the Womb. Or Take Asparagus roots Parsley roots each an ounce Madder roots half an ounce red Pease half a handful Pennyroyal Calamints each a handful Wall-flowers Dill flowers each two pugils boyl strain and add syrup of Mugwort an ounce and half Or Take Birthwort and white Dittany roots âach ân ounce Cosâus Cinnamon Galangal each half ân ounce Rosemary Pânnyroyal Calamints Bâtâony âââwers each a handful Anise and Fennelâeââ each a dram Saffron half a dram with âiâe Oâ use Topiâks as Take Mugwort Marâoram Calamints Mercury Pennyroyal each twâ handâuls Sâge Râsemary Bays âhamomil flowers eaâh a handââl boyl them in water fomenâ the groyns and the bottom of thâ belly or let her âit in a Bath up to the navel and then anoint about the groyns with Oyl of Rue Lillies Dill c. Or use Pessaries and Fumes mentioned If straitness be from other diseases cure them first Chap. 8. Of the opening of the Vessels of the Womb besides Nature THis is when there is great bleeding The vessels are opened preternaturally three waies by Anastomosis Diaeresis and by Diapedesis as in the lungs Anastomosis is from much blood which the liver doth produce and send out by the womb as in some by the nose For the blood being thin hot cholerick and sharp opens the mouths of the vessels and causeth a flux Diaeresis is from much blood when there is great motion as when there is long copulation with a strong man that hath a great tool or a hard travel or abortion a âall or stroke also when sharp humors corrode or sharp pessaries Diapedâsis is from the thinness of the vessels and loosness and the thinness of the blood or from much moisture or use of Baths Mâch blood is a âign the vessels are open you shall know the causes that open them thus In Anastomosis the blood drops and is thân and there are signs of much blood or sharp and thin If there be a Diâerâsis the blood flows more and there are cloddeâs and there were causes that broke the vessels as sharp Suppositories Diapedesis is known when the woman is of a thin and loose habit of body the blood thin or she hath used âuch bathing If the vessels open from much blood in a sound body there is less danger and it is easier cured then in a Cacoâhymy In an Aâasiomosis give things that thicken without slime as Roses Mirtles Medlars Services Pomegranate peels and flâwers Sanders âoral Harts horn Cypress-nuâs In Diaeresis give things that thicken with slime ' as Comfrey Plantane Gum Traganth whites of Eggs Troches of Amber Bole Starch Rice Quinces Sanguis Draconis Sarcocol and Izing glass But because there are divers causes and these diseâes are not cured but by taking them away â we shall speak of them in the Chapter of immoderate Terms Chap. 9. Of a double Womb the wanting of a Womb and evil shape of the Womb and strange things found in it Julius Obsequens saiâs that one woman had two wâmbs and ãâã saith that a Maid had her womb in two parts as in Bitches Câlâmbus saith that one wanted a womb but âeâ privities were as in other women and part âf the neck of it hung out Worms in the Womb. Hippocrates writes that worms are found in the womb And Gynaecea writes it is a sign thaâ Nature is wanton c. And John de Tornamira writes that he saw a Woman that had an intollerable itching in her womb from the Ascarides he gave a Womb clyster of the Decoction of Wormwood and Hiera and
she voided many small worms and was cured An Addition * Wheresoever foul humors stop in any part it is no wonder if it breed worms if other things agree which are required for the breeding of thâm Fat and hair found in a Womb. William Fabricius mentions that in a dead woman the womb was taken out and it weighed eighty seven pounds and was full of divers humors in the middle there were hairs like yellow wool An Addition * This was by Magick or a humor lay there fit to breed this strange matter by preternatural heat Stones bred in the Womb. Mercurialis doubts of stones being bred in itâ but thinks it is clotted blood like stones But it cannot be denied which many worthy Authors write First Hippâcraâes wâitâs that a Woman of sixty after noon alwaâes was painâd as one in travel after she had eaten many leeks she had one âit worse then the rest and she arose and found somthing rough in the orifice of her womb and she fainted and another woman tâââst in her hand and took out a great stone and the woman recovered Eâius also saith Hard stones are bred in the womb sâmtimes c. Niâolas Floreâtine and Marââlâus Donatus say the same Chap. 10. Of the magnitude of the Womb increased and first of the inflation of the Womb. INâlation is a stretching of the womb with wind it called by some a windy Mole See Mathew de gradibus And Thadeus Dun lib. misâel c. 8. This wind is from a cold matter either thick or thin contained in the veins of the womb which overcomâs the weak heat of the womb it is gatherâd there by cold meats and drinks or flows from other parts Cold air may be the cause also if women that lie in expose themselves to it This wind is contained either in the cavity of the vessels of the womb or between the tuniclââ There is a swelling in the region of the womb somtimes reaching to the navel loyns and Diaphragma as wind increaseth or decreaseth it aâiseth or abateth it is different from a Dropsie because it is never ââollen so high And least a Phyâitian be deceived and take it for a conception observe the signs of women with child for if one sign be wanting you may suspect an inâlation also in inâlation the tumor inâreaseth and decreaseth but in conception it still increaseth Moreover if you strike upon ãâã belly there is a noise but not in conception It differs from a dropsie in the womb for theâ is not such heaviness they move more easily arâ the belly is not so swelled there were causes thââ bred wind and things against wind do good It differs from a mole for there is in that ãâã weight and hardness in the belly and when theâ move from one side to aâother they feel a weiââ that moveth which is not in this of which Hippocrates The feet and the face swells in the hoâlow parts the âolor is bad the terms stopt theââ is short wind c. If âhe wind is without the cavity of the wombâ there is more pain and larger nor is there a noiââ because the wind is in a straighter place It is neither a lasting nor a deadly disease iâ well loâkâ after if it be in the cavity of the womb it is eaâier discussed Give Hiera Diaphoenicon with a little Castorâ sharp Clysters that also expel wind if it bâ in travel purge not till she be delivered Bleed not because it is from a cold matter iâ it come after childbearing and the terms were not sufficient after and there is fulness of blood open the Saphena After these give things mentioned in Tympany that respect the womb As Take Conserââ of Bettony Rosâmary each an ounce and half candied Eryngus Câtron pââls candied ââch half ãâã ouâcâ Diââyminum âDiagalangal âaâh a dââm Oyl oâ Anisâeds six dââps with Syrup of Citrons maâe an Elâcââary Or Take Conserve of Rosâmary âalm each three ounââs candied Citâons and Oranges each an ounce Diacyminum a dramâ with Syrup oâ Citrâââ make an Elâcâuâry Or give the Womans Aqua vitae or this Take Angelica roots two ounces Masterwort Elicampane Orange peels each six drams Calamints Pennyroyal Râe Sage Rosâmary each a handful Cummin Fennel Aniseed each half an ounce Juniper berries a handful Zedâary âalangal Cubebs each half an ounce with good wine distit them give a spoonful or two Apply outwardly a Cataplasm oâ Râeâ Mugwort ãâã Dill Calamints Nip Pennârâyal ãâã with Oyl of Rueâ Cheir Chamoâil aâd make Baâhs of the same and baggs of Milium Sâltâ Chamomil âââwers Melilot Bayberriâs Cumâân Fennel seed or lay on a Plaister of Bayberries Let âlâsters to expel wind be put into the womâ Asâ Take Calamints Agnus castus Rue each hâlâ a handful Aniseeds Costus Cinnamon each two drams boyl them in wine for hâlf a pinâ Apply a Cupping-glass with much flame to the breast and over against the womb Use Sulphur-baths and Spaw-waters inward and outward for they expel wind If it come from cold after childbearing and she is not well purged by her terms heat the womb and purge and give strong wine Let the diet be hot cutting and attenuating with things that expel wind and little at a time Questionâ Whether the wind is in the cavityâ when there is inââation of the Womb It is so by experience though some deny it nor is there any cause why wind should not bâ bred in the womb as well as in any other part both by reason of the excrements that come thither and the natural heat that turns them into wind these also stretch the womb though it be thick as in dropsies and conception also the retentive and altering faculty of the womb is never idlâ so that when it receives diseased and unâruitful âeed it suffers it not to corrupt but turns it into wind As Hippocrates writes When the wââb is streââhed by wind from the belly women thiâk they havâ conceived Chap. 11. Of the Dropsie of the Womb. THey are also deceived and think they are with child when there is water that swelâ the womb this is a Dâopsie of the womb This water is either in the cavity oâ between the coâts of thâ womb oâ in its vessels ââsalius Marcellus Donatus shew that water is in the cavity for it doth not preâently by its plenty or quality force its passage out because the oriâice is not alwaies open and Nature gathers it by degrees and is used to it Aâtius âaies There are somtimes bladders of water in the womb And Christopher Vega âaith that Leonora thought that she had gone six months and then voided sixty bladders of water and seven pieces of âlesh like that of the sâleen in membranes There is sometimes a Dropsie of the womb wiâh conception as Schenkiâs and William Fabriâius âaith of his own Wiâe Aâe gathering of water from moistness mixed with the târmâ
Carrot seeds each a dram two yolks of Eggs and Oyl of Lillies make a Cataplasm for the belly Apply Plaisters to the Navel and Cuppinâglasses with great flame to the Region of tâe Womb or dry Fomentations of Oates Miâium Anise Cummin Carrot seed in a Bag. Aâd use Pessaries asâ Take Harts marrow Turpentine Wax Goose grease each âhree drams Saffâon a dram yolâs of Eggs seven with Oyl of Lillies mâke Pessaries If the humors and wind is maliânant miâ Scorzonera Bezoar seeds and roots of Anâelica wâter of Zedoary Treâcle Mithridate and the like in Suffocation of the Womb. Chap. 4. Of the Diseases of Womb that come from sweet scents and stinks THere is a particular Symptom in the womb which bâeeds great admiration that it deliâhts ân sweet scents and is offended with stinks and it is certain for if Musk Civet or the like be but put to the nose of a woman that is subject to âiâs of the Mother they grow sick and if the sâme be put to their privities and stinks to the nosâ the âit of the Mother ceaseth It is hard to give the reason of this many wiâe Men have given their opinionâ but they disâgree among themselves and âatisfie me not neither do I pâomise to satisâie others But it is probable to me that the womb is not delighted with scents as scents for the privities have no smelling and the senâe of âmelling doth not reach so âar but the quality by which it is well or ill is occult and not to be explained and not to be ââparated from the odours If any ask what that quality is I answer theâe are many qualities in Nature that are hid ârom our senses and yet we cannot deny them because we see their effects as the quality in a Dogs nose we cannot apprehend but the Dog perceives it But how these qualities come to the womb is by no other way but by the open way by the pâiviâies by which Spirits get into the womb and in the suââoâation of the womb âweet thinâs p oâit because they strengthen it by a peculiar quality to disperse the venemous air and draw down the Spirits and humors But if they be put to the noseâ the womb consents by the Sympathy of the organ of smelling and the brain with it This is by the nerves and arteries for the heart is presently refreshed with a sweet scent because it presently pierceth into it being âpiritâal and there is a great consent of the womb with the brain and the smelling as is seen by the tryal of barrenness by a Fume from Hippocrates But we must observe that sweet scents are acceptable to all wombs and stinks are not but the same Symptomes are not in all women from them for they who have a womb of a good constitution with no evil humors in it enduâe sweet things well and delight in them but they who are unclean hate sweet things and often ãâã into âits by them because while the womb is delighted with that sweet and hidden quality with which it hath a peculiar Sympathy the evil humors that lie in the womb especially if there be any corruption from seed and the seed also are stirred and when the Spirits flie up theâ take the bad humoâs with them and send bad vapors to the heart which cause suffocation and other Symptoms But when the same scents aâe put to the privities the womb is refreshed with them and the Spirits are quietâ or move to the scents And so the humors if there be any are still or else move downward But stinks on the contrary by reason of their Antipathy with the womb are voided by the Spirits and so the humors move downwards and oâten theâe is an abortion thereby What is spoken of sweet scents may be understood of all sweet things and this our judgment in a matter so difficult THE FOURTH BOOK THE SECOND SECTION Of the Symptoms in the Terms and other Fluxes of the Womb. Chap. 1. Of the Flux of the Terms BY divine providence the blood which is voided every month is kept in when there is a child for if it be its nature it is not ill but onely superfluous till they conceive nor is it more an excrement then seed and milk The Terms commonly begin at fourteen and then the hair appears on the privities the breasts swell and women begin to be lecherous and the âlood can no longer stay in the veins but breaks âut at the veins of the womb In some they begin at twelve and they are âery lustful commonly and of shorter lives they âonâinue till fifty in some till sixty and then âop In some they begin at sevânââen or eighâen And in some they stop ãâã fifty accorâing to the variety of Nature and diet Nature doth not send âortâ evâry ãâã what is ââthered but staâes till the plenty oââânds and âoth only once in a month otherwisâ it would ãâã filthy and unpleasant and hindeâ coââepâion ãâã do they flow at one time in all exâctly but ãâã are twenty two daies or at most thââty beââen the purgings In some they last three daies which was usual ãâã the time of Hippocrates In some four or five ãâã more as their Liver is reater or their diet is ãâã or lower Hippocrates saith They should bleed but a pint ãâã half or two pints this is not alike in all ãâã differs in respect of age and diet As for the quality it must not be too thick noâ ãâã thin but of a middle substance without sent a red colour yellower in cholerick persons in âlancholick black in flegmatick whiter and âust flow without any great Symptom The passages are the veins of the womb being âuble from the double branch on both sides it ãâã Spermatiâk and Hypogastrick that they may ãâã superfâuiâies from all parts And from this Description of a natural flux ãâã may gather what is preternatural Question 1. Whether can a Woman conceive that never had her Terms They are called by some Flowers because they go before conception as flowers do beforâ fruit but many have âonceived that never ãâã their flowers being hotter by Nature as the ãâã dâans that never have any flowers and Virâ goe's that use more exercise but if these ãâã no more blood then wil nourish their body thâ are âarren Iâ any thing abound that is not required ãâã nourââhment of the parts and it so much thâ Nature cannot endure it in the body the woâ draws it to it when it hath conceived to maâ up the child of which hereaâter Question 2. Whether menstruous blood is oâly superfluoâs in quantity or bad in respecâ quality Writers disagree about this Some say iâ bad in quantity and quality and venemouââ the effects as making Ivory obscure and ãâã Looking-glasses corrupting Wine by a ãâã ârom the body of a Woman that hath ãâã flower Others say they offend only in plenty ãâã it were venemous it could not be a whole moâ in
the body and it could not form the child ãâã would Nature make milk of it Therefore menstrual blood onely offends quantity and not in any maniâeât or hidden qâlity But it hath strange qualities when it is ãâã with bad humors or is kept too long in body to be corrupted and cause great Syâtoms but this is when it is mixââ with bad mors or is out of its vessels and so corrupts Question 3. Of the âext of Aristotle 7. de hist Animalium câpââ and how it is to be understâod Aristotle writes thus Constantly every month âome have their Terms but most in the third as âf he should say Few women have their courses âvery month but many have them every third âonth This is against Galen and against expeâience for it is certain that among six hundred women scarce one hath them every third month Therefore there is either an errour in the Greek Text or in the Translation or great Men do often ãâã which is probable and so did Arist tle in this of Physick Therefore it is in vain to defend their ârrour Chap. 2. Of the Terms flowing too soon ORdinarily they begin at fourteen but many have had them sooner A child of eleâen daies old had a bloody humor flowing from ãâã privities Another of five years old had eveây month a moderate flux Fernel reports that Girl of eight years old had the Terms but these ãâã rare and for the most part very lecherous ãâã short lived Chap. 3. Of want and stopping of the Terms SOme Women have them not till eighteen or twenty Some before and then they stop for a time without either giving suck or being with child Some have been without them three five or seven months and then they came agaiâ This is an evil constitution or suppression of thââ which it ought to flow from the fault of the blood and stoppage of the passages When Terms are wanting either blood is wanting oâ stopt It is wanting either beâause it iâ not made or dispersed or turned to other useâ for nature being more sollicitoâs to preserve the individual person then to propagate the speciâs spends ãâã in preserving of the person Blood is not made from divers causes as aâe cold constitution of âiver Heart or a disease which distempers the ââwels Or often bleeding from great vessels or ââom having many issues which take from the blood It is spent other waies as before ripe age anâ when women are with child or give suck or iâ hot Natures and fat women in whom it is tuâned to fat It is in vain to provoke Terms iâ these There are other external evident causes of sâââping of the Terms as too great labour troubleââadness fear but these last do not only wast ãâã blood but cool and corrupt it and cause obsââctions as Hippocrates speaks of Phatusa the ãâã of Pytheus The proper causes are the straitness of ãâã passages or evil conformation of the ãâã through which it should slow Or the closinâ the womb of which we spake but I speak ãâã of the veâsels The usual cause of obsââuction is thick ãâã humors fâom the blood too thiâk or mixed ãâã melancholy which comes with it to the veiââ the womb and stops them This thick blood comes from a cold distemper of the stomach liver and spleen from thick and gross food and drinking cold water when the Terms flow So thought Galen in his time of the Roman women that drank Snow-waterâ and had few or no coursesâ Straitness is when the body of the womb is made thicker either by Nature or other causes as a cold and dry or hot and dry disteâper Thirdly straitness is from compression of the vessels by a Scirrhus or hardness of the parts adjacent as the straight gut or by the stone in the bladder and the womb displaced Fourthly the flesh may grow together by a membrane that grows to the vessels or a ââar after a wound Or after a mischance when the veins annexed to the Secundine grow so together that they cannot be opened of which in the first Question They are not the same in women and Virgins for blood stopt in Virgins goes to and âro changeth the colour and brings Feavers especially the white Feaver or Green-sickness But in women it goes more to the womb and brings Symptomes as loathing vomiting and Pica Galen hath other signs as heaviness a lazy pain in the loyns neck and behind in the head that reacheth to the roots of the eyes from the spâeading of the blood stopt through the whole body This laziness is chieâly in the thighs and leggs by reason of the veins there consenting with the womb And are of a green complexion and hairy with a beard and shrill voice You may know women with child from such aâ want their Terms only by pââper signs First the women with child keep their colour but the other are pale and ill-câloured they are merry the other sad 2. Their Symptoms daily grow milder but in the other they daily grow worse 3. You may feel the child move 4. It is perceived in a month You shall know from what causes the Terms are stopt thus If the Liver be cold there is no blood made that is superfluous and there are signs of a âold Liver and you may know that blood is not sent to the womb when there is no heaviness pain or tumor about the womb the liver or spleen are stopt If it be ârom flegm or melancholy which is oâten there are signs of their abounding as lazâness paleness seldom pulse crude urin Hippocrates saith That if the Terms stop therâ are diseases in the womb tumors imposthumes ulcers and barrenness and diseases in the whole body Green-sickness Leucophlegmacy Dropsie Vomiting of blood Heart-ach Cough And the longer they have been stopt the haâder they are to be opened If the blood stopâ go out at the nose it is good If it have great Symptomes there is fear of death You must not give Medicines to move the Terms to extenuate lean persons nor to such as want blood and have a weak Liver but they must be sed high First see iâ bloâd abound and then aâter a Leniâive open a veinâ and lât that blood which is in the veins be drawn to the womb Galââ took thâee âints of blood at three times fâom ãâã leân womân and cured her of an old stopping ãâã the Terms You must open the ankle veinâ the firât day the right the next the left four or five daies before the time Or you may cup and ââariâie the Leggs And bind the parts below and rub them after general evacuation opening of the Haemorrhoids doth hurt and so do Issues because they draw from the womb Hiera picra halâ an ounce or Pills de Tâibus oâ Hiera simple are good first Then prepare as Take water of Mugwort ãâã Maidenhair âaâh three âuâces Syrup oââhe five Roots and of Mugwort each two ounces maâe
it for two doses Or Take opâning Roots half an ounce Madder Burnââ eaâh three ounces Mugwort Bettony Germandâr Calamints âach a handful red Pease half a handfulâ flowers of Bugloss Dill each a pugil boyl and sweeten it with Sugar For flegmatick Bodies take the Decoction of Guajacum Saââaphras Dittahy for fifteen dââes without sweating Then evacuate with Agarick Mechoacan Turbith Scammony Coloquintida blaâk Hellebore As Take Agarick two drams infuse it in Mugwortââter two ounces Oâymel an ounce strain and the Eâtract of Michoacan a sâruple Or Take opâninâ Roots half an ounce Mugwort Bettony ââch ãâã pugils Senna ââlâ an âunce Agariâk two draââ ãâã and Aniâââd each a ââruââe ãâã haââ a dram Râsâmary flowers ãâã âugil inâââe ãâ¦ã thââe ounâââ anââaâf âd Sârup of Senna ân ãâã aââ halââ ãâã ãâã hâlâ a dram Or if they dâink Wiâe Tâke Tarââth ãâã ãâã eaâh twâ dâams Senna an ãâã aââ haââ Maiâââhair âalm Râsâmary eaââ two pugils Cinnamon Galangal each a dramâ hang them in Wine give six ounces with half an ounce of Manna Or Take Diaturbith with Râubarb half an ounce Mechoacan two drams Agarick a dram Diarrhodonâ Cinnamon each half a dram Steel prepared a dram with Raisons make an Electuaryâ give as much as a Wall nut Or give Pills of Agarick foetidae and so continue purging and âreparing if the matter be stubborn Or Take Agarick two drams Mader a dram with Syrup of Mugwort make Pills Or Take Aloes three drams de Tribus oâe dram with juyce of Savin make Pillsâ If the stomach is soul give a Vomit leât it gââ into the veins Then give provokers of the Terms which are hot and thin about the time they used to flow they are three degrees in strength and many soâtâ of Medicines are made of them A Pouder Take Cinnamon a dram Ambârâ sâruple Saffron half a scruple Or Take Trochu of Mirrh of Wallâflowers each a scruple Saffron five grains Or Take Castor Pennyroyal each a scruple with Wine or proper Waters Physical Wine Take Madder roots an ouncâ Orrâs half an ounce Balm Pennyroyal Mugwortâ Rosemary eâch a handful Wall-flowers half a pâgil Cinnamon an ounce Galangal half an ounââ with Wine give four ounces Or Take the Dâcâction of red Pease Or Take Smallage Fennel roots each half an ounce Mugwort Bettâny Pennyroyal Balm each a handful red Peââe half an handful Juniper-berries half aâ ounce ãâã all flowers a pugil boyl and sweeten it Oâ Take âen ounces of it with thrââ ounces of Mugwâââ for three doses Querââtan commends this Take Gromwelsâeds Anise Mâsletâ of the Oak each three drams Dittany a dram Saffron a sâruple âruiââ and keep them twenty four hours in Wine then boylâthem give fââr ounces for three daiâs together Or make the Womans âqua viââe Or Take Balm âttâny Pennyroyal Mââwort Nâp Motheâwort Dittany âach four handfuls Wine thirty pints distil them add three handfuls of each hârbs and distil them again and ad Fennel seed Calamus Cinnamon Cassia lignâa Cardamoms each half an ounce distil them again Or give Syrup of Calamintsâ Mugwort Or Take water of Pennyroyal Savin Calamints each four ounces Syrup of Mugwârt ââur ounces Cinnamon water an ounce give it at fâur times Rouls Take Extract of Savin a scruple of Angelica half a sâruple of Elicampane six grains Oyl of Cinnamon five drops of Cloves two drops with Sâgar dissolved in Balm waâer Or make an Electuary of Steel six ounces Cassia lignea Cinnamon each two drams Cloves a dram Raisons two ounces with Sugar dissolved in Mâgwort water Or Take Troches of Mirrh a dram Extract of Gentian and Savin each a scruple âastor half a ââruple make Pills give two scruples or give every third day pills of Hierâ Use outward Mediâines but pâovoke not sweat ây them Take Althaea and Lillâ roâts each two âunces ãâã an âunâe Mâllâwâ Mârâury Mâgwort ãâ¦ã Mâtherwort Calamintâ Pânnâroyal Mârââram Bayââââach tââ haâdâulâ flowers of ãâã âââânder Cheirâ each a âândful Faenugreâââ sââd an ouncâ Juniper anâ Bayberriâs each âalf a hanâââl bââl âhâm in Water ãâã wiâh âpââges And then anoint with this Take Oyl of Lillies an ounce oâ Lavender seeds stilled halâ a dram Calamints and Gith pouder each a dram Storax calamint a scruple To Virgins that must take no Pessaries give Fumes with the head defended they wil âpen the mouths of the vessels and cut thick humors As Take Mirrh Bdellium Storax each a dram Benzoin two scruples Gallia mosâhata ivet each half a scruple with liquid Storax make Troches Then use Clysters and Injections into the Womb with Purgers As Take Calaminâs Pennyroyal each a handful Gith seed Turbiâh each a dram Coloquintida half a dram boyl it in wine inject it into the womb If it be hot aâter it inject the Decoction of Mallows with Milk or Barley water And because the neck of the womb lies upon the strait gut give Clysters Take Lilly roots an ounce Orris Valerian âach half an ounce Mercury two handfuls Mugwort Savin each a handful Chamomil Lavender flowers each a pugil Caraway Gith seed each a dram boyl add Hiera and Beânedicta laxativa each half an ounce Oyl of Cheir two drams Electuary of Bayberries half an ounce If she be no Virgin put Mercury bruised in a Bag for a Pessary with Centaury flowers Or Garlick beaten with Oyl of Spike Begin still with the mildest as Mugwort Mercury Pennyroyal Marjoram Rue and then add Mucilages and Juyces to loosen the wombâ let âot Pessaries lie long least they cause a Feaver If it be from a tumor provoke not the Terms but loâk to the tumor Let diet be hot and attenuating of good juyce with Parsley Savory Rosemary Cloves Cinamon Little sleep and much exercise Question 1. Whether are the other Causes of stoppage of the Terms Some say the blood going to other parts is a cause but it is rather contrary and the suppression of Terms is cause of that âor the veins of the womb are large enough to evacuate blood Others say the strength of the womb is a cause which thiâkens the vessels that they receive no blood But the womb is made to receive it when it abounds Others accuse the strength which is to be denied but when it is so strong that it is too hot or too dry and will not receive the blood and that is a sign of weakness But there must be strength in the whole body to cast out superfluous blood or there will be other mischiefs Question 2. What Veins must be opened when the Terms are sâopt Authors disagree in this as Aetius and Galen who alwaies speaks of the ankle veins and most are of his mind being it is rational For a vein opened in the arm doth rather revel from the womb then draw the blood to it but in the ankle brings it to its place and opens obstructions and doth both lessen and bring blood to the womb and move that which is in the womb âixed Open the ankle therefore twice
or thrice rather then the arm once Therefore Galen commends Hippocrates that he opened a vein in the ankle in the Servant of Schimarg though she had a Plâthoryâ But in other diseasâs of the womb as inflamâation dropping or too many Terms it is good to open a vein in the arm The Saphena is opened by putting the foot in warm water before and after Question 3. At what time must a Vein be opened against the sââppage of the Terms Galen saith It must âe when Nature may be helped be the blood moved that is three or four daies before the usual time of their coming as if she had them alwaiâs in the ful of tâe Moon and they have been stopt some monthsâ bleed three or four dâies before the full to puâ nâture in mind of her duty and to make the blood run again Chap. 4. Of fewness of the Terms IT is when they flow less then they use or ought to âlow It is either from the blood or in the expulsive faculty in the passages As if blood âe little the Terms are few and slow if the retentive faculty is weak and the expulsive strong they come at due time but in small quantity If the Terms are slow the fault is in the quality of the blood being too thick Also straitness of the passages may be a cause for if they be not wide enough the blood cannot flow fâeely The patient will tell the disease but the cauâe of it is to be found in the Chapter aâoregoing Few Terms from little blood is not dangerous if they be stopt from thick blood there follow diseases as Erysipelas Scirrhus or Cancer See the Chapter aforegoing for the Cure and and if it be from thickness of blood it is often cured by a general Purge for the whole body Chap. 5. Of Dropping of the Terms THis is a flux and lasts long and there is pain The blood flows not conveniently at the due time and manner and the privities are alwaies wet as when the urin drops Are from the blood and the passages of it and the retentive faculty as when the blood is too thiâk and sharp which stir up Nature to let it out and because it stretcheth the membranes theâe is pain Also the weakness of the retentive faculty is a cause The women declare it but if it be from thick blood and sharp and strait passages there is a sââetching pain about the womb If it be from câudity of blood and weakness of the retentive âaculty the blood flows without pain and is not much âelt It is troublesom to women and if it last long âauseth ulcers and inflammations It is all in mending of the thick and sharp âlood and in opening the passages which are âhe two chief causes of it of which we spake at ârge If blood be superfluous loose it not nor open the ankle-vein lest you draw it more to the womb but take away the Cacochymy If it be from weakness of the retentive faculty strengthen the womb with dryers and ash ingents Chap. 6. Of the overflowin of the Terms IT is when it is too much or too long and hurâs any woman and brings diseases but a certain proportion of bleeding is not to be deâined but too much is lost when the actions are hurt The immediate Cause is the opening of the vessels and the mediate cause is the blood in quantity or quality offending or by its force or disorderly motion Vessels are opened by Anastomosis Diapedesis Diaeresis or ruption or by Diaurosis or coârosion Anastomosis is from a moist distemper of the vesselsâ which loosneth the orifices or from external causes as Baths hot and moist or usâ of Aloes The flux is seldom too great from a Diapedesis for it is but a sweating through Ruption is from plethory when the Terms have long been stopped and then break out and when the blooâ is hot by air baths c. The outward causes are falls strokes hard travel great burdens lifted Erosion is from sharp blood or humor or from Medicines that corrode as Pessaries long kept For this great flux is chiefly from the veins in the bottom of the womb The flux of blood is too great when the strength abateth and Cachexy âollows with paleness swollân feet and the blood that comes from the bottom of the womb is blacker and âlottedâ That from the neck is redder and thinner The signs of the causes If it be from muâlr blood there are signs of plethory and it easily âlotteth together If the blood be sharp and cholârick it is putreâied in the womb you shal know waterish blood by its colour and the signs of that humor abounding and if you dip a clout in it and dry it in the shade you may see it If the womb be too moist such causes went before If it be from breaking of veins they will tell you of violence If it be from corrosion it is little and slow somtimes pure somtimes âerous It weaânâth the whole body the liver and bowels there is swounding the Whites and paleness and Dropsie somtimes That which hath been longâ is hard to be cured and causeth death and in an old woman it is deadly If there be fulness abate the blood and keep it from flowing to the womb revel it râpâl cool and astringe it that it may not flow so faââ and then amend the blood If it is from plenty of blood open the Liver-vein in the right arm bleed little and often because it makes better revulsion and weakens not open the Salvatella if there be weakness and cup âhe Back and Breast aâainst the Liver beneath âhe papps where are veins from the womb cup âot beneath but in the shoulders or back and ârms with scarification but scaâiâie not under âhe breaâts Bind and rub the aââs and shouldeâs and temâer and thicken the sharp thin humors with Deââctiâns and Waters of Plantane Purslane Sorrelâ Knotgrass Shepherds-purse Pomegranate-Syrup and of dried Roses Sorrel Puâslane Coral Conserve of Roses Bole sealed Earth If it be urgent use Naâcoticks Syrup of Poppies Treacle Philonium Laudanum If it still continue it is fed with choler thereâ fore purge it with Syrup of Roses Manna Rhubarb Senna If it be fed with serous blood help the âeins that do not their duty and the Liver and sweat with China You must not provoke urin but use astringents As Take the juyce of Ass-dung Syrup of Mirâlâs each half an ounce Plantane water an ounce Give it her and let her not know what it is Decoctions Take Comfrey roots Tormenâil âach two drams Purslune Plantane each a handful boyl themâ add to six ounces Syrup of Curranâ Quinces Mirtles each six drams giveâ it at twice Or Take Syrup of Purslane juyce of Neââles each two ounces Purslane water four ounces Troches of Amber of sealed Earth each a dramâ Bloodstone half a dram give two spoonfuls every day
with little inconvenience bââ it must be looked to lest it be worse for it oââââ brings ulcers Cachexy falling out of the womâ Consumption Fainting Convulsions when the matter is sent to the brain or nerves And the worse the humor is the greater is the disease It must not be suddenly stopt lest it go to thâ noble parts First see whether it be from the whole body or any paât or from the womb it self If froâ the whole body which is often make general evacuation and turn the humors from the womo and keep a good diet lest they come again I allow not bleeding in the arm if the Terms be stopt for they cause a Cacochymy which admits no bleeding Moreover the mass of blood may be made âoul by them therefore find oââ whether it comes from Cacochymy or Plethory And when it is most like to come from Cacochymy bleed not Therefore if flegm abound which is moââ usual after general purging consume the reliqueâ with Guajacum and Sarâa and a drying diet and by provoking urin of which hereafter If sharp and cholerick humors abound temper them with gentle astringents as Succory Endive Sorrel to prepare purge with Rhubatâ Triphera Perâica aggregative Pills and Pills ãâã Rhubarb If it be melancholy do as in melancholy If it be water cure it as Galen did the Wife oâ Boethâs c. 8. âib de prognost ad Pâsth If it be in the stomach liver or the like prevent it from increase and because it is most about the stomach give a Vomit but not too strong Then strengthen the stomach with hââ and dry Medicines If choler abound the distemper is hot and then cool it If it come from the womb do as I shewed fâom what cause soever it is Baths are good to ââacuate and divert and strengthen and take away a moist distemper provided they are proper for the constitution Use Dryers and Astringents As Take Consârâe of red Roses four ounces of Succory two ounces râd Coral Snakeweed Tormentil roots Ivory each ãâã dramsâ with Syrup of Mirtles make an Eleââuary Or Take red Coral Bole sealed Earth each an âunce Pearl prepared a sâruple Mastich half a dram Cypress roots two scruples Mace half a scriple with Sugar of Roses as much as all make a Pouder Or Take Diarrâodon a dram Sanderâ a âcrâple Câri'ander two drams Mastich Coral each a dram with Sugar make Troches But use not these Astringents till the body âe purged least the waterish humors be stopt and the belly swel but you may use hot Dryers safeây as Treaâle Mithridate with Conâerve of Roâes and Wormwood As Take Conserve of Rosemary flowers an ounce Diacorus two drams Diarrhodon Aromaâicum rââaâum each a dram red Coral prepared a dram and âalf Treacle two drams with Syrup of Citron peels ânal e an Electuary And least the womb be hurt with evil humors ânject the Dâcoction of Barley Honey of Roses ând Whey with Syrup of dried Roses Or of âormwood Mints Motherwort red Roses Alââm And then use a Fuâe of Fraâkincense ââbdanum Mastich Sanders Nutmeg red Roses Avoid crude and moist things and fish milâ and all sweet meats and âalt Forbear Suppeââ drink red Wine sleep and wake moderately ãâã not upon the back least the loyns be heated anâ the humors sent to the womb Question Whether are Diureticks good in the Whites Diureticks that provoke urin do also provokâ the terms therefore the reliques of the humoâs would be carried by them to the womb but these move the terms secondarily but if the body be well purged first they will not make the flux greater but bring it out by urin Chap. 13. Of a Gonorrhaea THe running of the Reins may be in all women that are fit for a man for it is the flux of natural seed It is in men and women from the French pox but when stinking humors do flow it is not properly called a Gonorrhaea The chief Cause is the weakness of the retentive faculty and the loosness and largeness of the seed-vessels the causes of these are shewed in the Gonorrhaea of men The women will declare it and the greatness and the colour for if it be white and little and thick and at distance it is a true Gonorrhaea If it continue it brings a Consumption and barrenness The Cure of Gonorrhaea and night pollution is Pâact 3. but I shall add this if it come from plenty of seed The Buds of the Salix oâ Willow ãâ¦ã called the Closing of the Womb. ãâ¦ã famous Physitians and Anatomists say ãâ¦ã is a Hymen which is the sign of Virginity ãâ¦ã they say a membrane wrinkled with ãâ¦ã like Miâtleberries like the bud of a Rose half ãâ¦ã hence came the word ãâã I think with the Ancients that ãâã is something in these parts that distinguisââân Virgins from women which is violated in the fiâââ copulâtion many say they have it and we may believe them For it is certain that âhâre is an alteration at first in Viâgins which causeth pain and bleeding which is a sign of Virginity But what this is it is not yet known maâiââââly Some say it is a nervous membrane with small veins which bleed at the first bout Some say there are âour Caruncles tied together with small membranes Some have observed a fleshy Circle about the Nymphae with obscure little veins which makes the membrane not to be nervous but fleshy To be short I suppose it to be certain that the part which receives the Yard is not in them that have used a man as in Virgins nor is it alike in all and this hath caused the diversity of opinions in Anatomists Moreover this is not found in all Virgins because some are very lustfulâ and when it itcheth they put in their finger oâ some other thing and break the membrane soâtimes the Midwives break it Question 2. Whether do all Virgins at the first bout or Copulation bleed The Africans had a custom to shut the Bride groom and the Bride up in a Chamber after they were married till they prepared the Wedding-dinner And an old woman stood at the door to receive a bloody sheet from the Bridegroom that she might shew it in triumph to all the guess and that then they might âeast with joy And if there was no blood to be seen the Bride was to be sent home âo her friends with disgrace and the guess went âadly home without their Dinners Some say from experience that some honest Virgins have lost their Maiden-heads without bleeding and that it is a certain sign of Virginity when they bleed and when they do not they arâ not to be censured as unchast I hold that young Virgins will bleed but when they are in years by reason of the long continuance of the terms the parts are harder and larger and if the mans Yard be small there is no necessity of bleeding Or if the girl was wanton asore and by long handling hath dilated the part
with Womb-clysters and Pessaries then dispeâse the reliques and strengthen the womâ But âirââ give a general Purge that is gentle often and use things that prevent the breeding of seed Strengthen with Plaisters and Oyntments to the region of the womb As Take liquid Storax two drams Avens Agnus castus seeds Angelica each half a dram Alipta moschata a scruple Oyl of Nard Lillies and white Wax make aâ Oyntment Or Take Seeds of Agnus castus â dram all Sanders each half a dram whitâ Rosâ pouder a dram Tacamahaca a scruple Amber tââ scruples Alipta moschata half an oânce with Turpentine Labdanum and Wax make a Plaister Iâ she be a Virgin let her be married If it be from terms stopt see in the Chaptââ of that This disease is neither from seed nor bloodâ nor humors if they be not corrupted after a peculiar manner If it be from the womb disteâpered give the Inâusion of an ounce of Brionâ root in white Wine onâe in a week for a year ãâã bed time or this Hysteâiâk Water Take Lovage roots Piony Angelica Zedoarâ each an ounce Misâeto of the Oak gathered in the wane of the Moon two ounces Mints Balm Calamints Bettony each a handful Carrot Parsnep sââd Castor each half an ounce distil them in white Wine and water of Motherwort after eight daies infuson Or Take Briony Valerian Spignel Angâlica roots each half an ounce Balm Caâamints Pennyroyalââettony each half a handful boyl them in Wine add Syrup of Mugwort an ounce give it aâ thrice Vitriol of Iron one grain with two grains of Sugar given in Wine some weeks is excellent Or Take Cummin seed wild Parsnep seed each â dram give a dram in pouder Orâ Take Faeââla Brioniae two drams Cummin seed Parsnep sâed ââch a dram Amber half a dram Cloves two sâruâles Cinnamon a scruple make a Pouder Pills Take Castor a scruple Assa faetida half â scruple Mirrh Galbanum Sagapenum each a âcruple with Honey of Mercury make âills take ãâã a sâââple or a scruple often Or take Treacâe ãâã âââhridate Apply Plaisters or Linâments to the region of ãâã Womb thus Take old Treacle half an ounce Agnuâ castus seeds a dram Oyl of Angelica and âummin seeds each two drams with Plaister of ââyberriâs âr make Oyntments of the same Questâââ 1. What preternaâural diseases is the ãâã of the Womb properly ââme say it is a cold distemper in quality chanâ they say right but coldness is not the chief ââââom Others say it is respiration hurt Synâââ or Convulsion But it cannoâ be defined by one Symptom Foâ somtimes the animal actions are hurt and there is a Megrim Delirium Convulsion and sense and motion are gone Nor is it strange that so small a vapor should bring such Symptomes for it hath an occult venom in itâ which is strong for it goes many waies and to many parts Question 2. What is the true Causâ of the ãâã of the Mother I say it is the malignant vapors that flie up from the womb for it doth not work by a manifest quality but by a venom which Galen saitâ is like that of a Torpedo or Phalanx or Scorpion which are little in bulk but do great miâchief being enemies to the vital spirits and heaâ by which there is a coldness all over and sâoâ breath from the actions of the heart hurt Foâ when the heart is hurt or the vital Spirits eitheâ suffocated or corrupted there are no good animal Spirits bred and they not flowing to thâ nerves and muscles hinder the motion of thâ breast Also this malignant vapor is an enemy ãâã the animal Spirits and makes doting and Coâvulsions when it gets to the brain The Cause of these vapors are corrupt seâ and terms for while they are in thâir proper vesels they change not their nature And the seâ is not alwaies pure but mixed with ãâã humââ and the seed-vessels are sometimes ãâã aâ distempered Moreover the corruption ãâã ãâã the womb in a pâculiar manner for as Fârrââ saith The place from whence comââ life is ãâã the breeder of the most deadly poyson Question 3. Is it good to give Wine in a âit of the Mother Hippocratââ and Avicen quarrel about this The fiâst alloâs wine because they are weak and nothing sooner reâreshethâ But Avicen is for water and forbids flesh for they increase seed and âlood But in the time of the âit wine is proper and Avicen doth not speak of the âit but of the diet out of the âit when it comes from plenty of seed and blood nor will a little wine in the time of ââe âit get presently to the womb Chap. 5. Of the Frenzie of the Womb. IT is a great and foul Symptome of the wombâ both in Virgins and Widdows and such as âave known man These are mad for lust and inâiâe men and lie down to them and it differs ârom Salacity because in that there is no Deliâium It is an immoderate desire of Venery that âakes women almost mad or a Delirium from ân iminoderate desire of Venery it is without a âeâveâ and with heat and tends to madness âhere are degrees in it for modest women have ãâã but will not for shame declare it and die of âonsumptions Others will not conceal it but âeak their thoughts bawdily and follow men ând âolliâiâe them shamelesly as Hippocrates ãâã in his Book of Virgins Diseases The immediate Cause is plenty of hot and sharp seed against Nature but next unto that âhich is natural it is a little biting swelling and âorcing Nature to let it out by lecheây The brain is only hurt by consentâ and the animal actions by an external error or too vehement object The part first affected is the womb in the Nympha which grows hot and swells but the Nymphae are not properly the seat of Venery but the Clitoris which was called by the same name anciently The heat and sharpness of seed is from the heat of the womb that breeds it from hot humoââ in the womb and hot blood The outward Causes are hot meats spicedâ strong wine and the like that heat the privitiesâ idleness pleasure and dancingâ and reading oâ bawdy Histories They find their lust to boyâ at first and soâ shame will not declare it they are sad and silent and their eyes turn to and fro with lust anâ if any speak of Venety they blush and the pulsâ changeth when thâ brain consenteth reason iâ perverted and modesty is overcome then theâ prate are lustful and angry somtimes they crâ or laugh without a cause they follow men anâ sollicite them for copulation Some will lie wiââ any one they meet It is a âordid disease curable at first but if neglected it turns to madness Let Virgins that have it before reason is subverted be in company with chast Maidâns oâ hâ married And be let blood to abate heat of blcoâ and sharpness of seed very often there is no
better remedy Then temper and evacuate the humors if theâ be adust and there be madnessâ use strongââ Then have a Bath of Lettice Willow Water-lillies Vine-leaves Purslane Venus navel red Roses Violets Waterlillies Let her sit twice â day in it and not sweat To take away the sharpness of the seed use Lettice Violets Waterlillies and things that quenâh seed by a secret quality as Agnus castus âeed Leaves and Flowers of Champhyre hereâââer Asâ Take leaves of Waterlillies Agnus castus Willow each three handfuls Lettice Purslane Veâââ navel each a handful Lettice Poppy sâed the ãâã great cold Seeds each half an ounce Dill seed ãâã drams Waterlillies a handful Violets half a âândful beat them with juyce of Lemons distil them ââer twenty four hour add to every pint a dram of âmphire give an ounce Or Take Agnus caâââieaves Rue Willow each two handfuls Mints ãâã of Dill each a handful and half Waterlillies ââlf a handful Agnus castus seeds Hemp Coriââder Lettice seed each half an ounce beat them ând distil them with water add a pint of juyce of Leââns rectifiâ it to half An Emulsion Take Lettice and white Poppy ãâã and the four great cold Seeds each half an ounce ãâã of Lettice Waterlillies Willow each four ounâs Syrup of Violets two ounces Magistery of Coâââ dram An Electuary Take Conserve of Waterlillies âââlets of Agnus caâtus topââ eââh an ounce of Roââ hâlf an ounce red Câral Smaragds eâch a dram ãâã and Lettice candied each an ounce with ãâã of Violets and Waterlillies make an Electuary Or make Baths of the same As Take tops Aânus castus Lettice Rue Waterlillies Dâl ãâã ãâã them anoint with Oyl of Lillies ânguânt of Roseâ with Camphire afââr that Or lay a Plaister of Mercury and Marsh-lentils to the breast and loyns Lây a Plate of Lead to the Back and give a Pessary of juyce of Plantane Pââslane Gourds These that work by an occult quality are fittest for numnesses that must not marry but they that will marry must forbear them because they cause barâânness Let diet be thin and of little nourishment no Eggs Beef is good and fresh fish Also Lettice Purslane Succoây Sleep littleâ think not of Venery labour and avoid idleness Question Whether is Camphire cold or hât or doth it quench Venery It is hot because it burns flames is thin pieâceth is sharp and bitter But it hath cold effects as curing of burnes and inflammations and hââ headaches but this is from the likeness of thâ substance because it draws hot vapors to it anâ discusseth as Linseed oyl that cures burnes Noâ hath it a double substance cold and hot that maâ be separated Scaliger denies it by experience to quench Vânery but if it be taken often it doth he tâieâ it but once Chap. 6. Of the Melancholy oâ Virgins and Widdows IT is a Dâliriââ with sadness trouble and weââing sââtimes laugâing without a Feavââ It differs from others by the efficacy only of the efficient cause for it hath divers pains besides ââdness especially on the left side near the heart in the papâ this is by occasion at a distance The Cause is a melancholick vapor from a melancholick blood in the vessels near the heart that infects the animal Spiâits hurts the Fancy and so the reason For melancholick blood abounding in the vessels of the womb comes back to the great arteries about the heart by the arteâies of the womb and infects both vital and animal Spirits and causeth trouble of heart and deâââium while this blood is quiet in the arteries theâe is no vapor that riseth but when it is heaâed or sâirred up by any cause the arteries about the back and spleen beat more then ordinary and the vapors arise and trouble the heart They aâe sad and âull of thoughts and trouble at the heart and cannot express their grief all things are tedious to them they weep and lâugh without a cause they sleep little and with trouble and âear they have a pain on the left side and somtimes the left breast their jaws are dây al which are the effects of a melaucholick vapor and when that is discussed all cease If it be old it turns to madness and then they are ãâã silent then pââtlers and think they see Gâoââs At first it is easier cured but if it last long and ââe âesist not imagination and will not rejoyce âith her Gossips it is dangerous They often despair and desire death or hang themselves or dâown themsâlves If the manners are chanâed ãâã tuââs to madness Observe what progress the disease hâth made At first if blood be hot oâen a vâin oâten iâââe arm if the terms be not stopt if they be bleed in the ankle some daies before they use to flow Let her be merry and prepare and purge melancholy thus Take Borage and Balm water each three ounces Syrup of the juyce of Borage and Bugloss each an ounce and half Mix them for two Doses repeat them somtimes Then purge Melâncholy As Take Senna six drams Agarick a dram and half Borage flowers and Violets each a pâgil âitron peels two drams infuse them in Rhenish wine for six hours strain them ad Syrup of Violets an ounce Or Take Scorzonera roots two ounces Borage ân ounce Balm a handful Senna four ounces Agarick half an ounce Citron peels six drams Zedoary two drams Cordial stowers a handful add half a pint of the juyce of sweet-scented Apples and of Rorage and Bugloss steep them two daieâ then strain them ad Sugar and half an ounce of Cinamon make a Syrup give two or three ounces Also give Cordials Confection of Hyacinths Species Exhilerants and Confection Alkermes to such as can bear it Cure it as Melancholy only the matter comes from the womb therefore still regard that it dry not the body too much but use a moistning Diet. Chap. 7. Of an Epilepsie from the Womb. THis Falling-sickness is worst then from other causes because there are greater symptoms for that malignant vapor doth not onely fall into the nerves but the veins and arteries The same malignant vapor that causeth suffocation causeth this for when it ascends by the veins or arteries it begets other diseases but when it gets to the nerves or to the fountain of them it causeth the Epilepsie In some the whole body hath a Convulsion in others some part only as the eyes head tongueâ hand or leg and the outward senses are diversly taken Some see not some hear not some see and cannot speak some dote and think they see strange things some cry out and know not why All loose the sense oâ feeling If the vapor be nât very malignant they reâuân to their work after the fit as if they had not âeen ill It is known by what hath been said for here ãâã not only a Convulsion as in other Epilepsies âât diveâs Symptomes as in Suffocation of the âomb They seldom âoam at the mouth
hot blood and their terms flowed not orderly iâ their youth are splenitick and Hypochondriaââ in their age It is known by a pain in the left side and bâeââ to the throat there is short breath often ãâã the belly is bound they are sad and solââ When thin blood grows hot there is inââamation over all the body and chiefly the âace which suddenly vanisheth and there are otheâ signs of Hypochondriacks These cannot enduââ sweet scents to their nose If it be not speedily cured it turns to worââ diseases as the Scirrhus of the spleen The blood is commonly too hot therefore open a vein especially when it is from the terms stopt You may also open the Haemorrhoidsâ and then purge gently and often with Pills oâ Tartar by Quercetan of Ammoniacum of ãâã or Birthwort by Fernel or give Steel and things as in the Hypochondriack diseases lib. 3. par 5. and in the Chapter of Terms stopt and Melancholy from the Womb. Chap. 11. Of the Distemper of the Liver from the Womb and of a Bâard growing by consânt from the Womb. THe womb hath many and great veins moâe then other parts If then there be too much blââd in them it easily goes back to the hollow âein and choaks the heat of the Liver and so the Liver is distempered according to the humor It ââeeds crude and flâgmatick blood which sânt ovââ the body causeth a Cachexy and what disââses come by the Liver are by consent fâom the ââmb as in stoppage of the Terms and Greenâââkness Hippocrates speaks of a womans Beard in Phaâuâa the Wiâe of Pythius for haiâs have their beâinning and growth from the reliques of the ãâã of the noble parts that is from the exâââmentitious part of the blood And if terms be âââpt and the vitious humors that use to be âvaâuated with them are sent over the body they ââuse divers diseases and Symptoms and among âhe ââst the body of a woman is made hairy and ââe hath a Beârd which is rare Chap. 12. Of the Diseases of the Stomach that come from the Womb. Sâmetimes from consent with the womb the appâtite ãâã lost diminished increased or depraved or there is Hictets or vomiting belching pain or heart-ach This is when malignant vapors the way beiââ large rise from the arteries of the womb and gâ to the coâliack artery and through the Hypogastrick And if they are hot they cause thiâst ãâã cold they hurt concoction and many times caâââ strong Symptoms from their malignity and ãâã qualities whose causes are not known Hence it is that women desire absurd things as these vâpors get into divers parts of the stomach You may know when the stomach is affected by consent from the womb because the Symptoms abate and return again when the vapââ comes to the stomach there are also other signs of the womb distempered and of the Spleen and Mesentery by the vessels of which the matteâ is sent from the womb to the stomach The Symptomes are worse when they come from the womb then when they come from the stomach first nor are they curable except the womb be first cured It is to be directed to the womb and stomachâ For if it come onely by consent and there is nâ disease by propriety when you have cured the womb the stomach-disease vanisheth of it âelâ if you do but strengthen the stomach If the stomach be first affâcted look onely to thatâ Therfore first evacuate the humors that ãâã in the stomach as we shewed in its ãâã with matter or the humors will be infected ãâã the malignant vapors A Vomit is here pââper To âelp the Womb see for the ãâã and Suââocation and for the Chapter of the Dâstemper of the Womb with matter then strengthen the Stomach thus Take Aromaticum ãâã a dram Extract of Angelica half a scruple Oâl of Cloves Cinnamon eaâh fivâ drops with Sugar two ounces make Roules Or give Pills of Aloes and Mastich often THE FOURTH BOOK THE FOURTH SECTION Of the Symptoms which are in Conception Chap. 1. Of the desire of Vânery hurt THERE are two Symptomeâ in women about copulation The first lâchery lost when ãâã doth not willingly entertain â man or cannot long enduâe him or if she endures she finds little or no pleasure no more then if she were outwardly handled The other is too great lust as in Frenzie of the womb when they cannot be satisââââ by many mââ The defect of apâetite in lust is fââm ãâã âeed or when it is cold or there wants ãâã the seed-vessels The causes of want of âeed ãâã lib. 3. pâr 9. sâct 2. c. 1. Somtimâs it is ãâã âââl conformation of the âeed-vessels Women discover this to their Husbands that gâ to the Physitians for counsel These women have not fruitful âeed and therâââe are barren For that see lib. 3. of Barrenness of men where ãâã Liniments and Oyntments for the loyns and pâvities of women but that ââe may take mâre pleasure let the man anoint the head of his yard âith Civet or Hens gall or the gall of a Pickâd Too much Lechery not of it self hinders conâeption but wandering lust that follows lechery doth The Causes are the same with those of womb ââenzie as plenty of seed sharpness and commotion sharpness of seed from hot meat and Medicines that provoke lust and sharp humors in the womb and seed Thus lust or lechery is abated by Medicines that extinguish the plenty of seed and allay its sâârpness Chap. 2. Of Barrenness and want of Conception MAn or woman may be lustful and copulate and yet there may be no conception or ãâã may concâive too many as Twins or more ãâã have one âonception after another which is ãâã Suâerâââtâtion or ãâã conceives a Mole or ãâã Conâeption is of fruitful seed spent by a man ând miâed with a womans sââd to perâection for ãâã making of a child by the retentive and altering faculty of the womb hence it is necessary that both seeds be fruitful that is hot âul of Spirits and well tempered and a fit subject for a Soul and that both spend at a time and there be mixed and retained together to produce a child Also the sucking of the womb is necessary and that it should lay it up and embrace it so that there be no space between the seed and the womb Somtimes the womb greedily snatcheth and embâaceth the seed but doth not keep it buâ lets it come forth two or three daies after or keeps it to no purpose and brings it not to action as in a false conception or mole Moreover there must be blood in readiness to get the child or be sprinkle it when it is first âormed and to nourish it after Therefore if teâms be wanting as in girls oâ be stopt or gone as in old âolk expect no conception If they flow not by reason of labor and too much exercise the conception is not
seed turns into fat or they are very lean because they want blood Hippocrates proves Barrenness thus Put â Fume saith he under the Coats of a woman and lât her be close clothed about and if the scânt comâ tâ the nose she is not barren and he bids you put Garââck ââensed into the womb and if she smel of it at the ãâã âhe is fruitful A natural bad disposition that causeth barrenness is not curable Hippocrates saith that barrenness from ulcers is hard to be cured A woman that conceives not from disagreement with her husbands constitution by another husband or in time may be cured or some distemper that causeth sterility may be mended by Physick Take away the causes amend the distemper of the womb whether with matter or without matter is to be mended which causeth either no seed or that which is unfruitful or not convenient See Part 1. Sect. 2. Chap. 1. The Medicines of an occult quality are best As Take Rocket seed Silermontane each half a dram Ivory shavings Cinnamon Nutmeg each a dram Muâk in such as may three grains whiâe Sanderâ three drams make a Pouder give a dram with Wine Or Take Species Diamoschu Diambra each a dram the matrix of a Hare a Bores stones and the âard of a Stag each half a dram Nutmeg Cinnarâon Cloves Rocket seed wild Parsnep seed each a dram Musk Amber each four grains with Sugar as much as all give two drams in Wine A Confection Take sweet Almonds Pistachâes Pine-nâts Hazel-nuâs each an ounce Ciâron peels Ginger Cloves Cinnamon each half a dram â Rocket seed two dramâ give a spoonful at bed time Or make this March-pane Take sweet Almonds four ounces Pine Pistachaes Hazel-nuts each two âunces Diambra Dianâoschu each â dram Ivory half a dram Cinnamon half an ounce An Electuary Take Conserve of Rosemary six ounces Dogs stones candiâd two ounces Orâbus Sâhiâkâ reinâ Bâres stones Sows wombs Deers priââieâ Ivory âurnep seed Fennel Nettle seed Rocket Clary wild Mustard each two drams Pine-nuts âweet Almonds each half an ounce Diamosââ dulcis a dram Oyl of Nutmeg by exprâssion two drams with Syrup of Betony make an Electuary Or use Triphera without Opium Or use Baths Inâessions Fomentations âumes and Baths after terms for five daâes Take Briony Masterwort roots Mercury Mugwort Pennyroyal Mârjoram Bays Sage Motherwort Juniper-berries and tops make a Bath Or use Sulphur Baths of Allum Niter Bitumen these do much good A Fume Take Labdanum Storax calâmiâe Benzoin âach two drams wood Aloes a scruple Musk six grains with infusion of Traganth made in Rose-water make Troches Make Pessaries of green Mercury and Motherwort Or Take Mastich Storax liquid each half an ounce Balm Nep Mercury each a dram Cloves Nutmeg each half a dram Civet half a scrupâe with wax make a Pessary After Baths and Fumes anoint the Pecten and Navel with this Take Oyl of Keir half an ounceâoyl distilâed of Mârjâram a scruple of Cloves half a scruple of Nutmegs by exprâssion a dram Sâoraâ liquid two drams Civââ and Musk each six grains with wax make a Liniââât After bathing let her have a Bag upon her belly of Balm Calamints Mints Motherwort and Wine Let her wear Plaisters upon her loyns and Perinaeum till the week before her Terms As Take thâ Plaister for the Mother an ounce Sâârax liquid Caranna each two drams Gallia mââchata half a dram Oyl of Cloves half a scruple of Nutmegs by eâpression a dram with Oyl of Keir makâ a Plaister If the Womb be too loose and slippery use Clysters of juyce of Meâcury with Honey Baths Pessaries Fumes and other astringents Topicks that strengthen If the mouth of the womb gape make a Decoction in Wine of Mirtles Mastich Wood-Vines Olives Wormwood Cypress roots Comââey Snakeweed Cinquefoyl red Rose Pomegranate flowers foment the privities or with pouder of Mastich Frankincense Allum Wood-Aloes make a Fume Other diseases are to be cured as before sâewed Let it be to increase seed of much good juyce In the time of copulation avoid passions anger sadness fear Let love be invited and if it burn there wil many Spirits fliâ to the womb and privities Chap. 3. Of Barrenness for the time and conceiving seldom SOme conceive the seventh eighth or ninth year after wedding some presently but not after the first any more or not in many years after If Viâgins marry afâre fourteen they conceive ãâã or if the constitution of the womb be bad oâ the seed Some conceive not from the disagreement of seeds til their constitution be changed They who want terms or have them disorderââ or are sickly seldom or never conceive with ââild or have had hard travel or a dead child Sâme are weakned so that after the first child they have no strength to conceive All these will be related whether she be married too soon or had hard travel or aborted or had a dead child or a mole If these were not the seed and womb have not a just proportion with the mans but it may be altered by age If the womb be much hurt after travel or any thing turn in it or broken they seldom conceive a gain And if a woman marry at a ripe age and have no remarkable disease and conceive not presently she is not to be accounted barren because some private indisposition hinders concâption which after may be altered and she may prove fruitful A woman that marââes too young after she hath once conceived and then ceaseth must use Venery sparingly til she grow older that she may recover the strength she lost in her first travel And if a woman marry at ripe years and conceiveâ not by reason of the driness of her womb let heâ use Baths Fomentations and emollient Pessaries If she conceive not from weakness strengthen the womb and let her not use Venery often If Virgins be sick from seed retained or termsâ let them marry But if there be a fault in the liver or spleen or the whole body that may be increased by Venery it is better that they be cureâ before they be married And if they cannot bâ cured let them not be married If the womb be distempered by birth or a disease cure it as in diseases of the Womb if it bâ from a Mole or flux of blood cure it as it haâââ and shall be shewed If it be from a dead child first clense it witâ juyce of Mercury and then put Treacle or Mithridate dissolved into the womb or with a Pessary or give them outwardly Chap. 4. Of Conception and forming of the Child COnception is an action of the womb after fruitful seed both male and female is received mixed and nourished its strength is stirred up to do its office Seed and Coema differ seed is that which comes from both male and female but Coema is that which is mixed of both and is called Conception which produceth a child This Conception is presently
causes of ârrouâ ãâã Formation and imagination ââlps by ãâã up the appetite These are the common errors of formation Others are deteâminate errors not simply from the imagination by the pallions which have no determination to such a thing but no other cause can be besides the imagination but how she directs the forming faculty for the producing of such effects it is hard to be understood but there must be some imagination and the forming faculty that it may impart the species sent from the external senses to the forming faculty And this is the cause of the consent of the upper and lower faculties for the âoul is the same in the whole body and every where âitted with the same faculties but it doth not exercise all in all parts but by the proper determinate organs ââ instruments And though the child hath its âoul yet while it is in the womb it depends upon the âoul of the mother as the fruits partake of the life of the tree while they are upon it therefore it is probable that whatsoever moves the faculties of the âoul in the mother may move the same in the child Hence it is that while the forming operateth in the seed and womb of the mother if any species be sent to the imagination of the mother which she strongly receives it may make an impression upon the child yet every imagination cannot make this impression but that which makes a great admiration or terrour in the mother when the forming faculty is at work as when she beholds one with six fingers she brings forth the like or when shâ produâeth hair whââe it should noâ be or the lââeness of a beast in anâ limb or when she âeeth any thing cut or divided with a Cleaver she brinâs âorth a divided part oâ a Hare-lip Chap. 8. Of a Child turned into Stone JOhn Albosius Doctor at Senon and Simâon Provânchâr of Lingo Physitian of Senon writ of of this in French and Latin I shall give my opinion with others Two things are to be observed in this wonderful history first why the Child in the time of traâail being dead in the womb did not stink as is usual or kill the mother suddenly or was not âast out by degrees being rotten secondly by what force the child was turn'd into Stone For the first The mother lived twenty eight years after she had this Child therefore it is not credible that the womb was so cold that it might hinder putreâaction as some think It seems more probable to me that these questions explanation depend upon one principle for the cause that made the stones hardness kept the child from putreâaction but what that is it is obsâure Many fly to the efficienây of the fiâst qualities others to driness others to coldness others to both I acknowledg heat cold and driness to be helping causes for bâeeding of Stones in mans body but the chief cause is a Stone breeding juyce or spirit of which I have spoken at large The principles of generation were weak in this child and impure and this stone-breeding âââce was mixed with the blood in the humors hence it is that it was not born alive as in a wole bred in the womb which women have âiâl they aâe old and die with it and yet it sâiââs ãâã no more then stones bred in most parts But there is but this History of such a Birth Chap. 9. Of a Mole IT is âlesh and a mass without bones or bowels gotten of an imperfect conception instead of a child The Latins cal it a Mole from the weight because it is troublesom to women as a Milstone in Latin called Lapis molaris Somtimes it is unshapen flesh without bones only ful of veins with a skin over it and nothing within but like the Parenchyma of the bowels Somtimes it is membranous and âibâous without shape Somtimes it is long round or like a quary of glass or like a brute beast Some have brought forth three Moles like mens yaâds Some are like congealed blood or the Placenta of the womb into which the navel-vessels are inserted some grow and are nourished and some have an obscure sense Somtimes they are sent out alone somtimes withâ or before the child of which there are many Histories Some bring âorth Monsters for Moles It is from the error of the forming âaculty but the Cause of that is obscure I suppose it is from both seeds when the forming faculty is weak and the seed little and not good and overcome by much blood and can make onely veins and membranes and not a whole child Somtimes ãâã is in Widdows onely from their own seed and blood A Mole is sooner bred when the blood is impuâe and unfit to nourish and is made when they copuââte in the flowing of the terms that are unclean It is âeither from heat nor cold principally but from the error of the forming faculty They are hard to be known before the fourth month then they are known by such as can distinguish between the motion of wind and a child â If a woman turn from side to side it âalls like a stone to that side she lies on and is heavy If it have any motion it is trembling and beating with constriction and dilatation like a Spunge If after the time that the child should move there be no motion and the belly swells and there is no sign of a Dropsie it is a sign of a Mole Thirdly in women with child there is milk about the fourth month but in a Mole the breasts swel but there is no true milk 4. They are more pained and faint and have more pain in their back and groyns If it be with a quick child it is hard to be known but it is known by its weight in the womb which she perceives when she gets up to walk or moves from side to side some are then strong and well coloured It hurts the womb and whole body if it be divided it is less dangerous when it is soft it is cast out the third or fourth month Somtimes it ulcerates or tears the womb and causeth great bleeding Some have been cast out or drawn out without danger some grow old with them in ând find no inconvenience but the weight To prevent take heed of Venery in the terms oâ before the terms or when the body is foul or ââstâucted or the womb When it is take it away presently with thinâs ââât âând foâth a dead child Hippoârates shewâth the âââe in few woâdââ First âoment the whole Therefore if she be plethoriâk let blood largely in the foot at divers times Then purge often with strong Physick Takâ Althaea Lilly roots each half an ounce Althaea Mercury Pellitory Brankârsine each a handful Chamomil Melilot flowers each half a handful Fâânugreek and Lineseed eâch six drams boyl them in Broath to a pint add sweet Butter Oyl of sweet Almonds Lillies each an
of the child that stretcheth the ligaments of the womb and parts adjacent if there be Plethory bleed If it be from weight of the child hold it up with swathing Bands about the neck 5. There is flux of blood at the womb nose oâ Haemorrhoids from plenty or from the weakness of the child that takes it not in or from evil humors in the blood that stir up Nature to send it forth Also the vessels of the womb may be broken or torn by motion fall cough or trouble of mind This is dangerous of which Hippocrates saith The child cannot be well if it be from blood only there is less danger so it âlows by the veins of the neck of the womb for it takes aâay Plethory or take not nourishment from the child If it be from the weakness of the child that draws it not abortion often follows or hard travel or she goes beyond her time If it slow by the inward veins of the womb there is moâe dangâr by the openness of the womb If it come fâom evil blood the danger is alike from Cacochymy which is like to fall upon both If thârâ be Plethory open a vein warily and use astringents As Take Pearls prepared a scruple ãâã Coral two sâruples Mace Nutmeg eaâh a dram Cinââmon halâ a dram make a Poâder or with Sugar Râuâs or give this Pouder in Broath Tâkâ red Coral a dram Pearl half a dram precious stonââ eaâh half a scruple red Sanders half a dram Boââ a dram sealed Earth Tormentil roots eâch two sâruples with Sugar of Roses and Manus Christi ãâã Pearl six drams make a Pouder You may strengthen the child at the navelâ Iâ there be Cacochymy alter the humoâs and if you may evacuate You may use Amulets in the hands and about the neck In flux of Haemorrhoids beware of the pain Let her dâink hot Wine with a roasted Nutmeg Chap. 6. Of the Symptomes that are in the last months FIrst the urin is stopt from suppression of thâ neâk of the bladder Let her then lie dâwnâ and let bladder be fomented with a Bag of Pâllitoây Parâley rootsâ Mâllows Lineseed and the like oâ use the Câtheter 2. The belly is bound from a hot dry liveââ when the child dââws all the moisture to it ãâã the guts Let her then use Moistâers ãâã Butter Mâllows Borage in Broaths or take Clysters in a small quantity 3 The veins appear in the hips and leggs aâ varicâns onâly then keep them from walkingâ and let thâiââeet be laid upon a stool 4. The lâggs swell from âerous blood but thiâ goes away with the aâterbirth and is the signs ãâã a female child but if she cannot walk foment âith a Lye made of Vine branches and Wine or with a Decoction of Organ Pennâroyal Chamomil Calamints Or Take Bean and Lupine flour each twââunces Tartar an ounce Pigeons dung half an âunce with âeeled water and juyce of Coleworts make a Pultis Râb and wash the feet with salt water in which Châmomiâ Organ and Dill were boâled 5. The skin of the belly is cleât with stretchâng after the fourth month therefore use loosning Limments to keep off deformity as marrow of Veal and Sheeps legs Oyl of sweet Almonds Hens grease 6. The water gathered in time of being with âhild between the membranes that hold the âhild comes forth too soon because the membranes are broken by leaping or a conâusion This makes difficult birth for that water was to moisten the parts Therefore let her keep a good diet and strengthen the âhild inwardly and outwardly Chap. 7. Of Weakness of the Child THis is either from weak seed or little nourishment or bad and causeth many diseases in the child To hinder abortion and death of the child know rightlâ the weakness as Hippocrates saith They that will abort have first breasts that âal away which iâ from want of nourishment in the common veiâs of the womb and breasts Hippâcrates âath a seâond signâ which is thisâ Iâ a Wâman with Child hath much milk flowing from her breast her Child is weak 3. If the terms flow often the nourishment is taken from the child 4. A mother often and long being sick shews that her child is weak because her blood is not good and the bad humors with the blood go to nourish the child which makes him sick 5. When the mother hath a flux of the belly the child is weak 6. WheÌ it begins to move and is scarce felt it is weak If it be from these causes take them away and strengthen the child first âeed the mother high with meats of good juyce and sweet Almonds steept in Honey Raisons Quinces outwardly thus Take Malmsey three pints dissolve it in oyl âf Nutmegâ by exprâssion half an ounce add pouder of Cloves Rue each half an ounce Rose Sage Marâoram Pennyâoyal water each a pint Aqua vitae three ounces Dip Spunges in it and apply them under the leât breast to the arm-pits hams pulses soles of the feet and when they dry wet them again Chap. 8. Of Crying in the Womb. CHildren have somtimes cryed in the womb as Fabricius saith in his Epistle to his Brother James Finâel and Wâinridiâk of Monsters writes thus In this City of Bressa a child was heard to cry in the womb three daies before the travel when he was a man he was misârable with poverty and disâasâs till he died Andreas Libaviââ writes the same and others Some saâ it portends evil to the Mother or Child or Countrey It is a vâice by the expulsion of the air thâouâh the âough arteây and some air may in the câvities from vapors or Spirits as in eggs when chickens pip in them And if the child have a rough artery lungs and breasts which are the organs of breathing âound and the child is strong there is no hinderance but it may utter a voice But somthing whatsoever it is must stir it to make this noise THE FOURTH BOOK THE THIRD PART THE SIXTH SECTION Of Symptoms that happen in Childbearing Chap. 1. Of Child-bearing in General WHEN the child can no longer be contained in so small a place being grown and requiring moâe nourishment it kiâks and bâeaks the membranes and Ligaments that hâld it and thâ womb by an expelling fâculty sends it forth with great strainingâ and this is called âravel It is either naturâl or not natural legitimaâe or illigitimate The natural is when the child âomes with the head forward and heels upwards with his hands and arms to his thighs and so the other parts easily follow then the Amnios is broken and the water that was laid up in time of being with child flows forth and moistens the passaâes then the child with more force breaks the Acetabula from which the Secundine is separated and the other membranes are broken and the blood flows into the cavity of the womb and the child gets out by the expulsive faculty with such force that
suck may use this Take Barley meal of Lentils Althaea roots Chamomil flowers and Mints each half an ounce Agnus castus seeds two sâruples boyl them in Wine ad a little Vinegar Oyl of Dill two ounces make a Cataplasme Chap. 3. Of Inflamation and Erysipelas of the Breasts SOmtimes the tumor in the Breast is inflamed from blood for though plenty of milk cauâe an inflammation blood is the immediate cause for milk as it corrupts and grows hot increaseth pain and so the blood staying in the fmal capillar veins being out of the vessels is hot putrid and inflamed There are other causes as strokesâ falls straitness of cloaths and other hurts of thâ Breasts A hard and red swelling shews inflammation with beating pain and a Feaver These inflammations are commonly withouâ danger but because the Breasts are so loose and have many kernels and little heat they turn to Cancers and Scirrhus If you fear a great flux of blood that will increase the inflammation let blood in a plethorick bâdy But if it come from stopping oâ thââârms or after flux first open the vein in thâ ankle and sâarifie the leggs then if need be âpen the arm If bad humors coming to the Breasts nourish the inflammation give a gentle Purge of Manna Senna and the like If the blood be too hot or mixt with hot humors that help the motion oâ the blood Use Alterers as Lettice Endive âurslane Plantane Waterlillies and the like Use Repellers after these but such as are weak and not too cold as a clout dipt in Water and Honey with Oyl of Roses applied to the breasts Orâ Take Lettice Purslane each a handful red Râsâs half a handful boyl them in Water add Viââgar two ounces make an Epithem Orâ Take Nightshâde Lettice each a handful bâyl them stamp them and ad Bârley meal two ounâs pouder of Chamomil flowers half an ounce Oxymâl Oyl of Roses each a dram make a Cataplasm When the beginning of the inflammation is past ad Discussers with your Repellers As Take white Bread crums Barley flour each an ounce and hâlâ Bean and Foenugreek flower each half an ounce pouder of red Roseâ and Chamomil flowers ââch two drams boyl them add Rose-vinegar an âunce Oyl of Roses and of Chamomil each an ounce make a Cataplasm At length use only Disâussers Aââ Take Bean ãâã and of Lupines and of Faenugreek and ãâã and pouder of Chamomil flowers each an ounce maâe a Cataplasm If the matter grow hard use Emollients and ãâã As Take Mallowâ a handful boyl ãâã till they are soft add pouder of Lineseed ãâã aââ Chamoâil flowers each an ounceâ boyl them ãâã add Oâl of Jâsamââe ân âunce maâe a ãâ¦ã Iâ it tend to Suppuration lay a Plaister of ãâ¦ã Or Take Mallows and Althaea each half a handfâl boyl them till they are sâât stamp them and ad pouder of Althaea roots two ounces pouder of Line and Faenugreek seeds each aâ ounce Leaven half an ounce ad Oyntment of Aâthaea two ounces make a Cataplasm When tâere is matter and the imposthumes breaks of its own accord it is well otherwise open it with a Lancet or some sharp Mediâine and let out the matter and then clense it thus Tâke Turpentine Honey of Roses each an ounce Mirrh a scruple The ulcer will be hard to be cured except you dry up the milk in the other Breast by reason of much blood that will flow thither to breed milk Question Whether the Inflammation of the Breasts be from blood alone or from milk alsoâ The inflammation and swelling in women in Child-bed upon their Breasts is from the aââlux of too much milk and it is with redness and pain and beating or pulsation and it is not only from blood for tumors as in other parts aâe seldom pure or unmixed but there are other humors with it Therefore it is certain that when blood is drawn by heat or pain or comes of iâ self to the Breasts and begins to corrupt the milk also may be corrupted Of the Erysipelas of the Breasts This Erysipelas is from fright or angâr and iâ turns presently to a Phlegmon and is cured as the inflammation of the Breast Lay no cold astringent Repellers or fât thingsâ but things that sweat as Harts-horn sealâd Earth Carduus must be given with Elâer waterâ to discuss the thin blood that causeth the inflammation Apply outwardly hot a Pledgât dipt in Elder-water Chap. 4. Of the Ocdema of the Breasts THis flegmatick tumor is in cachectick women that havâ the white Feaver it is cold and white and pits because the part is loose and spungie Are a loose tumor almost insensible of pain and the âinger laid on leaves a pit It is larger when the terms are at hand and abateth when they are past If it come from a Cachexy and a disease of the womb it is dangerous but it commonly ends by resolution or dissolved The Cure is by dry and hot means and if it is from a Cachexy or want of Terms they must first be removed then use Topicks that discuss and ââsolvâ and strengthen let them be but temperately hot least you discuss the thin and leave the thick which will cause a Scirrhus Make therefore Fomentations of a Lixivium of Vine and Colewort ashes and Sulphur or a Decoction of Hysop Sage Organ Chamomil-flowers Then anoint with Oyl of Chamomil Lillies Bayes Or Take Barley flour four ounâââ of Lineseeds Faenugreek Dill Chamomil floâââs each half an ounce Aâthaea rootâ an ounce with Oyl of Chamomil and Dill make a Cataplasm Chap. 5. Of the Scirrhus of the Breasts IT is a hard tumor without pain from melâncholy gathered in the veins that flows to the Breast or it is thick flegm dried Sometimes both humors are mixed together or more which makes a bastard Scirrhus And if burnt humors abound most it turns to a Cancer and if melancholy be most it is not a Scirrhus but a Cancer There are two signs of a true Scirrhus hardness and want of pain if it be fixed Iâ is somtimes white somtimes black or blew as the humor is If it be a bastard Scirrhus there is heat and pain and if they increase it turns to a Cancer and the veins grow blew about and begin to swell The bigger and the harder it is the more hard it is to be cured If hairs grow upon a Scirrhus it is incurable and it easily turns to a Cancer After Universals and the Cause is removed from the womb or the whole body let the containing cause be softned made thin and discussed But beware of two things First that the thin parts be not discussed by too hot medicines and the thick left for so it will be incurable and as hard as a stone Secondly that you âerment not the matter by moistning Emollients so that it turn to a Cancer The Ancients either used none or a dryâng or a moistning Mediâine only You
the orisice and take away the Callus and heal it as an ordinary ulcer Chap. 9. Of straitness of the passages of the Breasts VVHen the veins and arteries are not wide enough to contain blood to be turned there is no milk They are stopt by thick humors as the vessels of the womb are the cause is the stoppage of the terms or hard tumors in the Breasts that stop or press When the nipâle hath no hole for the child to suck it is from the birth or a wound or ââar after an ulcer There is little milk and the Breasts pine If the Breasts swell and milk cannot be suckt out the fault is in the papps or the veins of milk An obstruction from gross humors may be cured If it be from a Scirrhus or Scar after an ulcer it is incurable and so is the nipple born without a hole If it be from thick ãâã or blood attenâate it with proper things as Fennel Dill Pârsley Aniseeds Pease Rockeâ feed or Earth-worms made into Cataplasms oâ Fomentations Often rubbing of the Breasts opens the milk-veâs Chap. 10. Of strange things bred in the Breasts HAirs stones and worms have been found in the Breasts A worm breeds from putâid blood and is like a hair the same may be in the back and navel as I shewed And a good Author writesâ that a woman pained in her breasts could not âe eââed till imâosthuânes broke and worâs câme forth Levinus Lemnius ââw stones that grew in the Breast Chap. 11. Of the Diseases of the Nipples THey are either wanâinâ or lie hid one or bothâ which hinders giving suck If it be from the birth it is searce cured as also when the Nipple is eaten off by an ulcer When they come forth first use a sucking instrument and then apply Puppy-dogs to suck If there be no hole from birth or ulcer healed it is incurable iâ it be a little often sucking will enlarge it The cleâts in the Nipples is an usual evil and causeth great pain in Nurses and if it continue long it turns to foul ulcers and they cannot give ââck To prevent this evil in the two last months of being with child wear two cups of wax over the Nipples with a little Rosin They are cured thus with Oyl of Wax Mirâles Oyntment of Lead Tutty Or Take Tutây prepareâ a scruple Allum âalf a dram Campââire six grains with Capons grease and Oyntment of Râââs make an Oyntment Or Take Pomatum an ounce and half Mastich a âââuple pouder of Gum ârâganth and red Roses ââch half a scruple Or Take Oyntment of Lead Pomatum each half an âânce Frankincense Bole each half a scruple mix them When the inâant is to suck wash the Breasts âârst with whitâ Wine and Rose-water That the child may suck without pain to the âoman let her have a Tin or ââlver Nipple and ââver it with the pap of a new killed Cow and let the child suck that THE FOURTH BOOK THE THIRD PART THE SECOND SECTION Of the Symptoms of the Breasts Chap. 1. Of want of Milk and not giving of suck THERE are many Câuses of want of milk either there is little blood to breed it or the milk making faculty in the breast that makes milk is not right or the instruments for blood-making are distempered Somtimes the matter is consumed by a sâaver or fasting when they loath meat or from care or labour evacuations sweats or loose belly Or from weakness of the infant that cannot draw hard Also sadness fear and the like may hinder blood from flowing to the breasts Milk is wanting when the breasts are flaggie and swell not and little milk is sucked out The signs of the causes thus If it be from the liver there will be signs of its distemper if from great evaâuation that is known the fault is known to be in the breasts if as oft as they lie in they have no milk and the breasts are âââal and wrinkled or if Medicines to keep down the breasts have been applied she will tell you or if it be from weakness of the child or passions of mind The inconvenience is little to the Nurse but gâeat to the child therefore get another Nurse or âure her To breed milk give tâângs that breed much and good blood of easie concoction Medicines to bâeed milk are Fennel roots and all green and thinâs that heat and are not very dry which aâe few but inâinite are they that hinder milk as things hot and dry and cold things These increase milk roots of Smallage seeds of Parslây Dill Basil Anise Rocket Earth-worms washt in juyce of Fennel and dâied or burnt in a pot a dram or two fasting for some mornings or Crâstâl or Milk-stone a dram Compounds are Take green Fennel Parsley each a handful Barley two pugils red Pease half an ounce boyl them and with Sugar sweeâen them or in Chiâken broath Or Take green Fennel six drams Barley two pugils boyl them in broath and strain them Or Take Fennel seed six drams Anise a dram and half Rocket seed half a dram give a dram or two in Broath Or Take Cows Udder sliced dry it in an Oven and pouder it Take half a pound of it Anise Fennel seed each an ounce Cummin seed two ounces Sugar four ounces make a Pouder Hot Fomentations open the breast and attract blood as the Decoction of Fennel Smallage or stampt Mints applied Or Take Fennel and Parsley green each a handful boyl and stamp them aââarley meal half an ounce Gith seed a dram Storax calamite two drams Oyl of Lillies two ounces make a Pultis A Dropax and Synapisme or Plaister of Mustard are good if often changed Chap. 2. Of too much Milk THis is when much blood flows to the breasts and the mother will not give suck or weans the child for the infant cannot suck it as fast as it breeds when there is much blood and good breasts that can make Milk If Milk be kept and cannot be suâked out by the child there are swellings inflammations pains curdlings and corruption Children that suck much if they be full bodied have a Convulsion The fiâst coming of Milk is not to be stopt but when there is more then the child can suck it is abated with a slender diet of little nourishment as Barley Pot-herbs water By letting blood or cupping or by Repellers to the veins under the arms above the breasts Mints Calamints Smallage Agnus castus Coriander Hemlock to abate Milk Mints and Smallage are doubted Compounds Take Smallage Mints Mallows each a handful Faenugreâk Cummin seed each half an ounce Chamoâil Melilot flowers each a pugil boyl them and foment add a little Wine or make a Pultis of them with Bean flour and Oxyâel Or Take Cummin seed boyl iâ in Vinegar and with a Spunge foment They which will not give suck let them foment with this Decoction Take Mallowâ âays Fennel