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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89531	Queen Elizabeths closset of physical secrets, with certain approved medicines taken out of a manuscript found at the dessolution of one of our English abbies and supplied with the child-bearers cabinet, and preservative against the plague and small pox. Collected by the elaborate paines of four famons [sic] physitians, and presented to Queen Elizabeths own hands.	A. M.	1656 (1656)	Wing M5B; ESTC R232158	120,443	222

and Lavender-water that the child may be the more strengthened thereby She may every day eat toasted bread that nothing may grow to the childe The naturall parts may also be gently stroaked down with this Fomentation The Fomentation Take three ounces of Linseed Of Mallowes and of marsh-Mallowes sliced of each M. i. Let them be put in a bag and boiled moderately Let the woman with child every morning and evening take the vapour of this decoction in a hollow stoole taking great heed that no wind or air come to her in any part and then let her wipe the parts so annointed with a linnen cloth that she may annoint the belly and groins as at the first Being near her time to bring forth so that she be within ten dayes thereof if the woman with child shall begin to feel difficulty and pain let her daily use this Bath The Bath Take of Mallowes Marsh-Mallowes ana M.i. Cammomil Mercury hearb Maiden-hair ana M. ss Of. Linfeed four ounces Let these be boiled in a sufficient quantity of water as may suffice to make a Bath therewith But let not the woman sit too hot on the seat nor higher than a little above her Navill nor let her sit longer on it than about half an hour least her strength languish and decay for it is better to use it often than to stay too long at once in it But if she cannot indure to sit over the water let her cherish her naturall parts with a spunge or with clothes wet in it A Laconick and sweating Bath is not convenient at that time but hurtful though we think women may use it After the Bath she shall alwayes annoint her natural parts of her loines her flankes navil sides and other parts adjoyning thereto with the ointment or fat made of the fore-prescribed thing or cherish them with the fat marrow And also fats melted sometimes and rightly put up into the natural parts with a spunge or glister-pipe if the womb be hot and dry and the party with child be of a lean and slender body Fumes also used applied to the womb conduce to facilitate delivery Suffumigations of the genitals to facilitate delivery Musk Ambergreace Gallia Moscata Aloes-wood put upon hot coales and also sweet Hearbs Mint Penniroyal Calamint Origanum Majoram are of a pleasant and grateful smell and open womens passages and draw down conception But we must beware that such sweet smells of this kind be not used to the nostrils but rather Balls of Galbanum Assa foetida Mirrh or Rue What Meat is most usefull Then Pottage of Hens Capons and such like are most in use and I should advise them then to drink thinne generous Wine allayed with water What manner of Chamber the woman with child should lye in It doth not a little avail to the happy delivery that the Chamber wherein the Child-bearing woman lyeth be temperate and be neither too cold nor too hot for that shutteth up the mouth of the womb and this disperseth and digesteth the strength In Summer time therefore if heat scorcheth the Chamber may be strowed with Willow leaves and Vine leaves and Rose-water with a little Vinegar In Winter a high or upper Chamber moderately kept warm shall be convenient which shall be kept warm with a continued fire as is accustomed to be done in Italy France and other hot Countries But this is expedient every where that the natural parts and those nearest unto them be moderately rubbed with hot clothes CHAP. VII What is to be done at the birth THe birth being at hand and paines oppressing them it shall be fit if the belly doe fall down of its own accord but if it be bound it must be provoked with a gentle Glyster for the excrements being cast out the womb and the passages thorough which the Child issueth are lesse pressed and so the birth followeth more easie These things being well prepared the child-bed woman must be put into bed if tender weak grosse and fleshly but it ought to be made ready after this manner How and wherewith the child-bed womans bed ought to be furnished A large boulster made of linnen cloth must be stuffed with straw and be spread on the ground that her upper part may lye higher than her lower on this the woman may lye so that she may seem to lean and bow rather than to lye drawing up her feet unto her that she may receive no hurt CHAP. VIII To whom the seat may agree and be fit LEt the strong and lusty women be placed in a chair which also must have the lower part not upright but stooping a little that the child-bearing woman may sit as it were bending backward clothes or close compassing garments being cast about their backs In this the belly together with the whole burthen may sooner goe down than in a bed but it often cometh to passe that the whole Babe lyeth at the mouth of the womb before that it shall get forth more loosly and openly with the adjoyning places and by that meanes is compelled to stick longer there from whence ariseth no small danger of life CHAP. IX What the Midwife shall doe in the very moment of the birth VVHen now the pangs of child-bearing women increase more and more let the Midwife inwardly annoint the secret or natural parts with oyle of Cammomil and white Lillies nor let her set the woman in the seat before she perceiveth the womb to be loosed and resolved and the humours to flow over more plentifully Moreover she may not bring her to labour and strugling before the birth shew it self to her view for they doe but labour in vain and doe violently distort and wrest away the strength of the labouring woman that afterward when she shall have need it will not be able to work it forth But she shall sit fitly over against the woman in labour and shall diligently observe on what part the birth moveth it self for if it come the right way she shall annoint and cherish the secret parts with odoriferous Oils and if it declineth to the sides she shall with both hands govern and dispose the belly that it may fall to the mouth of the womb And if the hand or feet shew it self first the Midwife with a soft and gentle hand moistened with broth of Fenugreek and Linseed shall gently reduce it into the place Certain women have the mouth of their womb so streightned that without great help scarce or never they can part with the child And that cometh to pass by reason of divers causes for either some strong heat coming from the natural parts doth two much streighten the inward parts or the Creature is to big or the child-bearing woman is to grosse and fat or the child is dead who cannot by motion be furthering and helping to nature or else cold for the most part in the winter especially in young ones who have a narrow passage of the womb doth more a stringe and bind

and drink again but without sweating and use some exercise to keep the body warm use this last order twelve dayes together use good Cordials and Restoratives with sirrup and conserve of Fumitory For the green Sicknesse and Jaundies Boyle of Rue and Sage of each a bundle in a quart or three pints of Ale with one scruple of Saffron To cure this disease the Electuary of Steel is excellent if the body be first purged for it doth open all obstructions but the Patient must use some exercise after the taking it to stirre up naturall heat the better the dose is half an ounce at a time to take of it The Steel for the Electuary is thus prepared â„ž Of the filings of the best Iron or Steel as much as you please grinde it subtilly and finely upon a Porphiry or red Marble stone with Vinegar then dry it at the Sun or at the fire and grinde it again with Vinegar as at the first and doe thus seven times one after another and thus you have the Steel prepared fit for you The Electuary of Steel is made up thus â„ž Of the filings of Steel so prepared half an ounce Cinnamon Nutmegs condited of each three drachms of chosen Rubarb two drachms of the species of Aromaticum rosatum half a drachm of chosen Honey and of fine white Sugar of each one pound and one ounce mingle these all together over a soft fire and make it up into an Electuary After the taking of this Electuary let the Patient in all cases use some bodily exercises being first universally purged for this Electuary is most excellent against all obstructions of the Liver Spleen or other disease and for the green Sicknesse For the green Sicknesse or green Jaundies The green Sicknesse or Jaundies cometh of yellow choller mixed with corrupt or putrified flegm and corruption of bloud debility of nature and faintnesse of heart it happeneth also when the Liver is weakened that it cannot convert the nourishment into bloud but the digestion is raw and crude so that the whole body is filled with water and flegm instead of good bloud it is cheifly found in young Maidens who desire to abate their fresh colours and as they conceive to be fine and fair and foolishly feed upon trash which altereth the colour and state of their bodies as of unripe Apples Peares Plums Cherries and raw Fruits and Hearbs or Meale Wheat Barly raw Milk Chalk Lime and the like and they that have this disease are very pale and greenish if they chance to cut their finger no bloud but water will follow they feele great pain in their head with continuall beating are faint short-breathed and their naturall Flowers are stopped and stayed to the prevention and cure whereof the body must first be well and orderly purged as by the Medicines before prescribed The Table for the Child-Bearers Cabinet WHat things are to be taken heed of in the two first Moneths page 1. Orders for the third moneth 2. From the fourth moneth 3. From the fifth sixth and seventh moneth ibid. In the eighth moneth 4. In the ninth moneth 5. A Liniment 6. The Fomentation ibid. The Bath 7. Suffumigations of the Genitals to facilitate delivery ibid. What meat is most usefull 8. What manner of Chamber the woman with child should lye in ibid. What is to be done at the Birth ibid. How and wherewith the child-bed womans bed ought to be furnished 9. To whom the seat may agree and be fit ibid. What the Midwife shall doe in the very moment of the Birth ibid. What to be done when the Infant is come into the world 10. If the Secondines break not readily 11. What is to be done after the child is born if yet the Secondine or after-Birth be retained ibid. Another approved Remedie for drawing them forth 12. Another Receipt ibid. To draw forth a dead child ibid. How the bellies of Child-bearing women being costive or bound may be loosned 13. What things are to be applyed to the naturall or Secret Parts ibid. The Fomentation ibid. Another 14. An Ointment ibid. A Girdle for the Belly ibid. The order from the seventh day after the woman is brought to bed 15. On the eighth day ibid. On the ninth day ibid. A Liniment to scatter and disperse the Milk ibid. When and whath Bath they must use 16. Another 17. Against the gripings of the belly in Children ibid. Outward Remedies for the same ibid. Inward helps in their meats ibid. A Drink ibid. The government of the Nurse 18. The Care of the Infant 19. A Bath of sweet water very profitable for Children as by whose meanes they may grow up and increase 20. The diseases of Infants 21. The diseases and symptomes proceeding from the birth in women with child ibid. Against the Rupture of the Cods and perinaeum and the part between the rising of the Yeard and the Fundament which proceedeth from difficulty of bringing forth 22. For windinesse or Collick of the Belly 23. For the Itch. ibid. For the Flux of the bloud 24. For falling down of the Matrix from the birth ibid. For the Piles after the birth 25. Against pain of the Breasts contracted by too much Milk ibid. For the Imposthume of the Breasts ibid. What is to be administred to the Child after it is born for the first thing it taketh 27. For Infants troubled with wind and flegm 28. A most excellent Medicine to cause Children to teeth easily ibid. For Agues in Children ibid. For Wormes in Children ibid. For Heart-Wormes 29. The Cure ibid. To cause a young Child to goe to stool ibid. Another certain Experiment .. ibid. The Table of the Cures for severall Diseases FOr Ach in the bones 33. For all Aches and lame Members ibid. An Ointment for all Aches which come from cold causes shrunken Sinewes straines in man or beast it is incomparable and will keep forty yeares but it must be made onely in May. 34. To counterfeit beyond-Sea Azure ibid. To know good Azure and pure 35. For an Ague ibid. For a Tertian or a double Tertian Ague ibid. For a short Breath ibid. An Electuary for the shortnesse of Breath .. 36. For a Bruise or Squat ibid. A Restorative for the back 37. For Aches in the Back ibid. For bleeding at the Nose ibid. For burning or Scalding ibid. For a Cough of the Lungs 38. For purging of Colds Coughs and Comforting the Lungs ibid. A Julep for a Cough 39. Another ibid. For a Canker in the Mouth ibid. For a Consumption and Cough of the Lungs 40. For Collick and paines in the Back ibid. For the Cramp 41. For a Canker ibid. Another ibid. For a Canker in the Lips ibid. A water for a Consumption ibid. For the Cough 42. For a Cough or shortness of Breath ibid. For a Consumption ibid. For the Dropsie 43. Another ibid. For pains in the Eyes ibid. For sore Eyes by salt Rheum ibid. To cleer the Eye-sight 44. For the Flux ibid. Another