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cause_n	woman_n	womb_n	write_v	87	3	6.2622	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A38839	Every woman her own midwife, or, A Compleat cabinet opened for child-bearing women furnished with directions to prevent miscarriages during the time of breeding, and other casualties which usually attend women in child-bed : to which is annexed cures for all sorts of diseases incident to the bodies of men, women and children.		1675 (1675)	Wing E3553; ESTC R42020	118,941	210

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 astringe and bind it up or sometimes heat in some is so dissolved that their strength faileth them in the birth Therefore when there appeareth difficulty in bringing forth the Child Jesus Christ the onely preserver and saver in danger is heartily to be called upon that with his gratious favour he would be pleased to be Assistant to the wretched party in travell CHAP. X. When the Infant is come into the world VVHen now the Child or Issue cometh into the world either with the head or feet the Mother must be incouraged that as much as in her lyeth she keep in her breath and restrain it that by that indeavour she may put forth the Child And the Midwife in the mean time must with her hand gently compresse and keep down the region of the womb which is above the navill and urge the Infant to the lower parts And although the astriction of the womb causeth the bringing forth to be more difficult the parturient woman is to be set in a Bath in which Mallowes Faenugreek Linseed and Barly are sodden and the sides hips and flank must be annointed with oyle of Roses and Violets let the thighs be well rubbed with Oxysacchar and half a drachm of Mint and as much of Wormwood be exhibited in drink to her The woman bringing forth may gently be led to her bed and they which assist her at her labour must not look or gaze in her face as such who are ashamed in their bringing forth that after it as it falleth out she strive not to bring forth her young one with sharper pain CHAP. XI If the Secondines break not readily BUt if the Skin containing the young one called the Secondine because it is brought forth after the birth be lesse easily broken but stifly resisteth the Midwife must either break it with her nails and laying hold on it with her fingers cut it with a pair of Sizzers taking care that the Child may be preserved safely in doing it On the contrary when the skins are broken or cut in peices if all the humours presently shall overflow before the child come forth and the naturall places shall be dried up let Goose greace with oyle of white Lillies melted be poured in warm or the white of an Egg with the yolk be put up What is to be done after the child is born if yet the Secondine or after-birth be retained If the Child being born the Secondines be as yet pertinaciously retained sneezing must be provoked if it come not voluntarily putting Ginger or some other sharp thing up into the nostrils or a scruple of Unicorns horn bea●en into powder ought to be drunk hot in white Wine in want of Unicorns horn use good Harts horn or Bezar four graines or the juyce of Borrage exhibited in drink bringeth them down because it easily moveth vomit and they thereby are brought forth Another approved Remedy for drawing them forth Take of Sesely Cinnamon Of Mirrh and of sweet Cassia of each equall parts Let these be exhibited with Mugwort-water Another Receit Take powder of the Jet stone exhibited in Mugwort-water or else about a drachm of the powder of Mallowes seeds exhibited in hot water or the suffumigations of Horse hoofes CHAP. XII To draw forth a dead Child IF the child be dead an equall quantity of Rue of Mugwort Wormwood and black Pepper being each of them reduced into fine powder and boyled in Wine must be exhibited or Vervain boyled in Wine or Water or Vinegar or Savory bruised and tied upon the belly bringeth forth the Child whether it be yet alive or dead or Butter with Honey boyled in Wine or decoction of Hysop well dryed exhibited in hot water but if it yeildeth not nor cometh away with these let Rue Mugwort Oppoponax and Wormwood dryed with a little Oil and Sugar be laid to the groin or the navill and moreover the skin of a female Snake put about the woman in the manner of a girdle Also the stone Aetites tied unto the thigh after the Child is brought forth ought presently to be taken away least the womb after the Child be brought forth come forth also Moreover sneezing alone accellerateth delivery but it ought to be ●sed with the mouth and nostrils close stopped and Ginger or some such thing put up into them for from hence a great force of the spirits is thrust thence unto the inward part CHAP. XIII How the bellies of child-bearing women being costive or bound may be loosned IF the belly doe not evacuate the

vitae infuse it in one ounce of good Mithridate with as much good Venice Triacle let it be close stopped some few dayes in the infusion before you use it then pour the spirit clear off and reserve it for your use But to discover what opinions other Phisitians have held of that and the like I have annexed hereunto their severall judgements hereafter that amongst so many choise Medicines they may select out the best and safest for their own preservations when need shall require And to give them the better satisfaction I have annexed out of some choise Manuscripts some approved Experiments of some of our London ablest Doctors as also out of some other Authors Severall opinions against wearing of Arsenick Amulets as Preservatives against the Plague THe poysonous vapours of Arsenick being sucked or drawn into the body when they find no contrary poyson with whom to wrestle with as with an enemy for in an infected body there cannot be health but we suppose him to be well whom we desire to preserve so those vapours must needs imprint a malignant and venomous quality on the spirit and heart most adverse and pernitious to nature And by Galens own doctrine all Alexiteries doe in a manner if they be used too liberally greatly offend and weaken our bodies how can we then think that ranke Poysons and Dilaetories such us Arsenick is being applied as to penetrate into the noblest region of all other will no whit violate and wast our naturall vitall and radicall heat Galen libr. de simp cap. 18. Nor did Galen or any of the antient Fathers and Professors of Physick use to preserve from the Plague or any other poison by administring some other poison inwardly or prescribing outwardly Applications but proceeded by Antidotes and Alexiteries as will appear in libr. de Theriaca ad Pis cap 16. Wherefore unlesse we will utterly disclaim or relinguish the method and prescripts of these worthy Antients and prosecute new wayes and inventions to oppose this man-yelling Monster we must attempt it not with Poysons but Antidotes And Galen defineth those to be Poysons which agree not with nature either well or ill affected at any time for though there are some Poysons which if they meet in the body with a contrary venome so fight with it and oppose it that both doe perish in the conflict betwixt them so that the party by their colluctation and strugling together escapes with his life yet all of them agree in uniform opinion together that where they meet with no opposition they ruine the party And therefore conclude that Arsenick worn by a healthy man finding not onely no contrary Poyson to make conflict with but no Poyson at all must necessarily thwart and oppose and make an onset on nature her self And to confirme their opinions I have purposely introduced the judgements of other learned Phisitians concurring with them Gerardus Columbus a learned Phisitian reporteth that it hath been observed that the wearers of these Amulets upon unusuall heating their bodies have fallen into sudden Lipothimies and Swounings with other fearfull accidents which continued upon them till the Amulets or Placents were removed from them and that others though not instantly yet after some time have by late and wofull experience discovered their malignity by falling into malignant and pestilent Fevers some of them ending with death Franc. Alphanus a Phisitian of Salerne relateth of one who wearing Arsenick and heating himself with playing earnestly at Tennise fell down suddenly dead Mattheus Hessus also thus writeth As Cordiall Bags or Amulets ought not to be disavowed so empoysoned Amulets can be no way commended nor doe I remember that ever Antidotes But this I certainly know that divers persons who c●ry about them Quick-silver in a Nutshell by the vain perswasions of some Imposters have died of the Plague and the counsellours and advisers of such like Amulets have been the first have betaken themselves to their heeles confiding more in their running than cunning and yet these Quacks perswaded the ignorant people with glorious promises and protestations that whosoever carried Quick-silver or Arsenick about his neck should be as safe as if he had purchased a protection from the King of Heaven Historians also report that Caracalla though he were a wicked Emperour prohibited by publick Edict or Proclamation that no man should wear about him superstitious Amulets And Theophrastus the great not without cause esteemed Pericles to have a crazed brain because he saw him wear an Amulet about his neck And hereunto Doctor Francis Herring an able Phisitian as a Corollary to what hath before been written addeth the experience of some London Phisitians who report they have seen foul holes made in the breasts of those that have worn those Amulets and have observed divers to die who have religiously worn them about their necks as well as others And whereas the venters and setters out of these deceitfull wares make them as a scout to discover the infection when it beginneth to seize on a man by clapping close to the heart to guard that principall part as the cheif Tower It is a meer deceit and collusion for whensoever the body is heated this event followeth necessarily though no other infection be near but the poysonous and venomous Arsenick it self whose salutation is rather Joabs imbracing or Juda's kissing than friendly preservatives Causes of the Plague There are two speciall causes of the Plague First An infected corrupted and putrified air Secondly Evill and corrupt humours ingendered in the body The air is infected when the temperatenesse of the air is changed from his naturall state to excessive heat and moisture which is the worst temperament of the air the vapours drawn up by the heat of the Sun being unconsumed rot putrifie and corrupt and so with the venome infect the air Also dead Carkases lying unburied as it often chanceth in Warres evaporations of Pooles Fens Marishes stinking and noysome sents and Kennels and Astronomers say Aspects Conjunctions and Oppositions of ill Planets and Eclipses of the Sun and Moon Also disordering ones self either in diet or exercises bringeth one into the Pestilence therefore in time of contagion outrages and surfets are to be avoided as also all excesse of eating drinking sweating bathing lechery and all other things that open the pores of the body and enter thereby ill aires which invenome the lively spirits Signes of the Plague The signes which declare one infected already are many but the secret token of all to know the infected of the Plague is if there arise botches behind the eares or under the arme-holes or about the share or if Carbunkles suddenly arise in any member for when they appear they betoken strength of nature which being strong laboureth to drive the poyson out of the body but if botches doe not appear it is more dangerous for it sheweth that nature is weak and feeble and not able to expell and thrust forth the venomous humours and then