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
finely bruised in Saxifrage water or Scabious water in a spoon well mingled together CHAP. XXX A most excellent Medicine to cause children to teeth easily TAke of pure Capons greace very well clarified the quantity of a Nutmeg and twice as much of pure Honey mingle and incorporate them well together and three or four times in a day annoint the Childs gummes when they are teething and they will break flesh easily and prevent torments and Agues and other greifs which usually accompany their coming forth CHAP. XXXI For Agues in Children TAke a spoonfull of good oyle of Populeon and put thereunto two spoonfuls of good oyle of Roses mingle and incorporate them well together and then warm it before the fire annoint the Childs bowing places his armes legs soles of his feet and also his forehead and temples twice a day chafing the ointment well in CHAP. XXXII For Worms in Children TAke of Mirrh and Aloes very finely powdered of each a penny-worth and with a few drops of Chymicall oyle of Wormwood or Savine with a little Turpentine make these up into a plaister and lay it to the Childes Navill CHAP. XXXIII For Heart-Wormes HEberstreit Skonkius Hollerius and other Phisitians affirme they have seen them in persons dissected One in a Prince another in a Citizen of Florence and our London Phisitians of late yeares have seen two in London as appeares in Doctor Mayes book of Mr Pennant of Saint Giles in the Feilds who dyed having a Worm like a Serpent in his heart The Cure Skonkius out of Stocherus affirmeth by certain experiment that the juyce of Raddish Garlick and Mustard killeth these Wormes which breeding in the chest of the heart cause swoundings Epilepsies and many times death CHAP. XXXIV To cause a young Child to goe to stoole CHafe the Childs navill with May Butter before the fire then take some black Wooll that groweth between a Sheeps legs and dip it in the May Butter and then dry it and lay it unto the navill and it will procure a stoole This is also good for one in yeares who can take no inward Medicine Another certain Experiment Take a good big green Mallow strig and strip off the outward skin and annoint the strig well with fresh Butter and put it up into the Childes Fundament and let it stay a while there and in very short space it will procure a stoole Courteous Reader I pray accept kindly of these few Additions THis Treatise might have been inlarged farther out by addition of other Experiments but my Freind being of the same opinion concerning Medicines that Seneca the Philosopher was of Bookes Non refert quanta sed quam bona medicamina hath confined them to their own limits onely with a few necessary Observations inserted M. A. FINIS Choise and select Medicines collected by a Phisitian for his own private use and Alphabetically digested by him and from him communicated for publick use A For the Ach in the bones REcipe A pennyworth of good Aqua vitae and as much of oyle of Bayes and mix them well together warm in a Sawcer and annoint the place grieved and chafe it well in but not by the fire when it is well dryed in wrap it up well For all Aches and lame Members â„ž Rye and Rosemary ana M. ii put them into common oyle and Malmsie ana one quart let these things seeth half an hour together then let the same Member be bathed therewith being first chafed with a cloth very well and after bathing wrap it up in a Lambs skin the woll side inward doe this to bedward for the space of three weeks together this helped a man which could neither stand nor goe Prâ—batum An Ointment for all Aches which come from cold causes shrunken Sinewes straines in man or beast it is incomparable and will keep fourty yeares but it must be made onely in May. â„ž Mallowes Groundsell Strawberry leaves Lavender-cotton Birch leaves Chickweed Comfry Parsly Sage leaves Bay leaves Rue Balm Plantain Sorrell wild Briony Betony Wound wort Carduus Succory Majoram Lungwort Cammomill Adders tongue Oxe eye ana M. iii. Chop these hearbs very small and beat them in a Morter then take Rosin four pound May Butter clarified in the Sun eight and thirty pound Sallade oyle a gallon Turpentine four pound Frankincense two pound Melt the Rosin and Frankincense together first then put therein the May Butter and the rest aforesaid and twelve pound of Hogs grease and half a pound of Verdigrease and when all these are melted together then put in the chopt and pounded hearbs and let them boyle half a quarter of an hour then carefully stirre it a quarter of an hour after and when it is cold put it into pots close covered and set them in a horse dunghill a yard deep for one and twenty dayes then take them out and put all the ingredients into a Kettle and set it over the fire again and boyle them a walm or two then strain it and put thereto oyle of Spike two pound and stir it well and when you use it warm it a little in a Sawcer and rub it by the fire To counterfeit beyond-Sea-Azure â„ž Common Azure and beat it very well with Vinegar and annoint therewith a thinne plate of fine Silver and put the same over a vessell full of Urine set it over hot ashes and coales and let it be stirred untill it be like beyond-Sea-Azure This is the best way Mizaldus saith he had this out of an old written book To know good Azure and pure Lay some of it upon a hot burning Iron and if then it will not be burned nor any little stone is found therein then it is pure and perfect and not sophisticate and adulterate Mizaldus For an Ague When Jesus saw the Crosse whereon he should be crucified the Jewes said unto Jesus Art thou afraid or hast thou an Ague Jesus said I am neither afraid nor have an Ague Whosoever shall wear these words shall neither be afraid nor have an Ague Amen sweet Jesus Amen For a Tertian or double Tertian Ague â„ž A good quantity of Celandine one spoonfull of Salt and the bignesse of an Egg of Leven and as much Allicant or Spanish Sope stamp them well in a Morter and make a plaister of them and apply them to the Patients feet one hour before the accesse of the fit adde thereto four or five yolks of Eggs. â„ž Of Anniseed water the best you can get half a pound of oyle of Vitriol shake them well together and drink one or two spoonfuls hereof one hour before the accesse of the fit Probatum This Medicine is excellent to cure all kinds of Agues that are B. For a short Breath TAke the roots of Hollyhockes lb. i. dry them into fine powder clarified Honey four pennyworth set these on the fire and stir them well together untill it come into the form of an Electuary whereof let the Patient take of often â„ž Of choise Manna called Manna Granata
Inflammation and Fever but also prevent the danger of Gangrena which may chance thereby The Bag. Take Mallowes Violets Plantain Liblong ana one handfull Fat Figs â„¥ i. Hollihock roots Lillie roots ana â„¥ i. Lin-seed â„¥ i. You must shred the hearbs grosly and cut the Figgs and roots small then bruise them in a morter and mingle them altogether then put them into two little bags of linnen cloth and boil them in a sufficient quantitie of clean water untill the water be half consumed then take out one of the baggs and wring out the water a little and apply it to the grief warm and when it is cold take it away and lay on the other and doe so half an hour together every dressing which must be twice a day at least The Cataplasm Take Mallows Violets Sorrell Liblong ana two handfuls Henbane a little handfull Wrap them all in a ball together and roast them in the ashes then bruise them in a morter and adde thereto Mel rosarum â„¥ iiii Triacle Ê’ i. ss Saffron in pouder half a drachm Yolks of five Eggs. Mix them together with the rest adding some Barly flower thereto to thicken it and apply it warm renuing it alwaies before it grow dry and stiffe and every dressing you must Epithemate the grief first with the baggs aforesaid and this order must be continued untill the pain and Inflammation be gone then to bring it unto Suppuration if you adde to the foresaid Cataplasm some oyle of Lillies and sweet Butter unsalted it will be very good or you may make this Cataplasm following Take Soot of the chimney â„¥ iii. Bay salt â„¥ i. ss Yolks of two or three Eggs. Mix all these together in a morter and apply it to the grief warm which must be alwaies renewed and changed before it grow dry and stiffe this order must be continued untill the sore come to suppuration then to remove the scar and finish the cure doe you follow the order prescribed in the beginning of this Chapter There are other dangerous accidents which dâ—e sometimes chance in the botch or Carbuncle which here to treat of would little avail the unexpert people because they know not the means how to execute the same but if any such thing chance then doe I wish you to seek the help of some learned Physitian or expert Chirurgion whose counsell I doe wish you to follow The End of the Second Treatise A Short Treatise of the Small Pox shewing the Means how for to govern and cure those which are infected therewith CHAP. I. Sheweth what the Small Pox and Measels are and whereof it proceedeth FOr that oftentimes those that are infected with the Plague are in the end of the disease sometime troubled with the small Pox or Measels as also by good observation it hath been seen that they are fore-runners or warnings of the plague to come as Salius and divers other writers doe testifie I have thought it good and as a matter pertinent to my former Treatise to shew the aids and helps which are required for the same I need not greatly to stand upon the description of this disease because it is a thing well known unto most people proceeding of adusted bloud mixt with flegm as Avicen witnesseth which according to both ancient and latter Writers doth alwaies begin with a Fever then shortly after there ariseth small Pustulaes upon the skin throughout all the body which doe not suddenly come forth but by intermission in some more or lesse according to the state and qualitie of the bodie infected therewith for in some there ariseth many little Pustulaes with elevation of the skin which in one day doe increase and grow bigger and after have a thick matter growing in them which the Greeks call Exanthemata or Exthymata and after the Latines Variola in our English tongue the small Pox and here some Writers doe make a difference betwixt variola and exanthemata for say they that is called variola when many of those Pustules doe suddenly run into a clear bladder as if it had been scalled but the other doth not so yet they are both one in the cure they doe most commonly appear the fourth day or before the eight day as Avicen witnesseth What the Measels or Males are Avicen saith That the Measels or Males is that which first cometh with a great swelling in the flesh with many little Pimples which are not to be seen but onely by feeling with the hand are to be perceived they have little elevation of the skin neither doe they grow to maturation or end with ulceration as the Pox doth neither doe they assault the eyes or leave any deformity behind them as the Pox doth neither are they so swift in coming forth but doe grow more slowly they require the same cure which the Pox have they proceed of cholerick and melancholie bloud The cause of the Pox and Measels The primitive cause as Valetius saith is by alteration of the aire in drawing some putrified and corrupt quality unto it which doth cause an ebullition of our bloud The cause antecedent is repletion of meats which do easily corrupt in the stomack as when we eat milk and fish together at one time or by neglecting to draw bloud in such as have accustomed to doe it every year whereby the bloud doth abound The conjunct cause is the menstruall bloud which from the beginning in our mothers wombs wee received the which mixing it self with the rest of our bloud doth cause an Ebullition of the whole The efficient cause is nature or naturall heat which by that menstruall matter mixing it self with the rest of our bloud doth cause a continuall vexing and disquieting thereof whereby an unnaturall heat is increased in all the body causing an Ebullition of bloud by the which this filthy menstrual matter is seperated from our natural bloud and the nature being offended and overwhelmed therewith doth thrust it to the outward pores of the skin as the excrements of bloud which matter if it be hot and slimie then it produceth the Pox but if dry and subtil then the Measels or Males But Mercurialis an excellent writer in Physick in his first Book de morbis puerorum cap. 2. agreeing with Fernelius in his Book De abditis rerum causis c. 12. doth hold opinion that the immediate cause of this disease doth not proceed of menstrual bloud but of some secret and unknown corruption or defiled quality of the aire causing an Ebullition of bloud which is also verified by Valetius and now doth reckon it to be one of the hereditable diseases because few or none doe escape it but that either in their youth ripe age or old age they are infected therewith The contention hereabout is great and mighty reasons are oppugned on both sides therefore I will leave the judgement thereof unto the better learned to define but mine opinion is That now it proceedeth of the Excrements of all the four humours in our bodies
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