it is often seen that children do partake more of the conditions of the Nurse then the Mother and therefore care must be taken that the Nurse be good conditioned good teeth brown hair of a healthy generation that neither she nor her husband may have had the French disease that she be not peevish nor cholerick that she have milk in abundance and a good fleshy breast that her breast be not over-fleshy that she be not too fat and above all that she be not of too amorous a humour and desirous to be with her husband for that is perfect venome to the milk What is to be done in the extream pains of the childe IF a child have extream throws presently after it be born you must rub it with Pelitory and fresh butter or Spinach or else with Hogs grease and apply it upon the navel having first a great care that it be not too hot Or else make a little cake of eggs and oyl of nuts and apply in the very same place if this avail not give it a little Glyster of milk the yolke of an egge and a little Sugar this easeth the pain of the intestines What is to be done with those children that are troubled with flegme THere are some children born of ill constitution'd women or else of women that have not used good nourishment in the time of their being with child who are very full of flegme these you must lay upon one side and sometimes upon the other for if you lay them upon their backs you may perchance choak them you must be sure to keep their bellies soluble causing them to void that bloud kept in the entrails from the time of their being in the womb by giving it a little suppository of black soap well rubbed in fresh butter to take away the Acrimony of it then give it a spoonful of syrrup of violets this causes the flegm to pass down if you perceive that the Infant hath not much heat you may mix with it half the quantity of oyl of sweet Almonds and half of the syrrup of violets and continue it stroaking the stomach and the belly of the Infant with fresh butter every time that they undress him That which ought to he done to children that have their cods full of wind VVHen Infants have their cods full of wind ye must examin whether it be with wind or water if it be water by rubbing and chafing the skin with fresh butter the waters will sweat out if it be wind the children must be stirred and swung gently mingling in their drinke the decoction of aniseeds How to take away the canker from the mouths of Infants THere have been known certaine children which have been nourished with cold milk which hath bin thick and in great quantity which a few days after its birth hath heated the mouth of the infant in such a fashion that it caused a white canker which presently possessed the tongue palate the gums the throat and all the mouth whereupon it was taken with a fever and it could no longer suck all the assistance that could be was still applyed and when no other medicine did avayle there was found one a particular remedie which was half a handfull of sage a handfull of cherveil brused a little and boyled in a sufficient quantitie of water a bout a dozen seethings to which you must add a spoonfull of vinegre when you have streined it you must put to it an ounce of mel rosatum then you must have a little hooked stick with a little peice of scarlet tyed at the end then putting the water in a sawcer dip the end of the stick where the scarlet is tyed and then rub the place affected gently and you shall find the cancer to asswage by little and a little What is to be done to children whose intestines are fallen THere are a great many infants whose great gut fals which is a thing very easily remedyed at the beginning and therfore you must put it up againe first lay the child with his head lowermost then you must have a thick cushion soaked in smiths water then you must have an emplaister made of the roots of great Consound scraped and put upon it as an oyntment then looking to it every day taking care that it crie but little and never unbind him but as hee lyes lest the gut tumble down againe and so the cure be delayed as the child grows big the hole lessens and the Intestine grows big This is an experienced way To make an oyntment to strengthen the thighs and leggs of a child and make him goe TAke Sage Marjoram Dwarfe Elder-bruise them a good while together till you have beaten out a good deale of juice then put it into a glass viol till it be full and stop up the hole with past and round the sides also put the said past put it then in an oven to bake as long as a good bigg loafe then draw it forth and suffer it to coole then breake the past which is round the viol breake the bottle and keep up that which is with in which you shall find turnd to an oyntment and when you would use it you must add to it some of the marrow of the hoofe of an oxe melting it all together and when you have so done you must rub the hinder part of the leggs and thighs of the child This hath been done to a child whom a famous Physitian after three yeares having in hand gave over saying that it would never goe Of the relaxations of the Matrix and the cause There are many causes of the relaxation of the Matrix the one proceeding from great fluxes which fal down upon the ligaments thereof causing them to wax loose Others come to this disease by some falls others by reason of carring in their womb too great burdens others by streining themselves in travaile before their time and because the orifice of the womb is not open somtimes and very often by reason of the midwifes who putting up their hands into the womb teare downe they know not what which is often times apart of the Matrix to the bottom of which the secondines adhere drawing down part of the womb which they take to be the secondines which is often times brought also to a worse condition when the unskilfull women force her to the remedies for bringing down the secondines as holding baysalt in her hand streining to vomit and the like For remedie wherof all these relaxation of the Matrix by the same remedies except those which are occasioned by strong fluxes for in this case other remedies are not sufficient being that you are to take away the cause of those defluxions before you can proceed to the cure of the relaxation Among the rest I will relate one that hath been found very profitable and experienced which is this astringent Take Gall nuts Cypress nuts and Pomegranate flowers Roche Alum of each two ounces Province Roses four ounces
thereon and renders them uncapable of conceiving One I have heard of who was afflicted with this disease and voided a great great deal of putrified blood by a certain fumigatio that I taught her was cured I can say this of a certainty that after this Woman had voided this putrefaction she came to see me with a very lusty child and was bigg of another for being discharged of the burden of putrified blood she found her self marvelously free for conception for the Matrix that began to be ulcerated was now fortified and strengthened again and the natural heat began to take possession there again A good Observation in the choice of Nurses THere be two sorts of Nurses which I have found the one is of such Women as are of an ill humor or juice which humors settle all in the milk for that is the place where these fluxes discharge themselves these Women are in a better condition being Nurses then when they are not Nurses and being not Nurses are subject to pains sometimes in the arms and sometimes in the shoulders sometimes in one of their leggs or Thighs or else they are subject to the watring of the eyes or swelling in the corner of the eye or nose these are good Nurses as long as children are fat but the fat is soft and the Infants dul sottish giving no great signs of vivacity coming to bear teeth are very sickly and do ordinarily dye by reason of the flux that pusheth out too great company of teeth at once The children that escape this are more il juic'd in their infancy then are their Fathers and Mothers in their old age If the flux that afflicts them be salt the milk is of a blackish and blewish colour if it be of choler it is more dangerous then the other for that is very dangerous and venemous to the children There is another sort of Nurses more dangerous then these I have now spoken of who presently after they have lain in that is three or four or five or six moneths are taken with their purgations a thing which never happens to good Nurses for this is the course of Nature that all the blood which is retained is dedicated to the nourishment of the Infants This is caused by an immoderate heat which is in their blood and to say truth as soon as ever this happens the Infant must be taken away for they are more apt to conceive then to nurse and if they continue Nurses they do but ruine the children this is too much experimented and I speak this to save the lives of a great many children when seeing them suck I have discovered their want of milk so that I may say there dies a third part of the children for want of taking care in this particular which seem fat and in good case This is the cause of great cholicks and vvindinesses in children vvhich kils them in a moment for the least Fever that takes them carries them avvay Bâ—side this there are some whose milk is so little but vvithall so thick that it sticks upon the tongue palate and throat which causes as it were a vvhite canker vvhich is more and more heated by reason of their forcible drawing in vain possesseth all the throat vvhereby they are hindred froÌ„ sucking These Nurses wil milk after this a drop or two out of their breasts crying look ye the child cares not for sucking I never knew more abuse in any thing then in Nurses for let them make vvhat excuse they vvill it is nothing but necessity that reduceth them to be such although the greatest part do say that it is to get acquaintance yet vvhen they have a childe vvhether they have milk or no yet they desire not to part vvith it no more then they do to drown themselves vvhereby the Parents are often deceived And therefore the mothers ought to have a great care and to make it their business to surprize the Nurses at their ovvn houses that if there be any miscarriage they may find it out And indeed it is very reasonable that the cause of these poor creatures that cannot complain should not be neglected and these she-murderers be made known that they may not go unknown Of a VVoman which I laid two several times and of the difference of her bearing of two children proceeding from several causes I VVas called to lay a Woman who said she was gone her ful time she had the same pains that Women are wout to have in the time of Travail but her waters came not down at one forcible throw she cast forth a great membrane like a hoggs bladder all united within and without only that it had divers branches of veins as you shal see in a bladder which I presently cut and found therein a little Infant wel shaped swimming in black waters it had gone its ful time and was so lean that it resembled a meer picture it had the Navel-string holding fast to the bladder where it is to be supposed those smal branches of the veins do end here as I guess as long as it found any bloud it lay languishing but that beginning to fail it dyed and presently voided those excrements that were contained in the Intestines which being mingled in the waters made them black and as for the Woman her self she was the fullest of humor that ever I saw in my life Another time I brought the same VVoman to bed who was delivered of a child that came the ordinary way into the world with the head formost now I perceiving her in Labour found nothing at first but a certain softness as if the waters were coming down afterwards I perceived a certain bag with hair a thwart which I saw certain great knobs or heads the Infant being come forth was not yet formed the face and the head were like vizards more then any face it had the form of a nose but it was soâ—t like wool the head was ful of water and those knobs which appeared were nothing but the futures of the head which the too great abundance of water had disjoynd in the hands it had nothing but hair in stead of bones and the toes were of the same the VVoman her self was said to be extreamly cholerick and moist Instructions of a famous and dying Midwife to her Daughter touching the practice of this Art DAughter if the excellencies of what is to be known in this world are to be found not in one but in several Countrics certainly they are most able to instruct who have had the greatest experience and longest travel in the world which is the reason that in this small Treatise I have not tyed my self up to the rules solely of my own Nation but have searched the studies also of other Nations that thou mayest be bettered not only by my experience but by the labour of others In the first place therefore I exhort thee to be diligent and to leave nothing unsearched that may tend to the
The belly waxes hard as happens to those who are troubled with the Dropsie and almost of an equal roundness with many pricking pains at the bottom of the belly which have scarce any intermission which is the cause that they can hardly sleep being encombered with a heavy and dead burthen It may be known also by other signs for in the conception the Male Infant begins to move at the beginning of the third moneth for the most part and the female at the beginning of the third or fourth moneth now where any motion happens the woman ought to observe whether she have any milk in her breasts or no if she have milk in her breasts it is a sign of true conception if she have not it is a sign of a false one Besides in true conception the mother shall perceive her child to move on all sides oftner though to the right flank then to the left sometimes up sometimes down without any assistance but in false conception although there be a kind of motion which is not enliven'd that proceeds from the expulsive faculty of the mother and not from the mole The mother shall also perceive it to tumble always on that side she lies not having any power to sustain it self beside as she lies on her back if any one do push gently downward the burthen of her belly she shall perceive it to lie and rest in the place where it was pushed without returning thither Beside that which will confirm it more is when after the end of nine moneths the woman shall not come to her travel but that her belly still swels and is puffed up more and more all the rest of the parts of the body growing thin and meager this is a sign of a mole notwithstanding that many women have been known to go ten or eleven moneths before their delivery The signs of the windy mole are these when the belly is equally stretched and swelled up like a bladder more soft then when it bears the fleshie mole and especially near the groynes and small of the belly if it be struck on it sounds like a drum sometime the swelling decreases but by and by it swels more and more the woman feels her self more light it is engendered and encreases swifter then the fleshie mole or the watry and it makes such a dissention of the belly as if one were tearing it a sunder For the watery and humorous mole the signs are almost the same the belly increases and swels by little and little as the woman lies upon her back the sides of her belly are more swelled and distended then the middle or the bottom of the belly which grows flatter then by reason that the water and the humours fall down to the sides of the belly moving up and down on the belly as if there were a fluctuation of water there This distinction is more to be observed in the watry mole that the flank and thighs are more stretched and swollen then the humoral because that the waters flow thither oftentimes and that which comes forth through natures conduite is as clear as rock water without any ill savour but that which flows out in the humoral distemper is more red like water wherein flesh hath been washed and is of an ill savour This is also to be marked in false conception that the flowers never come down and the navel of the mother advances it self little or nothing both which happen in true conception There are besides these above written certain other tumours which the women do take for moles These occasion a rotundity and swelling in the belly which are not discovered till the woman be opened and then there doth appear though the body of the womb be clean and neat without any thing contained in it at one or both corners of the womb a quantity of water contained as it were in little bags in others are to be seen a heap of kernels and superfluous flesh clustered up together in the womb which cause it to swell Yet in these women it hath been observed that their purgations have been very regular which hath been a sign that the womb it self hath been in good temper There is also another excrescency of flesh which may be termed a pendent mole The pendent mole which is a piece of flesh hanging within the inner neck of the womb which at the place where it is fastened is about a fingers breadth still increasing bigger and bigger toward the bottom like a little bell This flesh hanging in the interior neck of the womb possesses the whole orifice of the privy member sometimes appearing outward as big as the fist as hath been observed in some women Of the cures of all these we shall treat in due place CHAP. VI. How women with childe ought to govern themselves IN the first place she ought to chuse a temperate and wholsome air neither too hot nor too cold nor in a watry and damp place nor too subject to fogs or winds especially the South winde which is a great enemy to women with childe causing oft times abortion in them The North winde is also hurtful engendring Rhumes and Catarrhs and Coughs which do often force a woman to lie down before her time Likewise the winds which carry with them evil odours and vapours for these being sucked with the air into the Lungs are the cause of divers diseases For her diet Her Diet. she ought to chuse meat that breeds good and wholsome nourishment and which breeds good juice such are meats that are moderately drie the quantity ought to be sufficient both for themselves and for their children and therefore they are to fast as little as may be for abstinence unless upon good occasion renders the child sickly and tender and constrains it to be born before its time to seek for nourishment as the over-much diet stuffs it up or renders it so big that it can hardly keep its place All meats too cold too hot and too moist are to be avoided as also the use of salads and spiced meats and the too much use of salt meats are also forbidden which will make the childe to be born without nails a sign of short life Her bread ought to be good wheat well baked and levened Her meats ought to be Pigeons Turtles Phesants Larks Partrige Veal and Mutton For herbs she may use Lettice Endive Bugloss and Burrage abstaining from raw Salads for her last course she may be permitted to eat Pears Marmalad as also Cherries and Damsons she must avoid all meats that are diuretick and provoke urine or the termes and such meats as are windy as Pease and Beans Of Longing Yet because there are some women that have such depraved stomachs by reason of a certain salt and sower humor contained in the membranes of the stomach as that they will eat coles chalke ashes cinders and such like trash so that it is impossible to hinder them to such therefore we can only
she must rest very quiet and be free from all manner of disturbance she must sleep as little in the day time as may be If she goe not well to the stoole she may have some such kind of Glyster as this â„ž of mallows Marshmallows and Pelitory of the wall an one handfull Flowers of Camomile and Melilot of each a small handfull Aniseeds and Fenell seeds of each two ounces boile these in the decoction of a wethers head take of this three quartaries and dissolve in them of course suger and common hony of each two ounces new fresh butter three ounces of this make a Glister and if occasion serve add to this an ounce of Catholicon What is to be done to the Breast Belly and lower parts of the Woman in child-bed IN the first place you may lay the skin of a hare or sheep for the space of four or five howers which being taken away you may then anoynt it with this following oyntment and then lay a linnen towell all over her belly and hipps which must be continued on for the first seven days looking after and turning every morning The Oyntment may be this â„ž the oyl of sweet Almonds Camomil and Hipericon an one ounce and a half Spermaceti two ounces Goats fat one ounce oyle of Myrtles halfe an ounce melt all these and make an oyntment to anoynt the belly Now before the cere cloath be put on you must apply a little plaister of Galbanum about the bigness of two or three fingers to the navel in the middle of which may be put two or three graines of civet yet so as that the woman may not perceive the sent of it The cere cloth may be this â„ž White wax four ounces Pomatum without musk Calfes greass of each an ounce Spermaceti an ounce and a half oyle of Hipericon and sweet Almonds of each one ounce Venice Turpentine washed in Pellitory water halfe an ounce melt these in Balneo Mariae and spread them upon a cloath about the bigness of the belly and when it is coole apply it The next care is to be had of the brests upon these some put round cere cloths made thus take six ounces of new wax oyle of Myrtle roses and hony of Narbon of each two ounces melt these all togetheâ— and make a cere cloth Let them have holes in the middle for the nipples to goe through This oyntment is also very good to keep the milke from clotting â„ž Oyntment of Populion one ounce Galens refrigerating oyntment half an ounce oyle of roses six dramms vinegar a small quantitie melt them together and make an oyntment This fomentation is also much commended â„ž Fennel Parssely Petroselinum Mallows Althea of each a small handfull Laurel and Camomile flowers of each half a handfull boyle these according to art and make a fomentation for the nipples After this fomentation anoynt them with oleum rosatum omphacium and then apply this following plaister â„ž Venice Turpentine foure ounces well washed in strong wine and rose water adding to it two whole eggs and a scruple of saffron with as much wax as is sufficient spread this upon a linnen cloth and apply it as for the lower parts for the three first dayes they are to be fomented with a certaine fomentation of milke where in hath bin boyled a few roses some chervil and a little plantaine From the next day to the eight day you may use this bath wine and water of each half a pint red roses and flowers of Hipericon of each two handfulls Agrimony one handfull make of this a decoction after bathing once or twice lay this following oyntment along the lipps of the privities upon a linnen cloth â„ž Oyle of Hipericon two ounces Spermaceti an ounce and a halfe a little white wax mix all these together melt them and make an oyntment After the eight dayes are past you may lay upon her belly this following plaister â„ž Oyle of Hipericon Camomile and aniseeds of each one ounce oyle of Mastick an ounce and a half oyle of myrtles six dramms Spermaceti two ounces the fat of the reines of a goat an ounce and a half Dears suet one ounce of this make an oyntment to anoynt the belly of the woman in childbed and then apply this following plaister â„ž Oyle of myrtles and Hypericon of each an ounce and a halfe oyle of Nippo one ounce Venice Turpentine washed in water of Motherwort four ounces melt all these together and put them upon a hempen cloath that may cover all the belly and lett her weare it the space of eight dayes These fifteen days being past for the space of eight days more you may lay upon her belly and her hipps this following plaisters â„ž Oyle of Mastick myrtles Iasmine and Quinces of each an ounce and a halfe oyle of Acornes two ounces spermaceti one ounce Venice Turpentine washed in Plantaine water half an ounce wax six ounces melt all these together adding powder of Mastick and Terra sigillata an halfe an ounce florentine Orrice one ounce spread all these upon a hempen cloath and lay it on her belly to be kept there for the space of eight or ten dayes for the lower parts this fomentation may be needfull â„ž Leaves of Plantaine Mulleine Centinody and Horstaile an one handful Cypress leaves a handfull and a halfe of the rind of Pomgranates cypress nuts and Pomgranate flowers of each halfe an ounce red roses Camomil and Melilot of each a handfull roch Alum two ounces calamus aromaticus and florentine Orrice of each three drams Gilliflowers one dram make of these two sacks and boyle them in like quantities of sower wine and smiths water for the exteriour mouth of the neck of the womb Of the choice of a good Nurse THe choice of a good Nurse is very important and therefore you must first look upon her aspect and see whether her sight be no way imperfect as whether she be squint-eyed or have a down-cast look you must have a special care that she be not red hair'd for their milk is extreamly hot see moreover whether her teeth be sound and white and well set know whether she come of parents that have been troubled with the consumption and if she have not nor be exsumptive herself you may judg of her stomach and whether she be subject to catarrhs you must also take heed that she send no stinking breath either from her mouth or nostrils for that corrupts the Lungs of the Infant Enquire whether neither she nor any of her kindred have been troubled with leprosie by reason that it is very contagious or with the Epilepsie or Falling-sickness And therefore those women that either cannot or will not nurse their own children must make use of such women as are most fit to the humour they would have the child to be of for the nurse is now to be the second mother of the child from whom the Infants draws all her conditions be they good be they bad and
Take shaven Ivory Ash keyes yellow and wild Rape-seed Siler mountain with red and white Behen of each one dram Cinamom Galangall long pepper Cloves and Mace Balsam wood Rosâ—mary flowers Blattae Byzantiae gentle Marjoram penyroyal of each four scruples Baulme Buglosse Citron pils of each two scruples Pearls one scruple Musk two grains white sugar four and twenty ounces seeth this with Malmesey and make thereof a confection Or because of some diseases in the parts where note that too much fatnesse of the Call doth close the mouth of the womb such women must not sleep much especially in the day time they must use strong Clysters that are warm and dry and purge often Or when the womb doth not attract the seed when it is cast in which proceeds from a moist intemperance which is by the loosness of the fibres of the womb so that the womb cannot contract it self which is cured as in the moist distemper Or by reason of the thickness of the womb for then the blood which increases the seed does not slide down to that place The cure hereof requires a thin diet purging and sweating or by reason of the slipperiness thereof which happens by reason of the running of the whites in women The cure whereof consists in the stopping of the whites which hath been already treated of or by reason of the gaping of the Orifice which hath been occasioned either by difficult birth or by some abortion The cure is performed by astringent medecines among which the chiefest are the fomentation of Lentisk and Myrtle or by reason of some sudden cough or sneezing immediatly after copulation by which the seed is shaken forth Or when the womb doth not alter the seed that is cast in through an immoderate cold distemper Sometimes through heat and then it would be requisite to avoid hot aire and keeping the parts about the womb compleat or the eating of hot meats and spices purge after blood-letting in the Basilick vein of the right hand with Electuary hom de Epithymo juice of roses of each two drams and a half whey four ounces mix them wel together and take them in the morning sleeping one and fasting four hours upon it Purge also with Triphera Saracenica and Rheubarb with potions prepared and mixed with syrup of Roses Violets and Endive Take Pistacia Pingles Eringus of each half an ounce of Saffron a dram Lignum Aloes Galangall Garyophyllata Mace red and white Behen Baulme-flowers of each four scruples shavings of Ivory and Cassia rindes of each two scruples syrup of Ginger confected twelve ounces white sugar six ounces seeth these together with the syrup in 12 ounces of Baulm-water untill it be all boyled away when it is cold put some more water to it and stir them together and last of all mix with it a scruple and a half of Musk and Amber of this conserve let the woman take thrice a day to wit in the Morning an houre before supper and an hour after dinner Or it proceeds from obstruction of the flowers in which case first let blood in the Basilic vein then purge with Opoponax and Hiera Composita of each half a dram to be made up in seven pils to be taken in the morning sleeping upon them an houâ— and a half with a draught of sugard water five hours after Or with a potion of syrup of Vinegar compounded syrup of Eupatorie of each thrâ—e quarters of an ounce Fever Mugwort and Elecampane roots of each an ounce and mix them together then she may put up into the womb a pessary of muâ—k Amber Aloes Wood and Ash keyes of each three grains Saffron half a scruple Hares-rennet as much as suffices which being made up like a good big Tent she must keep a whole day in her body Of the bringing up of Children and of their Diseases Of the Diseases of the Head THe Diseases common to Children are first certain little ulcerous risings chiefly in the Head sometimes in the whole body they arise from some vitious humor either collected in the womb or out of the womb by reason of the badness of the milk containing a serous salt and nitrous quality if there be no ill to be suspected the humor may be driven forth by giving the Child some syrup of Fumarie or Harts-horn burnt the Nurse is to be purged and the matter offending to be tempered with syrup of Borage or Fumarie if there be much corruption under the crust of the scab the head of the Child is to be bathed with some softning decoction then to be anointed with some drying Ointments Sometimes they are troubled with an inflammation of the head with which is joyned a hollowness in the fore-part of the head and in the eyes it may arise from the milk if the Nurse be subject to drink over-much strong drink in the Cure you must beware of applying things which are too refrigerating They are also many times affected with a kind of Epilepsie which proceeds sometimes from extraordinary frights from milk that lies corrupted in the stomack and sometimes from worms moving themselves in the guts and sometimes it is the consequent of other Diseases The cure is to be observed partly in the fit and partly after the fit the Smaragd-stone and the hoof of a wild Alx put into the lâ—fâ— ear are very profitable and take good effect Vomiting also and this Emplaster of white Amber Frankincense and Mastick of each a dram and a half Galbanum Opoponax of each a scruple Visci of an Oak two drams Ambergreize six grains Musk three grains seed of male Peonie half a dram Ladanum one dram and a half a little Oile of Nutmeg and sprinkled with the dust of Cubebs the fore-part of the head may be also anointed with Oyl of white Amber Fears and startings in the Childs sleep which being occasioned from the putrid vapours which are carried up with the animal spirits and arise from the stomack therefore they happen to Infants that suck greedily in the cure care must be taken that the Child do not fil it self too unreasonably and provide that good sound milk may be generated and that the Children be not put to sleep upon a ful stomack the stomack of the Child anointed neer the orifice with Oyl of Quinces and mastick and Oyl of Nutmeggs Before sleep dissolve a little roll of Diamoschus in milk and give the Child and unless the child be over much troubled with heat you may give it a little Treacle once in a week overmuch watching or wakefulness which is occasioned by sharp vapours which arise out of the stomack by reason of the badness of the milk sometimes it is occasioned by Fevers and pain of some peculiar parts there is nothing better then to anoint the soles of the Childs feet with marrow which hath no danger in it rather then to give the child stronger Opiates A looking a squint which in new-born children is cured by putting a candle opposite to
with a viscous and slimy flegme which lies in the passages of espiration if the humor flowing down be hot the face of the Infant will be red if it come of a cold humor the child must be kept indifferently warme giving it a little oyl of sweet Almonds and sugar candy it wil not be amiss also to wash the feet of the child in ale wherein certain Cephalick herbs have been boyled and after that to anoint the plants or soles of his feet with Gooses fat The breast of the child may be also rubbed with oyl of sweet Almonds and fresh butter and upon this put little linnen clothes something warm If it be accompanied with any viscous matter or flegme you may give the Infant a little syrup of Maidenhaire or syrup of Liquoriss and Hysop mingled together or give the Infant this water to drink Take of Rain water and Fountain water of each a pint white sugar one ounce honey an ounce Vinegar two drams boyl them all together and clarifie them and let the Infant drink it Of breeding Teeth IN breeding Teeth the difficulty and paine that the child endures is easily perceived and whether that be the thing which the child is afflicted with may be easily guessed at by the time of breeding teeth which is about the seventh moneth beside the Infant is perceived to be often putting his fingers in his mouth and the Nurse perceives the infant to gripe her breasts hard c. the place where the teeth are about to break out looks white watchings and the sense of a very great paine The swelling gums are to be anointed with Hares brains boyled or the fat of it If they be inflamed wash them with oyl of Roses and white wax and the juice of Nightshade if they be exulcerated anoint them with butter that hath no salt in it with a little honey and powder of Frankincense Of the inflammation of the Navel-string in Infants SOmetimes after the binding of the Navel-string it happens to exulcerate For the cure use an Emplaster of Pompholyx or anoint iâ— with oyl of Roses and a little Populeon Of the Worms OFtentimes children are extreamly troubled they are generated of a viscous and flegmie humour they are sometimes round and then commonly the children are troubled with a Fever and grow lean their appetite fails them they start in their sleep they have a dry cough joyned with it with a stinking breath and an ill colour in their faces the eyes hollow and dark with a kind of irregular Fever which comes three or four times a night and they often rub their noses if they be little worms they have alwayes a desire to go to the stoole and their excrements are very purants If the Infant be young the Nurse must be sure to keep a good dyet abstaining from all raw fruits pease and Beans and all milkie things and any thing that shall be of a hard concoction next you may lay a plaister of the mass of Pils sine quibus half a dram powder of Wormwood one dram myrrh and Aloes of each two scruples meale of Lupines a dram and a half the gall of an Ox as much as sufficeth if the Infant be any thing grown you may give him in a little broth a smal quantity of Harts-horn You may also give the Child if he be able to take it a little of the decoction of Pourpied and the shavings of Harts-horn adding to it a little of the juice of Citron Of the Convulsion in Infants THe signes of Convulsion are the hanging backward of the head insomuch that the hinder part of the head seemeth to touch the shoulders sometimes the head and the neck hang so far forward that the chin touches the breast The cure of this if it come of too great abundance of humors let the aire wherein the child is nursed be hot and dry and exercise much let her not sleep long especially after dinner and let her dyet be rather drying then any way moist If the child do not suck he must avoid meats that do trouble the head and fil it with vapours or slimy meats that may stop the passages of the veins sweet things are very hurtful but honey and water wherein a little Sage and Betony have been boiled it wil not be amiss to give him if purgation be needful let the Nurse rather then the child purge which may be performed with Cassia or Manna If the Child be any thing bigg let his belly be kept loose by giving him a little water wherin Sena hath been steeped for four and twenty hours tempering therewith a very smal quantity of the juice of Citron or you may give him a little of the powder of Diacarthamum in the pap of an apple If the Convulsion come of driness or emptines or by reason of some great evacuation flux of the belly vomiting hunger or the like the child must be nursed in an aire more moist then dry his dyet must be the same The best and most approved Remedy is to apply a cautery in the hinder part of the head to the nook of the neck between the second and third Vertebrae which may be done to new-born Children Frictions also of the leggs backbone and thighs are very profitable as also Cupping-glasses applied to the thighs and leggs It the Convulsion come by reason of the Worms you may give him this Clyster Take of simple Hydromel 4. ounces new butter one ounce powdered Aloes half a dram and make a clyster Or you may give him two drams of Earth-worms killed dryed and powdered sugar powdered one ounce and let the child take two drams of it every day in a spoonful of Lettice water If any venemous vapour be the cause hereof let him take six grains of Treacle or Mithridate in Pourpied water Of the swelling of the Hypochondria in Infants WHich causeth children by reason of the narrowness of the mouth of the stomack to be troubled with a difficulty of breathing it ariseth from the greediness of the Infant which either sucks too great a quantity of milk or of other meats The inward cure of this is performed by administring the powder of the root of Orrice or Paeonie Of Costiveness in Children THis proceeds from the unskilfulness of the Nurse in the dyeting of the child or from a cold and dry distemper of the guts or from the hot and dry distemper of the bowels in this case the belly may be well loosened with Cassia or with a liniment composed of new oyl of sweet Almonds Goose fat May-butter Ointment of Dial thea of each two drams Colocynth gr 16 one scruple of salt Species Hierae one scruple Diagridion 4 grains make of this anointment and anoint the navel Or it proceeds from a viscous flegme which wraps about and holds the dreggs which may be remedied by a suppository of Mouse-dung and Goats suet or by the use of an Emplaster of Aloes Buls gall Myrrh and May-butter to be laid upon the
navel Of Looseness in Children LOoseness of the belly happens either in the time of Teeth breeding or out of the time in the time of breeding teeth either by reason of the corruption of the nutriment or by reason of over-much watching through the pain of the teeth or by reason of a Fever and some unnatural heat it must not be suddenly stopt if it be not overcopious and that the infant can indure it the belly must be afterwards cleansed with Roses solutive and afterwards stopped great observation being had whether the cause come from a hot or cold distemper Of Burstness in Children BUrstness happens to children either by reason that the peritonaeum is burst through crying or falling or splaying with the thighs For the cure whereof the child must be kept quiet and stil from crying upon which after the part affected is wel bound up you may give the child inwardly of the essence of the greater Consound one spoonful with two drops of Balsam of sal Gemma You may also foment the place with a Fomentation made of the roots of the greater Consound and Osmundi regulis the bark of Elme and Fraxi of each half an ounce the leaves of Plantain Mullein Centinode Herniar Horsetail flowers of Camomil red Roses and Meliot of each a handful and a half Balust Cypress nuts and acrons of each two drams put these into two sacks and boyl them in equal parts of sour wine and Smiths water for a Fomentation to be used for a quarter of an hour then you may lay on a Plaister of the red drying Ointment eleven ounces powder of Mastick Olibanum and Sarcocol Cypress-nuts of each one dram with a little wax and oyl of Mastick to make a plaister which must be put upon the place affected and bound down with a little pillow Sometimes this burstness proceeds from a watry humor abounding in the Abdomen which descending into the Codds causeth them to swel for which you may use with good success this Ointment Take of Vnguent Comitiss and the red drying Ointment of each two ounces Pigeons dung half an ounce live Sulphure three drams powder of Lawrel berries and mustard-seed of each a dram oyle of Dill and Venice Turpentine of each 3 drams wax as much as sufficeth this is also an extraordinary Remedy for the Burstness proceeding from wind Of the Inflammation of the Navell THe inflammation of the Navel ariseth when the blood gathers thither by reason of some external hurt the danger is very great if it should apostemate and so the guts fall down and therefore suppuration must be hindred as much as may be Of the jutting forth of the Navel THis differs from the inflammation because here the Navel doth not give way to the touch neither is the colour of the skin changed neither is there any very great paine or pulse unless the intestines are very much fallen it proceeds from the ill binding thereof at first which is incurable or when a greater portion then necds of the Navel string is left Secondly from a laxation of the Peritonaeum and then the tumor is equal nor doth the Navel jut forth very far in the cure hereof you must let the child abstain from all windy meats and from much crying Sometimes it is occasioned by the rupture of the Peritonaeum and then the swelling is hardly perceived when the child lies upon his back but increaseth and swels forward when he walks sits cries and bawls in the cure of this the mosse that grows upon the wild Prune-tree is very much commended or you make little Swathbands of Leather and anoint them with Oxycroceum Of the Stone in the Bladder THis is known by the coming forth of the Urine by drops and with paine which is sometimes unmixed sometimes containing a kinde of serous humor sometimes dyed with a little blood it is produced either by the milk which is ingendered of meats that do increase the Stone or through a hot distemper of the Liver which attracts the Chylus and sends it unaltered to the bladder for the Cure you must use Baths among which this is commended to anoint the bladder withall take Oyl of Scorpions oyl of bitter Almonds Conies-grease and Hens grease of each an ounce and a half and of the juice of Parietarie Or take sal Tartar one ounce parsley-water a pint mix them through a fine paper rubd over with the rindes of Oranges and give a smal quantity thereof Of the not holding of the Vrine THis ariseth either from the muscle which shuts the orifice of the Bladder which is so disposed that it is loosed upon the least exciting of the Urine and grows so into a habit that it many times accompanies them to their graves or from the stone in the bladder or from the weakness of the sphincter proceeding from a cold moist distemper which is cured partly by the good dyet of the Nurse and partly by convenient Medecines among which a bath made of Sulphure Nitre and the leaves of Oak is exceeding good Of the Intertrigo WHen the little skin in the hips is separated from the true skin it arises first from the sharpness of the Urine especially in children that are more corpulent by reason of the dirt which frets the skin being gathered together in the wrinkles Bathe the place and then sprinkle upon it either white Nihili or anoint it with oyl of Litharge Of Leanness THis arises either from a subtle kinde of Worms which are generated in the most musclely parts of the back and arms and consume the body They break forth sometimes like to black haires if you wash those parts with a Bath mixed with bread and hony they are taken away either with a Razor or with a crust of bread Secondly it arises from the smal quantity of milk which is often-times remedied by changing the Nurse Of the difficulty which Children have to make water IF the Disease proceed from sharpness of the Urine the Nurse must use such a way of dyet as is proper for the tempering and cooling of the blood she must be purged let blood using afterwards cooling refrigerating broths If it proceed from any gross humor ingendered in the bladder the Nurse must abstain from all meats that do breed gross humors as milky meats Pease and Beans and such like If the child be troubled with gravel which may be perceived by the whiteness and rawness of the Urine with a gravelly setling at the bottom and the continual pain in making water if the Child be any thing bigg let a potion be given him of an ounce and half of sweet Almonds an ounce of Pellitory water and two drams of the juice of Limons use as much of this at a time as is convenient Or take of this powder of the blood of a Hare six ounces of the root of Saxifrage one ounce burn them in an earthen â—ot if the Infant suck give him a scruple of this powder in a little milk
Of the Inflammation of the Almonds of the Ears IF the child be very smal you must wash the throat as neer the root of the tongue as may be with a linen cloth tied to a stick dipped in this gargarisme take of new extracted Cassia one dram syrup of dry Roses one dram and a half with six ounces of the decoction of Coriander Or you may anoint the neck with oyl of Violets and Camomil binding the neck with a little roller well anointed with the same when the child goes to bed you may give him in a spoon a little syrup of dry'd Roses of Pavot and Nenuphar mingled together Oxycroceum alone doth also make an excellent Gargarism If they come to a suppuration you must use this gargarisme Take of the decoction of Barley Plantain Agrimony Veronicae Honysuckle and herb Rob six ounces in which dissolve mel Rosatum and Sugar-candie of each half an ounce to make a gargarism Of Vomiting IF it proceed from abundance of milk which the child sucks you must take care that the child suck less and often If it come from any ill humor contained in the stomack besides that the Nurse must keep a very good dyet the Infant must be purged with a smal expression of Rheubarb giving it afterwards a little Codignac to comfort the stomack mingling with it a little tablet of Diarrhodium putting afterwards upon his stomack this plaister Take of the pulp of condited Quinces two ounces red Roses Wormwood and red Sanders of each two drams Oyl of Quinces as much as sufficeth make a plaister of this and lay it upon the stomack of the child Of the Hicquet IF it come from an over-much repletion it wil not be amiss to make him vomit of whatsoever age he be or if it be necessary that a greater force should be used you must try to make him vomit by putting down the throat a Fether dipt in oyl if from the badness of the Nurses milk she must be changed for a better if from the coldness of the stomack you must use remedies to comfort it as little tablets of Diarrhodium of which you must dissolve a scruple in the milk of the Nurse you must also chafe the stomack of the child with oyl of Wormwood Mastick and Quinces Of the pain of the Belly in Children IF the Disease come from indigestion and moistness the little Infant wil vomit and be troubled with a flux of the belly and the belly wil be hard In which cases you may give the infant an ounce of sweet Almonds drawn with out fire and mingled with a quantity of Sugar-candy or anoint the belly with this Ointment Take oyl of Camomil and oyl of sweet Almonds of each an ounce and a half mingle them and therewith anoint the belly if wind be the cause you may mingle a little oyl of rue in the foresaid Ointment Of the Smal-Pox in Children THe signes of this Disease are paine in the head accompanied with a Fever redness about the eyes a dry Cough and you shal mark in the skin up and down the body certain little spots upon the face back brest and thighs the Smal-pox is dangerous if they come forth with much pain if they be greenish blewish or blackish For the cure of this if the Infant suck the Nurse must keep a good order of dyet she may eat broth of Hens with Endive Cichorie Bugloss and Borage boyled therein Now to make the Smal-Pox come forth the more quickly if the Child be little the Nurse must drink this following Potion Take of Caricarum Pinguium one ounce peeled Lentils half an ounce Gum Lacca two drams Gum Tragacant and Fenel-seed of each two drams and a half make of this a decoction in Fountain-water and strein it to the quantity of two pints sweeten this either with sugar or syrup of Maidenhair let her drink of this in the morning a good glassful Or you may give the child if it be able to take it this Julep to be used very often take of Cordial waters two ounces and a half syrup of Limons one ounce mingle it and use it often 4. or five hours after give him of powder of Unicorns-horn and Bezoar Now to keep this venemous humor from attaching the eyes temper a little Saffron in a smal quantity of Plantain and Rose-water and rub the eyelids or you may anoint them with Tutie For keeping them from the nose take Rose-water and Betonie-water of each an ounce Vinegar half an ounce juice of Pomgranates six ounces in which steep two drams of Santalum and two drams of the powder of Citron peel adde to this six grains of Saffron and make a medecine for the child to smel often to the same Medecine wil serve for the ears by stopping them with a little cotton To preserve the mouth and throat and tongue take this gargarism take whole Barley one handful Plantain leaves leaves of Oxalis Arnogloss Agrimonie and Verbena of each one handful boyl this to the quantity of six ounces dissolving in it syrup of dry Roses and Pomgranates of each half an ounce Saffron half a scruple To preserve the Lungs use syrup of Jujubes Violets and Nenuphar when they are fully come out to make them dye the more quickly rub the face with oyl of sweet Almonds drawn without fire Or use this Ointment take old Lard cut it in smal pieces and melt it in a pot then strein then beat it and mingle it with water for your use When the Pox is totally dead take this Remedy to take away the marks Take Halke the weight of two Crowns clear cream 2. ounces mix them together and with a Fether dipt therein anoint the face of the child two or three daies this causeth the skin to grow smooth leaving not a pit in the face Certain other Instructions grounded upon practical Observations fit to be known by all Midwives and Child-bearing Women c. IN the yeare One Thousand six hundred and Ten a young Lady whom I was wont to bring to bed passing by my house came in to me and told me that she was four moneths gone and that she perceived the Infant to stir about a moneth after she came to see me and told me that she was in much pain for that she had not perceived the Infant to stir in two dayes and that therefore she believed that it was dead by reason of a certain very great fright which she had had for at the time that she was frighted she perceived the childe to move but after that never and her belly began by little and little to wax less and about three weeks after she had that reflux of milk that Women use to have that lye in when this was gone she had no grievance yet seeing her often and knowing her to be bigg with child she asked me my advice to know what she should do Whereupon I asked her if any ill vapours rose up into her mouth she told me no. If she had
in women c. 15. p. 42. Of the utilitie of the stones c. 16. p. 43. Sect. 3. Of the signs of conception c. 1. p. 44. Whether she hath conceived a Male c. 2. p. 46 Whether a Female c. 3. p. 47. Of the conception of Twins c. 4. p. ibid. Of false conception c. 6. p. 48. How women with child ought to govern themselves c. 6. p. 54. How to govern themselves in the time of their going with child c. 7. p. 57. c. Sect. 4. Of the mixture of the seed of both Sexes as also of its substance and form c. 1. p. 62. of the three tunicles which the birth is wrapt in in the womb c. 2. p. 64. Of the true generation of the parts and the increase of them according to the several daies and seasons c. 3. p. 65. Of the nourishment of the birth in the womb c. 4. p. 69. Of the condition of the Infant in the womb in the sixth seventh and eight moneth c. 5. p. 71 Sect. 4. Of the situation of the child in the womb p. 72. Sect. 5. Of Midwifes c. 1. p. 75. What ought to be observed when shee is neer the time of her lying down c. 2. p. 76. How to expell the Collick from women in child-bed c 3. p. 79. How the Midwife may know when the pains of travail do seize a woman c. 4. p. 80. Of the falling down of the waters a good while before the woman travails c. 5. p. 81. What the Midwife ought to do in time of travaile c. 6. p. 82. How to draw forth the Secondines c. 7. p. 84. What may be given to a woman in travaile c. 8. p. 85. How to put the Womb again in its place c. 9. p. 86. Against the extreme losse of blood which happen to women immediately after their delivery c. 10. p. ib. What is done to a woman presently after her delivery c. 11. p. 88. Of women that have a great deal of bloud and purge not neither in their travail nor after c. 12. p. 90. For those who have but a little bloud c. 13. p. 92. What is to be done to the Infant c. 14. p. ib. How to govern women in Child-bed c. 15. p. 93. Of the bathings that a woman is to use for the first eight dayes of her lying in c. 16. p. 95. How a woman ought to govern her self in case she be to be delivered of two children c. 17. p. 95. Of the danger that a woman hath to purge her selfe for the first dayes of her lying in c. 18. 97. Of the second washing for women c. 19. p. 98. What is to be done to Infants as soon as they are born c. 20. p. 98. Of the last washing for Women c. 21. p. 101. Of an Astringent for Women when they shall have occasion c. 2â— p. ibid. To make searcloaths for women c. 23. p. 102. To cleanse a woman before she rises c. 24. p. ibid. How a woman lying in of her first child may avoid the gripings of her belly c. 25. 103. The Queen of France her Receit p. 104. Certain precepts hindering the delay and difficulty of bringing forth c. 26. p. 105. How the secondines are to be hastened out c. 27. p. 108. Pills for the purpose p. 111. Of Cases of Extremity and first what is to be done to a woman who in her travail is accompanied with a flux of bloud and with convulsions c. 28. p. 112. Of ordering the woman after she is delivered c. 29. p. 129. What is to be done to the breast Belly and lower parts of the woman in child-bed p. 131. An Oyntment p. 132. An oynment to keep the milk from clotting p. 133. A Fomentation much commended ibid. Of the choise of a good Nurse p. 135. What is to be done in the extream parts of a child p. 1. 36. What is to be done to such children as are troubled with flegme p. 137. What is to be done to children that have their Cods full of wind p. 138. How to take away the Canker out of the Infants mouth ibid. What is to be done to children whose intestines are fallen p. 139. To make an oyntment to strengthen the thighs and legs of a child and make him goe ibid. Of the relaxations of the Matrix and the cause p. 140. of a disease that happens by reason of the fall of the Matrix p. 143. To remedie the fall of the fundament in Infants p. 144. of the Diseases of women and first of the inflammation of the brest ibid. of windy Tumours in the breasts p. 1. of the watry tumour in the brests p. 4. of the kernell in the breast p. 7. of the Scirrhus of the breasts p. 9. of the Canker in the breasts p. 12. of the greatnesse of the breasts p. 14. of the defect abundance and coagulation of the Milk p. 16. of the Diseases of the neck of the womb and first of the disease called Tentigo p. 17. of the narrownesse of the neck of the womb p. 19. of wheales condilomas of the womb and of Hemorrhoids p. 20. of the Vlcers of the neek of the womb p. 23. of the womb being out of temper p. 26. of then arrownesse of the vessels of the womb p. 30. of the puffing up of the womb p. 31. of the inflammation of the womb p. 33. of the Scirrhus of the womb p. 36. of the Dropsie of the womb p. 38. of the falling of the womb p. 40. of the ascent of the Matrix as also of the wounds and ulcers of the same p. 42. of the paine of the womb p. 44. of the suppression of the flowers p. 46. of the dropping of the flowers and the difficulty of their comming down p. 51. of the discolouring of the flowers p. 53. of the inordinate flux of the Flowers p. 54. of the over-abundance of the Courses p. 56. of the whites Gonorrhea in women p. 59. of the Green sicknesse p. 61. of the suffocation of the Matrix p. 62. of barrennesse p. 66. of bringing up of children and their diseases of the diseases of the head p. 71. Bignesse and swelling of the head in little children p. 73. of the diseases of the eyes ears and noses in children p. 75. of certain ulcers in Childrens mouths p. 76. of certain other tumors called Paroulis and Espoulis p. 77. of the two strings under the tongue of a child p. 78. of the Coughing children ibid. of breeding teeth p. 79. of the inflammation of the Navel-string in Infants p. 80. of the Worms ibid. of the convulsion in Infants p. 81. of the swelling of the Hypocondria in Infants p. 83. of Costivenesse in children ibid. of loosenesse in children p. 84. of Burstnesse in children ibid. of the inflammation of the Navel p. 86. of the jutting forth of the Navel p. ibid. of the stone in the bladder p. 87. of the not holding of the Vrine ibid. of the Intertrigo p. 88. of Leannesse ibid. of the difficulty that children
have to make water p. 89. of the inflammation of the Almonds of the eares p. 90. of vomiting ibid. of the Hicquet p. 91. of the pain of the belly in children ibid. of the small pox in children p. 92. Certain other instructions grounding upon practicall observations fit to be known by all Midwives and child-bearing women c. p. 95. A Second observation of a Woman that had been in Travail nine dayes p. 99. of a Woman here in Town that bare her Child eleven Moneths and could not be Delivered p. 101. of the common opinion that a woman seven moneths gone ought to walk very much and of the accidents that happen thereby p. 1â—3 of a child which they thought sick of the Epilepsie occasioned by the sicknesse of the Mother and of the cause p. 106. of a young woman who being struck upon the belly by her Husband with his foot was in great pain could not be brought to bed without the help of a Chirurgion p. 108. of two Deliveries of one Woman p. 109. of a Woman that because she would not be ruled in her Lying in died p. 111. of certain Women that bear children and lye in before their time and others at their full time who grow big and full of humors which causeth the death of the child presently after their Delivery their children being nourished in their Bellies like fish only with water p. 113. The observation of a woman who was thought unable to bear any more Children yet contrary to expectation was delivered of one and the reason thereof p. 114. A good observation in the choice of Nurses p. 115. of a Woman which I laid two several times and of the difference of her bearing of two children proceeding from several causes p. 117. Instruction of a famous and dying Midwife to her Daughter touching the practice of this Art p. 119. The natural forme of a child lying in the womâ— To be sold by N Brooke at the Angel in Cornhil G. F. 〈◊〉 THE COMPLEAT MIDWIFE HER PRACTICE Of the Genitals or vessels dedicated to Generation in Men and Women THe consideration of these things is so necessary for the purpose of this book that they require not onely a deep meditation but the praeeminence to take up the first thoughts of those who would arrive to the knowledg of a thing so much needful to all mankinde And it may be lawfully feared that many women do miss their design because they know nothing but the outside of things so that in matters of extremity because they are ignorant of the structure of the parts they cannot tell how to go about their work We shall therefore begin with an easie Anatomy of the privy parts both of men and women so far as shall be requisite to the gaining of so great a skill In the first place therefore we shall begin with man in whom those things which are called the vessels of preparation are first to be considered CHAP. I. Of the vessel of preparation AMong the Spermatic vessels are to be considered first two veins and two arteries these are carried downward from the small guts to the Testicles and are much bigger in men then they are in women The original of these veines is not alwayes the same for commonly the right vein riseth out of the hollow veine a little below the source or original of the Emulgent but the least takes his original from the lower part of the Emulgent it self Yet sometimes it hath a branch carried to it from the trunk of the hollow vein The middle part of these veines runs directly through the Loyns resting upon the Lumbal Muscle a thin Membrane only intervening and thus having gone about half its journey it branches out and distributes it self to the near adjoyning filmy parts of the body The uttermost part of these vessels is carried beyond the Midriff to the Stones yet do they not pass through the Peritonaeum but descends with a small nerve and the muscle called Cremaster through the Duplicity of the Midriffe when it approaches neer the stones it is joyned with an artery and now these vessels which were before a little severed one from the other are by a film rising from the Peritoneum closed up and bound both together and so twisting up like the young tendrils of a vine they are carried to the end of the stones fig 1. fig 2. CHAP. II. Of the Parastatae or vessels where the bloud is first changed THese four vessels after many ingraftings and knittings together seem at length to become onely two bodies full of little crumplings like the tendril of a vine white and in the form of a Piramid resting the right upon the right stone the left upon the left stone These are called Parastatae which as they stand pierce the tunicles of each stone with certain fibers or extraordinary small veines which afterwards dispearse themselves through the body of those stones The substance of these Parastatae is between that of the stones and that of the preparing vessels for they neither altogether consist of Membranes neither are they altogether Glandulous or kernelly CAAP. III. The use of the preparing vessels THe use of those vessels which are called the vessels of preparation is chiefly to attract out of the hollow vein or left Emulgent the most pure and exquisitely concocted bloud which is most apt to be converted into seed which they contain and prepare giving unto it a certain rude form of seed in those parts that lie as it were in certain pleights or folds which they do by a peculiar property bequeathed to them Another use of them is gathered by their scituation for as they are now scituated that is to say the right vein coming from the hollow vein and the left from the Emulgent this inconvenience is avoided that the left vein is not forced to pass over the great artery and so be in danger of breaking by reason of the swift motion of the artery Moreover there being a necessity that male and female should be begot it is fit that there should be seed proper for the generation of both sexes whereof some must be hotter and some must be colder and therefore nature hath so ordered it that the hotter seed should proceed from the right vein for the generation of man and the colder from the left for the generation of females The left vein hath also this property to draw from the Emulgent the more serous and less pure bloud to the intent that the serous humour might stir up venery by its salt and acrimonius substance and therefore it is observed that those who have the left stone bigger are most full of seed and most prone to venery The use of the Parastatae is this to contain the bloud and stay it in their windings and wrinkled bodies and by power received from the stones to change the colour of the bloud CHAP IV. Of the Testicles in general THe stones are in number two very seldome
Whether she have conceived a Male. Conception of a Male. IF she have conceived a male childe the right eye will move swifter and look clearer then the left The right pap will also rise and swell beyond the left and grow harder and the colour of the teats will change more suddainly The milk will increase more suddainly and if it be milked out and be set in the Sun it will harden into a clear mass not unlike pearl If you cast the Milk of the woman upon her Urine it will presently sink to the bottom Her right cheek is more muddy and the whole colour of her face is more cheerful she feels less numness The first motion of the child is felt more lively in the right side for the most part upon the sixtieth day If her flowers flow the fourtieth day after conception The belly is more acute toward the navel As the woman goes she always puts her right leg forward and in rising she eases all she can her right side sooner then her left CHAP. III. Whether she have conceived a Female IF she have conceived a Female Conception of a Female the signs are for the most part contrary to those aforesaid The first motion is made most commonly the nintieth day after conception which motion is made in the left side Females are carried with greater pain her thighs and Genital members swell her colour is paler she hath a more vehement longing Her flowers flow the thirtieth day after conception Girles are begot of parents who are by nature more cold and moist their seed being more moist cold and liquid CHAP. IV. Of the Conception of Twins IF a woman have conceived twins Conception of Twins the signes thereof appears not till the third or fourth moneth after her conception and then it will appear by the motion of the Infant and by the extraordinarie swelling of her belly As to the motion it is plaine that she doth beare twins if she perceive a motion on the right and left side at the same instant which she perceives more quick and violent As for the greatness of the belly if the woman perceive it bigger then at any other times of her being with child as also if the two flanks be swelled higher then the middle of the belly if there doe appeare as it were a line of devision from the navel to the groine making a kind of channel all a long if the woman carrie her burden with more then ordinary paine These are commonly the signes of twins CHAP. V. Of false Conception False Conception VVOmen doe oftentimes deceive themselves concerning their conception for they doe many times beleive themselves to be big with child when it is nothing else but either the retention of their flowers which doe not fall down according to their accustomed periods of time or else that which is called the Moon-calfe which is a lump of flesh for the most part like the guisern of a bird greater or lesser according to the time of its being there which is most commonly not above foure or five months Several sorts of Moles Of moles there are two sorts the one is called the true mole the other is called the false mole The true mole is a fleshie body filled with many vessels which have many white green or black lines or membranes it is without thought without motion without bones without bowels or entrailes receiving its nourishment through certaine veines it lives the life of a plant without any figure or order being engendered in the concavitie of the matrix adhearing to the sides of it but borrowing nothing of its substance Of the false mole Of the false mole there are four sorts the windie mole which is a conflux of wind the watrie mole which is a conflux of watrie humours the Humorous mole which is a conflux of various humours the Membranous mole which is a thin bag filled with blood All these four are contained in the concavity of the womb These moles Sign of moles are somtimes engendered with the Infant though they do oftentimes cause the Infant to die either because it doth deprive the Infant of that nourishment which goes from the infant to the encrease of that or else because it hinders the growth and perfection of the Infant The cause of the fleshy mole doth not always proceed from the mother for the man doth often contribute to the encrease of it when the seed of the man is weak imperfect and barren or though it be good if there be too small a quantity of it which after it is mingled with the seed of the woman is chok'd by the menstrual bloud and so not being sufficient for the generation of the Infant instead thereof produces this little mass of flesh which by little and little grows bigger being wrapt about in a caule while nature strives to engender any thing rather then to be idle It happens also when the woman during her monethly purgations receives the company of her husband her body being not yet purged and void or else when the woman lies with a great desire and lust with her husband after she hath conceived or when she hath retained her monethly courses beyond her time The windy mole The windy mole is engendered by the weak heat of the matrix and the parts adjoyning as the liver and the spleen which engender a quantity of winde which fix in the concavity of the matrix The watry Mole The watry mole is engendered of many confluences of water which the womb receives either from the speen or the liver or the parts adjoyning or else from the weakness of the liver which cannot assimulate the bloud which is sent thither for the nourishment of the thing contained in it part whereof turns into water which cannot be voided but remains in the womb That which is called the Humorous mole is engendered of many moist humours serosities or the whites or certain watry purgations which sweat forth from the menstruous veins and are contained in the concavity of the matrix The Membranous mole The membranous mole is a skin or bag which is garnished with many white and transparent vessels filled up with bloud This being cast into the water the bloud goes out and the membrane is seen only to gather like a heap of clotted seed False Conception hath many signes The signs of false conception common with the true conception as the supression of the flowers depraved appetite vomitings swelling of the belly and of the breasts so that it is a hard thing to distinguish the one from the other only these that follow are more properly the signs of false then true conception For in false conception the face is ordinarily puffed up the breasts that at the first were swollen afterwards become every day more then other softer and lanker and without milk In fine the face the breast the arms the thighs and groynes grow lank and meager
say thus much that they ought to forbear as much as in them lies assuring them that such trash does not only endanger their own health but the health of the childe Yet if they cannot command that depraved appetite let them so provide though it be by giving some small satisfaction to their depraved longings that they do not hasten any further inconvenience for though those strange meats be very contrary to nature yet the strange desire that they have to them does not a little avail to the disgestion of them For her drink let it be small Ale though now and then a cup of pure wine does not amiss to comfort the stomach and the parts dedicated to generation Her time of sleep Her sleeping is best in the night for the concoction of those meates which she hath eate in the day time she must avoid by all meanes the sleeping after dinner she may sleep full out nine houres her sleeping beyond that time is prejudiciall She may exercise Her exercise her self moderately for violent exercise loosens the Cotyledons through which the Infant receives his nourishment the riding in coaches is forbid especially for the last three months She ought to avoyd great noises Other precepts as the noise of Guns or great bels Laughing crying if it be immoderate is extremely hurtfull as also immoderate anger In the first four moneths she ought not to lye with her husband for that shakes and moves the fruite of her womb and causes the flowers to descend she must also abstain in the sixth and eight but in the seventh and ninth it is not denyed and is thought to facilitate the delivery She ought also to keep her body soluble which if it should come of it self she must take loosing syrups to help nature Assoon as ever they perceive themselves to be with child they must lay a side their busks and not straighten themselves any way for feare of hurting the fruit of their womb by not giving it its full libertie of growth CHAP. VII How women ought to govern themselves in the time of their going with childe FIrst that her breasts Precepts concerning the breasts after her delivery may not grow bigge and swell over-much as also to a void the danger of two much blood which being converted into milke may chance to curd and breed some disease in the breast Therefore as soon as she perceives her selfe with child let her cary about her neck a small neck-lace of gold though some do more esteem of a neck-lace of steel or a little ingot of steel to hang between the two breasts you may also foment the breasts a quarter of an hour every morning with the distilled waters of sage perwincle or ground-Ivy making them first luke warme when the third or fourth moneth of her time is come Concerning the belly and that she perceives the Infant begin to move about which time the belly begins to swell and to grow big she may swathe it with a linen swath-band which she may anoint with some convenient pommatum this keeps the belly smooth and from wrinkles and from hanging down like a tripe She may use this liniment or Pommatum â„ž the gall of a kidd and of a sow of each â„¥ iij. capon greass and goose greass of each an ounce and an halfe cut these into little peices and melt them in an earthen dish putting therto as much water as will suffice to keep them from burning then straine it through a linen cloath and afterwards having washed it in faire water untill it be very white add to it of the marrow of a redd deare about an ounce then wash it againe in rose water or some other water of a good sent and anoint the swath-band therewith Or this â„ž of the grease of a dog and the fat of mutton which is about the kidnyes of each two ounces the fat of a whale about an ounce oyle of sweet Almonds about an ounce and a halfe prepare the greases as above-said then mingle them with the other things and wash them in rose water as before Some women that are loath to grease their bellyes with these oyntments doe carry the skin of a dog or else the outward and thin pilling of a sheeps skin take the skin of a dog ready drest for the making of gloves wash it a good many times in faire water first and afterward in rose water then drye it in the shade and moisten it in the foresaid oyles Take this one more Liniment â„ž a quarter of a pound of fresh butter well washed in faire Water of rose water and of oyle of sweet Almonds an ounce of the seed of a a Whale half an ounce melt these altogether and anoint the belly These oyntments are to be kept in a Galley-pot covered over with rose water The woman having attained the ninth moneth of her time and still continuing these oyntments she may now begin to use more exercise walking gently before dinner for the first twelve or fifteen dayes of that moneth afterwards she may use a more strong exercise that is for the eight or ten next dayes In the first days of this moneth it might not be unprofitable to be bathed in the following decoction for the space of a quarter of an houre and being afterwards put to bed to let her selfe be well rubbed and afterwards anoynted with some good oyntment all about the navill along the Os sacrum and the bone of the small guts and all about her hips and thighs You may use this Bath â„ž of Mallows marsh-mallows mother-wort of each two handfuls roots of Lillies three ounces of Camomil and Melilot flowers of each a good handful the seed of Line Quinces and Fenugreek of each an ounce boyl all these in fair water to make a decoction and for a half bath You may use this Oyntment â„ž Hens grease three ounces the grease of a Duck an ounce and an halfe oyle of Linseed an ounce and an half fresh butter two ounces melt all these together and then wash them well either in pellitorie water or in the water of mugwort adding thereto two ounces of the muscilage of Marsh-mallows If the woman all her time doe complaine that she feels little or no motion of the child let her carry upon her navel this following quilt which will give strength to the Infant â„ž powder of Roses red Corral Gillow-flowers of each three ounces and an half seed of Angelica two drams Mastick a dram and an half Ambergrease two grains Musk one grain put all these in a sack of fine Linen and quilt them together for the use aforesaid Thus much is to be observed by women with childe that are in health and have no other diseases hanging upon them but of the other diseases incident to women with childe we shall take a time hereafter to treat SECT IV. Of the formation of the childe in the womb CHAP. I. Of the mixture of the seed of both Sexes as
often changed Or else you may dip linnen cloaths also in a decoction of Camomil flowers and Violet flowers with a small quantity of oyl of Roses and a drop of vineger or two or you may use this fomentation Take of the juyce of Nightshade oyl of Roses of each an ounce and a half of the decoction of Fenugreek Camomil and Lineseed two ounces vineger one ounce This medicine you may use by dipping a spunge therein and so washing and fomenting the breast therewith Or you may apply this Cataplasme take of the leaves of Nightshade and Melilot half a handful of each let them be boyled extracted through a course cloth then add to them bean meal two ounces Oxymel and oyle of sweet Almonds of each one ounce of this make a Cataplasm and apply it If the disease be more prevalent you must use more forcible remedies and among the rest this fomentation Take of the leaves of Mallows Violets Dill of each one handful flowers of Camomil and Melilot of each a small handful and a halfe boyl these together adding to them a little wine and oyl of Dill or Mustard first let the breast be fomented with this and afterwards with an oyntment composed of equal parts of new butter oyl of violets and Hens fat But if these things avail not to dissipate the humour you must observe whether the inflamation tend either to a suppuration or induration If you find that it tends to a hardness you must try all means to hinder it by the way of mollifying plaisters among which this is not a little experimented Take the marrow of a Calves leg two ounces Sheeps grease one ounce Saffron four scruples Cumminseed bruised two scruples mingle all these and make a plaister If the inflamation doth not harden but doth altogether tend to a suppuration which may be known by these signs that is to say the increasing of the tumour the beating and excessive heat pain which rages about those parts so vehemently that do not admit them to be touch'd But now the suppuration is to be hastened with hot and moist medicines which have an Emplastick faculty for which purpose this is much commended Take the leaves of Mallows one handful roots of Althea one ounce boyl these together and when they are mashed draw them out and add to them bean meal and Fenugreek of each one ounce the whites of two eggs myrrh and Assa faetida of each one dram Saffron one scruple mingle all these together and make a Cataplasm for your use to this you may either add Capons grease Hogs grease or fresh butter If these remedies do not suddenly bring the inflammation to a suppuration you must then take of the shells of snails bruised and lay them upon the Cataplasm in such a manner that the snail shell may come to touch that part of the tumour which is most elevated and pointed whence it appears that the matter will first issue If these remedies avail not it will be necessary to open the said Apostem with a Lancet and this must be done when you are sure that the matter is ready to come forth which may be known by these signs when the beating ceases when the fever the pain and the heat of the part do begin to diminish when you perceive the place pointed and raised and enclining to a blackish colour When the wound is open you must first apply to it a digestive composed of an ounce of turpentine half an ounce of oyl of Roses and the yolk of an egge After this you must cleanse it with honey of roses Turpentine and barly meal or with the oyntment of the Apostles or the oyntment called Aegyptiacum then you may put on the top of the place the oyntment called Basilicon or Paracelsus plaister which doth digest cleanse carnifie cicatrize after a very extraordinary manner This is furthermore to be observed that an ulcer in the breast is not easily cured if the milk be not dried out of the other breast and therefore the milke is to be dried up by keeping the child from sucking and by putting upon the breasts of the woman cloaths dipped in cold water together with bean barly and vineger and such like remedies THE COMPLEAT MIDWIVES Practice Of windy Tumours in the Breasts THe flatuous tumor of the breasts is caused by a thick vapour which rises from the menstruall blood which is retained or corrupted in the Matrix The causes of which are first the suppression of the flowers or when the flowers are not discharged into their proper place and in their proper time as also from the corruption of the humours by which are ingendred divers bad fumes and vapours for this being received into the breasts cause a distention much like a true swelling The signes by which it is known is the pain which it brings along with it which is sharp and pricking causing a distention of the part The heart is not a little out of order by reason of the windinesses which lie so neer it and commonly the left breast is most swoln communicating its pain to the arm shoulder and ribs of the same side And these signes differ from those of a Canker for in this distemper the breast is white and shining by reason of the distention and if you touch it it sounds like a Drum And if you presse it with your hands you wil finde that it is sweld in all parts alike and not in one more then another This is cured first by a good order of diet taking little victuals whereby crudities may be avoided that do afford matter to the obstructions and increase windinesse for which cause she must also drink little that water boyld with Cinamom Anis-seed and rinde of Citrons The next remedy is by using things which are good to provoke the courses among which use this receit strein Selandine stampt into posset-ale and drink it four dayes before the new moon and four dayes after And it will not be amisse to let blood three or four times in the year about the time that the courses ought to begin For by this means you may provoke the flowers hinder the increase either of a Scirrhus or of a Canker to which purpose bathes frictions and infections are not a little to be used In the next place you must prepare the humours that foment this windinesse both in the Matrix and in the veins and that by syrups which do expell flegme and melancholy after which you must purge your patient for which purpose you may take of the leaves of Sene three ounces Anis-seed one scruple let them boyle in foure ounces of Borage water vvhen it is streined infuse into it Confection Hamech vvithout Scammony Colloquint and Cathol Dupl Rheo of each an ounce and a halfe when it is streined dissolve in it one ounce of syrup of Roses solutive this potion must be given two hours before eating You may also use this gentle Apozem Take of the
of the neck of the womb the Woman is hindred in the lower part of the neck of the womb the streight gut is affected Of the Dropsie of the Womb. THe Dropsie of the womb is a distemper from water collected in the womb either by some fault in the part it self or in the parts adjoyning The signes of this are a loose swelling at the bottom of the Belly extending it self according to the proportion of the womb the fewness and naughtiness of the Courses a moistness and slenderness of the neck of the womb softness of the Breast want of Milk a shivering in the body and sometimes a Fever It differs from an inflammation by the symptoms above related and from an inflation in the defect of sound and distention from a Mole because in this there is a greater weight perceived at the bottom of the Belly and the Breasts at the time of delivery are not without Milk It differs from Conception because in the Dropsie the swelling is just according to the form of the womb but in Conception it is alwaies sharper In women with Child the flowers do not flow but in this disease there flows such a certain bloody vitious humor without any order which ceases quickly It differs from the Dropsie of the Belly because the face of the Patient is coloured unless the liver be any way affected the want of thirst and the ascent of the swelling from the lower part to the upper The cause of this is a water gathered there through some defect of the Liver or Spleen or through some weaknesse in the vvomb by reason whereof it is not able to concoct or expel the excrements or through a too immoderate defluxion of the courses which oppresseth the naturall heat or through a suppression of them which suffocates the heat The cure is to be performed by the eduction of the water and strengthening of the womb for which purpose the use of Antimonial pils is not a little to be commended Her diet must be of meats that breed good juice she must drink little she may use in stead of drink a Ptisane or Barly-broth made with sassafras or salsaparil if her courses be stopt you may let her blood in the foot if the repletion be great then to let her blood in the arm wil not be amisse Some have commended the decoction of the root of Fugere to take at meals and between meals without any other drink The use of Clysters is not amisse and Fomentations are also very necessary made with the decoctions of Broom wild Cucumbers flowers of Camomill Melilot with Origan Cumin Fenel Anis-seed of which you may make severall injections Ointments also may be useful made of oyle of Lillies or oyle of Dill then may you apply upon the belly this plaister Take of the emplaster of Laurel berries two ounces oyle of Camomill and Melilot two ounces and a half Pigeons dung and Goats dung of each half an ounce mix them all together and make a plaister adding thereto a little Venice Turpentine Of the falling of the Womb. THe falling of the womb is the falling of it down below the Abdomen or Midriffe proceeding from a loosnesse of the Ligaments The generall signes of this are a pain in the loyns and hairy parts and of the Os sacrum or holy bone to which the womb is fastned at the beginning the pain is not very great nor after long continuance by reason of use the weight thereof being onely troublesom which is an impediment to the patient in going the particular signes do vary according as the tall is greater or lesse for in the one the womb descends to the middle of the Hips and lower in the latter there is perceived the distention of the skin and as it were the weight of a good big Egg about the privities The cure of this is difficult if there be the greater falling of the womb if the woman be in age if a Fever Convulsion or other symptoms happen if that be in women with child it is deadly and sometimes it is corrupted by the ambient aire and turns into a Gangrene The cure consists in the reputting of it into its own place where you must observe first to stop the inflammation if there be any or if there be any swelling caused by the cold aire you must foment the part first with the decoction of Mallows Marsh Mallows flowers of Camomill and Laurel-berries If there be any winde or excrement in the gut you must use Clysters first it is also to be fomented and anointed with agglutinating and astringent or binding medecines there is a Fumigation to be made of the skin of a salt Eele dried and powdered When it is to be put into its place the woman must be laid with her belly upwards then must the Midwife or other party imployed with a linen cloth dipt in oyle of Roses a litle warmed gently thrust up the part which is fallen as gently as may be turning it a little Now to keep it up the woman must be kept lying on her back with her thighs stretched out and one laid upon another acrosse the belly must not be too much bound lest in the ejection of the excrement the womb should be again precipitated neither must it be loose lest the membranes binding the womb should be unloosed then must you use agglutinating medecines Pessaries Fomentations and Injections yet great care must be had lest you suppresse the courses Of this there be some differences either by reason of the loosnesse of the Ligaments which are foure which is discerned in that it is generated by degrees and with lesse pain It arises either from hard labour or a ponderosity or heavinesse of the childe or from the concourse of flegmie humors it is cured by the evacuation of humours and by the use of astringent and corroborating Medecines such as are the decoction of musk of the Oak Harts-horn Laurel leaves and the Astringent plaister Another cause and difference ariseth from the rupture of the Ligaments which is discerned by this that the evil comes suddenly and is more painful and is sometimes followed with a flux of Blood it arises from the heaviness of the Birth or from a difficult labour or from Abortion or a difficult and violent extraction of the secundines Sometimes it happens because the ligaments are eaten away and then tne signes of some ulcer are discerned by the flowing forth of mattier Sometimes it happens because the ligaments are eaten away and then the signes of some ulcer are discerned by the flowing forth of mattier Of the ascent of the Matrix as also of the Wounds and Vlcers of the same SOme have thought that it is possible for the womb to ascend up to the stomack which opinion is altogether false for first it is tied so fast with four Ligaments that it is impossible for it to move to the upper parts Besides suppose it had a naturall motion by the Fibres yet the womb being
the place where the Child casts its eyes Moistness of the ears by reason of the moistness of the head which gather quantity of humors together the cure of this must not be over hasty yet the urine of children distilled and dropt into the ear is a very approved Remedy Bigness and swelling of the Head in little Children SOmetimes in children that are newly born the head grows to an extraordinary bigness which comes to pass either by reason of abundance of water contained in the same which water is contained either between the skin and the Pericranium or between the bone and the pericranium or between the bone and the membranes called the dura Mater and the Pia Mater Or by reason of abundance of vapours gathered together between the bones and the skin of the head which cause the head to grow to such an extraordinary bigness that it causes often times the death of the child If water be gathered together between the bone of the head and the membranes of the brain it causes a giddeness and Epilepsie to the Infant without being able to take any rest For the cure of the windy affection you may use fomentations in case the wind be contained only between the skin and the Pericranium for which purpose you may take of the leaves of Sage Betonie Egrimony Calamus and Origan of each a handful Anis-seed and Fenel-seed of each two drams Camomil Flowers Melilot and Red Roses of each one handful boyl all these in common water adding to it a little wine and thereof make a Fomentation for the part affected which may be assisted with a plaister made of Oyl of Anis-seeds and bitter Almonds of each one ounce Oyl of Camomil an ounce and a half Laurel and Juniper-berries of each two drams Anis-seeds and Fennel-seeds of each one dram and a half of the best Wine a pint boyl them to the comsumption of the wine adding to the rest half an ounce of Venice Turpentine and as much wax as is sufficient As for the watry distemper though it be difficult to cure yet you must try this Fomentation to digest the humor Take Wormwood Betony creeping Time Penyroyal leaves of each a handful red Rose leaves and leaves of Stoechas a little handful Cypres Nut Orange flowers and Florentine orrice of each two drams boyl them all in a lye made of Vine twiggs and stalks after which you may use this plaister Take the powder of Betony Sage and Wormwood of each two drams Oyl of Camomil and Roses of each 2 ounces Vnguenti comitissae one ounce as much wax as is sufficient but if these Remedies profit nothing the only means left is to open the head Of the diseases of the Eyes Ears and Noses in Children MAny times children are troubled with a light inflammation in their eyes with a certain gum and thickness which hinders them from opening the eye-lid the most present remedies are either for the Nurse to wash the eyes with a little of her breast milke or else with a little Plantain and Rosewater mixt together Sometimes the nostrils are so stopt that they are not able to draw their breath but with much pain For the cure of which the Nurse must moisten a linen cloth in a little ointment of Roses or a little very good Pomatum till the hard matter within be dissolved Many times there flows a moist humor from their heads which happens to those who have moist brains In the cure of this it must be the care of the Nurse to cleanse the eares both within and without afterwards let her drop into them a little oyle of bi ter Almonds and hony of Roses mixt together Of certain Vlcers in childrens mouths THere do many times grow a certain kinde of ulcers in childrens mouths For the cure of which the Nurse in the first place must use a good and sound diet then must the ulcers themselves be rub'd with a little Mel Rosatum and syrup of violets with a drop or two of Plantain water or you may wash them with half an ounce of Rose-water or Plantain water in which put half a dram Dâ—aigret of vitriol if they be very red and inflamed take Brambles flowers of Pomegranates Roses Santall of each two drams Alum half a dram boyle them in water afterwards strain them to the quantity of three ounces in which dissolve halfe an ounce of syrup of Mulberries If they be white take Amber Frankincense wood Cypresse nuts Pomegranate flowers of each two drams flowers of Roses and Myrtles of each half a handful boyl them in water to the consumption of foure ounces wherein dissolve an ounce and a half of hony of Roses Of certain other Tumours called Paroulis and Espoulis PAroulis is a little swelling red and inflamed and is ingendred commonly of a hot cholerick blood or else from a salt flegme that fals down upon the gums causing not only the gums but the neck and chaps to be swelled For the cure hereof you may anoint the gums with this Ointment Take of Amili 11 drams powder of Tragacant one dram burnt Alum one scruple Rosewater one ounce if there be any inflammation rub the gums with a muscilage made of the seed of Quinces made with Rose-water and Plantain-water adding to it a little syrup of Jujubes If the swelling be obstinate bring it to a suppuration with figgs Raisins Jujubes Licorass and French barley wel boyled when it is opened and lanced cleanse and dry it with mel Rosatum syrup of Roses and Cherries The Espoulis is a little excrescence of flesh hapning in the lungs between the teeth but most commonly the great teeth R. The root of Bugloss an ounce and half Plantain Agrimony a handful whole Barley a smal handful red Roses half a handful Pomgranate flowers two drams four Dates a dram and a half of Liquoriss make a decoction and straine it and then add to it an ounce of syrup of Roses and Pomgranates to wash the place affected you also may wash it with this Remedy Take of the juice of Pomgranates and Quinces of each half an ounce juice of Berberies and Lettice of each two drams with a little of the decoction of Lentils and red Roses Of the two strings under the Tongue of a Child THere is one of these strings or ligaments which appears reaching from the bottom of the tongue and extending it self to the top of the tongue this must be cut off first with a pair of cizers and the place rubbed with a lit-little Mosche salt There is another Ligament which rises from the root and extendeth it self to the middle of the tongue which is more hard and large which hinders the tongue either from being stretched out or to be moved in the mouth The cure hereof belongs wholly to the Chirurgeon Of the Cough in Children THe Cough in Children comes either from the distillation of some cold and sharp humour distilling from the brain if the humor be cold the child is also troubled