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A88902	De morbis fœmineis, the womans counsellour: or, The feminine physitian. Modestly treating of such occult accidents, and secret diseases, as are incident to that sex, which their too much modesty, too often to their sorrow, causes them to conceal from others, for a remedy whereof, they are here taught to be their own helpers; especially in these particulars: of barrenness and abortion: of natural, and unnatural births: of the suppression of the termes, the immoderate flux thereof, and other infirmities. Dicereque puduit, scribere jussit. With a brief appendix, touching the kindes, causes, and cures of dropsies, and tympanies of all sorts. / Translated out of Massarius de morbis mulier. By R.T. philomathēs.; Praelectiones de morbis mulierum. English	Massaria, Alessandro, 1510-1598.; Turner, Robert, fl. 1654-1665.	1657 (1657)	Wing M1028; Thomason E1650_3; ESTC R209118	65,102	229

Blood-stone washed one dram Shepherds purse two scruples fine Bolus half a dram Roses Corral of each half a dram Cinamon a quarter of an ounce make them all into a fine powder and mix them with Sugar as much as you please and take it in broth or strewed on meat Another Powder for the same Take fine Bolus one dram Terra sigillata two scruples Tormentil half a dram Shepherds purse a scruple Pearl prepared one dram Species de gemmis frigidis one dram and a half Pomgranates half a scruple Roses Saunders red Coral of each a scruple Sugar three ounces Mix them all together and make them a fine powder and give it as the other in broth or stewed meat An Electuary for the same Take Conserve of Roses six ounces Conserve of Burrage Buglas Balm of each an ounce Bolus prepared a dram Pearl prepared a quarter of an ounce of Rubies Jacinths Saphir each a Scruple Cinamon a dram mix these together and make an Electuary thereof Another Electuary to stay the Flowers Take Conserve of Roses three ounces Marmalade two ounces and half red Corral a dram Bolus prepared half a dram Blood-stone prepared two drams mix them all together with the syrup of Myrtles and make an Electuary thereof and take it as you please A Confection for the same Take Conserve of Roses three ounces Marmalade two ounces and a half Conserves of Burrage Buglas each one ounce Bolus prepared a dram and a half Pearl two drams and a half Tormentil two scruples red Saunders one dram mix them all together and make a Confection thereof with the Syrup of Myrtles The Confection of black Cherries and preserved Barberries are also very good for this use A tost of bread steeped in red Wine and Nutmegs in powder strewed thereon is very good Another for the same Take Tormentil and Nutmegs of each a like quantity Plaintain seeds half as much beat them all to powder and give it evening and morning with stale beer Red Corral taken every day before meales in Plantain water is also very good to stay the Flux For the same Take burnt Harts-horn and Nettle-seeds of each a like quantity and beat them to powder and take thereof a dram at a time in Plantain water and about a spoonful of the juyce of Yarrow Galingal chewed in the Mouth is also good A Clyster to stay the immoderate Flux of the Terms Take Fetherfew Balm Rue Scabious Rosemary flowers Southernwood Comin Bay-berries Cassia wood Cassia sistula of each a dram and an half Dill seed Anniseed each a handful and a half shaven Ivory two handfuls boyl them altogether by a mild fire in two quarts of water till half be consumed and then strain it out and take of this Decoction 12. ounces oyl of Sesanum Rue and Pepper of each half an ounce Indian Salt one dram Diacastore Confection of Bay-berries and Benedicta● of each three drams temper them all very well together and administer it very warm Thus far of such Medecines as are to be given inwardly we now proceed to external or outward applications of which there are divers but all ought to be of an astringent stopping quality such are Pessaries Unguents and Plaisters c. A Pessary to stop the excessive Course of the Terms Take Baulustes bark of Pomgranates Mirtles each half a dram mix them with a sufficient quantity of Honey and make thereof a Pessary and put it up into the Matrix There are also more liquid Medecines which may very commodiously be injected with a fit Instrument like Clysters An Injection to stay the Flux of the Terms Take Baulustes Pomgranate Pill Tragant of each a dram Comfrey four drams make a decoction thereof and mix it with four drams of the Juyce of Plantane and make an Injection thereof A Pessary for the same Take juyce of Plantane juice of Sloes and juyce of Pimpernel and make a Pessary thereof with Cotton A Cataplasme for the same or a Pultis which you please to call it Take Wormwood Knot-grasse Nights-shade of each a like quantity pound them together and strain out the juyce then temper with it Rye-meal a sufficient quantity to make it into the thickness of a Pultis and lay it all over the Belly from the Navel to the Matrix A precious salve to stay the immoderate Flux of Womens Courses Take Comin Carraway Rueseed Ameos Seseli and Gallia Moscata of each a dram and a half Rosin three drams oyl of Dill two ounces oyl Olive one ounce Lignum Aloes Cloves of each half a dram melt the Rosin in the oyl and temper the other things with it being beaten small into fine powder and incorporate them together by stirring until it become a thick salve Herewith anoint the Hips and Reins it is excellent to stop the superfluous flux of the Terms It is also good against vomiting and perbreaking and to expel wind being applyed to the Navel and Stomach Be sure to observe whether the woman abound with heat or cold and frame your Medicines accordingly if cold be predominant use such things as cause heat and are good to stop blood such are Frankincense Mastick Cipress nuts Sandaraca Laudanum Mirrh Storax Annis and the like If heat abound such things are to be prepared as are cold and astringent as cool and bind and such is the nature of these following Camphire the juyce of Sloes burnt Ivory Coriander Dragons blood Saunders Blood-stone fine Bolus Hypocistis the seeds of Kneeholm or Butchers broom call it which you will these seeds and also the decoction of the root are very effectual if you would know where to find the seeds look into the inside of the red berries thereof and there you shall be sure to find them but not before you have found the hearb for they grow together and the Kneeholme hearb is a common companion almost with every holly bush These are also cooling and astringent Mirtle seeds Galls Pomgranates flowers called Balaustes the seeds of Plantane of Melons Cucumber gourds and of Pompeons and the roots of Pimpernel Some are glad to eat what they can get yet ye must as near as ye can avoid what is hurtful Let the manner of dier be such as is nourishing and breedeth good juyce and is easily digested especially such as thicken the blood and hinder the fluxibility thereof as Birds those especially of the Mountains are highly commended if you can catch them Let their drink be astringent Wine or use to quench Steel in their drink or boyl therein the seeds leaves and roots of Plantane And thus much of the Flux of the Terms Chap. V. Of the Flux of the Womb or the Whites in Women WEe have already declared that the immoderate Flux of the monethly Courses and the Flux of the Womb or the white Menstrue Gal. 6. loc affe ad finem are two several Diseases as Galen plainly teacheth We proceed now to speak of the Whites or white Flux in women called by the Physicians Gal.

The use of these Lotions and Baths is twofold First to wash and Bathe the Thighs and lower parts of the Woman with the water decocted and secondly for the woman to sit in a Bath up to her middle The second sort of external medecines are injections or medecines to be injected into the Womb and Pessaries or Suppositories to be put into the Womb and remain there a space Suppositories are made of medecines wrapt up in wooll or bombast or some such like thing and so put up into the Womb and there a great while to be detained But alwaies remember that you tie a string thereunto put about the Thigh that it may again be taken out when you please A Pessary for the Terms Take the leaves roots and juyce of Mercury and make thereof a Pessary and apply it alone it may also be mixed with other Medicaments Pessaries of odoriferous things and Aromaticks are very good An Aromatick Pessary to draw down the Flowers Take of Gum Ladanum the best two parts of Belzoine and Mirrh of each one part of Musk one part mix the Aromaticks with oyl of white Lillies a sufficient quantity to make it into a fit form and so put it up Pessaries more strong in operation are such as are made of Coloquintida Briony Scammony and the like an example whereof take following A Pessary to move the Terms Take of Ox gall the juyce of Briony of each one ounce Pulp of Goloquintida two drams of Mirrh one dram make this into a Pessary as before is directed and so apply it In the third place outward means to be used are fumes and suffumigations and they are best to be made of odoriferous Aromatick things whereof take this example A Fumigation to procure the Terms Take Belzoinum Storax Calamint Mirrh Bdellium of each a dram These you may have at the Apothecaries Gallia Muscata Mes half a dram Libethum half a scruple Storax liquid or oyl of Spike perfumed a sufficient quantity to make it into Pills or Trochis This is to be put on a moderate fire that the fume may ascend and the Woman is to be so comodiously placed that she may receive the fume up into the Matrix through a vessel or funnel fit for that purpose which is to be made broad at that end next the fire that it may receive all the smoke and with a narrow neck like a funnel to inject the fume into the Matrix But these Fumigations as Hippocrates teacheth Hipp. 5. Apho. 28. use to cause the Headach Therefore the Woman ought to be well covered fortified with clothes that the vapours may be kept from ascending to the Head In the fourth place amongst the external Medicines unguents and plaisters are to be used and applyed to the Abdomina or secret places Letting of blood is also to be used in the Foot or else where as need requires us An Oyl good to bring down the Flowers Take oyl of sweet Almonds two ounces of white Lillies one ounce Oyl of Anniseed two drams Mixe them and therewith anoint c. it is very effectual for infirmities in those parts A Plaister to apply to move the Terms Take of Penny-royal Calamint Ditanny Mugwort of each one handful Cinamon Cloves Mirth Balsom of each a dam meal of Pease a pound mixe them with White-wine upon the fire and make thereof a plaister and apply it to the pundenda An Ointment for the same Take Mussilage of Fleawort and Linseed of each an ounce Butter Unsalted two ounces Hens grease Ducks grease Goose grease Marrow of Calves bones of each half an ounce Ammoniacum a quarter of an ounce oyl of Sesanum oyl of sweet Almonds of each five drams Wax sufficient to make it into a salve With this Ointment anoint the Body behind and before from the Navel downwards but not before you have used all other inward means and outward of Bathing letting blood Fumes Pessaries c. A Plaister for the same Take Confectio benedicta half an ounce Turbith a quarter of an ounce Nigella seed three drams clarified Honey enough to make it into a Plaister This Plaister is to be applyed over the Privities as before is directed If you perceive the Courses begin to appear then take this drink following Take Mugwort Sene leaves and Penny-royal of each half a handful Cinamon half an ounce Mace three drams boil these altogether in three pints of good Wine until the fourth part be wasted boil it in a pot stopt close in boiling water otherwise called Balneo Mariae In the last place is to be used frictions or often rubbing of the Thighs and inferiour parts to draw the humour downwards Ligatures or binding the Thigh hard with a string Cupping glasses to be applyed to the Hips and Thighs and the inferiour parts both with scarification and without Let the sick party beware of all slimy meat and hard meat and from all salt cold binding things as are hard of digestion omit hatred sorrow and melancholinesse and alwaies in these cases begin with the mildest Medicines first of which you have sufficient before directed And thus far for the suppression or stopping of the Terms we proceed to the extraordinary Flux an evil also incident to Women and the remedies thereof Chap. IIII. Of the immoderate Flux of the Terms HAving hitherto fully declared the Symptomes Causes and Cure of that great Feminine infirmity the stopping or obstruction of the termes ' we provide now in order to treat of the immoderate Flux or overflowing of Womens courses which oftentimes brings to the party afflicted there with many other infirmities and great weakness and sickness pains in the back and stomack losse of appetite ill digestion and many other diseases as Dropsie Consumption and others This infirmity may and often times is caused by some fall blow thrust over-straining too much exercise over-heating the body and thereby making the blood thin and fluxible It is also caused by some unnatural and untimely birth breaking of a vein or some bruisings in the womb some vein there being broken or through some weakness in the retentive faculty and too much strength of the expulsive too much moysture and slipperiness in the Matrix Many suppose the immoderate Flux of the termes and the continual Issue of women to be one and the same disease but they are besides the Cussion for they are 2 several distinct diseases as Galen plainly teacheth for in the superfluous Flux of the termes blood only issueth as it useth to appear in the natural monthly purgations but only it flowes immoderately but in the issue or Flux of Women not only blood but various excrements sometimes watry and of another substance are evacuated The Termes or courses are said to flow immoderately after a twofold manner First when they flow excessively and beyond measure in a small time Secondly When this evacuation continues many dayes beyond its natural course and time And to this purpose writes Galen when he saith

take one of these Pills following Pills for the Mola Take Galbanum 1 quarter of an Ounce Flowers of Mugwort St. Johns wort Assarabacca of each 1 scruple dissolve the Galbanum in good wine and make thereof 6 Pills of a dram and take one at a time in 4 dayes as before is directed A Bath for the same Take Mugwort Camomile Dill Holly-hock Roots Mallowes of each one handful Linseed Fenegreek Anniseed Fennel-seed of each one dram make a decoction thereof in common water for a Bath and let the Woman sit hot in it up to her breasts and after use this Oyntment for the same purpose Take juyce of Holli-hocks 2 Ounces Goosgrease Hens grease of each one Ounce Oyl of sweet Almonds of white Lillies of each half an ounce mixe them to an Oyntment and therewith annoint all the external parts against the fire Inwardly let her also take Dia calamint Trochis of Mirrhe and in a word whatsoever is good to provoke the termes and to drive forth the secundide and expell a dead Child the same is effectual for this Disease of which shall be spoken in the ensuing discourse of hard Labours We have now at large written of all special accidents and infirmities incident to the womb and parts of generation and given perfect directions for remedies for the same yet nevertheless though the humane seed may be received and contained yet a mischance may follow or otherwise a weak and feeble fruit that it cannot come to perfection and at last a difficult and hard labour are many if not most of the Daughters of Eve subject to whereby oft-times their lives are in danger thereby if not quite lost with the fruit and all therefore concerning these infirmities and what belongs to fruit-bearing Women and their delivery is the intended subject of the subsequent part of this Book and first of the debility or weakness of the child in its Mothers womb Chap. XII Of the weakness of Children in the Womb. SUch is the frailty of humane nature that the Child is subject to sickness even in his Mothers womb no great marvel then if men are all their lives encumbred with casualties when they begin with them even before they have a visible being the sickness of Children in the womb not being obvious to the eye is the more difficult to finde out but the signes to know it are these If the Woman have her termes much being with Child it must argue debility of the Child because his nourishment and sustenance is taken away from him If Milk flow from Women with Child its evident the Child is weak and not strong enough to draw his nourishment to him If a Woman with Child be afflicted with a strong and violent loosness there is great danger of a mischance But the strength or weakness of the Child depends on heat and cold under which are comprehended all accidents whatsoever If the Child be weak through immoderate heat and dryeth then the remedy is to purge the Mother of Choler for which this following is a convenient Medicine Take Conserve of Prunes half an Ounce three Ounces of whay of milk give it her in the morning and let her fast 5 houres after it Another for the same Take Cassia extracted out of the Cane one Ounce and put to it 4 Ounces of Sorrel-water or Barley-water and give it in like manner as the other Another safe but stronger Medicine both for the Mother and the Child is this following Take 2 Ounces of Manna and 3. or 4. Ounces of Whay mixed with it and use it as the other For the same you may also steep in the same quantity of Whay a dram of Rubarb one night and strain it out well or if you will take half a dram of Rubarb in powder in some whay Let the Woman use such dyet as is cooling and moystning as Barley-water Lettice and use Verjuice and juyce of Lemons with her meat Endive water Syrrup of Roses Endive succoury water are good in this case Forbear all things which provoke vomiting or which force Urine or blood Let the Woman 3 or 4 times every day cool and quench her thirst with Barley-water having half an Ounce of Syrrup of leaves mixt with it An external Medicine for this Disease if you feel great heat to abound may be this Take Citron water Violet water of each 6. Ounces Sorrel-water 12. Ounces Red Sanders burnt Ivory Sorrel seed of each one scruple Saffron half a scruple Vinegar 3 spoonfuls mix them all together and wet a Linnen Cloth in it and lay it on the privities and on the small of the back Take also one Ounce of Pompeon Peels Oyl of Roses Oyl of Water-Lillies of each one Ounce and a half Housleek one Ounce temper them all together and annoint the back and privities therewith 3. or 4. times a day But if the cause of weakness or debility of the Child in its Mothers Womb proceed from cold and moystness then are contrary medicines to be used of which these following are approved Take Buglosse water Saffron seeds Agarins Hermodactils of each 1 scruple Cynamon Ginger Roses Coriander prepared of each 4 grains steep them one night in the Buglosse water then strain it and drink it in the morning fasting Another for the same Take Fethersew-water Balm water of each one Ounce and a half Benedicta laxativa one Ounce Sugar half an Ounce mix them and infuse them together one night then strain it out and use it as the other Have a care to use a good order of Dyet and such things as warm and dry boyl Sage Mints and Rosemary in her Portage and use to drink red Wine with steeled water To mundifie and cleanse the bad humours this Medicine following is very good Take juyce of Mints 4 Ounces Agarick one dram Ginger Roses of each 4 grains Manna half an Ounce steep the Agarick in the juyce of Mints a dayes and nights then put the Manna Roses and Ginger to it let it stand a while and dry against the fire and make it into Pills and take them Use this oftentimes for they gently purge and dry up the warty humors without pain or anguish A Plaister to remedy the corrupt humours Take Roses Cipers Nuts burnt Ivory Sandaraca of each 1 dram Rosen 3 Ounces boyl the Rosen in red Vinegar till the Vinegar be consumed then mix the other things with it and make 2 Plaisters of it and apply one to the back and the other to the womb Another excellent good Plaister to strengthen Women with Child that do not use to go out half their times Take Oyl of Quinces Oyl of Roses Oyl of Mints of each 1 ounce and a half Comphrey Blood-stone red Coral Sandaraca Date-stones burnt of each 1 dram mix it with a sufficient quantity of Wax to make a Salve thereof and with this annoint the Kidneys and Mother Chap. XIII Of Mischances and to prevent the same IT oftentimes comes to passe with women with