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A78521	The compleat midwifes practice, in the most weighty and high concernments of the birth of man. Containing perfect rules for midwifes and nurses, as also for women in their conception, bearing, and nursing of children: from the experience not onely of our English, but also the most accomplisht and absolute practicers among the French, Spanish, Italian, and other nations. A work so plain, that the weakest capacity may easily attain the knowledge of the whole art. With instructions of the midwife to the Queen of France (given to her daughter a little before her death) touching the practice of the said art. / Published with the approbation and good liking of sundry the most knowing professors of midwifery now living in the city of London, and other places. Illustrated with severall cuts in brass. By T.C. I.D. M.S. T.B. practitioners.	Chamberlayne, Thomas.; Boursier, Louise Bourgeois, ca. 1563-1636.	1656 (1656)	Wing C1817C; Thomason E1588_3; ESTC R14527	137,828	305

that meanes be delayed to the damage of the woman in childbed The fourteenth form If there be twins in the womb and one of them endeavour to come forth with the head formost and the other with the feet First of all the Midwife must consider which of the two the woman may be delivered of with most expedition if the head of the one be less forward then the feet of the second it will be most convenient to draw that forth by the feet turning the head of the other a little to the other side and that being delivered she must presently lay hold of the head of that which is within and direct it just to the passage of the womb which may be done with more ease by reason of the gap which the formost hath made If it happen that in drawing forth the first by the feet that the other chang its situation the midwife may then draw forth the other by the feet as she did the first and if the head of the first be more forward then must she put back the feet of the first and receive that which comes with the head formost If both of them press together to the passage of the womb the midwife must take great care and therfore she must put up her hand to see which of them is most forward as also to try whether it be not some monstrous conception as two heads upon one body or two bodies joyned in one either at the shoulders or at the sides which may be known if she put up her hand gently between the two heads as high as she can and if she find that they are twins she may gently put the one to one side to make way for the passage of the other which is most advanced which must be directed just to the orifice of the womb having a great care that she do not change the situation of the second and as she feeles the pains of the mother coming on her she must by all means bring forward the childe that she would receive still keeping the other back with two or three fingers of the left hand and thus having delivered the first if the second be not well situated she must bring the head to the neck of the womb where it will find the passage open to it by the delivery of the first Now lest the first childe should be in danger of its life you must take it from the mother and carefully tie up the navel string as is formerly mentioned also bind again with a large and long fillet that part of the navel which is fast to the secondines that they may be the more easily found Then the second child being born the Midwife must see if there be not two secondines for by reason of the shortness of the ligature it may have happened to retire back againe to the damage of the woman and therfore the secondines must be hastened forth as soon as may be least the womb should close If the two Infants have but one body the better way is to turn the head upwards and to draw it forth by the feet then by the head taking care when you come to the hipps to draw it forth as quick as may be The fifteenth form The second forme of the unnaturall birth is very dangerous and therfore requires the greater care of the midwife First therfore let her well anoynt the womb of the woman that the passage may be more slipperie which being done let her take hold of the hands of one of the Infants and keeping them close to the sides direct the head to the orifice of the womb that being born let her proceed in the same manner toward the other If she cannot come to take hold of either of the Infants armes she must bring the woman againe to her bed and trye if by the foresaid Agitation of her body the infants may be Brought to a more convenient forme of delivery CHAP. XXIX Of ordering the woman after she is delivered IN the first place she must keep a temperate dyet having a great care not to over fill her selfe after so great an evacuation and indeed her dyet must be like that of wounded persons neither are the tales of Nurses to be beleived who exhort them to fill after so great an emptines telling them that the loss of bloud must be restored for these are meer fooleries for as for that blood which she hath lost it is but unnecessary blood such as is usually kept for the space of nine months which to voyd is much conducing to her health besides their nourishment for the first days must be but slender for feare of falling into a fever besides the abundance of milke which it would bring into the brest where it might be in danger of curdling or apostematizing and therfore for the first five days let her use broths Panadas potched eggs Gellies abstaining from flesh or french Barly In the Morning broth will be expedient at dinner broth or eggs or Panada and at supper the same with some Gellies for her second courses If she intend to nourse her childe she may feed more plentifully and drinke some Barly-water where in some corianders or fennell seed may be put In Italie the persons of most account doe use this water Take two Capons the fethers being well pulled of and the bowels wholly taken out which you shall boyl in a glaz'd earthen pot in a sufficient quantitie of water till they be halfe boyled then must they be taken out of the pot together with the broth and being cutt to peices are to be put into a Lembick in manner following â„ž Bugloss Borache and Time two good handfulls and with that cover the bottome of the shell then lay upon that a row of flesh then upon that a ranck of leaf gold with a dram of powder of pearles and upon that pover the broth let all this be distilled in Balneo Mariae drawing forth a pint at a time which you shall reiterate as often as you have any thing left to give to the woman in child-bed for the space of ten or twelve dayes This water must be drawn six weeks or two months before it be used If the woman be not troubled with a fever let her drinke a little white wine or Claret with twice as much hot water If she haue a mind to drink between meales or at night it may be convenient to give her some syrrup of maidenhaire or any other syrrup that is not astringent with a little boyled water After the suspition of fever or heat of her brests is over she may be nourished more plentifully and you may give her together with her broth some other meat as Pullet Capon Pigeon Mutton or Veale boyled After the eight day is past at what time the Womb is well purged and discharged it will be expedient to give her cold meat in greater quantitie that she may be enabled to gaine strength during all this time

and first what is to be done to a woman who in her travail is accompanied with a flux of bloud and with convulsions IN the first place great care must be had as to the situation of the woman The woman in this case must be laid cross her bed where she must be held by some one that hath strength that she may not slide or move her self in the operations of the Chirurgion Her thighes must be held hard and wide abroad with her leggs bent backwards towards her hipps and her head leaning upon a bolster the reines of her back and her Crupper being alittle elevated with certaine pillows put under neath her thighes besides this she must be well covered with linnen cloaths laid upon her stomacke belly and thighes to defend her from the cold and wind Being thus situated the Chirurgion ought to putt up his hand being first well opened with in the neck of the womb to remove all those clotts of blood which may lie there to obstruct the passages of the blood He may then trye if the interior neck of the womb be sufficiently dilated that he may put in his hand and move the Infant if it be needfull which must be done as gently and with as little violence as may be he must anoynt it on all parts with sweet butter or good Pomatum and so opening it by little and a little he may put his hand quite in and if the waters are not yet come downe he may without any difficultie let them forth and then at the same instant if the Infant Come with the head forwards he shall gently turn it to find out the feet and when he hath found one of them he shall gently draw it forth and immediately tye a riband about it with a knott hanging downe ward then let him put it in a gaine suffering part of the riband to hang out that he may more easily be able to find out the other foot which he shall quickly doe by thrusting up his hand a long the thigh of the Infant when he hath found it he shall take the other foot and draw them both together at an even length giving the woman now and then some leisure to breath but urging her still to streine her selfe when she feeles the paines coming on her then shall the Chirurgion or midwife take a fine linnen cloath and wrap about the thighs of the child least by taking it naked his fingers should slip in that manner drawing it forth till it appeare all come forth observing still that the belly and the face be still kept downward Now if the woman have a flux of bloud and that the neck of the Matrix be open the Chirurgion ought then to consider whether the Infant or the secondine come forth first of all for it oftentimes happens that the secondines passing toward the mouth of the Matrix do so stop and obstruct it that they do not give leave for the childe or the waters to come forth so that some perceiving that softness are presently of opinion that the mouth of the womb is not open But this the Midwife or Chirurgion may easily discern by thrusting up the middle finger as high as may be and feeling therewith the circumference of the neck of the womb by which they wil soon perceive whether the womb be dilated or no and whether it be the secondines that present themselves Now when it is found to be the secondines and that they cannot easily come forth the Midwife may with her two fingers widen the passage that he may have thereby the liberty to put up his hand and seek for the Infant Now if the secondines are not placed in the middle they must be turned a little as quickly as may be that you may more conveniently seek for the feet of the Infant to draw it forth as we have said In such a case as this all care must be had that nothing be broken and that every thing be brought out whole for so though the woman should dye the Midwife or the Chirurgion would be blameless If the secondines come first the best way is to deliver the woman withall the expedition that may be by reason of the great fluxes of blood that will follow by reason that the veins are opened but here are two things to be considered the first is whether the secondines are much or little come forth if they are but little advanced they must be put back with care and diligence and if the head of the child appeare first it must be guided directly toward the neck of the womb as in the most naturall birth but if there appear any difficulty in the birth by reason of the weakness either of the childe or of the mother then the most convenient way will be to seek for the feet as we have said before Another thing to be observed is that if the secondine be so far advanced that they cannot be put back and that the childe follows it close then are the secondines to be pulled away with all the care and expedition that can be and to be laid aside without cutting the entrail that sticks to them for by that you may be guided to the Infant which whether it be alive or dead it is to be pulled out by the feet with as much care and quickness as may be though it is not to be done but in cases of great necessity for otherwise the secondines ought to come last If the childe be dead in the womb of the mother Of the child dead in the mothers belly the woman is then to be situated in the same posture as when she is troubled with a flux of bloud If it present it selfe dead with the head formost and that ther is little or no hope that the woman may be delivered without assistance and that her strength begins to faile her the most certaine and safe way is to put up the hand for the Chirurgion must then slide up his left hand being hollowed as when a man strives to hold water in it causing it to slide in the neck of the womb along the lower part thereof toward the feet and that betweene the head of the Infant and the neck of the Matrix and having thus opened the womb with his left hand he shall with his right put up his hook above his left hand between the head of the child and the flat of his hand and fix it in the bone of the temples toward the eare or else in the hollow of the eye or in the Occipital bone keeping his left hand still in its place after this gently moving and stirring the head with his left hand with his right hand holding the hook well fixed he shall draw the child forth by degrees exhorting the woman all the while to force and streine her selfe with all her power and then is the best time to draw forth the child when the paines shall seize her now if it happen that he loose his

after that manner for it is impossible that the child should be so born without some conversion and therefore the Midwife is to do all she can to reduce it to a more natural form of birth by moving the buttocks and steering the head to the passage if this succeed not let her trie by often rocking the woman to and fro to bring the child to its natural form of being born The fifth unnatural form If it happen that the childe hasten to the birth with the legs and arms distorted the Midwife ought not to hasten the woman but immediately cast her on her bed where she may direct the woman to roul her self to and fro or else she may gently stroak the womb of the woman as she lies till she have reduced the Infant to a better posture If this profit not the Midwife must take the legs and close them together then if she can she must get her hand about the armes of the child and in the safest way she can direct it to its coming forth though it be the safest way to turn the Infant in the womb and by that means compose it to the natural birth The sixth form If the infant come into the world with both knees forward with the hands hanging down upon the thighs The Midwife may then put up both the knees upward till the feet happen to come forward and then with her left hand let her take hold of the feet and keep her right hand about the sides of the childe and in that posture endeavour the birth of the child but if that succeed not let the woman as is said before be brought to her bed and there wallow from side to side till she have moved the childe into a better posture 9 8 7 12 11 10 But when it happens that the child hastens forwards with on arme extended upon the thigh Of the seventh form and the other stretched over the head the feet being stretched out at length in the womb the Midwife may by no means receive the childe in this posture but must lay her patient upon the bed as we have said before then must the womans belly be gently pressed backward that the infant may retire into the womb and if it give not backward of its own accord the Midwife may with her hand gently thrust back the shoulder and bring the arm that was stretched back to its right place The most dangerous of all those that we have spoken of is this The eight form and therefore the Midwife must take great care to put back the Infant in this case into the womb first of all therefore anoint well her hands as also the womb of the woman then if she can let her thrust in her hand near the armes of the Infant and so move the shoulders that the infant may fall back into the womb and then to bring it to the natural form let her thrust up her other hand and reduce the armes of the infant to the sides of it If this succeed not the woman must be laid on her bed and after a little rest she must be ordered as before we have said If this avail not she must be brought back to her seat as we have before rehearsed then must her womb by the help of those women that assist her be gently prest downward and on both sides while the Midwife having anointed the matrix and both the armes of the Infant joyns them as close together as she can and in that manner receives the Infant And there is the lesse danger in this form if the Midwife be diligent and the child slender The ninth form If the Infant thrust it self forwards with the buttocks formost the Midwife must put her hand well anointed and so by heaving up and putting back the buttocks strive to turn the head to the passage Yet overmuch haste must not be made lest the Infant should fall back into some worse posture and therefore if it cannot be turned by putting up the hand the woman must be brought to her bed and ordered as we have often said before comfortable things being conveniently ministred to her The tenth form If the child come forward with the neck bowed and the shoulders forward with the hands and feet stretched upwards in this case the Midwife must carefully move the shoulders backward that she may be able to bring the head forwards which may be easily done for the shoulders being removed the head will soon appear foremost yet if this suffice not the woman must be laid on her back upon the bed and ordered according to the former precepts The eleventh form When the Infant thrusts forth the hands and feet formost care must be had to avoid the danger of this mishapen posture and therfore the midwife must strive by removing the feet to lay hold on the head and as much as in her lyes to direct it to the passage the hands are also to be removed unless of their own accords they fall down to the sides If by this means it cannot be done the former precepts of converting the child are to be observed Sometimes it happens that the childe strives to force its passage in this posture which is very dangerous First of all therefore The 12th form let the midwife anoynt her hands well and the womb of the woman which being done let her put up her hand and seek for the armes of the child which when she hath found let her hold them fast till she hath hold of the head also which she must with all her skill endeavour to bring formost then let her remove the hands of the Infant and fix them upon the sides of the Infant Yet if this doe not availe it will be the safest way to lay the woman on her bed and to proceed according to the former precepts to trye if by that delay she may have the more advantage to proceed as before The same method which is to be observed in single birth The 13th form is also to be observed in case of twins or of triple birth for as the single birth hath but one naturall way and many unnaturall formes so is it with the birth of more children and therfore when it happens that when twins appeare coming into the world according to the naturall forme the midwife must observe to receive that first which is nearest the passage yet be sure not to let go the other lest it should fall back into the womb and tumble into some other forme but the one being born immediatly to receive the other this birth is the more easie in the natural form because the first child widens the passage for the latter but in unnatural births there is most difficulty in the passage of the second child care must be also had in the birth of twins that the secondines be maturely brought forth least the womb being delivered of its burden should fall and the secondine by

Centinode a good big handfull the rind of Cassia the rind of Pomegranates Scarlet Graines of each three ounces the nature of a whale one ounce Myrrh water rose water and sloe water an ounce and a half thick wine and smiths water of each foure ounces and a half then make two little baggs of a quarter of a yard long causing them to boyle in the foresaid waters in a new pot using one after another as you have occasion leting it lye upon the bone of the Pubes passing in between the hipps chafing her often and holding her head and her reines low using in the morning somtimes a little mastick in an eg or somtimes plantaine seed if the disease be not too old it may be cured by this meanes but if it be of a long standing you must make a pessarie halfe round and half oval of great thick cork peirced through in the middle tye a little packthred to the end then cover it over with white wax that it may doe no hurt and to make it more thick this must be dipped in oyle of Olives to make it enter and it must be streit that it may not easily fall out and if it be too little to have an other bigger when the woman goes to do her necessary occasions she must hold it in least she should force it out the hole is made that the vapors of the womb may have a vent and to give way for her purgations to flow neither must it be taken away till after the purgations are passed the thicknes causes the matrix to mount up as long as it is very thick for the ligaments being close doe then retire If they be women that beare children the midwife ought not to suffer them to force themselves but as nature constraines her having her own hand ready after the throw to put back the Matrix with her finger and when she is brought to bed lay her low with her head and with her reines raising her up with pillows put under her hipps and for women that are troubled with this disease they ought not to lace themselves over hard for that thrusts down the matrix and makes the woman pouch bellyed and hinders the Infant form being well situated in her body causing her to carrie the child all upon her hipps and makes her belly as deformed as her wast is handsome Of a disease that happens by reason of the fall of the Matrix THere is somtimes a relaxation of the membrane that covers the rectum Intestinum when the head of the child at the beginning of the travaile falls downward and draws it low often-times it comes by reason of women with child lacing themselves which causes such a conflux of wind to these parts that it seemes to the woman to be the head of the child in so much that she is hardly able to stand upright neither can she goe For remedy hereof you must keep the woman soluble giving her Anise and Coriander seeds to dissipate the winds You must take Sage Agrimony Mother-wort balme White wormwood Margerome a little rue and a little Thyme and Camomile and having picked all the above written herbs you must cut them very small and having well mingled them put them into a maple platter and then put hot cinders upon them and upon those another handfull of herbes covering the platter with a close cloth that the woman may receive the smoake this is a remedie which hath been much approved and experimented To remedie the fall of the fundament in Infants TAke of the green shrub wherof they make broomes and cut it smal and lay it upon the coales and set the child over the smoake thereof and it will certainly cure it Of the diseases of women and first of the inflammation of the brest THe inflamation of the brests is a hard swelling together with a beating paine redness and shooting The cheif cause of this is the abundance of blood drawn up together in that place though there be somtimes other causes also as the suppression of the courses the Haemorrhoids or a blow received upon the breasts The signes of it are easie to be known that is to say a certain rednes and burning heat oftimes joyned with a fever For the cure of this there are four sorts of remedies first as the order of dyet which must be comforting and moistning as broth of pullets where endive borage lettice and purselaine may be boyled also she may drinke the juce of Pomegranates or barly water with aniseeds boyled in it the use of wine and all sorts of spices are very dangerous and if the woman goe not freely to the stoole there is nothing better then a lenitive glyster she may sleep much and must not disturb her selfe with any passion The next way of remedy is by diverting the humours which is done by frictions letting bloud in the foot scarification of the legs or vesicatories applied to those places especially if the flowers are stopped or ready to come down if not it will be expedient to open a veine in the arme You may also prepare the humour to void it out of the place affected by opening either the middle vein or the Basilic or the Vena Saphena which may be done two or three times if occasion serve after bloud-letting purge but let this be done with sweet medicines such are Cassia Manna Tamarind syrrup of Roses or Violets Solutive having a little before used certain syrrups which may asswage and temper the humours Take syrrup of Roses and Purslain of each one ounce Endive water and Plantain water of each an ounce give this to the patient Neither will it be amiss to give her syrrup of Succory or Endive or such like for these syrrups have a cooling and refreshing faculty especially being mingled with Plantain or Endive water or such like or the decoction of the said herbs now when the humour is thus prepared you may give her some gentle purges As for example take of the pulp of Cassia and Tamarinds of each six drams of this make a little bolus with some sugar and give to the patient or with this potion Take of the Leaves of Italian Orach three drams of Aniseed one scruple infuse these in four ounces of the foresaid waters Into this being strained infuse an ounce of Cassia and into the streining of this dissolve an ounce of solutive Roses of this make a potion and give it The fourth way of cure consists in Topicks such as may drive back and repress the humour though care must be had that they be not over strong lest you thereby do cool the heart too much and thereupon drive the humour upon the heart it self And therefore temperate medicines are chiefly to be chosen and such especially as are able to digest and dissolve the humour Wherefore it shall not be amiss to apply a linnen cloath dipt in white strong vineger and a little cold water which must be applied to the breasts and

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. 2● 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

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 B●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 frō 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 so●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