Selected quad for the lemma: heart_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heart_n	drink_v	root_n	wine_n	2,867	5	10.6715	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93039	The midwives book, or, The whole art of midwifry discovered. Directing childbearing women how to behave themselves in their conception, breeding, bearing, and nursing of children in six books, viz. ... / By Mrs. Jane Sharp practitioner in the art of midwifry above thirty years.; Midwives book	Sharp, Jane, Mrs.	1671 (1671)	Wing S2969B; ESTC R203554	186,081	442

affections and draws away vital heat from the Circumference to the Center consuming the vital spirits Discontent hinders People from what they desire denies God's Providence and shews that our spirits are too much fastened to the World yet sometimes the best woman of us all cannot avoid it But it is the Physical part that I pretend to And therefore let such as desire to have children look to it that their courses come down orderly and be well coloured for then there is no fear but such women will be easie to conceive but they must be sparing in the act of Copulation else one act will destroy another like Penelopes web what she spun in the day she unreathed at night too frequent use makes the womb slippery and therefore whores have but few children and some honest women conceive presently when their Husbands return after a long absence women will soonest conceive two or three dayes after their Terms be staid she must avoid all meats and drinks that hinder conception as drinking of sweet Wine the Hollanders call Stum that keeps women from conceiving or eating Ivy berries wearing Saphyre or Emerald stones about them but a Laodstone carryed causeth concord and fruitfulness and so doth the heart of a male Quale for a man of a female for a woman to eat Eringo root or Ctyrions take Castorium half a dram in Malmsey spread a plaister of Landanum and lay to the womb take a scruple of Galingal in White Wine every morning or a dram of Fox or Boars stones in Sheeps Milk or a dram of a Bulls pisle eat the brains of Sparrows and Pidgeons and the flesh too if you please But to leave this which is concerning means before women have conceived that they may more easily prove with child and retain it their full time and be afterwards in due time happily delivered of it I come in the next place to shew what the woman must do that is gone with child and first let her drink every morning a good draught of Sage Ale for though Sage do provoke the courses yet it will not do so here but it strengthens the womb many things by sundry qualities they abound with will cause contrary effects so Cinnamon a great binder for a loosness will stop the courses when they flow too much and make them come down when they are stopt I have proved that Aurum Potabile will stay the bloody flux yet if a body be full of ill humours it wil purge sufficiently Garden Tansie Ale made and drank like Sage Ale is good if the woman fear to miscarry if you bruise the Tansie and spri●●le it with Muskadel and apply it to her Navel it is more effectual than a toast of bread that some dip in the said wine and apply the same way Let women that are in the said danger alwayes keep the sirrup of this Tansie by them it is made with the juice of the herb clarified and boiled up with a double weight of sugar give a spoonful or two to the labouring woman it may save many a womans life and her childs Let her abstain from all binding diet let her boyl Mallows when she comes near the time of her delivery or Holyhocks in fair spring water and with Honey or Sugar enough to sweeten it and add half a spoonful of white salt for a Glister Let her eat meats and drink such things as nourish well but take heed of surfeiting or excess and let her keep her body loose roasted Apples eat with Sugar in the morning will do it or let her take a bolus of Cassia Fistula called Pudding pipe about an hour or less before dinner there is no danger in it and it opens gently she may make a Glister with Chicken or tender flesh broth adding course Sugar or Honey and half a spoonful of white salt or let her boyl Mercury in her broth to make a suppository with Castle sope or Lard The Eagle stone I have seen abundance of them every day to be sold in Humburgh and they are to be had in London but they are of four kinds the best is brought from Africa and is taken out of an Eagles nest for the Eagle some write cannot lay her eggs if she want these stones by her it hath the name from hence and it is called from the likeness it hath with it a stone with child it is but a small stone with another stone that shakes and sounds within it it is but of a small body and easily beaten to powder some say there is a male Eagle stone and this is a female I think there is both male and female in stones and Plants There is a second and that is called the male Eagle stone and it comes from Arabia it is as hard as a gall of a dark red colour and hard to be powdered the third is brought from Cyprus not unlike that of Africa but it is much bigger The fourth brought from a place called Taphimsius is so denominated also it is round and white and another stone within it it is found in Rivers this is held to be the worst but in some respects very good and the best of all the four as it is used for some occasions but herein must we needs admire the works of God for I have proved it to be true that this stone hanged about a womans neck and so as touch her skin when she is with child will preserve her safe from Abortion and will cause her to be safe delivered when the time comes but since the fall of our first Parents it is hard to find the vertues and secret qualities of the creatures But when I give these and the like rules I know poor women are not able to provide in such cases but their rich neighbours should do it for them for I do not question but that all women will be glad to eat and drink well and to take all things that may do them good if they knew but what and can procure them A Bath for a woman great with child and near her time to be delivered is very good for her to sit in and it may be thus made Holyhocks leaves and roots two handfuls Betony Mallows of each one handful Mugwort Marjerome Mints Camomile of each half a handful Linseed Pursly Pursly bruised two handful put all in Bags together and boil all in well-water sufficient for the woman to sit up to the Navel in when it is warm to sit in hold one bag to her Navel and let her sit upon another after this done warm this Ointment following and annoint her back her belly and secrets Take Oil of sweet Almonds of Lillies of Violets of each half an ounce Ducks grease and Hens grease of each 3 drams Wax a little to make the Ointment you may add if you please to this Ointment in compounding it Holyhock roots Fenugreekseed Butter of each a quarter of an ounce Quince kernels Gum traganth of each an ounce stamp the seeds