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A81130	Culpeper's Directory for midwives: or, A guide for women The second part. Discovering, 1. The diseases in the privities of women. 2. The diseases of the privy part. 3. The diseases of the womb. 4. The symptomes of the womb. 5. The symptomes in the terms. 6. The symptomes that befal all virgins and women in their womb, after they are ripe of age.7. The symptomes which are in conception. 8. The government of women with child. 9. The symptomes that happen in child-bearing. 10. The government of women in child-bed, and the diseases that come after travel. 11. The diseases of the breasts. 12. The symptomes of the breasts. 13. The diet and government of infants. 14. The diseases and symptomes in children.; Directory for midwives. Part 2	Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654.; Sennert, Daniel, 1572-1637. Practical physick; the fourth book.; Cole, Abdiah, ca. 1610-ca. 1670.	1676 (1676)	Wing C7498A; ESTC R224998	142,841	289

it by one Sometimes there is only short breath sometimes the animal actions are hurt the whole Body is cold from a malignant vapor sent up from the Womb. The Causes The immediate Cause is a vapour malignant and venomous sent up by the Arteries Veins and Nerves that hurt the actions of the parts it goes to This vapor is like air or wind thin and little but very strong to get presently through the whole Body It chiefly ascends to the Gullet and causeth choaking as eating of Mushrooms Hellebore and other poysons There is often short difficult breathing with Heart-ach Vomiting and Loathing If the vapor go first to the heart the motion of it ceaseth and there is swounding and she falls down If it go to the Brain the animal actions are hurt When seed and terms corrupt in the Womb with other bad humors they breed this evil vapor because they are the best substance and the beginning of generation they are worst when corrupted especially seed to hurt the whole Body Gal. cit 1. Sometimes it is in Women with child when they have not their after-purging but evil humors are left and corrupt in the Womb. The chief cause of this humor is in the trumpet of the womb and stones the body of which is hollow and loose the stones being in Bladders and have hollowness full of water which in hysterical women is yellow and thicker then ordinary Vesal de corp human Fabr. lib. 5. c. 15. This trumpet and the stones are often taken from the womb it self when they are swollen with corrupt seed and humors and wind and reach to the Navel of which in the Chapter of Ascent of the Womb. This disease is breeding sooner or longer as the matter is more or less sometimes corrupt humors lie still and if they be stirred they send a venom or vapor to the whole body Now in women subject to this disease sweet scents to the Nose or taken in or anger will move these humors and vapors They are according to the variety of the Symptoms and efficient cause or venomous humors The Differences for corrupt blood especially seed puts on another Nature That Suffocation is at hand The Signs it appears by laziness weakness of the Legs paleness sad countenance and the motion of something like a Ball in the Belly with noise like Frogs Snakes or Crows so that some think it is devillish There is also Belching Yawning Yexing short Wind Heart-beating Loathing Dulness Laughter at the coming of the fit from the vapor getting into the Membrane of the Breast that tickle them some cry some both laugh and cry These Symptoms increase when the fit comes and the Jaws are closed that she seems to be choaked and sense and motion is gone or depraved Some have Convulsions some hear what is done about them but cannot speak the pulse is less the whole body is cold and the Eyes shut as if they were dead When the fit declines humors flow from the Privities the Guts rumble the Eyes open the Cheeks grow red and the body warm the animal actions return and the Patient sighs and comes to her self It is known to be from corrupt seed if the terms are in order and short breath and low voice Suffocation and Convulsions and all Symptoms are then more vehement and at the end of the fit there flows a humour like seed out of the privities It is from the terms if they be stopt or flow not orderly and if there be a disease in the womb it is neither from the seed nor the terms The Prognostick 1. If there come Swounding or a great Convulsion or quenching of natural heat it is deadly 2. Suffocation from corrupt seed is more dangerous then that which is from the terms mixt with melancholick humors 3. The longer it lasts and the worse the Symptoms the more is the danger It ceaseth in young Women when they begin to bear children 4. The oftner the fit comes the more you may fear the quenching of the natural heat by weakning of the Heart often and if she foam at the mouth she dies The Cure of the Fit In the fit you must discuss the malignant vapors that rise from the womb and turn it from the principal parts and you must evacuate the matter that breeds it and prevent its return Call upon her loud pluck the hairs of her privities and Ears make strong Ligatures and Frictions cup the Legs and Thighs and Groyns hold stinks to the Nose as Partridge-feathers burnt hairs Leather Horn Castor Assa-foetida Galbanum Oyl of Amber Rue the warts on Horses legs dried and the powder upon coals burnt makes a Fume which if taken in the nose suddenly raised them Apply sweet Scents to the Privities as Civet Musk Gallia and Alipta moschata or powder of Cloves Or Take Storax calamita Benzoin each a dram Gallia moschata half a scruple make Troches with Gum traganth and let the Fume be taken into the VVomb by a Fennel A Liniment Take Storax Benzoin each a dram Gallia moschata half a scruple Civet four grains liquid Storax half a scruple with Cotton put it into the Womb. Clysters to discuss wind draw down the matter Take the Carminative Decoction a pint Electuary of Hiera six drams Benedicta laxativa an ounce Oyl of Rue and Bayberries each a dram Use VVomb-clysters and Pessaries to women that have known man Take Electuary of Hiera and Diaphaenicon each two drams Turpentine half an ounce Honey of Mercury an ounce Castor half a dram with Wooll make a Pessary Oyl of Tin applied to the Navel doth remove the fit Or Rue Castor and sneesing Powders As Take white Hellebore half a scruple long Pepper and Ginger each half a dram or put Oyl of Amber into the Nose and Ears Apply to the VVomb this Take Oyl of Rue Bayes each two ounces Cummin-seed Castor dissolved in Vinegar each two drams with Wax make a Liniment Or use a Plaister of Galbanum Castor and Assa-foetida A Compound distilled VVater Take Zedoary Parsnep-seeds Lovage-roots each two ounces Mirrh Castor each half an ounce Piony-roots four ounces Misleto of the Oak gathered in the wain of the Moon three ounces and water of Motherwort four ounces and half Spirit of Wine a pint and half steep them eight daies distil and give a spoonful with Tile-flower or mugwort-Mugwort-water or Oyl of Amber some drops Or Take Castor Assa-foetida each a scruple Pepper half a scruple with syrup of Mugwort make Pills give three The Cure out of the Fit First prevent the seed from corrupting in the womb and if it be corrupt evacuate it presently with Womb-Clysters and Pessaries then disperse the reliques and strengthen the womb But first give a general Purge that is gentle often and use things that prevent the breeding of Seed Strengthen with Plaisters and Oyntments to the Region of the Womb. As Take liquid Storax two drams Avens Agnus castus seeds Angelica each half a dram

are better then many and small then great white are better then those of other colours The other Prognosticks are mentioned in other places Preservation It is better to prevent the breeding of worms then to expel them by eating of meats of good juyce with Oranges and Pomegranates and avoiding sweet fat and slimy meats fish milk and Summer-fruits and figs. Drink thin Wine and Grass and Sorrel-water with it and with powder of Harts-horn Let the belly be kept loose with Clysters for children or give the Decoction of Sebestens before meat or of Wormwood and Scordium but children will not take bitter things therefore give Grass-water and juyce of Lemmons or Citrons or a drop or two of Spirit of Vitriol When you know by the signs The Cure that there are worms kill and repel them with Powder of Coralline Wormseed Harts-horn or eight grains of Mercurius dulcis Infuse them a night in grass-Grass-water and cast away the substance of the Mercury and give the Water Or Take Wormseed two drams Coralline Harts-horn prepared each a dram roots of Piony Dittany Magistery of Coral each a scruple make a Powder or give the Essence of Peach-flowers or the Decoction of fern-Fern-water half an ounce or an ounce If there be a Feaver use colder as juyce of Lemmons Pomegranates Oranges Vinegar Harts-horn Bezoar Confection of Hyacinth or this Portion Take grass-Grass-water four ounces Syrup of Juyce of Citrons an ounce of Violets half an ounce Spirit of Vitriol two drops give two spoonfuls Give bitter things at the mouth and sweet at the fundament as a Clyster of Milk Or Take Raisons ten Figs seven boyl them in water take of it four ounces add Sugar an ounce and half make a Clyster Use varieties that the worms may not be too familiar with one Apply Peach-leaves to the Navel bruised or a Cataplasm of Ox-gall Wormwood and St. Johns-wort Or Take Powder of Wormwood Gith Centaury Wormseed Lupines each half an ounce with Oyl of Wormwood and Wax half an ounce make an Oyntment Or Take Treacle half an ounce with juyce of Wormwood apply it to the Navel or make a Bath of Peach-leaves and Wormwood put the child into it up to the Navel If there be a Feaver use colder things mentioned Chap. 24. Of the Rupture IT is from the Peritonaeum loose or broken when the small guts fall into the cods from crying cough straining at stool and from vehement motion or a fall Sometimes the Peritonaeum is well and a water falls from the belly into the cods The tumor is visible if it be from a gut The Signs it is in one part only as the right or left and it may be felt and the hole also through which it fell If from water it is even all over and there was no cause of other Rupture It is easier cured in Infants then in elder persons for it is safer The Prognostick but worse then that of water which goes away of it self when the water is consumed Let the belly be kept open The Cure let not the child cry Avoid vehement motion lay him upon his back and thrust it up gently and apply this Plaister Take Lambs-tongue Sanicle each half an ounce Lentills and Lupines and red Roses in Powder each two drams Frankincense a dram Allum half a dram with the white of an Egg. Or Take Frankincense Cypress-nuts Aloes Acacia each two drams Mirrh a dram with Izing-glass make a Plaister Or apply Gum Elemni steept in Vinegar till there be a Cream at the top and with Oyl of Eggs make a Cerot Inwardly Take Sanicle Lambs-tongue each half a handful Agrimony a handful Comphry the greater half an ounce boyl them to a pint strained add Sugar give it often Or give Powder of Mouse-ear or Moonwort with Wine If it be from water anoint with Oyl of Elder Bayes Rue or apply a Cataplasm of Powder of Beans Foenugreek Linseed Chamomil-flowers Cummin-seeds with these Oyls Chap. 25. Of sticking out of the Navel IT is without Inflammation 1. When is was not well tyed and too much left that sticks out 2. When the Peritonaeum is loose and hath water or wind in it from crying or coughing 3. When the Navel is ulcerated and the guts fall into it this is called properly Exomphalon The Navel yields to the touch but in an inflamation it is hard there is neither heat nor redness and it lasts longer than an Inflammation The Signs If the Navel was not well cut there will be too great a quantity if the Peritonaeum be not broken but loose the Navel starts not much out and is not greater by crying if it be broken the tumor scarce appears when he lyes upon his Back but it increaseth by crying or walking The Prognostick If the Midwife did not cut the Navel well it is more troublesome then dangerous If it be too large or ulcerated at first it is easily cured but afterwards it may cause a deadly Iliack passion when the guts that fall in are inflamed The Cure When the Peritonaeum is loose wind stretcheth the Navel then use a Cataplasm of Cummin Bayberries and Lupines powdered in red Wine or a Bag of Cummin and Spike boyled in red Wine Then lay on an Astringent and roul it If the Peritonaeum be broken first put in the gut then bind it close after you have laid on astringent Powders Or Take powder of Cypress-nuts Frankincense Mirrh Mastich Sarcocol Allum Izing-glass each a dram with the whites of Eggs make a Pultis and give Medicines against Ruptures Chap. 4. Of Inflammation of the Navel IT is from pain when it is not well tied that draws blood to it There is redness hardness heat and beating If it turns to an Imposthume and breaks The Prognostick The Cure the guts come forth and the child usually dies First abate pain Take Mallows boyled and stampt two ounces Barley-meal half an ounce Lupines Foenugreek each two drams with Oyl of Roses make a Cataplasm To repel Blood Take Frankincense a dram Acacia Fleabane-seed each half a dram with the white of an Egg make a Cataplasm Hinder Suppuration as much as may be but if it doth suppurate Take Turpentine half an ounce the yolk of an Egg and Oyl of Roses two ounces Chap. 27. Of Falling out of the Fundament WHen the muscle that shuts the Arse-hole is loose the Fundament comes forth the cause is moisture of the muscles after a flux or straining at stool in Tenesmus or Needing or when the belly is bound The people will tell you the causes The Signs and you may see it The Prognostick It is easily cured when it is from straining at stool if it have not been long out If it be from great store of moisture it is hard to be cured especially if there be a loosness of the belly for then Medicines cannot lie on The Cure First put it up if it be swollen foment it with the decoction of Mallows

The Cure first see if there be Inflammation and then abate pain As Take Oyl of Linseed and Roses each an ounce Oyl of Eggs half an ounce mix them in a Leaden Mortar Or Take Pellitory Mallows Althaea each half a handful Chamomil-flowers two pugils Linseed and Foenugreek each half an ounce Boil them to a pint add Oyl of Roses three ounces inject it with a Syringe If there be no Inflamation use Driers and Repellers as Vervain Ivy Acacia Pomegranate-peels and flowers for Baths and Fomentations and after add Discussers as Chamomil and Thyme If it be old and hard first soften it with the same and after thrice using them use Digesters and Driers that are strong as a Powder Take round Birthwort a dram Savin Hermodactils burnt each two drams burnt Allum two drams red Lead a dram Calcitis half a dram sprinkle it upon the loofe flesh Or Take Aloes Frankincense Mirrh each a dram Ammoniacum dissolved in Vinegar a dram and half Allum two drams red Lead two drams Galls half a dram Turpentine Oyl of Tartar each a dram with Oyl of Roses and Wax make an Oyntment This is very strong Take Turpentine an ounce Oyl of Nutmegs two ounces read Lead two drams Allum Vitriol each a dram Verdegreece half a dram Sublimate a scruple with Wax make an Oyntment or of Balsom of Mercury Tetrab 4. serm l. c. 3. If Medicines will not do the Ancients advise Burning of which see Aetius Chap. 7. Of Warts in the Neck of the Privities of the Womb. THey are from a gross feculent and malignant humor sent to the skin turned to a Node The Signs They are known by their shape the malignant are known by their hardness and heat and blewness filth and pain The Prognostick They are often hard to be cured because the pox is with them and they are in a place to which Medicines are hard to be applied and to continue The Myrmeciae are not cut off but they leave a great ulcer the Thymi and Clavi grow again Acrochordones once cut leave no root After Universals and order of diet The Cure either use Medicines or cut or burn them to discuss then use Sage dried with Figs Organ Rue burnt dry Savin Frankincense with Wine and Vinegar or Snakes skins with Figs these also dry These corrode eat and burn as juyce of wild Cowcumbers with Salt Milk of Figgs Sheeps-dung Goats-gall with Niter Aqua fortis Spirit of Vitriol Sulphur Butter of Antimony Take heed that you hurt not the parts adjacent but defend them with Bole sealed Earth rose-Rose-water and Vinegar if you put the Corrosives into Nut-shells change them twice or thrice in a day and wash the part with a cleansing Decoction and then cut or burn Chap. 7. Of the Haemorrhoids of the Womb. THe veins that end in the neck of the womb often swell like the Haemorrhoids it is from gross blood that comes to these veins out of the time of the terms Inordinate flux of terms may occasion it The Causes when they flow out of the usual time they grow thick and cannot get out of the veins but swell them They are to be touched The Signs and with a Speculum matricis to be seen There is pain and bleeding without order she is pale and lazy The Cure Correct the blood purge and bleed in the arm to derive and revel of which in the diseases of the womb If pain be abate it by sitting in a Decoction of Mallows Althaea Chamomel Melilot flowers Moulin Linseed Foenugreek of which also make Fomentations and Oyntments with Butter Populeon and Opium if there be pain Take Populeon Oyl of Roses and sweet Almonds fresh Butter each half an ounce Saffron a scruple with the yelk of an Egg make an Oyntment Or Take Mucilage of Quinces Althaea each half an ounce Oyl of Roses and Hens-grease each a dram the yelk of an Egg and Saffron half a dram mix them in a Leaden Mortar If pain be gone or abated and they bleed not use Dryers of Bole Earth of Lemnos Acacia Ceruss froath of Silver Lead burnt and washed long Birthwort Allum Verdigreece If they swell with blood evaporate it or foment with the Decoction of Mallows Althaea Pellitory Chamomil-flowers Moulin Melilot seeds of Line and Foenugreek If they do not good open them by Fig-leaves rub'd upon them or by Horsleeches of which Chap. 2. If there be proud flesh take it off as is shewed If they bleed gently let Nature alone to the work for it is good and frees from other diseases If the flux be great and abate the strength open a vein in the arm divers times and do as in overflowing of the Terms Question How do the Haemorrhoids differ from the Terms flowing or stopt Mercurialis saith That though a flux of Terms be immoderate yet it hath its periods and is without pain and makes not the body lean but it is contrary in the Haemorrhoids But this is not true for the body is not made lean alwaies by the Haemorrhoids nor do the Courses keep their periods alwaies Besides the pain which is almost alwaies in the Haemorrhoids they differ in that the terms flow from the veins of the womb and its neck but the Haemorrhoids are when the blood flows too much to the veins that nourish the privities and sticks or is evacuated Chap. 8. Of Ulcers in the Neck of the Womb. THey are seldome cured in the body of the womb and they are simple and clean or sordid and malignant Are a flux of sharp humors that lasts long in the Pox and Gonorrhaea Corrupt after-births The Causes and courses after child-bearing detained inflammations turned to imposthumes these are the internal The external are sharp Medicines hard travel a great child taken out by force violent lechery wounds falls strokes Are pain and constant biting that increaseth The Signs especially in copulation or when Wine or Hydromel is injected You may also see it with a Speculum also there is matter gentle or filthy if the ulcer go towards the bladder they piss hot and often there is pain in the roots of the eyes to the hands and fingers fainting and a little Feaver sometimes The external Causes are to be related by the Patient If it be from the Pox or Gonorrhoea the signs of them will appear of which Hippocrates They are hard to be cured because they are in a part fit to receive humors soft and moist and that hath consent with many parts Hence are divers Symptoms the great old and foul are worst when they corrode and are hollow they are seldome cured they that may easily have Medicines applied to them are easiest cured The Cure First stop the flux of humors to the part if it be either from the whole body or any part And amend the distemper of the womb that it may neither breed nor receive bad humors If the French Pox be with it resist that first If there

be pain first abate that with Milk steeled or with three whites of Eggs and Mucilage of Fleabane or an Emulsion of Poppy seeds Or Take Althaea roots an ounce Dill seed two drams Barley a pugil Faenugreek and Linseed each an ounce Fleabane and Poppy-seed each half an ounce boyl them in Milk Of which in pain of the womb In a foul ulcer first use Clensers as Whey Barley-water Honey Wormwood Smallage Orobus Orris Birthwort Mirrh Turpentine Allum As Take new Milk boyled a pint Honey half a pint Orris powder half an ounce Use it hot often every day When that which was injected is voided wash with the Decoction of Mallows and put up this Pessary Take Eruum and Lentils in powder and Orris each two drams with Honey Or Take Diapompholigos with Frankincense Mastick Mirrh as the Ulcer requires Of such Fumes As Take Frankincense Mastich Mirrh Storax calamite Gum of Juniper Labdanum each an ounce make a powder or Troches with Turpentine If there be suspition of the French Pox add a little Cinnabar In a very foul ulcer and Aegyptiacum or Apostolorum or a little Spirit of Wine In a creeping corroding ulcer with Cleansers mix cold drying and astringent Medicines allum-Allum-water Plantane and Rose-water with Pomegranate-flowers boiled and Pomegranate-peels and Cypress-nuts is also good and with Aloes After cleansing fill it with flesh and heal it up As Take Tutty washed half an ounce Litharge Ceruss Sarcocol each two drams with Oyl of Roses and Wax make an Oyntment Or smoke the Privities with Mirrh Frankincense Gum or Juniper Labdanum two drams in powder with Turpentine make Troches Or use Sulphur or Allum Baths and Plaisters Inwardly give vulnerary Potions As Take Agrimony Burnet Plantane Knot-grass each two pugils China three drams Coriander-seed half a dram Currans half an ounce boil them in Hen-broath give it twice a day Or give Turpentine and Sugar for a month or a dram of Pills of Bdellium often If the body consume give Asses milk with Conserve of Roses for a month Chap. 9. Of Clefts in the Neck of the Womb. THese are long Ulcers that are small like those in the hands and feet in Winter they eat off the skin are sometimes deep with hard lips if old sometimes they are dry or sometimes bleed The Causes They come from hard travel when some parts in the neck of the womb are broken by a great Child or violent Copulation or flux of sharp humors that stick in the parts and corrode The Signs If it be new it is hidden sometimes and known in Copulation by pain and bleeding The Prognostick The Cure The new are easier cured then when they are old and callous If they come from hard travel make a Clyster of the Decoction of Roses Plantane Birth-wort Bole Sanguis Draconis Frankincense or with the white of an Egg a Pessary If from sharp humors after universaller Evacuations use Topicks that bind without biting if the Clefts be not callous as Oyl of Linseed and Roses with the yelk of an Egg and Juice of Plantain mixed in a Leaden Mortar Or Ung. Stpollonij apud Gal. Take Oyl of Roses eight ounces stir it in a leaden Mortar till it is black and thick then put in the powders of Litharge of Silver and Ceruss If they are callous make an Oyntment of Oyl of Lillies Marrow of a Deer Turpentine and Wax If they are malignant cure them as Fistulaes of which in the Chapter following If there be Itch and pain Take Diapompholigos Populeon each an ounce Sugar of Lead Camphire each a scruple make an Oyntment Let the Diet be moist of good Juice Chickens Veal Kid rear Eggs Mallows Bugloss Borage Abstain from sharp and salt meats Chap. 10. Of Fistulaes in the Neck of the Womb. MAny times there are Ulcers in these parts because they are soft and easily corroded and are hard to be cured Some of them are straight others crooked Some Simple others hollow If matter stay there The Causes it corrodes and makes burroughs and divides the parts and makes a Callus and when the matter is divided the parts divided cannot unite It is known by the figure of the ulcer The Signs there is a callous Lip and a thin evil matter when it is pressed flows out there is no pain except it reach a sensible part Sometimes it reacheth the Bladder and then the urin comes forth at the Fistula Sometimes the Fundament and then the dung appears in the Fistula A new Fistula is easier cured than an old The Prognostick and a straight than a crooked It is scarce to be cured in a Chachochimical old body when it pierceth into the parts adjacent First use Universals and good Diet The Cure then see if it may be cured by Medicines or better left to Nature to evacuate Excrements thereby If the last is best use a pallative Cure by often purging and sweating twice in a year and Injunctions and Strengtheners and lay up a Plaister of Diapalma If you hope for a Cure after universals give drying vulnerary Drinks of male Fern roots Centaury Agrimony Bettony Ladies-mantle c. Then use Topicks first dilate the Orifice if it be strait with a Spunge or Gentian roots then consume the Callus but first make it soft with Oyl of Lillies Deers Marrow Turpentine and Wax Three things consume a Callus Medicines Cutting and Burning there in a new strait Fistula use Gentian black Hellebore Aegyptiacum or Vigo's powder with a pencil Or Take Sublimate half a scruple Rose or Plantane-water fix ounces set it upon Embers If it be towards the Womb take heed of strong Medicines If it be callous and foul burn it either by a Caustick or hot Iron These are good in the outward of the Neck then cleanse and heal Chap. 11. Of a Cancer in the Womb. IT is seldom seen and never cured but here I shall speak of that in the neck of the Womb which is ulcerated or not ulcerated The Causes It is from terms burnt and hot burnt humors that are black that flow thither It is after long scirrhous tumors that have been immoderately softned It is first not ulcerated and when the humors are more corrupt it is ulcerated The Signs They are hard to be known at first because it is a tumor without pain after there is a pricking in it and a pain in the Groins Loins and bottom of the Belly The tumor is hard blew with blew stinking Lips When it is ulcerated the Symptoms are all worse and there is a thin black stinking matter Sometimes much blood that is dangerous a gentle Feaver Loathing trouble of Mind the Cheeks are red from the vapors that flie up from the womb It is hard to be cured The Prognostick because mild Medicines are not felt and strong exasperate and the part makes it more hard because it is neglected at the first and increaseth Let the Physitian prevent ulceration The Cure

make a Pessary The stronger are of the Decoction of wild Cowcumber Coloquintida Staphisacre Hellebore Honey and gall of an Ox. Fumes are made of Cassia lignea Nard Mugwort Savin Penny-royal Dittany Or Take Myrrh Castor Galbanum each half a dram Opopanax Cinnamon each a dram with Honey make Troches for to be burnt Then foment the Belly with the Decoction of those Plants Or Take Lupine-meal an ounce powder of Wormwood half an ounce Mirrh Rue each three drams with Ox-gall and Honey make a Cataplasm If it come not forth give a Womb-clyster of the Decoction of Sage Mugwort Mercury Calamints Penny-royal If all fail inject things to suppurate into the womb and let it be turned to matter and come out by degrees and inject strengtheners into the womb Of the Mole left after Child-bearing You may know it by the signs of a Mole mentioned she hath no ease after travel there is pain in the navel back and groyns and much clotted blood comes away and yet she hath no ease the Cure is mentioned before in the Mole Chap. 3. Of the Purgation after Child-bearing diminished or detained THis is not alike in all women for in some women the blood is fresh in others it is waterish cholerick or melancholick And some bleed more then others according to the constitution and Countrey It is either not at all or too much or too little The Causes When they are stopt or lessened the vessels are too strait or the blood flows another way or it is too thick or the vessels of the womb are pressed from its position the blood is drawn away by passions fears or goes hastily to the breasts The Signs The just quantity is not to be defined when it is stopt the belly swells the pain is in the bottom of the belly and groyns there is chilness and a Feaver after it fainting weak swift unequal pulse there is soot in the urin Sometimes the belly inflamed or she voids blew or black clodds or blood The Prognostick Gal. 1. epid com 3. t. 21. The Cure It is bad of it self to have any thing left after Child-bearing and worse if it staies long and grows melancholick therefore it is a cause of many diseases First endeavor to evacuate the blood from the womb by Frictions Ligatures and Cupping if they will not do open a vein in the foot Then open the passages with external and internal meats anoint the Belly with loosning Oyls or foment thus Take Lilly-roots Birthwort Briony Angelica each half an ounce Mercury Mugwort Penny-royal Savin Calamints each a handful Tansey Chamomil and Elder-flowers each half a handful Faenugreek and Linseed each two drams bruise them grosly and put them in a bag and boyl them in Water and Wine lay it to the Privities and bottom of the Belly Give emollient Clysters and if some dayes are past purge with Agarick Rhubarb Senna Or Take Lilly-roots Althaea each half an ounce Birthworts two drams Pellitory Mercury Althaea each a handful Calamints Chamomil Elder-flowers each two pugils Foenugreek and Linseed each two drams boyl them to ten ounces strained add Oyl of Dill Lillies each an ounce Hiera simple half an ounce Oyntment of Sowbread three drams make a Clyster Or give Pessaries that provoke the Terms Give things to melt and attenuate the blood As Take opening Roots three drams Bettony Maiden-hair Endive Schoenanth each two pugils Anise Fennel-seed each a scruple red Pease a spoonful boyl them to a pint and half add Cinnamon-water two drams syrup of the five Roots three ounces give four ounces Chap. 4. Of too great a flux of blood after Child-bearing THat is too much which makes weak It is blood abounding which hath been gathered nine months in the womb The Causes It is thick or spends the Spirits and weakens The Signs There is loathing of meat pain the Hypochondria belly-ach weak and often pulse dark sight noise in the ears fainting and Convulsion It is dangerous when long The Prognostick Hippoc. 9. aphor 55. The Cure and with fainting and Convulsion Therefore observe the Pulse lest she dye suddenly See what strength she hath and stop it not suddenly If it be not very great order a dyet of roasted Hens basted with red Wine or Pomegranate of Starch Almonds Rice Quinces Conserve of Roses steeled Water and make Revulsions use gentle things and strengthen the loose passages Anoint the belly with Oyl of Roses Mirtles cup under the breasts and sides without scarrification Apply a Cataplasm of red Roses Bole and Rose-water to the Liver Then use stronger and give a higher diet often in small quantity and give Syrups to stop blood As Take old Conserve of Roses two ounces of Tormentil an ounce of Quinces without species half an ounce Bole red Coral each half a dram with syrup of Currans and Coral make an Electuary Anoint the belly with the Oyntment of the Countess and other Astringents or use Astringent Fomentations or let her take into the womb a Fume of Mastich Frankincense red Roses c. Then open a vein in the arm and let blood by degrees See Sect. 2. Chap. 6. Of Overflowing of the Terms Chap. 5. Of the pains after Travel and torments in the Belly THese are not in the body and bottom of the womb but in the vessels and membranes by which the womb hangs and that goes to the sides and belly The Causes They are from a constant labour in travel when the bottom of the womb is pricked to send forth from cold air let into it or clotted blood detained or sharp blood sticking to the womb and pricking it The Signs They are in the womb it self you may know if they came from cold by what hath been done and clotted blood will manifest it self The Prognostick The Cure They weaken much and are very troublesome therefore they must be abated First take away the cause or abate the pain and make that which hurts the womb fit to be evacuated by these Pills Take Cinnamon a dram Saffron a scruple Diacymini Diagalangal Zedoary each half a dram make a Powder give a dram in Penny-royal or Cinnamon-water Or Take of Cummin-seed steept in Spirit of Wine and dried again a dram Ameos-seed and Ginger each half a dram Cinnamon a scruple Castor half a scruple make a Powder If she faint add Cordial Waters As Take Diacyminum a dram Diamargariton frigid Citron-peels Zedoary each half a dram make a Powder If she be cholerick or the humor thin and sharp cure it as a Cholick from Choler As Take Syrup of Violets Borage each an ounce Mucilage of Quince-seeds made with Violet-water half an ounce water of Borage Scorzonera each two ounces give it at twice Extenuate the humors and loosen the passages outwardly Take Bean-flour Faenugreek and Linseed each an ounce Chamomil-flowers and Cummin-seeds each half an ounce boyl them in Oyl of Lillies for a Cataplasm You may fume the womb with Decoctions of Herbs Chap.

a dram Tutty a dram and half Butter washed with Rose-water an ounce Or Take juyce of Beets Celandine each an ounce Hogs-grease two ounces Sulphur a dram Or Take Ceruss Litharge each two drams Pomegranate-flowers and Agarick each a dram with Oyl of Roses and Vinegar make an Oyntment or wash with Soap and then with the Decoction When the skull is bare use Honey of Roses and Spirit of Wine and after round Birthwort and Balsom of Peru and Turpentine with tobacco-Tobacco-water Chap. 4. Of a Scald Head IF Achores or Favi last long or are ill cured they turn to a Scald which is a scabby Ulcer that corrodes the skin and stinks it is called Tinea or Moth which eats Garments as this doth the flesh Achores are moist ulcers in the head and body Tinea is a dry ulcer in the head only The immediate cause is a salt and sharp humor melancholick from the mothers blood The Causes or bad milk it infecteth others by the clouts or caps Some are like a bran or scurfe with scales The Differences some are slimy and when the scab is off there appears red quick knobs of flesh like the insides of figs some are malignant some not some new some old There are dry scabs in the head The Signs yellow or ash coloured that run little and that which is voided stinketh It is hard to be cured If it be new The Prognostick or the matter yellow or the like it is easier An old Scald ash-coloured and black is stubborn after cure the hair will scarce grow there again because the skin is so hard if it will not grow red after rubbing there is no hopes of hair coming again First The Cure Take off the Scab with cleansers a little sharp and because the humors make the skin dry and thick moisten with Hogs-grease upon Beet or Colewort-leaves Or Take juyce of Fumitory Coleworts Docks Elicampane each an ounce and half Litharge half an ounce with Hoggs-grease Oyl of Rue and Wax make a soft Oyntment When the Child is of age and strong make first universal evacuation with Senna Rhubarb Agarick then take off the Scab with Sulphur two drams Mustard half a dram Stavisacre Briony-roots each a dram Vinegar an ounce Turpentine half an ounce and Bears-grease Or beat Water-cresses with Hogs-grease and apply it the scab will fall off in twenty four hours continue it After the scab is off pull the hair out by the roots with instruments or medicines commonly they use a pitched cap and pull it off violently which bring away the hair Or Take Starch or Wheat-flour two ounces Rosin half an ounce boyl it in water for a Pultis lay it upon the several Scalds and let it stick some days then pluck it off suddenly Then use Emollients that correct the dry distemper Also use things to take the Excrements out that lye deep in the skin As Take Roots of Althaea Docks Lillies each an ounce Mallows Fumitory Sage each two handfuls boyl them in Lye add Vinegar wash the head with it every day Then Take Ostratium Sulphur each half an ounce Oyl of Eggs an ounce with Hogs-grease After that Take Briony and Dock-roots and Elicampane-roots each an ounce Fumitory Celandine Scabious each two handfuls Chamomil and Balm each a handful boyl them in Lye and wash the Head twice a day therewith or foment it then rub the head wiph a course cloth or with Oyl of Staves-acre or of Radish till it grow red to draw out the bad humors that lye deep Then use Tarr and Wax for a Cerot Or Take Salt-peter an ounce Oxymel an ounce and half Or Take quick Brimstone an ounce white Hellebore Staves-acre each two drams with Hogs-grease It is not safe to use Arsenick or Orpiment or Mercury or other poysons that corrode because it is so near the brain Chap. 5. Of Ptiriasis or breeding of Lice LIce are Creatures which breed in cloths that are constantly worn but they are chiefly in children from the excrements of the head All say That filth and nastiness alone is the cause of Lice but I think not for filth alone cannot do it without heat for besides the first qualities there is a hidden force in the matter by which it is disposed to produce a particular species for Fleas and Worms will not breed of that matter which breeds Lice so it is in Plants Heat is the helping cause which raiseth the seminal force and brings it into act and though the matter be putrid it doth not work upon it but as it is somewhat natural Excrements are not presently putrid but there is in them a heat that can raise forming force and though there is some putrefaction yet is it not so great as to hinder the action hence it is that children and women that are hot and moist have many excrements that are fit to breed Lice Gal. oriba Ausc Some meats breed Lice as Figs by their fat juyce which doth naturally tend to the skin and varieties of meats and not cleansing nor combeing The place where Lice breed in children is the skin of the head where they stick fast with the hair especialy if there be scabs The Signs are needless they are manifest The Signs The Prognostick It is a filthy troublesome disease many have them breed all over the Body and some have died by them Sometimes the Lice leave them when they are about to die To prevent breeding Lice let children eat no food of evil juyce especially Figgs let the head be often combed and washed and the matter purged that breeds them with hot dry thin medicines that draw the matter out and consume superfluous moisture The Cure Take heed of Mercury and Arsnick in children but make this Lotion Take round Birthwort Lupines Pine and Cypress-leaves each equal parts boyl them Or Take Elicampane-roots two ounces Briony half an ounce Beets Mercury Soap-wort each a handful Lupines a dram Niter half an ounce boyl them for a Lotion then use this Oyntment Take Powder of Staphisacre three drams of Lupines half an ounce Agarick two drams quick Sulphur a dram and half Ox-gall half an ounce with Oyl of Wormwood there are stronger as white Hellebore and Mercury which are not safe Chap. 6. Hydrocephalus or Swelling of the Head WE spake of this in the water without the Skull Hydrocephalus is from water gathered within the Skull or in the Ventricles of the Brain as when the Childs head in the Womb hangs down or when the Brain is very moist The Signs A tumor from water contained in the brain is less and harder then when it is out of the skull The Prognostick The Cure It is harder to be cured then when it is gathered without the skull and is often deadly They are many medicines mentioned that are good here to be used outwardly and to the nose and ears As Take Snails in their shells thirty Marjoram Mugwort each a handful stampt