their shape the malignant are known by their hardness and heat and blewness filâh and pain 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 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 Rosewater and Vinegar if you put the Corrosives into Nut-shells change them twice or thrice in a day and wash the part with a clensing 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 swel 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 when tâây slow out of the usual time they grow thick and cannot get out of the veins but swel them They are to be touched and with a Speculum matricis to be seen There is pain and bleeding without order she is pale and lazy 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 Chamomil Mâlilot flowers Moulin Lineseed 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 sâââple with the yolk of an Egg make an Oyntment Or Take Muâilage of Quinces Althaea eaâh half an ounce Oyl of Roses and Hens greâse each a dram the yolk of an Eg 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 âoment with the Decoction of Mallows Althaea Pellitory Chamomil flowers Moulin Melilot seeds of Line and Foenugreâk 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 oât as is shewed If they bleed gently lât Nature alone to the work for it is good and ârees from other diseases If the flux be gâeat and abate the strength open a vein in the arm divers times and do as in over slowing of the terms Question How do the Haemorrhoids differ from the Terms flowing or stopt Mercurialis saith That though a flux of terms be immodârate 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 alwaiâs 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 there either 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 âordid and malignant Are a flux of sharp humors that lasts long in the Pox and Gonorrhaea Corrupt afterbirths and courses after childâearing detained inflammations turned to imposthuiâesâ these are the internal The external are sharp Medicines hard travail a reat child taken out by âorce violent leâhery wounds falls strokes Are pain and constant biting that increaseth ââââcially in coâulation or when Wine or Hydrâmel is injected You may also see it with a Speculum also there is matter gentle or âilthy 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 âever somtimes The external Causes are to be related by the patient If it be from the pox or Gonorrhaea 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 easieât cured 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 Lineseed 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 pouder 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 pouder and Orris each two drams with Honey Or Take Diapompholigos with Frankincense Mastich Mirrh Aloes as the ulcer requires Or use Fumes As Take Frankincense Mastich Mirrh Storax Calamite Gum of Juniper Labdanum each an ounce make a Pouder or Troches with Turpentine If there be suspicion 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 clenâers mix cold drying and astringent Medicines Allum water Plantane and rose-Rose-water with Pomegranate flowers boyled and Pomegranate peels and Cypress-nuts is also good and with Aloes After clensing 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 smoak the privities with Mirrh Frankincense Gum or Juniper Labdanum two drams in pouder with Turpentine make Troches Or use Sulphur or Allum Baths and Plaisters
receiving pleasure in the time of copulaâion when they spend their âeed The terâs are fleâmatick thiâk and ââimâ and flow not righâlyâ there is wind in the womb the seed is crude waterishâ with a Gonorâhaea It is the cause of obstructions and barrenness and is hard to be cured Use things proper to heal the womb as this Wâteâ Tâke Galangaâ Ciânamonâ Nutmeg Mace Cloves each twâ ãâã Gingâr Cubebâ Zedoary âardamoâs eâch ân ounce grains of Paradise long Pâpper each half an ounce beat them and put them iâ six quârtâ of âine for eiâht daies then add Saâe Minâs Balm Motherwârt eacâ three handfâls lât them stand âight daies more then pour âff the âine and beât the herbs and the Spiâes and thân pour on the Wineâ and distil them Another Take Cinnamon Nutmegs Clâvâs Mace Gingerâ Cubebâ Cardamomsâ grains of Pâradise âach an ounâe and halâ Galânâal six drams long âepper haâf an ounâe Zedoary five drams bruise them and add six quarts of Wine put them in a Cellar nine daiâs daily stirring them then add Mints two hândâuls then let them stand fourteen daies pour off the Wine and bruisâ them and then pour on the Wine againâ and distil them Querceâan hath an Hâsterick Exâract a âreater and a less use outwardly Fomentations Bathsâ Baggs of hot Roots as Birthwort Lovage Valeâian Angelica Burnet Mâsterwort Calamus Mâdder Elicampane Orâis and Herbs as Mugwort Balm Motherwort Savin Pennyroyal Calamints Organ Dittany Maâjoram Rue Bettony Rosemary Lâvender Sage Stoechasâlowers Seeds of Smallage Parsley Rueâ Carrots Anise Fennel Cummin Lovage Parsley Anoint with Oyl oâ Lillieââ Rueâ Aâgelica Bays Cinnamon Cloves Mâce Nutmeg Or Take Labdaââm twâ ounces Frankinceâse Mastich âiquid Storax âach half an ounââ Oyl of Cloves Nuâmegs each halâ a scruple Oâl of Lillies Rue âach an ounce with Wax make a Plaister A Fâme Take Frânkincense Mirrh Mastich âach a dram Bayberries a dram and half Labdaâum two dramsâ Sâârax Clovesâ eacâ a dram Gum Arâbick and Wine make Troches or Pessaries of âhe same Let the diet be warming and the air the meat âf easie concoâtion seasoned with Anise Fenâel Thyme Avoid Milk-meats and raw fruits Chap. 4. Of the moist Distemper of the Womb. THis is âommoâly joâned with a coâd distemper aâd causeth bârrenness aâd ãâ¦ã the same causes as a cold distemper for commonly cold things do moisten It is commonly in women âhat are idle They that have moist wombs abound in courses but they are waterish and thin the privities are wet they have the Whites and desire not copulation much and delight not in it they retâin not the seed and if they conceive when the child is big they aborte or miscarry If it last long it is hard to be cured if it be much they conceive not It is by Dryers and things that cure the cold distemper are good againââ the moist because all Healers have a drying power Use sulphur Baths and in Injections beware of astâingents least the evil humors be stopâ and the disease iâcreased Chap. 5. Of the dry Distemper of the Womb. IN this the womb is hardened of it self it is fleshy and soft and moistned by blood foâ conception It is somtimes from the birth or old age when they are past childbearing if it be from drâing causes they are barren before they are old Diseases and Medicines dry the womb as inflammations feavers and when blood flows noâ to it nor goes to the bottom of it by reason ãâã the straitness of the veins or obstructions as iâ Viragoe's and such as never conceived and iâ they void any blood it is fâom the neck of thâ womb and not from the bottom They void little âeed and are âlow in Veneryâ the terms are few the mouth of the womb is dry and they are slender of a dry constitution their lower lip is alwaies chapt and blackish red This disâemper is hard to be cured in any part especially if it be old Use moistners as Borage Bugloss Mercury Mallows Althaea Violets sweet Almonds Pistâchaes Pine nuts Jujubes Dates Figs Raisons Of which are made Syrups Conserves Emulsions Candies c. Outward Remedies are made of the same adding Time Faenugreek seeds Lillies Branckurlin Pellitory c. Fomentations are made with Milk and after bathing anoynt the region of the womb and the belly to the privities with oyl of sweet Almonds Lilliâs Lineseed Jesamin fresh Butter Hens and Goose grease Let the Diet be moistning the Air moist the Meât fatning of much nourishment and small excâement let sleep be a little longer then usual great labour anger sadness fasting do hurt Chap. 6. Of compound distempers and first of cold and moist THere is seldom a simple distemper in the pârt and commonly there is matter which âeeds itâ it is usually cold and moist which gaâheâs excâements of that sort either in the wholâââdy or in the womb after the terms Are all things that breed cold and flegmatick humors in the whole body or the womb They conceive not and are of an ill habit of body the terms seldom flow right and they have somtimes the whites It is harder to cuâe then a simple distemper The cold humor is in fault therefore prepare it with syrup of Mugwort Mints Bettony Hysop with a decoction proper As Take Fennel roots an ounce Valerian Elicampane Masterwort each half an ounce Penny-royal Mugwort Motherwort Nep Marjoram each a handful Rosemary and Sage flowers each two pugils Siler Montane Fennel Aniseed Parsnep seed each a dram boyl them to ten ounces strained add Sugar syrup of Mugwort two or three ounces Cinnamon water half an ounce make a potion for three doses Then purge it with Agarick Mechoacan Turbith and if other humots be mixed with flegm add Senna and the like or use Pills de tribus Aloephanginae Mastich of Hiera with Agarick Sine quibus Or Take Agarick a dram and half Senna two drams infuse them in Mugwort water to three ounces strained add Diaphaenicon or Diacarthaemum twâ drams strain and add syrup of Mugwort half an ounce Cinnamon water half a dram After universal evacuations use Pessaries As Take Mercury bruise it and put it in a bag of white Silk anoynt it with Butter or Honey of Roses Or Take Benedicta laxativa three drams Agarick two drams Giâh seed a dram Pease meal six drams with juyce of Mercury make Pessaries in a Sarsnet Bag. Or Take Hiera a dram Agarick âalf a dram âdellium a dram with Honey make a Pessary or make it with pouder of Agarickâ and Troches of Coloquintida or give sweats of Cuajaâum China and Sarsa As Take Guajacum a pound and eighteen ounces inâaâe them in twelve pints of water twenty four hours âhen boyl them to the consumption of the third part âive six or eight ounces âot in the morning and leââer sweat Pour water to the reliques and boyl them to âhe consumption of the third
it be inflamed before the pain is about the ââbes and the urin is stopt If behind it is in the âoyns and the belly is bound If it be inflamed in the bottom the pain is towards the navel If it be from pure blood the Symptoms are less if from choler stronger the thiâst is more the watching greater if from melancholy all are worse If it be all over the womb it is dangerous and few escape it An Erysipelas in a woman with child is deadly because there is an abortion and the Mother dies the worse the Symptomes the greater is the danger And it is safer to discuss an inflammation then to ripen it if it turn to a Schirrus it is lasting and makes ãâã Dropsie If it be not after abortion or a flux of blood open a vein in the Arm or cup and scarifie the shoâlders Bleed nât in the foot least you draw blood more to the womb but afterwards to derive if it be from terms stopt you may Galen âaith You may divert the blood by bleeding in the arm or cupping the breasts and you maâ derive it by âpening the ankle-vein and cupping upon t e hips If there be cholerâ purge it with Syrup of Roses Manna Rhubarb Diacatholicon and use not strong movers of the terms Use Alteâers and Coolers as Juleps and Emulsions and provoke sleep and if there be dotage give Narcoticks Aâter Univârsals use Repellers and Aâodynes As Take Housleek Purslane Lettiââ Venus-navelâ Vine leaves each half a handful boyl them in wine add Barley meal two ounces Pomegranaâe fiowers two drams Bole a dram with Oyl of Roses âake a Pultis Or Take Diachylon simple twââunces jâyce of Venus-navel and Plantane each haâf an ounce Oyl of Roses an ounce Sugar of Lead a dram make an Oyntment in a leaden Mortar Make Injections of the same Herbs or of Milk and rose-Rosewater Or Take Plantane Venââ-naâel Lettice each a hanâful reâ Râses two pââilâ boyl and ad Oyl of Mirtles an ounce Rosâ-vinegar half an ounce make an Inââction Make Clysters of the sâme Plants in a small quantity least they oppress the woâb Tâke Alâhaea roots an ounce Mâllows Violets Lettice each a handful Nightshade half a handful Violets Roses each a pugil sweet Prânes ten Linseed half a dram boyl them in Barley watâr to six ounces ad Oyl of Roses three ounces make a Clysâer An anodyne Fomentation Take roots of Althaea Mallows and Viâlets each a handful red Roses Melilot Câamomil flowers each a pugil boyl them for a Fomentation Or use a Cataplasm of white Bread and Milk Iâ the progress disâuss As Take pouder of Althâea roots an ounce Chamomil and Meliâot ââowers eââh two drams Mugwârt half an ounce Barley and Bean flour âach an ounce boyl them in sharp wine add Hogs grease Oyl of Chamomil and Lilliââ ââch an âunce make a Caâaplasm If the inflammation turn to matter ripen it As Take poâder of Altha a râots Chamomil floâârs Mâlilâtâ Lineseed Faeâugreekâ each an ounce Figgs eight boyl them add yolkâ of âour Eggs and haââ a scruple of Saââron make a Pultis Aââer it is ripe break it by motion of the body coughing neâsing cupping or by Peââaries As Take âiggs an âunce Rue half a handâul boyl them ãâã ad Honey and Leaven each half an ounce Pigeons dung Orris roots each half a dram with wool make a Pessary Aâter it is broken the pain abates thân cleâse and heal the ulcer as in Sect. 1. c. 8. of an ulcer of the womb If it break about the bladder give an Emulsion of cold Seeds Whey and Syrup of Violets Let the diet be cool with Barley water warm Abstain from Wine to the deâlination of the disease let the belly still ãâã kept looâe Chap. 14. Of a Scirrhus and Cancer in the Womb. AN earthy matter left after an inflammation makâs a hard tumoâ called a Scirrhus and sâmtimes it is without an inflammation It is a pâoper Sâirrhus when there is neither sense nor pân it is impâoper when there is a little sense It is soâtimes as big as a mans head somtimes the whole womb is a Sâinhus sâmtimes onely pârt of it The immediate Cause is a thiâk earthâ huâor as nâtural melanââolyâ whân a thiâk humor is gathered in the womb there is a Scirrhus without inflammation aforegoing this iâ usual in melancholy women and such as are noâ clensed by their terms or have the Pica or green-sickness and are fifty years old Other humors somtimes breed a Scirrhus afteâ inflammation when cold astringents have been used disorderly for then the humor is fixed to the part and hardned The same may be from hot discussers which send forth the thin matter in an inflammation and fasten the thick The tumor is to be felt it yields not and is without pain the terms flow not at first or very little afterwards there is a great flux of blood If an inflamation went before and the part is heavy and burdened it is a sign of a Scirrhus She is unweeldy âloathful and you may know from what humor it is by the signs of the humors predominating in the body and the part pained will shew you in what place it is A Scirrhus easily turns to a Cancer And when the terms are stopt there is a Dropsie of the womb or belly It is easier cured in the neck then in the womb it self Moisten and heat the cold and dry humor with Borage Bugloss Fumitory Succory Epithymum Polypodâ Then purge with Polypody Senna black Hellebore and the like As Take roots of Althaea Lilliâs eâch two ounces Mallows Viâlâtâ Alâhaea Brankursine each a handâul Mugâort Calamints Chamomil flowers each half a handful âaeââgreek and Linâeâd each half an âunce bââl them âor a Fomentatiân or Bath or to a Catapâasm with Lineseeâ Faenugreek âa h an âuncâ Fiâs six Orris pâuder âwo drams Saââron half a dram Henâ grease and Oyl of sweet Aâmonds as much as is âit Or Take Bdellium Ammoniacum Galbanum each as much as you please beat them in a Mortar with Oyl de Been and Lillies add Mucilage of Faenugreek Lineseed Figgs make a Liniment or with wax a Plaister Or Take Oyl of Capars Lillies sweet Almonds Jesamine each an ounce fresh Butter Hens grease Goose grease each half an ounce Mucilage of Faenugreek Althaea and Oyntment of Althaea eaâh six drams Ammoniacum dissolved in wine an ounce with wax make an Oyntment Make Injections thus Take Bdellium dissolved in wine Oyl of sweet Almonds Lillies Chamomil each two ounces marrow of a Veal bone Hens grease each an ounce with the yolk of an Eg. In a bastard Scirrhus you may use healers and digesters better and Ammoniacum and hotter Fat 's Internal Medicines are steel c. of which in obstruction of the Womb and Scirrhus of the Spleen As for diet abstain from breeders of gross and slimy humors and from hot dryers Cancer of the Womb. What may be said of
or thrice rather then the arm once Therefore Galen commends Hippocrates that he opened a vein in the ankle in the Servant of Schimarg though she had a Plâthoryâ But in other diseasâs of the womb as inflamâation dropping or too many Terms it is good to open a vein in the arm The Saphena is opened by putting the foot in warm water before and after Question 3. At what time must a Vein be opened against the sââppage of the Terms Galen saith It must âe when Nature may be helped be the blood moved that is three or four daies before the usual time of their coming as if she had them alwaiâs in the ful of tâe Moon and they have been stopt some monthsâ bleed three or four dâies before the full to puâ nâture in mind of her duty and to make the blood run again Chap. 4. Of fewness of the Terms IT is when they flow less then they use or ought to âlow It is either from the blood or in the expulsive faculty in the passages As if blood âe little the Terms are few and slow if the retentive faculty is weak and the expulsive strong they come at due time but in small quantity If the Terms are slow the fault is in the quality of the blood being too thick Also straitness of the passages may be a cause for if they be not wide enough the blood cannot flow fâeely The patient will tell the disease but the cauâe of it is to be found in the Chapter aâoregoing Few Terms from little blood is not dangerous if they be stopt from thick blood there follow diseases as Erysipelas Scirrhus or Cancer See the Chapter aforegoing for the Cure and and if it be from thickness of blood it is often cured by a general Purge for the whole body Chap. 5. Of Dropping of the Terms THis is a flux and lasts long and there is pain The blood flows not conveniently at the due time and manner and the privities are alwaies wet as when the urin drops Are from the blood and the passages of it and the retentive faculty as when the blood is too thiâk and sharp which stir up Nature to let it out and because it stretcheth the membranes theâe is pain Also the weakness of the retentive faculty is a cause The women declare it but if it be from thick blood and sharp and strait passages there is a sââetching pain about the womb If it be from câudity of blood and weakness of the retentive âaculty the blood flows without pain and is not much âelt It is troublesom to women and if it last long âauseth ulcers and inflammations It is all in mending of the thick and sharp âlood and in opening the passages which are âhe two chief causes of it of which we spake at ârge If blood be superfluous loose it not nor open the ankle-vein lest you draw it more to the womb but take away the Cacochymy If it be from weakness of the retentive faculty strengthen the womb with dryers and ash ingents Chap. 6. Of the overflowin of the Terms IT is when it is too much or too long and hurâs any woman and brings diseases but a certain proportion of bleeding is not to be deâined but too much is lost when the actions are hurt The immediate Cause is the opening of the vessels and the mediate cause is the blood in quantity or quality offending or by its force or disorderly motion Vessels are opened by Anastomosis Diapedesis Diaeresis or ruption or by Diaurosis or coârosion Anastomosis is from a moist distemper of the vesselsâ which loosneth the orifices or from external causes as Baths hot and moist or usâ of Aloes The flux is seldom too great from a Diapedesis for it is but a sweating through Ruption is from plethory when the Terms have long been stopped and then break out and when the blooâ is hot by air baths c. The outward causes are falls strokes hard travel great burdens lifted Erosion is from sharp blood or humor or from Medicines that corrode as Pessaries long kept For this great flux is chiefly from the veins in the bottom of the womb The flux of blood is too great when the strength abateth and Cachexy âollows with paleness swollân feet and the blood that comes from the bottom of the womb is blacker and âlottedâ That from the neck is redder and thinner The signs of the causes If it be from muâlr blood there are signs of plethory and it easily âlotteth together If the blood be sharp and cholârick it is putreâied in the womb you shal know waterish blood by its colour and the signs of that humor abounding and if you dip a clout in it and dry it in the shade you may see it If the womb be too moist such causes went before If it be from breaking of veins they will tell you of violence If it be from corrosion it is little and slow somtimes pure somtimes âerous It weaânâth the whole body the liver and bowels there is swounding the Whites and paleness and Dropsie somtimes That which hath been longâ is hard to be cured and causeth death and in an old woman it is deadly If there be fulness abate the blood and keep it from flowing to the womb revel it râpâl cool and astringe it that it may not flow so faââ and then amend the blood If it is from plenty of blood open the Liver-vein in the right arm bleed little and often because it makes better revulsion and weakens not open the Salvatella if there be weakness and cup âhe Back and Breast aâainst the Liver beneath âhe papps where are veins from the womb cup âot beneath but in the shoulders or back and ârms with scarification but scaâiâie not under âhe breaâts Bind and rub the aââs and shouldeâs and temâer and thicken the sharp thin humors with Deââctiâns and Waters of Plantane Purslane Sorrelâ Knotgrass Shepherds-purse Pomegranate-Syrup and of dried Roses Sorrel Puâslane Coral Conserve of Roses Bole sealed Earth If it be urgent use Naâcoticks Syrup of Poppies Treacle Philonium Laudanum If it still continue it is fed with choler thereâ fore purge it with Syrup of Roses Manna Rhubarb Senna If it be fed with serous blood help the âeins that do not their duty and the Liver and sweat with China You must not provoke urin but use astringents As Take the juyce of Ass-dung Syrup of Mirâlâs each half an ounce Plantane water an ounce Give it her and let her not know what it is Decoctions Take Comfrey roots Tormenâil âach two drams Purslune Plantane each a handful boyl themâ add to six ounces Syrup of Curranâ Quinces Mirtles each six drams giveâ it at twice Or Take Syrup of Purslane juyce of Neââles each two ounces Purslane water four ounces Troches of Amber of sealed Earth each a dramâ Bloodstone half a dram give two spoonfuls every day
of the child that stretcheth the ligaments of the womb and parts adjacent if there be Plethory bleed If it be from weight of the child hold it up with swathing Bands about the neck 5. There is flux of blood at the womb nose oâ Haemorrhoids from plenty or from the weakness of the child that takes it not in or from evil humors in the blood that stir up Nature to send it forth Also the vessels of the womb may be broken or torn by motion fall cough or trouble of mind This is dangerous of which Hippocrates saith The child cannot be well if it be from blood only there is less danger so it âlows by the veins of the neck of the womb for it takes aâay Plethory or take not nourishment from the child If it be from the weakness of the child that draws it not abortion often follows or hard travel or she goes beyond her time If it slow by the inward veins of the womb there is moâe dangâr by the openness of the womb If it come fâom evil blood the danger is alike from Cacochymy which is like to fall upon both If thârâ be Plethory open a vein warily and use astringents As Take Pearls prepared a scruple ãâã Coral two sâruples Mace Nutmeg eaâh a dram Cinââmon halâ a dram make a Poâder or with Sugar Râuâs or give this Pouder in Broath Tâkâ red Coral a dram Pearl half a dram precious stonââ eaâh half a scruple red Sanders half a dram Boââ a dram sealed Earth Tormentil roots eâch two sâruples with Sugar of Roses and Manus Christi ãâã Pearl six drams make a Pouder You may strengthen the child at the navelâ Iâ there be Cacochymy alter the humoâs and if you may evacuate You may use Amulets in the hands and about the neck In flux of Haemorrhoids beware of the pain Let her dâink hot Wine with a roasted Nutmeg Chap. 6. Of the Symptomes that are in the last months FIrst the urin is stopt from suppression of thâ neâk of the bladder Let her then lie dâwnâ and let bladder be fomented with a Bag of Pâllitoây Parâley rootsâ Mâllows Lineseed and the like oâ use the Câtheter 2. The belly is bound from a hot dry liveââ when the child dââws all the moisture to it ãâã the guts Let her then use Moistâers ãâã Butter Mâllows Borage in Broaths or take Clysters in a small quantity 3 The veins appear in the hips and leggs aâ varicâns onâly then keep them from walkingâ and let thâiââeet be laid upon a stool 4. The lâggs swell from âerous blood but thiâ goes away with the aâterbirth and is the signs ãâã a female child but if she cannot walk foment âith a Lye made of Vine branches and Wine or with a Decoction of Organ Pennâroyal Chamomil Calamints Or Take Bean and Lupine flour each twââunces Tartar an ounce Pigeons dung half an âunce with âeeled water and juyce of Coleworts make a Pultis Râb and wash the feet with salt water in which Châmomiâ Organ and Dill were boâled 5. The skin of the belly is cleât with stretchâng after the fourth month therefore use loosning Limments to keep off deformity as marrow of Veal and Sheeps legs Oyl of sweet Almonds Hens grease 6. The water gathered in time of being with âhild between the membranes that hold the âhild comes forth too soon because the membranes are broken by leaping or a conâusion This makes difficult birth for that water was to moisten the parts Therefore let her keep a good diet and strengthen the âhild inwardly and outwardly Chap. 7. Of Weakness of the Child THis is either from weak seed or little nourishment or bad and causeth many diseases in the child To hinder abortion and death of the child know rightlâ the weakness as Hippocrates saith They that will abort have first breasts that âal away which iâ from want of nourishment in the common veiâs of the womb and breasts Hippâcrates âath a seâond signâ which is thisâ Iâ a Wâman with Child hath much milk flowing from her breast her Child is weak 3. If the terms flow often the nourishment is taken from the child 4. A mother often and long being sick shews that her child is weak because her blood is not good and the bad humors with the blood go to nourish the child which makes him sick 5. When the mother hath a flux of the belly the child is weak 6. WheÌ it begins to move and is scarce felt it is weak If it be from these causes take them away and strengthen the child first âeed the mother high with meats of good juyce and sweet Almonds steept in Honey Raisons Quinces outwardly thus Take Malmsey three pints dissolve it in oyl âf Nutmegâ by exprâssion half an ounce add pouder of Cloves Rue each half an ounce Rose Sage Marâoram Pennyâoyal water each a pint Aqua vitae three ounces Dip Spunges in it and apply them under the leât breast to the arm-pits hams pulses soles of the feet and when they dry wet them again Chap. 8. Of Crying in the Womb. CHildren have somtimes cryed in the womb as Fabricius saith in his Epistle to his Brother James Finâel and Wâinridiâk of Monsters writes thus In this City of Bressa a child was heard to cry in the womb three daies before the travel when he was a man he was misârable with poverty and disâasâs till he died Andreas Libaviââ writes the same and others Some saâ it portends evil to the Mother or Child or Countrey It is a vâice by the expulsion of the air thâouâh the âough arteây and some air may in the câvities from vapors or Spirits as in eggs when chickens pip in them And if the child have a rough artery lungs and breasts which are the organs of breathing âound and the child is strong there is no hinderance but it may utter a voice But somthing whatsoever it is must stir it to make this noise THE FOURTH BOOK THE THIRD PART THE SIXTH SECTION Of Symptoms that happen in Childbearing Chap. 1. Of Child-bearing in General WHEN the child can no longer be contained in so small a place being grown and requiring moâe nourishment it kiâks and bâeaks the membranes and Ligaments that hâld it and thâ womb by an expelling fâculty sends it forth with great strainingâ and this is called âravel It is either naturâl or not natural legitimaâe or illigitimate The natural is when the child âomes with the head forward and heels upwards with his hands and arms to his thighs and so the other parts easily follow then the Amnios is broken and the water that was laid up in time of being with child flows forth and moistens the passaâes then the child with more force breaks the Acetabula from which the Secundine is separated and the other membranes are broken and the blood flows into the cavity of the womb and the child gets out by the expulsive faculty with such force that
suck may use this Take Barley meal of Lentils Althaea roots Chamomil flowers and Mints each half an ounce Agnus castus seeds two sâruples boyl them in Wine ad a little Vinegar Oyl of Dill two ounces make a Cataplasme Chap. 3. Of Inflamation and Erysipelas of the Breasts SOmtimes the tumor in the Breast is inflamed from blood for though plenty of milk cauâe an inflammation blood is the immediate cause for milk as it corrupts and grows hot increaseth pain and so the blood staying in the fmal capillar veins being out of the vessels is hot putrid and inflamed There are other causes as strokesâ falls straitness of cloaths and other hurts of thâ Breasts A hard and red swelling shews inflammation with beating pain and a Feaver These inflammations are commonly withouâ danger but because the Breasts are so loose and have many kernels and little heat they turn to Cancers and Scirrhus If you fear a great flux of blood that will increase the inflammation let blood in a plethorick bâdy But if it come from stopping oâ thââârms or after flux first open the vein in thâ ankle and sâarifie the leggs then if need be âpen the arm If bad humors coming to the Breasts nourish the inflammation give a gentle Purge of Manna Senna and the like If the blood be too hot or mixt with hot humors that help the motion oâ the blood Use Alterers as Lettice Endive âurslane Plantane Waterlillies and the like Use Repellers after these but such as are weak and not too cold as a clout dipt in Water and Honey with Oyl of Roses applied to the breasts Orâ Take Lettice Purslane each a handful red Râsâs half a handful boyl them in Water add Viââgar two ounces make an Epithem Orâ Take Nightshâde Lettice each a handful bâyl them stamp them and ad Bârley meal two ounâs pouder of Chamomil flowers half an ounce Oxymâl Oyl of Roses each a dram make a Cataplasm When the beginning of the inflammation is past ad Discussers with your Repellers As Take white Bread crums Barley flour each an ounce and hâlâ Bean and Foenugreek flower each half an ounce pouder of red Roseâ and Chamomil flowers ââch two drams boyl them add Rose-vinegar an âunce Oyl of Roses and of Chamomil each an ounce make a Cataplasm At length use only Disâussers Aââ Take Bean ãâã and of Lupines and of Faenugreek and ãâã and pouder of Chamomil flowers each an ounce maâe a Cataplasm If the matter grow hard use Emollients and ãâã As Take Mallowâ a handful boyl ãâã till they are soft add pouder of Lineseed ãâã aââ Chamoâil flowers each an ounceâ boyl them ãâã add Oâl of Jâsamââe ân âunce maâe a ãâ¦ã Iâ it tend to Suppuration lay a Plaister of ãâ¦ã Or Take Mallows and Althaea each half a handfâl boyl them till they are sâât stamp them and ad pouder of Althaea roots two ounces pouder of Line and Faenugreek seeds each aâ ounce Leaven half an ounce ad Oyntment of Aâthaea two ounces make a Cataplasm When tâere is matter and the imposthumes breaks of its own accord it is well otherwise open it with a Lancet or some sharp Mediâine and let out the matter and then clense it thus Tâke Turpentine Honey of Roses each an ounce Mirrh a scruple The ulcer will be hard to be cured except you dry up the milk in the other Breast by reason of much blood that will flow thither to breed milk Question Whether the Inflammation of the Breasts be from blood alone or from milk alsoâ The inflammation and swelling in women in Child-bed upon their Breasts is from the aââlux of too much milk and it is with redness and pain and beating or pulsation and it is not only from blood for tumors as in other parts aâe seldom pure or unmixed but there are other humors with it Therefore it is certain that when blood is drawn by heat or pain or comes of iâ self to the Breasts and begins to corrupt the milk also may be corrupted Of the Erysipelas of the Breasts This Erysipelas is from fright or angâr and iâ turns presently to a Phlegmon and is cured as the inflammation of the Breast Lay no cold astringent Repellers or fât thingsâ but things that sweat as Harts-horn sealâd Earth Carduus must be given with Elâer waterâ to discuss the thin blood that causeth the inflammation Apply outwardly hot a Pledgât dipt in Elder-water Chap. 4. Of the Ocdema of the Breasts THis flegmatick tumor is in cachectick women that havâ the white Feaver it is cold and white and pits because the part is loose and spungie Are a loose tumor almost insensible of pain and the âinger laid on leaves a pit It is larger when the terms are at hand and abateth when they are past If it come from a Cachexy and a disease of the womb it is dangerous but it commonly ends by resolution or dissolved The Cure is by dry and hot means and if it is from a Cachexy or want of Terms they must first be removed then use Topicks that discuss and ââsolvâ and strengthen let them be but temperately hot least you discuss the thin and leave the thick which will cause a Scirrhus Make therefore Fomentations of a Lixivium of Vine and Colewort ashes and Sulphur or a Decoction of Hysop Sage Organ Chamomil-flowers Then anoint with Oyl of Chamomil Lillies Bayes Or Take Barley flour four ounâââ of Lineseeds Faenugreek Dill Chamomil floâââs each half an ounce Aâthaea rootâ an ounce with Oyl of Chamomil and Dill make a Cataplasm Chap. 5. Of the Scirrhus of the Breasts IT is a hard tumor without pain from melâncholy gathered in the veins that flows to the Breast or it is thick flegm dried Sometimes both humors are mixed together or more which makes a bastard Scirrhus And if burnt humors abound most it turns to a Cancer and if melancholy be most it is not a Scirrhus but a Cancer There are two signs of a true Scirrhus hardness and want of pain if it be fixed Iâ is somtimes white somtimes black or blew as the humor is If it be a bastard Scirrhus there is heat and pain and if they increase it turns to a Cancer and the veins grow blew about and begin to swell The bigger and the harder it is the more hard it is to be cured If hairs grow upon a Scirrhus it is incurable and it easily turns to a Cancer After Universals and the Cause is removed from the womb or the whole body let the containing cause be softned made thin and discussed But beware of two things First that the thin parts be not discussed by too hot medicines and the thick left for so it will be incurable and as hard as a stone Secondly that you âerment not the matter by moistning Emollients so that it turn to a Cancer The Ancients either used none or a dryâng or a moistning Mediâine only You
Then use Tarr and Wax for a Cerot Orâ Take Salâ-pâter an ounce Oxymel an ounce and half Or Take quick Brimstone an ounce whiââ Hâllebore Staphisacre each two drams with Hogs grease It is not safe to use Arsenick or Oâpiment or Mercury or other poysâns that corroâe because it is so neer the brain Chap. 5. Of Ptiriasis or breeding of Lice LIce are creatures which breed in clothes 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 so 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 wil 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 woâk upon it but as it is somwhat 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 Some meats breed lice as Figs by their fat juyce which doth naturally tend to the skin and varieties of meats and not clensing nor combeing The plâce where lice breed in children is the skin of the head where they stick fast with the hair especially if there be scabs The Signs are needless they are manifest It is a filthy troublesom disease many have them âreed all over the body and some have died by them Somtimes the lice leave them when they are about to die To prevent breeding lice let children eat no food of evil juyce especially Figs 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 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 pouder of Staphisacre three drams of Lupins half an ounce Agarick two drams quick Sâlphur a dram and half Ox gall half an ounce with âyl of Wormwood there are stronger as white Hellebore and Mecrury which are not safe Chap. 6. Of Hydrocephalus or swelling of the Head WE spake of this in the water wiâhout the Skull but Hydrocephalus is from watâr gathered within the skull or in the ventricleâ of the brain as when the childs head in the womb hangs down or when the brain is verâ moist A tumor from water contained in the brain is less and harder then when it is out of the skull It is harder to be cured then when it is gathered without the skull and is often deadly There 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 Mugwârt each a handful stamp add Camphire a scruple Saffron half a dram with Oyl of Chamomil make a Pultis Snuff this Water often Take Nutmeg Cloves Câbebs each â sâruple Calamus Frankincense bark each half â dram Marjoram water three ounces drop hot Oyls into the earâ If in twenty daies the water be not gone open the skull and let out the water by degrees and take heed of cold The tumor of wind in the skin of the head or membranes of the brain is seldom without water which breeds wind Use Discussers that make thin as Chamomil Rue Organ c. Chap. 7. Of Siriasis IT is from Aetius a diâease with a âeaver or an inflammation of the membraneâ and the brain so that there is a hollowness of the eyes and forhead It is from flegmatick blood that grows hot by putrefaction and so becomes like choler The remote causes are hot weather and milk full of wind from the evil diet of the Nurse Such milk will make the child drunk and cause this inflamation Heat of the forehead and hollowness there redness of face a âeaver driness no appetite watching The hollowness in the âore-part of the head is where the Sagital and Coronal âutures meet for there the bones are membranous and grow at last hard It is dangerous and counted deadly among women and as often as this bone oâ membrane âals there is a pit and the brain fals down they commonly die in three daies First give a Clyster of syrup of Roses or Violets then Coolers of the juyce and water of Lettice Gourds Melons or apply a Pumpion split in two But cool not the brain too much anoint with Oyl of Roses Or Take Oyl of Roses half an ounce Populeon an ounce the white of an Eg and of the Emulsion of cold Seeds drawn with Rose water two drams After the flux is stopt and the inflammation abated use Discussers As Take Oyl of Chamomil an ounce and half of Dill half an ounce with the yolk of an Eg. Let the Nurses diet be cooling or the milk be changed let it not be vexed Chap. 8. Of Frights in the Sleep HIppocrates saith this is often the cause is unclean vapors mixed with the animal spirits that disturbe them and present horrible objects to the fancy They arise from the depraved concoction of the stomach in full feeding children that eat more then they can digest These vapors ascend not onely by the weaâand but by the veins to the head It comes often from worâs also or corrupt humors that knaw the mouth oâ the stomach They groan in their sleepâ and twitch and bâing frighted out of sleep they cry their breath is hot and often sâinking âure it presenâly for iâ is the âore-runâer of an Epilepâââ Give good Milk and leâs thât the stomach be not over charged Let it not sleep presently after food but carry it about till it is in the bottom of the stomach Use Oyl of sweet Almonds or Honey of Roses two spoonfuls to clense the stomach Then strengthen it with Magistery of Coral or Conâection of Hyacinths with Milk Or Take Magistery of Coral a dram Diapleres a scruple with Sugar dissolved in Rose water an ounce mâke Rouâs Anoint the stomach with Oyl of Nard Wormwood Mints Mastich Nâtmegs If it be from a feaver look to that If from woâms I shal after speak of it Some hang Coral and Wolves teeth about the childs neck Chap. 9. Of great Watâhing A Child new born sleeps more then he wakes because his brain is very moist and he used to sleep in
it for two doses Or Take opâning Roots half an ounce Madder Burnââ eaâh three ounces Mugwort Bettony Germandâr Calamints âach a handful red Pease half a handfulâ flowers of Bugloss Dill each a pugil boyl and sweeten it with Sugar For flegmatick Bodies take the Decoction of Guajacum Saââaphras Dittahy for fifteen dââes without sweating Then evacuate with Agarick Mechoacan Turbith Scammony Coloquintida blaâk Hellebore As Take Agarick two drams infuse it in Mugwortââter two ounces Oâymel an ounce strain and the Eâtract of Michoacan a sâruple Or Take opâninâ Roots half an ounce Mugwort Bettony ââch ãâã pugils Senna ââlâ an âunce Agariâk two draââ ãâã and Aniâââd each a ââruââe ãâã haââ a dram Râsâmary flowers ãâã âugil inâââe ãâ¦ã thââe ounâââ anââaâf âd Sârup of Senna ân ãâã aââ halââ ãâã ãâã hâlâ a dram Or if they dâink Wiâe Tâke Tarââth ãâã ãâã eaâh twâ dâams Senna an ãâã aââ haââ Maiâââhair âalm Râsâmary eaââ two pugils Cinnamon Galangal each a dramâ hang them in Wine give six ounces with half an ounce of Manna Or Take Diaturbith with Râubarb half an ounce Mechoacan two drams Agarick a dram Diarrhodonâ Cinnamon each half a dram Steel prepared a dram with Raisons make an Electuaryâ give as much as a Wall nut Or give Pills of Agarick foetidae and so continue purging and âreparing if the matter be stubborn Or Take Agarick two drams Mader a dram with Syrup of Mugwort make Pills Or Take Aloes three drams de Tribus oâe dram with juyce of Savin make Pillsâ If the stomach is soul give a Vomit leât it gââ into the veins Then give provokers of the Terms which are hot and thin about the time they used to flow they are three degrees in strength and many soâtâ of Medicines are made of them A Pouder Take Cinnamon a dram Ambârâ sâruple Saffron half a scruple Or Take Trochu of Mirrh of Wallâflowers each a scruple Saffron five grains Or Take Castor Pennyroyal each a scruple with Wine or proper Waters Physical Wine Take Madder roots an ouncâ Orrâs half an ounce Balm Pennyroyal Mugwortâ Rosemary eâch a handful Wall-flowers half a pâgil Cinnamon an ounce Galangal half an ounââ with Wine give four ounces Or Take the Dâcâction of red Pease Or Take Smallage Fennel roots each half an ounce Mugwort Bettâny Pennyroyal Balm each a handful red Peââe half an handful Juniper-berries half aâ ounce ãâã all flowers a pugil boyl and sweeten it Oâ Take âen ounces of it with thrââ ounces of Mugwâââ for three doses Querââtan commends this Take Gromwelsâeds Anise Mâsletâ of the Oak each three drams Dittany a dram Saffron a sâruple âruiââ and keep them twenty four hours in Wine then boylâthem give fââr ounces for three daiâs together Or make the Womans âqua viââe Or Take Balm âttâny Pennyroyal Mââwort Nâp Motheâwort Dittany âach four handfuls Wine thirty pints distil them add three handfuls of each hârbs and distil them again and ad Fennel seed Calamus Cinnamon Cassia lignâa Cardamoms each half an ounce distil them again Or give Syrup of Calamintsâ Mugwort Or Take water of Pennyroyal Savin Calamints each four ounces Syrup of Mugwârt ââur ounces Cinnamon water an ounce give it at fâur times Rouls Take Extract of Savin a scruple of Angelica half a sâruple of Elicampane six grains Oyl of Cinnamon five drops of Cloves two drops with Sâgar dissolved in Balm waâer Or make an Electuary of Steel six ounces Cassia lignea Cinnamon each two drams Cloves a dram Raisons two ounces with Sugar dissolved in Mâgwort water Or Take Troches of Mirrh a dram Extract of Gentian and Savin each a scruple âastor half a ââruple make Pills give two scruples or give every third day pills of Hierâ Use outward Mediâines but pâovoke not sweat ây them Take Althaea and Lillâ roâts each two âunces ãâã an âunâe Mâllâwâ Mârâury Mâgwort ãâ¦ã Mâtherwort Calamintâ Pânnâroyal Mârââram Bayââââach tââ haâdâulâ flowers of ãâã âââânder Cheirâ each a âândful Faenugreâââ sââd an ouncâ Juniper anâ Bayberriâs each âalf a hanâââl bââl âhâm in Water ãâã wiâh âpââges And then anoint with this Take Oyl of Lillies an ounce oâ Lavender seeds stilled halâ a dram Calamints and Gith pouder each a dram Storax calamint a scruple To Virgins that must take no Pessaries give Fumes with the head defended they wil âpen the mouths of the vessels and cut thick humors As Take Mirrh Bdellium Storax each a dram Benzoin two scruples Gallia mosâhata ivet each half a scruple with liquid Storax make Troches Then use Clysters and Injections into the Womb with Purgers As Take Calaminâs Pennyroyal each a handful Gith seed Turbiâh each a dram Coloquintida half a dram boyl it in wine inject it into the womb If it be hot aâter it inject the Decoction of Mallows with Milk or Barley water And because the neck of the womb lies upon the strait gut give Clysters Take Lilly roots an ounce Orris Valerian âach half an ounce Mercury two handfuls Mugwort Savin each a handful Chamomil Lavender flowers each a pugil Caraway Gith seed each a dram boyl add Hiera and Beânedicta laxativa each half an ounce Oyl of Cheir two drams Electuary of Bayberries half an ounce If she be no Virgin put Mercury bruised in a Bag for a Pessary with Centaury flowers Or Garlick beaten with Oyl of Spike Begin still with the mildest as Mugwort Mercury Pennyroyal Marjoram Rue and then add Mucilages and Juyces to loosen the wombâ let âot Pessaries lie long least they cause a Feaver If it be from a tumor provoke not the Terms but loâk to the tumor Let diet be hot and attenuating of good juyce with Parsley Savory Rosemary Cloves Cinamon Little sleep and much exercise Question 1. Whether are the other Causes of stoppage of the Terms Some say the blood going to other parts is a cause but it is rather contrary and the suppression of Terms is cause of that âor the veins of the womb are large enough to evacuate blood Others say the strength of the womb is a cause which thiâkens the vessels that they receive no blood But the womb is made to receive it when it abounds Others accuse the strength which is to be denied but when it is so strong that it is too hot or too dry and will not receive the blood and that is a sign of weakness But there must be strength in the whole body to cast out superfluous blood or there will be other mischiefs Question 2. What Veins must be opened when the Terms are sâopt Authors disagree in this as Aetius and Galen who alwaies speaks of the ankle veins and most are of his mind being it is rational For a vein opened in the arm doth rather revel from the womb then draw the blood to it but in the ankle brings it to its place and opens obstructions and doth both lessen and bring blood to the womb and move that which is in the womb âixed Open the ankle therefore twice
A Water Take eight pinâs of Waâer âiâh Starch Barley meal and Rise dried Roses a handful juyce of Yarrow Plantane each half a pinâ Comfrey roots and all three ounces Horsâail Bloodwort each half a handful Pears and Quinces Pomegranate flowers all Sanders each half an ounce Masâich an ounce distil them and give twâ ounces with half an ounce of Syrup of Roses or Purslane Electuaâies Consârve of Rosâs two ounces Quinces an ounce and halfââroches of burnt Ivory arâ sealed Earth each a dram Crocus Martis Bâle red Coral prepared Mastich each half a dram wiââ Syrup of Mirâles make an Electuaryâ Poâders Take Mastich red Coral prepared âach a dramââearl Smaragâs prepared ãâ¦ã a sâruple Bloodstone half a sâruple Bâle hâlâ drâm make a Poâder Michael Paschal cured many with this Pouder Take two Egâshâllâ burnt Frankinceâse Mastich âach half an ounce Pearl red Coral and Amber âach two drams Bloodstone Smaragds prepareâ âââh half a sârâple Barley âlour twâ pugils whites of four Eggs with âiâelâd Water make Câkes Give from half a dram to a drâm in pouder with Trotter broath in the morning Or give every day a dram of the pouder of Mulberry tree roots Or Take a plump Turtle drawn and pluckt wash it in roseâRoseâwater and red Wine put an ounce of Mastich in the belly of it stick it on and roast it and bast it with Vinegar of Roses Then put it into a glass close luted to be dried in an oven then beat all of it to pouder Give a spoonful with Plantane water or an astringent Dâcoction Anoint the bottom of the belly âeins and groyns with the dropping of it Or make Rouls thus Take Bole half a dram Magistery of Coral a dram Pearl prepared a scrâple Sorrel and Plantane seed each half a dram Aromaticum rosatum Traganth each half a dram with Sugar dissolved in Plantane water make Rouls In the use of cold Asâringents take heed you sâop not the veins and the heat be cooled If these help not use Narcoticks aâ Troches of sealed Eaâth and Amber with Oâiâm these astringe also Uâe no Pessaries except the veins in the neck oâ the woâb be open As Take Snâkeweed Tormentil each half an ounce Pomegranate flowers Plantane seed each two drams Comfrey roots ãâ¦ã Frankincense Mastich each a dram Acâciâ Sanguis Draconis each two scruples Blood-stone Starch each a dram and half with the whiâe of an Eg and Gum traganth dissolved in Rose water make Pessaries with red Silk Womb-clysters Take juyce of Yarrow Solomons seal each two âunces Mucilage of Gum Arabick made in Plantane water two ounces make a Clyster A Fume Take Frankincense Mastich each two drams Mirtles Labdanum each a dram red Roses Pomegranate flowers each half a dram with Gum traganth make Troâhes to be burnt Oyntments Take Oyl of Mirtles Quinces each two ounces juyce of Plantane Solomons seal Horstail each an ounce boyl the juyces away ad Bole Plantane seed Mirtle berries Ceruss each half an ounce with Wax make an Oyntment Or use the Countesses Oyntment to the loyns and pecâen Cataplasms Take Quinces Pears boyled in red Wine add Bole Mastich Sanguis Draconis Acâcia make a Cataplasm or a Cerot Or Take Sorrâl and Plantane seed Purslane seed Bole Sanguis Draconis each two drams Frankincensâ Mastich Mirrh each three drams Turpentine an ounce wiâh juyce of Plantane and Yarrow and Wax make a Cerot after the juyces are boyled away Fomentations are better then Baths for they make the humors flow more Let them be astringent and cool Or wash the legs and hips in cold water Lay Epithems to the Liver Oyntments Cerots or Plaisters If choler offend give Rhubarb and Consârve of Roses to evacuate the Cacochymy If blood flow from a vein broken use Coral Bole Mirtles Comfrey Acacia Hypocistis or apply a Pultis of whites of Eggs and astringent Pouders If it come from a vessel corroded use stoppers and glutinaters that aâe slimy as Dropwort roots a dram with a rear Eg. Let the diet be as the Physick is In a flux from plethory eat little and that of little nourishment and in other cases give things to close the vessels Sleep long and use little Venery little or no exercise Anâer hurts and other passions Question Whether Frictions or Ligatures in the Legs may be made for Reâulsion Hippocrates and Galen are misconstrued in his 8. Book of Blood-letting and they are not to be used in the flux of the Terms Chap. 7. Of the Terms flowing with pain and Symptoms THe Symptomes are pain in the loyns or thighs head-ach biting at the mouth of the stomach pain in the belly and loyns fainting They are as in suppression of Terms but less vehement and are in them that have not conceived There is obstruction thick and gross blood that stretcheth the vessels and the blood flows not orderly A little before the Terms there is head-ach biting at the stomach pain in the loyns and bottom of the stomach with beating at the heart and âainting When the pain is from thick blood it comes forth in âlodds and the pain is worse beâore If it be from wind it is sudden and stâies not in a place and there is rumbling in the belly Take heed it tuân not to the stoppage of terms if it be neglected It is greater in barren women and Virgins then in those have had children Take away the cause if they be thick humors evacuate them after they are prepared if sharp temper them These attenuate blood water of Grass roots Maidenhair Decoctions of the opening Roots Syrup of Maidenhair oâ the five Roots Treacle and the like in the stoppage of the Terms Against pain âse the Fomentations and Oyntments in the Chapter of pain of the Womb. Chap. 8. Of evil discoloured Terms THis is called the Terms depraved by bad humoâs and so they are voided Blood is foul either from evil diet or evil humors or stoppage of it The humors are flegm choler or melancholy mixed with it and then the Teâms are either pale blew green or black and stinkingâ or white and flegmatick They are so from a fault in the stomach The pale and yelloâ are aâe from too great heat in the liver The blaâk arâ from the spleen disordered Thaâ blood which is naturalâ is different fâom the bâd in colour and substance it is like that âf a new ââain sheep noâ thiâker nor thinner and âhe âad Terms come noââeâsonably but soonââ or laterâ of which Hippocrates You may know by the colour what humor predominates and by the subâtance The flegmatick and melaâcholy are long in coming and the cholerick waterish Terms come qâicker The more they diââer from the natural sâate the worse they are black and stinking are worst The matteây are woâst of all If these flow seven eight or nine dâies she is cured if they ulcerate the womb she is barren Hippocrates saith they must be purgâd and prepared
better remedy Then temper and evacuate the humors if theâ be adust and there be madnessâ use strongââ Then have a Bath of Lettice Willow Water-lillies Vine-leaves Purslane Venus navel red Roses Violets Waterlillies Let her sit twice â day in it and not sweat To take away the sharpness of the seed use Lettice Violets Waterlillies and things that quenâh seed by a secret quality as Agnus castus âeed Leaves and Flowers of Champhyre hereâââer Asâ Take leaves of Waterlillies Agnus castus Willow each three handfuls Lettice Purslane Veâââ navel each a handful Lettice Poppy sâed the ãâã great cold Seeds each half an ounce Dill seed ãâã drams Waterlillies a handful Violets half a âândful beat them with juyce of Lemons distil them ââer twenty four hour add to every pint a dram of âmphire give an ounce Or Take Agnus caâââieaves Rue Willow each two handfuls Mints ãâã of Dill each a handful and half Waterlillies ââlf a handful Agnus castus seeds Hemp Coriââder Lettice seed each half an ounce beat them ând distil them with water add a pint of juyce of Leââns rectifiâ it to half An Emulsion Take Lettice and white Poppy ãâã and the four great cold Seeds each half an ounce ãâã of Lettice Waterlillies Willow each four ounâs Syrup of Violets two ounces Magistery of Coâââ dram An Electuary Take Conserve of Waterlillies âââlets of Agnus caâtus topââ eââh an ounce of Roââ hâlf an ounce red Câral Smaragds eâch a dram ãâã and Lettice candied each an ounce with ãâã of Violets and Waterlillies make an Electuary Or make Baths of the same As Take tops Aânus castus Lettice Rue Waterlillies Dâl ãâã ãâã them anoint with Oyl of Lillies ânguânt of Roseâ with Camphire afââr that Or lay a Plaister of Mercury and Marsh-lentils to the breast and loyns Lây a Plate of Lead to the Back and give a Pessary of juyce of Plantane Pââslane Gourds These that work by an occult quality are fittest for numnesses that must not marry but they that will marry must forbear them because they cause barâânness Let diet be thin and of little nourishment no Eggs Beef is good and fresh fish Also Lettice Purslane Succoây Sleep littleâ think not of Venery labour and avoid idleness Question Whether is Camphire cold or hât or doth it quench Venery It is hot because it burns flames is thin pieâceth is sharp and bitter But it hath cold effects as curing of burnes and inflammations and hââ headaches but this is from the likeness of thâ substance because it draws hot vapors to it anâ discusseth as Linseed oyl that cures burnes Noâ hath it a double substance cold and hot that maâ be separated Scaliger denies it by experience to quench Vânery but if it be taken often it doth he tâieâ it but once Chap. 6. Of the Melancholy oâ Virgins and Widdows IT is a Dâliriââ with sadness trouble and weââing sââtimes laugâing without a Feavââ It differs from others by the efficacy only of the efficient cause for it hath divers pains besides ââdness especially on the left side near the heart in the papâ this is by occasion at a distance The Cause is a melancholick vapor from a melancholick blood in the vessels near the heart that infects the animal Spiâits hurts the Fancy and so the reason For melancholick blood abounding in the vessels of the womb comes back to the great arteries about the heart by the arteâies of the womb and infects both vital and animal Spirits and causeth trouble of heart and deâââium while this blood is quiet in the arteries theâe is no vapor that riseth but when it is heaâed or sâirred up by any cause the arteries about the back and spleen beat more then ordinary and the vapors arise and trouble the heart They aâe sad and âull of thoughts and trouble at the heart and cannot express their grief all things are tedious to them they weep and lâugh without a cause they sleep little and with trouble and âear they have a pain on the left side and somtimes the left breast their jaws are dây al which are the effects of a melaucholick vapor and when that is discussed all cease If it be old it turns to madness and then they are ãâã silent then pââtlers and think they see Gâoââs At first it is easier cured but if it last long and ââe âesist not imagination and will not rejoyce âith her Gossips it is dangerous They often despair and desire death or hang themselves or dâown themsâlves If the manners are chanâed ãâã tuââs to madness Observe what progress the disease hâth made At first if blood be hot oâen a vâin oâten iâââe arm if the terms be not stopt if they be bleed in the ankle some daies before they use to flow Let her be merry and prepare and purge melancholy thus Take Borage and Balm water each three ounces Syrup of the juyce of Borage and Bugloss each an ounce and half Mix them for two Doses repeat them somtimes Then purge Melâncholy As Take Senna six drams Agarick a dram and half Borage flowers and Violets each a pâgil âitron peels two drams infuse them in Rhenish wine for six hours strain them ad Syrup of Violets an ounce Or Take Scorzonera roots two ounces Borage ân ounce Balm a handful Senna four ounces Agarick half an ounce Citron peels six drams Zedoary two drams Cordial stowers a handful add half a pint of the juyce of sweet-scented Apples and of Rorage and Bugloss steep them two daieâ then strain them ad Sugar and half an ounce of Cinamon make a Syrup give two or three ounces Also give Cordials Confection of Hyacinths Species Exhilerants and Confection Alkermes to such as can bear it Cure it as Melancholy only the matter comes from the womb therefore still regard that it dry not the body too much but use a moistning Diet. Chap. 7. Of an Epilepsie from the Womb. THis Falling-sickness is worst then from other causes because there are greater symptoms for that malignant vapor doth not onely fall into the nerves but the veins and arteries The same malignant vapor that causeth suffocation causeth this for when it ascends by the veins or arteries it begets other diseases but when it gets to the nerves or to the fountain of them it causeth the Epilepsie In some the whole body hath a Convulsion in others some part only as the eyes head tongueâ hand or leg and the outward senses are diversly taken Some see not some hear not some see and cannot speak some dote and think they see strange things some cry out and know not why All loose the sense oâ feeling If the vapor be nât very malignant they reâuân to their work after the fit as if they had not âeen ill It is known by what hath been said for here ãâã not only a Convulsion as in other Epilepsies âât diveâs Symptomes as in Suffocation of the âomb They seldom âoam at the mouth
because âe brain is not so shaken as to cause âoaming âor is the vapor so fixed in the roots of the nerâes but they often do hear It is grievous and hath grievous Symâtoms âut it is not so bad as a true Epilepsie and if you âve proper Medicines it never returns The Cure of the Fit Use things as in Suffocation of the womb or âther-sits as Rue and Castor are good against ãâã Also out of the sit you must cure it as the Moââ using things that respect the womb and the ãâã Asâ Take Piony roots Sâorzonera Misleââ tââ Oâk each half an ounce Polypâdy of the ãâã an ounâe Rue Pennyroyal Calamintâ each a ãâã Seseli Pionâ Agnus castus seeds each ââdramâ Carthamus sâeds brâised half an ounce ãâã of Rosemary Sâge Sâaehas Borage eâch two pugils boyl them to a pinâ and half strain and adâ juyce of Bettony Yarrow Mercury Mugâârt Sânâa five ounces Agarick Epithymum each half an ounce Rhubarb Cloves each two drams Aniâââ I ânnel sâed each three drams boyl strain with Sâgar and half an ounce of Cinnamon make Syrup give two ounces And these Pills twice in a week a scruple oââ dram an hour afore Supper Take Piony roâââ Senna each half an ounce Mugwort Bottoââ Rue Yarrow each half a handfulâ boyl them clârifie the Decoction add juyce of Mercury an ounce Aloes an ounce and half let it settle pour of the cleaâ add Rhubarb sprinkled with Cinnamon water ãâã drams Agarick half an ounce Mastich Epilâpââ pouder each half a dram with Syrup of Mugwââ make Pills To strengthen the Head and the Womb and to mend its Distemper Take Fecula oâ Pimââ dram of Briony Amber Misleto of the Oak eâââ half a dram Bezoar stone Mans sâull each a sârâple make a pouder give half a dram with Scorzonââ or Tile flower water or with Sugar make Rouls An âlectuary Take Conserve of Balm Tiâ flâwers Rosemaryâ Lilly coâvals Scorzonera ãâã âanâied each an ounce Diamoschâ dulce a draâ pouder of Agnus castus seeds and Piony roâts ãâã two drams with Syrup of Stââhas Chap. 8. Of pain of the Heââ from the Womb. MAny ââins come from the Womâ buâ ãâã chief and greatest are in thâ Head âââver or on one side oâ in the eyes Matter ascends to the membranes of the head by the veins and arteries from the womb It is a ââpoâ or humor from blood and humors somtimes bad blood that is thin goes from the womb vessels to the great vessels and gets to the head tâ the membranes there and causeth a stretching ulceâated or pricking or beating pain when it is carried through the arteries being âul of blood They think their head will be torn and the membranes and it is behind in the head or when the terms flow or arâ disordered from consent with the womb If it be from a vapor there is no hââviness and it ceaseth presently if from a humoâ there is heaviness Thesâ paââs are great and cause waâching We have spoken of the headach but here it is ââom the womb therefore consider what humoââ offend in the womb and let them be purged and the distemper of the womb amended as wâ shewed in the Distemper of the Womb. There is also a pain in the loyns because bad hâmors go from the veins of the womb and arteâies to the great vessels and so are sent by the ââpillââ veins into the membranes and stretch them and cause pain these humors must have âââper Purges âââstion In what part of the Head is the pain that comes by consent from the Womb Iâ iâ in the crown before and behind but chiefly âehind by reason of the joyning of the Back with the womb for the womb is nervous and âoâsânts âith the membranes of the brain by the membranes of the âarrow of the âack and so âerves âuffâââith nârves âiâher by communiââtion of matter or pain and because the original of the nerves is in the hinder part of the head women are more pained there then men because of the Womb. Chap. 9. Of the Diseases of the Heart and beating of the Arteries in the Back and sides from the Womb. THe heart beats and the arteries also as we shewed in the Green-sickness and it is by ââil vâpors sânt by the ââteries to the heaât from the womb that aâise from terms and evil humâââ gathered in the womb and this is known by âther Signs and Symptomes of a distempered womb To discuss the malignant vapors from the heart give Cordials as in Chap. 3. of palpiââtion of the Heart as Aqua vitae Cinnamenwater and Epithems Baggs and Liniments The arteries also beat with the heart as iâ Widdows on the lefâ Hypochondrion and Bacâ where there is a great artery and the artery thââ beats in the Back is part of the great artery they which beat in the Hypochondrion are the lesseâ splenitiâk and mesenterick branches therefoâe the beating is moâe in the Back then in the Hypochondrion but both pulsâtions come froâ the same cause The inflammation of the aâteries is the Cause of this beating when evil humors are sent frââ the womb iâto the great branches of the arteâââ and there bââtâ the heart being over-hot Somtimes the motion of this artery is all the body over and from a hot humor the hot humors go to the heart and cause a feaver but because there is little putrefaction it vanisheth presently If the heat of the humors go to the brain by the arteâies there is madness Some seek the cause in the vâins and say that the arteries suffer from the ãâã ãâã in them You mây feel it wiâh your hand laid upon the Hypochondrion and there are signs of a distempered womb and melancholy from the womb if heat continue in the arteries and go to the whole âody it consumeth it It is seemingly a small disease but it is not âithout danger because it comes from a bad cause that weakens the bowels It is cured as melancholy from the womb and ââopping of the terms and as Hypochondriack melancholy from the womb which follows Chap. 10. Of the Diseases of the Spleen and the Hypochondriack Disease from the Womb. SOmtimes the Spleen and the Hypochondria suffer from the womb so that you may doubt âhat disease it is ãâã from the womb by the arteries the womb ãâ¦ã one from the preparing arteries ãâã from the Hypogastrick aâtâry That from ãâ¦ã goes almost to all parts of the ãâ¦ã and ãâã branches of the spleen there ãâ¦ã bââ blood is ââed in the womb and ãâ¦ã âpwaâd to the ãâ¦ã gâââ easâây from thencâ to the ãâ¦ã ââd tâ the sâleen and the parts adjacent in the abdomen and the sooner ãâã Nature useth to send bad humors to ignââââ parts These humors are gathered by suppreââiââ of terms which though they seem to be onelâ ãâã the veins yet they get to the arteries by their Anastomosis Therefore those women that âavâ
of many diseases First endeavor to evaeuate the blood from the womb by Frictions Ligatures and Cupping iâ they will not do open a vein in the foot Then open the passâges with external and internal meansâ anoint the Belly with loosning Oyls or soment thus Take Lilly roots Birthworts Briony Angelâca each half an ounce Mercury Mugwort Pennyroyal Savin Calamints each a handful Tansey Chamomil and Elder flâwers 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 daies are paââ purge with Agarick Rhubarb Senna Or Take Lilly roots Alâhaea each half an ounce Birthworts two drams Pellitory Mercuryâ Althiea each a handful Calamints Chamomil Elder floâers each two pugils Faenugreek and Lineseed each two drams boyl them to ten ounces strained âdd Oâl 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 Maidenhair Endive Schaenanth each two pugils Anise Fennel seed each a scruple red Pease a spoonful boyl them to a pint and half add Cinnaâon water two drams Syrup of the five Roots three âânces give four ounces Chap. 4. Of too great a flux of blood after Childbearing THat is too much which makes weak It is blood abounding which haââ been gâthered nine months in the womb It is thick or spends the Spirits and weakens 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 and with fainting and Convulsion Therefore observe the pulse least she die suddenly See what strength she hath and stopt it not ââddenly Iâ it be not very gââat order a diet of âoasâed Hens basted with red Wine or Pomegraââe of Staâch Almonds Rice Quinces Conâââve of Roses steeled Water and make Revulââns use gentle things and strengthen the loose ââââges Anoint the belly with oyl of Roses Mirtles cup under âhe breasts and sides without scariâication Apply a Cataplasm of red Roses Bole and Rosâ-water to the Liver Then use stronger and give a higher diet oâten in small quantity and give Syrups to stop blood As Take old Conserve of Roses two ounces of Tormentil an ounce of Quinces without speciââ half an ounce Bole red Coral each half a dram with syrup of Currans and Coral make an Electuaây 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 bottome of the womb but in the vessels and membranes by which the womb hangs and that goes to the sides and belly They are from a constant labor 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 They are in the womb it self you mây know iâ they came from cold by what hath been done clotted blood will manifest it self They weâken much and are very troublâsom 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 Diaâymini Diagalangal Zedoary each half a dram make a Pouder give a dram in Pennyroyal or Cinnamon water Or Take of Cummin seed steept in Spirit of wine and dried again a dram Ameos sâeds and Ginger each half a dram Cinnamon a scruple Castor half a scruple make a Pouder If she faint ad Cordial Waters As Take Diacyminum a dram Diamargariton frigid Citron peâls Zedoary each half â dram make a Pouder If she be cholerick or the humor thin and sharp cure it as a Colick 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 sume the womb with Decoctions of Herbs Chap. 6. Of the tearing of the Vulva to the Arse and coming forth of the Womb Inflammation Ulcer Suffocation and falling out of the Fundament THe tearing iâ in hard travel when the motheâ is tendeâ and the child great of which ââforââ The womb comes forth from the violent extraction of the child or afterbirth when the ligaments are streâched The Cure is mentioned but you must not hinder the after flux by astringents let her therefore rest and lie one her back with her âeet drawn up with Sweets to her nose and stinks to the womb so the womb will be retained and the flux continued after this is past you may use Astringents If there be inflammation from hard travel hinder not the afâer-flux of blood by Coolers If it turn to an ulcer let the after-flux flow and then cure it Suffocation after childbearing is from the ââinking after-blood which sends up stinking vapors which kill many It is cured by Friction of the leggs Ligatures and Cupping with Scarification applying stinks to the nose as Castor Partridgâeathers burnt Rue And applying Sweets to the privities You must cure the âalling out of the Fundament from straining in Delivery as formerly shewed Chap. 7. Of Watching Doting and Epilepsie of Women in Child-bed THese are from the motion of the blood aâd huâorsâ when the after-blood flows nât kindlyâ and there is a âeaver of which in ââe ãâã Book And from vapors sent from the ãâã there is an Epilepsie which is cured by Râvââsion oâ vapors and humors downwaâdâ and âââfect Evacuation of the aâter-blood which done all these Symptoms cease Chap. 8. Of the Swelling of the Womb Belly and Feet after Childbearing IT is commonly from cold gottân into the womb and the belly sometimes swells as if there were another child It is cured by hysterical or mother Fomentations or with the skin of a new âlain sheep and hard wine if in travel they keep a bad diet or drink too much the humors go into wind and if they fall into the legs they swel then take heed of much drink and after the flux is past make Evacuation with things that expel wind As Take Câleworts and Chamomil each as you please boyl them in Wine and âomeât the parts Or Take
must either use Moistners and Emollients with Digesters by turns or mixed âoment with the Decoction of Mallâws Althâââ Foenugreek and Lineseed Bâank-ursine and Chamomil âlowersâ Then anoint with Oyl of sweet Almonds Chamomil Hens grease Veal marrow Oyntment of Althââa Or apply this Cataplasm Take Althâea Mallows Brank-ursine Fennel tops each a handful boyl them soft stamp them ad Barley and Bean flour Linseed pouder of Althaea roots Chamomil flowers each an ounce Or lay on the great Diachylon Plaster and that of ârogs Then sprinkle Wine upon a hot stone and let the Fume be received And apply a Plaster of Ammoniacum dissolved in Vinegar If it be a bastard Scirrhusâ you may fear a Cancer Then after Universaâs and bleeding take away the disposition of the bowels that breeds black humors If you fear a flux of humors use oyl of Roses and juyce of Plantane and if there be heat stir them first in a Leaden mortar till they change their colour then add Ceruss Litharge each three ounces with Wax make an Oyntment Chap. 6. Of the Glandles or Kernels in the Breasts being swollen or of the Scrofula and Struma in the Breast CElsus saith the Struma and Scrofula in the Breast are rare It is from a thick humoâ flegm or melancholy Struma is with pain sometimes and and is like a Cancer or seems to turn to a Cancer but continues many years at a sâandâ But let the cause ãâã âat it will it âomes fâom stoppage or disorder of the terms by reason of the great consenâ of the womb with the Breast The Glandles or Kernels are to be felt though not before there is one great unmoveable tuumor and the rest are small It is hard to be cured for two causes the eaâthiness of the matter and the deep lying of it They which are near the skin are easily dissolved After purging and bleeding use Emollients and Discussers that are strong as in Scirrhus Take Orris roots three ounces boyl them in Oxymâl stamp them add Turpentine Oyntment of Althaea each three ounces Mucilage of Faenugreek seed an ounce Or Take roots of Althaea two ounces Briony-roots an ounce Orris roots half an ounce boyl them soft in white Wine stamp them add Ammoniacum dissolved in Vinegar and Bdellium dissolved in Wine each an ounce with Pitch and Wax make a Plaster If it cannot be discussed suppurate or cut it but this is troublesom and dangerous Chap. 7. Of the Cancer of the Breasts HIppocrates saith That an occult Cancer is better not cured then cured â for if cured they prâsently die but if not they live long Many women have lived long with good order of diet having a Cancer as if they had no disease so saith Wâlliam Fabricius and that if the Cancer be not ulcerated they may live forty years without pain and if you lay on Emolâients and Suppuraters they die in half a year The Breasts are spungy and loose and therefore Cancers breed often there but the Cause is from the womb when they are of a hot and dry constitution with burnt blood and when the terms stâp and then the humors flie to the womb and and mâke a Cancer either with or without a tuâor asâregomg A Cancer that ârâseth of it self is hard to be discerned at first for it is like a little tubercle no bigger then a pease and grows up by degrees and spreads out roots with veins about it And when the skin is eaten through it is a stinking ulcer and the lipps are hard and the matter black It is hard or never cured because the black humor that causeth it is very troublesom and hath a peculiar malignity which is fermented and made worse with Emollients and Suppuraters which loosen the vessels and dilate them so that the humor flows easier to the part and the corrupt humors get easier to the parts adjacent and infect them A Cancer not ulcerated is to be let alone by the counsel of Hippocrates But let blood and purge melancholy often But use no Topicks that may rot or provoke the part but things that by experience take away pain as nightshade-Nightshade-water Snails boyled and Frogs in Oyl and with ashes of Frogs made into an Oyntment or Medicines of Lead As Take Oyl of Roses two ounces juyce of Nightshade berries an ounce and half Ceruss washâd Sugar of Lead each a dram Pompholygos half an âunce mix them in a Leaden mortar till they aâe thick Or use Craysiâh ashes and the ashes of the inward ward rind of an Ash-tree or Herb Robert Arcaeus teacheth how to cut them out and then burn the part if they be deep and ulcerated But Fabriâius shews that you must burn after to consume the reliques and stop the blood after it is âlensed Take Herb Robert Verbascum or Moulin Scabious Caprifolium or Honeysucâles Diââ Mans grease each equal parts burn them take three ounces and with six ounces of Nightshadâ water in â Leaden mortar mix them After cutting out the root purge melancholy often and provoke terms or Haemorrhoids least it return Give Treacle Mithridateâ with juyce of Boâage Sorrel Craysish broath and Asses milk This Water is good against all Cancers Take Moulin roots Clowns all-ââal each two ounces Dropwort Ceterach Herb Robert Agrimony Tormentil Scabious Avens Flâxweed each a handful Nettle seed three drams Elder and Rosemary-flowers each a pâgil boyl and sweeten it with Sugar Foment and waâh the Cancer with one part of it and let the dreggs be applied as a Pultis Fuchsius his blessed Pouder Take white Arsenick that shineth not like glass an ounce poudâr it pour Aqua viâae upon it and pour it off add fresh Aqua vitae every third day for fifteen daies Then Take roots of great Dragons gathered in July or August sliced and dried in the wind two ounces Thirdly âake bright clear Soote of the Chimney three drams make a Pouder Keep it close ââopt in a glass the older the better use it not till after a year For a palliative Cure keep it from increasing and take away pain with this Wateâ Take Scrâphularia roots and Herb Robert each a handful Lambs-tongue Nightshade Bugloss Borageâ Purââane Eâebright ââttony each half a handful a Fâog and two whites of Eggs with Quince seeds and Faenugreekâ each an ounce Rose and Eyebrightâater each a pint distil them in a Leaden still Use not Cancers as other ulcers for Emolliântâ Healers and Drawers exasperâte and kill wiââ greât pain Chap. 8. Of Ulcers and Fistulaes of the Breasts AFter Universals dry up the milk and if the Breasts hang down bind them up that the humors flow not down and move not the arm on that side Then clense it with the Docoction of Rhapontick Zedoary and Agâimony Heal thus Take strong Wââe six quarts Rhois Obsoniorâm Cypress-nuts each four ounces green Galls two ounces boyl them to the consistenâe of Honey If you fear a Fiâtula enlarge
Oyl of Roses Mastich each half an ounce red Sanderâ Coral each a scruple with Wax mix it If the feaver come from breeding of it abate the pain and give the Alterers of which Chap. 14. of Bleeding of Teeth Of Meazles and small Pox. There are Epidemical feavers at certain times that cast out Meazles and small Pox of whicâ before The cause is not only from the impurity of the terms but from the malignity of the air for they are more or less as the air is purer or impurer Somtimes it is infectious and the humors are so coârupt that worms breed under the scabs and corrode the bones and internal parts as hath been seen in bodies opened dead of this disease If the disease be very infectious before there is a âeaver it is good to preserve by change of air and Antidotes when many die of it but when few die it is not amiss to let them alone leaââ they have it in a more dangerous time for most will have it only give a gentle Purge and âortifie Nature that she may better expel them If there be a âeaver use no more Preservatives âut labour to get them forth by Medicines mentioned and defend the eyes and throat and ââevent deformity of which before Chap. 3. Of the Milkey Scab Achores and Favi THe milkey Scab is at the first sucking the Achoâes are after The Achores are scabs not white and the white scab is not only in the face but all over the body The Achores are only in the head but they are cured alike They are all ulcers chiefly in the head with holâs that run with matter constantly They come from excrementitious humors waterish and sharp mixed of thick and thin very âalt Therefore they are sometimes yellow or white or red or black but alwaies salt and biâing and itching that makes them scratch They are gâthered in the womb and from corruption of the milk The Vulgar think they are healthful when they run because Nature sends them forth and if they strike in they cause diseases and Epilepâies They cure in time âf themselves but if the matter be very bad it pierceth the skull Dry these not rashly so they disfigure not the ââcâ nor hurt the eyes But drive them forth with ââabious Cârduus water and Cordials Use no Coolers nor Astringents least the matter be stroke in Let the Nurse forbear salt and sharp ând spiced things and strong Wine Pepare the humors with Borage Sâââory Bugloâs Fumitâây Hops Polypody and Dock roots Then purge with Senna Polypody Epithymum Rhuâââb and strengthen thâ Bowels As Take Conserve of Borage Bugloss Violets Fumitâry Succory each an ounce Succory roots and Citrons candied each half an ounce Diarrhodon Diamargartion ârigid Harts-horn each a sâruple with ãâã oââ Gâââi-ââoâârs makâ an Electuary Let the Nurse take every day two drams Or Take Harts-horn prepared two drams Magâstery of Coral a dram Diamargariton frigid half a dram give half a dram or a dram of this Pouder Let the child be purged with Manna or Raisons laxative If you fear great putrefaction under the scabs and that wil turn to a scald head or eat the skul wash the head with Decoction of Mallows Barley Celandine Wormwood or with Althaea-roots boyled in Boyes urine and Barley water And then anoint with Oyl of Roses bitter Almonds and a little Litharge Or Take ashes of Mirtles and Nut shells each a dram Tutty a dram and half Butter washed with rose-Rose-water an ounce Or Take juyce of Beets Celandine each an ounce Hogs grease two ounces Sulphur a dram Or Take Cerâss Litharge each two drams Pomegranate flowers and Agarick eâch 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 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 Tinâa or Moth which eats garmentsâ 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 or bad milk it infecteth others by the clouts or caps Some are like a bran or scurfe with scales some are slimy and when the scab is off there appears red quick nobs of flesh like the insides of sigs some are malignant some not some new some old There are dry scabs in the head yellow or ash coloured that run little and that which is voided stinketh It is hard to be cured If it be new or the matter yellow or the like it is easier An old Scald ash-coloured and black is stubborn aâtâr 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 take off the Scab with âlensers 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 Elicampâne each an âunce and half Litharge half an ounce with Hogs grease oyl of Rue and Wax make a sofâ Oymment When the Child is of age and strong make first universal evââuation with Senna Rhubarb Agarick then take off the Scab with Sulphur two drams Mustard half a drain Stavisacre Briony roots each a dram Vinegar an ounce Turpentine half an ounce and Bears grease Or beat Watercresses with Hogs gâease and apply it the scab wil 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 brings 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 Sâaldâ and let it stick some daies then pluck it off suddenly Then use Emollients that correct the dry distemper Also use things to take the excrements out that lie deep in the skin As Take roots of Althaea Docks Lillies each an ounce Mallows Fumitory Sage each two handful boyl them in Liâ add Vinegar wash the head with it every day Thenâ Take Ostratium Sulphur each half an ounce oyl of Eggs an ounce with Hogs grease After that Take Briony and Dock roots and Elicampanâ roots each an ounce Fumitory Celandine Scabious each two handful Chamomil and Balm each a handful boyl them in Lie and wash the head twice a day therewithâ or foment it then rub the head with a course cloth or with oyl of Staphesacre or of Raddish till it grow red to draw out the bad humors that lie deep
the sharp bones whence is great pain watching and inflamation of gums feaver loosness and convulsions especially when they breed their eye-teeth First it is known by the usual time as the âeginning of the seventh month Also they put their âingers in their mouths to allay pain 3. They hold the nipple faster then before 4. The gum is white where the tooth begins to come and there are divers Symptomes mentioned before The feaver that follows breeding of teeth comes from cholerick humors inflamed by watching pain and heat The longer teeth are breeding the greater the danger so that many die of feavers or convulsions They are best that have their belly loose These have no convuision a feaver consumes the humoâs Hard breeding of teeth is from thickness of the gums therefore molliâie and loosen them rub them with the finger dipt in Butter and Honey or a Virgin Wax Candle is to be chewed upon Or anoint with âucilage of Quinces made with Mallow water or with the brains of a Hare Foment the cheek with the Decoction of Althaea and Chamomil flowers and Dill or with juyce of Mallows and fâesh Butter If the guâs are inflamed add juyce of Nightshade and Lettice Let the Nurse keep a temperate diet inclining to cold as Barley broaths or Watergrewel rear Eggs Prunes Lettice Endive Avoid salâ sharp biting and peppered meats and Wine Chap. 15. Of Loosing of the Tongue and of the Frog WHen the tongue is tied they cannot freely suck This must be done by skilful Artists or use this Liniment Take clarified Honey and boyl it gently till it may be poudered Then Take yolks of hard Eggs dried in a glass in an Oven till they may be poudered a dram ârankincense and Mastich each a scruple burnt Allum six grains with Honey of Roses make a Liniment The Frog is when the veins under the tongue are filled with bad blood and if flegm sweat out and stick in the passages there is a tumor like Mushrooms which causeth stamering It is cured thus Take Cuttlebone Sal gem Pepper each a dram burnt Spunge three drams make a Pouder or with Honey a Liniment rub under the tongue Lay under the chin a Plaister of goose dung and Honey boyled in Wine till the Wine be consumed Chap. 16. Of Catarrh Cough and difficult Breathing WEE have spoken of these before but because Hippocrates reckons them in Childrens diseases I shall touch upon them The general Cause of a Catarrh in a child is a moist brain and much milk that burdens the stomach from whence many vapors fil the brain and if the brain be full of excrements it is easily dissolved or melted either by heat or cold and goes to the nose ââws or lungs which cause a cough or Asthma Moreover much food makes crudities in the first passages and flegmatick blood is bred of crudity and thick chyle in the liver This is sent by the arâerial vein into the lungs and prâssing the Bronchia or pipes of the lungs causeth difficult breathing and Asthma It is known to be from a hot humor if it be thin they often neese the face is red and the jaws the breath is short and the Nurse âinds it in her nipples If difficulty of breathing come from the head there will be a cough and snorting in breathing and a noise in the lungs when the air passeth not freely through them If it come from the parts below there is neither Câtarrh nor cough but hardness about the Liver and a tumor In children a great Catarrh with short breath is hard to be cured because they cannot take Physick First let it and the Nurse keep a good diet fil not the stomach with milk nor other diet but let the Nurse forbear sharp salt peppered âour things and things that fill the head with vapors And give her a Pectoral Decoction Take Figs âujubes each ten Sebestens thirty Raisons stoned âen drams Liquorish two drams Maidenhair Hysop Violets each half an ounce boyl them in three pints of Water to the consumption of the third part Let her take six ounces every morning Keep the belly open with Syrup of Roses or Cassia or a Clyster with oyl of sweet Almonds with Sugar candy or juyce of Fennel with Milk or hold down the tongue and provoke Vomiting Give Syrup of Jujubes Maidenhair If the matter be thick give Syrup of Hysop or Horehound or an Emulsion of oyl of sweet Almonds Pine-nuts Scabious water Or give a Lohoch of Diaireos Diatragacanth frigid Peâidies with Syrup of Jujubes If it be hot give Emulsions of the âour great cold Seeds with Mallows Pellitory with Diatragacanth frigid To dry up the matter lay outwardly a stuph of Hemp hot and sprinkled with pouder of red Roses and Frankincense Apply Basil and Marjoram to the nose to make it sneese Chap. 17. Of the Hickets IT comes from corruption of the food in the stomach or from milk âilling it or from cold ãâã these hurt the expulsive faculty and it is ââârred up to expel what is hurtful If iâ come from reâletion of milk the belly swells and there is vomiting after If from corruption of milk the Nurse hath bad milk the child cries and is pained and the excrements sânââl of stinking milk Hiâkets is commonly not dangerous in children and cease when the cause is taken away Iâ it be from a vehement cause and goes to the nerves there follows a Convulsion or Epilepsie and death That from corruption of nourishment is cured by vomit with a feather dipt in Oyl to tickle the throat then strengthen the stomach with hot things As Syrup of Mints Bettony and soment it with Decoction of Mints Organ Woâmwood then anoint with Oyl of Mints Mastich Dill. Or Take Mastich an ounce Frankincense Dill seed each two drams Cummin seed a dram with juyce of Mints and Flax apply them to the stomach There is a disease like the Hiâkets in children from anger or grief when the Spirits are much stiâred and run from the heart to the Diaphragma forceably and hinder or stop the breath Somtimes they have a shril voice the Spirits suddenly breaking forth but when the passion ceaseth this Symptom ceaseth Chap. 18. Of Vomiting IT is from too much milk or bad milk or fâom flâgm that fals from the head to the stomach but this is seldom in children It is ofâen from a moist loose stomach for as driness retains so loosness le ts go If it be from much milk they are better after vomiting If it be from corruption of milk that which is vomited is yellow green or otherwise ill coloured and stinking worms are known by their signs It is for the most part without danger in children and they that vomit from their birth are the lustiest for the stomach being not used to meat and milk being taken too much oftentimes crudities are easily bred or the milk is corrupted and it is
better to vomit these up then keep them in If Vomiting last long it causeth Aârophy When it is from too much milkâ give it less if it be from corrupt milk amend it as I shewed Clense the child with Honey of Roses and strengthen the stomach with Syrup of Mints Quinces Or Take Wood-aloes Coral Mastich each half a dram Galangal half a scruple with Syrup of Quinces make a Lincâus If the humor be sharp and hot give Syrup of Pomegranates Currans Coral Apply to the belly the Plaister of Bread the Stomach-cerot or Bread dipt in Wine hot Or Take Oyl of Mastich Quinces Mints Wormwood each half an ounce of Nutmegs by expression half a dram Chymical Oyl of Mints three drops Coral hath an occult propriety therefore it is hung about their necks Chap. 19. Of the torments or pains of the Belly IT is often with the flux of the belly and from milk alone that breeds wind and sharp humors When it is corrupted it gets to the guts and causeth a gnawing pain worms staying in the guts do the same They cry continually hate the breast and toss to and fro If it be from wind it ceaseth somtimes the belly swells and they break wind If it be from humors it is constant if it be tough flegm the belly is bound and the dung is slimy If it be sharp there is a flux yellow and green If from worms there are signs of them and of crudities and wind If this pain lasts long they are weak or have Convulsions or Epilepsie it is worse when ârom corrupt milk and worms and is dangerous If it be from crude humors and wind give a Clyster Take Pellitory Chamomil flowers each a handful boyl them in Chicken broath to three or four ounces add Honey of Roses an ounce with the yolk of an Eg make a Clyster This may be given safely to a child of two monthâ old Or give oyl of sweet Almonds with Sugar candy and a scruple of Aniseeds it purgeth new born Babes from green choler and stinking flegm If it be given with Sugar Pap it allays the crying pains of the belly Anoint the belly with Oyl of Dill or lay Pellitory stampt with Oâl of Chamomil to the belly Or Take Chamomil flowers Dill tops each a handful Faenugreek and Lineseed each half an ounce boyl them in Wine foment the belly twice a day before meat If pain be from corrupt milk âhat is sharp give Syrup of Roses or Honey of Roses or Syrup of Succory with Rhubarb or a Clyster of the Decoction of Bran Pellitory with Sârup of Roses And use outwardly Oyl of Roses Dill and Chamomil Chap. 20. Of puffing up of the Belly and Hypochondria WHen they suck too much the belly is swelled under the ribs for want of concoction and there are crudities in the stomach and wind and also in the parts adjacent The Hypochondria are hard and pussed up and there is straitness in the mouth of the stomach and short breath It is easily cured with good diet Give a thinner diet that the crudities may be coâcocted Give no fresh nourishment til thâ first be digested then give Honey of Roses to purge Or the Decoction of Cardiaca which is good for the heart and mouth of the stomach it opens obstructions and clenseth flegm Or pouder of Piony roots Cummin seed Jesamine or make it up with Honey Oyl of sweet Almonds or Sugar for a Liniment Foment the sides with the Decoction of Cardiaca Chamomil flowers and Cununin seed Chap. 21. Of the Flux of the Belly IT is 1. From breeding of teeth with a feaveâ commonly and the concoction is hindered and the nourishment corrupted 2. From much watching 3. From pain 4. From stirring of the humors by a feaver 5. When they suck or drink too much in a feaver Somtimes they have a flux without breeding of teeth from outward cold in the guts or stomach that hinders concoction If it be from teeth it is known by the signs in breeding of teeth if from external cold there are signs of no other causes If from a humor flowing from the head there are signs of a Câtarrh and the excrements are âroathy If crude humors are voided there is wind belching and flegmatick excrements If they be yellow green and stink the ââux is from a hot and sharp humor It is best in breeding of teeth when the belly is loose but if it be too greatâ and you fear Atrophy it must be stopt if black excrements are voided with a feaver it is bad A sucking child needs not cure so much as the Nurse you must chiefly observe the condition of the milk and mend it if not change the Nurse let her not eat green fruit and things of hard co-coction If the child suck not take away the causes of the flux with purges that bind after as Syrup or Honey of Roses or a Clyster Take the decoction of Milium My robalans each two or three ounces with an ounce or two of Syrup of Roses make a Clyster After clensing if the cause be hot give Syrup of dried Roses Quinces Mirtles Coral Currâns or the pouder of Diamarâariton Coral Mastich Harts-horn red Roses or pouder of Miâtles with a little Sanguis Draconis Anoint with Oyl of Roses Mirtles Masâich Or Take red Roses an ounce Mirtles Masâich each two drams with Oyl of Mirtles and Wax make an Oyntment Orâ Take red Roses Moulin each a handful Cypress roots two drams make a Bag boyl it in red Wine apply it to the belly or use the Plaister of Bread or Stomach oyntment If the cause be cold and excrements white give Syrup of Mastich and Quinces with mint-Mint-water Use outwardly Mints Mastich Cummin As Take Rose seeds an ounce Cumminâ Aniseeds each two drams with Oyl of Mastichâ Wormmood and Wax make an Oynâmenâ Chap. 22. Of binding of the Belly IT is from a cold and dry distemper of the guts from birth in some 2. From slimy flegm that wraps the dung which sticks in the guts This is from bad milk when the Nurse eats gross food slimy and astringent or drinks little 3. It is from a hot distemper of the kidnies or liver that dries the excrements 4. It is when choler doth not stir up the guts to expel If it be from a dry distemper of the guts it is hard to be cured if it be from slimy flegm the dung is wrapt in it If choler comes not to the guts to provoke them to stool the dung is white and the body yellow It is best in children to have a loose belly and they are more healthful for if it be bound the belly is pained and there is headach First take away the cause if it be from a hot distemper of any bowel or dry wash the child often to moisten and cool it in a Bath of Succory and Leââice boyled In a cold distemper use hot for
the stomach and in a dry use moist things as Oyl of Lillies Dialthaea Hens grease Butter Let the Nurse avoid astringent meâts as Qâinâes Medlars Beans and use Emollients If the chiâd be big give juyce or Decoction of red Colwoâts worts with a little Salt and Honey If it be from slimy flegm give Honey or Syrup of Roses Correct the hot distemper of the Liver and Reins with Syrup of Violets and Emulsions of the four great cold Seeds If choler come not from the Gall to the Guts give the Decoction of Grass-roots Fennel Sparagus Maidenhair Give Clysters to cut and clense tough flegm As Take Alâhaea roots Mallows Pellitory each half a handful Faenugreek and Lineseed each a dram Chamomil flowers a pugil boyl and to three or six ounces ad three drams of Cassia Oyl an ounce and the yolk of an Eg. To the Navel apply Hens grease and Ox gal Or Take Aloes two drams Ox gall a dram Scamony a scruple with Buttâr make an Oyntment Fill a Walnut shell with it and apply it to the Navel Anoint the belly with Emoillients Take fresh Butter Goose and Hens grease each half an ounce Oyl of sweet Almonds and Lineseed each two drams Veal marrow Dialthaea each two drams with Wax make an Oyntment Bran and juyce of Danewort make a loosning Cataplasm for the belly Only keep it from the stomach as you must do other Cataplasms Chap. 23. Of the Worms IT is observed that children have had worms in their mothers belly and voided them after they were born But they are chiefly bred by mixing milk with other meats in a hot and moist constitution and from sweet meats which woâms love and Summer-fruits they are round and long or broad and little Besides what is said in Lib. 3. Part 2. Sect. 2. Cap. 5. Worms are known to be in a body when there is much spittle and a stinking breath troublesom sleep gnashing of teeth crying and bawling a dry cough loathing vomiting hickets want of appetite or too much thirst a belly swelled or bound or too loose thick white urin with pain when the belly is empty and the worms want food There is a cold sweat over the face and a high colour with sudden paleness sometimes a feaver and convulsion which ceaseth presently These are the signs of round worms rather then of the flat Infants are often long troubled with worms without any great inconvenience sometimes there are great Symptomes The long round worms are worst and have eaten sometimes the guts and belly through with a feaver they are more dangerous few 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 pouder of Harts horn Let the belly be kept loose with Clysters foâ 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 Lemons or Citâons or a drop or two of Spirit of Vitriol When you know by the signs that there are worms kill and expel them with pouder of Coralline Wormseed Harts horn or eight grains of Mercurius dulcis Infuse them a night in gâass water and cast away the substance oâ the Mercury and give the Water Or Take Woâmseed two drams Coralline Harts horn prepared each a dram roots of Piony Dittany Magistery of Coral each a scruple make a Pouder or give the Essence of Peach flowers or the Decoction of Fern-water half an ounce or an ounce If there be a feaver use colder as juyce of Lemons Pomegranates Oranges Vinegar Harts horn Bezoar Confection of Hyacinth or this Potion Take 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 pouder 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 sâall guts fall into the cods from crying cough straininâ at stoolâ 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 it is in one part only as the right or left and it may be felt and the hole also âhrough which it fel. 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 but worse then that of water which goes away of it self when the water is consumed Let the belly be kept open 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 Lentils and Lupines and red Roses in pouder each two drams Frankincense a dram Allum half a dram with the white of an Eg. Or Take Frankincense Cypress nuts Aloâs Acacia each two drams Mirrh a dram with Izinglass make a Plaster 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 Comfrey the greater half an ounce boyl them to a pint strained ad Sugar give it often Or give pouder of Mousear or Moonwort with Wine If it be from water anoint with Oyl of Elder Bayes Rue or apply a Cataplasm of pouder of Beans âoenugreek Lineseed Chanââmil flowers Cummin seeds with these Oyls Chap. 25. Of sticking out of the Navel IT is without inflammation 1. When it was not well tied 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 yeilds to the touch but in an inflamation it is hard there is
feaver with horror all over the body then the colour changeth in the part it is black and blew without pulse or sense when iâ is cut or pricked it stinks and the strength decayes and the heart faints It is very dangerous and worse when it goes to the womb then outwards Some have had the womb fall out and have lived which besides grave Histories We saw at Avinion in an old Noble woman Anno 1635. Stop the puâreâaction take away that which is rotten by sâarifying if you can then wash with the Deââction of Wormwood Lupinâs and with Aegyptiacum and apply this Cataplasm Take Oââbus and Beanflower âach two âunâes Oâymââ a pint boyl them add Lupineâ Wormwood and Mirrh Cut off the dead flesh strengthen the principal parts the heart leâst the Spirits be infected with evil vapors that ââie up by the arteries Give Conserve of Borage Bugloss Gilliflowers Diamargariton ârigid Electuary of Gems frigid Confection of Hyacinthsâ Syrup of Sorrel âomegranates Borage and applâ Epithems to the heart Vuierus cured a Noble woman aged twenty five she had a pustle in her privities in the Dog-daies from violent Lechery with her Husband and she used a Cataplasm from a sillâ Chirurgion and in a few daies it rotted grew black and mortified and went towards the fundament very fast THE FOURTH BOOK THE SECOND SECTION Of the Diseases of the Womb. Chap. 1. Of the Knowledg of the Temper of the Womb. MARK Anthony Vlmus Physitian of Bononia shews the temper of the womb he saith that a beard in women shews that they have a hot womb and hot stones it comes with the beginning of the terms and when the breasts swell and is hard to be seen Aristotle saith That some women have hairs in their chin when their courses stop and when they have a hot womb and stones But there are more certain signs of heat 1. When hard hair comes âorth suddenly thick black and long and large about if they come forth slow thin soft yellowish and but few not spreading the womb is cold Also when the terâs come forth at twelve years of age it is a âign of a hot womb and when they last long the blood is red hot but not very much In an old constitution they come later and the blood is cold and waterish and they end sooner If it be hot and moist they flow plentifully and last till after fifty If it be hot and dry the blood is yellow thin and sharp and pricks the privities If it be cold and moist the blood comes late forth with difficulty and it is whitish and thin If it be cold and dry the terms come forth very late and with difficulty and seldom continue till forty and the blood is thick and little The third sign is from Lechery for they who have hot wombs desire copulation âooner and more vehemently and are much delighted thârwith They who are cold do the contrary The hot and moist are not tired with much Venery The hot and dry have great lust and a Frenzie if they want it but they are quickly âired because there are but few Spirits If it be cold and moist they are not soon lecherous and are âasily satisfied and if they miscarry often the womb is made colder and they delight not in the sport but copulation doth them good and makes them more youthful If it be cold and dry they desire not a man in a long time and take no delight because the Spirits are few The fourth sign is from often conception for the hot conceive often and bring forth males or Viragoe's if the seed of the man agree with it The cold doth the contrary A hot and moist womb is very fruitful if the man be wel tempered and though he be old and weak yet she will conceive by him sometimes they have twins or over do and have a mole Hot and dry are fruitful but not so much as the former Cold and moist are hard to conceive especially when they are in years when they are yong and the seed of the man is hot and dry they conceive males but seldom wel shaped or healthful and the woman while she is with child is sickly A cold and dry womb is commonly barren and if they conceive the mans seed is hot and moist they bring forth âemales and if males they are tall and quickly look old Chap. 2. Of the hot Distemper of the Womb. HEat of the womb is necessary for conception but if it be too much it nourisheth not the seed of the man but disperseth its heat and hinders the conception This preternatural heat is from the birth somtimes and makes them barren if afterwards it is from hot causes that bring the heat and the blood to the womb from internal and external Medicines too much hot meats and drinks and exercise They are prone to luât have few courses yellow or black or burnt or sharp they have hairs betimes upon their privities they are subject to the headach and there are signs of much choler their lips are dry When this distemper is strong they have few terms and out of order they are âad and hard to flow and in time they are Hâpâââondriaâks and for the most part barren and âhere is somtimes a Frenzie of the womb Use Coolers so that they offend not the vessels that must be open for the flux of the terms Therefore Use inwardly Succory Endive Violets Waterlillies Sorrel Lettice Sanders and Syrups and Conserves made thereof As Take Conserve of Succory Violets Waterlillies Borage each an ounce Conserve of Roses half an ounce Diamargariton frigid Diatrionsantalon each half a dram with Syrup of Violeâs or juyce of Citrons make an Electuary Outwardly use Oyntment of Galens Cooler Oyntment of Rosesâ Cerot of Sanders Oyl of Roses Violets Waterlillies Gourds Venus navel to the back and loyns or make Cataplasâs of Barley meal Roses poudered Violets Water-lillies Sanders with juyce or water of Plantane Waterlillies Succory Lettice Oyl of Roses Violets Waterlillies Baths are good to sit in and cooling âomentations and after let her take some of the Coolers mentioned In great heat use this cooling Pessary Take Opium a sâruple Goose grease two scruples Wax and Honey each four scruples Oyl an ounce whites of two Eggs. This was from an opinion the Ancients had that Opium was cold but take heed of the using it too much least the narcotiâk quality hurt Let the air be cool her garments thin let her meat be with Lettice Endive Succory Barley give no hot meaâs nor strong Wine except it be watââish and thiâ rest is good both in body and mind she mâst not coâulate but she may sleep much Chap. 3. Of the cold Distemper of the Womb. THis causeth many evils and barrenness They are contrary to those of a hot distemper cold air rest and idleness and cooling Medicinesâ It is known by their not desire of leâhery noâ
oâ Spunge put into the womb dipt in sâarp ââne oâ jâyce of Acacia with pouder oâ Saâguis Draconis Bole Mastiâh or the Counteâies Oyntâent with Galbanum and Bdellium Apply a Cupping-glass with great flame under the navel or paps or to both kidnies and lay this Plaister to the back Take Opopanax two ounces Storax liquid half an ounce Frankincense Mastich Pitch Bole each two drams with wax maâe a Plaister Or Take Labdanum a dram and half Frankincense Mâstich each half a dram wood Aloes Cloves Spikâ eaâh a dram Ash coloured Ambergrâece four grâiââ Muâk half â sâruple make two râund Plaisterâ ãâã be laid on eacâ side the Navel Make a Fume of a Snail skiâ faltâd or of Garliâk and let it be taken in by a âunnel Use aâtringenââomentations of âramble leaves Plaâtane Horstail Mirtles each two handfuls Wormwood two pugils Pomegranate flowers half an ounce bo l them in wine and water Or inject this with a Syringe Take Comsâey roots an ounce Snakeweed Pomegranate flowers each half an ounce Rupâârewort two drams Yarrow Mugwort each half an ounce boyl them in red Wine Then use Sulphur Baths To strengthen the Womb Take Harts-bornâ Bayes âach a dram Mirrh halâ a dram make a Bâudâr for two dosâs give it with sharp wine Or Take Zedoary Pârsnep seâds Crabs eâes prepared âach a dram Nââmâg half a dram give a dram in pâuder but use astringents warily lest you stop the courses and cause worse mischief Iâ it fall out from ââil hâmors that flow to the womb and loosen the ligâunents purge the body and then âse dryers as the decoction of China Sarsa and Guajacum To keep it in its place make Roulers and ligatures as for the Rupture and use Pessaries into the bottom of the womb that may force it to remain of which Franâis Rousset hath writâen at large and shews that they neither hinder conception nor bring any inconvenience nay that they help conception and retain it and cure this disease perfectly And Gaspar Bauâinus confirms the same in his Appendix to Rousset You may use Circles or Balls instead of Pessaries As Take roots of wild Vine make round Circles or Balls of them greater or less as the Neck of the womb is Then Take Virginâ wax melted with white Rosin or Turpentine dip the bâlls in till they are fit put one into the neck of the womb that will hold in being just fit let it nât be tâken out till it fall out and then put in another if she be not ââred If it gangrene and sphacelate cut it quite off if she fear cutting take it off by ligature of which Rousset who shews the way and saies that it may be cut off without danger of life He tells also of the place where you must cut and in Sect. 4. de partu Caesareo where the ligature is to be made Let the diet be drying and astringent and glewing as Rice Starch Quinces Pears green Cheese Avoid Summer fruits let the Wine be astringent and red The Cure of the inclining of the Womb. When it inclines to the side after Universals apply Cupping-glasses to the other side and let her still lie on the other side and let the Midwife anoint her singer with Oyl of sweet Almonds and draw it a little by degrees to the other side Chap. 17. Of the Rupture of the Womb. FEw Physitians have seen this I never read of any but once I saw it of which in my institutions lib. 2. pârt 1. cap. 9. Chap. 18. Of Wounds and breaking of the Womb. IT is seldom woundâd by reason of the divers defences it ââth but somtimes the âhirurgions wound it in cutting out of the child of which Hollerius inter rara no. 8. he speaks of a Woman with child in Paris that her childs hand put forth at the nâvel and was so in travel fifteen daies and both child and mother were safe It is evident if it be made by the Chirurgion in cuââing out of a child and you may know iâ by the place if it come otherwise There is blood and matter that flows out at the neck of the womb There is more pain when it is in the neââ of the womb then when it is in the bottom These wounds are cured as appears by the Caesarean birth or cutting but they are dangerous by reasoâ of the strange Symptoms and the consent of the parts Use Consolidaters or Healeâs and if there be pain Anodynes or Pessaries made of Wax candles dipt in Wound-oyntments Or Take Wax Turpenâine Goose greâse Buââer each a dram Honey Deer's marrow Oyl oâ Râsâ Bulls grease each two drams Or Take Fraââ kincense Mastich âeruss Galbaââum each half an ounce mix them all with white âine then âd Poâphâlix an ounce and wiâh Wax and Oyl of Roseâ make an Oyntment Make Iâjâctions or Clysters for the woâb of the Decoction of round Birthwort Cyprâss boyled in steeled Water and sharp Wiâe with a little Hydromel Agrimony Mugwoât Plantane Roses Sâhaenanth Hoâehound Chap. 19. Of Ulcers and rottenness of the Womb. THough the neck of the womb be only sâbjâct to ulcers as we shewed yet the substance of womb hath been ulcerated and it hath been observed to rot when it hath fallen âut and to fall away * As we said of a Woman at Aâinion that after lived some time And the Examples of Rousset shew that it may be safely cut off Also a âhild dead in the wombâ may cause an ulcer as divers Histories witness in Albucasis and Alexander Benedictus Mauriciâs Cordââus and many others How thâse ulcers and rottenness of the womb are cured is said in Sect. 1. cap. 8. where we spâke of Ulcers of the neâk of the Womb and Cap. 10. of Fiââulaes of the Womb. Chap. 20. Of the Diseases of the Stones and Vessels of Procreation in Women IT is apparânt by Hiâtories wâitten by grave and leaâned Mân that the stoâes of women and there seed-vessels are many times grievously distempered when the womb joyned to them is not Somtimes water is gathered about the stones as Gaspar Bauhinus John Schenkius write and he hath another History Lib. Obser 3 from John Heintz of a Maid that desired a little before she died that her body might be opened to testifie her innocency In which besides other things remarkablâ the stones were found swollen as big as a head of a young child blewish and spungie much water came out of them and that made her belly swel and she taken to be with child buâ the truth appeared and her chastity testified THE FOURTH BOOK THE SECOND PART Of the Symptoms in the Womb and from the Womb. Chap. 1. Of weakness of the Womb. THERE are many Symptomes from the womb Of those in the womb the first is weakness so that it cannot perform its actions The action of the womb is twofold private and publick By its private action it âakes it nourishment of blood that comes to it
liâtle of the Electuary of the juâce of Roses If there be a chronick diâease she may also be purged safely especially if she be used to it and strengtheners be applied to the navel Question 4. Whether purging or bleeding is most dangerous for a Woman with Child We sââwed in the last Question the necessity of purging and its danger by the great motion of humors which if iâ reach to the womb causeth abortion because it causeth pain in the belly and provokes the teâms But bleedinâ diââurbs the humors less nor doth hurt any way but by taking nourishment from the childâ And this you need not fear if there be too much blood Thereâore puâging is more dangerous then bleeding Question 5. Whâther is it lawful to cause an Abortion to preserve the Mother A Christian may not cause an abortion for any cause for it is wickedâ and the Gentiles in Hippâcrates his time never allowed it they would not hinder Conception much less would they destroy it when made Nor must the moâher be pâeserved by the loss of the child For we must not do evil that good may come thereby But if to preserve the mother the Physitian purge or bleed and the abortion follow the fault is not the Physitian that intended it not but in the weakness of Nature and of the child and is better to preserve the mother then by neglecting the lawful means let both die Also the dead child must presently be thrown out Question 6. Whether are Clysters Diureticks and Sweaâs propâr for a Woman with Child Though women deny Clysters to them yet if they have been used to them they may be given in a ãâã quantity such as only molliâie and supâle noâ do thây more hurt thân Lenitives Diââeticks or things that provoke urine are âât safe because they pâovoke the tââms You ãâã not give gântle Sweats for Nature will reââive strength by the castinâ off of her enemies âou may use Alterers thât are proper as this Syrup Take the juyce of unripe Grapes about the beginning of September three galons add Pomââitrons or Lemons bruised halâ a pound boyl them ãâã they are soft and strain them and with half a pouââ of Sugar make a Syrup Chap. 4. Of the Symptomes that befal Women with Child in in the first months THey are loathing of meat Pica or evil appetite pewking vomiting belly-ach flux of the belly tooth and headach giddiness These all come from the stoppage of the terms especially in a Cacochymy or evil juyce for it goes to the stomach and so to the head Fiâst ââey loath meat which Hippocrates âaith is a sign of Conception And this is when the child takes the purest blood and leaves the impure which gets into the mouth of the stomach and insects it and hence comes the loathing of some sorts oâ meats Sometimes this ceaseth of it self but if there be danger of a Consumption in the mother leââ the child should be in danger for want of food give a gentle Vomit or Stomach-pills with thingâ that strengthen the Stomach As Take Coâserââ of red Roseâ half an ounce of Bettony an ouncâ pââserved Quinces three dramâ Aromaticum ãâã half a dram Pearl prepared half a scruple ãâã Syrup of green Ginger and Quinâes make an Eââctuary Anoint the stomach with oyl of Mastich ãâã Quinces Wormwood Mirtles c. Give ãâã and powerful things with ãâ¦ã roasted rather then boyled Pica is when they desire strange and absurd things as coals ashes c. as she that longed for her husbands flesh and though she loved him very well she killed him eat part and poudered up the rest Of this disease we spake in the third Book Juyce of yong Vine-âeaves with syrup of Quinces is good against this or the water that drops in May from the Vines This keeps the child from suffering by the mothers appetite Or this Spirit Take Citron peels Oranges Pââny roots as much as you please add Malmsey di ãâ¦ã them some daies then beat the roots and peels ad more Malmsey and distil them The third is loathing and vomiting from an evil vapor or humor in the stomach from blood retained If vomiting gives her ease stop it not but leave it to Nature it wil cease after a month or two If it be with trouble give a gentle Vomit or strengthen the stomach or give a little Rhubarb The fourth is pain of the belly fâom wind and humors about the womb that go to the guts discuss them as in Chap. 3. of the Colick Avoid moist Fomentations give Cinnamon water or spiced Wine The fifth is a loosness which must be suddenly stopt least it cause an abortion First give a âentle Clenser and strengthener âs Rhubarb with âââup of Roses solutive then Quinces at the first course at meals and Rice Starch Almonds Conââââe of Roseâ Quinces Apply to the navel a Pul ãâ¦ã of Quincâs Mastich Nutmegs Mace Cloves The sixth is the toothach from a shârp humor ââom retention of the terms that goes to the râot ãâã some tooth and hurts the membranes It ceaseth commonly of ãâã self yet if it be great use a Plaister of Mastich and Tacamahacca to the temples and hold in the mouth the Decoction of Fern rootâ Cinquefoyl Snakeweed Sage Mulberry baâââ c. The seventh is headach when the vapors fâom the terms stopt ascend and twitch the membâaneâ of the brain it must be repelled and abated with Lenitives of which in Lib. 1. Part 3. Sect. 1. Cap 3. of Headach The eighth of the Megrim from the vapors disturbing the Spirits that go to the head by the veins and arteries or by the gullet If it cease not discuss vapors and strengthen the brain inwardly and outwardly as in Vertigo Chap. 5. Of the Symptoms in Women with Child in the middle months THey are cough heart-beating fainting watching pain in the loyns and hips and bleeding 1. The cough is from a sharp vapor that comes to the jaws and rough artery from the terâs or from a thin part of that blood gotten into the âeins of the breast or falling from the head to the breast This endangers abortion and strength âails from watching therefore purge the hâmors that fâll from the head to the breast with Rhubarb Agariâlâ and strengthen the head as in a Câtarrh and givâââeet Lenitives as in ãâã Cough 2. Palpitation of heâât and fainting is fââm vapors that go to it by the ârteries or fâom blâââ that aboundeth and caÌnot get out at the womb but ascends and oppreâleth the heart Use Cordials as in Syncope inwardly and outwardly If it be from too much blood as in Plethory open a vein 3. Watching is from dry sharp vapors that trouble the animal Spirits Then use Frictions and wash the feet at bed-time and give Syrup of Poppies dried Roses Emulsions of sweet Almonds and white Poppy seeds 4. There is pain in the loyns and hipps from the weight of the child or from the terms stopt or growth
and dry distemper in the breasts that burns up the thin blood Give flesh of good juyce and easie concoction as Chickens Kid Veal abstain from gross food use moistners and attenuaters and if there be thick humors with the blood let them be evacuated Of the sharpness ill tast scent and colour of the Milk There are divers tasts scents and colours in milk from variety of diet Therefore let a Nurse take heed of fryed Onions and all four salt and spiced meats and let her eat Sallets and Rhadishes and the like Let her not be passionate Milk also is somtimes falt sharp cholerick and mâlancholick This breeds dangerous diseases as wringing in the belly flux watching leanness trush and falling-siâkness Correct the blood and keep a good diet beware of things that corrupt the milk as sharp âalt things avoid anger and other passions and Venery Good Wine moderately taken by such as have used it takes away the ill scent from milk If these will not do purge the Cacochymy or evil âuyces with Medicines proper for the humors offending Chap. 4. Of the Diet and Government of new-born Children THe best colour in a new-born child is redness all over the body that changeth by degrees to a Rose-colour they who are white are sââkly and short lived It must cry clear and loud which shews the strength of the breast Observe all the parts and âigure and passages diligently let the Midwise handle it gently Roul it up with soft cloaths and lay it in a cradle and wash it first with warm wine give it a little honey before it sucks or a little Oyl of sweet Almonds newly drawn that if there be any filth contracted in the stomach from the womb it may be clensed for there is a black matter yellowish in the guts which if not voided will cause an Epilepsie Keep it from cold air and not too hot nor in too great light set not a candle behind it at the head nor let it see the Sunâ least it be squint-ey'd Let it not be frighted nor left alone sleeping or waking least it receive hurt Let it sleep long carried in the arms often and give it the dug but âill not too much his stomach with milk After four months âoosân the arms but not the belly and breast and âeet but keep them rouled from cold above a year Let it be often clensed from the excrements of the belly and bladder least they cause itching oâ pain or excoriation A little crying empties the brain and ãâã the lungs and stiâs up naturâl ãâ¦ã it not cry too much for to prevent Catarrhs and Rupturesâ but it doâh least hurtâ befoâe sucking and aâteââoncoâtion Thââiâst months let it only suck as often as it will âo the stomach be not over âharged Give it change of breasts somtimes the right somtimes the leât Afterwards make Pap of Barley bread ââeâpt in water and boyled in Milk Let strong children have it bâtimes and not suck an houâ after thus it must be nourisht til it breeds teeth Chap. 5. Of the Diet of an Infant from breeding of Teeth til it be weaned WHen the teeth come forth by degrees give it more solid food and deny it âot milk such as are easily chewed When it is stâonger let it not stand too soon but be held by the Nurse or put into a go-chair that it may thrust foâward it self and not fall In plaâes where bathing of children is used ãâã it be washâd twice a week fâom the seventh âânth till it be weâned Chap. 6. Of Weaning of Children Wâân it nât till the teeth are bred lâât when ãâ¦ã âââth it ââuse feavers and ãâ¦ã ând âther Symptoms The ãâã châld ân muât be sooner weanâd ãâ¦ã somâ in the twelââh some in the ãâ¦ã Iâ is good to âean them aâ a year and half or two years old but give it not suddenly strange food but bring it to it by degrees while it sucks It is best to wean in the Spring or Fall in the increase of the Moon and give but very little Wine Chap. 7. Of Childrens Diet after Weaning FOr seven years the diet must be such as nourisheth and causeth growth for Hippocrates âaith They cannot endure to fast especially if they be witty Keep them from passions sorrow and fear and cocker them not but keep them to reason Let them play to temper the affection but so as not to hurt the body THE SECOND PART Of Diseases and Symptoms of Children Chap. 1. Of Infants Diseases in General HIPPOCRATES divides their diseases according to their ageâ In new born children there are alcers in the mouth vomiting coughs watchings fears inflammation of the navel âoistness of ears At breeding of teeth the gums itch and there are Feavers and Convulsions and a loose belly when they breed the eye-teeth When they are older the Tonâââs art inflamed the Vertebâe in the neck are luâaâed inwardly they breath short they have the stone or round worms or Asâarides Warts Satyrism or âtanding Yards Strangury Struma's and other Swâllings They have other diseases at other times as Meaâles small Pox the ligament of the âongue âs tooshort âhasing In the Cure use not strong Remedies nor bleeding not purging but Suppositories and Clysters As Take Violet leaves Mallows each a handful flowers of Chamomil and Violets each a pugil boyl them to four or five ounces strained ad Syrup of Roses half an ounce or six drams Oyl of Violets half an ounce make a Clyster If it need other Physick give it to the Nurse for the purging âorce is sent to the milk as Hippocrates âaith If a Woman take Elaterium or wild Cowcumbers the Child is purged but you must not give these to the Nurse but gentle things will purge the inâant if the Nurse take them Chap. 2. Of Feavers in Children Meazles and small Pox. THey aâe subject to all sorts of Feavers but they have chiefly a Feaver from milk which putriâies and turns to choler and inflames the humors And when the teeth break forth the gums are inflamed they have watching and itching pâin in the mouth and then feavers When feavers come from corrupt milk they expel no teeth and there are signs of corrupt milkâ bellyach many stools yellow and green A âeaver from breeding of teeth hath its proper sigâs These feavers cease when the cause is removed but if corrupt milk last long it is dangerous A âeaver from corrupt milk is commonly from choler therefore give cold moist things to the Nurse as Lettice Endive Emulsions of the four gâeat cold Seeds Barley cream Give no Wine while the child is in a feaver Purge the Nurse gently with Manna Cassia Lenitive Electuary and Syrup of Roses Give Alterers to the insant as Syrup of Violâts Sorrel Citrons Succory Endive water and of Vâolet with Sugar Anoint the Back-bone with Mucilage of Quinââs âleabane with Oyl of Violets and a little Wax lay Astringents to the Stomach As Take