Selected quad for the lemma: water_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
water_n	cold_a	hot_a	moist_a	5,078	5	10.3751	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25811	Aristotle's manual of choice secrets, shewing the whole mystery of generation : with receipts to prevent barrenness, and cause conception : very necessary to be known and practiced by all midwives, nurses, & young married women / translated out of Latin by J.P.	Aristotle, pseud.; P. J.	1699 (1699)	Wing A3688B; ESTC R172506	27,224	144

the place to which it floweth than the opening of a Vein And at the same time apply the following Cataplasme to the lower parts of the Belly viz. Bole Armenick and Dragons Blood each an ounce Gum Tragacanth half an ounce Mirtle Berrys and dryed Rose Leaves beaten to Powder each a dram the Juice of Plantaine an ounce make them into the thinness of a Plaister with Vnguetum Comitissae To make the Purges come freely boil a little Senna in White-Wine with a blade or two of Mace Rosemary Flowers or Tops and a little slice of Rhuebarb drink the Liquid part twice a day two spoonfuls at a time and apply to the Navel a Poltis of Featherfew Groundsil and Melilot drinking ever and anon a Glass of old Mallago wherein blew Currans have been boiled with some slices of Licorice Eating such things as are Moistening and opening to dilate the Orifices of the Veins which are much stoped by the long restraint of their wonted Flowings Sometimes the stayings proceed from suddain Griefs or Anger or other Passions of the Mind which must be avoided because they thicken and Vitiate the Blood Taken then Succory Burnet Endive Agrimony Violet-Flowers boil them in Sweet-Wine and let the Woman drink a little Glass of it warm with the Syrup of Maiden-hair dissolved in it and use a warm Fomentation of opening Herbs as Cammomile Mlliot Parsly let her Eat Green Peas Asparagus c. To bring away a false Conception after Delivery viz. If it be large and came not away with the usual Purgings it may be thought to stick to the side of the Womb and in danger of turning into a Mole which will prove yet more troublesome and painful To bring them away First she must use resolving Baths to loosen and moisten the whole Body that the Matrix may be enlarged and the passage dilated Secondly Clisters of cooling and supling Herbs Thirdly Gentle Purges to cause the excrements to avoid as also to renew the Natural Courses Fourthly By Injections which may provoke and stir up the Expulsive Faculties of the Womb and with them move and bring away the False Conception If the Neck or Sides of the Womb be Glutinated or Joyned together the Woman must be Purged and let Blood yet moderately as also Bathe are succesful made with Emolient Herbs Barks or Roots and Fomentations of the like used to the lower parts to soften and moisten the affected Places And thus much may suffice for the Ordering a Woman from her Lying in to her going a broad again And If I have passed over any Accident that does not usually or by the course of Nature c. happen no doubt but a Skillful Midwife or Nurse will find a means to Remedy it or for defect of Skill timely apply themselves to some able Surgeon or Physitian And so from hence I haste to the Child which I have left so long to give Directions for the well Ordering it as to its Health and Thriving c. CHAP. XVI Of Nurses How they ought to be Qualified and Dieted IN the first place if you take not the care of bringing it up your self make choice of a good wholesome cleanly Nurse whose Complexion and Constitution is agreeable to the Childs See that her Milk be of middle Substance neither too Thick or inclining to Curdling or too Thin or Waterish for the first clogs the Lungs and Stomach of the Child being of a bad and hard digestion and the latter Causes Scourings Gripings and yeildeth but little Nourishment As for the quantity of Milk a Nurse should rather have too much than too little that the Infant may draw it the more freely without hard Sucking to gather windyness in the Stomach She must also be of a Merry Temper not Peevish or Fretful given to Anger or any Violent Passions for these tiring the Humours have a great effect on the Child in as much as the Natural Temperature of the Milk is in some measure altered or changed by it And this is known by the Colour if it be blew it denotes the Woman given to Melancholly if Yellowish to Choller if something inclining to Red it is not well digested and denotes a weakness in the Breasts through Cold Hurts or the like defects or an Ill Quality or defect in the Blood Therefore that which is Nourishing and wholesome is very White in a Medium between Thick and Thin and this may be tryed on a Looking-Glass or any other smooth Body for a little being spurted on it if when the Glass is reared a little sloaping it run off presently then it is too Thin if it sticks and is hard to move then it is too Thick or Fat but if it slide away leasurely then it is between both As to the Age of the Nurses Milk I am of opinion it is the best at two Months Lying-in so may continue pretty well till the eighth Month but then it continually declines It is also to be considered that to breed good Milk her Meats and Drinks must be wholesome and Seasonable She must avoid hot Spices Strong-waters Spirits and Sweet Wines at least not take any great quantity of them or little quantities often And by reason the Sex of the Nurses Child is likewise to be considered I hold that the Milk of a Male Child is to be preferred and for this Reason viz. Because it is hotter better Concocted and not so excrementious as of a Girl And further an enquiry ought to be made whether the Nurse you propose went her full time for this is of Moment because if she did not she may happen to be of a Sickly weak Constitution though she may at sundry times appear outwardly to be Healthful Further as to Dyet all Onions Leeks Garlick Mustard Strong Cheese and Bak'd Meats with hot Seasonings ought to be forborn And Veal Mutton Chickens Nourishing Broth and such Meats as breed good Juice chosen Fish is too cold and moist unless she be of a hot Constitution Then let her put into her Pottage Purslain Sorrel Borrage Bugloss Letuce Succory Endive c. And drink Beer Ale or Wine and Water mixed Mead Metheglin but not too much Cyder because it sharpens the Milk and Gripes the Child Her exercise must be moderate and her hours of Sleeping seasonable and take special Care to keep her little charge Clean and Sweet in all parts viz. The Nose Ears Eyes and Mouth as well as the lower parts If she perceives any part of the Child to Warp or incline to Crookedness she must be careful to Swathe it in time whilst it is tender that by degrees it may return to straightness or if it seem difficult to her to Acomplish it let her Advise the Parents or some able Surgion before it be gone too far for this has been a misery to many in growing Crooked that might at first have been prevented wth a little Care and Cost when the Bones and Ligatures were more Flexible CHAP. XVII How to Order the