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A75579	Aristotle's master-piece compleated in two parts: the first containing the secrets of generation, in all the parts thereof. Treating, of the benefit of marriage, and the prejudice of unequal matches, signs of insufficiency in men or women; of the infusion of the soul; of the likeness of children to parents; of monstrous births; the cause and cure of the green-sickness: a discourse of virginity. Directions and cautions for mid-wives. Of the organs of generation in women, and the fabrick of the womb. The use and action of the genitals. Signs of conception, and whether of a male or female. With a word of advice to both sexes in the act of copulation. And the pictures of several monstrous births, &c. The second part, being a private looking-glass for the female sex. Treating of the various maladies of the womb; and of all other distempers incident to women of all ages, with proper remedies for the cure of each. The whole being more correct, than any thing of this kind hitherto published.; Aristotle's Masterpiece.	Aristotle, attributed name.; Salmon, William, 1644-1713.	1697 (1697)	Wing A3697kA; ESTC R230121	84,412	197

Nature viz. raw or burnt Flesh Ashes Coals Old shoes Chalk Wax Nut-shels Mortar Lime Oat-meal Tobacco Pipes c. which occasion not only a Suppression of the Menses but likewise obstructions through the whole Body Therefore the first thing necessary to eradicate the Cause is Matrimonial Conjunction and such Copulation that may prove to the satisfaction of her that is afflicted for by that means the menses will begin to flow according to their natural and due course and the Humours being dispersed will soon waste themselves and then no more matter being administred to increase them they will vanish and a good temperament of Body will return But in case this best Remedy cannot be had so soon as necessity requries then let her be let Blood in the Ankle and if she be about 16 you may likewise do it in the Arm but let her bleed but sparingly especially if the Blood be good If the Disease be of any continuance then is it to be eradicated by Purging Preparation of the humour being first consider'd which may be done by the Virgins drinking Decoction of Guaicum with Dittany of Creet But the best Purge in this case ought to be made of Aloes Agarick Senna Rhubarb And for strengthing the Bowels and opening Obstructions Chalibiat Medicines are chiefly to be used The Diet must be moderate and sharp things be by all means avoided And for the freeing of the Humour take Prepared Steel Bezoar Stone the Root of Scorzonera Oyl of Chrystal in small Wine and let the Diet be moderate but in no wise let Vinegar be used therewith nor upon any other occasion And in so observing the Humours will be dilated and dissipated by which Means the Complexion will return and the Body be lively and full of Vigour And now since Barrenness daily occasions discontent and that Discontent creates Difference between Man and Wife or by immoderate Grief frequently casts the Woman into one or other violent Distemper I shall in the next place treat thereof Of Barrenness In times past before Women came to the marriage Bed they were first searched by the Midwife and those only which she allowed of as fruitful were admitted I hope therefore it will be thought a needless labour to shew how they may prove themselves and turn the stony ground into a fruitful soil Barrenness is a deprivation of life and power which ought to be in the seed to procreate and propagate for which end both man and woman were made Causes of Barrenness It is caused by overmuch heat or cold that drying up the seed and making it corrupt this extinguishing the life of the seed making it watrish and unfit for Generation It may be caused also by the not flowing or over-flowing of the Courses by Swellings Ulcers and Inflammations of the Womb by an excrescence of flesh growing about the mouth of the Matrix by the mouth of the Womb being turned unto the back or side by the grossness and fatness of the body whereby the mouth of the matrix is closed up by being prest with the Omentum or Caule and the matter of the seed is converted into fatness Or if she be of a lean and exhaust body to the World she proves Barren because though she doth conceive yet the fruit of the Womb will wither before it comes to perfection for want of nourishment Aetius and Sylvius ascribe one main cause of Barrenness to compel'd copulation as when parents enforce their daughters to have Husbands contrary to their liking therein marrying their Bodies but not their Hearts and where there is a want of Love there for the most part is no Conception as appears in Women which are deflowred against their will Another main cause of Barrenness is attributed to the want of a convenient moderating quality which the Woman ought to have with the Man as if he be hot she must be cold If he be dry she must be moist But if they be both dry or both moist of constitution they cannot propagate and yet simply considered of themselves they are not Barren for he or she which before was as the Barren fig-tree being now joined with an apt constitution becomes as the fruitful Vine And that Man and Woman being every way of a like constitution cannot Procreate I will bring Nature it self for a testimony who hath made Man of a hotter Constitution than Woman that the quality of the one may moderate the quality of the other Signs of Barrenness If Barrenness does proceed from overmuch heat she is of a dry body subject to anger she hath black Hair quick pulse her purgations flow but little and that with pain she Loves to play in the courts of Venus But if it comes by cold then are the signs contrary to those even now recited If through an evil quality in the Womb Make a suffumigation of red Storax Myrrh Cassia wood Nutmeg Cinnamon and let her receive the fume of it into the Womb covering her very close and if the odour so received passeth through the Body up into the Mouth and Nostrils of her self she is fruitful But if she feels not the fume in her Mouth and Nose it argues Barrenness one of these ways that the Spirit of the seed is either through cold extinguisht or through heat dissipated If any Woman be suspected to be unfruitful cast natural Brimstone such as is digged out of the Mine into her Urin and ●f Worms breed therein of herself she is not barren Prognosticks Barrenness maketh Women look young because they are free from those pains and sorrows which other Women are accustomed to bring forth withall Yet they have not that full perfection of health which fruitful Women do injoy because they are not rightly p●rged of the menstruous blood and superfluous seed the retaining of which two are the principal cause of most Uterine Diseases Cure First the cause must be removed and then the Womb strengthened and the Spirits of the seed enlived If the Womb be over-hot Take Syrrup of Succory with Rhubarb Syrrup of Violets Endive Roses Cassia Purslain Take of Endive water Lillies Borage flowers of each a handful Rhubarb Myrobolans of each 3 Drams with water make a Decoction add to the straning of the Syrup Laxative of Violets one ounce Syrup of Cassia half an Ounce Manna 3 drams make a potion Take of the Syrup of Mugwort one ounce Syrup of Maiden hair 2 ounces water of Succory Borage Fennel of each 3 ounces Pulv. Elect Triasand one dram make a Julep Take Pru. Solut. Elect. Ros Mesuae of each 3 drams Rhubarb one Scruple and make a Bolus Apply to the reins and privities fomentations of the juice of Lettice Violets Roses Mallows Vineleaves and Night-shade Anoint the secret parts with the cooling unguent of Galen If the power of the seed be extinguisht by cold Take every Morning two spoonfuls of Cinnamon water with one Scruple of Mahridate Take Syrup of Calamint Mugwort Bettony of each one ounce water of

conclude if the flux be inordinate many diseases will ensue and without remedy the Blood together with the native heat being consumed either cachectical Hydropical or paralitical diseases will follow Cure The cure consisteth in three particulars First in repelling and carrying back of the Blood Secondly in correcting and taking away the fluxibility of the matter Thirdly in corroborating the veins and faculties For the first To cause a regression of the Blood open a vein in the Arm and draw out so much blood as the strength of the Patient will permit and that not together but at several times for hereby the spirits are the less weakned and the retraction so much the greater Apply cupping-glasses to the Brests and also to the Liver that the reversion may be in the Fountain To correct the fluxibility of the matter Cathartical means moderated with Astrictories must be used If it be caused by Erosion or sharpness of blood consider whether the Erosion be by salt Flegm or adust Colour If by salt Flegm Prepare with syrup of violet Wormwood Roses Citron pills Succory c. Then take this purgation following Take Myrobolans Chebul half an Ounce Trochisks of Agarick one dram with Plantain water make a decoction add thereunto sir rosat lax 3 Ounces and make a potion If by adust Choller prepare the Body with Syrrup of Roses Myrtles Sorrel Purslain commixt with water of Plantain Knotgrass and Endive Then purge with this potion Take Rinds of Myrobolans Rhubarb of each one dram Cinnamon 15 Grains infuse them one night in Endive water Add to the straining pulp of Tamarind Cassia of each half an Ounce Syrup of Roses one Ounce make a potion If the blood be watrish and unconcoct as it is in Hydropical Bodies and flows forth by reason of the tenuity and thinness to draw off the Water will be profitable Purge with Agarick Elaterium and Coloquintida Sweating is proper in this cause for by it the matter offending is taken away and the motion of the blood is carried to the outward parts To procure sweat use Carduus water with Mithridate or the decoction of Guaiacum Sassafras and Sarsa-parilla the Gum of Guaiacum also doth greatly provoke sweat Pills of Sarsa-parilla taken every night going to bed are worthily commended If the blood flows forth from the opening or breaking of a vein without any evil quality in its self then ought only Corroboratives to be applied which is the last thing to be done in the cure of this inordinate flux Take of Bole Armoniac one Scruple London Treacle one dram old conserve of Roses half an Ounce with syrup of Myrtles make an Electuary Or if the flux hath continued long Take of Mastick 2 drams Olibani Troch de Carabe of each one dram Balaustiorum one Scruple make a pouder with Syrup of Quinces make it into Pills take one always before Meals Take Lapidis Haematitis Triti of each 2 Scruples Specierum Triasantali one Ounce Troch de Carabe de scoria ferri Coral Frankincense of each one Scruple fine Bole one Scruple bea● these to fine Powder and with Sugar and Plantain water a sufficient quantity make Lozenges Asses Dung is well approved of whether taken inwardly with Syr●p of Quinces or applied outwardly with Steeled water Galen by co●ve●ing the juice of it through a Metrenchit● into the Womb four days together cured this immoderate Flux which no ways else cou●d be restrain●d Going to bed let her take one Scruple and a half of Phi●onii Romani in a wafer make Suffumigations for the Matrix of Maststick Frankincense burnt Frogs not forgetting the hoof of a Mule Take of the juice of Knot grass Comfr● Quinces of each one Ounce Camphire one Dram dip silk Cotion therein and apply it to the plac●s Take of Oyl of Mastick M●r●les Quinces of each half an Ounce fine Bole Troch de Carabe Sanguinis Draconis of each ●ne Dr●m Wax and Vinegar a sufficient Quantity make an Unguent apply it both be●ore and behind Take of Plantain Shepherds Purse red Rose leaves of each one Handful of Goats and Asses Dung dryed of each one Ounce and a half Acatiae Hypocistidos of ●ach one Ounce and a half dryed M●nt one Ounce Bean-Meal three Ounces boyl all ●hese in Plantain water and ma●e of it two ●laisters apply one b●fore and the other behind If the blood flows from those vein● which are terminated in the neck of the Matrix then it is not called the overflowing 〈◊〉 the Terms but the Emerhoids of the Womb 〈◊〉 Yet the same Cure will serve them both onl● the instrumental Cure will a little differ fo● in the Uterine Emorhoids the ends of th● veins hang over like little Teats or Pushe● which must be taken away by incision and the● the veins closed up with Aloes fine Bol● burnt Allom Troch de Terra sigil Myrrh● Mastick with the juyce of Comfrey and Kno●●grass laid Plaister-wise thereto The Air must be cold and dry all motio● of the body is forbidden Let her Meat 〈◊〉 Pheasant Patridge Mountain-Birds Coney 〈◊〉 Calf's Feet c. And let her Beer be mi●● with the juyce of Pomgranates and Quinces CHAP. IV. Of the Weeping of the Womb. THe weeping of the Womb is an unnatu●● flux of blood coming from the Wom● by drops or after the manner of Tears caus●● violent Pains in the same keeping neither ●●riod nor time By some it is referred un●● the immoderate Evacuation of the Cours● yet they are distinguisht in the quantity a● manner of their flowing in that they flow copiously and freely In this continually tho' by little and little and that with great Pain and Difficulty wherefore it is likened unto the Strangury The Cause is in the faculty instrument or matter In the faculty by being enfeebled that it cannot expel the blood and the blood resting there makes the parts of the Womb grow hard and stretcheth the vessels from whence proceeds the pain in the Womb. In the instrument by the narrowness of the Passages Lastly It may be in the matter of the blood which may offend in too great a quantity or in an evil-quality it being gross and thick that it cannot flow forth as it ought to do but by drops The Signs will best appear by the Relation of the Patient Hereupon will ensue pains in the head stomach and back with inflammations suffoca●ions and excoriations of the Matrix If the strengeh of the Patient will permit ●irst open a vein in the Arm rub the upper ●arts and let her Arms be corded that the ●orce of the blood may be carried backward Then apply such things as may laxate and ●olify the stretching of the Womb and as●wage the sharpness of the Blood as Cataplasms ●ade of Bran Linseed Fenugreek Meli●ote Mallows Mercury and Atriplex If the ●lood be viscous and gross add thereto Mugwort Calamint Dictam and Betony And let her take of Venice-Treacle the quantity of a Nutmeg with Syrup of Mugwort every morning Anoint the places with Oyl

of Lilies Roses ●inseed sweet Almonds and Calf's Marrow Make injections of the Decoctions of Mallows Mercury Linseed Groundsel Mugwort Fenugreek with Oyl of sweet Almonds Sometimes it is caused by a wind and then Phlebotomy is to be omitted and in the stead thereof take Syrup of Feverfew one Ounce Honey of Roses Syrup of Staechas of each half an Ounce water of Calamint Mugwort Betony Hysop of each one Onnce make a Julep If the pain continues take this Purgation Take Specierum H●erae 1 Dram Diacatholicon half an ounce Syrup of Roses laxative 1 ounces with the Decoction of Mugwort and the four Cordial Flowers make a Potion If it come thro' weakness of the Faculty let that be Corroborated If thro' grosness or sharpness of the Blood let the quality of it be altered as I have shewn in the foregoing Chapter Lastly If the excrements of the Gut be re●ained provoke them by a Clyster of the Decoction of Camomile Betony Feverfew Mallows Linseed Juniper-berries Cu●●in-seed Anniseed Melilot adding thereto of Diacatholicon half an Ounces Hiera Picra two Drams Honey Oyl of each one Ounce Salniter a Dram and a half The Patient mus● abstain from salt sharp and windy Meats CHAP. V. Of the false Courses or Whites FRom the Womb proceeds not only the menstruous blood but accidentally many other Excrements which by the Antients are comprehended under the Title of RHOVS GVNAIK AIOS which is a distillation of variety of corrupt Humours through the womb flowing from the whole Body or part of the same keeping neither course nor colour but varying in both Cause The Cause is either promiscuously in the whole body by Cacochymia or weakness of the same or in some of the parts as in the Liver which by by the inability of the Sanguifficative faculty causeth a generation of corrupt blood and then the matter is reddish sometimes in the Gall being sluggish in its Office not drawing away those cholerick Superfluities which are ingendred in the Liver and the matter is Yellowish So●etimes in the Spleen not defecating and cleansing the blood of the dregs and excrementitious parts and then the matter flowing forth is blackish It may also come from Catarrhs in the Head or from any other putrified or corrupted Member But if the matter of the Flux be white the cause is either in the Stomach or Reins In the Stomach by a Phlegmatical and Crude matter there contracted and vitiated through Grief Melancholly and other Distempers For otherwise if the matter were only Pituita crude Phlegm and no ways corrupt or vitiated being taken into the Liver it might be converted into blood for Phlegm in the Ventricle is called Nourishment half digested But being corrupt tho' sent unto the Liver yet it cannot be turned into Nutriment for the second Concoction cannot correct that which the first hath corrupted and therefore the Liver sends it to the Womb which can neither digest it nor repel it and so it is voided out still keeping the Colour which it had in the Ventricle The cause also may be in the Reins being over-heat whereby the Spermatical matter by reason of its thinness flows forth The external cause may be moystness of the Air eating of corrupt Meats Anger Grief Slothfulness immoderate Sleeping Costiveness of body The Signs are extenuation of the body shortness and stinking of breath loathing of meat pain in the head swelling of the eyes and feet melancholly humidity flows from the Womb of divers colours as reddish black green yellow white It differs from the flowing and over-flowing of the Courses in that it keeps no certain periods and is of many Colours all which do degenerate from blood Prognosticks If the Flux be Phlegmatical it will continue long and be difficult to Cure yet if vomiting or the flux Diarrhaea happeneth diverting the humour it cures the Disease If it be Cholerick it is not so permanent yet more perilous for it will cause clifts in the neck of the Womb and sometimes make an excoriation in the Matrix If Melancholick it is most Dangerous and Contumacious y●t the flux of the Emerhoids administers Cure If the matter flowing forth be reddish open a vein on the Arm if not apply Ligatures to the Arms and Shoulders Galen glories of himself how he cured the wife of Boctus labouring of this Disease by rubbing the upper parts with Crude Honey If it be caused by a distillation from the brain take Syrup of Betony Staechas and Marjoram Purge with Pil. coch sine quibus de Agarico make Nasalia of the juice or Sage Hysop Betony Nigella with one drop of Oy1 of Cloves and a little silk Cotton Take Elect. Dianth aromat rosat diambre diamosci dulcis of each one Dram Nutmeg half a Dram with Sugar and Betony water make Lozenges to be taken every Morning and Evening Take Auriae Alexandrinae half a Dram at Night going to Bed If these things help not use the Suffumigation and Plaister as they are prescribed If it proceeds from Crudities in the Stomach or from a cold distempered Liver take every morning of the Decoction of Lignum Sanctum Purge with Pil. de Agarico de Hermodact de Hiera Diacolocynthid Foetida Agrigative Take of Elect. Aromat Ros two Drams Cytron-peels dryed Nutmeg long Pepper of each one Scruple Diagalanga one Dram Santali Albi Ligni Aloes of each half a Scruple Sugar six Ounces with Mint-water and make Lozenges of it Take of them before Meals If with Frigidity of the Liver there be joyned a repletion of the Stoma●h Purging by Vomit is commendable For which take three Drams of the Electuary Diasaru Galen allows of Diuretical means as of Apium Petrosilinum c. If the matter of the Flux be Cholerick prepare the Humour with Syrup of Roses Violets Endive Succory Purge with Myrabolanes Manna Rhubarb Cassia Take of Rhubarb two Drams Anniseed one Dram Cinnamon a Scruple and a half infuse them in six Ounces ●f Prune-broth Add to the s●raining of Manna one Ounce and take it in the Morning according to Art Take Sp●cierum Diatrionsantalon Diatragacant Frig. Di●rrhod Abbatis Diacydonit of each one Dram Sugar four Ounces with plantain-Plantain-water make Lozenges If the Clyster of the Gall be sluggish and do not stir up the Faculty of the Guts give hot Glisters of the Decoction of the four mollifying Herbs with Hon●y of Roses and Aloes If the Flux be Melancholious prepare with Syrup of Maiden-hair Epithimum Polypody Burrage Bugloss Fumetary Hart's-Tongue and Syrupus Bysantinus which must be made without Vinegar otherwise it will rather animate the Disease than Nature for Melancholly by the use of Vinegar is encreased and both by Hippocrates Sylvius and Avenzoar it is disallowed of as an Enemy to the Womb and therefore not to be used inwardly in Uterine Diseases Purgers of Melancholy are Pilulae Fumariae Pilulae Indae Pil. de Lapide Lazuli Diasena Confectio Hamech Take of stamped Prunes 2 Ounces Senna 1 Dram Opithi●um Polipody

Fumetary of each a Dram and a half sowr Dates 1 Ounce with Endive water make Decoction take of it 4 Ounces add unto it Confectionis Hamech three Drams Manna three Drams Or take Pil. Indarum Pil. Foetidarum Agarici Trochiscati of each one Scruple Pills of Rhubarb one Scruple Lapidis Lazuli six Grains with Syrup of Epithimum make Pills and take them once every Week Take Elect. Laetificantis Galeni three Drams Diamargaritti Calidi one Dram Diamosci Dulcis Conserves of Burrage Violets Bugloss of each half a Dram Citron-peels condited one Dram Sugar seven Ounces with Rose-water make Lozenges Lastly Let the Womb be cleansed from the corrupt Matter and then Corroborated For the purifying thereof make Injections of the Decoction of Bettony Feverfew Mugwort Spikenard Bistort Mercury Sage adding thereto Sugar Oyl of sweet Almonds of each two Ounces Pessaries also may be made of silk Cotton madified in the juice of the aforenamed Herbs To Corroborate the Womb you may thus prepare Trochisks Take of Mugwort Feverfew Myrrh Amber Mace Nutmeg Stirax Ligni Aloes red Roses of each one Ounce with the Mucilage of Tragacanth make Trochisks cast some of them on the Coals and smother the Womb therewith Make Fomentations for the Womb of red Wine in which hath been decocted Mastrick fine Bole Balaustia and red Roses Anoint the Matrix with Oyl of Quinces and Myrtles and apply thereto Emplastrum pro Matrix and let her take of Diamoscum Dulce and Elect. Aromaticum every Morning A drying Diet is commended to be best because in this Affect the Body moll commonly abounds with Phlegmatical and Crude Humours For this cause Hippocrates counsels the Patient to go to Bed Supperless Let her Meat be Partridge Pheasant Mountain-Birds rather roasted than boyl'd Immoderate Sleep is Forbidden Moderate Exercise is Commended CHAP. VI. Of the Suffocation of the Mother THis Affect which simply Considered is none but the cause of an Affect is called in English the Suffocation of the Mother not because the Womb is Strangled but for that it causeth the Wo●an to be choaked It is a retraction of the Womb towards the Midriff and Stomach which presseth and crusheth up the same that the instrumental cause of respiration the Midriff is Suffocated which consenting with the Brain causeth the Animal Faculty the efficient cause of Respiration also to be intercepted whereby the Body being Refrigerated and the Actions depraved she falls to the Ground as one being Dead In these Histerical Passions some continue longer some shorter Rabby Moses writes of some which lay in the Paroxisme of the Fit two days Ruffius makes mention of one which continued in the same Passion three days and three nights and at the three days and revived That we may learn by other mens harms to beware I will give you one Example more Paraeus writeth of a Woman in Spain which sudenly fell into a Uterine Suffocation and appeared to the Judgment of Man as dead her Freinds wondering at this her sudden Change for their better Satisfaction sent to the Chyrurgeon to have her Dissected who beginning to make an Incision the Woman began to move and with a great Clamour returned to her self again to the Horror and Ad●iration of all the Spectators To the end therefore you may distinguish the Living from the Dead the Antients prescribe three Experiments The first is to lay a light Feather to the Mouth and by the motion of it you may judge whether the Patient be Living or Dead The second is to place a Glass of Water on the Brest and if you perceive it to move it betokeneth Life The Third is to hold a pure Looking-glass to the Mouth and Nose and if the Glass appear thick with a little Dew upon it it betokeneth Life And these three Experiments are good yet with this Caution that you ought not to depend on them too much for though the Feather and the Water do not move and the Glass continue pure and clear yet it is not a necessary Consequence that she is destitute of Life For the motion of the Lungs by which the Respiration is made may be taken away that she cannot Breathe yet the Internal Transpiration of the Heat may remain which is not manifested by the motion of the Brest or Lungs but lyes Occult in the Heart and inward Arteries Examples hereof we may have in the Fly and Swallow which in the Cold of Winter to the Ocular Aspect seem Dead Inanimate and Breathe not at all yet they Live by the Transpiration of that Heat which is reserved in the Heart and inward Arteries therefore when the Summer approacheth the internal Heat being Revocated to the outward parts they are then again revived out of their Sleepy Extasie Those Women therefore that seem to dye suddenly and upon no evident Cause let them not be committed unto the Earth until the end of three days lest the Living be Buried for the Dead Cure The part affected is the Womb of which there is a twofold Motion Natural and Symptomatical The Natural Motion is when the Womb attracteth the Humane Seed or excludeth the Infant or Secundine The Symptomatical Motion of which we are here to speak is a Convulsive drawing upward of the Womb. The Cause usually is in the Retention of the Seed or in the Suppression of the Months causing a Repletion of corrupt Humours in the Womb from whence proceeds a Flatulent Refrigeration causing a Convulsion of the Ligaments of the Womb. And as it may come from Humidity or Repletion being a Convulsion it may be caused by Emptyness or Dryness And lastly By Abortion or difficult Child-birth Signs At the approaching of the suffocation there is a paleness of the face weakness of the legs shortness of breath frigidity of the whole body with a working up into the throat and then she falls down as one void both of sense and motion The mouth of the Womb is closed up and being touched with the finger feels hard The pa●oxism of the fit once past she openeth her eyes and feeling her stomach opprest she offers to vomit And least that any should be deceived in taking one disease for anoth●r I will shew how it may be distinguisht from those diseases which have the nearest affinity with its self It differs from the Appoplexy being it comes without shreeking out also in the Hysterical passion the sense of feeling is not altogether so destroyed and lost as it is in the Appoplectical disease It differs from the Epilepsie in that the eyes are not wrested neither does any spumy froth come from the mouth and that convulsive motion which sometime is joyned to suffocations is not so Universal as it is in the Epilepsie onely this or that member is convulst and that without any vehement agitation In the Sincope both respiration and pulse is taken away the Counten●nce waxeth pal● and she swoons a●ay sudddenly but in th● Hysterical passion commonly there is ●●th respiration and pulse

Urine doth flow forth it is white and thick and the Midriff is molested the loyns are grieved the Privities pained the Womb sinks down to the entrance of the private parts or else comes clean out Prognosticks This Grief possessing an old Woman is cared with great difficulty because it weakens the Faculties of the Womb and therefore tho' it be reduced into his proper place yet upon every little illness or indisposition it is subject to return and so it is with the younger sort if the Disease be inveterate If it be caus'd by putrifaction in the Nerves it is incurable Cure The Womb naturally being placed between the strait Gut and the Bladder and now fallen down ought not to be put up again until the faculty both of the Guts and Bladder be stirred up Nature being unloaded of her Burthen let the Woman be placed on her back in such sort that her legs may be higher than her head let her feet be drawn up to her hinder parts with her knees spread abroad The mollifie the Swelling with Oyl of Lillies and sweet Almonds or with the decoction of Mallows Beets Fenugreek and Linseed When the Inflation is dissipated let the Midwife anoint her hand with Oyl of Mastick and reduce the Womb into its place The Matrix being put up the situation of the Patient must be changed let ●er legs be out at length and laid together set Cupping-glasses to the brests and navel Boyl Mugwort Feverfew red Roses and Comfery in red Wine and foment the places therewith Make a Suffumigation for the Matrix of Castor Assafoetida Frankincense and Mastick Take Sandarache Olibani Cypress Nuts of each three drams Mastick Styrax Frankincense of each an ounce fine Bole one dram with Oyl of Myrtles and Wax make two Plaisters apply one before and the other behind Take of red Roses Pomegranate Pills Acorn-cups Myrtle-berries of each two ounces Medlar-leaves Sage Rue Origan Comfery Wormwood of each a handful and a half boyl all these in water and make an Insession Move sweet Odours to the Nose and at her coming out of the Bath give her of Syrup of Feverfew one ounce with one dram of Mithridate Take Ladam Mastick of each three drams Galbani half an ounce Styracis two drams make therewith a Plaister for the Navel Then make Pessaries of Assafoetida Saffron Comfrey Mastick adding thereto a little Castor The practice of Pareus in this case was to make them only of Cork in figure like a little Egg covering them over with Wax and Mastick dissolved together fastening to it a thr●d and so to put it up into the Womb. The present danger being now taken away and the Matrix seated in its natural abode the remote cause must be removed If the Body be Plethorick open a Vein Prepare with Syrup of Betony Calamint Hysop and Feverfew Purge with Pil. de Hiera cum Agaric Pil. de Colocyn If the Stomach be oppress'd by Crudities unburden it by vomiting Sudorifical Decoctions of Lignum sanctum and Sassifras taken twenty days together dries up the superfluous moisture and consequently suppresseth the cause of the Disease Let the Air be hot and dry and your Diet hot and attenuating Abstain from Dancing Leaping Sneezing and from all motion both of body and mind Eat sparingly drink not much sleep moderately CHAP. VIII Of the Inflammation of the Womb. THe Phlegmon or Inflammation of the Matrix is a Tumour possessing the whole Womb accompanied with unnatural heat by obstructions and gathering together of corrupt Blood Cause The Cause of this Affect is suppression of the Months repletion of the whole Body immoderate use of Venus often handling of the Genitals difficult Child-birth vehement agitation of the Body falls blows to which also may be added the use of sharp Pessaries whereby not seldom the Womb is inflamed Cupping-glasses also fastened to the Pubes and Hypogastrium draw the Humours to the Womb. Signs The Signs are Aguish humours pains in the head and stomach vomiting coldness of the knees convulsions of the neck doting trembling of the heart sometimes there is a straitness of breath by reason of the heat which is communicated to the Diaphragma or Midriff the Brests sympathizing with the Womb are pained and swelled Particular Signs If the fore-part of the Matrix be inflamed the Privities are grieved the Urine is supprest or flows forth with difficulty If the after part the loyns and back suffer the Excrements are retained If the right side the right hip suffers the right leg is heavy slow to motion in so much that sometimes she seems to hault And so if the left side of the Womb be inflamed the left hip is pained and the left leg is weaker than the right If the Neck of the Womb be affected the Midwife putting up her Finger shall feel the mouth of it retracted and closed up with a hardness about it Prognosticks All Inflammations of the Womb are dangerous if not deadly and especially if the total substance of the Matrix be inflamed Yet they are less perilous if they be in the Neck of the Womb. A f●ux of the Belly foretells Health if it be natural for Nature works best by the use of her own Instruments Cure In the Cure first let the humours flowing to the Womb be repell'd for effecting of which after the Belly hath been loosened by cooling Clysters Phlebotomy will be needful Open therefore a Vein in the Arm and if she be not with Child the day after strike the Saphena on both Feet Fasten Ligatures and Cupping-glasses to the Arms and rub the upper Parts Purge lightly with Cassia Rhubarb Sena Myrobolans Take of Sena two drams Anniseed on scruple Myrobalans half an ounce Ba●ley-water a sufficient quantity make a Decoction dissolve it in Syrup of Succory with Rhubarb two ounces Pulp of Cassia half an ounce Oyl of Anniseed two drops and make a Potion At the beginning of the Disease anoint the Privities and Reins with Oyl of Roses and Quinces Make Plaisters of Plaintain Linseed Barley-meal Mellilot Fenugreek Whites of Eggs and if the pain be vehement add a little Opium Foment the Genitals with the Decoction of Poppy-heads Purslain Knot-grass and Water-Lillies Make Injections of Goats-Milk rose-Rose-water clarified Whey with Honey of Roses In the declining of the Disease use Insessions of Sage Linseed Mugwort Penny-royal Horehound Fenugreek Anoint the lower parts of the Belly with Oyl of Camomile and Violets Take Lilly Roots and Mallow Roots of each four ounces Mercury one handful Mugwort Feverfew Camomile-flowers Melilot of 〈◊〉 half a handful bruise the Herbs and the ●●●ots and boyl them in a sufficient quantity of Milk then add fresh Butter Oyl of Camomile Lillies of each two ounces Bea●-meal a sufficient quantity make two Plaisters apply one before and the other behind If the Tumour cannot be removed but ●ends to suppuration Take of Fenugreek Mal●ow-Roots decocted Figs Linseed Barley-Meal Doves-dung Turpentine of each three ●rams Deers Suet half a dram Opium

Pouder take one dram in 4 ounces of Mugwort water Take of Hypericon Calamint Penny-royal Bettony Hyssop Sage Horehound Valerian Madder Savine with water make a decoction take 3 ounces of it with one ounce and half of Syrup of Feverfew Take of Mugwort Myrrh Gentian Pil. Coch. of each 4 Scruples Rue Penny-royal Saggapenum Opopanax of each half a dram Assafoetida Cinnamon Juniper-berries Borage of each one dra● with the juice of Savine make Pills to be taken of every Morning Make Insessions of Hyssop Bay-leaves Assrum Calamint Bay-berries Camomile Mugwort Savine Take of Sagapenum Marjoram Gentian Savine Cloves Nutmeg Bay-berries of each 2 Scruples Galbanum one dram Hierae Picrae Black Hellebore of each one Scruple with Turpentine make a Pessary But if these things prove not available then must the Mole be drawn away with an instrument put up into the Womb called a Pes Griphius which may be done with no great danger if it be performed by a skilful Chirurgeon After the delivery of the Mole by reason that the Woman hath parted with much blood already let the flux of blood be stayed as soon as may be Fasten Cupping-glasses to the shoulder and ligatures to the arms If these help not open the Liver-vein on the right arm The air shall be moderately hot and dry and her diet such as doth molify and attenuate she may drink White-wine CHAP. XII Of the Signs of Conception IGnorance makes Women become Murderers to the Fruit of their own Bodies many having Conceived and thereupon finding their Bodies to be out of Order and not knowing rightly the Cause do either run to the Shop of their own Conceit and take what they think fit or else as the Custom is they send to the Physitian for Cure and he perceiving not the Cause of their Grief seeing that no certain Judgment can be given by the Urine prescribes what he thinks best perhaps some strong Diuretical or Cathartical Potion whereby the Conception is destroyed Wherefore Hippocrates saith There is a Necessity that Women should be instructed in the Knowledge of Conception that the Parent as well as the Child might be saved from Danger I will therefore give you some Instructions by which every one may know whether she be with Child or not The signs of Conception shall be taken from the Woman from the Urine from the Infant and from Experiment Signs collected from the Woman are these The first day after Conception she feels a light Quivering or Chilness running through the Whole Body a tickling in the Womb and a little Pain in the lower parts of the Belly Ten or twelve Days after the Head is affected with Giddiness the Eyes with a Dimnes of Sight Then follows Red Pimples in the Face with a Blue Circle about the Eyes the Brests swell and grow hard with some pain and pricking in them The Belly suddenly sinketh and riseth again by Degrees with a hardness about the Navel The Nipples af the Brest's wax Red the Heart beats inordinately the Natural appetite is Dejected yet die hath a longing Desire after strange Meats The neck of the Womb is retraced that it can hardly be felt with the Finger being put up and this is an infallible Sign She is suddenly Merry and as soon Melancholly her Monthly Courses are stayed without any Evident Cause The Excrements of the Guts are unaccustomedly retained by the VVomb pressing the great Gut and her Desire to Venus is abated The surest Sign is taken from the Infant which begins to move in the VVomb the third or fourth Month and that not in the manner of a Mole from one side to another Rushing like a Stone but mildly as may be perceived by applying the Hand hot on the Belly Signs taken from the Urine The best Clerks do affirm that the Urine of a VVoman with Child is white and hath little Motes like those in the Sun-beams ascending and descending in it and a Cloud swimming aloft of an Opal Colour the Sediment being divided by shaking of the Urine appears like carded VVool. In the middle of her time the Urine turneth Yellow next Red and lastly Black with a Red Cloud Signs taken from Experiment At Night going to Bed let her drink Water and Honey afterward if she feels a beating pain in her Belly and about her Navel she hath Conceived Or let her take the juice of Carduus and if she Vomiteth it up it is a sign of Conception cast a clean Needle into Womans Urine put into a Bason let it stand all Night and in the Morning if it be coloured with red Spots she hath Conceived but if it be blacker or rusty she hath not Signs taken from the Sex to shew whether it be Male or Female Being with Child of a Male the right Breast swells first the right Eye is more lively than the left her Face Well coloured because such as the Blood is such is the Colour and the Male is conceived of purer Blood and of more perfect Seed than the Female Red Motes in the Urine settling down to the Sediment foretells that a Male is conceived but if they be white a Female Put the Womans Urine which is with Child into a Glass Bottle let it stand close stopt three days then strain it through a fine Cloth and you shall find littte living Creatures if they be Red it is a Male if White a Female To conclude the mod certain Sign to give Credit unto is the motion of the Infant For the Male moves in the third Month ad the Famale in the fourth CHAP XIII Of Vntimely Birth WHen the Fruit of the Womb comes forth before the Seventh Month that is before it comes to Maturity it is said to be Abortive And in effect the Child proves Abortive I mean not to Live if it be Born in the eighth Month. And why Children born in the seventh and ninth Month may Live and not in the eighth Month may seem strange yet it is true The cause hereof by some is ascribed unto the Planet under which the Child is born for every Month from the Conception to the Birth is Governed by his proper Planet And in the Eighth Month Saturn doth Predominate which is cold and dry and coldness being an Enemy unto Life destroys the Nature of the Child Hippocrates gives a better Reason The Infant being every way perfect and compleat in the Seventh Month desires more Air and Nutriment than it had before which because he cannot obtain he labours for a Passage to go out and if his Spirits be weak and faint and have not Strength sufficient to break the Membranes and come forth it is decreed by Nature that he should continue in the Womb until the 9th Month that in that time his wearied Spirits might be again Strengthned and Refreshed but if he returns to strive again in the eighth Month and be born he cannot Live because the day of his Birth is either past or to come for in the eighth Month

Penny-royal Feverfew Hysop Sage of each 2 ounces make a Julep Take Oyl of Anniseed one Scruple and half Diacymini Diacalaminthe Diamosci Diagalangae of each one dram Sugar 4 ounces with water of Cinnamon make Lozenges take of them a dram and half twice a Day two hours before Meales Fasten cupping-glasses to the hipps and belly Take of Stirax Calamint one ounce Mastick Cloves Cinamon Nutmeg Lig. Aloes Frankincense of each half an ounce Musk 10 Grains Amber-greese half a Scruple with Rose-water make a Confection Divide it into four equal parts Of one part make a Pomum Odoratum to smell on if she be not hysterical Of the second make a Mass of Pills and let her take three every night Of the third make a Pessary dip it in Oyl of Spikenard and put it up Of the fourth make a suffumigation for the Womb. If the Faculties of the Womb be weakened and the life of the Seed suffocated by overmuch humidity ●●owing to those parts Take of Betony Marjorum Mugwort Penny-royal Balm of each one handful Roots of Asrum Fenel Ellecampane of each two drams Anniseed Cummin of each one dram with Sugar and Water a sufficient quantity of which make a Syrup and take three ounces every other morning Purge with these Pills following Take of Digridion two grains Specierum de Castorei one scruple Pil Foetid two scruples with Syrup of Mugwort make six Pills Take Spec. Diagemmae Diamosci D●ambrae of each one dram Cinnamon one dram an half Mace Cloves Nutmeg of each half a dram Sugar six ounces with Water of Feverfew make Lozenges to be taken every morning Take of the Decoction of Sarsaparilla and Virga Aurea not forgeting Sage which Agrippa wondering at the operation of hath honour'd with the Name of Sacra Herba a holy Herb And it is recorded by Dodonaeus in his History of Plants Lib. 2. Cap. 77. That after so many Egyptians were dead the surviving Women that they might multiply the faster were commanded to drink the Juice of Sage Anoint the Genitals with Oyl of Anniseed and Spikenard Take Mace Nutmeg Cinnamon Styrax Amber of each one dram Cloves Laudani of each half a dram Turpentine a sufficient quantity make Trochisks to smother the Womb. Take the Roots of Valerian and Ellecampane of each one pound of Galangale two ounces Origan Lavender Marjoram Betony Mugwort Bay leaves Calamint of each three handfuls with Wat●r make an incession in which let her sit after she hath had her Courses If Barrenness proceeds from Driness consuming the matter of the Seed Take every day Almond-milk and Goats-milk extracted with Honey Eat often of the Root Satyrion condited and of the Electuary of Diasatyrion Take three Weathers Heads boyle them until all the flesh comes from the bones then take of Mellilot Violets Cammomile Mercury Orchis with their Roots of each an handful Fenugreek Linseed Valerian Roots of each one pound Let all these be decocted in the aforesaid Broth and let the Woman sit in the Decoction up to her Navel Also take of Deers Suet half an ounce Cows Marrow Styracis liquideae of each two drams Oyl of sweet Almonds two ounces with Silk Cotton make a Pessary Make Injections only of fresh Butter and Oyl of sweet Almond If Barrenness be caused by any proper affect of the Womb the Cure is set down in the Second Part. Sometimes the Woman proves barren when there is no Impediment on either side except only in the manner of the Act As when in the Emission of the Seed the Man is quick and the Woman too slow whereby there is not an Emission of both Seeds at the same instant as the Rules of Conception require according to the opinion of the Antients Wherefore to take away this Inconvenience Mulier preparari ac disponi debet molli complexu lascivis verbis oscula lasciviora miscenda If this doth not suffice before the Act of Coition foment the private parts with the Decoction of Betony Sage Hysop and Calamint and anoint the Mouth and Neck of the Womb with Musk and Civet The Cause of Barrenness being removed let the Womb be corroborated as follows Take of Bay-berries Mastick Nutmeg Frankincense Cypress Nuts Laudani Galbani of each one dram Styracis liquid two Scruples Cloves half a Scruple Ambergreece two grains Musk six grains then with Oyl of Spikenard make a Pessary Take red Roses Lapidis Haematitis White Frankincense of each half an ounce Sanguis Draconis fine Bole Mastick of each two drams Nutmeg Cloves of each one dram Spikenard half a scruple With Oyl of Wormwood make a Plaister for the lower part of the Belly Let her eat often of Eringo Roots condited and Make an Injection only of the Juice of the Roots of Satyrion The aptest time for Conception is instantly after the Menses are ceas'd because then the Womb is thirsty and dry apt both to draw the Seed and to retain it by the roughness of the inward superficies And besides in some the mouth of the Womb is turned unto the back or side and is not placed right until the last day of the Courses Excess in all things is to be avoided Lay aside all Passions of the Mind Shun Study and Care as things that are Enemies to Conception for if a Woman conceives under such circumstances how wise soever the Parents are the Children at the best will be but foolish because the animal Faculties of the Parents viz. the Understanding and the rest from whence the Child derives its Reason are as it were confused through the multiplicity of Cares and Cogitations Examples hereof we have in learned Men who after great study and care instantly accompanying with their Wives often beget very foolish Children A hot and moist Air is most convenient as appears by the Women in Egypt which usually bring forth three or four Children at one time CHAP. X. Virginity what it is in what it consists and how violated together with the Opinions of the Learned about the mutation of Sexes in the Womb during the Operation of Nature i● framing the Body THere are many ignorant People that boa●● of their Skill in the knowledge of Virginity and some Virgins have undergone har● Censures through their ignorant Determinations And therefore I thought it highly necessary to clear this Point that the towering Imaginations of conceited Ignorance may be brought down and that the Fair Sex whose Vertues are so illustriously bright that they both excite our Wonder and command our Imitation may be freed from the Calumnies and Detractions of Ignorance and Envy that so their Honours may continue as Unspotted as they have kept their Persons Uncontaminated and free from Defilement Virginity in a strict sence does signifie the Prime the Chief the Best of any thing which makes men so desirous of marrying Virgins imagining some greater pleasure to be enjoy'd in their Embraces than in those of Widows or such as have before been lain withal Tho' not many years ago a very