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A10887	The byrth of mankynde, newly translated out of Laten into Englysshe. In the which is entreated of all suche thynges the which chaunce to women in theyr labor, and all suche infyrmitees whiche happen vnto the infantes after they be delyuered. And also at the latter ende or in the thyrde or last boke is entreated of the conception of mankynde, and howe manye wayes it may be letted or furtheryd, with diuers other fruytefull thynges, as doth appere in the table before the booke; Swangern Frawen und hebammen Rosegarten. English	Roeslin, Eucharius, d. 1526.; Jonas, Richard.	1540 (1540)	STC 21153; ESTC S116014	64,564	160

to drynke / for this drynke wyl engendre lubrycyte and slypperynesse in the nether partes / and vse also some of those thynges whiche haue vertue to prouoke the byrth / wherof we entreated before ¶ Item certayn pessaries or suppositaries concernynge the same take gumme armoniacke / oppoponacum / helleborus niger / staphisagre / aristolochia longa / colocynthis without his kernelles beate all these thynges to gether / temperyng them with oxe gall and also with the iuyce of fresshe rue / then make a pessarie of wollen / and annoynt and wet the pessarie with the same / conueynge it into the secreate places ¶ Item another make a pessarie of wollē of the lengthe thyckenesse of a fynger / and do it in the iuyce of rue in the which is dissolued a quantitie of scammome / and do with that pessarie / as before ¶ Item take aristolochia rotunda / sauyne / garde cresses / of eche lyke muche / beate them to powder / and temper them with oxe gall with this annoynt a pessarie made and ordered as before is spoken of Item yf the woman drynke the mylke of another woman / it wyll steare and expell the byrth ¶ Item take of the iuyce of dyttayne or of the powder of the roote of the same herbe .ij. dram̄s / and geue the same to drynke to the woman with wyne / excepte she be in greate heate / for then shall ye geue it her with luke warme water / and this shall expell the dead byrth without any parell of the mother ¶ Item take of myrrhe .iiij. drammes / of cinamome / galbanum / castoriū / of eche two drammes of oppoponacum one dram̄ all those beaten / and tempered to gether with oxe gall / make pylles of them / wayenge eche of them a dram̄ / and with the fume of those perfume the nether partes / by this vapoure the deade byrthe is broughte forthe / inflamation and suffocation of bloude is expelled ¶ Item take of water mynte / sothernwood / muggewort / of eche a handefull / of asphaltum halfe an ounce / of madder two ounces and an halfe / of camomell / barotum / fenegreke / of eche two ounces sethe all these thynges to gether in rayne water in the whyche lette the woman bathe her selfe / then take of hensgrece and duckes grece / of eche .iiij. dram̄s to the which adde two ounces of oyle of anues sede / with this oyntmēt annoynt the womās head comminge out of the bath then take datestones beate them to powder a dram̄ and a halfe / with a scruple of safrane tempered to gether with whyt wyne the which let her immediatlye drynke after she come forthe of the bathe ¶ Item take oppoponacum / make there of a pessarye the quantitie of a fynger / conueye it into the priuities / this expelieth the dead byrth ¶ Item take of galbanum a dram̄ or some what lesse of gotes mylke an ounce and a halfe or two ounces in the which the galbanum beynge dissolued / geue it to the woman to drynke ¶ Item a plaster for the same take galbanum beaten and tempered with the iuyce of motherworte / and of this make a plaster by puttyng to of wexe a certayne quātite / than take a lynnen cloth of suche length bredth that it maye couer all the belly vnder the nauel to the priuities frō one syde to the other / on this cloth spred this plaster of the thyckenesse of a strawe / and laye it to the bellye Item take the tryacle which is called diatessaron and geue of it to the woman for to drynke / and it wyll expell this dead byrth ¶ But yf all these medicines profette not / then muste be vsed more seuere and harde remedyes / with instrumentes / as hokes / tonges / and suche other thynges made for the nonce And fyrst the woman must be layde a longe vpryght / the myddell parte of her bodye lyeng hyer then all the reste / companyed of women assistynge her aboute to comforte her / and to keape her downe / that when the byrthe is plucked oute she ryse not withall Then let the mydwyfe annoynt her left hād with the oyle of whyte lyllyes or other that may make it sople and smouth and holding out her fyngers shytting to gether her hand let her put it to the matrice to feale and perceaue after what fasshion the dead byrth lyeth in the mothers wombe so that she maye the better putte in hokes and suche other instrumentes to plucke it out with all ¶ Yf it be so that it lye the head forewarde / then fasten a hoke other vpō one of the eyes of it / or the rofe of the mouthe / or vnder the chyn / on one of the sholders / whiche of these partes shall seme moste commodious and handsome to take it oute bye / and the hoke fastened to drawe it oute verye tenderlye for hurtynge of the woman ¶ But yf it lye the fete forewarde / then fasten the hoke on the bone aboue the priuye partes / or by some ribbe / or some of the backe bones / or of the breste bones / and when this hoke is thus fastened / the midwyfe may not by and by drawe and plucke at it / but holdynge it in her lefte hande / lette her with her ryghte hande fasten another in some other parte of the byrthe ryght agaynste the fyrste / and then tenderlye let her drawe both to gether / so that the byrth may procede and come forthe on bothe sydes equallye / mouynge it from one syde to another / tyll ye haue gottē out alto gether / and nowe and then to helpe it in the comming forth with the fore fynger well annoynted / if it chanse to stycke or to be let any where and as it commeth forthe / alwaye to remoue the hokes farther and farther on the dead byrthe ¶ Agayne yf it chanse that one of the handes onely of the byrth do appeare / that it can not conuenientlye be reduced returned vpwarde agayne / by reason of the narownesse of the place / then byndt it with a lynnē cloth / that it slyp not vp agayne / and then to plucke it outwarde / vntyll suche tyme that the hole arme be out and then with a sharpe knyfe cut it of from the body / and euen so do yf both handes appeare fyrste at once / or one legge or bothe / yf they can not be returned backe / to be otherwyse taken out conuenient lye / as ye cutte the arme frome the sholders / soo lykewyse cuttinge the legges frome the thyghes / for the which purpose the surgeōs haue me●e instrumentes made for the nonce with the which such legges and armes may sone be cut frome the bodye / these partes beynge once rese●te and cutte frome the bodye / then turne the teste / so that it maye easylye procede with as lyttell payne to the mother / as maye be ¶

be cured of the same as shortelye as can be with such thynges the whiche appertayne to the curynge of suche desease / or yf she haue sustayned any longe famyne or hunger then lette her be fedde with good meates and drynkes moderatlye taken / and yf she haue surfeted by ouer muche eatynge and drynkynge as nowe a dayes moste commenlye people do then let her absteyne for a tyme / yf it maye be conuenientlye done / let her receaue some casy gentyll medicine / which may alleuiat and lyghten her of her surfetynge burthen ¶ Now yf it so be / that the womā abounde in bloude / then shall it be very good a lyttell to let her bloude / bothe for her selfe and also for the byrthe / whiche throughe ouer muche adoundance of it myght happen to be suffocated and strangeled / of the which thynge also I haue spoken largely before ¶ Farthermore yf the woman feare aborcement / by reason of contynuad coughe / or ouer muche vomyte and perbrakynge / or the fluxe / or of the desease called tenasmus / or of ouer muche yssuynge of bloude / whether it be by the nose / or other partes of the bodye axe thaduyse of a physitiā for remedy / yf for the fragilite / tendernes / and bracke / of the secondyne she feare this aborcemente / for because that in this case the secondyne shall not be able to holde and contayne the byrth / as for this / there is no other medicine to defende it / but onelye that the partie take hede that she hurte not her selfe by ouer much mouynge or stearynge / as by laborynge / daunsynge / runnynge / standynge / faste goynge / or caryenge of ponderous and weyghtye thynges / or leftynge of the same And to be short / let her with all warynesse take hede and be diligent that she exchue and abstayne frome all such thynges the which might cause and induce aborcement ¶ Of deade byrthes and by what sygnes or tokens it maye be knowen and by what meanes it maye also be expelled ¶ Cap .ix. IT shal be nowe conuenient for vs to speake of deade byrthes / howe it shall be knowen that they be deade / and howe they maye be expelled from the mother Sygnes then that the byrth is dead in the mothers wombe be these j. Fyrste yf the mothers brestes do sodenlye slake / as I touched before in the .viij. chapter .ij. Yf it moue it selfe no more beynge wont before to steare it selfe in Yf when the mother torneth her from the one syde on the other / she feale it fallynge frō the one syde to the other lyke a stone or aded wayght .iiij. Yf her bellye and nauell begyn to were colde / whiche before was wont to be temperatly hote v. Yf anye stynkynge fylthye humours flowe from the matrice / chieflye after some fell desease .vi. Yf the womans eyes wexe holowe / that her color change from whyte to swarte and dunne coloure / and that her eyes and nose wexe astoned / and haue not theyr ryght vse / and her lyppes wexe wan vij Yf benethe the nauell and aboute the secreate partes she feale greate thronge and payne / the colour of her face changynge into worsse and worsse / otherwyse then it was wonte to do .viij. Yf she haue appetyte to eate suche thynges / the whiche be agaynste nature / and not wonte to be eaten or dronken .ix. Yf she be in her slepe vexed with bayne dreames .x. Yf she be payned contynuallye with the strangurye / or that she enforce her selfe muche to the stole / and with all her power / and yet can not do any thing xi Yf her brethe begynne to stynke / the whyche thynge lyghtlye happeneth two or thre dayes after the byrthe be deade xij Yf her handes put in to verye warme water / and then layde on the womans bellye / and the chylde steare not / is a sygne that it is deade ¶ Of all these sygnes nowe the more that come to gether of thē at one tyme in one ꝑson / the surer may ye be that the byrth is ded the which being ones ded / all diligence must be had that it may be expelled out of the womans body but here must ye se agayne whether it maye be expelled / the mothers lyfe saued or no / for some tyme it chaunseth that the mother dyeth with all / and sometymes the mother dothe well and prospereth ¶ Whether the mother shall be in parell withall or no / by these thinges shal ye know yf the woman beynge in the labor sowne or fare as thoughe she ware in a transe / yf her remembraunce fayle her / and she waxe feable and scant able to moūe or steare herselfe / yf she called with a lowde voyce canne answere nothynge at all / or els very lyttell and that verye softelye / as thoughe her voyce began to fayle her yf she be inuaded or taken among in the laborynge with conuulsion or shrynkeling to gether if she refuse or can not broke meate / yf her pulces beate verye faste / the which sygnes when ye se in the woman laborynge it is an ruident tokē that she shal not liue long after her byrth / wherfore cōmit the cure of her to the handes of almyghtye god / but yf none of these sygnes do appeare / then haue good hope / for the woman shall do well / the byrthe beynge once departed wherfore geue all diligence to the expultion of it / that the woman maye be delyuered of this dead burthen the whiche thinge maye be done by two wayes / other by medicines expulsyue / or elles by certayne instrumentes made for the nonce ¶ Fyrste without instrumentes with this fumigation take other the houe or dunge of an asse / and put it on coles / and lette the woman receaue the fume vndernethe Another take the skynne of an adder / myrrhe / castoreum / brymstone / galbanum / oppoponacum / madder that the dyerres occupye / pygeons dunge / or hawkes dunge beate all these to powder / and temper them with oxe gall / and make pylles of it eche of the quantite of a fylbert nutte / and then put one after another in the coles / and receaue the fume thorowe a pype or conduyte made for that purpose in to the priuities ¶ Another take encense / oppoponacum / galbanum / brymstone / of eche lyke muche / beate them to gether and temper them with oxe galle / and make pylles of them / and then of the same make fumigations / as before ¶ A potion for the same purpose take asafetida halfe a dram̄ / of rue iij. dram̄s / of myrrhe .ij. dram̄s beate them to powder / and geue to the woman at eche tyme a dram̄ of this powder with whyte wyne / or with water in the which sauyne is soden ¶ Another take fygges / fenegreke / organnye / and sethe them in water the which gene vnto the woman

on hote coles / and let the woman receaue the fume and sauoure of it vndernethe ¶ Another perfume Take yelowe brymstone / myrrhe / mader / galbanum / oppoponacum / of eche lyke much / and temper all these to gether / makynge of them pylles / and with those also ye may make fume to be receaued vnderneth Itē the fume of culuer dunge or of hawkes dunge by puttyng to of oppoponacum / is souerayne for the same All these fumes open the poores benethe / and causeth nature to be the frear in delyueraunce ¶ Also it is very good to dyp wooll in the iuyce of rue / and the same to conuey into the secreates Also the pouder of aristolochia rotūda / or the rote called bothor martis / or malum terre / or the sede of staphisagre any of these wrapped in wooll and conueyed inwarde prouoketh calleth forthe the byrth ¶ Item take heleborus / oppoponacū / and wrap them to gether in wooll / and ministre them inwarde for that wyll brynge forthe prouoke the byrthe / whether it be alyue or dead Also the rynde and barke of cassia fistula beaten to pouder / and tempered with wyne and dronkē / prouoketh well the byrth ¶ Item asa fetida of the bygnes waight of a pese myngled to gether with castorium of the wayght of a dram̄ beaten to gether tempered with wyne myxt with water and so dronkē / is very good to prouoke the byrth Also canell dronke with wine is very good ¶ Item take a scruple of roses / with the water of the sede of fenegreke / cicercula / may denhere / all beaten to gether and soden / and the oyle of blewe flowre de luce a smal quantite tempered there with all and then geue it to the woman that laboreth / and it shall prouoke the byrthe greately Also cassia lignea and asa fetida dronke with wyne / be very good for the same Also holyoke soden in water and dronkē / is souerayn for the same purpose / it is verye good for her to washe her in the water / in the whiche this holyoke is decocte and soden in ¶ Certayne pylles the whiche make the labor easye and withoute payne TAke canell or cinamome and of sauyne of eche a dram̄ / of cassia lignea a dram̄ and a halfe / of myrrhe / aristolochia rotunda / costemary of eche a dram̄ / of storax liquida halfe a dram̄ / and of oppium the wayght of .xij. graynes / bete these all to gether / and forme them into pylles / and geue vnto the woman two dram̄s of these pylles with .ij. ounces of good olde wyne ¶ Item Safrane and Syler Montanum prouoketh the byrth of any lyuynge thynge / yf it be dronckē howe be it to a woman geue neuer passynge a drame at once of Safrane / for greater quantite sholde greately hurte ¶ Item take .v. drames of Sauyne / of rue or herbe grace one dragm̄ an halfe / of iuniper byryes .ij. dram̄s / of asa fetida / amoniacum / madder / of ech .ij. dram̄s of these make pylles / geuen to the womā in labor with water in the whiche is soden sauyne and penyryall / or els with the brothe of cicercula / and the iuyce of rue shall helpe very greately ¶ Item take .ij. dram̄s of sauyne / of asa fetida / armoniacum / madder / of eche halfe a dram̄ / these temper to gether in pilles / and geue her with wyne .ij. dram̄s of the same ¶ Item take of aristolochia longa / pepper and myrrhe / of eche lyke much / confict them to gether with wyne make pylles of them / minister them with an ounce of water of the decoction of lupynes / these pylles be of such efficacy and strength that it alleuiateth and vnpayneth the byrthe / it delyuereth the matrice or mother from all maner of byrth / be it alyue or dead ¶ Item take of whyte bedellium / myrrhe / and sauyne / of eche lyke much temper these with cassia lignea and hony / and make pylles of them of the byggenesse of pesen / of these pylles geue at eche tyme .v. to the laborer / whiche be of the same myght strength with the other pylles spoken of here nexte before ¶ Item take of myrrhe / castorium / and storax / of eche one dram̄ / temper them with hony / and make pylles of it / these for this purpose excell and passe al other / they be of such vertue and strength in operation ¶ A plaster to prouoke the byrthe Take wyld goward / seth it in water / in the same water temper myrrhe / the iuyce of rue / and barlye meale / so muche as shal be sufficient / stampe these thynges to gether / and make it plasterwyse / then laye it to the womans belly betwene the nauel and the nether part this plaster shall helpe meruelouslye ¶ And although many other thinges ther be the which haue vertue and power to prouoke byrth and to help it / yet leuyng all such thynges for breuite and shortenesse we haue set here suche thynges / which are chiefe and most principally conducent for the same purpose ¶ Howe the Secondyne or seconde byrth shall be sorsed to yssue forth yf it come not frelye of his owne kynde ¶ Cap .vi. HEre also somtyme it cometh to passe / that the Secondine / whiche is wonte to come to gether with the byrth / remayne tary behynde and folowe not And that for dyuers causes / one is For because peraduenture the woman hathe ben so sore weakened and feblysshed with trauell / dolour / and payne / of that fyrst byrth / that she hathe no strength remaynynge to helpe herselfe to the expellynge of this seconde byrth / another maye be / that it be entangled / tyed / or let within the matrice / which chāseth many tymes / or that it be destitute of humours / so that the water be flowen frō it soner then it sholde / which shold make the places more slyppery and more easye to passe thorowe / or els that the places ouer weryed with longe sore labor / for payne cōtract or gather together / enclose themselfe agayne / or that the places be swollen for anguysshe and payne / and so let the comminge forth of the seconde byrthe ¶ But to be shorte of what so euer cause it be thus stopped / the mydwyfe in anye wyse must fynde such meanes that it maye be vnloosed and expulsed For otherwyse greate inconuemency sholde chaunse to the partie / and speciallye suffocation chokynge of the matrice / whiche also must so much the more be takē hede to / for because the seconde byrth retayned kept within / wyll sone putrifye rot whereof wyll ensue yll noysom and pestiferous vapours / ascendynge to the harte / the braynes / and the mydryffe / throughe the which meanes the womā

muche langor and paynefulnes then syrst shall ye note where vpon it cōmeth for the cause knowen the dysease maye the more readelye be recured and causes of it be dyuers but moste espetiall those that folowe / that is to saye Of muche aboundant superfluous bloude contayned in the hole body or of muche commistion of the melancholy humor the bloude to gether / by the which the bloude is e●fyred and chawfed and so distendeth openeth and setteth abroade the vaynes whiche descende to the matrice Also the bloude beynge very thynne and wateryshe for so it penetrateth / thrylleth / and yssueth forthe the soner Also yf the vaynes be very large / receaue much bloude for in that case they sende forthe the more agayn Also yf the matrice be vnmyghty weakened / the vaynes lykewyse weake and large so that they can not retayne nor witholde the bloude Also yf the body of the womā or the outward partes be very dense / cloose / and compacte to gether so that the outwarde powres be contracte and shut in such wyse that no vapours or swette can yssue out at them then this shall cause the yll humoures whiche otherwyse wolde passe thorough the powres in swette to remayne within the body / and there to engender and encreace greater fluxe and aboūdāce of matter / which procedeth with the flowres augmenteth the quantite of them Also yf the vaynes / whiche be named hemorroides / in the matrice be open and flowe forth Also yf the matrice be peryshed or otherwyse viciat Also yf it chanse that the woman haue had a fall / or hath ben thrust or beaten / by all and any of this meanes maye come this inordinat fluxe of flowres ¶ Nowe stynge then that it ensueth by so manyfolde occasions causes it shal be mete that womē in this case be nothing ashamed ne abashed to disclose theyr mynde vnto expert phisitians / showyng them euery thyng in it / as they knowe where vppon it sholde come so that the phisition vnderstandynge the womans mynde / maye the soner by his learnynge and experience consyder the true cause of it / and the very remedy to amend it And many thinges there be which sease and restrayne this ouer much flowynge of flowres bothe electuaries / confections / trochiskes pouders / clisteres / odoures / suffumigations bathes / plasters and oyntementes / of whiche for the loue of women I wyll here set forthe the moste principall and best ¶ Fyrste then to stynte and restrayne the owtragius fluxe of flowres it shal be verye good to bynde the armes very strayght and strongely not the fete or handes as some vnwyse men do teache / and then to set a ventose or boxe or cup of glasse with fyre which is called boxynge vnder the brestes / but cuttynge no part of the skynne / layeng also lynnen clothes dypped in vyn●g●e on the bellye betwene the nauell and the secreates conueyenge also into the places suche thynges / whiche haue vertue to restrayne bloude / as balaustium / the ryne of pome granate / carabe / terra sigillata / bole armenyacke / sanguis draconis / hematites / the red rose / whyte frankencense / and galles all those thynges or as manye of them as ye can conuenientlye get / beate them to powder in lyke portion / and temper them with thycke and grosse wyne / making of it a plaster / the whiche so tēpered put it in to a lyttell rounde bagge the quantite of a mannes thombe the which she shall put in to the preuye places ¶ Item an other plaster to be ministred lykewyse Take of the bloudestone / called Emathites / bole armenyacke of eche halfe an ounce sanguis draconis / licium / of ech .ij. dram̄s Karabe the cuppes of Acornes / Cipresse nuttes / Balaustium or psidiū / of eche one dram̄ of the scales of yron one dram̄ and an halfe Turbyntyne and pyche lyke quantite / or so muche as shal be sufficient to make a plaster beate and braye all these to gether / temperinge it to a plaster and then do with it as ye dyd with the other before ¶ An oyntemente for the same purpose Take oyle Myrtine / oyle of rooses / of eche halfe a pounde Carabe / the scraping of yuerye / the scrapynge of a gootes horne / redde corall terra sigillata / whyte frankencense / of eche one ounce / of white waxe .iij. ounces / all those tempered to gether / make them in an oyntment / therewith annoynt the wombe and the secreates ¶ A batthe concernynge the same Take wurmewud / plantayne the more the lesse the toppes of vynes / fresshe brāches of wyld mulberyes / vnrype damsenes slowes / or boloes / wylde peres / medlers or myspylles / of eche .iij. handefulles / of red roose leues thre handefulles / of oke barke .iiij. handfulles / of dayses / of all sortes of thystles / of eche .ij. handfulles of cinkefoyle / the leues rotes / tormentyll the rootes / colubrine / of eche an handefull also of acorne cuppes a saw ser full / of gawlles / of acorns pylled / of bursa pastoris / of eche .ij. handefulles beate all these to powder / cuttynge and brosynge that / that wyll not be beaten to powder / sethe them to gether in rayne water / or els in water / in the which .x. or .xij. burnte s●ones haue bene quenchyd this done / let the woman bathe herselfe in this water vp to the nauell / and whē she cometh forth of the bathe / geue her to drynke .ij. dram̄s of electuarium athanasie / or miclete / wich plantayne water / or yf she be sore thurstye with red wyne ¶ And lykewyse ye maye geue vnto her of these electuaries that folow take good olde roose sugre .ij. ounces / of red corall / burnte yuery / bole armenyacke / of eche two dram̄s / of hematites thre dram̄s / beate all these thinges to gether / temperynge it with the roose sugre / let her receaue of it in the mornynge and euenynge with two dram̄s of plantane water / or els the water of bursa pastoris ¶ Item take the stone Emathites / rubbe it on a whetstone / tyll the whetstone seme redde / then washe it of agayne frō the whetstone with plantaynewater / and so do oftentymes / vntyll suche tyme that thou haue a good quantite of it / and euery mornyng and euenynge let the woman drynke two or thre sponefulles of the same ¶ Farthermore there be at the apothecaries trochiskes which helpe greately in this case / as the trochiskes of karabe / and the trochiskes of bole armoniacke whiche muste be ministred a dram̄ or more of ether of them / with .iiij. or .v. sponeful of plantayne water Who that requyreth farther in this matter let them aske counseill of the phisytions / for we haue set here but suche thynges whiche may seme most necessarye ¶ Nowe yf it so be that there