the Womb to prevent which the Woman must not sleep over-much especially in the day time nor feed riotously but exercise her self in Walking or moderate Exercises and often use Purgation and strong Glysters made of such Heâbs and Druggs that are hot and dry which will in a short time remove such Ostructions But a more dangerous cause of Barrenness than yet I have named are the Whites which are contracted by an inordinate Eurudition of the Excrementious Homourâ collected through the Vitiousness of the Blood incident to Young and Old at such times as they are capable of Generationâ and therefore the Cure must be hastned by reason that in short time it derides Art and renders Women inevitably barren occasioning Leanness Consumption Melancholy Dropsie falling of the Womb swooning Convulsions which renders it difficult and dangerous in long continuance tho' in the beginning it may be eaâily removedâ In the Cure of this let Phlebotomy or Blood-letting be avoided for as much as the bad Humour must be by no means recalled to defile the Blood the Disease it self being a sufficient weakning of the Body and Vital Spirits First then to discuss the Humour in order to its Expurgation Take two Ounces of Guaicum the like quantity of China and Lentilckwood boil them in Water and Honey drinking a pint fresh made each Morning Then to dry up to Contraction of the Vessels or Humour that lodged there take the Root of Filipendula beat it to Powder and drink it in White-Wine Morning and Evening As also for Astringents use Bones burnt and beat to Powder likewise the Ashes of Capons dung ejected after a long time steeping in fair Water The Patient must likewise avoid sleeping upon her Bâck lest the Humour descend and contract in the Vessels of the Womb but let her be rubbed often to disperse them that they settle not in any one place Sometimes this occasion of Barrenness happens through the violent attraction of the Womb and then appears signs of afflictions of the Womb the Flux not being so great to cure which Suffumations are the most proper and those may be made of Frankinsence Laudanum Santalum or Mastick The Woman upon such occasion having great regard to her self that she take not Cold or proceed to intemperate Diet. Many Women there are whose violent Lusts contracts a heat that either destroys the Eggs or hinders them from being impregnated In this case 't is requisite to avoid hot Air soft lying hot Meats and Spice and requisite to bleed in the Basilick Vein purge moderately with Decoctum Epitaymi and Juice of Roses each two Drams and a half Whey half a pint mix them together and drinking them fasting in the Morning and so continue 4 hours after or for want of the former you may take Triphera Serasenica and Rhuburb of each half a Dram pulverized and mixed with 2 Ounces of Syrup of Roses Violets or Endive but the most excellent Restorative to cool and moderate the Temper in this case is Diet-drink made as followeth viz. Take Pistachia-Nuts and Eringo-Roots of each half an Ounce of Saffron a dram Lignum Alloes Gallinga Caryophillata Mace red and white Behen and Baulm Flowers of each 4 Scruples Shavings of Ivory Rind of Cassia each 2 Scruples Syrup of confected Ginger 12 Ounces white Sugar 6 Ounces add to these 12 Ounces of Baulm Water and set them over a gentle Fire permitting them to seeth then take it off suffer it to cool and put more Water to it stirring the Ingredient lastly increasing them with a Scruple and a half of Musk and Amber then strain out the Luquid part and boyl it up again into a Conserve of which let the Woman eat three times a day but not exceeding the bigness ef a Walnut at a time The times most convenient are Mornings Noons and Night and this let her continue till she finds her Body in temper Another occasion of Barrenness proceeds from the obstruction of those Vessels through which the Monthly Purgations flow in which case open the Basilick Vein and take from hence a moderate quantity of Blood after which take Hiera composita and Oppopanax of each half a Dram and a Dram of Syrup of Giliflowers make them into 7 Pills take them in the Morning and sleep upon them a considerable time then drink off half a pint of Sugared water and 3 hours after a portion of Syrup of Vinegar compounded For want of this take Syrup of Eupatory 3 quarters of an ounce Female Mugwort and Elecampane Root of each an ounce with Syrup of Vinegar a proportionable quantity mix them together and take them when made into an Electuary Morning and Evening to the quaatity of an Hazel-Nut at a time and if the Courses flow not within a short time after let a Pessary of Musk Amber Wood of Alloes and Ash-Keys of each â Grains Saffron half a Scruple Hares Renet an ounce be put into the Womb Tent-wise and continue there for the âpace of a day and it will remove the obstruction cause the Cources to flow and in short time render the Woman capable of Generation And thus Reader have I with much caution performed my promise in these particulars and the next thing I shall proceed to amongst other matters relating to the Mystery of Generation are the signs of Virginity c. CHAP. X. Virginity what it is in what it consists and how violated together with the Opinions of the Learned in the point of mutation of Sexes in the Womb during the Operation of Nature in framing the Body SEeing many ignorant People have boasted their Knowledge as to the first particular und some Virgins have undergone hard Censures through the ignorant Determinations of such as have taken upon them to discuss the matter I thought it altogether necessary to clear the Point that so for the future the Conceited might not be indulged in their vain Opinion nor by traducing others prejudice the Female Sex whose Vertues are frequently such as do not require our admiration but imitation Then since the mysterious Word Virginity has puzzled many to define it I mean the cause from whence it arises for the word barely in it self signifies the prime chief or best of any thing But as to the point in hand the main matter bears the following Construction It is observed by the curious searchers into Natures Secrets that in young Maids or Females in the Sinus Pudoris or in that place that is by some called the Neck of the Womb is that pendulous production vulgarly called the Hymen but more rightly the Claustrum Virginale and in French it is termed the Button de Rose or Roses-Bud for that it much resembles the Bud of a Rose expended or a Clove-Gilliflower from when it derived the Word Defloro to Deflower the Deflowering of Virgins because most are of opinion that the Virginity is altogether annihilated when this Duplication is fractured and dissipated by violence and that when it is found perfect and
CHAP. XXVIII The approved Receipts for hindering the Monthly Flux in Women with Child also to cause Women that are fearful and subject to Abortion to contain the Birth Together with preparatory Oyntments to be used before the time of Delivery and Directions for staying or preventing Vomiting much incident to Women with Child TO hinder the Superfluity or Efflux dangerous to Women far gone with Child Take the Oyl of Roses Virgins-wax Iuice of Male Knot grass of each 3 Ounces Bole-Armonick Crocus Martis of each six Drams melt them and bruise them till they become pliant and capable of being spread Plaister wise and when the Flux descends lay it to her Loyns whilst she lies in Bed Or to the same effect you may make Crocus Martis a Dram Knot-grass Iuice 4 Ounces Rose water and Vinegar of each an Ounce adding to them the White of an Egg and apply them cold upon a Linnen Cloth to her Loyns If the VVoman be fearful of containing the Birth and be subject to Abortion Take the Roots of Tormentile and Snamwood of each an Ounce and an half Iobertus's Astringent Powder Mirtle berries Pomegranate Flower of each six drams Dragons Blood and Spong Bedeguar of each half an Ounce Frankincense and Mastick of each 3 Dram Nutmeg and Cloves of each half a Dram âommon Pitch six Ouncesâ Cinnamon a Dram Venice Turpentine washed in the Iuice of Shepherds purse 2 Ounces of Ship-Pitch 3 Ounces Virgins-wax 2 Ounces melt and well imbody them till they become plyable to be spread Plaister-wise and apply the Plaister upon the Leather to the Reins To make an Oyntment exceeding useful before Delivery Take the Oyls of white Lilly Roots and Camomile each 4 Ounces new Hogs-Seam strained and fresh Butter of each an Ounce and a half Muoilage of the Seed of Fenâreek extracted in Mugwort water 2 Ounces the Powder of round Birthwârt-Roots and Saffron of each two Drams Wax an Ouâce and a half melt them over a gentle Fire and having strained it forth anoint and supple the Woman's Thighs Hips and Marix therewith In case of Vomiting or Nauseating which too frequently befalls young Childing VVomen Take a Sear Cloth sprinkle it with Galbanum Powder of Cloves and Mastick then covering it with Linntn or Silk in the form of A Stomacher applying it to the Sâomack yeââwâing it as the Scent decays CHAP. XXIX A Pematum for Midwifes to anoinâ the Hands with when theâ are abouâ their Ofâââââ as also the Womb of thâ Woman âo âe delâver'dâ Excellent Aâplications to sâraighâen and strengthân âhe Womb aftâr Dâlivery AMong the many excellent Pomâtâmâ or Oyntment for Midwiveâ ãâã and anointing the Womb or Chââd to âender the Birth easie I recommend this as chief viz Take of Hemp-seed Oyl an Ounce and a half half an Ounce of Caster Oylâ Galmoschate half a Scruple of Laudânum a Scruâple with a genâle fire make âhâm into an Oyntment to be used as bâfore mântioned To contract the Womb after Delivery Take the Leaves of Sârawârt and Mirtle of each 3 Ounces Grâân-Medlaâs Pâââns and wild Pears of each 8 or 9 Ounces the Sââmachs of 3 Câcks frâsh killed and newly taken out all which distil and dipping Corâân into the Water issuing from them make it into the form of a Pessary and put it into the Womb where let it cântinue a considerable space To strengthen the Womb Take of Borage and Violet Flowers each a handful Ditany of Creet an Ounce Wood Sorrel a handful Honey of Roses half an ounce Maiden-hair an ounce boil them in White-wine and inject the liquid part into the Womb the Woman taking soon after it this Potion viz. of Fennel Succory and Bugloss Roots take two ounces of each boyl them in 24 ounces of Whâte-wine to the Consumption of two parts adding afterward Fennel-water and Succory-water of each three ounces boiling them again till the fifth part of what remains be consumed and of this let her drink an ounce at a time continuing so to do Morning and Evening for ten days CHAP. XXX To keep the Milk from Curdling in the Breast or to dry it up a most approved Receipt as also to increase Milk IF the Milk be subject to Curd in the Breast past doubt it will contract pains or disorder there as well as in the Child that draws it forth wherefore to prevent it so doing Take the Root of Althaea half a pound boyl them in White-wine Vinegar strain them through a fine Seive adding to the Liquid part Bean flower one ounce Powder of Rue and dried Mint of each a dram Oyl of Mastick 2 ounces boyl them again till they come to the thickness or plyableness of an Oyntment To dry up the Milk Take Honey newly taken from the Bees dissolve it in Water and often wash the Breasts therewith or take the Iuice of Spere mint and Shephards Purse of each half an ounce mix them and sweeten thâm with a little of the aforesaid Honây and drink them in the Morning with the Broth of a Hen or Chicken Or she may take the Oyl of Violets 2 ounces the Iuice of Mint and Parsly a like quantity an ounce of White-wine Vinegar Rose-water two Ounces boyl them over a gentle Fire to the Consumption of the Iuice adding a little VVax to make them into an Oyntment and anoint the Breast therewith or for want of these take Elder-tops Sage and Mint of all of them a handful boyl them in Spring-water soft and lay to her Breast If the Woman be scarce of Milk and for the benefit of the Child would increase it Let her take the Decoction of Fennel and baâhe her Breast therewith mixing the Iuice of Oak Apple and the same time take inwardly this following Powder viz. Of Anniseeds Fennel-seeds and Cummin seeds of each 2 drams beaten Ginger half an ounce of both sorts of Pepper 2 drams of Coral a dram of Chrystal and Cinnamou each a dram the Seed of Daucus a dram Silâr Montanus one ounce and a halfâ Cardamoms and long Pepper of each a dram and a half of Seseleus half an ounce the Seeds of Sasanum an ounce of white Poppy one Ounce mingle and dry them till they are all capable of being beaten into Powder one Dram of which the Woman must take at a time Morning and Evening in Broth made of Red Coleworts anointing her Breast the mean time with an Oyntment made of Venice Turpentine Vinegar of Roses and Beâs-wax of each an equal proportion â CHAP. XXXI For a Pain in the Breâst immediately upon Delivery or Fissure TAke the new Bââs wax 2 Ouncâs Nut-Oyl hâlf an Ounce Rape-seed Oâl the like quantity as the latter when melting the Wax add the Oyl and temper them well together to the thickness of a stiff Oyntment or Salve and spread them upon a Cloth fit to cover the Breast and apply it with extraordinary success In case a Fissure happen iâ the Breast Take of the Pâwder of Gum Aâabick an Ounce Râse-water and Aquâvitae
of each an Ounce prâpare them by beating them together till they are of an apt thickness thân seeth them over the Fire and whân cool apply âhem Plaister wise to the Fissure or for want of these take Unguentum Rosarum and anoint the place grieved applying upon it a Pultis of Ground-Ivy CHAP. XXXII The cause of the Bellies swelling after Delivery and how to prevent it and cure it if it happens CEâtain it is and experience teacheth often that many Women have their Beâlies swelled after Delivery as much almost as before and this happens through too much neglect and carelesness in not having regard to foment them as also to apply things convenient for the Privities by which means windiness and vapourâ enâer and contract in the hollow coâcâvities Veins and Aââeries the latter of which they enter by insensible ways Now to prevent it take Origanum Nightâshade and Mastick of each a Scruple Sagavânâm a dram mix thâm together and make them into 7 Pillâ take them all at once and after them drink the quantity of a quarter of a pint of the water of wââââ Lillââs viz. of the Flowers In case it be come alâeâdy let hâr take âalf a pound of Spanish Figs thâ Meâl oâ Barâây and Beans finely sâsâââ 4 âunces of âach 2 ãâã âf wâll burnt brick pulverizâd Sârâps of Nââs an âunce boyl thâm in as much wââer of the Smiths Forge as will suffice to bring them to a thickness then spread them upon a Linnen cloth and apply them to the Belly twice âr thrice aâd it will retire to its wonted smallnâss CHAP. XXXIII Of the Inflamations in the Breast and its Cure THE Inflamation in the Breast is no other than the hard Swelling accompanied with a shooting pain as also a beating and redness and is mostly caused by the abundance of Blook drawn or flowing to the Breast and sometimes but rarely it is occasioned by the suppression of the Menses the Hemorrhoids or some bruise received by a blow or the like and is known by a certain redness and burning heat causing the whole body to be feaverish and out of order To cure it then first let the Diet be comforting moistening and of good nourishment as the Broth of Pullets Capons Cocks Chickens Veal c. wherein Indive Borage Purslain or Lettice has been boyled and if she can get it let the VVoman drink Iuice of Pomegranets but for want of that Barley-water wherein Annisâeds have been boyled but let her refrain drinking of VVine and strong Liquors as likewise hot Spices and if she find any Obstruction in her excremental Evacuation let her take a softning or mollifying Glyster and sleep at seasonable times as much as she can Another way to remedy it is by diverting the Humours which may be done by rubbing the Body in all adjacent places letting Blood in the Foot Scarification in the Legs or Vesicatiories applied in those places especially if the Menses are stupped or ready to come down if not it is requisite to bleed in the Arm. But if what has been mentioned prevail'd not to remove the Humours make a Cataplasm of the Leaves of Mellilot and Night-shade each half a handful and when boiled in Spring-water add to them Bean-meal two Ounces Oyl of sweet Almonds and Oatmeal of each an Ounce and apply them to the Breast observing so to do before thâ Breast be exâraordinarily inflamed CHAP. XXXIV A Tumour in the Breast its Cause and Cure OF Tumours there are several sorts but first of the Flagitous Tumour the cause of which proceeds from a thick and unnatural Vapour arising from the Menstrual Blood which is retâined or corrupted in the Matrix and that again occasioned by the suppressions of âhe Courses or when Naâure is defective in discharging them into their proper place and due time as also from corruption of humoârs whereby are ingendered âvil Vapours and their passing by insensible ways causes the Breast to swell or distend as if it were a true swelling and is known by a shooting pain and disorder of âhe Heart by reason of the Wind that oppresseth it the lest Breâst being for the most part more swelled than the right communicating pains to the Arms and Shoulders aâ likewise the Ribs on the same side âhe Breast being white and shining sounding like a Drum if touched gently and swelled in all parts alike To cure âhis as also the windy Tumourâ you must order the Woman to observe a modâration in Diet that thereby Câudities may be avoided and all such things as contract windy Humours in the Veiâs suffering âer to drink water wherein Cinnamon and Anniseeds have been boiled as also the Rind of Cittron and then let hâr observe to take such things as are proper âo provoke the Courses in doing which she will find the Humours abate then let her take Celandine Camomile Ground-âill and Ground-Juice stamp them and boil them in White-wine and in so doing you will ease the pain and restore the Breast As for Disease and Accidents incident to young Children there are but few Women of any experience but are skilful in cutting and ordering them wherâfore for breviââes sâke I shall pass them over and prâceed to Anatomize the Genitâl parts in a Man that one thing remâining necessary in this Treatise as also to instance what Men and Women ought to marry âhat their Islue may be Fair Healthful and Prosperous CHAP. XXXV The Anatomy oâ the Organs of Generatiân in Man THE Yard which is called in Latin Penis à Pedendo because it hangeth without the Belly âs an Organical part made of Skin Tendons Veins Arteries Sinews and great Ligâmenâs and iâ long round and on the upper siâe flartish seated uâder âhe Ossâ Pubis and destin'd by Nâture partly for making of Water and pârtly for coâveying the Seed into the Matâix To which end there open ânâo it small Pores through which the Seed passes into it ârom âhe Vesiculae Seminales and alâo the âeck of the Vesiâa Vrinaria which pours out the Urine in making of Wâter Besides the common pârts as the Cutâcle the Skin and the Membrana Carnosa it hath in these proper or internal parts as âhe two Nervous Bodies the Septum the Uâethra the Glans four Muscles and the Vessels The Nervous Bodies so called are surrounded with a thick white Nervous Membrane but their inner substance is spongy consisting chiâfly of Veins Arteries and Nervous Fibres interwoven together like a Net And when the Nerves are repleat with Animal Spirits and the Arâeries with hot and spirituous Blood then the Penis is distended and becomes ârect but when the Influx of the Spirits ceases then the Blood and remaining Spirits are absorded by the Veins and so the Penis becoâes limber and flaggy Below these Nervous Bodies like the Vrethra and whenever the Nervous Bodies swell it swells also The Muscles of the Penis are âour two shorter arising from the Cexendix and sârving its Erection and are therefore
ARISTOTLE'S MASTER-PIECE OR THE SECRETS of GENERATION Displayed in all the Parts thereof CONTAINING 1. The Signs of Barrenness 2. The way of getting a Boy or Girl 3. Of the likeness of Children to Parents 4. Of the Infusion of the Soul into the Infant 5. Of Monstrous Births and the reasons thereof 6. Of the benefit of Marriage to both Sexes 7. The prejudice of unequal Matches 8. The discovery of Insufficiency 9. The cause and cure of the Green Sickness 10. A Discourse of Virginity 11. How a Midwife ought to be qualified 12 Directions and Cautions to Midwives 13. Of the Organs of Generation in Women 14. The Fabrick of the Womb. 15. The Use and Action of the Genitals 16. Signs of Conception and whether of a Male or Female 17. To discover false Conception 18. Instructions for Women with Child 19. For preventing Miscarriage 20. For Women in Child-bed 21. Of ordering New born Infants and many other very useful Particulars To which is added a word of Advice to both Sexes in the Act of Copulation and the Pictures of several Monstrous Births Very necessary for all Midwives Nurses and Young-Married Women LONDON Printed for W. B. And are to be sold by most Booksellers in London and Westminster 1694. The Effigies of a Maid all Hairy and a Infant that was black by the Imaginatioâ of their Parents The Introduction IT plainly appears in Holy Writ that this glorious Universe be spangled with gaudy Fires and every where adorned with wonderful Objects proclaiming the Wisdom and Omnipotence of the Great Work-Master who in Six Days Erected all Things for his Pleasure was at first drawn out of Nothing or at most a Formless Chaos of Confusion a Disordered and Confounded Hâap of Iarring Elements toss'd and jumbled together under the Dismal Shades of Dying Night Eldest of Things no Fruits nor Pleasures no Creature that hath Breath had Being in the place this lower World possesses till GOD out of the Abundance of his Goodness sent forth his Holy Spirit who Dove-like with mighty out-spread Wings sat brooding on the Vast Abyfs and made it Pregnant Then Light put Darkness soon to flight and all the glorious Lamps of Heaven appear all Creatures soon had being and every Plant Tree Herb or Flower of fragrant smell sprung from the Verdant Earth raised by Command above the VVater every thing of use having Seed in it self that no second Creation needed But still that Lordly Creature whâ should rule the Creatures being wanting he was framed more glorious than all Creatures as not made without mature Counsel and Deliberation and stamped in the divine Similitude inspired with the infused Breath of Lifeâ beyond what any other Creature durst to boast The contemplating of which long since made the Royal Psalmist break out into this Rapture What is Man that thou art mindful of him and the Son of Man that thou visitest him Thou madest him a little lower than the Angels and hast Crowned him with Glory and Honour Thou makest him to have Dominion over the Works of thy Hands and thou hast put all things under his Feet Psal. 8. 4 5 6. Thus I say when God hath created the World and furnished it with whatsoever seemed good in his sightâ and that there was nothing wanting for necessary use commodity and pleasure it seemed good to him then to make one that might use them to his Glory and take delight in rejoycing in them Wherefore when Natures Ornaments were all compleat He brought Man into the World as into his own Possession and that he might not be disconsolate nor solitary gave him a Woman for a Helper and Companiân infusing into them a source of Love and Desire towards each other and of procreating their Likeness having prepared for that purpose a swelling Humour or Spirit and Organical Parts and that the one through fear of neglect should not be induced to decline the Society of the other he added Allurements and desire of mutual Embracing that so they might in Procreation be sweetly affected and delighted by wonderous ways For unless this was natural to all kind of Creatures they would be regardless of Posterity and Procreation would cease whereby Mankind would quickly be lost and the affairs of Mortals of no continuance But that this Passionate Desire might strongly operate as well in Sensual Felicity as on the Imagination GOD has firmly imprâssed it in all Creatures subject thereto both Male and Female but more especially on Man And least it should prove unruly in him and not easily subdued He has thought it convenient to prescribe him Bounds and confine him to the Use of the Matrimonial Bed that so they might not defile themselves with wandring Lust who want the gift of Continency Wherefore so soon as Copulation is finished and the Woman happens to prove with Child great is Natures Cunning in furnishing the Embryo with convenient Nutriment that at the set time when Nine Months are run over Man that Ruler and Ornament of the Sublunary World may come forth in relation to which Mystery of Generation Holy Job in the Tenth Chapter of his Book thus expresses himself Hast thou not poured me out as Milk and curdled me like Cheese Thou hast cloathed me with Skin and Flesh and hast fenced me with Bones and Sinews Thou hast granted me Life and Favour and thy Visitation hath preserved my Spirit But not to be too tedious upon this Subject I shall proceed to unravel the Mystery of Generation and divers other Mysteries which I hope will be to the Satisfaction of the Learned and Ingenious of the Age whose Discretion I need not doubt will keep them from wresting it to any other end than what it was designed for viz. The Benefit and Advantage of the Modest of either Sex not dâsiring that this Book should fall into the Hands of any Obscene or Wanton Person whole Folly or Malice may turn that iâto Ridâcule that loudly proclaims the Infinite Wisdâm of an Omnipotent Creator who by his mighty VVorking is able to sundue all things to Hâmsâlf Gloria DEO in Excelsis Aristotle's Master-Piece OR The Secrets of Generation DISPLAY'D CHAP. I. Of Maeriage and at what Age Virgins and Youths are capable of the Marriage-Bed and the Reasons that prompts them to desire it with the Signs of Barrenness and how long a Man or Woman are Capable of having Children THAT Marriage is an Honourable State ordained by God in Paradice and since Confirmed by our Blessed Saviour who wrought his first Miracle at a Wedding I hope none will deny therefore it is convenient that Parents will take care of their Daughters Chastity and when they find them inclinable and when they find them inclinable to Marriage not violently to restrain their Affections but rather to provide for them if possible such Husbands as may be for their Advantage and with whom they may live comfortably in that blessed State lest being crossed in their purposes and delayed they part with their
deceived by Moles which are two-fold viz. The true and a false the former of which is a fleshly Body filled with many Vessels streaked with white green or black Lines not deficient of Membranes but incompassed with divers yet without growth motion Bones Bowels or any Internals receiving its nourishment thro' certain Vessels notwithstanding it lives as we may say the life of a Plant without any figure or order ingendered in the Concavity of the Matrix It has no Burthen or Navel-string fastened to it as a Child always has for as much as the Mole it self adheres to the Womb by which means it receives Nourishment from its Vessels The latter of these viz. The false Mole may be divided into four distinctions as following First the windy Mole being a contraction or conflux of wind Secondly the watery Mole being a gathering of VVater Thirdly the Humourous Molâ or conflux of divers humour and âourthly the membranous Mole being many Membranes in the form of a Bag filled with Blood and of these in their order Galen holdeth that the Mole is bred when the Man's Seed is weak barren imperfect or in too little quantity and for the most part choaked through the abundance of the menstrous Blood which is gross and thick unfit for the framing of a Child so that instead thereof is bred a lump of Flesh that by little and little increaseth being wrapped in his own Membrane which Nature effecteth as desirous to bring forth any thing rather than be Idle The windy Mole is occasioned through defect of heat in the Womb and parts adjacent as the Liver and Spleen which ingender a polite or windy vapour which fills the Membranous parts and puffs up the Concavity of the Matrix The watry Mole is ingendred of divers apt confluences of thin Matter or watry Efluxes which passing thro' the Vessels evacutes into the Womb having its Original from the Spleen Liver or parts adjoyning or rather it proceeds from the weakness of the Matrix which cannot assimilate the Blood that is brought to nonrish it part whereof is turned into Water and not being avoided stayeth in the Womb. The Humorous Mole is ingendered by moist attracted Humours as the Whites or certaân watery Purgation which distââ from the Menstruous Veins and gathering into a gluttenous substance stay in the concavity of the Womb. The Membranous Mole is no other than a contraction of Blood within a Skin or Membrane to which is fâstned many white and transparent Vessels filled with Blood the which coming forth and being thrown into Water the Blood goeth out and the Membrane rumples together shrinking on a heap like coaguluted Seed Now most or all of these false Conceptions have many Signs or Symptoms coherent with the trâe as the depravity of Appetite puking swelling suppression of the Menses swelling of the Breast and Belly so that many are at a plunge to distinguish them for indeed it is most easily to be done though in these following Matters there is distinction viz. In case of a false Conception the Breast swell and fall again not containing any Milk the Face is frequently puffed up the Arms the Groin and the Thighs grow meagre and lanker the Belly waxes hard as iâ Dropsical being almost of an equal roundness with many prickings at the bottom scarcely admitting of intermission which breaks the rest of the Women so afflicted divers other signs are there to know it by especially the true or fleshly Mole as thus A Male Infant begins to move at the beginning of the third Month for the most part and the Female at the end of the third or beginning of the fourth Now when any motion happens the Woman ought to consider whether she has any Milk in her Breasts if she have it is a sign of a true Conceptioâ but the contrary of a salse one it is also the sign of a true Conception if the Child move freely and lively in all parts of the Womb for although there is a motion in a false Conception yet it is dull and not quick nor active in motion the motion not being in it self but in the expulsive Faculty of the Mother And further if the Woman observe she may perceive it fall always to the side she lies on and she lying on her Back if her Belly be stroaked down the burden will descend and not have for want of imbred force power to recover its Station But what confirms it more is that nine Months expired no Travel ensues but her Belly still increases whilst all the rest of the Body grows lean and out of order The Signs of the windy Mole are divers as the sudden stretching of the Belly like a Bladder yet âoft and spongy especially near the Groins and smell thereof when if it be struck it sounds like a Drum and that the swelling is sometimes more and sometimes lessâ so that according to its increase or decrease the VVoman feels more heavy or more light The watery Mole is known by its distention of the Belly and especially when she lies upon her Back the Sides thereof are more swelled than the middle or the bottom which grows flatter by reason the watery humour falls to the sides moving up and down as if it were a fluctuation of water and much to the same purpose as the Symptoms of the Humorous Mole only with the distinction that the Flanks and Thighs are more stretched by the watery Mole than by the other because the water being thinner than the Humour or not confined in Cells flows thither and that which in case of a watery Mole comes through Natures conduit is clear when in case of a humourous Mole the water is red are of a bloody colour Further observe in case of a false Coâception the Courâes dome not down and the Navel of the Mother advanceth it self little or nothing which in true Conception is otherwise Other false Conceptions there are occasioned by divers Tumours which the Ignorant take for Moles when they are only Rotundies and Swelling the Belly which are not discovered till the Womb be opened and then though the Womb be not all out of order there does appear at one or both corners thereof little Bags full of Water in others there are to be seen a heap of Kernelâ or superfluous Flesh like a cluster of Grapes in the Womb causing it to swell Yet in such cases the Courses are observed to proceed in due order which denotes the Womb to be in good order Another Excrescency of Flesh there is which some call a Pendant Mole being a piece of fleshly substance hanging within the Interior Neck of the Womb being in breadth about a finger at the place where it is fastned increasing bigger and bâgger towards the bottom like a small Bell possessing the whole Orifice nay sometimes appearing outward to a great bigness CHAP. XVIII Instructions for Womân how to govern themselves during their being with Child THese Instructions being exceeding necessary I thought