Agarick a dram Coloquintida half a dram Guidium ten grains with Honey and Wool make a Pessary Make Fomentations and Baths of Danewort Mercury Elder Penny-royal Organ Chamomil-flowers Bayberries wild Cowcumbers Broom Carrot Rue-seeds And anoint after with Oyl of Elder Danewort Orris with drops of Oyl of Angelica Anise Caraway Sulphur Baths are good and those of Niter or the Plaister of Bayberries or Snails to the bottom of the Belly Vomiting and Neesing break the bladders Give Clysters at the Fundament as in Dropsies Take Mercury leaves Danewort Soldanella Mugwort Motherwort each a handful Chamomil Elder Broom-flowers each a dram boil and to ten ounces strained and juyce of Beets Mercury Danewort each six drams Boys urin an ounce and half Hiera six drams Hony half an ounce make a Clyster Let the Dyet be drying as in Chap. 5. Chap. 12. Of a Tumor in the Womb from Blood in the Veins THis Disease makes women think they are with chiid also For blood long detained in the Veins about the womb stretcheth them outwardly and twisteth them and the Veins in the substance of the womb are full and stretched and make it larger But when the terms flow it falleth again except there be a Cachexy or Dropsie This is only from stoppage of Terms and is cured by provoking them Chap. 13. Of Inflammation of the Womb. IF the blood that comes to the womb get out of the Vessels into its substance and grow hot and putrifie it causeth Inflammation either all over or in part before or behind above or below on the right or left side The Causes Blood is the immediate Cause which is pure or mixed therefore the Inflammation is either an Erysipelas Oedema or Scirrhus as Flegm Melancholy or Blood abound Blood is either sent to or drawn by the womb By heat or pain it is sent to it when it aboundeth or it is hot or thin and when the blood is moved by hot Air Exercise Passions anger or hot diet The Signs There is a tumor with heat and pain in the region of the womb with stretching and heaviness in the Privities and if you put in your finger you 'l feel the heat and she more pain there is a Feaver sometimes called Lipyra when there is cold without and heat within The tongue is dry and black with watching doting tossing to and fro the brests are pufft up and pained There is head-ach to the roots of the eyes and a pain in the groyns hips midrif pleura and shoulders short wind and like a Pleurisie with loathing vomiting hickets The belly is bound the pulse is small and often and weak but at first darting and quick And Hippocrates saith If the Womb be inflamed the terms are stopt 2. De morb mulier and the neck of it is like a Spiders web with many small veins c. If it be inflamed before the pain is about the pubes and the urin is stopt If behind it is in the loyns and the belly is bound If it be inflamed in the bottom the pain is towards the navel If it be from pure blood the Symptoms are less if from choler stronger the thirst is more the watching greater if from melancholy all are worse If it be all over the womb it is dangerous The Prognostick and few escape it An Erysipelas in a woman with child is deadly because there is an abortion and the Mother dies the worse the Symptoms the greater is the danger And it is safer to discuss an inflamation then to ripen it if it turn to a Schirrus it is lasting and makes a Dropsie If it be not after abortion or a flux of blood The Cure open a vein in the Arm or cup and sacrifice the shoulders Bleed not in the foot least you draw blood more to the womb but afterwards to derive if it be from terms stopt you may Gal. 2. ad glau c. 2. Galen saith You may divert the blood by bleeding in the arm or cupping the breasts and you may derive it by opening the ankle-vein and cupping upon the hips If there be choler purge it with Syrup of Roses Manna Rhubarb Diacatholicon and use not strong movers of the Terms Use Alterers and Coolers as Juleps and Emulsions and provoke sleep and if there be dotage give Narcoticks After the Universals use Repellers and Anodines As Take Housleek Purslane Lettice Venus-navel Vine leaves each half a handful boyl them in wine add Barly meal two ounces Pomegranate-flowers two drams boyl a dram with Oyl of Roses make a Pultis Or Take Diachylon simple two ounces juyce of Venus-navel and Plantane each half an ounce Oyl of Roses an ounce Sugar of Lead a dram make an Oyntment in a leaden Mortar Make Injections of the same Herbs or of Milk and rose-Rose-water Or Take Plantane Venus-navel Lettice each a handful red Roses two pugils boyl and add Oyl of Mirtles an ounce rose-Rose-vinegar half an ounce make an Injection Make Clysters of the same Plants in a small quantity least they oppress the Womb. Take Althaea roots and ounce Mallows Violets Lettice each a handful Nightshade half a handful Violets Roses each a pugil sweet Prunes ten Linseed half a dram boil them in Barly water to six ounces add Oyl of Roses three ounces make a Clyster An anodine Fomentation Take roots of Althaea Mallows and Violets each a handful red Roses Melilot Chamomil-flowers each a pugil boil them for a Fomentation Or use a Cataplasm of white Bread and Milk In the progress dicuss As Take powder of Althaea roots an ounce Chamomil and Melilot flowers each two drams Mugwort half an ounce Barly and Bean flour each an ounce boyl them in sharp wine add Hogs-grease Oyl of Chamomil and Lillies each an ounce make a Cataplasm If the inflammation turn to matter ripen it As Take powder of Althaea roots Chamomil-flowers Melilot Linseed Foenugreek each an ounce Figgs eight boyl them add yelks of four Eggs and half a scruple of Saffron make a Pultis After it is ripe break it by motion of the body coughing neesing cupping or by Pessaries As Take Figgs an ounce Rue half a handful boyl them soft add Honey and Leaven each half an ounce Pidgeons dung Orris roots each half a dram with wool make a Pessary After it is broken the pain abates then clense and heal the ulcer as in Sect. 1. c. 8. of an ulcer of the womb If it break about the bladder give an Emulsion of cold Seeds Whey and Syrup of Violets Let the diet be cool with Barley-water warm Abstain from Wine to the declination of the disease let the belly still be kept loose Chap. 14. Of a Scirrhus and Cancer in the Womb. AN earthy matter left after an inflammation makes a hard tumor called a Scirrhus and sometimes it is without an inflammation It is a proper Scirrhus when there is neither sense nor pain it is improper when there is a little sense It is sometimes as big as
we spake at large If blood be superfluous loose it not nor open the Ankle-vein lest you draw it more to the Womb but take away the Cacochymy If it be from weakness of the retentive Faculty strengthen the womb with Dryers and Astringents Chap. 6. Of the overflowing of the Terms IT is when it is too much or too long and hurts any Woman and brings diseases but a certain proportion of bleeding is not to be defined but too much is lost when the actions are hurt The Causes Gal. 3. de symp Causis c. 2. 5. aph com 57. The immediate Cause is the opening of the Vessels and the immediate Cause is the blood in quantity or quality offending or by its force or disorderly motion Vessels are opened by Anastomisis Diapedesis Diaeresis or ruption or by Diaurosis or corrosion Anastomosis is from a moist distemper of the Vessels which loosneth the Orifices or from external causes as Baths hot and moist or use of Aloes The flux is seldom too great from a Diapedesis for it is but a sweating through Ruption is from Plethory when the terms have long been stopped and then break out and when the blood is hot by Air Baths c. The outward causes are falls strokes hard travel great burthens lifted Erosion is from sharp blood or humor or from Medicines that corode as Pessaries long kept For this great Flux is chiefly from the Veins in the bottom of the Womb. The Signs The Flux of Blood is too great when the strength abateth and Cachexy follows with paleness swollen feet and the blood that comes from the bottome of the Womb is blacker and clotted That from the neck redder and thinner The signs of the causes If it be from much blood there are signs of plethory and it easily clotted together If the blood be sharp and cholerick it is putrified in the womb you shall know waterish blood by its colour and the signs of that humour abounding and if you dip a clout in it and dry it in the shade you may see it If the womb be too moist such causes went before If it be from breaking of Veins they will tell you of violence If it be from corrosion it is little and slow sometimes pure sometimes serous It weakneth the whole Body The Prognostick the Liver and Bowels there is Swounding the Whites and paleness and Dropsie sometimes That which hath been long is hard to be cured and causeth death and in an old woman it is deadly If there be fulness abate the blood Indications and keep it from flowing to the womb revel it repel cool and astringe it that it may not flow so fast and then amend the blood If it is from plenty of blood The Cure open the Liver-veins in the right Arm bleed little and often because it makes better revulsion and weakens not open the Salvetella if there be weakness Gal. 5. aph com 50. and cup the Back and Breast against the Liver beneath the Paps where are Veins from the womb cup not beneath but in the Shoulders or Back and Arm with Scarification but scarifie not under the Breasts Bind and rub the arms and shoulders and temper and thicken the sharp thin humors with Decoctions and water of Plantane Purslane Sorrel Knot-grass Shepheards-purse Pomegranate-Syrup and of dried Roses Sorrel Purslane Coral Conserve of Roses Bole sealed Earth If it be urgent use Narcoticks Syrup of Poppies Treacle Philonium Laudanum If it still continue it is fed with Choler therefore purge it with Syrup of Roses Manna Rhubarb Senna If it be fed with serous blood help the Reins that do not their duty and the Liver and sweat with China You must not provoke urin but use astringents As Take the juyce of Ass-dung Syrup of Mirtles each half an ounce Plantane-water an ounce Give it her and let her not know what it is Decoctions Take Comfrey-roots Tormentil each two drams Purslane Plantane each a handful boil them add to six ounces Syrup of Currans Quinces Mirtles each six drams give it at twice Or Take Syrup of Purslane juyce of Nettles each two ounces purslane-Purslane-water four ounces Troches of Amber of sealed Earth each a dram Blood-stone half a dram give two spoonfuls every day A Water Take eight pints of water with Starch Barley-meal and Rice dried Roses a handful juyce of Yarrow Plantane each half a pint Comfrey-roots and all three ounces Horstail Blood-wort each half a handful Pears and Quinces Pomegranate-flowers all Sanders each half an ounce Mastich an ounce Distil them and give two ounces with half an ounce of Syrup of Roses or Purslane Electuaries Conserve of Roses two ounces Quinces an ounce and half Troches of burnt Ivory and sealed Earth each a dram Crocus Martis Bole red coral prepared Mastich each half a dram with Syrup of Mirtles make an Electuary Powders Take Mastich red Coral prepared each a dram Pearl Smaragds prepared each a scruple Blood-stone half a scruple Bole half a dram make a powder Michael Paschal cured many with this Powder Lib. de curat morb cap. 55. Take two Egg-shells burnt Frankincense Mastich each half an ounce Pearl red Coral and Amber each two drams Blood-stone Smaragds prepared each half a scruple Barley-flour two pugils whites of four Eggs with steeled water make Cakes Give from half a dram to a dram in powder with Trotter-broath in the morning Or give every day a dram of the powder of Mulberry-tree roots Or Ex petrafores to Take plump Turtle drawn and pluckt wash it in rose-Rose-water and red Wine put an ounce of Mastich in the belly of it stick it on and roast it and bast it with Vinegar of Roses Then put it into a glass close luted to be dried in an Oven then beat all of it to powder Give a spoonful with Plantane-water or an astringent Decoction Anoint the bottome of the Belly Reins and Groyns with the dropping of it Or make Rouls thus Take Bole half a dram Magistery of Coral a dram Pearl prepared a scruple Sorrel and Plantane-seed each half a dram Aromatiacum rosatum Traganth each half a dram with Sugar dissolved in plantane-Plantane-water make Rouls In the use of cold Astringents take heed you stop not the Veins and the heat be cooled If these help not use Narcoticks as Troches of sealed Earths and Amber with Opium these astringe also Use no Pessaries except the Veins in the neck of the Womb be open As Take Snakeweed Tormentil each half an ounce Pomegranate-flowers Plantane-seed each two drams Comfry-roots half an ounce Frankincense Mastich each a dram Acacia Sanguis Draconis each two scruples Blood-stone Starch each a dram and half with the white of an Egg and Gum traganth dissolved in rose-Rose-water make Pessaries with red Silk Womb-Clysters Take juyce of Yarrow Solomons-seal each two ounces Mucilage of Gum Arabick made in plantane-Plantane-water two ounces make a Clyster A Fume Take Frankincense Mastich each two drams Mirtles Labdanum each a
it by one Sometimes there is only short breath sometimes the animal actions are hurt the whole Body is cold from a malignant vapor sent up from the Womb. The Causes The immediate Cause is a vapour malignant and venomous sent up by the Arteries Veins and Nerves that hurt the actions of the parts it goes to This vapor is like air or wind thin and little but very strong to get presently through the whole Body It chiefly ascends to the Gullet and causeth choaking as eating of Mushrooms Hellebore and other poysons There is often short difficult breathing with Heart-ach Vomiting and Loathing If the vapor go first to the heart the motion of it ceaseth and there is swounding and she falls down If it go to the Brain the animal actions are hurt When seed and terms corrupt in the Womb with other bad humors they breed this evil vapor because they are the best substance and the beginning of generation they are worst when corrupted especially seed to hurt the whole Body Gal. cit 1. Sometimes it is in Women with child when they have not their after-purging but evil humors are left and corrupt in the Womb. The chief cause of this humor is in the trumpet of the womb and stones the body of which is hollow and loose the stones being in Bladders and have hollowness full of water which in hysterical women is yellow and thicker then ordinary Vesal de corp human Fabr. lib. 5. c. 15. This trumpet and the stones are often taken from the womb it self when they are swollen with corrupt seed and humors and wind and reach to the Navel of which in the Chapter of Ascent of the Womb. This disease is breeding sooner or longer as the matter is more or less sometimes corrupt humors lie still and if they be stirred they send a venom or vapor to the whole body Now in women subject to this disease sweet scents to the Nose or taken in or anger will move these humors and vapors They are according to the variety of the Symptoms and efficient cause or venomous humors The Differences for corrupt blood especially seed puts on another Nature That Suffocation is at hand The Signs it appears by laziness weakness of the Legs paleness sad countenance and the motion of something like a Ball in the Belly with noise like Frogs Snakes or Crows so that some think it is devillish There is also Belching Yawning Yexing short Wind Heart-beating Loathing Dulness Laughter at the coming of the fit from the vapor getting into the Membrane of the Breast that tickle them some cry some both laugh and cry These Symptoms increase when the fit comes and the Jaws are closed that she seems to be choaked and sense and motion is gone or depraved Some have Convulsions some hear what is done about them but cannot speak the pulse is less the whole body is cold and the Eyes shut as if they were dead When the fit declines humors flow from the Privities the Guts rumble the Eyes open the Cheeks grow red and the body warm the animal actions return and the Patient sighs and comes to her self It is known to be from corrupt seed if the terms are in order and short breath and low voice Suffocation and Convulsions and all Symptoms are then more vehement and at the end of the fit there flows a humour like seed out of the privities It is from the terms if they be stopt or flow not orderly and if there be a disease in the womb it is neither from the seed nor the terms The Prognostick 1. If there come Swounding or a great Convulsion or quenching of natural heat it is deadly 2. Suffocation from corrupt seed is more dangerous then that which is from the terms mixt with melancholick humors 3. The longer it lasts and the worse the Symptoms the more is the danger It ceaseth in young Women when they begin to bear children 4. The oftner the fit comes the more you may fear the quenching of the natural heat by weakning of the Heart often and if she foam at the mouth she dies The Cure of the Fit In the fit you must discuss the malignant vapors that rise from the womb and turn it from the principal parts and you must evacuate the matter that breeds it and prevent its return Call upon her loud pluck the hairs of her privities and Ears make strong Ligatures and Frictions cup the Legs and Thighs and Groyns hold stinks to the Nose as Partridge-feathers burnt hairs Leather Horn Castor Assa-foetida Galbanum Oyl of Amber Rue the warts on Horses legs dried and the powder upon coals burnt makes a Fume which if taken in the nose suddenly raised them Apply sweet Scents to the Privities as Civet Musk Gallia and Alipta moschata or powder of Cloves Or Take Storax calamita Benzoin each a dram Gallia moschata half a scruple make Troches with Gum traganth and let the Fume be taken into the VVomb by a Fennel A Liniment Take Storax Benzoin each a dram Gallia moschata half a scruple Civet four grains liquid Storax half a scruple with Cotton put it into the Womb. Clysters to discuss wind draw down the matter Take the Carminative Decoction a pint Electuary of Hiera six drams Benedicta laxativa an ounce Oyl of Rue and Bayberries each a dram Use VVomb-clysters and Pessaries to women that have known man Take Electuary of Hiera and Diaphaenicon each two drams Turpentine half an ounce Honey of Mercury an ounce Castor half a dram with Wooll make a Pessary Oyl of Tin applied to the Navel doth remove the fit Or Rue Castor and sneesing Powders As Take white Hellebore half a scruple long Pepper and Ginger each half a dram or put Oyl of Amber into the Nose and Ears Apply to the VVomb this Take Oyl of Rue Bayes each two ounces Cummin-seed Castor dissolved in Vinegar each two drams with Wax make a Liniment Or use a Plaister of Galbanum Castor and Assa-foetida A Compound distilled VVater Take Zedoary Parsnep-seeds Lovage-roots each two ounces Mirrh Castor each half an ounce Piony-roots four ounces Misleto of the Oak gathered in the wain of the Moon three ounces and water of Motherwort four ounces and half Spirit of Wine a pint and half steep them eight daies distil and give a spoonful with Tile-flower or Mugwort-water or Oyl of Amber some drops Or Take Castor Assa-foetida each a scruple Pepper half a scruple with syrup of Mugwort make Pills give three The Cure out of the Fit First prevent the seed from corrupting in the womb and if it be corrupt evacuate it presently with Womb-Clysters and Pessaries then disperse the reliques and strengthen the womb But first give a general Purge that is gentle often and use things that prevent the breeding of Seed Strengthen with Plaisters and Oyntments to the Region of the Womb. As Take liquid Storax two drams Avens Agnus castus seeds Angelica each half a dram
Conserve of red Roses two drams red Coral and Mastich each a scruple give it presently Use the Countesses Oyntment outwardly to the Loyns Reins Pecten and Perinaeum Or Take Oyl of Roses Mirtles Mastich Quinces each two ounces Oyl of Mints an ounce Bdellium dissolved in Vinegar liquid Storax each two ounces Oyl of Nutmegs by expression a dram with Wax make an Oyntment Of the same with Pitch Rosin Colophony you may make Plaisters Let her hold a Load-stone in her hand or tie it to her navel or wear an Eagle-stone under her Arm-pits or Coral Jaspar Smaragds Diamonds If these will not keep the Child up you must give over Astringents and use Lenitives Question Whether the straitness of the Womb is the cause of Abortion Hippocrates 1. de morb saith Lib. de super lib. de steril That the Womb may cause Abortion if they be windy thick great or little And he shews in another place That Abortion may be from the straitness of the womb And in another place he saith 3. De nat fac c. 12. If a woman in the third fourth or fifth month miscarry often and at the same time it is because the womb will not stretch And Galen confirms the same and it stands to reason for natural birth is when the womb cannot contain the child for its growth Therefore if it be preternaturally too little it is the cause of Abortion And though Nature hath made the womb to hold the child yet if it be not made large enough it cannot contain it so the stomach is sometimes so strait that it cannot hold an indifferent quantity of meat as others can Chap. 3. Of the Signs of Natural Birth and the manner and government of such as bring forth AT her time of her being to be delivered let her take heed of astringents and thickners but let her eat meat of easie concoction and of good juyce and sit every fourth day in a hot Bath Of Mallows Foenugreek Linseed Mugwort and Chamomil-flowers and after let her back loyns belly and privities be anointed with the Mucilage of Althaea-seed and Oyl of Lillies and let the child be strengthned But when she hath pains from the navel to the groyns and in the back then the ligaments and vessels are broken by which the child grows to the womb And because the Womb violently strains to discharge it the membranous fibres are extended and commonly there are very great pains and throws or the child will not be born and it is an evil sign when throws cease because the expulsive faculty is weakned And let not the Midwife provoke throws till the time When the Membranes are broken the water flows out that comes from the urin and sweat of the child first little then more then waterish blood and the orifice of the womb begins to open to let out the child And before this time you must not provoke throws Then let the Midwife put her finger into the orifice of the womb and she shall perceive something round and hard as an Egg. Let her not lie on her back flat but with her back up that she may breathe more freely After the child is born you must press the blood in the Navel-vessels towards the navel of the Infant and take heed that you lose not much blood in cutting of the Navel-string for it hath destroyed weak children and you must labour to fetch out the Secundine with the child and if it be in the womb anoint your hands with warm Oyl and put them into the womb and fetch it out Chap. 5. Of Natural hard Travel THough Child-bearing since Eves sin is ordained to be painful as a punishment thereof yet sometimes it is more painful then ordinary The first is from the mother The Causes and the expulsive faculty 2. From the Child 3. From the passage From the mother as when the womb is weak and the mother is not active to expel from weakness or diseases or want of spirits of which Hippocrates It is from the Birth when they are Twins or more and both strive to go forth at a time 5. Aphor. 55. or if the child stick to a Mole or be so weak that it cannot break the membrane or if it be too big all over or in the head only or if the Navel-vessels are twisted about his neck It is from the passages when the membranes are thick the orifice too strait Fabric cent 3. obs 57. and the neck of the womb is not open sufficiently as in such as labour of the first child or are very fat The passages are pressed and straitned by tumors in the adjacent parts or when the bones are too firm and will not open then the mother and child are both in danger or when the passages are not slippery or when they are broken too soon by reason of the thin membranes or the water flows forth sooner then it ought You may know hard travel by faint throws The Signs that come at a great distance And you must consider all things concerning the Mother Womb and child The Prognostick In hard Travel the mother and child are in danger and the Perinaeum sometimes breaks with the skin from the Privities to the Arse-hole If a woman be four dayes in Travel the child scarce escapes The Cure All things that move the Terms are good to make easie delivery As Myrrh white Amber in white Wine or Lilly-water two scruples or a dram some give a drop of Oyl of Amber in vervain-Vervain-water or a scruple of mineral Borax or half a dram but begin with gentle things as a spoonful of cinnamon-Cinnamon-water Or Take Cassia Lignea Dittany each a dram Cinnamon half a dram Saffron a scruple make a Powder give a dram Or Take Borax mineral a dram Cassia Lignea a scruple Saffron six grains give it in Sack Or Take Cassia Lignea a dram Dittany Amber each half a dram Cinnamon Borax each a dram and half Saffron a scruple give half a dram Or give some drops of Oyl of Hazel in convenient Liquor or two or three drops of Oyl of Cinnamon in vervain-Vervain-water some prepare the secundine thus Take the Navel-string and dry it in an Oven Take two drams of the Powder Cinnamon a dram Saffron half a scruple with juyce of Savin make Troches give two drams or wash the Secundine in Wine and bake it in a pot then wash it in endive-Endive-water and wine Take half a dram of it long Pepper Galangal each half a dram Plantane and Endive-feed each a dram and half Lavender-seed four scruples make a Powder Or Take Labdanum two drams Storax calamite Benzoin each half a dram Musk and Amber-grease each six grains make a Powder or Troches for a fume Or use Pessaries to provoke the Birth Take Galbanum dissolved in Vinegar an ounce Myrrh two drams Saffron a dram with Oyl of Orris make a Pessary An Oyntment for the Pecten and Navel Take Oyl of Keir two ounces juyce of
often handling of the Breasts by which the blood and the heat is drawn to the Breasts The Cure It is easier to keep them from growing great then to abate them when too big with good dyet and Topicks that repel by cooling and binding and drying As Take Mirtle-leaves Horstail Plantane Mints red Roses each a handful Pomegranate-flowers two pugils boyl them in red Wine and Vinegar and with a Spunge apply it to the Breasts and let it dry or apply Hemlock bruised with Vinegar Or Take Powder of Comfrey-roots two drams Pomegranate-flowers red Roses Frankincense Mastich each half an ounce Barley-flour red Oaker each an ounce and half with rose-Rose-water the white of an Egg and a little Vinegar make a Cataplasm These may be laid to the Breasts and under the Arm-pits to astringe the Vessels and hinder the blood from flowing to them Hemlock Henbane and other Narcoticks are forbidden because they weaken the natural heat and hinder the breeding of milk Dryers and Discussers are good in women that have great Breasts after weaning to consume the moisture As Take Bean and Orobus-meal each two ounces and half Comfrey-roots in powder half an ounce Mints three drams Wormwood Chammomil-flowers and Roses each two drams boyl and add two ounces of Oyl of Mastich make a Cataplasm The Breasts are too little when the Flux of blood to the Breasts is hindred diminished intercepted revelled or turned another way or when the blood is not drawn by the Breasts as in a dry Liver-famine much Labour or in Watchings Feavers and other diseases that consume the body The same is when the radical moisture of the Breasts is consumed You must remove the cause that breeds it and often friction will attract blood and foment with warm water in which Emollients have been boyled with white Wine and then anoint with Oyl of sweet Almonds or of Indian-nuts Loosness of the Breasts is cured by Astringents Chap. 2. Of Sweelling of the Breasts with Milk WHen the milk-carrying veins are too full the Breasts swell all over or in part and are pained by stretching and red Sometimes the milk congealed and is a hard Tumor The cause is abundance of milk or blood that makes it or the weakness of the child that cannot suck or because he is weaned It often ceaseth without Remedies Sometimes it is an inflammation or the milk hardens to a tumor The Cure You must hinder the breeding of much milk of which hereafter and consume that which is bred in women that give suck the child will draw them or a Puppy Or use a Glass to suck with they which will not give suck may use this Take Barley-meal of Lentils Althaea-roots Chamomil-flowers and Mints each half an ounce Agnus-castus-seeds two scruples boyl them in Wine add a little Vinegar Oyl of Dill two ounces make a Cataplasm Chap. 3. Of Inflammation and Erysipelas of the Breasts SOmetimes the tumor in the breast is inflamed from blood for though plenty of milk cause an inflammation blood is the immediate cause for milk as it corrupts and grows hot increaseth pain and so the blood staying in the small capillar veins being out of the vessels is hot putrid and inflamed There are other causes as strokes falls straitness of cloaths and other hurts of the Breasts The Signs A hard and red swelling shews inflammation with beating pain and a Feaver The Prognostick These inflammations are commonly without danger but because the Breasts are so loose and have many kernels and little heat they turn to Cancers and Scirrhus The Cure If you fear a great flux of blood that will increase the inflammation let blood in a Plethorick body But if it come from stopping of the terms or after-flux first open the vein in the ankle and scarifie the leggs then if need be open the arm If bad humors coming to the Breasts nourish the Inflammation give a gentle Purge of Manna Senna and the like If the blood be too hot or mixt with hot humors that help the motion of the blood Use Alterers as Lettice Endive Purslane Plantane Water-lillies and the like Use Repellers after these To be a skilful Physitian study my Sennertus Platerus Riverius Bartholinus and Riolanus of the last Editions but such as are weak and not too cold as a clout dipt in Water and Honey with Oyl of Roses applied to the Breasts Or Take Lettice Purslane each a handful red Roses half a handful boyl them in Water add Vinegar two ounces make an Epithem Or Take Nightshade Lettice each a handful boyl them stamp them and add Barley-meal two ounces powder of Chamomil-flowers half an ounce Oxymel Oyl of Roses each a dram make a Cataplasm When the beginning of the Inflammation is past add Discussers with your Repellers As Take white Bread crums Barley-flour each an ounce and half Bean and Foenugreek-flower each half an ounce powder of red Roses and Chamomil-flowers each two drams boyl them add Rose-winegar an ounce Oyl of Roses and of Chamomil each an ounce make a Cataplasm At length use only Discussers As Take Bean-flower and of Lupines and of Foenugreek and Linseed and powder of Chamomil-flowers each an ounce make a Cataplasm If the matter grow hard use Emollients and Attenuates As Take Mallows a handful boyl them till they are soft add powder of Linseed Althoea and Chamomil-flowers each an ounce boyl them again add Oyl of Jesamine an ounce make a Cataplasm If it tend to suppuration lay a Plaister of Diachylon Or Take Mallows and Althoea each half a handful boyl them till they are soft stamp them and add powder of Althaea-roots two ounces powder of Line and Foenugreek-seeds each an ounce Leaven half an ounce add Oyntment of Althaea two ounces make a Cataplasm When there is matter and the Imposthume breaks of its own accord it is well otherwise open it with a Lancet or some sharp Medicine and let out the matter and then cleanse it thus Take Turpentine Honey of Roses each an ounce Mirrh a scruple The ulcer will be hard to be cured except you dry up the milk in the other Breast by reason of much blood that will flow thither to breed milk Question Whether the Inflammation of the Breasts be from blood alone or from milk also The inflammation and swelling in women in Child-bed upon their Breasts is from the afflux of too much milk and it is with redness and pain and beating or pulsation and it is not only from blood for tumors as in other parts are seldom pure or unmixed but there are other humors with it Therefore it is certain that when blood is drawn by heat or pain or comes of it self to the Breasts and begins to corrupt the milk also may be corrupted Of the Erysipelas of the Breasts This Erysipelas is from fright or anger and it turns presently to a Phlegmon and is cured as the Inflammation of the Breast Lay no cold astringent Repellers or fat things but things
a dram Tutty a dram and half Butter washed with rose-Rose-water an ounce Or Take juyce of Beets Celandine each an ounce Hogs-grease two ounces Sulphur a dram Or Take Ceruss Litharge each two drams Pomegranate-flowers and Agarick each a dram with Oyl of Roses and Vinegar make an Oyntment or wash with Soap and then with the Decoction When the skull is bare use Honey of Roses and Spirit of Wine and after round Birthwort and Balsom of Peru and Turpentine with tobacco-Tobacco-water Chap. 4. Of a Scald Head IF Achores or Favi last long or are ill cured they turn to a Scald which is a scabby Ulcer that corrodes the skin and stinks it is called Tinea or Moth which eats Garments as this doth the flesh Achores are moist ulcers in the head and body Tinea is a dry ulcer in the head only The immediate cause is a salt and sharp humor melancholick from the mothers blood The Causes or bad milk it infecteth others by the clouts or caps Some are like a bran or scurfe with scales The Differences some are slimy and when the scab is off there appears red quick knobs of flesh like the insides of figs some are malignant some not some new some old There are dry scabs in the head The Signs yellow or ash coloured that run little and that which is voided stinketh It is hard to be cured If it be new The Prognostick or the matter yellow or the like it is easier An old Scald ash-coloured and black is stubborn after cure the hair will scarce grow there again because the skin is so hard if it will not grow red after rubbing there is no hopes of hair coming again First The Cure Take off the Scab with cleansers a little sharp and because the humors make the skin dry and thick moisten with Hogs-grease upon Beet or Colewort-leaves Or Take juyce of Fumitory Coleworts Docks Elicampane each an ounce and half Litharge half an ounce with Hoggs-grease Oyl of Rue and Wax make a soft Oyntment When the Child is of age and strong make first universal evacuation with Senna Rhubarb Agarick then take off the Scab with Sulphur two drams Mustard half a dram Stavisacre Briony-roots each a dram Vinegar an ounce Turpentine half an ounce and Bears-grease Or beat Water-cresses with Hogs-grease and apply it the scab will fall off in twenty four hours continue it After the scab is off pull the hair out by the roots with instruments or medicines commonly they use a pitched cap and pull it off violently which bring away the hair Or Take Starch or Wheat-flour two ounces Rosin half an ounce boyl it in water for a Pultis lay it upon the several Scalds and let it stick some days then pluck it off suddenly Then use Emollients that correct the dry distemper Also use things to take the Excrements out that lye deep in the skin As Take Roots of Althaea Docks Lillies each an ounce Mallows Fumitory Sage each two handfuls boyl them in Lye add Vinegar wash the head with it every day Then Take Ostratium Sulphur each half an ounce Oyl of Eggs an ounce with Hogs-grease After that Take Briony and Dock-roots and Elicampane-roots each an ounce Fumitory Celandine Scabious each two handfuls Chamomil and Balm each a handful boyl them in Lye and wash the Head twice a day therewith or foment it then rub the head wiph a course cloth or with Oyl of Staves-acre or of Radish till it grow red to draw out the bad humors that lye deep Then use Tarr and Wax for a Cerot Or Take Salt-peter an ounce Oxymel an ounce and half Or Take quick Brimstone an ounce white Hellebore Staves-acre each two drams with Hogs-grease It is not safe to use Arsenick or Orpiment or Mercury or other poysons that corrode because it is so near the brain Chap. 5. Of Ptiriasis or breeding of Lice LIce are Creatures which breed in cloths that are constantly worn but they are chiefly in children from the excrements of the head All say That filth and nastiness alone is the cause of Lice but I think not for filth alone cannot do it without heat for besides the first qualities there is a hidden force in the matter by which it is disposed to produce a particular species for Fleas and Worms will not breed of that matter which breeds Lice so it is in Plants Heat is the helping cause which raiseth the seminal force and brings it into act and though the matter be putrid it doth not work upon it but as it is somewhat natural Excrements are not presently putrid but there is in them a heat that can raise forming force and though there is some putrefaction yet is it not so great as to hinder the action hence it is that children and women that are hot and moist have many excrements that are fit to breed Lice Gal. oriba Ausc Some meats breed Lice as Figs by their fat juyce which doth naturally tend to the skin and varieties of meats and not cleansing nor combeing The place where Lice breed in children is the skin of the head where they stick fast with the hair especialy if there be scabs The Signs are needless they are manifest The Signs The Prognostick It is a filthy troublesome disease many have them breed all over the Body and some have died by them Sometimes the Lice leave them when they are about to die To prevent breeding Lice let children eat no food of evil juyce especially Figgs let the head be often combed and washed and the matter purged that breeds them with hot dry thin medicines that draw the matter out and consume superfluous moisture The Cure Take heed of Mercury and Arsnick in children but make this Lotion Take round Birthwort Lupines Pine and Cypress-leaves each equal parts boyl them Or Take Elicampane-roots two ounces Briony half an ounce Beets Mercury Soap-wort each a handful Lupines a dram Niter half an ounce boyl them for a Lotion then use this Oyntment Take Powder of Staphisacre three drams of Lupines half an ounce Agarick two drams quick Sulphur a dram and half Ox-gall half an ounce with Oyl of Wormwood there are stronger as white Hellebore and Mercury which are not safe Chap. 6. Hydrocephalus or Swelling of the Head WE spake of this in the water without the Skull Hydrocephalus is from water gathered within the Skull or in the Ventricles of the Brain as when the Childs head in the Womb hangs down or when the Brain is very moist The Signs A tumor from water contained in the brain is less and harder then when it is out of the skull The Prognostick The Cure It is harder to be cured then when it is gathered without the skull and is often deadly They are many medicines mentioned that are good here to be used outwardly and to the nose and ears As Take Snails in their shells thirty Marjoram Mugwort each a handful stampt
are better then many and small then great white are better then those of other colours The other Prognosticks are mentioned in other places Preservation It is better to prevent the breeding of worms then to expel them by eating of meats of good juyce with Oranges and Pomegranates and avoiding sweet fat and slimy meats fish milk and Summer-fruits and figs. Drink thin Wine and Grass and Sorrel-water with it and with powder of Harts-horn Let the belly be kept loose with Clysters for children or give the Decoction of Sebestens before meat or of Wormwood and Scordium but children will not take bitter things therefore give Grass-water and juyce of Lemmons or Citrons or a drop or two of Spirit of Vitriol When you know by the signs The Cure that there are worms kill and repel them with Powder of Coralline Wormseed Harts-horn or eight grains of Mercurius dulcis Infuse them a night in Grass-water and cast away the substance of the Mercury and give the Water Or Take Wormseed two drams Coralline Harts-horn prepared each a dram roots of Piony Dittany Magistery of Coral each a scruple make a Powder or give the Essence of Peach-flowers or the Decoction of fern-Fern-water half an ounce or an ounce If there be a Feaver use colder as juyce of Lemmons Pomegranates Oranges Vinegar Harts-horn Bezoar Confection of Hyacinth or this Portion Take grass-Grass-water four ounces Syrup of Juyce of Citrons an ounce of Violets half an ounce Spirit of Vitriol two drops give two spoonfuls Give bitter things at the mouth and sweet at the fundament as a Clyster of Milk Or Take Raisons ten Figs seven boyl them in water take of it four ounces add Sugar an ounce and half make a Clyster Use varieties that the worms may not be too familiar with one Apply Peach-leaves to the Navel bruised or a Cataplasm of Ox-gall Wormwood and St. Johns-wort Or Take Powder of Wormwood Gith Centaury Wormseed Lupines each half an ounce with Oyl of Wormwood and Wax half an ounce make an Oyntment Or Take Treacle half an ounce with juyce of Wormwood apply it to the Navel or make a Bath of Peach-leaves and Wormwood put the child into it up to the Navel If there be a Feaver use colder things mentioned Chap. 24. Of the Rupture IT is from the Peritonaeum loose or broken when the small guts fall into the cods from crying cough straining at stool and from vehement motion or a fall Sometimes the Peritonaeum is well and a water falls from the belly into the cods The tumor is visible if it be from a gut The Signs it is in one part only as the right or left and it may be felt and the hole also through which it fell If from water it is even all over and there was no cause of other Rupture It is easier cured in Infants then in elder persons for it is safer The Prognostick but worse then that of water which goes away of it self when the water is consumed Let the belly be kept open The Cure let not the child cry Avoid vehement motion lay him upon his back and thrust it up gently and apply this Plaister Take Lambs-tongue Sanicle each half an ounce Lentills and Lupines and red Roses in Powder each two drams Frankincense a dram Allum half a dram with the white of an Egg. Or Take Frankincense Cypress-nuts Aloes Acacia each two drams Mirrh a dram with Izing-glass make a Plaister Or apply Gum Elemni steept in Vinegar till there be a Cream at the top and with Oyl of Eggs make a Cerot Inwardly Take Sanicle Lambs-tongue each half a handful Agrimony a handful Comphry the greater half an ounce boyl them to a pint strained add Sugar give it often Or give Powder of Mouse-ear or Moonwort with Wine If it be from water anoint with Oyl of Elder Bayes Rue or apply a Cataplasm of Powder of Beans Foenugreek Linseed Chamomil-flowers Cummin-seeds with these Oyls Chap. 25. Of sticking out of the Navel IT is without Inflammation 1. When is was not well tyed and too much left that sticks out 2. When the Peritonaeum is loose and hath water or wind in it from crying or coughing 3. When the Navel is ulcerated and the guts fall into it this is called properly Exomphalon The Navel yields to the touch but in an inflamation it is hard there is neither heat nor redness and it lasts longer than an Inflammation The Signs If the Navel was not well cut there will be too great a quantity if the Peritonaeum be not broken but loose the Navel starts not much out and is not greater by crying if it be broken the tumor scarce appears when he lyes upon his Back but it increaseth by crying or walking The Prognostick If the Midwife did not cut the Navel well it is more troublesome then dangerous If it be too large or ulcerated at first it is easily cured but afterwards it may cause a deadly Iliack passion when the guts that fall in are inflamed The Cure When the Peritonaeum is loose wind stretcheth the Navel then use a Cataplasm of Cummin Bayberries and Lupines powdered in red Wine or a Bag of Cummin and Spike boyled in red Wine Then lay on an Astringent and roul it If the Peritonaeum be broken first put in the gut then bind it close after you have laid on astringent Powders Or Take powder of Cypress-nuts Frankincense Mirrh Mastich Sarcocol Allum Izing-glass each a dram with the whites of Eggs make a Pultis and give Medicines against Ruptures Chap. 4. Of Inflammation of the Navel IT is from pain when it is not well tied that draws blood to it There is redness hardness heat and beating If it turns to an Imposthume and breaks The Prognostick The Cure the guts come forth and the child usually dies First abate pain Take Mallows boyled and stampt two ounces Barley-meal half an ounce Lupines Foenugreek each two drams with Oyl of Roses make a Cataplasm To repel Blood Take Frankincense a dram Acacia Fleabane-seed each half a dram with the white of an Egg make a Cataplasm Hinder Suppuration as much as may be but if it doth suppurate Take Turpentine half an ounce the yolk of an Egg and Oyl of Roses two ounces Chap. 27. Of Falling out of the Fundament WHen the muscle that shuts the Arse-hole is loose the Fundament comes forth the cause is moisture of the muscles after a flux or straining at stool in Tenesmus or Needing or when the belly is bound The people will tell you the causes The Signs and you may see it The Prognostick It is easily cured when it is from straining at stool if it have not been long out If it be from great store of moisture it is hard to be cured especially if there be a loosness of the belly for then Medicines cannot lie on The Cure First put it up if it be swollen foment it with the decoction of Mallows
general Page 170 Chap. 2. Of Abortion Page 172 Chap. 3. Of the signs of Natural Birth and the manner and government of such as bring forth Page 175 Chap. 5. Of Natural hard Travel Page 177 Chap. 6. Of a vitious disorderly Birth or difficulty preternatural Page 179 Chap. 7. Of a slow Birth Page 180 Chap. 8. Of a Child dead in the Womb. Page 181 Chap. 9. Of the Caesarean Birth Page 183 The CONTENTS of the Seventh SECTION Of the Government of Women in Child-bed and of the Diseases that come after Travel Chap. 1. Of the Government of Women in Child-bed Page 186 Chap. 2. Of the Secundine or After-birth or a Mole that is left after Child-bearing Page 187 Chap. 3. Of the Purgation after Child-bearing diminished or detained Page 189 Chap. 4. Of too great a flux of blood after Child-bearing Page 191 Chap. 5. Of the Pains after Travel and Torments in the Belly Page 192 Chap. 6. Of the Tearing of the Vulva to the Arse and coming forth of the Womb Inflamation Ulcer Suffocation and falling out of the Fundament Page 193 Chap. 7. Of Watching Doting and Epilepsie of Women in Child-bed Page 194 Chap. 8. Of the swelling of the Womb Belly and Feet after Child-bearing Page 195 Chap. 9. Of Vomiting Loosness Belly-bound and not holding of Urine in Women in Child-bed ibid. Chap. 10. Of the Wrinkles of the Belly after Child-bearing and mending of the largeness of the Privities Page 197 Chap. 11. Of Feavers and acute Diseases in Women in Child-Bed Page 198 The CONTENTS of the First SECTION Of the Diseases of the Breasts Chap. 1. Of the increased number of Breasts and greatness extraordinary Page 203 Chap. 2. Of swelling of the Breasts with Milk Page 205 Chap. 3. Of Inflammation and Erisipela's of the Breasts Page 206 Chap. 4. Of the Oedoma of the Breasts Page 209 Chap. 5. Of the Scirrhus of the Breasts Page 210 Chap. 6. Of the Glandles or Kernels in the Breasts being swollen or of the Scrofula and Struma in the Breast Page 211 Chap. 7. Of the Cancer of the Breasts Page 212 Chap. 8. Of Ulcers and Fistulaes of the Breasts Page 215 Chap. 9. Of straitness of the passages of the Breasts ibid. Chap. 10. Of strange things bred in the Breasts Page 216 Chap. 11. Of the Diseases of the Nipples ibid. The CONTENTS of the Second SECTION Of the Symptoms of the Breasts Chap. 1. Of want of Milk and not giving of suck Page 218 Chap. 2. Of too much Milk Page 220 Chap. 3. Of Curding and other faults in the Milk Page 221 Chap. 4. Of Milk coming forth at wrong places Page 222 Chap. 5. Of strange things coming forth of the Breasts Page 223 Chap. 6. Of the change of colour in the Nipples and pain of the Breasts Page 224 A TRACTATE Of the CURE OF INFANTS The CONTENTS of the First PART Of the Dyet and Government of Infants Chap. 1. Of the Choise of the Nurse 225 Chap. 2. Of the Conditions of good Milk 227 Chap. 3. Of Curing the Faults in Milk ibid. Chap. 4. Of the Dyet and Government of new born Children 229 Chap. 5. Of the Dyet of an Infant from breeding of Teeth till it be Weaned 230 Chap. 6. Of Weaning of Children ib. Chap. 7. Of Childrens Dyet after Weaning 231 The CONTENTS of the Second PART Of Diseases and Symptoms of Children Chap. 1. Of Infants Diseases in general 232 Chap. 2. Of Feavers in Children Meazles and Small Pox. 233 Chap. 3. Of the Milkey Scab Achores and Favi 235 Chap. 4. Of a Scald Head 236 Chap. 5. Of Ptiriasis or breeding of Lice 239 Chap. 6. Of Hydrocephalus or swelling of the Head 240 Chap. 7. Of Siriasis 141 Chap. 8. Of Frights in the sleep 242 Chap. 9. Of great Watching 243 Chap. 10. Of Epilepsie and Convulsion 244 Chap. 11. Of Strabismus or Squint-eyes 246 Chap. 12. Of pain in the Ears Inflammation Moisture Ulcers and Worms ibid. Chap. 13. Of the Thrush Bladders in the Gums and Inflammation of the Tonsils 247 Chap. 14. Of Breeding of Teeth 248 Chap. 15. Of Loosing of the Tongue and of the Frog 249 Chap. 16. Of Catarrh Cough and difficult Breathing 250 Chap. 17. Of the Hicket 251 Chap. 18. Of Vomiting 252 Chap. 19. Of the Torments or Pains of the Belly 253 Chap. 20. Of puffing up of the Belly and Hypochondria 255 Chap. 21. Of the Flux of the Belly ibid. Chap. 22. Of Binding of the Belly 257 Chap. 23. Of the Worms 258 Chap. 24. Of the Rupture 261 Chap. 25. Of sticking out of the Navel 262 Chap. 26. Of Inflammation of the Navel 263 Chap. 27. Of falling out of the Fundament ibid. Chap. 28. Of the Stone in the Bladder 264 Chap. 29. Of difficulty and stoppage of Urine 265 Chap. 30. Of not holding the Urine 266 Chap. 31. Of chafing in the Hips called Intertrigo 267 Chap. 32. Of Leanness and Fascination ibid. THE FOURTH BOOK OF PRACTICAL PHYSICK Of Womens Diseases THE FIRST PART Of Diseases in the Privities of Women THE FIRST SECTION Of Diseases of the Privy Part and the Neck of the Womb. Chap. 1. Of the straitness and largeness of the Orifice THere are three Diseases in this Part. The straitness and the largeness and Yard of a Woman The straightness is when the Cleft is narrow that it will not admit a Mans Yard or with much difficulty it hinders Child-bearing and if it be from the first confirmation it is hard to be cured by Physick but it is enlarged either by copulation or by bringing forth of children Sometimes it is from an Ulcer or from astringent Medicines given unadvisedly that they may appear to be Virgins when they are not Sometimes the cleft is shut up outwardly and there is only passage for the Urin and the Terms these Women are called Atretae that is shut up and bored of which Chap. 3. Sometimes it is so close that neither Terms nor Urin can come forth The contrary to this is largeness of the Cleft or when there are more holes then Nature hath usually by often Copulation or Child-bearing This laxity or largeness causeth Barrenness and falling out of the Womb as Hippocrates shews in the Nature of Women And this makes women unpleasant to men This is cured by purging after Child-bearing by Fomentations Baths Liniments of Allum water and the Decoction of astringent Plants Take Comfry roots Bole Sanguis Draconis Pomgranate flowers Allum Mastich Galls each half a dram make a Powder and with steeled Water make a Mixture dip a Pessary therein Or Take Oaken leaves Plantane each half a handful Comfry roots an ounce Pomegranate peels and flowers Sumach each half an ounce Allum an ounce boyl them in Water and foment the Privites Sometimes in hard travel the space between the Fundament and the privy Cleft is broken into one hole Eros shews the Cure of it Some put a long piece of Allum into the Cleft When there are divers passages in a Womans Privities it is
Cold and Moist THere is seldom a simple Distemper in the part and commonly there is matter which feeds it It is usually cold and moist which gathers excrements of that sort either in the whole body or in the womb after the terms The Causes Are all things that breed cold and flegmatick humors in the whole body or the womb The Cure They conceive not and are of an ill habit of body the terms seldom flow right and they have sometimes the whites The Prognostick The Cure It is harder to cure than a simple distemper The cold humor is in fault therefore prepare it with Syrup of Mugwort Mints Bettony Hysop with a Decoction proper As Take Fennel roots an ounce Valerian Elicampane Masterwort each half an ounce Penny-royal Mugwort Motherwort Nep Marjoram each a handful Rosemary and Sage-flowers each two pugils Siler Montane Fennel Anniseed Parsnep-seed each a dram boil them to ten ounces strained add Sugar syrup of Mugwort two or three ounces cinnamon-Cinnamon-water half an ounce make a Portion for three doses Then purge it with Agarick Mechoacan Turbith and if other humors be mixed with Flegm add Senna and the like or use Pills de tribus Aloephanginae Mastich of Hiera with Agarick Sine quibus Or Take Agarick a dram and half Senna two drams infuse them in mugwort-Mugwort-water to three ounces strained add Diaphoenicon or Diacarthaemum two drams strain and add syrup of Mugwort half an ounce cinnamon-Cinnamon-water half a dram After universal Evacuation use Pessaries As Take Mercury bruise it and put it in a bag of white Silk anoint it with Butter or Honey of Roses Or Take Benedicta laxativa three drams Agarick two drams Gith seed a dram Pease meal six drams with juyce of Mercury make Pessaries in a Sarsnet Bag. Or Take Hiera a dram Agarick half a dram Bdellium a dram with Honey make a Pessary or make it with powder of Agarick and Troches of Coloquintida or five sweats of Guajacum China and Sarsa As Take Guajacum a pound and eighteen ounces infuse them in twelve pints of water twenty four hours then boyl them to the consumption of the third part give six or eight ounces hot in the morning and let her sweat Pour water to the reliques and boyl them to the consumption of the third part for an ordinary drink You may use China and Sarsa the same way and because in a decoction some strength is lost and so great a quantity is tedious for women you may distil them and give a less quantity with things proper for the womb As Take Guajacum a pound or Sarsa eight ounces Angelica Elicampane each an ounce Mugwort two handfuls Dittany half a handful add six pints of water or wine steep them two dayes then distil them and give two ounces of the water Let her meat be roasted Birds Hens Capons Partridges Mutton sweet Almonds Raisins Let her abstain from salt and sharp things If these sweats are unpleasant give them in the third and fourth Chapter internal and external As Take Conserve of Marjoram Rosemary Bettony each two ounces of Balm an ounce Diamoschu dulcis Diamargariton calid each a dram â—â—ndied Eryngus and Citrons each half an ounce with furup of Mugwort make an Electuary and use Baths to sit in mentioned Drying spaw-Spaw-waters are good to drink or to sit in Let the diet be as in Chap. 3. and 4. give the flesh of wild Mountain fowl Pidgeons Hens Capons Mutton roasted and spiced and old wine and let her exercise Of the hot and dry Distemper of the Womb with Choler Do as in Chap. 5. purge the Choler whether it be from the whole body or from the Liver with Syrup of Roses Manna Tamarinds Rhubarbs Senna c. Chap. 7. Of the ill shape of the Womb and first of the straitness of it and its vessels THis is a Disease of evil conformation from Nature when it can be stretched out no further this makes an abortion in the fourth or fifth month But it is wonderful in its natural shape when it will stretch according to the proportion of the child and after child-bearing be as small as at first Of straitness of the vessels of the Womb. This is usual and hinders the flux of the terms and conception it is in the vessels of the womb and of the neck thereof The Causes Are thick tough humors that stop the mouths of the veins and arteries these are bred of gross or much nourishment when the heat of the womb is so weak that it cannot attenuate the humors these either flow from the whole body or are gathered in the womb Sometimes vessels are closer by inflammation or Schirrhus or other tumor 3. They are stopt by astringent Medicines 4. By compression 5. From a Scar or Flesh or a Membrane that grows after a wound Stoppage of the terms shews straitness The Signs which hinders conception and this stoppage is known by crudities abounding in the body which are known by their signs Sometimes thick flegm comes from the womb if there was a wound before or the Secundine was pulled out by force Stoppage of terms from an old obstruction by humors is hard to be cured The Prognostick if it be from disorderly use of astringents it is more curable if it be from a Schirrhus or other tumor that compresseth or closeth the vessels that cannot be cured the disease is incurable Obstructions are taken away by the means mentioned in the cold and moist Distemper of the Womb flegm must be purged The Cure and she must be let blood as in stoppage of the terms After Universals come to the obstruction with Medicines that move the terms these take away the cause as in the Chapter of the cold distemper of the Womb. Or Take Asparagus roots Parsly roots each an ounce Madder roots half an ounce red Pease half a handful Penny-royal Calamints each a handful Wall-flowers Dill-flowers each two pugils boil strain and add syrup of Mugwort an ounce and half Or Take Birthwort and white Dittany roots each an ounce Costus Cinnamon Galangal each half an ounce Rosemary Penny-royal Calamints Bettony-flowers each a handful Anise and Fennel seeds each a dram Saffron half a dram with Wine Or use Topicks as Take Mugwort Marjoram Calamints Mercury Penny-royal each two handfuls Sage Rosemary Bays Chamomil-flowers each a handful boyl them in water foment the groins and the bottom of the belly or let her fit in a Bath up to the Navel and then anoint about the groins with Oyl of Rue Lillies Dill c. Or use Pessaries and Fumes mentioned If straitness be from other diseases cure them first Chap. 8. Of the opening of the Vessels of the Womb besides Nature THis when there is great bleeding The Causes The vessels are opened preternaturally three wayes by Anastomosis Diaeresis and by Diapedesis as in the Lungs Anastomosis is from much blood which the Liver doth produce and send out by the womb as in some
the liver-veins on the right side or the spleen on the left as they are filled more or less It also falls down by the loosning of the parts to which it is fastned but how that can be it is not clear 1. 2. De morb mulier Hippocrates saith It comes from external causes as from cold of the feet or loins from leaping or fear cutting of wood or running down a hill and the like these make the ligaments moist and loose Also it may be from cold after child-bearing getting into the womb when the terms flow sitting upon a cold stone and the like Platerus Others say It comes from the solution of the connexion of the fibrous neck and the parts adjacent and that is from the weight of the womb descending this we deny not But when the ligaments must be loose or broken But women in a dropsie could not be said not to have the womb fall down if it came only from loosness But the cause in them is the saltness of the water which dries more then it moistneth The Signs If there be a little tumor within or without the privities like a skin stretched or a weight felt about the privities it is only a descent of the womb but if there be a tumor like a Goose-Egg and a hole at the bottom there is at first a great pain in the parts to which the womb is fastned as the loyns the bottom of the belly and the privities and the Os sacrum from the stretching or breaking of the ligaments but a little after the pain abateth and there is an impediment in walking Sometimes blood comes forth from the breach of the vessels and the dung and urine are stopt and a Feaver and Convulsion When it is near it is easily cured when old The Prognostick it is hard to be cured but not deadly only it is troublesom and nasty It hinders conception and keeps terms from flowing orderly If it be with pain Feaver or Convulsion it is deadly especially in women with Child That which comes from corrosion of the ligaments is dangerous First put it up before the air alter it The Cure or it be inflamed or swollen Therefore first give a Clyster to remove the excrements Then lay her upon her back with her legs abroad and thighs lifted up her head down and take the tumor in your hands and thrust it in without violence If it be swollen by alteration and cold foment it with the Decoction of Mallows Althaea Line Foenugreek-seed Chamomil-flowers Bayberries and anoint it with oyl of Lillies and Hens-grease If there be an inflammation Roder a. casuo de morb mul. 1. 2. c. 17. put it not up yet It may be frighted in by shewing of red hot iron and acting as if you would burn it First sprinkle upon it the powder of Mastich Frankincense and the like As Take Frankincense Mastich each two drams Sarcocol steept in Milk a dram Mummy Pomegranate-flowers Sanguis Draconis each half a dram When it is put up let her lie with her leggs stretched one upon the other for eight or ten dayes and make a Pessary like a Pear of Cork or Spung put into the womb dipt in sharp wine or juyce of Acacia with powder of Sanguis Draconis Bole Mastich or the Countesses Oyntment with Galbanum and Bdellium Apply a Cupping-glass with great flame under the navel or paps or to both kidnies and lay this Plaister to the back Take Opopanax two ounces Storax liquid half an ounce Frankincense Mastich Pitch Bole each two drams with Wax make a Plaister Or Take Labdanum a dram and half Frankincense Mastich each half a dram wood Aloes Cloves Spike each a dram Ash coloured Amber-greece four grains Musk half a scruple make two round Plaisters to be laid on each side the Navel Make a Fume of a Snail skin salted or of Garlick and let it be taken in by a Funnel Use astringent Fomentations of Bramble leaves Plantane Horstails Mirtles each two handfuls Wormwood two pugils Pomegranate-flowers half an ounce boil them in wine and water Or inject this with a Syringe Take Comfrey-roots an ounce Snakeweed Pomgranate-flowers each half an ounce Rupture-wort two drams Yarrow Mugwort each half an ounce boil them in red Wine Then use Sulphur Baths To strengthen the Womb Take Harts-horn Bayes each a dram Mirrh half a dram make a powder for two doses give it with sharp Wine Or Take Zedoary Parsnep-seeds Crabs eyes prepared each a dram Nutmeg half a dram give a dram in powder but use astringents warily lest you stop the courses and cause worse mischief If it fall out from evil humors that flow to the womb and loosen the ligaments purge the body and then use dryers as the decoction of China Sarsa and Guajacum To keep it in its place make Roulers and Ligatures as for the Rupture and use Pessaries into the bottom of the womb that may force it to remain Lib. de partu Caesar sect 6. cap. 3. 4. of which Francis Rousset hath written at large and shews that they neither hinder Conception nor bring any inconvenience nay that they help Conception and retain it and cure this disease perfectly And Gaspar Bauhinus confirms the same in his Appendix to Rousset You may use Circles or Balls instead of Pessaries As Take roots of wild Vine make round Circles or Balls of them greater or less as the neck of the womb is Then Take Virgins Wax melted with white Rosin or Turpentine dip the balls in till they are fit put one in the neck of the womb that will hold in being just fit let it not be taken out till it fall out and then put in another if she be not cured If it gangrene and sphacelate cut it quite off Lib. de partu Caes sect 4. cap. 5. hist 6. Ibid. sect 4. cap. 5. if she fear cutting take it off by Ligature of which Rousset who shews the way and saith that it may be cut off without danger of life He tells also of the place where you must cut and in Sect. 4. de partu Caesareo where the Ligature is to be made Let the diet be drying and astringent and glewing as Rice Starch Quinces Pears green Cheese Avoid Summer-fruits Let the Wine be astringent and red The Cure of the inclining of the Womb. When it inclines to the sides after Universals apply Cupping-glasses to the other side and let her still lie on the other side and let the Midwife anoint her finger with Oyl of sweet Almonds and draw it a little by degrees to the other side Chap. 17. Of the Rupture of the Womb. FEw Physitians have seen this I never read of any but once I saw it of which in my Institutions lib. 2. part 1. cap. 9. Chap. 18. Of Wounds and breaking of the Womb. The Signs IT is seldom wounded by reason of the divers defences it hath but sometimes the Chirurgions wound it in
cutting out of the Child of which Hollerius inter rara no. 8. He speaks of a woman with child in Paris that her childs hand put forth at the Navel and was so in travel 15 dayes and both child and mother were safe The Prognostick It is evident if it be made by the Chirurgion in cutting out of a Child and you may know it by the place if it come otherwise There is blood and matter that flow out at the neck of the womb There is more pain when it is in the neck of the womb then when it is in the bottom These wounds are cured as appears by the Caesarean Birth or cutting but they are dangerous by reason of the strange Symptoms and the consent of the parts The Cure Use Consolidates or Healers and if there be pain Anodines or Pessaries made of Wax-candles dipt in Wound-Oyntments Or Take Wax Turpentine Goose-grease Butter each a Dram Honey Deers-marrow Oyl of Roses Bulls-grease each two drams Or Take Frankincense Mastich Ceruss Galbanum each half an ounce mix them all with white Wine then add Pompholix an ounce and with Wax and Oyl of Roses make an Oyntment Make Injections or Clysters for the Womb of the Decoction of round Birthwort Cypress boiled in steeled Water and sharp Wine with a little Hydromel Agrimony Mugwort Plantane Roses Schaenanth Horehound Chap. 19. Of Ulcers and Rottenness of the Womb. THough the neck of the womb be only subject to Ulcers as we shewed yet the substance of the womb hath been ulcerated and it hath been observed to rot when it hath fallen out and to fall away As we said of a Woman at Avinion that after lived some time And the Examples of Rousset shew that it may be safely cut off Also a child dead in the womb Lib. de part Caesar chir c. 76. may cause an Ulcer and divers Histories witness in Abucasis and Alexander Benedictus Mauritius Cordaeus and many others How these ulcers and rottenness of the womb are cured is said in sect 1. cap. 8. where we spake of Ulcers of the neck of the Womb and cap. 10. of Fistulaes of the Womb. Chap. 20. Of the Diseases of the Stones and Vessels of Procreation in VVomen IT is apparent by Histories written by grave and learned Men that the Stones of Women and their Seed-vessels are many times grievously distempered when the womb joyned to them is not Sometimes water is gathered about the stones In apprend ad Roussetum 2. de partu Caesar as Gasper Bauhinus John Schenkins write and he hath another History Lib. Obser 3. from John Heintz of a Maid that desired a little before she died that her body might be opened to testifie her innocency In which besides other things remarkable the stones were found swollen as big as a head of a young child blewish and spungy much water came out of them and that made her Belly swell and she taken to be with child but the truth appeared and her Chastity testified THE FOURTH BOOK THE SECOND PART Of the Symptoms in the Womb and from the Womb. Chap. 1. Of Weakness in the Womb. THere are many Symptoms from the Womb. Of those in the Womb the first is weakness so that it cannot perform its actions The action of the womb is twofold private and publick By its private action it makes its nourishment of blood that comes to it By its publick action it serves for generation If the private faculty be hurt and the nourishment not well made there is a superfluous moisture and then weakness without other faults of the Organ or unity divided The Causes The first Cause is distemper when the manifest qualities are changed or when the natural heat is suffocated or dispersed or when the occult qualities are changed Heat in the womb makes a distemper if it be too much by which the womb sucks more then it can concoct this is not properly weakness but that distemper is weakness when the action is either not done or weakly done But cold rather makes weakness in the womb by which it cannot make the sufficient quantity of nourishment hence excrements are heaped up and it cannot perform its actions Also a moist distemper makes weakness by which it can neither keep seed nor child It is also weak from loosness The Signs Little desire of Venery and no pleasure therein argue weakness of the womb flux of Seed often abortion Part 1. sect cap. 2. 3. pain in the Loins and Pubes when the Terms are coming farts from the Womb Head-ach and the like The signs of a cold and moist distemper with or without matter are already declared The Prognostick It is a great disease by reason of the divers Symptoms in women that have conception hurt It is worst when it comes from dispersing and extinguishing of the natural heat The Cure We have shewed how distempers of the womb are cured but the dispersing of the Spirits and natural heat is cured by things that hinder the loss of Spirits and strengthen the womb as Spices Cinnamon Cloves Nutmeg Mace Diacalaminth Aromaticum rosatum Diaxilaloes rosata Novella Treacle Mithridate Outwardly by Oyl of Lillies Nard Lavender and Astringents when the womb is loose Things that help the womb in the whole substance are in the Chapter of the cold and moist Distemper as Aqua vitae for Women Or thus Take Castor three ounces Saffron two ounces extract them singular add to both Extract of Mugwort two ounces of Angelica a dram Magistery of the mother of Pearl a dram Oyl of Cloves a scruple of Angelica and of Amber and of Nutmegs each half a scruple Let her eat meat of much nourishment and drink good Wine Chap. 2. Of the Itch of the Womb. THis is more in old then young women and must be distinguished from the Frenzy of the womb for here is only a desire to scratch the Privities so that they cannot sleep Nor is it with desire of Copulation as in the Fury of the Womb. It is a salt humor that is serous and adust that causeth it that is sent to the neck of the womb The Causes and the privities How it comes there I shewed in Ulcers of the Privities It is known by her Relation and often putting her hand to the Privities The Prognostick The Cure It is more troublesome then dangerous because it hinders sleep First purge the whole Body and if there are signs of Plethory and strength permits bleed in the Arm. Then qualifie the sharp salt humors with cold and moist means and remove them from the Privities Foment with a Decoction of Lettice Plantane Willow Dock-roots and then anoint with Galen's Cooler Or dip a Pessary in this Oyntment and put it in Or Take Allum Niter Sulphur each six drams Staphisacre an ounce with Rose-vinegar and fresh Butter make a Liniment If these will not Cure use stronger as the Oyntment of Elicampane with Quick-silver Or Take black
Sope Stavisacre each a dram quick Brimstone half an ounce Quick-silver 2 drams with Rose-vinegar and Hens-grease make an Oyntment Let the meat be of good juyce cooling and moistning Take heed of Spices sharp and salt meats Chap. 3. Of pain in the Womb. THere is pain in the body of the womb with other diseases sometimes as the Colick-pains woven in the bottom of the Belly and in the Loins and Hips and is called the pain of the Womb. It is often in women with child as the inflammation of the womb It is burning and beating it binds the Belly and stops the Urin. The Causes Solution of unity is the cause of all pains and this is from the stretching of the Womb and its Vessels or corrosion Stretching is from wind or clotted blood in the cavity of it and when Nature cannot expel it by reason of the straitness of the part there is pain Also pain is from stretching of the vessels before the terms flow when they are close and the blood thick and this pain is increased by external cold especially after heat Sometimes there is a gathering of humors about the womb when the terms flow and are foul and they get into the membranes and stretch them The same may be from corrupt Seed that stretcheth the vessels Or from sharpness and corrosion in the neck of the womb The Signs when sharp humors flow through it and twitch it The pain is manifest but let us look at the signs of the causes If it be from clotted blood there was a flux of the same and the pain is fixed about the orifice of the womb If there were external causes the patient will relate If it be from Seed there is suffocation of the Womb. The greater the cause is The Prognostick The Cure and the more vehement it works the more is the danger If there be pain and fear of fainting look to that before the cause with Anodynes and Narcoticks if need be If it be from wind see inflation of the Womb. If it be from clotted blood dissolve and evacuate it with hot and attenuating Medicines made into Fomentations Baths and Oyntments It is good to apply Treacle to the region of the Womb or put it in with Rue and Honey Or give a Clyster to the Womb of Rue Foenugreek-seed and Oyl of Rue and Orris Or give Treacle and Cinnamon-water If the vessels of the womb are not open enough for the terms See in the stoppage of the terms If there be wind make a Clyster thus Take Mercury Mugwort Calamints Penny-royal each a handful Chamomil and Melilot-flowers each half a handful Faenugreek and Linseed each an ounce boyl them in a pint strained dissolve Hiera Benedicta laxativa each half an ounce make a Clyster Give Mugwort Zedoary-water Essence of Castor Treacle or Womans Aqua vitae of which before Make a Clyster for the Womb thus Take Mugwort Calamints Bettony each half a handful Gith Cummin Carrot Aniseeds each a dram Spike Schoenanth Nutmeg Cinnamon each a dram boyl them in Wine Then fill an Ox bladder half full with Oyl of Lillies and Dill and apply it to the belly Or Take Oyl of Lillies Orris each an ounce distilled Oyl of Angelica a dram Goose and Hens grease each half an ounce Mucilage of Line and Faenugreek-seed made with mugwort-Mugwort-water each three drams seeds of Cummin Carrots Caraway each a dram with Wax make a soft Oyntment Or Take Pellitory two handfuls Mercury a handful beat them add Chamomil-flowers Cummin Anise Carrots-seeds each a dram two yelks of Eggs and Oyl of Lillies make a Cataplasm for the Belly Apply Plaisters to the Navel and Cupping-glasses with great flame to the Region of the womb or dry Fomentations of Oats Milium Anise Cummin Carrot-seed in a Bag. And use Pessaries as Take Harts Marrow Turpentine Wax Goose-grease each three drams Saffron a dram yelks of Eggs seven with Oyl of Lillies make Pessaries If the humors and wind is malignant mix Scorronera Bezear seeds and roots of Angelica water of Zedoary Treacle Mithridate and the like in Suffocation of the womb Chap. 4. Of the Diseases of the Womb that come from sweet scents and stinks THere is a particular Symptom in the womb which breeds great admiration that it delights in sweet scents and is offended with stinks And it is certain for if Musk Civit or the like be but put to the Nose of the woman that is subject to fits of the Mother they grow sick and if the same be put to their privities and stinks to the Nose the fit of the Mother ceaseth It is hard to give the reason of this many wise Men have given their opinion but they disagree among themselves and satisfie me not neither do I promise to satisfie others But it is probable to me that the womb is not delighted with scents as scents for the privities have no smelling and the sense of smelling doth not reach so far but the quality by which it is well or ill is occult and not to be explained and to be separated from the odours If any ask what the quality is I answer There are many qualities in Nature that are hid from our senses and yet we cannot deny them because we see their effects as the quality in a Dogs Nose we cannot apprehend but the Dog perceives it But how these qualities come to the womb Quomodo uterus bene olentia recipiat is by no other way but by the open way by the privities by which Spirits get into the womb and in the suffocation of the womb sweet things profit because they strengthen it by a peculiar quality to disperse the venemous air and draw down the spirits and humors But if they be put to the Nose Quomodo bene olentia hystericis noceant the womb consents by the Sympathy of the organ of smelling and the brain with it This is by the Nerves and Arteries for the heart is presently refreshed with a sweet scent because it presently pierceth into it being spiritual and there is a great consent of the womb with the brain and the smelling as is seen by the tryal of Barrenness by a Fume from Hippocrates 5. Aphor. But we must observe that sweet scents are acceptable to all Wombs and stinks are not but the same Symptomes are not in all Women from them for they who have a Womb of a good constitution with no evil humors in it endure sweet things well and delight in them but they who are unclean hate sweet things and osten fall into fits by them because while the womb is delighted with that sweet and hidden quality with which it hath a peculiar Sympathy the evil humors that lie in the Womb especially if there be any corruption from Seed and the Seed also are stirred and when the Spirits flie up they take the bad humors with them and send bad vapors to the heart which cause suffocation and others Symptoms But when the
with it to the veins of the womb and stops them This thick blood comes from a cold distemper of the stomach liver and spleen from thick and gross food and drinking cold water when the Terms flow Lib. de venae sec adversus Erasistrat So thought Galen in his time of the Roman women that drank Snow-water and had few or no courses Straightness is when the body of the womb is made thicker either by Nature or other causes as a cold and dry or hot and dry distemper Thirdly Straitness is from compression of the vessels by a Scirrhus or hardness of the parts adjacent as the straight gut or by the stone in the bladder and the womb displaced Fourthly The flesh may grow together by a membrane that grows to the vessels or a scar after a wound Or after a mischance when the veins annexed to the Secundine grow so together that they cannot be opened of which in the first Question They are not the same in women and Virgins The Signs for blood stopt in Virgins goes to and fro changeth the colour and brings Feavers especially the white Feaver or Green-sickness But in women it goes more to the womb and brings Symptomes loathing vomiting and Pica Galen hath other signs as heaviness 8. De lo. aff c. 5. a lazy pain in the loyns neck and behind in the head that reacheth to the roots of the eyes from the spreading of the blood stopt through the whole body This laziness is chiefly in the thighs and leggs by reason of the veins there consenting with the womb And are of a green complexion and hairy with a beard and shrill voice You may know women with child from such as want their Terms only by proper signs First the women with child keep their colour but the other are pale and ill-coloured they are merry the other sad 2. Their Symptoms daily grow milder but in the other they daily grow worse 3. You may feel the child move 4. It is perceived in a month You shall know from what causes the terms are stopt thus If the Liver be cold there is no blood made that is superfluous and there are signs of a cold Liver and you may know that blood is not sent to the Womb when there is no heaviness pain or tumor about the Womb the Liver or Spleen are stopt The Prognostick If it be from Flegm or Melancholy which is often there are signs of their abounding as laziness paleness seldom pulse crude urin Hippoc. de morb mulier Gal. 6. de loc aff c. 5. Hippoc. 5. aphor 23. Hippocrates saith That if the Terms stop there are diseases in the Womb Tumors Imposthumes Ulcers and Barrenness and diseases in the whole Body Green-sickness Leucophlegmacy Dropsie Vomiting of blood Heart-ach Cough And the longer they have been stopt the harder they are to be opened If the blood stopt go out at the Nose it is good If it have great Symptoms there is fear of death You must not give Medicines to move the terms to extenuate lean persons nor to such as want blood and have a weak Liver but they must be fed high Com. in 6. epid 3. c. 29. First see if blood abound and then after a Lenitive open a Vein and let that blood which is in the Veins be drawn to the Womb. Galen took three pints of blood at three times from a lean Woman and cured her of an old stopping of the Terms You must open the Ankle-veins the first day the right the next the left four or five daies before the time Or you may cup and scarrifie the Legs And bind the parts below and rub them after general Evacuation opening of the Haemorrhoids doth hurt and so do Issues because they draw from the Womb. Hiera picra half an ounce or Pills de Tribus or Hiera simple are good first Then prepare As Take water of Mugwort Calamints Maiden-hair each three ounces Syrup of the five Roots and of Mugwort each two ounces make it for two Doses Or Take opening Roots half an ounce Madder Burnet each three ounces Mugwort Bettony Germander Calamints each a handful red Pease half a handful flowers of Bugloss Dill each a pugil boil and sweeten it with Sugar For flegmatick Bodies take the Decoction of Guajacum Sassaphras Dittany for fifteen daies without sweating Then evacuate with Agarick Mechoacan Turbith Scammony Coloquintida black Hellebore As Take Agarick two drams infuse it in mugwort-Mugwort-water two ounces Oxymel an ounce strain and the Extract of Mechoacan a scruple Or Take opening Roots half an ounce Mugwort Bettony each two pugils Senna half an ounce Agarick two drams Fennel and Aniseed each a scruple Galangal half a dram Rosemary-flowers a pugil infuse them to three ounces and half add syrup of Senna an ounce and half cinnamon-Cinnamon-water half a dram Or if they drink Wine Take Turbith Mechoacan Agarick each two drams Senna an ounce and half Maiden-hair Balm Rosemary each two pugils Cinnamon Galangal each a dram hang them in Wine give six ounces with half an ounce of Manna Or Take Diaturbith with Rhubarb half an ounce Mechoacan two drams Agarick a dram Diarrhodon Cinnamon each half a dram Steel prepared a dram with Raisons make an Electuary give as much as a Walnut Or give Pills of Agarick foetida and so continue purging and preparing if the matter be stubborn Or Take Agarick two drams Madder a dram with Syrup of Mugwort make Pills Or Take Aloes three drams de Tribus one dram with juyce of Savin make Pills If the stomach is foul give a Vomit lest it get into the veins Par. 1. sec 2. ca. 2. Then give provokers of the Terms which are hot and thin about the time they used to flow they are three degrees in strength and many sorts of Medicines are made of them A Powder Take Cinnamon a dram Amber a scruple Saffron half a scruple Or Take Troches of Mirrh of Wall-flowers each a scruple Saffron five grains Or Take Castor Penny-royal each a scruple with Wine or proper Waters Physical Wine Take Madder-roots an ounce Orris half an ounce Balm Penny-royal Mugwort Rosemary each a handful Wall-flowers half a pugil Cinnamon an ounce Galangal half an ounce with Wine give four ounces Or Take the Decoction of red Pease Or Take Smallage Fennel-roots each half an ounce Mugwort Bettony Penny-royal Balm each a handful red Pease half an handful Juniper-berries half an ounce Wall-flowers a pugil boil and sweeten it Or Take ten ounces of it with three ounces of Mugwort for three doses Quercetan commends this Take Gromwel-seeds Anise Misleto of the Oak each three drams Dittany a dram Saffron a scruple bruise and keep them twenty four hours in Wine then boyl them give four ounces for three daies together Or make the Womans Aqua vitae Or Take Balm Bettony Penny-royal Mugwort Nep Motherwort Dittany each four handfuls Wine thirty pints distil them add three handfuls of each herbs and distil them again
and add Fennel-seed Calamus Cinnamon Cassia lignea Cardamoms each half an ounce distil them again Or give Syrup of Calamints Mugwort Or Take water of Penny-royal Savin Calamints each four ounces Syrup of Mugwort four ounces Cinnamon-water an ounce give it at four times Rouls Take Extract of Savin a scruple of Angelica half a scruple of Elicampane six grains Oyl of Cinnamon five drops of Cloves two drops with Sugar dissolved in Balm-water Or make an Electuary of Steel six ounces Cassia lignea Cinnamon each two drams Cloves a dram Raisins two ounces with Sugar dissolved in mugwort-Mugwort-water Or Take Troches of Mirrh a dram Extract of Gentian and Savin each a scruple Castor half a scruple make Pills give two scruples or give every third day Pills of Hiera Use outward Medicines but provoke not sweat by them Take Althaea and Lilly-roots each two ounces Birthwort an ounce Mallows Mercury Mugwort Savin Motherwort Calamint Penny-royal Marjoram Bayes each two handfuls flowers of Chamomil Lavender Cheir each a handful Foenugreek-seed an ounce Juniper and Bayberries each half a handful boil them in Water foment with Spunges And then anoint with this Take Oyl of Lillies an ounce of Lavender-seeds stilled half a dram Calamints and Gith-powder each a dram Storax Calamite a scruple To Virgins that must take no Pessaries give Fumes with the head defended they will open the mouths of the vessels and cut thick humors As Take Mirrh Bdellium Storax each a dram Benzoin two scruples Gallia moschata Ivet each half a scruple with liquid Storax make Troches Then use Clysters and Injections into the Womb with Purgers As Take Calamints Penny-royal each a handful Gith-seed Turbith each a dram Coloquintida half a dram boyl it in Wine inject it into the Womb. If it be hot after it inject the Decoction of Mallows with Milk or Barley-water And because the neck of the womb lies upon the strait gut give Clysters Take Lilly-roots an ounce Orris Valerian each half an ounce Mercury two handfuls Mugwort Savin each a handful Chamomil Lavender-flowers each a pugil Caraway Gith-seed each a dram boyl add Hiera and Benedicta laxativa each half an ounce Oyl of Cheir two drams Electuary of Bayberries half an ounce If she be no Virgin put Mercury bruised in a Bag for a Pessary with Centuary-flowers Or Garlick beaten with Oyl of Spike Begin still with the mildest as Mugwort Mercury Penny-royal Marjoram Rue and then add Mucilages and Juyces to loosen the womb let not Pessaries lie long lest they cause a Feaver If it be from a tumor provoke not the Terms but look to the tumor Let diet be hot and attenuating of good juyce with Parsley Savory Rosemary Cloves Cinnamon Little sleep and much exercise Question 1. Whether are the other Causes of stoppage of the Terms Some say the blood going to other parts is a cause but it is rather contrary and the suppression of terms is cause of that For the Veins of the Womb are large enough to evacuate blood Others say The strength of the womb is a cause which thickens the Vessels that they receive blood But the Womb is made to receive it when it abounds Others accuse the strength which is to be denied but when it is so strong that it is too hot or too dry and will not receive the blood and that is a sign of weakness But there must be strength in the whole body to cast out superfluous blood or there will be other mischiefs Question 2. What Veins must be opened when the Terms are stopt Authors disagree in this as Aetius and Galen Lib. de sang miss cap. 11 18 19. who alwaies speaks of the Ankle-veins and most are of his mind being it is rational For a Vein opened in the Arm doth rather revel from the Womb then draw the blood to it But in the Ankle brings it to its place and opens Obstructions and doth both lessen and bring blood to the womb and move that which is in the womb fixed Open the Ankle therefore twice or thrice Lib. de sang miss adver craesis rather then the Arm once Therefore Galen commends Hippocrates that he opened a Vein in the Ankle in the Servant of Schimarg though she had a Plethory But in other diseases of the womb as Inflammation dropping or too many terms it is good to open a vein in the Arm. The Saphaena is opened by putting the foot in warm water before and after Question 3. At what time must a Vein be opened against the stoppage of the Terms Galen saith It must be when Nature may be helped be the blood moved that is three or four daies before the usual time of their coming as if she had been always in the full of the Moon and they have been stopt some months Bleed three or four daies before the full to put Nature in mind of her duty and to make the blood run again Chap. 4. Of Fewness of the Terms IT is when they flow less then they use or ought to flow The Causes It is either from the blood or in the expulsive Faculty in the passages As if blood be little the terms are few and slow If the retentive Faculty is weak and the expulsive strong they come at due time but in small quantity If the terms are slow the fault is in the quality of the blood being too thick Also straitness of the passages may be a cause for if they be not wide enough the blood cannot flow freely The Signs The patient will tell the disease but the cause of it is to be found in the Chapter aforegoing Few Terms from little blood is not dangerous if they be stopt from thick blood The Prognostick there follow Diseases as Erysipelas Scirrhus or Cancer See the Chapter aforegoing for the Cure The Causes and if it be from thickness of blood it is often cured by a general purge for the whole Body Chap. 5. Of Dropping of the Terms THis is a Flux and lasts long and there is pain The blood flows not conveniently at the due time and manner and the privities are alwaies wet as when the urin drops Are from the blood and the passages of it The Causes and the retentive faculty as when the blood is too thick and sharp which stir up Nature to let it out and because it stretcheth the Membranes there is pain Also the weakness of the retentive faculty is a cause The women declare it The Signs but if it be from thick blood and sharp and straight passages there is a stretching pain about the womb If it be from crudity of blood and weakness of the retentive faculty the blood flows without pain and is not much felt It is troublesom to women and if it last long The Prognostick The Cure causeth Ulcers and Inflammations It is all in mending of the thick and sharp blood and in opening the passages which are the two chief causes of it of which
dram red Roses Pomegranate-flowers each half a dram with Gum traganth make Troches to be burnt Oyntments Take Oyl of Mirtles Quinces each two ounces juyce of Plantane Solomons-seal Horse-tail each an ounce boil the juyces away add Bole Plantane-seed Mirtle-berries Ceruss each half an ounce with Wax make an Oyntment Or use the Countesses Oyntment to the Loins and Pecten Cataplasms Take Quinces Pearls boiled in red Wine add Bole Mastich Sanguis Draconis Acacia make a Cataplasm or a Cerot Or Take Sorrel and Plantane-seed Purslane-seed Bole Sanguis Draconis each two drams Frankincense Mastich Mirrh each three drams Turpentine an ounce with juyce of Plantane and Yarrow and Wax make a Cerot after the Juyces are boiled away Fomentations are better than Baths for they make the humors flow more Let them be astringent and cool Or wash the Legs and Hips in cold water Lay Epithems to the Liver Oyntments Cerots or Plaisters If Choler offend give Rhubarb and Conserve of Roses to evacuate the Cacochymy If blood flow from a vein broken use Coral Bole Mirtles Comphry Acacia Hypocistis or apply a Pultis of whites of Eggs and astringent Powders If it come from a vessel corroded use stoppers and glutinaters that are slimy as Dropwort-roots a dram with a rear Egg. Let the diet be as the Physick is In a flux from plethory eat little and that of little nourishment and in other cases give things to close the vessels Sleep long and use little Venery little or no exercise Anger hurts and other passions Question Whether Frictions or Ligatures in the Legs may be made for Revulsion Hippocrates and Galen are misconstrued in his 8. Book of Blood-letting and they are not to be used in the flux of the Terms Chap. 7. Of the Terms-flowing with pain and Symptoms THe Symptoms are pain in the Loyns or Thighs Head-ach biting at the mouth of the Stomach pain in the Belly and Loyns fainting They are as in suppression of Terms The Causes but less vehement and are in them that have not conceived There is obstruction thick and gross blood that stretcheth the vessels and the blood flows not orderly A little before the Terms there is head-ach The Signs biting at the stomach pain in the loyns and bottom of the stomach with beating at the heart and fainting When the pain is from thick blood it comes forth in clodds and the pain is worse than before If it be from wind it is sudden and staies not in a place and there is rumbling in the belly The Prognostick Take heed it turn not to the stoppage of terms if it be neglected It is greater in barren women and Virgins then in those who have had children The Cure Take away the cause if they be thick humors evacuate them after they are prepared If sharp temper them These attenuate blood water of Grass-roots Maidenhair Decoctions of the opening Roots Syrup of Maidenhair of the five Roots Treacle and the like in the stoppage of the Terms Against pain use the Fomentations and Oyntments in the Chapter of pain of the Womb. Chap. 8. Of evil discoloured Terms THis is called the Terms depraved by bad humors and so they are voided The Causes Blood is foul either from evil diet or evil humors or stoppage of it The humors are flegm choler or melancholy mixed with it and then the Terms are either pale blew green or black and stinking or white and flegmatick They are so from a fault in the stomach The pale and yellow are from too great heat in the Liver The black are from the spleen disordered The Signs That blood which is natural is different from the bad in colour and substance it is like that of a new slain sheep nor thicker nor thinner and the bad Terms come not seasonably but sooner or later of which Hippocrates Lib. de morb mulier You may know by the colour what humor predominates and by the substance The flegmatick and melancholy are long in coming and the cholerick waterish Terms come quicker The more they differ from the natural state The Prognostick the worse they are black and stinking are worst The mattery are worst of all If these flow seven eight or nine daies she is cured if they ulcerate the womb she is barren Hippocrates saith The Cure 5. Aphor. 36. they must be purged and prepared with proper things as we shewed in the distempers of the womb But take heed that you move not the Terms when you attenuate for that will melt the serous humors and fix them more in the vessels use neither Vinegar nor sharp things After purging consume the reliques by sweat if choler be in fault that must not be sweated out discuss it with warm Baths and do so in melancholy Use Pessaries Fomentations and Fumes to the womb Give Treacle Mithridate or the Decoction of Angelica-roots if cold humors are the cause Chap. 9. Of Terms coming before their time THese shew an ill constitution And it is a depraved excretion of the Terms that comes for the time often for sometimes they flow sooner or twice in a month The immediate Cause is hurt of the retentive and expulsive faculty The Causes so that the blood flows not or sooner or later or oftner the cause why they come sooner is in the blood that stirs up the expulsive faculty in the whole body or in the womb sometimes all causes meet the blood is too much or too sharp and hot and if the retentive faculty in the womb be weak and the expulsive strong and of quick sense it is sooner A fall stroke or passion are the evident Causes The Signs They will relate it and the signs of the causes are these If it be from much blood there are the signs of plethory heat thinness and sharp humors are known by the distemper of the whole The weakness of the retentive faculty and loosness of the vessels is known from a loose and moist habit of body The Prognostick The Cure It is not dangerous but troublesome and hinders conception If they come too soon from hurt in the faculty provoked by too much plethory Let blood use a spare diet and much exercise If it be from sharp blood temper it by good diet and Medicines as in the cholerick distemper of the womb Use Baths of Iron-water that corrects the distempers of the bowels then evacuate If it come from the retentive faculty and loosness of the vessels correct the cold and moist distemper with gentle astringents If it be from a stroke or fall cure it as the vessels opened are cured of which before Chap. 10. Of the Terms that come after their usual time WHen they stay longer then ordinary and return without order at no set time the causes are little and thick blood straitness of the passages weakness of the expulsive faculty and dulness Either of these causes may stop the Terms but if all meet the disease is
we shewed concerning a Wench that was married and to appear a Virgin she used a Bath of Comfrey-roots Question 4. Whether is Milk in the Breasts a sign of Virginity lost Some say That there can be no Milk in the Breasts till a woman hath conceived and Virgins have neither the cause nor the end why milk is made And the terms stopt do rather corrupt then turn to milk And though there be alwayes in the Breasts a faculty to make milk yet doth it not shew its power but upon an object and for some end Some say That Virgins may have Milk 5. Aph. 39. Gal. in com Lib. 3. anat c. 4. com in aphoris lib. 5.39 and urge this saying of Hippocrates If any have Milk when she is neither with Child nor Breeding their terms are stopt Galen is of the same opinion and thought it be seldom yet he saith it is possible And Alexander Benedictus and Christopher de Vega saw it We shall not contradict Hippocrates and Experience but there is a twofold milk The one of Virgins the other of those that have brought forth or conceived The first is made of blood that cannot get out at the womb but goes to the Breasts and this is nothing but a superfluous nourishment of the Breasts that turns milk by the faculty of the Breasts without the company of a man or conception The other is only when there is a child of this Milk it is true what Hippocrates writes It is a certain sign of a Mole Cit. loc de morb mulierum when great bellied women have no milk in their Breasts And true milk in the Breasts is a sign of a live child in the Womb. These Milks differ in respect of the blood and diversity of the veins that bring it to the Breasts and though both are white yet that of Virgins is thinnest nor is it so much nor so sweet this may breed in the Veins according to Aristotle from the superfluous nourishment of the Breasts and if Virgins have it 1. De hist. ani c. 12. they are not to be termed unchast Chap. 2. Of the Green-sickness or white Feaver THis is in Virgins fit for a man it is called the Virgins Disease and the white Feaver not that there is alwayes a Feaver but because their Face is like people in a Feaver It is thus defined The Virgins Disease is the changing of the natural colour into a pale and green with faintness heaviness of body loathing of meat palpitation of Heart difficult breathing sadness swelling of the Feet Eye-lids and Face from depraved nourishment The â—auses The first Cause is stoppage of Terms the next is the gathering of bad humors For when the way to the womb is stopt the blood returns to the great Vessels and Bowels and choaks their heat and stops the vessels and spoils the making of blood and then there are crudities which being brought to the habit of the body cannot be united perfectly to the parts and cause a Cachexy which is the way to a Dropsie and Leucophlegmacy and divers Symptoms The causes of the obstructions of the Vessels of the Womb are crude humors and flegmatick slimy blood from evil diet and drinking of Vinegar or eating raw Corn Chalk Ashes Lime Earth Clay and the like There is a pale and green colour The Signs the Face is swollen and the Eye-brows in the morning after sleep especially the Ankles swell and the whole Body is loose and moist from much water the Legs are lazy the Pulse is little and often in the Neck Temples and Back The heart beats the breath is short when they go up stairs they loath meat Some have the Pica or desire to eat absurd things The terms are stopt the Hypochondria are swollen Sometimes they vomit If vapors fly to the Head there is thirst and head-ach and if Melancholy be mixed the animal actions are hurt These are not all in all people but most are in most and in some all It it often turned to a Dropsie The Prognostick Some after death have had a Scirrhus hard Liver Some die suddenly the Heart being oppressed If the stomach be much afflicted it is dangerous and they loath meat much If it come from the womb alone it is easier cured It is best to begin in the Spring or Summer The Cure after a Clyster open a Vein in the Ankle Then heat the thick cold humor and make it thin and because it is too much to be purged at once prepare and purge often and mix attenuaters and cutters with your purges When the humors are above the stomach and Mesentery it is good to vomit those that can easily vomit and to give Liver-Physick or Spleen or Womb-Physick even as in Leâ—cophlegmacy see the Chapter of Terms stopt But in this Disease alwayes consider the Liver Spleen and Mesentery the obstructions of which are cured with things mentioned At first open the obstructions of these parts with some few things that provoke terms and after give more Thus Take opening Roots an ounce Madder Eryngus Orris Elicampane Citron-peels dried Sarsa each half an ounce Mugwort Agrimony Germander each a handful Savin two pugils Carthamus-seeds an ounce Senna two ounces Mechoacan Agarick each half an ounce Stoechas-flower two pugils Fennel Aniseed Galangal each two drams boil them to a pint and half sweeten it and add cinnamon-Cinnamon-water three drams Or infuse them all with Sea-wormwood half a handful common Wormwood two pugils Or Take Agarick Pills of Rhubarb each a dram Quercetan 's Pills of Tartar and of Ammoniacum each half a dram Spike a scruple Oyl of Cinnamon three drops Extract of Wormwood half a scruple make Pills give a scruple an hour before meat Or Take juyce of Mercury clarified Honey or Sugar each an ounce add Gith-seed Senna each two drams Mechoacan a dram make a Mass or give Conserve of Marigold-flowers Steel is an excellent Remedy after Preparatives with proper Drinks or Ingredients And if the Vessels of the stomach are stopt give a Vomit and then gross powder of Steel Hoc laudat Mercatus If the Mesentery be stopt Take Diarrhodon Diacurcuma Agarick each a dram Carthamus seeds two drams red Dock-roots Carrot-seed each a dram and half Cloves a dram Steel prepared two ounces with clarified Honey make an Electuary give two or four drams If she vomit stop it not If the Liver be chiefly stopt let the Steel be finely powdered And take of it half a pound add eight ounces of Wine in a glass set it in the embers stir it and let it boil twelve simmers till you see it froath and grow a little thick then pour the froath and all into another Vessel Do thus four times and then let it be gently boiled till it be thick as Honey Then Take Parsley Carrot-seed Diacurcuma Diarrhodon each a dram and half Cinnamon a dram Steel prepared six drams with Honey make an Electuary give three drams or five after excercise If
the Spleen be stopt Take Steel prepared a pound wash it with Vinegar then strain it and lay it on a Clout and add powder of Cloves half an ounce Let them stand so a day and a night then put them in a glassed Vessel and ten ounces of white Wine Diarrhodon Harts-tongue Senna and Caper-bark then stir them then set them in the Sun for a day or in an Oven Do this ten daies till the Steel be melted in the Wine and little or nothing at the bottom Give two ounces of this in the morning after purging and exercise Or Take Steel prepared an ounce Cinnamon Aniseeds each two drams Diamoschu without Musk a dram Sugar an ounce make a powder give a dram drink white Wine and mugwort-Mugwort-water after it Steeled Wine Take Steel in powder three ounces Cinnamon half an ounce white Wine three pints Set them in a close glass eight daies in the Sun stir them every day Give six or eight ounces four hours afore dinner for fifteen or twenty daies and walk after it At first give a Steel-medicine to prepare As Take Steel-filings four ounces put it in an Iron Crucible or Ladle then cast it into two pints of water of Hops Grass Madder Borage or Spring-water strain it and do so seven times Then Take so many ounces of new Steel and cast it into water as before strain and add Syrup of Violets Borage or Honey of Roses four ounces give three ounces in the morning after exercise Prepare thus three or four times and then use stronger After Steel use Scorzonera steept all night in Wine give it in the morning This hath cured Obstructions in many Mercatus Bezoar-stone saith Mercatus opens Obstructions in my Experience and resists Venom give six or seven grains Steel is best Spring and Fall purge and exercise before and after it that it may be better dispersed Use Preparatives Purges and strengthners often and for a long time and change the forms lost the Patient loath them If water spread about the body cool the body and make it heavy Use sweats as Baths natural or artificial of Mugwort Calamints Nep Danewort Sage Bayes Rosemary Mercury Ivy Briony-roots Orris Elicampane After purging and opening Obstructions all the Symptoms will vanish if not see for the Symptoms of the Womb. The Diet. Let the Air be temperately hot The Meat of good juyce and easie digestion Pot-herbs and green Fruits must be avoided Fish Milk Lettice Make Sauce with Sage and Cinnamon Drink Wine Let Bread be well leavened with Fennel-seed Drink no Water nor Broaths at first and in the declination of the disease use Exercise and Venery Let sleep be moderate Question 1. Whether may the Woman in this Disease be allowed the absurd things they long for They are Virgins or Women with child that long for such things Virgins must not be allowed them as Chalk c. For they will increase the disease Women with child must be pleased with fair words to abstain from them but if the appetite will not be allayed rather grant them then suffer an abortion or mark upon the Child Question 2. Is Motion and Exercise good in the Green-sickness They are better then idleness which heaps up crudities they raise the languishing heat in the Bowels and help the nourishment to be destributed therefore they are to be used before the disease be great and in the declination they discuss the humors But use moderation lest you weaken the body or choak them First therefore use Frictions then watching then more exercise after convenient purging Question 3. Whether is Venery good for Maids in the Green-sickness It is probable and agreeable to Reason and Experience that Venery is good Hippocrates bids them presently marry for if they conceive Hippocr lib. de morb virgin Lib. 1. ep 2. they are cured John Langius saith This disease comes in the ripeness of age or presently after Venery heats the womb and the parts adjacent opens and loosens the passages so that the terms may better flow to the womb But if there be a great Cacochymy take that away before she be married and then Venery may do more in Physick But use it not in the vigor of the Disease nor in weakness Question 4. Whether is Blood-letting good in this Disease A Cachexy beginning with coldness of the whole Body seem to deny bleeding and because the crude humors are in fault rather then blood Lib. de morb virg But Hippocrates adviseth bleeding at the first If it be a new disease and comes from stopt terms and blood abound that is stopt and not turned into another humour you may boldly bleed provided the strength permit and the passages be open But in an old disease when crude Flegm abounds bleed not for it will increase the Disease Chap. 3. Of Symptomes from the Womb and Mother-fits in general IT is not to be expressed what miserable diseases Women are subject to both Virgins and others from the womb and its consent with other parts For when terms or blood are stopt there are great Symptoms and while they putrifie or get evil qualities the Symptoms are grievous and almost unexpressible One woman may have divers Symptoms from the womb at the same time when the seed and terms are mixed with other humors after they are corrupted and there is more sometimes and such noble substance as seed and terms being corrupted are like poyson Gal. 6. de loc aff c. 5. The consent with other parts is from likeness of parts nearness or connexion of Vessels And because the womb is membranous it hath a great consent with the Membranes and Nerves Also the parts adjacent are easily infected And thirdly it hath consent with all the Body by Veins Arteries and Nerves It consents with the Brain by the Nerves and Membranes of the Back-marrow It consents with the Heart by the Arteries with the Liver by the Veins which are great in the Womb and therefore the blood and bad humors go back to the Liver It consents with the stomach by Anastomosis in the Veins of the Mesentery and by the Arteries through foul humors and vapors go from the womb to the Mesentery and Stomach It consents with the Spleen by the Arteries therefore many Women that had not their terms enough in their youth and have hot blood are after Hypochondriack and a Physitian can scarce distinguish these diseases of the Womb and Spleen nor cure them severally It consents with the Paps by Veins and Nerves and the Heart Diaphragma Head Brain and all the Organs of sense and motion with the Liver Spleen Stomach Belly Mesentery Bladder strait Gut Back Hips Arms and Legs and causeth Symptoms As Galen saith the Mother and Histerical passions in one name Gal. de loc aff c. 5. but hath under it innumerable Symptoms Chap. 4. Of Suffocation of the Womb. IN this they seem to be strangled And there are so many Symptoms at once that it is impossible to define
Alipta moschata a scruple Oyl of Nard Lillies and white Wax make an Oyntment Or Take seeds of Agnus castus a dram all Sanders each half a dram white Rose-powder a dram Tacamahacca a scruple Amber two scruples Alipta moschata half an ounce with Turpentine Labdanum and Wax make a Plaister If she be a Virgin let her be married If it be from Terms stopt see in the Chapter of that This disease is neither from seed nor blood nor humors if they be not corrupted after a peculiar manner If it be from the womb distempered give the Infusion of an ounce of Briony root in white Wine once in a week for a year at bed time or this Hysterical Water Take Lovage-roots Piony Angelica Zedoary each an ounce Misleto of the Oak gathered in the wane of the Moon two ounces Mints Balm Calamints Bettony each a handful Carrot Parsnep-seed Castor each half an ounce distil them in white Wine and water of Motherwort after eight daies infusion Or Take Briony Valerian Spignel Angelica-roots each half an ounce Balm Calamints Penny-royal Bettony each half a handful boyl them in Wine add Syrup of Mugwort an ounce give it at thrice Vitriol of Iron one grain with two grains of Sugar given in Wine some weeks is excellent Or Take Cummin-seed wild Parsnep-seeds each a dram give a dram in powder Or Take Faecula Brionae two drams Cummin-seed Parsnep-seed each a dram Amber half a dram Cloves two scruples Cinnamon a scruple make a powder Pills Take Castor a scruple Assa-foetida half a scruple Mirrh Galbanum Sagapenum each a scruple with Honey of Mercury make Pills take half a scruple or a scruple often Or Take Treacle or Mithridate Apply Plaisters or Liniments to the region of the Womb thus Take old Treacle half an ounce Agnus castus seeds a dram Oyl of Angelica and Cummin-seeds each two drams with Plaister of Bayberries Or make Oyntments of the same Question 1. What preternatural disease is the Suffocation of the Womb properly Some say it is a cold distemper in quality changed they say right but coldness is not the chief Symptom Others say it is respiration hurt by Syneope or Convulsion But it cannot be defined by one Symptom For sometimes the animal actions are hurt and there is a Megrim Delirium Convulsion and sense and motion are gone Nor is it strange that so small a vapor should bring such Symptoms for it hath an occult venom in it which is strong Gal. 6. de lo. off c. 5. for it goes many ways and to many parts Question 2. What is the true Cause of the fits of the Mother I say it is the malignant vapors that flie up from the womb for it doth not work by a manifest quality 4. De lo. aff c. 5. but by a venom which Galen saith is like that of a Torpedo or Phalanx or Scorpion which are little in bulk but do great mischief being enemies to the vital spirits and heart by which there is a coldness all over and short breath from the actions of the heart hurt For when the heart is hurt or the vital Spirits either suffocated or corrupted there are no good animal Spirits bred and they not flowing to the nerves and muscles hinder the motion of the breast Also this malignant vapor is an enemy to the animal Spirits and makes doting and Convulsions when it gets to the brain The Cause of these vapors are corrupt seed and terms for while they are in their proper vessels they change not their nature And the seed is not alwaies pure but mixed with evil humors and the seed vessels are sometimes swollen and distempered Moreover the corruption is from the womb in a peculiar manner for as Fernelius saith The place from whence comes life is also the breeder of the most deadly poison Question 3. It is good to give Wine in a fit of the Mother Hippocrates and Avicen quarrel about this 1. De nat mulierum The first allows Wine because they are weak and nothing sooner refresheth But Avicen is for water and forbids flesh for they increase Seed and Blood But in the time of the fit Wine is proper and Avicen doth not speak of the fit but of the diet out of the fit when it comes from plenty of seed and blood nor will a little Wine in the time of the fit get presently to the Womb. Chap. 5. Of the Frenzie of the Womb. IT is a great and foul Symptom of the Womb both in Virgins and Widdows and such as have known man These are mad for Lust and invite men and lie down to them and it differs from salacity because in that there is no Delirium It is an immoderate desire of Venery that makes women almost mad or a Delirium from an immoderate desire of Venery it is without a Feaver and with heat and tends to madness There are degrees in it for modest women have it but will not for shame declare it and die of Consumptions Others will not conceal it but speak their thoughts bawdily and follow men and sollicite them shamelesly as Hippocrates writes in his Book of Virgins Diseases The immediate Cause is plenty of hot and The Causes sharp Seed against Nature but next unto that which is natural it is a little biting swelling and forcing Nature to let it out by lechery The brain is only hurt by consent and the animal actions by an external error or too vehement object The part first affected is the womb in the Nymphae which grows hot and swells but the Nymphae are not properly the seat of Venery but the Clitoris which was called by the same name anciently The heat and sharpness of Seed is from the heat of the womb that breeds it from hot humors in the womb and hot blood The outward Causes are hot meats spiced strong wine and the like that heat the privities idleness pleasure and dancing and reading of bawdy Histories The Signs They find their lust to boyl at first and for shame will not declare it they are sad and silent and their eyes turn to and fro with lust and if any speak of Venery they blush and the pulse changeth when the brain consenteth reason is perverted and modesty is overcome then they prate are lustful and angry sometimes they cry or laugh without a cause they follow men and sollicite them for copulation Some will lie with any one they meet The Prognostick The Cure It is a sordid disease curable at first but if neglected it turns to madness Let Virgins that have it before reason is subverted be in company with chast Maidens or be married And be let blood to abate heat of blood and sharpness of Seed very often there is no better remedy Then temper and evacuate the humors if they be adust and there be madness use stronger Then have a Bath of Lettice Willow Water-lillies Vine-leaves Purslane Venus-navel red Roses Violets Water-lillies Let her sit twice a
day in it and not sweat To take away the sharpness of the Seed use Lettice Violets Water-lillies and things that quench seed by a secret quality as Agnus castus Seed Leaves and Flowers of Camphire hereafter As Take leaves of Water-lillies Agnus Castus Willow each three handfuls Ltetice Purslane Venus-navel each a handful Lettice Poppy-seed the four great cold seeds each half an ounce Dill-seed two drams Water-lillies a hundful Violets half a handful beat them with juyce of Lemons distil them after twenty four hours add to every pint a dram of Camphire give an ounce Or Take Agnus castus leaves Rue Willow each two handfuls Mints tops of Dill each a handful and half Water-lillies half a handful Agnus castus seeds Hemp Coriander Lettice-seed each half an ounce beat them and distil them with water add a pint of juyce of Lemons rectifie it to half An Emulsion Take Lettice and white Poppy-seed and the four great cold Seeds each half an ounce water of Lettice Water-lillies Willow each four ounces Syrup of Violets two ounces Magistery of Coral a dram An Electuary Take Conserve of Water-lillies Violets of Agnus castus tops each an ounce of Roses half an ounce red Coral Smaragds each a dram Coleworts and Lettice candied each an ounce with syrup of Violets and Water-lillies make an Electuary Or make Baths of the same As Take tops of Agnus castus Lettice Rue Water-lillies Dill-tops boil them anoint with Oyl of Lillies Unguent of Roses with Camphire after that Or lay a Plaister of Mercury and Marsh-lentils to the Breast and Loins Lay a Plate of Lead to the Back and give a Pessary of Juyce of Plantane Purslane Gourds These that work by an occult quality are fittest for Nuns that must not marry but they that will marry must forbear them because they cause Barrenness Let diet be thin and of little nourishment no Eggs Beef is good and fresh Fish Also Lettice Purslane Succory Sleep little think not of Venery labour and avoid idleness Question Whether is Camphire cold or hot or doth it quench Venery It is hot because it burns flames is thin pierceth is sharp and bitter But it hath cold effects as curing of Burns and Inflammations and hot Head-aches but this is from the likeness of the substance because it draws hot vapors to it and discusseth as Linseed-Oyl that cures burns Nor hath it a double substance cold and hot that may be separated Exercit. 104. sect 8. Scaliger denies it by Experience to quench Venery but if it be taken often it doth He tried it but once Chap. 6. Of the Melancholy of Virgins and Widows IT is a Delirium with sadness trouble and weeping sometimes laughing without a Feaver It differs from others by the efficacy only of the efficient cause for it hath divers pains besides sadness especially on the left side near the Heart in the Pap this is by occasion at a distance The Cause is a melancholick Vapor from a melancholick blood in the vessels near the Heart The Causes that infects the animal Spirits hurts the Fancy and so the reason For melancholick blood abounding in the vessels of the womb comes back to the great Arteries about the Heart by the Arteries of the womb and infects both vital and animal Spirits and causeth trouble of Heart and Delirium while this blood is quiet in the Arteries there is no vapor that riseth but when it is heated or stirred up by any cause the Arteries about the Back and Spleen beat more then ordinary and the vapors arise and trouble the Heart They are sad and full of thoughts The Signs and trouble at the Heart and cannot express their grief all things are tedious to them they weep and laugh without a cause they sleep little and with trouble and fear they have a pain on the left side and sometimes the left Breast their Jaws are dry All which are the effects of a melancholick vapor and when that is discussed all cease If it be old it turns to Madness and then they are first silent then pratlers and think they see Ghosts At first it is easier cured but if it last long The Prognostick and she resist not imagination and will not rejoyce with her Gossips it is dangerous They often despair and desire death or hang themselves or drown themselves If the manners are changed it turns to madness Observe what progress the disease hath made The Cure At first if blood be hot open a Vein often in the Arm if the terms be not stopt If they be bleed in the Ankles some daies before they use to flow Let her be merry and prepare and purge Melancholy thus Take Borage and Balm-water each three ounces Syrup of the Juyce of Borage and Bugloss each an ounce an half Mix them for two Doses repeat them sometimes Then purge Melancholy As Take Senna six drams Agarick a dram and half Borage-flowers and Violets each a pugil Citron-peels two drams infuse them in Rhenish wine for six hours strain them add Syrup of Violets an ounce Or Take Scorzonera-roots two ounces Borage an ounce Balm a handful Senna four ounces Agarick half an ounce Citron-peels 6 drams Zedoary two drams Cordial-flowers a handful add half a pint of the juyce of sweet-scented Apples and of Borage and Bugloss steep them two daies then strain them add Sugar and half an ounce of Cinnamon make a Syrup give two or three ounces Also give Cordials Confection of Hyacinths Species Exhilerants and Confection Alkermes to such as can bear it Cure it as Melancholy only the matter comes from the womb therefore still regard that it dry not the body too much The Prognostick but use a moistning Diet. Chap. 7. Of an Epilepsie from the Womb. THis Falling-sickness is worse then from other causes because there are greater Symptoms for that malignant vapor doth not only fall into the Nerves but the Veins and Arteries The same malignant vapor that causeth suffocation causeth this for when it ascends by the Veins and Arteries it begets other diseases but when it gets to the Nerves or to the fountain of them it causeth the Epilepsie In some the whole body hath a Convulsion in others some part only as the Eyes Head Tongue Hand or Leg and the outward Senses are diversly taken Some see not some hear not some see and cannot speak some dote and think they see strange things some cry out and know not why All lose the sense of Feeling If the vapor be not very malignant they return to their work after the fit as if they had not been ill It is known by what hath been said for here is not only a Convulsion as in other Epilepsies but divers Symptoms as in Suffocation of the Womb. They seldom foam at the mouth because the Brain is not so shaken as to cause foaming nor is the vapor so fixed in the roots of the nerves but they often do hear It is grievous and hath grievous
Symptoms but it is not so bad as a true Epilepsie And if you give proper Medicines it never returns The Cure of the Fit Use things as in Suffocation of the Womb or Mother-fits as Rue and Castor are good against both Also out of the fit you must cure it as the Mother using things that respect the womb and the Head As Take Piony-roots Scorzonera Misleto of the Oak each half an ounce Polipody of the Oak an ounce Rue Penny-royal Calaminths each a handful Seseli Piony Agnus castus seeds each three drams Carthamus-seeds bruised half an ounce flowers of Rosemary Sage Stoechas Borage each two pugils boil them to a pint and half strain and add juyce of Bettony Yarrow Mercury Mugwort Senna five ounces Agarick Epithimum each half an ounce Rhubarb Cloves each two drams Anise Fennel-seed each three drams boil strain with Sugar and half an ounce of Cinnamon make a Syrup give two ounces And these Pills twice in a week a scruple or a dram an hour afore Supper Take Piony-roots Senna each half an ounce Mugwort Bettony Rue Yarrow each half a handful boil them clarifie the Decoction and juyce of Mercury an ounce Aloes an ounce and half Let it settle pour off the clear add Rhubarb sprinkled with cinnamon-Cinnamon-water two drams Agarick half an ounce Mastich Epileptick-powder each half a dram with syrup of Mugwort make Pills To strengthen the Head and the Womb and to mend its Distemper Take Fecula of Piony a dram of Briony Amber Misleto of the Oak each half a dram Bezoar-stone Mans-skull each a scruple make a powder give half a dram with Scorzonera or tile-flower-Tile-flower-water or with Sugar make Rouls An Electuary Take Conserve of Balm Tile-flowers Rosemary Lilly-convals Scorzonera-roots candied each an ounce Diamoschu dulce a dram powder of Agnus castus seeds and Piony-roots each two drams with syrup of Scoechas Chap. 8. Of pain of the Head from the Womb. MAny pains come from the Womb but the chiefest and greatest are in the Head all over or on one side or in the Eyes Matter ascends to the Membranes of the Head by the Veins and Arteries from the Womb. The Causes It is a vapor or humor from blood and humors sometimes bad blood that is thin goes from the womb-vessels to the great Vessels and gets to the Head and to the Membranes there and causeth a stretching ulcerated or pricking or beating pain when it is carried through the Arteries being full of blood They think their Head will be torn The Signs and the Membranes and it is behind in the Head or when the terms flow or are disordered from consent with the womb If it be from a vapor there is no heaviness and it ceaseth presently If from a humor there is heaviness These pains are great and cause watching The Prognostick The Cure We have spoken of the Head-ach but here it is from the Womb therefore consider what humors offend in the womb and let them be purged and the distemper of the womb amended as we shewed in the Distemper of the Womb. There is also a pain in the Loins because bad humors go from the veins of the womb and Arteries to the great Vessels and so are sent by the Capillar-veins into the Membranes and stretch them and cause pain 〈…〉 must have prâ—â—â—â— Purges Question In what part of the Head is the pain that comes by consent from the Womb It is in the Crown before and behind but chiefly behind by reason of the joyning of the back with the womb for the womb is nervous and consents with the Membranes of the brain by the Membranes of the Marrow of the back and so Nerves suffer with Nerves either by communication of matter or pain and because the original of the Nerves is in the hinder part of the Head women are more pained there then men because of the Womb. Chap. 9. Of the Diseases of the Heart and beating of the Arteries in the Back and Sides from the Womb. THe Heart beats and the Arteries also as we shewed in the Green-sickness and it is by evil vapors sent by the Arteries to the Heart from the womb that arise from the terms and evil humors gathered in the womb and this is known by other Signs and Symptoms of a distempered Womb. The Cure To discuss the malignant Vapors from the Heart give Cordials as in Chap. 3. Of Palpitation of the Heart as Aqua vitae Cinnamon-water and Epithems Bags and Liniments The Arteries also beat with the Heart as in Widows on the left Hypochondrion and Back where there is a great Artery and the Artery that beats in the back is part of the great Artery they which beat in the Hypochondrion are the lesser splenitick and mesenterick branches therefore the beating is more in the back then in the Hypochondrion but both pulsations come from the same cause The Causes The Inflammation of the Arteries is the cause of this beating when evil humors are sent from the womb into the great branches of the Artery and there beat the Heart being over hot Sometimes the motion of this Artery is all the body over and from a hot humor the hot humors go to the heart and cause a feaver but because there is little putrefaction it vanisheth presently If the heat of the humors go to the brain by the arteries there is madness Some seek the cause in the veins and say that the arteries suffer from the blood too hot in them You may feel it with your hand laid upon the Hypochondrion The Signs and there are signs of a distempered womb and melancholy from the womb if heat continue in the arteries and go to the whole body it consumeth it It is seemingly a small disease The Prognostick but it is not without danger because it comes from a bad cause that weakens the bowels It is cured as melancholy from the womb The Cure and stopping of the terms and as Hypochondriack melancholy from the womb which follows Chap. 10. Of the Diseases of the Spleen and the Hypochondriack Disease from the Womb. SOmetimes the Spleen and the Hypochondria suffer from the womb so that you may doubt what disease it is It is from the womb by the arteries The Causes the womb hath two one from the preparing arteries another from the Hypogastrick artery That from the Hypogastrick goes almost to all parts of the Abdomen and most branches of the spleen therefore when bad blood is bred in the womb and gets out of the arteries upward to the Hypogastrick artery it gets easily from thence to the coeliack artery to the spleen and the parts adjacent in the abdomen and the sooner because Nature useth to send bad humors to ignoble parts These humors are gathered by suppression of Terms which though they seem to be only in the veins yet they get to the arteries by their Anastomosis Therefore those women that have hot blood and their
prevent take heed of Venery in the terms or before the terms or when the body is soul or obstructed or the womb When it is 1. De morb mulier take it away presently with things that send forth a dead child Hippocrates sheweth the Cure in few words First foment the whole body c. Therefore if she be plethorick let blood largely in the foot at divers times Then purge often with strong Physick Take Althaea Lilly-roots each half an ounce Althaea Mercury Pellitory Brank-ursine each a handful Chamomil Melilot-flowers each half a handful Faenugreek and Lin-seed each six drams boyl them in Broath to a pint add sweet Butter Oyl of sweet Almonds Lillies each an ounce make a Clyster repeat it often To Conquer all Infirmities Study my Sennertus Platerus Bartholinus and Riolanus of the last Editions Make Baths Liniments Fomentations then move the Terms with Dittany Birthwort Briony c. Take Briony Birthwort each half an ounce Asarum two drams Rue Savin Mugwort Dittany Penny-royal Motherwort each half a handful Elder and Chamomil-flowers each half a handful Line and Foenugreek-seeds each half an ounce boyl them to a pint add Hiera an ounce and half Troches of Alkandal a dram Oyl of Rue and Keir each an ounce and half make a Clyster of the residents make a Cataplasm for the belly Or this Pessary Take Troches of Mirrh Galbanum Opopanax dissolved in Wine each two drams Sowbread-roots a dram white Hellebore half a dram with juyce of Rue Fab. cent 2. obs 52. If these will not do let the Midwife take it out with her hand if it be half rotten Or leave it to Nature which doth it in time To stop the flux of blood after a Mole is taken out use strings against overflowing of the Terms As Take Plantane Shepheards-purse Brambles Oak-leaves red Roses each a handful boyl them in steeled Water then take Barley-bran two ounces Pomegranate-flowers Cypress-nuts Pomegranate-peels red Roses Comfrey-roots in powder each an ounce Frogs burnt Bole Sanguis Draconis each half an ounce with the Decoction aforesaid and a little Vinegar make a Cataplasm for the Region of the Womb. Take away pain with Anodynes mentioned in pain of the Womb keep up the strength with meat of a good juyce Question Whether a Mole may be without the company of a Man and without his Seed To speak freely of this which many doubt I suppose that many are made of a weak mans seed mixed with the woman seed and much blood But Histories confirm that Widows have had them without mans seed but not of the shape with the others And being voided they melted being in the air into water I think Virgins cannot have them but from wantonness or in sleep they may spend their seed but because it is weak and the blood necessary for formation neither is drawn by the womb nor flows to it of its own accord as it doth in those that have had children and the vessels of the womb in Virgins are straiter than in Widdows and others that have had children Therefore though the seed of Virgins flow into the womb yet they cannot have a Mole for want of blood which is necessary for the forming of the same This is to be understood of Moles which are not vital for vital Moles that have some life cannot be got in Virgins or Widdows without the seed of Man Chap. 10. Of Monsters HIstories tells of many Monsters brought forth by women We spake of Worms Sect. 2. Chap. 8. They are like Toads or Mice or Fish Par. 7. cap. 12. lij Gordonius saith it is usual in Lumbardy Lycosthenes saith and others also That Serpents Dogs and other Monsters with parts like brute beasts have been brought forth In appen Franc. Ros de par Caes Gasper Bauhin speaks of one Anne Troporim which 1575. brought forth two Serpents with her child In Harvest hot weather she had drunk water in a Brook in a Wood near Basil where she thought she drank the Spawn of a Serpent for a little after that her belly swelled and three months after she was big with child and the Serpents grew as the Child did Her belly was so big that she carried it in a swathing band She was delivered at last of a lean male child and because they suspect Worms or Snakes from the gnawing and strange motion she felt that year they put a bason of milk under her and when they expected an after-birth out came a Serpent which she saw and perceived another coming forth they were an ell long and as thick as a childs arm Thus Bauhin and he speaks of others if you please to peruse him A Monster is that which is either wholly or in part like a beast or that which is ill shaped extraordinary Histories witness that a Monster may be from humane seed The Causes and the seed of a beast It is seldome for the forming faculty doth not err of it self but is seduced by the imagination or frustrated of its ends from a fault of the Spirits the heat or matter Therefore imagination is the cause of Monsters For Histories mention That women with child by beholding men in vizards have brought forth Monsters with horns and beaks and cloven feet The same is when Spirits or heat seed or blood are weak or little And though Doctors cannot cure Monsters yet they are to admonish women with child not to look upon Monsters and to strengthen their spirits and heat and to keep the seed and blood right and not to allow copulation in time of their terms lest any monstrous Birth should be from much and impure blood Chap. 11. Of false Conception and Swelling FAlse Conception or Gravidation is when the terms are stopt and the belly swells and there are signs like those of a true Conception then they think themselves with child and as Hippocrates saith They believe not to the contrary till ten months are past The causes are wind in the womb or water Causae p. 1. s 2. c. 10. matter or thick flegm These are bred from sickly seed retained upon which Nature works in vain or from a fault in the terms that corrupts the seed and breeds bad humors The like appears in Virgins when they begin to have their terms but it is discovered by pain The terms flow not as in a true Conception The Signs but in this there is pain of the head loyns belly and groyns of which Hippocrates saith thus 2. Prorrhet They have a false Conception without terms appearing with a swollen belly have the head-ach and there is no milk in their breasts but what is like water and very little Morveover the belly swells sooner then in a true Conception their colour changeth their face and feet swell they loath meat faint and have a depraved appetite The surest sign is the time of child-bearing being past The Prognostick The Cure They are commonly barren or have ulcers in their Privities
It is cured by evacuation of the matter in the Womb with proper Medicines as in the Chapter of the Distemper of the Womb with matter and of Inflation of the Womb and Dropsie THE FOURTH BOOK THE SECOND PART THE FIFTH SECTION Of the Government of Women with Child and preternatural Distempers in Women with Child Chap. 1. Of the signs of Conception IF she keep the seed it is a sign she hath Conceived and a man may know that the seed is kept if he find in Copulation that his Yard is sucked and drawn by the Womb and the Privities are not moist And if she perceives little or no seed to come forth again and grow chill and quiver and perceive a twitching in her Womb from the great delight and the mouth of the Womb closeth and the Terms stop But they are deceived when they count o reckon from the stoppage of the terms For som have their terms twice or thrice after they have conceived and some have them all along without hurt The chiefest sign of Conception is when there is at first loathing of meat pewking Pica or preternatural appetite and vomiting And when they hate that they earnestly affected or faint when they think of them About the fourth month the child moveth which is not in a Mole the breasts after that swell with milk and the last are the surest signs From the face and urin there is no certainty 5. Aphor. 42. ibi 48. Hippocrates teacheth us to know whether it be a Male or Female If she be with child of a Boy she is better coloured but pale if of a Girle And Boys lie on the right side and Girls on the lest in the Womb. Chap. 2. Of the Government and Diet of Women with Child THe Diet is either for such as are sound or as have diseases 5. Aphor. 12. As for the air Hippocrates saith If there be a wet warm winter with Southerly winds a dry spring with Northern winds they who conceive in the spring abort upon any small occasion Or if they bring forth their children are weak and sickly or die Let her avoid all evil scents as of Rue Penny-royal Mints Castor and Brimstone Some cannot bear sweet scents let them not look upon terrible things nor hear great noise of Guns Let meat be easie of concoction let her eat Quinces to strengthen the child or sweet Almonds with Honey sweet Apples Grapes Let her abstain from sharp meats very bitter or salt and things that can provoke Terms as Garlick Onions Olives Mustard Fennel Pepper and all Spices In the last months Cinnamon is good Summer fruits are naught for her and all Pulse When the child is bigger let her diet be more for it is better for Women with child to eat too much then too little lest the child should want nourishment Let her drink moderately of clear Wine not exercise too much nor dance nor ride in a Coach that shakes her let her not lift any great weights in the first and last months In the ninth month let her move a little more to dilate the parts and stir up natural heat Let her abstain from Venery in the first months lest there be a Mole or Superfoetation or the child be hurt but she may use it moderately in the last She may bathe in the last months once in a week to loosen the privy parts Let her avoid anger sorrow fear and too much mirth Let her sleep rather then to be watchful Let the belly be kept loose in the first month with Pruens Raisons or Manna in Broth. And let her use Medicines to strengthen the womb and the child An Electuary Take Conserve of Borage Bugloss and red Roses each two ounces of Balm an ounce Citron-peel and Chebs Myrobalans candied each an ounce Extract of Wood-aloes a scruple Pearl prepared half a dram red Coral Ivory each a dram precious Stones each a scruple candied Nutmegs two drams with Syrup of Apples and Quinces make an Electuary Rouls Take Pearls prepared a dram red Coral prepared and Ivory each half a dram precious stones each a scruple yellow Citron-peels Mace Cinnamon Cloves each half a dram Saffron a scruple Wood-Aloes half a scruple Ambergreece six drams with six ounces of Sugar dissolved in rose-Rose-water make Rouls Apply strengtheners to the navel of Nutmegs Cloves Mace Mastich Coral made up in bags or a Toast in Malmsey sprinkled with powder of Mints Chap. 3. Of the Cure of Women with Child in General THey have divers chronick and acute diseases as Feavers Pleurisie Quinzies or Inflammation of the Bowels 4. Aphor. 31. of which Hippocrates If a Woman with child have an acute disease it is deadly There is a double danger 1. In respect of the Feaver which Galen saith will be continual Valer. l. 1. obser hol com ad lib. 5. aph 30. 2. In respect of the want of nourishment for the child For if a woman with child be fed the Feaver increaseth If she have an Apoplexy Epilepsie Convulsion Cramp she cannot bear it out But acute diseases are not alwaies deadly in women with child They have sometimes intermitting Feavers Coughs from which they hardly are freed before they are delivered Question 1. Whether must Women with Child use a sparing Diet If you give her a Diet at a long distance the child will be starved Gal. cit lo. If you give her a full diet and often the Feaver will endanger both mother and child Therefore be moderate and add something to the dyet which the mother loved before the Feaver for the childs sake and for the Feaver Abate the dyet in the first months let the dyet be little in the middle and last months let it be larger Question 2. Whether may a Woman with Child be let blood Hippocrates saith 5 Aph. 50. If a woman with child be let blood she will miscarry and if the child be older the sooner This is to be understood of great bleeding which was pints in his time but now we go by ounces Therefore if bleeding be required in a Feaver or the like and the woman with child be in strength you may boldly let blood upon these conditions 1. That you take not nourishment from the child let it be a little and you will take more do it the second time lest you weaken 2. Open not the foot nor the Basilica but the Mediana 3. Before you bleed strengthen the child by applications to the navel And if they abort in a Feaver Amat Lusi c. 5. cur 27. rod. Ã cast 3. de morbmul you must impute it rather to the violence of the Feaver then to the bleeding and you used the necessary help for preserving the mother But it is safer in the first then in the last months because the child needs a further dyet You may also open a vein in a woman with child that hath no disease to prevent abortion when there is much blood in the fourth or fifth
Savin an ounce of Leeks and Mercury each half an ounce boyl them to the consumption of the juyce add Galbanum dissolved in Vinegar half an ounce Myrrh two drams Storax liquid a dram round Birthwort Sowbread Cinnamon each half a dram Saffron a scruple with wax make an Oyntment Also neesing provoke the Birth and Amulets 5. Aphor. 35. Levi. Lemn de oc nat mir lib. 4. c. 12. as a Snakes-skin about her middle the Eagle-stone bound to her thigh If weakness be the cause refresh her with Wine and sops to the nose Confect Alkermes Diamosc Diamarg If there be Twins let the Midwife order them with her hands and help the foremost If the passages be not slippery use an emollient Fomentation and Oyl of sweet Almonds Hens or Ducks-grease c. If the belly be bound give a Clyster or Suppository When Medicine will not do it Aetius tetra 4. c. 23. break the Membrane with the fingers dipt in Oyl or cut them When the Child is still-born let the Midwife chew Spices and blow in its mouth or drop Aqua-vitae in it or anoint it with Honey Chap. 6. Of a vitious disorderly Birth or difficulty preternatural IF the hand come not forth first and the hands and feet are upwards there is an ill birth Hippocrates reckons two causes The Causes the largeness of the womb Lib. de nat pu and disorderly motion of the mother from pain also the thickness of the membrane which when it cannot break with the head it attemps to do with the feet and hands The Signs The Midwife may perceive in what figure the child comes forth The Prognostick All disorderly coming forth is dangerous to mother and child but there is least danger when both feet come forth this is called by the Latins Partus Agrippinus The Cure Let the Midwife reduce it into the cavity of the womb when it comes not forth right and place it right When the feet cannot be thrust upwards let the Midwife supple the parts with Oyl and take hold of the arm and help it and give neesings Let her alwaies labour to put the child in a right posture by moving it with her hand or taking the mother from the bed and compose her in such a posture as may bring the child into a right posture and that soon Chap. 7. Of a slow Birth THis is when the Child is longer coming forth then ordinarily Epistol lo. 2. 29. epis of this Massa writes That a Venetian Matron conceived of a husband of seventy years of age and brought forth a child in the fifteenth month blind and without hands which lived five months Consil 85. ad christ vuolcken Cardanus writes That his father said he was born in the thirteenth month And Mercurialis writes thus That it was never seen or written that a woman had a live child four years in her belly c. but these are rare and miraculous The cause is the weakness of the seed and want of heat in the womb which makes the expulsive faculty weak Chap. 8. Of a Child dead in the Womb. WHen at the time of Child-birth there is pain and breaking forth of water which ceaseth presently without delivery the child remaining in the womb then the mother or child dies or both When the travel is vehement from divers causes they may also cause no birth The Causes for either the more she may lose her strength and the child not come forth or both may die And if the child be weak and move little or the mother may be weak and the child great the travel is hard and both die or if the child come not forth in a right posture Or if the passages are ill proportioned Fabri cent 1. obs 64. 67. as when the bones of the Pubes do not give way or when there is Schirrhus or other tumor that straitneth the passages there is no delivery Or the child dies by a disease for want of nourishment or a fall stroak or leap or passion in the mother Search if the child be living or dead The Signs for if it be dead it will hurt the mother by rotting and if the mother die and child be alive take it out before the mother be buried A child is known to be dead if the Mother and Midwife perceive no motion but it is raised by any strengtheners given and when the mother moves from side to side it moves like a stone or when the face and lips of the mother are pale and her extream parts livid and the breasts that were plump are fallen her breath stinks water and stinking matter flows from the womb there is a Feaver horrour and fainting or Convulsion or if the Secundine come forth before the Child The Prognostick If a dead child be not presently taken out the mother is in great danger there are great Symptomes and strange diseases of which see Francis Rousset and others The Cure When the child comes not forth in time and is alive it must be taken out by the Midwife or Chyrurgion by cutting the belly and womb of which in the Chapter following If it be dead you must drive or take it out before it stinks either by Medicines or Chyrurgery The Medicines are such as stir up the expulsive faculty but they must be stronger then before because the motion of the child ceaseth as Take Savin round Birthwort Troches of Mirrh Castor each a dram Cinnamon half an ounce Saffron a scruple give a dram with savin-Savin-water Or Take Borax Savin Dittany each an ounce Mirrh Asarum-roots Cinnamon Saffron each half a dram make a Powder give a dram Purge first and put her in an emollient Bath and anoint about the womb with Oyl of Lillies sweet Almonds Chamomil Hens and Goose-grease Foment to get out the child with a Decoction of Mercury Orris wild Cowcumber Stoechas Broom-flowers Then anoint the Privities and Loyns with Oyntment of Sowbread Or Take Coloquintida Agarick Birthwort each a dram make a powder add Ammoniacum dissolved in Wine Ox-gall each two drams with Oyl of Keir make an Oyntment Or this Pessary Take Birthwort Orris black Hellebore Coloquintida Mirrh each a dram powdered add Ammoniacum dissolved in Wine Ox-gall each two drams Or make a Fume with Asses-hoof burnt or Galbanum or Castor and let it be taken in with a Funnel If these will not do use Chyrurgery It is done with the hand only or with instruments of which Aegineta and Aetius Lib. 6. c. 23. terrab serm 4. cap. 23. Charles Stephens shews how to use the hand without instruments When you know the child is dead saith he place the woman in the best posture and tye her so very fast c. see the rest John Bauhin takes the same course out of Schenks Observations And because the strength faileth Lib. 5. cap. 2. de disect part corpore human refresh her and abate pain cherish the torn parts and
make a Pessary The stronger are of the Decoction of wild Cowcumber Coloquintida Staphisacre Hellebore Honey and gall of an Ox. Fumes are made of Cassia lignea Nard Mugwort Savin Penny-royal Dittany Or Take Myrrh Castor Galbanum each half a dram Opopanax Cinnamon each a dram with Honey make Troches for to be burnt Then foment the Belly with the Decoction of those Plants Or Take Lupine-meal an ounce powder of Wormwood half an ounce Mirrh Rue each three drams with Ox-gall and Honey make a Cataplasm If it come not forth give a Womb-clyster of the Decoction of Sage Mugwort Mercury Calamints Penny-royal If all fail inject things to suppurate into the womb and let it be turned to matter and come out by degrees and inject strengtheners into the womb Of the Mole left after Child-bearing You may know it by the signs of a Mole mentioned she hath no ease after travel there is pain in the navel back and groyns and much clotted blood comes away and yet she hath no ease the Cure is mentioned before in the Mole Chap. 3. Of the Purgation after Child-bearing diminished or detained THis is not alike in all women for in some women the blood is fresh in others it is waterish cholerick or melancholick And some bleed more then others according to the constitution and Countrey It is either not at all or too much or too little The Causes When they are stopt or lessened the vessels are too strait or the blood flows another way or it is too thick or the vessels of the womb are pressed from its position the blood is drawn away by passions fears or goes hastily to the breasts The Signs The just quantity is not to be defined when it is stopt the belly swells the pain is in the bottom of the belly and groyns there is chilness and a Feaver after it fainting weak swift unequal pulse there is soot in the urin Sometimes the belly inflamed or she voids blew or black clodds or blood The Prognostick Gal. 1. epid com 3. t. 21. The Cure It is bad of it self to have any thing left after Child-bearing and worse if it staies long and grows melancholick therefore it is a cause of many diseases First endeavor to evacuate the blood from the womb by Frictions Ligatures and Cupping if they will not do open a vein in the foot Then open the passages with external and internal meats anoint the Belly with loosning Oyls or foment thus Take Lilly-roots Birthwort Briony Angelica each half an ounce Mercury Mugwort Penny-royal Savin Calamints each a handful Tansey Chamomil and Elder-flowers each half a handful Faenugreek and Linseed each two drams bruise them grosly and put them in a bag and boyl them in Water and Wine lay it to the Privities and bottom of the Belly Give emollient Clysters and if some dayes are past purge with Agarick Rhubarb Senna Or Take Lilly-roots Althaea each half an ounce Birthworts two drams Pellitory Mercury Althaea each a handful Calamints Chamomil Elder-flowers each two pugils Foenugreek and Linseed each two drams boyl them to ten ounces strained add Oyl of Dill Lillies each an ounce Hiera simple half an ounce Oyntment of Sowbread three drams make a Clyster Or give Pessaries that provoke the Terms Give things to melt and attenuate the blood As Take opening Roots three drams Bettony Maiden-hair Endive Schoenanth each two pugils Anise Fennel-seed each a scruple red Pease a spoonful boyl them to a pint and half add cinnamon-Cinnamon-water two drams syrup of the five Roots three ounces give four ounces Chap. 4. Of too great a flux of blood after Child-bearing THat is too much which makes weak It is blood abounding which hath been gathered nine months in the womb The Causes It is thick or spends the Spirits and weakens The Signs There is loathing of meat pain the Hypochondria belly-ach weak and often pulse dark sight noise in the ears fainting and Convulsion It is dangerous when long The Prognostick Hippoc. 9. aphor 55. The Cure and with fainting and Convulsion Therefore observe the Pulse lest she dye suddenly See what strength she hath and stop it not suddenly If it be not very great order a dyet of roasted Hens basted with red Wine or Pomegranate of Starch Almonds Rice Quinces Conserve of Roses steeled Water and make Revulsions use gentle things and strengthen the loose passages Anoint the belly with Oyl of Roses Mirtles cup under the breasts and sides without scarrification Apply a Cataplasm of red Roses Bole and Rose-water to the Liver Then use stronger and give a higher diet often in small quantity and give Syrups to stop blood As Take old Conserve of Roses two ounces of Tormentil an ounce of Quinces without species half an ounce Bole red Coral each half a dram with syrup of Currans and Coral make an Electuary Anoint the belly with the Oyntment of the Countess and other Astringents or use Astringent Fomentations or let her take into the womb a Fume of Mastich Frankincense red Roses c. Then open a vein in the arm and let blood by degrees See Sect. 2. Chap. 6. Of Overflowing of the Terms Chap. 5. Of the pains after Travel and torments in the Belly THese are not in the body and bottom of the womb but in the vessels and membranes by which the womb hangs and that goes to the sides and belly The Causes They are from a constant labour in travel when the bottom of the womb is pricked to send forth from cold air let into it or clotted blood detained or sharp blood sticking to the womb and pricking it The Signs They are in the womb it self you may know if they came from cold by what hath been done and clotted blood will manifest it self The Prognostick The Cure They weaken much and are very troublesome therefore they must be abated First take away the cause or abate the pain and make that which hurts the womb fit to be evacuated by these Pills Take Cinnamon a dram Saffron a scruple Diacymini Diagalangal Zedoary each half a dram make a Powder give a dram in Penny-royal or cinnamon-Cinnamon-water Or Take of Cummin-seed steept in Spirit of Wine and dried again a dram Ameos-seed and Ginger each half a dram Cinnamon a scruple Castor half a scruple make a Powder If she faint add Cordial Waters As Take Diacyminum a dram Diamargariton frigid Citron-peels Zedoary each half a dram make a Powder If she be cholerick or the humor thin and sharp cure it as a Cholick from Choler As Take Syrup of Violets Borage each an ounce Mucilage of Quince-seeds made with violet-Violet-water half an ounce water of Borage Scorzonera each two ounces give it at twice Extenuate the humors and loosen the passages outwardly Take Bean-flour Faenugreek and Linseed each an ounce Chamomil-flowers and Cummin-seeds each half an ounce boyl them in Oyl of Lillies for a Cataplasm You may fume the womb with Decoctions of Herbs Chap.
rot or provoke the part but things that by experience take away pain as Nightshade-water Snails boyled and Frogs in Oyl and with ashes of Frogs made into an Oyntment or Medicines of Lead As Take Oyl of Roses two ounces juyce of Nightshade-berries an ounce and half Ceruss washed Sugar of Lead each a dram Pompholygos half an ounce mix them in a Leaden Mortar till they are thick Or use Cray-fish-ashes and the ashes of the inward rind of an Ash-tree or Herb Robert Lib. 2. De cur vulner C. 3. Cent. 3. Obs 87. Arcaeus teacheth how to cut them out and then burn the part if they be deep and ulcerated But Fabricius shews that you must burn after to consume the reliques and stop the blood after it is cleansed Take Herb Robert Verbascum or Moulin Scabious Caprifolium or Honey-suckles Dill Mans-grease each equal parts burn them take three ounces and with six ounces of Nightshade-water in a Leaden-Mortar mix them After cutting out the root purge melancholy often and provoke Terms or Haemorrhoids lest it return Give Treacle Mithridate with juyce of Borage Sorrel Cray-fish-broath and Asses-milk Ant. Chalmiteus This Water is good against all Cancers Take Moulin-roots Clowns all-heal each two ounces Dropwort Ceterach Herb Robert Agrimony Tormentil Scabious Avens Flaxweed each a handful Nettle-seed three drams Elder and Rosemary-flowers each a pugil boil and sweeten it with Sugar Foment and wash the Cancer with one part of it and let the dreggs be applied as a Pultis Fuchsius his blessed Powder Take white Arsenick that shineth not like glass an ounce powder it pour Aqua vitae upon it and pour it off add fresh Aqua vitae every third day for fifteen dayes Then Take roots of great Dragons gathered in July or August sliced and dried in the wind two ounces Thirdly Take bright clear Soote of the Chimney three drams make a powder Keep it close stopt in a glass the older the better use it not till after a year For a pallative Cure keep it from increasing and take away pain with this Water Take Scrophularia-roots and Herb Roberts each a handful Lambs-tongue Night-shade Bugloss Borage Purslane Eye-bright Bettony each half a handful a Frog and two whites of Eggs with Quince-seeds and Foenugreek each an ounce Rose and Eye-bright-water each a pint distil them in a Leaden Still Use not Cancers as other Ulcers for Emollients Lib. 6. c. 30. Healers and Drawers exasperate and kill with great pain Chap. 8. Of Ulcers and Fistulaes of the Breasts AFter Universals dry up the Milk and if the Breasts hang down bind them up that the humors flow not down and move not the Arm on that side Then cleanse it with the Decoction of Rhapontick Zedoary and Agrimony Heal thus Take strong Wine five quarts Rhois Obsoniorum Cypress-nuts each four ounces green Galls two ounces boyl them to the Consistence of Honey If you fear a Fistula enlarge the Orifice and take away the Callus and heal it as an ordinary Ulcer Chap. 9. Of straitness of the Passages of the Breasts WHen the Veins and Arteries are not wide enough to contain Blood to be turned there is no Milk They are stopt by thick humors The Causes as the vessels of the womb are the cause is the stoppage of the terms or hard tumors in the Breasts that stop or press When the nipple hath no hole for the Child to suck it is from the birth or a wound or scar after an Ulcer The Signs There is little milk and the Breasts pine If the Breasts swell and milk cannot be suckt out the fault is in the paps or the veins of milk The Prognostick An obstruction from gross humors may be cured If it be from a Scirrhus or Scar after an Ulcer it is incurable and so the Nipple born without a hole The Cure If it be from thick humors or blood attenuate it with proper things as Fennel Dill Parsley Anniseeds Pease Rocket-seed or Earth-worms made into Caraplasms or Fomentations Often rubbing of the Breasts opens the Milk-veins Chap. 10. Of strange things bred in the Breasts HAirs Stones and Worms have been found in the Breasts A Worm breeds from putrid blood Bald. Ronsaeus miscel epist 10. Lib. de occult na mira c. 12. and is like a hair the same may be in the back and navel as I shewed And a good Author writes That a woman pained in her breasts could not be eased till Imposthumes broke and worms came forth Levinus Lemnius saw Stones that grew in the Breast Chap. 11. Of the Diseases of Nipples THey are either wanting or lie hid one or both which hinders giving suck If it be from the birth it is scarce cured as also when the Nipple is eaten off by an Ulcer When they come forth first Amatus Lusit cur med cent 5. cur 31. use a sucking Instrument and then apply Puppy-dogs to suck If there be no hole from birth or ulcer healed it is incurable if it be a little often sucking will enlarge it The clefts in the Nipples is an usual evil and causeth great pain in Nurses and if it continue long it turns to foul ulcers that they cannot give suck To prevent this evil in the two last months of being with child wear two cups of Wax over the Nipples with a little Rosin They are cured thus with Oyl of Wax Mirtles Oyntment of Lead Tutty Or Take Tutty prepared a scruple Allum half a dram Camphire six grains with Capons-grease and Oyntment of Roses make an Oyntment Or. Take Pomatum an ounce and half Mastich a scruple Powder of Gum Traganth and red Roses each half a scruple Or Take Oyntment of Lead Pomatum each half an ounce Frankincense Bole each half a scruple mix them When the Infant is to suck wash the Breasts first with white Wine and Rose-water That the Child may suck without pain to the woman let her have a Tin or Silver Nipple and cover it with the Pap of a new killed Cow and let the child suck that THE FOURTH BOOK THE THIRD PART THE SECOND SECTION Of the Symptomes of the Breasts Chap. 1. Of want of Milk and not giving Suck THere are many Causes of want of Milk either there is little Blood to breed it or the milk-making Faculty in the Breast that makes Milk is not right or the Instruments for blood-making are distempered Sometimes the matter is consumed by a Feaver or fasting when they loath meat or from care or labour evacuations sweats or loose belly Or from weakness of the Infant that cannot draw hard Also sadness fear and the like may hinder blood from flowing to the Breasts Milk is wanting when the Breasts are flaggy The Signs and swell not and little milk is sucked out The signs of the Causes thus If it be from the Liver there will be signs of its distemper if from great evacuation that is known the fault is known to be in the breasts
add Camphire a scruple Saffron half a dram with Oyl of Chamomil make a Pultis Snuff this Water often Take Nutmegs Cloves Cubebs each a scruple Calamus Frankincense-bark each half a dram marjoram-Marjoram-water three ounces drop hot Oyls into the Ears If in twenty dayes the water be not gone open the skull and let out the water by degrees and take heed of cold The tumor of wind in the skin of the head or membranes of the brain is seldom without water which breeds wind Use Discussers that make thin as Chamomil Rue Organ c. Chap. 7. Of Syriasis IT is from Aetius a disease with a Feaver Tetra 1. serm 4. c. 13. or an inflammation of the membranes and the brain so that there is a hollowness of the eyes and forehead It is from flegmatick blood that grows hot by putrefaction and so becomes like choler The Causes The remote causes are hot weather and milk full of wind from the evil dyet of the Nurse Such milk will make the child drunk and cause the inflammation Heat of the fore-head and hollowness there The Signs redness of face a Feaver driness no appetite watching The hollowness in the fore-part of the head is where the Sagital and Coronal sutures meet for there the bones are membranous and grow at last hard It is dangerous The Prognostick and counted deadly among women and as often as this bone or membrane falls there is a pit and the brain falls down they commonly dye in three days The Cure First give a Clyster of Syrup of Roses or Violets then Coolers of the juyce and water of Lettice Guords Melons or apply a Pumpion split in two But cool not the brain too much anoint with Oyl of Roses Or Take Oyl of Roses half an ounce Populeon an ounce the white of an Egg and of the Emulsion of cold Seeds drawn with Rose-water two drams After the flux is stopt and the Inflammation abated use Discussers As Take Oyl of Chamomil an ounce and half of Dill half an ounce with the yolk of an Egg. Let the Nurses dyet be cooling or the milk be changed let it not be vexed Chap. 8. Of Frights in the Sleep 3. Aphor. 24. HIppocrates saith this is often the cause is unclean vapors mixed with the animal spirits that disturb them and present horrible objects to the fancy They arise from the depraved concoction of the stomach in full feeding children that eat more then they can digest These vapors ascend not only by the weasand but by the veins to the head It comes often from worms also or corrupt humors that gnaw the mouth of the stomach The Signs They grown in their sleep and twitch and being frighted out of sleep they cry their breath is hot and often stinking The Prognostick Cure it presently for it is the fore-runner of an Epilepsie Give good Milk and less The Cure that the stomach be not over-charged Let it not sleep presently after food but carry it about till it is in the bottom of the stomach Use Oyl of sweet Almonds or Honey of Roses two spoonfuls to cleanse the stomach Then strengthen it with Magistery of Coral or Confection of Hyacinths with Milk Or Take Magistery of Coral a dram Diaplerers a scruple with Sugar dissolved in rose-Rose-water an ounce make Rouls Anoint the stomach with Oyl of Nard Wormwood Mints Mastich Nutmegs If it be from a Feaver look to that If from Worms I shall after speak of it Some hang Coral and Wolves-teeth about the childs neck Chap. 9. Of great Watching A Child new born sleeps more then he wakes because his brain is very moist and he used to sleep in the womb If you cannot make him sleep by singing or rocking nor the like it is a Disease Are divers in men and children The Causes in these it is from milk corrupt in the stomach from which sharp humors arise and disturb the animal Spirits and infect them and if there be sad fancies frights follow of which before If it cries alwayes The Signs and cannot by any art be made to sleep it is a sign of a disease of watching which is dangerous because children use to sleep much And hence come Catarrhs Convulsions Driness and Feavers The bad milk must be amended The Cure and the corrupt meat prevented If it be from a Feaver or Pain remove them 1. De tuen c. 8. Galen adviseth you often to change the bed and place Sleeping Medicines are not safe but hurt but are rather to be given the Nurse moderately as sweet Almonds Lettice Poppy-seeds Wash the Feet with Decoction of Dill-tops Chamomil-flowers Sage Osiers Vine-leaves Poppy heads Cool not the head too much nor use Narcoticks These are safe Oyl of Dill to the Temples Oyl of Roses with Oyl of Nutmegs with Poppy-seed Breast-milk Rose or Nightshade-water with Saffron In great driness of the Brain let the covering of the Cradles head be wet Chap. 10. Of Epilepsie and Convulsion IT is either by consent from parts below when the milk corrupts in the stomach or from an ill quality in it from the Nurses bad diet or from worms in the guts or from vapors from bad humors that twitch the membranes of the brain as in the Meazles and small Pox. It is sometimes from the brain first as when the humors are bred in the brain that cause it either from the parents or from distemper or bad dyet It may come from Tooth-ach also when the brain consents and from a sudden fright The Signs It is manifest You shall know by the signs of the diseases whether it comes from bad milk worms or teeth If from a fright the people will tell you If these all are absent it is certain that the brain is first affected The Prognostick It is a great disease and kills for the most part young children But when in older Hippo. 58. Aph. 7. and it comes at a distance it vanisheth by age If it come with Pox or Meazles it ceaseth when they come forth if Nature be strong enough Give this Powder to prevent it The Cure to a child as soon as it is born Take male Piony-roots gathered in the decrease of the Moon a scruple Magistery of Coal half a scruple with Leaf-gold make a Powder Or Take Piony-roots a dram Piony-seeds Misleto of the Oak Elkes-hoof Mans-skull Amber each a scruple Musk two grains make a Powder The Florentines burn behind in the head to dry the brain and Celsas saith It is the last Remedy Lib. 3. c. 25. Lib. 3. c. 13. Aeginta saith That children cannot endure such cruelty for the pain and watching would kill them See Sylvaticus The best part of the cure in the Nurses diet Sylvatic contro 87. which must not be disordered If it be from corrupt milk provoke vomit thus hold down the tongue and put a quill dipt in sweet Almonds down the throat If it
in the Liver This is sent by the arterial vein into the lungs and pressing the Bronchia or pipes of the lungs causeth difficult breathing and Asthma The Signs It is known to be from a hot humor if it be thin they often sneese the face is red and the jaws the breath is short and the Nurse finds it in her nipples If difficulty of breathing come from the head there will be cough and snorting in breathing and a noise in the lungs when the air passeth not freely through them If it come from the parts below there is neither Catarrh nor Cough but hardness about the Liver and a tumor The Prognostick In Children a great Catarrh with short breath is hard to be cured because they cannot take Physick First let it and the Nurse keep a good diet The Cure fill not the stomach with milk nor other diet but let the Nurse forbear sharp salt peppered sour things and things that fill the head with vapors And give her a Pectoral Decoction Take Figs Jujubes each ten Sebestens thirty Raisens stoned ten drams Liquorish two drams Maidenhair Hysop Violets each half an ounce boyl them in three pints of Water to the consumption of the third part Let her take six ounces every morning Keep the belly open with Syrup of Roses or Cassia or a Clyster with Oyl of sweet Almonds with Sugar-candy or juyce of Fennel with Milk or hold down the Tongue and provoke Vomiting Give Syrup of Jujubes Maiden-hair If the matter be thick give Syrup of Hysop or Horehound or an Emulsion of Oyl of sweet Almonds Pine-nuts Scabious-water Or give a Lohoch of Diaireoes Diatragacanth frigid Penides with Sprup of Jujubes If it be hot give Emulsions of the four great cold Seeds with Mallows Pellitory with Diatragacanth frigid To dry up the matter lay outwardly a stuph of Hemp hot and sprinkled with powder of red Roses and Frankincense Apply Basil and Marjoram to the Nose to make it sneese Chap. 17. Of the Hickets IT comes from corruption of the food in the stomach or from milk filling it or from cold air these hurt the expulsive faculty and it is stirred up to expel what is hurtful If it come from repletion of milk The Signs the belly swells and there is vomiting after If from corruption of milk the Nurse hath bad milk the child cries and is pained and the excrements smell of stinking milk The Prognostick Hickets is commonly not dangerous in children and cease when the cause is taken away If it be from a vehement cause and goes to the nerves there follows a Convulsion or Epilepsie and death That from corruption of nourishment is cured by Vomit with a feather dipt in Oyl to tickle the throat then strengthen the stomach with hot things As Syrup of Mints Bettony and fomet it with decoction of Mints Organ Wormwood then anoint with Oyl of Mints Mastich Dill. Or Take Mastich an ounce Frankincense Dill-seed each two drams Cummin-seed a dram with juyce of Mints and Flax apply them to the stomach There is a disease like the Hickets in children from anger or grief when the Spirits are much stirred and run from the heart to the Diaphragma forceably and hinder or stop the breath Sometimes they have a shril voice the Spirits suddenly breaking forth but when the passion ceaseth this Symptom ceaseth Chap. 18. Of Vomiting IT is from too much milk or bad milk or from flegm that falls from the head to the stomach but this is seldom in children It is often from a moist loose stomach for as driness retains so loosness le ts go If it be from much milk they are better after vomiting The Cure If it be from corruption of milk that which is vomited is yellow green or otherwise ill coloured and stinking worms are known by their signs It is for the most part without danger in children and they that vomit from their birth The Prognostick are the lustiest for the stomach being not used to meat and milk being taken too much oftentimes crudities are easily bred or the milk is corrupted and it is better to vomit these up then keep them in If Vomiting last long it causeth Atrophy When it is from too much milk give it less The Cure if it be from corrupt milk amend it as I shewed Cleanse the Child with Honey of Roses and strengthen the Stomach with Syrup of Mints Quinces Or Take Wood-Aloes Coral Mastich each half a dram Galangal half a scruple with Syrup of Quinces make a Linctus If the humor be sharp and hot give Syrup of Pomegranates Currans Coral Apply to the Belly the Plaister of Bread the Stomach-Cerot or Bread dipt in Wine hot Or Take Oyl of Mastich Quinces Mints Wormwood each half an ounce of Nutmegs by expression half a dram Chymical Oyl of Mints three drops Coral half an occult propriety therefore it is hung about their necks Chap. 19. Of the Torments or Pains of the Belly IT is often with the flux of the belly and from milk alone that breeds wind and sharp humors When it is corrupted it gets to the guts and causeth a gnawing pain worms staying in the guts do the same The Signs They cry continually hate the breast and toss to and fro If it be from wind it ceaseth sometimes the belly swells and they break wind If it be from humors it is constant if it be tough flegm the belly is bound and the dung is slimy If it be sharp there is a flux yellow and green If from worms there are signs of them and of crudities and wind The Prognostick If this pain lasts long they are weak or have Convulsions or Epilepsie it is worse then from corrupt milk and worms and is dangerous The Cure If it be from crude humors and wind give a Clyster Take Pellitory Chamomil-flowers each a handful boyl them in Chicken broath two three or four ounces add Honey of Roses an ounce with the yolk of an Egg make a Clyster This may be given safely to a child of two months old Or give Oyl of sweet Almonds with Sugar-candy and a scruple of Aniseeds Heur meth ad prax l. 2. c. 26. it purgeth new born Babes from green choler and stinking flegm If it be given with Sugar Pap it allays the crying pains of the belly Anoint the belly with Oyl of Dill or lay Pellitory stampt with Oyl of Chamomil to the belly Or Take Chamomil-flowers Dill-tops each a handful Faenugreek and Lineseed each half an ounce boyl them in Wine foment the belly twice a day before meat If pain be from corrupt milk that is sharp give Syrup of Roses or Honey of Roses or Syrup of Succory with Rhubarb or a Clyster of the Decoction of Bran Pellitory with Syrup of Roses And use outwardly Oyl of Roses Dill and Chamomil Chap. 20. Of puffing up of the Belly and Hypochondria WHen they suck too much the belly is
and Althaea or anoint with Oyl of Lillies then keep it in with astringents As Take red Roses Pomegranate-peels and flowers Cypress-nuts each half an ounce Sumach Frankincense Mastich each two drams boyl them in red Wine foment with a Spunge then sprinkle on this Powder Take red Roses and Pomegranate-flowers each half a dram Frankincense Mastich each a dram allay it upon a clout and lay it to the Fundament See Lib. 3. Part 2. Sect. 1. Cap. 6. Chap. 28. Of the Stone in the Bladder Lib. 3. par 3. sec 1. c. 6. par 8. sec 1. c. 1. THe stone in the bladder is usual in Infants as that of the kidnies is in elder people How it is cured we shewed before In Infants it is from gross unclean milk made of tough meats this too much taken in causeth crudities fit to breed the stone or pap of Barley-meal and milk may cause it There is also a weakness in the Liver and Stomach when they do not separate unprofitable food but much earthy juyce remains in the chyle that breeds stones Also a hot distemper in the reins by which the chyle is drawn to the bladder and if there be a native hereditary disposition to breed the stone an earthy part is in the humor which makes the urine thick this is in bigger Boyes more then in Infants They piss by drops with itching and pain the urine is stopt often and that which is pissed is like clear water white or like milk or whey sometimes blood is pissed and the yard often stands It increaseth daily if it be not opposed The Prognostick and cannot be cured without cutting which is dangerous for young or old Prevent the breeding of it when you see the least disposition to it The Cure Let the belly be alwaies kept loose and the Nurse eat no gross slimy food make a bath of the decoction of Althaea Mallows Pellitory Parsley Dill Foenugreek Lineseed then anoint the bladder with Althaea Oyl of Lillies and Scorpions and apply a Cataplasm of Pellitory boyled with Oyl of Lillies A Powder Take Magistery of Crabs-eyes Lib. 3. pra decal ves white Amber Goats-blood prepared each a scruple with Parsley-water give it often Or give two drops of spirit of Vitriol with half a dram of Cypress Turpentine Chap. 29. Of Difficulty and Stoppage of Urine THere are many causes in ripe age that are mentioned but in Infants they are chiefly two causes the thick humor that breeds the Stone that makes a Strangury and Dysury and the Stone that stops the bladder It is voided by drops and the child cries The Signs and the Urine is thick you may try with the Catheter if there be a Stone If it be not presently cured The Prognostick it turns to the Stone and all natural evacuation in Children being stopt is dangerous The Cure It is as in the Stone you must evacuate humors from the first passages with Honey of Roses Cassia Turpentine foment and anoint as before with Grass-water Rest-harrow Dropwort-water and decoction of red Pease Or Take the blood of an Hare an ounce Saxifrage-roots six drams calcine them give from a scruple to half a dram with white Wine or saxifrage-Saxifrage-water Chap. 30. Of not holding the Urine SOme piss not only in their sleep but alwayes because the muscle that should close the orifice of the bladder is weak and when much water pricks it it suffers it to come forth sometimes a stone in the Bladder hurts the Sphincter so that it cannot do its duty The cause of weakness is a cold humor and moist from gross tough meats from gluttony and the like The Signs It cannot be known in Infants but it may in elder children that know they ought not piss a bed The Prognostick If it come by custome it turns to an habit or a disease and is hard to be cured in ripe years if it be from distemper is easie to be cured The Cure Alter the cold and moist distemper dry and consume the flegm let the Nurse have a hot drying diet with Sage Hysop Marjoram let not the child drink much keep the Belly Outwardly anoint the Region of the Bladder with Oyl of Castus Orris and other driers make a Bath of Sulphur Allum and Oak-leaves or use Sulphur or Allum-baths give this Powder Take Hogs-bladders burnt roasted stones of a Hare Cocks throats roasted each half a dram Acrons two scruples Nip Mace each a scruple give half a dram with oak-leaves-Oak-leaves-water See Lib. 3. Part 8. Sect. 2. Cap. 6. Chap. 31. Of chafing in the Hips called Intertrigo IT is the separation of the Scarf-skin from the true in the Hips that causeth pain and unquietness It is from sharp Piss The Causes when the clouts are not changed often in such as are fat to whom filth sticks easily The skin is off and it looks red The Signs The Prognostick It is troublesome by reason of the pain and causeth want of sleep and ulcerateth if it be not cured Change the clouts often The Cure wash and cleanse the child often sprinkle on this fine Powder Of Litharge of Silver seeds and leaves of Roses burnt Allum and Frankincense or anoint with white Oyntment and Diapompholigos Chap. 32. Of Leanness and Fascination SOmetimes children and men grow lean the elder from Feavers Consumptions and other diseases but children pine away and the cause is not known and though they eat and perform other actions they are not nourished nor grow The Causes The causes of Consumption in Infants are little or bad milk by which no blood is bred fit to nourish the body so that they thrive not till they change the Nurse The second is worms that sucks away the nourishment The third is worms about the body without as in the Back Arms or Legs and all parts these are very small and breed in musculous parts and stick in the skin and never come wholly out but after rubbing in baths they put forth their heads like black hairs and run in when they feel the cold air they breed of slimy matter shut up in the capillar veins which turns to worms from transpiration hindred The fourth cause in the opinion of people is fascination or witchcraft either from the eyes of Witches or by vapors or by touch or by words from a Witch these are alledged by many Authors I neither allow nor plainly deny all these waies of fascination though it is not credible that a child should suffer by words or looks only I deny not but diseases may be sent from sick bodies to others as the Leprosie the French Pox Consumption and the like and many infect Infants And I believe that they may be hurt by Witches and malitious persons by the help of the Devil and Gods permission Bas in hode invidia as Basil the Great writeth for wicked people make a league with the Devil that they may hurt such as they look enviously
The Cure first see if there be Inflammation and then abate pain As Take Oyl of Linseed and Roses each an ounce Oyl of Eggs half an ounce mix them in a Leaden Mortar Or Take Pellitory Mallows Althaea each half a handful Chamomil-flowers two pugils Linseed and Foenugreek each half an ounce Boil them to a pint add Oyl of Roses three ounces inject it with a Syringe If there be no Inflamation use Driers and Repellers as Vervain Ivy Acacia Pomegranate-peels and flowers for Baths and Fomentations and after add Discussers as Chamomil and Thyme If it be old and hard first soften it with the same and after thrice using them use Digesters and Driers that are strong as a Powder Take round Birthwort a dram Savin Hermodactils burnt each two drams burnt Allum two drams red Lead a dram Calcitis half a dram sprinkle it upon the loofe flesh Or Take Aloes Frankincense Mirrh each a dram Ammoniacum dissolved in Vinegar a dram and half Allum two drams red Lead two drams Galls half a dram Turpentine Oyl of Tartar each a dram with Oyl of Roses and Wax make an Oyntment This is very strong Take Turpentine an ounce Oyl of Nutmegs two ounces read Lead two drams Allum Vitriol each a dram Verdegreece half a dram Sublimate a scruple with Wax make an Oyntment or of Balsom of Mercury Tetrab 4. serm l. c. 3. If Medicines will not do the Ancients advise Burning of which see Aetius Chap. 7. Of Warts in the Neck of the Privities of the Womb. THey are from a gross feculent and malignant humor sent to the skin turned to a Node The Signs They are known by their shape the malignant are known by their hardness and heat and blewness filth and pain The Prognostick They are often hard to be cured because the pox is with them and they are in a place to which Medicines are hard to be applied and to continue The Myrmeciae are not cut off but they leave a great ulcer the Thymi and Clavi grow again Acrochordones once cut leave no root After Universals and order of diet The Cure either use Medicines or cut or burn them to discuss then use Sage dried with Figs Organ Rue burnt dry Savin Frankincense with Wine and Vinegar or Snakes skins with Figs these also dry These corrode eat and burn as juyce of wild Cowcumbers with Salt Milk of Figgs Sheeps-dung Goats-gall with Niter Aqua fortis Spirit of Vitriol Sulphur Butter of Antimony Take heed that you hurt not the parts adjacent but defend them with Bole sealed Earth rose-Rose-water and Vinegar if you put the Corrosives into Nut-shells change them twice or thrice in a day and wash the part with a cleansing Decoction and then cut or burn Chap. 7. Of the Haemorrhoids of the Womb. THe veins that end in the neck of the womb often swell like the Haemorrhoids it is from gross blood that comes to these veins out of the time of the terms Inordinate flux of terms may occasion it The Causes when they flow out of the usual time they grow thick and cannot get out of the veins but swell them They are to be touched The Signs and with a Speculum matricis to be seen There is pain and bleeding without order she is pale and lazy The Cure Correct the blood purge and bleed in the arm to derive and revel of which in the diseases of the womb If pain be abate it by sitting in a Decoction of Mallows Althaea Chamomel Melilot flowers Moulin Linseed Foenugreek of which also make Fomentations and Oyntments with Butter Populeon and Opium if there be pain Take Populeon Oyl of Roses and sweet Almonds fresh Butter each half an ounce Saffron a scruple with the yelk of an Egg make an Oyntment Or Take Mucilage of Quinces Althaea each half an ounce Oyl of Roses and Hens-grease each a dram the yelk of an Egg and Saffron half a dram mix them in a Leaden Mortar If pain be gone or abated and they bleed not use Dryers of Bole Earth of Lemnos Acacia Ceruss froath of Silver Lead burnt and washed long Birthwort Allum Verdigreece If they swell with blood evaporate it or foment with the Decoction of Mallows Althaea Pellitory Chamomil-flowers Moulin Melilot seeds of Line and Foenugreek If they do not good open them by Fig-leaves rub'd upon them or by Horsleeches of which Chap. 2. If there be proud flesh take it off as is shewed If they bleed gently let Nature alone to the work for it is good and frees from other diseases If the flux be great and abate the strength open a vein in the arm divers times and do as in overflowing of the Terms Question How do the Haemorrhoids differ from the Terms flowing or stopt Mercurialis saith That though a flux of Terms be immoderate yet it hath its periods and is without pain and makes not the body lean but it is contrary in the Haemorrhoids But this is not true for the body is not made lean alwaies by the Haemorrhoids nor do the Courses keep their periods alwaies Besides the pain which is almost alwaies in the Haemorrhoids they differ in that the terms flow from the veins of the womb and its neck but the Haemorrhoids are when the blood flows too much to the veins that nourish the privities and sticks or is evacuated Chap. 8. Of Ulcers in the Neck of the Womb. THey are seldome cured in the body of the womb and they are simple and clean or sordid and malignant Are a flux of sharp humors that lasts long in the Pox and Gonorrhaea Corrupt after-births The Causes and courses after child-bearing detained inflammations turned to imposthumes these are the internal The external are sharp Medicines hard travel a great child taken out by force violent lechery wounds falls strokes Are pain and constant biting that increaseth The Signs especially in copulation or when Wine or Hydromel is injected You may also see it with a Speculum also there is matter gentle or filthy if the ulcer go towards the bladder they piss hot and often there is pain in the roots of the eyes to the hands and fingers fainting and a little Feaver sometimes The external Causes are to be related by the Patient If it be from the Pox or Gonorrhoea the signs of them will appear of which Hippocrates They are hard to be cured because they are in a part fit to receive humors soft and moist and that hath consent with many parts Hence are divers Symptoms the great old and foul are worst when they corrode and are hollow they are seldome cured they that may easily have Medicines applied to them are easiest cured The Cure First stop the flux of humors to the part if it be either from the whole body or any part And amend the distemper of the womb that it may neither breed nor receive bad humors If the French Pox be with it resist that first If there
or if it be to hinder the increase of it let diet be against Melancholy prepare and purge Melancholy This powder for many dayes given is excellent Take Smaragds Saphir and East Bezoar-stone each a dram give every day three or four grains with Scabious or Carduus water Let the Tropicks not be biting at first But foment with juyce of Plantane Nightshade Purslane or use Diapompholigos Or Take Juyce of Plantane Nightshade Purstane each two ounces Mucilage of Fleabane an ounce Oyl of Roses three ounces stir them in a leaden Mortar Or Take Oyl of Roses of Eggs each an ounce and half Sugar of Lead a dram stir them in a leaden Mortar then add Litharge Ceruss each three drams Tutty a dram Camphire a scruple Or Take Juyce of Nightshade six ounces Tutty and burnt Lead each two drams Camphire half a dram stir them long in a leaden Mortar and add powder of Cray-fish Inject a Decoction of Cray-fish and if pain be great foment with Mallows Althaea Water-lillies Coriander Dill Fleabane Seed with Saffron in Milk or make a Cataplasm of the same Some use Antimony Arsenick c. which are good in other parts But this cannot bear them A noble Woman had on the right side of her Face an ulcerated Cancer and when all the French Italian German Spanish Physitians could not cure her a Barber cured her only with Chickens sliced thin and laid on often every day Chap. 12. Of a Gangrene and Sphacel in the Womb. SOmetimes the whole Womb is gangrenated and it is from the Privities that receive many Excrements apt to corrupt The Causes It is from an Inflammation and Ulcer not well cured because the part hath many Excrements which easily quench the natural heat and then the part mortifies The Signs There is an usual heat in the Neck of the Womb and a Feaver with horror all over the body then the colour changeth in the part it is black and blew without pulse or sense When it is cut or pricked it stinks and the strength decayes and the heart faints The Prognostick Aetius leth 1. cap. 72. Nichol. Florent ser 6. tr 3. Math. degrad in 9. Rhasis C. de exitu matricis It is very dangerous and worse when it goes to the womb than outwards Some have had the Womb fall out and have lived which besides grave Histories We saw at Avinion in an old noble VVoman Anno 1635. Stop the putrifaction take away that which is rotten by scarrifying if you can then wash with the Decoction of VVormwood Lupines and with Aegyptiacum and apply this Cataplasm Take Orobus and Bean flour each two ounces Oxymel a pint boil them add Lupines Wormwood Aloes and Mirrh Cut off the dead flesh The Cure strengthen the principal parts the Heart lest the Spirits be infected with evil vapors that fly by the Arteries Give Conserve of Borrage Bugloss Gilli-flowers Diamargariton frigid Electuary of Gems frigid Confection of Hyacinths Syrup of Sorrel Pomegranates Borrage and apply Epithems to the Heart In Observatio Vuierus cured a noble Woman aged twenty five she had a Pustle in her Privities in the Dog-dayes from violent Lechery with her Husband and she used a Cataplasm from a silly Chirurgion and in few dayes it rotted grew black and mortified and went towards the Fundament very fast THE FOURTH BOOK THE SECOND SECTION Of the Diseases of the WOMB Chap. 1. Of the Knowledge of the Temper of the Womb. Lib. uterus muliebris MArk Anthony Ulmus Physitian of Bononia shews the Temper of the Womb He saith That a Beard in Women shews that they have a hot Womb and hot Stones It comes with the beginning of the Terms and when the Breasts swell and is hard to be seen Lib. 3. de lui ani c. 11. Aristotle saith That some Women have hairs in their Chin when their Courses stop and when they have a hot Womb and Stones But there are more certain signs of heat 1. When hard hair comes forth suddenly thick black and long and large about If they come forth slow thin soft yellowish and but few not spreading the Womb is cold Also when the Terms come forth at 12 years of age it is a sign of a hot Womb and when they last long the blood is red hot but not very much In an old Constitution they come later and the blood is cold and waterish and they end sooner If it be hot and moist they flow plentifully and last till after fifty If it be hot and dry the blood is yellow thin and sharp and pricks the Privities If it be cold and moist the blood comes late forth with difficulty and it is whitish and thin If it be cold and dry the Terms come forth very late and with difficulty and seldome continue till forty and the blood is thick and little The third sign is from Lechery for they who have hot wombs desire Copulation sooner and more vehemently are much delighted therewith they who are cold do the contrary The hot and moist are not tired with much Venery The hot and dry have great Lust and a Frenzy if they want it but they are quickly tired because there are but few Spirits If it be cold and moist they are not soon lecherous and are easily satisfied and if they miscarry often the womb is made colder and they delight not in the sport but Copulation doth them good and makes them more youthful If it be cold and dry they desire not a man in a long time and take no delight because the Spirits are few The fourth sign is from often Conception for the hot conceive often and bring forth males or Viragoes if the seed of the man agrees with it the cold doth the contrary A hot and moist Womb is very fruitful if the man be well tempered and though he be old and weak yet she will conceive by him Sometimes they have twins or over-do and have a Mole Hot and dry are fruitful but not so much as the former Cold and moist are hard to conceive especially when they are in years when they are young and the Seed of the man is hot and dry they conceive males but seldom well shaped or healthful and the woman while she is with Child is sickly A cold and dry Womb is commonly barren and if they conceive the Mans Seed is hot and moist they bring forth Females and if Males they are tall and quickly look old Chap. 2. Of the hot Distemper of the Womb. HEat of the VVomb is necessary for Conception but if it be too much it nourisheth not the Seed of the man but disperseth its heat and hinders the Conception The Causes This preternatural heat is from the Birth sometimes and makes them barren If aftewards it is from hot causes that bring the heat and the blood to the womb From internal and external Medicines too much hot meats and drinks and Exercise The Signs They are prone
to Lust have few Courses yellow or black or burnt or sharp they have hairs betimes upon their privities they are subject to the Headach and there are signs of much Choler their Lips are dry When this distemper is strong The Prognostick they have few terms and out of order they are bad and hard to flow and in time they are Hypochondriacks and for the most part barren and there is sometimes a Frenzy of the Womb. Use Coolers The Cure so that they offend not the Vessels that must be open for the Flux of the terms therefore Use inwardly Succory Endive Violets Waterlillies Sorrel Lettice Sanders and Syrups and Conserves made thereof As Take Conserve of Succory Violets Waterlillies Borage each an ounce Conserve of Roses half an ounce Dâ—amargariton frigid Diâ—trio santalon each half a dram with Syrup of Violets or Juyce of Citrons make an Electuary Outwardly use Oyntment of Galens Cooler Oyntment of Roses Cerot of Sanders Oyl of Roses Violets Waterlillies Gourds Venus-navel to the Back and Loins or make Cataplasms of Barley meal Roses powdered Violets Waterlillies Sanders with Juyce or water of Plantane Waterlillies Succory Lettice Oyl of Roses Violets Waterlillies Baths are good to sit in and cooling Fomentations and after let her take some of the Coolers mentioned In great heat use this cooling Pessary Take Opium a scruple Goose grease two scruples Eras de pass mulic cap. 7. Wax and Honey each four scruples Oyl at ounce whites of two Eggs. This was from an opinion the Ancients had that Opium was cold but take heed of the using it too much lest the narcotick quality hurt Let the Air be cool her Garments thin let her meat be with Lettice Endive Succory Barley give no hot meats nor strong Wine except it be waterish and thin Rest is good both in body and mind She must not copulate but she may sleep much Chap. 3. Of the cold Distemper of the womb THis causeth many Evils and Barrennesse They are contrary to those of a hot Distemper The Causes cold Air Rest and Idlenesse and cooling Medicines The Signs It is known by their not desire of Lechery not receiving pleasure in the time of Copulation when they spend their Seed The terms are flegmatick thick and slimy and flow not rightly there is wind in the womb the Seed is crude waterish with a Gonorrhoea The Prognostick The Cure It is the cause of Obstructions and Barrenness and is hard to be cured Use things proper to heal the womb as this Water Take Galangal Cinnamon Nutmeg Mace Cloves each two drams Ginger Cubebs Zedoary Cardamoms each an ounce grains of Paradice long Pepper each half an ounce beat them and put them in six quarts of Wine for eight dayes then add Sage Mints Balm Motherwort each three handfuls let them stand eight dayes more then pour off the Wine and beat the Herbs and the Spices and then pour on the Wine and distil them Ano her Take Cinnamon Nutmegs Cloves Mace Ginger Cubebs Cardamom grains of Pa adice each an ounce and half Galangal six drams long Pepper half an ounce Zedoary five drams bruise them and add six quarts of Wine put them in a Cellar nine dayes daily stirring them then add Mints two handfuls then let them stand fourteen dayes pour off the Wine and bruise them and then pour on the Wine again and distil them Quercetan hath an Hysterick Extract In phar doc restit cap. 25. a greater and a less use outwardly Fomentations Baths Baggs of hot Roots as Birthwort Lovage Valerian Angelica Burnet Masterwort Calamus Madder Elicampane Orris and Herbs as Mugwort Balm Motherwort Savin Penny-royal Calamints Organ Dittany Marjoram Rue Bettony Rosemary Lavender Sage Stoechas flowers Seeds of Smallage Parsley Rue Carrots Anise Fennel Cummin Lovage Parsley Anoint with Oyl of Lillies Rue Angelica Bays Cinnamon Cloves Mace Nutmeg Or Take Labdanum two ounces Frankincense Mastick liquid Storax each half an ounce Oyl of Cloves Nutmegs each half a scruple Oyl of Lillies Rue each an ounce with Wax make a Plaister A Fume Take Frankincense Mirrh Mastich each a dram Bayberries a dram and half Labdanum two drams Storax Cloves each a dram Gum Arabick and Wine make Troches or Pessaries of the same Let the diet be warming and the air the meat of easie concoction seasoned with Anise Fennel Thyme Avoid Milk-meats and raw Fruits Chap. 4. Of the moist Distemper of the Womb. THis is commonly joyned with a cold Distemper and causeth Barrenness and is from the same causes as a cold distemper for commonly cold things do moisten It is commonly in women that are idle The Signs They that have moist wombs abound in Courses but they are waterish and thin the privities are wet they have the VVhites and desire not Copulation much and delight not in it they retain not the seed and if they conceive when the child is big they abort or miscarry The Prognostick The Cure If it last long it is hard to be cured If it be much they conceive not It is by Driers and things that cure the cold distemper are good against the moist because all Healers have a drying power Use Sulphur Baths and Injections Beware of Astringents lest the evil humors be stopt and the disease increased Chap. 5. Of the dry Distemper of the Womb. IN this the womb is hardned of it self it is fleshy and soft and moistned by blood for Conception It is sometimes from the birth or old age when they are past child-bearing If it be from drying causes they are barren before they are old The Causes Diseases and Medicines dry the womb as Inflammations Feavers and when blood flows not to it nor goes to the bottom of it by reason of the straitness of the Veins or Obstructions as in Viragoe's and such as never conceived and if they void any blood it is from the neck of the womb and not from the bottom The Signs They void little seed and are slow in Venery the terms are few the mouth of the womb is dry and they are slender of a dry Constitution their lower Lip is alwayes chapt and blackish red This distemper is hard to be cured in any part especially if it be old The Prognostick The Cure Use Moistners as Borage Bugloss Mercury Mallows Althaea Violets sweet Almonds Pistachaes Pine-nuts Jujubes Dates Figs Raisins Of which are made Syrups Conserves Emulsions Candies c. Outward Remedies are made of the same adding Time Fenugreek-Seeds Lillies Brank-ursine Pellitory c. Fomentations are made with Milk and after bathing anoint the region of the womb and the belly to the privities with oyl of sweet Almonds Lillies Lin-seed Jesamin fresh Butter Hens and Goose grease Let the Diet be moistning the Air moist the meat fatning of much nourishment and small excrement Leet sleep be a little longer than usual Great labour anger sadness fasting do hurt Chap. 6. Of Compound Distempers and first of
half an ounce with good Wine distil them give a spoonful or two Apply outwardly a Cataplasm of Rue Mugwort Chamomil Dill Calamints Nip Penny-royal Thyme with Oyl of Rue Cheir Chamomil and make Baths of the same Bags of Milium Salt Chamomil-flowers Melilot Bayberries Cummin Fennel-seed or lay a Plaister of Bayberries Let Clysters to expel wind be put into the womb As Take Calamints Agnus castus Rue each half an handful Anniseeds Costus Cinnamon each two drams boil them in Wine for half a pint Apply a Cupping-glass with much flame to the Breast and over against the Womb. Use Sulphur-baths and spaw-Spaw-waters inward and outward for they expel wind If it come from cold after Child-bearing and she is not well purged by her Terms heat the womb and purge and give strong Wine Let the Diet be hot cutting and attenuating The Diet. with things that expel wind and little at a time Question Whether the wind is in the Cavity when there is Inflation of the Womb It is so by Experience though some deny it nor is there any cause why wind should not be bred in the womb as well as in any other part both by reason of the Excrements that come thither and the natural heat that turns them into wind these also stretch the womb though it be thick as in Dropsies and Conception Also the retentive or altering faculty of the womb is never idle so that when it receives diseased and unfruitful seed it suffers it not to corrupt but turns it into wind As Hippocrates writes When the Womb is stretched by wind from the Belly Lib. de nat pueri women think they have conceived Chap. 11. Of the Dropsie of the Womb. THey are also deceived and think they are with child when there is water that swells the womb Ves lib. 6. de corp hum Fab. Mar. Do de hist me mira l. 4. c. 21. Tetrab 6.4 ser 4. c. 79. this is a Dropsie of the womb This water is either in the Cavity or between the Coats of the womb or in its Vessels Vesalius Marcellus Donatus shew that water is in the Cavity for it doth not presently by its plenty or quality force its passage out because the Orifice is not alwaies open and Nature gathers it by degrees and is used to it Aetius saith There are sometimes Bladders of water in the womb And Christopher Vega saith that Leonora thought that she had gone 6 months and then voided sixty Bladders of water and seven pieces of flesh like that of the Spleen in Membranes Lib. 4. obser cent 2. obser 56. The Causes There is sometimes a Dropsie of the Womb with Conception as Schenstius and William Fabricius saith of his own wife Are gathering of water from moistness mixed with the terms and from an evil Sanguification in the Liver and Spleen from their weakness or from errors in Diet or from weakness of the womb from hard travel or often mischances cold air or water or whatsoever hurts the heat of the womb Also stoppage of the terms doth cause gathering of water for the water useth to be evacuated with them Many take this for the only cause Sometimes the tunicles of the womb may be divided in some place and water may be gathered between them Hippocrates saith the terms are fewer The Signs 1. De morb mulier and cease before the time the bottom of the Belly swells and the Paps are soft without Milk and she thinks she is with child By these you know it is a Dropsie But because Doctors and Midwives are often deceived you must distinguish this from other Swellings When a woman is sound and useth a sound man the womb by degrees swells and the child moves in its time but often there is a Dropsie with Conception before or after therefore in a Dropsie the tumor is equal according to the largeness of the womb and belly and not pointed as in a woman with child Secondly If the woman be in years and hath not conceived before and hath a good colour it is a sign of a Dropsie rather then a Conception If the tenth month be past and the child moves not nor the Breasts swell but are soft say there is Dropsie of the womb Thirdly In a true Conception women are better after some months and the Symptoms abate but in a Dropsie they increase still It is distinguished from a Mole by the weight in the bottom of the Belly From an inflation because the Belly is stretched in that and sounds being stricken but is soft in a Dropsie It differs from the Dropsie of the Belly because the Face is pale or wane in that from the distemper of the Liver there is thirst but in the Womb-dropsie she is of a good colour except the Liver be also bad It differs from Inflamation in the womb for that is with a constant Feaver and the Symptoms of it and from other tumors which are harder but in a Dropsie of the womb if the Belly be pressed it yields You shall know whether it be from the fault in the womb principally or from some other part thus If the Woman be of a good colour and there were only some diseases and causes that might hurt the womb as abortion hard travel stoppage of terms or too many of them then the womb is chiefly affected But if there be signs of a distemper in the whole body or in the Liver or Spleen and the colour is bad it is consent from other parts You shall know whether the water be in Bladders or in the Cavity of the womb thus If you find the Orifice of the womb closed and there is little pain it is in the Cavity But if the Orifice be open and there is great pain it is in Bladders or without the Cavity The Prognostick If the humor in the womb be not corrupt this disease is of long continuance but may be easily cured It is easier cured in the cavity then when it is in bladders and between the tunicles A woman after Conception having a Dropsie of the womb her child dieth and she is in danger The Cure When it is from stoppage of terms and new and the strength firm open a Vein in the Legs otherwise bleed not Purge according to the Humor with respect to the Womb as in Chap. 6. of a cold Distemper Then purge Water Take Angelica and Madder roots each half an ounce Calamints Penny-royal Mugwort Lovage each a handful Savin a pugil boil them in Wine and sweeten it with Sugar Or make Broaths with the same Take Dianisum Diagalangal each half a dram Oyl of Aniseeds Cloves each five drops Sugar three ounces make Rouls Inject into the Womb as in Dropsies Take Asarum roots three drams Penny-royal Calamints each half a handful Savin a pugil Mechoacan a dram Aniseed Cummin each half a dram boil them and take six ounces strained Oyl of Elder and Orris each an ounce make a Clyster Or use Pessaries Take
seed comes away presently after or at a distance after some dayes if so then the womans seed is unfruitful or there is a distemper in the womb that keeps it from cherishing the seed If the Terms be wanting they are Viragoes and have hair on their Chins or they are fat and seed turns into fat or they are very lean because they want blood 5. Aph. 59. Hippocrates proves Barrenness thus Put a Fume saith he under the coats of a Woman and let her be close cloathed about and if the scent come to the Nose she is not barren and he bids you put Garlick cleansed into the womb and if she smell of it at the mouth she is fruitful The Prognostick A natural bad disposition that causeth Barrenness is not curable Hippocrates saith 2. Prognos 3. That Barrenness from Ulcers is hard to be cured A woman that conceives not from disagreement with her husbands constitution by another husband or in time may be cured or some distemper that causeth sterility may be mended by Physick Take away the causes The Cure amend the distemper of the womb whether with matter or without matter is to be mended which causeth either no Seed or that which is unfruitful or not convenient See Part I. Sect. 2. Chap. 1. The Medicines of an occult quality are best As Take Rocket-seed Siler montane each half a dram Ivory-shavings Cinnamon Nutmeg each a dram Musk in such as may three grains white Sanders three drams make a Powder give a dram with Wine Or Take Species Diamoschu Diambra each a dram the Matrix of a Hare a Bores-stones and the Yard of a Stagg each half a dram Nutmeg Cinnamon Cloves Rocket-seed wild Parsnep-seed each a dram Musk Amber each four grains with Sugar as much as all give two drams in Wine A Confection Take sweet Almonds Pistachaes Pine-Nuts Hazel-Nuts each an ounce Citron-peels Ginger Cloves Cinnamon each half a dram Rocket-seed two drams give a spoonful at bed-time Or make this March-pane Take sweet Almonds four ounces Pine Pistachaes Hazel-nuts each two ounces Diambra Diamoschu each a dram Ivory half a dram Cinnamon half an ounce An Electuary Take Conserve of Rosemary six ounces Dogs-stones candied two ounces Orobus Schinks-reins Bores-stones Sows-wombs Deers-privities Ivory Turnep-seed Fennel Nettle-seed Rocket Clary wild Mustard each two drams Pine-nuts sweet Almonds each half an ounce Diamoschu dulcis a dram Oyl of Nutmeg by expression two drams with Syrup of Bettony make an Electuary Or use Triphera without Opium Or use Baths Insessions Fomentations Fumes and Baths after Terms for five days Take Briony Masterwort-roots Mercury Mug-wort Penny-royal Marjoram Bayes Sage Motherwort Juniper-berries and tops make a Bath Or use Sulphur-baths of Allum Niter Bitumen these do much good A Fume Take Labdanum Storax calamite Benzoin each two drams Wood Aloes a scruple Musk six grains with infusion of Traganth made in rose-Rose-water make Troches Make Pessaries of green Mercury and Motherwort Or Take Mastich Storax liquid each half an ounce Balm Nep Mercury each a dram Cloves Nutmeg each half a dram Civet half a scruple with Wax make a Pessary After Baths and Fumes anoint the Pecten and Navel with this Take Oyl of Keir half an ounce Oyl distilled of Marjoram a scruple of Cloves half a scruple of Nutmegs by expression a dram Storax liquid two drams Civet and Musk each six grains with Wax make a Liniment After bathing let her have a Bag upon her Belly of Balm Calamints Mints Motherwort and Wine Let her wear Plaisters upon her Loins and Perinaeum till the week before her Terms As Take the Plaister for the Mother an ounce Storax liquid Caranna each two drams Gallia moschata half a dram Oyl of Cloves half a scruple of Nutmegs by expression a dram with Oyl of Keir make a Plaister If the Womb be too loose and slippery use Clysters of juyce of Mercury with Honey-baths Pessaries Fumes and other astringent Topicks that strengthen If the mouth of the Womb gape make a Decoction in Wine of Mirtles Mastich Wood-Vines Olives Wormwood Cypress-roots Comfrey Snakeweed Cinquefoyl red Roses Pomegranate flowers foment the Privities or with powder of Mastich Frankincense Allum Wood-Aloes make a Fume Other Diseases are to be cured as before shewed Let it be to increase seed of much good juyce The Diet. In the time of Copulation avoid passions anger sadness fear Let love be invited and if it burn there will many spirits flie to the Womb and Privities Chap. 3. Of Barrenness for the time and Conceiving seldom SOme Conceive the seventh eighth or ninth year after wedding some presently but not after the first any more or not in many years after If Virgins marry afore fourteen The Causes they conceive not or if the constitution of the womb be bad or the Seed Some conceive not from the disagreementt of Seeds till their constitution be changed They who want Terms The Signs or have them disorderly or are sickly seldom or never conceive with child or have had hard travel or a dead child Some are weakned so that after the first child they have no strength to conceive All these will be related whether she be married too soon or had hard travel or aborted or had a dead child or a Mole If these were not the Seed and Womb have not a just proportion with the mans but it may be altered by age The Prognostick If the womb be much hurt after hard travel or any thing turn in it or broken they seldom conceive again And if a woman marry at a ripe age and have no remarkable Disease and conceive not presently she is not to be accounted barren because some private indisposition hinders Conception which after may be altered and she may prove fruitful The Cure A woman that marries too young after she hath once conceived and then ceaseth must use Venery sparingly till she grow older that she may recover the strength she lost in her first travel And if a woman marry at ripe years and conceives not by reason of the driness of her Womb let her use Baths Fomentations and emollient Pessaries If she conceive not from weakness strengthen the Womb and let her not use Venery often If Virgins be sick from seed retained or terms let them marry But if there be a fault in the Liver or Spleen or the whole body that may be increased by Venery it is better that they be cured before they be married And if they cannot be cured let them not be married If the Womb be distempered by Birth or a Disease cure it as in diseases of the Womb. If it be from a Mole or Flux of blood cure it as it hath and shall be shewed If it be from a dead child first cleanse it with juyce of Mercury and then put Treacle or Mithridate dissolved into the womb or with a Pessary or give them outwardly Chap. 4. Of Conception and Forming of the Child COnception is
prevent Symptomes To take away pain and strengthen the parts foment with the Decoction of Mugwort Mallows Rosemary Wormwood Mirtles St. Johns-wort each half an ounce Sperma Ceti two drams Deers-suet an ounce with Wax make an Oyntment Or Take Wax four ounces Sperma Ceti an ounce melt them dip Flax therein and lay it all over the belly In some Countries women will not permit these but leave all to God Chap. 9. Of the Caesarean-Birth THe belly and womb are cut sometimes to take out the child and this is called the Caesarean-Birth and they that live are called Caesar It is done in three cases 1. When the child is dead and the woman alive 2. When the woman is dead and the child alive 3. When both mother and child are alive This is seldom because either Medicines do it or it is taken out by other Chyrurgery or the work is left to Nature Enchirid. consul medic p. 188. Mathias Cornax hath a History of one that carried a dead child in her belly four years it was taken out by cutting the womb and belly and the mother lived and conceived with child after she fainted not at the time and the wound grew together without stitching and her terms after came in good order and she had a lusty Boy till the second of June The Surgeons that had cut her afore were sent for and the old orifice was open and the mother and the women present would not yield to the second cutting Therefore her strength failed and the Chyrurgion took out a compleat child but it was dead There are more Histories of live children cut out of their mothers bellies being dead And Roderick à Castro saith Pin. lib. 7. hist. nat c. 90. Rod. à Castry lib. 4. de morbis mul. c. 1. Augen lib. 5. epit 2. 11. That an Infant cannot live in the Mothers womb being dead except it be taken out at the very time of her departure or while there are vital Spirits because when the motion and life of the mother ceases the life of the child also ceaseth yet is his Argument of no force because the child hath its proper Soul and if it be well it may live a while in the womb without benefit from the mother as it doth when it is delivered But take heed it be not suffocated in the womb and keep the mothers mouth open and let the Midwife never move her hand from the Privities Lib. 3. de disect part cor hum c. 1. till the Chyrurgion have taken it out and you may know that the child is alive when the mother is dead by its leaping Charles Stephens shews the way of taking out a dead child When a live child is cut out of the belly of a live mother it is done only lest the mother or child or both should die And this may be done and both preserved alive which is plainly demonstrated by Francis Rousset in his Book of this subject so that there is no doubt of it For first he shews the necessity of the Operation and next the possibility of it shewing that the muscles of the belly the Peritonaeum and Womb may be cut without hazard of life Thirdly He confirms by History what he proved by reason and shews that many wounds of the muscles in the lower belly Peritonaeum and Womb have been cured Fourthly He propounds many more dangerous cases then the Caesarean Section which were not deadly in themselves And then he shews the manner of the operation and how it is to be done Therefore have recourse to his works if thou wilt learn it THE FOURTH BOOK THE SEVENTH SECTION Of the Government of Women in Child-bed of the Diseases that come after Travel Chap. 1. Of the Government of Women in Child-bed PResently after she is delivered labour to make the After-birth follow of which in the Chapter following then compose her in Bed and give her good Food Let the Air be temperate rather hot then cold Let her beware of Cold that it get not into the Womb it will cause torment and inflammations If Travel be hard anoint the belly and sides with Oyl of sweet Almonds Lillies and warm Wine Let her meat be of a good juyce and easie concoction Hen-broath and Chickens and Capons Kid Mutton Veal let her drink thin Wine if there be no Feaver or Cinnamon boyled in water the first daies drunk warm Let there be no noise about her and let her not rise too soon avoid passions lest the humors be stirred and fall into some part If she cannot or will not suckle her child turn the milk from the breast by repellers under the Arm-pits as Unguent of Roses Cerot of Sanders dissolved in Vinegar and to the breasts apply a Cataplasm of Bean and Orobus-flour with Oxymel or foment the breasts with the decoction of Mints Dill Smallage or lay the leaves bruised upon them Before she goes forth let her bathe with a Decoction of Lilly-roots Elicampane Mugwort Agrimony Borage Rosemary Chamomil-flowers Stoechas Faenugreek Linseed Citron-peels Chap. 2. Of the Secundine or After-birth or a Mole that is left after Child-bearing THese stick in the bottom of the womb or like a ball to another part the mouth of the womb being open or closed It is not safe to cut the After-birth from the The Causes Navel till both be come forth therefore draw it out with breaking of the Navel-string this is retained because it grows to the sides of the womb or is swollen by hard travel or because the Navel-string is broken by the Infants straining or from cold air got in or from a fright or from her not having throws fit to exclude it or because she is impatient and will not continue in a due posture The Signs The Midwife will declare it and the purgation is not the belly swells there is a Feaver and heaviness and pain in the belly there is a stink and loathing from stinking vapors difficult breathing Suffocation and Convulsion The Prognostick Many die from the retaining of it if it cannot come forth when matter flows from the womb there is hope that they will rot and come away in sixty daies The Cure First let the Midwife draw it gently with her hand and use sneesing then burn Partridge-feathers to the nose and Goats-hoofs as in the suffocation of the Womb. Then use things that expel a dead child Dittany Oyl of wood Heracleon after Preparatives Or Take Marjoram Chervil Penny-royal each a handful Savin half a handful Anise and Fennel-seed each half a dram Lovage and Parsley-roots each three drams boyl them in water for three draughts Or Take Dittany Troches of Myrrh Borax each half a dram Saffron Castor each a scruple make a Powder Or Take round Birthwort two scruples Myrrh a scruple make a Powder give it in Wine Make Pessaries of Mugwort Mercury Sage Orris in Powder with Oyl of Keir Or Take round Birthwort Savin Briony Ox-gall and Honey and
swelled under the ribs for want of concoction and there are crudities in the stomach and wind and also in the parts adjacent The Hypochondria are hard and puffed up The Signs and there is straitness in the mouth of the stomach and short breath It is easily cured with good dyet The Prognostick The Cure Give a thinner dyet that the crudities may be concocted Give no fresh nourishment till the first be digested then give Honey of Roses to purge Or the Decoction of Cardiaca which is good for the heart and mouth of the stomach it opens obstructions and cleanseth flegm Or powder of Piony-roots Cummin-seed Jesamine or make it up with Honey Oyl of sweet Almonds or Sugar for a Liniment Foment the sides with the Decoction of Cardiaca Chamomil-flowers and Cummin-seed Chap. 21. Of the Flux of the Belly IT is 1. From breeding of Teeth with a Feaver commonly and the concoction is hindred and the nourishment corrupted 2. From much watching 3. From pain 4. From stirring of the humors by a Feaver 5. When they suck or drink too much in a Feaver Sometimes they have a flux without breeding of teeth from outward cold in the guts or stomach that hinders concoction The Signs If it be from teeth it is knwon by the signs in breeding of teeth if from external cold there are sings of no other causes If from a humor flowing from the head there are signs of a Catarrh and the excrements are froathy If crude humors are voided there is wind belching and flegmatick excrements If they be yellow gre n and stink the flux is from a hot and sharp humor The Prognostick Hipp. lib. de dentitio The Cure It is best in breeding of teeth when the belly is loose but if it be too great and you fear Atrophy it must be stopt if black excrements are voided with a Feaver it is bad A sucking child needs not cure so much as the Nurse you must chiefly observe the condition of the milk and mend it if not change the Nurse and let her not eat green fruit and things of hard concoction If the child suck not take away the causes of the flux with purges that bind after as Syrup of Honey of Roses or a Clyster Take the decoction of Milium Myrobalans each two or three ounces with an ounce or two of Syrup of Roses make a Clyster After cleansing if the cause be hot give Syrup of dried Roses Quinces Mirtles Coral Currans or the powder of Diamargariton Coral Mastich Harts-horn red Roses or powder of Mirtles with a little Sanguis Draconis Anoint with Oyl of Roses Mirtles Mastich Or Take red Roses an ounce Mirtles Mastich each two drams with Oyl of Mirtles and Wax make an Oyntment Or Take red Roses Moulin each a handful Cypress-roots two drams make a Bag boyl it in red Wine apply it to the belly or use the Plaister of Bread or Stomach-Oyntment If the cause be cold and excrements white give Syrup of Mastich and Quinces with mint-Mint-water Use outwardly Mints Mastich Cummin As Take Rose-seeds an ounce Cummin Aniseeds Lib. 3. par 2. cap. 5. 6. each two drams with Oyl of Mastich Wormwood and Wax make an Oyntment Chap. 22. Of Binding of the Belly IT is from a cold and dry distemper of the guts from birth in some 2. From slimy flegm that wraps the dung which sticks in the guts This is from bad milk when the Nurse eats gross food slimy and astringent or drinks little 3. It is from a hot distemper of the Kidnies or Liver that dries the excrements 4. It is when choler doth not stir up the guts to expel If it be from a dry distemper of the guts The Signs it is hard to be cured if it be from slimy flegm the dung is wrapt in it If choler comes not to the guts to provoke them to stool the dung is white and the body yellow It is best in children to have a loose belly The Prognostick Hipp. 2. Aph. 53. The Cure and they are more healthful for if it be bound the belly is pained and there is a head-ach First take away the cause if it be from a hot distemper of any bowel or dry wash the child often to moisten and cool it in a Bath of Succory and Lettice boyled In a cold distemper use hot for the stomach and in a dry use moist things as Oyl of Lillies Dialthaea Hens-grease Butter Let the Nurse avoid astringent meats as Quinces Medlars Beans and use Emollients If the child be big give juyce or Decoction of red Colworts with a little Salt and Honey If it be from slimy Flegm give Honey or Syrup of Roses Correct the hot distemper of the Liver and Reins with Syrup of Violets and Emulsions of the four great cold Seeds If choler come not from the Gall to the Guts give the Decoction of Grass-roots Fennel Sparagus Maidenhair Give Clysters to cut and cleanse tough Flegm As Take Althoea-roots Mallows Pellitory each half a handful Foenugreek and Linseed each a dram Chamomil-flowers a pugil boyl and to three or six ounces add three drams of Cassia Oyl an ounce and the yolk of an Egg. To the Navel apply Hens-grease and Ox-gall Or Take Aloes two drams Ox-gall a dram Scamony a scruple with Butter make an Oyntment Fill a Walnut-shell with it and apply it to the Navel Anoint the Belly with Emollients Take fresh Butter Goose and Hens-grease each half an ounce Oyl of sweet Almonds and Linseed each two drams Veal-marrow Dialthaea each two drams with Wax make an Oyntment Bran and juyce of Danewort make a loosning Cataplasm for the Belly Only keep it from the Stomach as you must do other Cataplasm Chap. 23. Of the Worms Ex authore lib. 4. de morb IT is observed that children have had worms in their mothers belly and voided them after they were born But they are chiefly bred by mixing milk with other meats in a hot and moist constitution and from sweet meats which worms love and Summer fruits they are round and long or broad and little The Signs Besides what is said in Lib. 3. Part 2. Sect. 2. Cap. 5. Worms are known to be in a body when there is much spittle and a stinking breath troublesome sleep gnashing of teeth crying and bawling a dry cough loathing vomiting hickets want of appetite or too much thirst a belly swelled or bound or too loose thick white urin with pain when the belly is empty and the worms want food There is a cold sweat over the face and a high colour with sudden paleness sometimes a Feaver and Convulsion which ceaseth presently These are signs of round worms rather than of the flat Infants are often long troubled with worms without any great inconvenience The Prognostick sometimes there are great Symptomes The long round worms are worst and have eaten sometimes the guts and belly through with a Feaver they are more dangerous few