blacke neither doth it issue forth copiously although it be constrained If it arise through subtility and thinnesse of the blood then the blood is pure and cleare and the Flux is small If heate be mixed with it it shall easily be discerned in the Matrix and by other tokens and signes If cold be mixed with it it shall in like manner be observed and found out If the blood shall issue forth because it is liquid and thin the cause of this is the evill disposition and state of the body and the debility of the concoctions caused and ingendred by abundance of many moistures and winds or vapors inclosed and imprisoned in the Matrix But if you will have certaine knowledge of the humor constraining this unnaturall issue looke upon a linnen cloth sleightly coloured and dipped in the menstruous blood If the colour of it doth incline to rednesse you may know that the cause of the Fluxe doth proceed from blood If it bend toward Citrine or yellow colour from Choler if it incline to whitenesse from Phlegme But if it incline to a black colour you may know the cause of the Fluxe to arise from Melancholy What Fluxes are to be stopped Further you shall consider when as the Flux shall be tolerable and easie to be indured which doth not make the body leane nor weaken it but doth dis-burden it and make the same more light and nimble that such a Flux is inforced and moved by naturall vertue and power only expelling and voyding that which is superfluous in the blood and therefore such Flux and issue ought not to be restrained or stopped But if the contrary thing happen it is to be restrained and staied altogether lest it bring the Patient to cholerick Fevers because that blood being evacuated and exhausted Choler doth beare the whole sway and play the Tyrant and being freed from his bridle doth furiously vex and torment the Patient For blood as it is commonly said is the bridle of Choler But because also naturall colour is nourished cherrished with blood that flowing away it is necessary that a defect and decay of heat must follow and ensue and by that all the members and parts of the body to waxe cold the whole body to be debilitated and weakened the whole appetite to be taken away the concoctions to be hindred the Consumption and Hydropsie and also other most miserable diseases at the last to hasten after the same But because it is not sufficient to know the diversities of the diseases onely unlesse wee be resolved likewise of the fit and convenient cure of repelling them wee will hereafter also declare a few things of many which shall seeme to be the choisest and most speciall concerning the cure and remedy of these evills And as the Causes of these Fluxes and issues are inward and outward so the cure shall be inward and outward also The inward cure of unnaturall Fluxes And truely first of all if this unmeasurable or unnaturall Fluxe shall happen by some inward cause before all things the diet and use of all outward things shall be ordered and directed to a cold and dry temperature that blood may decrease and be diminished Therefore it will greatly profit to decoct and seethe all convenient and agreeable meats in Milke or Water in which Steele red-hot hath beene quenched and to eate Colewoorts boiled with Lentills or Beanes Or if it please you such a decoction shall first be prepared wherein other meats afterward shall be boiled Take Plantane-leaves flowers of Wool-blade or Lungwoort with the leaves of each one handful the roots of Symphytum or comfrey one ounce mingle them together and boile them with water or Milk in which burning Iron hath beene quenched straine it and squeise it out hard With this decoction all other meates may be prepared as Almonds Lentills Beanes the graine Milium Rice Amylum and the like things rosted flesh is to be preferred before sodden Also sauces may be prepared of the juice of Goose-berries Sorrell and Barberries to be mingled with other meats Let her abstaine from Spices and all things which are of a hot nature but specially from Saffron Let her drinke thicke red Wine allaied with water wherein Steele hath beene quenched It will likewise be profitable that Gold should oftentimes be extinguished and quenched in that Wine after it hath beene made red-hot in the fire Let her use no exercise but as much rest as may be Let her use much sleep let her wholly shake hands with Venus and flie from her as from a deadly poison Her belly being constipated and bound by reason of this continuall Fluxe shall be relaxed and unloosed with a gentle Clyster but thou shalt not by any meanes restraine and stop the Flux unlesse it shall induce and bring debility and feeblenesse lest thou oppose thy selfe against Nature of her owne accord expelling and voiding out superfluous things when thy resistance shall procure great evill When and how Fluxes are to be restrained But when necessity shall require then at last it will be convenient and profitable to binde and stop this Flux And first of all you shall use this powder of which you shall give one dram to be drunke at a time in water in which Gold heat red-hot hath bin quenched And the powder shall be thus prepared Take Terra Sigillata Carabe or Amber Succus Acacia of each halfe an ounce Hypocistis or Hypoquistidos Harts-horne washed and burnt the Runnet of a Kid or Hare of each two drams red Corrall prepared and beaten to powder one dram Gumme Arabicke Costus Sanguis Draconis Bole-Armeniacke prepared of each one dram and a halfe Comfrey flowers of Quinces the pills or rindes of Pomgranates of each one dram Pearles prepared one scruple Mumia halfe a dram Myrtles Olibanum of each one dram Lapis Haematites or the Blood-stone roots of the water-Lilly of each one dram and a halfe Mix them all together and let a powder be made of them Also you shall not unprofitably give this powder following to be eaten in an Egge Take Bole-Armenie prepared Terra Sigillata red Sanders Anthera of each one scruple and a halfe Rindes of Pomegranates Acorne-cups Nut-meg of each halfe a dram Mixe them and make a Powder Or let her use this Electuary morning and evening Take of the Antidote Athanasia Micleta of each one ounce old conserve of Roses one ounce and a halfe Rindes of Pomegranates Acorne-cups Nut-meg Corall prepared of each one scruple and a halfe Pearles prepared halfe a scruple Terra Sigillata halfe a dramme Sanguis Draconis Bole-Armenie prepared Lapis Hematites of each one scruple Temper them with syrup of Pomegranates as much as sufficeth and let an Electuary be made of it Adde to it if neede be Philonium Persicum one dram Moreover against Thirst Water wherein red-hot Steele hath beene quenched mingled with the syrup of Quinces and Pomegranates and with the juyce of Gooseberries and Acetosa simplex shall
Plantane the lesser or Ribwoort Galls Psidia of each one dram Let all of them be mixed and incorporated with juyce of Plantane and Rue and let Pessaries be made of them Or else take unripe Galls burn'd quenched with Vinegar two drams Gumme Arabick halfe a dram Sanguis Draconis powder of the roots of Walwoort or Asse-eare Sumach Masticke Acorn-cups Hypocisthidos Acacia Harts-horne burnt Colophony Myrrh drosse of Iron of each one dram Camphire one scruple mingle and incorporate all together with the juyce of Knot-grasse Housleeke Night-shade Wormegrasse or Stonegrasse and of Plantane as much as sufficeth and let a Pessary be made of it Or otherwise Take the ashes of Egs-shels burn'd the shels of Crab-fish Sanguis Draconis Bole Armenie Oxe-dung dried of each two drams leaves of Silver or Gold most diligently beaten one dram Haire of Goats of Hares Cotton all burned of each halfe a dram temper them with the juyce of Rue and Plantane so much as may suffice and let a Pessary be made of it But if intemperate heate of the blood shall inforce the Fluxe If the Flux do arise from the heate of the blood how it is to be cured and shall ingender great thirst the diet shall be directed to a cold and dry temperature and the use of all outward things to be ordained and disposed of as they may strengthen and make the body prosper Let her drinke Water wherein red-hot Steele hath beene quenched mingled with syrup of Pomegranates And such an Electuary may first be prepared of which let her eate morning and evening and after meat a little morsell the bignesse of a Chesse-nut Take old conserve of Roses one ounce Diaolibanum two ounces red Corall prepared one dram Pearles prepared one scruple Cummin-seed infused the space of a day in Vinegar one dram and a halfe dry Mints foure scruples Olibanum two scruples Mastick Cypress-nuts roots of Bistort of each halfe a dram Spica Indica one scruple Let al things that are to be beaten to powder be powdred and let an Electuary gilded be made of them being tempered with syrup of Pomegranates so much as sufficeth Also she shall use these pills following five of them taken in the morning or three houres before supper the waight of a dram Take Frankincense Mastick Mumia Allom Harts-horne burn'd washed Cypresse-nuts Runnet of a Hare or Kid of each a dram Gumme Arabicke one dram mixe them and let a masse or lumpe be made wherewith pills may be formed with the juyce of the Thistle named Carduus Mariae our Ladies Thistle or white Thistle Here also Pilulae de Bdellio prepared with the juyce of a Leeke This Plaister prepared either in a hard or liquid forme after the manner of an Vnguent shall have great efficacy by annointing the woman with it before and behind Take oile of Masticke two ounces oile of Myrtles juyce of Mints red Roses of each one ounce powder of Mastick two ounces Cypressenuts Mumia Bistort Olibanum Myrtles red Roses of each two drams Chalk burnt Allom Galls Acorne-cups of each one dram Bole Armeniack Terra Sigillata of each halfe a dram white Waxe so much as sufficeth and let a Plaister be made of them After shee hath beene annointed with this Vnguent shee shall weare this Cere-cloth following continually laid before and behind upon her Take Masticke one dram and a halfe Ladanum Olibanum of each two drams Galls Cypresse-nuts Bistort Mumia of each one dram Myrrhe Galbanum Terra sigillata of each two scruples temper them with Oyle of Masticke and Wax so much as sufficeth and let a Cere-cloth bee made of it which being spred over white Leather must bee laid upon the woman before and behind afflicted with this unnaturall flux Hot Bathes do profit and availe in this case not such as consist of Brimstone but of Copper and Allome But if the flux of blood shall arise only from a cold cause then you must proceed altogether in the same manner as we have prescribed before in curing barrennesse engendered of a phlegmaticke humour CHAP. XI Of the the Causes and Cure of the stopping of the Termes BVt because in the former Chapter we have given instructions concerning the immoderate Fluxes and issuings of the Termes and of the Cure of the same The next thing is that wee should also speake a little concerning the retention and stopping of them For thereby many sicknesses and diseases are bred and ingendred if they be detained contrary to Nature nor doe not issue forth in such a quantity as they should every Moone in women well disposed in respect of age and constitution of body And we must understand that this happeneth by outward and inward Causes Outward causes of the stopping of the Termes Externall causes are the aire intemperately hot cold and dry meats over hot and binding whereby the humours are burned the body dried and concoctions are hindred also meats which are too cold congealing and freezing as it were the rest of the humours of the body by their coldnesse and letting them from issuing forth by restraining and binding them To these causes also these following doe pertaine too much watching immoderat fasting every unseasonable and sudden commotion or perturbation of the body as great anger sudden fury great sadnesse great lamentation over-much solitarinesse great labour any great diseases sharp fits a Quartane Fever paine of the Head the Fever Hecticke too much fatnesse issuing forth of the blood of the nostrils or any other member Vlcers and great Apostems Inward causes Inward causes are partly bred by the corruption of some humour and partly without the corruption of any humour Causes without the corruption of the humour are over-much heat coldnesse and drinesse For to those which are cholericke the humours are exsiccated and dried up through immoderate heat and therefore the Termes are stopped But to the melancholicke The corruption of the qualities the same thing happeneth by immoderate coldnesse and drinesse But when they happen without the corruption of the humour we must allege the qualities to be the cause and we may observe certaine signes from what quality they doe proceede and againe whether from a simple or a compound quality If they happen from coldnesse and drinesse the issue of the Termes is little the colour will be pale no desire of Venus the urine thin white and without any convenient subsidence or grounds in the bottome If they chance from hotnesse and drinesse the Termes will be few the colour redder the greater desire of Venus the urine thinne reddish but almost no subsidence or dregs in the bottome of it But for the most part this retention and stopping of the Termes The corruption of the humours doth happen by the corruption and fault of some humour as of Phlegme Choler and Melancholy but not of blood at all because they are onely retained and stopped through the other humours bearing sway in the blood Moreover common signes by which it is
ingendered any children because in these the abundance of divers humours retained and stopped hath bred some worse thing and hath given greater occasion of disturbing the temperate health of the body CHAP. II. Of the cure and remedy of sterilitie and barrennesse proceeding from Phlegme THe causes and signes of the difficulty and hardnesse of conceiving in women in men of causing women to be conceived and in them both of begetting being already knowne it followeth now to speake of the cure of them And first of all truely if that difficulty shall be bred and caused of moist and cold Phlegme before all things be used that superfluous matter shall be prepared and digested with this syrup following Take of the roots of Madder the greater two ounces of Ruscus or Butchers-broome Sperage Galangale of each one dram Mugwoort Savine wild Penniroyall Balm Balsamint or Costmary Mints Harts-tong Venus-haire Gallitricum or Clary Sambucus or common Elder Origanum Calamentum montanum Penniroyall of the roots of Valerian of each halfe a handfull of the seed of Seselie drams six Anise Carui or Caruway-seeds of the seed of Fennell Ameos Spikenard of each two drams Xylobalsamum Carpobalsamum of each one dram Liquorice Raisins of each one ounce Rosemary-flowers Staechados Arabica of each halfe an ounce scrapings of Ivory Calamus aromaticus Red-sanders of each halfe a dram Let all these things be beaten together and make a decoction of them with running water as much as sufficeth and with three drammes of Vinegar and three pound of Sugar let them be strained to one halfe of it and adde to the straining Cinamome one dram Muske foure graines The party must drinke foure ounces every day in the morning of this Aromaticall syrup very warme Or you may make this syrup more thin with water of Elder Pimpinel and Mugwoort taking one ounce of each of them and so to drinke three ounces in the morning very warme Or you may prepare another syrup in this manner take Mugwoort Savine Mints Origanum Calamint Hyssop Pimpinel Germander Maiden-haire flowers of the common Elder Staechados of each one handfull Anise Fenel Ameos Carui the seeds of Dill Sesely of each halfe an ounce of the roote of Sperage Butchers-broome the greater Madder of each halfe a pound of red Cicers a little quantity termed of the Physicians a Pugill Spica celtica Spica nardi Galangall Squinantum Calamus aromaticus of each two drammes mixe them and make a decoction of them with running-water with Hony and Sugar of each one pound and a halfe and let it be made aromaticall and sweete to the sense of smelling with Cinamome and Muske as is declared before Three draughts of this syrup to be taken every day in the morning very warme may be prepared in this manner Take Oxymel squiliticum syrup de radicibus acetosi syrup of Mugwoort of each one ounce and a halfe of the waters of Pimpinel Fenel Mugwoort of each three ounces Let three draughts be made of this mixture Afterward the matter being sufficiently prepared and digested by these syrups to be purged out of the body If the woman shall be of a strong Nature or Complexion which is affected with this difficulty of conceiving she may also take these pills Take Pilulae faetidae two scruples Species Diacastoreum one scruple Diagridium sixe graines make of them eleven Pills with syrup of Mugwoort or Hony But if shee cannot brooke the use of Pills let her use this potion in steed of the Pills Take Diacassia halfe an ounce Electuarie of Diaphaenicon Electuarium Indum of each two drams syrup de radicibus made without Vinegar temper them with two ounces of Mugwoort or Bawme water and make a draught of them or else take of the Electuary Diaphaenicon Electuarium Indum Diacassia of each one dram of the best Agarick two drams Ginger one scruple Sal gemma sixe graines Let all things be infused in the whey of Goats milk and hony of Roses one ounce and when they have been infused twelve houres let them be strained and make a drinke of them being mixed with the aforesaid Electuaries But if a dry Electuary shall better please the party let three dry morsells be made up in this manner Take Electuarie Diaphaenicon Electu Indum Diacassia of each two drams white Sugar so much as sufficeth and make three morsells gilded If this shall not be so well liked you may make this Confection in little roundells or Trocoisks take red Roses Cinamome Ginger of each one dram Sanders white and red of each halfe a dram Hermodactyli Esula of each one dram and a halfe Diagridium Turbit of each two drams Mastick one scruple white Sugar halfe a pound Dissolve all these things with the juyce or water of Mugwoort and after they have beene infused in it some houres let them be strained and let a confection be made in little rundells or Trochiskes Let the Dosis or quantity to be taken bee halfe an ounce or five drams Or if you please you shall take of the powders and shall mingle them with white Sugar in equall weight and shall make a mixture of them properly named Tragaea of which you shall give one dram and a halfe in broth of Cicers very warme Some doe give the leaves of Sena beaten to powder two drams and a halfe after this manner But these purging medicines are to be tempered by the counsell of skilfull Physitians according to the qualities of those things for which they are given Now such kind of matter being sufficiently purged the next thing shall be that the use of bathes doe follow and so often as the woman shall come out of them let her take one dram of common Triackle or Mithridate in water of Mugwoort Or if it like you better let her take a little of this confection following Take of the Species or kindes of Triphera magna without Opium Diapliris Diambra Diamuscus Diasatyrion of each halfe a dram scraping of Ivory seed of the herbe of Mercury of each two scruples the Runnet of a Hare and Matrix of it of each halfe a dram Sisely halfe a scruple white Sugar halfe a pound Let them be dissolved with Bawme-water and let there be added to them being orderly boiled Conserve of the rinds of the Citron one ounce and conserve of Rosemary-flowers halfe an ounce Let there be a confection made somewhat thicke But let her chiefest care be while shee doth use bathes that she use a certaine convenient diet and moderate feeding which alwaies must be prescribed and appointed of a skilfull Physitian But if the woman cannot have such naturall bathes a bathe may be prepared for her of these herbes following sodden in water Take Mugwoort Betony Chamaepitis Germander Celandine Clary Bay-leaves Mallowes Feverfew Bawme wilde Penniroyall Origanum Ozimus Penniroyall Rose-mary Savine Melilote St. Iohns-worth Hissop Cammomel of each one handfull Carui Cummin Siler montanum Anise Dill of each three ounces Linseed Fenugrec of each three ounces roots of Cumfrey
else take of the Waters of Buglosse Pimpinell Fumitary Mugwoort Harts-tong of each three ounces Vinegar one ounce white Sugar foure ounces When these are made odoriferous with Cinamome let them be made a Iuleb Let the Dose or quantity at a time be foure ounces Or otherwise Take Calaminth Origanum Staechados Liver-woort Borrage-flowers Mugwoort Buglosse Germander of each halfe a handfull Harts-tong halfe a handfull the barks of the Broome and Ash-tree of each halfe a handfull Raisins one ounce Mixe them and let a decoction be made with one ounce of Epithymie Sugar one pound clarified Hony halfe a pound Vinegar two ounces Let this decoction be spiced with Cinamome let the quantity of an ounce and a halfe be taken with the aforesaid waters The matter being prepared and made solutive for purgation it followeth that it be purged and expelled with medicine Take Cassia newly extracted Manna of each halfe an ounce Let them be dissolved in this decoction following Take Venus-haire flowers of Buglosse Borrage Violets Germander Harts-tong of each halfe a handfull Raisins halfe an ounce Mixe them and make a decoction in water to which adde Cinamome a dram Cassia extracted Manna confection of Hamech of each two drams syrup of Violets one ounce Let all things be tempered together and let a purging medicine be made of them let the quantity of an ounce and a halfe be taken at a time Or else take of the confection of Hamech three drams and a halfe Sugar a sufficient quantity and let a gilded morsell be made devided into three parts Also the pills named Pilulae Lazuli may be used a dram taken at a time The superfluous matter expelled and voyded the next thing to be performed is to use convenient and fit bathes for this purpose which shall be prepared in this manner Take Camomel Melilot Germander Chamaepithys Hyssop Bay-leaves Lavander of each two handfulls Mugwoort foure handfulls Marish-Mallowes with the rootes five handfulls Line-seed Fenegrec of each one pound roots of Valerian halfe a pound Let them all be cut in pieces and being inclosed in a bagge let them boile in bathe let the woman sit afterward But after the Bathe let her eate every day morning and evening a certaine little portion of this confection following Take of the Species of precious Stones two drams seed of Mercury scrapings of Ivorie of each two drams the Pissle of a Bull the Runnet of a Hare with the Matrix of each two scruples white Sugar halfe a pound Dissolve them with water of Buglosse and put to it conserves of Buglosse halfe an ounce of Borrage three drams Cinamome one dram Let those things be powdred which are to be powdred and let the confection be made in Morsells But if the use of the bathe prescribed shall not be convenient yet Fomentations may be made of the aforesaid recited Simples this Electuary going before being alwaies used Further after the bathe or fomentations it shall not be unprofitable to use these Pessaries also in the night and at any other convenient time Take Costus powdered and with oile of Roses and Silke make a Pessary Or with Fenegrec and the Grease of a Ducke or with Sperage-seedes and fat of a Goose Or with oile of Violets Muske and the aforesaid seeds CHAP. VI. Of the Cure and Remedy of sterility proceeding of over-much heate drinesse moisture and coldnesse AMong other impediments and hinderances of conceiving and ingendring immoderate siccity and drinesse of the Matrix is not the least cause And that cause being found out the use of all things is to be directed to a moist temperature yet so as the body be not weakened by these things but strengthened Therefore it shall be very profitable to use these little Cakes often Take white Sugar one pound and a halfe Amylum three ounces Let the Sugar be dissolved with Rose-water and the Amylum mingled with it let a decoction be made with three ounces of sweet Almonds and a little oile of sweete Almonds and little Morsells It is also exceeding profitable to drinke Goats-milke newly milked with Hony or Sugar mixed with it Likewise this bathe is wonderfull convenient Take Heads of Weathers and let them be sodden in a Kettle full of water so long till the flesh be loosed and part quite from the bones which being done Take moreover the leaves of Vine named Vitis Muscatella of the Willow tree Violet-leaves Camomel Melilot of each two handfuls Marish Mallowes with the roots six handfuls Fenegrec Line-seed of each two pound roots of Valerian one pound and a halfe let all things be mingled together and let a bathe be made of them being sufficiently boiled And it may be prepared so that either the woman may sit in it or make Fomentations of it But after the bathe or Fomentations she may take a little morsell of this confection the next houres after meate Take of the Species of Diarhodon Abbatis two drams seede of Mercury scrapings of Ivorie of each two scruples the Matrix of a Hare two drams Cotton-seed Tragacantha Gumme Arabicke of each halfe a dram white Sugar halfe a pound dissolved in water of Buglosse conserve of Buglosse Borrage of each one ounce mixe them and let a gilded confection be made But especially it shall be needfull to moisten the Matrix which shall partly be done by Fomentations used underneath in a chaire inclosed and covered round about and partly by Pessaries being thus prepared Take Marrow of the leg of a Cow Grease of a Henne of each halfe an ounce Styrax liquida two drams Also foure ounces of oile of sweete Almonds may be added to them and let Pessaries be made with cleane wooll But if conception be hindered through intemperate hear that either the body is of an over-hot complexion or the secret parts are molested with intemperate heat First of all this heat shall be diminished by a convenient launcing and opening of the veines the Ankle-veines in the left foot and the Liver-veines in the right foot Afterward purgations must be used so much as reason shall require but before them this Potion shall be taken for a preparative of the hot humours Take herbes of Plantane the greater Endive Venus-haire Polipodie Fumirary of each halfe a handfull red Roses Violet-flowers Buglosse Water-Lillies Borrage of each a little quantity named a Pugil Raisins halfe an ounce Let all of them mixed together be boiled in running-water let one halfe be consumed and wasted let them be strained and to the straining let there be added a sufficient quantity of white Sugar and let it be made aromaticall with Cinamome scrapings of Ivory red Corall prepared red Sanders of each halfe a dram Take three ounces of the aforesaid decoction and let them be tempered with two scruples of Choyse Rhubarb powdred with syrup of Epithymie halfe an ounce Cassia newly drawne one dram and a halfe or Manna one dram Or otherwise Take of the Electuary de Succo Rosarum three drams Cassia newly extracted Diasena
he be distinctly and propound 〈◊〉 formed yet hee hath not attained to his just perfection But if he bee borne the seventh month Why the Infant borne the seventh month may live hee shall live most easily because hee is perfect enough then But that they which are borne in the eight moneth are most seldome able to live when some borne in the seventh moneth doe for the most part remaine alive doth come to passe not without good reason For in the seventh moneth the Infant is alwaies moved to the birth at which time if he shall be of that force and strength he commeth forth to the birth If he be not hee remaineth in the wombe untill hee shall be able and strong enough that is to say the other two moneths If after that motion of the seventh moneth hee proceed not to birth he removeth himselfe from thence into another place of the womb is so debilitated effeeblished by that moving The Infant borne the eight moneth cannot live that if he come forth to birth the eight moneth following hee cannot live at all because of that motion For neither is the Infant weakned with this moving alone but with a double motion even unto death First Two deadly motions of Infants when he is borne the eight moneth after his moving in the seventh as we said of late Next because in respect of the Planets every seventh moneth bringeth forth a motion hurtfull and dangerous to any Feature The Sun I say at that time remaining in an opposite Signe and because the eight moneth is proper to Saturne an enemy of all things which receive life Also we must know The difference of sex and the cause thereof that male-children are conceived in the right side of the Matrix by plentifull seed issuing out of the right testicle or stone of the man but female-children in the left side by the seed of the left testicle For the right side because of the Liver is hotter but the left side is colder But principally the more copious and plentifull heat is a cause of ingendring and procreating of male-children The similitude of forme with the parents is from the power of the seed That also children doe sometimes answer and agree to their parents in likenesse of forme that thing is caused by the vertue and power of the seed that the Infant is most like to him or her in forme and shape whose seede doth most exceed and excell in power and vertue But in this case Motion of the starres supposed a cause the motion of the Starres is supposed to prevaile some thing that when the seed is conceived under good aspects of the Planets this causeth an excellent shape but when it is conceived under evill aspects in like case it procureth an ugly shape And so much hitherto CHAP. VI. Of certaine Precepts very necessary for women conceived with childe even to the houre of the birth by the reason of divers chances HEreafter we will give some wholesome and necessary Precepts to women conceived with childe by which being instructed they may certainly know how they may behave and use themselves from their conception even to the birth and deliverance that no danger may happen to them or they cause a hard and painfull birth to themselves by the neglect of the Precepts Before all things 1. To be merry and cheerefull not pined with care let them be of a merry heart let them not be wasted and pined with mourning and cares let them give their endevour to moderat joyes and sports For these things doe both exhilarate and cheare up the Infant and stirre up all the faculties of the Feature and doe strengthen and comfort him in his parts and members as is manifest in the third Chapter Further 2. let them abstaine and forbeare from all violent motion and hard painfull labours To abstaine from violent motion and painfull labour c. and let them use moderate exercise let them not leape or rise up suddenly let them not runne also neither dance nor ride neither let them lace or gird in themselves hard or straight or lift up any heavie burden with their hands Sleepe especially is convenient 3. To take heed of sharpe and cold winds great heat c. Againe let them take heed of cold and sharp winds great heat anger perturbations of the minde feares and terrours immoderate Venus and all intemperance of eating and drinking Let the diet and food of women with child 4. To be moderate in diet be frugall and moderate let them abstaine from crude raw and grosse meates to wit Lentills Beanes Milium Beefe salt and fryed fruites milke cheese and such like But let them use Chickins Egs divers sorts of Pottages Birds Mutton and Veale It will be good sometime to use Cinamome and Nutmeg with Sugar Let reasonable white Wide serve for their drinke 5. Not to let blood the first foure months nor to use boxing-glasses The first foure moneths from the conception by the counsell of Hippocrates let them not open any veine let them also abstaine from boxing glasses or boxing let them take no Pills or purge without the counsell of an expert and skilfull Physician for that time the Ligaments and binders of the Feature are as yet tender and weake and therefore the Feature is easily destroyed and nourishment is substracted and drawne from him But if it shall happen that they be bound and cannot got orderly to stoole 6. To make the body soluble being bound let them take Spinage seasoned with store of Butter also Lettuce made tender with Water with Salt Wine and Vinegar But if those things will not relaxe and unloose the belly let them use Suppositors confected and made of Hony and the yolke of an Egge or with Venice-soape But if the constipation and binding shall be so great that this remedy will not profit let them by the advice of a skilfull Physician use a potion of the decoction of the leaves of Sena together with Cassia newly extracted and drawne which the Physician shall minister more or lesse according to the quality of the constipation or costivenesse And if they shall conceive with grievous Symptomes and accidents 7. If after conception there happen swooning and fainting what to doe and after the conception shall suffer swoning and fainting continually let them drinke sorrell-Sorrell-water and Rose-water warmed tempered with Cinamon and little Rundells or Cakes named Manus Christi or Diamargariton Or the water of Roses and Buglosse being tempered with a litte Cinamon Cloves and Saffron beaten to powder shall be laid upon the brest in a cloth once or twice doubled together dipped and steeped in that water If they thinke they shall be delivered before their time through some accident what to doe But if they thinke they shall be delivered before the time as in the seventh moneth or some other immature and unseasonable time and shall already
swellings and tumors In the Hydropsie the legs do swel but in the false conception Mola they waxe lesse and feeble In the disease named a Tympany the belly is hard sounding like a tabor or drum but in the conception Mola it is not so And by this meanes the differences of these like tumors may be observed noted and understood how hardly they may be cured CHAP. II. Of the cure of the false conception Mola and other false tumours and swellings of the wombe IN the cure of the false conception Mola The dyet inclining to heat and moisture such a Diet before all things is to bee appointed as may incline to heate and moisture Also where there shal be need of blood letting let the veine of the anckle be opened named Saphena The veyne of the ancle to be opened thereby the matter shall be purged and voyded in that manner as you shall see delivered in the Retention and stopping of the Termes in the sequel of the discourse hereafter following These things going before those things which purge and cure inwardly A Bathe also outward remedies may be used First of al we must use a Bath in which she which is conceived with the false conception Mola must sit every day morning and evening her stomach being empty the water reaching up so high as her navell And the bathe shall be prepared in this manner Take of Marish Mallowes with the roots sixe handfuls of other Mallowes Branca Vrsina or beares foot or if it bee not to bee had Violet leaves Pellitory of the wall Camomile Melilot of of each two handfuls Fenegreke Lin-seed of each two pound Those things being beaten to powder which are to be powdred let them be put in a bag and let them boyle in the water in which the sicke woman shall sit Also it will be very profitable to lay that bagge very hot upon the secret parts and the loynes An Vnguent After this bathe let her bee cherrished with warme clothes and lying downe in her bed let her be annointed with this unguent about the secret parts and loynes Take of the oyle of sweet almonds one ounce and an halfe of oyle of Lillies Hens-grease Muscilage of Lin-seed Fenegreke of each halfe an ounce White waxe so much as sufficeth temper them together An Electuary and make an oyntment Also let her use this Electuary following the quantity of a Filbert nut every day morning and evening Take of Cinamome two drams the rind or outside of Aristolochia longa Cassia Fistulae or in stead thereof let the quantity of the Cinamome be augmented of each one Dram Assarra Baccha Lacca seed of Rue the fruite of wilde Savine Saffron of each halfe an ounce Sugar halfe a pound Let the Sugar bee dissolved in the iuyce or water of Rosemary let the confection be made in morsels Also this Electuary may bee given her another way that is to say in broth decocted with old wine the yolkes of two egges and Sugar a reasonable quantity of this Electuary being put into it Also these Pilles following are wonderfull forcible of which let her take halfe a dram Pilles or a whole Dram. Take Nigella Romana Aristolochia rotunda Dictamum Creticum seed of Garden-cresses the fruit of wilde Savine Serapinum seede of Rue Amoniacum Thymiama Madder of the dyers Myrrhe Castoreum of each one dram make Pilles of them with the iuyce of the wilde Reddisk and Hony so much as sufficeth let her take the waight of one or two drams These things being done Suppositories suppositories also are to be conveyed into the Matrix which may driue forth the false conception Mola and remove it from the inward receptacle and cave of the Matrix into the outward part take Asphaltum Borace Castoreum great Centaurie Ditany Elleborus albus Galbanum Gentian Opoponax Savine Serapinum Scamonie of each halfe a dram Saffron one scruple temper and incorporate them with the iuyce of a Leek and make a suppository Sometime shee may use trochiskes of Myrrhe of which wee have spoken in the third chapter of the third booke for they both drive forth the false conception Mola and cause an easie passage But in tumours or swellings How tumours proceeding from a Tympany and Hydropsie are to be cured which happen of inclosed aire reteined humours the diet is so to be prescribed and ordered that it incline wholly to heate and drinesse Purgations also Phlebotomies or bloud-lettings may bee used according to the abundance of the qualities Which things being performed in the first place a bathe or Fomentation shall be prepared in the forme before prescribed A Bathe these things following being added unto it besides take Wilde Penny-royall Rue Penny-royall Bay-leaves drie Wormewood Anise Fennel Cumine of each an equall portion More things also like unto these of the same Nature may bee taken for mitigation and repressing tumours And Part also of the Herbes now spoken of shall bee put into a bag and applyed to her loynes while shee sitteth in the bathe After the bathe A Confection let her take of this confection the bignesse of a Filbert-nut in old white wine in which Alsara Bacca is before infused Which confection is made thus Take of the Species or kindes of Diacurcuma Diacyminum of each three Drammes white Sugar halfe a pounde let the Sugar be dissolved in the water of Herbe-grace and make a confection in little cakes or Morsels Or if you please you may give her this Potion warme A Potion after her bathing made in this manner Take twenty Peach-kernels the skinne newly pulled off to which being pounded with the yolkes of two egges and mixed together you shall adde the powder following Take Galanga Cinamome Long-peper Ginger Cloves Saffron Nutmeg of each halfe a Dram make a powder of them Let a Decoction be made of all these with the best wine Let them bee strayned and when it is strayned put sugar to it and make a very cleare potion of it Or which liketh us better let the matter of the simples still remaine in the Decoction and let them be taken altogether in the warme drinke The Species also of the confection named Hiera Picra doth much availe in this case taken in some drinke or Pilles But when the Tumour or swelling shall bee caused by the retention of divers humours then the matter shall bee purged out and voided by such remedies as wee have beene accustomed to use in the stopping of the Termes and to provoke urine such as this is Take the seeds of Parsley aniseed Fennel Stone parsley Cardamomus and the leaves of Rue Let all of them being beaten to powder with equall waight be drunke with sweet wine Also in this case the confection of Diagalanga is approved to bee good and the Electuary de Baccis lauri also the oyle of Rue of Henbane and of White Lillies A Plaster and the Trochiskes of Agaricke A plaster also of this sort may
and Vallesian bathes with the waters of Embs so also sterility and difficulty of ingendring have very great help and succour by them whereby they are caused and increased as by an unconvenient diet by the permutation and change of accustomed aire by drinking of the water of Ice and by bathes Further barrennesse may be judged to proceede from the disposition and quality of the generative members For it commeth to passe that not a few infirmities and grievances doe happen to them by reason of which man and wife are not onely made impotent and barren but are unfit to dwell together husbands with their wives and wives with their husbands In which place the strictnesse and narrownesse of the mouth of the Matrix doth very much disprofit and annoy by which it falleth out that not only the Termes being stopped doe let and hinder generation but moreover also doe breed and bring forth very many other evills Againe when the secrets themselves are too wide or too strait and therefore are not convenient neither for conception nor generation Retention and staying of the Termes causeth the same thing which doth much distemper and molest the Matrix and suffocateth and choketh the seede cast forth into the wombe through abundance of evill humours Among women also they which are over man-like are not so apt for generation and among men those which are more effeminate and woman-like than is requisite For these women almost universally doe want the issuing forth of the Termes at their due seasons and also the nourishing humours And such men being intemperatly cold and moist cannot send forth seed possessed with a generative vertue Hitherto pertaineth both the weake and feeble attractive power of the Matrix and also the sudden alteration of the same For the attractive and expulsive vertue of the Matrix either too strong or weake doe equally cause the difficulty of ingendering Likewise the maladies of the Matrix tumours inflammations ulcers Apostemes the mouths of the veines named Acetabula being broken the Termes issuing forth immoderately or stopped and such like things doe afford and minister great occasion to the same difficulty Many also say the veines placed behinde the eares to wit which give way to the spirits which the braine communicateth and imparteth to the seed being cut asunder to be a cause to the same difficulty and debility of ingendering as Hippocrates admonisheth They affirme that the incision of the bladder doth bring the same which of it selfe it is deadly There are also many things which being taken doe properly procure sterility and barrennesse as Camphire Hemlocke and other herbes and roots like unto these and all things which offend and hurt the braine kidnies and testicles being the principall members of generations Hitherto also belongeth many other things Externall causes as over much repletion emptinesse immoderate exercises intemperate heat deadly cold Likewise Theophrastus doth attribute a certaine peculiar force to some waters to cause sterility For the most part diversity of complexions hath the superiority among the causes when man and wife doe want the due temperature of the qualities But where they shall be mixed yea but little they shall be able to ingender more easily Old age also of it selfe in men and women doth hinder generation through the defect of humours although it be found by experience as yet that many men being threescore and ten or foure-score yeeres of age have begotten children Lastly there is also a great cause of sterility which happeneth by the witchcraft of Witches Let it suffice to have spoken these things concerning the evident and knowne causes of barrennesse Signes of barrennesse Moreover there are many signes whereby the difficulty of conceiving or begetting children may be noted and observed The first are to be taken from the constitution and habit of the privie members as if they be diseased with any corruption or defect or be too large or too strait and narrow they are knowne not to be apt and fit for generation The seed also is unfit if it be too hot or too cold which thing they say may not onely be observed by the colour of the urine but also of the substance of the same Also many judge of sterility and fruitfulnesse by the habite and colour of the body that the women which are of a pale colour are supposed to be also more moist than others If they be more moist they are not so apt to retaine and cheerish the seed This experiment following is put in practice of some When they goe about to make a triall concerning the unfruitfulnesse or fertility of any one they poure the urine of the party on Barley If this sprout out within tenne daies they acknowledge it for a signe of fruitfulnesse if it doe not they acknowledge it for a certaine argument of sterility and barrennesse But others pouring the urine upon Huskes or Bran if they see wormes to be bred and ingendered in it doe observe a signe of barrennesse from that Hippocrates doth counsell us to search out this thing by fumes made underneath so that if a fume being used underneath be perceived above by smelling the woman being close covered about the lower parts then hee saith it may be thought to be a signe of fruitfulnesse because the secret members are not strict and narrow If it be not perceived by smelling at the nostrills he saith it is a very certaine note and signe of the strictnesse and narrownesse of the Matrix and so consequently of barrennesse Some would have the same thing to be found out by annoynting the corners of the eyes with liquid oyntments so that if the oyntments of some kindes of colours being laid upon the corners of the eyes doe not change the colour of the spittle then it should be a signe of constipation and stopping and therefore of barrennesse also because the eyes are members communicating with the seede because they quickely sinke downe and waxe hollow when it is immoderatly sent forth and dispersed Some old women likewise have their signes by which they observe whether the greater sterility or unfruitfulnesse be in the husband or in his wife for they sprinkle two hand fulls of Sage laid severally by themselves with urine one of them with the urine of the man and the other with the urine of the woman and they say that the handfull which shall wither first is a testimony of barrennesse of the party with whose urine it was sprinkled and watered They receive the same experiments also by Beanes and Barley that whose part doth sprout first in him or her they thinke there is most fertility and fruitfulnesse Further wee must consider here also that fruitfull women and such as are apt to ingender children doe sooner seeme to be old in the outward habite of body than those which are barren and fruitlesse also they waxe leane sooner and become weake notwithstanding they live more healthfull in their old age than they which never
Waxe and Hens grease so much as is sufficient and make an ointment of them Let such a water be made for the same purpose A Water Take Anâ—s figges five ounces Indian-nuts the Fishes named Scinci brought from beyond the Seas the taile of the Fish named Lacertus sweet Almonds Pine-apple-kernells Rocket-seed of each one ounce Vrtica the roots of both the kindes of Satyrion Hermodactili Peper long and blacke of each two ounces Muske one scruple the best white Wine wine sublimated of each one equall Measure Let them all be mixed and infused and haxing beene set out to the Sune fouretene daies let them be distilled If you will use this water take halfe an ounce with one ounce of the Electuary Diassatyrion and drinke them mixed together morning and evening very hot Also these Pills are approved taken in the evening Take of the seede of Rocket Radish stone-Parsley Pills Vrtica Satyrion of each one dram stones of a Fox pissle of a Bull of each two drams the taile of the Fishes named Scinci and the Fishe Lacertus of each one dram braines of Cocke Sparrowes Drakes Cocks Pigeons of each halfe an ounce Peper Galangal long-peper of each a dram and a halfe roots of both kinds of Satyrion halfe an ounce Euphorbium Castoreum of each one scruple Let all be beaten to powder let them be incorporated with Hony and let Pillls be made of them Take the quantity of two or one dram Another Electuary for the same purpose to be taken morning evening Another Electuary the quantity of a Chesse-nut shall be prepared in this manner Take Satyrion-rootes halfe a pound Dates foure ounces Mints Ginger candi'd or green-Ginger Iujubae of each three drams Let all things be mingled together and sodden in Sheeps-milke and pounded in a Morter as is accustomed which being done afterward take Cock-stones stones of a Weather or of a Bull or of a Goat Let those things be decocted in Sheeps-milk with a little fresh Butter and the yolkes of two Egges let them be dried in a Pipkin on the fire orderly After which things take clarified Hony two pound and a halfe of the Sugar named Tabarzeth as much as sufficeth Let all these things be decocted in due order and these powders following be mingled with them being boiled take the Pissle of a Bull of a Goat Rocket-seed of each one dram and a halfe Galangal Zedoaria of each one ounce Cinamome Ginger long-peper seed of the Ash-tree of each six drams seed of Mercury seed of Mallowes of each halfe an ounce the pith of the Indian Nut Pine-apple-kernells cleansed sweet Almonds of each one dram Let all these things be brought to a powder and let them be mixed to the decoction before prescribed and let an Electuary be made of them And now also let these things be sufficient to have beene spoken concerning medicines to be received inwardly for the cure of barrennesse sterility CHAP. VIII Of the Suffocation and choking of the Matrix and of the causes and cure of the same IT remaineth also to speak a few things hereafter concerning the most especiall diseases of the Matrix which have greatest force to procure and cause sterility and also to hinder conception and generation such as are principally the Suffocation and Precipitation or falling downe of the Matrix the immoderate issuing of the Termes and the stopping of the same But we will speake first of the first What the suffocation of the Matrix is Wee say that the Suffocation of the Matrix is not naturall but that it is a forced and constrained ascending and rising up of the Matrix or Mother towards Diaphragma or the Midriffe whereby it commeth to passe that the passages of the aire are stopped the Lungs and Arteries of the heart being pressed and thrust together and the Lungs is prohibited and barred from amplifying and inlarging it selfe as it should which passion proceedeth from windy and divers vapors arising from corrupt matter And by this sicknesse the breathing is hindred the braine is molested the Heart is restrained of his free liberty the Lungs is crowded together the senses and motions doe cease the Spirits are intercepted the members of the body doe deny to doe their office whereby it falleth out that faintings of the faculties of life doe happen sudden swoonings doe overwhelme the diseased and sometime doe deprive them of life the Heart being suffocated for which effect it is supposed that it is therefore called in Latine Suffocatio The Causes We cannot say that there are any other causes of this Malady but the stopping of the Termes contrary to the course of Nature or corrupted seede or else other depraved and evill humours inclosed in the Matrix being dissolved into winds vapors and so forcing the Matrix to be heaved and lifted upward The signes of this disease are two-fold The Signes one of the sickenesse present by the fit which is present the other of the disease to come taken from the tokens of the fit to come But the tokens of the present sickenesse taken by the Present fit are these signes The women doe hardly fetch their breath Signes of the present fit the Pulse of the Arteries is seldome their hands are continually laid upon their belly above the Navell for to depresse and keepe downe the Matrix rising upward the habite and forme of the body is bending downward the colour is pale when you speake they make no answer the understanding is quicke and lively without any voyce at all there is no motion of the body and indeed nothing else but a similitude of present death But whether life doth remaine still in the body or not in this extreme passion of the present fit we may finde out by these experiments and trialls Let feathers or cleane wooll be put to the mouth of her which is afflicted with this grievous fit the which if they be blowne away or at least be moved it shall be certaine that there is life remaining in the body Moreover it shall be a more certaine thing to place a glasse full of water upon her breast for life remaining as yet must needs thrust and extend it selfe out and so moving of the water must follow Or else a cleane and smooth looking-glasse is to be put to her mouth and nostrills and if life be not departed you shall see the glasse stained by the hot breath Which experiment seemeth to be most probable of all Some doe declare that a certaine woman was afflicted with this fit three whole daies and nights and at last to have returned to her selfe being supposed to have beene dead Wee have seene the same thing to have happened in some women for one naturall day that is foure and twenty houres together through suffocation of the Matrix Signes of a future fit But these signes goe before a fit which shall follow that is to say paine of the head dimnesse of the eyes a continuall
panting of the heart shortnesse of breath distemperature of reason because of vapours mixed with the spirits a debility and weakenesse of all the members cold sweates continuall paine in the wombe And indeed evill humours retained and increased in the wombe doe cause and breed all these things partly neere unto it partly removed farther from it which distemper and molest the braine and other members of the body by stopping and intercepting naturall heat proceeding from the heart untill they suffocate and destroy all the senses at once and also the strength and forces of the body But in the cure of the present fit of this sicknesse first you shall mingle Salt with Vinegar The cure of the present fit in the suffocation of the Matrix and shall rub the uttermost parts of the members of the body I meane the soles of the feete and palmes of the hands and pulses of the armes afterward binders being tied neere unto the secrets the hips and hammes you shall apply cupping-glasses neere unto the place without Scarification Afterward you shall apply to her nostrills all things which being burnt have a strong and stinking savor as Castoreum Assa Foetida Feathers Haire Leather Horne Hooses of Horses or Kine or such like things For these things stirre up and move the Animal spirit being as it were asleepe which by and by inforced with such a stinking favour making haste to come to the braine by the nerves and instruments for the purpose doth stirre up the motive facultie in the same Moreover this motion by the great force of this strong savour commeth to the heart with the Animal Spirit where both of them together doe repaire vitall spirit in the same being oppressed and as it were laid asleepe At last all of them joyned together doe oppose themselves against the Matrix rising up towards the Midriffe and stir up the expulsive force of it so that the corrupt humours being expelled which are in it the Matrix may fall downe and give more roome and space unto the superiour vitall Organs or Instruments In this case the dung of a Horse fed with Oates boiled in the best Wine drunke very hot is very much approved Also halfe a dram of the confection Diacastoreum taken in broth made of a Hen. An Vnguent Likewise such an Vnguent may be prepared wherewith her secrets may be annoynted inwardly which suffereth this swooning Take Muske one scruple Gallia Muscata one dram Oile of Lillies two ounces Temper them and make an Vnguent Suffumigations also being thus prepared Suffumigations from which a fume may ascend up to the nostrills will profit in this case Take Castoreum Galbanum dissolved in Vinegar of each halfe an ounce Brimstone one ounce Assa Foetida one dram If you prepare these Fumes or Trochiskes you shall confect them with Oile of Castoreum But if you would use them with Vinegar you shall put pure and cleane wooll into her nostrills dipped in Vinegar in which these powders are dissolved or you shall apply it outwardly to them But if this deadly malady shall proceed from the Termes being retained in the Matrix or from corrupt seede it may be cured in the same manner as wee will declare in the Chapters following But if the cause of this disease shall come from cold it will be the wisest course to use hot bathes when due purgation hath beene performed such as are the bathes in that part of Germany which is named Helvetia A certaine diet and order of bathing being prescribed and set downe of a skilfull Physician because that water doth consist of much Brimstone and some Allome it sooner resolveth dispelleth and driveth away cold heateth the Matrix and comforteth all other Members and parts of the body of a woman CHAP. IX Of the Precipitation or falling downe of the Matrix of the causes and cure of the same THe Precipitation of the Matrix is the departure and digression of the Matrix from her naturall place into some other place or the comming forth and outward appearing of it through the privities This hapneth either by a fall blow or some other vehement hurt or through wind inclosed in the Matrix or corrupt humours or by the intemperate moistnesse putrefying the ligaments and binders of the same or else through difficulty and painfulnesse of Aborcement or the birth and negligence of Midwives or by violent extraction and pulling forth of the Secundine whereby it falleth out that the ligaments and stay-bands of it are broken and the Matrix is throwne downe suddenly to issue forth This removing of the Matrix is caused in a diverse manner that is to say toward the right or left side or lower and into the fore-part and hinder part of the body But although the causes of these diseases may easily be judged and discerned by these things going before yet they may as yet be divided into outward and inward Outward causes are Outward Causes falling blowes or strokes some hurt lifting of some thing which is of great waight swift running leaping dauncing unseasonable riding all immoderate exercise and such things as are like unto them Also long sitting upon the cold earth or cold pavement long-tarrying in cold water over-much and often drinking of cold water Also the violent breaking forth of the child the hard and painfull birth the rashnesse of the Midwives the violent extraction of the Secundine often coughing great crying out vehement sneesing The disease Tenasmus binding the body and all these things do minister occasions to the Matrix to fall downe Inward Causes The inward causes are long stopping of the Flowers with whose weight the Matrix being pressed downward doth suddenly descend and fall downe the ligaments and binders thereof being oftentimes broken in sunder Also humours inclosed in the same wind enforcing it and removing it from her place Likewise over-much humidity and moisture putrefying and corrupting the ligaments or tying-bands and by that infection enforcing it to issue forth The signes of this disease are not unlike to the causes Signes The party will easily rehearse the signes of the outward causes Whosoever is grieved with this disease But the inward signes are to be considered according unto the removing of the Matrix For if it bend toward Diaphragma or the Midriffe without any strangling or choking wee may perceive that the woman doth feele paines and heaving above the Navell to feele a round lumpe like a Globe in her belly to fetch her breath and wind very short and quicke as though her bowells were swiftly crushed together with the hand a dimnesse of the eyes paine of the head loathing of meat and often belchings going before and accompanying it sometimes also a sound of the belly being heard especially when as the removing from her place shall arise from wind inclosed in the same But if it shall fall downe to the lower parts then many paines shall be about the kidnies loynes and secret members and a round
be prepared for her drinke Compound Medicines But because the ancient Physicians have many times beene accustomed to use compound medicines not without praise in restraining and stopping this unnaturall Flux wee will hereafter also bring forth some of them An Electuary First of all you shall prepare an Electuary of which you shall give halfe a dram every day in the morning when the stomacke is empty to the woman which is grieved with this Flux dissolved in red Wine wherein Steele hath been quench'd Take roots of Comfrey Plantane as much as sufficeth Let them being boiled well be brayed in a Mortar and let them be straind a thorow strainer made of horse-haires Take of the Paste of Comfrey two drams of the roots of Plantane one dram and a halfe Sugar one pound dissolve the Sugar in raine-water or water wherin Iron red-hot hath been quenched or temper them together in Plantan-water in which Lapis Haematites hath beene dissolved untill it be red and boile all being mixed together with a little and easie fire and when they are are boiled and cooled a little put to them these simples following Take Sanguis Draconis Succus Acaciae seed of Sumach Terra Sigillata Amber Harts-horne burned and washed of each one dram Pearles prepared foure scruples red Corall prepared one dram and a halfe Spodium Lapis Haematites Parsley-seed of each two scruples mixe them being beaten to powder and make an Electuary in a dry Forme to be divided into Morsells Another Electuary Or prepare another Electuary in this manner Take old conserve of Roses one ounce Diacydonion cum saccharo sine speciebus three ounces Diarrhodon specierum Abbatis Coralls red prepared and powdred foure scruples Pearles prepared one dram Trochiskes de Carabe de Terra Sigillata of each two scruples Spodium Lapis Haematites Mumia of each of them halfe a dram Temper them with syrup of Pomegranates and make a gilded Electuary of which let the quantity of a Chesse-nut be taken every day morning and evening and let it be drunke being dissolved in red-Wine wherein Steele red-hot hath been quenched Also the Party may take these Pills following seven of them taken every morning when the stomake is empty as yet fasting Take Mumia Frankincense Masticke Harts-horne burned and washed of each halfe a dram the Runnet of a Hare or Kid foure scruples Temper them with Plantane-water in which Gum Arabick may be dissolved and let Pills be formed of it Also Mesue doth commend in this case Pilulae de Bdellio Majores and Minores to be taken one dram at a time Notwithstanding also these Pills following do profit Take Terra Sigillata Bole-Armeniacke prepared Galls Sanguis Draconis Runner of a Kid of each one dram Camphire two scruples mixe them and let Pills be made with syrup of Myrtles a dram to be taken at a time There is also no lesse consideration and respect to be had of the cure to to be used outwardly than of the inward hitherto handled and intreated of for there are many things which applyed outwardly doe wonderfully profit for the curing of these Fluxes But first of all such a bath or fomentation is to be prepared A Bathe or Fomentation Take Cauda Equina or Horse-taile leaves of the Mulberry-tree of the Peare-tree of Sloes of Services of the Medler-tree the inward barkes of the Oke red Roses Virga Pastoris or Fullers Teasell of each two handfulls Galls Myrtles of each one pound Medlers Services Acorne-cups of each two pound mixe them together and let a bathe or fomentation be made of all of them in water wherein Iron red-hot hath beene quenched If it be not convenient to use this bathe or fomentation you shall prepare such a Fume to be received by a Tunnell A Fume Take Colophonie halfe an ounce Spodium Bole-Armeniacke Blatta Byzantina blacke Poppie Henbane of each two drams mixe them and make a grosse powder Or else you must use this experiment very well approved Take the barks of the Pitch-tree used of the Curriers already in their worke one pound the inward parts or inward kernells of Galls bunches of Grapes dried let these being mixed together boile in water wherein red-hot Steele hath beene quenched and let the woman convey that fomentation into the Matrix by a Tunnel and that being done let her eat a Morsell for to comfort her of the Electuary before prescribed Also Vnguentum Comitissae is approved the which because it is knowne unto the Apothecaries It was not needfull to set it downe But if that cannot be gotten you may profitably use this Vnguent following prepared in this manner Take oile of Myrtles foure ounces juyce of the greater Plantane two ounces powder of Masticke two drams Sumach-seed Succus Acaciae Hypocistidos Myrtles Terra Sigillata Bole-Armeniack of each two ounces and a halfe Spodium Barley burned red Roses of each one dram Mingle them with Waxe so much as sufficeth and let an Vnguent be made of it A soft oynment Also such a soft ointment very profitable may be made Take the juyce of Comfrey of both the kindes of Plantane Cinquefolie or five-finger-grasse of each a like a little Vinegar mixe all things together and lay Linnen-clothes moistned in them upon the belly and loynes Or you shall prepare another in this forme Take Succus Acaciae Hypocistidos Psidia Another soft oynment Terra Sigillata Trochiskes de Carabe Colophonie of each halfe an ounce mingle them together and let a powder be made of them which you shall use in manner of a Cataplasme tempered with the juyce of Plantane applyed to the fore-parts and hinder-parts Also such a Plaister not unprofitable may be made Take the powder of Harts-horne burnt A Plaister Paper burned the drosse of Iron of each one ounce Acorne-cups two ounces mixe them make a powder with which tempered with the white of an Egge a little Vinegar and plantane-Plantane-water let a plaister be made A certain other plaister shall be prepared in this manner Take Masticke Olibanum Mumia Sanguis Draconis of each one ounce Flea-beane burnt Allome roots of Wal-woort or Asse-eare Psidia Pomegranate-flowers of each equall parts of all of them being beaten to powder halfe an ounce Earth-wormes pounded Frankincense of each two drams Mixe them together and make a Plaister of them with the white of an Egge a little Vinegar and Plantane-water Againe let another Plaister be thus made to be used after the manner of a soft ointment Take the juyce of Plantane mixed with Vinegar steepe leather of a Cowes hide in that Mâ—â—ture Afterward boile it and dip a cloth sometimes folded together in that decoction and apply it in manner of a soft ointment But if you shall use all these things in vaine at last you shall use these Pessaries Pessaries having wonderfull power to bind Take Triphera Magna Micleta Athanasia of each one dram Hypocisthidos Succus Acaciae Bole Armeny Sanguis Draconis roots of Comfrey
with the best wine and let her receive the Fume of them underneathe thorow a Tunnell And if shee shall also be unable to endure this notwithstanding let her have a Fumigation with this fume following Take Amomum Galbanum of each three drams Assa Foetida Castoreum Spodium of each one dram mixe them and and let a powder be made of them of which one dram at a time cast upon the coales let a Fume be made to be received onely into the Matrix After the Fume being done let her use these Pills seven of them taken at a time Pills Take the fruit of Savine two drams Rue dryed one dram seed of wild Rue halfe a dram Assa Foetida Lachryma Ammoniaca Diers Madder of each one scruple Myrrh Castoreum of each two scruples Cinamome black Peper of each halfe a dram let all things be mix'd together and let them be made a powder and tempered with water of Mugwoort and let pills be formed as big as Pease all these things being finished both the veines named Saphenae shall be opened in both feete the Moone going downe Afterward she may use these Pessaries Take Triacle Mithridate Pessaries of each halfe a dram Castoreum Lachryma Ammoniaca of each one dram mixe them with Cotton dipped in the juyce of the herbe Mercury and make a Pessary Or otherwise Take of the juyce of Rue Wormewood of each equall parts Myrrh Euphorbium seed of Savine of each one dram and a halfe mixe them and let a Pessary be made Another may be made in this manner for women which are stronger by Nature Take Elleborus albus Pyretrum of each three drams Nigella Diagridium of each one dram mingle them with the juyce of Mercury and let a Pessarie be made Let such another be made which is of more efficacie and force Take Nigella Staves-acre Centaury the lesse of each two drams Elleborus albus Vitrum Sal gemma blacke Peper Diagridium of each two scruples Aloes Ladanum cleare Turpentine Styrax Calamita of each three drams Amber one scruple let all things be mixed together and incorporated with a hot Pessell because of the Gummes and being inclosed in a cloth moistned in the juyce of Mercury let Pessaries be made of them Or otherwise Take Gentian Savine Staves-acre Colocynthis Nigella or Gith of each one dram and a halfe let all these things be incorporated with the juyce of the wild Cowcumber named Elaterium or with the juyce of Mercury and let Pessaries be made of it If these former seeme to profit little other Pessaries shall be prepared in this manner Take juyce of Mercury Wormewood Feverfew Mugwoort of each three ounces Myrrhe Euphorbium Castoreum of each two drams Savine-seede Gith-seed of each one dram Ladanum Galbanum of each one dram and a halfe those things which are to be beaten to powder let them be powdered but let the juyces be decocted to a thicknesse let Pessaries be made of them the length and thickenesse of a finger If retention of the Termes be from Choler how it is to be Cured But if retention and straining of the Termes doe proceed from Choler heat shall be felt in the sound and botome of the Matrix drinesse coarctation and streightnesse and a certaine hardnesse not without paines and prickings desire of Venus a yellow colour of the eye-lids the urine red small store of Termes alwaies of a Citrine or yellow colour doth follow and accompany these signes and tokens of Choler And that cause being known the universall diet shall decline to a cold and dry temperature Afterward the supefluous matter shall be prepared for to be purged with this decoction following take leaves of Sena one ounce Mugwoort two handfuls Venus-haire Sorrell Endive Harts-tong Betony Liverwoort Bawme Mercury of each one handfull the foure cold seeds Agnus Castus Daucus or wild Carrot Pyonie Sperage Sothernwood Basil Milium Solis or Gromell of each halfe an ounce red Roses Borrage-flowers Violets of each a small quantity calld a Pugil roots of the best Rheubarb one dram Valerian Butchers-broome stone Parsly Smallage of each an ounce Cyperus Spike of each one dram and a halfe Cicers red Beanes Iuniper-berries Fenegrek of each one Pugil Let all these things be mingled together and beaten and boiled in three pound of running-water untill halfe be wasted let them be strained and to the straining let Sugar be added so much as sufficeth let it be spiced with a dram and a halfe of Cinamome You shal give 3 ounces of this decoction foure daies together in the morning when the stomack is empty or in the evening three houres before supper very warme to be drunk of the Patient But if she shal loath this decoction let her use this syrup following A Syrup Take syrup Acetosae simplicis one ounce Oximel simple half an ounce mingle them with the water of Succory and Endive of each one ounce and let a draught be made of it Or else take one ounce of the syrup of Peach-Roses syrup of Endive half an ounce commixe them with two ounces of the afore-spoken decoction or water of Endive and let a draught be made Or you may prepare such solutive medicines Take Manna halfe an ounce Electuarium de Succo Rosarum confection of Hamech Diacassia of each one dram syrup of Violets halfe an ounce waters of Succory and Endive of each one ounce mixe them and let one draught be made or otherwise take of the best Rheubarbe two drams Spike Nard six graines sprinckled with the best Wine infuse them in Whey twelve houres then straine them and to the straining adde Manna Cassia newly drawne of each one ounce and a halfe syrup of Violets one ounce let it be spiced with Cinamome as much as sufficeth and let a potion be made to the quantity of three ounces The superfluous matter being sufficiently purged voided by these solutive medicines such a bathe is to be decocted in which the woman may sit Bathe Take Marish-Mallowes with the rootes three handfulls Motherwoort or Mugwoort two handfulls Elder-flowers Willow-flowers Violet-Plants or Mater violarum Maiden-haire of each one handfulll Valerian halfe a pound Fenegrek Line-seed of each three ounces common Salt two drams Roche Allome halfe an ounce Brimstone one dram let all things be beaten together mingled and put in a bagge and let a bathe be made by boiling of them in which the woman may sit In this case all temperate waters with Allome and Copper doe profit and doe good when shee commeth out of the bathe let her be annointed with this ointment about the Loines and under the Navell Take oile of Roses of sweet Almonds of Violets of each one ounce Marrow of the leg of a calfe halfe an ounce two drams fresh Butter Hens-grease Muscilage of Fenegrek Muscilage of Line-seed of each halfe an ounce Waxe so much as sufficeth and let an Vnguent be made of them in a liquid forme After the Vnction being performed A