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

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

ordinary to increase the Milk by degrees which must be of no continuance but drawn off either by the Child or otherwise In this case likewise let her have Coriander or Fennel-seed boyled in her Barley-broth but by any means for the time specified let her abstain from Meat If no Fever trouble her she may drink now and then a small quantity of White-wine or Claret as also Syrup of Maiden-hair or any other Syrup that is of an Astringent quality taking it in a little water well boyled And after the fear of a Fever or contraction of Humours in the Brest is over she may be nourished more plentifully with the broth of Pullets Capons Pidgeons Mutton Veal c. Which must not be till after eight days from the time of her delivery at what time the Womb unless some accident hinder has purged it self it will be then likewise expedient to give her cold Meats but let it be sparingly that so she may the better gather strength and let her during the time rest quietly and free from disturbance not sleeping in the day time if she can avoid it If there happen any obstruction in the Evacuation of her Excrement the following Glister may be administred Take of both the Mallows and Pelletory of the Wall a handful Camomile and Mellilote Flowers of each a handful Anniseeds and Fennel Seeds of each two Ounces boyl them in the Decoction of a Sheeps-Hea● and take of this three Quarters dissolving in them of common Honey and Course Sugar and of New fresh Butter two Ounces strain it well and Administer it Glisterwise But if it does not operate to your mind then you may take an Ounce of Catholicon CHAP. XVIII How to expel the Cholick from Women in Child-Birth c. THese pains frequently afflict the Woman no less than the pangs of her Labour and are by the Ignorant taken ●any times the one for the other and sometimes ●hey both happen at the same instant which is ●ccasioned by raw crude and watery matter ●n the Stomach contracted through ill digesti●n and while such a pain lasts the womans Travel is retarded Therefore to expel the ●its of the Cholick Take two Ounces of Oyl ●f sweet Almonds and an ounce of Cinnamon Water with three or four drops of Spirit of Ginger and let the Woman drink it off and 〈◊〉 this do not abate the pains make a Clyster ●f Camomile Baum Leaves Oyl Olive and ●ew Milk boiling the former in the latter ●nd having strained it very well administer it ●s 't is usual in such cases and then Fomenta●ons proper for dispelling of Wind would not ●e amiss If the pain prove the Griping of the Guts ●nd long after Delivery Then take of the Root ●f great Comfry a dram Nutmeg and Peach ●ernels of each two scruples yellow Amber ●ne dram Ambergreece one scruple bruise ●em together and give them the Woman as ●on as She is laid down in two or three ●poonfuls of White-wine but if it so hap●en that She be Feverish then let it be 〈◊〉 as much warm Broth c. The Conclusion AND thus Courteous Reaeder we are come to the Conclusion of our Work having fully Unravell'd the Secrets of Nature in the Generation of Man which however it may be Ridicul'd by the prophane Wits of the Age has been the Work and Study of very Great and Wise both Philosophers and Physitians in all Ages as appears by the Indefatigable Labours of the Great Aristotle out of whose Learned Works we have Extracted this Book a Man of that Profound Learning and Science that Alexander the Great was not Asham'd to own That he ow'd more to him for his Education than to his Father Philip for his Kingdom But a Greater than Aristotle or Alexander either has made the Secrets of Nature in the Wonderful framing of Man in the Womb the Subject of his Divine Meditations even the Royal Prophet David Psalm 139. Thou hast possessed my Reins thou hast covered me in my Mothers Womb c. And now Reader you have seen herein that there is not any Malady attends either the Child in the Womb or the Mother during her Pregnancy but Nature and Art has provided a Remedy which that they may prove Successful is the Design and End of the Compiler FINIS

and that from the Authority of Pliny who makes mention of a Woman that went thirteen Months with Child But as to what concerns the 7th month a Learned Author saith I know several married People in Holland that had Twins born in the 7th month who lived to old Age having lusty Bodies and lively minds wherefore their Opinion is foolish and of no moment who assert That at seven months a Child cannot be perfect and long lived and that he cannot in all parts be perfect till the 9th month and thereupon this Author proceeds to tell a passage from his own knowledge as follows Of late saith he there happened a great divers disturbance amongst us which ended not without Blood-shed and was occasioned by a Virgin whose Chastity had been violated descending of a Noble Family of unspotted Fame Now several there were who charged the Fact upon a Judge who was President of a City in Flanders who strongly denyed the Fact saying that he was ready to swear that he never had Carnal Copulation with her and that he would not father a Child that was none of his and further alledged that he verily believed that it was a Child born in seven months himself being many miles distance from the mother of it when it was Conceived whereupon the Judges before whom the hearing was decreed That the Child should be viewed by able Physicians and Experienced Women and that they should make their report who having made diligent inquiry all of them with one accord concluded the Child without respecting who was the Father was a Child Born within the space of seven months that it was carried in the mothers Womb but 27 weeks and odd Days but if she would have gone full 9 Months the Childs Parts and Limbs would have been more firm and strong and the Structure of the Body more compact for the Skin was very loose and the B●e●st-bone that defends the Heart and the Gristle that lies over the Stomach were higher than naturally they should be not plain but crooked and sharp ridged or pointed like those of young Chickens hatched at the begining of the Spring And being a Female Infant it wanted its Nails upon her Fingers and the outmost Joints of her Fingers upon which from the Musculous or Cartilaginous matter of the Skin Nails that are very smooth do come and by degrees harden she had instead of Nails a thin Skin or Film as for her Toes there was no appearance of Nails about them for they wanted the heat that was communicated to the Fingers from the nearness of the Heart These things being considered and above all one Gentlewoman of Quality that assisted affirming that she had been the Mother of 19 Children and that divers of them had been born and liv'd at 7 months they without favour to any party made their report that the Infant was a Child of 7 months tho' born within the seventh Month for in such cases the revolution of the Moon ought to be observed which perfects it self in 4 bare weeks or somewhat less than 28 Days in which space of her revolution the Blood being agitated by the force of the Moon the Courses of the Women flow from them which being spent and the Matrix cleansed from the Menstrual Blood which happens on the 5th Day then if on the 7th Day a Man lie with his Wife the Copulation is the most natural and then is the Conception best and a Child then gotten may be born in the 7th Month and prove very healthful So that upon this report the supposed Father was pronounced Innocent upon Proof that he was 100 miles distance all that month in which the Child was begot And as for the mother she strongly denied that she knew the Father being forced in the dark and so thro' fear and surprize was left in Ignorance As for Coition it ought not to be had unless the Parties be in Health lest it turn to the disadvantage of the Children so be gotten creating in them through the abundant ill Humours divers languishing Diseases wherefore Health is no where better to be discerned than by the Genitals of the Man for which reason Midwives and other skilful Women were formerly wont to see the Testicles of Children thereby to conjecture at their temperature and state of Body and Young-men may know thereby the signs or symptoms of Life and Death for if the Cases of the Testicles be loose and feeble and the Cods fall do ●n it denotes that the vital Spirits which are the props of Life are fallen But if the secret Part be wrinkled and raised up it is a Sign all is well But that the Event may exactly answer the Prediction it is necessary to consider what part of the Body the Disease possesseth for if it chance to be the upper part that is afflicted as the Head or Stomach then will it not so well appear by the Members which are unconcerned with such Grievances but the lower part of the Body exactly sympathizing with them their Liveliness on the contrary makes it apparent for Natures force and the Spirits that have their intercourse first manifest themselves therein which occasions Midwifes to feel the Genitals of Children to know in what part the grief is resident and whether life or death be portended thereby the Symptom being strongly communicated by the Vessels that have their intercourse with the principal seats of life CHAP. IX Of the Green-sickness in Virgins with its Causes Prognosticks and cure Together with the chiefest occasion of Barrenness in Women and by what means to remove the Cause and render them fruitful THe Green Sickness is so common a Distemper in Virgins especially such as are of a Flegmatick Complexion that 't is easily discern'd shewing it self by discolouring the Face making it look green pale and of a dusky yellow which p●oceeds from raw undigested Humours nor only doth it appear to the Eye but sensibly afflicts such as it possesses with difficulty of breathing pains in the Head Palpitation of the Heart unusual beatings and small throbings of the Arteries in the Temples Neck and Back many times casting them into Fevers if the Humour be very vitious also loathing of Meat and the distension of the Hypocondriack part by reason of the Inordinate Efflux of menstruous Blood to the greater Vessels and of the abundance of Humours the whole Body is often troubled with Swelling or if not at least the Th●ghs Legs and Anckles all above the Heels And also there is a Weariness of the whole Body without any reason for it The Galennical Physitians affirm that this Distemper proceeds chiefly from the Obstruction of those Vessels that are about the Womb occasion'd by the abundance of gross viscous and and crude Humours arising from several inward causes but there are also outward causes which have a share in the Production of it as taking cold on the Feet drinking of Water intemperance in Diet and also the eating of things contrary to

her For otherwise if there were not a Superplus of Nourishment for the Child more than is convenient for the Mother then would the Infant Detract and weaken the principal parts of the Mother and like unto the Viper the Generation of the Infant would be the Destruction of the Parent These Monthly Purgations continue from the 15th Year to the 46th or 50th Yet often there happens a suppression which is either Natural or Morbifical They are naturally supprest in breeding women and such as give suck The Morbifical suppression falls now into our Method to be spoken of CHAP. II. Of the Retention of the M●nses THe suppression of the Terms is an intercaption of that accustomary Evacuation of Blood which every Month should come from the Matrix proceeding from the Instrument or matter vitiated The part affected is the Womb and that of it self or by Consent Cause The Cause of this Suppression is either External or Internal The External Cause may be heat or dryness of the Air immoderate watching great labour vehement motion c. whereby the matter is so consumed and the body so exhausted that there is not a Superplus remaining to be expelled as is Recorded of the Amazones who being active and always in motion had their Fluxions very little or not at all Or it may be caused by Cold which is most frequent making the Blood Viscous and Gross condensing and binding up the Passages that it cannot flow forth The Internal Cause is either Instrumental or Material in the womb or in the blood In the womb it may be divers ways by Aposthumes Tumours Ulcers by the narrowness of the veins and passages or by the Omentum or Kell in fat Bodies pressing the neck of the Matrix but then they must have Hernia Zirbalis for in mankind the Kell reacheth not so low By over much Cold or Heat the one vitiating the action and the other consuming the matter By an evil Composition of the Uterine parts by the neck of the womb being turned aside and sometimes tho' rarely by a membrane or excressence of flesh growing about the mouth or neck of the womb The blood may be in fault two ways in quantity or in quality In quantity when it is so consumed that there Is not a Superplus left as in Viragoes and vi●● women who through their heat and strength of Nature digest and consume all their last Nourishment as Hippocrates writes of Phaetusa who being exiled by her Husband Pythea her Terms were supprest her voice changed and had a Beard with a Countenance like a man But these I judge rather to be Anthropophagae women-eaters than women-breeders because they consume one of the principles of Generation which gives a Being to the World viz. the Menstruous blood The blood likewise may be consumed and consequently the Terms stayed by bleeding of the Nose by a flux of the Emerhoids by a Dysenteria commonly called the bloody flux by many other evacuations and continual and chronical Diseases Secondly the matter may be vitious in quality as suppose it be Sanguineous Phlegmatical Byleous or Melancholious every one of these if they offend in Grosness will cause an Obstruction in the veins Signs Signs manifesting the Disease are pains in the head neck back and loyns weariness of the whole body but especially of the hips and legs by reason of a Confinity which the Matrix hath with these parts trembling of the heart Particular signs are these if the Suppression proceeds of cold she is heavy sluggish of a pale Colour and hath a slow Pulse Venus combats are neglected the Urin is crude waterish and much in quantity the excrements of the Guts usually are retained If of heat the signs are contrary to those but now recited If the retention be natural and come of Conception this may be known by drinking of Hydromel that is water and honey after Supper going to bed and by the effect which it worketh for after the taking of it if she feels a beating pain about the Navel and lower parts of the Belly it is a sign she hath Conceived and that the Suppression is Natural if not then is it vitious and ought Medicinally to be taken away Prognosticks With the evil quality of the Womb the whole body stands charged but especially the Heart the Liver and the Brain and betwixt the Womb and these three principal parts there is a singular Consent First the Womb communicates to the Heart by the mediation of those Arteries which come from Aorta Hence the Terms being supprest will ensue Faintings Swoonings intermission of Pulse cessation of Breath Secondly It communicates to the Liver by the veins derived from the hollow vein Hence will follow Obbructions Cachexies Jaundice Dropsies hardness of the Spleen Thirdly It communicates unto the Brain by the nerves and membranes of the back Hence will arise Epilepsies Apoplexies Frenzies melancholy Passions pain in the after-parts of the Head fearfulness in ability of speaking Well therefore may I conclude with Hippocrates If the Months be supprest many dangerous Diseases will follow Cure In the Cure of this and of all the other following Affects I will observe this order The Cure shall be taken from Chirurgical Pharmaceutical and Diaeretical means This Suppression is a Plethorick Affect and must be taken away by Evacuation And therefore first we will begin with Phlebotomy In the midst of the menstrual period open the Liver vein and for the reversion of the Humour two days before the wonted evacuation open the Saphena on both feet I● the repletion be not great apply Cupping-glasses to the legs and thighs And altho' there be no hope to remove the Suppression as in some the Cotyl●dones are so closed up that nothing but Copulation will open them yet it will be convenient as much as may be to ease Nature of her burden by opening the Emerhoid veins with a Leach After Phlebotomy let the Humours be prepared and made Fluxile with Syrup of Staechas Calamint Betony Hysop Mugwort Hore-hound Fumetary Maiden-hair Bathe with Camomile Penny-Royal Savin Bay-leaves Janiper-berries Rue Marj●ram Feverfew Take of the leaves of Nep Maiden-hair Succory Betony of each one handful make a Decoction take thereof three Ounces Syrup of Maiden-hair Mugw●rt Succory mix of each half an Ounce After she comes out of the Bath let her drink it off Purge with Pil. de Agaric Elephang Coch. Foetid Galen in this Case commends Pilula de Hiera cum Colocyntida for as they be proper to purge the humour offending so also they do open the passages of the Womb and strengthen the faculty by their Aromatical quality If the stomach be over-charged let her take a vomit yet such a one as may work both ways lest working onely upward it should too much turn back the humour Take Trochisks of Agarick 2 drams infuse them in 3 Ounces of Oximel in which dissolve of the Electuary Diasarum One Scruple and half Benedic Laxat half an Ounce Take this after the manner

more proper Take of red Roses one pound Mastick red Sanders of each 2 drams Bole-armeny red Coral Bistort of each one dram Pomgranate Pills prepared Coriander of each 2 drams and half Barberries two Scruples Oyl of Mastick and Quinces of each one Ounce juice of Plantain 2 drams with Pitch make a Plaister anoint the reins also with Vnguentum Sandalinum Once every week wash the reins with two parts of Rose water and one part of White-wine mingled together and warmed at the fire this will asswage the heat of the reins and disperse the Oyl of the Plaister out of the pores of the skin and cause the Oyntment or Plaister the sooner to penetrate and strengthen the Womb. Some are of opinion on that as long as the Loadstone is laid to the navel it keepeth the Woman from abortion The like also is recorded of the stone Aetites being hanged about the Neck The same vertue hath the stone Samius CHAP. XV. Directions to be observed by Women at the time of their falling in Labour in order to their safe Delivery with Directions for Midwifes ANd thus having given necessary Directions to Child-bearing Women how to govern themselves during the time of their Pregnancy I shall now add what 's necessary for them to observe in order to their Delivery The time of Birth drawing near let the woman send for a skilful Midwife and that rather too soon than too late against which time let her prepare a Pallet-Bed or Couch and place it near the fire that the Midwife and her Assistants may pass round and help on every side as occasion requires having change of Linnen ready and a small Cricket or little Log to rest her feet against she having more force when they are bowed than when they are otherwise Having thus provided when the woman feels her pains come if the weather be not very cold let her walk leisurely about the room resting her self by turns upon the Bed and so expect the coming down of her water which is a Humour contracted in one of the outward Membranes and flows thence when it is broke by the strugling of the Child there being no direct time affixed for its Efflux tho' generally it flows not above two hours before the Birth Motion likewise will cause the Womb to open and dilate it self when lying long in Bed will be uneasie yet if she be very weak she may take some gentle Cordial to refresh her self if ●er pains will permit If her Travel be tedious she may revive her Spirits with taking Broth or Chickens or Mut●on or she may take a poach'd Egg but must ●ake heed of taking any thing to excess As for the posture women are delivere'd in ●hey are divers some lying in their Beds ther 's sitting in a Chair supported and held ●y others or resting upon the side of the Bed ●r Chair some again upon their Knees be●●g supported under their Arms but the most ●●fe and commodious way is in the Bed and ●●en the Midwife ought to observe these follow●●g Rules Let her lay the woman upon her ●ack her Head a little raised by the help of a ●●llow having the like help to support her ●●eins and Buttocks and that her Rump lie ●●gh for if she lie low she cannot be well ●livered Then let her keep her Knees and ●highs as far asunder as she can her legs bow●● together her Buttocks the Soles of her Feet and Heels being fix'd upon a little Log of Timber placed for that purpose that she may the better strain And in case her Back be very weak a Swathing-band may be cast under it the band being four double and about twelve Inches broad and this must be held by two Persons who with steady hands and equal motion must raise her up at the time her pains happen but if they be not exact in their motion 't is better let alone and at the same time let two women hold her Shoulders that she may then strain out the birth with more advantage and then to facilitate it let a woman stroke or press the upper part of her Belly gently and by degrees Nor must the woman her self be faint-hearted but of a good Courage forcing her self by straining and stopping her breath In case of Delivery the Midwife must wait with Patience till the Childs Head or other Members burst the Membrane for if through ignorance or haste to be gone to other Women as some have done the Midwife tear the Membrane with her Nails she endangers both the Woman and the Child for it lying dry and wanting that slipperiness that should make it easie it comes forth with greater pain When the Head appears the Midwife must gently hold it between her two hands and draw the Child at such times as the Womans pangs are upon her and at no other slipping by degrees her four fingers under its Arm-pits not using a rough hand in drawing it forth lest by that means the tender Infant receive any Deformity of Body As soon as the Child is taken forth which is for the most part with its Face downwards let it be laid upon its back that it may more freely receive external Respiration then cut the Navel-string about three Inches from the body tying that end which adheres to the belly with a silken string as near as you can then cover the Head and Stomach of the Child well suffering nothing to come upon the Face The Child being thus drawn forth and in health lay it aside and let the Midwife regard the Patient in drawing forth the Secundine And this she may do by wagging and stirring them up and down and afterwards with a gentle hand drawing them forth and if the work be difficult let the Woman hold Salt in her hands shut them close and breathe hard into them and thereby she shall know whether the Membranes be broken or not It may be also known by causing her to strain or vomit by putting one Finger down her Throat or by straining or moving her lower parts but let all be done out of hand If this fail let her take a draught of raw Elder-water or the Yolk of a new-laid Egg or smell to a piece of Assafoetida especially if she be troubled with the Wind-Cholick If she happen to take cold it is a great Obstruction to the coming down of she Secundines and in such cases the Midwife ought to chafe the womans belly gently which breaks not only the Wind but obliges the Secundines to come down but these proving ineffectual the Midwife must dilate with her Hand the exterior Orifice of the Womb and gently draw it forth Having now discoursed of common Births or such as for the most part are easie I shall now give Directions in case of Extremity CHAP. XVI In Case of Extremity what ought to be Observed especially to Women who in their Travel are accompanied with an Efflux of Blood Convulsion or Fits of the Wind. IF the VVomans Labour be hard and