the first day after a difficult Labour and is accompanied with a long train of Hysteric Symptoms and as it happens only on the first days so usually does not last long for if a thickning diet be order'd it soon abates The following Drink may be also used Take of Plantain water and Red wine each one Pint boil them till a third part be consumed sweeten it with a sufficient quantity of white Sugar and let her take half a pint twice or thrice a day and in the mean while the following Medicine tyed up in a rag may be often held to her Nose Take of Galbanum and Assa foetida each two Drams of Castor one Dram and half of Volatile Salt of Amber half a Dram mingle them Or instead of it Spirit of Sal armoniac may be used But as to the Flux which happens out of Child-bed you must bleed in the Arm and eight Ounces of Blood must be taken away the next Morning the following Purge must be given Take of Tamarinds half an Ounce of Sena two Drams of Rubarb one Dram and an half infuse them in a sufficient quantity of Fountain water in three Ounces of the strain'd Liquor disolve of Manna and Syrup of Roses solutive each an Ounce make a Purging Potion which is to be repeated every third day for twice Every Night at bedtime through the whole course of the Disease give an Ounce of Diacodium mixt with two Ounces of Black Cherry water Take of the Conserve of dried Roses two Ounces of the Troches of Lemnian Earth a Dram and an half of Pomgranate peel and of red Coral prepared each two Scruples of Blood Stone Dragons Blood and Bole-armenic each two Scruples with a sufficient quantity of Simple Syrup of Coral make an Electuary whereof let her take the quantity of a large Nutmeg in the Morning and at five in the Afternoon drinking upon it six Spoonfuls of the following Julip Take of the waters of Oakbuds and of Plantain each three Ounces of Cinnamon water hordeated and of Syrup of dried Roses each one Ounce of Spirit of Vitriol a sufficient quantity to make it pleasantly acid Take of the Leaves of Plantain and Nettles each a sufficient quantity beat them together in a Marble Mortar and press out the juice clarifie it and give six Spoonfuls of it cold three or four times in a day after the first Purge apply the following Plaister to the region of the Loins Take of the Plasters of Diapalma and ad herniam each equal parts mix them and spread them on Leather A cooling and thickening Diet must be order'd only it may be proper to allow once or twice a day a small glass of Claret to recover the strength CHAP. XII Of the Whites THis obstinate and lasting Disease may be cured by bleeding once and by Purging with two Scruples of Pill Coch-Major four times and by the following strengthening Medicines Take of Venice Treacle one Ounce and an half of the Conserve of the Yellow Peel of Oranges one Ounce of Diascordium half an Ounce of Ginger candied and Nutmegs candied each three Drams of compound Powder of Crabs eyes one Dram and an half of the outward Peel of Pomgranats of the roots of Spanish Angelica and of the troches of Lemnian Earth each one Dram of Bole-Armenic two Scruples of Gun-arabic half a Dram with a sufficient quantity of Syrup of dried Roses make an Electuary whereof let her take the quantity of a large Nutmeg in the Morning and at five in the Afternoon and at Night drinking upon it six Spoonfuls of the following infusion Take of the roots of Elecampane Masterwort Angelica and Gentian each half an Ounce of the Leaves of Roman Wormwood white Horehound the lesser Centory and Calaminth each one handful of Juniper-berries one Ounce cut them small and infuse them in five pints of Canary Wine let them stand in infusion and strain them only as you use them CHAP. XIII Of Barrenness BArrenness proceeds from many causes but they may be reduced to four Heads according to the four Natural Operations which are required to perfect Conception The first is that the Woman in Copulation receive the Mans seed Secondly that it 's retain'd a due time Thirdly that it is nourished in the Womb Fourthly that the Woman afford due Matter for the forming and necessary increase of the Embroy and hence four impediments of Conception arise First The Reception of the Seed is hindered by many causes as immature Age when by reason of the narrowness of the Genital passages the Woman cannot admit the Mans Yard or at least not without great pain which makes her dislike Copulation and Old Age has the same effect for in elderly Virgins the Genital parts for want of use are rendr'd so strait that they can't easily receive the virile Member and such as are lame or have their Limbs distorted or their Hips depressed can scarce lye in such a posture as is necessary for a fit Reception of the Seed too much fat also stops the passages and makes the Copulation incommodious And lastly a cold intemperies of the Womb makes the Woman dull so that she scarce injoys any pleasure in Copulation or is so flowly moved that the inward Orifice of the Womb does not open seasonably to receive the Mans Seed The Passions of the Mind also are a great hinderance especially hatred between Man and Wife whereby the Woman having an aversion for such pleasure does not supply Spirits sufficient to make the Genital parts turgent at the time of Copulation nor does the Womb kindly meet the Seed and draw it into its Cavity from whence and from mixture of both the Seeds Conception arises The Reception of the Seed may be also hinder'd by Swellings Ulcers Obstructions Narrowness or Distorsions of the Genital parts or of the Neighbouring parts or by a stone in the Bladder or the like Conception may be also hindred by reason the Seed is not retained upon the account of too great moisture of the Womb namely when it s fill'd with many excrementitious humours whereby being render'd too laxe it cannot be contracted as it ought to retain the Seed received but this chiefly happens by reason of miscarriage or hard labour whereby the Fibres of the Womb and its inner Orifice are torn but the Whites are the most common cause of Barrenness Conception is also hindred when the Seed is not sufficiently nourished in the Womb as when the Intemperies of the Womb is so very cold that it extinguishes the Seed or so hot as that it dissipates it or over-moist or dry The Age fit for Conception is from fourteen to fifty and therefore those Women that are younger or older do not conceive by reason of a defect of Seed and menstruous Blood yet it must be confessed that some Women have conceived who never had their Courses A disproportion betwixt the Mans and Womans Seed is also the occasion of Barrenness tho there is no sensible defect in
is near her time for such Exercises often cause Miscarriage But she may Walk gently or be carried in a Chair She must not carry or lift heavy Burdens or lift up her Arms too high and therefore ought not to dress her own Head Let her Exercise be gentle walking in low-heel'd Shoes but she had better Rest too much than Exercise too much for more hard Labours are occasioned by violent Exercise than by any other thing Moreover it is convenient that the Woman should abstain from Copulation the last two months for the Body is very much moved and the Belly compressed in the action which causes the Child to take a wrong posture If the Belly be bound as it is often at this time Prunes stewed or Veal Broath may be often used or the following Glister may be used Boyl an Handful of Mallow Leaves in three quarters of a Pint of Milk let the Milk just boyl up add to it two Ounces of brown Sugar and a little fresh Butter strain it for use She must moderate her Passions and great care must be taken that she be not Frighted and that Melancholy News be not suddenly told her but you must endeavour to keep her as chearful as possibly you can the sudden surprizes of joy must be also avoided for excesses on either hand are prejudicial The Cloaths of a Woman with Child should sit easie for any immoderate pressure is apt to make the Child deformed and hurts the Breasts and very often causes miscarriage Unnecessary Bleeding must be avoided so must all strong Purges but if Purging is requisite only such things as Purge gently must be used as Cassia Rubarb and Manna The Cassia is best sucked out of the Canes the Rubarb may be chewed and an Ounce and a half or two Ounces of Manna may be dissolved in Posset-drink and used upon occasion in the Morning Vomiting often afflicts Women with Child but if it be moderate and at the beginning and without great straining it is beneficial if it continues longer than the third or fourth Month it ought to be remedied in order to which let the Woman use good food and a little at a time and let her use with her meat the juice of Oranges she may eat now and then Broth mixed with the yolk of an Egg for it 's very nourishing and of easie digestion and after meals let her eat a little Marmalade of Quinces and she may drink a Glass of Claret she must forbear fat meat and Sauces and sweet and sugar'd Sauces But if the Vomiting continues notwithstanding this regular Diet till the Woman is above half gon she must take the following Purge Take of Tamarinds half an Ounce of Sena one Dram of Rubarb one Dram and an half boyl them in a sufficient quantity of water in three Ounces of the strained Liquor dissolve an Ounce of Manna and an Ounce of Syrup of Succory with Rubarb make a purging potion to be taken in the Morning It may be repeated once or oftener upon occasion And it may be proper for the Woman in the Winter time to were a Lambskin or the like upon her Stomach and Belly If pains of the Back Reins and Hips are violent the Woman must be blooded and take at bed-time sixteen drops of the Liquid Laudanum mentioned at the latter end of the Chapter of Hysteric Diseases in a glass of Canary Wine or in any thing else she likes and she must keep her Bed till the pain abates if the pain is continual the Belly must be supported with a Swaith fitted for the purpose If after the third or fourth Month the Breasts are very painful 't is convenient the Woman shou'd bleed in the Arm if she be full of blood and use a Diet that is moderately cooling and nourishing but if the pain comes at the beginning we ought to leave the whole business to nature only the Woman must have a care that she receives no blows on those parts nor must she be strait laced for fear the Breasts shou'd impostumate If incontinence or difficulty of Urin be occasion'd by the weight and bigness of the Belly the Woman may remedy it and ease her self if when she wou'd make water she lift up with both her hands the bottom of her Belly or she may wear a large Swaith fitted for this use to bear up the Belly but the best way is to keep her in Bed If a sharpness of Urin causes an Inflammation on the Neck of the Bladder it may be appeased by a regular cooling Diet and emulsions of the cold Seeds used Morning and Evening Take of blanched Almonds number twelve of the four greater cold Seeds each one Dram and an half of the Seeds of Lettice and white Poppies each half a Dram beat them in a Marble Mortar and pour on them gently three quarters of a pint of Poppy Water make an emulsion for two doses add one Ounce of Syrup of Violets and half a Dram of Sal Prunella If the Inflammation and Sharpness of Urine be not removed by the things above-mention'd a little Blood may be taken from the Arm and the neck of the Bladder may be bathed with the following Decoction with Flannels dipt in it and pressed out Take of the roots of Marsh-mallows one Ounce of the Leaves of Mallows Marsh-mallows Pellitory and Violets each one handful of the Flowers of Melilote one handful of the Seeds of Flax and Fenugreek each two Drams boyl them in a sufficient quantity of Water to a pint and half But if the Woman notwithstanding she observes these directions cannot make water it must be drawn out with a Catheter by an Artist If the Woman be troubled with a violent Cough she must be blooded in the Arm at any time of her being with Child for this is apt to occasion miscarriage and all salted and spiced meat and sharp things must be forborn She may now and then use juice of Liquorish Sugar Candy and Syrup of Violets and if the Body be bound a Glister of Milk and Sugar may be injected The following Syrup is very proper in this case Take half a pint of Claret Wine one Dram of Cinnamon half a Dozen Cloves and four Ounces of Sugar burn the Wine and boyl it to the consistence of a Syrup whereof let the Woman take three spoonfuls at Bedtime The Woman must go loose in her Clothes and if the Rheum be very thin and the Cough tickles much Sixteen drops of the Liquid Laudanum mentioned in the Chapter of Hysteric Diseases must be now and then taken at bedtime in some liquor she uses to drink If the Legs and Thighs swell and are painful they must be swaithed with a Swaith three or four Fingers broad beginning to swaith from the bottom but in this case 't is best for the Woman to be kept in Bed if there be signs of fulness of blood she must be blooded in the Arm. If the big bellied Woman be troubled with the Piles and abound
with Blood she must be blooded in the Arm and if her Body is Costive the emollient Glyster mentioned above must be used and afterwards to ease the Pain they must be anointed often with Populean Ointment mixt with a few Grains of Opium For instance Take of Populean Ointment one Dram of Opium five Grains beat them well together in a Mortar and anoint the Piles with it twice or thrice a day But if the Inflammation and the swelling are much you must apply Leeches to the part affected and let her keep her Bed If the Piles bleed of themselves immoderately for if the Flux be moderate at this time the Woman being full of Blood she may be relieved thereby a cooling and thickening course of Diet must be order'd as three parts of Fountain water and one of Milk boyl'd together and drank cold roasted Apples Barly-broths and the like also thickning and cooling Juleps and Emulsions Take of the Waters of Plantain and Cinnamon hordeated each four Ounces of distilled Vinegar half an Ounce of True-bole and Dragons-blood each half a Dram of the Liquid Laudanum mentioned in the Chapter of Hysteric Fits thirty drops of Syrup of Myrtles one Ounce and an half mix them and make a Julep let her take four or five Spoonfuls every night at Bed-time Take of the four greater cold Seeds each one Dram and an half of sweet Almonds number four of the Seeds of white Poppies two Drams Plantain Water eight Ounces of red Poppy Water four Ounces of Cinnamon Water hordeated one Ounce and an half make an Emulsion to which add three Drams of pearled Sugar and half an Ounce of the Juice of Cevil Orange mingle them let her take four Ounces thrice a day Bleeding in the Arm is also proper in this case to turn the Flux If a loosness comes upon a Woman with Child and continues above five days she must use Food of easie digestion and little at a time and let her Drink be Claret Wine mixt with Water wherein Iron has been quenched and now and then Milk boyl'd with thrice the quantity of Water or the white Decoction made in the following manner Take of Calcined Harts-horn powder'd two Ounces of Fountain water two quarts boyl it till half is consumed strain it gently through a linnen rag and add to it three Ounces of Syrup of Quinces And before Meals she may eat a little Marmalade of Quinces But note that before she uses these astringents it will be convenient to purge off the ill humours with the following Potion Take of Rubarb one Dram and a half of Sena two Drams boyl them in a sufficient quantity of Water to three Ounces of strain'd Liquor add one Ounce of Syrup of Succory with Rubarb and two Drams of Cinnamon-water Let it be taken in the Morning But if the Loosness turn to the Bloody-flux the case is very dangerous and therefore after the use of the purging Potion above mention'd if the Woman has strength enough to bear it you must immediately give sixteen drops of the Liquid Laudanum so often mentioned in this Treatise in two or three Spoonfuls of Cinnamon-water hordeated or the like which must be repeated every night at bedtime and in the Morning too if the Flux continue violent and to keep up the strength four or five Spoonfuls of the following Julep may be taken often Take of the Waters of Black-cherries and Strawberries each four Ounces of Epidemic water and Compound Scordium-water and of Cinnamon-water hordeated each one Ounce of Pearls prepared one Dram and an half of Chrystaline Sugar a Sufficient quantity make a Julep The VVomans Drink in this case must be the Milk water or the white Decoction above described and when she is very weak she may take for her ordinary Drink a quart of Fountain water boyl'd with half a pint of Sack and she may eat sometimes Panada and sometimes Broth made of lean Mutton and she must be kept in Bed Moreover a Glister made of half a pint of Cows Milk and an Ounce and an half of Venice-treacle must be injected daily If the VVoman has her Courses after the fourth or fifth Month of her being with Child for some VVomen have them till the Fifth Month without any manner of prejudice to themselves or their Children you must endeavour to stop them then and before too if you suppose they slow by reason of the heat and acrimony of the Blood or the weakness of the Vessels and not from an abundance of Blood which may be known by her having her Courses much when she was not with Child To stop this Flux the VVoman must be kept in bed and forbear all things that may heat the Blood especially anger she must use a strengthening and cooling Diet feeding on Meat that breeds good blood and thickens it as Broths made of Poultry Necks of Mutton Knuckles of Veal wherein may be boyl'd cooling Herbs she may eat new lay'd Eggs Gellies Rice-milk Barly-broth and the like and Iron must be quenched in her Beer and she must forbear Copulation and the Belly must be bathed about the region of the VVomb with Tent wherein Pomegranate-peel Provence Roses and Cinnamon has been boyl'd But if the VVoman be taken with Flooding the case is extreamly hazardous and if it continues violent she must be deliver'd without delay for otherwise death will necessarily follow Yet it is to be noted that it must not be done presently as soon as the Flux is perceived because some small Floodings have been sometimes suppressed by keeping quiet in bed by bleeding in the Arm and the use of Remedies above mention'd If therefore the Blood flows but in a small quantity and continues but a little while she must not be delivered but if it flows in so great abundance that she falls into Convulsions and Faintings the Operation must not be deferred whether she has pains and throws or not And because in Floodings weakness and faintings ever follow we must endeavour to preserve that little strength the VVoman has left and to increase it if possible that so she may be able to bear the Operation to which purpose there ought to be given her from time to time good strengthening Broths Gellies and a little good VVine she must always smell to Vinegar and have a warm toast dipt in VVine and Cinnamon appli'd to the region of her heart which do her more good than solid Food and to prevent the Blood from flooding in great abundance before she can be delivered a Vein in her Arm may be open'd to turn the course of it and Napkins dipt in VVater and Vinegar may be apply'd all along her Reins If the Woman be troubled with a bearing down of the Womb her best way is to keep in Bed but if she cannot conveniently do so she must wear a broad Swaith to keep up her Belly but if the bearing down proceeds from humours that relax the Ligaments of the VVomb she must be kept to a drying Diet
abide in such a posture or use such endeavours as are requisite the weight of the Child whereby the Navel is broken the After-birth remaining within the unskilfulness of the Midwife who cuts the Vessels of the Navel too soon or does not hold them in her Left Hand as she ought for if she let them go they are drawn back into the Womb and are hid there with the Secundine It is easie to know when the Secundine is retained in the VVomb but sometimes a piece of it is separated and remains in the Womb which is not so easily perceived yet it may be known because the Womb after Delivery endeavours to eject something but tho its endeavours are but small a sense of heat and pain is perceived in the Womb and after a few days a cadaverous smell exhales from the Womb. The retention of the Secundine is very dangerous and if it continues some days an acute Fever Nauseousness Faintings difficulty of Breathing Coldness of the extream Parts Convulsive Fits and at length Death follows The Secundine retained is expelled by the same remedies which are proposed for a dead Child to which may be added some Specificks deliver'd by Authors Rulandus says he has given with success thirty drops of Oyl of Juniper Some order the Woman to bite an Onion three or four times and to swallow the Juice and presently after to drink a small draught of Wine The Juice of green Lovage drank in Rhenish-wine is also commended Sneesing is also good but the best way is to have it drawn out by a skilful Chyrurgeon before the Inflammation is increased If the Secundine cannot be ejected by any means but sticks firmly to the Womb and putrifies there Suppuraratives must be injected to this purpose Basilicon may be dissolved in the following Decoction Take of the Leaves of Mallows with the roots three handfuls of the roots of both the Birthworts each six Drams of Flax Seeds and Fenugreek Seeds each half an Ounce of Violets one handful of the Flowers of Camomile and the lesser Centory each half an handful make a Decoction in Water mingled with Oyl if you would have it suppurate much but to cleanse add a little Vngentum Aegyptiacum CHAP. XXVI Of the Flooding of a Woman new laid FLooding is a more dangerous accident than any other which may happen to a Woman newly laid and which dispatches her so soon if it be in a great quantity that there is not often time to prevent it wherefore in this case convenient Remedies must be speedily applied to stop it to which purpose it is fit to consider what causes the Flooding and if it be a false Conception a piece of the burthen or clodded Blood remaining behind all diligence must be used to fetch them away or to cause a speedy expulsion of them But if when nothing remains behind in the Womb the Blood notwithstanding continues to flow you must Blood in the Arm to make diversion and let her Body be laid flat and not raised that so the Blood may not be sent down to the lower Parts Let her keep her self very quiet and not turn from side to side the upper part of her Belly must not be Swathed or Bolstered and her Chamber must be kept a little cool and the Coverings of the Bed must not be many that so the Flooding may not be promoted by the heat But if notwithstanding all this the Blood flows continually the last remedies must be tryed which is to lay the Woman upon fresh Straw with a single Cloath on it and no Quilt that so her Reins may not be heated applying along her Loins Cloaths wet in cold Vinegar and Water unless it be Winter and then it must be a little warmed and to the end her strength may be preserved which is extreamly wasted let her take every half Hour a little good strong Broath with a few Spoonfuls of Gelly and between whiles the Yolk of a new laid Egg but too much Food must not be given at a time because her Stomach cannot digest it Her Drink must be Red Wine with a little Water wherein Iron has been quenched and if there is the least appearance of Excrements contained in the Guts make no Scruple to give a Glister to evacuate them But if notwithstanding the Blood continues Flooding then the Woman will often have Fainting Fits and be in great danger of losing her Life because we cannot apply in those places the Remedies fit to stop the opening of the Vessels as we can in another CHAP. XXVII Of a Suppression of the Child-bed Purgations and After-pains THE Suppression of the Lochia is one of the worst Symptoms that can befall a Woman in Child-bed especially if they happen to be totally and suddenly stopt the first three or four days which is the time they should come down plentifully To bring the Lochia well down let the Woman avoid Passion and all disturbances of the Mind which may stop them let her lie in Bed with her Head and Breast a little raised keeping her self quiet that so the Humours may be carried downwards by their natural tendency Let her observe a good Diet somewhat hot and moist and apply an Hysteric Plaster to her Navel Take of the Conserves of Roman Wormwood and Rue each one Ounce of the Troches of Myrrh two Drams of Castor English Saffron Volatile Salt of Armoniac and of Assa fetida each half a Dram with a sufficient quantity of the Syrup of the five opening Roots make an Electuary Let her take the quantity of a Large Nutmeg every third Hour drinking upon it three or four Spoonfuls of the following mixture Take of the Water of Penny royal and Balm each three Ounces of Compound Briony water two Ounces of Syrup of Mugwort three Ounces and an half of Saffron two Drams of Castor tied up in a rag and hanged in a Glass one Scruple mingle them If these things are used presently upon the Suppression they generally take it off but if they have been used so long that all the quantity is taken and the Lochia are still stopt in this case we may use Laudanum for once but it is best to mix it with Hesterick things For instance take sixteen drops of Liquid Laudanum in a Spoonful of Compound Briony or Water But it must be carfully noted that if after having once taken it the business is not done Opium must not be repeated again but having waited a while to see what it will do we must return again to Emmenagoges mixt with Hystericks and afterwards we must inject a Glister but what was said before of Opium is to be taken notice of in respect of Glisters for unless the first bring down the Lochia nothing is to be hoped for from more These things therefore being done it is safest and the duty of a prudent Physician to wait and see what time will do for if the Woman live over the twentieth day she will be in a manner out of danger
the first is common to the whole Body namely because a Woman is fleshy laborious and her parts are so disposed that every Member takes up and expels what is convenient for it so that there is no room for a menstruous purgation these are of a hot Constitution and such as are termed Virago's they are of a brown Colour of a compact Body and their Loins and Buttocks are large so are the Breasts and Shoulders they have a great voice are strong and hairy and this Constitution tho' it be the reason that Women are in health yet it is contrary to their Sex and the Course of Nature and therefore to be accounted vitious But other Women are sickly upon this account If this Disease proceed from an hot Intemperies of the Womb it may be known by a great pain in the part and by the heat of the whole Belly a dry Imtemperies may be known by long Fevers going before and a thin habit of Body but in time they grow Gross and Cachectical by reason of the want of this evacuation If it proceed from an ill Formation there are swellings of the Belly pain and a weight If it arise from a hot Intemperies as it doth most commonly it must be Cured by four kinds of Remedies first by cooling Diet they must eat Chicken Veal or the Broth wherein hath been boiled cooling Herbs as Endive Sorrel Lettice Spinage and the like Oranges are also good and roasted Apples and stewed Prunes their Drink must be small Beer their Sleep and Exercise must be moderate for violent Exercise and frequent walking are plainly injurious and so are disturbances of the Mind Secondly they must Bleed twice or thrice a Year in the Foot and for some days they must take such things as are proper to qualifie the hot and bilious Humours as the waters and syrups of Purslain Succory Endive Violets and the like and let them be Purged with the following Medicines Take of the best Rhubarb two Scruples infuse it a whole night in four ounces of Endive water strain it in the morning and add to it an ounce of Manna or of the pulp of Cassia and an ounce of syrup of Roses solutive Thirdly let them use such things as leisurely attemperate the heat of the Humours and Part as Conserve of Roses or of Violets with Endive-water or a Ptisan before Meals or Goats-milk in the morning with the flowers of Violets and Borrage But the use of Cooling Apozems is much praised in this Case Take of cleansed Barly three pugils of the Roots of Borrage and Succory each Ounce of the leaves of Burrage Succory Endive Fumitory and Sorrel each one Handfull of the Cordial Flowers and of the Cold Seeds each one Pugil of Anniseeds one Dram of Prunes Twelve of Raisons one Ounce Boyl them in a sufficient quantity of Water to one Pint and an Half to the strained Liquor add a sufficient quantity of Sugar make a clear Apozem aromatize it with a Drachm of the Species of the three Sanders But if you intend to have it Purge a little add towards the latter end the Leaves of Senna and of the Pulp of Tamarinds each one Ounce and after it is boyled three Ounces of Syrup of Roses solutive or of Succory with Rhubarb Fourthly Topicks must be applied to the lower part of the Belly Take of Oyl of sweet Almonds washed with the Waters of Barly Gourds and Roses each a like quantity one Drachm of Hens-fat Butter and Goats-milk each half an Ounce of the Juice of Gourds Endive or Violets each six Drachms with Wax make a Liniment Oyntment or Plaister as the Woman likes best But it will do most good if the Part be Fomented before with a Decoction of Lettice Violets Marsh-mallows Fumitory Mallows and the like and to open the Passages add the Leaves of Maiden-hair Mercury and Mugwort a Bath may be also made of these Night Glisters also wonderfully Cool the Womb and the whole Body Take of Chicken-broath altered with the foresaid Herbs six Ounces of the Oyl of Sweet-almonds and Violets each two Ounces of Suggar one Ounce Yolks of Eggs two mingle them let it be retained if she can all the Night and when the Heat is very much stuff the Chicken for this Decoction with Conserve of Roses If the Disease proceed from Dryness it must be Cured with moistning Meats of good Nourishment and with Drinks and the Woman must walk often but not so much as to tire her self and Frictions must be used above the region of the Womb that the parts may be dilated so that the menstruous Blood may be allured to the Womb. Baths are also proper and Oyntments made of mucilages of the Seeds of Psyllium and Quinces and the like and Glysters also do good Take of the Decoction of Marsh-mallows Mallows and Violets six Ounces of fresh Butter three Ounces mingle them make a Glyster But all Evacuations must be avoided for they increase the Dryness If the Disease proceeds from an ill Formation Medicines are most commonly unprofitable and therefore you must endeavour to lessen the Blood if it abound or to divert it another way therefore you must Bleed three or four times a Year in the Arm or in the Foot if Blood seem to abound in the Womb. But if the strength of the Woman cannot bear Bleeding then she must use a thin Diet and frequent Exercise and Frictions all over the Body especially early in the Morning for so the Blood may be turned from the Inner Parts to the Outward and part of it discussed Baths moderately hot are also good and these things may be sufficient for Married Women which by conversation with their Husbands are somewhat discharged but they will not be sufficient for Maids and Widows and therefore it will be necessary to provoke the Hemorrhoids or to open Issues But if the Disease proceed from obstinate Obstructions it must be treated as is proposed in the Chapter of the Suppression of the Courses CHAP. IV. Of the Courses breaking out by places not Natural THE Menstruous Flux happens to break out by contrary wayes upon two accounts for either Nature providing for the safety of the Womans Body when she knows there is any Impediment in the Womb and the Veins of it that hinder the Blood from passing seeks another passage whereby she may be unburthened and the health of the Woman preserved or forgetting the Natural passages she either accustoms her self to another or wandring about she sometimes uses this passage sometimes that for in some the menstruous Blood is discharged by the Mouth in others through the Nostrils by the Eyes and Bloody Tears by the Dugs and Piles also by the Fingers and Urine and sometimes by a Redness in one of the Cheeks and if there be an Impediment in the Womb that hinders the passage of the Blood that way it is better it should flow these ways than not at all for so says Hippocrates Menstruis deficientibus sanguinem e
attenuating and heating Potions made of opening Roots of Calaminth Fennel Saxifrage Burnet Hysop and the like Saffron and Cinnamon being added to them and the Cure must be begun presently after the Purgation of the Courses Let the Woman take every Morning five or six Ounces of the following Apozem Take of the Roots of Smallage Fennel and Parsley each two Ounces of the Leaves of Feverfew Cat-mint Penny-royal Maiden-hair each one Handful and an Half of the Seeds of Anise and Fennel each one Drachm and an Half boyl them in a sufficient quantity of Water to a Quart in the strained Liquor dissolve of the Syrups of Mugwort and Maiden-hair each three Ounces the Syrup of Hysop or of the Five Opening Roots made without Vinegar is also very good being mixed with the Waters of Fennel Cat-mint Penny-royal and Parsley and other things may be used which are mentioned in the Chapter of the Suppression of the Courses 3dly She must be Purged with Agarick Trochiscated or with the Pill of Mastick Or Take of the Pills of Agarick and Aloephargin each two Scruples with the Syrup of Mugwort make four Pills Fourthly Those things which draw the the Blood downwards must be used as bleeding in the Foot three or four days before the accustomed time of the Courses these things being done the Legs and lower Belly must be fomented with a decoction of Fenugreek Camomile Dill Melilot Fennel Parsly Daucus And while she is bathing let her take one of the Tablets called Diacalaminth afterwards let the Parts be fumed with Spices and use Frictions and Ligatures to the Legs and let Cupping-glasses be applyed to the Claves of the Legs without scarification and if the Courses do not yet flow let the Woman be purged every third day with four or five of the Pills mentioned before Let the lower Belly be anointed with the Oyls of Capers White Lillies Dill Cinnamon and Saffron and let Uterine Glisters be injected made of four Ounces of the Decoction of Penny-royal Horse-mint Thym and Cresses with two Ounces of Oyl of Rue or of Dill which wonderfully rouze the dull sense of the Womb. CHAP. VI. Of the Courses corrupted or suppurated THE Courses may be corrupted four several ways First from drawing a putrid quality from the whole Body Secondly from the mixture of some putrid humour in the passages Thirdly by a long suppression Fourthly from an intemperies in the Womb or from an abundance of putrid humours contained in and about it and are coloured and disordered according to the nature of the humours they are White Pale Livid Green Black Skinny Fibrous Membranous Windy Fetid and they have Sand and Worms in them The Cure is in a manner the same which is proposed for the Cure of the Whites for an exact course of Diet being ordered the Woman must be purged with Agarick trochiscated or with the Pill of Mastich if a Phlegmatic humour abounds if a bilious humour be the cause let her be purged with Rhubarb as Take of the best Rhubarb four Scruples of yellow Myrobalans one Drachm and an Half infuse them a Night in three Ounces of Succory Water to the strained Liquor add of Syrup of Roses Solutive and of Manna each one Ounce If Melancholy Humours abound Take of Senna one Ounce of the Seeds of Annise one Drachm infuse them in four Ounces of fumitory-Fumitory-water to the strained Liquor add of Pulp of Cassia and of Syrup of Roses Solutive each one Ounce If the Courses are suppurated such things must be used now and then as evacute a dust and Cholerick humours which may be easily prepared with Agarick Rhubarb and Senna and sometimes Glisters must be used and moderate exercise which purge the Body and Womb and if the Stomach abounding with Flegm be the cause a Vomit used by Intervals is proper that what is daily heapt up there may be purged off before it enters the Veins Thirdly Such things must be used as are able to eradicate the Disease and if the Humours are cold and gross sudorifics must be used as a Decoction of Sarsaparilla Guiac China and the like But if Choler or Melancholy be the cause bathing is most proper but gentle Frictions and Pessaries are proper for both and anoint the Belly with the Oyl of Sweet Almonds or with the Oyl of Violets which are also to be put up the Womb. But if these things do no good an Issue must be made in one or both the Arms which is of excellent use CHAP. VII Of the Complication of the Courses with other Diseases THere is scarce any thing that does disturb Physicians more and which makes them err so much as the complication of the Courses with Diseases and this happens chiefly six ways First When a Disease happens just when the Courses are about to come Secondly If by reason of the invasion of a Disease the Courses come before their due time Thirdly If the time of the Courses and of the Disease are complicated so that they come together Fourthly If the Courses being suppressed delayed or lessened a Disease comes upon them upon an other account Fifthly If by reason of a Disease pre-existing a suppression or delay of the Courses is the cause of the increase of the Disease and its Symptoms Sixthly If when there is a Disease the Courses flow If therefore the Courses are just about to flow when the Disease is beginning or in the process of it we must consider whether the Disease be one of those which is occasioned by the Womb in which case if the Disease requires bleeding without any delay we must draw it from the foot that it may be let out by a convenient way that the Womb may be evacuated and the cause expelled But if the Disease arises from the whole Body or from some principal member of it that Vein of the Arm most affirm must be opened which chiefly respects the part affected but this opinion if it be generally received seems to me injurious and we ought rather to distinguish concerning the number of the days the acuteness of the Disease and the plenitude of the Body for if the Disease be not acute Blood ought to be drawn from the Foot and especially if the Woman be within three or four days of her Courses and in this case she ought to be blooded in the Foot although the Disease be acute and this both reason and experience confirms for Nature is to be evacuated that way she tends if it be a convenient place for if the Woman be blooded in the upper parts we often see that she becomes delirious and that watchings sleepy Diseases difficulty of Breathing and at length Death it self follow But if there be eight days or thereabouts before the time of the Courses and there is a great plenitude and the Woman cannot be so sufficiently evacuated by the Foot as the Disease requires then all agree that she must be blooded in the Arm especially if the Disease be acute but purging Medicines
The Courses as was said before come sometimes drop by drop and sometimes plentifully sometimes by intervals and sometimes continually sometimes orderly and sometimes disorderly It is most commonly occasioned by the same Causes from whence a suppression of the Courses proceeds but gentler for there is not a total Suppression but an unequal Obstruction of the Vessels of the Womb by reason of thick clotted and feculent blood which stretches the Vessels and Nature violently endeavouing to Evacuate it a gross wind arises which distending the Vessels and the neighbouring parts occasions the violent pain which continues untill the clods are ejected Sometimes the Blood flows plentifully yet the Courses are counted difficult and lessened because tho a great quantity is evacuated yet it is not answerable to the plenitude The second Cause is an Ulcer or some preternatural Tumour in the Womb or neighbouring parts which are provoked and hurt by the commotion of the Blood The third is the acrimony of the Humours This Disease is known by a pain in the Head a pain in the Stomach Restlesness pains in the Loins and of the lower Belly just like the pains of Child-bearing coming with the Courses or eight days before There is often also fainting and convulsions and a palpitation of the Heart and by these you may know that the Blood is clotted or thick and a small swelling is sometimes perceived in one or both of the Groins by reason of clotted Blood contained in it and just before the evacuation of the clotted Blood the pain is most violent and at the same time if wind be joined with it it breaks from the Womb or backwards with a noise and there are wandring pains about the Loins and Hips If an Ulcer be the cause Sanies or Pus is mixed with the Blood and the Courses flow always with a fixed pain This Disease afflicts Virgins and those that are Barren The Cure is two-fold the first respects the Cause the second the mitigating the Pain If it proceed from feculent gross and clotted Blood a thin Diet and moderate Exercise must be ordered and Medicines that cause Revulsion and Evacuation must be used Blood therefore must be drawn from the Arm if there be a great quantity of it but if the quantity be small from the Foot and the clotted Blood that cannot be evacuated must be drawn out by Cupping-glasses applied to the Thighs and Legs with Scarification and by Ligatures upon the Legs and the Humour may be turned by applying Leeches to the Fundament if the pain continue after the Courses are stopp'd but they must not be used before Secondly Evacuation must be used with this distinction when feculent and grumous Blood is the cause you must Bleed when an Ulcer Wind or an Acrid Matter you must Purge most Thirdly The Passages must be Relaxed and Opened and the Pain mitigated wherefore if the matter be thick slatulent feculent or clammy a Dram of Venice Treacle or of Mithridate must be taken at Bed-time in three Ounces of Balm-water and Baths must be provided and Lotions for the Legs made of a Decoction of Marsh-mallows of the Seeds of Flax Fenugreek Dill Rhue and Mugwort and the Feet must be bathed in it hot a while and the vapours must be received and a Spunge dipt in it must be applyed to the Privities and the lower Belly must be Fomented afterwards with Flannel dipt in Wine and Oyl of Roses or with a Bladder half full of warm Oyl but it will be better to anoint the Navel and the region below it with Oyl of Saffron of White-lillies the Seeds of Flax of Capers of Yolks of Eggs or of sweet Almonds among which or with one of them must be dissolved a Drachm of Treacle a Pessary dipt in the same is also is of great use or the foresaid Parts may be annointed with Hens-fat and Butter or with Butter and some of the foresaid Oyls The following Oyntment is also very proper Take of the juice of Angelica one Drachm of Oyls of Capers and of White-lilies each one Ounce and an half of White-wine half an Ounce with Wax make an Oyntment The following Cataplasm is also very good Take of common Oyl of sweet Wine and fresh Butter each two Ounces of Bran three Ounces boyl them gently apply them hot and repeat them frequently But if acrid and eroding Matter be the cause you must use gentle Oyntments and Fomentation of warm Water or Purslain and Lettice Water with Emulsions of the cold Seeds and the Parts must be anointed with the Oils of sweet Almonds of Violets and of Roses If the Disease proceeds from an Ulcer you must endeavour the Cure of it and you must mitigate the Pain by injecting uterine Glisters made of four Ounces of warm Water and if the heat be very much the Water must be sweetned with Sugar and you must add one Drachm of the white Troches of Rhasis Or the Glister may be made with three Ounces of allum-Allum-water which is of excellent use or with so much Barly-water with an Ounce of Syrup of Roses or with milk-Milk-water with Sugar or with an Ounce and an half of Milk it self with the like quantity of a Decoction of the Leaves and Seeds of Plaintain to which may be added half an Ounce of the emulsion of the cold Seeds and if the Pain and Heat is very violent inject two Ounces of the Decoction of Henbane or white Poppies But if these things will not do the business some Opium must be mixed with the Decoction before mentioned Lastly if other remedies will not do the business an Issue must be opened in the Leg. CHAP. IX Of the Closure of the Womb. VIrgins labouring under this Disease are said to be Imperforate This closure is wont to be in three places viz. in the mouth of the Womb in the neck of it and in the Privities It is occasioned either in the first Formation when a Membrance covers the Orifice of the Womb or its Neck or by a Wound or Ulcer preceding which growing together stops the Neck of the Womb or joins the Lips or it is occasioned by Humours or a Compression If the Closure be in the Privities it may be easily known but if it be in the Neck or Orifice of the Womb it is not found out till the Courses begin to flow or till Women are Married for at the time of the menstruous Purgation Pains and Gripes are perceived in the region of the Womb at certain times with a sense of weight yet no Flux follows Moreover you may guess at it if the Maid be of good habit of Body not Cachetical and without Obstruction the Disease continuing the Womb swells so that Virgins seem to be with Child and sometimes the whole Body which looks livid But if the Neck of the Womb be closed it may be known in the first Copualtion because it cannot admit the Virile Member Lastly if the Orifice of the Womb be shut it is difficultly known but it
her Food being rather roasted than boyl'd and must refrain from Copulation and must not be strait Laced If the lips of the Privities are much swelled by reason of watery humours falling upon them you must scarifie with a Lancet all along the Lips that the humours may distil out and you must foment the Parts with the following Decoction Take of the leaves of Bays Sage Rosemary and of the Flowers of Camomile each one handful boyl them in a Sufficient quantity of Fountain water to a pint and half of the strain'd Liquor add a quarter of a pint of Brandy and bath the parts affected often with a Spunge dipt in the hot Liquor CHAP. XX. Of Miscarriage TO prevent Miscarriage all indispositions of the Body which are wont to occasion it must be removed as fulness of Blood ill humours and peculiar Diseases of the VVomb as Swellings Ulcers and the like Fulness of Blood opens the Veins of the VVomb or Strangles the Infant and therefore the VVoman must be Blooded and so much Blood must be taken away as will sufficiently discharge nature If an ill habit of body and ill humours are the cause of Miscarriage the VVoman must be frequently purged and a small quantity of Blood may be taken away and betwixt the Purges such things must be used as correct the indisposition of the Bowels and the sharpness of the humours and the humours must be thickened if they are too thin And if Flegmatick humours abound they must be carried off by Sweats and such things as force Urin Issues in the Arms and Thighs are also very proper to prevent Miscarriage whatever ill humours abound in the body The peculiar Diseases of the VVomb as over great Moisture Swellings Ulcers and such like must be cured by their proper Remedies And first if Moisture abound let the Woman be purged with two Scruples of the Pill Coch-major twice a week and when she does not Purge let her drink Morning and Evening of the following Decoction Take of the roots of Sarsaparilla four Ounces of China two Ounces of white and red Sanders each half an Ounce of the rasping of Harts-horn and Ivory each three Drams infuse them and boyl them in eight pints of Fountain water till half is consumed add a quarter of pound of Raisins of the Sun and if the Woman be of a Flegmatick constitution instead of China add two Ounces of Guiacum rasped Let her drink half a pint Morning and Evening Take of Franckincense Myrrh Mastich Storax Calamite Gum of Juniper Ladanum each one Ounce with a sufficient quantity of Turpentine make Troches and let one or more of them be cast on live Coals and let the fume be received into the Privities through a Funnel If a Swelling be the cause you must make application according to the nature of the humour and the time and other Circumstances of the swelling if it be hot and made by fluxion which may be known by the pain and suddenness of the swelling as also by the Tension and Pulsation and by being accompanied with a Fever Bleeding must be used in the first place and the Woman must be frequently purged with the purging Potion mention'd in the foregoing Chapter made of Tamarinds Sena Manna and the like and after Evacuations you must apply cooling and repelling things to the Reins and the lower part of the Belly as Oyl of Roses washed in Vinegar and the like and the following Decoction may be injected into the Womb. Take of the leaves of Plantain Water Lillies Night-shade and Endive each one handful of red Roses two Pugils boyl them in three pints of Fountain water till a pint is consumed add to it of Oyl of Myrtles one Ounce of Vinegar half an Ounce But note you must not use cooling and repelling things too long lest the Tumour be hardened thereby and turn to a Scirrhus and therefore soon after the beginning of the Swelling emollient and resolving things must be mixt with Repellents Mallows Marshmallows Mugwort Fenugreek Camomile and Melilote and if the pain be violent you must inject into the Womb Goat or Sheeps milk with Opium and Saffron each three or four Grains to which may be added a little Rose Water But if the swelling cannot be resolved and tends to Suppuration it must be furthered by the application of the following Pultis Take of the roots of Marshmallows of the Flowers of Camomile and Melilote of the Seeds of Flax and Fenugreek each one Ounce of fat Figs number eight boyl them to the consistence of a Pultis then add the yolks of four Eggs of Saffron half a Scruple of Oyl of Lillies and fresh butter each one Ounce make a Cataplasm If the Swelling be made by congestion it is slow and without pain and generally cold and the matter of it is either thin and serous or thick and flegmatick and apt to grow hard In this case Steel Medicines used as directed in the Chapter of Hysteric Diseases do good but purging must go before Issues in the Legs are also proper and emollient and resolving Medicines must be apply'd outwardly in the following manner Take of the Roots of Marshmallows and Lillies each two Ounces of the leaves of Mallows Violets Marshmallows and Bears-breech each one handful of the Seeds of Flax and Fenugreek each one Ounce of the leaves of Mugwort and Calamint half a handful of the Flowers of Camomile and Melilote each one Pugil boyl them in three pints of Fountain water till a third be consumed and foment the region of the Pubes and Groin with a Spunge dipt in it and pressed out Of the same Decoction the dose of the Simples being increased a bath may be made which is very effectual in this case and more powerful than the Fomentation Glisters also and Injections may be made of the same Decoction and frequently used whereunto may be added the Oyls of Lillies Camomile and sweet Almonds But these Medicines must be used with great caution lest the swelling shou'd degenerate into a Cancer and indeed 't is to no purpose to use Medicines when the Swelling is without pain and of a stony nature But if an Ulcer be the cause the cure of it must be performed by stopping the Fluxion of the humours and by cleansing and conglutinating the Ulcer and first if the Body abound with Blood or if the Ulcer be accompanied with an Inflammation a Vein must be opened in the Arm and Bleeding must be repeated as often as there is danger of a new Fluxion especially at the times of the Courses to lessen them for they are wont to increase the matter of the Ulcer and to promote the Flux of other humours to the Womb. Purging is also very necessary to cleanse the Body from ill humours but it ought to consist of gentle Catharticks as of Sena Rhubarb Tamarinds Myrobolans and the like or the Purging Potion of Tamarinds may be used but if the Woman Vomits easily she may take the following Vomit or the like
Poppy Heads Flowers of Roses and tops of Mellilot and apply the following Oyntment Take of Old Treacle one Ounce of the Juice of River Crabs half an Ounce of the Juice of Lettice and of Oyl of Roses each one Ounce and an half of the Yolks of Eggs roasted under the Embers number two of Camphor half a Dram beat them in a Leaden Mortar The Discutients are Ceterach Agrimony Ducksmeat Scabious Thorn-apple the Juice of Coriander Frogs Snails River Crabs Raisins of the Sun stoned and beaten with Rue and Garden Night-shade made into a Pultits are proper to resolve them Many such Medicines are designed to this purpose Cancers requiring variety of Applications If notwithstanding all your Endeavours the Tumour increases and is like to ulcerate you may do well to forewarn the Patient of the danger and if it be loose propose the extirpation of it propose it to them lest afterwards they desire it when it is too late But to undergo this Operation Successfully the Patient ought to be of a strong Constitution and of a pretty good habit of Body and not in declining Age when the Courses are ceased It were also to be wished that the Cancer took its original from some Accident or Bruise and the like and the Operation ought to be performed in the Spring or Autumn of the Year For a Cancer of the Womb Topicks must be applyed which moderately Bind and Cool Take of Oyl of Myrtles and of Roses each two Ounces of the Juice of Night-shade and of Housleek each one Ounce beat them all in a Leaden Mortar with a Leaden Pestle till they grow black then add of Lytharge and of Ceruss washed in Scabious water each three Ounces of Tutty prepared two Drams of Camphir ten Grains make a Liniment wherewith Anoint the Part three or four times a-day The following is said to be better and with it the Tumours of the Paps which are counted Cancerous may be Cured Take of the Oyl of Yolks of Eggs two Ounces of the Juice of Night-shade and Speedwel or of Housleek each half an Ounce of crude Mercury two Drams stir them about in a Leaden Mortar with a Leaden Pestle till they acquire the consistence of a Liniment The foresaid Liniments are to be applyed to the Womb with a long Tent or with a Wax Candle wrapt round with a Rag But Injections may be much easier used Take of Barley water half a Pint of the waters of Night-shade and Plantain each two Ounces of the water of speedwel one Ounce of the white Troches of Rhasis two Drams of Sacharum Saturni one Dram make an Injection If the Pain be very violent add to four Oounces of the Injection one Ounce of Syrup of Poppies If the Cancer be Ulcerated the Dose of the Mercury to be added to the foresaid Liniment must be increased and the Ashes of River Crabs may be conveniently added But all these things are not sometimes sufficient to appease the violent Pain which sometimes will not suffer the Sick to sleep or rest so that we are forced sometimes to use Narcoticks and indeed they are not injurious in this Disease I knew a Woman that was affected with a Cancer in her Breast who took every Night for four Months two or three Grains of Laudanum and was much relieved thereby If much Blood flow from a Cancer ulcerated as it often happens inject into the Womb the Juice of Plantain with a little Frankincense Lastly Seeing a perfect Cure cannot be expected whether the Cancer be ulcerated or not we must endeavour to hinder the breaking of it and the increase of it when it is broken and in both we must qualifie the violence of the Pain by such things as evacuate the whole Body and by other Remedies which alter and evacuate the melancholy Humour and hinder its growth as by Bleeding in the Arm the Hemorrhodial Veins in the Foot by the use of Potions Apozems Juleps Broath Milk Whey Mineral Waters and the like which are commonly prescribed but Purging must more especially be repeated CHAP. XXXIX Of Worms and of the Stone of the Womb. THough many are of the Opinion that Worms are Generated only in the Intestines yet it is manifest by Experience and the Testimony of Learned Men that they are Bred in many other parts of the Body as in putrid Ulcers in the Teeth in the Ears in the Reins and in the Bladder tho' rarely by reason of the acrimony and saltness of the Urine In the Womb also Worms are sometimes generated tho' it be rare because the passages of it are so open that they will not suffer the Humours tho' they are gross and crude to continue there so long as to generate Worms They are most commonly Ascarides and they are most commonly in the Privities or in the Neck of the Womb they are very like those that are in the right Gut perhaps they creep thither from the Anus The material cause of Worms is a cold phlegmatick and crude Humour which is apt to putrifie When there are Worms in the Womb the whole Body is restless and uneasie the Mouth of the Womb is always moist the Women are thin and weak and sometimes the Worms are expelled with the Courses and sometimes they may be seen the Lips of the Privities being opened Women so afflicted sleep disturbedly and often wake in a fright they have disorderly Fevers and all other Symptoms which appear in Worms of the Intestines As to the Cure we must endeavour to hinder the generation of them and to kill them when they are generated this may be done by three sorts of Remedies First By a thin hot and drying Dyet by acid and bitter Meats yet they must consist of good Nourishment and be easily concocted and that are free from all crudity the flesh of Chickens of Hens of small Mountain Birds and the Broath of them with the juice of a Lemon are good Among Fruits Oranges Cappares Olives with Vinegar Among Herbs Endive Sow-thistle and Groundsel Let her Drink be a Decoction of Cinnamon Rubarb the Seeds of Purslain the Roots of China Scorzonera or Sarsaparilla All Meats of Milk Fish and whatever generates Flegmatick Humours must be avoided and full Feeding and a disorderly course of Dyet Secondly Those things must be used which Concoct and Purge off Phlegmatick Humours as Syrup of Wormwood Succory Succory with Rhubarb of the acid juice of Citron with the waters of the same Herbs or of Grass Purslain and Sorrel and the Flegm must be constantly Purged off with Pills of Mastick of Agarick or the like Thirdly Such things must be used as kill Worms and uterine Glisters to that purpose must be injected made of a Decoction of Wormwood Southernwood and Centaury with Allom. Or Take of Mint Calaminth Penny-royal each one Handful boyl them till the third part of the Water is consumed mingle Honey with it and inject it Or Take of the Decoction of Lupins six Ounces of Aloes three Drams
the assaults of this Disease tho they are not hollow and tho there is no apparent Defluction that may occasion the pain yet it is no whit gentler nor shorter nor easier Cured But the pain of the Back is most common which most certainly all feel how little soever they are afflicted with this Disease Moreover this is common to the foresaid pains that the place whereon they were is tender and akes as if it were soundly beaten but this tenderness goes off by degrees And this is worth observing that often a notable coldness of the outward parts makes way for these Symptoms which for the most part does not go off till the fit ends which coldness is almost like that wherewith a Carcass grows stiff yet the Pulse is good Moreover all Hysteric Women complain of a dejection and sinking of the Spirits and sometimes laugh excessively and at other times cry as much without any real cause for either But the most proper and almost inseparable Symptom is a Urin as clear as Rock-water Sometimes ill fumes are belched up and sometimes the Wind that comes from the Stomach is sower just like Vinegar But their Minds are more affected than their Bodies for an incurable Desperation is mixt with the very nature of the Disease A day would scarce be sufficient to reckon up all the Symptoms belonging to this Disease and I think Demetrius reckn'd pretty right tho he mistook the cause of the Disease when he said in an Epistle to Hippocrates that the Womb was the cause of Six hundred Miseries and of innumerable Calamities The external causes of this Disease are either violent motions of the Body or which is much oftner vehement disturbances of the Mind to these disorders of the Mind which are usually the occasion of this Disease is to be added emptiness of the Stomach by reason of long fasting inmmoderate Bleeding a Vomit or Purge that works too much In order to the cure I order that eight Ounces of Blood be taken from the right Arm and that the following Plaister be apply'd to the Navel Take of Galbanum dissolved in Tincture of Castor and strain'd three Drachms of Tacamahaca two Drams mix them make a Plaister The next Morning let her use the following Pills Take of the Pill Coch-major two Scruples of Castor powder'd two Grains of Peruvian Balsam four drops make four Pills let her take them at five in the Morning and sleep after repeat them twice or thrice every Morning or every other Morning according to the Womans strength and as they work Take of the Waters of Black-Cherries Rhue and Compound Briony each three Ounces of Castor ty'd up in a rag and hanged in the Viol half a Dram of Fine Sugar a Sufficient quantity make a Julep whereof let her take four or five Spoonfulls when she is faint dropping into the first dose if the fit is violent twenty drops of the Spirit of Harts-horn After the Purging Pills just described are taken let her use the following Take of the filings of Steel eight Grains with a sufficient quantity of extract of Wormwood make two Pills let her take them early in the Morning and at five in the Afternoon for Thirty days drinking upon them a draught of Wormwood Wine Or if she like a Bolus better Take of the Conserves of Roman Wormwood and of the yellow peel of Oranges each one Ounce of Angelica and Nutmegs candied and of Venice Treacle each half an Ounce of candied Ginger two Drachms make an electuary with a sufficient quantity of Syrup of Oranges Take of this electuary one Drachm and an half of the filings of Steel well rub'd eight Grains make a Bolus with a sufficient quantity of Syrup of Oranges to be taken in the Morning and at five in the Evening drinking upon it a Glass of Wormwood-wine Take of choice Myrrh and Galbanum each one Drachm and an half of Castor fifteen Grains with a sufficient quantity of Balsam Peru make twelve Pills of every Drachm let her take three every Night and drink upon them three or four Spoonfuls of Compound Briony Water through the whole course of this process But if these Pills move the Body which sometimes they do in Bodies that are very easily purged the following may be used instead of them Take of Castor one Drachm of Volatile Salt of Amber half a Drachm with a sufficient quantity of extract of Rue make twenty-four small Pills let her take three every Night But Steel Medicines which must be noted occasion sometimes in Women great disorders both of Body and Mind and not only on the first days which is usual almost in every body but also all the time they are taken In this case the use of Steel must not presently be interrupted but Laudanum must be given every night for some time in some Hysteric water that they may the better bear it But when the Symptoms are mild and it seems the business may be done without Steel I think it sufficient to Bleed and to Purge three or four times and then to give the altering Hysteric Pills above-mentioned morning and evening for ten days which method seldom fails when the Disease is not violent yea the Pills alone Bleeding and Purging being omitted do often a great deal of good But some Women can't bear Hysteric Medicines and are much injured thereby therefore they must not be given to such If the Blood is so very feeble and the confusion of the Spirits so great that Steel ordered to be used according to the method prescribed is not sufficient to cure the Disease the Sick must drink tunbridge-Tunbridge-waters or the like for they cure Diseases more efectually than any preparation of Iron but if in drinking of them any Sickness happen that belongs to Hysteric Symptoms the Sick must forbear drinking them a day or two till that Symptom that hindred their passage is quite gon And it is to be noted that Purging must be avoided all the time the Woman drinks these waters But if this Disease does not yeild to Steel-waters the Sick must go to the Bath and when she has used the waters of it three mornings following the next day let her go into the Bath and the day following let her drink them again and so let her do by turns for two months for in these and others of what kind soever they are the Patient must persist in the use of them till she is quite well Venice-treacle used often and a long time is a great remedy in this Disease Spanish-wine with Gentian Angelica Worm-wood Centory and other strengthening things infus'd in it does a great deal of good some spoonfuls of it being taken thrice a day if the Woman be not thin and of a cholerick habit of Body And truly a large draught of Spanish-wine taken by it self at bed-time for some nights has been very beneficial to some Women Jesuits-powder also wonderfully comforts and invigorates the Blood and Spirits a Scruple of it being taken morning and
naribus erumpere bonum est The cause of this Disease is most commonly some violent Passion of the Mind or some great disturbance happening when the Courses are near flowing it comes also from Obstructions of the Womb or by reason of violent Pains and great Diseases of the upper Parts also from the weakness of them when the VVomb and lower Parts are strong for the weak Parts always receive what the stronger put upon them It also comes from some external Cause as by drinking cold Water unseasonably or by washing the Feet and Legs unseasonably or by the use of Vinegar when the Courses are near The Scope of the Cure is Two-fold the First is the Evacuation of the Blood abounding the other is the Recalling of it to the lower Parts which is chiefly done by Cooling the upper Parts and by Heating Moistning and Opening the lower Parts but both may be well answered by Bleeding in the Foot three or four days before the Blood flows and by applying Cupping-glasses to the Thighs Legs and Hips sometimes Dry but most commonly with Scarification and also by provoking the Hemorrhoids by Frictions by Walking by hot Baths natural or artificial by Fomentations made of opening Herbs by Unctions Pessaries and uterine Glisters But see more of this in the Chapter of Suppression of the Courses The two following Remedies are peculiarly proper for this Disease viz. Bleeding in the Foot for several Months at the times we have mentioned and the Bath-waters wherein the Woman must be Bathed early in the Morning and must continue a while in them but this must be noted that the Waters must not reach above the region of the Liver and in the mean while the upper Parts must be â—anned CHAP. V. Of the Courses coming before their due time and of staying longer than they should IN many Women the Courses flow before their accustomed time and sometimes they stay longer than they should and this anticipation and delay are sometimes orderly and sometimes disorderly The Causes are either the Vice of the Womb as the ill Figure of it or a Solution of the Continuum and sometimes a hurt on some other account as a Vitious humour that irritates before the time by reason of plenty of Blood or the thinness or sharpness of it the quantity of humours occasioning it may be known by the dulness of the Body by the sanguine habit of the Woman by a sedentary and idle Life by excess in eating and drinking or by some other Evacuation stopped or lessened The Acrimony of the Blood may be known by the Heat Erosion and Pain in the Excretion or by the Vitious habit of the Womans Body and the course of her Life foregoing or by the Diet she was wont to use and the like But if it come leasurely and without pain the retentive faculty is weak it may also be occasioned by a blow or fall If it proceed by reason of the Loosness and fault of the retentive faculty it must be strengthened by proper Remedies if it come from a plenitude it must be remedied by a sparing Diet and moderate Exercise and by taking away so much Blood as is agreeable to the strength in the middle of the Month or a little before the Courses flow Frictions also in the Arms and in all the upper parts of the Body are proper the Woman must abstain from Wine and all Strong-waters and instead of them Chalybeats must be used and if these things do not do the business she must be blooded in the Arm but if it proceed from the Acrimony of the Humours she must eat freely Meat of good nourishment and must exercise a little and such Medicines must be used as attemperate the humours and she must be purg'd and Uterine Glisters must be injected made of two Ounces of Oyl of Violets and four Ounces of the Decoction of Mallows but care must be taken that the Courses be not quite stopped because it is dangerous Lastly if a blow a fall or difficult labour occasion this disease the following Cataplasm must be applied to the Womb and Neighbouring parts Take of the Powders of Dragons-blood Frankincense Mastich and of the greater Comfry each two Drams with a sufficient quantity of Turpentine make a Cataplasm If the Woman be of a hot Constitution apply the following Plaister Take of the Powders of Roses Myrtles and Balaustins and Mastich each one Drahom of fine Flour one Ounce with the Whites of Eggs make a Plaister The Courses stay beyond their time by reason of age when they are about to go away or by a vice of the whole Body or of the womb If it proceed on the account of age you must only endeavour to prevent those inconveniences which are wont to follow especially the Gout and a pain in the Hip which may be done by a spare Diet much exercise and by bleeding yearly till Nature has been accustomed to the want of the menstruous Purgation But if it proceed from a Vice of the whole Body it must be treated as a suppression of the Courses If it proceed from a peculiar disorder of the Womb it requires a peculiar Cure and is a Symptom of the kind of the vitiated action of Excretion either because it is hindred by the ill Formation or a gross Humour that Obstructs The Causes therefore are these three which are contrary to the anticipation of the Courses viz. the weakness of the Faculty the fault of the Humours and the dulness of the Sense The impotence of the Faculty is occasioned by the frigidity or moisture of the Temperament or by the depraved Figure of the Instrument the Humour is faulty upon the account of its thickness siccity and clamminess The Sense is rendred dull most commonly by moisture abounding The weak Faculty by reason of Frigidity is known by the Womans perceiving a weight and disturbance after the time of the coming of her Courses is past The fault of the Instrument may be known by what went before as by hard labour a tumour cicatrix leaping or a fall whereby the Womb or a part subservient to it is displaced or the figure of it deformed The fault of the Humour may be known by those things that are evacuated by the Blood as if it be whitish it may be seen if it be gross and clammy a sedentary life and a gross and flegmatic Diet went before the Woman is of a soft pale and leaden habit of body and is fat and by the Bloods flowing slowly and by the long continuance of the Courses sometimes and by their ending in a slime If when they stay a long time before they come the Woman does not perceive any disturbance in the Womb and neighbouring Parts the Sense is dull If the Disease arise from a thick and clammy Humour as it does most commonly it must be cured according to Galen with three sorts of Remedies First by a thin and heating Diet by moderate exercise and frictions of the Legs Secondly by
Lotion to fortifie and settle those parts which have been much relaxed as well by the great extension they received as by the Humours wherewith they have been so long time soak'd this Remedy may be composed with an Ounce and an half of Pomgranat Peel an Ounce of Cypress Nuts half an Ounce of Accorns an Ounce of seal'd Earth an Handful of Provence Roses and two Drachms of Roch-allom all which being infused in a Quart and half a Pint of strong Red-wine or that it may not be too sharp some Smiths water may be mixed with the Wine afterwards boil it to a Quart then strain it squeezing it strongly and with this Decoction Foment the inferior parts Night and Morning to strengthen and confirm them But they will never be reduced to the same state they were in before the Woman had Children A small Plaister of Galbanum with a little Civit in the middle may be also applyed to the Womans Navel As for Swaiths they need not be used the first Day or at least very loosly especially if there has been hard Labour because the least compression of the Womans Belly which is then very sore as the Womb also is proves a great inconvenience to her wherefore let her not be swaithed until the second Day and that very gently at the beginning The use of Swaiths and of a good large square Bolster over the whole Belly may be continued the first seven or eight Days to keep it a little steady but they must be taken off and removed often to anoint the Womans Belly all over if it be sore and if she has After-Pains with Oils of sweet Almonds and St. Johns-wort mixed together which may be done every Day But after that time they may be degrees begin to swaith her straiter to contract and gather together the parts which are greatly extended during her going with Child which may be then safely done because the Womb by these former cleansings is so diminished that it cannot be too much compressed by the Swaiths Proper Remedies may be applied to the Breasts to drive back the Milk if the Woman will not be a Nurse but if she intends to be a Nurse it will be sufficient to keep her Breasts very close and well covered with gentle and soft Cloaths to keep them warm and to prevent the curdling of the Milk and if there be danger of too much Milk being carried thither anoint the Breasts with Oyl of Roses and a little Vinegar beat together and put upon them some fine Linnen dipt in it observing that if the Woman do Suckle the Child she give not the Breast the same day she is brought to Bed because then all her Humours are extreamly moved with the pains and agitation of the Labour therefore let her defer it at least till the next day and it would be yet better to stay four or five days or longer to the end the fury of the Milk and the abundance of the Humours which flow to the Breast at the beginning may be spent in which time another Woman may give it Suck Although a Woman be naturally Delivered yet notwithstanding she must observe a good Diet to prevent many ill accidents which may happen to her during her Child-bed at the beginning whereof she must be directed in her Meat and Drink almost in the same manner as if she had a Fever that so it may be prevented in as much as she is then very subject to it for this reason she must be regular in her Diet especially the three or four first Days in which time she must be nourished only with good Broaths new-laid Eggs and Gellies without using at the beginning more solid Meats but when the great abundance of her Milk is a little past she may with more safety eat a little Broath at Dinner or a small piece of boyl'd Chicken or Mutton afterwards if no accident happens she may be degrees be nourished more plentifully provided that it be a third part less than she was accustomed to take in her perfect health and that her Food be of good and easie Digestion as for her Drink let it be a Ptisan made of Liquorish Figs and Anniseeds boyled in Water She may also if she be not Feverish drink a little white Wine well mixed with Water but not till after the fifth or sixth Day But it is to be noted that laborious Women of a strong Constitution require a more plentiful feeding yet notwithstanding if they do not change the quality they must at least retrench the quantity of their ordinary Food The Child-bed Woman must likewise keep her self very quiet in her Bed lying on her Back with her Head raised and not turning often from side to side that so the Womb may be the better settled in its first Situation She must free her self at that time from all care of Business let her talk as little as may be and that with a low Voice and let no ill News be brought to her which may affect her because all these things do cause so great a commotion of the Humours that Nature not being able to overcome them cannot make the necessary Evacuation of them which has been the Death of many The Woman ought always to keep her Body open with Glisters taking one once in two Days which not only evacuate the gross Excrements but also by drawing downwards cause her to Cleanse the better When she has observed this Rule a Fortnight or three Weeks which is very near the time of having Cleansed sufficiently that those Parts may be throughly cleansed before she goes abroad and begin upon a new Score let her take a gentle Purge of Senna Cassia and Syrup of Cichory with Rubarb which is good to Purge the Stomach and Bowels of those ill Humours Nature could not evacuate by the Womb This Purge may be repeated upon occasion Women in their first Labours have many times bruises and rents of the outward parts of the Womb and they must never be neglected lest they degenerate into malignant Ulcers for the heat and moisture of these Parts besides the filth which continually flows thence easily contributes to it if convenient Remedies be not timely applied wherefore as soon as the Woman is laid if there be only simple contusions and excoriations apply a Pultiss made of yolks and whites of new-laid Eggs and Oil of Roses seethed a little over warm Embers continually stirring till it be mixed and then spread it upon a fine Cloath and apply it very warm for five or six Hours when being taken away lay some fine Rags dipt in Oil of St. Johns-wort on each side the bearing place and renew them twice or thrice a Day Foment these parts with Barly-water and Honey of Roses to cleanse them from the Excrements which pass and when the VVoman makes water let them be defended with fine Rags to hinder the Urine from causing pain and smarting Sometimes the bruises are so great that the Bearing-place is inflamed
three Ounces of Oyntment of Marsh-mallows two Ounces of Ducks Fat and Goose Grease each one Ounce of Deers Suet two Ounces of Liquid Storax half an Ounce with a sufficient quantity of Wax make a Cerat Hemlock boyled in Wine and beaten up with Hogs Lard resolves the hardness of the Breasts Green Mints or Chickweed are common applications and of good use either alone or mixed with other Medicines in all the hard Swellings of the Breast occasioned by Milk All Plasters applied to the Breasts must have a hole sniped in them for the Nipples lest they be fretted by them especially that the Milk may be drawn forth whilst the Medicines lye on But it is best to prevent such Swellings at the beginning by procuring an ample and large Evacuation of the Lochia For the Chaps and Excoriations of the Niples Rags dipt in Plantain-water may be applied or the Oyntment called Diapompholigos may be used But great care must be taken that nothing be applied to disgust the Child wherefore some only use Honey of Roses But if the Excoriation and Pain be much the Woman must forbear giving the Child suck If the Child has wholly sucked off the Nipples the Milk then must be quite dried away that so the Ulcers which remain may be the sooner healed CHAP. XXXI Of want of Milk THE cause of want of Milk is a Vice of the Blood the weakness of the Body or of the Child the smallness of the Breasts the narrowness of the Vessels any immoderate Evacuation by another part as by the Mouth by the Courses by the Nostrils or by the Hemorrhoids by immoderate Cold ill Diet Fasting great Labour or Sorrow The whole Cure in a manner consists in Diet. If therefore it be occasioned for want of Blood or by a dry Intemperies from whence it chiefly proceeds it must be cured by a hot and moist Diet and the Air must be moist and moderately warm Sleep is better than immoderate Watching The Bread must be Wheaten and well fermented Goats or Sheeps Milk boil'd with Yolks of Eggs and sweetned is good so is Rice boild with Milk and Honey Potched Eggs Chicken Broath Mutton or Veal Broath or Broath of Phesants or the Flesh of them with a Sauce made of Rocket and Honey the Udders of Animals are also good Of Fishes a Trout Mullet a Salmon Soles Place Pikes and the like are good and for the second Course Sweet Almonds Raisins of the Sun Pistaches Pine Nuts Rocket Parsnips roasted under the Embers or prepared with Honey Diascorides and Avicenna commend Fennel and Smalage Lettice is also good so are Cabbage Wild Thime Leeks Rocket Fennel Let her drink be sweet Wine or White-wine or Barley water with the Seeds of Fennel or Ale wherein if you boyl Butter Sugar and Bread you 'll Scarce find a better Diet for this purpose The German Women use this for their Meat and Drink almost all the time they give suck All things that are acid acrid bitter and very hot must be avoided But if this defect proceed from heat or choler you must use cooling things and the Body must be purged according to the Nature of the Humour But if the Blood be Flegmatick and the Vessels obstructed you must open the Obstructions and attenuate the Blood therefore you must give hot things as Smallage Dill Penny-royal with Wine But you must be careful not to give things that are too hot for they dry up the Milk And as those things which Moderately provoke the Courses breed Milk so those that violently force them lessen it Blood is never to be drawn nor are strong Purges to be used But if it be necessary to use Purging by reason of the fault of the Humours the Nurse must take four days before such things as increase the Milk and such Medicines must be given as increase the Milk As Take of thee Seeds of Fennel of Leeks and Rocket each two Drams of Mace one Dram of the Leaves of Mallows half a handful boyl them in Chicken Broath and let her take six Ounces of the Broath and wash the Breasts with the Broath But if the want of Milk proceeds from the smallness of the Breasts foment them with a Decoction of Fenugreek and Camomile made in Wine or with hot Beer and Butter But if these things do not good you must chuse another Nurse but you must try all things first for change of Milk is very injurious to the Child CHAP. XXXII Of a Woman suckling her own Children and of chusing a Nurse THE Mothers Milk is fittest for the Child because it is most agreeable to it Nature Besides the Mother will be more vigilant and careful than a hired Nurse for none can love the Child so well as the own Mother who upon the account of her affection is unwearied in the attending of the Child and thinks she never does enough for it and is presently awaked by its crying whereas mercenary Nurses often overlay Children and suffocate them Moreover the Body and the disposition of the Mind are more framed by the Milk and Nourishment than by the nature of the Seed and as you often observe that the Child is purged when the Nurse is Purged so the Body and Humours are in a manner the same with hers as Trees partake of the nature of the Soil they are planted in Besides it is the duty of a Mother to nurse her own Child for those that do not are but half Mothers and to be sure cannot love them so well as those that do Upon this account a Roman Youth of the Family of the Gracchi returning Rich and Victorious from the Wars being met by his Mother and his Nurse gave his Mother a Silver Ring and his Nurse a Gold Chain whereat his Mother being offended You said he nourished me only Nine Months in the Womb and then rejected me this Woman received me into her Arms and suckled me two Years and taught me to be orderly The Water nourishes what is bred in the Water and the Earth nourishes what is bred in the Earth Nor is there any Beast so cruel as not to nourish its young ones Tygers Lions and Vipers take care of their young ones and only Man makes Foundlings of his Oh! incredible and execrable Villany what can be more cruel than to expose a tender Infant that implores his Mothers help as soon as possibly she can get rid of it But God in his Providence often punishes their Inhumanity for their Milk often curdles in their Breast and occasions dreadful pains so that those Breasts which were denied their Children are forced to be suckt by Puppies nor is this all for their Breasts are often Inflamed and Suppurated and must be cut with Knives or burnt with red hot Irons or becoming Cancerous the rotten Flesh drops from them piece-meal But some will object in their excuse that they are either too young or too weak yet without doubt if they are able to Conceive they may Suckle too
Also Directions for making Compound Waters Syrups Simple and Compound Electuaries Pills Powders and other sorts of Medicines Moreover the Gums Balsams Oyls Juices and the like which are sold by Apothecaries and Druggists are added to this Herbal and their Virtues and Uses are fully described 8 o The Storehouse of Physical Practice Being a General Treatise of the Causes and Signs of all Diseases afflicting Human Bodies Together with the shortest plainest and safest way of curing them by Method Medicine and Diet To which is added for the Benefit of Young Practisers several Choice Forms of Medicines used by the London Physicians 8 o These Five by the Author of this Treatise Pains afflicting Human Bodies Their various Difference Causes Parts affected signals of Danger or Safety shewing the Tendency of Chronick and Acute Diseases for a seasonable prevention of fatal Events With a Tract of Issues and Setons By E. Manwaring M. D. 8 o The Compleat Chyrugeon or the whole Art of Chyrurgery explain'd by way of Questions and Answers Containing an exact account of its Principles and several parts Viz. Of the Bones Muscles Tumours Ulcers and Wounds Simple and Complicated or those by Gun-shot as also of Venereal Diseases the Scurvey Fractures Luxations and all sorts of Chyrurgical Operations together with their proper Bandages and Dressings Whereto is added a Chyrurgical Dispensatory shewing the manner how to prepare all such Medicines as are most necessary for a Chyrurgeon and particularly the Mercurial Panacaea Writen in French by M. Le Clerc Physician in Ordinary and Privy Counseller to the French King Faithfully Translated into English 12 o Pia Desideria or Divine Addresses In three Parts 1. Sighs of the Penitent Soul 2. Desires of the Religious Soul 3. Extasies of the Enamour'd Soul Illustrated with 47 Cuts Written in Latin by Herm. Hugo Englished by Edm. Arwaker 8 o The Art of Catechizing or the Compleat Catechist In four Parts 1. The Church Catechism resolv'd into Easie Questions 2. An Exposition of it in a continued full and Plain Discourse 3. The Church Catechism resolv'd into Scripture Proofs 4. The Whole Duty of Man reduced into Questions Fitted for the meanest capacities the Weakest Memories the Plainest Teachers and the most uninstructed Learners 12 o Country Conversations Being an Account of some Discourses that happened in a Visit to the Country last Summer on Divers Subjects chiefly of the Modern Comidies of Drinking of Translated Verse of Painting and Painters of Poets and Poetry 8 o The Christians Manual In two Parts 1. The Catechumen or an account given by the Young Person of his Knowledge in Religion before his admission to the Lords Supper as a Ground Work for his Right understanding the Sacrament 2. An Introduction to the Sacrament Or a short safe and plain way to the Communion Table being an Instruction for the Worthy Receiving the Lords Supper To which is added the Communicants Assistant being Devotions to that purpose fitted to be used before at and after the Receiving the Blessed Sacrament Collected for and Familiarly addressed to every particular Communicant By L. Addison D. D. Dean of Litchfield 12 o Letters of Religion and Virtue to several Gentlemen and Ladies to excite Piety and Devotion with some short Reflections on Divers Subjects 12 o A Practical Discourse of the Sin against the Holy Ghost Shewing plainly 1. What it is 2. How any Person may certainly know whether he has been Guilty of it Designed to bring Incouragement to the Faithful Penitent Tranquility of mind to the Obedient Joys to them that love and the Returning Sinner from Desparation 8 o A Discourse Proving from Scripture and Reason that the life of Man is not Limited by any Absolute Decree of God By the Author of the Duty of Man 8 o The Best Gnide to Devotion being short Prayers Meditations and Thanksgivings taken out of Scripture and fitted to all occasions 24 o Advertisement EXcellent Purging Pills prepar'd by the Author are to be sold by Mr. Henry Bonwicke at the Red Lyon in St. Paul's Church-yard They cure the Scurvey the most reigning Disease of this Kingdom they Purge the Head Breast Stomach and Reins and Cleanse the Blood and are a very proper Purge for those that cannot confine themselves when they want Purging but are forced to go abroad about their Business The Price of each Box is One Shilling Six Pence with Directions for use FINIS