the sharp bones whence is great pain watching and inflamation of gums feaver loosness and convulsions especially when they breed their eye-teeth First it is known by the usual time as the âeginning of the seventh month Also they put their âingers in their mouths to allay pain 3. They hold the nipple faster then before 4. The gum is white where the tooth begins to come and there are divers Symptomes mentioned before The feaver that follows breeding of teeth comes from cholerick humors inflamed by watching pain and heat The longer teeth are breeding the greater the danger so that many die of feavers or convulsions They are best that have their belly loose These have no convuision a feaver consumes the humoâs Hard breeding of teeth is from thickness of the gums therefore molliâie and loosen them rub them with the finger dipt in Butter and Honey or a Virgin Wax Candle is to be chewed upon Or anoint with âucilage of Quinces made with Mallow water or with the brains of a Hare Foment the cheek with the Decoction of Althaea and Chamomil flowers and Dill or with juyce of Mallows and fâesh Butter If the guâs are inflamed add juyce of Nightshade and Lettice Let the Nurse keep a temperate diet inclining to cold as Barley broaths or Watergrewel rear Eggs Prunes Lettice Endive Avoid salâ sharp biting and peppered meats and Wine Chap. 15. Of Loosing of the Tongue and of the Frog WHen the tongue is tied they cannot freely suck This must be done by skilful Artists or use this Liniment Take clarified Honey and boyl it gently till it may be poudered Then Take yolks of hard Eggs dried in a glass in an Oven till they may be poudered a dram ârankincense and Mastich each a scruple burnt Allum six grains with Honey of Roses make a Liniment The Frog is when the veins under the tongue are filled with bad blood and if flegm sweat out and stick in the passages there is a tumor like Mushrooms which causeth stamering It is cured thus Take Cuttlebone Sal gem Pepper each a dram burnt Spunge three drams make a Pouder or with Honey a Liniment rub under the tongue Lay under the chin a Plaister of goose dung and Honey boyled in Wine till the Wine be consumed Chap. 16. Of Catarrh Cough and difficult Breathing WEE have spoken of these before but because Hippocrates reckons them in Childrens diseases I shall touch upon them The general Cause of a Catarrh in a child is a moist brain and much milk that burdens the stomach from whence many vapors fil the brain and if the brain be full of excrements it is easily dissolved or melted either by heat or cold and goes to the nose ââws or lungs which cause a cough or Asthma Moreover much food makes crudities in the first passages and flegmatick blood is bred of crudity and thick chyle in the liver This is sent by the arâerial vein into the lungs and prâssing the Bronchia or pipes of the lungs causeth difficult breathing and Asthma It is known to be from a hot humor if it be thin they often neese the face is red and the jaws the breath is short and the Nurse âinds it in her nipples If difficulty of breathing come from the head there will be a cough and snorting in breathing and a noise in the lungs when the air passeth not freely through them If it come from the parts below there is neither Câtarrh nor cough but hardness about the Liver and a tumor In children a great Catarrh with short breath is hard to be cured because they cannot take Physick First let it and the Nurse keep a good diet fil not the stomach with milk nor other diet but let the Nurse forbear sharp salt peppered âour things and things that fill the head with vapors And give her a Pectoral Decoction Take Figs âujubes each ten Sebestens thirty Raisons stoned âen drams Liquorish two drams Maidenhair Hysop Violets each half an ounce boyl them in three pints of Water to the consumption of the third part Let her take six ounces every morning Keep the belly open with Syrup of Roses or Cassia or a Clyster with oyl of sweet Almonds with Sugar candy or juyce of Fennel with Milk or hold down the tongue and provoke Vomiting Give Syrup of Jujubes Maidenhair If the matter be thick give Syrup of Hysop or Horehound or an Emulsion of oyl of sweet Almonds Pine-nuts Scabious water Or give a Lohoch of Diaireos Diatragacanth frigid Peâidies with Syrup of Jujubes If it be hot give Emulsions of the âour great cold Seeds with Mallows Pellitory with Diatragacanth frigid To dry up the matter lay outwardly a stuph of Hemp hot and sprinkled with pouder of red Roses and Frankincense Apply Basil and Marjoram to the nose to make it sneese Chap. 17. Of the Hickets IT comes from corruption of the food in the stomach or from milk âilling it or from cold ãâã these hurt the expulsive faculty and it is ââârred up to expel what is hurtful If iâ come from reâletion of milk the belly swells and there is vomiting after If from corruption of milk the Nurse hath bad milk the child cries and is pained and the excrements sânââl of stinking milk Hiâkets is commonly not dangerous in children and cease when the cause is taken away Iâ it be from a vehement cause and goes to the nerves there follows a Convulsion or Epilepsie and death That from corruption of nourishment is cured by vomit with a feather dipt in Oyl to tickle the throat then strengthen the stomach with hot things As Syrup of Mints Bettony and soment it with Decoction of Mints Organ Woâmwood then anoint with Oyl of Mints Mastich Dill. Or Take Mastich an ounce Frankincense Dill seed each two drams Cummin seed a dram with juyce of Mints and Flax apply them to the stomach There is a disease like the Hiâkets in children from anger or grief when the Spirits are much stiâred and run from the heart to the Diaphragma forceably and hinder or stop the breath Somtimes they have a shril voice the Spirits suddenly breaking forth but when the passion ceaseth this Symptom ceaseth Chap. 18. Of Vomiting IT is from too much milk or bad milk or fâom flâgm that fals from the head to the stomach but this is seldom in children It is ofâen from a moist loose stomach for as driness retains so loosness le ts go If it be from much milk they are better after vomiting If it be from corruption of milk that which is vomited is yellow green or otherwise ill coloured and stinking worms are known by their signs It is for the most part without danger in children and they that vomit from their birth are the lustiest for the stomach being not used to meat and milk being taken too much oftentimes crudities are easily bred or the milk is corrupted and it is
receiving pleasure in the time of copulaâion when they spend their âeed The terâs are fleâmatick thiâk and ââimâ and flow not righâlyâ there is wind in the womb the seed is crude waterishâ with a Gonorâhaea It is the cause of obstructions and barrenness and is hard to be cured Use things proper to heal the womb as this Wâteâ Tâke Galangaâ Ciânamonâ Nutmeg Mace Cloves each twâ ãâã Gingâr Cubebâ Zedoary âardamoâs eâch ân ounce grains of Paradise long Pâpper each half an ounce beat them and put them iâ six quârtâ of âine for eiâht daies then add Saâe Minâs Balm Motherwârt eacâ three handfâls lât them stand âight daies more then pour âff the âine and beât the herbs and the Spiâes and thân pour on the Wineâ and distil them Another Take Cinnamon Nutmegs Clâvâs Mace Gingerâ Cubebâ Cardamomsâ grains of Pâradise âach an ounâe and halâ Galânâal six drams long âepper haâf an ounâe Zedoary five drams bruise them and add six quarts of Wine put them in a Cellar nine daiâs daily stirring them then add Mints two hândâuls then let them stand fourteen daies pour off the Wine and bruisâ them and then pour on the Wine againâ and distil them Querceâan hath an Hâsterick Exâract a âreater and a less use outwardly Fomentations Bathsâ Baggs of hot Roots as Birthwort Lovage Valeâian Angelica Burnet Mâsterwort Calamus Mâdder Elicampane Orâis and Herbs as Mugwort Balm Motherwort Savin Pennyroyal Calamints Organ Dittany Maâjoram Rue Bettony Rosemary Lâvender Sage Stoechasâlowers Seeds of Smallage Parsley Rueâ Carrots Anise Fennel Cummin Lovage Parsley Anoint with Oyl oâ Lillieââ Rueâ Aâgelica Bays Cinnamon Cloves Mâce Nutmeg Or Take Labdaââm twâ ounces Frankinceâse Mastich âiquid Storax âach half an ounââ Oyl of Cloves Nuâmegs each halâ a scruple Oâl of Lillies Rue âach an ounce with Wax make a Plaister A Fâme Take Frânkincense Mirrh Mastich âach a dram Bayberries a dram and half Labdaâum two dramsâ Sâârax Clovesâ eacâ a dram Gum Arâbick and Wine make Troches or Pessaries of âhe same Let the diet be warming and the air the meat âf easie concoâtion seasoned with Anise Fenâel Thyme Avoid Milk-meats and raw fruits Chap. 4. Of the moist Distemper of the Womb. THis is âommoâly joâned with a coâd distemper aâd causeth bârrenness aâd ãâ¦ã the same causes as a cold distemper for commonly cold things do moisten It is commonly in women âhat are idle They that have moist wombs abound in courses but they are waterish and thin the privities are wet they have the Whites and desire not copulation much and delight not in it they retâin not the seed and if they conceive when the child is big they aborte or miscarry If it last long it is hard to be cured if it be much they conceive not It is by Dryers and things that cure the cold distemper are good againââ the moist because all Healers have a drying power Use sulphur Baths and in Injections beware of astâingents least the evil humors be stopâ and the disease iâcreased Chap. 5. Of the dry Distemper of the Womb. IN this the womb is hardened of it self it is fleshy and soft and moistned by blood foâ conception It is somtimes from the birth or old age when they are past childbearing if it be from drâing causes they are barren before they are old Diseases and Medicines dry the womb as inflammations feavers and when blood flows noâ to it nor goes to the bottom of it by reason ãâã the straitness of the veins or obstructions as iâ Viragoe's and such as never conceived and iâ they void any blood it is fâom the neck of thâ womb and not from the bottom They void little âeed and are âlow in Veneryâ the terms are few the mouth of the womb is dry and they are slender of a dry constitution their lower lip is alwaies chapt and blackish red This disâemper is hard to be cured in any part especially if it be old Use moistners as Borage Bugloss Mercury Mallows Althaea Violets sweet Almonds Pistâchaes Pine nuts Jujubes Dates Figs Raisons Of which are made Syrups Conserves Emulsions Candies c. Outward Remedies are made of the same adding Time Faenugreek seeds Lillies Branckurlin Pellitory c. Fomentations are made with Milk and after bathing anoynt the region of the womb and the belly to the privities with oyl of sweet Almonds Lilliâs Lineseed Jesamin fresh Butter Hens and Goose grease Let the Diet be moistning the Air moist the Meât fatning of much nourishment and small excâement let sleep be a little longer then usual great labour anger sadness fasting do hurt Chap. 6. Of compound distempers and first of cold and moist THere is seldom a simple distemper in the pârt and commonly there is matter which âeeds itâ it is usually cold and moist which gaâheâs excâements of that sort either in the wholâââdy or in the womb after the terms Are all things that breed cold and flegmatick humors in the whole body or the womb They conceive not and are of an ill habit of body the terms seldom flow right and they have somtimes the whites It is harder to cuâe then a simple distemper The cold humor is in fault therefore prepare it with syrup of Mugwort Mints Bettony Hysop with a decoction proper As Take Fennel roots an ounce Valerian Elicampane Masterwort each half an ounce Penny-royal Mugwort Motherwort Nep Marjoram each a handful Rosemary and Sage flowers each two pugils Siler Montane Fennel Aniseed Parsnep seed each a dram boyl them to ten ounces strained add Sugar syrup of Mugwort two or three ounces Cinnamon water half an ounce make a potion for three doses Then purge it with Agarick Mechoacan Turbith and if other humots be mixed with flegm add Senna and the like or use Pills de tribus Aloephanginae Mastich of Hiera with Agarick Sine quibus Or Take Agarick a dram and half Senna two drams infuse them in Mugwort water to three ounces strained add Diaphaenicon or Diacarthaemum twâ drams strain and add syrup of Mugwort half an ounce Cinnamon water half a dram After universal evacuations use Pessaries As Take Mercury bruise it and put it in a bag of white Silk anoynt it with Butter or Honey of Roses Or Take Benedicta laxativa three drams Agarick two drams Giâh seed a dram Pease meal six drams with juyce of Mercury make Pessaries in a Sarsnet Bag. Or Take Hiera a dram Agarick âalf a dram âdellium a dram with Honey make a Pessary or make it with pouder of Agarickâ and Troches of Coloquintida or give sweats of Cuajaâum China and Sarsa As Take Guajacum a pound and eighteen ounces inâaâe them in twelve pints of water twenty four hours âhen boyl them to the consumption of the third part âive six or eight ounces âot in the morning and leââer sweat Pour water to the reliques and boyl them to âhe consumption of the third
the body and it could not form the child ãâã would Nature make milk of it Therefore menstrual blood onely offends quantity and not in any maniâeât or hidden qâlity But it hath strange qualities when it is ãâã with bad humors or is kept too long in body to be corrupted and cause great Syâtoms but this is when it is mixââ with bad mors or is out of its vessels and so corrupts Question 3. Of the âext of Aristotle 7. de hist Animalium câpââ and how it is to be understâod Aristotle writes thus Constantly every month âome have their Terms but most in the third as âf he should say Few women have their courses âvery month but many have them every third âonth This is against Galen and against expeâience for it is certain that among six hundred women scarce one hath them every third month Therefore there is either an errour in the Greek Text or in the Translation or great Men do often ãâã which is probable and so did Arist tle in this of Physick Therefore it is in vain to defend their ârrour Chap. 2. Of the Terms flowing too soon ORdinarily they begin at fourteen but many have had them sooner A child of eleâen daies old had a bloody humor flowing from ãâã privities Another of five years old had eveây month a moderate flux Fernel reports that Girl of eight years old had the Terms but these ãâã rare and for the most part very lecherous ãâã short lived Chap. 3. Of want and stopping of the Terms SOme Women have them not till eighteen or twenty Some before and then they stop for a time without either giving suck or being with child Some have been without them three five or seven months and then they came agaiâ This is an evil constitution or suppression of thââ which it ought to flow from the fault of the blood and stoppage of the passages When Terms are wanting either blood is wanting oâ stopt It is wanting either beâause it iâ not made or dispersed or turned to other useâ for nature being more sollicitoâs to preserve the individual person then to propagate the speciâs spends ãâã in preserving of the person Blood is not made from divers causes as aâe cold constitution of âiver Heart or a disease which distempers the ââwels Or often bleeding from great vessels or ââom having many issues which take from the blood It is spent other waies as before ripe age anâ when women are with child or give suck or iâ hot Natures and fat women in whom it is tuâned to fat It is in vain to provoke Terms iâ these There are other external evident causes of sâââping of the Terms as too great labour troubleââadness fear but these last do not only wast ãâã blood but cool and corrupt it and cause obsââctions as Hippocrates speaks of Phatusa the ãâã of Pytheus The proper causes are the straitness of ãâã passages or evil conformation of the ãâã through which it should slow Or the closinâ the womb of which we spake but I speak ãâã of the veâsels The usual cause of obsââuction is thick ãâã humors fâom the blood too thiâk or mixed ãâã melancholy which comes with it to the veiââ the womb and stops them This thick blood comes from a cold distemper of the stomach liver and spleen from thick and gross food and drinking cold water when the Terms flow So thought Galen in his time of the Roman women that drank Snow-waterâ and had few or no coursesâ Straitness is when the body of the womb is made thicker either by Nature or other causes as a cold and dry or hot and dry disteâper Thirdly straitness is from compression of the vessels by a Scirrhus or hardness of the parts adjacent as the straight gut or by the stone in the bladder and the womb displaced Fourthly the flesh may grow together by a membrane that grows to the vessels or a ââar after a wound Or after a mischance when the veins annexed to the Secundine grow so together that they cannot be opened of which in the first Question They are not the same in women and Virgins for blood stopt in Virgins goes to and âro changeth the colour and brings Feavers especially the white Feaver or Green-sickness But in women it goes more to the womb and brings Symptomes as loathing vomiting and Pica Galen hath other signs as heaviness a lazy pain in the loyns neck and behind in the head that reacheth to the roots of the eyes from the spâeading of the blood stopt through the whole body This laziness is chieâly in the thighs and leggs by reason of the veins there consenting with the womb And are of a green complexion and hairy with a beard and shrill voice You may know women with child from such aâ want their Terms only by pââper signs First the women with child keep their colour but the other are pale and ill-câloured they are merry the other sad 2. Their Symptoms daily grow milder but in the other they daily grow worse 3. You may feel the child move 4. It is perceived in a month You shall know from what causes the Terms are stopt thus If the Liver be cold there is no blood made that is superfluous and there are signs of a âold Liver and you may know that blood is not sent to the womb when there is no heaviness pain or tumor about the womb the liver or spleen are stopt If it be ârom flegm or melancholy which is oâten there are signs of their abounding as lazâness paleness seldom pulse crude urin Hippocrates saith That if the Terms stop therâ are diseases in the womb tumors imposthumes ulcers and barrenness and diseases in the whole body Green-sickness Leucophlegmacy Dropsie Vomiting of blood Heart-ach Cough And the longer they have been stopt the haâder they are to be opened If the blood stopâ go out at the nose it is good If it have great Symptomes there is fear of death You must not give Medicines to move the Terms to extenuate lean persons nor to such as want blood and have a weak Liver but they must be sed high First see iâ bloâd abound and then aâter a Leniâive open a veinâ and lât that blood which is in the veins be drawn to the womb Galââ took thâee âints of blood at three times fâom ãâã leân womân and cured her of an old stopping ãâã the Terms You must open the ankle veinâ the firât day the right the next the left four or five daies before the time Or you may cup and ââariâie the Leggs And bind the parts below and rub them after general evacuation opening of the Haemorrhoids doth hurt and so do Issues because they draw from the womb Hiera picra halâ an ounce or Pills de Tâibus oâ Hiera simple are good first Then prepare as Take water of Mugwort ãâã Maidenhair âaâh three âuâces Syrup oââhe five Roots and of Mugwort each two ounces maâe
or thrice rather then the arm once Therefore Galen commends Hippocrates that he opened a vein in the ankle in the Servant of Schimarg though she had a Plâthoryâ But in other diseasâs of the womb as inflamâation dropping or too many Terms it is good to open a vein in the arm The Saphena is opened by putting the foot in warm water before and after Question 3. At what time must a Vein be opened against the sââppage of the Terms Galen saith It must âe when Nature may be helped be the blood moved that is three or four daies before the usual time of their coming as if she had them alwaiâs in the ful of tâe Moon and they have been stopt some monthsâ bleed three or four dâies before the full to puâ nâture in mind of her duty and to make the blood run again Chap. 4. Of fewness of the Terms IT is when they flow less then they use or ought to âlow It is either from the blood or in the expulsive faculty in the passages As if blood âe little the Terms are few and slow if the retentive faculty is weak and the expulsive strong they come at due time but in small quantity If the Terms are slow the fault is in the quality of the blood being too thick Also straitness of the passages may be a cause for if they be not wide enough the blood cannot flow fâeely The patient will tell the disease but the cauâe of it is to be found in the Chapter aâoregoing Few Terms from little blood is not dangerous if they be stopt from thick blood there follow diseases as Erysipelas Scirrhus or Cancer See the Chapter aforegoing for the Cure and and if it be from thickness of blood it is often cured by a general Purge for the whole body Chap. 5. Of Dropping of the Terms THis is a flux and lasts long and there is pain The blood flows not conveniently at the due time and manner and the privities are alwaies wet as when the urin drops Are from the blood and the passages of it and the retentive faculty as when the blood is too thiâk and sharp which stir up Nature to let it out and because it stretcheth the membranes theâe is pain Also the weakness of the retentive faculty is a cause The women declare it but if it be from thick blood and sharp and strait passages there is a sââetching pain about the womb If it be from câudity of blood and weakness of the retentive âaculty the blood flows without pain and is not much âelt It is troublesom to women and if it last long âauseth ulcers and inflammations It is all in mending of the thick and sharp âlood and in opening the passages which are âhe two chief causes of it of which we spake at ârge If blood be superfluous loose it not nor open the ankle-vein lest you draw it more to the womb but take away the Cacochymy If it be from weakness of the retentive faculty strengthen the womb with dryers and ash ingents Chap. 6. Of the overflowin of the Terms IT is when it is too much or too long and hurâs any woman and brings diseases but a certain proportion of bleeding is not to be deâined but too much is lost when the actions are hurt The immediate Cause is the opening of the vessels and the mediate cause is the blood in quantity or quality offending or by its force or disorderly motion Vessels are opened by Anastomosis Diapedesis Diaeresis or ruption or by Diaurosis or coârosion Anastomosis is from a moist distemper of the vesselsâ which loosneth the orifices or from external causes as Baths hot and moist or usâ of Aloes The flux is seldom too great from a Diapedesis for it is but a sweating through Ruption is from plethory when the Terms have long been stopped and then break out and when the blooâ is hot by air baths c. The outward causes are falls strokes hard travel great burdens lifted Erosion is from sharp blood or humor or from Medicines that corrode as Pessaries long kept For this great flux is chiefly from the veins in the bottom of the womb The flux of blood is too great when the strength abateth and Cachexy âollows with paleness swollân feet and the blood that comes from the bottom of the womb is blacker and âlottedâ That from the neck is redder and thinner The signs of the causes If it be from muâlr blood there are signs of plethory and it easily âlotteth together If the blood be sharp and cholârick it is putreâied in the womb you shal know waterish blood by its colour and the signs of that humor abounding and if you dip a clout in it and dry it in the shade you may see it If the womb be too moist such causes went before If it be from breaking of veins they will tell you of violence If it be from corrosion it is little and slow somtimes pure somtimes âerous It weaânâth the whole body the liver and bowels there is swounding the Whites and paleness and Dropsie somtimes That which hath been longâ is hard to be cured and causeth death and in an old woman it is deadly If there be fulness abate the blood and keep it from flowing to the womb revel it râpâl cool and astringe it that it may not flow so faââ and then amend the blood If it is from plenty of blood open the Liver-vein in the right arm bleed little and often because it makes better revulsion and weakens not open the Salvatella if there be weakness and cup âhe Back and Breast aâainst the Liver beneath âhe papps where are veins from the womb cup âot beneath but in the shoulders or back and ârms with scarification but scaâiâie not under âhe breaâts Bind and rub the aââs and shouldeâs and temâer and thicken the sharp thin humors with Deââctiâns and Waters of Plantane Purslane Sorrelâ Knotgrass Shepherds-purse Pomegranate-Syrup and of dried Roses Sorrel Puâslane Coral Conserve of Roses Bole sealed Earth If it be urgent use Naâcoticks Syrup of Poppies Treacle Philonium Laudanum If it still continue it is fed with choler thereâ fore purge it with Syrup of Roses Manna Rhubarb Senna If it be fed with serous blood help the âeins that do not their duty and the Liver and sweat with China You must not provoke urin but use astringents As Take the juyce of Ass-dung Syrup of Mirâlâs each half an ounce Plantane water an ounce Give it her and let her not know what it is Decoctions Take Comfrey roots Tormenâil âach two drams Purslune Plantane each a handful boyl themâ add to six ounces Syrup of Curranâ Quinces Mirtles each six drams giveâ it at twice Or Take Syrup of Purslane juyce of Neââles each two ounces Purslane water four ounces Troches of Amber of sealed Earth each a dramâ Bloodstone half a dram give two spoonfuls every day
A Water Take eight pinâs of Waâer âiâh Starch Barley meal and Rise dried Roses a handful juyce of Yarrow Plantane each half a pinâ Comfrey roots and all three ounces Horsâail Bloodwort each half a handful Pears and Quinces Pomegranate flowers all Sanders each half an ounce Masâich an ounce distil them and give twâ ounces with half an ounce of Syrup of Roses or Purslane Electuaâies Consârve of Rosâs two ounces Quinces an ounce and halfââroches of burnt Ivory arâ sealed Earth each a dram Crocus Martis Bâle red Coral prepared Mastich each half a dram wiââ Syrup of Mirâles make an Electuaryâ Poâders Take Mastich red Coral prepared âach a dramââearl Smaragâs prepared ãâ¦ã a sâruple Bloodstone half a sâruple Bâle hâlâ drâm make a Poâder Michael Paschal cured many with this Pouder Take two Egâshâllâ burnt Frankinceâse Mastich âach half an ounce Pearl red Coral and Amber âach two drams Bloodstone Smaragds prepareâ âââh half a sârâple Barley âlour twâ pugils whites of four Eggs with âiâelâd Water make Câkes Give from half a dram to a drâm in pouder with Trotter broath in the morning Or give every day a dram of the pouder of Mulberry tree roots Or Take a plump Turtle drawn and pluckt wash it in roseâRoseâwater and red Wine put an ounce of Mastich in the belly of it stick it on and roast it and bast it with Vinegar of Roses Then put it into a glass close luted to be dried in an oven then beat all of it to pouder Give a spoonful with Plantane water or an astringent Dâcoction Anoint the bottom of the belly âeins and groyns with the dropping of it Or make Rouls thus Take Bole half a dram Magistery of Coral a dram Pearl prepared a scrâple Sorrel and Plantane seed each half a dram Aromaticum rosatum Traganth each half a dram with Sugar dissolved in Plantane water make Rouls In the use of cold Asâringents take heed you sâop not the veins and the heat be cooled If these help not use Narcoticks aâ Troches of sealed Eaâth and Amber with Oâiâm these astringe also Uâe no Pessaries except the veins in the neck oâ the woâb be open As Take Snâkeweed Tormentil each half an ounce Pomegranate flowers Plantane seed each two drams Comfrey roots ãâ¦ã Frankincense Mastich each a dram Acâciâ Sanguis Draconis each two scruples Blood-stone Starch each a dram and half with the whiâe of an Eg and Gum traganth dissolved in Rose water make Pessaries with red Silk Womb-clysters Take juyce of Yarrow Solomons seal each two âunces Mucilage of Gum Arabick made in Plantane water two ounces make a Clyster A Fume Take Frankincense Mastich each two drams Mirtles Labdanum each a dram red Roses Pomegranate flowers each half a dram with Gum traganth make Troâhes to be burnt Oyntments Take Oyl of Mirtles Quinces each two ounces juyce of Plantane Solomons seal Horstail each an ounce boyl the juyces away ad Bole Plantane seed Mirtle berries Ceruss each half an ounce with Wax make an Oyntment Or use the Countesses Oyntment to the loyns and pecâen Cataplasms Take Quinces Pears boyled in red Wine add Bole Mastich Sanguis Draconis Acâcia make a Cataplasm or a Cerot Or Take Sorrâl and Plantane seed Purslane seed Bole Sanguis Draconis each two drams Frankincensâ Mastich Mirrh each three drams Turpentine an ounce wiâh juyce of Plantane and Yarrow and Wax make a Cerot after the juyces are boyled away Fomentations are better then Baths for they make the humors flow more Let them be astringent and cool Or wash the legs and hips in cold water Lay Epithems to the Liver Oyntments Cerots or Plaisters If choler offend give Rhubarb and Consârve of Roses to evacuate the Cacochymy If blood flow from a vein broken use Coral Bole Mirtles Comfrey Acacia Hypocistis or apply a Pultis of whites of Eggs and astringent Pouders If it come from a vessel corroded use stoppers and glutinaters that aâe slimy as Dropwort roots a dram with a rear Eg. Let the diet be as the Physick is In a flux from plethory eat little and that of little nourishment and in other cases give things to close the vessels Sleep long and use little Venery little or no exercise Anâer hurts and other passions Question Whether Frictions or Ligatures in the Legs may be made for Reâulsion Hippocrates and Galen are misconstrued in his 8. Book of Blood-letting and they are not to be used in the flux of the Terms Chap. 7. Of the Terms flowing with pain and Symptoms THe Symptomes are pain in the loyns or thighs head-ach biting at the mouth of the stomach pain in the belly and loyns fainting They are as in suppression of Terms but less vehement and are in them that have not conceived There is obstruction thick and gross blood that stretcheth the vessels and the blood flows not orderly A little before the Terms there is head-ach biting at the stomach pain in the loyns and bottom of the stomach with beating at the heart and âainting When the pain is from thick blood it comes forth in âlodds and the pain is worse beâore If it be from wind it is sudden and stâies not in a place and there is rumbling in the belly Take heed it tuân not to the stoppage of terms if it be neglected It is greater in barren women and Virgins then in those have had children Take away the cause if they be thick humors evacuate them after they are prepared if sharp temper them These attenuate blood water of Grass roots Maidenhair Decoctions of the opening Roots Syrup of Maidenhair oâ the five Roots Treacle and the like in the stoppage of the Terms Against pain âse the Fomentations and Oyntments in the Chapter of pain of the Womb. Chap. 8. Of evil discoloured Terms THis is called the Terms depraved by bad humoâs and so they are voided Blood is foul either from evil diet or evil humors or stoppage of it The humors are flegm choler or melancholy mixed with it and then the Teâms are either pale blew green or black and stinkingâ or white and flegmatick They are so from a fault in the stomach The pale and yelloâ are aâe from too great heat in the liver The blaâk arâ from the spleen disordered Thaâ blood which is naturalâ is different fâom the bâd in colour and substance it is like that âf a new ââain sheep noâ thiâker nor thinner and âhe âad Terms come noââeâsonably but soonââ or laterâ of which Hippocrates You may know by the colour what humor predominates and by the subâtance The flegmatick and melaâcholy are long in coming and the cholerick waterish Terms come qâicker The more they diââer from the natural sâate the worse they are black and stinking are worst The matteây are woâst of all If these flow seven eight or nine dâies she is cured if they ulcerate the womb she is barren Hippocrates saith they must be purgâd and prepared
And Take of it half a pound add eight ounces of Wine in a glass set it in the embers stir it and let it boyl twelve simmers tâl you see it âroath and grow a little thick then pour the âroath and all into another vessel do thus four times and then let it be gently boyled till it be thick as Honey Then Take Parsley Carrot seed Diacurcuma Diarrâodon each a dram and half Cinnamon a dram Steel so prepared six drams with Honey make an Electuary give three drams or five after exerâise If the Spleen be stopt Take Steel prepared a pound wash it with Vineâar then strain it and lay it on a clout and add pouder of Cloves hâlf an ounce Let them stând so a day and a night then put them in a glassed vessel ad ten ounces of white Wineâ Diarrhodon Harts tongue Senna and Capar baâksâ then stir them then set them in the Sun for a day or in an Oven do this ten daies til the Steel be melted in the Wine and little or nothing at the bottom Give two ounces of this in the morning afâer purging and exercise Or Take Steel prepared an ounce Cinnamon Aniseeds each two drams Diamosâhu without musk a dram Sugar an ounce make a Pouder give a dram drink white âine and Mugwort water aftâr it Steâled Wine Take Steel in poudâr three ounces Cinnamon half an ounce white Wine three pints set them in a close glass eight dâies in the Sun stir them every dayâ Give six or eight ounces four hours aâore dinner for fifteen or twenty dâies and walk after it At first give a Steel-medicine to prâpare As Take Steel filings four ounces âât iâ in an irân ãâã âiblâ or Ladle thân cast it into two pints of water of Hâps Grass Mâdder Borage or spring-Spring-water stââin it and do so ââven timâs Then Take so many ounces oâââw Steel and cast it into water as befâre strain and add Syrup of Violets Borage or ãâã of Râses four ounces give three ounces in the morning âfter exârcise Prepare thus three or four times and ââen use stronger Aââeâ Steel use Sâorzonera stââpt all night in Wine give ãâã the morning This hath cured obstructiâ ãâ¦ã Bezââr ââone ââith Mercatus opens obstructions in my exâerience and rehâts venom give six or seven gââins Steel is beât Spring and Fall purge and exercise before and after it that it may be better dispersed Use Preparatives Purges and strengtheners often and for a long time and change the forms least the patient loath them If water spread about the body cool the body and make it heavy Use Sweats as Baths natural or artificial of Mugwort Calamints Nep Danewort Sage Bays Rosemary Mercury Ivy Briony roots Orris Elicampaâe After puâging and opening obstructions all the Symptoââs wil vanish if not see for the Symptoms of the womb Let the air be temperately hot The meat of good juyâe and easie digestion pot-herbs and green fââits must be avoided fish milk lettice Make Sâuâe with Sage and Cinnamon Drink Wine lât bread âe well leavened with âennelsââdâ drink no watââ noâ Broaths at first and in the deâliââtion of the disease use exercise and Vânâry Let sleep be moderate Question 1. Whether may the woman in this Disease be allowed the absurd things they long for They are Virgins or women with child that long for such things Virgins must not be allowed them as chalk c. for they will increase the disease Women with child must be pleased with fair woâdsâ to abstain from them but if the appetite wil not be allayed rather grant them then suffer an abortion or mark upon the child Question 2. Is motion and exercise good in the Green-sickness They are better then idleness which heaps up crudities they raise the languishing heat in the bowels and help the nourishment to be distributed therefore they are to be used before the disease be great and in the declination they discuss the humors But use moderation least you weaken the body or choak themâ First therefore use Frictions then watching then more exercise after convenient purging Question 3. Whether is Venery good for Maids in the Green-sickness It is probable and agreeable to reason and experience that Venery is good Hippocrates bids them presently marry for if they conceive they are cured John Langius âaith this disease comes in the ripeness of age or presently after Venery heats the womb and the parts adjacent opens and loosens the passages so that the terms may better flow to the womb But if there be a great Cacochymy take that away before she be married and then Venery may do more then Physick But use it not in the vigor of the disease nor in weakness Question 4. Whether is Blood-letting good in this Disease A Cachexy beginning with coldness of the whole body seem to deny bleeding and because the crude humors are in fault rather then blood But Hippocrates adviseth bleeding at the first If it be a new disease and comes from stopt terms and blood abound that is stopt and not turned into another humor you may boldly bleed provided the strength permit and the passages be open But in an old disease when crude flegm abounds bleed not for it will increase the disease Chap. 3. Of Symptomes from the Womb and Mother-fits in General IT is not to be expressed what miserable diseases women are subject to both Virgins and others from the womb and its consent with other parts For when terms or blood are stopt there are great Symptoms and while they putrefie or get evil qualities the Symptoms are grievous and almost unexpressible One woman may have divers Symptoms from the womb at the same time when the seed and terms are mixed with other humors after they are corrupted and there is more sometimes and such noble substance as seed and terms being corrupted are like poyson The consent with other parts is from likeness of parts nearness or connexion of vessels And because the womb is membranous it hath a great consent with the membranes and nerves Also the parts adjacent are easily infected And thirdly it hath consent with all the body by veins arteâies and nerves It consents with the brain by the nerves and membranes of the back-marrow it consânts with the heart by the arâeries with the liver by the veins which are great in the womb and therfore the blood and bad humors go back to the ââver It consents with the stomach by Anastomosis in the veins of the Mesentery and by the arteries through foul humors and vapors go from the womb to the Mesentery and stomach It conâents with the spleen by the arteries therefore many women that had not their terms enough in their youth and have hot blood are âfter Hypochondriack and a Physitian can scarce distinguish these diseases of the womb and spleen nor cure them severally It consents with the papps by veins and nerâes and the heart Diaghragma head brain and all
with Womb-clysters and Pessaries then dispeâse the reliques and strengthen the womâ But âirââ give a general Purge that is gentle often and use things that prevent the breeding of seed Strengthen with Plaisters and Oyntments to the region of the womb As Take liquid Storax two drams Avens Agnus castus seeds Angelica each half a dram Alipta moschata a scruple Oyl of Nard Lillies and white Wax make aâ Oyntment Or Take Seeds of Agnus castus â dram all Sanders each half a dram whitâ Rosâ pouder a dram Tacamahaca a scruple Amber tââ scruples Alipta moschata half an oânce with Turpentine Labdanum and Wax make a Plaister Iâ she be a Virgin let her be married If it be from terms stopt see in the Chaptââ of that This disease is neither from seed nor bloodâ nor humors if they be not corrupted after a peculiar manner If it be from the womb disteâpered give the Inâusion of an ounce of Brionâ root in white Wine onâe in a week for a year ãâã bed time or this Hysteâiâk Water Take Lovage roots Piony Angelica Zedoarâ each an ounce Misâeto of the Oak gathered in the wane of the Moon two ounces Mints Balm Calamints Bettony each a handful Carrot Parsnep sââd Castor each half an ounce distil them in white Wine and water of Motherwort after eight daies infuson Or Take Briony Valerian Spignel Angâlica roots each half an ounce Balm Caâamints Pennyroyalââettony each half a handful boyl them in Wine add Syrup of Mugwort an ounce give it aâ thrice Vitriol of Iron one grain with two grains of Sugar given in Wine some weeks is excellent Or Take Cummin seed wild Parsnep seed each â dram give a dram in pouder Orâ Take Faeââla Brioniae two drams Cummin seed Parsnep sâed ââch a dram Amber half a dram Cloves two sâruâles Cinnamon a scruple make a Pouder Pills Take Castor a scruple Assa faetida half â scruple Mirrh Galbanum Sagapenum each a âcruple with Honey of Mercury make âills take ãâã a sâââple or a scruple often Or take Treacâe ãâã âââhridate Apply Plaisters or Linâments to the region of ãâã Womb thus Take old Treacle half an ounce Agnuâ castus seeds a dram Oyl of Angelica and âummin seeds each two drams with Plaister of ââyberriâs âr make Oyntments of the same Questâââ 1. What preternaâural diseases is the ãâã of the Womb properly ââme say it is a cold distemper in quality chanâ they say right but coldness is not the chief ââââom Others say it is respiration hurt Synâââ or Convulsion But it cannoâ be defined by one Symptom Foâ somtimes the animal actions are hurt and there is a Megrim Delirium Convulsion and sense and motion are gone Nor is it strange that so small a vapor should bring such Symptomes for it hath an occult venom in itâ which is strong for it goes many waies and to many parts Question 2. What is the true Causâ of the ãâã of the Mother I say it is the malignant vapors that flie up from the womb for it doth not work by a manifest quality but by a venom which Galen saitâ is like that of a Torpedo or Phalanx or Scorpion which are little in bulk but do great miâchief being enemies to the vital spirits and heaâ by which there is a coldness all over and sâoâ breath from the actions of the heart hurt Foâ when the heart is hurt or the vital Spirits eitheâ suffocated or corrupted there are no good animal Spirits bred and they not flowing to thâ nerves and muscles hinder the motion of thâ breast Also this malignant vapor is an enemy ãâã the animal Spirits and makes doting and Coâvulsions when it gets to the brain The Cause of these vapors are corrupt seâ and terms for while they are in thâir proper vesels they change not their nature And the seâ is not alwaies pure but mixed with ãâã humââ and the seed-vessels are sometimes ãâã aâ distempered Moreover the corruption ãâã ãâã the womb in a pâculiar manner for as Fârrââ saith The place from whence comââ life is ãâã the breeder of the most deadly poyson Question 3. Is it good to give Wine in a âit of the Mother Hippocratââ and Avicen quarrel about this The fiâst alloâs wine because they are weak and nothing sooner reâreshethâ But Avicen is for water and forbids flesh for they increase seed and âlood But in the time of the âit wine is proper and Avicen doth not speak of the âit but of the diet out of the âit when it comes from plenty of seed and blood nor will a little wine in the time of ââe âit get presently to the womb Chap. 5. Of the Frenzie of the Womb. IT is a great and foul Symptome of the wombâ both in Virgins and Widdows and such as âave known man These are mad for lust and inâiâe men and lie down to them and it differs ârom Salacity because in that there is no Deliâium It is an immoderate desire of Venery that âakes women almost mad or a Delirium from ân iminoderate desire of Venery it is without a âeâveâ and with heat and tends to madness âhere are degrees in it for modest women have ãâã but will not for shame declare it and die of âonsumptions Others will not conceal it but âeak their thoughts bawdily and follow men ând âolliâiâe them shamelesly as Hippocrates ãâã in his Book of Virgins Diseases The immediate Cause is plenty of hot and sharp seed against Nature but next unto that âhich is natural it is a little biting swelling and âorcing Nature to let it out by lecheây The brain is only hurt by consentâ and the animal actions by an external error or too vehement object The part first affected is the womb in the Nympha which grows hot and swells but the Nymphae are not properly the seat of Venery but the Clitoris which was called by the same name anciently The heat and sharpness of seed is from the heat of the womb that breeds it from hot humoââ in the womb and hot blood The outward Causes are hot meats spicedâ strong wine and the like that heat the privitiesâ idleness pleasure and dancingâ and reading oâ bawdy Histories They find their lust to boyâ at first and soâ shame will not declare it they are sad and silent and their eyes turn to and fro with lust anâ if any speak of Venety they blush and the pulsâ changeth when thâ brain consenteth reason iâ perverted and modesty is overcome then theâ prate are lustful and angry somtimes they crâ or laugh without a cause they follow men anâ sollicite them for copulation Some will lie wiââ any one they meet It is a âordid disease curable at first but if neglected it turns to madness Let Virgins that have it before reason is subverted be in company with chast Maidâns oâ hâ married And be let blood to abate heat of blcoâ and sharpness of seed very often there is no
seed turns into fat or they are very lean because they want blood Hippocrates proves Barrenness thus Put â Fume saith he under the Coats of a woman and lât her be close clothed about and if the scânt comâ tâ the nose she is not barren and he bids you put Garââck ââensed into the womb and if she smel of it at the ãâã âhe is fruitful A natural bad disposition that causeth barrenness is not curable Hippocrates saith that barrenness from ulcers is hard to be cured A woman that conceives not from disagreement with her husbands constitution by another husband or in time may be cured or some distemper that causeth sterility may be mended by Physick Take away the causes amend the distemper of the womb whether with matter or without matter is to be mended which causeth either no seed or that which is unfruitful or not convenient See Part 1. Sect. 2. Chap. 1. The Medicines of an occult quality are best As Take Rocket seed Silermontane each half a dram Ivory shavings Cinnamon Nutmeg each a dram Muâk in such as may three grains whiâe Sanderâ three drams make a Pouder give a dram with Wine Or Take Species Diamoschu Diambra each a dram the matrix of a Hare a Bores stones and the âard of a Stag each half a dram Nutmeg Cinnarâon Cloves Rocket seed wild Parsnep seed each a dram Musk Amber each four grains with Sugar as much as all give two drams in Wine A Confection Take sweet Almonds Pistachâes Pine-nâts Hazel-nuâs each an ounce Ciâron peels Ginger Cloves Cinnamon each half a dram â Rocket seed two dramâ give a spoonful at bed time Or make this March-pane Take sweet Almonds four ounces Pine Pistachaes Hazel-nuts each two âunces Diambra Dianâoschu each â dram Ivory half a dram Cinnamon half an ounce An Electuary Take Conserve of Rosemary six ounces Dogs stones candiâd two ounces Orâbus Sâhiâkâ reinâ Bâres stones Sows wombs Deers priââieâ Ivory âurnep seed Fennel Nettle seed Rocket Clary wild Mustard each two drams Pine-nuts âweet Almonds each half an ounce Diamosââ dulcis a dram Oyl of Nutmeg by exprâssion two drams with Syrup of Betony make an Electuary Or use Triphera without Opium Or use Baths Inâessions Fomentations âumes and Baths after terms for five daâes Take Briony Masterwort roots Mercury Mugwort Pennyroyal Mârjoram Bays Sage Motherwort Juniper-berries and tops make a Bath Or use Sulphur Baths of Allum Niter Bitumen these do much good A Fume Take Labdanum Storax calâmiâe Benzoin âach two drams wood Aloes a scruple Musk six grains with infusion of Traganth made in rose-Rose-water make Troches Make Pessaries of green Mercury and Motherwort Or Take Mastich Storax liquid each half an ounce Balm Nep Mercury each a dram Cloves Nutmeg each half a dram Civet half a scrupâe with wax make a Pessary After Baths and Fumes anoint the Pecten and Navel with this Take Oyl of Keir half an ounceâoyl distilâed of Mârjâram a scruple of Cloves half a scruple of Nutmegs by exprâssion a dram Sâoraâ liquid two drams Civââ and Musk each six grains with wax make a Liniââât After bathing let her have a Bag upon her belly of Balm Calamints Mints Motherwort and Wine Let her wear Plaisters upon her loyns and Perinaeum till the week before her Terms As Take thâ Plaister for the Mother an ounce Sâârax liquid Caranna each two drams Gallia mââchata half a dram Oyl of Cloves half a scruple of Nutmegs by eâpression a dram with Oyl of Keir makâ a Plaister If the Womb be too loose and slippery use Clysters of juyce of Meâcury with Honey Baths Pessaries Fumes and other astringents Topicks that strengthen If the mouth of the womb gape make a Decoction in Wine of Mirtles Mastich Wood-Vines Olives Wormwood Cypress roots Comââey Snakeweed Cinquefoyl red Rose Pomegranate flowers foment the privities or with pouder of Mastich Frankincense Allum Wood-Aloes make a Fume Other diseases are to be cured as before sâewed Let it be to increase seed of much good juyce In the time of copulation avoid passions anger sadness fear Let love be invited and if it burn there wil many Spirits fliâ to the womb and privities Chap. 3. Of Barrenness for the time and conceiving seldom SOme conceive the seventh eighth or ninth year after wedding some presently but not after the first any more or not in many years after If Viâgins marry afâre fourteen they conceive ãâã or if the constitution of the womb be bad oâ the seed Some conceive not from the disagreement of seeds til their constitution be changed They who want terms or have them disorderââ or are sickly seldom or never conceive with ââild or have had hard travel or a dead child Sâme are weakned so that after the first child they have no strength to conceive All these will be related whether she be married too soon or had hard travel or aborted or had a dead child or a mole If these were not the seed and womb have not a just proportion with the mans but it may be altered by age If the womb be much hurt after travel or any thing turn in it or broken they seldom conceive a gain And if a woman marry at a ripe age and have no remarkable disease and conceive not presently she is not to be accounted barren because some private indisposition hinders concâption which after may be altered and she may prove fruitful A woman that marââes too young after she hath once conceived and then ceaseth must use Venery sparingly til she grow older that she may recover the strength she lost in her first travel And if a woman marry at ripe years and conceiveâ not by reason of the driness of her womb let heâ use Baths Fomentations and emollient Pessaries If she conceive not from weakness strengthen the womb and let her not use Venery often If Virgins be sick from seed retained or termsâ let them marry But if there be a fault in the liver or spleen or the whole body that may be increased by Venery it is better that they be cureâ before they be married And if they cannot bâ cured let them not be married If the womb be distempered by birth or a disease cure it as in diseases of the Womb if it bâ from a Mole or flux of blood cure it as it haâââ and shall be shewed If it be from a dead child first clense it witâ juyce of Mercury and then put Treacle or Mithridate dissolved into the womb or with a Pessary or give them outwardly Chap. 4. Of Conception and forming of the Child COnception is an action of the womb after fruitful seed both male and female is received mixed and nourished its strength is stirred up to do its office Seed and Coema differ seed is that which comes from both male and female but Coema is that which is mixed of both and is called Conception which produceth a child This Conception is presently
of the child that stretcheth the ligaments of the womb and parts adjacent if there be Plethory bleed If it be from weight of the child hold it up with swathing Bands about the neck 5. There is flux of blood at the womb nose oâ Haemorrhoids from plenty or from the weakness of the child that takes it not in or from evil humors in the blood that stir up Nature to send it forth Also the vessels of the womb may be broken or torn by motion fall cough or trouble of mind This is dangerous of which Hippocrates saith The child cannot be well if it be from blood only there is less danger so it âlows by the veins of the neck of the womb for it takes aâay Plethory or take not nourishment from the child If it be from the weakness of the child that draws it not abortion often follows or hard travel or she goes beyond her time If it slow by the inward veins of the womb there is moâe dangâr by the openness of the womb If it come fâom evil blood the danger is alike from Cacochymy which is like to fall upon both If thârâ be Plethory open a vein warily and use astringents As Take Pearls prepared a scruple ãâã Coral two sâruples Mace Nutmeg eaâh a dram Cinââmon halâ a dram make a Poâder or with Sugar Râuâs or give this Pouder in Broath Tâkâ red Coral a dram Pearl half a dram precious stonââ eaâh half a scruple red Sanders half a dram Boââ a dram sealed Earth Tormentil roots eâch two sâruples with Sugar of Roses and Manus Christi ãâã Pearl six drams make a Pouder You may strengthen the child at the navelâ Iâ there be Cacochymy alter the humoâs and if you may evacuate You may use Amulets in the hands and about the neck In flux of Haemorrhoids beware of the pain Let her dâink hot Wine with a roasted Nutmeg Chap. 6. Of the Symptomes that are in the last months FIrst the urin is stopt from suppression of thâ neâk of the bladder Let her then lie dâwnâ and let bladder be fomented with a Bag of Pâllitoây Parâley rootsâ Mâllows Lineseed and the like oâ use the Câtheter 2. The belly is bound from a hot dry liveââ when the child dââws all the moisture to it ãâã the guts Let her then use Moistâers ãâã Butter Mâllows Borage in Broaths or take Clysters in a small quantity 3 The veins appear in the hips and leggs aâ varicâns onâly then keep them from walkingâ and let thâiââeet be laid upon a stool 4. The lâggs swell from âerous blood but thiâ goes away with the aâterbirth and is the signs ãâã a female child but if she cannot walk foment âith a Lye made of Vine branches and Wine or with a Decoction of Organ Pennâroyal Chamomil Calamints Or Take Bean and Lupine flour each twââunces Tartar an ounce Pigeons dung half an âunce with âeeled water and juyce of Coleworts make a Pultis Râb and wash the feet with salt water in which Châmomiâ Organ and Dill were boâled 5. The skin of the belly is cleât with stretchâng after the fourth month therefore use loosning Limments to keep off deformity as marrow of Veal and Sheeps legs Oyl of sweet Almonds Hens grease 6. The water gathered in time of being with âhild between the membranes that hold the âhild comes forth too soon because the membranes are broken by leaping or a conâusion This makes difficult birth for that water was to moisten the parts Therefore let her keep a good diet and strengthen the âhild inwardly and outwardly Chap. 7. Of Weakness of the Child THis is either from weak seed or little nourishment or bad and causeth many diseases in the child To hinder abortion and death of the child know rightlâ the weakness as Hippocrates saith They that will abort have first breasts that âal away which iâ from want of nourishment in the common veiâs of the womb and breasts Hippâcrates âath a seâond signâ which is thisâ Iâ a Wâman with Child hath much milk flowing from her breast her Child is weak 3. If the terms flow often the nourishment is taken from the child 4. A mother often and long being sick shews that her child is weak because her blood is not good and the bad humors with the blood go to nourish the child which makes him sick 5. When the mother hath a flux of the belly the child is weak 6. WheÌ it begins to move and is scarce felt it is weak If it be from these causes take them away and strengthen the child first âeed the mother high with meats of good juyce and sweet Almonds steept in Honey Raisons Quinces outwardly thus Take Malmsey three pints dissolve it in oyl âf Nutmegâ by exprâssion half an ounce add pouder of Cloves Rue each half an ounce Rose Sage Marâoram Pennyâoyal water each a pint Aqua vitae three ounces Dip Spunges in it and apply them under the leât breast to the arm-pits hams pulses soles of the feet and when they dry wet them again Chap. 8. Of Crying in the Womb. CHildren have somtimes cryed in the womb as Fabricius saith in his Epistle to his Brother James Finâel and Wâinridiâk of Monsters writes thus In this City of Bressa a child was heard to cry in the womb three daies before the travel when he was a man he was misârable with poverty and disâasâs till he died Andreas Libaviââ writes the same and others Some saâ it portends evil to the Mother or Child or Countrey It is a vâice by the expulsion of the air thâouâh the âough arteây and some air may in the câvities from vapors or Spirits as in eggs when chickens pip in them And if the child have a rough artery lungs and breasts which are the organs of breathing âound and the child is strong there is no hinderance but it may utter a voice But somthing whatsoever it is must stir it to make this noise THE FOURTH BOOK THE THIRD PART THE SIXTH SECTION Of Symptoms that happen in Childbearing Chap. 1. Of Child-bearing in General WHEN the child can no longer be contained in so small a place being grown and requiring moâe nourishment it kiâks and bâeaks the membranes and Ligaments that hâld it and thâ womb by an expelling fâculty sends it forth with great strainingâ and this is called âravel It is either naturâl or not natural legitimaâe or illigitimate The natural is when the child âomes with the head forward and heels upwards with his hands and arms to his thighs and so the other parts easily follow then the Amnios is broken and the water that was laid up in time of being with child flows forth and moistens the passaâes then the child with more force breaks the Acetabula from which the Secundine is separated and the other membranes are broken and the blood flows into the cavity of the womb and the child gets out by the expulsive faculty with such force that
Smallage Parsley Mints each half a handful anoint after with Oyl Omphaâine Then Take Turpentine washed with Wine and Rose-water three âunces Eggs two or three Saffron a scruple with Wax make a Plaister with a hole in the middle repeat it alwaies before Supper If you fear inflammation by too great a flux of Milk repel with a Cataplasin of Lettice Waâeâlillies Poppies Houslââk Or Take Turpentine washt with Mint water three ounces Cummin seed Orris Mints each half an ounce Saffron âsârâple with Wax make a Cerot Chap. 3. Of Curdling and other faults in the Milk IF it stay long in the breasts the thin evapoââtes and the thick remains and hardens the keânels henâe are hard âââors because the ââeesie part of the Miâk is apt to harden Somtimes Milk is too thiâk or too thin sharp âalt âhe ãâã The tumor from Milk curdled is known by the plenty of Milk retained that make clefts and pain and little tumors If curdled Milk be long in the breasts it easily turns to an imposâhume and inflammation To hinder curdling Take pouder of Mints Coriander seed each two ounces Oyl of Dill an ounce with Wax make a Liniment Or Take Oyl of Mints Chamomil Dill Rue each an ounce To dissolve curdled Milk Take Fennel rootâ Eryngus each an ounce Mints a handful green Fennel half a handful Aniseed a dram boyl them to a pint add Syrup of the two Roots and Oxymâl each two ounces Foment with the Decoction of Fennel Dill Southernwood Chamomil Melilot flowers Fenugreek Lineseed Parsley seed Smallage or stamp them or Mints with Butter and apply it If it be hard Take Mints Coleworts Bran each a handful boyl them in Vinegar and apply them Or Take juyce of Smallage Dill Coleworts each a handful boyl theâ soft and bruise them ad pouder of Mirrh Orris each two drams Saffron a dram Oyl of Rue an ounce Vinegar an ounce and half make a Pulâis Chap. 4. Of Milk coming forth at wrong places MIlk hath been known to come forth with the urin or by the womb by which passage is the doubt the short way is from thâ breast veins to the Epigastrick veins from the Epigastrick to the Hypogastrick and so to thâ womb rather then from the Pap-veins to the breast-veins and so to the Hypogastrick and so to the Womb. Chap. 5. Of strange thing coming forth of the Breasts SOmtimes matter comes forth of the Nipples when they have long ulcers and aâter the ulcer is healed it ceaseth Somtimes the terms have come forth of the breasts at set Periods of which Hippocrates When blood comes forth at the Nipples there is madness Amatus Lusitanus knew two Noble women that were so and not mad And Hippocrates doth not speak of the Terms but of othâr blood that is hot and flies to the hot and causeth madness and part of it goes to the breast and causeth pain and inflammation whiâh shews madness at hand It is cured by opening the Saphena in the foot to âevel the blood Chap. 6. Of the change of colour inâthe Nipples and pain of the Breasts THe change of colour in the Nipples is not a sâgn of the loss of Viâginity for they are blew in them that give suck blaââ in old women and in them that have kâown Venery it is natural and red aâ a Strawberry Now because therâ iâ a great consânt bâtween the womb and breasâs if the womb ãâã âiââempâred the âipples aââ ãâã The pain in the breasts is from stretching by much milk and inflammation or from corrosion and twitching from sharp matter as in the Cancer and other Ulcers The cause of the pain is known from the distemper If it be from much milk it is a gentle pain If from inflammation it is stronger If from a Cancer it is very great How these pains are cured is shewed in theiâ Chapters A TRACTATE Of the Cure of Infants THE FIRST PART Of the Diet and Government of Infants Chap. 1. Of the choice of the Nurse THE blood that nourished the child in the womb is turned into milk to nourish him after he is born because he can eat no solid meats And becauâe from weaknâss or a disease the mother somtimes caÌnot suckle her child she must have a Nurse of good habit of body and red complexion which is the sign of the best temper and let her not differ much from the temper of the mother unless it be for the better let her be between twenty and thiâty well bâed and peaceable not angry melancholy or soolish not lecherous nor a drunkard Let it not be after her first child and let not her milk be too old or too newâ oâ ten months old at the most Let her breasts be well fashioned with goâd Nipples that the child may take them with pleasure Let her keep a good diet and abstain sroÌ hard wine and copulation and passions these chiefly trouble the milk and bring diseases upon the child If there be a bad humor from high âeeding in the Nurse let her take a gentle Purge when she gives not suck except the child be to be purged by the same Question Whether is an Infant better nourished by the Mother or by a Nurse Some say by a Nurse others say the Mothers milk is more like the nourâshment it had in the womb which is best except she have a disease For he that gave her strength to conceive travel and bring forth wil give her strength to play the Nurse though she be weak And honest women will be very obedient to directions for the good of the child they love so deaâly of which Pâaâârinus Chap. 2. Of the Conditions of good Milk IT must be neither too thick nor too thin for too thick cannot be concocted and the thin argues crudities If it be dropt upon the nail or a glass and falls not eâsily off as water if it stiâk too fast it is too thiâk Let the colour be whiâe the more it differs from that the worse it is Let it be sweet not four âalt or bitter or ãâã Let iâ neither smel burnt or soâ for then it will easily corrupt in the stomach of the child Chap. 3. Of curing the faults in Milk THe usual fault is when it iâ too thiâ by râason of plenty of Sârum in the bloodâ this nouâisheth little and makâs lean âhildâân that sall into a Diarrhaea or Belly flux If it be too sharp thây are scabby Give hot and dry things let bread be wel baked with Anise and Fennel seed roast the meat and give Rice and sweet Almonds avoid Fish Sallets Summer-fruits much Broâh use ofâen âxercise and purge Serum or Whey with Syââp of Roses and Mechoacan or Râubarb if iâ ãâã hot or cholerick If ââroâs humors come from the distâmper of the Liver amend that and let cold and moâââ ãâã be amânded with things hot and dây Of thick Milk It is from gross diet and drink or from a hot
Then use Tarr and Wax for a Cerot Orâ Take Salâ-pâter an ounce Oxymel an ounce and half Or Take quick Brimstone an ounce whiââ Hâllebore Staphisacre each two drams with Hogs grease It is not safe to use Arsenick or Oâpiment or Mercury or other poysâns that corroâe because it is so neer the brain Chap. 5. Of Ptiriasis or breeding of Lice LIce are creatures which breed in clothes that are constantly worn but they are chiefly in children from the excrements of the head All say that filth and nastiness alone is the cause of lice but I think not so for filth alone cannot do it without heat for besides the first qualities there is a hidden force in the matter by which it is disposed to produce a particular species for fleas and worms wil not breed of that matter which breeds lice so it is in Plants Heat is the helping cause which raiseth the seminal force and brings it into act and though the matter be putrid it doth not woâk upon it but as it is somwhat natural Excrements are not presently putrid but there is in them a heat that can raise forming force and though there is some putrefaction yet is it not so great as to hinder the action hence it is that children and women that are hot and moist have many excrements that are fit to breed lice Some meats breed lice as Figs by their fat juyce which doth naturally tend to the skin and varieties of meats and not clensing nor combeing The plâce where lice breed in children is the skin of the head where they stick fast with the hair especially if there be scabs The Signs are needless they are manifest It is a filthy troublesom disease many have them âreed all over the body and some have died by them Somtimes the lice leave them when they are about to die To prevent breeding lice let children eat no food of evil juyce especially Figs let the head be often combed and washed and the matter purged that breeds them with hot dry thin medicines that draw the matter out and consume superfluous moisture Take heed of Mercury and Arsnick in children but make this Lotion Take round Birthwort Lupines Pine and Cypress leaves each equal parts boyl them Or Take Elicampane roots two ounces Briony half an ounce Beets Mercury Soap-wort each a handful Lupines a dram Niter half an ounce boyl them for a Lotion then use this oyntment Take pouder of Staphisacre three drams of Lupins half an ounce Agarick two drams quick Sâlphur a dram and half Ox gall half an ounce with âyl of Wormwood there are stronger as white Hellebore and Mecrury which are not safe Chap. 6. Of Hydrocephalus or swelling of the Head WE spake of this in the water wiâhout the Skull but Hydrocephalus is from watâr gathered within the skull or in the ventricleâ of the brain as when the childs head in the womb hangs down or when the brain is verâ moist A tumor from water contained in the brain is less and harder then when it is out of the skull It is harder to be cured then when it is gathered without the skull and is often deadly There are many medicines mentioned that are good here to be used outwardly and to the nose and ears As Take Snails in their shells thirty Marjoram Mugwârt each a handful stamp add Camphire a scruple Saffron half a dram with Oyl of Chamomil make a Pultis Snuff this Water often Take Nutmeg Cloves Câbebs each â sâruple Calamus Frankincense bark each half â dram Marjoram water three ounces drop hot Oyls into the earâ If in twenty daies the water be not gone open the skull and let out the water by degrees and take heed of cold The tumor of wind in the skin of the head or membranes of the brain is seldom without water which breeds wind Use Discussers that make thin as Chamomil Rue Organ c. Chap. 7. Of Siriasis IT is from Aetius a diâease with a âeaver or an inflammation of the membraneâ and the brain so that there is a hollowness of the eyes and forhead It is from flegmatick blood that grows hot by putrefaction and so becomes like choler The remote causes are hot weather and milk full of wind from the evil diet of the Nurse Such milk will make the child drunk and cause this inflamation Heat of the forehead and hollowness there redness of face a âeaver driness no appetite watching The hollowness in the âore-part of the head is where the Sagital and Coronal âutures meet for there the bones are membranous and grow at last hard It is dangerous and counted deadly among women and as often as this bone oâ membrane âals there is a pit and the brain fals down they commonly die in three daies First give a Clyster of syrup of Roses or Violets then Coolers of the juyce and water of Lettice Gourds Melons or apply a Pumpion split in two But cool not the brain too much anoint with Oyl of Roses Or Take Oyl of Roses half an ounce Populeon an ounce the white of an Eg and of the Emulsion of cold Seeds drawn with Rose water two drams After the flux is stopt and the inflammation abated use Discussers As Take Oyl of Chamomil an ounce and half of Dill half an ounce with the yolk of an Eg. Let the Nurses diet be cooling or the milk be changed let it not be vexed Chap. 8. Of Frights in the Sleep HIppocrates saith this is often the cause is unclean vapors mixed with the animal spirits that disturbe them and present horrible objects to the fancy They arise from the depraved concoction of the stomach in full feeding children that eat more then they can digest These vapors ascend not onely by the weaâand but by the veins to the head It comes often from worâs also or corrupt humors that knaw the mouth oâ the stomach They groan in their sleepâ and twitch and bâing frighted out of sleep they cry their breath is hot and often sâinking âure it presenâly for iâ is the âore-runâer of an Epilepâââ Give good Milk and leâs thât the stomach be not over charged Let it not sleep presently after food but carry it about till it is in the bottom of the stomach Use Oyl of sweet Almonds or Honey of Roses two spoonfuls to clense the stomach Then strengthen it with Magistery of Coral or Conâection of Hyacinths with Milk Or Take Magistery of Coral a dram Diapleres a scruple with Sugar dissolved in Rose water an ounce mâke Rouâs Anoint the stomach with Oyl of Nard Wormwood Mints Mastich Nâtmegs If it be from a feaver look to that If from woâms I shal after speak of it Some hang Coral and Wolves teeth about the childs neck Chap. 9. Of great Watâhing A Child new born sleeps more then he wakes because his brain is very moist and he used to sleep in
the stomach and in a dry use moist things as Oyl of Lillies Dialthaea Hens grease Butter Let the Nurse avoid astringent meâts as Qâinâes Medlars Beans and use Emollients If the chiâd be big give juyce or Decoction of red Colwoâts worts with a little Salt and Honey If it be from slimy flegm give Honey or Syrup of Roses Correct the hot distemper of the Liver and Reins with Syrup of Violets and Emulsions of the four great cold Seeds If choler come not from the Gall to the Guts give the Decoction of Grass-roots Fennel Sparagus Maidenhair Give Clysters to cut and clense tough flegm As Take Alâhaea roots Mallows Pellitory each half a handful Faenugreek and Lineseed each a dram Chamomil flowers a pugil boyl and to three or six ounces ad three drams of Cassia Oyl an ounce and the yolk of an Eg. To the Navel apply Hens grease and Ox gal Or Take Aloes two drams Ox gall a dram Scamony a scruple with Buttâr make an Oyntment Fill a Walnut shell with it and apply it to the Navel Anoint the belly with Emoillients Take fresh Butter Goose and Hens grease each half an ounce Oyl of sweet Almonds and Lineseed each two drams Veal marrow Dialthaea each two drams with Wax make an Oyntment Bran and juyce of Danewort make a loosning Cataplasm for the belly Only keep it from the stomach as you must do other Cataplasms Chap. 23. Of the Worms IT is observed that children have had worms in their mothers belly and voided them after they were born But they are chiefly bred by mixing milk with other meats in a hot and moist constitution and from sweet meats which woâms love and Summer-fruits they are round and long or broad and little Besides what is said in Lib. 3. Part 2. Sect. 2. Cap. 5. Worms are known to be in a body when there is much spittle and a stinking breath troublesom sleep gnashing of teeth crying and bawling a dry cough loathing vomiting hickets want of appetite or too much thirst a belly swelled or bound or too loose thick white urin with pain when the belly is empty and the worms want food There is a cold sweat over the face and a high colour with sudden paleness sometimes a feaver and convulsion which ceaseth presently These are the signs of round worms rather then of the flat Infants are often long troubled with worms without any great inconvenience sometimes there are great Symptomes The long round worms are worst and have eaten sometimes the guts and belly through with a feaver they are more dangerous few are better then many and small then great white are better then those of other colours The other Prognosticks are mentioned in other places Preservation It is better to prevent the breeding of worms then to expel them by eating of meats of good juyce with Oranges and Pomegranates and avoiding sweet fat and slimy meats fish milk and Summer-fruits and figs. Drink thin Wine and Grass and Sorrel water with it and with pouder of Harts horn Let the belly be kept loose with Clysters foâ children or give the Decoction of Sebestens before meat or of Wormwood and Scordium but children will not take bitter things therefore give Grass water and juyce of Lemons or Citâons or a drop or two of Spirit of Vitriol When you know by the signs that there are worms kill and expel them with pouder of Coralline Wormseed Harts horn or eight grains of Mercurius dulcis Infuse them a night in gâass water and cast away the substance oâ the Mercury and give the Water Or Take Woâmseed two drams Coralline Harts horn prepared each a dram roots of Piony Dittany Magistery of Coral each a scruple make a Pouder or give the Essence of Peach flowers or the Decoction of fern-Fern-water half an ounce or an ounce If there be a feaver use colder as juyce of Lemons Pomegranates Oranges Vinegar Harts horn Bezoar Confection of Hyacinth or this Potion Take Grass water four ounces Syrup of juyce of Citrons an ounce of Violets half an ounce Spirit of Vitriol two drops give two spoonfuls Give bitter things at the mouth and sweet at the fundament as a Clyster of Milk Or Take Raisons ten Figs seven boyl them in water take of it four ounces add Sugar an ounce and half make a Clyster Use varieties that the worms may not be too familiar with one Apply Peach leaves to the Navel bruised or a Cataplasm of Ox gall Wormwood and St. Johns-wort Or Take pouder of Wormwood Gith Centaury Wormseed Lupines each half an ounce with Oyl of Wormwood and Wax half an ounce make an Oyntment Or Take Treacle half an ounce with juyce of Wormwood apply it to the navel or make a Bath of Peach leaves and Wormwood put the child into it up to the navel If there be a Feaver use colder things mentioned Chap. 24. Of the Rupture IT is from the Peritonaeum loose or broken when the sâall guts fall into the cods from crying cough straininâ at stoolâ and from vehement motion or a fall Sometimes the Peritonaeum is well and a water falls from the belly into the cods The tumor is visible if it be from a gut it is in one part only as the right or left and it may be felt and the hole also âhrough which it fel. If from water it is even all over and there was no cause of other Rupture It is easier cured in infants then in elder persons for it is safer but worse then that of water which goes away of it self when the water is consumed Let the belly be kept open let not the child cry Avoid vehement motion lay him upon his back and thrust it up gently and apply this Plaister Take Lambs tongue Sanicle each half an ounce Lentils and Lupines and red Roses in pouder each two drams Frankincense a dram Allum half a dram with the white of an Eg. Or Take Frankincense Cypress nuts Aloâs Acacia each two drams Mirrh a dram with Izinglass make a Plaster Or apply Gum Elemni steept in Vinegar till there be a Cream at the top and with oyl of Eggs make a Cerot Inwardly Take Sanicle Lambs tongue each half a handful Agrimony a handful Comfrey the greater half an ounce boyl them to a pint strained ad Sugar give it often Or give pouder of Mousear or Moonwort with Wine If it be from water anoint with Oyl of Elder Bayes Rue or apply a Cataplasm of pouder of Beans âoenugreek Lineseed Chanââmil flowers Cummin seeds with these Oyls Chap. 25. Of sticking out of the Navel IT is without inflammation 1. When it was not well tied and too much left that sticks out 2. When the Peritonaeum is loose and hath water or wind in it from crying or coughing 3. When the navel is ulcerated and the guts fall into it this is called properly Exomphalon The navel yeilds to the touch but in an inflamation it is hard there is
their shape the malignant are known by their hardness and heat and blewness filâh and pain They are often hard to be cured because the pox is with them and they are in a place to which Medicines are hard to be applied and to continue The Myrmeciae are not cut off but they leave a great ulcer the Thymi and Clavi grow again Acrochordones once cut leave no root After Universals and order of diet either use Medicines or cut or burn them to discuss then use Sage dried with Figs Organ Rue burnt dry Savin Frankincense with Wine and Vinegar or Snakes skins with Figs these also dry These corrode eat and burn as juyce of wild Cowcumbers with Salt Milk of Figgs Sheeps dung Goats gall with Niter Aqua fortis Spirit of Vitriol Sulphur Butter of Antimony Take heed that you hurt not the parts adjacent but defend them with Bole sealed Earth Rosewater and Vinegar if you put the Corrosives into Nut-shells change them twice or thrice in a day and wash the part with a clensing Decoction and then cut or burn Chap. 7. Of the Haemorrhoids of the Womb. THe veins that end in the neck of the womb often swel like the Haemorrhoids it is from gross blood that comes to these veins out of the time of the terms Inordinate flux of terms may occasion it when tâây slow out of the usual time they grow thick and cannot get out of the veins but swel them They are to be touched and with a Speculum matricis to be seen There is pain and bleeding without order she is pale and lazy Correct the blood purge and bleed in the arm to derive and revel of which in the diseases of the womb If pain be abate it by sitting in a Decoction of Mallows Althaea Chamomil Mâlilot flowers Moulin Lineseed Foenugreek of which also make Fomentations and Oyntments with Butter Populeon and Opium if there be pain Take Populeon Oyl of Roses and sweet Almonds fresh Butter each half an ounce Saffron a sâââple with the yolk of an Egg make an Oyntment Or Take Muâilage of Quinces Althaea eaâh half an ounce Oyl of Roses and Hens greâse each a dram the yolk of an Eg and Saffron half a dram mix them in a leaden Mortar If pain be gone or abated and they bleed not use Dryers of Bole Earth of Lemnos Acacia Ceruss froath of Silver Lead burnt and washed long Birthwort Allum Verdigreece If they swell with blood evaporate it or âoment with the Decoction of Mallows Althaea Pellitory Chamomil flowers Moulin Melilot seeds of Line and Foenugreâk If they do not good open them by Fig leaves rub'd upon them or by Horsleeches of which Chap. 2. If there be proud flesh take it oât as is shewed If they bleed gently lât Nature alone to the work for it is good and ârees from other diseases If the flux be gâeat and abate the strength open a vein in the arm divers times and do as in over slowing of the terms Question How do the Haemorrhoids differ from the Terms flowing or stopt Mercurialis saith That though a flux of terms be immodârate yet it hath its periods and is without pain and makes not the body lean but it is contrary in the Haemorrhoids But this is not true for the body is not made lean alwaies by the Haemorrhoids nor do the courses keep their periods alwaiâs Besides the pain which is almost alwaies in the Haemorrhoids they differ in that the terms flow from the veins of the womb and its neck but the Haemorrhoids are when the blood flows too much to the veins that nourish the privities and there either sticks or is evacuated Chap. 8. Of Ulcers in the Neck of the Womb. THey are seldome cured in the body of the womb and they are simple and clean or âordid and malignant Are a flux of sharp humors that lasts long in the Pox and Gonorrhaea Corrupt afterbirths and courses after childâearing detained inflammations turned to imposthuiâesâ these are the internal The external are sharp Medicines hard travail a reat child taken out by âorce violent leâhery wounds falls strokes Are pain and constant biting that increaseth ââââcially in coâulation or when Wine or Hydrâmel is injected You may also see it with a Speculum also there is matter gentle or âilthy if the ulcer go towards the bladder they piss hot and often there is pain in the roots of the eyes to the hands and fingers fainting and a little âever somtimes The external Causes are to be related by the patient If it be from the pox or Gonorrhaea the signs of them will appear of which Hippocrates They are hard to be cured because they are in a part fit to receive humors soft and moist and that hath consent with many parts Hence are divers Symptoms the great old and foul are worst when they corrode and are hollow they are seldome cured they that may easily have Medicines applied to them are easieât cured First stop the flux of humors to the part if it be either from the whole body or any part And amend the distemper of the womb that it may neither breed nor receive bad humors If the French pox be with it resist that first If there be pain first abate that with Milk steeled or with three whites of Eggs and Mucilage of Fleabane or an Emulsion of Poppy seeds Or Take Althaea roots an ounce Dill seed two drams Barley a pugil Faenugreek and Lineseed each an ounce Fleabane and Poppy seed each half an ounce boyl them in Milk Of which in pain of the womb In a foul ulcer first use Clensers as Whey Barley water Honey Wormwood Smallage Orobus Orris Birthwort Mirrh Turpentine Allum As Take new Milk boyled a pint Honey half a pint Orris pouder half an ounce Use it hot often every day When that which was injected is voided wash with the decoction of Mallows and put up this Pessary Take Eruum and Lentils in pouder and Orris each two drams with Honey Or Take Diapompholigos with Frankincense Mastich Mirrh Aloes as the ulcer requires Or use Fumes As Take Frankincense Mastich Mirrh Storax Calamite Gum of Juniper Labdanum each an ounce make a Pouder or Troches with Turpentine If there be suspicion of the French pox add a little Cinnabar In a very foul ulcer and Aegyptiacum or Apostolorum or a little Spirit of Wine In a creeping corroding ulcer with clenâers mix cold drying and astringent Medicines Allum water Plantane and rose-Rose-water with Pomegranate flowers boyled and Pomegranate peels and Cypress-nuts is also good and with Aloes After clensing fill it with flesh and heal it up As Take Tutty washed half an ounce Litharge Ceruss Sarcocol each two drams with Oyl of Roses and Wax make an Oyntment Or smoak the privities with Mirrh Frankincense Gum or Juniper Labdanum two drams in pouder with Turpentine make Troches Or use Sulphur or Allum Baths and Plaisters
Inwardly give vulnerary Potions As Take Agrimony Burnet Plantane Knotgrass each two pugils China three dramâ Coriander seed half a dram Currans half an ounce boyl them in Henbrâath give it âwice a day or give Turpentine and Sââar ââr a month or a dram of Pills of ãâã ãâã If the body consume give Asses milk with ãâã of Roses for a month Chap. 9. Of Clefts in the Neck of the Womb. THese are long ulcers that are âinal like those in the hands and feet in Winter they eat oâ the skin and are somtimes deep with hard lips if old somtimes they are dry or somtimes bleed They come from hard travel when some paâts in the neck of the womb are broken by a great child or violent copulation or flux of sharp humors that stick in the parts and corrode If it be new it is hidden somtimes and known in copulation by pain and bleeding The new are easier cured then when they are old and callous If they come from hard travel make a Clyster of the Decoction of Roses Plantane Birthwort Bole Sanguis Draconis Frankincense or with the white of an Egg a Pessary If from sharp humors after universal Evacuations use Topicks that bind without biting if the clefts be not callous as Oyl of Linseed and Roses with the yolk of an Egg and jâyce of Plantane mixed in a leaden Mortar Or Take Oyl of Roses eight ounces stir it in a leaden Mortar till it is black and thick then put in the pouders of Litharge of Silver and Câruss If they are callous make an Oyntment of oyl of Lillies Marrow of a Deer Turpentine and Wax if they are malignant cure them as ââstula'es of which in the Câapter following If there be itch or pain Take Diapompâoligââ Pâpulâon âaâh an ounce Sugâr of Lead âamphire each a scruple make an Oyntment Let the diet be moist of good juyce Chickens Veal Kid rear Eggs Mallows Bugloss Borage abstain from sharp and salt meats Chap. 10. Of Fistulae's in the Neck of the Womb. MAny times there are ulcers in these parts because they are soft and easily corroded and âre hard to be cured Some of them are âârait others crooked some ãâã others hollow If matter stay there it corrodes and makes burroughs and divides the parts and makes a Callus and when the matter is voided the parts divided cannot unite It is known by the âigure of the ulcer there is a callous lip and thin evil matter when it is pressed flows out there is no pain except it reach a sensible part Somtimes it reacheth the bladder and then the urin comes forth at the fistula somtimes the fundament and then the dung appears in the Fistula A new Fistula is easier cured then an old and a strait then a crooked it is scarce to be cured in a cacochymical old body and when it pierceth into the parts adjacent First use Universals and good diet then see if it may be cured by Medicines or better left to Nature to evacuate excâements thereby Iâ the last is best use a palliative Cure by often purging and sweating twice in a year and injections anâ strengtheners and lay on a Plaiââer of ãâã If you hope for a Cure after Universals givâ drying vulnerary Drinks of male Fern roots Centaury Agrimony Bettony Ladies-mantle c. Then use Topicks fiâst dilate the orisice iâ it be strait with a Spunge or Gentian âoots theâ consume the Callus but first make it soft wiââ Oyl of Lillies Deer's Marrow Tuâpentine and Wax Three things consume a Callus Medicines cutting and burning there in a new strait Fistula use Gentian black Hâllebore Aegyptiacum oâ Vigo's Pouder with a Pencil Or Take Sublimate half a scruple Rose or Plantane water six ounces set it upon embers If it be towards the womb take heed of strong Medicines If it be callous and âoul burn it either by a Caustick or hot iron These are good in the ouâward part of the neck then clense and heal Chap. 11. Of a Cancer in the Womb. IT is seldom seen and never cured but here I shall speak of that in the neck of the womb which is ulcerated or not ulcerated It is from terms burnt and hot burnt humors that are black that flow thither it is after long ââirrhous tumors that have been immoderately softned It is first not ulcerated and when the humors are more corrupt it is ulcerated They are hard to be known at first because it is a tumor without pain and after there is a pricking in it and a pain in the groyns loyns and bottom of the belly The tumor is hard blew with blew stinking lipps When it is ulcerated the Symââââs are all worse and there is a thin blaâk sâinking mattâr Somtimes much blood tâat is dangerous a genâle âeaver loathing tââuble of mind thâ cheekâ are red from the vapoâs that fliâ up from the womb It is hard to be cured because mild Medicineâ are noââelâ and strongâ exâspârate and the part makâs it more hard because it is neglected at the âârât and increaââth ãâã the âhysitian p eâent ulceration or if it bââo hiâdââ the incrââsâ of it lât diet be against mâlânâholâ pââpare and purge melâncholy Tâis Pouder for many dâies given is excellâât Take Smârâgdââ Sapâirs and Eâst ââzâarstone eâch a dram give every day three or four grains with Sâabious or Carduus water Let the Topicks not be biting at âirst But foâent with Jayâe of Plantane Nightshade Pursââne or use Diapompholigos Or Takâ jâycââf Plantane Nightshaâe Purslanâ eââh two ounces Muâilage of Fleabane an âunâe Oâl of Rosââ three âouncesââtiâ them in â leaden Morââr Or Take Oâl of Râsâs of Eggs âach anounce and half Suâgâr of Lead a dâam âtir them in a leaden Mortar then add Litharge Cerâss each three drams Tutty a dram Camphire a sâruple Or Take jâyce of Nightshâde six ounces Tutty and burnt Lead eâch two drams aâphire half a dram ââir thââ long in a leadân Mortar and add pouder of âraysââh Injâât a Decâction of Crayfish and iâ pâin be greaâ ãâã with Malloâs Althaea Wateâlilâies Coâiânder Dill âleabane âeed with Sasâroa in Milk or make a Cataplâsâe of the âame Some use Antimony Arsenick c. which are good in other parts But this cannot bear them A Noble woman had on the right side of her face an ulcerated cancer and when al the French Italian German Spanish Physâtians could noâ cure her a Barber cured her only with Chiâkens sliced thin and laid on often every day Chap. 12. Of a Gangrene and Sphacel in the Womb. SOmetimes the whole womb is gangrenated and it is from the privities that receive many excrements apt to corrupt It is from an inflammation and ulcer not well cured because the part hath many excrements which easily quench the natural heat and then the part mortifies There is an usual heat in the neck of the womb and a
part for an ordinaây drink You may use China and Sarsa the same way ând because in a decoction some strength is lost ând so great a quantity is tedious for womân âou may distill them and give a less quantity âith things proper for the womb As Take Guajacum a pound or Sarsa eight âunces Angelica Elicampane each an ounce âugwort two handfuls Diâtany half a handful ad âx pints of water or wine steep them two daies then âistill them and give two ounces of the water Let her meat be roasted birds hens capons âartridges mutton sweet Almonds Raisons ât her abstain from âalt and sharp things If these sweats are unpleasant give them in âe third and fourth Chapter internal and exterâal As Take conserve of Marjoram Rosemary âettony each two ounces of Balm an ounce Diaâoschu dulcis Diamârgarion calid each a dram ândied Eryngus and Citrons each half an ounce âith sârup of Mugwort make an Elâctuary and use âaths to ãâã in mentioned Drying Spaw-waters are good to drink or to ãâã in Let the diet be as in Chap. 3. and 4. give the flesh of wild Mountain âowl Pigeons Hens Capons Mutton roasted and spiced and old wine and let her exercise Of the hot and dry distemper of the womb with Choler Do as in Chap. 5. purge the Choler whetheâ it be from the whole body or from the Liver with syrup of Roses Manna Tamarinds Rhubarb Senna c. Chap. 7. Of the ill shape of the womb and first of the straitness of it and its vessels THis is a disease of evil conformation from nature when it can be stretched out no further this makes an abortion in the fourth or fifth month But it is wonderful in its natural shape when it wil stretch according to the proportion of the child and after childbearing be as small as aâ first Of straitness of the vessels of the Womb. This is usual and hinders the flux of the terms and conception it is in the vessels of the womb and of the neck thereof Are thick tough humors that stop the mouthâ of the veins and arteries these are bred of groââ or much nourishment when the heat of thâ womb is so weak that it cannot attenuate the humors these either âlow from the whole body oâ are gathered in the womb Somtimes vessels are closed by inflammatioâ or Sâirrhus oâ other tumor 3. They are stopt by astringenâ Medicines 4. By compression 5. From a Scar or flesh or a membrane that gâows after a wound Stoppage of the terms shews straitness which hiâders conception and this stoppage is known by crudities abounding in the body which are known by their signs Sometimes thick flegm comes from the womb if there was a wound before or the Secundine was pulled out by force Stoppage of terms from an old obstruction by humors is hard to be cured if it be from disorderly use of astringents it is more curable if it be from a Scirrhus or other tumor that compresseth or closeth the vessels that cannot be cured the disease is incurable Obstructions are taken away by the means mentioned in the cold and moist Distemper of the Womb âleâm must be purged and she must be let blood as in stoppage of the terms After Universals come to the obstruction with Medicines that move the terms these take away the cause as in the Chapter of the cold distemper of the Womb. Or Take Asparagus roots Parsley roots each an ounce Madder roots half an ounce red Pease half a handful Pennyroyal Calamints each a handful Wall-flowers Dill flowers each two pugils boyl strain and add syrup of Mugwort an ounce and half Or Take Birthwort and white Dittany roots âach ân ounce Cosâus Cinnamon Galangal each half ân ounce Rosemary Pânnyroyal Calamints Bâtâony âââwers each a handful Anise and Fennelâeââ each a dram Saffron half a dram with âiâe Oâ use Topiâks as Take Mugwort Marâoram Calamints Mercury Pennyroyal each twâ handâuls Sâge Râsemary Bays âhamomil flowers eaâh a handââl boyl them in water fomenâ the groyns and the bottom of thâ belly or let her âit in a Bath up to the navel and then anoint about the groyns with Oyl of Rue Lillies Dill c. Or use Pessaries and Fumes mentioned If straitness be from other diseases cure them first Chap. 8. Of the opening of the Vessels of the Womb besides Nature THis is when there is great bleeding The vessels are opened preternaturally three waies by Anastomosis Diaeresis and by Diapedesis as in the lungs Anastomosis is from much blood which the liver doth produce and send out by the womb as in some by the nose For the blood being thin hot cholerick and sharp opens the mouths of the vessels and causeth a flux Diaeresis is from much blood when there is great motion as when there is long copulation with a strong man that hath a great tool or a hard travel or abortion a âall or stroke also when sharp humors corrode or sharp pessaries Diapedâsis is from the thinness of the vessels and loosness and the thinness of the blood or from much moisture or use of Baths Mâch blood is a âign the vessels are open you shall know the causes that open them thus In Anastomosis the blood drops and is thân and there are signs of much blood or sharp and thin If there be a Diâerâsis the blood flows more and there are cloddeâs and there were causes that broke the vessels as sharp Suppositories Diapedesis is known when the woman is of a thin and loose habit of body the blood thin or she hath used âuch bathing If the vessels open from much blood in a sound body there is less danger and it is easier cured then in a Cacoâhymy In an Aâasiomosis give things that thicken without slime as Roses Mirtles Medlars Services Pomegranate peels and flâwers Sanders âoral Harts horn Cypress-nuâs In Diaeresis give things that thicken with slime ' as Comfrey Plantane Gum Traganth whites of Eggs Troches of Amber Bole Starch Rice Quinces Sanguis Draconis Sarcocol and Izing glass But because there are divers causes and these diseâes are not cured but by taking them away â we shall speak of them in the Chapter of immoderate Terms Chap. 9. Of a double Womb the wanting of a Womb and evil shape of the Womb and strange things found in it Julius Obsequens saiâs that one woman had two wâmbs and ãâã saith that a Maid had her womb in two parts as in Bitches Câlâmbus saith that one wanted a womb but âeâ privities were as in other women and part âf the neck of it hung out Worms in the Womb. Hippocrates writes that worms are found in the womb And Gynaecea writes it is a sign thaâ Nature is wanton c. And John de Tornamira writes that he saw a Woman that had an intollerable itching in her womb from the Ascarides he gave a Womb clyster of the Decoction of Wormwood and Hiera and
and from an evil sangâifiâation in the liver and ââleen fâom âhâir weakness oâ fâom errors in diet or from weakness of the womb from hard travel or often mischances cold air or water or whatsoever hurts the heaâ of the womb Also stoppage of the terms doth cause gathering of water for the water useth to be evacuated with them Many take this for the only cause Somtimes the tunicles of the womb may be divided in some place and water may be gathered between them Hippocrates saith The terms are âewer and cease before the time the bottom of the belly swells and the papps are soât without milk and she thinks she is with child by these you may know it is a Dropsie But because Doctors and Midwives are often deceived you must distinguish this from other swellings When a woman is sound and useth a sound man the womb by degrees swells and the child moves in its time but often there is a Dropsiâ with conception before or after therefore in a Dropsie the tumor is equal according to the largeness of the womb and âelly and noâ pointed as in a woman with child Secondly iâ the woman be in years and hath not conceived before and hath a good colour it is a sign of a Dropsie rather then conception If the tenth month be past and the child moves not nor the breasts swell but are soft say there is a Dâopsie of the womb Thirdly in a true conception women are bâtter after some months and the Symptoms abate but in a Dropsie they increase still It is distinguished from a mole by the weight in the bottom of the belly From an inflationâ because the belly is stâetched in that and sounds being striken but is soât in a Dropsie It differs from the Dropsie of the belly because the face is pale or wane in that from the distemper of the liver there is thirst but in the won bâdropsie she is of a good colour except the liver be also bad It differs from inflammation of the womb for that is âith a constant feaver and the Symptoms oâ it and ârom other tumors which are harder but in a Dâopsie of the womb if the belly be preââedâ it yiâldâ You shal know whether it be from the fault in the woâb ârincipally or ââom some other part thus Iâ tâe woman be of a good colour and there were onely some diseases and causes that might hurt the wombâ as abortion hard travel stoppage of terms or too many of them then the womb is chiefly affected but if there be signs of a distemâer in the whole body or in the liver or spleen aâd the colour is bad it is by consent from other parts You shall knâw whether the water be in bladdeâs or in the cavity of the womb thus If you find the oriâice oâ the womb closed and there is little pain it is in the cavity but if the oriâice be open and there is great pain it is in bladders or without the cavâây If the humor in the womb be not corrupt this disease is of long continuance but may be easily cured it is eaâier cured in the cavity then when it is in bladders and between the âunicles A woman after conception having a Dropsie of the womb her child diâth and she is in danger When it is froâ stâppage of terms and new and the stâength âirm open a vein in the legs otherwise bleed not Purge according to the humor with respect to the womb as in Chap. 6. of a cold Distemper Then purge Water Take Angelica and Madder roots each half ân ounce Calamintsâ Penny-royal Mugwort Lovage eâch a handful Savin a pugil boyl them in wine sweeten it with Sugar Or make Broaths with the same Take Dianisum Diagalangal each half a dram Oyl of Aniseeds Cloves each five drops Sugar three ounces make Rouls Inject into the Womb as in Dropsies Take Asarum roots târee drams Pennyroyal Calamints eaâh halâ a handful Savin a pugil Mechoacan a dâam Aniseed Cummin each half a dram boyl taâe six ounces strained Oyl of Elder and Orris each an ounce make a Clyster Or use Peââaries Take Agarick a dram Coloquintida half a dram Gniâium ten grains with Honey and Wool make a Peââary Make Fomentations and Baths of Danewort Me cury Elder Pennyroyal Organ Chamomil-flowers Baâberries wild Cowcumbers Broom Carrot Rue seeds And anoint after with Oyl of Elder Danewort Orris with drops of Oyl of Angâlica Anise Caraway Sâlphur Baths are good and those of Niter oâ the Plaister of Bayberries or Snails to the bottâm of the belly Vomiting and neesing break the bladders Give Clysters at the fundament as in Dropsies Take Mercury leaves Danewort Soldanella Mugwortâ Motherwort each a handful Chamomil Elder Broom flowârs each a dram boyl and to ten ounces strained add juyce of Beets Mercury Danewort ea h six drams Boys urine an ounce and half Hiera six drams Honey half an ounce make a Clyster Let the Diet be drying as in Chap. 5. Chap. 12. Of a Tumor in the Womb from blood in its Veins THis disease makes Women think they are with child also for blood long detained in the vâins about the womb stretcheth them outwardly and twisteth them and the veins in the substance of the womb are ful and stretched and make it larger but when the terms flow it falleth again except there be a Cachexy or Dropsie This is onely from stoppage of terms and is cured by provoking them Chap. 13. Of Inflammation of the Womb. IF the blood that comes to the womb get out of the vessels into its substance and grow hot and putresie it causeth inflammation either all over or in paât before or behind above or below on the right or left side Blood is the immediate Cause which is pure or mixed therefore the inflammation is either an Erysipelas Oedema or Scirrhus as flegm melancholy or blood abound Blood is either sent to or drawn by the womb by heat or painâ it is sent to it when it aboundeth or is hot or thin and when the blood is moved by hot air exercise passions as anger or hot diet There is a tumor with heat and pain in the râgion of the womb with stretching and heaviness in the privities and if you put in your âinger you 'l feel the heat and the more pain there is a feaver somtimes called Lipyria when there is cold without and heat within The tongue is dry and blâck with watching doting toââing to and fro the breasts are pufft up and pained There is headach to the roots of the eyes and a pain in the groyns hips midrif pleura and shoulders short wind and like a Pleurisie with loathing vomitinâ hickets The belly is bound the pulse is small and often and weak but at first darting and quick And Hippocrates âaith If the womb be inâlamed the terms are stopt and the neck of it is liââ a Spiderâ web with many small veinâ c. Iâ
it be inflamed before the pain is about the ââbes and the urin is stopt If behind it is in the âoyns and the belly is bound If it be inflamed in the bottom the pain is towards the navel If it be from pure blood the Symptoms are less if from choler stronger the thiâst is more the watching greater if from melancholy all are worse If it be all over the womb it is dangerous and few escape it An Erysipelas in a woman with child is deadly because there is an abortion and the Mother dies the worse the Symptomes the greater is the danger And it is safer to discuss an inflammation then to ripen it if it turn to a Schirrus it is lasting and makes ãâã Dropsie If it be not after abortion or a flux of blood open a vein in the Arm or cup and scarifie the shoâlders Bleed nât in the foot least you draw blood more to the womb but afterwards to derive if it be from terms stopt you may Galen âaith You may divert the blood by bleeding in the arm or cupping the breasts and you maâ derive it by âpening the ankle-vein and cupping upon t e hips If there be cholerâ purge it with Syrup of Roses Manna Rhubarb Diacatholicon and use not strong movers of the terms Use Alteâers and Coolers as Juleps and Emulsions and provoke sleep and if there be dotage give Narcoticks Aâter Univârsals use Repellers and Aâodynes As Take Housleek Purslane Lettiââ Venus-navelâ Vine leaves each half a handful boyl them in wine add Barley meal two ounces Pomegranaâe fiowers two drams Bole a dram with Oyl of Roses âake a Pultis Or Take Diachylon simple twââunces jâyce of Venus-navel and Plantane each haâf an ounce Oyl of Roses an ounce Sugar of Lead a dram make an Oyntment in a leaden Mortar Make Injections of the same Herbs or of Milk and rose-Rosewater Or Take Plantane Venââ-naâel Lettice each a hanâful reâ Râses two pââilâ boyl and ad Oyl of Mirtles an ounce Rosâ-vinegar half an ounce make an Inââction Make Clysters of the sâme Plants in a small quantity least they oppress the woâb Tâke Alâhaea roots an ounce Mâllows Violets Lettice each a handful Nightshade half a handful Violets Roses each a pugil sweet Prânes ten Linseed half a dram boyl them in Barley watâr to six ounces ad Oyl of Roses three ounces make a Clysâer An anodyne Fomentation Take roots of Althaea Mallows and Viâlets each a handful red Roses Melilot Câamomil flowers each a pugil boyl them for a Fomentation Or use a Cataplasm of white Bread and Milk Iâ the progress disâuss As Take pouder of Althâea roots an ounce Chamomil and Meliâot ââowers eââh two drams Mugwârt half an ounce Barley and Bean flour âach an ounce boyl them in sharp wine add Hogs grease Oyl of Chamomil and Lilliââ ââch an âunce make a Caâaplasm If the inflammation turn to matter ripen it As Take poâder of Altha a râots Chamomil floâârs Mâlilâtâ Lineseed Faeâugreekâ each an ounce Figgs eight boyl them add yolkâ of âour Eggs and haââ a scruple of Saââron make a Pultis Aââer it is ripe break it by motion of the body coughing neâsing cupping or by Peââaries As Take âiggs an âunce Rue half a handâul boyl them ãâã ad Honey and Leaven each half an ounce Pigeons dung Orris roots each half a dram with wool make a Pessary Aâter it is broken the pain abates thân cleâse and heal the ulcer as in Sect. 1. c. 8. of an ulcer of the womb If it break about the bladder give an Emulsion of cold Seeds Whey and Syrup of Violets Let the diet be cool with Barley water warm Abstain from Wine to the deâlination of the disease let the belly still ãâã kept looâe Chap. 14. Of a Scirrhus and Cancer in the Womb. AN earthy matter left after an inflammation makâs a hard tumoâ called a Scirrhus and sâmtimes it is without an inflammation It is a pâoper Sâirrhus when there is neither sense nor pân it is impâoper when there is a little sense It is soâtimes as big as a mans head somtimes the whole womb is a Sâinhus sâmtimes onely pârt of it The immediate Cause is a thiâk earthâ huâor as nâtural melanââolyâ whân a thiâk humor is gathered in the womb there is a Scirrhus without inflammation aforegoing this iâ usual in melancholy women and such as are noâ clensed by their terms or have the Pica or green-sickness and are fifty years old Other humors somtimes breed a Scirrhus afteâ inflammation when cold astringents have been used disorderly for then the humor is fixed to the part and hardned The same may be from hot discussers which send forth the thin matter in an inflammation and fasten the thick The tumor is to be felt it yields not and is without pain the terms flow not at first or very little afterwards there is a great flux of blood If an inflamation went before and the part is heavy and burdened it is a sign of a Scirrhus She is unweeldy âloathful and you may know from what humor it is by the signs of the humors predominating in the body and the part pained will shew you in what place it is A Scirrhus easily turns to a Cancer And when the terms are stopt there is a Dropsie of the womb or belly It is easier cured in the neck then in the womb it self Moisten and heat the cold and dry humor with Borage Bugloss Fumitory Succory Epithymum Polypodâ Then purge with Polypody Senna black Hellebore and the like As Take roots of Althaea Lilliâs eâch two ounces Mallows Viâlâtâ Alâhaea Brankursine each a handâul Mugâort Calamints Chamomil flowers each half a handful âaeââgreek and Linâeâd each half an âunce bââl them âor a Fomentatiân or Bath or to a Catapâasm with Lineseeâ Faenugreek âa h an âuncâ Fiâs six Orris pâuder âwo drams Saââron half a dram Henâ grease and Oyl of sweet Aâmonds as much as is âit Or Take Bdellium Ammoniacum Galbanum each as much as you please beat them in a Mortar with Oyl de Been and Lillies add Mucilage of Faenugreek Lineseed Figgs make a Liniment or with wax a Plaister Or Take Oyl of Capars Lillies sweet Almonds Jesamine each an ounce fresh Butter Hens grease Goose grease each half an ounce Mucilage of Faenugreek Althaea and Oyntment of Althaea eaâh six drams Ammoniacum dissolved in wine an ounce with wax make an Oyntment Make Injections thus Take Bdellium dissolved in wine Oyl of sweet Almonds Lillies Chamomil each two ounces marrow of a Veal bone Hens grease each an ounce with the yolk of an Eg. In a bastard Scirrhus you may use healers and digesters better and Ammoniacum and hotter Fat 's Internal Medicines are steel c. of which in obstruction of the Womb and Scirrhus of the Spleen As for diet abstain from breeders of gross and slimy humors and from hot dryers Cancer of the Womb. What may be said of
oâ Spunge put into the womb dipt in sâarp ââne oâ jâyce of Acacia with pouder oâ Saâguis Draconis Bole Mastiâh or the Counteâies Oyntâent with Galbanum and Bdellium Apply a Cupping-glass with great flame under the navel or paps or to both kidnies and lay this Plaister to the back Take Opopanax two ounces Storax liquid half an ounce Frankincense Mastich Pitch Bole each two drams with wax maâe a Plaister Or Take Labdanum a dram and half Frankincense Mâstich each half a dram wood Aloes Cloves Spikâ eaâh a dram Ash coloured Ambergrâece four grâiââ Muâk half â sâruple make two râund Plaisterâ ãâã be laid on eacâ side the Navel Make a Fume of a Snail skiâ faltâd or of Garliâk and let it be taken in by a âunnel Use aâtringenââomentations of âramble leaves Plaâtane Horstail Mirtles each two handfuls Wormwood two pugils Pomegranate flowers half an ounce bo l them in wine and water Or inject this with a Syringe Take Comsâey roots an ounce Snakeweed Pomegranate flowers each half an ounce Rupâârewort two drams Yarrow Mugwort each half an ounce boyl them in red Wine Then use Sulphur Baths To strengthen the Womb Take Harts-bornâ Bayes âach a dram Mirrh halâ a dram make a Bâudâr for two dosâs give it with sharp wine Or Take Zedoary Pârsnep seâds Crabs eâes prepared âach a dram Nââmâg half a dram give a dram in pâuder but use astringents warily lest you stop the courses and cause worse mischief Iâ it fall out from ââil hâmors that flow to the womb and loosen the ligâunents purge the body and then âse dryers as the decoction of China Sarsa and Guajacum To keep it in its place make Roulers and ligatures as for the Rupture and use Pessaries into the bottom of the womb that may force it to remain of which Franâis Rousset hath writâen at large and shews that they neither hinder conception nor bring any inconvenience nay that they help conception and retain it and cure this disease perfectly And Gaspar Bauâinus confirms the same in his Appendix to Rousset You may use Circles or Balls instead of Pessaries As Take roots of wild Vine make round Circles or Balls of them greater or less as the Neck of the womb is Then Take Virginâ wax melted with white Rosin or Turpentine dip the bâlls in till they are fit put one into the neck of the womb that will hold in being just fit let it nât be tâken out till it fall out and then put in another if she be not ââred If it gangrene and sphacelate cut it quite off if she fear cutting take it off by ligature of which Rousset who shews the way and saies that it may be cut off without danger of life He tells also of the place where you must cut and in Sect. 4. de partu Caesareo where the ligature is to be made Let the diet be drying and astringent and glewing as Rice Starch Quinces Pears green Cheese Avoid Summer fruits let the Wine be astringent and red The Cure of the inclining of the Womb. When it inclines to the side after Universals apply Cupping-glasses to the other side and let her still lie on the other side and let the Midwife anoint her singer with Oyl of sweet Almonds and draw it a little by degrees to the other side Chap. 17. Of the Rupture of the Womb. FEw Physitians have seen this I never read of any but once I saw it of which in my institutions lib. 2. pârt 1. cap. 9. Chap. 18. Of Wounds and breaking of the Womb. IT is seldom woundâd by reason of the divers defences it ââth but somtimes the âhirurgions wound it in cutting out of the child of which Hollerius inter rara no. 8. he speaks of a Woman with child in Paris that her childs hand put forth at the nâvel and was so in travel fifteen daies and both child and mother were safe It is evident if it be made by the Chirurgion in cuââing out of a child and you may know iâ by the place if it come otherwise There is blood and matter that flows out at the neck of the womb There is more pain when it is in the neââ of the womb then when it is in the bottom These wounds are cured as appears by the Caesarean birth or cutting but they are dangerous by reasoâ of the strange Symptoms and the consent of the parts Use Consolidaters or Healeâs and if there be pain Anodynes or Pessaries made of Wax candles dipt in Wound-oyntments Or Take Wax Turpenâine Goose greâse Buââer each a dram Honey Deer's marrow Oyl oâ Râsâ Bulls grease each two drams Or Take Fraââ kincense Mastich âeruss Galbaââum each half an ounce mix them all with white âine then âd Poâphâlix an ounce and wiâh Wax and Oyl of Roseâ make an Oyntment Make Iâjâctions or Clysters for the woâb of the Decoction of round Birthwort Cyprâss boyled in steeled Water and sharp Wiâe with a little Hydromel Agrimony Mugwoât Plantane Roses Sâhaenanth Hoâehound Chap. 19. Of Ulcers and rottenness of the Womb. THough the neck of the womb be only sâbjâct to ulcers as we shewed yet the substance of womb hath been ulcerated and it hath been observed to rot when it hath fallen âut and to fall away * As we said of a Woman at Aâinion that after lived some time And the Examples of Rousset shew that it may be safely cut off Also a âhild dead in the wombâ may cause an ulcer as divers Histories witness in Albucasis and Alexander Benedictus Mauriciâs Cordââus and many others How thâse ulcers and rottenness of the womb are cured is said in Sect. 1. cap. 8. where we spâke of Ulcers of the neâk of the Womb and Cap. 10. of Fiââulaes of the Womb. Chap. 20. Of the Diseases of the Stones and Vessels of Procreation in Women IT is apparânt by Hiâtories wâitten by grave and leaâned Mân that the stoâes of women and there seed-vessels are many times grievously distempered when the womb joyned to them is not Somtimes water is gathered about the stones as Gaspar Bauhinus John Schenkius write and he hath another History Lib. Obser 3 from John Heintz of a Maid that desired a little before she died that her body might be opened to testifie her innocency In which besides other things remarkablâ the stones were found swollen as big as a head of a young child blewish and spungie much water came out of them and that made her belly swel and she taken to be with child buâ the truth appeared and her chastity testified THE FOURTH BOOK THE SECOND PART Of the Symptoms in the Womb and from the Womb. Chap. 1. Of weakness of the Womb. THERE are many Symptomes from the womb Of those in the womb the first is weakness so that it cannot perform its actions The action of the womb is twofold private and publick By its private action it âakes it nourishment of blood that comes to it
By its publick action it serves for generation If the private faculty be hurt and the nourishmânt not well made there is a superâluous moisture and then weakness without other fault of the organ or unity divided The first Cause is distemper when the manifest qualities are changed or when the natural heat is suffocated or dispersed or when the occult qualities are changed Heat in the womb makes a hot distemper if it be too much by which the womb sucks more then it can concoct this is not propeâly weakness but that distemper iâ weakness when the action is either not done or weakly done But cold rather makes weakness in the womb by which it cannot make the sufficient quantity of nourishment hence excremenâs are heaped up and it cânnot perform its actions Also a moist distemper makes weakness by which it can neither keep seed nor child it is also weak from loosness Little desire of Venery and no pleasure therin argue weakness of the womb flux of seed often abortion pain in the loyns and pubes when the terms are coming âarts from the womb head-ach and the like The signs of a cold and moist distemper with or without matter are already declared It is a great disease by reason of the diverâ Symptoms in women that have conception hurt It is worst when it comes from dispersing and extinguishing of the natural heat We have shewed how distempers of the womb are cured but the dispersing of the Spirits and natural heat is cured by things that hinder thâ loss of Spirits and strengthen the womb as Spices Cinnamon Cloves Nutmeg Mace Diacalaminth Aromaticum rosâtum Diaxilaloes rosâta Novella Treacle Mithridate Outwardly by Oyl of Lillies Nard Lavender and Astringents when the womb is loose Things that help the womb in the whole subsâânâe are in the Chapter of the cold and moist Diââemper as Aqua vitae for Women Or this Take Castor three ounces Saffron two ounces extract thâm siâgular add to both Extract of Mugwort two oânces of Angelica a drâm Magistery of the mother of Pearl â dram Oyl of Cloves a sâruple of Angeliââ and of Amber and of Nutmegs each half a scruple Let her eaâ meat of much nourishmânt and drink good Wine Chap. 2. Of the Itch of the Womb. THis is more in old then young womeââ and must be distinguished from the Frenzie of the womb for here is only a desire to scrath the privities so that they cannot sleep Nor is it with desire of copulation as in the fury of the womb It is a salt humor that is serous and adust that causeth it that is sent to the neck of the womb and the privities How it comes there I shewâd in Ulcers of the privities It is known by her relation and often putting her hand to the privities It is more troublesom then dangerous becauââ it hinders sleep First purge the whole body and if there aââ signs of plethory and strength permits bleed iâ the arm Then qualifie the sharp âalt hâmors with cold and moist means and râmovâ them from the privities Foment with a Dâcoction of Lettice Plantane Willow Dock rooâs and then anoint with Galenâ Cooler Or dip â Pessary in this Oyntment and put it in Oâ Tâke Allum Nitâr Sulphur each six drams Sââphisager an ounâe with Rose-vinegar and fresh Butter make a Linimens If these wil not cure use stronger as the oyntment of Elicampane with Quickâilver Or Take black Soap Staphisacre âach a dram quiâk Brimstone half an ounce Quick silver two drams wiââ Rose-vinegar and Hogs grease make an Oyntment Let the meât be of good juyâe coolinâ and moistââng Take heed of Spices sharp and salt meats Chap. 3. Of pain in the Womb. THere is pain in the body of the womb witâ other diseases sometimes as the Coââckpains woven in the bottom of the belly and in the loyns and hips and is called the Pain of thâ Womb. It is often in women with child as the inflammation of the womb it is burning and beating it binds the belly and stops the urin Solution of unity is the Cause of all pains and this is from the stretching of the womb and its vessels or corrosion Stretching is from wind or clotted blood in the cavity oâ it and when Nature cannot expel it by reason of the straitness of the paât there is pain Also pain is from stretching of the vessels beâore the terms flow when they are close and the blood thick and this pain is increased by external cold especially after heat Somtimes there is a gathering oâ humors about the womb when the terms ââow and are âoul and they get into the membranes and stretch them The same may be from corrupt seed that stretcheth the vessels Or from sharpness and corrosion in the neck âf the womb when sharp humors flow through it and twâtch it The pain is manifest but let us look at the âigns oââhe causes If it be from clotted blood there was a flux of the same and the pain is fixed about the oriâice of the womb If there were external causes the patient will relate If it be from seed there is suffocation of the womb The greater the cause is and the more vehement it works the more is the danger If there be pain and fear of fainting look to that before the cause with Anodynes and Narcoâicks if need be If it be from windâ see inflation of the womb If iâ be from clotted blood diââolve and evaâuate it with hot and attenuating Medicines made into Fomentations Baths and Oyntmenâs It is good to apply Treacle to the region of the womb or put it in with Rue and Honey Or give a Clyster to the womb of Ruâ Foenugreâk sâed and Oyl of Rue and Orris Or give ãâã and Cinnamon water If the vessels of the womb are not open enough for the terms See in the stoppage of the terms If there be wind make a Clyster thus Takâ Merâury Mugwort Calâmints Pennyroyal eaâh ãâã handâul Chamomil and Melilot flowers each haââ a handâul ãâã anâ Lineâeed each an ounâe boyl them in a pint strained dissolve Hiera Beâtdicta laxativa each half an ounce âaâe a Clââââr Give Mugwort Zedoary water Essence of Caâââr Treacle or âomens Aquâ vitâe of whiâh before Make a Clyster for the Womb thus Takâ Mugwort Calamints Bettony each hâlâ a handâââ Gith Cummin Carrot Aniseedâ eaâh a dram Spiâe Schoenanth Nutmeg Cinnamon eââh ãâã dram boyl them in Wine Then fill an Ox bladder half full with Oyl of Lillies and Dill and apply it to the belly Or Tâke Oyl of Lillies Orris each an ounâe distilled Oyl of Angelicâ a dram Goose and Heâs gâeâse each half an ounce Muciââgâ of Linâ aâd Faenugreek seed made with Muâwârt wââer eaâh three drams seeds of Cummin Cârrâts Carawaâ each a dram with Wâx mâke a soft Oyntment Oâ Take Peââitorâ two handâuls Mercury a handful beat them add Chamomil flowers Cummin Anise
it for two doses Or Take opâning Roots half an ounce Madder Burnââ eaâh three ounces Mugwort Bettony Germandâr Calamints âach a handful red Pease half a handfulâ flowers of Bugloss Dill each a pugil boyl and sweeten it with Sugar For flegmatick Bodies take the Decoction of Guajacum Saââaphras Dittahy for fifteen dââes without sweating Then evacuate with Agarick Mechoacan Turbith Scammony Coloquintida blaâk Hellebore As Take Agarick two drams infuse it in Mugwortââter two ounces Oâymel an ounce strain and the Eâtract of Michoacan a sâruple Or Take opâninâ Roots half an ounce Mugwort Bettony ââch ãâã pugils Senna ââlâ an âunce Agariâk two draââ ãâã and Aniâââd each a ââruââe ãâã haââ a dram Râsâmary flowers ãâã âugil inâââe ãâ¦ã thââe ounâââ anââaâf âd Sârup of Senna ân ãâã aââ halââ ãâã ãâã hâlâ a dram Or if they dâink Wiâe Tâke Tarââth ãâã ãâã eaâh twâ dâams Senna an ãâã aââ haââ Maiâââhair âalm Râsâmary eaââ two pugils Cinnamon Galangal each a dramâ hang them in Wine give six ounces with half an ounce of Manna Or Take Diaturbith with Râubarb half an ounce Mechoacan two drams Agarick a dram Diarrhodonâ Cinnamon each half a dram Steel prepared a dram with Raisons make an Electuaryâ give as much as a Wall nut Or give Pills of Agarick foetidae and so continue purging and âreparing if the matter be stubborn Or Take Agarick two drams Mader a dram with Syrup of Mugwort make Pills Or Take Aloes three drams de Tribus oâe dram with juyce of Savin make Pillsâ If the stomach is soul give a Vomit leât it gââ into the veins Then give provokers of the Terms which are hot and thin about the time they used to flow they are three degrees in strength and many soâtâ of Medicines are made of them A Pouder Take Cinnamon a dram Ambârâ sâruple Saffron half a scruple Or Take Trochu of Mirrh of Wallâflowers each a scruple Saffron five grains Or Take Castor Pennyroyal each a scruple with Wine or proper Waters Physical Wine Take Madder roots an ouncâ Orrâs half an ounce Balm Pennyroyal Mugwortâ Rosemary eâch a handful Wall-flowers half a pâgil Cinnamon an ounce Galangal half an ounââ with Wine give four ounces Or Take the Dâcâction of red Pease Or Take Smallage Fennel roots each half an ounce Mugwort Bettâny Pennyroyal Balm each a handful red Peââe half an handful Juniper-berries half aâ ounce ãâã all flowers a pugil boyl and sweeten it Oâ Take âen ounces of it with thrââ ounces of Mugwâââ for three doses Querââtan commends this Take Gromwelsâeds Anise Mâsletâ of the Oak each three drams Dittany a dram Saffron a sâruple âruiââ and keep them twenty four hours in Wine then boylâthem give fââr ounces for three daiâs together Or make the Womans âqua viââe Or Take Balm âttâny Pennyroyal Mââwort Nâp Motheâwort Dittany âach four handfuls Wine thirty pints distil them add three handfuls of each hârbs and distil them again and ad Fennel seed Calamus Cinnamon Cassia lignâa Cardamoms each half an ounce distil them again Or give Syrup of Calamintsâ Mugwort Or Take water of Pennyroyal Savin Calamints each four ounces Syrup of Mugwârt ââur ounces Cinnamon water an ounce give it at fâur times Rouls Take Extract of Savin a scruple of Angelica half a sâruple of Elicampane six grains Oyl of Cinnamon five drops of Cloves two drops with Sâgar dissolved in Balm waâer Or make an Electuary of Steel six ounces Cassia lignea Cinnamon each two drams Cloves a dram Raisons two ounces with Sugar dissolved in Mâgwort water Or Take Troches of Mirrh a dram Extract of Gentian and Savin each a scruple âastor half a ââruple make Pills give two scruples or give every third day pills of Hierâ Use outward Mediâines but pâovoke not sweat ây them Take Althaea and Lillâ roâts each two âunces ãâã an âunâe Mâllâwâ Mârâury Mâgwort ãâ¦ã Mâtherwort Calamintâ Pânnâroyal Mârââram Bayââââach tââ haâdâulâ flowers of ãâã âââânder Cheirâ each a âândful Faenugreâââ sââd an ouncâ Juniper anâ Bayberriâs each âalf a hanâââl bââl âhâm in Water ãâã wiâh âpââges And then anoint with this Take Oyl of Lillies an ounce oâ Lavender seeds stilled halâ a dram Calamints and Gith pouder each a dram Storax calamint a scruple To Virgins that must take no Pessaries give Fumes with the head defended they wil âpen the mouths of the vessels and cut thick humors As Take Mirrh Bdellium Storax each a dram Benzoin two scruples Gallia mosâhata ivet each half a scruple with liquid Storax make Troches Then use Clysters and Injections into the Womb with Purgers As Take Calaminâs Pennyroyal each a handful Gith seed Turbiâh each a dram Coloquintida half a dram boyl it in wine inject it into the womb If it be hot aâter it inject the Decoction of Mallows with Milk or Barley water And because the neck of the womb lies upon the strait gut give Clysters Take Lilly roots an ounce Orris Valerian âach half an ounce Mercury two handfuls Mugwort Savin each a handful Chamomil Lavender flowers each a pugil Caraway Gith seed each a dram boyl add Hiera and Beânedicta laxativa each half an ounce Oyl of Cheir two drams Electuary of Bayberries half an ounce If she be no Virgin put Mercury bruised in a Bag for a Pessary with Centaury flowers Or Garlick beaten with Oyl of Spike Begin still with the mildest as Mugwort Mercury Pennyroyal Marjoram Rue and then add Mucilages and Juyces to loosen the wombâ let âot Pessaries lie long least they cause a Feaver If it be from a tumor provoke not the Terms but loâk to the tumor Let diet be hot and attenuating of good juyce with Parsley Savory Rosemary Cloves Cinamon Little sleep and much exercise Question 1. Whether are the other Causes of stoppage of the Terms Some say the blood going to other parts is a cause but it is rather contrary and the suppression of Terms is cause of that âor the veins of the womb are large enough to evacuate blood Others say the strength of the womb is a cause which thiâkens the vessels that they receive no blood But the womb is made to receive it when it abounds Others accuse the strength which is to be denied but when it is so strong that it is too hot or too dry and will not receive the blood and that is a sign of weakness But there must be strength in the whole body to cast out superfluous blood or there will be other mischiefs Question 2. What Veins must be opened when the Terms are sâopt Authors disagree in this as Aetius and Galen who alwaies speaks of the ankle veins and most are of his mind being it is rational For a vein opened in the arm doth rather revel from the womb then draw the blood to it but in the ankle brings it to its place and opens obstructions and doth both lessen and bring blood to the womb and move that which is in the womb âixed Open the ankle therefore twice
with proper things as we shewed in the distempers of the Womb. But take heed that you move not the Terms when you attenuate for that wil melt the âerous humors and fix them more in the vessels use neither Vinegar noâ sharp things After purging consume the reliques by sweat if choler be in fault that must not be sweated out discuss it with warm Baths and do so in melancholy Use Pessaries Fomentations and Fumes to the womb Give Treacle Mithridate or the Decoction of Anâelica roots if cold humors are the cause Chap. 9. Of Terms coming before their time THese shew an ill constitution And it is a depraved excretion of the Terms that comes for the time often fâr somtimes they flâw sooner or twice in a month The immediate Cause is hurt of the retentive and expulâive faculty so that the blood flows not or sooner or lateâ or oftner the cause why they come sooner is in the blood that stirsâup the expulsive faculty in the whole body or in the womb somtimes all causes meet the blood is too much or too sharp and hot and if the retentive faculty in the womb be weak and the expulsive strongâ and of quick sense it is sooner A fall stroke or passion are the evident Causes They will relate it and the signs of the causes are these If it be from much blood there are the signs of plethory heat thinness and sharp humors are known by the distemper of the whole The weakness of the retentive faculty and loosness of the vessels is known from a loose and moist habit of body It is not dangerous but troublesom and hinders conception Iâ they come too soon from hurt in the faculty provoked by too much plethory Let blood use a spare diet and much exercise If it be from sharp blood temper it by good diet and Medicines as in the choleriâk distemper of the womb Use Baths of iron-Iron-water that corrects the distempers of the bowels then evacuate If it come from the retentive faculty and loosness of the vessels correct the cold and moist distemâer with gentle astringents Iâ it be from a stroke or fall cuâe it as the vessels opened are cured of which before Chap. 10. Of Terms that come after their usual time VVHen they stay longer then ordinary and return without order at no set time the causes are little and thick blood straitness of the passages weakness of the expulsive faculty and dulness Either of these causes may stop the Terms buâ if all meet the disease is worse For if blood be not bred in such a quantity that it may prick Nature forward to expel it the purging of it is diââered till there be enough to stir up Nature to expel it If thiâk humors are in the blood the passages stopt and the faculty weak the Terms muât needs be disordered and the purging of them differed longer If it be from want of blood she hath either lived poor in diet or exercised too much and she âinds no inconvenience by the want of her Terms If it be from gross slimy blood there are signs of Cacochymy The weakness of the faculty is known by the cold distemper of the womb It is not so dangerous as stoppage of the terms but it is bad enough in a plethorick or cacochymical body If little blood be use a âuller diet and exercise not If blood be gross and foul make it thin and cut it and after Preparatives let the humors mixed therewith be evacuated It is good to purge presently after the Terms and to use Calamints and to purge often Also four or five daies before the Terms scaâiââe the ankles and hold the feet in warm waâââ âub the legs apply Cuppâng-glasses without Sâââification to the inside of the thighs and use Fumes and Pessaries Anoinâ the bottom of the belly with things to provoke the Terms If there be a numness use things against the Palsie Chap. 11. Of the Terms voided another way SOmetimes they come out at the nose or are vomited up or flow out by the Haemorrhoid veins Hence Hippocrates saith that a woman that vomits blood is cured by having her târms or by a bloody flux Somtimes they are pissed âorth Dodonâeus saies that they come out at the eyes like tears somtimes Amaâus Lusitanus saith they will come forth at the Teats of the breasts and at the navel at the little finger or ring-âinger every month as Mercatâs observed thrice Are stoppage of the Terms from straitness of the vessels in the womb or evil conformation of the womb It is more troublesom then dangerous and hinders conception It is best when they come out at the nose for it is a part that Nature useth to disburden her self by First bring the blood to the womb again and abate it Open the ankle-vein three daies before she begins to bleed Or cup the thighs or rub them Or use Baths Fomentations Oyntments Womb-clysters Pessaries and the like mentioned in Suppression of the Terms Chap. 12. Of the Whites IT is a âoul excretion from the womb white and somtimes blew or green or reddish no at a set time nor every month but disorderly longer or shorter Before or after the Terms and when they are stopt Virgins seldom have this disease and women with child have it somtimes It differs from the running of the reins for it is in less quantity whiter and thicker and at a greater distance It differs from night pollution which is onely in sleep with imagination of Venery The immediate Cause is an excrementitious humor flegm choler or melancholy Somtimes it is like waterish blood It is gathered in the whole body or in the stomach liver or spleen For they who have crudities in the stomach are subject to this disease Somtimes the womb alone is distempered after often mischances or when the womb is very cold and moist This matter flows through the veins of the womb or of the neck of it which use to carry blood and Nature abuseth them to carry excrements especially if they are bred in the womb The remote causes are whatsoever doth breed âad humors some have it after strong purges or long bathing Somtimes they are pale somtimes blew red waterish and green somtimes slimy or cold or sharp or stinking In young people it is reddish The face is discoloured the urin thick there is loathing and heartach If the humor be sharp and corrupt there is a Feaver If it be flegmatick and much the ligaments of the womb are loose and it falls out thus Hippocrates and there are saith he swelled eyes evil colour and short breathing If it be not bred in the womb the humor is from a Cacochymy If it be from a fault in another part the signs of that wil appear If it come only from the womb there will be but little if from the whole body there will be more It is often long
the orgâns of sense and motion with the liver spleen stomach belly mesentery bladder strait âut back hips arms and legs and causeth symâtoms As Galen âaith the mother or hysterical ââââion is one name but hath under it innumeââble Symptoms Chap. 4. Of Suffocation of the Womb. IN this they seem to be strangled And there are so many Symptoms at once that it is impossible to define it by one Sometimes there is only short breath sometimes the animal actions are hurt the whole body is cold from a malignant vapor sent up from the womb The immediate Cause is a vapor malignant and venemous sent up by the arteries veins and nerves that hurt the actions of the parts it goes to This vapor is like air or wind thin and little but very strong to get presently through the whole body it chieâly ascends to the gullet and causeth choaking as eating of Mushrooms Hellebore and other poysons There is often short difficult breathing with heart-ach vomiting and loathing If the vapor go first to the heart the motion of it ceaseth and there is swounding and she falls down If it go to the brain the animal actions are hurt When âeed and terms corrupt in the womb with other bad humors they breed this evil vapor because they are the best substance and the beginning of generation they are worst when corrupted especially seed to hurt the whole body Somtimes it is in women with child when they have not their after puâging but evil humors aâe leât and corrupt in the womb The chief cause of this humor is in the trumpet of the womb and stones the body of which is hollow and loose the stones being in bladders and have hollowness full of water which in hystârical women is yellow and thicker then ordinary This trumpet and the stones are often taken for the womb it selfâ when they are swollen with corrupt seed and humors and wind and reach to the navel of which in the Chapter of ascent of the Womb. This disease is breeding sooner or longer as the matter is more or less somtimes corrupt humoâs lie still and if they be stirred they send a venom or vapor to the whole body now in women subject to this disease sweet sâents to the nose or taken in or anger will move these huhumors and vapors They are according to the variety of the symptoms and efficient cause or venemous humors for corrupt blood especially seed puts on another Nature That Suffocation is at hand it appears by laziness weakness of the legs paleness sad countenance and the motion of somthing like a ball in the belly with noise like Froggs Snakes or Crows so that some think it devillish There is also belching yawning yexing short wind heart-beating loathing dulness laughture at the coming of the fit ârom the vapor gâtting into the membrâne of the breast that tickle them some cry some both laugh and cry These Symptoms increase when the fit comes and the jaws are closed that she seems to be choaked and sense and motion is gone or depraved Some have Convulsions some hâar what is done about them but cannot speak the âulâe iâ less the whole body is cold and the eyes ãâã as if they were dead When the âit declines humors sâow from the ârivââiâs the guâs rumble the eyes open the cheeks grow red and the body warm the animal actions return and the patient sighs and comes to her self It is known to be from corrupt seed if the terms are in order and short breath and low voice Suffocation and Convulsions and all Symptomes are then more vehement and at the end of the fit there flows a humor like seed out of the privities It is from the terms if they be stopt or flow not orderly and if there be a disâase in the womb it is neither from the seed noâ the terms 1. If there come swounding or a great Convulsion or quenching of natural heat it is deadly 2. Suffocation from corrupt seed is more dangerous then that which is from the terms mixt with melancholick humors 3. The longer it lasts and the worse the symptoms the more is the danger It ceaseth in yong women when they begin to bear children 4. The oftner the fit comes the more you may âear the quenching of the natural heat by weakning of the heart often and if she foam at the mouth she dies The Cure of the Fit In the fit you must discuss the malignant vapors that riseth from the womb and turn it fâom the principal parts and you must evacuate the matter that breeds it and prevent its return Cal upon her loud pluck the hairs of her privities and ears make strong Ligatures and Frictions cup the legs and thighs and gâoyns hold stinks to the nose as Partridg-feathers burnt hairs Leather Horn Castor Assa foetida Galbanum oyl of Amber Rue the warts on Horses legs dried and the pouder upon coals burnt makes a âume which if taken in the nose suddenly raised them Apply sweet Scenâs to the priviâies as Civeâ Musk Gallia and Alâpta mosâhata or pouder of Cloves Or Take Storax calamita Benzoin each a dram Gallia moschata half a sâruple make Troâhes with Gum Trâganth and let the Fume be taken into the womb by a Funnel A Liniment Take Storax Benzoin each a dram Gallia moschata half a scruple Civet four grains liquid Storax half a scruple with Cotton put it into the womb Clysters to discuss wind draw down the matter Take the Carminative Dâcoction a pint Electuary of Hiera six drams Benedicta laxativa an âââce Oyl of Rue and Bayberriâs each a dram Use Womb-clysters and Pessaries to women that have known man Take Electuary of Hiera and Diaphaenicon each two drams Turpentine half an ounce Honey of Mercury an âunce Castor halâ a dram ââth Wool make a Pessary Oyl of Tin applied to the navel doth remove the sit Or Rue Castor and sneesing Pouders As Take white Hellebore halâ a scruple long Pepper ând Ginger each half a dram or put Oyl of Amâââ into the Nose and Eârs Apply to the Womb this Take Oyl of Rue âaâs each two ounââs Cummin seed Câstâr dissolâââ in Vinâgar eâch two drams with Wax make a ãâã Or use a âlââsââr of ââlbânum Caâor and Aââa foetida A compound distilled Water Take Zedoary ââsmp sââds Lovage âââts each two ounââs Mirrh Castor each half an oânce Piony roots four ounâââ Misteto of the Oak gathered in the wain of the Moân three ounces ad water of Motherwort four pinâs anâ half Spirit of Wine a pint and half steep them eigââ daies distil and give a spoonful with Tile-flower or Mugwort water or Oyl of Amber some drops Or Take Castor Mirrh Assa faetida each a sâruplââ Pepper half a scruple with syrup of Mugwort mâlâ Pills give three The Cure out of the Fit First prevent the âeed from corrupting in the womb and if it be corrupt evacuate it presenâây
better remedy Then temper and evacuate the humors if theâ be adust and there be madnessâ use strongââ Then have a Bath of Lettice Willow Water-lillies Vine-leaves Purslane Venus navel red Roses Violets Waterlillies Let her sit twice â day in it and not sweat To take away the sharpness of the seed use Lettice Violets Waterlillies and things that quenâh seed by a secret quality as Agnus castus âeed Leaves and Flowers of Champhyre hereâââer Asâ Take leaves of Waterlillies Agnus castus Willow each three handfuls Lettice Purslane Veâââ navel each a handful Lettice Poppy sâed the ãâã great cold Seeds each half an ounce Dill seed ãâã drams Waterlillies a handful Violets half a âândful beat them with juyce of Lemons distil them ââer twenty four hour add to every pint a dram of âmphire give an ounce Or Take Agnus caâââieaves Rue Willow each two handfuls Mints ãâã of Dill each a handful and half Waterlillies ââlf a handful Agnus castus seeds Hemp Coriââder Lettice seed each half an ounce beat them ând distil them with water add a pint of juyce of Leââns rectifiâ it to half An Emulsion Take Lettice and white Poppy ãâã and the four great cold Seeds each half an ounce ãâã of Lettice Waterlillies Willow each four ounâs Syrup of Violets two ounces Magistery of Coâââ dram An Electuary Take Conserve of Waterlillies âââlets of Agnus caâtus topââ eââh an ounce of Roââ hâlf an ounce red Câral Smaragds eâch a dram ãâã and Lettice candied each an ounce with ãâã of Violets and Waterlillies make an Electuary Or make Baths of the same As Take tops Aânus castus Lettice Rue Waterlillies Dâl ãâã ãâã them anoint with Oyl of Lillies ânguânt of Roseâ with Camphire afââr that Or lay a Plaister of Mercury and Marsh-lentils to the breast and loyns Lây a Plate of Lead to the Back and give a Pessary of juyce of Plantane Pââslane Gourds These that work by an occult quality are fittest for numnesses that must not marry but they that will marry must forbear them because they cause barâânness Let diet be thin and of little nourishment no Eggs Beef is good and fresh fish Also Lettice Purslane Succoây Sleep littleâ think not of Venery labour and avoid idleness Question Whether is Camphire cold or hât or doth it quench Venery It is hot because it burns flames is thin pieâceth is sharp and bitter But it hath cold effects as curing of burnes and inflammations and hââ headaches but this is from the likeness of thâ substance because it draws hot vapors to it anâ discusseth as Linseed oyl that cures burnes Noâ hath it a double substance cold and hot that maâ be separated Scaliger denies it by experience to quench Vânery but if it be taken often it doth he tâieâ it but once Chap. 6. Of the Melancholy oâ Virgins and Widdows IT is a Dâliriââ with sadness trouble and weââing sââtimes laugâing without a Feavââ It differs from others by the efficacy only of the efficient cause for it hath divers pains besides ââdness especially on the left side near the heart in the papâ this is by occasion at a distance The Cause is a melancholick vapor from a melancholick blood in the vessels near the heart that infects the animal Spiâits hurts the Fancy and so the reason For melancholick blood abounding in the vessels of the womb comes back to the great arteries about the heart by the arteâies of the womb and infects both vital and animal Spirits and causeth trouble of heart and deâââium while this blood is quiet in the arteries theâe is no vapor that riseth but when it is heaâed or sâirred up by any cause the arteries about the back and spleen beat more then ordinary and the vapors arise and trouble the heart They aâe sad and âull of thoughts and trouble at the heart and cannot express their grief all things are tedious to them they weep and lâugh without a cause they sleep little and with trouble and âear they have a pain on the left side and somtimes the left breast their jaws are dây al which are the effects of a melaucholick vapor and when that is discussed all cease If it be old it turns to madness and then they are ãâã silent then pââtlers and think they see Gâoââs At first it is easier cured but if it last long and ââe âesist not imagination and will not rejoyce âith her Gossips it is dangerous They often despair and desire death or hang themselves or dâown themsâlves If the manners are chanâed ãâã tuââs to madness Observe what progress the disease hâth made At first if blood be hot oâen a vâin oâten iâââe arm if the terms be not stopt if they be bleed in the ankle some daies before they use to flow Let her be merry and prepare and purge melancholy thus Take Borage and Balm water each three ounces Syrup of the juyce of Borage and Bugloss each an ounce and half Mix them for two Doses repeat them somtimes Then purge Melâncholy As Take Senna six drams Agarick a dram and half Borage flowers and Violets each a pâgil âitron peels two drams infuse them in Rhenish wine for six hours strain them ad Syrup of Violets an ounce Or Take Scorzonera roots two ounces Borage ân ounce Balm a handful Senna four ounces Agarick half an ounce Citron peels six drams Zedoary two drams Cordial stowers a handful add half a pint of the juyce of sweet-scented Apples and of Rorage and Bugloss steep them two daieâ then strain them ad Sugar and half an ounce of Cinamon make a Syrup give two or three ounces Also give Cordials Confection of Hyacinths Species Exhilerants and Confection Alkermes to such as can bear it Cure it as Melancholy only the matter comes from the womb therefore still regard that it dry not the body too much but use a moistning Diet. Chap. 7. Of an Epilepsie from the Womb. THis Falling-sickness is worst then from other causes because there are greater symptoms for that malignant vapor doth not onely fall into the nerves but the veins and arteries The same malignant vapor that causeth suffocation causeth this for when it ascends by the veins or arteries it begets other diseases but when it gets to the nerves or to the fountain of them it causeth the Epilepsie In some the whole body hath a Convulsion in others some part only as the eyes head tongueâ hand or leg and the outward senses are diversly taken Some see not some hear not some see and cannot speak some dote and think they see strange things some cry out and know not why All loose the sense oâ feeling If the vapor be nât very malignant they reâuân to their work after the fit as if they had not âeen ill It is known by what hath been said for here ãâã not only a Convulsion as in other Epilepsies âât diveâs Symptomes as in Suffocation of the âomb They seldom âoam at the mouth
because âe brain is not so shaken as to cause âoaming âor is the vapor so fixed in the roots of the nerâes but they often do hear It is grievous and hath grievous Symâtoms âut it is not so bad as a true Epilepsie and if you âve proper Medicines it never returns The Cure of the Fit Use things as in Suffocation of the womb or âther-sits as Rue and Castor are good against ãâã Also out of the sit you must cure it as the Moââ using things that respect the womb and the ãâã Asâ Take Piony roots Sâorzonera Misleââ tââ Oâk each half an ounce Polypâdy of the ãâã an ounâe Rue Pennyroyal Calamintâ each a ãâã Seseli Pionâ Agnus castus seeds each ââdramâ Carthamus sâeds brâised half an ounce ãâã of Rosemary Sâge Sâaehas Borage eâch two pugils boyl them to a pinâ and half strain and adâ juyce of Bettony Yarrow Mercury Mugâârt Sânâa five ounces Agarick Epithymum each half an ounce Rhubarb Cloves each two drams Aniâââ I ânnel sâed each three drams boyl strain with Sâgar and half an ounce of Cinnamon make Syrup give two ounces And these Pills twice in a week a scruple oââ dram an hour afore Supper Take Piony roâââ Senna each half an ounce Mugwort Bottoââ Rue Yarrow each half a handfulâ boyl them clârifie the Decoction add juyce of Mercury an ounce Aloes an ounce and half let it settle pour of the cleaâ add Rhubarb sprinkled with Cinnamon water ãâã drams Agarick half an ounce Mastich Epilâpââ pouder each half a dram with Syrup of Mugwââ make Pills To strengthen the Head and the Womb and to mend its Distemper Take Fecula oâ Pimââ dram of Briony Amber Misleto of the Oak eâââ half a dram Bezoar stone Mans sâull each a sârâple make a pouder give half a dram with Scorzonââ or Tile flower water or with Sugar make Rouls An âlectuary Take Conserve of Balm Tiâ flâwers Rosemaryâ Lilly coâvals Scorzonera ãâã âanâied each an ounce Diamoschâ dulce a draâ pouder of Agnus castus seeds and Piony roâts ãâã two drams with Syrup of Stââhas Chap. 8. Of pain of the Heââ from the Womb. MAny ââins come from the Womâ buâ ãâã chief and greatest are in thâ Head âââver or on one side oâ in the eyes Matter ascends to the membranes of the head by the veins and arteries from the womb It is a ââpoâ or humor from blood and humors somtimes bad blood that is thin goes from the womb vessels to the great vessels and gets to the head tâ the membranes there and causeth a stretching ulceâated or pricking or beating pain when it is carried through the arteries being âul of blood They think their head will be torn and the membranes and it is behind in the head or when the terms flow or arâ disordered from consent with the womb If it be from a vapor there is no hââviness and it ceaseth presently if from a humoâ there is heaviness Thesâ paââs are great and cause waâching We have spoken of the headach but here it is ââom the womb therefore consider what humoââ offend in the womb and let them be purged and the distemper of the womb amended as wâ shewed in the Distemper of the Womb. There is also a pain in the loyns because bad hâmors go from the veins of the womb and arteâies to the great vessels and so are sent by the ââpillââ veins into the membranes and stretch them and cause pain these humors must have âââper Purges âââstion In what part of the Head is the pain that comes by consent from the Womb Iâ iâ in the crown before and behind but chiefly âehind by reason of the joyning of the Back with the womb for the womb is nervous and âoâsânts âith the membranes of the brain by the membranes of the âarrow of the âack and so âerves âuffâââith nârves âiâher by communiââtion of matter or pain and because the original of the nerves is in the hinder part of the head women are more pained there then men because of the Womb. Chap. 9. Of the Diseases of the Heart and beating of the Arteries in the Back and sides from the Womb. THe heart beats and the arteries also as we shewed in the Green-sickness and it is by ââil vâpors sânt by the ââteries to the heaât from the womb that aâise from terms and evil humâââ gathered in the womb and this is known by âther Signs and Symptomes of a distempered womb To discuss the malignant vapors from the heart give Cordials as in Chap. 3. of palpiââtion of the Heart as Aqua vitae Cinnamenwater and Epithems Baggs and Liniments The arteries also beat with the heart as iâ Widdows on the lefâ Hypochondrion and Bacâ where there is a great artery and the artery thââ beats in the Back is part of the great artery they which beat in the Hypochondrion are the lesseâ splenitiâk and mesenterick branches therefoâe the beating is moâe in the Back then in the Hypochondrion but both pulsâtions come froâ the same cause The inflammation of the aâteries is the Cause of this beating when evil humors are sent frââ the womb iâto the great branches of the arteâââ and there bââtâ the heart being over-hot Somtimes the motion of this artery is all the body over and from a hot humor the hot humors go to the heart and cause a feaver but because there is little putrefaction it vanisheth presently If the heat of the humors go to the brain by the arteâies there is madness Some seek the cause in the vâins and say that the arteries suffer from the ãâã ãâã in them You mây feel it wiâh your hand laid upon the Hypochondrion and there are signs of a distempered womb and melancholy from the womb if heat continue in the arteries and go to the whole âody it consumeth it It is seemingly a small disease but it is not âithout danger because it comes from a bad cause that weakens the bowels It is cured as melancholy from the womb and ââopping of the terms and as Hypochondriack melancholy from the womb which follows Chap. 10. Of the Diseases of the Spleen and the Hypochondriack Disease from the Womb. SOmtimes the Spleen and the Hypochondria suffer from the womb so that you may doubt âhat disease it is ãâã from the womb by the arteries the womb ãâ¦ã one from the preparing arteries ãâã from the Hypogastrick aâtâry That from ãâ¦ã goes almost to all parts of the ãâ¦ã and ãâã branches of the spleen there ãâ¦ã bââ blood is ââed in the womb and ãâ¦ã âpwaâd to the ãâ¦ã gâââ easâây from thencâ to the ãâ¦ã ââd tâ the sâleen and the parts adjacent in the abdomen and the sooner ãâã Nature useth to send bad humors to ignââââ parts These humors are gathered by suppreââiââ of terms which though they seem to be onelâ ãâã the veins yet they get to the arteries by their Anastomosis Therefore those women that âavâ
ounce make a Clyster repeat it often Mâke Baths Liniments Fomentations then move the terms with Dittany Birthwort Briony c. Take Briony Birthwort eaâh half an ounce Asarum two drams Rue Savin Mugwârt Dittany Pennyroyal Motherwort each a hândful Elder and Chamomil flowers âach half a handful Line and Faenugreek seeds each half an ounce boyl them to a pint ad Hiera an ounce and half Trocheâ of Alkandal a dram Oyl of Ruâ and Keir each an ounce and half make a Clyster of the residents makâ a Cataplasm for the belly Or this Pessary Take Troches of Mirrh Gâlbanum Opopanax dissolved in wine each two drams Sowbread roots a dram white Hellebore half a dram with juyce of Rue If these wil not do let the Midwise take it out with her hand if it be half rotten Or leave it to Nature which doth it in time To sâop the flux of blood after a Mole is taken out use things against overflowing of the Terms As Take Plantane Shepheards-puâsâ Brambles Oaâ leaves râd Roses eâch a handâul boyl them in steeled Water then take Bârley bran tâo ounces Pomegranate flowers Cypress-nuts Pâmegranâtâ pâels red Rosâs Comfrey roots in pâuder eaâh an ounce Frogs burnt Boleâ Sanguis Draconiâ âach half an ounce with the Decoction aforesaid and a little Vinegar make a Cataplasm for the Region of the womb Take away pain with Anodynes mentioned in pain of the Womb keep up the strength with meat of good juyce Question Whether a Mole may be without the company of a man and without his seed To speak freely of this which many doubt I suppose that many are made of a weak mans seed mixed with the womans seed and much blood But Histories confirm that Widdows haâe had them without mans seed but not of the shape with the others And being voided they melted being in the air into water I think Virgins cannot have them but from wantonness or in sleep they may spend their seed but because it is weak and the blood necessary for formation neither is drawn by the womb nor flows to it of its own accord as it doth in those that have had children and the vessels of the womb in Virgins are straiter then in Widdows and others that have had children Therefore though the seed of Virgins flow into the womb yet they cannot have a Mole for want of blood which is necessary for the forming of the same This is to be understood of Moles which are not vital for vital Moles that have some life cannot be got in Virgins or Widdows without the seed of a man Chap. 10. Of Monsters HIstories tell us of many Monsters brought forth by women We spake of worms Sâct 2. Chap. 8. They are like Toads or Mice or Fiââ Gordonius saith it is usual in Lumbardy Lycosthones saith and others also that Serpents Dogs and other Monsters with parts like brute beasts have âeen brought forth Gaspar âauhin speaks of one Anne Troperim which 1575. brought forth two Serpents with her child in Harvest hot weather she had dâuâk water in a Brook in a Wood near Basil wheâe she thought she drank the Spawn of a Serpent for a little after that her belly swelled and three âonths after she was big with child and the Serpents grew as the child did Her belly was so big that she carried it in a swathing Band. She was delivered at last of a lean male child and because they suspect Worms or Snaks from the knawing and strange motion she felt that year they put a bason of milk under her and when they expected an afterbirth out came a Serpenâ which she saw and perceived another coming forth they were an ell long and as thick as a childs arm Thus Baââhin and he speaks of others if you please to peruse him A Monster is that which is either wholly or in part like a beast or that which is ill shaped extraordinary Histories witness that a Monster may be fâom humane seed and the seed of a beast It is seldom for the forming faculty doth not erre of itself but is seduced by the imagination or frustrated of its ends ârom a fault of the Spirits the heat or matter Therefore imagination is the âause of Monsters For Histories mention that wâmen with child by beholdinâ men in vizaâds have brought forth Monstârs with horns and âeakâ ând âloven feet The sâme is when Spiriâs or heat seed or blood are weak or little And though Doctors cannot cure Monsters yet they are to admonish women with child not to look upon Monsters and to strengthen their Spirits and heat and to keep the seed and blood âight and not to allow copulation in time of their terms least any monstrous Birth should be fâom much and impuâe blood Chap. 11. Of false Conception and Swelling FAlse Conception or Gravidation is when the terms are stopt and the belly swells and there are signs like those of a true Conception then they think themselves with child and as Hippocrates saith They believe not to the contrary till ten months are past The causes are wind in the womb or water ãâã matter or thick ââegm These are bred fâom sickly seed retâined uâon whiâh Nâture works in vain or from a fault in the terms thaââorâupts the seed and breeds bad hâmorâ The like appears in Virgins when they begin to have theiâ terms but it is discovered by pain The terms floâ not as in a true Conception but in this there is pain of the head loyns belly ând groyns of which Hippâcrateâ âaith thus They haââ a false Coâception withâuâ terms ãâã witâ a ãâã bellâ haâe the headach and thâre ãâã âillâ in their breasts buâ what is ââke water and ãâã little Moreoveâ the belly swels sooner then ãâã tâue Concâption their colour changeth ãâã facâând âeet sâellâ thây loath meat âainââ and have a depraved appetite The surest sign is the time of childbearing being past They are commonly barren or have ulcers in their privities It is cured by evacuation of the matter in the womb with proper Medicines as in the Chapteâ of the Distemper of the Womb with matter and of inflation of the Womb and Dropâie THE FOURTH BOOK THE SECOND PART THE FIFTH SECTION Of the Government of Women with Child and preternatural Distempers in Women with Child Chap. 1. Of the signs of Conception IF she keeps the âeed it is a sign she hath conceived and a man may know that the seed is kept If he find in Copulation that his Yard is is sucked and drawn by the womb and the privities are not moist And if she perâeives little or no âeed âo come forth again and grow chill and quiver ãâã perceive a âwitching in hâr womb from the âreat delight and the mouth of the woâb closeth ând the ãâã stop But they are deceived when they count or reckon from the stoppage of the terms For some have their terms twice or thrice after they have
liâtle of the Electuary of the juâce of Roses If there be a chronick diâease she may also be purged safely especially if she be used to it and strengtheners be applied to the navel Question 4. Whether purging or bleeding is most dangerous for a Woman with Child We sââwed in the last Question the necessity of purging and its danger by the great motion of humors which if iâ reach to the womb causeth abortion because it causeth pain in the belly and provokes the teâms But bleedinâ diââurbs the humors less nor doth hurt any way but by taking nourishment from the childâ And this you need not fear if there be too much blood Thereâore puâging is more dangerous then bleeding Question 5. Whâther is it lawful to cause an Abortion to preserve the Mother A Christian may not cause an abortion for any cause for it is wickedâ and the Gentiles in Hippâcrates his time never allowed it they would not hinder Conception much less would they destroy it when made Nor must the moâher be pâeserved by the loss of the child For we must not do evil that good may come thereby But if to preserve the mother the Physitian purge or bleed and the abortion follow the fault is not the Physitian that intended it not but in the weakness of Nature and of the child and is better to preserve the mother then by neglecting the lawful means let both die Also the dead child must presently be thrown out Question 6. Whether are Clysters Diureticks and Sweaâs propâr for a Woman with Child Though women deny Clysters to them yet if they have been used to them they may be given in a ãâã quantity such as only molliâie and supâle noâ do thây more hurt thân Lenitives Diââeticks or things that provoke urine are âât safe because they pâovoke the tââms You ãâã not give gântle Sweats for Nature will reââive strength by the castinâ off of her enemies âou may use Alterers thât are proper as this Syrup Take the juyce of unripe Grapes about the beginning of September three galons add Pomââitrons or Lemons bruised halâ a pound boyl them ãâã they are soft and strain them and with half a pouââ of Sugar make a Syrup Chap. 4. Of the Symptomes that befal Women with Child in in the first months THey are loathing of meat Pica or evil appetite pewking vomiting belly-ach flux of the belly tooth and headach giddiness These all come from the stoppage of the terms especially in a Cacochymy or evil juyce for it goes to the stomach and so to the head Fiâst ââey loath meat which Hippocrates âaith is a sign of Conception And this is when the child takes the purest blood and leaves the impure which gets into the mouth of the stomach and insects it and hence comes the loathing of some sorts oâ meats Sometimes this ceaseth of it self but if there be danger of a Consumption in the mother leââ the child should be in danger for want of food give a gentle Vomit or Stomach-pills with thingâ that strengthen the Stomach As Take Coâserââ of red Roseâ half an ounce of Bettony an ouncâ pââserved Quinces three dramâ Aromaticum ãâã half a dram Pearl prepared half a scruple ãâã Syrup of green Ginger and Quinâes make an Eââctuary Anoint the stomach with oyl of Mastich ãâã Quinces Wormwood Mirtles c. Give ãâã and powerful things with ãâ¦ã roasted rather then boyled Pica is when they desire strange and absurd things as coals ashes c. as she that longed for her husbands flesh and though she loved him very well she killed him eat part and poudered up the rest Of this disease we spake in the third Book Juyce of yong Vine-âeaves with syrup of Quinces is good against this or the water that drops in May from the Vines This keeps the child from suffering by the mothers appetite Or this Spirit Take Citron peels Oranges Pââny roots as much as you please add Malmsey di ãâ¦ã them some daies then beat the roots and peels ad more Malmsey and distil them The third is loathing and vomiting from an evil vapor or humor in the stomach from blood retained If vomiting gives her ease stop it not but leave it to Nature it wil cease after a month or two If it be with trouble give a gentle Vomit or strengthen the stomach or give a little Rhubarb The fourth is pain of the belly fâom wind and humors about the womb that go to the guts discuss them as in Chap. 3. of the Colick Avoid moist Fomentations give Cinnamon water or spiced Wine The fifth is a loosness which must be suddenly stopt least it cause an abortion First give a âentle Clenser and strengthener âs Rhubarb with âââup of Roses solutive then Quinces at the first course at meals and Rice Starch Almonds Conââââe of Roseâ Quinces Apply to the navel a Pul ãâ¦ã of Quincâs Mastich Nutmegs Mace Cloves The sixth is the toothach from a shârp humor ââom retention of the terms that goes to the râot ãâã some tooth and hurts the membranes It ceaseth commonly of ãâã self yet if it be great use a Plaister of Mastich and Tacamahacca to the temples and hold in the mouth the Decoction of Fern rootâ Cinquefoyl Snakeweed Sage Mulberry baâââ c. The seventh is headach when the vapors fâom the terms stopt ascend and twitch the membâaneâ of the brain it must be repelled and abated with Lenitives of which in Lib. 1. Part 3. Sect. 1. Cap 3. of Headach The eighth of the Megrim from the vapors disturbing the Spirits that go to the head by the veins and arteries or by the gullet If it cease not discuss vapors and strengthen the brain inwardly and outwardly as in Vertigo Chap. 5. Of the Symptoms in Women with Child in the middle months THey are cough heart-beating fainting watching pain in the loyns and hips and bleeding 1. The cough is from a sharp vapor that comes to the jaws and rough artery from the terâs or from a thin part of that blood gotten into the âeins of the breast or falling from the head to the breast This endangers abortion and strength âails from watching therefore purge the hâmors that fâll from the head to the breast with Rhubarb Agariâlâ and strengthen the head as in a Câtarrh and givâââeet Lenitives as in ãâã Cough 2. Palpitation of heâât and fainting is fââm vapors that go to it by the ârteries or fâom blâââ that aboundeth and caÌnot get out at the womb but ascends and oppreâleth the heart Use Cordials as in Syncope inwardly and outwardly If it be from too much blood as in Plethory open a vein 3. Watching is from dry sharp vapors that trouble the animal Spirits Then use Frictions and wash the feet at bed-time and give Syrup of Poppies dried Roses Emulsions of sweet Almonds and white Poppy seeds 4. There is pain in the loyns and hipps from the weight of the child or from the terms stopt or growth
it so the stomach iâââmtimâs so strait that it cannot hold an indiâfââent quantity of meât as others can Chap. 3. Of the Signs of Natural Birth and the manner and Government of such as bring âorth AT her timâ of her bâinâ tâ be delivâred lât âer takâ hââd of âstâingânâs and thicânââs but let her eat meat of easie concoction and oâ good juyce and sit every fourth day in a hât Bath Of Mallows Foenugreek Linseed Mugwort and Chamomil flowers and after let hââ back loynsâ belly and privities be anointed witâ the Mucilagâ of Althaea seed and Oyl of Lilliesâ and let thâ child bâ stâengthened But when ââe hath pains from the navel to the groynâ and in the back then the ligaments aââ vessels are broken by which the child growâ ãâã the womb And because the womb violently strains to discharge it the membranous âibâes are extended and commonly there are very great pains and throws or the child will not be born and it is an evil sign when throwâ cease because the expulsive faculty is weakenâd And let not the Midwiâe provoke throws till the time When the membranes are broken the water flows out that comes from the urin and sweat oâ the child first little then more then wateâish blood and the oriâice of the womb begins to open to let out the childâ And before this time you must not provoke throws Then let the Midwiâe put her âinger into the oriâice of the womb and she shall perceive somthing round and hard as an egg Let her not lie on her back flat but with her back up that she may breathe more freely After the child is born you must press the blood in the navel-vessels towards the navel of the inâant and take heed that you loose not muâh blood in cutting off the ââvel-string for it haââ destroyed weak children and you must lâboââo ãâã out the Sââuâdine with the child iâ it bâ in the womb anoint your hands with âaâm oyâ ând âuâ them iâto the womb and âetch iâ out Chap. 5. Of Natural hard Travel THough Child-bearing since Eves sin is ordained to be painful as a puniâhment theroâ yet sometimes it is more painful then ordinary The first is from the mother and the expulsive faculty 2. From the Child 3. From the passage From the mother as when the womb is weak and the mother is not active to expell from weakness or diseases or want of spiâits of which Hippocrates It is from the birth when there are twins or more and both strive to go forth at a âime or if the child stick to a Mole or be so weak that it cannot break the membrane or if it be too big all over or in the head only or if the Navil vessels are twisted about his neck It is from the passages when the membranes aâe thick the oriâice too strait and the neck of the womb is not open sufficiently as in such as labour of the first child or are very fat The passages are pressed and straitned by tumors in the adjacent parts or when the bones are too fiâm and wil not open then the mother and child aâe both in danger or when the passages are not âââippâry or when they are broken too soon by reason of the thin membranes or the water flows âââth sooner then it ought You may know haâd Travel by ââint throws that come at a great distance And you must consider all things concerning the mother womb ââd child In hard Travel the mother and child are in danger and the Perinaeum sometimes breaks with the skin from the privities to the Arsehole If a woman be four daies in travel the child scarce escapes All things that move the terms are good to make easie delivery As Myrrh white Amber in white Wine or Lillywater two scruples or a dram Some give a drop of oyl oâ Amber in Vervain water or a scruple of mineral Borax or half a dram but begin with gentle things as a spoonful of Cinnamon water Or Take Cassia Lignea Dittany each a dram Cinnamon halâ a dram Saffron a scruple make a Pouder give a dram Or Take Borax mineral a dram Cassia Lignea a scruple Saffron six grains give it in Sack Or Take Cassia Lignea a dram Dittany Amber each half a dramâ Cinnamon Borax each a dram and half Saffron a scruple give half a dram Or give some drops of oyl of Hazel in convenient liquor or two or three drops of oyl of Cinnamon in Vervain water some prepare the secundine thus Take the Navel string and dry iâ in an Oven Take two drams of the pouder Cinnamon a dram Saffron half a scruple with juyce of Savin make Troches give two drams or wash the Sââurdine in Wine and bake it in a pot then wash it in Endive water and Wine Take half a dram of it long Pepper Galangal each half a dram Piantâne and Endiâe seed each a dram and half Laâender seed four scruples make a pouder Or Take Labdanum two drams Storax caâamiâe âeâââin each half a dram Musk and Ambergrease each six grains make a pouder or Troâââs for a ââme oâ use pessaries to provoke the biâth Tâke Galbânuâ ãâã in Vineâââ an ounââ Myrrh two drams Saffron a dram with oyl of Orris make a Peââary An Oyntment for the Pecten and Navil Take oyl of Keir two ounces juyce of Savin an ounce of Leeks and Mercury eaâh half an ounce boyl them to the consumption of the juyce add Galbanum dissolved in vinegar half an ounce Myrrh two drams Storax liquid a dram round Birthworâ Sowbread Cinnamon each half a dram Saffron a scruple with Wax make an oyntment Also neesing provoke the birth and Amulets As a Snakes skin about her middle the Aegle-stone bound to her thigh If weakness be the cause refresh her with Wine and sops to the nose Consect Alkernies Diamose Diamarg If there âe twins let the Midwife order them with her hands and help the foremost If the passages be not slippery use an emollient Fomentatâon and oyl of sweet Almonds Hens or Ducks grease c. If the belly be bound give a Clyster or Suppository When medicines wil not do it break the membrane with the âingers dipt in oyl or cut them When the Child is stil âorn let the Mâdwife âhew Spices and blow in its moâth or drop Aqua vitae in it or anoynt it with Honey Chap. 6. Of a vitious disorderly birth or difficulty preternatural IF the head come not forth first and the hands and âeet are upwards there is an ill birth Hippocrates reckons two causes the largeness of the womb and disorderly motion of the mother from pain also the thickness of the membrane which when it cannot break with the head it attempts to do with the feet and hands The midwife may perceive in what figure the child comes forth All disorderly coming forth is dangerous to mother and child
but there is least danger when both âeet come forth this is called by the Latins Partus Agrippinâs Let the Midwife reduce it into the cavity of the womb when it comes not forth right and place it right When the feet cannot be thrust upwards let the Midwife fupple the parts with oyl and take hold of the arm and help it and give neesings Let her alwaies labor to put the child in a right posture by moving it with her hand or taking the mother from the bed and compose her in such a posture as may bring the child into a right posture and that soon Chap. 7. Of a slow Birth THis is when the child is longer coming forth then ordinarily âf this Massa writes that a Venetian Matron conceived of a husband of seventy years of age and brought forth a child in the âiâteenth month blind and without hands which lived five months Cardanns writes that his father said he was born in the thiâteenth month and Mercurialis writes thus That it was never seen or written that a woman had a live chiâd fâur years in her belly c. but these are rare and miraculous The cause is the weakness of the seed and want of heat in the womb which makes the expulsive âaculty weak Chap. 8. Of a Child dead in the womb WHen at the time of Child-birth there is pain and breaking âorth of water which ceaseth presently without delivery the child remaining in the womb then the mother or the child dies or both When the travel is vehement from divers causes they may also cause no birth for either the more she may lose her strength and the child not come forth or both may die And if the child be weak and move little or the mother may be weak and the child great the travel is hard and both die or if the child come not forth in a right posture Or if the passages are ill proportioned as when the bones of the Pubes do not give way or when there is Schirrhus or other tumor that straitneth the passagesâ there is no delivery Or the child dies by a disease for want of nourishment or a fall stroak or leap or passion in the mother Search if the child be living or dead for if it be dead it wil hurt the mother by rotting and if the mother die and child be alive take it out before the mother be buried A child is known to be dead if the mother and Midwiâe perceive no motion nor is it raised by any strengtheners given and when the mother moves from side to side iâ moves like a stone oâ when the face and lipps of the mother are pale and her extream parts livid and the breasts that were plump are fallen her breath sttinks water and stinking matter flows from the womb there is a Feaver horror and fainting or Convulsion or if the Secundine come forth before the child If a dead child be not presently taken out the mother is in great danger there are great Symptoms and strange diseases of which see Francis Rousset and others When the child comes not forth in time and is alive it must be taken out by the Midwife or Chirurgion by cutting the belly and womb of which in the Chapter following If it be dead you must drive or take it out before it stinks either by Medicines or Chirurgery The Medicines are such as stir up the expulsive faculty but they must be stronger then before because the motion of the child ceaseth as Take Savin round Birthwort Troches of Mirrh Castor each a dram Cinnamon half an ounce Saffron a scruple give a dram with savin-Savin-water Or Take Borax Savin Dittany each an ounce Mirrh Asarum rooes Cinnamon Saffron each half a dram make a Pouder give a dram Purge first and put her in an emollient Bath and anoint about the womb with Oyl of Lillies sweet Almonds Chamomil Hens and Goose-grease Foment to get out the child with a Decoction of Mercury Orris wild Cowcumber Staechas Broom flowers Then anoint the Privities and Loyns with Oyntment of Sowbread Or Take Colaquiwida Agarick Birthwort each a dram make a Pouder ad Ammoniacum dissolved in Wine Ox gall each two drams with Oyl âf Keir make an Oyntment Or this Pessary Take Birthwort Orris black Hellebâre Coloquintida Mirrh each a dram poudered add Ammoniacum dissolved in Wine Ox gall each two drams Or make a Fume with Asses hoof burnt or Galbanum or Castor and let it be taken in with a Funnel If these wil not do use Chirurgery It is done with the hand only or with instruments of which Aegineta and Aetius Charles Stephens shews how to use the hand without instruments When you know the child is dead saith he place the woman in the best posture and tie her so very fast c. see the rest John Bauhin takes the same course out of Schenks Observations And because the strength âaileth refresh her and abate pain cherish the torn parts and prevent Symptoms To take away pain and strengthen the parts soment with the Decoction of Mugwort Mallows Rosemary Wormwood Mirtles St. Johns-wort each half an ounce Sperma Ceti two drams Deer's suet an ounce with Wax make an Oyntment Or Take Wax four ounces Sperma Ceti an ounce melt them dip Flax therein and lay it all over the belly In some Counââies women will not permit these but leave all to God Chap. 9. Of the Caesarean Birth THe belly and womb are cut sometimes to take out the child and this is called the Caesarean Birth and they that live are called Caesars It is done in three cases 1. When the child is dead and the woman livâ 2. Whân the woman is dead and the child alive 3. When both mother and child are alive This is seldom because either Medicines do it or it is taken out by other Chirurgery or the work is left to Nature Mathias Cornax hath a History of one that carried a dead child in her belly four years it was taken out by cutting the womb and belly and the mother lived and conceived with child after she fainted not at the time and the wound grew together without stitching and her terms after came in good order and she had a lusty Boy till the 2. of June The Surgeons that had cut her afore were sent for and the old orisice was open and the mother and the women present would not yeild to the second cutting Therefore her strength failed and the Chirurgion took out a compleat child but it was dead There are more Histories of live children cut out of their mothers bellies being dead And Roderick a Castro saith that an infant cannot live in the mothers womb being dead except it be taken out at the very time of her departure or while there are vital Spirits because when the motion and life of the mother cease the life of the child also ceaseth yet is his
Argument of no force because the child hath its proper Soul and if it be wel it may live a while in the womb without beneâit from the mother as it doth when it is delivered But take heed it be not suffocated in the womb and keep the mothers mouth open and let the Midwiâe never move her hand from the privities till the Chirurgion have taken it out and you may know that the child is alive when the mother is dead by its leaping Charles Stepâens shews the way of taking out a dead child When a live child is cut out of the belly of a live mother it is done onely least the mother or child or both should die And this may be done and both preserved alive which is plainly demonstrated by Francis Rousset in his Book of this subject so that there is no doubt of it For first he shews the necessity of the operation and next the possibility of it shewing that the muscles of the belly the Peritonaeum and womb may be cut without hazard of life Thirdly he confirms by History what he proved by reason and shews that many wounds of the muscles in the lower belly Peritonaeum and womb have been cured Fourthly he propounds many more dangerous cases then the Caesarean Section which were not deadly in themselves And then he shews the manner of the operation and how it is to be done Therefore have recourse to his works if thou wilt learn it THE FOURTH BOOK THE SEVENTH SECTION Of the Government of Women in Child-bed of the Diseases that come after Travel Chap. 1 Of the Government of Women in Child-bed PRESENTLY after she is delivered labor to make the Afteâbirth follow of which in the Chapter following then compose her in bed and give her good food Let the air be temperate rather hot then cold Let her beware of cold that it get not into the womb it will cause torments and inflammations If travel be hard anoynt the belly and âides with oyl of sweet Almonds Lillies and warm Wine Let her meat be of good juyce and easie concoction Hen broath and Chickens and Capons Kid Mutton Veal let her drink thin wine iâ there be no feaver or Cinnamon boyled in water the first daies drunk warm Let there be no noise about her and let her not rise too soon avoid passions least the humors be stirred and ââll into some part If shâ cannot or wil not suckle her child turn the milk from the breasts by repellers under the Arm-pits as Unguent of Roses Cerot of Sandeâs dissolved in vinegar and to the breasts apply a Cataplasm of Bean and Orobus flour with Oxymel or foment the breasts with the decoctiân of Mints Dill Smallage or lay the leaves bruised upon them Before she goes forth let her bath with a decoction of Lilly roots Elicampane Mugâoât Agrimony Borage Rosemary Chamoâil flowers Staechas Faenugreek Lineseed Citron peels Chap. 2. Of the Secundine or Afterbirth or a Mole that is left after Child-bearing THese stick in the bottom of the womb or like a ball to another part the mouth of âhe womb being open or closed It is not safe to cut the Aââerbirth from the Navel till both be come forth therefore draw iâ out without breaking of the Navel string this iâ retained because it grows to the sides of the womb or is swollen by hard travel or because the Navel string is broken by the infants straining or from cold air got in or from a frightâ or from her not having throws fit to exclude itâ or because she is impatient and wil not continuâ in a due posture The Midwife wil declare it and the purgation is not the belly swels there is a feaver and heaviness and pain in the belly there is a stink anâ loathing from stinking vapors difficult breathing Suffocation and Convulsion Many die from the retaining of it if it cannoâ come forth when matter flows from the womb there is hope that they wil rot and come away in sixty daies First let the Midwife draw it gently with heâ hand and use sneesing then burnt Partridge feathers to the nose and Goats hoofs as in thâ suffocation of the womb Then use things that expel a dead child Diâtany oyl of wood Herâcleon after Preparatives Or Take Marjoram Chervil Pennyroyal each a handful Savin half a handful Anise and Fennel seed each half a dram Lovage and Parsley roots each three drams boyl them in water for thrââ draughts Or Take Dittany troches of Myrrh Borax each half a dram Saffron Castor each a scruple make a Pouder Or Take round Birthwort two scruples Myrrh a scruple make a Pouder give it in Wine Make Pessaries of Mugwort Mercury Sage Orris in pouder with oyl of Keir Or Take round Birthwort Savin Briony Ox gall and Honây and make a Pessary The stronger are of the Decoction of wild Cowcumber Coloquintida Staphisager Hellebore Honey and gall of an Ox. Fumes are made of Cassia lignea Nard Mugwort Savin Pennyroyal Dittany Or Take Mirrh Castor Galbaâum each half a dram Opopanax Cinnamon each a dram with Honey make Troches for to be burnt Then âoment the Belly with the Decoction of those Plants Or Take Lupine meal an ounce pouder of Wormwood half an ounce Mirrh Rue âach three drams with Ox gall and Honey make a Câtaplasm If it come not forth give a Womb-clyster of the Decoction of Sage Mugwort Mercury Calamints Pennyroyal If all fail inject things to suppurate into the womb and let it be turned to matter and come out by degrees and inject strengtheners into the womb Of the Mole lefâ after Childbearing You may know it by the signs of a Mole mentioned she hath no ease after travel there is pain in the navel back and groyns and much clotted blood comes away and yet she hath no easeâ the Cure is mentioned before in the Mole Chap. 3. Of the Purgation after Childbearing diminished or detained THis is not alike in all women for in some women the bloâd is fresh in others it is waterish cholerick or melancholick And somâ bleed more then others according to the constitution and Countrey It is either not at all oâ too much or too little When they are stopt or lessened the vessels arâ too strait or the blood flows another way or iâ is too thick or the vessels of the womb are pressed from its position the blood is drawn away by passions fear or goes hastily to the breaââs The just quantity is not to be deâined when it is stopt the belly swels the pain is in the bâttom of the bâlly and groyns there is chilness and a feaver after it âainting weak swiât unequal pulse there is âootâ in the urin Somtimes the belly is inflamed or she voids blew or black clodds of blood It is bad of it self to have any thing left after Childbearing and worse if it staies long and grows melancholick therefore it is a cause
of many diseases First endeavor to evaeuate the blood from the womb by Frictions Ligatures and Cupping iâ they will not do open a vein in the foot Then open the passâges with external and internal meansâ anoint the Belly with loosning Oyls or soment thus Take Lilly roots Birthworts Briony Angelâca each half an ounce Mercury Mugwort Pennyroyal Savin Calamints each a handful Tansey Chamomil and Elder flâwers each half a handful Faenugreek and Linseed each two drams bruise them grosly and put them in a bag and boyl them in Water and Wine lay it to the privities and bottom of the belly Give emollient Clysters and if some daies are paââ purge with Agarick Rhubarb Senna Or Take Lilly roots Alâhaea each half an ounce Birthworts two drams Pellitory Mercuryâ Althiea each a handful Calamints Chamomil Elder floâers each two pugils Faenugreek and Lineseed each two drams boyl them to ten ounces strained âdd Oâl of Dill Lillies each an ounce Hiera simple half an ounce Oyntment of Sowbread three drams make a Clyster Or give Pessaries that provoke the Terms Give things to melt and attenuate the blood As Take opening Roots three drams Bettony Maidenhair Endive Schaenanth each two pugils Anise Fennel seed each a scruple red Pease a spoonful boyl them to a pint and half add Cinnaâon water two drams Syrup of the five Roots three âânces give four ounces Chap. 4. Of too great a flux of blood after Childbearing THat is too much which makes weak It is blood abounding which haââ been gâthered nine months in the womb It is thick or spends the Spirits and weakens There is loathing of meat pain the Hypochondria belly-ach weak and often pulse dark sight noise in the ears fainting and Convulsion It is dangerous when long and with fainting and Convulsion Therefore observe the pulse least she die suddenly See what strength she hath and stopt it not ââddenly Iâ it be not very gââat order a diet of âoasâed Hens basted with red Wine or Pomegraââe of Staâch Almonds Rice Quinces Conâââve of Roses steeled Water and make Revulââns use gentle things and strengthen the loose ââââges Anoint the belly with oyl of Roses Mirtles cup under âhe breasts and sides without scariâication Apply a Cataplasm of red Roses Bole and Rosâ-water to the Liver Then use stronger and give a higher diet oâten in small quantity and give Syrups to stop blood As Take old Conserve of Roses two ounces of Tormentil an ounce of Quinces without speciââ half an ounce Bole red Coral each half a dram with syrup of Currans and Coral make an Electuaây Anoint the belly with the Oyntment of the Countess and other Astringents or use astringent Fomentations or let her take into the womb a Fume of Mastich Frankincense red Roses c. Then open a vein in the arm and let blood by degrees See Sect. 2. Chap. 6. of overflowing of the Terms Chap. 5. Of the Pains after Travel and torments in the Belly THese are not in the body and bottome of the womb but in the vessels and membranes by which the womb hangs and that goes to the sides and belly They are from a constant labor in travel when the bottom of the womb is pricked to send forth from cold air let into it or clotted blood detained or sharp blood sticking to the womb and pricking it They are in the womb it self you mây know iâ they came from cold by what hath been done clotted blood will manifest it self They weâken much and are very troublâsom therefore they must be abated First take away the cause or abate the pain and make that which hurts the womb fit to be evacuated by these Pills Take Cinnamon a dram Saffron a scruple Diaâymini Diagalangal Zedoary each half a dram make a Pouder give a dram in Pennyroyal or Cinnamon water Or Take of Cummin seed steept in Spirit of wine and dried again a dram Ameos sâeds and Ginger each half a dram Cinnamon a scruple Castor half a scruple make a Pouder If she faint ad Cordial Waters As Take Diacyminum a dram Diamargariton frigid Citron peâls Zedoary each half â dram make a Pouder If she be cholerick or the humor thin and sharp cure it as a Colick from Choler As Take Syrup of Violets Borage each an ounce Mucilage of Quince seeds made with Violet water half an ounce water of Borage Scorzonera each two ounces give it at twice Extenuate the humors and loosen the passages outwardly Take Bean flour Faenugreek and Linseed each an ounce Chamomil flowers and Cummin seeds each half an ounce boyl them in Oyl of Lillies for a Cataplasm You may sume the womb with Decoctions of Herbs Chap. 6. Of the tearing of the Vulva to the Arse and coming forth of the Womb Inflammation Ulcer Suffocation and falling out of the Fundament THe tearing iâ in hard travel when the motheâ is tendeâ and the child great of which ââforââ The womb comes forth from the violent extraction of the child or afterbirth when the ligaments are streâched The Cure is mentioned but you must not hinder the after flux by astringents let her therefore rest and lie one her back with her âeet drawn up with Sweets to her nose and stinks to the womb so the womb will be retained and the flux continued after this is past you may use Astringents If there be inflammation from hard travel hinder not the afâer-flux of blood by Coolers If it turn to an ulcer let the after-flux flow and then cure it Suffocation after childbearing is from the ââinking after-blood which sends up stinking vapors which kill many It is cured by Friction of the leggs Ligatures and Cupping with Scarification applying stinks to the nose as Castor Partridgâeathers burnt Rue And applying Sweets to the privities You must cure the âalling out of the Fundament from straining in Delivery as formerly shewed Chap. 7. Of Watching Doting and Epilepsie of Women in Child-bed THese are from the motion of the blood aâd huâorsâ when the after-blood flows nât kindlyâ and there is a âeaver of which in ââe ãâã Book And from vapors sent from the ãâã there is an Epilepsie which is cured by Râvââsion oâ vapors and humors downwaâdâ and âââfect Evacuation of the aâter-blood which done all these Symptoms cease Chap. 8. Of the Swelling of the Womb Belly and Feet after Childbearing IT is commonly from cold gottân into the womb and the belly sometimes swells as if there were another child It is cured by hysterical or mother Fomentations or with the skin of a new âlain sheep and hard wine if in travel they keep a bad diet or drink too much the humors go into wind and if they fall into the legs they swel then take heed of much drink and after the flux is past make Evacuation with things that expel wind As Take Câleworts and Chamomil each as you please boyl them in Wine and âomeât the parts Or Take
have Symptomatical âeavers also from inââammation of the Pleura Jaws or Liver because some of the âoul humors are sent to some private part and makes an inflamation to which the âeaver is joyned and the causes are as before mentioned If there be a Pleuriâie she is in great danger The question is whether she must bleed above or below I say thus First this âeaver is not properly Symptomatical but primary and hath the inflammation its associate while Nature sends part of the matter to the Pleura or other part Secondly note that Nature is in an erâor while she sends the vitious humors which she should expel by the womb to the Pleura Thirdly note that the vitious moâion of Nature is not to be helped therefore which should be done if you should presently open a vein in the arm but the blood is to be voided by the womb which is Natures way Fourthly iâ the Pleuriâie be not abated by oâening a vein in the aâkle for revulsion but the Sympâoms continue or increase you must not continue to open the veins beneath because they evacuate not from the part affected which is neâessâry in such a dangerous disease It is a sign that the matter is fastned to the part that it cannot again be brought to the womb by revulsion Therefore then you may open a vein in the arm on the same side to evacuate and derive the blood from the part or there about or she will be in danger of death And fear not that Nature will be taken from her ordinary motion towards the womb thereby for the vein that was opened in the foot prevented that and if you fear any danger you may prevent it by Frictions and cupping of the leggs while you let blood in the arm And you may give Clysters that may cause the humors moving upwards to come down and loosen the passages of the womb that blood may flow out the better As Take Pellitory of the Wall Mallows Althaea red Coleworts each a handful Chamomilââowers half a handful Faenugreek and Linseed each half an ounce boyl them in Water to a pint strained add lenitive Electuary an ounce Diacatholicon or Cassia half an ounce Oyl of Violets two ounces make a Clyster If the Feaver abate and the time of the flux of the Lochia be past give a gentle Purge Cure the rest as an ordinary Pleurisie onely take heed that while the after-flux lasts you give no binding Medicine Also she may have a Quinzie while she lies in while the vitious matter flows to the jaws The âure of which bleeding is to be done as in the Pleurisâe but the rest is to be done as in the Quinââie And if the Liver be inflamed by the motion of the humors to it you must bleed as in the Pleurisie and Quinzie Yet it is not so needful in the arm as in the Pleuriâie by reason of the greater distance of the Liver from the arm for the Pleura and the breast are nearer and consent more with the arms but the vein in the legâ is near to the hollow vein as the distribution of the upper veins to the arms The rest of the Cure of the inflammation âf the Liver is in Lib. 3. onely observe that you must not use too great Coolers or Binders in women in Child-bed but things that are of thin parts least the flux called Lochia or after-blood should be stopped THE FOURTH BOOK THE THIRD PART Of the Diseases of Womens Breasts THE FIRST SECTION Of Diseases of the Breasts Chap. 1. Of the increased number of Breasts and grâatness extraordinary THOUGH Nature hath ordained two in all women yet some have Breasts like men others have had two on each side that had milk The figure of the Breasts is round pointed at the nipple a little it ought not to be soft nor hard and of an indifferent bigness and it is better they be indifferent though thây hold not so much milk least they be subject to Cânâers and inâlammations and when they are too big they have not a temperate heat The Causes of over-great Breasts is much blood and the âââength of heat attracting and âoncoâting it these are remote causes but the immediâte cause is the laâgeness of the passages and loosness which is in the first conformation and furthered by idlâness much sleep and few terms and often handling of the Breasts by whiâh the blood and the heat is drawn to the Breasts It is easier to keep them from growing great then to abate them when too big with good diet and Topicks that repel by cooling and binding and drying As Take Mirtle leavesâ Horstayl Plantane Mints red Roses each a handful Pomegranate flowers two pugilâ boyl them in red Wine and Vinegar and with a Spunge apply it to the breastsâ and let it dry or apply Hemloâk bruised with Vinegar Or Take pouder of Comârââroots two drams Pomâgranate flowers red Râââs Frankincense Mastich each half an ounce âââley ââour red Oakre each an ounce and half with Rose-watââ the white of an Eâ and â little Vinegâr make a Cataplasme These may be laid to the Breasts and under the arm-piâs to astringe the vessels and hinder the blood from flowing to them Hemlock Henbane and other Narcoticks are forbidden because they weaken the natural heat and hinder the breeding of milk Dryers and Discussers are good in women tâat have great Breasts after weaning to consume the moisture As Take Bean and Orobus meal each twâ ounces and half Comârey roots in pouder half an ounce Mints three drams Wormwood Chamomil flâwers anâ Roses eaâh two drams boyl and add two ounces of Oyl of Mastich make a Cataâlasme The Breasts are too little when the flux of blood to the Breasts is hindered diminished intercepted revelled or turned another way or when the blood is not drawn by the Breasts as in a dry Liver-famine much labour or in watchings feavers and other diseases that consume the body The same is when the radical moisture of the Breasts is conâumed You must remove the cause that breeds it and ââten friction wil attract blood and foment with warm water in which Emollients have been boylâd with white Wine and then anoint with Oyl of sweet Almonds or of Indian-nuts Loosness of the Breasts is cured by astringents Chap. 2. Of Swelling of the Breasts with Milk VVHen the milk carrying veins are too full the Breasts swell all over or in âaââ and are pained by stretching and red Somâââes the milk congealâth and is a hard Tuâââ âhâ cause is abundance of milk or blood that ââkes it or the weakness of the child that cannot âuâk oâ because he is weaned Iâ oâtân âââseth without remedies Somtimes ãâã is an inâââmmation or the milk hardens to a ãâã You must hinder the breeding of much milk of which hereafter and consume that which is bred in women that give suck the child will draw them or a Puppy Or use a Glass to suâk with they which wil not give
suck may use this Take Barley meal of Lentils Althaea roots Chamomil flowers and Mints each half an ounce Agnus castus seeds two sâruples boyl them in Wine ad a little Vinegar Oyl of Dill two ounces make a Cataplasme Chap. 3. Of Inflamation and Erysipelas of the Breasts SOmtimes the tumor in the Breast is inflamed from blood for though plenty of milk cauâe an inflammation blood is the immediate cause for milk as it corrupts and grows hot increaseth pain and so the blood staying in the fmal capillar veins being out of the vessels is hot putrid and inflamed There are other causes as strokesâ falls straitness of cloaths and other hurts of thâ Breasts A hard and red swelling shews inflammation with beating pain and a Feaver These inflammations are commonly withouâ danger but because the Breasts are so loose and have many kernels and little heat they turn to Cancers and Scirrhus If you fear a great flux of blood that will increase the inflammation let blood in a plethorick bâdy But if it come from stopping oâ thââârms or after flux first open the vein in thâ ankle and sâarifie the leggs then if need be âpen the arm If bad humors coming to the Breasts nourish the inflammation give a gentle Purge of Manna Senna and the like If the blood be too hot or mixt with hot humors that help the motion oâ the blood Use Alterers as Lettice Endive âurslane Plantane Waterlillies and the like Use Repellers after these but such as are weak and not too cold as a clout dipt in Water and Honey with Oyl of Roses applied to the breasts Orâ Take Lettice Purslane each a handful red Râsâs half a handful boyl them in Water add Viââgar two ounces make an Epithem Orâ Take Nightshâde Lettice each a handful bâyl them stamp them and ad Bârley meal two ounâs pouder of Chamomil flowers half an ounce Oxymâl Oyl of Roses each a dram make a Cataplasm When the beginning of the inflammation is past ad Discussers with your Repellers As Take white Bread crums Barley flour each an ounce and hâlâ Bean and Foenugreek flower each half an ounce pouder of red Roseâ and Chamomil flowers ââch two drams boyl them add Rose-vinegar an âunce Oyl of Roses and of Chamomil each an ounce make a Cataplasm At length use only Disâussers Aââ Take Bean ãâã and of Lupines and of Faenugreek and ãâã and pouder of Chamomil flowers each an ounce maâe a Cataplasm If the matter grow hard use Emollients and ãâã As Take Mallowâ a handful boyl ãâã till they are soft add pouder of Lineseed ãâã aââ Chamoâil flowers each an ounceâ boyl them ãâã add Oâl of Jâsamââe ân âunce maâe a ãâ¦ã Iâ it tend to Suppuration lay a Plaister of ãâ¦ã Or Take Mallows and Althaea each half a handfâl boyl them till they are sâât stamp them and ad pouder of Althaea roots two ounces pouder of Line and Faenugreek seeds each aâ ounce Leaven half an ounce ad Oyntment of Aâthaea two ounces make a Cataplasm When tâere is matter and the imposthumes breaks of its own accord it is well otherwise open it with a Lancet or some sharp Mediâine and let out the matter and then clense it thus Tâke Turpentine Honey of Roses each an ounce Mirrh a scruple The ulcer will be hard to be cured except you dry up the milk in the other Breast by reason of much blood that will flow thither to breed milk Question Whether the Inflammation of the Breasts be from blood alone or from milk alsoâ The inflammation and swelling in women in Child-bed upon their Breasts is from the aââlux of too much milk and it is with redness and pain and beating or pulsation and it is not only from blood for tumors as in other parts aâe seldom pure or unmixed but there are other humors with it Therefore it is certain that when blood is drawn by heat or pain or comes of iâ self to the Breasts and begins to corrupt the milk also may be corrupted Of the Erysipelas of the Breasts This Erysipelas is from fright or angâr and iâ turns presently to a Phlegmon and is cured as the inflammation of the Breast Lay no cold astringent Repellers or fât thingsâ but things that sweat as Harts-horn sealâd Earth Carduus must be given with Elâer waterâ to discuss the thin blood that causeth the inflammation Apply outwardly hot a Pledgât dipt in Elder-water Chap. 4. Of the Ocdema of the Breasts THis flegmatick tumor is in cachectick women that havâ the white Feaver it is cold and white and pits because the part is loose and spungie Are a loose tumor almost insensible of pain and the âinger laid on leaves a pit It is larger when the terms are at hand and abateth when they are past If it come from a Cachexy and a disease of the womb it is dangerous but it commonly ends by resolution or dissolved The Cure is by dry and hot means and if it is from a Cachexy or want of Terms they must first be removed then use Topicks that discuss and ââsolvâ and strengthen let them be but temperately hot least you discuss the thin and leave the thick which will cause a Scirrhus Make therefore Fomentations of a Lixivium of Vine and Colewort ashes and Sulphur or a Decoction of Hysop Sage Organ Chamomil-flowers Then anoint with Oyl of Chamomil Lillies Bayes Or Take Barley flour four ounâââ of Lineseeds Faenugreek Dill Chamomil floâââs each half an ounce Aâthaea rootâ an ounce with Oyl of Chamomil and Dill make a Cataplasm Chap. 5. Of the Scirrhus of the Breasts IT is a hard tumor without pain from melâncholy gathered in the veins that flows to the Breast or it is thick flegm dried Sometimes both humors are mixed together or more which makes a bastard Scirrhus And if burnt humors abound most it turns to a Cancer and if melancholy be most it is not a Scirrhus but a Cancer There are two signs of a true Scirrhus hardness and want of pain if it be fixed Iâ is somtimes white somtimes black or blew as the humor is If it be a bastard Scirrhus there is heat and pain and if they increase it turns to a Cancer and the veins grow blew about and begin to swell The bigger and the harder it is the more hard it is to be cured If hairs grow upon a Scirrhus it is incurable and it easily turns to a Cancer After Universals and the Cause is removed from the womb or the whole body let the containing cause be softned made thin and discussed But beware of two things First that the thin parts be not discussed by too hot medicines and the thick left for so it will be incurable and as hard as a stone Secondly that you âerment not the matter by moistning Emollients so that it turn to a Cancer The Ancients either used none or a dryâng or a moistning Mediâine only You
must either use Moistners and Emollients with Digesters by turns or mixed âoment with the Decoction of Mallâws Althâââ Foenugreek and Lineseed Bâank-ursine and Chamomil âlowersâ Then anoint with Oyl of sweet Almonds Chamomil Hens grease Veal marrow Oyntment of Althââa Or apply this Cataplasm Take Althâea Mallows Brank-ursine Fennel tops each a handful boyl them soft stamp them ad Barley and Bean flour Linseed pouder of Althaea roots Chamomil flowers each an ounce Or lay on the great Diachylon Plaster and that of ârogs Then sprinkle Wine upon a hot stone and let the Fume be received And apply a Plaster of Ammoniacum dissolved in Vinegar If it be a bastard Scirrhusâ you may fear a Cancer Then after Universaâs and bleeding take away the disposition of the bowels that breeds black humors If you fear a flux of humors use oyl of Roses and juyce of Plantane and if there be heat stir them first in a Leaden mortar till they change their colour then add Ceruss Litharge each three ounces with Wax make an Oyntment Chap. 6. Of the Glandles or Kernels in the Breasts being swollen or of the Scrofula and Struma in the Breast CElsus saith the Struma and Scrofula in the Breast are rare It is from a thick humoâ flegm or melancholy Struma is with pain sometimes and and is like a Cancer or seems to turn to a Cancer but continues many years at a sâandâ But let the cause ãâã âat it will it âomes fâom stoppage or disorder of the terms by reason of the great consenâ of the womb with the Breast The Glandles or Kernels are to be felt though not before there is one great unmoveable tuumor and the rest are small It is hard to be cured for two causes the eaâthiness of the matter and the deep lying of it They which are near the skin are easily dissolved After purging and bleeding use Emollients and Discussers that are strong as in Scirrhus Take Orris roots three ounces boyl them in Oxymâl stamp them add Turpentine Oyntment of Althaea each three ounces Mucilage of Faenugreek seed an ounce Or Take roots of Althaea two ounces Briony-roots an ounce Orris roots half an ounce boyl them soft in white Wine stamp them add Ammoniacum dissolved in Vinegar and Bdellium dissolved in Wine each an ounce with Pitch and Wax make a Plaster If it cannot be discussed suppurate or cut it but this is troublesom and dangerous Chap. 7. Of the Cancer of the Breasts HIppocrates saith That an occult Cancer is better not cured then cured â for if cured they prâsently die but if not they live long Many women have lived long with good order of diet having a Cancer as if they had no disease so saith Wâlliam Fabricius and that if the Cancer be not ulcerated they may live forty years without pain and if you lay on Emolâients and Suppuraters they die in half a year The Breasts are spungy and loose and therefore Cancers breed often there but the Cause is from the womb when they are of a hot and dry constitution with burnt blood and when the terms stâp and then the humors flie to the womb and and mâke a Cancer either with or without a tuâor asâregomg A Cancer that ârâseth of it self is hard to be discerned at first for it is like a little tubercle no bigger then a pease and grows up by degrees and spreads out roots with veins about it And when the skin is eaten through it is a stinking ulcer and the lipps are hard and the matter black It is hard or never cured because the black humor that causeth it is very troublesom and hath a peculiar malignity which is fermented and made worse with Emollients and Suppuraters which loosen the vessels and dilate them so that the humor flows easier to the part and the corrupt humors get easier to the parts adjacent and infect them A Cancer not ulcerated is to be let alone by the counsel of Hippocrates But let blood and purge melancholy often But use no Topicks that may rot or provoke the part but things that by experience take away pain as nightshade-Nightshade-water Snails boyled and Frogs in Oyl and with ashes of Frogs made into an Oyntment or Medicines of Lead As Take Oyl of Roses two ounces juyce of Nightshade berries an ounce and half Ceruss washâd Sugar of Lead each a dram Pompholygos half an âunce mix them in a Leaden mortar till they aâe thick Or use Craysiâh ashes and the ashes of the inward ward rind of an Ash-tree or Herb Robert Arcaeus teacheth how to cut them out and then burn the part if they be deep and ulcerated But Fabriâius shews that you must burn after to consume the reliques and stop the blood after it is âlensed Take Herb Robert Verbascum or Moulin Scabious Caprifolium or Honeysucâles Diââ Mans grease each equal parts burn them take three ounces and with six ounces of Nightshadâ water in â Leaden mortar mix them After cutting out the root purge melancholy often and provoke terms or Haemorrhoids least it return Give Treacle Mithridateâ with juyce of Boâage Sorrel Craysish broath and Asses milk This Water is good against all Cancers Take Moulin roots Clowns all-ââal each two ounces Dropwort Ceterach Herb Robert Agrimony Tormentil Scabious Avens Flâxweed each a handful Nettle seed three drams Elder and Rosemary-flowers each a pâgil boyl and sweeten it with Sugar Foment and waâh the Cancer with one part of it and let the dreggs be applied as a Pultis Fuchsius his blessed Pouder Take white Arsenick that shineth not like glass an ounce poudâr it pour Aqua viâae upon it and pour it off add fresh Aqua vitae every third day for fifteen daies Then Take roots of great Dragons gathered in July or August sliced and dried in the wind two ounces Thirdly âake bright clear Soote of the Chimney three drams make a Pouder Keep it close ââopt in a glass the older the better use it not till after a year For a palliative Cure keep it from increasing and take away pain with this Wateâ Take Scrâphularia roots and Herb Robert each a handful Lambs-tongue Nightshade Bugloss Borageâ Purââane Eâebright ââttony each half a handful a Fâog and two whites of Eggs with Quince seeds and Faenugreekâ each an ounce Rose and Eyebrightâater each a pint distil them in a Leaden still Use not Cancers as other ulcers for Emolliântâ Healers and Drawers exasperâte and kill wiââ greât pain Chap. 8. Of Ulcers and Fistulaes of the Breasts AFter Universals dry up the milk and if the Breasts hang down bind them up that the humors flow not down and move not the arm on that side Then clense it with the Docoction of Rhapontick Zedoary and Agâimony Heal thus Take strong Wââe six quarts Rhois Obsoniorâm Cypress-nuts each four ounces green Galls two ounces boyl them to the consistenâe of Honey If you fear a Fiâtula enlarge
the orisice and take away the Callus and heal it as an ordinary ulcer Chap. 9. Of straitness of the passages of the Breasts VVHen the veins and arteries are not wide enough to contain blood to be turned there is no milk They are stopt by thick humors as the vessels of the womb are the cause is the stoppage of the terms or hard tumors in the Breasts that stop or press When the nipâle hath no hole for the child to suck it is from the birth or a wound or ââar after an ulcer There is little milk and the Breasts pine If the Breasts swell and milk cannot be suckt out the fault is in the papps or the veins of milk An obstruction from gross humors may be cured If it be from a Scirrhus or Scar after an ulcer it is incurable and so is the nipple born without a hole If it be from thick ãâã or blood attenâate it with proper things as Fennel Dill Pârsley Aniseeds Pease Rockeâ feed or Earth-worms made into Cataplasms oâ Fomentations Often rubbing of the Breasts opens the milk-veâs Chap. 10. Of strange things bred in the Breasts HAirs stones and worms have been found in the Breasts A worm breeds from putâid blood and is like a hair the same may be in the back and navel as I shewed And a good Author writesâ that a woman pained in her breasts could not âe eââed till imâosthuânes broke and worâs câme forth Levinus Lemnius ââw stones that grew in the Breast Chap. 11. Of the Diseases of the Nipples THey are either wanâinâ or lie hid one or bothâ which hinders giving suck If it be from the birth it is searce cured as also when the Nipple is eaten off by an ulcer When they come forth first use a sucking instrument and then apply Puppy-dogs to suck If there be no hole from birth or ulcer healed it is incurable iâ it be a little often sucking will enlarge it The cleâts in the Nipples is an usual evil and causeth great pain in Nurses and if it continue long it turns to foul ulcers and they cannot give ââck To prevent this evil in the two last months of being with child wear two cups of wax over the Nipples with a little Rosin They are cured thus with Oyl of Wax Mirâles Oyntment of Lead Tutty Or Take Tutây prepareâ a scruple Allum âalf a dram Campââire six grains with Capons grease and Oyntment of Râââs make an Oyntment Or Take Pomatum an ounce and half Mastich a âââuple pouder of Gum ârâganth and red Roses ââch half a scruple Or Take Oyntment of Lead Pomatum each half an âânce Frankincense Bole each half a scruple mix them When the inâant is to suck wash the Breasts âârst with whitâ Wine and Rose-water That the child may suck without pain to the âoman let her have a Tin or ââlver Nipple and ââver it with the pap of a new killed Cow and let the child suck that THE FOURTH BOOK THE THIRD PART THE SECOND SECTION Of the Symptoms of the Breasts Chap. 1. Of want of Milk and not giving of suck THERE are many Câuses of want of milk either there is little blood to breed it or the milk making faculty in the breast that makes milk is not right or the instruments for blood-making are distempered Somtimes the matter is consumed by a sâaver or fasting when they loath meat or from care or labour evacuations sweats or loose belly Or from weakness of the infant that cannot draw hard Also sadness fear and the like may hinder blood from flowing to the breasts Milk is wanting when the breasts are flaggie and swell not and little milk is sucked out The signs of the causes thus If it be from the liver there will be signs of its distemper if from great evaâuation that is known the fault is known to be in the breasts if as oft as they lie in they have no milk and the breasts are âââal and wrinkled or if Medicines to keep down the breasts have been applied she will tell you or if it be from weakness of the child or passions of mind The inconvenience is little to the Nurse but gâeat to the child therefore get another Nurse or âure her To breed milk give tâângs that breed much and good blood of easie concoction Medicines to bâeed milk are Fennel roots and all green and thinâs that heat and are not very dry which aâe few but inâinite are they that hinder milk as things hot and dry and cold things These increase milk roots of Smallage seeds of Parslây Dill Basil Anise Rocket Earth-worms washt in juyce of Fennel and dâied or burnt in a pot a dram or two fasting for some mornings or Crâstâl or Milk-stone a dram Compounds are Take green Fennel Parsley each a handful Barley two pugils red Pease half an ounce boyl them and with Sugar sweeâen them or in Chiâken broath Or Take green Fennel six drams Barley two pugils boyl them in broath and strain them Or Take Fennel seed six drams Anise a dram and half Rocket seed half a dram give a dram or two in Broath Or Take Cows Udder sliced dry it in an Oven and pouder it Take half a pound of it Anise Fennel seed each an ounce Cummin seed two ounces Sugar four ounces make a Pouder Hot Fomentations open the breast and attract blood as the Decoction of Fennel Smallage or stampt Mints applied Or Take Fennel and Parsley green each a handful boyl and stamp them aââarley meal half an ounce Gith seed a dram Storax calamite two drams Oyl of Lillies two ounces make a Pultis A Dropax and Synapisme or Plaister of Mustard are good if often changed Chap. 2. Of too much Milk THis is when much blood flows to the breasts and the mother will not give suck or weans the child for the infant cannot suck it as fast as it breeds when there is much blood and good breasts that can make Milk If Milk be kept and cannot be suâked out by the child there are swellings inflammations pains curdlings and corruption Children that suck much if they be full bodied have a Convulsion The fiâst coming of Milk is not to be stopt but when there is more then the child can suck it is abated with a slender diet of little nourishment as Barley Pot-herbs water By letting blood or cupping or by Repellers to the veins under the arms above the breasts Mints Calamints Smallage Agnus castus Coriander Hemlock to abate Milk Mints and Smallage are doubted Compounds Take Smallage Mints Mallows each a handful Faenugreâk Cummin seed each half an ounce Chamoâil Melilot flowers each a pugil boyl them and foment add a little Wine or make a Pultis of them with Bean flour and Oxyâel Or Take Cummin seed boyl iâ in Vinegar and with a Spunge foment They which will not give suck let them foment with this Decoction Take Mallowâ âays Fennel
Oyl of Roses Mastich each half an ounce red Sanderâ Coral each a scruple with Wax mix it If the feaver come from breeding of it abate the pain and give the Alterers of which Chap. 14. of Bleeding of Teeth Of Meazles and small Pox. There are Epidemical feavers at certain times that cast out Meazles and small Pox of whicâ before The cause is not only from the impurity of the terms but from the malignity of the air for they are more or less as the air is purer or impurer Somtimes it is infectious and the humors are so coârupt that worms breed under the scabs and corrode the bones and internal parts as hath been seen in bodies opened dead of this disease If the disease be very infectious before there is a âeaver it is good to preserve by change of air and Antidotes when many die of it but when few die it is not amiss to let them alone leaââ they have it in a more dangerous time for most will have it only give a gentle Purge and âortifie Nature that she may better expel them If there be a âeaver use no more Preservatives âut labour to get them forth by Medicines mentioned and defend the eyes and throat and ââevent deformity of which before Chap. 3. Of the Milkey Scab Achores and Favi THe milkey Scab is at the first sucking the Achoâes are after The Achores are scabs not white and the white scab is not only in the face but all over the body The Achores are only in the head but they are cured alike They are all ulcers chiefly in the head with holâs that run with matter constantly They come from excrementitious humors waterish and sharp mixed of thick and thin very âalt Therefore they are sometimes yellow or white or red or black but alwaies salt and biâing and itching that makes them scratch They are gâthered in the womb and from corruption of the milk The Vulgar think they are healthful when they run because Nature sends them forth and if they strike in they cause diseases and Epilepâies They cure in time âf themselves but if the matter be very bad it pierceth the skull Dry these not rashly so they disfigure not the ââcâ nor hurt the eyes But drive them forth with ââabious Cârduus water and Cordials Use no Coolers nor Astringents least the matter be stroke in Let the Nurse forbear salt and sharp ând spiced things and strong Wine Pepare the humors with Borage Sâââory Bugloâs Fumitâây Hops Polypody and Dock roots Then purge with Senna Polypody Epithymum Rhuâââb and strengthen thâ Bowels As Take Conserve of Borage Bugloss Violets Fumitâry Succory each an ounce Succory roots and Citrons candied each half an ounce Diarrhodon Diamargartion ârigid Harts-horn each a sâruple with ãâã oââ Gâââi-ââoâârs makâ an Electuary Let the Nurse take every day two drams Or Take Harts-horn prepared two drams Magâstery of Coral a dram Diamargariton frigid half a dram give half a dram or a dram of this Pouder Let the child be purged with Manna or Raisons laxative If you fear great putrefaction under the scabs and that wil turn to a scald head or eat the skul wash the head with Decoction of Mallows Barley Celandine Wormwood or with Althaea-roots boyled in Boyes urine and Barley water And then anoint with Oyl of Roses bitter Almonds and a little Litharge Or Take ashes of Mirtles and Nut shells each a dram Tutty a dram and half Butter washed with rose-Rose-water an ounce Or Take juyce of Beets Celandine each an ounce Hogs grease two ounces Sulphur a dram Or Take Cerâss Litharge each two drams Pomegranate flowers and Agarick eâch a dram with Oyl of Roses and Vinegar make an Oyntment or wash with Soap and then with the Decoction When the skull is bare use Honey of Roses and Spirit of Wine and after round Birthwort and Balsom of Peru and Turpentine with Tobacco water Chap. 4. Of a scald Head IF Achores or Favi last long or are ill cured They turn to a Scald which is a scabby ulcer that corrodes the skin and stinks it is called Tinâa or Moth which eats garmentsâ as this doth the flesh Achores are moist ulcers in the head and body Tinea is a dry ulcer in the head only The immediate cause is a salt and sharp humor melancholick from the mothers blood or bad milk it infecteth others by the clouts or caps Some are like a bran or scurfe with scales some are slimy and when the scab is off there appears red quick nobs of flesh like the insides of sigs some are malignant some not some new some old There are dry scabs in the head yellow or ash coloured that run little and that which is voided stinketh It is hard to be cured If it be new or the matter yellow or the like it is easier An old Scald ash-coloured and black is stubborn aâtâr cure the hair will scarce grow there again because the skin is so hard if it will not grow red after rubbing there is no hopes of hair coming again First take off the Scab with âlensers a little sharp and because the humors make the skin dry and thick moisten with Hogs grease upon Beet or Colewort leaves Or Take juyce of Fumitory Coleworts Docks Elicampâne each an âunce and half Litharge half an ounce with Hogs grease oyl of Rue and Wax make a sofâ Oymment When the Child is of age and strong make first universal evââuation with Senna Rhubarb Agarick then take off the Scab with Sulphur two drams Mustard half a drain Stavisacre Briony roots each a dram Vinegar an ounce Turpentine half an ounce and Bears grease Or beat Watercresses with Hogs gâease and apply it the scab wil fall off in twenty four hours continue it After the scab is off pull the hair out by the roots with instruments or medicines commonly they use a pitched cap and pull it off violently which brings away the hair Or Take Starch or Wheat flour two ounces Rosin half an ounce boyl it in water for a Pultis lay it upon the several Sâaldâ and let it stick some daies then pluck it off suddenly Then use Emollients that correct the dry distemper Also use things to take the excrements out that lie deep in the skin As Take roots of Althaea Docks Lillies each an ounce Mallows Fumitory Sage each two handful boyl them in Liâ add Vinegar wash the head with it every day Thenâ Take Ostratium Sulphur each half an ounce oyl of Eggs an ounce with Hogs grease After that Take Briony and Dock roots and Elicampanâ roots each an ounce Fumitory Celandine Scabious each two handful Chamomil and Balm each a handful boyl them in Lie and wash the head twice a day therewithâ or foment it then rub the head with a course cloth or with oyl of Staphesacre or of Raddish till it grow red to draw out the bad humors that lie deep
the womb If you cannot make him sleep by singing nor rocking noâ the like it is a disease Are diveâs in mân and children in these it is from milk corrupt in the stomach from which sharp humors arise and disturbe the animal Spirits and infect them and if there be sad fancies frights âollow of which before If it cries alwaies and cannot by any art be made to sleep it is a sign of a diseaâe of watching which is dangerous because children use to sleep much And hence come Cataârhs Convulsions Driness and Feavers The bad milk musâ be amended and the corâupt meat prevented If it be from a feaver or pain âemove them Galen adviseth you ofâen to change the bed and place Sleeping Medicines are not safe but hurt but are rather to be given the Nurse moderately as sweet Almonds Lettice Poppy seeds Wash the feet with Decoction of Dill tops Chamomil flowers Sage Oâiers Viâe leaves Poppy heads Cool not the head too much nor use Narcoticks These are saâe Oyl of Dill to the temples Oyl of Roses with Oyl of Nutmegs with Poppy seed Breast-milk Rose or Nightshade water with Saffron In great driness of the brain let the coveâing of the cradeles head âe wet Chap. 10. Of Epilepsie and Convulsion IT is either by consent from parts below when the milk corrupts in the stomach or from an ill quality in it from the Nurses bad diet or from worms in the guts or from vapors from bad humors that twitch the membranes of the brain as in the Meazles and âmall Pox. It is somtimes from the brain first as when the humors are bred in the brain that cause it either from the parents or from distemper or bad diet It may come from toothach also when the brain consents and from a sudden fright It is manifest You shall know by the signs of the diseases whether it comes from bad milk worms or teeth If from a fright the people wil tell you If these all are absent it is certain that the brain is first affected It is a great disease and kills for the most part young children But when in older and it comes at a distance it vanisheth by age If it come with Pox or Meazles it ceaseth when they come forth if Nature be strong enough Give this Pouder to prevent it to a child as soon aâ it is born Take male Piony roots gathered in the decrease of the Moon a scruple Magistery of Coral half a scruple with Leaf-gold make a Pouder Or Take Piony roots a dram Piony seeds Misâeto of the Oâk Eâkes hoof Mans skull Amber each a scruple Musk two grains make a Pouder The Florentines burn behind in the head to dry the brain and Celsus saith it is the last Remedy Aegineta saith that children cannot endure such cruelty for the pain and watching would kill them See Sylvaticuâ The best part of the cure is in the Nurses dietâ which must not be disordered If it be from coârupt milk provoke vomit thus hold down the tongue and put a quill dipt in sweet Almonds down the throat If it come from worms give things that kill worms with Piony roots and the like If there be a feaver respect that also Give Coral Smaradgs and Elkes hoof In the âit give Epileptick water as Lavender-water and rub with the Oyl of Amber or hang a Piony root Elkes hoof or Smaragd about the neâk Of a Convulsion This is when the brain laboâs to cast out what troubles it The matter is in the marrow of the âack and fountain of the nerves It is a âââbborn disease and often kills In the âit wash the body especially the backbone with decoction of Althaea Lilly roots Piony Chamomil flowers And anoint with Mans and Goose grease Oyl of Worms Orris Lillies Foxes Turpentine Mastich Storax calamite The Sun flower is good boyled in water for to wash the Child Chap. 11. Of Strabismus or Squint-eyes THis is when they lie in the cradle with their head from the light or on one side and they still look towards the light which causeth distortion of the eyes or it may come from the Epilepsie or by birth If by birth it is not curable nor if it come from an Epilepsie If it come from custom and be new it is curable You must put a candle on the contrary side or a picture so long till the eyes come to be right Chap. 12. Of pain in the Ears Inflammation Moisture Ulcers and Worms OF these in the first Book But here we shal speak of inâantsâ the brain in them is very moist and hath many excrements which Nature cannot send out at its proper pâssages these get often to the ears and cause pain and flux of blood with inflammation and matter with âain In children pain and inflammation are hard to be kâown they cannot relate it only it is kâown by constant crying and feeling their ears and will not let others touch them sometimes the parts about the ears are red It is dangerous because it brings watching and Epilepsie the moisture breeds worms there and fouls the spungy bones and at length deafness incuâable Presently allay the pain but children must not have strong remedies Only use warm milk about the ears Oyl of Violets or the Decoction of Poppy tops To take away moisture use Honey of Roses and Aqua Mellis to be dropt into the ears Or Take Virgins Honey half an ounce red Wine two ounces Allum Saffron Salt-peter each a dram mix them at the fire Or drop in Hemp seed Oyl with a little Wine Chap. 13. Of the Thrush Bladders in the Gums and Inflammation of the Tonsils THese are from bad milk or from âoul humors in the stomach for the mouth is tender and connot endure the sharp milk nor the vapors from the stomach because the coat is the same as in Lib. 2. Part. 1. Cap. 18. The bladders in the gums are thus cured Take Lentils busked pouder them lay it upon the gumâ Or Take Milium in flour half an ounce with Oâl of Rosâs make a Linimem The inflammation of the Tonsils is more from eleven to thirteen for then the parts aâe harder and hold the humors longer and they cannot sweat out For Cure keep the belly ãâã bâ ãâã the like use Repellers at first then Resolvers with Repellers and at last Resolvers alone but not too hot in age Gargles are best in infants anoint with Honey of Roses Mirtles Pomegranates Diamoron inwardly Outwardly use Oyl of sweet Almonds Chamomil St. Johns-wort c. Chap. 14. Of Breeding of Teeth THis is a necessary evil in all children and very great by reason of the variety of symptoms joyned with it It is about the seventh month first the fore-teeth then the eye-teeth and last of all the grindersâ First they feel an itching in their gums then they are pierced as with a needle and pricked by
better to vomit these up then keep them in If Vomiting last long it causeth Aârophy When it is from too much milkâ give it less if it be from corrupt milk amend it as I shewed Clense the child with Honey of Roses and strengthen the stomach with Syrup of Mints Quinces Or Take Wood-aloes Coral Mastich each half a dram Galangal half a scruple with Syrup of Quinces make a Lincâus If the humor be sharp and hot give Syrup of Pomegranates Currans Coral Apply to the belly the Plaister of Bread the Stomach-cerot or Bread dipt in Wine hot Or Take Oyl of Mastich Quinces Mints Wormwood each half an ounce of Nutmegs by expression half a dram Chymical Oyl of Mints three drops Coral hath an occult propriety therefore it is hung about their necks Chap. 19. Of the torments or pains of the Belly IT is often with the flux of the belly and from milk alone that breeds wind and sharp humors When it is corrupted it gets to the guts and causeth a gnawing pain worms staying in the guts do the same They cry continually hate the breast and toss to and fro If it be from wind it ceaseth somtimes the belly swells and they break wind If it be from humors it is constant if it be tough flegm the belly is bound and the dung is slimy If it be sharp there is a flux yellow and green If from worms there are signs of them and of crudities and wind If this pain lasts long they are weak or have Convulsions or Epilepsie it is worse when ârom corrupt milk and worms and is dangerous If it be from crude humors and wind give a Clyster Take Pellitory Chamomil flowers each a handful boyl them in Chicken broath to three or four ounces add Honey of Roses an ounce with the yolk of an Eg make a Clyster This may be given safely to a child of two monthâ old Or give oyl of sweet Almonds with Sugar candy and a scruple of Aniseeds it purgeth new born Babes from green choler and stinking flegm If it be given with Sugar Pap it allays the crying pains of the belly Anoint the belly with Oyl of Dill or lay Pellitory stampt with Oâl of Chamomil to the belly Or Take Chamomil flowers Dill tops each a handful Faenugreek and Lineseed each half an ounce boyl them in Wine foment the belly twice a day before meat If pain be from corrupt milk âhat is sharp give Syrup of Roses or Honey of Roses or Syrup of Succory with Rhubarb or a Clyster of the Decoction of Bran Pellitory with Sârup of Roses And use outwardly Oyl of Roses Dill and Chamomil Chap. 20. Of puffing up of the Belly and Hypochondria WHen they suck too much the belly is swelled under the ribs for want of concoction and there are crudities in the stomach and wind and also in the parts adjacent The Hypochondria are hard and pussed up and there is straitness in the mouth of the stomach and short breath It is easily cured with good diet Give a thinner diet that the crudities may be coâcocted Give no fresh nourishment til thâ first be digested then give Honey of Roses to purge Or the Decoction of Cardiaca which is good for the heart and mouth of the stomach it opens obstructions and clenseth flegm Or pouder of Piony roots Cummin seed Jesamine or make it up with Honey Oyl of sweet Almonds or Sugar for a Liniment Foment the sides with the Decoction of Cardiaca Chamomil flowers and Cununin seed Chap. 21. Of the Flux of the Belly IT is 1. From breeding of teeth with a feaveâ commonly and the concoction is hindered and the nourishment corrupted 2. From much watching 3. From pain 4. From stirring of the humors by a feaver 5. When they suck or drink too much in a feaver Somtimes they have a flux without breeding of teeth from outward cold in the guts or stomach that hinders concoction If it be from teeth it is known by the signs in breeding of teeth if from external cold there are signs of no other causes If from a humor flowing from the head there are signs of a Câtarrh and the excrements are âroathy If crude humors are voided there is wind belching and flegmatick excrements If they be yellow green and stink the ââux is from a hot and sharp humor It is best in breeding of teeth when the belly is loose but if it be too greatâ and you fear Atrophy it must be stopt if black excrements are voided with a feaver it is bad A sucking child needs not cure so much as the Nurse you must chiefly observe the condition of the milk and mend it if not change the Nurse let her not eat green fruit and things of hard co-coction If the child suck not take away the causes of the flux with purges that bind after as Syrup or Honey of Roses or a Clyster Take the decoction of Milium My robalans each two or three ounces with an ounce or two of Syrup of Roses make a Clyster After clensing if the cause be hot give Syrup of dried Roses Quinces Mirtles Coral Currâns or the pouder of Diamarâariton Coral Mastich Harts-horn red Roses or pouder of Miâtles with a little Sanguis Draconis Anoint with Oyl of Roses Mirtles Masâich Or Take red Roses an ounce Mirtles Masâich each two drams with Oyl of Mirtles and Wax make an Oyntment Orâ Take red Roses Moulin each a handful Cypress roots two drams make a Bag boyl it in red Wine apply it to the belly or use the Plaister of Bread or Stomach oyntment If the cause be cold and excrements white give Syrup of Mastich and Quinces with mint-Mint-water Use outwardly Mints Mastich Cummin As Take Rose seeds an ounce Cumminâ Aniseeds each two drams with Oyl of Mastichâ Wormmood and Wax make an Oynâmenâ Chap. 22. Of binding of the Belly IT is from a cold and dry distemper of the guts from birth in some 2. From slimy flegm that wraps the dung which sticks in the guts This is from bad milk when the Nurse eats gross food slimy and astringent or drinks little 3. It is from a hot distemper of the kidnies or liver that dries the excrements 4. It is when choler doth not stir up the guts to expel If it be from a dry distemper of the guts it is hard to be cured if it be from slimy flegm the dung is wrapt in it If choler comes not to the guts to provoke them to stool the dung is white and the body yellow It is best in children to have a loose belly and they are more healthful for if it be bound the belly is pained and there is headach First take away the cause if it be from a hot distemper of any bowel or dry wash the child often to moisten and cool it in a Bath of Succory and Leââice boyled In a cold distemper use hot for
neither heat nor rednessâ and it lasts longer then an inflammation If the navel was not wel cuâ there wil be too great a quantity if the Peritonaeum be not broken but loose the navel starts not much out and is not greater by crying if it be broken the tuâor scarce appears when he lies upon his back but it increaseth by crying or walking If the Midwiâe did not cut the navel wel it is more troublesom then dangerous If it be too large or ulcerated at first it is easily cured but afterwards it may cause a deadly iliaâk passion when the guts that fall in are inflamed When the Peritonaeum is loose wind stretcheth the navel then use a Cataplasm of Cummin Bayberries and Lupines poudered in âed Wine or a Bag of Cummin and Spike boyled iâ red Wine Then lay on an astringent and roul it If the Peritonaeum be broken first put in the gut then bind it close after you have laid on astringent Pouders Or Take pouder of âypressnuts Frankincensâ Miââlâ Mastich Sarcocol Allâm ââinglass each a drâm with the whites of Egs make a Pultis and give Mediâines against Ruptures Chap. 26. Of Inflammation of the Navel IT is from pain when it is hot well tied that draws blood to it There is redness hardness heat and beating If it turns to an impoâtâumâ and breaks the guâs come forth and the child usually dies First abate pain Take Maââows boyled and stampt two ounces Barley meal half an ounce Lupines Fenâgreeââ eaâh two dramââ with Oyl oâ Roseâââke a Cataplasm To repel Blood Takâ Fraâkincense a dram Acacia Fleabanâ seed eâch half a dram with the white of an Eg makâ a Cataplasm ãâã Suppuration as much as may be but iâ it doth suppurate Take Turpentiâe half an ounce the yolâ of an Egâ and Oyl of Roses two ounces Chap. 27. Of Falling out of the Fundament VVHen the muscle thaââhuts the Arsâ-holâ is loose the fundament comes fârth the cause is moisture of the muscles afteâ a flux or straining at stool in Tenesmus or Needing or when the belly is bound The âeople will tell you the causes and you may see it It is easily cured when it is from straning at stool if it have not been long out If it be from great store of moisture it is hard to be cured especially if there be a loosness of the belly for then Medicines cannot lie on First put it up if it be swollen foment it with the decoction of Mallows and Althaea or anoint with Oyl of Lilliesâ then keep it in with astringents As Take ââd Roses Pomegranaâe peels and flowers Cypress nuts each half an ounce Sumach Frankincense Mastich each two dramsâ boyl them in red Wine foment with a Spunge then sprinkle on this Pouder Take red Roses and Pomegranaâe flowers each half a dram Frankincense Mastich each a dram lay it upon a clout and put it to the Fundamentâ See Lib. 3. Part 2. Sect. 1. c. 6. Chap. 28. Of the Stone in the Bladder THe stone in the bladder is usual in infants as that of the kidnies is in elder people How it is cured we shewed beforeâ In infants it is from gross unclean milk made of tough meats this too much taken in causeth crudities sit to breed the stone âr pap of Barley meal and milk may cause it There is alâo a weakneâs in the liver and stomach when they do not separate unprofitable food but much earthy juyce remains in the chyle that breeds stones Also a hoâ distemper in the reins by which the chyle is drawn to the bladder and if there be a native hereditary disposition to breed the stone an earthy part is in the humor which makes the urine thickâ this is in bigger Boys more then in infants They piss by drops with itching and pain the Urin is stopt often and thaâ which is pissed is like cleer waâer white or like milk or whey somtimes blood is pissed and the yard often stands It increaseth dayly iâ it be not opposed and cannot be cured without cutting which is dangerous for yong or old Prevent the breeding of it when you see the least disposition to it Let the belly be alwaies kept loose and the Nurse eat no gross slimy food make a bath of the decoction of Althaea Mallows Pellitory Parsley Dill Faenugreek Lineseed then anoint the bladder with Althaea oyl of Lillies and Scorpions and apply a Cataplasm oâ Pellitory boyled with oyl of Lillies A Pouder Take Magistery of Crabs eyes white Amber Goats blood prepared each a scruple with Parsley water give it often Or give two drops of spirit oâ Vitriol with half a dram of Cypress Turpentine Chap. 29. Of Difficulty and Stoppage of Urin. THere are many causes in ripe age that are mentioned but in Infants they are chiefly two causes the thick humor that breeds the stone that makes a strangury and dysury and the Stone that stops the bladder It is voided by drops and the child cries and the urin is thick you may try with the Catheter if there be a Stone If it be not presently cured it turns to the Stone and all natural evacuation in Children being stopt is dangerous It is as in the Stone you must evacuate humors from the first passages with Honây of Roses Cassia Turpentine foment and anoint as before with Grass water Restharrow Dropwort watter and decoction of red Pease Or Take the blood of an Hare an ounce Saxiâââge roots six drams calâine them give from ãâã scruple to half a dram with white Wine or Saxiââage water Chap. 30. Of not holding the Urin. SOmââpiss noâ oâây in their sleep but alwaies because the muscle that should close the orifice of the bladder is weak and when much water pricks it it suffers it to come forth sometimes a Stone in the bladder hurts the Sphincter so that it cannot do its duty The cause of weakness is a cold humor and moist from gross âough meats from gluttony and the like It cannot bâ known iâ Infants but iâ may in elder children that ânow they ought not piss abed If it come by custome it turns to an habit or a disease and is hard to be cured in ripe years if it be from distemper it is easie to be cured Alter the cold and moist distemper dry and consume the flegm let the Nurse have a hot drying diet with Sage Hysop Marjoram let not the child drink much keep the belly Outwardly aâoâât the region of the bladder with oyl of Costus Orris and other driers make a bath oâ Sulphur Allum and Oak leaves oâluse Sulphur or Allâm baths give this pouder Take Hogs bladders burnt roasted stones of a Hare Cocks throats roastedâ each half a dram Acrons two scruples Nip Mace each a scruple give half a dram with Oak leaves water see Lib. 3. Part 8. Sect. 2. c. 6. Chap. 31. Of chaâing in the Hips called
and dry distemper in the breasts that burns up the thin blood Give flesh of good juyce and easie concoction as Chickens Kid Veal abstain from gross food use moistners and attenuaters and if there be thick humors with the blood let them be evacuated Of the sharpness ill tast scent and colour of the Milk There are divers tasts scents and colours in milk from variety of diet Therefore let a Nurse take heed of fryed Onions and all four salt and spiced meats and let her eat Sallets and Rhadishes and the like Let her not be passionate Milk also is somtimes falt sharp cholerick and mâlancholick This breeds dangerous diseases as wringing in the belly flux watching leanness trush and falling-siâkness Correct the blood and keep a good diet beware of things that corrupt the milk as sharp âalt things avoid anger and other passions and Venery Good Wine moderately taken by such as have used it takes away the ill scent from milk If these will not do purge the Cacochymy or evil âuyces with Medicines proper for the humors offending Chap. 4. Of the Diet and Government of new-born Children THe best colour in a new-born child is redness all over the body that changeth by degrees to a Rose-colour they who are white are sââkly and short lived It must cry clear and loud which shews the strength of the breast Observe all the parts and âigure and passages diligently let the Midwise handle it gently Roul it up with soft cloaths and lay it in a cradle and wash it first with warm wine give it a little honey before it sucks or a little Oyl of sweet Almonds newly drawn that if there be any filth contracted in the stomach from the womb it may be clensed for there is a black matter yellowish in the guts which if not voided will cause an Epilepsie Keep it from cold air and not too hot nor in too great light set not a candle behind it at the head nor let it see the Sunâ least it be squint-ey'd Let it not be frighted nor left alone sleeping or waking least it receive hurt Let it sleep long carried in the arms often and give it the dug but âill not too much his stomach with milk After four months âoosân the arms but not the belly and breast and âeet but keep them rouled from cold above a year Let it be often clensed from the excrements of the belly and bladder least they cause itching oâ pain or excoriation A little crying empties the brain and ãâã the lungs and stiâs up naturâl ãâ¦ã it not cry too much for to prevent Catarrhs and Rupturesâ but it doâh least hurtâ befoâe sucking and aâteââoncoâtion Thââiâst months let it only suck as often as it will âo the stomach be not over âharged Give it change of breasts somtimes the right somtimes the leât Afterwards make Pap of Barley bread ââeâpt in water and boyled in Milk Let strong children have it bâtimes and not suck an houâ after thus it must be nourisht til it breeds teeth Chap. 5. Of the Diet of an Infant from breeding of Teeth til it be weaned WHen the teeth come forth by degrees give it more solid food and deny it âot milk such as are easily chewed When it is stâonger let it not stand too soon but be held by the Nurse or put into a go-chair that it may thrust foâward it self and not fall In plaâes where bathing of children is used ãâã it be washâd twice a week fâom the seventh âânth till it be weâned Chap. 6. Of Weaning of Children Wâân it nât till the teeth are bred lâât when ãâ¦ã âââth it ââuse feavers and ãâ¦ã ând âther Symptoms The ãâã châld ân muât be sooner weanâd ãâ¦ã somâ in the twelââh some in the ãâ¦ã Iâ is good to âean them aâ a year and half or two years old but give it not suddenly strange food but bring it to it by degrees while it sucks It is best to wean in the Spring or Fall in the increase of the Moon and give but very little Wine Chap. 7. Of Childrens Diet after Weaning FOr seven years the diet must be such as nourisheth and causeth growth for Hippocrates âaith They cannot endure to fast especially if they be witty Keep them from passions sorrow and fear and cocker them not but keep them to reason Let them play to temper the affection but so as not to hurt the body THE SECOND PART Of Diseases and Symptoms of Children Chap. 1. Of Infants Diseases in General HIPPOCRATES divides their diseases according to their ageâ In new born children there are alcers in the mouth vomiting coughs watchings fears inflammation of the navel âoistness of ears At breeding of teeth the gums itch and there are Feavers and Convulsions and a loose belly when they breed the eye-teeth When they are older the Tonâââs art inflamed the Vertebâe in the neck are luâaâed inwardly they breath short they have the stone or round worms or Asâarides Warts Satyrism or âtanding Yards Strangury Struma's and other Swâllings They have other diseases at other times as Meaâles small Pox the ligament of the âongue âs tooshort âhasing In the Cure use not strong Remedies nor bleeding not purging but Suppositories and Clysters As Take Violet leaves Mallows each a handful flowers of Chamomil and Violets each a pugil boyl them to four or five ounces strained ad Syrup of Roses half an ounce or six drams Oyl of Violets half an ounce make a Clyster If it need other Physick give it to the Nurse for the purging âorce is sent to the milk as Hippocrates âaith If a Woman take Elaterium or wild Cowcumbers the Child is purged but you must not give these to the Nurse but gentle things will purge the inâant if the Nurse take them Chap. 2. Of Feavers in Children Meazles and small Pox. THey aâe subject to all sorts of Feavers but they have chiefly a Feaver from milk which putriâies and turns to choler and inflames the humors And when the teeth break forth the gums are inflamed they have watching and itching pâin in the mouth and then feavers When feavers come from corrupt milk they expel no teeth and there are signs of corrupt milkâ bellyach many stools yellow and green A âeaver from breeding of teeth hath its proper sigâs These feavers cease when the cause is removed but if corrupt milk last long it is dangerous A âeaver from corrupt milk is commonly from choler therefore give cold moist things to the Nurse as Lettice Endive Emulsions of the four gâeat cold Seeds Barley cream Give no Wine while the child is in a feaver Purge the Nurse gently with Manna Cassia Lenitive Electuary and Syrup of Roses Give Alterers to the insant as Syrup of Violâts Sorrel Citrons Succory Endive water and of Vâolet with Sugar Anoint the Back-bone with Mucilage of Quinââs âleabane with Oyl of Violets and a little Wax lay Astringents to the Stomach As Take