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

Nature viz. raw or burnt Flesh Ashes Coals Old shoes Chalk Wax Nut-shels Mortar Lime Oat-meal Tobacco Pipes c. which occasion not only a Suppression of the Menses but likewise obstructions through the whole Body Therefore the first thing necessary to eradicate the Cause is Matrimonial Conjunction and such Copulation that may prove to the satisfaction of her that is afflicted for by that means the menses will begin to flow according to their natural and due course and the Humours being dispersed will soon waste themselves and then no more matter being administred to increase them they will vanish and a good temperament of Body will return But in case this best Remedy cannot be had so soon as necessity requries then let her be let Blood in the Ankle and if she be about 16 you may likewise do it in the Arm but let her bleed but sparingly especially if the Blood be good If the Disease be of any continuance then is it to be eradicated by Purging Preparation of the humour being first consider'd which may be done by the Virgins drinking Decoction of Guaicum with Dittany of Creet But the best Purge in this case ought to be made of Aloes Agarick Senna Rhubarb And for strengthing the Bowels and opening Obstructions Chalibiat Medicines are chiefly to be used The Diet must be moderate and sharp things be by all means avoided And for the freeing of the Humour take Prepared Steel Bezoar Stone the Root of Scorzonera Oyl of Chrystal in small Wine and let the Diet be moderate but in no wise let Vinegar be used therewith nor upon any other occasion And in so observing the Humours will be dilated and dissipated by which Means the Complexion will return and the Body be lively and full of Vigour And now since Barrenness daily occasions discontent and that Discontent creates Difference between Man and Wife or by immoderate Grief frequently casts the Woman into one or other violent Distemper I shall in the next place treat thereof Of Barrenness In times past before Women came to the marriage Bed they were first searched by the Midwife and those only which she allowed of as fruitful were admitted I hope therefore it will be thought a needless labour to shew how they may prove themselves and turn the stony ground into a fruitful soil Barrenness is a deprivation of life and power which ought to be in the seed to procreate and propagate for which end both man and woman were made Causes of Barrenness It is caused by overmuch heat or cold that drying up the seed and making it corrupt this extinguishing the life of the seed making it watrish and unfit for Generation It may be caused also by the not flowing or over-flowing of the Courses by Swellings Ulcers and Inflammations of the Womb by an excrescence of flesh growing about the mouth of the Matrix by the mouth of the Womb being turned unto the back or side by the grossness and fatness of the body whereby the mouth of the matrix is closed up by being prest with the Omentum or Caule and the matter of the seed is converted into fatness Or if she be of a lean and exhaust body to the World she proves Barren because though she doth conceive yet the fruit of the Womb will wither before it comes to perfection for want of nourishment Aetius and Sylvius ascribe one main cause of Barrenness to compel'd copulation as when parents enforce their daughters to have Husbands contrary to their liking therein marrying their Bodies but not their Hearts and where there is a want of Love there for the most part is no Conception as appears in Women which are deflowred against their will Another main cause of Barrenness is attributed to the want of a convenient moderating quality which the Woman ought to have with the Man as if he be hot she must be cold If he be dry she must be moist But if they be both dry or both moist of constitution they cannot propagate and yet simply considered of themselves they are not Barren for he or she which before was as the Barren fig-tree being now joined with an apt constitution becomes as the fruitful Vine And that Man and Woman being every way of a like constitution cannot Procreate I will bring Nature it self for a testimony who hath made Man of a hotter Constitution than Woman that the quality of the one may moderate the quality of the other Signs of Barrenness If Barrenness does proceed from overmuch heat she is of a dry body subject to anger she hath black Hair quick pulse her purgations flow but little and that with pain she Loves to play in the courts of Venus But if it comes by cold then are the signs contrary to those even now recited If through an evil quality in the Womb Make a suffumigation of red Storax Myrrh Cassia wood Nutmeg Cinnamon and let her receive the fume of it into the Womb covering her very close and if the odour so received passeth through the Body up into the Mouth and Nostrils of her self she is fruitful But if she feels not the fume in her Mouth and Nose it argues Barrenness one of these ways that the Spirit of the seed is either through cold extinguisht or through heat dissipated If any Woman be suspected to be unfruitful cast natural Brimstone such as is digged out of the Mine into her Urin and ●f Worms breed therein of herself she is not barren Prognosticks Barrenness maketh Women look young because they are free from those pains and sorrows which other Women are accustomed to bring forth withall Yet they have not that full perfection of health which fruitful Women do injoy because they are not rightly p●rged of the menstruous blood and superfluous seed the retaining of which two are the principal cause of most Uterine Diseases Cure First the cause must be removed and then the Womb strengthened and the Spirits of the seed enlived If the Womb be over-hot Take Syrrup of Succory with Rhubarb Syrrup of Violets Endive Roses Cassia Purslain Take of Endive water Lillies Borage flowers of each a handful Rhubarb Myrobolans of each 3 Drams with water make a Decoction add to the straning of the Syrup Laxative of Violets one ounce Syrup of Cassia half an Ounce Manna 3 drams make a potion Take of the Syrup of Mugwort one ounce Syrup of Maiden hair 2 ounces water of Succory Borage Fennel of each 3 ounces Pulv. Elect Triasand one dram make a Julep Take Pru. Solut. Elect. Ros Mesuae of each 3 drams Rhubarb one Scruple and make a Bolus Apply to the reins and privities fomentations of the juice of Lettice Violets Roses Mallows Vineleaves and Night-shade Anoint the secret parts with the cooling unguent of Galen If the power of the seed be extinguisht by cold Take every Morning two spoonfuls of Cinnamon water with one Scruple of Mahridate Take Syrup of Calamint Mugwort Bettony of each one ounce water of

of Lilies Roses ●inseed sweet Almonds and Calf's Marrow Make injections of the Decoctions of Mallows Mercury Linseed Groundsel Mugwort Fenugreek with Oyl of sweet Almonds Sometimes it is caused by a wind and then Phlebotomy is to be omitted and in the stead thereof take Syrup of Feverfew one Ounce Honey of Roses Syrup of Staechas of each half an Ounce water of Calamint Mugwort Betony Hysop of each one Onnce make a Julep If the pain continues take this Purgation Take Specierum H●erae 1 Dram Diacatholicon half an ounce Syrup of Roses laxative 1 ounces with the Decoction of Mugwort and the four Cordial Flowers make a Potion If it come thro' weakness of the Faculty let that be Corroborated If thro' grosness or sharpness of the Blood let the quality of it be altered as I have shewn in the foregoing Chapter Lastly If the excrements of the Gut be re●ained provoke them by a Clyster of the Decoction of Camomile Betony Feverfew Mallows Linseed Juniper-berries Cu●●in-seed Anniseed Melilot adding thereto of Diacatholicon half an Ounces Hiera Picra two Drams Honey Oyl of each one Ounce Salniter a Dram and a half The Patient mus● abstain from salt sharp and windy Meats CHAP. V. Of the false Courses or Whites FRom the Womb proceeds not only the menstruous blood but accidentally many other Excrements which by the Antients are comprehended under the Title of RHOVS GVNAIK AIOS which is a distillation of variety of corrupt Humours through the womb flowing from the whole Body or part of the same keeping neither course nor colour but varying in both Cause The Cause is either promiscuously in the whole body by Cacochymia or weakness of the same or in some of the parts as in the Liver which by by the inability of the Sanguifficative faculty causeth a generation of corrupt blood and then the matter is reddish sometimes in the Gall being sluggish in its Office not drawing away those cholerick Superfluities which are ingendred in the Liver and the matter is Yellowish So●etimes in the Spleen not defecating and cleansing the blood of the dregs and excrementitious parts and then the matter flowing forth is blackish It may also come from Catarrhs in the Head or from any other putrified or corrupted Member But if the matter of the Flux be white the cause is either in the Stomach or Reins In the Stomach by a Phlegmatical and Crude matter there contracted and vitiated through Grief Melancholly and other Distempers For otherwise if the matter were only Pituita crude Phlegm and no ways corrupt or vitiated being taken into the Liver it might be converted into blood for Phlegm in the Ventricle is called Nourishment half digested But being corrupt tho' sent unto the Liver yet it cannot be turned into Nutriment for the second Concoction cannot correct that which the first hath corrupted and therefore the Liver sends it to the Womb which can neither digest it nor repel it and so it is voided out still keeping the Colour which it had in the Ventricle The cause also may be in the Reins being over-heat whereby the Spermatical matter by reason of its thinness flows forth The external cause may be moystness of the Air eating of corrupt Meats Anger Grief Slothfulness immoderate Sleeping Costiveness of body The Signs are extenuation of the body shortness and stinking of breath loathing of meat pain in the head swelling of the eyes and feet melancholly humidity flows from the Womb of divers colours as reddish black green yellow white It differs from the flowing and over-flowing of the Courses in that it keeps no certain periods and is of many Colours all which do degenerate from blood Prognosticks If the Flux be Phlegmatical it will continue long and be difficult to Cure yet if vomiting or the flux Diarrhaea happeneth diverting the humour it cures the Disease If it be Cholerick it is not so permanent yet more perilous for it will cause clifts in the neck of the Womb and sometimes make an excoriation in the Matrix If Melancholick it is most Dangerous and Contumacious y●t the flux of the Emerhoids administers Cure If the matter flowing forth be reddish open a vein on the Arm if not apply Ligatures to the Arms and Shoulders Galen glories of himself how he cured the wife of Boctus labouring of this Disease by rubbing the upper parts with Crude Honey If it be caused by a distillation from the brain take Syrup of Betony Staechas and Marjoram Purge with Pil. coch sine quibus de Agarico make Nasalia of the juice or Sage Hysop Betony Nigella with one drop of Oy1 of Cloves and a little silk Cotton Take Elect. Dianth aromat rosat diambre diamosci dulcis of each one Dram Nutmeg half a Dram with Sugar and Betony water make Lozenges to be taken every Morning and Evening Take Auriae Alexandrinae half a Dram at Night going to Bed If these things help not use the Suffumigation and Plaister as they are prescribed If it proceeds from Crudities in the Stomach or from a cold distempered Liver take every morning of the Decoction of Lignum Sanctum Purge with Pil. de Agarico de Hermodact de Hiera Diacolocynthid Foetida Agrigative Take of Elect. Aromat Ros two Drams Cytron-peels dryed Nutmeg long Pepper of each one Scruple Diagalanga one Dram Santali Albi Ligni Aloes of each half a Scruple Sugar six Ounces with Mint-water and make Lozenges of it Take of them before Meals If with Frigidity of the Liver there be joyned a repletion of the Stoma●h Purging by Vomit is commendable For which take three Drams of the Electuary Diasaru Galen allows of Diuretical means as of Apium Petrosilinum c. If the matter of the Flux be Cholerick prepare the Humour with Syrup of Roses Violets Endive Succory Purge with Myrabolanes Manna Rhubarb Cassia Take of Rhubarb two Drams Anniseed one Dram Cinnamon a Scruple and a half infuse them in six Ounces ●f Prune-broth Add to the s●raining of Manna one Ounce and take it in the Morning according to Art Take Sp●cierum Diatrionsantalon Diatragacant Frig. Di●rrhod Abbatis Diacydonit of each one Dram Sugar four Ounces with plantain-Plantain-water make Lozenges If the Clyster of the Gall be sluggish and do not stir up the Faculty of the Guts give hot Glisters of the Decoction of the four mollifying Herbs with Hon●y of Roses and Aloes If the Flux be Melancholious prepare with Syrup of Maiden-hair Epithimum Polypody Burrage Bugloss Fumetary Hart's-Tongue and Syrupus Bysantinus which must be made without Vinegar otherwise it will rather animate the Disease than Nature for Melancholly by the use of Vinegar is encreased and both by Hippocrates Sylvius and Avenzoar it is disallowed of as an Enemy to the Womb and therefore not to be used inwardly in Uterine Diseases Purgers of Melancholy are Pilulae Fumariae Pilulae Indae Pil. de Lapide Lazuli Diasena Confectio Hamech Take of stamped Prunes 2 Ounces Senna 1 Dram Opithi●um Polipody

half 〈◊〉 scruple with Wax make a Plaister Take of Bay-leaves Sage Hyssop Camomile Mugwort and with Water make an In●ession Take Wormwood Betony of each half a ●andful White-wine Milk of each half a ●ound boyl them until one part be consumed ●hen take of this Decoction four ounces Honey ●f Roses two ounces and make an Injection ●et beware the Humours be not brought down ●nto the Womb. Take roasted Figs Mercury bruised of each ●hree drams Turpentine Ducks-grease of ●ach one dram Opium two grains with Wax ●ake a Pessary The Air must be cold All motion of the Body especially of the lower parts is forbidden Vigilancy is commended for by sleep the humours are carried inward whereby the Inflammation is increased eat sparingly Let your Drink be Barley-water or clarified Whey and your Meat be Chickens and Chicken Broth boiled with Endive Succory Sorrel Bugloss and Mallows CHAP. IX Of the Schirrosity or Hardness of the Womb. OF a Phlegmon neglected or not perfectl● cured is generated a Schirrus of th● Matrix which is a hard unnatural swelling insensible hindering the operations of the Womb and disposing of the whole Body to slothfu●ness Cause One Cause of this Disease may b● ascribed to want of Judgment in the Phys●tian as many Empericks administring to a● Inflammation of the Womb do overmuch refrigerate and astringe the humour that it ca● neither pass forward nor backward hence th● matter being condens'd degenerates as it wer● into a lapidious or hard substance Other Causes may be suppression of the Menstrues retention of the Lochia commonly called th● after-purgings eating of corrupt meats as i● the disordinate longing called Pica unto which breeding Women are often subject If may proceed also from Obstructions and Ulcers in the Matrix or from evil Affects in the Liver and Spleen Sign● If the bottom of the Womb be affected ●he feels as it were a heavy burden representing 〈◊〉 Mole yet differing in that the Brests are attenuated an● the whole Body wa●●●●●●ss If the Neck of the Womb be hardned no● outward humour will appear the Mouth of it is retracted and being touch'd with the Finger feels hard nor can she have the company of a Man without great pain and prickings Prognosticks A Schirrus confirmed is incurable and will turn into a Cancer or a Dropsie and ending in a Cancer proves deadly because the native heat in those parts being almost smothered can hardly again be restored Cure Where there is a repletion Phlebotomy is adviseable wherefore open the Mediana on both Arms and then the Saphena on both Feet more especially if the Menses be suppress'd Prepare the humour with Syrup of Borage Succory Epithimum and clarified Whey Then take of these Pills following according to the strength of the Patient Take Hierae Picrae six drams black Hellebore Polipody of each two drams and an half Agarick Lapidis Lazuli abluti Salis Indi Coloquintida of each one dram and a half mix them and make Pills The Body being purged proceed to mollifie the hardness as followeth Anoint the Privites and the Neck of the Womb with Vnguentum Dalthea and Agrippae Or take Opopanax Bdellium Ammoniacum Myrrh of each two drams Saffron half a dram Dissolve the Gums in Oyl of Lillies and sweet Almonds with Wax and Turpentine make an Unguent Apply bellow the Navel Diachylon-Fernelii Make Insessions of Figgs Mugwort Mallows Pennyroyal Althea Fennel-Roots Mellilot Fenugreek Linseed boyled in water Make Injections of Calamint Linseed Mellilot Fenugreek and the four mollifying Herbs with Oyl of Dill Camomile and Lillies dissolving in the same three drams of the Gum Bdellium Cast the stone Pyrites on the Coals and let her receive the fume of it into her Womb. Foment the Secret Parts with the Decoction of the Leaves and Roots of Danewort Take of the Gum Galbanum Opopanax of each one dram Juice of Danewort Mucillage of Fenugreek of each half an ounce Calves marrow one ounce Wax a sufficient quantity make a Pessary Or make a Pesaary only of Lead dipping it in the aforesaid things and so put it up The Air must be temperate Gross viscous and salt meats are forbidden as Pork Bulls-●●ef Fish old Cheese c. CHAP. X. Of the Dropsie of the Womb. THe Uterine Dropsie is an unnatural swelling ellevated by the gathering together of wind or flegm in the cavity membranes or substance of the Womb by reason of the debility of the native heat not digesting the Aliment received and so it turns into an Excrement The Causes are over-much cold and moistness of the Milt and Liver immoderate drinking eating of crude meats all which causing a repletion do suffocate the native heat It may be caused likewise by the over-flowing of the Courses or by any other immoderate Evacuaation To these may be added Abortions Ulcers Phlegmons and Schirrosities of the Womb. Signs The Signs of this Affect are these The lower parts of the Belly with the Genitals are puffed up and payned the feet sweell the natural colour of the Face decays the Appetite is depraved and the heaviness of the whole Body concurs If she turns her self in the Bed from one side to the other a noise like flowing of water is heard Water sometimes comes from the Matrix If the swelling be caused by wind the Belly being hit by the hand sounds like a Drum the Guts rumble and the wind breaks through the neck of the womb with a murmouring noise This Affect may be distinguish'd from a true Conception many ways as will appear by the Chapter of Conception It is distinguish'd from the general Dropsie in that the lower parts of the Belly a●e most swell'd Again in this the sanguificative faculty appears not so hurtful nor the Urine so pale nor the Countenance so soon changed neither are the superiour parts so extenuated as in the general Dropsie Prognosticks This Affect foretells the total ruine of the natural functions by that singular consent the womb hath with the liver and therefore that a Cachexia or a general Dropsie will follow Cure In the Cure of this Disease imitate the practice of Hippocrates First mitigate the pain with Fomentations of Mellilot Mercury Mallows Linseed Camomile Althea Then let the humour be prepared with Syrup of Staechas Hyssop Calamint Mugwort of both sorts With the distill'd waters or decoctions of Dodder Marjoram Sage Origan Sperage Penny-royal Betony Purge with Sena Agarick Rhubarb Elaterium Take Speci●rum Hierae Rhubarb Trochisks of Agarick of each one Scruple with the Juice of Ireos make Pills Or Take Pill de Rhubarbaro half an Ounce Pill de Mezereo one Scruple with Mugwort water make Pills In diseases which ha●e their being from moistness purge with Pills and in those affects which are caused by emptiness or driness purge with potions Fasten a cupping-glass to the belly with a great flame and also to the navel especially if the swelling be flatulent Make an issue on the inside of each leg a handful bredth below the knee

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

conclude if the flux be inordinate many diseases will ensue and without remedy the Blood together with the native heat being consumed either cachectical Hydropical or paralitical diseases will follow Cure The cure consisteth in three particulars First in repelling and carrying back of the Blood Secondly in correcting and taking away the fluxibility of the matter Thirdly in corroborating the veins and faculties For the first To cause a regression of the Blood open a vein in the Arm and draw out so much blood as the strength of the Patient will permit and that not together but at several times for hereby the spirits are the less weakned and the retraction so much the greater Apply cupping-glasses to the Brests and also to the Liver that the reversion may be in the Fountain To correct the fluxibility of the matter Cathartical means moderated with Astrictories must be used If it be caused by Erosion or sharpness of blood consider whether the Erosion be by salt Flegm or adust Colour If by salt Flegm Prepare with syrup of violet Wormwood Roses Citron pills Succory c. Then take this purgation following Take Myrobolans Chebul half an Ounce Trochisks of Agarick one dram with Plantain water make a decoction add thereunto sir rosat lax 3 Ounces and make a potion If by adust Choller prepare the Body with Syrrup of Roses Myrtles Sorrel Purslain commixt with water of Plantain Knotgrass and Endive Then purge with this potion Take Rinds of Myrobolans Rhubarb of each one dram Cinnamon 15 Grains infuse them one night in Endive water Add to the straining pulp of Tamarind Cassia of each half an Ounce Syrup of Roses one Ounce make a potion If the blood be watrish and unconcoct as it is in Hydropical Bodies and flows forth by reason of the tenuity and thinness to draw off the Water will be profitable Purge with Agarick Elaterium and Coloquintida Sweating is proper in this cause for by it the matter offending is taken away and the motion of the blood is carried to the outward parts To procure sweat use Carduus water with Mithridate or the decoction of Guaiacum Sassafras and Sarsa-parilla the Gum of Guaiacum also doth greatly provoke sweat Pills of Sarsa-parilla taken every night going to bed are worthily commended If the blood flows forth from the opening or breaking of a vein without any evil quality in its self then ought only Corroboratives to be applied which is the last thing to be done in the cure of this inordinate flux Take of Bole Armoniac one Scruple London Treacle one dram old conserve of Roses half an Ounce with syrup of Myrtles make an Electuary Or if the flux hath continued long Take of Mastick 2 drams Olibani Troch de Carabe of each one dram Balaustiorum one Scruple make a pouder with Syrup of Quinces make it into Pills take one always before Meals Take Lapidis Haematitis Triti of each 2 Scruples Specierum Triasantali one Ounce Troch de Carabe de scoria ferri Coral Frankincense of each one Scruple fine Bole one Scruple bea● these to fine Powder and with Sugar and Plantain water a sufficient quantity make Lozenges Asses Dung is well approved of whether taken inwardly with Syr●p of Quinces or applied outwardly with Steeled water Galen by co●ve●ing the juice of it through a Metrenchit● into the Womb four days together cured this immoderate Flux which no ways else cou●d be restrain●d Going to bed let her take one Scruple and a half of Phi●onii Romani in a wafer make Suffumigations for the Matrix of Maststick Frankincense burnt Frogs not forgetting the hoof of a Mule Take of the juice of Knot grass Comfr● Quinces of each one Ounce Camphire one Dram dip silk Cotion therein and apply it to the plac●s Take of Oyl of Mastick M●r●les Quinces of each half an Ounce fine Bole Troch de Carabe Sanguinis Draconis of each ●ne Dr●m Wax and Vinegar a sufficient Quantity make an Unguent apply it both be●ore and behind Take of Plantain Shepherds Purse red Rose leaves of each one Handful of Goats and Asses Dung dryed of each one Ounce and a half Acatiae Hypocistidos of ●ach one Ounce and a half dryed M●nt one Ounce Bean-Meal three Ounces boyl all ●hese in Plantain water and ma●e of it two ●laisters apply one b●fore and the other behind If the blood flows from those vein● which are terminated in the neck of the Matrix then it is not called the overflowing 〈◊〉 the Terms but the Emerhoids of the Womb 〈◊〉 Yet the same Cure will serve them both onl● the instrumental Cure will a little differ fo● in the Uterine Emorhoids the ends of th● veins hang over like little Teats or Pushe● which must be taken away by incision and the● the veins closed up with Aloes fine Bol● burnt Allom Troch de Terra sigil Myrrh● Mastick with the juyce of Comfrey and Kno●●grass laid Plaister-wise thereto The Air must be cold and dry all motio● of the body is forbidden Let her Meat 〈◊〉 Pheasant Patridge Mountain-Birds Coney 〈◊〉 Calf's Feet c. And let her Beer be mi●● with the juyce of Pomgranates and Quinces CHAP. IV. Of the Weeping of the Womb. THe weeping of the Womb is an unnatu●● flux of blood coming from the Wom● by drops or after the manner of Tears caus●● violent Pains in the same keeping neither ●●riod nor time By some it is referred un●● the immoderate Evacuation of the Cours● yet they are distinguisht in the quantity a● manner of their flowing in that they flow copiously and freely In this continually tho' by little and little and that with great Pain and Difficulty wherefore it is likened unto the Strangury The Cause is in the faculty instrument or matter In the faculty by being enfeebled that it cannot expel the blood and the blood resting there makes the parts of the Womb grow hard and stretcheth the vessels from whence proceeds the pain in the Womb. In the instrument by the narrowness of the Passages Lastly It may be in the matter of the blood which may offend in too great a quantity or in an evil-quality it being gross and thick that it cannot flow forth as it ought to do but by drops The Signs will best appear by the Relation of the Patient Hereupon will ensue pains in the head stomach and back with inflammations suffoca●ions and excoriations of the Matrix If the strengeh of the Patient will permit ●irst open a vein in the Arm rub the upper ●arts and let her Arms be corded that the ●orce of the blood may be carried backward Then apply such things as may laxate and ●olify the stretching of the Womb and as●wage the sharpness of the Blood as Cataplasms ●ade of Bran Linseed Fenugreek Meli●ote Mallows Mercury and Atriplex If the ●lood be viscous and gross add thereto Mugwort Calamint Dictam and Betony And let her take of Venice-Treacle the quantity of a Nutmeg with Syrup of Mugwort every morning Anoint the places with Oyl

Urine doth flow forth it is white and thick and the Midriff is molested the loyns are grieved the Privities pained the Womb sinks down to the entrance of the private parts or else comes clean out Prognosticks This Grief possessing an old Woman is cared with great difficulty because it weakens the Faculties of the Womb and therefore tho' it be reduced into his proper place yet upon every little illness or indisposition it is subject to return and so it is with the younger sort if the Disease be inveterate If it be caus'd by putrifaction in the Nerves it is incurable Cure The Womb naturally being placed between the strait Gut and the Bladder and now fallen down ought not to be put up again until the faculty both of the Guts and Bladder be stirred up Nature being unloaded of her Burthen let the Woman be placed on her back in such sort that her legs may be higher than her head let her feet be drawn up to her hinder parts with her knees spread abroad The mollifie the Swelling with Oyl of Lillies and sweet Almonds or with the decoction of Mallows Beets Fenugreek and Linseed When the Inflation is dissipated let the Midwife anoint her hand with Oyl of Mastick and reduce the Womb into its place The Matrix being put up the situation of the Patient must be changed let ●er legs be out at length and laid together set Cupping-glasses to the brests and navel Boyl Mugwort Feverfew red Roses and Comfery in red Wine and foment the places therewith Make a Suffumigation for the Matrix of Castor Assafoetida Frankincense and Mastick Take Sandarache Olibani Cypress Nuts of each three drams Mastick Styrax Frankincense of each an ounce fine Bole one dram with Oyl of Myrtles and Wax make two Plaisters apply one before and the other behind Take of red Roses Pomegranate Pills Acorn-cups Myrtle-berries of each two ounces Medlar-leaves Sage Rue Origan Comfery Wormwood of each a handful and a half boyl all these in water and make an Insession Move sweet Odours to the Nose and at her coming out of the Bath give her of Syrup of Feverfew one ounce with one dram of Mithridate Take Ladam Mastick of each three drams Galbani half an ounce Styracis two drams make therewith a Plaister for the Navel Then make Pessaries of Assafoetida Saffron Comfrey Mastick adding thereto a little Castor The practice of Pareus in this case was to make them only of Cork in figure like a little Egg covering them over with Wax and Mastick dissolved together fastening to it a thr●d and so to put it up into the Womb. The present danger being now taken away and the Matrix seated in its natural abode the remote cause must be removed If the Body be Plethorick open a Vein Prepare with Syrup of Betony Calamint Hysop and Feverfew Purge with Pil. de Hiera cum Agaric Pil. de Colocyn If the Stomach be oppress'd by Crudities unburden it by vomiting Sudorifical Decoctions of Lignum sanctum and Sassifras taken twenty days together dries up the superfluous moisture and consequently suppresseth the cause of the Disease Let the Air be hot and dry and your Diet hot and attenuating Abstain from Dancing Leaping Sneezing and from all motion both of body and mind Eat sparingly drink not much sleep moderately CHAP. VIII Of the Inflammation of the Womb. THe Phlegmon or Inflammation of the Matrix is a Tumour possessing the whole Womb accompanied with unnatural heat by obstructions and gathering together of corrupt Blood Cause The Cause of this Affect is suppression of the Months repletion of the whole Body immoderate use of Venus often handling of the Genitals difficult Child-birth vehement agitation of the Body falls blows to which also may be added the use of sharp Pessaries whereby not seldom the Womb is inflamed Cupping-glasses also fastened to the Pubes and Hypogastrium draw the Humours to the Womb. Signs The Signs are Aguish humours pains in the head and stomach vomiting coldness of the knees convulsions of the neck doting trembling of the heart sometimes there is a straitness of breath by reason of the heat which is communicated to the Diaphragma or Midriff the Brests sympathizing with the Womb are pained and swelled Particular Signs If the fore-part of the Matrix be inflamed the Privities are grieved the Urine is supprest or flows forth with difficulty If the after part the loyns and back suffer the Excrements are retained If the right side the right hip suffers the right leg is heavy slow to motion in so much that sometimes she seems to hault And so if the left side of the Womb be inflamed the left hip is pained and the left leg is weaker than the right If the Neck of the Womb be affected the Midwife putting up her Finger shall feel the mouth of it retracted and closed up with a hardness about it Prognosticks All Inflammations of the Womb are dangerous if not deadly and especially if the total substance of the Matrix be inflamed Yet they are less perilous if they be in the Neck of the Womb. A f●ux of the Belly foretells Health if it be natural for Nature works best by the use of her own Instruments Cure In the Cure first let the humours flowing to the Womb be repell'd for effecting of which after the Belly hath been loosened by cooling Clysters Phlebotomy will be needful Open therefore a Vein in the Arm and if she be not with Child the day after strike the Saphena on both Feet Fasten Ligatures and Cupping-glasses to the Arms and rub the upper Parts Purge lightly with Cassia Rhubarb Sena Myrobolans Take of Sena two drams Anniseed on scruple Myrobalans half an ounce Ba●ley-water a sufficient quantity make a Decoction dissolve it in Syrup of Succory with Rhubarb two ounces Pulp of Cassia half an ounce Oyl of Anniseed two drops and make a Potion At the beginning of the Disease anoint the Privities and Reins with Oyl of Roses and Quinces Make Plaisters of Plaintain Linseed Barley-meal Mellilot Fenugreek Whites of Eggs and if the pain be vehement add a little Opium Foment the Genitals with the Decoction of Poppy-heads Purslain Knot-grass and Water-Lillies Make Injections of Goats-Milk rose-Rose-water clarified Whey with Honey of Roses In the declining of the Disease use Insessions of Sage Linseed Mugwort Penny-royal Horehound Fenugreek Anoint the lower parts of the Belly with Oyl of Camomile and Violets Take Lilly Roots and Mallow Roots of each four ounces Mercury one handful Mugwort Feverfew Camomile-flowers Melilot of 〈◊〉 half a handful bruise the Herbs and the ●●●ots and boyl them in a sufficient quantity of Milk then add fresh Butter Oyl of Camomile Lillies of each two ounces Bea●-meal a sufficient quantity make two Plaisters apply one before and the other behind If the Tumour cannot be removed but ●ends to suppuration Take of Fenugreek Mal●ow-Roots decocted Figs Linseed Barley-Meal Doves-dung Turpentine of each three ●rams Deers Suet half a dram Opium

Penny-royal Feverfew Hysop Sage of each 2 ounces make a Julep Take Oyl of Anniseed one Scruple and half Diacymini Diacalaminthe Diamosci Diagalangae of each one dram Sugar 4 ounces with water of Cinnamon make Lozenges take of them a dram and half twice a Day two hours before Meales Fasten cupping-glasses to the hipps and belly Take of Stirax Calamint one ounce Mastick Cloves Cinamon Nutmeg Lig. Aloes Frankincense of each half an ounce Musk 10 Grains Amber-greese half a Scruple with Rose-water make a Confection Divide it into four equal parts Of one part make a Pomum Odoratum to smell on if she be not hysterical Of the second make a Mass of Pills and let her take three every night Of the third make a Pessary dip it in Oyl of Spikenard and put it up Of the fourth make a suffumigation for the Womb. If the Faculties of the Womb be weakened and the life of the Seed suffocated by overmuch humidity ●●owing to those parts Take of Betony Marjorum Mugwort Penny-royal Balm of each one handful Roots of Asrum Fenel Ellecampane of each two drams Anniseed Cummin of each one dram with Sugar and Water a sufficient quantity of which make a Syrup and take three ounces every other morning Purge with these Pills following Take of Digridion two grains Specierum de Castorei one scruple Pil Foetid two scruples with Syrup of Mugwort make six Pills Take Spec. Diagemmae Diamosci D●ambrae of each one dram Cinnamon one dram an half Mace Cloves Nutmeg of each half a dram Sugar six ounces with Water of Feverfew make Lozenges to be taken every morning Take of the Decoction of Sarsaparilla and Virga Aurea not forgeting Sage which Agrippa wondering at the operation of hath honour'd with the Name of Sacra Herba a holy Herb And it is recorded by Dodonaeus in his History of Plants Lib. 2. Cap. 77. That after so many Egyptians were dead the surviving Women that they might multiply the faster were commanded to drink the Juice of Sage Anoint the Genitals with Oyl of Anniseed and Spikenard Take Mace Nutmeg Cinnamon Styrax Amber of each one dram Cloves Laudani of each half a dram Turpentine a sufficient quantity make Trochisks to smother the Womb. Take the Roots of Valerian and Ellecampane of each one pound of Galangale two ounces Origan Lavender Marjoram Betony Mugwort Bay leaves Calamint of each three handfuls with Wat●r make an incession in which let her sit after she hath had her Courses If Barrenness proceeds from Driness consuming the matter of the Seed Take every day Almond-milk and Goats-milk extracted with Honey Eat often of the Root Satyrion condited and of the Electuary of Diasatyrion Take three Weathers Heads boyle them until all the flesh comes from the bones then take of Mellilot Violets Cammomile Mercury Orchis with their Roots of each an handful Fenugreek Linseed Valerian Roots of each one pound Let all these be decocted in the aforesaid Broth and let the Woman sit in the Decoction up to her Navel Also take of Deers Suet half an ounce Cows Marrow Styracis liquideae of each two drams Oyl of sweet Almonds two ounces with Silk Cotton make a Pessary Make Injections only of fresh Butter and Oyl of sweet Almond If Barrenness be caused by any proper affect of the Womb the Cure is set down in the Second Part. Sometimes the Woman proves barren when there is no Impediment on either side except only in the manner of the Act As when in the Emission of the Seed the Man is quick and the Woman too slow whereby there is not an Emission of both Seeds at the same instant as the Rules of Conception require according to the opinion of the Antients Wherefore to take away this Inconvenience Mulier preparari ac disponi debet molli complexu lascivis verbis oscula lasciviora miscenda If this doth not suffice before the Act of Coition foment the private parts with the Decoction of Betony Sage Hysop and Calamint and anoint the Mouth and Neck of the Womb with Musk and Civet The Cause of Barrenness being removed let the Womb be corroborated as follows Take of Bay-berries Mastick Nutmeg Frankincense Cypress Nuts Laudani Galbani of each one dram Styracis liquid two Scruples Cloves half a Scruple Ambergreece two grains Musk six grains then with Oyl of Spikenard make a Pessary Take red Roses Lapidis Haematitis White Frankincense of each half an ounce Sanguis Draconis fine Bole Mastick of each two drams Nutmeg Cloves of each one dram Spikenard half a scruple With Oyl of Wormwood make a Plaister for the lower part of the Belly Let her eat often of Eringo Roots condited and Make an Injection only of the Juice of the Roots of Satyrion The aptest time for Conception is instantly after the Menses are ceas'd because then the Womb is thirsty and dry apt both to draw the Seed and to retain it by the roughness of the inward superficies And besides in some the mouth of the Womb is turned unto the back or side and is not placed right until the last day of the Courses Excess in all things is to be avoided Lay aside all Passions of the Mind Shun Study and Care as things that are Enemies to Conception for if a Woman conceives under such circumstances how wise soever the Parents are the Children at the best will be but foolish because the animal Faculties of the Parents viz. the Understanding and the rest from whence the Child derives its Reason are as it were confused through the multiplicity of Cares and Cogitations Examples hereof we have in learned Men who after great study and care instantly accompanying with their Wives often beget very foolish Children A hot and moist Air is most convenient as appears by the Women in Egypt which usually bring forth three or four Children at one time CHAP. X. Virginity what it is in what it consists and how violated together with the Opinions of the Learned about the mutation of Sexes in the Womb during the Operation of Nature i● framing the Body THere are many ignorant People that boa●● of their Skill in the knowledge of Virginity and some Virgins have undergone har● Censures through their ignorant Determinations And therefore I thought it highly necessary to clear this Point that the towering Imaginations of conceited Ignorance may be brought down and that the Fair Sex whose Vertues are so illustriously bright that they both excite our Wonder and command our Imitation may be freed from the Calumnies and Detractions of Ignorance and Envy that so their Honours may continue as Unspotted as they have kept their Persons Uncontaminated and free from Defilement Virginity in a strict sence does signifie the Prime the Chief the Best of any thing which makes men so desirous of marrying Virgins imagining some greater pleasure to be enjoy'd in their Embraces than in those of Widows or such as have before been lain withal Tho' not many years ago a very