of small Endive of Melons of Gourds of Pompeons Cucumbers and Lettice of which Pessaries may be made to use in the Womb but have a care you put a string to them to get them out again when you please A Syrup to take away the Obstructions in the Body which hinder the Terms Take Madder two ounces of the roots of Lovage Sperage Cypers and grasse each an ounce and a half Penny Mountaine and Balm of each two ounces Spica Indiae half a dram Licorice Currans Rosemary flowers and Stecados of each an ounce six ounces of Honey and nine ounces of Sugar boyl it into a syrup and take thereof two ounces at a time Another for the same Take two ounces of Madder Sperage roots Cypers roots and the roots of Butchers broom of each an ounce Valerian Sabine white water Mints and Penny-royal of each a handful Baulm two handfuls of Melon seed one ounce Licorice and Currans each half an ounce Honey and Sugar of each six ounces so make it into a syrup and take thereof about an ounce and a half at a time To provoke the Terms strongly Take the water of Smallage of Lupins Sperage and Fennel of each six ounces a dram of Cinamon a quarter of an ounce of Spica Indiae Ammoniacum and Oppopanacum of each a dram and a half Parsly seed Fennel seed wild yellow Rape seed and Carraway of each a quarter of an ounce Gromell seed and Agrimony of each a handful Galingale and Saffron of each half a dram the kernels of Quinces and Mallow seeds of each half an ounce Syrup of Violers two ounces boyl them all except the syrup in two quarts of Gourds water till the third part be wasted then strain it and mix it with the syrup of Violets and boil it with so much Honey as you see convenient then strew a little powder of Cinamon into it and Vinegar of Squils enough to make it sowrish then take of it in quantity as the former Common Sirups whith remove obstructions of the Terms are Syrup of Mugwort of Maiden-hair of Chicory with Rubarb and the syrup of the five roots these you may have ready made at the Apothecaries A Laxative to open the Body and purge superfluous humours Take Sene leaves Penny-royal and Madder of each a like quantity boyl them in white Wine take thereof about three ounces at a time fasting Another for the same Take Penny-royal Nep Southernwood Rue Centory and Hysop of each one handful Savin and Fetherfew of each one handful and an half Galingale a dram Cinamon and Madder of each one handful Mirrh a quarter of an ounce boyl them together in a quart of fair water till the third part be wasted take thereof two or three ounces fasting at a time Another Take Sperage Smallage Fennel and Parsly roots Carduus benedictus and Butchers broom of each an ounce and a half Annis Fennel and Carraway seeds of each a dram and a half Mugwort Penny-royal Mints Horehound Assarabacca and Fetherfew of each half a handful seeth them altogether in two quarts of water till half be wasted then strain it and mix therewith the syrup of the five roots of Calamint and Mugwort of each a like quantity and drink thereof in the morning and afternoon about two ounces Another to move the Terms Take Mints Balm Penny-royal Marjerom and Southernwood of each an handful Anni-seeds Fennel and Carraway seeds of each an ounce Polipody an ounce and an half Cicory roots an ounce cut the roots and herbs very small and boyl them all together in a quart of water till a third part be consumed then strain it and sweeten it with Sugar to your own likeing and take thereof as you please A Syrup to provoke the Terms Take four handfuls of Cicory roots take out the pith and cut them small and boyl them a good space in two quarts of White wine strain it and then boyl the decoction unto a syrup with Sugar and take thereof about two spoonfuls evening and morning A Trochis to move the Terms Take a dram and a half of Mirrh two drams and an half of Lupines Rue water Mints Comin Madder Elecampane roots Sagapenum Oppopanacum of each a dram make it into Trochis with the juyce of Mugwort and give half an ounce thereof in the decoction of Juniper berries made with water Wines good to provoke the Terms Wine of Elecampane roots of Marjerom gentle of the herb Rennet of Betony of Gellow-flowers and of Rosemary these are very good if the Patients Body be fitting to drink Wine otherwise discretion may direct you not to use it Confections good for this Disease are The Confection of Elecampane roots the Confection of Eringo roots Conserves of Pioney and Mirrh roasted in an Apple Pills to move the Terms Take the Pill Alephargine half a dram Aloes two scruples Savin in powder one scruple make in into Pills with the water of Mugwort and take half thereof at once these provoke the Terms and are safe without any danger Others for the same Take-Pill Alephargine half a dram pill Cochiae one scrupse mix them into five Pills and take them at once By the way heed is to be taken that these Medicines are not to be exhibited at such time as the Flowers do use to come or nature useth to send forth the menstrual purgations for at that time they may draw and turn the humors from the womb where nature would yent and purge it to some other parts of the Body to the impediting of nature and dammage of the Body but the whole Body being purged and cleansed then 't is a fit time to apply these Medicaments which may take away the intemperatness and remove the vices and obstructions of the Womb and Vessels purifie the crassious and corrupted bloud and extenuate the same out of the Vessels and briefly provoke the Terms To do which you see the ways and means are manifold partly simple partly compound partly internal and partly external to be administred and exhibited sundry wayes and for sundry reasons as the cause and necessity shall require to which we further proceed Pills to procure the Terms Take Musk and Mirrh of each four scruples Sterhas Madder Penny-royal Citron pills long Pepper Cassia wood Cassia pills Pioney seeds and Calmus of each three quarters of an ounce Spica Indiae half a dram make Pills thereof with the juyce of Mugwort whereof take a dram at once Thus far of inward Medicines to procure the Terms there are also many outward Medicines to be used if need require the first part whereof are Baths and Lotions which are partly natural as of the natural water of hot Baths and partly artificial which are prepared of congruent and fitting Medicaments A Bath or Lotion for the Terms Take of Camomile flowers of Mugwort Calamint Dictamnus of Crete Briony Savin of each one handful of Anniseeds Fennel seeds yellow Carrot seeds and Ameos of each an ounce mix them altogether and therewith make a Decoction in water The
Men are wont to call that much rain or a great rain which continues a long time though it fall but slowly and leasurely or else if it suddenly fall upon the earth in great showers If any one shall be so curious as to ask what is the proper quantity and measure of the menstrual blood which nature ought duly to evacuate Hippocrates answers them That in a sound Woman Hip. 1. Lib. de morb mulier Pag. 313. and one perfect in health the moderate monethly Purgations ought to be about 20. ounces a very little more or lesse if they exceed very much that proportion or are much lesse then are the Courses diseased and disaffected But the certain quantity of the monethly natural purgations cannot so strictly be defined in all bodies because of the difference of the temperature the dyet habit constitution age and strength of Womens bodies it must necessarily be that some must have them more copiously then others but this definition might be taken to be of a Woman in perfect health but if the Flux of natural purgation be immoderate the party must needs be much afflicted therewith and thereby incur many other Diseases of some whereof mention is already made and partly of the causes thereof But we desire to be a little more copious Causes in discovering the causes of this distemper before we proceed to the method of the cure thereof The causes of this immoderate Flux Gal. 3. de Sym. Causis Cap. 2.5 Aph. Com. 58. are distinctly and accurately handled by Galen That The Termes as other Fluxes of blood do flow immoderatly for three causes First By reason of the faculty that recludeth the Vessel containing the blood as in the Flux of blood at the nose The second Because of the evil affection and ill disposition of the blood And the third By reason of some vitiousness or detriment in the Vessels themselves The first cause is by reason of the natural faculties which are foure The faculty attractive retentive alterative and the faculty expulsive All which faculties perform their operations Gal. 1. de fac Nat. according to their proper temperatures as Galen largely teacheth Therefore they are the cause of the menstrual Fluxes immoderation when these fuculties do not properly and duly exercise their functions and Offices As chiefly If the retentive faculty be too weak that it cannot retain the blood so much and so long as it should until its due time this is a special cause of the superfluous Flux which many times happens by reason of some ill distemper in the womb or Vessels either too much cold or moysture or both In like manner it comes to passe when the expulsive faculty too powerfully sends forth the blood in such quantity and at such times when by the Lawes of nature it should not and this also chiefly happens by reason of some ill distempers either in the Womb or Vessels proceeding of too much heat and dryness or both Another cause of the immoderate Flux of the Termes is the ill disposition or corruption of the blood and that after a twofold manner The first when the blood is so vitious that it corrodeth and corrupteth the Vessels wherein it is contained which is done when the blood is too thin hot or sharp and that by reason the temperature or ill dyer is mixed with superfluity of Flegme Choler or Melancholy which are offensive to nature and do provoke her to expel them A second cause is superfluity of blood distempered 4 Method 2. so that the Vessels cannot contain it but it breaks out and forces a purgation by reason of the abounding acrimonious humor thereof as Galen also makes mention Having now spoken of two causes of the immoderate Flux of the Termes we proceed to the third which is because of the viriousness of the Vessels and that consisteth in the too much hardness softness or smallness thereof And happens to come in youth in their first beginning and to others afterwards in progress of time And this happens to come thus to passe Too much softness of superfluity of moysture hardness of too much dryness and smallness of too much hunger or want of sustenance If this superfluous Flux proceed of too much blood Colour then the colour of the Termes will be pale and whitish if they come of Choler then the Flowers will incline to a yellow Colour If Melancholy be the abounding humour then are the Flowers of a blewish black or dark colour By which Colours you may judge of the abounding humour and provide a remedy accordingly to stop the excessive Flux thereof for which purpose we now come to prescribe many both internal and external meanes First Observe these Rules Beware of hot things If the Body be grosse and full of blood and humours that nature seems to expulse it this way stop it not suddenly unless there be danger of much weakness by it but gently purge and prepare the body first If the Body be very full of blood you may open the Basilica vein and seek to reverse it that way if it appear to come of Choler or if any other peccant humour abounds purge that humour with proper moderate Medicines mixing astringent and comfortable things amongst it Let the Woman abstain from all hard labour and all kind of slimey thin and waterish meat Vomits are good to stay the humour and turn their course that they flow not downwards Inwardly may be given Sirrups Electuaries decoctions Confections and the like A Sirrup to stay the immoderate Flux of the Termes Take Sirrup of Endive one ounce Sirrup of Purslain half an ounce the decoction of Egrimony and of Plantain 4 Ounces mix them together and make them into a Sirrup and so take it as you please An Electuary for the same Take conserve of Roses 2 Ounces of water Lillies one ounce of Pearl prepared and burnt Harts-horn each half an ounce Bole Armonick Terra Lemnia each half a scruple mix them together with syrrup of Plantain a quantity sufficient to make it into an Electuary A Bolus for the same Take Conserce of Roses half an ounce Philonium or Requies Nicholai two Scruples Mix them together and make a Bolus thereof This is not to be given but when extremity urges Avicenna amongst many other Medicaments of this nature commendeth the use of Vinegar which to some may seem strange it being the vulgar opinion that Vinegar is of a great opening quality Nevertheless Galen agrees with Avicen Gal. 1. de sim med cap. 18.19 who writeth of Vinegar that it is of an astringent quality and doth suppresse and stop fluxes of the blood Others contradict the same not approving of it in this case as hurtful to the Womb. And there being many other Medicines here readily prescribed it may very well be let alone A Powder to stay the immoderate Flux of the Terms Take Species tria santali Diarrhodon Abbatis each a dram Coriander two scruples and a half
lib. 3 de sym caus cap. 4. Menstrua alba profluvium uteri as Galen This Disease hath great affinity with the Gonorrhea or the involuntary issue of natural seed called the running of the Reins And this Flux also proceeds from two Causes either too much cold or unatural heat and the differences of this Issue are very many as may appear by the colour of the Excrements which flow or issue which are sometimes red sometimes pale sometimes yellow sometimes black sometimes white and sometimes green sometimes thick and sometimes watery from Species may be gathered the quality of the peccant humour as for example If the Flux be of a red colour it declares that the issue flowes from the blood and is thereby caused If it be pale or yellow it denotes black Choler is the cause thereof if white it proceeds from flegm if it be thin and watery superfluous humours do abound in the Body But above all things be sure to know whether this Flux be a Gonorrhea that is an involuntary issue of the natural Sperm which is the running of the Reins the self same Disease being also incident to men as well as women and proceedeth in both Sexes from one and the same cause and that women as well as men do labour under the same Symptom But is general among women to call this disease the Whites though it be a Gonorrhea or the running of the Reins under which infirmitie many do a long time labour to the great wasting and Consumption of their Bodies the principal cause thereof proceeding either from immoderate excessive or unlawful Venery It is generally agreed that the lawful and proper cause of the Whites is too much superfluity of Excrements but as touching the place and manner where and how these Excrements are ingendered Authors disagree Some say the cause is a daily begetting of corrupt humours in the principal parts Others that it proceeds only from the Womb and Spermatick Vessels Others that it flows only from the Reins the Womb being not at all afflicted thereby But Galen plainly demonstrates 6. de locis affect loc 5. that the whole Body is affected with this Issue although it purge through the Womb and evacuate it self from the Reins and that this Disease is most incident to flegmatick and weak women It remaineth before we come to speak of the method of the cure of this infirmity that diligence be used as we said before to find out whether it proceed from a Gonorrhea that is a Running of the Reins or Flux of humane seed or not the knowledge whereof must be rather conjectural then to be demonstrated from any certain sign other then the Patients own relation But the flowing of the Seed is more thick and floweth in lesse quantity and is not so corrupt and of a whiter colour On the contrary the other Excrements are more thin do flow more abundantly are more filthy and putrified and are not alwayes of the same colour But to proceed to the manner of the Cure of this Disease Respect in the first place is to be had to the purging and cleansing of the whole Body and if the Disease be a Gonorthea and proceed of heat unlawfully or however gotten the Body must first be purged with Medicines appropriate to the Reins before you attempt in any wise to stop the same for which this following is very good An Electuary to purge the Reins Take Cassia newly extracted one ounce Rheubarb in powder one dram mix them together with syrup of white water Lillies a sufficient quantity to make it into an Electuary put this into a penny pot of White-wine or a little posset drink which comes first to hand stir it well together till it be all dissolved in the drink and so take it in the morning fasting and go about your business if you have any thing to do about two hours after take some broth or posset drink This Medecine you may take twice or thrice as you see occasion resting alwaies a day between Afterwards you may take every other day a dram of Trochis de Carabe in Plantane water You may also give the Patient every second or third day a dram of the filings of Ivory in Plantane water it is very good Sweating is also much commended in this case which may be thus done Take Barley water three ounces strong Wine two ounces give it the Patient very warm and so let her sweat Afterwards prepare a Clyster in this manner A Clyster for the Whites through heat or running of the Reyns Take Beets Violet-leaves and Night-shade of each one handful seeth them well together and take 12 Ounces of the decoction or boyled liquor which you please to call it and to it add Sugar 1 Ounce and a half Yolks of Eggs Oyl of Water-Lillies Oyl of Roses of each 2 Ounces Salt a dram and a half give this Clyster in the afternoon a little before meat A Confection for the same Take Comfrey-roots 3 Ounces Pompeon-seed Water-Lillies of each a dram Juyce of Liquorice 2 scruples Coral prepared Bolus Mirtle-seed Roses of each 10 grains Gun Traganth half a dram Syrup the Comphrey Roots cleave and slice them small and seeth them in Red Wine until they be so tender that you may beat them to grout or pap then pill the Pompeon-seeds and beat them together with the other things to fine Powder then incorporate them with the pap or grout made of Camphrey-Roots and then put to them Sirrup of Citron Pills and of Orenges as much as you please and then boyl them together to a Confection And take every morning a spoonful thereof before break-fast Conserves of Roses and Marmalade are exceeding good for this purpose either to be taken alone or mixt together with prepared Bolus and take thereof a dram at a time An excellent Sirrup for the same Take the Seeds of Purslain Lettice and Water-Lillies of each an Ounce prepared Coriander Water Lilly-Roots Dandelion Night-shade of each half an Ounce Camphire half a dram Dates chopt small 2 Ounces Rue-Seeds Mountain Mints parched Gomin of each 1 dram Steep the Dates 8 dayes in Vinegar then seeth them together in 2 quarts of water till half be wasted strain it and put to it 12 Ounces of the juyce of Quinces Sugar 36 Ounces and boyl them all together to a Sirrup and so clarifie them Of this Sirrup take 2 Ounces with 3 Ounces of Plantain water or purslain-Purslain-water This is an excellent proved Sirrup for this purpose Drinks and Waters good for this Disease Take Comphrey Roots and boyl them in water and drink thereof 3. of 4. Ounces at a time with Sugar Also water wherein the filings of Steel have been steeped and then Myrtle-seeds boyled therein is very good to drink for the same Simple waters good for this infirmity are the waters of Plantain Sorrel Purslain and Cithorie The decoction of Mallows and the Roots of Hollyhockles is also very good to drink for this Disease An
take one of these Pills following Pills for the Mola Take Galbanum 1 quarter of an Ounce Flowers of Mugwort St. Johns wort Assarabacca of each 1 scruple dissolve the Galbanum in good wine and make thereof 6 Pills of a dram and take one at a time in 4 dayes as before is directed A Bath for the same Take Mugwort Camomile Dill Holly-hock Roots Mallowes of each one handful Linseed Fenegreek Anniseed Fennel-seed of each one dram make a decoction thereof in common water for a Bath and let the Woman sit hot in it up to her breasts and after use this Oyntment for the same purpose Take juyce of Holli-hocks 2 Ounces Goosgrease Hens grease of each one Ounce Oyl of sweet Almonds of white Lillies of each half an ounce mixe them to an Oyntment and therewith annoint all the external parts against the fire Inwardly let her also take Dia calamint Trochis of Mirrhe and in a word whatsoever is good to provoke the termes and to drive forth the secundide and expell a dead Child the same is effectual for this Disease of which shall be spoken in the ensuing discourse of hard Labours We have now at large written of all special accidents and infirmities incident to the womb and parts of generation and given perfect directions for remedies for the same yet nevertheless though the humane seed may be received and contained yet a mischance may follow or otherwise a weak and feeble fruit that it cannot come to perfection and at last a difficult and hard labour are many if not most of the Daughters of Eve subject to whereby oft-times their lives are in danger thereby if not quite lost with the fruit and all therefore concerning these infirmities and what belongs to fruit-bearing Women and their delivery is the intended subject of the subsequent part of this Book and first of the debility or weakness of the child in its Mothers womb Chap. XII Of the weakness of Children in the Womb. SUch is the frailty of humane nature that the Child is subject to sickness even in his Mothers womb no great marvel then if men are all their lives encumbred with casualties when they begin with them even before they have a visible being the sickness of Children in the womb not being obvious to the eye is the more difficult to finde out but the signes to know it are these If the Woman have her termes much being with Child it must argue debility of the Child because his nourishment and sustenance is taken away from him If Milk flow from Women with Child its evident the Child is weak and not strong enough to draw his nourishment to him If a Woman with Child be afflicted with a strong and violent loosness there is great danger of a mischance But the strength or weakness of the Child depends on heat and cold under which are comprehended all accidents whatsoever If the Child be weak through immoderate heat and dryeth then the remedy is to purge the Mother of Choler for which this following is a convenient Medicine Take Conserve of Prunes half an Ounce three Ounces of whay of milk give it her in the morning and let her fast 5 houres after it Another for the same Take Cassia extracted out of the Cane one Ounce and put to it 4 Ounces of Sorrel-water or Barley-water and give it in like manner as the other Another safe but stronger Medicine both for the Mother and the Child is this following Take 2 Ounces of Manna and 3. or 4. Ounces of Whay mixed with it and use it as the other For the same you may also steep in the same quantity of Whay a dram of Rubarb one night and strain it out well or if you will take half a dram of Rubarb in powder in some whay Let the Woman use such dyet as is cooling and moystning as Barley-water Lettice and use Verjuice and juyce of Lemons with her meat Endive water Syrrup of Roses Endive succoury water are good in this case Forbear all things which provoke vomiting or which force Urine or blood Let the Woman 3 or 4 times every day cool and quench her thirst with Barley-water having half an Ounce of Syrrup of leaves mixt with it An external Medicine for this Disease if you feel great heat to abound may be this Take Citron water Violet water of each 6. Ounces sorrel-Sorrel-water 12. Ounces Red Sanders burnt Ivory Sorrel seed of each one scruple Saffron half a scruple Vinegar 3 spoonfuls mix them all together and wet a Linnen Cloth in it and lay it on the privities and on the small of the back Take also one Ounce of Pompeon Peels Oyl of Roses Oyl of Water-Lillies of each one Ounce and a half Housleek one Ounce temper them all together and annoint the back and privities therewith 3. or 4. times a day But if the cause of weakness or debility of the Child in its Mothers Womb proceed from cold and moystness then are contrary medicines to be used of which these following are approved Take Buglosse water Saffron seeds Agarins Hermodactils of each 1 scruple Cynamon Ginger Roses Coriander prepared of each 4 grains steep them one night in the Buglosse water then strain it and drink it in the morning fasting Another for the same Take Fethersew-water Balm water of each one Ounce and a half Benedicta laxativa one Ounce Sugar half an Ounce mix them and infuse them together one night then strain it out and use it as the other Have a care to use a good order of Dyet and such things as warm and dry boyl Sage Mints and Rosemary in her Portage and use to drink red Wine with steeled water To mundifie and cleanse the bad humours this Medicine following is very good Take juyce of Mints 4 Ounces Agarick one dram Ginger Roses of each 4 grains Manna half an Ounce steep the Agarick in the juyce of Mints a dayes and nights then put the Manna Roses and Ginger to it let it stand a while and dry against the fire and make it into Pills and take them Use this oftentimes for they gently purge and dry up the warty humors without pain or anguish A Plaister to remedy the corrupt humours Take Roses Cipers Nuts burnt Ivory Sandaraca of each 1 dram Rosen 3 Ounces boyl the Rosen in red Vinegar till the Vinegar be consumed then mix the other things with it and make 2 Plaisters of it and apply one to the back and the other to the womb Another excellent good Plaister to strengthen Women with Child that do not use to go out half their times Take Oyl of Quinces Oyl of Roses Oyl of Mints of each 1 ounce and a half Comphrey Blood-stone red Coral Sandaraca Date-stones burnt of each 1 dram mix it with a sufficient quantity of Wax to make a Salve thereof and with this annoint the Kidneys and Mother Chap. XIII Of Mischances and to prevent the same IT oftentimes comes to passe with women with
two ounces and an half Assa foetida Bistorta Tormentil of each three drams melt the Gums and then pound them altogether and make an ointment thereof and with this annoint the Kidnies and lower parts of the Body A Pessary for the same Take Assa foetida one ounce Mastick Frankinsense Myrtle seed Galingale Cypress nuts of each a dram beat them together very small and mix it with the oyl of Mirtles and make a Pessary thereof and put it up into the Matrix A Plaister for the descension of the Matrix to keep it from going any further out of the Body Take Rozen two ounces Frankincense Mastick Cypres gum of each half an ounce mix and melt them all together and put to it some oyl of Mastick so make it into a Plaister and apply it to the privities and wear it thereon Another Plaister for the same Take Mastick one ounce Frankincense half a dram Cypress nuts Galls Mirtle seeds of each one dram Pomgranate pills the blossoms thereof Turpentine of each one quarter of an ounce pound all that is to be pounded and mix them all together with turpentine and oyl of Mastick enough to make it into a plaister and spread it on a cloth to cover from the Navel to the privities and there wear it alwaies For the descention of the Matrix it is also good to take Date stones and beat them to powder and strew thereof on the place A Bath for the falling down of the Matrix Take Oken buds Medlar leaves Service leaves Cypress leaves topps of Ladies thistles each one handfull Sprigs of Mirtle Valerian wild Mints of each two handfuls bruise or chop them all small then put them in a bag and boyl it well in water and fit thereon in a Bath up to the Navel about an hour For pain in the Matrix through wind Take Turbith four scruples Ginger one scruple give it in Mugwort water or in the Decoction of Mugwort For the same and to prevent Miscarriages Take Carraway seed one dram Ameos Ginger Beaver cod of each one scruple steep the Carraway seed in Vinegar and dry it again and beat it to powder then mix it with the rest and give a dram thereof in Wine every morning for certain dayes together For the same Annoint the Belly with oyl of Lillies and oyl of Wall flowers For an Impostume in the Maetrix a Pessary Take Wax oyl of Violets of each half an ounce melt them together and then put to it juyce of Plantane Nightshade of each an ounce Camphire half a dram mix them all well together and dip a tent of Cotton in it and put it up into the Matrix An Injection to cleanse the Matrix Take Galls Lentils Pomgranate flowers Kneeholm seeds Roses Saunders of each a like quantity boyl them all together in water and strain it and inject the decoction into the Matrix with a Syringe For the same Take Hysop Wormwood and Honey of Roses and seeth the same in white Wine and milk and inject the decoction thereof A Bath to incarnate the flesh in the Matrix after it is clean sed from all uncleannesse Take Centory six ounces Ireos Comphrey Cassia roots Egrimony of each three handfuls Sarcocolla Gum dragon Dragons blood Mummy Hypocistis Frankincense of each one dram boyl them all together in a sufficient quantity of water till half be consumed and then put to it refuse of Iron prepared an ounce and a quartet then boil it a little longer and use this for a Bath Another for the same use Take Mallows Violet leaves Melilot Plantaine Lentils Fenegreeke Colewort buds of each three handfulls boyl them all in water unto the half and make a Bath of it as of the former A Pessary to mollifie the hardness and pain between the Navel and the Matrix Take Ducks grease marrow of Harts bones or Oxes marrow if you cannot get the other Neats feet oyl Bdelium yolks of rosted Eggs of each a like quantity Saffron two drams dissolve them together in Wine and temper therewith oyl of Lillies then dip a tent of linnen or Cotton therein and put it up into the place use it often this will asswage the pain and take it away For Cankers and Ulcers of the Womb a purging Potion Take Benedicta laxativa half an ounce Agarins one scruple Ginger Grains one scruple juyce of Fetherfew two ounces and a half mix them well together and give it the Patient two mornings together and then let let her govern her self as after purging Another Potion for the same to be used many dayes together to cleanse the Matrix Take Oxymel of Squils half an ounce Syrupus de Bysantijs Syrup of Vinegar of each three quarters of an ounce Lovage water Egremony warer of each an ounce Cicory water 2 ounces Let the Patient drink this in the morning early and sleep upon it fast four hours after it use it many daies together till the Urine become of a good colour and appear clean A Pessary for Ulcers in the Womb. Take oyl of Fetherfew flowers Saffron of each half an ounce oyl of Wall-flowers two ounces Sarcolla Mittha Opopanacum of each a dram Turpentine three quarters of an ounce Musk one graine White wax one ounce boyl them all together in four ounces of the juyce of Smallage till all the juyce be consumed then annoint a Pessary of Cotton therewith and put it up into the grieved place and refresh it oftentimes Cleanse the Body inwardly with Honey water and make afterwards this Pessary following renewing it four or five times a day Take Smallage Fetherfew Mugwort stamp them together and make a Pessary thereof and annoint it with Hierapicra Take also the juyce of the aforesaid herbs and wet a cloth therewith and lay it on the Back and Hips and lower parts of the Back bones An Injection for Ulcers in the Womb. Take Egrimony and seeth it in Barley water and mix with it clarified Honey or Honey of Roses and so use it Another more strong for the same Take Wine six ounces burnt Allum Verdigrease of each half a dram temper them together and let them stand infused in the Wine five hours and then inject it Another to dry the Ulcers Take Galls Pomgranate pills Pomgranate flowers Allom Egrimony of each a like quantity seeth them all together and strain out the decoction and inject it For a Vein broken in the Ulcer If there be any Vein broken in the Ulcer then mix some of these things with the former decoction as Dragon blood Mirrh Frankincense fine Bolus Saffron Hartwort Rose water or Plantane water A Bath for the Reins very good for Ulcers or Cankers therein Take Yarrow roots Valerian roots Smallage roots of each four handfuls Mirrh Oppopannacum of each one quarter of an ounce boyl them altogether in a sufficient quantity of fair water until a good part thereof be consumed then let the Patient sit therein up to the Navel Let the Patient in this Disease use such meats and
but that seems a digression from this intention But amongst all causes of barrenness in a Woman in the instruments of generation it is certain that the greatest is in the Womb for the Wombe is the field of generation and if this field be corrupt and not well disposed it is in vain to expect any fruit let it be never so well tilled and sown for the Womb is subject to many diseases and thence it followes that it may be often unfit for generation distempers many are subject to it as over much heat and over much cold Women whose Wombs are too thick and cold cannot in any wise conceive because coldness extinguisheth the natural heat of the humane Seed Another cause of barrenness may be immoderate moisture of the Womb which destroys the Seed of the man as Corn sown in ponds and marshes A third cause of barrenness of the Woman is over much dryness of the Womb so that the humane Seed perisheth for want of nutriment and becomes as Corn sown upon stones or sandy ground A fourth cause of womens barrenness is the immoderate heat of the Womb which scorcheth up the Seed of man as Corn sown in the drought of Summer for immoderate heat hurts all the parts of the Body and no Conception can live or be nourished in that woman Many other may be the distempers which the Womb is subject to that may render it unfit for Conception and be the cause of barrenness as when unnatural humors are ingendred in the Womb too much flegm Tympanies worms wind water or any such peccant humour abounding contrary to nature But amongst all other causes which produce fertility or barrenness to a woman the monethly Terms are greatly to be respected as hinderers or furtherers thereof if they come not in due order it must necessarily cause barrennesse of that woman to follow but of them we have already spoken and given directions how to promote and further the same But having sufficiently spoken of the causes of barrenness in man and woman we shall methodically proceed for procreation sake to lay down such remedies as may naturally serve to prefer generation and hinder accidental barrenness in either But if in men the cause be and that in the shortness of the penis I cannot help that the women must in that case help themselves as well as they can of any too long there is seldom any complaint A woman may also have some other accidentall causes which may hinder her conception as sudden frights and anger fear grief and perturbations of the mind too violent exercise or stirring after Carnal copupulation leaping dancing running or the like If the cause of barrenness be in the man through over much hear in his Seed the woman may easily see that in receiving it If the nature of the woman be too hot and by that cause she is unfit for Copulation it may appear by these Signs Such a woman whose cause of barrenness is by reason of too much heat she hath her Terms or Flowers very little and they are mixt with some yellownesse such a woman is very hasty and Chollerick quick witted and crafty thirsty and desirous after Carnal Copulation her pulse very swift Some say that by these signes you may know where the fault lies whether in the man or the woman Sprinkle both Urines of the man and of the woman upon a Lettice leave and that which dries away first is unfruitful Also take five Wheat corns seven Barley corns and seven Beans put them all into an earthen pot and pisse thereon and let it stand seven daies if they begin to sprout the party is fruitful if they rot then barren be it man or woman Another way to know whether a woman be fruitful Take Mirth red Storax and some such like odoriferous things and make a perfume thereof which let the woman receive into the neck of the Womb through a tunnel if the woman feel the smoke ascend through her Body to her Nose then she is fruitful Another experiment for the same Take Garlick and beat it and let the woman lie on her Back upon it and if she feel the sent thereof to her Nose it s a sign of fruitfulnesse But I could tell you a more infallible rule for either the man or woman to find out where the fault lies but they are too apt to learn it without teaching therefore I passe it by If the barrenness be proceeding from a hot cause then take these directions Let such beware of hot air and hot dwellings if they can and that they use not too hot cloths about the sinews and parts of the Womb. Let them avoid hot meats I speak now to women hot Spices strong Wine fat meats warm hearbs use not over much watching lye not much on the Reins and Kidneys and as much as possibly may be eschew great labour anger heaviness and all such motions as disturb the mind and use moderately cooling things as thus To further Conception and take away barrenness proceeding of hot causes Take oftentimes Conserve of Roses cold Lozinges made of Dragagant the Confections of Triasantali and use to smell to Camphire Rose water and Saunders It is also good to breathe the Basilica or Liver Vein and take out four or five ounces of blood and then take this purge A Purge against Barrenness through heat Take Electuarium de Epithymo de succo rosarum of each two drams and a half whey of milk four ounces mix them well together and take it in the morning fasting sleep after it about an hour and an half and fast four hours after it and then drink a good draught of Whey about an hour before you eat any thing Another for the same Take water Lilly water four ounces Mandrogara water one ounce Sassron half a scruple beat the Safron to powder and mix it with the waters and drink them warm in the morning use this eight daies together Pills against Barrenness Take Broom flowers Smallage Parsley seed Comin Mugwort Fetherfew of each half a scruple Aloes half an ounce Indy Salt Saffron of each half a dram beat mix them all well together put to it five ounces of Fetherfew water warm stop it up close let it stand and dry in a warm place and thus do two or three times one after another Then make each dram into 6 Pills and take one of them every other day before supper all the while the said Potion is used and afterwards when the drink is done take one of these Pills every third or fourth day And after that Potion proceed with this purging Medecine following Take Conserve Benedicta lax one quarter of an ounce de Psillio three drams Elect. de Succo rosarum one dram mix them together with Fetherfew water and drink it in the morning betimes About three daies after the Patient hath taken this purge let her be let blood four or five ounces in the Median vein in the right foot And then
breast Take Crums of white bread Barley meal Mustard-seeds Fennel and Holly hocks rosted under the ashes of each a like quantity pound them all well together and make a Plaister thereof with oyl of Camomile and apply it warm to the breasts For hardness and inflammation in the breasts through congealed milk A Pultis Take flowers of Mallowes Violets Celendine Daisies Cinquefoil of each 1 handful boyl them together in two quarts of water till it come to a pint then strain it and mingle it with Wheaten meal to the thickness of pap then put to it Hens grease or Hogs Lard and boyl it again to a Pultis spread it on a Cloth about the thickness of a finger and lay it morning and evening upon an inflamed sore breast Another for the same Take Bean meale Mints in Powder each 3 quarters of an ounce prepared Coriander Pease meal of each 1 dram Roses half a dram fresh butter 2 ounces Muscilage of Linseed one ounce Muscilage of Fenegreek 3 quarters of an ounce Sheeps Suet Ducks grease of each 1 ounce oyl of Turpentine half an ounce Saffron three grains temper them all together to a salve or oyntment and lay it upon the breasts For Tumors or swelling of the breast Take Purslain Plantain of each one handful Camomile Melilot of each one ounce Barley meal 4 ounces stamp the Herbs in a morter to a pap and then incorporate therewith oyl of Violets and Roses enough to make it a salve and lay it on the sore brests Another Medicine for swelling in the breasts much profitable and easie to be had Take a good quantity of Peach leaves and Rue and stamp them small and boyl them in water to a Pultis and lay it on the grieved place this will ripen the Imposthume and ease the pain A Plaister for the same Take Plantain Mallowes of each one handful Housleek 6 handfuls boyl them together till they come to be like grout then strain it and adde thereunto Oyl of Roses 3 ounces Camomile Melilot both beaten of each an ounce Barley meal 4 ounces Bdellium 1 quarter of an ounce dissolve the Bdellium in Vineger and then boyl them all together to the thickness of a Plaister and spread it on a Cloth and apply it to the grieved place For Impostumations in the breast Impostumations do breed oftentimes likewise in the breasts through the congealing of the milk and ill humours setling and putrifying there bringing with them the Canker Gangrene and such like griefs to the great anguish and misery of the Patient if not to death by reason of the tenderness of the place And many times it happens by reason of an obstruction of their termes which turns our cause of the superfluous blood thither And therefore if when there happens any swelling or anguish in the breasts in this case if the termes be stopt use all means possible to provoke them speedily if you mean to abate the swelling and pain and if the swelling increase then the Liver vein must be opened or the median And afterwards take oyl of Roses and Vineger and seeth a little Camomile therein and then dip a Cloth in it and lay it on the breasts four times a day refreshing it If the Impostumation in the breasts be caused of superfluity of blood the sign to know it is it causeth great pain in the breast redness and much beating If it proceed from Choler then is the pain more raging and the brest redder and yellowish with greater Agues and the Inflammation is hotter then that which proceeds of blood If Flegme be the ingendring cause thereof then the Tumor is but small the breast white the pain moderate and no Ague with it An excellent Plaister to consume and cleanse all swellings of the breasts and also of other members Take clarified Honey 6 ounces Barley meal 3 ounces and a half two yolks of Eggs Mirrhe Sarcocolla of each half a dram Honey of Roses 4. ounces oyl of Roses 3. ounces powder that which is to be powdered and boyl the Honey and the meal together till it be thick and then stir the yolks of Eggs amongst it and the other things and so make a Plaister of it and apply it to the grieved place When the Tumor or swelling comes to maturity and breaks then cleanse it with this Salve Take Honey the juyce of Smallage yolks of Eggs and Turpentine of each a sufficient quantity and make a Salve thereof and so apply it Or else use this Salve following with a tent of Lint Take Wheat-meal 3 quarters of an ounce clarified Honey and juyce of Smallage of each an ounce mix them all into a Salve and use them as hath been directed this is good to be used with a tent to cleanse any sore Fistula or Carbuncle But if in case the Tumor as many times it unhappily doth grow to a Canker or Fistula then must orher means be used to prevent the eating or spreading thereof the Patient must be purged of melancholy humours and avoid such things as ingender Choler and melancholy and to seek to prevent the increase of the same for which this drink following is very effectual Take Time 1 quarter of an ounce Polipody Sene each 1 dram Violets Seeds of Gourds Cucumbers Pompeons each 1 dram and a half Cynamon Rapeseed of each 1 scruple Hops 1 ounce boyl them all together in 8. ounces of water till half be consumed then strain it and take one ounce of this decoction in 3 ounces of whay of Goats milk and fast 6 houres after it Then use outwardly this Plaister following Take Fenegreek Barley meal of each two Ounces Mallows 3. handfuls Housleek 8 handfuls Oyl of Roses 6 ounces bray the Oyl of Roses in a Leaden Morter with a Leaden Pestle and seeth the Herbs in whâ—y till they be so tender you may beat them to a pap and mix the other things amongst them and boyl it again in 6 ounces of nightshade-Nightshade-water till it be consumed and so make a Plaister of it and first annoint the sore with Oyl of Roses and then lay the Plaister thereupon If the Canker corrode and spread abroad then take Barley meal 4 ounces Oyl of Violets oyl of Roses each three ounces Tutty prepared 2. ounces Blood-stone 1 ounce Bray the oyl of Roses with 4 whites of Eggs a good while in a Leaden Morter and likewise beat the Blood-stone in water of Lillies then temper them all together and dip small tents in it and lay them all on the sore Then take one ounce and a half of oyl of Roses prepared in a Leaden Morter as before and two ounces of the juyce of Nightshade 1. ounce of starch and an ounce and an half of Bolus mix and temper them all together in a Leaden Morter and therewith often annoint the breasts round about the Canker or Fistula A Plaister for the Fistula Take Mummey Bolus juyce of steel Frankincense Hipocistis Mastick of each 3 drams Acorn Cups Cipers Nuts Galls Isinglasse
Dragagant Gum of each 1 ounce dissolve the Isinglasse in red Wine Vinegar and mix the other ingredients amongst it to a Plaister For Clefts or Chops of the Nipples Take Mutton or Lambs Suet as much as you please and after it is molten and clarified then wash it in rose-Rose-water and therewith annoint the Nipples And thus much for the Diseases in the Breasts Chap. XVII Shewing means and Remedies for those Nurses that went milk Having already at large discoursed to you the infirmities happening by reason of superfluous or congealed milk and the evil accidents that attend the same with the means of their prevention and Remedy it is also convenient for their sakes who would be Nurses and cannot for want of milk to shew them some means to increase it where it is wanting Women given much to fretting or who are by nature lean and sickly having a bad digesture in stomach Liver cannot breed store of milk nor good milk also bad meats and drinks hinder the ingendring of milk therefore they ought to be forborn And women that would increase their milk let them eat good meats if they can get it and drink milk wherein Fennel seed hath been steeped If the woman be of a hot nature and full of Choler let her drink Barley water and Almond milk eat Lectice with her meat Burrage Spinnage Goats milk Cowes milk and Lamb sodden with Verjuice And avoid sorrow and anger as much as may be and comfort the stomach with the Confections of Anniseeds Carraway and Cominseeds and likewise use these seeds sodden in water Also take Anniseeds two drams and a half beaten and temper them with the broth of Coleâ—orts and drink it when you go to bed Also take Barley water and boyl therein green Fennel and Dill and sweeten it with Sugar and drink it at your pleasure If you would have an outward means use this Plaister following Take half an ounce of Deers suet and as much Parsley roots with the hearbs an ounce and a half of Barley meal three drams of red Storax and three ounces of oyl of sweet Almonds seeth the roots and hearbs well and beat them to pap and then mingle the other amongst them and lay it warm on the Nipples it increaseth milk Thus have I Counselled women of all sorts how to free themselves from all casualties the frailty of their nature subjects them to which when you finde the benefit of give God the glory and sin no more lest a worse thing sall unto thee FINIS AN APPENDIX TOUCHING The DROPSY THis being an infirmity under which many labour and few are cured thereof partly nay most by reason of their inability I thought it very necessary having this opportunity put into my hands to add this small Treatise of the Kinds Cause and Cure of Dropsies This Disease the Greeks call 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Latins a water between the flesh and the skin and vulgâ—rly Hydrops or Hydropicus morbus the Dropsy or an Hydropical disease which name seems to have bâ—en taken from water which in Greek is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Avicenna defineth the Dropsy thus That it is a material sickness ingendred from a material outward and coâ—d cause and thereby either the whole Body or many parts and Members thereof do swell All Authors do not agree about it some call it a Disease and some place it among the Symptomes but they that are afflicted with it need not care by what name it is called so they were freed from it therefore I shall not stay upon the definition of it but proceed to directions for the Cure but be sure it is a laesion and depravation of the digestive faculty and unconcoction of the blood whereby the nutritive faculty is hindred and corrupted throughout the whole Body and the natural operation of the Liver impedited and this proceeds from a cold and moist humour that penetrates through the Body and swells the Members puffs up the Face swells the Feet and Leggs and the Cods of men destroys the natural complexion altering it into a whitely colour causeth great appetite to drink and little or none to eat stoppeth the Terms in women causeth retention both of Stool Excrement and sometimes hard Tumors about the Bowels and other parts This for the description or definition yet this Disease hath several degrees Kinds or Species One kind of Dropsy is called Anasarca and Hyposarca another Ascites and a third Tympania or Tympanites or in English Tympanies Conserve of Fumitory is not a miss to be used for cleansing of the blood in all kind of Dropsies at the beginning of them but to proceed first to this kind of Dropsy called Anasarca It is a waterish humour that lyeth between the flesh and the skin through all the Body causing a swelling and is known by pressing the flesh with ones finger the dint or impression thereof will remain a great while after the Pulse is slow the privie members swell and the party is subject to be afflicted with a looseness or scowring and bad digestion of meat which is the cause of it that it turns into flegm instead of blood If it be a woman it may be caused through retention or stopping of her Terms therefore all means possible is to be used to provoke and drive them down Let the Patient be purged with Pills of Rhabarb and to expel the water use this Confection following A Confection for the watery Dropsy Take Turbith half an ounce Hermodactyls one ounce wild Saffron seeds peesed three quarters of an ounce Ginger Cinamon Annisâ—eds of each one scruple Violets Sorrel seed of each one dram Sugar two ounces Honey of Roses four ounces boyl the Honey and Sugar together with Fumitory water until you may scum it clear then mix the rest with it and boyl it to a Confection take hereof half an ounce in a morning Another for the same Take Annis yellow Rape seed Spica Indiae of each one scruple Licoris Rhabarb of each one dragme Asarabacca half a dram Conserve of Marjorom one ounce Conserve of Roses three ounces Syrup of Quinces and Oximel a sufficient quantity to make it into a Confection Take hereof a dram in a morning Pills for the same Take Pills Aggregative two scruples Ammoniaci one scruple make it into six Pills with Oximel take two in a morning The masse of Pills before mentioned are prepared by the Apothecaries therefore do not startle that they bear no English name for they are more commonly known by those Titles In this Disease use abstinence from meat and drink as much as may be forbear drowsiness and lazinesse and addict your self to reasonable sweating and exercise Of another kinde of Dropsy called Ascites This Species of this Disease swelleth only the Belly and Leggs and the upper parts dry and the Belly swelleth like a Bladder and soundeth like a drum head or as the Belly of a rotten Sheep will do if you clâ—p your
hand thereon that 's not unknown to every Clown then wonder not at this And if the sick person stir from side to side the water may be heard forcibly to stir about the skin is stretched out so that it receiveth no dint or impression of ones finger as in the other kind of Dropsy the Pulse is small wanting vigour of heat to cause motion and the original of all is the weakness and debility of the Liver that it cannot exercise its natural faculty of concocting the meat and drink into blood but unnaturally altereth the moisture thereof into water This kind of Dropsy may come sometimes from overmuch heat of the Liver as well as cold If it proceed from hot causes the Urine the Patient avoids is little and that of a very high red colour some spots like little stones appearing in it the party suffereth intolerable thirst and the more he drinks the more he desires drink but it quencheth not his flames no more then Brimstone and Oyl will quench fire This Disease is dangerous and oftentimes breaks up the root or at best strikes near at it But for means which God hath given to be used while time is take these following A Syrup for the Dropsy through heat of the Liver and to quench the thirsty desires of the Patient in that disease Take Endive four handfuls Maiden hair Harts tongue of each one handful Fennel seed Parsley seed of each half an ounce Spica Nardi Spica Romani of each a quarter of an ounce make a decoction hereof and then boyl it up to a syrrup with a sufficient quantity of Sugar The Body of the Patient in this Disease is much subject to costiveness or binding of the Belly purging therefore with Clysters Pills and Potions are requisite to be used in this case and to endeavour to open the obstructions of the Liver and strengthen the same To purge with Rhabarb or the syrup thereof once a week is very good for this purpose drink Wormwood Beer or Wine and use also this gentle purging Potion A purging Potion for the dry Dropsy Take the flowers of Burrage Violets Fumitory each half an ounce Licoris Jujubes Currans Wormwood each one quarter of an ounce Prunes eight or ten Spikenard one dram boyl them altogether in Whey strain it and then infuse therein one night half an ounce of the shells of yellow Mirobalans so strain it for a Potion Clysters are also very necessary and profitable for this Disease and amongst others these following are very commendable A Clyster for the Dropsie Take Bloodwort Camomil St. Johns wort or each one handful boyl them in well fair water then take twelve or sixteen ounces of the decoction and add to it Salt one dram three ounces of Sallet oyl and half a dram of Hiera picra or Caffia extracted mix them together for a Clister and give it warm For the same another Clister more loosening Take Mallows Holly-hocks Peers Camomile Herb Mercury of each one handful boyl these herbs well in water or in broth of Tripes or other pottage made of fresh flesh take 16 ounces of the decoction and thereunto add Sallet oyl Salt Hiera picra or Cassia and Benedicta laxativa of each half an ounce wherewith mix the decoction and give it for a Clister very warm If there be any pain or griping in the Belly which windeness too often causeth then use with the Herbs before mentioned an ounce of Anniseeds Fennel seeds and Carraway-seeds altogether grosly beaten or the quantity of an ounce of either of them severa◠which you can get Thus for Costiveness and Obstructions in this Disease on the contrary sometimes the Patient is subject to scowring and a red flux with it for which use these means following Give to the Patient the Conserve concocted roots of Cicory Juyce Marmalade of Quinces Trochisk and Conserve of Barberries with Vinegar and such other things as are binding and cooling in operation For this Dropsy and all other kinds and also for the Green sicknesse too these Pills following are excellent Take of the Masse of the Pill of Hiera with Agarick one dram and a half of the Pill of Opopanax three drams of the extract of Rhabarb of Gentian root of Centory the lesse each one dram Steel prepared four drams the root of Aaron prepared Tartar vitriolated each two scruples Chymical oyl of Wormwood one scruple oyl of Cinamon of Cloves each six drops Syrup of the Five roots a sufficient quantity to make it into Pills make of every dram hereof six Pills let the Patient take two hereof every morning and as many at four a clock in the afternoon and drink after it a draught of Wormwood-Wine or Ale stirring or excercising after it the space of an hour To provoke and expel the Urine is very requisite in this Disease for which these things following are very good Take Rue St. Johns wort Penny-royal Sage Marjoram Wormwood Licoris Anniseeds Fennel roots Elecampane roots of each one quarter of an ounce boyl them a little in a quart of White-wine and take thereof three ounces morning and night For the same Take a head or two of Garlick and a handful of St Johns wort boyl them together in a pint of White-wine till a third part be wasted strain it and drink three or four spoofuls thereof at a time morning and evening The roots of great Fern boyled in White-wine and drunk the Wine I mean not the roots is verygood for this purpose This Decoction following is also good for the same Take the roots of Nettles Parsley Fennel Elecampane Licoris Asarabacca of each one dram boyl them a little in a quart of White-wine and drink thereof as of the former Outwardly for this Disease may be used Pultisses Unguents and Plaisters such as dry and expel wind and do strengthen and mollifie the Belly and lower parts for which purpose this Plaister following may effectually be used Take Coloquint Holly-hock seeds Diagridion Aloes Mirth Mallowes roots Béellion of each one dram and a half Ireos three drams Mallows seeds wild Cucumbers Cardamome Euphorbium of each three drams Boreas Salgem of each one quarter of one ounce mix all these and incorporate them well together with Goose grease Ducks grease Calves suet and Hoggs suet as much as is sufficient to make them into a Plaister or salve and apply it all over the Belly For the same is good to temper the Salve of Bay-berries with Cowes or Goats dung and use it as the former For the swelling of the privy members in this Disease this Salve following is to be used Take Annis Fennel and Comin seeds beaten small together of each one ounce and a half Bean meale Ebalus the juyce of Elder leaves and Wine a sufficient quantity to make it a Salve or Pultis and lay it on the Belly and privities For the same Take Barley meale Cypress roots Sheeps dung Borax and Bolus of each a like quantity beat them together and make a Plaister
thereof with Hoggs grease or Goose grease and apply it to the Belly and privities The oyl of Camomile and Rue mixed together is a very good Ointment for the dropsy Take notice also by the way that Sweating and Bathing in hot dry Baths is very effectual for all kind of Dropsies Of the kind of Dropsie called Tympanies There are three sorts of Tympanies the one called Aqupsa or the watery Tympany or Dropsy of which we have already treated A second called Ventosa or a Dropsy or Tympany of wind of which we now proceed to speak which is caused more of wind then water and thence deriveth its name and in this Disease the Belly swelleth up very high and the Navel starteth out the Belly is very hard and soundeth if one thereon clap his hand There is another Species called Carnosa by which may be understood fatnesse of the Belly or as some say gorre Bellies but it is in plain English a fleshy Tympany or fleshy swelling no way dangerous at all but Maids Bellies are much subject to this Tympany and for their Cure the best is mother Midwife and therefore I say no more of it but leave it to her discretion But for the Cure of the Ventosa or windy Tympany or Dropsy use these Rules following Avoid all windy meats eschew cold and keep warm use also Sweating and use the Confection de Baccis Lauri be moderate in Dyet and use exercise Use also these Conserves or any of them as Conserve of Elder leaves Betony Gilly-flowers Rosemary Fennel Annis Comin or the like A Suppository for the same Take Salgem Rue Bever-cod Euphorbium Nettle seed of each one dram mix it with about three ounces of decocted Honey and thereof make Suppositories Use to annoint the Belly with hot Oyles such as are oyl of Dill oyl of Rue Costus and Bay-berries A Plaister for the same effectual Take Goats dung or Sheeps dung dryed twelve ounces roots of wild Cucumbers roots of Ebulus of each two ounces Barley meal 12 ounces steeled Vinegar four ounces boyl it all well in sharp Lee and make thereof a Plaister which apply warm to the Belly or any part of the Body swelled with wind to open the Pores and draw out the same A Clister effectual for the same Take Ireos Hysop Smallage Rue Barefoot of each one handful Annis Fennel Ameos Bay-berries of each half an ounce boyl all these very well in clean water then take of this Decoction twelve or sixteen ounces according to the strength of the Patient and add to it clarified Honey and oyl of Rue of each one ounce and a half and stone Salt one dram so make it into a Clister and administer it A Syrup for the Dropsy Take green roots of Ireos or in English Flowerdeluce and yet that name is not quite English neither twenty four ounces cut them in pieces and infuse them three days in Well water as much as will onely cover them stirring them twice a day then strain that water from them reserve it in a clean pot add the like quantity of fresh water to them doing as you did before then strain the second water and mix both together and boyl it with Sugar a little and then add thereunto Scabious and Mayden-hair of each one handful Sperage roots Fennel roots and Ireos roots of each half a handful peeled Melon seed Gourd seeds Cucumber seeds peeled Pompeon seeds Purslane seeds Cicory Endive and Lettice seed of each one quarter of an ounce Fennel Annis Sperage and Smallage seed of each half a dram Millet and Winter Cherries of each three drams fat dates and figs of each six Licoris and Madder of each five drams boyl all together to the wasting of half and then strain it and boil up the decoction to a syrup with Sugar of this syrup give about an ounce at a time and sometimes more and to strengthen the Liver steep therein a quarter of an ounce of Rhabarb Also for the Dropsy these syrups are good to be used as syrup of Wormwood of the Five roots of Maiden-hair and Betony and Wines compounded with Wormwood Egremony Calamint Cinamon odoriferous seeds and things of the like nature Abstain from all excesse and use such meats and drinks as are of a drying heating attenuating nature easy of digestion forbear new sweet Wine or drink and in all things use measure for therein consisteth the greatest virtue FINIS
take five daies one after another filed Ivory a dram and a half in Fetherfew water and during that time let her sit in this Bath following an hour together morning and night Take wild yellow rapes Daucus Balsam wood and fruit Ash-keys of each two handfuls red Behen white Behen Broom flowers of each a handful Musk three grains Amber Saffron of each one scruple Boil all in water sufficiently but the Musk Saffron Amber and Broom flowers put them into the decoction after it is boiled and strained A Confection profitable against barrennes Take Pistacia Pingles Eringos of each half an ounce Saffron one dram Lignum Aloes Galingale Mace Gariophilata Balm flowers red Behen white Behen of each four scruples shaven Ivory Cassia bark of each two scruples syrup of confected Ginger twelve ounces white Sugar six ounces decoct all these well together in twelve ounces of Balm water and stir it well together then put to it of Musk and Amber of each half a scruple Take hereof the quantity of a Nutmeg three times a day in the morning an hour before noon and an hour after supper But if the cause of Barrenness in man or woman be through scarcity or diminution of the natural Seed then such things are to be taken as do increase Seed and incite and stir up Venery For this is good yellow Rape seed baked in bread young fat flesh not too much salted Saffron the tailes of Stincus and long Pepper are good prepared in Wine Let such parties eschew all sowre sharp doughy and slimy meats long sleep after meat surfetting and drunkennesse and as near as possibly you can keep your selves from sorrow grief vexation and care To encrease natural seed Generally these things following encrease natural seed and stir up venery and recover the Seed again when it is lost viz. Eggs Milk Rice boyled in milk Sparrows brains flesh and bones and all The Stones and Pissels of Bulls Cocks Bucks Rams and Bores Portages good to encrease natural Seed are such as are made of Beans Pease and Lupines cast away the first bitter broth of the Lupines and mix the rest with Sugar French Beans Wheat sodden in broth Anniseeds Fennel-seed Mustard seed Colewort seed and Nettle seed Roots good to increase the natural Seed Oynions stewed Garlick Leeks yellow Rapes fresh Ragwort roots confected Sugar confected Eringo roots confected Ginger Costus roots Sperage Thistle roots Radish roots Zedoary confected Assarabacca Of fruits Hazel nuts Cypress nuts Pistacia Almonds and Marchpane made thereof Spices commodious to stir up Venery are In general Cinamon Cardamome Galingale long Pepper Cloves Ginger and Saffron Assa foetida taken a dram and a half at a time in good Wine is very good for this purpose and so likewise is Dragagant Borax is also fit to be taken in like manner Of Compositions these Confections following are good to increase the natural Seed The Confection Dia Moscha Aromaticum rosarum Diambra Dianthos Diagalanga Tryon pipetion Dia margariton calidum Mithridate and especially the Confection of Diasatyrion but these are dear Lozinges or a Confection to increase the naturall Seed Take Ginger one dram and a half Almonds Pingles Pistacia of each one ounce Kernels of Indian Nuts Sysarum of each half an ounce Harts Pisle five drams Cinque-foiâ—e Palma Chriâ—â—i one dram and a half Galingale Cloves Cinamon Mustard-seed long Pepper yellow Rape seed white Behen of each one dram Onion seed Radish seed Rape seed Ashen keys of each two scruples sides of Stymus tails of Stymus three drams Borrage one quarter of an ounce Sugar two pound boil them altogether in Wine sufficient to make a Confection or Lozinges thereof and take about the quantity of a Nutmeg at a time Another for the same Take yellow Rapes Onions Sperage roots Mustard seed Radish seed Pingles Ash-keyes Eringo roots Satyrion Roots Costus Roots Ginger long Pepper Cresses seeds of each a like make all these into fine Powder and mix them well together and add to every Ounce of the Powder 3. Ounces of clarified Honey and therewith make it into a Confection take of this Confection about 3 drams at a time with a little Sugar and new milk For the weakness and debility of the yard of a man use this Oyntment Take Wax Oyl of Bever-cod Marjerom gentle and Oyl of Costus of each a like quantity make it into an Oyntment and put to it a little Musk and therewith annoint the yard and other members adjacent Another Oyntment for the same Take of Horse Emmers 3 drams oyl of white Sesamum oyl of Lillies of each one Ounce pound and bruise the Ants and put them to the Oyl and let them stand in the Sun 6 dayes then strain out the Oyl and add to it Euphorbium 1 scruple Pepper Rue of each one dram Mustard-seed half a dram â—et this again altogether in the Sun 2 or 3 dayes then annoint all the Instruments of Generation therewith Another for the same Take Oyl of Lillies 2 Ounces Oyl of Bever Cod 1 Ounce Euphorbium Pepper Mustard-seed of each 1 dram Muscus half a scruple mix them together unto an Oyntment and use it as the other Remedies against barrenness in Women through Cold. Care must be taken in this case to cleanse the womb from all excessive moysture and not to overcharge the stomack with meat and refrain from much sleep and not addict her self to anger nor sorrow neither if she can avoid it to use moderate exercise and stirring unless it be immediately after she hath bin helping her Husband to get a Child or endevouring to do it then let her rest from exercise and motion of the body at least 2 houres after it Let her abstain from eating of much fish milk or fresh cheese and from fat flesh and Vinegar these are obnoxious to the womb To cleanse the womb from moysture Take a potion prepared of Oximel of Squils or of Oximel compositum and Sirrup of Wormwood with a decoction of Annis Fennel Comin and Harts Tongue And afterwards take 1 dram of Pill benedicta once in 14. dayes and fast 5 houres after it A Bath for the same Take Storax Calamita Field Mints Asphalatus Annis Seseli Rue Balsame wood and fruits Behen red and white of each half 1 Ounce boyl all together in water and make a Bath thereof and let the party sit in it up to the navel Also use often to annoynt the parts about the womb with warm and drying Oyl such as Oyl of Spike Oyl of Elder and the like Another Bath for the same wherein the Woman may either bathe her whole body or sit in it up to the middle Take Mugwort Sage of each two handfuls Calamint Dittany of each half a handful Fennel Roots Sparagus Parsley of each one handful Bay-berries Juniper Annis Comin of each two drams mixe them and boyl them all in water and make a Bath thereof and use it as before is directed A Confection good against barrenness caused through too much coldness