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A88902	De morbis fœmineis, the womans counsellour: or, The feminine physitian. Modestly treating of such occult accidents, and secret diseases, as are incident to that sex, which their too much modesty, too often to their sorrow, causes them to conceal from others, for a remedy whereof, they are here taught to be their own helpers; especially in these particulars: of barrenness and abortion: of natural, and unnatural births: of the suppression of the termes, the immoderate flux thereof, and other infirmities. Dicereque puduit, scribere jussit. With a brief appendix, touching the kindes, causes, and cures of dropsies, and tympanies of all sorts. / Translated out of Massarius de morbis mulier. By R.T. philomathēs.; Praelectiones de morbis mulierum. English	Massaria, Alessandro, 1510-1598.; Turner, Robert, fl. 1654-1665.	1657 (1657)	Wing M1028; Thomason E1650_3; ESTC R209118	65,102	229

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

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

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 wh●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

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

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-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

of an Asses hoof or of a Horses if you cannot get the other and make a fume thereof and let the woman sit over it Basilium is good for the same to be used in like manner and so is likewise the fume of Laudanum and Galbanum A Bath to expel a dead Child Take ten handfuls of Mints and boyl them well in a sufficient quantity of water and let the woman sit therein up to the middle Chap. XV. Of hard Labour and means to procure easie Delivery THat all women should bear children with pain and sorrow was a punishment inflicted on them by God for the disobedience of the first Mother for which cause they undergo more anguish and peril in bringing forth then any other Creatures Yet nevertheless there may be many causes and accidents which render the delivery more dangerous and difficult in some then in others for which our purpose is here to prescribe some remedies A most excellent Plaister to strengthen women with child to wear all the time they be with child Take oyl Olive two pound four ounces red Lead one pound Spanish Sope twelve ounces Incorporate them altogether in an earthen pot and when the Sope cometh upwards put it upon a small fire of coals and continue it an hour and a half stirring it with an Iron or stick then drop a drop of it upon a trencher if it cleave not it is enough spread it on cloths or lay it on a board till it cools then make it up into Rolls it will last twenty years the older the better and when you have occasion to use it for this purpose spread a Plaister of it and apply it to the Back● and when you have tryed it you will give me thanks for it It is likewise good for the bloody Flux Running of the Reins or any weakness in the Back for any bruise to draw out a Thorn out of the flesh and easeth Cornes and is good for a strain and for the Head-ach being applyed to the Temples But to proceed when the woman with child begins to draw near her time then let her use such meats and drinks as nourish well but use no excesse of either but especially let her take care to keep her Body soluble for which and also to prepare the Body for an easy delivery this Bath is very good to be used A Bath good for women with Child when they draw near their time to procure easie delivery Take Holly-hock roots and leaves two handfuls Mallows Betony of each one handful Mugwort Marjoram Mints Camomile of each half a handful Linseed two handfuls bruise the Linseed grosly and put that together with the hearbs into two bags and boyl them well in water enough to make a Bath for the woman to sit in up to the Navel when it is warm and let her sit upon one bag and hold the other upon her Navel And afterwards use to annoint the Belly Back and privities with this Salve following being warmed A preparative Salve to cause easy delivery in Child bearing women Take oyl of sweet Almonds of Lillies Violets of each-half an ounce Linseed Holly-hock roots Fenugreek Butter Hens grease of each one quarter of an ounce Quince kernels Dragagant of each an ounce stamp the seeds small and slice the roots and boyl them all together in rain water then take out the Muscilage and temper the same with the oyl then let the powned Dragagant and Hens grease boyl so long till the Muscilage be consumed then make thereof a Salve and annoint therewith as before is directed Another Ointment for the same Take oyl of sweet Almonds of Lillies of Violets each half an ounce Hens grease Ducks grease three drams mix them together with Wax as much as is needful to make a Salve and use it as the other With any of these Salves a woman is to be annointed about the parts before mentioned every day the space of five or six weeks before her time Now when the time of Labour is come then use any of these things which follow as the cause requires but above all things this powder following is most effectual An excellent Powder for women in travel with Child-bearing Take Dittany of Crete Penny-royall Aristolochia round each half a scruple Cinamon Saffron of each twelve grains Let them be all beaten into a fine powder and given in Wine or some convenient decoction as the decoction of red Pease of Penny-royal or of Parsley For outward Medecines there be many things used to be held to the privities as Egrimony with the roots to be held to the Matrix and immediately after the birth to be thrown away lest it draw down the Matrix also Henbane roots Polypody roots Bistorta are very good for the same Also take Polypody roots and Mallows of each a handful and a handful of Mugwort bruise them small and boyl them well and apply it moderately warm upon the Matrix and after the Delivery immediately take it away Some use to tie a Snakes skin about the Thigh but what vertue there is in that they know that have tryed it Bay-berries beat and applyed to the Navel are good to further the Birth but inwardly this Powder is commended Take Cinamon Mirrh of each half a dram make them into powder and give it with a little White-wine Another for the same Take Cinamon one dram Saffron half a dram Cassia wood Cassia pipes of each two scruples scrape off the uttermost black bark from the Cassia Pipes and make it all into fine powder and give it four or five times in the decoction of red Pease Pills for the same Take Mirrh Bever-cod red Storax of each half a scruple Cinamon Savin of each half a scruple make it into Pills with the decoction of red Pease and so give it Another for the same Take Mirth Costus red Storax of each half a dram Ammoniacum Savin of each half a dram beat them very small and give it in the decoction of red Pease use it three or four times If the throws be too weak or do not continue let all sweet savours as Musk or the like be kept from the woman in labour for that hinders throwes and holds back the Birth But to forward the Birth make this decoction Take Betony three handfulls Mugwort one handful Camomile Penny-royal Hysop of each one handful Linseeds two handfuls bruise the Linseed grossly and cut the hearbs small and put them all in a bag and boyl it well in Wine and water with this decoction foment the Matrix five or six times with a spunge and then annoint the place with the oyl of Wall-flowers even to the Neck of the Mother if it can be done with conveniency But if this help not then give her a good draught of this Potion following every two hours Take Mugwort Penny-royal Hysop of each half a handful Betony one handful boyl all these in a pint and a half of Renish Wine till the fourth part be consumed strain

it our and put to it half a dram of Saffron and amongst each draught put half a dram of one of the powders before mentioned Also this following is very good to quickn the throwes Take half a dram of beaten Amber and give it in water of Lillies or in the decoction of red Pease An excellent Medicine to procure easie delivery in women Take Pippins cut them in thin slices and fry them with oyl of sweet Almonds and eat thereof in the morning and at four a clock in the afternoon use it constantly a matter of five or six weeks before your time till you are brought to bed and mix some oyl of sweet Almonds and Sperma coeti together and annoint the Belly and Matrix once every day therewith warm or oftner if you can conveniently Another for the same Take Hysop Vervaine Betony of each one handful stamp them small and strain them in good stale Ale and let the Patient drink a good draught thereof it gives present help To expel the Secundine or after-Birth The Secundine or after-Birth is that skin or caule wherein the child is formed and wrapped up till the time it break forth to the Birth doth or at least ought to come away immediatly after the Birth of the child But sometimes it remains behind and causeth great peril to the woman and many ill accidents as Agues stinking breath pain of the Head Swooning and the like if it be not expelled It commonly remains behind when the woman hath had very hard labour and is thereby grown so weak and feeble that nature hath not strength enough to drive it forth she must therefore have some comfortable things given her to strengthen and comfort her heart as Dia marga●iton and Manus Christi ' then let her rest a little and if the Secondine do not follow annoint the Belly and parts adjacent with oyl of Lillies and oyl of Elder flowers and use such things as are directed for the delivery of a dead child as Corn flowers given in Lilly water also Garlick half an egg-shell full of the juyce thereof given in honeyed water doth expel the dead child and after-birth as before hath been prescribed To ease the After-throws Take Spikenard and Squinant of each one quarter of an ounce boyl them together in a good quantity of Mugwort water till half be consumed and drink thereof two or three times Also to asswage the pain make a Cawdle with Malmsey or some other good Wine and put therein yolks of Eggs and Cinamon and so give it For the fame take Triphes à magna half an ounce Saffron half a dram Mace a scruple and give this at twice in warm Wine To stay the excessive flood after the Birth The Remedies before prescribed for the asswaging of the excessive Flux of the Terms in women be also very good for this Disease and for all Women in Child-bed yet nevethelesse take this Confection following A Confection for an excessive flood in Women lying in Child-bed Take Conserve of Piony one Ounce Conserve of Roses one ounce Conserve of Burrage Bugios Balm of each half an ounce prepared Bolus half a dram prepared Pearls 1 dram Cynamon 1 dram and a half mix them all together and make a Confection thereof For the same use this Powder following Take Bolus prepared Pearls of each one dram sealed Earth 2 scruples Tormentil half a dram Shepheards Purse 1 scruple Species de gemmis frigidis 1 dram and a half Roses Corral Sanders of each one scruple Cynamon 2. scruples and a half Sugar 3 Ounces mix them all well together and take it with Hen-broth Lozinges very effectual for the same Take Blood-stone 1 dram and a half red Coral one dram Tormentil Trochis de Sodio of each half a dram scraped Ivory burnt Hartshorn of each 1 scruple Pearls prepared 4 scruples fine Bolus 2. scruples Shepheards purse red Sanders of each a scruple Cynamon 1 dram Sugar six ounces wash the Blood-stone in Plantain-water and make a Powder or Lozinges thereof Chap. XVI Of the superfluity of Milk and other accidents happening after the Birth EXcessive abounding of the milk after a Woman is delivered if it flow more than the Child can grow there oftentimes ensues Imposthumes and other Inflammations and distempers in the breasts for Remedies whereof use these prescriptions following The Patient must eat and drink but moderately and avoid all such things as ingender much blood use means to dry and take away the superfluous blood as Rue and wild Rue with the seeds Basil and stampt together if one take every day a quarter of an ounce the same is very good to dry up the milk To dry up the milk Take Rosen a good quantity and temper it with Cream and lay it luke-warm over the breasts For the same Take 8 ounces of Honey and two pints of water boyl them well together and scum it and dip therein a threefold Cloth and lay it on the breasts and when it is cold renew it again Also for the same take one dram of Saffron and 8 ounces of Malmsey wet a Cloth therein and lay it on the breasts as aforesaid Also take Garden Mints stamp them and mix them with Oyl of Roses and use it as the other For a Plaister to dry up the milk take bean meal oyl of Roses and red Vinegar a sufficient quantity to make a Plaister and apply it to the breasts For clotted or congealed milk in the Breasts Let Women keep sobriety in eating and drinking and use moyst meats that may ingender subtile milk Mints Saffron and Cynamon is good to be used in their meats Take grated bread new milk and Oyl of Roses of each a like quantity seeth them together to a pap and lay it warm upon the breasts For congealed milk and pain in the Brests Take Cork and burn it to ashes and temper it with oyl of Roses and a little Vinegar and therewith annoint the breast A Salve to dissolve congealed milk in the Breasts Take Deares Suet 3 quarters of an oun liquid Styrax 1 oun Wormwood Cummin Dill-seeds of each 1 ounce oyl of Wormwood Ducks grease of each 1 ounce and an half Saffron one scruple make an oyntment or Plaister hereof and apply it to the breasts For milk congealed with Inflammation in the breasts Take a quantity of the muscilage of Fleawort Fenegreek and Purslain seeds of each a like and make an oyntment thereof wieh wax and annoint the breasts therewith Also for the same take Chickweed and lay it warm upon the breasts Also beat oyl of Roses and Vinegar of Roses together and lay it on the breasts If the Woman hath taken some extreme cold then take this following especially if there be an Ague with it take Camomile Melilot Fennel seeds Anniseeds Dill seeds Fenegreek Linseeds Southernwood Ginger Bazil beat them together and with oyl of Camomile make a Plaister of it and apply it to the breasts A good Plaister to dissolve hard knots in the

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