the orgâ—ns of sense and motion with the liver spleen stomach belly mesentery bladder strait â—ut back hips arms and legs and causeth symâ—toms As Galen â—aith the mother or hysterical â—â—â—â—ion is one name but hath under it innumeâ—â—ble Symptoms Chap. 4. Of Suffocation of the Womb. IN this they seem to be strangled And there are so many Symptoms at once that it is impossible to define it by one Sometimes there is only short breath sometimes the animal actions are hurt the whole body is cold from a malignant vapor sent up from the womb The immediate Cause is a vapor malignant and venemous sent up by the arteries veins and nerves that hurt the actions of the parts it goes to This vapor is like air or wind thin and little but very strong to get presently through the whole body it chieâ—ly ascends to the gullet and causeth choaking as eating of Mushrooms Hellebore and other poysons There is often short difficult breathing with heart-ach vomiting and loathing If the vapor go first to the heart the motion of it ceaseth and there is swounding and she falls down If it go to the brain the animal actions are hurt When â—eed and terms corrupt in the womb with other bad humors they breed this evil vapor because they are the best substance and the beginning of generation they are worst when corrupted especially seed to hurt the whole body Somtimes it is in women with child when they have not their after puâ—ging but evil humors aâ—e leâ—t and corrupt in the womb The chief cause of this humor is in the trumpet of the womb and stones the body of which is hollow and loose the stones being in bladders and have hollowness full of water which in hystâ—rical women is yellow and thicker then ordinary This trumpet and the stones are often taken for the womb it selfâ— when they are swollen with corrupt seed and humors and wind and reach to the navel of which in the Chapter of ascent of the Womb. This disease is breeding sooner or longer as the matter is more or less somtimes corrupt humoâ—s lie still and if they be stirred they send a venom or vapor to the whole body now in women subject to this disease sweet sâ—ents to the nose or taken in or anger will move these huhumors and vapors They are according to the variety of the symptoms and efficient cause or venemous humors for corrupt blood especially seed puts on another Nature That Suffocation is at hand it appears by laziness weakness of the legs paleness sad countenance and the motion of somthing like a ball in the belly with noise like Froggs Snakes or Crows so that some think it devillish There is also belching yawning yexing short wind heart-beating loathing dulness laughture at the coming of the fit â—rom the vapor gâ—tting into the membrâ—ne of the breast that tickle them some cry some both laugh and cry These Symptoms increase when the fit comes and the jaws are closed that she seems to be choaked and sense and motion is gone or depraved Some have Convulsions some hâ—ar what is done about them but cannot speak the â—ulâ—e iâ— less the whole body is cold and the eyes 〈◊〉 as if they were dead When the â—it declines humors sâ—ow from the â—rivâ—â—iâ—s the guâ—s rumble the eyes open the cheeks grow red and the body warm the animal actions return and the patient sighs and comes to her self It is known to be from corrupt seed if the terms are in order and short breath and low voice Suffocation and Convulsions and all Symptomes are then more vehement and at the end of the fit there flows a humor like seed out of the privities It is from the terms if they be stopt or flow not orderly and if there be a disâ—ase in the womb it is neither from the seed noâ— the terms 1. If there come swounding or a great Convulsion or quenching of natural heat it is deadly 2. Suffocation from corrupt seed is more dangerous then that which is from the terms mixt with melancholick humors 3. The longer it lasts and the worse the symptoms the more is the danger It ceaseth in yong women when they begin to bear children 4. The oftner the fit comes the more you may â—ear the quenching of the natural heat by weakning of the heart often and if she foam at the mouth she dies The Cure of the Fit In the fit you must discuss the malignant vapors that riseth from the womb and turn it fâ—om the principal parts and you must evacuate the matter that breeds it and prevent its return Cal upon her loud pluck the hairs of her privities and ears make strong Ligatures and Frictions cup the legs and thighs and gâ—oyns hold stinks to the nose as Partridg-feathers burnt hairs Leather Horn Castor Assa foetida Galbanum oyl of Amber Rue the warts on Horses legs dried and the pouder upon coals burnt makes a â—ume which if taken in the nose suddenly raised them Apply sweet Scenâ—s to the priviâ—ies as Civeâ— Musk Gallia and Alâ—pta mosâ—hata or pouder of Cloves Or Take Storax calamita Benzoin each a dram Gallia moschata half a sâ—ruple make Troâ—hes with Gum Trâ—ganth and let the Fume be taken into the womb by a Funnel A Liniment Take Storax Benzoin each a dram Gallia moschata half a scruple Civet four grains liquid Storax half a scruple with Cotton put it into the womb Clysters to discuss wind draw down the matter Take the Carminative Dâ—coction a pint Electuary of Hiera six drams Benedicta laxativa an â—â—â—ce Oyl of Rue and Bayberriâ—s each a dram Use Womb-clysters and Pessaries to women that have known man Take Electuary of Hiera and Diaphaenicon each two drams Turpentine half an ounce Honey of Mercury an â—unce Castor halâ— a dram â—â—th Wool make a Pessary Oyl of Tin applied to the navel doth remove the sit Or Rue Castor and sneesing Pouders As Take white Hellebore halâ— a scruple long Pepper â—nd Ginger each half a dram or put Oyl of Amâ—â—â— into the Nose and Eâ—rs Apply to the Womb this Take Oyl of Rue â—aâ—s each two ounâ—â—s Cummin seed Câ—stâ—r dissolâ—â—â— in Vinâ—gar eâ—ch two drams with Wax make a 〈◊〉 Or use a â—lâ—â—sâ—â—r of â—â—lbâ—num Caâ—or and Aâ—â—a foetida A compound distilled Water Take Zedoary â—â—smp sâ—â—ds Lovage â—â—â—ts each two ounâ—â—s Mirrh Castor each half an oâ—nce Piony roots four ounâ—â—â— Misteto of the Oak gathered in the wain of the Moâ—n three ounces ad water of Motherwort four pinâ—s anâ— half Spirit of Wine a pint and half steep them eigâ—â— daies distil and give a spoonful with Tile-flower or Mugwort water or Oyl of Amber some drops Or Take Castor Mirrh Assa faetida each a sâ—ruplâ—â— Pepper half a scruple with syrup of Mugwort mâ—lâ— Pills give three The Cure out of the Fit First prevent the â—eed from corrupting in the womb and if it be corrupt evacuate it presenâ—â—y
of many diseases First endeavor to evaeuate the blood from the womb by Frictions Ligatures and Cupping iâ— they will not do open a vein in the foot Then open the passâ—ges with external and internal meansâ— anoint the Belly with loosning Oyls or soment thus Take Lilly roots Birthworts Briony Angelâ—ca each half an ounce Mercury Mugwort Pennyroyal Savin Calamints each a handful Tansey Chamomil and Elder flâ—wers each half a handful Faenugreek and Linseed each two drams bruise them grosly and put them in a bag and boyl them in Water and Wine lay it to the privities and bottom of the belly Give emollient Clysters and if some daies are paâ—â— purge with Agarick Rhubarb Senna Or Take Lilly roots Alâ—haea each half an ounce Birthworts two drams Pellitory Mercuryâ— Althiea each a handful Calamints Chamomil Elder floâ—ers each two pugils Faenugreek and Lineseed each two drams boyl them to ten ounces strained â—dd Oâ—l of Dill Lillies each an ounce Hiera simple half an ounce Oyntment of Sowbread three drams make a Clyster Or give Pessaries that provoke the Terms Give things to melt and attenuate the blood As Take opening Roots three drams Bettony Maidenhair Endive Schaenanth each two pugils Anise Fennel seed each a scruple red Pease a spoonful boyl them to a pint and half add Cinnaâ—on water two drams Syrup of the five Roots three â—â—nces give four ounces Chap. 4. Of too great a flux of blood after Childbearing THat is too much which makes weak It is blood abounding which haâ—â— been gâ—thered nine months in the womb It is thick or spends the Spirits and weakens There is loathing of meat pain the Hypochondria belly-ach weak and often pulse dark sight noise in the ears fainting and Convulsion It is dangerous when long and with fainting and Convulsion Therefore observe the pulse least she die suddenly See what strength she hath and stopt it not â—â—ddenly Iâ— it be not very gâ—â—at order a diet of â—oasâ—ed Hens basted with red Wine or Pomegraâ—â—e of Staâ—ch Almonds Rice Quinces Conâ—â—â—ve of Roses steeled Water and make Revulâ—â—ns use gentle things and strengthen the loose â—â—â—â—ges Anoint the belly with oyl of Roses Mirtles cup under â—he breasts and sides without scariâ—ication Apply a Cataplasm of red Roses Bole and Rosâ—-water to the Liver Then use stronger and give a higher diet oâ—ten in small quantity and give Syrups to stop blood As Take old Conserve of Roses two ounces of Tormentil an ounce of Quinces without speciâ—â— half an ounce Bole red Coral each half a dram with syrup of Currans and Coral make an Electuaâ—y Anoint the belly with the Oyntment of the Countess and other Astringents or use astringent Fomentations or let her take into the womb a Fume of Mastich Frankincense red Roses c. Then open a vein in the arm and let blood by degrees See Sect. 2. Chap. 6. of overflowing of the Terms Chap. 5. Of the Pains after Travel and torments in the Belly THese are not in the body and bottome of the womb but in the vessels and membranes by which the womb hangs and that goes to the sides and belly They are from a constant labor in travel when the bottom of the womb is pricked to send forth from cold air let into it or clotted blood detained or sharp blood sticking to the womb and pricking it They are in the womb it self you mâ—y know iâ— they came from cold by what hath been done clotted blood will manifest it self They weâ—ken much and are very troublâ—som therefore they must be abated First take away the cause or abate the pain and make that which hurts the womb fit to be evacuated by these Pills Take Cinnamon a dram Saffron a scruple Diaâ—ymini Diagalangal Zedoary each half a dram make a Pouder give a dram in Pennyroyal or Cinnamon water Or Take of Cummin seed steept in Spirit of wine and dried again a dram Ameos sâ—eds and Ginger each half a dram Cinnamon a scruple Castor half a scruple make a Pouder If she faint ad Cordial Waters As Take Diacyminum a dram Diamargariton frigid Citron peâ—ls Zedoary each half â— dram make a Pouder If she be cholerick or the humor thin and sharp cure it as a Colick from Choler As Take Syrup of Violets Borage each an ounce Mucilage of Quince seeds made with Violet water half an ounce water of Borage Scorzonera each two ounces give it at twice Extenuate the humors and loosen the passages outwardly Take Bean flour Faenugreek and Linseed each an ounce Chamomil flowers and Cummin seeds each half an ounce boyl them in Oyl of Lillies for a Cataplasm You may sume the womb with Decoctions of Herbs Chap. 6. Of the tearing of the Vulva to the Arse and coming forth of the Womb Inflammation Ulcer Suffocation and falling out of the Fundament THe tearing iâ— in hard travel when the motheâ— is tendeâ— and the child great of which â—â—forâ—â— The womb comes forth from the violent extraction of the child or afterbirth when the ligaments are streâ—ched The Cure is mentioned but you must not hinder the after flux by astringents let her therefore rest and lie one her back with her â—eet drawn up with Sweets to her nose and stinks to the womb so the womb will be retained and the flux continued after this is past you may use Astringents If there be inflammation from hard travel hinder not the afâ—er-flux of blood by Coolers If it turn to an ulcer let the after-flux flow and then cure it Suffocation after childbearing is from the â—â—inking after-blood which sends up stinking vapors which kill many It is cured by Friction of the leggs Ligatures and Cupping with Scarification applying stinks to the nose as Castor Partridgâ—eathers burnt Rue And applying Sweets to the privities You must cure the â—alling out of the Fundament from straining in Delivery as formerly shewed Chap. 7. Of Watching Doting and Epilepsie of Women in Child-bed THese are from the motion of the blood aâ—d huâ—orsâ— when the after-blood flows nâ—t kindlyâ— and there is a â—eaver of which in â—â—e 〈◊〉 Book And from vapors sent from the 〈◊〉 there is an Epilepsie which is cured by Râ—vâ—â—sion oâ— vapors and humors downwaâ—dâ— and â—â—â—fect Evacuation of the aâ—ter-blood which done all these Symptoms cease Chap. 8. Of the Swelling of the Womb Belly and Feet after Childbearing IT is commonly from cold gottâ—n into the womb and the belly sometimes swells as if there were another child It is cured by hysterical or mother Fomentations or with the skin of a new â—lain sheep and hard wine if in travel they keep a bad diet or drink too much the humors go into wind and if they fall into the legs they swel then take heed of much drink and after the flux is past make Evacuation with things that expel wind As Take Câ—leworts and Chamomil each as you please boyl them in Wine and â—omeâ—t the parts Or Take
the stomach and in a dry use moist things as Oyl of Lillies Dialthaea Hens grease Butter Let the Nurse avoid astringent meâ—ts as Qâ—inâ—es Medlars Beans and use Emollients If the chiâ—d be big give juyce or Decoction of red Colwoâ—ts worts with a little Salt and Honey If it be from slimy flegm give Honey or Syrup of Roses Correct the hot distemper of the Liver and Reins with Syrup of Violets and Emulsions of the four great cold Seeds If choler come not from the Gall to the Guts give the Decoction of Grass-roots Fennel Sparagus Maidenhair Give Clysters to cut and clense tough flegm As Take Alâ—haea roots Mallows Pellitory each half a handful Faenugreek and Lineseed each a dram Chamomil flowers a pugil boyl and to three or six ounces ad three drams of Cassia Oyl an ounce and the yolk of an Eg. To the Navel apply Hens grease and Ox gal Or Take Aloes two drams Ox gall a dram Scamony a scruple with Buttâ—r make an Oyntment Fill a Walnut shell with it and apply it to the Navel Anoint the belly with Emoillients Take fresh Butter Goose and Hens grease each half an ounce Oyl of sweet Almonds and Lineseed each two drams Veal marrow Dialthaea each two drams with Wax make an Oyntment Bran and juyce of Danewort make a loosning Cataplasm for the belly Only keep it from the stomach as you must do other Cataplasms Chap. 23. Of the Worms IT is observed that children have had worms in their mothers belly and voided them after they were born But they are chiefly bred by mixing milk with other meats in a hot and moist constitution and from sweet meats which woâ—ms love and Summer-fruits they are round and long or broad and little Besides what is said in Lib. 3. Part 2. Sect. 2. Cap. 5. Worms are known to be in a body when there is much spittle and a stinking breath troublesom sleep gnashing of teeth crying and bawling a dry cough loathing vomiting hickets want of appetite or too much thirst a belly swelled or bound or too loose thick white urin with pain when the belly is empty and the worms want food There is a cold sweat over the face and a high colour with sudden paleness sometimes a feaver and convulsion which ceaseth presently These are the signs of round worms rather then of the flat Infants are often long troubled with worms without any great inconvenience sometimes there are great Symptomes The long round worms are worst and have eaten sometimes the guts and belly through with a feaver they are more dangerous few are better then many and small then great white are better then those of other colours The other Prognosticks are mentioned in other places Preservation It is better to prevent the breeding of worms then to expel them by eating of meats of good juyce with Oranges and Pomegranates and avoiding sweet fat and slimy meats fish milk and Summer-fruits and figs. Drink thin Wine and Grass and Sorrel water with it and with pouder of Harts horn Let the belly be kept loose with Clysters foâ— children or give the Decoction of Sebestens before meat or of Wormwood and Scordium but children will not take bitter things therefore give Grass water and juyce of Lemons or Citâ—ons or a drop or two of Spirit of Vitriol When you know by the signs that there are worms kill and expel them with pouder of Coralline Wormseed Harts horn or eight grains of Mercurius dulcis Infuse them a night in gâ—ass water and cast away the substance oâ— the Mercury and give the Water Or Take Woâ—mseed two drams Coralline Harts horn prepared each a dram roots of Piony Dittany Magistery of Coral each a scruple make a Pouder or give the Essence of Peach flowers or the Decoction of fern-Fern-water half an ounce or an ounce If there be a feaver use colder as juyce of Lemons Pomegranates Oranges Vinegar Harts horn Bezoar Confection of Hyacinth or this Potion Take Grass water four ounces Syrup of juyce of Citrons an ounce of Violets half an ounce Spirit of Vitriol two drops give two spoonfuls Give bitter things at the mouth and sweet at the fundament as a Clyster of Milk Or Take Raisons ten Figs seven boyl them in water take of it four ounces add Sugar an ounce and half make a Clyster Use varieties that the worms may not be too familiar with one Apply Peach leaves to the Navel bruised or a Cataplasm of Ox gall Wormwood and St. Johns-wort Or Take pouder of Wormwood Gith Centaury Wormseed Lupines each half an ounce with Oyl of Wormwood and Wax half an ounce make an Oyntment Or Take Treacle half an ounce with juyce of Wormwood apply it to the navel or make a Bath of Peach leaves and Wormwood put the child into it up to the navel If there be a Feaver use colder things mentioned Chap. 24. Of the Rupture IT is from the Peritonaeum loose or broken when the sâ—all guts fall into the cods from crying cough straininâ— at stoolâ— and from vehement motion or a fall Sometimes the Peritonaeum is well and a water falls from the belly into the cods The tumor is visible if it be from a gut it is in one part only as the right or left and it may be felt and the hole also â—hrough which it fel. If from water it is even all over and there was no cause of other Rupture It is easier cured in infants then in elder persons for it is safer but worse then that of water which goes away of it self when the water is consumed Let the belly be kept open let not the child cry Avoid vehement motion lay him upon his back and thrust it up gently and apply this Plaister Take Lambs tongue Sanicle each half an ounce Lentils and Lupines and red Roses in pouder each two drams Frankincense a dram Allum half a dram with the white of an Eg. Or Take Frankincense Cypress nuts Aloâ—s Acacia each two drams Mirrh a dram with Izinglass make a Plaster Or apply Gum Elemni steept in Vinegar till there be a Cream at the top and with oyl of Eggs make a Cerot Inwardly Take Sanicle Lambs tongue each half a handful Agrimony a handful Comfrey the greater half an ounce boyl them to a pint strained ad Sugar give it often Or give pouder of Mousear or Moonwort with Wine If it be from water anoint with Oyl of Elder Bayes Rue or apply a Cataplasm of pouder of Beans â—oenugreek Lineseed Chanâ—â—mil flowers Cummin seeds with these Oyls Chap. 25. Of sticking out of the Navel IT is without inflammation 1. When it was not well tied and too much left that sticks out 2. When the Peritonaeum is loose and hath water or wind in it from crying or coughing 3. When the navel is ulcerated and the guts fall into it this is called properly Exomphalon The navel yeilds to the touch but in an inflamation it is hard there is
their shape the malignant are known by their hardness and heat and blewness filâ—h and pain They are often hard to be cured because the pox is with them and they are in a place to which Medicines are hard to be applied and to continue The Myrmeciae are not cut off but they leave a great ulcer the Thymi and Clavi grow again Acrochordones once cut leave no root After Universals and order of diet either use Medicines or cut or burn them to discuss then use Sage dried with Figs Organ Rue burnt dry Savin Frankincense with Wine and Vinegar or Snakes skins with Figs these also dry These corrode eat and burn as juyce of wild Cowcumbers with Salt Milk of Figgs Sheeps dung Goats gall with Niter Aqua fortis Spirit of Vitriol Sulphur Butter of Antimony Take heed that you hurt not the parts adjacent but defend them with Bole sealed Earth Rosewater and Vinegar if you put the Corrosives into Nut-shells change them twice or thrice in a day and wash the part with a clensing Decoction and then cut or burn Chap. 7. Of the Haemorrhoids of the Womb. THe veins that end in the neck of the womb often swel like the Haemorrhoids it is from gross blood that comes to these veins out of the time of the terms Inordinate flux of terms may occasion it when tâ—â—y slow out of the usual time they grow thick and cannot get out of the veins but swel them They are to be touched and with a Speculum matricis to be seen There is pain and bleeding without order she is pale and lazy Correct the blood purge and bleed in the arm to derive and revel of which in the diseases of the womb If pain be abate it by sitting in a Decoction of Mallows Althaea Chamomil Mâ—lilot flowers Moulin Lineseed Foenugreek of which also make Fomentations and Oyntments with Butter Populeon and Opium if there be pain Take Populeon Oyl of Roses and sweet Almonds fresh Butter each half an ounce Saffron a sâ—â—â—ple with the yolk of an Egg make an Oyntment Or Take Muâ—ilage of Quinces Althaea eaâ—h half an ounce Oyl of Roses and Hens greâ—se each a dram the yolk of an Eg and Saffron half a dram mix them in a leaden Mortar If pain be gone or abated and they bleed not use Dryers of Bole Earth of Lemnos Acacia Ceruss froath of Silver Lead burnt and washed long Birthwort Allum Verdigreece If they swell with blood evaporate it or â—oment with the Decoction of Mallows Althaea Pellitory Chamomil flowers Moulin Melilot seeds of Line and Foenugreâ—k If they do not good open them by Fig leaves rub'd upon them or by Horsleeches of which Chap. 2. If there be proud flesh take it oâ—t as is shewed If they bleed gently lâ—t Nature alone to the work for it is good and â—rees from other diseases If the flux be gâ—eat and abate the strength open a vein in the arm divers times and do as in over slowing of the terms Question How do the Haemorrhoids differ from the Terms flowing or stopt Mercurialis saith That though a flux of terms be immodâ—rate yet it hath its periods and is without pain and makes not the body lean but it is contrary in the Haemorrhoids But this is not true for the body is not made lean alwaies by the Haemorrhoids nor do the courses keep their periods alwaiâ—s Besides the pain which is almost alwaies in the Haemorrhoids they differ in that the terms flow from the veins of the womb and its neck but the Haemorrhoids are when the blood flows too much to the veins that nourish the privities and there either sticks or is evacuated Chap. 8. Of Ulcers in the Neck of the Womb. THey are seldome cured in the body of the womb and they are simple and clean or â—ordid and malignant Are a flux of sharp humors that lasts long in the Pox and Gonorrhaea Corrupt afterbirths and courses after childâ—earing detained inflammations turned to imposthuiâ—esâ— these are the internal The external are sharp Medicines hard travail a reat child taken out by â—orce violent leâ—hery wounds falls strokes Are pain and constant biting that increaseth â—â—â—â—cially in coâ—ulation or when Wine or Hydrâ—mel is injected You may also see it with a Speculum also there is matter gentle or â—ilthy if the ulcer go towards the bladder they piss hot and often there is pain in the roots of the eyes to the hands and fingers fainting and a little â—ever somtimes The external Causes are to be related by the patient If it be from the pox or Gonorrhaea the signs of them will appear of which Hippocrates They are hard to be cured because they are in a part fit to receive humors soft and moist and that hath consent with many parts Hence are divers Symptoms the great old and foul are worst when they corrode and are hollow they are seldome cured they that may easily have Medicines applied to them are easieâ—t cured First stop the flux of humors to the part if it be either from the whole body or any part And amend the distemper of the womb that it may neither breed nor receive bad humors If the French pox be with it resist that first If there be pain first abate that with Milk steeled or with three whites of Eggs and Mucilage of Fleabane or an Emulsion of Poppy seeds Or Take Althaea roots an ounce Dill seed two drams Barley a pugil Faenugreek and Lineseed each an ounce Fleabane and Poppy seed each half an ounce boyl them in Milk Of which in pain of the womb In a foul ulcer first use Clensers as Whey Barley water Honey Wormwood Smallage Orobus Orris Birthwort Mirrh Turpentine Allum As Take new Milk boyled a pint Honey half a pint Orris pouder half an ounce Use it hot often every day When that which was injected is voided wash with the decoction of Mallows and put up this Pessary Take Eruum and Lentils in pouder and Orris each two drams with Honey Or Take Diapompholigos with Frankincense Mastich Mirrh Aloes as the ulcer requires Or use Fumes As Take Frankincense Mastich Mirrh Storax Calamite Gum of Juniper Labdanum each an ounce make a Pouder or Troches with Turpentine If there be suspicion of the French pox add a little Cinnabar In a very foul ulcer and Aegyptiacum or Apostolorum or a little Spirit of Wine In a creeping corroding ulcer with clenâ—ers mix cold drying and astringent Medicines Allum water Plantane and Rose-water with Pomegranate flowers boyled and Pomegranate peels and Cypress-nuts is also good and with Aloes After clensing fill it with flesh and heal it up As Take Tutty washed half an ounce Litharge Ceruss Sarcocol each two drams with Oyl of Roses and Wax make an Oyntment Or smoak the privities with Mirrh Frankincense Gum or Juniper Labdanum two drams in pouder with Turpentine make Troches Or use Sulphur or Allum Baths and Plaisters
receiving pleasure in the time of copulaâ—ion when they spend their â—eed The terâ—s are fleâ—matick thiâ—k and â—â—imâ— and flow not righâ—lyâ— there is wind in the womb the seed is crude waterishâ— with a Gonorâ—haea It is the cause of obstructions and barrenness and is hard to be cured Use things proper to heal the womb as this Wâ—teâ— Tâ—ke Galangaâ— Ciâ—namonâ— Nutmeg Mace Cloves each tw◠〈◊〉 Gingâ—r Cubebâ— Zedoary â—ardamoâ—s eâ—ch â—n ounce grains of Paradise long Pâ—pper each half an ounce beat them and put them iâ— six quâ—rtâ— of â—ine for eiâ—ht daies then add Saâ—e Minâ—s Balm Motherwâ—rt eacâ— three handfâ—ls lâ—t them stand â—ight daies more then pour â—ff the â—ine and beâ—t the herbs and the Spiâ—es and thâ—n pour on the Wineâ— and distil them Another Take Cinnamon Nutmegs Clâ—vâ—s Mace Gingerâ— Cubebâ— Cardamomsâ— grains of Pâ—radise â—ach an ounâ—e and halâ— Galâ—nâ—al six drams long â—epper haâ—f an ounâ—e Zedoary five drams bruise them and add six quarts of Wine put them in a Cellar nine daiâ—s daily stirring them then add Mints two hâ—ndâ—uls then let them stand fourteen daies pour off the Wine and bruisâ— them and then pour on the Wine againâ— and distil them Querceâ—an hath an Hâ—sterick Exâ—ract a â—reater and a less use outwardly Fomentations Bathsâ— Baggs of hot Roots as Birthwort Lovage Valeâ—ian Angelica Burnet Mâ—sterwort Calamus Mâ—dder Elicampane Orâ—is and Herbs as Mugwort Balm Motherwort Savin Pennyroyal Calamints Organ Dittany Maâ—joram Rue Bettony Rosemary Lâ—vender Sage Stoechasâ—lowers Seeds of Smallage Parsley Rueâ— Carrots Anise Fennel Cummin Lovage Parsley Anoint with Oyl oâ— Lillieâ—â— Rueâ— Aâ—gelica Bays Cinnamon Cloves Mâ—ce Nutmeg Or Take Labdaâ—â—m twâ— ounces Frankinceâ—se Mastich â—iquid Storax â—ach half an ounâ—â— Oyl of Cloves Nuâ—megs each halâ— a scruple Oâ—l of Lillies Rue â—ach an ounce with Wax make a Plaister A Fâ—me Take Frâ—nkincense Mirrh Mastich â—ach a dram Bayberries a dram and half Labdaâ—um two dramsâ— Sâ—â—rax Clovesâ— eacâ— a dram Gum Arâ—bick and Wine make Troches or Pessaries of â—he same Let the diet be warming and the air the meat â—f easie concoâ—tion seasoned with Anise Fenâ—el Thyme Avoid Milk-meats and raw fruits Chap. 4. Of the moist Distemper of the Womb. THis is â—ommoâ—ly joâ—ned with a coâ—d distemper aâ—d causeth bâ—rrenness aâ—d 〈…〉 the same causes as a cold distemper for commonly cold things do moisten It is commonly in women â—hat are idle They that have moist wombs abound in courses but they are waterish and thin the privities are wet they have the Whites and desire not copulation much and delight not in it they retâ—in not the seed and if they conceive when the child is big they aborte or miscarry If it last long it is hard to be cured if it be much they conceive not It is by Dryers and things that cure the cold distemper are good againâ—â— the moist because all Healers have a drying power Use sulphur Baths and in Injections beware of astâ—ingents least the evil humors be stopâ— and the disease iâ—creased Chap. 5. Of the dry Distemper of the Womb. IN this the womb is hardened of it self it is fleshy and soft and moistned by blood foâ— conception It is somtimes from the birth or old age when they are past childbearing if it be from drâ—ing causes they are barren before they are old Diseases and Medicines dry the womb as inflammations feavers and when blood flows noâ— to it nor goes to the bottom of it by reason 〈◊〉 the straitness of the veins or obstructions as iâ— Viragoe's and such as never conceived and iâ— they void any blood it is fâ—om the neck of thâ— womb and not from the bottom They void little â—eed and are â—low in Veneryâ— the terms are few the mouth of the womb is dry and they are slender of a dry constitution their lower lip is alwaies chapt and blackish red This disâ—emper is hard to be cured in any part especially if it be old Use moistners as Borage Bugloss Mercury Mallows Althaea Violets sweet Almonds Pistâ—chaes Pine nuts Jujubes Dates Figs Raisons Of which are made Syrups Conserves Emulsions Candies c. Outward Remedies are made of the same adding Time Faenugreek seeds Lillies Branckurlin Pellitory c. Fomentations are made with Milk and after bathing anoynt the region of the womb and the belly to the privities with oyl of sweet Almonds Lilliâ—s Lineseed Jesamin fresh Butter Hens and Goose grease Let the Diet be moistning the Air moist the Meâ—t fatning of much nourishment and small excâ—ement let sleep be a little longer then usual great labour anger sadness fasting do hurt Chap. 6. Of compound distempers and first of cold and moist THere is seldom a simple distemper in the pâ—rt and commonly there is matter which â—eeds itâ— it is usually cold and moist which gaâ—heâ—s excâ—ements of that sort either in the wholâ—â—â—dy or in the womb after the terms Are all things that breed cold and flegmatick humors in the whole body or the womb They conceive not and are of an ill habit of body the terms seldom flow right and they have somtimes the whites It is harder to cuâ—e then a simple distemper The cold humor is in fault therefore prepare it with syrup of Mugwort Mints Bettony Hysop with a decoction proper As Take Fennel roots an ounce Valerian Elicampane Masterwort each half an ounce Penny-royal Mugwort Motherwort Nep Marjoram each a handful Rosemary and Sage flowers each two pugils Siler Montane Fennel Aniseed Parsnep seed each a dram boyl them to ten ounces strained add Sugar syrup of Mugwort two or three ounces Cinnamon water half an ounce make a potion for three doses Then purge it with Agarick Mechoacan Turbith and if other humots be mixed with flegm add Senna and the like or use Pills de tribus Aloephanginae Mastich of Hiera with Agarick Sine quibus Or Take Agarick a dram and half Senna two drams infuse them in Mugwort water to three ounces strained add Diaphaenicon or Diacarthaemum twâ— drams strain and add syrup of Mugwort half an ounce Cinnamon water half a dram After universal evacuations use Pessaries As Take Mercury bruise it and put it in a bag of white Silk anoynt it with Butter or Honey of Roses Or Take Benedicta laxativa three drams Agarick two drams Giâ—h seed a dram Pease meal six drams with juyce of Mercury make Pessaries in a Sarsnet Bag. Or Take Hiera a dram Agarick â—alf a dram â—dellium a dram with Honey make a Pessary or make it with pouder of Agarickâ— and Troches of Coloquintida or give sweats of Cuajaâ—um China and Sarsa As Take Guajacum a pound and eighteen ounces inâ—aâ—e them in twelve pints of water twenty four hours â—hen boyl them to the consumption of the third part â—ive six or eight ounces â—ot in the morning and leâ—â—er sweat Pour water to the reliques and boyl them to â—he consumption of the third
the body and it could not form the child 〈◊〉 would Nature make milk of it Therefore menstrual blood onely offends quantity and not in any maniâ—eâ—t or hidden qâ—lity But it hath strange qualities when it is 〈◊〉 with bad humors or is kept too long in body to be corrupted and cause great Syâ—toms but this is when it is mixâ—â— with bad mors or is out of its vessels and so corrupts Question 3. Of the â—ext of Aristotle 7. de hist Animalium câ—pâ—â— and how it is to be understâ—od Aristotle writes thus Constantly every month â—ome have their Terms but most in the third as â—f he should say Few women have their courses â—very month but many have them every third â—onth This is against Galen and against expeâ—ience for it is certain that among six hundred women scarce one hath them every third month Therefore there is either an errour in the Greek Text or in the Translation or great Men do often 〈◊〉 which is probable and so did Arist tle in this of Physick Therefore it is in vain to defend their â—rrour Chap. 2. Of the Terms flowing too soon ORdinarily they begin at fourteen but many have had them sooner A child of eleâ—en daies old had a bloody humor flowing from 〈◊〉 privities Another of five years old had eveâ—y month a moderate flux Fernel reports that Girl of eight years old had the Terms but these 〈◊〉 rare and for the most part very lecherous 〈◊〉 short lived Chap. 3. Of want and stopping of the Terms SOme Women have them not till eighteen or twenty Some before and then they stop for a time without either giving suck or being with child Some have been without them three five or seven months and then they came agaiâ— This is an evil constitution or suppression of thâ—â— which it ought to flow from the fault of the blood and stoppage of the passages When Terms are wanting either blood is wanting oâ— stopt It is wanting either beâ—ause it iâ— not made or dispersed or turned to other useâ— for nature being more sollicitoâ—s to preserve the individual person then to propagate the speciâ—s spends 〈◊〉 in preserving of the person Blood is not made from divers causes as aâ—e cold constitution of â—iver Heart or a disease which distempers the â—â—wels Or often bleeding from great vessels or â—â—om having many issues which take from the blood It is spent other waies as before ripe age anâ— when women are with child or give suck or iâ— hot Natures and fat women in whom it is tuâ—ned to fat It is in vain to provoke Terms iâ— these There are other external evident causes of sâ—â—â—ping of the Terms as too great labour troubleâ—â—adness fear but these last do not only wast 〈◊〉 blood but cool and corrupt it and cause obsâ—â—ctions as Hippocrates speaks of Phatusa the 〈◊〉 of Pytheus The proper causes are the straitness of 〈◊〉 passages or evil conformation of the 〈◊〉 through which it should slow Or the closinâ— the womb of which we spake but I speak 〈◊〉 of the veâ—sels The usual cause of obsâ—â—uction is thick 〈◊〉 humors fâ—om the blood too thiâ—k or mixed 〈◊〉 melancholy which comes with it to the veiâ—â— the womb and stops them This thick blood comes from a cold distemper of the stomach liver and spleen from thick and gross food and drinking cold water when the Terms flow So thought Galen in his time of the Roman women that drank Snow-waterâ— and had few or no coursesâ— Straitness is when the body of the womb is made thicker either by Nature or other causes as a cold and dry or hot and dry disteâ—per Thirdly straitness is from compression of the vessels by a Scirrhus or hardness of the parts adjacent as the straight gut or by the stone in the bladder and the womb displaced Fourthly the flesh may grow together by a membrane that grows to the vessels or a â—â—ar after a wound Or after a mischance when the veins annexed to the Secundine grow so together that they cannot be opened of which in the first Question They are not the same in women and Virgins for blood stopt in Virgins goes to and â—ro changeth the colour and brings Feavers especially the white Feaver or Green-sickness But in women it goes more to the womb and brings Symptomes as loathing vomiting and Pica Galen hath other signs as heaviness a lazy pain in the loyns neck and behind in the head that reacheth to the roots of the eyes from the spâ—eading of the blood stopt through the whole body This laziness is chieâ—ly in the thighs and leggs by reason of the veins there consenting with the womb And are of a green complexion and hairy with a beard and shrill voice You may know women with child from such aâ— want their Terms only by pâ—â—per signs First the women with child keep their colour but the other are pale and ill-câ—loured they are merry the other sad 2. Their Symptoms daily grow milder but in the other they daily grow worse 3. You may feel the child move 4. It is perceived in a month You shall know from what causes the Terms are stopt thus If the Liver be cold there is no blood made that is superfluous and there are signs of a â—old Liver and you may know that blood is not sent to the womb when there is no heaviness pain or tumor about the womb the liver or spleen are stopt If it be â—rom flegm or melancholy which is oâ—ten there are signs of their abounding as lazâ—ness paleness seldom pulse crude urin Hippocrates saith That if the Terms stop therâ— are diseases in the womb tumors imposthumes ulcers and barrenness and diseases in the whole body Green-sickness Leucophlegmacy Dropsie Vomiting of blood Heart-ach Cough And the longer they have been stopt the haâ—der they are to be opened If the blood stopâ— go out at the nose it is good If it have great Symptomes there is fear of death You must not give Medicines to move the Terms to extenuate lean persons nor to such as want blood and have a weak Liver but they must be sed high First see iâ— bloâ—d abound and then aâ—ter a Leniâ—ive open a veinâ— and lâ—t that blood which is in the veins be drawn to the womb Galâ—â— took thâ—ee â—ints of blood at three times fâ—om 〈◊〉 leâ—n womâ—n and cured her of an old stopping 〈◊〉 the Terms You must open the ankle veinâ— the firâ—t day the right the next the left four or five daies before the time Or you may cup and â—â—ariâ—ie the Leggs And bind the parts below and rub them after general evacuation opening of the Haemorrhoids doth hurt and so do Issues because they draw from the womb Hiera picra halâ— an ounce or Pills de Tâ—ibus oâ— Hiera simple are good first Then prepare as Take water of Mugwort 〈◊〉 Maidenhair â—aâ—h three â—uâ—ces Syrup oâ—â—he five Roots and of Mugwort each two ounces maâ—e
it for two doses Or Take opâ—ning Roots half an ounce Madder Burnâ—â— eaâ—h three ounces Mugwort Bettony Germandâ—r Calamints â—ach a handful red Pease half a handfulâ— flowers of Bugloss Dill each a pugil boyl and sweeten it with Sugar For flegmatick Bodies take the Decoction of Guajacum Saâ—â—aphras Dittahy for fifteen dâ—â—es without sweating Then evacuate with Agarick Mechoacan Turbith Scammony Coloquintida blaâ—k Hellebore As Take Agarick two drams infuse it in Mugwortâ—â—ter two ounces Oâ—ymel an ounce strain and the Eâ—tract of Michoacan a sâ—ruple Or Take opâ—ninâ— Roots half an ounce Mugwort Bettony â—â—ch 〈◊〉 pugils Senna â—â—lâ— an â—unce Agariâ—k two draâ—◠〈◊〉 and Aniâ—â—â—d each a â—â—ruâ—â—e 〈◊〉 haâ—â— a dram Râ—sâ—mary flowers 〈◊〉 â—ugil inâ—â—â—e 〈…〉 thâ—â—e ounâ—â—â— anâ—â—aâ—f â—d Sâ—rup of Senna â—n 〈◊〉 aâ—â— halâ—◠〈◊〉 〈◊〉 hâ—lâ— a dram Or if they dâ—ink Wiâ—e Tâ—ke Tarâ—â—th 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 eaâ—h twâ— dâ—ams Senna an 〈◊〉 aâ—â— haâ—â— Maiâ—â—â—hair â—alm Râ—sâ—mary eaâ—â— two pugils Cinnamon Galangal each a dramâ— hang them in Wine give six ounces with half an ounce of Manna Or Take Diaturbith with Râ—ubarb half an ounce Mechoacan two drams Agarick a dram Diarrhodonâ— Cinnamon each half a dram Steel prepared a dram with Raisons make an Electuaryâ— give as much as a Wall nut Or give Pills of Agarick foetidae and so continue purging and â—reparing if the matter be stubborn Or Take Agarick two drams Mader a dram with Syrup of Mugwort make Pills Or Take Aloes three drams de Tribus oâ—e dram with juyce of Savin make Pillsâ— If the stomach is soul give a Vomit leâ—t it gâ—â— into the veins Then give provokers of the Terms which are hot and thin about the time they used to flow they are three degrees in strength and many soâ—tâ— of Medicines are made of them A Pouder Take Cinnamon a dram Ambâ—râ— sâ—ruple Saffron half a scruple Or Take Trochu of Mirrh of Wallâ—flowers each a scruple Saffron five grains Or Take Castor Pennyroyal each a scruple with Wine or proper Waters Physical Wine Take Madder roots an ouncâ— Orrâ—s half an ounce Balm Pennyroyal Mugwortâ— Rosemary eâ—ch a handful Wall-flowers half a pâ—gil Cinnamon an ounce Galangal half an ounâ—â— with Wine give four ounces Or Take the Dâ—câ—ction of red Pease Or Take Smallage Fennel roots each half an ounce Mugwort Bettâ—ny Pennyroyal Balm each a handful red Peâ—â—e half an handful Juniper-berries half aâ— ounce 〈◊〉 all flowers a pugil boyl and sweeten it Oâ— Take â—en ounces of it with thrâ—â— ounces of Mugwâ—â—â— for three doses Querâ—â—tan commends this Take Gromwelsâ—eds Anise Mâ—sletâ— of the Oak each three drams Dittany a dram Saffron a sâ—ruple â—ruiâ—â— and keep them twenty four hours in Wine then boylâ—them give fâ—â—r ounces for three daiâ—s together Or make the Womans â—qua viâ—â—e Or Take Balm â—ttâ—ny Pennyroyal Mâ—â—wort Nâ—p Motheâ—wort Dittany â—ach four handfuls Wine thirty pints distil them add three handfuls of each hâ—rbs and distil them again and ad Fennel seed Calamus Cinnamon Cassia lignâ—a Cardamoms each half an ounce distil them again Or give Syrup of Calamintsâ— Mugwort Or Take water of Pennyroyal Savin Calamints each four ounces Syrup of Mugwâ—rt â—â—ur ounces Cinnamon water an ounce give it at fâ—ur times Rouls Take Extract of Savin a scruple of Angelica half a sâ—ruple of Elicampane six grains Oyl of Cinnamon five drops of Cloves two drops with Sâ—gar dissolved in Balm waâ—er Or make an Electuary of Steel six ounces Cassia lignea Cinnamon each two drams Cloves a dram Raisons two ounces with Sugar dissolved in Mâ—gwort water Or Take Troches of Mirrh a dram Extract of Gentian and Savin each a scruple â—astor half a â—â—ruple make Pills give two scruples or give every third day pills of Hierâ— Use outward Mediâ—ines but pâ—ovoke not sweat â—y them Take Althaea and Lillâ— roâ—ts each two â—unces 〈◊〉 an â—unâ—e Mâ—llâ—wâ— Mâ—râ—ury Mâ—gwort 〈…〉 Mâ—therwort Calamintâ— Pâ—nnâ—royal Mâ—râ—â—ram Bayâ—â—â—â—ach tâ—â— haâ—dâ—ulâ— flowers of 〈◊〉 â—â—â—â—nder Cheirâ— each a â—â—ndful Faenugreâ—â—â— sâ—â—d an ouncâ— Juniper anâ— Bayberriâ—s each â—alf a hanâ—â—â—l bâ—â—l â—hâ—m in Water 〈◊〉 wiâ—h â—pâ—â—ges And then anoint with this Take Oyl of Lillies an ounce oâ— Lavender seeds stilled halâ— a dram Calamints and Gith pouder each a dram Storax calamint a scruple To Virgins that must take no Pessaries give Fumes with the head defended they wil â—pen the mouths of the vessels and cut thick humors As Take Mirrh Bdellium Storax each a dram Benzoin two scruples Gallia mosâ—hata ivet each half a scruple with liquid Storax make Troches Then use Clysters and Injections into the Womb with Purgers As Take Calaminâ—s Pennyroyal each a handful Gith seed Turbiâ—h each a dram Coloquintida half a dram boyl it in wine inject it into the womb If it be hot aâ—ter it inject the Decoction of Mallows with Milk or Barley water And because the neck of the womb lies upon the strait gut give Clysters Take Lilly roots an ounce Orris Valerian â—ach half an ounce Mercury two handfuls Mugwort Savin each a handful Chamomil Lavender flowers each a pugil Caraway Gith seed each a dram boyl add Hiera and Beâ—nedicta laxativa each half an ounce Oyl of Cheir two drams Electuary of Bayberries half an ounce If she be no Virgin put Mercury bruised in a Bag for a Pessary with Centaury flowers Or Garlick beaten with Oyl of Spike Begin still with the mildest as Mugwort Mercury Pennyroyal Marjoram Rue and then add Mucilages and Juyces to loosen the wombâ— let â—ot Pessaries lie long least they cause a Feaver If it be from a tumor provoke not the Terms but loâ—k to the tumor Let diet be hot and attenuating of good juyce with Parsley Savory Rosemary Cloves Cinamon Little sleep and much exercise Question 1. Whether are the other Causes of stoppage of the Terms Some say the blood going to other parts is a cause but it is rather contrary and the suppression of Terms is cause of that â—or the veins of the womb are large enough to evacuate blood Others say the strength of the womb is a cause which thiâ—kens the vessels that they receive no blood But the womb is made to receive it when it abounds Others accuse the strength which is to be denied but when it is so strong that it is too hot or too dry and will not receive the blood and that is a sign of weakness But there must be strength in the whole body to cast out superfluous blood or there will be other mischiefs Question 2. What Veins must be opened when the Terms are sâ—opt Authors disagree in this as Aetius and Galen who alwaies speaks of the ankle veins and most are of his mind being it is rational For a vein opened in the arm doth rather revel from the womb then draw the blood to it but in the ankle brings it to its place and opens obstructions and doth both lessen and bring blood to the womb and move that which is in the womb â—ixed Open the ankle therefore twice
or thrice rather then the arm once Therefore Galen commends Hippocrates that he opened a vein in the ankle in the Servant of Schimarg though she had a Plâ—thoryâ— But in other diseasâ—s of the womb as inflamâ—ation dropping or too many Terms it is good to open a vein in the arm The Saphena is opened by putting the foot in warm water before and after Question 3. At what time must a Vein be opened against the sâ—â—ppage of the Terms Galen saith It must â—e when Nature may be helped be the blood moved that is three or four daies before the usual time of their coming as if she had them alwaiâ—s in the ful of tâ—e Moon and they have been stopt some monthsâ— bleed three or four dâ—ies before the full to puâ— nâ—ture in mind of her duty and to make the blood run again Chap. 4. Of fewness of the Terms IT is when they flow less then they use or ought to â—low It is either from the blood or in the expulsive faculty in the passages As if blood â—e little the Terms are few and slow if the retentive faculty is weak and the expulsive strong they come at due time but in small quantity If the Terms are slow the fault is in the quality of the blood being too thick Also straitness of the passages may be a cause for if they be not wide enough the blood cannot flow fâ—eely The patient will tell the disease but the cauâ—e of it is to be found in the Chapter aâ—oregoing Few Terms from little blood is not dangerous if they be stopt from thick blood there follow diseases as Erysipelas Scirrhus or Cancer See the Chapter aforegoing for the Cure and and if it be from thickness of blood it is often cured by a general Purge for the whole body Chap. 5. Of Dropping of the Terms THis is a flux and lasts long and there is pain The blood flows not conveniently at the due time and manner and the privities are alwaies wet as when the urin drops Are from the blood and the passages of it and the retentive faculty as when the blood is too thiâ—k and sharp which stir up Nature to let it out and because it stretcheth the membranes theâ—e is pain Also the weakness of the retentive faculty is a cause The women declare it but if it be from thick blood and sharp and strait passages there is a sâ—â—etching pain about the womb If it be from câ—udity of blood and weakness of the retentive â—aculty the blood flows without pain and is not much â—elt It is troublesom to women and if it last long â—auseth ulcers and inflammations It is all in mending of the thick and sharp â—lood and in opening the passages which are â—he two chief causes of it of which we spake at â—rge If blood be superfluous loose it not nor open the ankle-vein lest you draw it more to the womb but take away the Cacochymy If it be from weakness of the retentive faculty strengthen the womb with dryers and ash ingents Chap. 6. Of the overflowin of the Terms IT is when it is too much or too long and hurâ—s any woman and brings diseases but a certain proportion of bleeding is not to be deâ—ined but too much is lost when the actions are hurt The immediate Cause is the opening of the vessels and the mediate cause is the blood in quantity or quality offending or by its force or disorderly motion Vessels are opened by Anastomosis Diapedesis Diaeresis or ruption or by Diaurosis or coâ—rosion Anastomosis is from a moist distemper of the vesselsâ— which loosneth the orifices or from external causes as Baths hot and moist or usâ— of Aloes The flux is seldom too great from a Diapedesis for it is but a sweating through Ruption is from plethory when the Terms have long been stopped and then break out and when the blooâ— is hot by air baths c. The outward causes are falls strokes hard travel great burdens lifted Erosion is from sharp blood or humor or from Medicines that corrode as Pessaries long kept For this great flux is chiefly from the veins in the bottom of the womb The flux of blood is too great when the strength abateth and Cachexy â—ollows with paleness swollâ—n feet and the blood that comes from the bottom of the womb is blacker and â—lottedâ— That from the neck is redder and thinner The signs of the causes If it be from muâ—lr blood there are signs of plethory and it easily â—lotteth together If the blood be sharp and cholâ—rick it is putreâ—ied in the womb you shal know waterish blood by its colour and the signs of that humor abounding and if you dip a clout in it and dry it in the shade you may see it If the womb be too moist such causes went before If it be from breaking of veins they will tell you of violence If it be from corrosion it is little and slow somtimes pure somtimes â—erous It weaâ—nâ—th the whole body the liver and bowels there is swounding the Whites and paleness and Dropsie somtimes That which hath been longâ— is hard to be cured and causeth death and in an old woman it is deadly If there be fulness abate the blood and keep it from flowing to the womb revel it râ—pâ—l cool and astringe it that it may not flow so faâ—â— and then amend the blood If it is from plenty of blood open the Liver-vein in the right arm bleed little and often because it makes better revulsion and weakens not open the Salvatella if there be weakness and cup â—he Back and Breast aâ—ainst the Liver beneath â—he papps where are veins from the womb cup â—ot beneath but in the shoulders or back and â—rms with scarification but scaâ—iâ—ie not under â—he breaâ—ts Bind and rub the aâ—â—s and shouldeâ—s and temâ—er and thicken the sharp thin humors with Deâ—â—ctiâ—ns and Waters of Plantane Purslane Sorrelâ— Knotgrass Shepherds-purse pomegranate-Pomegranate-Syrup and of dried Roses Sorrel Puâ—slane Coral Conserve of Roses Bole sealed Earth If it be urgent use Naâ—coticks Syrup of Poppies Treacle Philonium Laudanum If it still continue it is fed with choler thereâ— fore purge it with Syrup of Roses Manna Rhubarb Senna If it be fed with serous blood help the â—eins that do not their duty and the Liver and sweat with China You must not provoke urin but use astringents As Take the juyce of Ass-dung Syrup of Mirâ—lâ—s each half an ounce Plantane water an ounce Give it her and let her not know what it is Decoctions Take Comfrey roots Tormenâ—il â—ach two drams Purslune Plantane each a handful boyl themâ— add to six ounces Syrup of Curranâ— Quinces Mirtles each six drams giveâ— it at twice Or Take Syrup of Purslane juyce of Neâ—â—les each two ounces Purslane water four ounces Troches of Amber of sealed Earth each a dramâ— Bloodstone half a dram give two spoonfuls every day
A Water Take eight pinâ—s of Waâ—er â—iâ—h Starch Barley meal and Rise dried Roses a handful juyce of Yarrow Plantane each half a pinâ— Comfrey roots and all three ounces Horsâ—ail Bloodwort each half a handful Pears and Quinces Pomegranate flowers all Sanders each half an ounce Masâ—ich an ounce distil them and give twâ— ounces with half an ounce of Syrup of Roses or Purslane Electuaâ—ies Consâ—rve of Rosâ—s two ounces Quinces an ounce and halfâ—â—roches of burnt Ivory arâ— sealed Earth each a dram Crocus Martis Bâ—le red Coral prepared Mastich each half a dram wiâ—â— Syrup of Mirâ—les make an Electuaryâ— Poâ—ders Take Mastich red Coral prepared â—ach a dramâ—â—earl Smaragâ—s prepared 〈…〉 a sâ—ruple Bloodstone half a sâ—ruple Bâ—le hâ—lâ— drâ—m make a Poâ—der Michael Paschal cured many with this Pouder Take two Egâ—shâ—llâ— burnt Frankinceâ—se Mastich â—ach half an ounce Pearl red Coral and Amber â—ach two drams Bloodstone Smaragds prepareâ— â—â—â—h half a sâ—râ—ple Barley â—lour twâ— pugils whites of four Eggs with â—iâ—elâ—d Water make Câ—kes Give from half a dram to a drâ—m in pouder with Trotter broath in the morning Or give every day a dram of the pouder of Mulberry tree roots Or Take a plump Turtle drawn and pluckt wash it in Roseâ—water and red Wine put an ounce of Mastich in the belly of it stick it on and roast it and bast it with Vinegar of Roses Then put it into a glass close luted to be dried in an oven then beat all of it to pouder Give a spoonful with Plantane water or an astringent Dâ—coction Anoint the bottom of the belly â—eins and groyns with the dropping of it Or make Rouls thus Take Bole half a dram Magistery of Coral a dram Pearl prepared a scrâ—ple Sorrel and Plantane seed each half a dram Aromaticum rosatum Traganth each half a dram with Sugar dissolved in Plantane water make Rouls In the use of cold Asâ—ringents take heed you sâ—op not the veins and the heat be cooled If these help not use Narcoticks aâ— Troches of sealed Eaâ—th and Amber with Oâ—iâ—m these astringe also Uâ—e no Pessaries except the veins in the neck oâ— the woâ—b be open As Take Snâ—keweed Tormentil each half an ounce Pomegranate flowers Plantane seed each two drams Comfrey roots 〈…〉 Frankincense Mastich each a dram Acâ—ciâ— Sanguis Draconis each two scruples Blood-stone Starch each a dram and half with the whiâ—e of an Eg and Gum traganth dissolved in Rose water make Pessaries with red Silk Womb-clysters Take juyce of Yarrow Solomons seal each two â—unces Mucilage of Gum Arabick made in Plantane water two ounces make a Clyster A Fume Take Frankincense Mastich each two drams Mirtles Labdanum each a dram red Roses Pomegranate flowers each half a dram with Gum traganth make Troâ—hes to be burnt Oyntments Take Oyl of Mirtles Quinces each two ounces juyce of Plantane Solomons seal Horstail each an ounce boyl the juyces away ad Bole Plantane seed Mirtle berries Ceruss each half an ounce with Wax make an Oyntment Or use the Countesses Oyntment to the loyns and pecâ—en Cataplasms Take Quinces Pears boyled in red Wine add Bole Mastich Sanguis Draconis Acâ—cia make a Cataplasm or a Cerot Or Take Sorrâ—l and Plantane seed Purslane seed Bole Sanguis Draconis each two drams Frankincensâ— Mastich Mirrh each three drams Turpentine an ounce wiâ—h juyce of Plantane and Yarrow and Wax make a Cerot after the juyces are boyled away Fomentations are better then Baths for they make the humors flow more Let them be astringent and cool Or wash the legs and hips in cold water Lay Epithems to the Liver Oyntments Cerots or Plaisters If choler offend give Rhubarb and Consâ—rve of Roses to evacuate the Cacochymy If blood flow from a vein broken use Coral Bole Mirtles Comfrey Acacia Hypocistis or apply a Pultis of whites of Eggs and astringent Pouders If it come from a vessel corroded use stoppers and glutinaters that aâ—e slimy as Dropwort roots a dram with a rear Eg. Let the diet be as the Physick is In a flux from plethory eat little and that of little nourishment and in other cases give things to close the vessels Sleep long and use little Venery little or no exercise Anâ—er hurts and other passions Question Whether Frictions or Ligatures in the Legs may be made for Reâ—ulsion Hippocrates and Galen are misconstrued in his 8. Book of Blood-letting and they are not to be used in the flux of the Terms Chap. 7. Of the Terms flowing with pain and Symptoms THe Symptomes are pain in the loyns or thighs head-ach biting at the mouth of the stomach pain in the belly and loyns fainting They are as in suppression of Terms but less vehement and are in them that have not conceived There is obstruction thick and gross blood that stretcheth the vessels and the blood flows not orderly A little before the Terms there is head-ach biting at the stomach pain in the loyns and bottom of the stomach with beating at the heart and â—ainting When the pain is from thick blood it comes forth in â—lodds and the pain is worse beâ—ore If it be from wind it is sudden and stâ—ies not in a place and there is rumbling in the belly Take heed it tuâ—n not to the stoppage of terms if it be neglected It is greater in barren women and Virgins then in those have had children Take away the cause if they be thick humors evacuate them after they are prepared if sharp temper them These attenuate blood water of Grass roots Maidenhair Decoctions of the opening Roots Syrup of Maidenhair oâ— the five Roots Treacle and the like in the stoppage of the Terms Against pain â—se the Fomentations and Oyntments in the Chapter of pain of the Womb. Chap. 8. Of evil discoloured Terms THis is called the Terms depraved by bad humoâ—s and so they are voided Blood is foul either from evil diet or evil humors or stoppage of it The humors are flegm choler or melancholy mixed with it and then the Teâ—ms are either pale blew green or black and stinkingâ— or white and flegmatick They are so from a fault in the stomach The pale and yelloâ— are aâ—e from too great heat in the liver The blaâ—k arâ— from the spleen disordered Thaâ— blood which is naturalâ— is different fâ—om the bâ—d in colour and substance it is like that â—f a new â—â—ain sheep noâ— thiâ—ker nor thinner and â—he â—ad Terms come noâ—â—eâ—sonably but soonâ—â— or laterâ— of which Hippocrates You may know by the colour what humor predominates and by the subâ—tance The flegmatick and melaâ—choly are long in coming and the cholerick waterish Terms come qâ—icker The more they diâ—â—er from the natural sâ—ate the worse they are black and stinking are worst The matteâ—y are woâ—st of all If these flow seven eight or nine dâ—ies she is cured if they ulcerate the womb she is barren Hippocrates saith they must be purgâ—d and prepared
And Take of it half a pound add eight ounces of Wine in a glass set it in the embers stir it and let it boyl twelve simmers tâ—l you see it â—roath and grow a little thick then pour the â—roath and all into another vessel do thus four times and then let it be gently boyled till it be thick as Honey Then Take Parsley Carrot seed Diacurcuma Diarrâ—odon each a dram and half Cinnamon a dram Steel so prepared six drams with Honey make an Electuary give three drams or five after exerâ—ise If the Spleen be stopt Take Steel prepared a pound wash it with Vineâ—ar then strain it and lay it on a clout and add pouder of Cloves hâ—lf an ounce Let them stâ—nd so a day and a night then put them in a glassed vessel ad ten ounces of white Wineâ— Diarrhodon Harts tongue Senna and Capar baâ—ksâ— then stir them then set them in the Sun for a day or in an Oven do this ten daies til the Steel be melted in the Wine and little or nothing at the bottom Give two ounces of this in the morning afâ—er purging and exercise Or Take Steel prepared an ounce Cinnamon Aniseeds each two drams Diamosâ—hu without musk a dram Sugar an ounce make a Pouder give a dram drink white â—ine and Mugwort water aftâ—r it Steâ—led Wine Take Steel in poudâ—r three ounces Cinnamon half an ounce white Wine three pints set them in a close glass eight dâ—ies in the Sun stir them every dayâ— Give six or eight ounces four hours aâ—ore dinner for fifteen or twenty dâ—ies and walk after it At first give a Steel-medicine to prâ—pare As Take Steel filings four ounces â—â—t iâ— in an irâ—n 〈◊〉 â—iblâ— or Ladle thâ—n cast it into two pints of water of Hâ—ps Grass Mâ—dder Borage or spring-Spring-water stâ—â—in it and do so â—â—ven timâ—s Then Take so many ounces oâ—â—â—w Steel and cast it into water as befâ—re strain and add Syrup of Violets Borage or 〈◊〉 of Râ—ses four ounces give three ounces in the morning â—fter exâ—rcise Prepare thus three or four times and â—â—en use stronger Aâ—â—eâ— Steel use Sâ—orzonera stâ—â—pt all night in Wine give 〈◊〉 the morning This hath cured obstructi◠〈…〉 Bezâ—â—r â—â—one â—â—ith Mercatus opens obstructions in my exâ—erience and rehâ—ts venom give six or seven gâ—â—ins Steel is beâ—t Spring and Fall purge and exercise before and after it that it may be better dispersed Use Preparatives Purges and strengtheners often and for a long time and change the forms least the patient loath them If water spread about the body cool the body and make it heavy Use Sweats as Baths natural or artificial of Mugwort Calamints Nep Danewort Sage Bays Rosemary Mercury Ivy Briony roots Orris Elicampaâ—e After puâ—ging and opening obstructions all the Symptoâ—â—s wil vanish if not see for the Symptoms of the womb Let the air be temperately hot The meat of good juyâ—e and easie digestion pot-herbs and green fâ—â—its must be avoided fish milk lettice Make Sâ—uâ—e with Sage and Cinnamon Drink Wine lâ—t bread â—e well leavened with â—ennelsâ—â—dâ— drink no watâ—â— noâ— Broaths at first and in the deâ—liâ—â—tion of the disease use exercise and Vâ—nâ—ry Let sleep be moderate Question 1. Whether may the woman in this Disease be allowed the absurd things they long for They are Virgins or women with child that long for such things Virgins must not be allowed them as chalk c. for they will increase the disease Women with child must be pleased with fair woâ—dsâ— to abstain from them but if the appetite wil not be allayed rather grant them then suffer an abortion or mark upon the child Question 2. Is motion and exercise good in the Green-sickness They are better then idleness which heaps up crudities they raise the languishing heat in the bowels and help the nourishment to be distributed therefore they are to be used before the disease be great and in the declination they discuss the humors But use moderation least you weaken the body or choak themâ— First therefore use Frictions then watching then more exercise after convenient purging Question 3. Whether is Venery good for Maids in the Green-sickness It is probable and agreeable to reason and experience that Venery is good Hippocrates bids them presently marry for if they conceive they are cured John Langius â—aith this disease comes in the ripeness of age or presently after Venery heats the womb and the parts adjacent opens and loosens the passages so that the terms may better flow to the womb But if there be a great Cacochymy take that away before she be married and then Venery may do more then Physick But use it not in the vigor of the disease nor in weakness Question 4. Whether is Blood-letting good in this Disease A Cachexy beginning with coldness of the whole body seem to deny bleeding and because the crude humors are in fault rather then blood But Hippocrates adviseth bleeding at the first If it be a new disease and comes from stopt terms and blood abound that is stopt and not turned into another humor you may boldly bleed provided the strength permit and the passages be open But in an old disease when crude flegm abounds bleed not for it will increase the disease Chap. 3. Of Symptomes from the Womb and Mother-fits in General IT is not to be expressed what miserable diseases women are subject to both Virgins and others from the womb and its consent with other parts For when terms or blood are stopt there are great Symptoms and while they putrefie or get evil qualities the Symptoms are grievous and almost unexpressible One woman may have divers Symptoms from the womb at the same time when the seed and terms are mixed with other humors after they are corrupted and there is more sometimes and such noble substance as seed and terms being corrupted are like poyson The consent with other parts is from likeness of parts nearness or connexion of vessels And because the womb is membranous it hath a great consent with the membranes and nerves Also the parts adjacent are easily infected And thirdly it hath consent with all the body by veins arteâ—ies and nerves It consents with the brain by the nerves and membranes of the back-marrow it consâ—nts with the heart by the arâ—eries with the liver by the veins which are great in the womb and therfore the blood and bad humors go back to the â—â—ver It consents with the stomach by Anastomosis in the veins of the Mesentery and by the arteries through foul humors and vapors go from the womb to the Mesentery and stomach It conâ—ents with the spleen by the arteries therefore many women that had not their terms enough in their youth and have hot blood are â—fter Hypochondriack and a Physitian can scarce distinguish these diseases of the womb and spleen nor cure them severally It consents with the papps by veins and nerâ—es and the heart Diaghragma head brain and all
with Womb-clysters and Pessaries then dispeâ—se the reliques and strengthen the womâ— But â—irâ—â— give a general Purge that is gentle often and use things that prevent the breeding of seed Strengthen with Plaisters and Oyntments to the region of the womb As Take liquid Storax two drams Avens Agnus castus seeds Angelica each half a dram Alipta moschata a scruple Oyl of Nard Lillies and white Wax make aâ— Oyntment Or Take Seeds of Agnus castus â— dram all Sanders each half a dram whitâ— Rosâ— pouder a dram Tacamahaca a scruple Amber tâ—â— scruples Alipta moschata half an oâ—nce with Turpentine Labdanum and Wax make a Plaister Iâ— she be a Virgin let her be married If it be from terms stopt see in the Chaptâ—â— of that This disease is neither from seed nor bloodâ— nor humors if they be not corrupted after a peculiar manner If it be from the womb disteâ—pered give the Inâ—usion of an ounce of Brionâ— root in white Wine onâ—e in a week for a year 〈◊〉 bed time or this Hysteâ—iâ—k Water Take Lovage roots Piony Angelica Zedoarâ— each an ounce Misâ—eto of the Oak gathered in the wane of the Moon two ounces Mints Balm Calamints Bettony each a handful Carrot Parsnep sâ—â—d Castor each half an ounce distil them in white Wine and water of Motherwort after eight daies infuson Or Take Briony Valerian Spignel Angâ—lica roots each half an ounce Balm Caâ—amints Pennyroyalâ—â—ettony each half a handful boyl them in Wine add Syrup of Mugwort an ounce give it aâ— thrice Vitriol of Iron one grain with two grains of Sugar given in Wine some weeks is excellent Or Take Cummin seed wild Parsnep seed each â— dram give a dram in pouder Orâ— Take Faeâ—â—la Brioniae two drams Cummin seed Parsnep sâ—ed â—â—ch a dram Amber half a dram Cloves two sâ—ruâ—les Cinnamon a scruple make a Pouder Pills Take Castor a scruple Assa faetida half â— scruple Mirrh Galbanum Sagapenum each a â—cruple with Honey of Mercury make â—ills take 〈◊〉 a sâ—â—â—ple or a scruple often Or take Treacâ—e 〈◊〉 â—â—â—hridate Apply Plaisters or Linâ—ments to the region of 〈◊〉 Womb thus Take old Treacle half an ounce Agnuâ— castus seeds a dram Oyl of Angelica and â—ummin seeds each two drams with Plaister of â—â—yberriâ—s â—r make Oyntments of the same Questâ—â—â— 1. What preternaâ—ural diseases is the 〈◊〉 of the Womb properly â—â—me say it is a cold distemper in quality chanâ— they say right but coldness is not the chief â—â—â—â—om Others say it is respiration hurt Synâ—â—â— or Convulsion But it cannoâ— be defined by one Symptom Foâ— somtimes the animal actions are hurt and there is a Megrim Delirium Convulsion and sense and motion are gone Nor is it strange that so small a vapor should bring such Symptomes for it hath an occult venom in itâ— which is strong for it goes many waies and to many parts Question 2. What is the true Causâ— of the 〈◊〉 of the Mother I say it is the malignant vapors that flie up from the womb for it doth not work by a manifest quality but by a venom which Galen saitâ— is like that of a Torpedo or Phalanx or Scorpion which are little in bulk but do great miâ—chief being enemies to the vital spirits and heaâ— by which there is a coldness all over and sâ—oâ— breath from the actions of the heart hurt Foâ— when the heart is hurt or the vital Spirits eitheâ— suffocated or corrupted there are no good animal Spirits bred and they not flowing to thâ— nerves and muscles hinder the motion of thâ— breast Also this malignant vapor is an enemy 〈◊〉 the animal Spirits and makes doting and Coâ—vulsions when it gets to the brain The Cause of these vapors are corrupt seâ— and terms for while they are in thâ—ir proper vesels they change not their nature And the seâ— is not alwaies pure but mixed with 〈◊〉 humâ—â— and the seed-vessels are sometimes 〈◊〉 aâ— distempered Moreover the corruption 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the womb in a pâ—culiar manner for as Fâ—rrâ—â— saith The place from whence comâ—â— life is 〈◊〉 the breeder of the most deadly poyson Question 3. Is it good to give Wine in a â—it of the Mother Hippocratâ—â— and Avicen quarrel about this The fiâ—st alloâ—s wine because they are weak and nothing sooner reâ—reshethâ— But Avicen is for water and forbids flesh for they increase seed and â—lood But in the time of the â—it wine is proper and Avicen doth not speak of the â—it but of the diet out of the â—it when it comes from plenty of seed and blood nor will a little wine in the time of â—â—e â—it get presently to the womb Chap. 5. Of the Frenzie of the Womb. IT is a great and foul Symptome of the wombâ— both in Virgins and Widdows and such as â—ave known man These are mad for lust and inâ—iâ—e men and lie down to them and it differs â—rom Salacity because in that there is no Deliâ—ium It is an immoderate desire of Venery that â—akes women almost mad or a Delirium from â—n iminoderate desire of Venery it is without a â—eâ—veâ— and with heat and tends to madness â—here are degrees in it for modest women have 〈◊〉 but will not for shame declare it and die of â—onsumptions Others will not conceal it but â—eak their thoughts bawdily and follow men â—nd â—olliâ—iâ—e them shamelesly as Hippocrates 〈◊〉 in his Book of Virgins Diseases The immediate Cause is plenty of hot and sharp seed against Nature but next unto that â—hich is natural it is a little biting swelling and â—orcing Nature to let it out by lecheâ—y The brain is only hurt by consentâ— and the animal actions by an external error or too vehement object The part first affected is the womb in the Nympha which grows hot and swells but the Nymphae are not properly the seat of Venery but the Clitoris which was called by the same name anciently The heat and sharpness of seed is from the heat of the womb that breeds it from hot humoâ—â— in the womb and hot blood The outward Causes are hot meats spicedâ— strong wine and the like that heat the privitiesâ— idleness pleasure and dancingâ— and reading oâ— bawdy Histories They find their lust to boyâ— at first and soâ— shame will not declare it they are sad and silent and their eyes turn to and fro with lust anâ— if any speak of Venety they blush and the pulsâ— changeth when thâ— brain consenteth reason iâ— perverted and modesty is overcome then theâ— prate are lustful and angry somtimes they crâ— or laugh without a cause they follow men anâ— sollicite them for copulation Some will lie wiâ—â— any one they meet It is a â—ordid disease curable at first but if neglected it turns to madness Let Virgins that have it before reason is subverted be in company with chast Maidâ—ns oâ— hâ— married And be let blood to abate heat of blcoâ— and sharpness of seed very often there is no
better remedy Then temper and evacuate the humors if theâ— be adust and there be madnessâ— use strongâ—â— Then have a Bath of Lettice Willow Water-lillies Vine-leaves Purslane Venus navel red Roses Violets Waterlillies Let her sit twice â— day in it and not sweat To take away the sharpness of the seed use Lettice Violets Waterlillies and things that quenâ—h seed by a secret quality as Agnus castus â—eed Leaves and Flowers of Champhyre hereâ—â—â—er Asâ— Take leaves of Waterlillies Agnus castus Willow each three handfuls Lettice Purslane Veâ—â—â— navel each a handful Lettice Poppy sâ—ed the 〈◊〉 great cold Seeds each half an ounce Dill seed 〈◊〉 drams Waterlillies a handful Violets half a â—â—ndful beat them with juyce of Lemons distil them â—â—er twenty four hour add to every pint a dram of â—mphire give an ounce Or Take Agnus caâ—â—â—ieaves Rue Willow each two handfuls Mints 〈◊〉 of Dill each a handful and half Waterlillies â—â—lf a handful Agnus castus seeds Hemp Coriâ—â—der Lettice seed each half an ounce beat them â—nd distil them with water add a pint of juyce of Leâ—â—ns rectifiâ— it to half An Emulsion Take Lettice and white Poppy 〈◊〉 and the four great cold Seeds each half an ounce 〈◊〉 of Lettice Waterlillies Willow each four ounâ—s Syrup of Violets two ounces Magistery of Coâ—â—â— dram An Electuary Take Conserve of Waterlillies â—â—â—lets of Agnus caâ—tus topâ—â— eâ—â—h an ounce of Roâ—â— hâ—lf an ounce red Câ—ral Smaragds eâ—ch a dram 〈◊〉 and Lettice candied each an ounce with 〈◊〉 of Violets and Waterlillies make an Electuary Or make Baths of the same As Take tops Aâ—nus castus Lettice Rue Waterlillies Dâ—l 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 them anoint with Oyl of Lillies â—nguâ—nt of Roseâ— with Camphire afâ—â—r that Or lay a Plaister of Mercury and Marsh-lentils to the breast and loyns Lâ—y a Plate of Lead to the Back and give a Pessary of juyce of Plantane Pâ—â—slane Gourds These that work by an occult quality are fittest for numnesses that must not marry but they that will marry must forbear them because they cause barâ—â—nness Let diet be thin and of little nourishment no Eggs Beef is good and fresh fish Also Lettice Purslane Succoâ—y Sleep littleâ— think not of Venery labour and avoid idleness Question Whether is Camphire cold or hâ—t or doth it quench Venery It is hot because it burns flames is thin pieâ—ceth is sharp and bitter But it hath cold effects as curing of burnes and inflammations and hâ—â— headaches but this is from the likeness of thâ— substance because it draws hot vapors to it anâ— discusseth as Linseed oyl that cures burnes Noâ— hath it a double substance cold and hot that maâ— be separated Scaliger denies it by experience to quench Vâ—nery but if it be taken often it doth he tâ—ieâ— it but once Chap. 6. Of the Melancholy oâ— Virgins and Widdows IT is a Dâ—liriâ—â— with sadness trouble and weâ—â—ing sâ—â—times laugâ—ing without a Feavâ—â— It differs from others by the efficacy only of the efficient cause for it hath divers pains besides â—â—dness especially on the left side near the heart in the papâ— this is by occasion at a distance The Cause is a melancholick vapor from a melancholick blood in the vessels near the heart that infects the animal Spiâ—its hurts the Fancy and so the reason For melancholick blood abounding in the vessels of the womb comes back to the great arteries about the heart by the arteâ—ies of the womb and infects both vital and animal Spirits and causeth trouble of heart and deâ—â—â—ium while this blood is quiet in the arteries theâ—e is no vapor that riseth but when it is heaâ—ed or sâ—irred up by any cause the arteries about the back and spleen beat more then ordinary and the vapors arise and trouble the heart They aâ—e sad and â—ull of thoughts and trouble at the heart and cannot express their grief all things are tedious to them they weep and lâ—ugh without a cause they sleep little and with trouble and â—ear they have a pain on the left side and somtimes the left breast their jaws are dâ—y al which are the effects of a melaucholick vapor and when that is discussed all cease If it be old it turns to madness and then they are 〈◊〉 silent then pâ—â—tlers and think they see Gâ—oâ—â—s At first it is easier cured but if it last long and â—â—e â—esist not imagination and will not rejoyce â—ith her Gossips it is dangerous They often despair and desire death or hang themselves or dâ—own themsâ—lves If the manners are chanâ—ed 〈◊〉 tuâ—â—s to madness Observe what progress the disease hâ—th made At first if blood be hot oâ—en a vâ—in oâ—ten iâ—â—â—e arm if the terms be not stopt if they be bleed in the ankle some daies before they use to flow Let her be merry and prepare and purge melancholy thus Take Borage and Balm water each three ounces Syrup of the juyce of Borage and Bugloss each an ounce and half Mix them for two Doses repeat them somtimes Then purge Melâ—ncholy As Take Senna six drams Agarick a dram and half Borage flowers and Violets each a pâ—gil â—itron peels two drams infuse them in Rhenish wine for six hours strain them ad Syrup of Violets an ounce Or Take Scorzonera roots two ounces Borage â—n ounce Balm a handful Senna four ounces Agarick half an ounce Citron peels six drams Zedoary two drams Cordial stowers a handful add half a pint of the juyce of sweet-scented Apples and of Rorage and Bugloss steep them two daieâ— then strain them ad Sugar and half an ounce of Cinamon make a Syrup give two or three ounces Also give Cordials Confection of Hyacinths Species Exhilerants and Confection Alkermes to such as can bear it Cure it as Melancholy only the matter comes from the womb therefore still regard that it dry not the body too much but use a moistning Diet. Chap. 7. Of an Epilepsie from the Womb. THis Falling-sickness is worst then from other causes because there are greater symptoms for that malignant vapor doth not onely fall into the nerves but the veins and arteries The same malignant vapor that causeth suffocation causeth this for when it ascends by the veins or arteries it begets other diseases but when it gets to the nerves or to the fountain of them it causeth the Epilepsie In some the whole body hath a Convulsion in others some part only as the eyes head tongueâ— hand or leg and the outward senses are diversly taken Some see not some hear not some see and cannot speak some dote and think they see strange things some cry out and know not why All loose the sense oâ— feeling If the vapor be nâ—t very malignant they reâ—uâ—n to their work after the fit as if they had not â—een ill It is known by what hath been said for here 〈◊〉 not only a Convulsion as in other Epilepsies â—â—t diveâ—s Symptomes as in Suffocation of the â—omb They seldom â—oam at the mouth
because â—e brain is not so shaken as to cause â—oaming â—or is the vapor so fixed in the roots of the nerâ—es but they often do hear It is grievous and hath grievous Symâ—toms â—ut it is not so bad as a true Epilepsie and if you â—ve proper Medicines it never returns The Cure of the Fit Use things as in Suffocation of the womb or â—ther-sits as Rue and Castor are good against 〈◊〉 Also out of the sit you must cure it as the Moâ—â— using things that respect the womb and the 〈◊〉 Asâ— Take Piony roots Sâ—orzonera Misleâ—â— tâ—â— Oâ—k each half an ounce Polypâ—dy of the 〈◊〉 an ounâ—e Rue Pennyroyal Calamintâ— each a 〈◊〉 Seseli Pionâ— Agnus castus seeds each â—â—dramâ— Carthamus sâ—eds brâ—ised half an ounce 〈◊〉 of Rosemary Sâ—ge Sâ—aehas Borage eâ—ch two pugils boyl them to a pinâ— and half strain and adâ— juyce of Bettony Yarrow Mercury Mugâ—â—rt Sâ—nâ—a five ounces Agarick Epithymum each half an ounce Rhubarb Cloves each two drams Aniâ—â—â— I â—nnel sâ—ed each three drams boyl strain with Sâ—gar and half an ounce of Cinnamon make Syrup give two ounces And these Pills twice in a week a scruple oâ—â— dram an hour afore Supper Take Piony roâ—â—â— Senna each half an ounce Mugwort Bottoâ—â— Rue Yarrow each half a handfulâ— boyl them clâ—rifie the Decoction add juyce of Mercury an ounce Aloes an ounce and half let it settle pour of the cleaâ— add Rhubarb sprinkled with Cinnamon water 〈◊〉 drams Agarick half an ounce Mastich Epilâ—pâ—â— pouder each half a dram with Syrup of Mugwâ—â— make Pills To strengthen the Head and the Womb and to mend its Distemper Take Fecula oâ— Pimâ—â— dram of Briony Amber Misleto of the Oak eâ—â—â— half a dram Bezoar stone Mans sâ—ull each a sâ—râ—ple make a pouder give half a dram with Scorzonâ—â— or Tile flower water or with Sugar make Rouls An â—lectuary Take Conserve of Balm Tiâ— flâ—wers Rosemaryâ— Lilly coâ—vals Scorzonera 〈◊〉 â—anâ—ied each an ounce Diamoschâ— dulce a draâ— pouder of Agnus castus seeds and Piony roâ—ts 〈◊〉 two drams with Syrup of Stâ—â—has Chap. 8. Of pain of the Heâ—â— from the Womb. MAny â—â—ins come from the Womâ— bu◠〈◊〉 chief and greatest are in thâ— Head â—â—â—ver or on one side oâ— in the eyes Matter ascends to the membranes of the head by the veins and arteries from the womb It is a â—â—poâ— or humor from blood and humors somtimes bad blood that is thin goes from the womb vessels to the great vessels and gets to the head tâ— the membranes there and causeth a stretching ulceâ—ated or pricking or beating pain when it is carried through the arteries being â—ul of blood They think their head will be torn and the membranes and it is behind in the head or when the terms flow or arâ— disordered from consent with the womb If it be from a vapor there is no hâ—â—viness and it ceaseth presently if from a humoâ— there is heaviness Thesâ— paâ—â—s are great and cause waâ—ching We have spoken of the headach but here it is â—â—om the womb therefore consider what humoâ—â— offend in the womb and let them be purged and the distemper of the womb amended as wâ— shewed in the Distemper of the Womb. There is also a pain in the loyns because bad hâ—mors go from the veins of the womb and arteâ—ies to the great vessels and so are sent by the â—â—pillâ—â— veins into the membranes and stretch them and cause pain these humors must have â—â—â—per Purges â—â—â—stion In what part of the Head is the pain that comes by consent from the Womb Iâ— iâ— in the crown before and behind but chiefly â—ehind by reason of the joyning of the Back with the womb for the womb is nervous and â—oâ—sâ—nts â—ith the membranes of the brain by the membranes of the â—arrow of the â—ack and so â—erves â—uffâ—â—â—ith nâ—rves â—iâ—her by communiâ—â—tion of matter or pain and because the original of the nerves is in the hinder part of the head women are more pained there then men because of the Womb. Chap. 9. Of the Diseases of the Heart and beating of the Arteries in the Back and sides from the Womb. THe heart beats and the arteries also as we shewed in the Green-sickness and it is by â—â—il vâ—pors sâ—nt by the â—â—teries to the heaâ—t from the womb that aâ—ise from terms and evil humâ—â—â— gathered in the womb and this is known by â—ther Signs and Symptomes of a distempered womb To discuss the malignant vapors from the heart give Cordials as in Chap. 3. of palpiâ—â—tion of the Heart as Aqua vitae Cinnamenwater and Epithems Baggs and Liniments The arteries also beat with the heart as iâ— Widdows on the lefâ— Hypochondrion and Bacâ— where there is a great artery and the artery thâ—â— beats in the Back is part of the great artery they which beat in the Hypochondrion are the lesseâ— splenitiâ—k and mesenterick branches therefoâ—e the beating is moâ—e in the Back then in the Hypochondrion but both pulsâ—tions come froâ— the same cause The inflammation of the aâ—teries is the Cause of this beating when evil humors are sent frâ—â— the womb iâ—to the great branches of the arteâ—â—â— and there bâ—â—tâ— the heart being over-hot Somtimes the motion of this artery is all the body over and from a hot humor the hot humors go to the heart and cause a feaver but because there is little putrefaction it vanisheth presently If the heat of the humors go to the brain by the arteâ—ies there is madness Some seek the cause in the vâ—ins and say that the arteries suffer from the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in them You mâ—y feel it wiâ—h your hand laid upon the Hypochondrion and there are signs of a distempered womb and melancholy from the womb if heat continue in the arteries and go to the whole â—ody it consumeth it It is seemingly a small disease but it is not â—ithout danger because it comes from a bad cause that weakens the bowels It is cured as melancholy from the womb and â—â—opping of the terms and as Hypochondriack melancholy from the womb which follows Chap. 10. Of the Diseases of the Spleen and the Hypochondriack Disease from the Womb. SOmtimes the Spleen and the Hypochondria suffer from the womb so that you may doubt â—hat disease it is 〈◊〉 from the womb by the arteries the womb 〈…〉 one from the preparing arteries 〈◊〉 from the Hypogastrick aâ—tâ—ry That from 〈…〉 goes almost to all parts of the 〈…〉 and 〈◊〉 branches of the spleen there 〈…〉 bâ—â— blood is â—â—ed in the womb and 〈…〉 â—pwaâ—d to the 〈…〉 gâ—â—â— easâ—â—y from thencâ— to the 〈…〉 â—â—d tâ— the sâ—leen and the parts adjacent in the abdomen and the sooner 〈◊〉 Nature useth to send bad humors to ignâ—â—â—â— parts These humors are gathered by suppreâ—â—iâ—â— of terms which though they seem to be onel◠〈◊〉 the veins yet they get to the arteries by their Anastomosis Therefore those women that â—avâ—
the sharp bones whence is great pain watching and inflamation of gums feaver loosness and convulsions especially when they breed their eye-teeth First it is known by the usual time as the â—eginning of the seventh month Also they put their â—ingers in their mouths to allay pain 3. They hold the nipple faster then before 4. The gum is white where the tooth begins to come and there are divers Symptomes mentioned before The feaver that follows breeding of teeth comes from cholerick humors inflamed by watching pain and heat The longer teeth are breeding the greater the danger so that many die of feavers or convulsions They are best that have their belly loose These have no convuision a feaver consumes the humoâ—s Hard breeding of teeth is from thickness of the gums therefore molliâ—ie and loosen them rub them with the finger dipt in Butter and Honey or a Virgin Wax Candle is to be chewed upon Or anoint with â—ucilage of Quinces made with Mallow water or with the brains of a Hare Foment the cheek with the Decoction of Althaea and Chamomil flowers and Dill or with juyce of Mallows and fâ—esh Butter If the guâ—s are inflamed add juyce of Nightshade and Lettice Let the Nurse keep a temperate diet inclining to cold as Barley broaths or Watergrewel rear Eggs Prunes Lettice Endive Avoid salâ— sharp biting and peppered meats and Wine Chap. 15. Of Loosing of the Tongue and of the Frog WHen the tongue is tied they cannot freely suck This must be done by skilful Artists or use this Liniment Take clarified Honey and boyl it gently till it may be poudered Then Take yolks of hard Eggs dried in a glass in an Oven till they may be poudered a dram â—rankincense and Mastich each a scruple burnt Allum six grains with Honey of Roses make a Liniment The Frog is when the veins under the tongue are filled with bad blood and if flegm sweat out and stick in the passages there is a tumor like Mushrooms which causeth stamering It is cured thus Take Cuttlebone Sal gem Pepper each a dram burnt Spunge three drams make a Pouder or with Honey a Liniment rub under the tongue Lay under the chin a Plaister of goose dung and Honey boyled in Wine till the Wine be consumed Chap. 16. Of Catarrh Cough and difficult Breathing WEE have spoken of these before but because Hippocrates reckons them in Childrens diseases I shall touch upon them The general Cause of a Catarrh in a child is a moist brain and much milk that burdens the stomach from whence many vapors fil the brain and if the brain be full of excrements it is easily dissolved or melted either by heat or cold and goes to the nose â—â—ws or lungs which cause a cough or Asthma Moreover much food makes crudities in the first passages and flegmatick blood is bred of crudity and thick chyle in the liver This is sent by the arâ—erial vein into the lungs and prâ—ssing the Bronchia or pipes of the lungs causeth difficult breathing and Asthma It is known to be from a hot humor if it be thin they often neese the face is red and the jaws the breath is short and the Nurse â—inds it in her nipples If difficulty of breathing come from the head there will be a cough and snorting in breathing and a noise in the lungs when the air passeth not freely through them If it come from the parts below there is neither Câ—tarrh nor cough but hardness about the Liver and a tumor In children a great Catarrh with short breath is hard to be cured because they cannot take Physick First let it and the Nurse keep a good diet fil not the stomach with milk nor other diet but let the Nurse forbear sharp salt peppered â—our things and things that fill the head with vapors And give her a Pectoral Decoction Take Figs â—ujubes each ten Sebestens thirty Raisons stoned â—en drams Liquorish two drams Maidenhair Hysop Violets each half an ounce boyl them in three pints of Water to the consumption of the third part Let her take six ounces every morning Keep the belly open with Syrup of Roses or Cassia or a Clyster with oyl of sweet Almonds with Sugar candy or juyce of Fennel with Milk or hold down the tongue and provoke Vomiting Give Syrup of Jujubes Maidenhair If the matter be thick give Syrup of Hysop or Horehound or an Emulsion of oyl of sweet Almonds Pine-nuts Scabious water Or give a Lohoch of Diaireos Diatragacanth frigid Peâ—idies with Syrup of Jujubes If it be hot give Emulsions of the â—our great cold Seeds with Mallows Pellitory with Diatragacanth frigid To dry up the matter lay outwardly a stuph of Hemp hot and sprinkled with pouder of red Roses and Frankincense Apply Basil and Marjoram to the nose to make it sneese Chap. 17. Of the Hickets IT comes from corruption of the food in the stomach or from milk â—illing it or from cold 〈◊〉 these hurt the expulsive faculty and it is â—â—â—rred up to expel what is hurtful If iâ— come from reâ—letion of milk the belly swells and there is vomiting after If from corruption of milk the Nurse hath bad milk the child cries and is pained and the excrements sâ—nâ—â—l of stinking milk Hiâ—kets is commonly not dangerous in children and cease when the cause is taken away Iâ— it be from a vehement cause and goes to the nerves there follows a Convulsion or Epilepsie and death That from corruption of nourishment is cured by vomit with a feather dipt in Oyl to tickle the throat then strengthen the stomach with hot things As Syrup of Mints Bettony and soment it with Decoction of Mints Organ Woâ—mwood then anoint with Oyl of Mints Mastich Dill. Or Take Mastich an ounce Frankincense Dill seed each two drams Cummin seed a dram with juyce of Mints and Flax apply them to the stomach There is a disease like the Hiâ—kets in children from anger or grief when the Spirits are much stiâ—red and run from the heart to the Diaphragma forceably and hinder or stop the breath Somtimes they have a shril voice the Spirits suddenly breaking forth but when the passion ceaseth this Symptom ceaseth Chap. 18. Of Vomiting IT is from too much milk or bad milk or fâ—om flâ—gm that fals from the head to the stomach but this is seldom in children It is ofâ—en from a moist loose stomach for as driness retains so loosness le ts go If it be from much milk they are better after vomiting If it be from corruption of milk that which is vomited is yellow green or otherwise ill coloured and stinking worms are known by their signs It is for the most part without danger in children and they that vomit from their birth are the lustiest for the stomach being not used to meat and milk being taken too much oftentimes crudities are easily bred or the milk is corrupted and it is
10 Of the Wrinkles of the Belly after Childbearing and mending of the largenâ—ss of the Privities Page 197 Chap. 11. Of Feavers and acute Diseases in Women in Child-bed 198 The CONTENTS OF THE FOURTH BOOK THE THIRD PART Of the Diseases of Womens Breasts THE FIRST SECTION Of Diseases of the Breasts CHap. 1. Of the increased number of Breasts and greatness extraordinary 203 Chap. 2. Of Swelling of the Breasâ—s with Milk 205 Chap. 3. Of Inflammation anâ— Erisipelas of the Breasts Page 206 Chap. 4. Of the Oedema of thâ— Breasts 20â— Chap. 5. Of the Scirrhus of thâ— Breasts 210 Chap. 6. Of the Glandles or Kernels in the Breasts being swollen or of the Scrofula and Struma in the Breast 211 Chap. 7. Of the Cancer of the Breasts 212 Chap. 8. Of Ulcers and Fistulaes of the Breasts 215 Chap. 9. Of straitness of the passages of the Breasts ibid. Chap. 10. Of strange things bred in the Breasts 216 Chap. 11. Of the Diseases of the Nipples ibid. THE Contents OF THE FOURTH BOOK THE THIRD PART THE SECOND SECTION Of the Symptoms of the Breasts CHap. 1. Of want of Milk and not giving of suck 218 Chap. 2. Of too much Milk 220 Chap. 3. Of Curdling and other faults in the Milk 221 Chap. 4. Of Milk coming forth at wrong places 222 Chap. 5. Of strange things coming forth of the Breasts 223 Chap. 6. Of the change of colour in the Nipples and pain of the â—reasts A Tractate Of the Cure of Infants THE FIRST PART Of the Diet and Government of Infants CHap. 1. Of the choice of the Nurse 225 Chap. 2. Of the Conditions of good Milk 227 Chap. 3. Of curing the faults in Milk ibid. Chap. 4. Of the Diet and Government of new-born Children 229 Chap. 5. Of the Diet of an Infant from breeding of Teeth till it be weaned Page 230 Chap. 6. Of Weaning of Children ibid. Chap. 7. Of Childrens Diet after Weaning 231 THE Contents OF THE SECOND PART Of Diseases and Symptoms of Children CHap. 1. Of Infants Diseases in General 232 Chap. 2. Of Feavers in Children Meazles and small Pox Page 233 Chap. 3. Of the Milkey Scab Achores and Favi 235 Chap. 4. Of a scald Head 236 Chap. 5. Of Ptiriasis or breeding of Lice 239 Chap. 6. Of Hydrocephalus or swelling of the Head 340 Chap. 7. Of Siriasis 241 Chap. 8. Of Frights in the sleep 242 Chap. 9. Of great Watching 243 Chap. 10. Of Epilepsie and Convulsion 244 Chap. 11. Of Strabismus or Squint-eyes 246 Chap. 12. Of pain in the Ears Inflammation Moisture Ulcers and Worms ibid. Chap. 13. Of the Thrush Bladders in the Gums and Inflammation of the Tonsils 247 Chap. 14. Of Breeding of Teeth Page 248 Chap. 15. Of Loosing of the Tongue and of the Frog 249 Chap. 16. Of Catarrh Cough and difficult Breathing 250 Chap. 17. Of the Hicket 251 Chap. 18. Of Vomiting 252 Chap. 19. Of the Torments oâ— pains of the Belly 253 Chap. 20. Of puffing up of the Belly and Hypochondria 255 Chap. 21. Of the Flux of the Belly ibid. Chap. 22. Of binding of the Belly 257 Chap. 23. Of the Worms 258 Chap. 24. Of the Ruptureâ— 261 Chap. 25. Of sticking out of the Navel 262 Chap. 26. Of Inflammation of the Navel 263 Chap. 27. Of Falling out of the Fundament ibid. Chap. 28. Of the Stoâ—â— in the Bladder Page 264 Chap. 29. Of Difficulty and stoppage of Urin 265 Chap. 30. Of not holding the Urin 266 Chap. 31. Of chaâ—ing in the Hips called Intertrigo 267 Chap. 32. Of Leanness and Fascination ibid. THE FOURTH BOOK OF PRACTICAL PHYSICK Of Womens Diseases THE FIRST PART Of Diseases in the Privities of Women THE FIRST SECTION Of Diseases of the Privie Part and the Neck of the Womb. Chap. 1. Of the straitness and largeness of the Orifice THERE are three Diseases in this Part. The straitness and the largeness and the Yard of a woman The straitness is when the cleft is so narrow that it wil not admit of a manâ— Yard or with much difficulty it hinders childbearing and if it be from the first conformation it is hard to be cured by Physick but iâ— is enlarged either by copulation or by bringâ—ng forth of children Somtimes it is from an â—lcer or from astringent Medicines given unadvisedly that they may appear to be Virgins when they are not Somtimes the cleft is shut up outwardly and there is only passage for the urin and the terms these women are called Atretâ—e that is shut upâ— not bored of which Chap. 3. Somtimes it is so close that neither terms nor urine can comâ—â—orth The contrary to this is largeness of the cleâ—t or when there are more holes then Nature hath usually by often copulation or childbearing This laxity or largeness causeth barrenness and falling out of the womb as Hippocraâ—es shâ—ws in the Nature of Women And this makes women unpleasant to men This is cured by purging after childbearing by Fomentations Baths Liniments of Allum water and the Decoction of astringent Plants Take Comâ—rey roots Bole Sanguis Draconisâ— Pomegranate flowers Allum Mastich Galls each half a dram make a Pouder and with steeled Waâ—er make a Mixture dip a Pessary therein Or Takâ— Oâ—ken leaves Plantane each half a handâ—ul Comâ—râ—y roots an ounce â—omâ—granate peâ—ls and flowers Sumach each half an ounce Allum an ounce boyâ— them in water and â—oment the priviâ—ies Somtimes in hard trâ—vel the space between the fundament and the pâ—ivie cleâ—t arâ— brokâ—n into one hole Eroâ— shews the Cure oâ— iâ— Somâ— puâ— a long pieâ—e of Allâ—m into the â—leâ—t When therâ— are divers passages in a womans privâ—ties it iâ— from the first conformation when by Naturâ—â— error the passage from the straight gâ—t goes to the womb Chap. 2. Of the Mentula or Yard in a Woman THe Alâ—e or wings in the privities of a wâ—manâ— are of soft spungy â—lesh like a Cocks comb in shape and colour the part at thâ— top is hard and nervous and swells like a Yâ—rd in Venery with much Spiâ—it This paâ—t sometimes is big as a mans Yard and such womeâ— were thought to be turned into men It is from too much nourishment of the part from â—he loosness of it by oâ—ten handling It is not safe to cut it off presently but fiâ—st use dryers and discussers with things that a little astringe then gentle Causticks without causiâ—g pain as burnt Allum Aegyptiacum Take Aegyptiacum Oyl of Mastich Rosesâ—Wâ—x eaâ—h half an ounce If these will not do theâ—â—â—t it off or tie it with a ligature of Silk or Horse-hair till it mortisie Aetius teacheth the way of amputation he câ—ls it the Nympha or Câ—itoris between both the wings but take heed you cause not pain â—r iâ—â—lammation After cutting waâ—h with Winâ— with Mâ—rtles Bays Roses Pomâ—granate flowâ—â—s â—oyled in it and Cypress-nuâ—s and lay on an 〈…〉 Poâ—der Some excrescences grow like a tail and fill the privities they differ from a Clitoris
part for an ordinaâ—y drink You may use China and Sarsa the same way â—nd because in a decoction some strength is lost â—nd so great a quantity is tedious for womâ—n â—ou may distill them and give a less quantity â—ith things proper for the womb As Take Guajacum a pound or Sarsa eight â—unces Angelica Elicampane each an ounce â—ugwort two handfuls Diâ—tany half a handful ad â—x pints of water or wine steep them two daies then â—istill them and give two ounces of the water Let her meat be roasted birds hens capons â—artridges mutton sweet Almonds Raisons â—t her abstain from â—alt and sharp things If these sweats are unpleasant give them in â—e third and fourth Chapter internal and exterâ—al As Take conserve of Marjoram Rosemary â—ettony each two ounces of Balm an ounce Diaâ—oschu dulcis Diamâ—rgarion calid each a dram â—ndied Eryngus and Citrons each half an ounce â—ith sâ—rup of Mugwort make an Elâ—ctuary and use â—aths to 〈◊〉 in mentioned Drying spaw-Spaw-waters are good to drink or to 〈◊〉 in Let the diet be as in Chap. 3. and 4. give the flesh of wild Mountain â—owl Pigeons Hens Capons Mutton roasted and spiced and old wine and let her exercise Of the hot and dry distemper of the womb with Choler Do as in Chap. 5. purge the Choler whetheâ— it be from the whole body or from the Liver with syrup of Roses Manna Tamarinds Rhubarb Senna c. Chap. 7. Of the ill shape of the womb and first of the straitness of it and its vessels THis is a disease of evil conformation from nature when it can be stretched out no further this makes an abortion in the fourth or fifth month But it is wonderful in its natural shape when it wil stretch according to the proportion of the child and after childbearing be as small as aâ— first Of straitness of the vessels of the Womb. This is usual and hinders the flux of the terms and conception it is in the vessels of the womb and of the neck thereof Are thick tough humors that stop the mouthâ— of the veins and arteries these are bred of groâ—â— or much nourishment when the heat of thâ— womb is so weak that it cannot attenuate the humors these either â—low from the whole body oâ— are gathered in the womb Somtimes vessels are closed by inflammatioâ— or Sâ—irrhus oâ— other tumor 3. They are stopt by astringenâ— Medicines 4. By compression 5. From a Scar or flesh or a membrane that gâ—ows after a wound Stoppage of the terms shews straitness which hiâ—ders conception and this stoppage is known by crudities abounding in the body which are known by their signs Sometimes thick flegm comes from the womb if there was a wound before or the Secundine was pulled out by force Stoppage of terms from an old obstruction by humors is hard to be cured if it be from disorderly use of astringents it is more curable if it be from a Scirrhus or other tumor that compresseth or closeth the vessels that cannot be cured the disease is incurable Obstructions are taken away by the means mentioned in the cold and moist Distemper of the Womb â—leâ—m must be purged and she must be let blood as in stoppage of the terms After Universals come to the obstruction with Medicines that move the terms these take away the cause as in the Chapter of the cold distemper of the Womb. Or Take Asparagus roots Parsley roots each an ounce Madder roots half an ounce red Pease half a handful Pennyroyal Calamints each a handful Wall-flowers Dill flowers each two pugils boyl strain and add syrup of Mugwort an ounce and half Or Take Birthwort and white Dittany roots â—ach â—n ounce Cosâ—us Cinnamon Galangal each half â—n ounce Rosemary Pâ—nnyroyal Calamints Bâ—tâ—ony â—â—â—wers each a handful Anise and Fennelâ—eâ—â— each a dram Saffron half a dram with â—iâ—e Oâ— use Topiâ—ks as Take Mugwort Marâ—oram Calamints Mercury Pennyroyal each twâ— handâ—uls Sâ—ge Râ—semary Bays â—hamomil flowers eaâ—h a handâ—â—l boyl them in water fomenâ— the groyns and the bottom of thâ— belly or let her â—it in a Bath up to the navel and then anoint about the groyns with Oyl of Rue Lillies Dill c. Or use Pessaries and Fumes mentioned If straitness be from other diseases cure them first Chap. 8. Of the opening of the Vessels of the Womb besides Nature THis is when there is great bleeding The vessels are opened preternaturally three waies by Anastomosis Diaeresis and by Diapedesis as in the lungs Anastomosis is from much blood which the liver doth produce and send out by the womb as in some by the nose For the blood being thin hot cholerick and sharp opens the mouths of the vessels and causeth a flux Diaeresis is from much blood when there is great motion as when there is long copulation with a strong man that hath a great tool or a hard travel or abortion a â—all or stroke also when sharp humors corrode or sharp pessaries Diapedâ—sis is from the thinness of the vessels and loosness and the thinness of the blood or from much moisture or use of Baths Mâ—ch blood is a â—ign the vessels are open you shall know the causes that open them thus In Anastomosis the blood drops and is thâ—n and there are signs of much blood or sharp and thin If there be a Diâ—erâ—sis the blood flows more and there are cloddeâ—s and there were causes that broke the vessels as sharp Suppositories Diapedesis is known when the woman is of a thin and loose habit of body the blood thin or she hath used â—uch bathing If the vessels open from much blood in a sound body there is less danger and it is easier cured then in a Cacoâ—hymy In an Aâ—asiomosis give things that thicken without slime as Roses Mirtles Medlars Services Pomegranate peels and flâ—wers Sanders â—oral Harts horn Cypress-nuâ—s In Diaeresis give things that thicken with slime ' as Comfrey Plantane Gum Traganth whites of Eggs Troches of Amber Bole Starch Rice Quinces Sanguis Draconis Sarcocol and Izing glass But because there are divers causes and these diseâ—es are not cured but by taking them away â— we shall speak of them in the Chapter of immoderate Terms Chap. 9. Of a double Womb the wanting of a Womb and evil shape of the Womb and strange things found in it Julius Obsequens saiâ—s that one woman had two wâ—mbs and 〈◊〉 saith that a Maid had her womb in two parts as in Bitches Câ—lâ—mbus saith that one wanted a womb but â—eâ— privities were as in other women and part â—f the neck of it hung out Worms in the Womb. Hippocrates writes that worms are found in the womb And Gynaecea writes it is a sign thaâ— Nature is wanton c. And John de Tornamira writes that he saw a Woman that had an intollerable itching in her womb from the Ascarides he gave a Womb clyster of the Decoction of Wormwood and Hiera and
it be inflamed before the pain is about the â—â—bes and the urin is stopt If behind it is in the â—oyns and the belly is bound If it be inflamed in the bottom the pain is towards the navel If it be from pure blood the Symptoms are less if from choler stronger the thiâ—st is more the watching greater if from melancholy all are worse If it be all over the womb it is dangerous and few escape it An Erysipelas in a woman with child is deadly because there is an abortion and the Mother dies the worse the Symptomes the greater is the danger And it is safer to discuss an inflammation then to ripen it if it turn to a Schirrus it is lasting and makes 〈◊〉 Dropsie If it be not after abortion or a flux of blood open a vein in the Arm or cup and scarifie the shoâ—lders Bleed nâ—t in the foot least you draw blood more to the womb but afterwards to derive if it be from terms stopt you may Galen â—aith You may divert the blood by bleeding in the arm or cupping the breasts and you maâ— derive it by â—pening the ankle-vein and cupping upon t e hips If there be cholerâ— purge it with Syrup of Roses Manna Rhubarb Diacatholicon and use not strong movers of the terms Use Alteâ—ers and Coolers as Juleps and Emulsions and provoke sleep and if there be dotage give Narcoticks Aâ—ter Univâ—rsals use Repellers and Aâ—odynes As Take Housleek Purslane Lettiâ—â— Venus-navelâ— Vine leaves each half a handful boyl them in wine add Barley meal two ounces Pomegranaâ—e fiowers two drams Bole a dram with Oyl of Roses â—ake a Pultis Or Take Diachylon simple twâ—â—unces jâ—yce of Venus-navel and Plantane each haâ—f an ounce Oyl of Roses an ounce Sugar of Lead a dram make an Oyntment in a leaden Mortar Make Injections of the same Herbs or of Milk and rose-Rosewater Or Take Plantane Venâ—â—-naâ—el Lettice each a hanâ—ful reâ— Râ—ses two pâ—â—ilâ— boyl and ad Oyl of Mirtles an ounce Rosâ—-vinegar half an ounce make an Inâ—â—ction Make Clysters of the sâ—me Plants in a small quantity least they oppress the woâ—b Tâ—ke Alâ—haea roots an ounce Mâ—llows Violets Lettice each a handful Nightshade half a handful Violets Roses each a pugil sweet Prâ—nes ten Linseed half a dram boyl them in Barley watâ—r to six ounces ad Oyl of Roses three ounces make a Clysâ—er An anodyne Fomentation Take roots of Althaea Mallows and Viâ—lets each a handful red Roses Melilot Câ—amomil flowers each a pugil boyl them for a Fomentation Or use a Cataplasm of white Bread and Milk Iâ— the progress disâ—uss As Take pouder of Althâ—ea roots an ounce Chamomil and Meliâ—ot â—â—owers eâ—â—h two drams Mugwâ—rt half an ounce Barley and Bean flour â—ach an ounce boyl them in sharp wine add Hogs grease Oyl of Chamomil and Lilliâ—â— â—â—ch an â—unce make a Caâ—aplasm If the inflammation turn to matter ripen it As Take poâ—der of Altha a râ—ots Chamomil floâ—â—rs Mâ—lilâ—tâ— Lineseed Faeâ—ugreekâ— each an ounce Figgs eight boyl them add yolkâ— of â—our Eggs and haâ—â— a scruple of Saâ—â—ron make a Pultis Aâ—â—er it is ripe break it by motion of the body coughing neâ—sing cupping or by Peâ—â—aries As Take â—iggs an â—unce Rue half a handâ—ul boyl them 〈◊〉 ad Honey and Leaven each half an ounce Pigeons dung Orris roots each half a dram with wool make a Pessary Aâ—ter it is broken the pain abates thâ—n cleâ—se and heal the ulcer as in Sect. 1. c. 8. of an ulcer of the womb If it break about the bladder give an Emulsion of cold Seeds Whey and Syrup of Violets Let the diet be cool with Barley water warm Abstain from Wine to the deâ—lination of the disease let the belly still 〈◊〉 kept looâ—e Chap. 14. Of a Scirrhus and Cancer in the Womb. AN earthy matter left after an inflammation makâ—s a hard tumoâ— called a Scirrhus and sâ—mtimes it is without an inflammation It is a pâ—oper Sâ—irrhus when there is neither sense nor pâ—n it is impâ—oper when there is a little sense It is soâ—times as big as a mans head somtimes the whole womb is a Sâ—inhus sâ—mtimes onely pâ—rt of it The immediate Cause is a thiâ—k earthâ— huâ—or as nâ—tural melanâ—â—olyâ— whâ—n a thiâ—k humor is gathered in the womb there is a Scirrhus without inflammation aforegoing this iâ— usual in melancholy women and such as are noâ— clensed by their terms or have the Pica or green-sickness and are fifty years old Other humors somtimes breed a Scirrhus afteâ— inflammation when cold astringents have been used disorderly for then the humor is fixed to the part and hardned The same may be from hot discussers which send forth the thin matter in an inflammation and fasten the thick The tumor is to be felt it yields not and is without pain the terms flow not at first or very little afterwards there is a great flux of blood If an inflamation went before and the part is heavy and burdened it is a sign of a Scirrhus She is unweeldy â—loathful and you may know from what humor it is by the signs of the humors predominating in the body and the part pained will shew you in what place it is A Scirrhus easily turns to a Cancer And when the terms are stopt there is a Dropsie of the womb or belly It is easier cured in the neck then in the womb it self Moisten and heat the cold and dry humor with Borage Bugloss Fumitory Succory Epithymum Polypodâ— Then purge with Polypody Senna black Hellebore and the like As Take roots of Althaea Lilliâ—s eâ—ch two ounces Mallows Viâ—lâ—tâ— Alâ—haea Brankursine each a handâ—ul Mugâ—ort Calamints Chamomil flowers each half a handful â—aeâ—â—greek and Linâ—eâ—d each half an â—unce bâ—â—l them â—or a Fomentatiâ—n or Bath or to a Catapâ—asm with Lineseeâ— Faenugreek â—a h an â—uncâ— Fiâ—s six Orris pâ—uder â—wo drams Saâ—â—ron half a dram Henâ— grease and Oyl of sweet Aâ—monds as much as is â—it Or Take Bdellium Ammoniacum Galbanum each as much as you please beat them in a Mortar with Oyl de Been and Lillies add Mucilage of Faenugreek Lineseed Figgs make a Liniment or with wax a Plaister Or Take Oyl of Capars Lillies sweet Almonds Jesamine each an ounce fresh Butter Hens grease Goose grease each half an ounce Mucilage of Faenugreek Althaea and Oyntment of Althaea eaâ—h six drams Ammoniacum dissolved in wine an ounce with wax make an Oyntment Make Injections thus Take Bdellium dissolved in wine Oyl of sweet Almonds Lillies Chamomil each two ounces marrow of a Veal bone Hens grease each an ounce with the yolk of an Eg. In a bastard Scirrhus you may use healers and digesters better and Ammoniacum and hotter Fat 's Internal Medicines are steel c. of which in obstruction of the Womb and Scirrhus of the Spleen As for diet abstain from breeders of gross and slimy humors and from hot dryers Cancer of the Womb. What may be said of
oâ— Spunge put into the womb dipt in sâ—arp â—â—ne oâ— jâ—yce of Acacia with pouder oâ— Saâ—guis Draconis Bole Mastiâ—h or the Counteâ—ies Oyntâ—ent with Galbanum and Bdellium Apply a Cupping-glass with great flame under the navel or paps or to both kidnies and lay this Plaister to the back Take Opopanax two ounces Storax liquid half an ounce Frankincense Mastich Pitch Bole each two drams with wax maâ—e a Plaister Or Take Labdanum a dram and half Frankincense Mâ—stich each half a dram wood Aloes Cloves Spikâ— eaâ—h a dram Ash coloured Ambergrâ—ece four grâ—iâ—â— Muâ—k half â— sâ—ruple make two râ—und Plaister◠〈◊〉 be laid on eacâ— side the Navel Make a Fume of a Snail skiâ— faltâ—d or of Garliâ—k and let it be taken in by a â—unnel Use aâ—tringenâ—â—omentations of â—ramble leaves Plaâ—tane Horstail Mirtles each two handfuls Wormwood two pugils Pomegranate flowers half an ounce bo l them in wine and water Or inject this with a Syringe Take Comsâ—ey roots an ounce Snakeweed Pomegranate flowers each half an ounce Rupâ—â—rewort two drams Yarrow Mugwort each half an ounce boyl them in red Wine Then use Sulphur Baths To strengthen the Womb Take Harts-bornâ— Bayes â—ach a dram Mirrh halâ— a dram make a Bâ—udâ—r for two dosâ—s give it with sharp wine Or Take Zedoary Pâ—rsnep seâ—ds Crabs eâ—es prepared â—ach a dram Nâ—â—mâ—g half a dram give a dram in pâ—uder but use astringents warily lest you stop the courses and cause worse mischief Iâ— it fall out from â—â—il hâ—mors that flow to the womb and loosen the ligâ—unents purge the body and then â—se dryers as the decoction of China Sarsa and Guajacum To keep it in its place make Roulers and ligatures as for the Rupture and use Pessaries into the bottom of the womb that may force it to remain of which Franâ—is Rousset hath writâ—en at large and shews that they neither hinder conception nor bring any inconvenience nay that they help conception and retain it and cure this disease perfectly And Gaspar Bauâ—inus confirms the same in his Appendix to Rousset You may use Circles or Balls instead of Pessaries As Take roots of wild Vine make round Circles or Balls of them greater or less as the Neck of the womb is Then Take Virginâ— wax melted with white Rosin or Turpentine dip the bâ—lls in till they are fit put one into the neck of the womb that will hold in being just fit let it nâ—t be tâ—ken out till it fall out and then put in another if she be not â—â—red If it gangrene and sphacelate cut it quite off if she fear cutting take it off by ligature of which Rousset who shews the way and saies that it may be cut off without danger of life He tells also of the place where you must cut and in Sect. 4. de partu Caesareo where the ligature is to be made Let the diet be drying and astringent and glewing as Rice Starch Quinces Pears green Cheese Avoid Summer fruits let the Wine be astringent and red The Cure of the inclining of the Womb. When it inclines to the side after Universals apply Cupping-glasses to the other side and let her still lie on the other side and let the Midwife anoint her singer with Oyl of sweet Almonds and draw it a little by degrees to the other side Chap. 17. Of the Rupture of the Womb. FEw Physitians have seen this I never read of any but once I saw it of which in my institutions lib. 2. pâ—rt 1. cap. 9. Chap. 18. Of Wounds and breaking of the Womb. IT is seldom woundâ—d by reason of the divers defences it â—â—th but somtimes the â—hirurgions wound it in cutting out of the child of which Hollerius inter rara no. 8. he speaks of a Woman with child in Paris that her childs hand put forth at the nâ—vel and was so in travel fifteen daies and both child and mother were safe It is evident if it be made by the Chirurgion in cuâ—â—ing out of a child and you may know iâ— by the place if it come otherwise There is blood and matter that flows out at the neck of the womb There is more pain when it is in the neâ—â— of the womb then when it is in the bottom These wounds are cured as appears by the Caesarean birth or cutting but they are dangerous by reasoâ— of the strange Symptoms and the consent of the parts Use Consolidaters or Healeâ—s and if there be pain Anodynes or Pessaries made of Wax candles dipt in Wound-oyntments Or Take Wax Turpenâ—ine Goose greâ—se Buâ—â—er each a dram Honey Deer's marrow Oyl oâ— Râ—sâ— Bulls grease each two drams Or Take Fraâ—â— kincense Mastich â—eruss Galbaâ—â—um each half an ounce mix them all with white â—ine then â—d Poâ—phâ—lix an ounce and wiâ—h Wax and Oyl of Roseâ— make an Oyntment Make Iâ—jâ—ctions or Clysters for the woâ—b of the Decoction of round Birthwort Cyprâ—ss boyled in steeled Water and sharp Wiâ—e with a little Hydromel Agrimony Mugwoâ—t Plantane Roses Sâ—haenanth Hoâ—ehound Chap. 19. Of Ulcers and rottenness of the Womb. THough the neck of the womb be only sâ—bjâ—ct to ulcers as we shewed yet the substance of womb hath been ulcerated and it hath been observed to rot when it hath fallen â—ut and to fall away * As we said of a Woman at Aâ—inion that after lived some time And the Examples of Rousset shew that it may be safely cut off Also a â—hild dead in the wombâ— may cause an ulcer as divers Histories witness in Albucasis and Alexander Benedictus Mauriciâ—s Cordâ—â—us and many others How thâ—se ulcers and rottenness of the womb are cured is said in Sect. 1. cap. 8. where we spâ—ke of Ulcers of the neâ—k of the Womb and Cap. 10. of Fiâ—â—ulaes of the Womb. Chap. 20. Of the Diseases of the Stones and Vessels of Procreation in Women IT is apparâ—nt by Hiâ—tories wâ—itten by grave and leaâ—ned Mâ—n that the stoâ—es of women and there seed-vessels are many times grievously distempered when the womb joyned to them is not Somtimes water is gathered about the stones as Gaspar Bauhinus John Schenkius write and he hath another History Lib. Obser 3 from John Heintz of a Maid that desired a little before she died that her body might be opened to testifie her innocency In which besides other things remarkablâ— the stones were found swollen as big as a head of a young child blewish and spungie much water came out of them and that made her belly swel and she taken to be with child buâ— the truth appeared and her chastity testified THE FOURTH BOOK THE SECOND PART Of the Symptoms in the Womb and from the Womb. Chap. 1. Of weakness of the Womb. THERE are many Symptomes from the womb Of those in the womb the first is weakness so that it cannot perform its actions The action of the womb is twofold private and publick By its private action it â—akes it nourishment of blood that comes to it
By its publick action it serves for generation If the private faculty be hurt and the nourishmâ—nt not well made there is a superâ—luous moisture and then weakness without other fault of the organ or unity divided The first Cause is distemper when the manifest qualities are changed or when the natural heat is suffocated or dispersed or when the occult qualities are changed Heat in the womb makes a hot distemper if it be too much by which the womb sucks more then it can concoct this is not propeâ—ly weakness but that distemper iâ— weakness when the action is either not done or weakly done But cold rather makes weakness in the womb by which it cannot make the sufficient quantity of nourishment hence excremenâ—s are heaped up and it câ—nnot perform its actions Also a moist distemper makes weakness by which it can neither keep seed nor child it is also weak from loosness Little desire of Venery and no pleasure therin argue weakness of the womb flux of seed often abortion pain in the loyns and pubes when the terms are coming â—arts from the womb head-ach and the like The signs of a cold and moist distemper with or without matter are already declared It is a great disease by reason of the diverâ— Symptoms in women that have conception hurt It is worst when it comes from dispersing and extinguishing of the natural heat We have shewed how distempers of the womb are cured but the dispersing of the Spirits and natural heat is cured by things that hinder thâ— loss of Spirits and strengthen the womb as Spices Cinnamon Cloves Nutmeg Mace Diacalaminth Aromaticum rosâ—tum Diaxilaloes rosâ—ta Novella Treacle Mithridate Outwardly by Oyl of Lillies Nard Lavender and Astringents when the womb is loose Things that help the womb in the whole subsâ—â—nâ—e are in the Chapter of the cold and moist Diâ—â—emper as Aqua vitae for Women Or this Take Castor three ounces Saffron two ounces extract thâ—m siâ—gular add to both Extract of Mugwort two oâ—nces of Angelica a drâ—m Magistery of the mother of Pearl â— dram Oyl of Cloves a sâ—ruple of Angeliâ—â— and of Amber and of Nutmegs each half a scruple Let her eaâ— meat of much nourishmâ—nt and drink good Wine Chap. 2. Of the Itch of the Womb. THis is more in old then young womeâ—â— and must be distinguished from the Frenzie of the womb for here is only a desire to scrath the privities so that they cannot sleep Nor is it with desire of copulation as in the fury of the womb It is a salt humor that is serous and adust that causeth it that is sent to the neck of the womb and the privities How it comes there I shewâ—d in Ulcers of the privities It is known by her relation and often putting her hand to the privities It is more troublesom then dangerous becauâ—â— it hinders sleep First purge the whole body and if there aâ—â— signs of plethory and strength permits bleed iâ— the arm Then qualifie the sharp â—alt hâ—mors with cold and moist means and râ—movâ— them from the privities Foment with a Dâ—coction of Lettice Plantane Willow Dock rooâ—s and then anoint with Galenâ— Cooler Or dip â— Pessary in this Oyntment and put it in Oâ— Tâ—ke Allum Nitâ—r Sulphur each six drams Sâ—â—phisager an ounâ—e with Rose-vinegar and fresh Butter make a Linimens If these wil not cure use stronger as the oyntment of Elicampane with Quickâ—ilver Or Take black Soap Staphisacre â—ach a dram quiâ—k Brimstone half an ounce Quick silver two drams wiâ—â— Rose-vinegar and Hogs grease make an Oyntment Let the meâ—t be of good juyâ—e coolinâ— and moistâ—â—ng Take heed of Spices sharp and salt meats Chap. 3. Of pain in the Womb. THere is pain in the body of the womb witâ— other diseases sometimes as the Coâ—â—ckpains woven in the bottom of the belly and in the loyns and hips and is called the Pain of thâ— Womb. It is often in women with child as the inflammation of the womb it is burning and beating it binds the belly and stops the urin Solution of unity is the Cause of all pains and this is from the stretching of the womb and its vessels or corrosion Stretching is from wind or clotted blood in the cavity oâ— it and when Nature cannot expel it by reason of the straitness of the paâ—t there is pain Also pain is from stretching of the vessels beâ—ore the terms flow when they are close and the blood thick and this pain is increased by external cold especially after heat Somtimes there is a gathering oâ— humors about the womb when the terms â—â—ow and are â—oul and they get into the membranes and stretch them The same may be from corrupt seed that stretcheth the vessels Or from sharpness and corrosion in the neck â—f the womb when sharp humors flow through it and twâ—tch it The pain is manifest but let us look at the â—igns oâ—â—he causes If it be from clotted blood there was a flux of the same and the pain is fixed about the oriâ—ice of the womb If there were external causes the patient will relate If it be from seed there is suffocation of the womb The greater the cause is and the more vehement it works the more is the danger If there be pain and fear of fainting look to that before the cause with Anodynes and Narcoâ—icks if need be If it be from windâ— see inflation of the womb If iâ— be from clotted blood diâ—â—olve and evaâ—uate it with hot and attenuating Medicines made into Fomentations Baths and Oyntmenâ—s It is good to apply Treacle to the region of the womb or put it in with Rue and Honey Or give a Clyster to the womb of Ruâ— Foenugreâ—k sâ—ed and Oyl of Rue and Orris Or give 〈◊〉 and Cinnamon water If the vessels of the womb are not open enough for the terms See in the stoppage of the terms If there be wind make a Clyster thus Takâ— Merâ—ury Mugwort Calâ—mints Pennyroyal eaâ—h 〈◊〉 handâ—ul Chamomil and Melilot flowers each haâ—â— a handâ—ul 〈◊〉 anâ— Lineâ—eed each an ounâ—e boyl them in a pint strained dissolve Hiera Beâ—tdicta laxativa each half an ounce â—aâ—e a Clâ—â—â—â—r Give Mugwort Zedoary water Essence of Caâ—â—â—r Treacle or â—omens Aquâ— vitâ—e of whiâ—h before Make a Clyster for the Womb thus Takâ— Mugwort Calamints Bettony each hâ—lâ— a handâ—â—â— Gith Cummin Carrot Aniseedâ— eaâ—h a dram Spiâ—e Schoenanth Nutmeg Cinnamon eâ—â—h 〈◊〉 dram boyl them in Wine Then fill an Ox bladder half full with Oyl of Lillies and Dill and apply it to the belly Or Tâ—ke Oyl of Lillies Orris each an ounâ—e distilled Oyl of Angelicâ— a dram Goose and Heâ—s gâ—eâ—se each half an ounce Muciâ—â—gâ— of Linâ— aâ—d Faenugreek seed made with Muâ—wâ—rt wâ—â—er eaâ—h three drams seeds of Cummin Câ—rrâ—ts Carawaâ— each a dram with Wâ—x mâ—ke a soft Oyntment Oâ— Take Peâ—â—itorâ— two handâ—uls Mercury a handful beat them add Chamomil flowers Cummin Anise
or broke it there is no blood after copulation Therefore Deut. chap 22. the Law of Moses is taken for that which happeneth often and for the most part And there can be no more gaâ—hered fâ—om hence but bleeding is an undoubted sign of Virginity The same may be said of the African custom Question 3. Whether is the straitness of the priviâ—ies a sign of Virginity The privities are straiter in some according tâ— age habit of body and other circumstances and Virgins are straiter then women that have been at it But I deny that straitness is a certain argument of Virginity For after many acts of Venery it may be made so strait by astringent Medicinesâ— that Whores may be taken for Virgins as we shewed concerning a Wench that was married and to appear a Virgin she used a Bath of Comâ—rey roots Question 4 Whâ—â—her is Miâ—k iâ— the breasts a sigâ— oâ— Virginity lost Some say that there can be no milk in the bâ—easts tiâ—l a woman hath conceived and Virgins have neither the cause nor the end why milk is made And the terms stoâ—t do rather coâ—rupt then turn to milk And though there be alwaies in the breasts a faculty to make milk yet doth it not shew its power but upon an object and for some end Some say that Virgins may have milk and urge this Saying of Hippoâ—raâ—es If any have milk whâ—n she is neither with child nor breedingâ— thâ—ir â—erms are stopt Galen is of the same opinion and though it be seldom â—et he saith it is possible And Alexander Benedictus and Christopher de Vega saw it We shall not contradict Hippocrates and expeâ—ience but there is a twoâ—old milk The one of Virgins The other of those that have brought forth or conceived The first is made of blood that cannot get out at the womb but goes to the breasts and this is nothing but a superfluous nourishment of the breasts that turns milk by â—he faculty of the breasts without the company â—f a man or concâ—pâ—ion Tâ—e other is only when â—here is a child of this milk it is true what Hipâ—â—â—rates writes It is a certain sign of a Mole when â—râ—at bâ—llâ—â—d women haâ—e no milk in their breasts â—nd true milk in the breasts is a sign of a live â—hild in the womb These milks differ in respect of the blood and diversity of the veins that bring it to the breasts and though both are white yet that of Virgins is thinnest noâ— is it so much nor so sweet this may breed in the veins according to Aristotle from the supersâ—uous nourishment of the breasts and if Virgins have it they are not to be termed â—nchast Chap. 2. Of the Green-sickness or white Feaver THis is in Virgins fit for a man it is callâ—d the Virgins disease and the white Feaver not that there is alwaies a feaver but because their face is like people in a feaver It is thus defined The Virgins diseaâ—e is the changing of the natural colour into a pale and green with faintness heaviness of body loathing of meat palpitation of heart difficult breathing sadness swelling of the â—eet eyelids and face from depraved nourishment The first Cause is stoppage of terms The next is the gathering of bad humors for when the way to the womb is stopt the blood returns to the great vessels and bowels and choaks theiâ— heat and stops the vessels and spoils the making of blood and then there are crudities which being brought to the habit of the body cannot bâ— united perfectly to the partsâ— and cause a Cachâ—xy which is the way to a Dropsie and Leuâ—ophlegmacâ— and divers Symptoms The causâ—â— of the oâ—structions of the vessels of the womb are crude humors and â—legmatick â—limy bloodâ— from evil diet and drinking oâ— vinegar or eating raw corn chalk ashes lime earth â—lay and the like There is a pale and green colour the face is sâ—ollen and the eye-brows in the morning after sleep especially the ankles swell and the whole body is loose and moist from much water the lâ—ggs are lazy the pulse is little and often in the neck temples and back The heart beats the breath is short when they go up stairs they loath meat Some have the Pica or desire to eat absurd things The terms are stopt the Hypochoâ—dria are swollen somtimes they vomit if vapors â—â—ie to the head there is thirst and headach and if melancholy be mixed the animal actions are hurt These are not all in all people but most are in most and in some all It is often turned to a Dropsie Some after death have had a Scirrhus hard liver some die suddenly the heart being oppressed If the stomach be much afflicted it is dangerous and they loath meat much If it come from the womb alone it is easier cured It is best to begin in the Spring or Summer after a Clyster open a vein the ankle Then heat the thick cold humor and make it thin andâ—because it is too much to be purged at once prepare and purge often and mix attenâ—aters and cutters with your purges When the humors are above the stomach and Mesentery it is good to vomit those that can easily vomit and to give liver-physick or spleen or womb-physick even as in Leucophlegmacy â—ee the Chapter of Terms stopt But in this disease alwaies consider the liver spleen and Mesentâ—ry the obstructions of which are cuâ—ed with things mentioned At firâ—â— open the the obstructions of these paâ—â—s wiâ—h â—omâ—â—ew things that provoke terms and â—â—ter â—ive more Thus Take opening Roots an ounce Maddâ—r 〈◊〉 Orris Eâ—â—â—ampane Citron pâ—els dried Sarâ—â—â—â—â—â—h hâ—lf an â—unâ—e Mugwort Agrimony â—â—rmâ—nder each a handful Savin two pugils Câ—râ—hamâ—s seeds an ounce Senna two ounces Meâ—hoacan Agarick each half an ounce Stâ—â—chas 〈◊〉 two pugils Fennel Aniseed Galangal each two drams bâ—â—l them to a pint and half sweeten it aâ—d adâ— Cinnamon water three dramâ— Or infuse â—â—em all with Sea-wormwood half a handful common â—â—â—mwood two pugils Or Take Agarick pills of Râ—ubaâ—â— eaâ—h a dram Quercetâ—n's Pills of Tartar and of Ammâ—niacumâ— each half a dram Spike a sâ—ruple Oyl of â—innamon thâ—ee drops Extract of Wormwood half a scruple make Pills give a scruple an hour before meat Or Take juyce of Mâ—rcury clarified Honey or Sugar each an ounce add Gith seed Senna â—aâ—h two drams Mechoacan a dram make a Mass or give Conserve of Marigold flowers Stâ—el is an excellent remedy after Preparatives with proper Drinks or Ingredients And iâ— the vessels of the stomach are stopt give a Vomit and then gross pouder of Steel If the Mesentery be stopt Take Diarrhodon Diacurcuma Agarick each a dram Câ—rthamus seeds two drams red Dock roots Câ—rrot seed each 〈◊〉 dram and half Cloves a dram Steel prepared two ounces with clarified Honey make an Elâ—ctuary give two or four drams If she vomit stop it not If the Livâ—r be chiefly stoâ—tâ— let the Stâ—â—l be â—inely poudereâ—
of the child that stretcheth the ligaments of the womb and parts adjacent if there be Plethory bleed If it be from weight of the child hold it up with swathing Bands about the neck 5. There is flux of blood at the womb nose oâ— Haemorrhoids from plenty or from the weakness of the child that takes it not in or from evil humors in the blood that stir up Nature to send it forth Also the vessels of the womb may be broken or torn by motion fall cough or trouble of mind This is dangerous of which Hippocrates saith The child cannot be well if it be from blood only there is less danger so it â—lows by the veins of the neck of the womb for it takes aâ—ay Plethory or take not nourishment from the child If it be from the weakness of the child that draws it not abortion often follows or hard travel or she goes beyond her time If it slow by the inward veins of the womb there is moâ—e dangâ—r by the openness of the womb If it come fâ—om evil blood the danger is alike from Cacochymy which is like to fall upon both If thâ—râ— be Plethory open a vein warily and use astringents As Take Pearls prepared a scruple 〈◊〉 Coral two sâ—ruples Mace Nutmeg eaâ—h a dram Cinâ—â—mon halâ— a dram make a Poâ—der or with Sugar Râ—uâ—s or give this Pouder in Broath Tâ—kâ— red Coral a dram Pearl half a dram precious stonâ—â— eaâ—h half a scruple red Sanders half a dram Boâ—â— a dram sealed Earth Tormentil roots eâ—ch two sâ—ruples with Sugar of Roses and Manus Christi 〈◊〉 Pearl six drams make a Pouder You may strengthen the child at the navelâ— Iâ— there be Cacochymy alter the humoâ—s and if you may evacuate You may use Amulets in the hands and about the neck In flux of Haemorrhoids beware of the pain Let her dâ—ink hot Wine with a roasted Nutmeg Chap. 6. Of the Symptomes that are in the last months FIrst the urin is stopt from suppression of thâ— neâ—k of the bladder Let her then lie dâ—wnâ— and let bladder be fomented with a Bag of Pâ—llitoâ—y Parâ—ley rootsâ— Mâ—llows Lineseed and the like oâ— use the Câ—theter 2. The belly is bound from a hot dry liveâ—â— when the child dâ—â—ws all the moisture to it 〈◊〉 the guts Let her then use Moistâ—ers 〈◊〉 Butter Mâ—llows Borage in Broaths or take Clysters in a small quantity 3 The veins appear in the hips and leggs aâ— varicâ—ns onâ—ly then keep them from walkingâ— and let thâ—iâ—â—eet be laid upon a stool 4. The lâ—ggs swell from â—erous blood but thiâ— goes away with the aâ—terbirth and is the signs 〈◊〉 a female child but if she cannot walk foment â—ith a Lye made of Vine branches and Wine or with a Decoction of Organ Pennâ—royal Chamomil Calamints Or Take Bean and Lupine flour each twâ—â—unces Tartar an ounce Pigeons dung half an â—unce with â—eeled water and juyce of Coleworts make a Pultis Râ—b and wash the feet with salt water in which Châ—momiâ— Organ and Dill were boâ—led 5. The skin of the belly is cleâ—t with stretchâ—ng after the fourth month therefore use loosning Limments to keep off deformity as marrow of Veal and Sheeps legs Oyl of sweet Almonds Hens grease 6. The water gathered in time of being with â—hild between the membranes that hold the â—hild comes forth too soon because the membranes are broken by leaping or a conâ—usion This makes difficult birth for that water was to moisten the parts Therefore let her keep a good diet and strengthen the â—hild inwardly and outwardly Chap. 7. Of Weakness of the Child THis is either from weak seed or little nourishment or bad and causeth many diseases in the child To hinder abortion and death of the child know rightlâ— the weakness as Hippocrates saith They that will abort have first breasts that â—al away which iâ— from want of nourishment in the common veiâ—s of the womb and breasts Hippâ—crates â—ath a seâ—ond signâ— which is thisâ— Iâ— a Wâ—man with Child hath much milk flowing from her breast her Child is weak 3. If the terms flow often the nourishment is taken from the child 4. A mother often and long being sick shews that her child is weak because her blood is not good and the bad humors with the blood go to nourish the child which makes him sick 5. When the mother hath a flux of the belly the child is weak 6. WheÌ„ it begins to move and is scarce felt it is weak If it be from these causes take them away and strengthen the child first â—eed the mother high with meats of good juyce and sweet Almonds steept in Honey Raisons Quinces outwardly thus Take Malmsey three pints dissolve it in oyl â—f Nutmegâ— by exprâ—ssion half an ounce add pouder of Cloves Rue each half an ounce Rose Sage Marâ—oram Pennyâ—oyal water each a pint Aqua vitae three ounces Dip Spunges in it and apply them under the leâ—t breast to the arm-pits hams pulses soles of the feet and when they dry wet them again Chap. 8. Of Crying in the Womb. CHildren have somtimes cryed in the womb as Fabricius saith in his Epistle to his Brother James Finâ—el and Wâ—inridiâ—k of Monsters writes thus In this City of Bressa a child was heard to cry in the womb three daies before the travel when he was a man he was misâ—rable with poverty and disâ—asâ—s till he died Andreas Libaviâ—â— writes the same and others Some saâ— it portends evil to the Mother or Child or Countrey It is a vâ—ice by the expulsion of the air thâ—ouâ—h the â—ough arteâ—y and some air may in the câ—vities from vapors or Spirits as in eggs when chickens pip in them And if the child have a rough artery lungs and breasts which are the organs of breathing â—ound and the child is strong there is no hinderance but it may utter a voice But somthing whatsoever it is must stir it to make this noise THE FOURTH BOOK THE THIRD PART THE SIXTH SECTION Of Symptoms that happen in Childbearing Chap. 1. Of Child-bearing in General WHEN the child can no longer be contained in so small a place being grown and requiring moâ—e nourishment it kiâ—ks and bâ—eaks the membranes and Ligaments that hâ—ld it and thâ— womb by an expelling fâ—culty sends it forth with great strainingâ— and this is called â—ravel It is either naturâ—l or not natural legitimaâ—e or illigitimate The natural is when the child â—omes with the head forward and heels upwards with his hands and arms to his thighs and so the other parts easily follow then the Amnios is broken and the water that was laid up in time of being with child flows forth and moistens the passaâ—es then the child with more force breaks the Acetabula from which the Secundine is separated and the other membranes are broken and the blood flows into the cavity of the womb and the child gets out by the expulsive faculty with such force that
but there is least danger when both â—eet come forth this is called by the Latins Partus Agrippinâ—s Let the Midwife reduce it into the cavity of the womb when it comes not forth right and place it right When the feet cannot be thrust upwards let the Midwife fupple the parts with oyl and take hold of the arm and help it and give neesings Let her alwaies labor to put the child in a right posture by moving it with her hand or taking the mother from the bed and compose her in such a posture as may bring the child into a right posture and that soon Chap. 7. Of a slow Birth THis is when the child is longer coming forth then ordinarily â—f this Massa writes that a Venetian Matron conceived of a husband of seventy years of age and brought forth a child in the â—iâ—teenth month blind and without hands which lived five months Cardanns writes that his father said he was born in the thiâ—teenth month and Mercurialis writes thus That it was never seen or written that a woman had a live chiâ—d fâ—ur years in her belly c. but these are rare and miraculous The cause is the weakness of the seed and want of heat in the womb which makes the expulsive â—aculty weak Chap. 8. Of a Child dead in the womb WHen at the time of Child-birth there is pain and breaking â—orth of water which ceaseth presently without delivery the child remaining in the womb then the mother or the child dies or both When the travel is vehement from divers causes they may also cause no birth for either the more she may lose her strength and the child not come forth or both may die And if the child be weak and move little or the mother may be weak and the child great the travel is hard and both die or if the child come not forth in a right posture Or if the passages are ill proportioned as when the bones of the Pubes do not give way or when there is Schirrhus or other tumor that straitneth the passagesâ— there is no delivery Or the child dies by a disease for want of nourishment or a fall stroak or leap or passion in the mother Search if the child be living or dead for if it be dead it wil hurt the mother by rotting and if the mother die and child be alive take it out before the mother be buried A child is known to be dead if the mother and Midwiâ—e perceive no motion nor is it raised by any strengtheners given and when the mother moves from side to side iâ— moves like a stone oâ— when the face and lipps of the mother are pale and her extream parts livid and the breasts that were plump are fallen her breath sttinks water and stinking matter flows from the womb there is a Feaver horror and fainting or Convulsion or if the Secundine come forth before the child If a dead child be not presently taken out the mother is in great danger there are great Symptoms and strange diseases of which see Francis Rousset and others When the child comes not forth in time and is alive it must be taken out by the Midwife or Chirurgion by cutting the belly and womb of which in the Chapter following If it be dead you must drive or take it out before it stinks either by Medicines or Chirurgery The Medicines are such as stir up the expulsive faculty but they must be stronger then before because the motion of the child ceaseth as Take Savin round Birthwort Troches of Mirrh Castor each a dram Cinnamon half an ounce Saffron a scruple give a dram with savin-Savin-water Or Take Borax Savin Dittany each an ounce Mirrh Asarum rooes Cinnamon Saffron each half a dram make a Pouder give a dram Purge first and put her in an emollient Bath and anoint about the womb with Oyl of Lillies sweet Almonds Chamomil Hens and Goose-grease Foment to get out the child with a Decoction of Mercury Orris wild Cowcumber Staechas Broom flowers Then anoint the Privities and Loyns with Oyntment of Sowbread Or Take Colaquiwida Agarick Birthwort each a dram make a Pouder ad Ammoniacum dissolved in Wine Ox gall each two drams with Oyl â—f Keir make an Oyntment Or this Pessary Take Birthwort Orris black Hellebâ—re Coloquintida Mirrh each a dram poudered add Ammoniacum dissolved in Wine Ox gall each two drams Or make a Fume with Asses hoof burnt or Galbanum or Castor and let it be taken in with a Funnel If these wil not do use Chirurgery It is done with the hand only or with instruments of which Aegineta and Aetius Charles Stephens shews how to use the hand without instruments When you know the child is dead saith he place the woman in the best posture and tie her so very fast c. see the rest John Bauhin takes the same course out of Schenks Observations And because the strength â—aileth refresh her and abate pain cherish the torn parts and prevent Symptoms To take away pain and strengthen the parts soment with the Decoction of Mugwort Mallows Rosemary Wormwood Mirtles St. Johns-wort each half an ounce Sperma Ceti two drams Deer's suet an ounce with Wax make an Oyntment Or Take Wax four ounces Sperma Ceti an ounce melt them dip Flax therein and lay it all over the belly In some Counâ—â—ies women will not permit these but leave all to God Chap. 9. Of the Caesarean Birth THe belly and womb are cut sometimes to take out the child and this is called the Caesarean Birth and they that live are called Caesars It is done in three cases 1. When the child is dead and the woman livâ— 2. Whâ—n the woman is dead and the child alive 3. When both mother and child are alive This is seldom because either Medicines do it or it is taken out by other Chirurgery or the work is left to Nature Mathias Cornax hath a History of one that carried a dead child in her belly four years it was taken out by cutting the womb and belly and the mother lived and conceived with child after she fainted not at the time and the wound grew together without stitching and her terms after came in good order and she had a lusty Boy till the 2. of June The Surgeons that had cut her afore were sent for and the old orisice was open and the mother and the women present would not yeild to the second cutting Therefore her strength failed and the Chirurgion took out a compleat child but it was dead There are more Histories of live children cut out of their mothers bellies being dead And Roderick a Castro saith that an infant cannot live in the mothers womb being dead except it be taken out at the very time of her departure or while there are vital Spirits because when the motion and life of the mother cease the life of the child also ceaseth yet is his
have Symptomatical â—eavers also from inâ—â—ammation of the Pleura Jaws or Liver because some of the â—oul humors are sent to some private part and makes an inflamation to which the â—eaver is joyned and the causes are as before mentioned If there be a Pleuriâ—ie she is in great danger The question is whether she must bleed above or below I say thus First this â—eaver is not properly Symptomatical but primary and hath the inflammation its associate while Nature sends part of the matter to the Pleura or other part Secondly note that Nature is in an erâ—or while she sends the vitious humors which she should expel by the womb to the Pleura Thirdly note that the vitious moâ—ion of Nature is not to be helped therefore which should be done if you should presently open a vein in the arm but the blood is to be voided by the womb which is Natures way Fourthly iâ— the Pleuriâ—ie be not abated by oâ—ening a vein in the aâ—kle for revulsion but the Sympâ—oms continue or increase you must not continue to open the veins beneath because they evacuate not from the part affected which is neâ—essâ—ry in such a dangerous disease It is a sign that the matter is fastned to the part that it cannot again be brought to the womb by revulsion Therefore then you may open a vein in the arm on the same side to evacuate and derive the blood from the part or there about or she will be in danger of death And fear not that Nature will be taken from her ordinary motion towards the womb thereby for the vein that was opened in the foot prevented that and if you fear any danger you may prevent it by Frictions and cupping of the leggs while you let blood in the arm And you may give Clysters that may cause the humors moving upwards to come down and loosen the passages of the womb that blood may flow out the better As Take Pellitory of the Wall Mallows Althaea red Coleworts each a handful Chamomilâ—â—owers half a handful Faenugreek and Linseed each half an ounce boyl them in Water to a pint strained add lenitive Electuary an ounce Diacatholicon or Cassia half an ounce Oyl of Violets two ounces make a Clyster If the Feaver abate and the time of the flux of the Lochia be past give a gentle Purge Cure the rest as an ordinary Pleurisie onely take heed that while the after-flux lasts you give no binding Medicine Also she may have a Quinzie while she lies in while the vitious matter flows to the jaws The â—ure of which bleeding is to be done as in the Pleurisâ—e but the rest is to be done as in the Quinâ—â—ie And if the Liver be inflamed by the motion of the humors to it you must bleed as in the Pleurisie and Quinzie Yet it is not so needful in the arm as in the Pleuriâ—ie by reason of the greater distance of the Liver from the arm for the Pleura and the breast are nearer and consent more with the arms but the vein in the legâ— is near to the hollow vein as the distribution of the upper veins to the arms The rest of the Cure of the inflammation â—f the Liver is in Lib. 3. onely observe that you must not use too great Coolers or Binders in women in Child-bed but things that are of thin parts least the flux called Lochia or after-blood should be stopped THE FOURTH BOOK THE THIRD PART Of the Diseases of Womens Breasts THE FIRST SECTION Of Diseases of the Breasts Chap. 1. Of the increased number of Breasts and grâ—atness extraordinary THOUGH Nature hath ordained two in all women yet some have Breasts like men others have had two on each side that had milk The figure of the Breasts is round pointed at the nipple a little it ought not to be soft nor hard and of an indifferent bigness and it is better they be indifferent though thâ—y hold not so much milk least they be subject to Câ—nâ—ers and inâ—lammations and when they are too big they have not a temperate heat The Causes of over-great Breasts is much blood and the â—â—â—ength of heat attracting and â—oncoâ—ting it these are remote causes but the immediâ—te cause is the laâ—geness of the passages and loosness which is in the first conformation and furthered by idlâ—ness much sleep and few terms and often handling of the Breasts by whiâ—h the blood and the heat is drawn to the Breasts It is easier to keep them from growing great then to abate them when too big with good diet and Topicks that repel by cooling and binding and drying As Take Mirtle leavesâ— Horstayl Plantane Mints red Roses each a handful Pomegranate flowers two pugilâ— boyl them in red Wine and Vinegar and with a Spunge apply it to the breastsâ— and let it dry or apply Hemloâ—k bruised with Vinegar Or Take pouder of Comâ—râ—â—roots two drams Pomâ—granate flowers red Râ—â—â—s Frankincense Mastich each half an ounce â—â—â—ley â—â—our red Oakre each an ounce and half with Rose-watâ—â— the white of an Eâ— and â— little Vinegâ—r make a Cataplasme These may be laid to the Breasts and under the arm-piâ—s to astringe the vessels and hinder the blood from flowing to them Hemlock Henbane and other Narcoticks are forbidden because they weaken the natural heat and hinder the breeding of milk Dryers and Discussers are good in women tâ—at have great Breasts after weaning to consume the moisture As Take Bean and Orobus meal each twâ— ounces and half Comâ—rey roots in pouder half an ounce Mints three drams Wormwood Chamomil flâ—wers anâ— Roses eaâ—h two drams boyl and add two ounces of Oyl of Mastich make a Cataâ—lasme The Breasts are too little when the flux of blood to the Breasts is hindered diminished intercepted revelled or turned another way or when the blood is not drawn by the Breasts as in a dry Liver-famine much labour or in watchings feavers and other diseases that consume the body The same is when the radical moisture of the Breasts is conâ—umed You must remove the cause that breeds it and â—â—ten friction wil attract blood and foment with warm water in which Emollients have been boylâ—d with white Wine and then anoint with Oyl of sweet Almonds or of Indian-nuts Loosness of the Breasts is cured by astringents Chap. 2. Of Swelling of the Breasts with Milk VVHen the milk carrying veins are too full the Breasts swell all over or in â—aâ—â— and are pained by stretching and red Somâ—â—â—es the milk congealâ—th and is a hard Tuâ—â—â— â—hâ— cause is abundance of milk or blood that â—â—kes it or the weakness of the child that cannot â—uâ—k oâ— because he is weaned Iâ— oâ—tâ—n â—â—â—seth without remedies Somtimes 〈◊〉 is an inâ—â—â—mmation or the milk hardens to a 〈◊〉 You must hinder the breeding of much milk of which hereafter and consume that which is bred in women that give suck the child will draw them or a Puppy Or use a Glass to suâ—k with they which wil not give
must either use Moistners and Emollients with Digesters by turns or mixed â—oment with the Decoction of Mallâ—ws Althâ—â—â— Foenugreek and Lineseed Bâ—ank-ursine and Chamomil â—lowersâ— Then anoint with Oyl of sweet Almonds Chamomil Hens grease Veal marrow Oyntment of Althâ—â—a Or apply this Cataplasm Take Althâ—ea Mallows Brank-ursine Fennel tops each a handful boyl them soft stamp them ad Barley and Bean flour Linseed pouder of Althaea roots Chamomil flowers each an ounce Or lay on the great Diachylon Plaster and that of â—rogs Then sprinkle Wine upon a hot stone and let the Fume be received And apply a Plaster of Ammoniacum dissolved in Vinegar If it be a bastard Scirrhusâ— you may fear a Cancer Then after Universaâ—s and bleeding take away the disposition of the bowels that breeds black humors If you fear a flux of humors use oyl of Roses and juyce of Plantane and if there be heat stir them first in a Leaden mortar till they change their colour then add Ceruss Litharge each three ounces with Wax make an Oyntment Chap. 6. Of the Glandles or Kernels in the Breasts being swollen or of the Scrofula and Struma in the Breast CElsus saith the Struma and Scrofula in the Breast are rare It is from a thick humoâ— flegm or melancholy Struma is with pain sometimes and and is like a Cancer or seems to turn to a Cancer but continues many years at a sâ—andâ— But let the cause 〈◊〉 â—at it will it â—omes fâ—om stoppage or disorder of the terms by reason of the great consenâ— of the womb with the Breast The Glandles or Kernels are to be felt though not before there is one great unmoveable tuumor and the rest are small It is hard to be cured for two causes the eaâ—thiness of the matter and the deep lying of it They which are near the skin are easily dissolved After purging and bleeding use Emollients and Discussers that are strong as in Scirrhus Take Orris roots three ounces boyl them in Oxymâ—l stamp them add Turpentine Oyntment of Althaea each three ounces Mucilage of Faenugreek seed an ounce Or Take roots of Althaea two ounces Briony-roots an ounce Orris roots half an ounce boyl them soft in white Wine stamp them add Ammoniacum dissolved in Vinegar and Bdellium dissolved in Wine each an ounce with Pitch and Wax make a Plaster If it cannot be discussed suppurate or cut it but this is troublesom and dangerous Chap. 7. Of the Cancer of the Breasts HIppocrates saith That an occult Cancer is better not cured then cured â— for if cured they prâ—sently die but if not they live long Many women have lived long with good order of diet having a Cancer as if they had no disease so saith Wâ—lliam Fabricius and that if the Cancer be not ulcerated they may live forty years without pain and if you lay on Emolâ—ients and Suppuraters they die in half a year The Breasts are spungy and loose and therefore Cancers breed often there but the Cause is from the womb when they are of a hot and dry constitution with burnt blood and when the terms stâ—p and then the humors flie to the womb and and mâ—ke a Cancer either with or without a tuâ—or asâ—regomg A Cancer that â—râ—seth of it self is hard to be discerned at first for it is like a little tubercle no bigger then a pease and grows up by degrees and spreads out roots with veins about it And when the skin is eaten through it is a stinking ulcer and the lipps are hard and the matter black It is hard or never cured because the black humor that causeth it is very troublesom and hath a peculiar malignity which is fermented and made worse with Emollients and Suppuraters which loosen the vessels and dilate them so that the humor flows easier to the part and the corrupt humors get easier to the parts adjacent and infect them A Cancer not ulcerated is to be let alone by the counsel of Hippocrates But let blood and purge melancholy often But use no Topicks that may rot or provoke the part but things that by experience take away pain as Nightshade-water Snails boyled and Frogs in Oyl and with ashes of Frogs made into an Oyntment or Medicines of Lead As Take Oyl of Roses two ounces juyce of Nightshade berries an ounce and half Ceruss washâ—d Sugar of Lead each a dram Pompholygos half an â—unce mix them in a Leaden mortar till they aâ—e thick Or use Craysiâ—h ashes and the ashes of the inward ward rind of an Ash-tree or Herb Robert Arcaeus teacheth how to cut them out and then burn the part if they be deep and ulcerated But Fabriâ—ius shews that you must burn after to consume the reliques and stop the blood after it is â—lensed Take Herb Robert Verbascum or Moulin Scabious Caprifolium or Honeysucâ—les Diâ—â— Mans grease each equal parts burn them take three ounces and with six ounces of Nightshadâ— water in â— Leaden mortar mix them After cutting out the root purge melancholy often and provoke terms or Haemorrhoids least it return Give Treacle Mithridateâ— with juyce of Boâ—age Sorrel Craysish broath and Asses milk This Water is good against all Cancers Take Moulin roots Clowns all-â—â—al each two ounces Dropwort Ceterach Herb Robert Agrimony Tormentil Scabious Avens Flâ—xweed each a handful Nettle seed three drams Elder and Rosemary-flowers each a pâ—gil boyl and sweeten it with Sugar Foment and waâ—h the Cancer with one part of it and let the dreggs be applied as a Pultis Fuchsius his blessed Pouder Take white Arsenick that shineth not like glass an ounce poudâ—r it pour Aqua viâ—ae upon it and pour it off add fresh Aqua vitae every third day for fifteen daies Then Take roots of great Dragons gathered in July or August sliced and dried in the wind two ounces Thirdly â—ake bright clear Soote of the Chimney three drams make a Pouder Keep it close â—â—opt in a glass the older the better use it not till after a year For a palliative Cure keep it from increasing and take away pain with this Wateâ— Take Scrâ—phularia roots and Herb Robert each a handful Lambs-tongue Nightshade Bugloss Borageâ— Purâ—â—ane Eâ—ebright â—â—ttony each half a handful a Fâ—og and two whites of Eggs with Quince seeds and Faenugreekâ— each an ounce Rose and Eyebrightâ—ater each a pint distil them in a Leaden still Use not Cancers as other ulcers for Emolliâ—ntâ— Healers and Drawers exasperâ—te and kill wiâ—â— greâ—t pain Chap. 8. Of Ulcers and Fistulaes of the Breasts AFter Universals dry up the milk and if the Breasts hang down bind them up that the humors flow not down and move not the arm on that side Then clense it with the Docoction of Rhapontick Zedoary and Agâ—imony Heal thus Take strong Wâ—â—e six quarts Rhois Obsoniorâ—m Cypress-nuts each four ounces green Galls two ounces boyl them to the consistenâ—e of Honey If you fear a Fiâ—tula enlarge
Oyl of Roses Mastich each half an ounce red Sanderâ— Coral each a scruple with Wax mix it If the feaver come from breeding of it abate the pain and give the Alterers of which Chap. 14. of Bleeding of Teeth Of Meazles and small Pox. There are Epidemical feavers at certain times that cast out Meazles and small Pox of whicâ— before The cause is not only from the impurity of the terms but from the malignity of the air for they are more or less as the air is purer or impurer Somtimes it is infectious and the humors are so coâ—rupt that worms breed under the scabs and corrode the bones and internal parts as hath been seen in bodies opened dead of this disease If the disease be very infectious before there is a â—eaver it is good to preserve by change of air and Antidotes when many die of it but when few die it is not amiss to let them alone leaâ—â— they have it in a more dangerous time for most will have it only give a gentle Purge and â—ortifie Nature that she may better expel them If there be a â—eaver use no more Preservatives â—ut labour to get them forth by Medicines mentioned and defend the eyes and throat and â—â—event deformity of which before Chap. 3. Of the Milkey Scab Achores and Favi THe milkey Scab is at the first sucking the Achoâ—es are after The Achores are scabs not white and the white scab is not only in the face but all over the body The Achores are only in the head but they are cured alike They are all ulcers chiefly in the head with holâ—s that run with matter constantly They come from excrementitious humors waterish and sharp mixed of thick and thin very â—alt Therefore they are sometimes yellow or white or red or black but alwaies salt and biâ—ing and itching that makes them scratch They are gâ—thered in the womb and from corruption of the milk The Vulgar think they are healthful when they run because Nature sends them forth and if they strike in they cause diseases and Epilepâ—ies They cure in time â—f themselves but if the matter be very bad it pierceth the skull Dry these not rashly so they disfigure not the â—â—câ— nor hurt the eyes But drive them forth with â—â—abious Câ—rduus water and Cordials Use no Coolers nor Astringents least the matter be stroke in Let the Nurse forbear salt and sharp â—nd spiced things and strong Wine Pepare the humors with Borage Sâ—â—â—ory Bugloâ—s Fumitâ—â—y Hops Polypody and Dock roots Then purge with Senna Polypody Epithymum Rhuâ—â—â—b and strengthen thâ— Bowels As Take Conserve of Borage Bugloss Violets Fumitâ—ry Succory each an ounce Succory roots and Citrons candied each half an ounce Diarrhodon Diamargartion â—rigid Harts-horn each a sâ—ruple with 〈◊〉 oâ—â— Gâ—â—â—i-â—â—oâ—â—rs makâ— an Electuary Let the Nurse take every day two drams Or Take Harts-horn prepared two drams Magâ—stery of Coral a dram Diamargariton frigid half a dram give half a dram or a dram of this Pouder Let the child be purged with Manna or Raisons laxative If you fear great putrefaction under the scabs and that wil turn to a scald head or eat the skul wash the head with Decoction of Mallows Barley Celandine Wormwood or with Althaea-roots boyled in Boyes urine and Barley water And then anoint with Oyl of Roses bitter Almonds and a little Litharge Or Take ashes of Mirtles and Nut shells each a dram Tutty a dram and half Butter washed with Rose-water an ounce Or Take juyce of Beets Celandine each an ounce Hogs grease two ounces Sulphur a dram Or Take Cerâ—ss Litharge each two drams Pomegranate flowers and Agarick eâ—ch a dram with Oyl of Roses and Vinegar make an Oyntment or wash with Soap and then with the Decoction When the skull is bare use Honey of Roses and Spirit of Wine and after round Birthwort and Balsom of Peru and Turpentine with Tobacco water Chap. 4. Of a scald Head IF Achores or Favi last long or are ill cured They turn to a Scald which is a scabby ulcer that corrodes the skin and stinks it is called Tinâ—a or Moth which eats garmentsâ— as this doth the flesh Achores are moist ulcers in the head and body Tinea is a dry ulcer in the head only The immediate cause is a salt and sharp humor melancholick from the mothers blood or bad milk it infecteth others by the clouts or caps Some are like a bran or scurfe with scales some are slimy and when the scab is off there appears red quick nobs of flesh like the insides of sigs some are malignant some not some new some old There are dry scabs in the head yellow or ash coloured that run little and that which is voided stinketh It is hard to be cured If it be new or the matter yellow or the like it is easier An old Scald ash-coloured and black is stubborn aâ—tâ—r cure the hair will scarce grow there again because the skin is so hard if it will not grow red after rubbing there is no hopes of hair coming again First take off the Scab with â—lensers a little sharp and because the humors make the skin dry and thick moisten with Hogs grease upon Beet or Colewort leaves Or Take juyce of Fumitory Coleworts Docks Elicampâ—ne each an â—unce and half Litharge half an ounce with Hogs grease oyl of Rue and Wax make a sofâ— Oymment When the Child is of age and strong make first universal evâ—â—uation with Senna Rhubarb Agarick then take off the Scab with Sulphur two drams Mustard half a drain Stavisacre Briony roots each a dram Vinegar an ounce Turpentine half an ounce and Bears grease Or beat Watercresses with Hogs gâ—ease and apply it the scab wil fall off in twenty four hours continue it After the scab is off pull the hair out by the roots with instruments or medicines commonly they use a pitched cap and pull it off violently which brings away the hair Or Take Starch or Wheat flour two ounces Rosin half an ounce boyl it in water for a Pultis lay it upon the several Sâ—aldâ— and let it stick some daies then pluck it off suddenly Then use Emollients that correct the dry distemper Also use things to take the excrements out that lie deep in the skin As Take roots of Althaea Docks Lillies each an ounce Mallows Fumitory Sage each two handful boyl them in Liâ— add Vinegar wash the head with it every day Thenâ— Take Ostratium Sulphur each half an ounce oyl of Eggs an ounce with Hogs grease After that Take Briony and Dock roots and Elicampanâ— roots each an ounce Fumitory Celandine Scabious each two handful Chamomil and Balm each a handful boyl them in Lie and wash the head twice a day therewithâ— or foment it then rub the head with a course cloth or with oyl of Staphesacre or of Raddish till it grow red to draw out the bad humors that lie deep
Then use Tarr and Wax for a Cerot Orâ— Take Salâ—-pâ—ter an ounce Oxymel an ounce and half Or Take quick Brimstone an ounce whiâ—â— Hâ—llebore Staphisacre each two drams with Hogs grease It is not safe to use Arsenick or Oâ—piment or Mercury or other poysâ—ns that corroâ—e because it is so neer the brain Chap. 5. Of Ptiriasis or breeding of Lice LIce are creatures which breed in clothes that are constantly worn but they are chiefly in children from the excrements of the head All say that filth and nastiness alone is the cause of lice but I think not so for filth alone cannot do it without heat for besides the first qualities there is a hidden force in the matter by which it is disposed to produce a particular species for fleas and worms wil not breed of that matter which breeds lice so it is in Plants Heat is the helping cause which raiseth the seminal force and brings it into act and though the matter be putrid it doth not woâ—k upon it but as it is somwhat natural Excrements are not presently putrid but there is in them a heat that can raise forming force and though there is some putrefaction yet is it not so great as to hinder the action hence it is that children and women that are hot and moist have many excrements that are fit to breed lice Some meats breed lice as Figs by their fat juyce which doth naturally tend to the skin and varieties of meats and not clensing nor combeing The plâ—ce where lice breed in children is the skin of the head where they stick fast with the hair especially if there be scabs The Signs are needless they are manifest It is a filthy troublesom disease many have them â—reed all over the body and some have died by them Somtimes the lice leave them when they are about to die To prevent breeding lice let children eat no food of evil juyce especially Figs let the head be often combed and washed and the matter purged that breeds them with hot dry thin medicines that draw the matter out and consume superfluous moisture Take heed of Mercury and Arsnick in children but make this Lotion Take round Birthwort Lupines Pine and Cypress leaves each equal parts boyl them Or Take Elicampane roots two ounces Briony half an ounce Beets Mercury Soap-wort each a handful Lupines a dram Niter half an ounce boyl them for a Lotion then use this oyntment Take pouder of Staphisacre three drams of Lupins half an ounce Agarick two drams quick Sâ—lphur a dram and half Ox gall half an ounce with â—yl of Wormwood there are stronger as white Hellebore and Mecrury which are not safe Chap. 6. Of Hydrocephalus or swelling of the Head WE spake of this in the water wiâ—hout the Skull but Hydrocephalus is from watâ—r gathered within the skull or in the ventricleâ— of the brain as when the childs head in the womb hangs down or when the brain is verâ— moist A tumor from water contained in the brain is less and harder then when it is out of the skull It is harder to be cured then when it is gathered without the skull and is often deadly There are many medicines mentioned that are good here to be used outwardly and to the nose and ears As Take Snails in their shells thirty Marjoram Mugwâ—rt each a handful stamp add Camphire a scruple Saffron half a dram with Oyl of Chamomil make a Pultis Snuff this Water often Take Nutmeg Cloves Câ—bebs each â— sâ—ruple Calamus Frankincense bark each half â— dram Marjoram water three ounces drop hot Oyls into the earâ— If in twenty daies the water be not gone open the skull and let out the water by degrees and take heed of cold The tumor of wind in the skin of the head or membranes of the brain is seldom without water which breeds wind Use Discussers that make thin as Chamomil Rue Organ c. Chap. 7. Of Siriasis IT is from Aetius a diâ—ease with a â—eaver or an inflammation of the membraneâ— and the brain so that there is a hollowness of the eyes and forhead It is from flegmatick blood that grows hot by putrefaction and so becomes like choler The remote causes are hot weather and milk full of wind from the evil diet of the Nurse Such milk will make the child drunk and cause this inflamation Heat of the forehead and hollowness there redness of face a â—eaver driness no appetite watching The hollowness in the â—ore-part of the head is where the Sagital and Coronal â—utures meet for there the bones are membranous and grow at last hard It is dangerous and counted deadly among women and as often as this bone oâ— membrane â—als there is a pit and the brain fals down they commonly die in three daies First give a Clyster of syrup of Roses or Violets then Coolers of the juyce and water of Lettice Gourds Melons or apply a Pumpion split in two But cool not the brain too much anoint with Oyl of Roses Or Take Oyl of Roses half an ounce Populeon an ounce the white of an Eg and of the Emulsion of cold Seeds drawn with Rose water two drams After the flux is stopt and the inflammation abated use Discussers As Take Oyl of Chamomil an ounce and half of Dill half an ounce with the yolk of an Eg. Let the Nurses diet be cooling or the milk be changed let it not be vexed Chap. 8. Of Frights in the Sleep HIppocrates saith this is often the cause is unclean vapors mixed with the animal spirits that disturbe them and present horrible objects to the fancy They arise from the depraved concoction of the stomach in full feeding children that eat more then they can digest These vapors ascend not onely by the weaâ—and but by the veins to the head It comes often from worâ—s also or corrupt humors that knaw the mouth oâ— the stomach They groan in their sleepâ— and twitch and bâ—ing frighted out of sleep they cry their breath is hot and often sâ—inking â—ure it presenâ—ly for iâ— is the â—ore-runâ—er of an Epilepâ—â—â— Give good Milk and leâ—s thâ—t the stomach be not over charged Let it not sleep presently after food but carry it about till it is in the bottom of the stomach Use Oyl of sweet Almonds or Honey of Roses two spoonfuls to clense the stomach Then strengthen it with Magistery of Coral or Conâ—ection of Hyacinths with Milk Or Take Magistery of Coral a dram Diapleres a scruple with Sugar dissolved in Rose water an ounce mâ—ke Rouâ—s Anoint the stomach with Oyl of Nard Wormwood Mints Mastich Nâ—tmegs If it be from a feaver look to that If from woâ—ms I shal after speak of it Some hang Coral and Wolves teeth about the childs neck Chap. 9. Of great Watâ—hing A Child new born sleeps more then he wakes because his brain is very moist and he used to sleep in
neither heat nor rednessâ— and it lasts longer then an inflammation If the navel was not wel cuâ— there wil be too great a quantity if the Peritonaeum be not broken but loose the navel starts not much out and is not greater by crying if it be broken the tuâ—or scarce appears when he lies upon his back but it increaseth by crying or walking If the Midwiâ—e did not cut the navel wel it is more troublesom then dangerous If it be too large or ulcerated at first it is easily cured but afterwards it may cause a deadly iliaâ—k passion when the guts that fall in are inflamed When the Peritonaeum is loose wind stretcheth the navel then use a Cataplasm of Cummin Bayberries and Lupines poudered in â—ed Wine or a Bag of Cummin and Spike boyled iâ— red Wine Then lay on an astringent and roul it If the Peritonaeum be broken first put in the gut then bind it close after you have laid on astringent Pouders Or Take pouder of â—ypressnuts Frankincensâ— Miâ—â—lâ— Mastich Sarcocol Allâ—m â—â—inglass each a drâ—m with the whites of Egs make a Pultis and give Mediâ—ines against Ruptures Chap. 26. Of Inflammation of the Navel IT is from pain when it is hot well tied that draws blood to it There is redness hardness heat and beating If it turns to an impoâ—tâ—umâ— and breaks the guâ—s come forth and the child usually dies First abate pain Take Maâ—â—ows boyled and stampt two ounces Barley meal half an ounce Lupines Fenâ—greeâ—â— eaâ—h two dramâ—â— with Oyl oâ— Roseâ—â—â—ke a Cataplasm To repel Blood Takâ— Fraâ—kincense a dram Acacia Fleabanâ— seed eâ—ch half a dram with the white of an Eg makâ— a Cataplasm 〈◊〉 Suppuration as much as may be but iâ— it doth suppurate Take Turpentiâ—e half an ounce the yolâ— of an Egâ— and Oyl of Roses two ounces Chap. 27. Of Falling out of the Fundament VVHen the muscle thaâ—â—huts the Arsâ—-holâ— is loose the fundament comes fâ—rth the cause is moisture of the muscles afteâ— a flux or straining at stool in Tenesmus or Needing or when the belly is bound The â—eople will tell you the causes and you may see it It is easily cured when it is from straning at stool if it have not been long out If it be from great store of moisture it is hard to be cured especially if there be a loosness of the belly for then Medicines cannot lie on First put it up if it be swollen foment it with the decoction of Mallows and Althaea or anoint with Oyl of Lilliesâ— then keep it in with astringents As Take â—â—d Roses Pomegranaâ—e peels and flowers Cypress nuts each half an ounce Sumach Frankincense Mastich each two dramsâ— boyl them in red Wine foment with a Spunge then sprinkle on this Pouder Take red Roses and Pomegranaâ—e flowers each half a dram Frankincense Mastich each a dram lay it upon a clout and put it to the Fundamentâ— See Lib. 3. Part 2. Sect. 1. c. 6. Chap. 28. Of the Stone in the Bladder THe stone in the bladder is usual in infants as that of the kidnies is in elder people How it is cured we shewed beforeâ— In infants it is from gross unclean milk made of tough meats this too much taken in causeth crudities sit to breed the stone â—r pap of Barley meal and milk may cause it There is alâ—o a weakneâ—s in the liver and stomach when they do not separate unprofitable food but much earthy juyce remains in the chyle that breeds stones Also a hoâ— distemper in the reins by which the chyle is drawn to the bladder and if there be a native hereditary disposition to breed the stone an earthy part is in the humor which makes the urine thickâ— this is in bigger Boys more then in infants They piss by drops with itching and pain the Urin is stopt often and thaâ— which is pissed is like cleer waâ—er white or like milk or whey somtimes blood is pissed and the yard often stands It increaseth dayly iâ— it be not opposed and cannot be cured without cutting which is dangerous for yong or old Prevent the breeding of it when you see the least disposition to it Let the belly be alwaies kept loose and the Nurse eat no gross slimy food make a bath of the decoction of Althaea Mallows Pellitory Parsley Dill Faenugreek Lineseed then anoint the bladder with Althaea oyl of Lillies and Scorpions and apply a Cataplasm oâ— Pellitory boyled with oyl of Lillies A Pouder Take Magistery of Crabs eyes white Amber Goats blood prepared each a scruple with Parsley water give it often Or give two drops of spirit oâ— Vitriol with half a dram of Cypress Turpentine Chap. 29. Of Difficulty and Stoppage of Urin. THere are many causes in ripe age that are mentioned but in Infants they are chiefly two causes the thick humor that breeds the stone that makes a strangury and dysury and the Stone that stops the bladder It is voided by drops and the child cries and the urin is thick you may try with the Catheter if there be a Stone If it be not presently cured it turns to the Stone and all natural evacuation in Children being stopt is dangerous It is as in the Stone you must evacuate humors from the first passages with Honâ—y of Roses Cassia Turpentine foment and anoint as before with Grass water Restharrow Dropwort watter and decoction of red Pease Or Take the blood of an Hare an ounce Saxiâ—â—â—ge roots six drams calâ—ine them give from 〈◊〉 scruple to half a dram with white Wine or Saxiâ—â—age water Chap. 30. Of not holding the Urin. SOmâ—â—piss noâ— oâ—â—y in their sleep but alwaies because the muscle that should close the orifice of the bladder is weak and when much water pricks it it suffers it to come forth sometimes a Stone in the bladder hurts the Sphincter so that it cannot do its duty The cause of weakness is a cold humor and moist from gross â—ough meats from gluttony and the like It cannot bâ— known iâ— Infants but iâ— may in elder children that â—now they ought not piss abed If it come by custome it turns to an habit or a disease and is hard to be cured in ripe years if it be from distemper it is easie to be cured Alter the cold and moist distemper dry and consume the flegm let the Nurse have a hot drying diet with Sage Hysop Marjoram let not the child drink much keep the belly Outwardly aâ—oâ—â—t the region of the bladder with oyl of Costus Orris and other driers make a bath oâ— Sulphur Allum and Oak leaves oâ—luse Sulphur or Allâ—m baths give this pouder Take Hogs bladders burnt roasted stones of a Hare Cocks throats roastedâ— each half a dram Acrons two scruples Nip Mace each a scruple give half a dram with Oak leaves water see Lib. 3. Part 8. Sect. 2. c. 6. Chap. 31. Of chaâ—ing in the Hips called