the Tongue as in the other and Wind and Water sometimes bursteth out at the Mouth of the Womb. Secondly to distinguish between the sorts of these Dropsyes consider if Wind be the Cause the lower part of the Belly being struck giveth a Sound thence is a pricking pain in the Belly which reacheth to the Diaphragma the Womb riseth like a Globe towards the stomach Wind bursteth our of its Neck and the Patient is subject to Belching and when she breaketh Wind she findeth some ease If a watry wheyish Humour be the Cause the part appeareth soft and flaggy with a Noise of Water and great Heavinesse If from Phlegm it will be more soft and the parts adjacent as well as the Womb have a phlegmatick Swelling Thirdly you ought to consider whether this Disease hath its originall in the Womb or by consent of other parts thus if there appear Symptoms of the whole Body or some part thereof to be misaffected viz. if there be long Feavers or a Flux of Blood Distillations from the Head Weaknesse of the Stomach Swelling of the Liver and Spleen and other stubborn Diseases in those arts judge that the Womb receives its Distemper frō some of these parts On the contrary if the Body and all the parts are in good health saving some particular Disease of the Womb then judge that the Disease hath its originall in the Womb. Fourthly to know whether the Wind or watry Humour be in the Cavity of the Womb or in little Bladders take these two Rules that if it be in the Cavity of the Womb it maketh a greater Swelling and more Water flows out at the Neck of the Womb. Secondly if little Bladders of Water come forth it is an evident Signe that the Water or Wind is not contained in the Cavity of the Womb. Fifthly this Womb-Dropsy is easily distinguished from Tumors of the Womb caused of blood or Choller because there is no Feaver nor pain in the touching of it it differeth likewise from a schirrhous Tumor for it is not so hard as not to yeeld to the finger Sixthly it is very convenient to distinguish between this Disease and a Woman's being with Child when a Woman begins to be big with Child the bignesse of her Belly buncheth out in this Disease it is depressed and flat in the first the Woman's Dugs do swell in the latter they become extenuated and smaller Women with Child after a while grow better and better but in this Disease they grow worse and worse Again the Child is manifestly perceived to stir Lastly you must distinguish between this Disease and the false Conception Mola thus in Mola Women find a great heavinesse in their Wombs and when they turn toly on either side it roules like a Stone to that side again they that have conceaved with Mola for the most part have a violent Flux of their Terms every third or fourth Month and lastly the Dugs swell and sometimes have Milk in them which things never happen in this Womb-Dropsy Sometimes this Disease cometh not to the height but proveth an Inflation if it continueth if the Humour be void of Putrefaction though it continueth long yet it is curable nay sometimes it floweth out of its own accord If wind or water be in the cavity it is evacuated with more ease then if it be shut up in Bladders If the Humour be malignant and sharp it produceth the like Symptoms and is dangerous for the most part deadly You must begin the Cure with Phlebotomy if the Disease hath its originall from the Terms and the Body be plethorick other wise it will much hurt because natural Heat is much weakned thereby Then you must give such things as have power to purge open provoke Sweat and move the Courses you need go no farther then to the 58 and 71 Chapters treating Of the Dropsy and Green-Sicknesse Give a gentle Vomit twice a week if the Woman be easy to vomit The Heat of the Stomach must be cherished and maintained by Medicines prescribed in the Chapters treating of the Diseases of that part and the Womb must be strengthned and the peccant Humours discussed by Fomentations or Baths made of the Decoction of the Roots of Briony wild Cucumber and horse Radish the Leavs of Dwarf-Elder Mercury common Elder Origanum Calamint Rue Sage Wormwood Marjarom Mugwort Pennyroyall Time the Seeds of Annis Fennel Broom Carrots Cummin Bay and Juniper the Flowers of Camomill Melilot and Rosemary If it be a windy Dropsy a dry Fomentation will be much better Afterwards anoint with the Oyl of Nard Rue Wormwood Dill and Southernwood Give frequent Clisters and Injections to evacuate the Humours contained in the Womb then make Pessaryes of Coloquintida Elaterium Mechoacan and such like with Hony and apply it Nitrous and sulphurous Baths do profit much and if the Disease proceed from Humours falling to the part let Issues be made in the Thighs CHAP. LXXVIII Of the falling down of the Womb. SOmetimes the Womb looseth its natural Scituation and falleth down to the water-gate sometimes out to the very Thigh All things that may cause a Rupture or Relaxation of the Ligaments of the Womb may be a cause of this grief as a Blow Fall dancing leaping lifting carrying violent sneezing or coughing especially in Child-bed or being big with Child Tenasmus hard Travel a violent drawing the Child out of the Womb or of the after-birth or the expulsive Faculty of the womb being violently provoked to expel a dead Child after birth or the Mole and many such like Accidents may be the cause of the breaking of the Ligaments and falling out of the Womb. A Relaxation of the Ligaments may be caused by a long Defluxion by Crudityes the Whites external Causes may be prevalent as bathing in cold water the Southern or moist Air being received into the Womb soon after a lying in Meat of a cold and moist Nature to conclude all Meats Drinks and Actions which will breed Phlegm or cause its Deflux into the Womb. This Disease needs no Signes to discover it by it being apparent to the Sense the causes may be thus distinguished If it come by Loosenesse of the Ligaments it cometh by little and little the pain is leffe causes moystening the Womb have preceded If it come by a Rupture there is a violent pain sometimes Blood starteth out and such causes which have been able tobreak the Ligaments have preceded If the womb fall down by a rupture of the Ligaments it is incurable That which comes by a relaxation of the Ligaments is not very dangerous but troublesome to the patient it hinders her walking conception and monthly Purgation In young Women it is caslier restored to its place than in elderly The womb coming not far out and if taken in time the Cure is farr more easy then if the contrary happen Sometimes grievous and violent Pains do attend it and threaten Death Sometimes the Air corrupteth the womb and it becomes gangrenated so
the Musilage of Gum Traganth made with Rose or Plantane Water and the Suet of a Goat of each one Drachm which Emplastick Clisters as with a Plaister cover the internal Superficies of the Guts and preserveth the part from the gnawing of the Matter All this while you must give internal Medicines of the same Nature and the oftner if the upper Guts are ulcerated First to cleanse give Gears Milk to glutinate Cows Milk Chalybiated with it you may mix the juyce of Plantane Sirrup of Comphry Sugar of Roses the Troches of Amber and the white Troches of Rhasis Let the Sick eat Rice boiled in Chalybiated Milk or the Musilage of Gum Traganth and Arabick drawn as before in his Broth half a Drachm The Body being well cleansed you may make an astringent Decoction to compleat the Cure Take of the Roots of Bistort Tormentill and Comphry the Leaves of Plantane Yarrow Shepherds purse Horse-tayl Mousear and Agrimony of each one handfull the Seeds of Sorrel Sumach and Grape-stones of each one Ounce make a Decoction in four quarts of Water to the Consumption of half Sweeten the strained Liquor with the Sirrup of Comphry Quinces dryed Roses Myrtles or Corall Front what hath been said there is light enough for the Ingenious to make Medicines in any form to please the Pallate of his Patient which I omit being loath to be tedious but lest I should omit any thing necessary make an Opiate thus Take of Conserve of Roses and Quinces of each one Ounce Conserve of Comphry Roots half an Ounce Coral prepared Sanguis Draconis Bolearmenick sealed Earth Acatia Conserve of Sloes of each one Drachm burnt Ivory and Spodium of each one Scruple with any of the Sirrups aforesaid sufficient to make an Opiate and give the Quantity of a Chesnut Morning Night and Noon Narcoticks do Wonders especially if they be mixed with astringents and strengthners Take of Conserve of Roses and Services of each one Drachm Confectio Alchermes half a Scruple Laudanum three Grains make a Bolus Anoint the Belly with the Oyls of Quinces Myrtles Roses Mastich Wormwood and the like The Oyntment called Comitissae is of wonderful Virtue I might here teach you to make Fomentations and Cataplasms for the purpose aforesaid of the aforenamed Simples but seeing the Ingenious need it not and the Ignorant deserve it not I shall save that labour fearing my Booke will swell to a greater Volume then I intended What ever you do remember to strengthen the Liver with Cataplasms for that purpose made of Simples strengthning the Liver If the Dysentery be Epidemical and Malignant Sudorifick Medicines are of great force As Medicines made of Bezoar and Treacle water you must begin with Cordials and proceed as you do in a Malignant Feaver CHAP. XLVIII Of Tenasmus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Greek and Tenasmus in Latine is a continual desire to go to Stool yet the Patient voideth nothing but Slime and bloody Matter it is caused by an Ulcer in the Intestinum rectum or streight Gut from which filthy Matter continually flowing provoketh the expulsive Faculty hence followeth a continual desire to go to Stool This Disease properly belongeth to a Dysentery yet by custom when onely the streight Gut is ulcerated it is called Tenasmus therefore I shall not insert the Causes being the same with the former For the Knowledg of this Disease it is easy to distinguish between this and a Dysentery In a Tenasmus the desire of going to Stool is continual in the Dysentery by Fits onely In the first notwithstanding all straining nothing is voided but Slime bloody or mattery in the other both Exerements and Humours are voided The Signes of the Causes seek in the former Chapter Tenasmus for the most part is easily cured but is dangerous if a melancholy Humour be the Cause lest it turn to an ulcerated Cancer yet for the most part it is of long Continuance and very troublesome If a Woman with Child hath the Tenasmus it brings many Inconveniences to her and great danger of Miscarriage Hippocrates saith she will miscarry but I have known the contrary True it is a Woman seldom escapeth in that condition for that Motion doth much disturb the Womb because the same Muscles which serve to cast forth the Excrements are employed for Delivery If the Ulcer be near the Fundament or Anus if it continue long it turns to an incurable Fistula For the Cure I shall refer you to the former Chapter it being the same both in the Causes and the part affected of the same Nature with the other Intestines CHAP. XLIX Of the Flux of the Liver FLuxus Hepaticus a Flux of the Liver is when serous and bloody Humours are voided much like Water wherein Flesh hath been washed It is caused by an evil Disposition consuming the radical Moisture of the Liver and destroyeth the natural Heat thereof this Disposition cometh by burning and swooning Feavers by a hot Distemper of the Bowels or by great Coldness from abundance of Phlegm and Melancholy which oppresseth the natural Heat Outward Causes as great draughts of cold Water extraordinary eating of raw Sallets poysonous and too violent Purges salt sharp and peppered Meats which parch the Substance of the Liver may corrupt the natural Hear There is also a bastard Flux of the Liver when the radical Moisture is not in fault nor the Faculty hurt yet the Blood is impure and corrupt by the mixture of Choller Melancholy or some corrupt Matter or by its staying too long in the Liver and the parts adjacent by which it is made thick burnt or rotten or the Spleen is in fault and doth not suck away the drossy Blood In this Bastard Fluy thick and black Blood and sometimes Blood mixed with divers Humours is voided The Signes of this Disease may be gathered from what hath been said and it differeth from the Dysentery in this that the Stools are lâ—quid bloody and watry and voided without pain The Signes of the Causes most be considered If this defect of the Liver come from a hoe Distemper there went before a burning Feaver or a Feaver is present green Vomits or Stcols Thirst Foulnesse of Body and Want of Appetite stinking Evacuations If from cold the Stools are not so stinking nor is there Thirst the whose Body is colder and blewish Moist and dry Causes produce contrary Effects a moist Distemper causeth more Stools and thin a dry sewer and thicker and lesse in Quantity with much Thirst This Disease is very dangerous because a principal part is affected and the radical Moisture consumed which can scarcely be restored and nothing but destruction to be hoped for so much the more if the Disease comes of Hear If it comes in Feavers the whole Body melteth and putrifieth If it come from a cold Cause it losteth the longer and turns into an incurable Dropsy Though a Bastard-Flux of the Liver be dangerous yet it is farr lesse then a true one because the Liver
too much Blood which doth so dilate the Vessels that they cannot contract to expell it too little when the Body hath not enough for its Nourishment It offendeth in Quality when the Blood is thick slimy and viscuous by some cold Distemper of the Liver or by the mixture of such Humours with the Blood It offends in Motion when it flows some other way as by the Haemorrhoids by Urine the Nose Vomiting and by Spitting and many other wayes Riverius saith that he saw a Maid which had a sore Head which opened once a month and bled plentifully and I know a Maid in the same Condition at this time Externall causes are taking cold in the time of the Flux eating things of a very hot Nature by which the Substance of the Liver is dryed or Food that is cold thick and astringent especially at the time of Purgation eating too much or too little by too long retaining of Excrements by bleeding at the Nose or any unnatural Evacuation by Vomit Seige Urine or Sweat To these add the externall Causes mentioned in the Chapter aforegoing Of the Green-Sicknesse This Disease is known by the Patient's Relation but it is convenient to distinguish between this kind of Suppression and that which is common to Women with Child They who have their Menstrues thus stopped are pale and more discoloured then those who are with Child They who are in this condition the longer it continues the more the Symptoms encrease the contrary you shall find in Women with Child They are likewise more sad and melancholy then those who are with Child In these the lower Belly though it swell yet it is not so hard nor proportionable to the Womb. And Lastly an expert Midwife may distinguish it by the mouth of the Womb for in these the mouth of the Womb is not so close shut as in a Woman with Child but rather hard and painfull More particularly the Stoppage of the Vessels of the Womb are known by a pain in the Loins especially when the Terms should flow and if any thing issueth it will be white or blackish and slimy If the parts adjacent be obstructed the Veins in the Thighs Arms by abundance of Blood are swollen especially if the Woman be fleshy plethorick and hath fed high Or else the Woman wanteth Blood Or the Blood is corrupted which you may perceive by the evill habit of the Body and some Disease of the Liver If the Blood hath a praeposterous Motion or flow some other way it is manifest The Stoppage of the Terms is very dangerous and many I had almost said all Diseases may come thereof It is lest dangerous if it come by reason of too much Blood It is worst which cometh by Streightnesse of the Vessels or crude and slimy Humours which obstruct them The Cure consisteth in this generally If too much Blood be the cause abate the Quantity by Phlebotomy first in the Arm then in the lower Veins Then by Fomentations soften and relax the parts about the Womb and give such Purges as do properly provoke the Terms If you find that Want of Blood is the cause of the Obstruction use Restoratives in the first place and whatever you find to be the cause of Extenuation let that be removed and if you find a praeposterous Motion of the Blood labour to repell it and drive it to the Passage of the Womb. But seeing that for the most part this Obstruction is in the Veins of the Womb you may follow the same Rule in cure prescribed in the Chap Of the Green sicknesse adding such things which more especially respect the Womb. Purge thus Take of Aloes three Drachms the Masse of Cochy Pills one Drachm with the Juyce of Savin or Sirrup of Mugwort make twenty Pills and give three in the Morning every third day Emollient Clisters are likewise of great use After Phlebotomy and sufficient purging give such things as powerfully open Obstructions such as are prescribed in the cure of Obstructions of the Liver and Spleen to these add Medicines made of the Roots of Asparagus Parsly Fennel Smallage Maddir Elicampane Birth-Wort Angelica Cyperus the leavs of Wormwood Calamint Camomill Origan Southern-wood Mugwort Pennyroyall Hyssop Hore-Hound Rue Motherwort Sage Fether-few Maiden-hair Nep and Savin the seeds of Smallage Parsly Fennel Juniper Bayes Annis Cummin Nettles and such like of these may be made Decoctions or distilled Waters Sitrups and the like which I omit fearing my Book will swell to a farr bigger volume then I intended Of these or such like you may make a Bath for the Patient to sit in afterwards anoint the Share parts about the Privities with the Oyl of Dill Rue Lillyes c. You may likewise make dry Suffumigations with Castor Storax Galbanum Cinnamon Frankincense Bdellium Benzoins Lignum Aloes Cloves and Mace Or you may make Pessaries with the masse of Cochy pills Hony and the Juyce of Mercury Or with Hiera Picra and Benedicta Laxativa with the Hony and Juyce aforesaid but this remember that Pessaryes must be applyed to married Women onely If the Disease be inveterate let Issues be made in the Legs and after the menstrual Flux is obtained let them be dryed up again CHAP. LXXIII Of the immoderate Menstruall Flux Mensium Fluxus Immodicus is when the monthly Terms do exceed in Quantity come too often or stay too long This is caused by an opening of the Veins either by Abundance Heat Sharpnesse or Thinnesse of the Blood or by some Blow Fall or Wound to understand the Cause more fully have recourse to the 19 and 30 Chapters Of bleeding at the Nose and spitting of Blood The Disease it self may be known by the Patient's information and the Symptoms which follow viz. decay of Strength and Appetite an ill habit of the Body by reason of ill Digestion Swelling of the Legs and a Leady coloured Complexion To know the Causes observe that a thin habit of the Body with a Diet which doth encrease thin and wheyish Blood or you may perceive the thin and wheyish Humours in the Blood which cometh from the Patient this sheweth that the Blood soaketh thorough the Veins If the Coats or Ends of the Veins be broken the Patient hath had soule Wound Bruise or Fall or used some immoderate Labour Excercise or Venery hath indured too great Heat or Cold or she hath had a hard bargain in Child-birth a Miscarriage or been handled by an unskilfull Midwife If there be an Exulceration in the Womb by which the Veins are eaten thorough the Blood droppeth by little and little with Pain and Sharpnesse the Patient's Body is afflicted with sharp and cholerick Humours the Blood which issueth is at first matterish wheyish blackish or yellow If it encrease the Ends of the Veins come with the Blood and the Flux encreaseth and is hard to be stopped Prognosticks are All long and lasting Issues of Blood are dangerous especially those of the Womb that which comes by soaking
they are cured Old women are seldome or never cured To women with Child it is very dangerous and threatneth Miscarriage To Women lying in as dangerous by reason of their Weaknesse It is good for a Woman to sneez in the Fits for it signifyeth Strength of the Brain and it disperseth the Vapours from the Brain I shall lay down a few Rules first to give present ease in the Fit secondly to give perfect Cure First lay her down in such a posture that her Neck and Shoulders may ly high her Thighs and Privities low shooting downwards that so the Womb may be the better reduced Let her lower parts be rubbed and bound so hard as to cause pain And if her Fit be inveterate apply Cupping-Glasses to her Hips and Share If she swoon rub the Bottoms of her Feet with Vinegar and Salt and course Cloths Hollow in her Ears and bend her Fingers and if need require apply Epispastick Cataplasms to her Feet Put strong and stinking things under her Nose as Leather and Fethers burnt Brimstone fited Assafaetida Castoreum and the like But take this Caution carefully to distinguish between this Disease and the Falling-Sicknesse for in the latter such Smells are hurtfull The Warts that grow upon a Horses Legs being dryed and powdered and a Fume made thereof under the Patient's Nose is very good in the time of the Fit The smoak of Tobacco blown into the Mouth and Nostrils is likewise of great efficacy to free the Woman from the Fit-Whilst you do this you must apply Musk or Civet wrapped up in cotton Wool to the Womb. Then blow thâ—s Powder into her Nose Take of white Pepper Mustard Seed Pellitory and Castor of each one Scruple mak it into a very fine Powder and blow some up her Nose if you judge it not strong enough add a little white Hellebore or Eaphorbium Or let her Nose be anointen with Oyl of Amber If the Fit be of long continuance give her a laxative carminative or wind-expelling Clister if one doth it not give another Afterwards give another made of Vinegar and Water and let her drink a little Vinegar and Water Apply Emplastrum Hystericum to the Navel or a Plaister made of Galbanum Caranna Assafaetida and Tachamahaca If you find the Sick troubled with plenty of Wind and Vapours bathe and soment the Belly with Fomentations made of emollient carminative and discussing Herbs and Seeds If the Sick be a married Woman let her have carnall Conjunction with her Husband as soon as ever the Fit is over If that cannot be had that is if she be a Maid or Window let a Mid-wife tickle the Neck of the Womb with her finger anointed with the Oyl of Musck Cloves or the like that so the offensive Sperm may be avoided You may in the Fit give Pills made of Assafaetida Castor Faecula Brioniae Mirrh and the like and if the Fit be violent give Pillulae Faetidae Oyl of Amber given three or four drops in some convenient Waters are very good The After-Birth of a Woman that lyeth in of her first Child dryed and powdered and a Drachm given in some convenient Liquor is excellent Quercetanus his Powder made of Elder-Berryes taken a Drachm in Wine is very good For the Cure you must consider whether the Woman be with Child or not and be carefull how you administer stinking Medicines for fear of Abortion but rather outward Medicines then inward Whatever part of the Body suffer by this Disease either Brain Heart Liver c. take care to free and strengthen the part seek the means in their proper Chapters The Patient must once in a Month be purged with such Medicines as principally regard the Humour offending adding thereto things that are hystericall If the Body be full of Blood open a Vein or bleed the Haemorrhoids if Nature requireth it After generall Evacuation make use of sweating Decoctions or let the Patient frequent sulphurous Baths These Pills are much commended Take of the Troches of Agarick one Drachm and an half Hiera of Colloquintida one Drachm the Seeds of Carrots and Agnus Castus of each one Scruple Mirrh Castoreum and Diagridium of each half a Scruple Venice Turpetine as much as will suffice to make all into a Masse let ber take half a Drachm or two Scruples twice or thrice in a Month. Or Pillulae Faetidae taken half a Drachm once in a Month doth very much cleanse the Womb. Then make use of this Sirrup much commended by Mercatus Take of the Juyce of Mercury and the cream of Carthamus Seeds of each six Ounces the Water of Scorzonera seven Ounces Sugar as much as will make it into a Syrrup while it boiles add of Confectio de Hyacintho of Alchermes and Powder of the Electuary de Gemmis of each two Drachms let the Dose be two or three Ounces Assasaetida and Castor made into Pills with Hony have a peculiar property against these Firs many use the former with good successe tyed up in a thin ragg or farcener and hung about the Neck and for this purpose the Liver or Flesh of a Wolf or the Pizzell or Stones of a Fox dried and hung about the Neck with a string resting upon the Navell vitriolated Steel or the Salt thereof given with Sugar from two to twenty grains according to the Strength of the Patient is much commended for opening Obstructions and cooling the Womb. Eight dayes before she expect her monthly Purgations let the Woman sit in a mollifying and resolving Bath that so the Humours may be resolved and flow forth with her Courses Lastly Issues made in the Thighs are good for they derive and turn aside evill Humours from the Womb. CHAP. LXXVI Of the Inflammation Ulcer and hard Swelling of the Womb. THis Disease is a Swelling of the Womb which is caused by Blood mixed with Choller or other Humours flowing to the part vehement Excercise or immoderate Copulation some Blow or Fall upon the part Meats that are sharp and sretting or such things as naturally offend the part as Cantharides or Pessaryes that are of a sharp Nature Abortion hard Labour in Child-bed or a violent handling by an unskilfull Midwife The Signes of this Disease are Swelling Heat Pain about the Region of the Womb the Body feavourish If the Inflammation be in the Neck of the Womb the pain is felt towards the Groin if in the former side the Bladder suffereth if in the hinder side the strait Gut will be sensible thereof and the Pain is violently felt about the Loyns If either side of the Womb be inflamed the Thigh and Groin on the same fide will be heavy and pained If you consider the Const tution and present Temper of the Patient you may easily guesse what Humour offends If it be purely Blood the Symptomes are more mild if Choller be mixed it is more vehement if Phlegm or Melancholy the Distemper is more fixed and lasting but the pain is not so vehement If the
that there is a Necessity that it be cut off You must begin the Cure with such Medicines that may discharge the Guts and Bladder of their Exerements that they may not hinder the Reduction of the womb Then let her ly upon her Back with her Thighs wide asunder and draw up her Knees and let her with her own hands or by the help of a Mid wife thrust the womb inwards or that you may drive it in farther and hurt her lesse make a Pessary of linnen cloaths and with it thrust up the womb first anoint it with the Oyl of Lillyes and if it be swelled use a Fomentation of Althaea common Mallows Fenugreek and the like Before you repose the womb to its place anoint it with the Musilage of Comphry Roots or Infusion of Gum Traganth or any thing that is of a glowing Nature When it is up let the woman ly with one Thigh over the other and put up toward the Neck of the womb a little wool wetted in ted wine or Rosewater wherein Acatia and Hypocystis hath been dissolved Rodericus à Castro adviseth the Physitian to come with a red hot Iron and to make as if he would thrust it into the womb Avenzoar and Zacutus Lusitanus after the use of all means and devices by this Stratagem reduced the womb that is having laid her down as before said and one held down her Thighs and another her Breast then put her into a great fright by setting Mice or Frogs to run up her Legs and Thighs by this fright the womb hath been reduced into its proper place for by this means Nature contracteth her self for fear and draweth the womb with her Then lay a plaister against Ruptures on the Region of the womb and Groins and have a care that you keep the Body that it be not costive nor too soluble To conclude all the Medicines externall and internall prescribed against the immoderate flowing of the Menstrues are here good but beware you use them not when the Courses should flow and lest by the frequent use of such Medicines they should be hindered your Patient being young having her Courses monthly be sparing in the use of them but rather let her wear a Trusse CHAP. LXXIX Of Barrennesse BArrennesse or Sterility is an impotency of Conception the principall causes thereof are four first when the Woman doth not conveniently receiv the Man's Sperm into her Womb and this happeneth by divers causes viz. If the Woman be too young and the Neck of the Womb too strait for the Man's Yard the same happens to elderly Virgins being not exercised in actions tending to Generation their genitall parts become flaggy withered so streight that they canot easily admit of the Man's Yard some are lame and crooked that they cannot ly in a fit posture some have a cold Distemper in the Womb that they are dull and have no delight in the act others are very fat which causeth a Streightnesse in the passage or their Bellyes being big hinder their due conjunction with the Man Want of love between a Man and his Wife is a great cause Diseases in the Womb or the adjacent parts hinder the Reception of the Seed The second cause of Barrennesse is when the Woman doth not retain the Seed of the man in her Womb for sometimes the Womb is moist and slippery and full of excrementitious Humours by which means the Sperm doth easily slide back again and the Orifice of the Womb is so loose flaggy that it cannot contract it self to hold the Seed or it may be so slack that it cannot contract to do its Office and this Slacknesse may be occasioned by a breaking of the Fibres of the Womb one from another in hard Labour or Abortion to say all the Whites or any moist Distemper of the Womb may be the cause of Barrennesse Thirdly want of sufficient Nourishment of the Womb to cherish the Seed may be the cause of Barrennesse and this comes to passe by any Distemper of the Womb that doth corrupt the Seed a cold Distemper extinguisheth a hot Distemper dissipateth the Spirits in the Seed a moist Distemper hindereth the Seeds coming to its due Thicknesse and a dry Distemper consumes and drinks up the moisture of the Seed Some say Witchcraft and Charms may be the cause certain Meats and Poysons many things are antipathetical to Faecundity as Vinegar Mints Water-cresses Beans and such like Jet Glow-Worms Saphires Smaragds the Matrice of a Goat of Mule malignant Diseases may corrupt Seed and hinder Conception as stinking Ulcers the French Pox leprous Infections and the like The fourth thing that hinders Conception is when the Woman wants fit materialls for the formation of the Embrio to augment the same and this chiefly dependeth upon want of seed menstruous blood and this defect happeneth to those that are too young or too old the determined approved age is from fourteen to 50. Likewise the materials may be ill disposed through evill diet which cannot breed blood or good seed Diseases weakening nature may cause the same Add to all these causes a disproportion or unsureablenesse between the man's Sperm and the Woman's that is when the man and the Woman are of one Complexion by which means the seed of either of them partake of the same excesse that is that they are either too hot or too cold hence it cometh to passe that the same Woman who could never have a Child by her Husband after his Death hath Children by another man and a man by another Woman Sometimes a man and Woman live ten years or more together and have no Children and afterwards the woman conceaveth and bringeth forth and this cometh to passe by the change of Temperature caused by years I should now lay down the Signs of all these causes but most of them are evident to the Senses and the rest he who cannot discover hath not a Head befitting a Physitian therefore to abbreviate the work I shall leav it to the search of the Ingenious and trouble the Reader with a few Rules left by the Ancients to try whether a Woman be naturally barren or no Hippocrates adviseth to wrap the Woman close in Blankets and burn some Perfume under her and if the Smell proceed through her Body to her Mouth or Nostrills then certainly she is fruitfull The same Author adviseth to put a clove of Garlick peeled into her womb or Galbanum and if the Smell come to her Head or Mouth judg that she is fruitfull Amatus Lusitanus to try whether a Woman be fruitfull or no giveth a Drachm of Hares Runner dissolved in warm water to the Woman being in a Bath of hot water fasting and if the Woman findeth pains in her Belly he judgeth her fruitfull if she hath no pain he judgeth her barren Some steep Barly in the Urine and if it shoot within ten dayes they judg the Woman fruitfull Before you try these uncertain conclusions upon the Woman
little and flaggy she feels a heavinesse about the Loius and Hips she hath no appetite to eat nor desire to stirr she hath a shivering by Fits she hath Streightnesse of the Sides and Belly above the Navell and a pain in her Head plenty of Milk flowing from the Dugs shews that the Child is weak and danger of Abortion If pains about the Reins Loins and Share torment the Woman then know that Abortion is hard at hand the same judg if Blood or Water burst out and flow and the Scituation of the Child is changed from the middle of the Belly to the Bottom If any of these or the like Symptoms befall a Woman with Child after any externall cause of Abortion as Blow Fall c. let the Woman betake herself to her Bed and take such Medicines which prevent Abortion Prognosticks of Abortion are thus made Women are more endangered by Abortion then by a naturall and timely Birth because in a timely Birth the Vessels and Ligaments are loosned and opened of their own accord but in Misearriage they are broken in sunder the like you may perceive between the Stalk of ripe and unripe fruit Women many times become barren by Miscartiage because the womb is rent and its natur all disposition much altered Much bleeding seconded with Convulsions raving and fainting is alwayes deadly If an Inflammation of the Womb follow Abortion it is deadly In young Women who never bore Child before it is worst because the passage is narrower and they more unaccustomed to pains The bigger the Child is the more the danger Women who have moist and slippery Wombs do often miscarry and with little danger To prevent Miscarriage you must before and after she is with Child endeavour to remove all evill dispositions of the Body or Womb that may cause Miscarriage if Blood abound open a Vein purge the peccant Humours strengthen the Womb but if the Woman be with Child beware how you bleed except it be in the first month and the Body full of Blood and in this case let Purges be gentle and often reiterated To conclude to streng then the Womb fetch Medicines from the 73 Chapter CHAP. LXXXI Of hard Travel in Child-birth HArd Labour is when more vehement Pains and dangerous Symptomes happen to Women in Travell and continue a longer time There are divers causes some whereof may be assigned to the weakness of the Womans Body Leannesse or Drinesse as well as Fatnesse of the Body her Age or Sicknesses as the Stone or preternaturall Tumor in the Bladder or any Disease of the womb Other causes may be assigned to the Child when its Body or Head is too big when there are two or when the Child is dead or when it endeavours to come forth with his Feet Hands Back Belly or Breech c. A cold and dry Air and Northern Wind streightneth the Body and driveth the Spirits inward and is obnoxious to the Child's first entrance into the world If the Air be more hot then ordinary it is as bad as the former for it dissipates the Spirits exhausts the Strength and introduceth feavourish Distempers into the Bodyes of Mother and Child Meats of a hard digesture or astringing quality taken a little before the time of Delivery Sleepinesse and Sortishnesse the Retention of Excrements all vehement Passions of the Mind want of an expert Midwife and Women to assist the labouring Woman may be causes of hard Labour Hard Labour is easily known to the Woman herself to the Midwife and the Assistants The time of a naturall Birth ought to be accomplished in the space of twenty four houres if the Woman continue a longer time it is hard Labour If her pains be weak and long before they return and more about her Back then Privityes the causes may easily be known many you may gather from the Relation of the Woman in Travell her Leannesse Weaknesse Fatnesse and Age is perceived Diseases of the Womb and Bladder may be known by their proper Signes The Bigness and disorderly Posture of the Child is soon seen by an expert Midwife If the Child be dead you may know it by these Signs the Breasts of the Woman become flat and flaggy her Eyes hollow and troubled her Face and Lips are of a pale and leaden colour her Belly is cold there is a Sense of Weight there is no Motion felt though you apply somthing wetred in the Decoction of Tansy warm to her Navell When the Woman turnes the Child sways that way like Lead If the after-Birth come away before the Child it is a Sign of the Death of the Child And if the Child cometh not away it soon putrifieth and stinketh and stinking Moisture floweth from the womb and their Breath stinketh Hard Labour is dangerous for sometimes the Mother sometimes the Child and sometimes both do lose their lives Sleepy Diseases and Convulsions if they befall a Woman in Travell death is at hand If the Woman be in Travell above three dayes it is likely the Child will dy If the Woman fall a sneezing in her Travell it is good saith Hippocrates If the Child be dead the danger is exceeding great especially if it be not brought soon away for it will cause Feavers Faintings Convulsions dead Sleeps and death it self In difficult Labour first all causes which hinder the Birth must be removed if it be possible then such things as further the Birth must be administred An Ounce of Oyl of sweet Almonds and a Drachm of Confectio Alchermes given in Broth is good Burn white Wine with a little Saffron and Cinnamon afterwards dissolve a little Alchermes this I have found very powerfull to hasten the Birth If you find this Medicine too gentle make a Julep of more efficacy thus Take of the Water of Mugwort and Vervain of each two Ounces the Sirrup of Maiden-hair one Ounce Confectio Alchermes half a Drachm Dittany of Creet and both Birth worts of each one Scruple Oyl of Cinnamon five Drops mix them and make a Potion Oyl of Amber fifteen Drops or the Extract of Saffron five Grains may be either of them mixed insteed of the Oyl of Cinnamon Provoke sneezing and open the lower Veins if need be Then let the Midwife anoint the Mouth of the womb with the Oyl of Lillyes and Sweet Almonds and the like and foment the Belly with a mollifying Decoction and in a dangerous case give a sharp Clister Some things have a peculiar property to help the Birth as the Stone Aetitis Loadstone and Storax held neer the Privityes the Eyes of a Hare taken out in the month of March and dryed use it as the Stones and when the Woman is delivered take them away lest it draw out the Womb. Some commend the Gall of an Hen applyed to the Navell If the Child be dead give the same things before mentioned but it is convenient to make them stronger by adding Savin Water and the Leavs of Savin dried the Troches of Mirrh
Rhabarbaro Diaturbith with or without Rhubarb The first purgeth Flegm and Choler the other Flegm onely but ought neither of them to be taken unless corrected by an able Brain and administred by a skilful and careful hand CHAP. IX Of Electuaries ELectuaries are easily made of any of the aforegoing Powders or having your Ingredients ready beat them and sift them into fine Powder and with three times the weight of Honey or Syrup suitable to your Ingreads make an Electuary As for Example Antidotus Analeptica Take of Red-Roses and Liquoris of each two drachms and five grains Gum-Arabick and Traga-Canth of each two drachms and two scruples Sanders White and Red of each four scruples the Juyce of Liquoris White Starch the Seeds of White Poppies Purslane Lettice and Endive of each three drachms the four greater cold Seeds husked the Seeds of Quinces Mallows Cotton Violets Pine-Nuts Sistick Nuts sweet Almonds Pulp of Sebestens of each two drachms Cloves Spodium Cinamon of each one drachm Saffron five grains Penies half an ounce Make them into fine Powder and with three times their weight of Syrup of Violets make an Electuary It is good in Consumptions and Hectick Feavers it quencheth Thirst and restoreth radical Moisture You may take a drachm as often as you please Confectio Alkermes This is used in Palpitations Syncopes and Diseases of the Heart it resisteth the Pestilence and Poyson and relieveth languishing Nature The dose is from one drachm to two Electuarium è Sassaphras Or Electuary of Sassaphras It opens obstructions of the Liver Spleen and Kidneys and is good against cold Rheums and Defluxions from the Head to the Lungs Teeth Eyes and helps Diseases in those parts occasioned by such Defluxions it provoketh the Terms dryes up the superfluous moisture of the Womb and all raw thin Humours and breaks Wind. The dose is half a drachm in the morning Electuarium de baccis Lauri Electuary of Bay-Berries It is good against the Chollick and all Diseases caused by Wind or Cold and it cuts and attenuates glassie Flegm The dose is from one drachm to three Diacapparis Or a Consection of Capers It is good against Diseases of the Spleen The dose is the same with the former Diacinnamomum A Composition of Cinamon It strengthneth the inward parts and heats the Scomach helps Concoction provokes the Terms and strengthneth the Womb and is good for people that are subject to Flegm and Wind. The dose is from one ounce to two Diacoralliou A Composition of Coral It is cordial and binding and cooling it strengthneth such as are in Consumptions cools in Feavers and stops Fluxes and is good for those that are in a Consumption with a Looseness it stops the Terms and white Flux The dose is a drachm in the morning If you have a Looseness the dose is from one to three and it may be taken often Diacorum This Electuary heats the Brain strengthneth the Nerves and quickneth the Senses is good against the Head-ache Convulsions Falling-Sickness Catarrhs and provokes Lust The dose is half a drachm Diacydonium Simplex compositum A Confection of Quinces Simple or Compound They comfort the Stomach and are good for those that are subject to Vomiting for it strengthneth the Stomach and moderates Womens Fluxes The dose is from half a drachm to a drachm before and after meat Confectio de Hyacintho It is a great Cordial and cooling and is of great virtue in all Feavers putrid malignant and pestilential The dose is from two scruples to half a drachm Antidotum Haemagogum It provokes Urine the Terms and After-Birth helps the Strangury and breaks the Stone opens obstructions of the Liver and Spleen The dose is from one drachm to two Diasatyrion This was composed to provoke Lusts and to whet on those who are impotent in the acts of Venus and is good against weakness of the Reins and Bladder The dose is from two drachms to three Electuarium Diaspermaton It provokes Urine and breaks the Stone The dose is from half an ounce to an ounce Micleta It is profitable in long lasting Diarrhaeas and Bloudy Fluxes The dose is from one scruple to four Electuarium Pectorale It strengthneth the Stomach and Lungs and removes the Vices thereof Take it with a Liquoris stick Theriata Diatessarion It frees the Stomach of pain Wind and want of digesture resisteth the Pestilence and Poyson it helps stopping of the Liver Dropsie Jaundise c. and cold infirmities of the Brain as Convulsions Falling-sickness Palsies c. The dose is from half a drachm to two Diascordium It strengthneth the Heart provoketh Sweat procures sleep expels the malignity of the Pestilence hasteneth Womens Labour provoketh the Terms is good for Women lying in and stops Fluxes The dose is from one drachm to three To Children give less Methridatum Or Methridate It is good against Poyson and cold humours in the Body and Diseases thence coming loss of Senses by cold helps the Chollick and expels Wind provokes an Appetite It helps Ulcers in the Bladder saith Galen provokes Urine expels the dead Child and helps such Women as cannot conceive by reason of the coldness and slipperyness of their Wombs The dose is from half a drachm to two Phylonium persicum Magistrale Romanum The first stops any Flux Diarrhaea Dysentery or Womens Monethly Terms when other means fail which the second doth likewise easeth pain and procures rest in Feavers Romanum easeth the vehemency of the pain of the Cholick Stone Strangury and such like and provokes sleep The dose is from a scruple to four Take it not without advice from an able Brain Electuarium de Ovo An Electuary of Eggs. It is a good Remedy in Pestilential Feavers and a good preservative The dose is from half a drachm to a drachm Theriaca Andromachi Venice Treacle It resisteth poyson and preserveth the heart from venome of such as have been bitten by any venemous Creatures It is good against inveterate Head-aches Vertigoes c. Deafness dulness of sight loss of voice Asthmas old Coughs spitting of Bloud difficulty of Breathing coldness of the Stomach and Wind Chollick and sliack Passion hardness of the Spleen Jaundise Stone in the Reins and Bladder provokes Urine the Terms Birth and After-Birth It is good against Ulcers in the Bladder Dropsies Leprosies Feavers of all sorts pains in the Joynts it helps both Body and Mind and is good against Melancholy Thoughts and vain Fears The dose is from half a drachm to a drachm sweat upon it Theriaca Londinensis London Treacle It strengthneth the Heart is good against the Pestilence and resisteth poyson and infection strengthens cold Stomachs and helps digestion You may take two drachms in the morning Diacrocuma It is excellent against cold distempers of the Liver Stomach Reins Spleen Bladder and Matrix and the Symptomes arising from those distempers viz. The Dropsie and Chachexia The dose is from half a drachm to four scruples Athanasia Methridatis It prevails against poyson
as its name in the Greek signifieth that so the vessells being flockned may better avoid the seed The seed being throughly concocted by the Testicles or Stones there are two other small pipes called vasa deferentia they are also called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 spermatick pores their office is to carry the seed to the seminary vessells who are to keep it till need requireth its expulsion From the stones they arise very neare to the preparing vessells into the cavity of the belly then turning back again they turne to the backside of the bladder between it and the right gut There they are joyned to the seminall Vessells which are soft and spungy somwhat like kernells through which passeth the Urethra or common passage in the yard both for seed and Urine Histories make mention and experience evidenceth that some are borne without stones some with one Philip Landgrave of Hassia had three he was so full of seed and prone to Venerious actions that his Wife could not suffer him so often as necessity urged him to it he otherwise being chast and honest He relating his mind to the Priests with the consent of his Wife took a Concubine It would be too tedious if I should take upon me to describe the yard and all the parts thereof it would make my book swell too big and I should run beyond my first intention viz only to give a breife touch of the most considerable parts I now come to the Generative parts of women and shall be silent in what is visible and declare only the internall parts for brevity sake and first of the Clytoris which is a sinewy and hard body much like the yard of a man and suffers erection and falling causeth lust in women and giveth delight in copulation Avicenna calleth it the Wand or Albathara and Albucasis calleth it Tentigo and Fallopius saith that this hath somtimes grown so bigg that women would copulate with others like men This observe that the passage of the Urine is not through the neck of the Wombe Near the passage of the Urine are four Caruncles or fleshy knobs they are called Myrtiformes because they resemble Myrtleberryes The uppermost of them is largest and forked to receive the neck of the passage of the Urine the other lye below this on the sides and are to keep back the aire or any hurtfull thing from the Womb. In Virgins these knobs are joyned together by a thin skin interlated with many small Veins with a hole in the middle about the bignesse of ones little finger through which passeth the menstruous blood This skin is a note of Virginity for the first act of copulation breaketh it I believe that this was that note of Virginity which God gave to the Hebrews These knobs joyned together do much resemble a Rose not quite blown therefore called a flower thence came the word to deflower a Virgin If I should take upon me to declare the opinions of Authors it would prove almost an endlesse taske This I shall add that I conceive it not a certaine note of Virginity because it may be broken without the act of copulation as namely by applying of pessaries to provoke the Menstrues or by a defluxion of sharpe humours c but 't is probable that the Jewish Virgins were more chary of it their reputation depending thereon The Wombe in figure is almost perfectly round in Virgins about the bign esse of a walnut yet when a woman is conceived with Child it dilates it selfe to such a capacity that it is able to containe the Child the mouth of it no bigger then to receive the Glans of the Gard yet at the delivery makes roome for the Child to come out be it never so big This made Galen admire and it may be a great admiration to all If we consider the wonderfull works of God in the Creation of man He who knows himselfe may know there is an All powerful God And therefore it was engraven with letters of Gold over the Porch of the Temple of Apollo the God according to the Panims of knowledge and wisdome this sentence Know thy selfe as a salutation unto all signifying that he that would have accesse unto that Divinity and enterance into that Temple must first know Himselfe But I returne to my intended discourse The Womb before conception is small because the Seed being but little in quantity might be close embraced and cherished It hath but one cavity though it is the common approved opinion that it hath seaven Cells and of this opinion was Galen the truth is the matrix in women differ much from beasts and Galen never saw a woman Anatomized Women have Testicles or Stones as men have but they differ from mens in these particulars They are within the Belly in women in men without They are not so smooth in women as in men They are lesse then the Stones of men They are not staid by muscies but by Ligaments As men's are Ovall theirs are flatish They have but one skin mens have four because they are without the body and exposed to the cold They are more soft and colder then mens are But they are ordained both in men and women for the same use viz to concoct seed and though Aristotle denyed seed in women yet Hippocrates one of the Antients of Physick was of this judgment reason and experience confirmeth it The vasa praeparantia the preparing Vessells vasa deferentia carrying Vessells are of the same nature and office as they are in men They differ only in this that they are somwhat shorter having a shorter way to go the Testicles being with in the Belly in women but lest the shortnesse of the passage should hinder their operation God and nature hath so provided that they are more twisted and interweaved than they are in men that they may the better mingle the blood and vitall Spirit as you have heard before CHAP. X. The Conclusion THus have I given you a breife description of Man the masterpiece of Gods workmanship I have only given you an Epitome or Breviary of him who is a small draught of all things in the universe should any attempt a particular description of the body and faculties of man he would fall short in his expectation it being an Herculean taske for the most acute Genius This I will adde not to say that the world would not containe the books that might be written of him the life of man would be too short to perfect it Not to recapitulate what I have formerly delivered In man as in a perspective glasse may our Mother Earth with her innumerable of spring be discovered in him may the unruly and restlesse waves of the Ocean be delineared Nor doth he only epitomize the Elementall world but also the Celestiall In him are discovered the prudent majesticall sumptuous magnificent honourable affable and humane So lar quality The unstedfast timerous soon-daunted oftchanging and shifting temper among men answer to the various motions
vitall Heat is decayed and the Body oppressed with cold and moist Humours The other Cause you may discover in those whose Bladder nor Sphincter is no ways distempered but they imagine when the Quantity and Sharpnesse of the Vrine stirreth up the expulsive Faculty that they are pissing against the Wall and so get a custome of it which cannot be cured by Medicines The Sphincter Muscle may become weak or loose by Youth old Age decay of vitall Heat by the Palsy in Women from Diseases of the Womb or hard Labour cutting for the Stone or any Wound there or deep Vlcer This Disease is easily known and the cause thereof is as easily discovered if it come by Wound Vlcer old Age or the like it is apparent If it come by consent of other parts the Diseases of those parts are obvious as the original If neither of them appear consider the cold and moist Temper of the part which is known by the internall and external causes and the Effects upon them depending as Softnesse of the Body Whitenesse and Loosenesse of the Nervs about the privityes Childhood Age evill phlegmatick Concoction and such like In old Men this Disease is incurable because the vitall Hant cannot be repaired In Children Nature worketh the cure when they grow elder by drying up the superfluous Humidity and knitting the Muscle but if a man continue so till the Age of twenty or twenty five he is incurable If involuntary Pissing come to a man sick of an acute Feaver Death is at hand If this Disease come by a Wound or Vlcer or any other manifest Disease the cure depends upon the removing of them otherwise the cure is wrought by amending the cold and moist Distemper and the Loosenesse of the Sphincter Muscle First you must purge the cold and phlegmatick Humours add to your phlegm-Purgers such Medicines which purge and leav a binding Quality behind it as Rubarb Myrabolans and the like Then give Medicines that knit the part and dry the Humours Take of the Roots of Comphry and Cypresse of each half an Ounce Cypresse-Nuts and Myrtles dryed of each two Drachms Coriander Seed prepared red Corall Amber and Shavings of Ivory of each one Drachm the Seeds of Plantane Rue and Acorn cups of each two Scruples powder them and with the Sirrup of Comphry make an Opiate and give the Quantity of a chesnut Morning and Evening or drink half a Drachm of the powder in red Wine Sweating Medicines are much cōmended Things proper for the cure of this Disease are the Brain and Stones of a Hare burnt the Throat of a Cock Snails and Egg shells Mice fryed or dryed to powder Hogs Hoofs powdered Agrimony and the Gizzards of Hens in powder Apply Medicines to the Privityes that are hot strengthning and astringing Let him drink the Decoction of the inward Bark of an Oak of Sloes and such like and let him avoid drink to bedward You must allay the Symptomes which may accompany this Disease as Feavers Thirst Watchings Consumptions c. by the Remedies laid down in their proper chapters CHAP. LXVIII Of the Stoppage of Urine and Strangury THe Stoppage of Urine and the Strangury are Diseases which differ onely in degree the first is called by the Greeks 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the other 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Iscuria is when the Urine is totally stopped when little is voided then it is called Stranguria The first is caused by an Obstruction in the Nerv which helpeth the expulsive Faculty of the Bladder by the Palsy or some sleepy or stupifying Disease A cold Distemper of the Bladder dulling the Sense thereof may be the Cause Sometimes an Inflammation or Tumor in the Muscle of the Bladder may stop the Passage the Stone some thick humor clod of Blood or the like Sometimes by long holding of Water by which the Bladder is so stretched that it cannot contract it self to open the Passage Sometimes the Bladder is empty no Urine cometh to it this is called a bastard Iscuria and may be caused by some hurt in the attractive or expulsive Faculty of the Roins The attractive Faculty is hure by some Stoppage in the Reins or emulgent Veins The Reins may be obstructed by the Stone thick Phlegm or the like the emulgent Veins by abundance of Blood or Water Sometimes the watry humour is spent as in Feavers or sent to some other part as in the Dropsy by which means the attractive Faculty of the Reins is hindered The expulsive Faculty of the Reins is hindered by the Stone Phlegm or clods of Blood Diag The Disease is easily known the Causes thereof may be obtained If it come by long holding the Urine the Patient is able to inform you If there be a stoppage in the part the use of the Catheter or fearing Candle and the ingenuity of the Artist will discover the Nature of the stoppage If the Passage be stopped by the Stone the Symptoms of the Stone have gone before If a Caruncle there hath gone before a Gonorrhaea or an Vlcerin the passage of the Yard If clods of Blood stop the Passage the Patient hath formerly voided Blood and clotted Blood will stick to the Catheter The Strangury is thus known there is neither Weight Tumor or Extension about the Privityes but rather an Emptinesse the attractive or expulsive Faculty of the Reins is obstructed as aforesaid Prognosticks are thus made This Disease is ever dangerous if it continue above seven dayes it is deadly The same judge if the Patient hath Hiccough or Tenasmus accompanying this Disease or if it came by a Wound or Blow upon the back-bone or if his Breath stink of Pisse The Cure of both these consisteth in removing the Causes If it proceed from the fullnesse of the emulgent Veins bleeding is good if from Diseases of the Reins or Ureters seek the Cure out of the Chapters that treat of the Pain Inflammation or Stone in the Kidneys If it depend upon the Inflammation of the Bladder see the 64 Chapter If upon the Stone fastned in the Neck of the Bladder lay the Patient upon his back with his Thighs lifted up move him hither and thither till the Stone fall out of the Passage if that will not do make use of the Catheter If the Stone lyeth in the Passage of the Yard bathe the Yard in warm Milk or Oyl labour to get it out with your fingers if it will not come out bind the Yard on each side and make an Incision on the upper side of the Yard If a Caruncle stop the Passage Medicines which are proper to take it away must be conveyed to the part with a Wax-Candle If Phlegm obstruct purge it with Medicines convenient and when you see occasion give such as provoke Urine The Chapters of the Stone of the Bladder or Kidneys will direct you how to prepare them as also Clisters Fomentations Unguents and the like CHAP. LXIX Of the Scalding of the Urine 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Dysuria in
thin plate of Lead about the Reins pricked full of holes Let the Patient's ordinary drink be Beer in which is tunned Mastick-wood sliced and cut small Plantane and the Herbs before named If the Liver be distempered with Heat conferr with the 53 Chapter If the Stone or Gravell be the Cause use no strong Diureticks because they provoke the Flux but that which I have known very effectuall in this case I shal here commend and put an end to the Chapter Take of the four greater and lesser cold Seeds of each one Drachm Quince Seeds half a Drachm the Seeds of Marsh-Mallows white Poppy and Winter Cherryes of each one Scruple make an Emulsion with the Decoction of Marsh-Mallows and give two three or four spoonsuls in the Morning and if you add a little Oyl of Vitrioll it will be the better Venice Turpetine made into Pills with the Powder of Rubarb half a Drachm taken in the Morning doth gently cleanse the Reins CHAP. LXXI Of the Green-sicknesse THis Disease is called by some the Virgins Disease the white Feaver the white Jaundice but vulgarly the Green-sicknesse It is an evill habit of the Body proceeding from the Obstruction of the Veins about the Womb Liver Spleen and Mesentery causing a heavinesse unweildinesse of the whole Body difficulty of Breathing panting of the Heart and Head-Ach a desire after Food that is evil and a loathing of good The Veins about the Womb being obstructed that Blood which Nature hath ordained to go thither having not free passage runs upwards and oppresseth the Heart Liver Spleen Diaphragma stops the Vessels and destroys the naturall Heat hence it cometh to passe that the Stomach and Bowels cannot concoct well as they ought to do so Crudityes are dispersed throughout the body and make an evill Habit. Sometimes by this means the Hypocondria is swelled which depressing the Diaphragma causeth Shortnesse of Breath This grosse Blood being carried in the great Artery to the Heart which least it should be suffocated by it labours for its deliverance often moving of its Arteryes causeth a Palpitation and Beating of the Temples The Stomach by this means being filled with Crudityes and excrementitious Humours causeth a Loathing of Food and a desire after such things which ought not to be eaten as Salt Chalk Coals Ashes Oat-meal Wheat Tobacco-Pipes c. which Disease is called Pica Malacia and we have spoken of it in the 35 Chapter of this Book This Obstruction is caused many wayes as drinking cold Drink to Bedward eating raw or unripe Fruits Some go to Feasts and upon a full Stomach dancing and sporting all Night disturb the naturall Frame of the Body and want Rest others sleep too much and sit long at their work as Seamsters Bonelace-makers and the like By these and the like means Concoction is hurt the naturall Heat is extinguished and the Body filled with crude Excrements and thick slimy Humours which cause Obstructions This Disease is easily known and you may know the diseased if you do but veiw their Faces which are pale and white sometimes of a Lead colour blew or green the Face and Eye-lids the Legs and Feet swelled The whole Body is unweildy and lazy When the body is stirred by Exercise or Walking especially going up a hill or steep place there followeth Palpitation of the Heart and Shortnesse of Breath Beating in the Temples and great Head-Ach behind if the Womb be obstructed before if the Hypocondria be afflicted there is great loathing of wholesome Meat and desiring the contrary the Pulfe is swift and quick as in a Feaver and when the Disease comes to the hight the Terms are stopped This Disease continueth a long time yet is seldom dangerous sometimes by long continuance it breeds Corruption in the naturall parts Dropsyes Feavers Consumptions which end in Death If the Veins of the Womb onely are obstructed a Husband will cure her Women that have a long time been in this condition bring forth weak and sickly Children and sometimes they are barren This Disease is cured by opening the Obstructions evacuating the filthy Humours and strengthning of the parts The Obstructions are opened by such Medicines as are mentioned in the cure of the Obstructions of the Liver and Spleen you may add to them such things which respect the Womb as Mugwort Fetherfew Pennyroyall c. If the Spleen be obstructed add such things which are proper for that as Caper-bark Ceterack Spleenwort c. Open the Saphaena or Ancle-Vein but first if the Maid be full of Blood open a Vein in the Arm. Then purge often with such Medicines as are prescribed in the Cure aforenamed and make use of such Medicines as powerfully open Obstructions there prescribed Zacutus Lusitanus doth much commend the Conserve of Mugwort given thirty dayes together drinking after it a little of the distilled Water of Savin in which Rubarb hath been infused The Salt of Mugwort is very good and Faecula Brioniae mixed with the Conserve hath an effectuall and powerfull operation If the Obstructions are stubborn and not easily opened make a Bath thus Take of the Roots of Marsh-Mallows Briony Elder and Lillyes of each two pound Balm Fethersew Mallows Mercury Maddir Mugmort Nep Pennyrorall and Violets of each three Handfulls the Seed of Flax and Fenugreek of each two Ounces boil them in a sufficient Quantity of Water and let the Patient bathe her self in the Morning and Evening two dayes let the Decoction be renewed the second day The next day open the Vein under the Ancle if the Terms be stopped as for the most part they are in this Disease then give Medicines that powerfully open Obstructions when you find that the Obstructions are opened which you may easily perceive by the decay of the aforenamed Symptoms then you must discusse the peccant Humours that remain in the Veins and other parts of the Body by Sweats for which you must use the Decoction of Guajacum in cold constitutions or of China and Sarfa in those that are hot In the mean while every fourth or fifth day give a purge to cleanse the Body of the crude Humours which cannot be sent forth by Sweat CHAP. LXXII Of the Stoppage of the Terms MEnsium Suppressio or the Terms stopped is when a Woman of ripe Age hath little or no Evacuation of Blood by the Womb once in a Month yet gives not suck nor is with Child Divers Diseases of the Womb may cause this Suppression viz. A cold and dry Distemper which thickneth and bindeth the Womb. A hot and dry Distemper dryeth the part Inflammation Tumor Ulcer or Erosion of the mouths of the Vessels in Abortion or Tumor in the adjacent parts by compression may cause this Stoppage The Vessels of the Womb may be obstructed by thick and phlegmatick Humours or they may be compressed by a Tumor in the parts adjacent The cause may be in the Blood when it offends in Quantity Quality or Motion in Quantity when there is
thorough the Veins though it continueth longer yet the Blood and Spirits do not so much decay therefore it is not so dangerous On the contrary the breaking of the Veins cause more danger because of the sudden issuing of Blood yet is sooner cured because the Patient hath Strength and Store of Blood But of all the other that which comes from Exulceration is most dangerous because some part of the Veins is perished which letteth out the Blood in great abundance and is very difficult to be cured If she grow weaker and the Issue more violent there is danger of Death in elderly Women it is hard to be cured Since the Cure must be performed in the same manner almost as is praescribed in the 51 Chapter Of the immoderate Flux of the Haemorrhoids I shall say the lesse First open a vein in the Arm and let her bleed much by degrees Use Frictions and Ligatures and fasten Cupping-Glasses to her dugs as Hippocrates adviseth Purge with the same Medicines prescribed in the Chapter aforegoing Also Vomits are good for they draw the Blood upwards and Hippocrates treating of Womens Diseases doth much commend them Then make use of this Powder much commended by Johannes Michael Paschalius and it is thus prepared Take the Shells of two new layd Eggs burnt Frankin-cense Mastick of each half an Ounce Pearls and red Corall prepared and Amber of each two drachms Hamatites and Emerald of each half a Scruple Barly meal fine sifted two Pugills the Whites of four Eggs and chalybiated Water enough to make the Powder into two Cakes bake them in an Oven so hard that they may be beaten to Powder give of this Powder half a Drachm or a Drachm in the Morning in Broth made of Sheeps feet or Calves feet The Juyce of Plantane Yarrow Nettles Shepherds Purse Knot-grasse Comphry and Hors-tail is very good or a Sirrup made of all or either of them is much and upon good grounds commended Milk in which red hot Steel hath been quenched allayeth the Sharpnesse of the Humours and stayeth the Flux Spiknard in fine Powder inwardly taken or applyed to the Womb upon a little Lint hath been much approved of Minerall Waters which receive their Tincture from Vitriol Iron or Allum do remove the Cause and strengthen the Part. The Chymists do much commend the Tincture of Corall and vitriolated Steel Before you go farther take this necessary Caution that you do not altogether give strong astringents but sometimes Medicines which strengthen the Liver and somewhat bind Outwardly foment upon her Loins Share and about the Privityes with a fomentation made of the aforegoing Herbs Then anoint the parts aforesaid with the Oyl of Myrtles Mastick and Quinces or make an Ointment more astringent adding Frankincense Dragon's Blood Sealed Earth Bolearmenick and the like Unguentum Comitissae is very powerfull in this Distemper Afterwards apply a Plaister to the Navel and Loins Emplastrum ad Herniam Hystericum or Emplastrum de Mastich either of these or all three are very effectuall Likewise dry Fumes Pessaryes and Injections for the Womb may be prepared of the aforenamed Herbs and other astringent Simples When she is cured you must endeavour to prevent the Disease for the future by the Rules prescribed in the 51 Chapter Of the Immoderate Flux of the Haemorrhoids CHAP. LXXIV Of the Whites THis Disease is called the Flux of the Womb the Woman's Flux and the Whites and it is an excrementitious Humour flowing from the Womb sometimes white and sometimes watry sometimes mixed with yellow green or black according to the Nature of the Humour Women are subject principally to this Distemper and sometimes Maids though some have affirmed the contrary and condemned them as unchaste yet according to the opinion of the wisest Physitians the purest Virgins may have this Infirmity and their opinion is confirmed daily by Experience These Humours are bred in the whole Body or in some particular part or in the Womb it self They are bred in the whole Body either by ill Diet or a vicious habituall Distemper The particular parts may be the Brain Stomach Liver or Spleen These Humours may be bred in the Womb by a cold or hot Distemper therein the cold maketh it unable to digest its Nourishment and the hot Distemper corrupteth it hence cometh this excrementitious Humour Child-bearing Abortion Contusion Inflammation Imposthume or Ulcer in the Womb may weaken the part and dispose it to breed and receive such Humours This Disease is known by the relation of the Patient from what part it cometh is thus known If the whole Body send this Humour to the Womb the whole Body appeareth in an evill State is weary and heavy as if the Patient were weary with hard labour and by this Flux her Body is at present refreshed the Hands and Feet are puffed up with a great itching and stinging if the Humour be cholerick If it come from some peculiar part the Symptomes and Excrements proper to that part appear If it come onely from the Womb something hath happened which hath hurt the Womb as a Fall or Blow upon the Back or Belly immoderate carnall Embracements especially if the Woman be young or any Disease of the Womb. Signes that distinguish between this Disease and an Ulcer in the Womb or Gonorrhaea are these If there be an Ulcer in the Womb that which floweth is more digested mattery mixed with Blood and stringy and cometh with pain and the Woman admits not of Copulation without pain In the Gonorrhaea the Matter comes in a small Quantity and seldom and is of a shining Whitenesse But if it be a Gonorrhaea which is gotten by acting with an unclean Person then is the Womb ulcerated the Urine sharp and many other malignant Symptomes This Disease is not dangerous but is hard to be cured for it is hard to divert the Humours from this Channell it being the Sink of the Body through which the superfluous Humours of a healthy Body are every Month evacuated That which is blewish green black and stinking is worse then that which is pale white and doth not stink This Disease is seldom cured in old Women because they abound in Phlegm Lastly by its continuance it may breed great evills as Barrennesse Falling out of the Wōb evill habit in the whole Body and Consumption To cure the Humour offended must be purged with convenient Medicines and because Phlegm for the most part is the Humour peccant purge with such Medicines as principally purge Phlegm with which mix such as purge the Humour mixed Vomits if the Patient be strong are good because they empty the Stomach of excrementitious Humours and do powerfully revell the Humours from the Womb. After sufficient Evacuations let the Patient take sweating Decoctions made of Lignum Vitae and Sassafras if the Patient be phlegmatick of China and Sarsa if she be cholerick or melancholy Also Sweat procured by sulphurous Baths is kind Milk wherein Steel hath been quenched is very good
Inflammation imposthumate and gather Matter the pain and Feaver encreaseth and the Patient hath shaking Fits and most of all about the Evening Sometimes it turns to an Ulcer which is known by avoiding of snotty Matter or Quittor out of the Womb. If it be party-coloured greenish or Lead coloured stinking and cometh away with great pain it is the worse If it depend upon the French Pox or Gonorthaea their Symptoms will declare the same Sometimes the Inflammation turns not to an Imposthume nor Ulcer but to a painlesse hard Swelling called a Schirrus which is thus known the Feaver and pain ceaseth and the Swelling remaineth there is a hardnesse heavinesse and Sense of Weight bearing down when the Woman standeth As to the Prognostick I shall say a word or two of either of them An Inflammation of the Womb is a dangerous and de adly Symptome especially if the whole Womb be inflamed If a Woman with Child suffer Inflammation of the Womb the Child dyeth and probably the Mother followeth Ravings Hiccoughs Coldnesse of the Hands and Feet and cold Sweats are the Messengers of Death If it imposthumate and turn to an Ulcer it ought not to be slighted because the Womb is of exquisite Sense and hath a fellow-felling with the principall parts of the Body If the Ulcer turns cancrous hollow or fistulous it is seldom or never cured but vexeth the Patient miserably all her life-time An Ulcer in the Neck of the Womb is most easily cured because Medicines may be applyed to them immediatly A Schirrhus or insensible hard Swelling is seldom cured because the naturall Heat is so weak in that part that it can hardly discusse such an hard and almost stony Substance If it be not cured it soon brings a Dropsy and if it be tampered with with over hot and moist Medicines it turns to a Cancer The Cure you must prosecute thus First in the Inflammation of the Womb give a cooling Clister then open the Basilick Vein on the same side the Womb is inflamed if all the Womb be inflamed repeat your Phlebotomy afterwards open the lower Veins Rubbings and Bindings are good and Cupping-Glasses fastened to the Loins and Back Purge the Humour offending with such things as purge gently Then give cooling Juleps or Emulsions to allay the Heat and sharpnesse of the Humours mix therewith Narcoticks to give ease and rest if the Patient be tired out Apply cooling Liniments and Cataplasms In Liniments use the Oyl and Ointment of Roses Galen's cooling Ointment Ceratum Santalinum and such like and with the Oyl of Roses white Bread and Milk make Cataplasms adding the Juyce of Henbane Night-shade Plantant and Sorrell or instead of the white Bread the Meal of Barly Flax and Fenugreek Seed Of such cool Herbs make Injections and Pessaries But use not cooling and repelling too long lest the Tumor be fixed and hardned but rather use softning and discussing Medicines with repelling such as these viz. Marsh and cōmon Mallows Mugwort Melilor Camomill Fenugreek If the Patient be subject to be costive give gentle purgers or mollifying and cooling Clisters If the pain be very violent make Injections with new Milk and a little Opium and make Pessaries of Philonium Romanum and a little Cotton and apply it If it tends to Suppuration apply a Cataplasm made of the aforenamed softning Herbs fat Figs Yolks of Egs Saffion Oyl of Lillyes and fresh Butter When it is broken we must endeavour to purge out the Quitter and cleanse the Ulcer You must often purge with gentle Medicines as Senna Rubarb Tamarinds Mirabolans Agarick Catholicon and such like that the evill Humours may be diverted from the Womb for such who are easy to vomit a gentle Vomit is very profitable Make a vulnerary Drink to cleanse and heal the Ulcer Take of Agrimony Burnet Mugwort Knot-Grasse Plantane and Yarrow of each one Handfull China Root half an Ounce Rha Ponticum one Ounce Currance and French Barly of each two Ounces boil them in Chicken-Broth and let the Patient take somewhat more then a Quarter of a Pint Morning and Evening Venice Turpotine washed in Mugwort Water or in the Water of any other Herb respecting the Ulcer is good to cleanse and heal it If the Humours be sharp and painfull inject the Emulsion of the cold Seeds Goats Milk or for want thereof Cows Milk with the Juyce of Shepherds Purse or of any of the Herbs aforenamed To dry and fill up the Ulcer make a Decoction of the aforenamed Herbs or of the like Nature made in Water wherein Steel hath been quenched or in Plantane Water add thereto Acacia Hypocistis Sanguis Draconis Bolearmenick fine Starch Aristolochia rotunda great Comphry c. Unguentum Egyptiacum de Plumbo de Ceruso and de Apio are very good in Injections and the Oyl of the Yolks of Egs stirred in a Leaden Morter is much more commended If the Ulcer in the Womb come by reason of the French Pox a Fumigation made of Cinnabaris or Minium taken into the Cavity of the Womb hath a peculiar property to cleanse and heal the Ulcer the same virtue hath Quick-Silver Ointments If it come to a Schirrhous Tumor you must purge the melancholy and rebellious Humours and give steeled and such Medicines which powerfully open Obstructions of the Womb or other parts Then you must prepare emollient and resolving Medicaments to be applyed outwardly as the Fomentation and Cataplasm mentioned in the 56 Chapter Of the Schirrbus of the Liver Likewise the Liniment there prescribed may serve here for an Injection To conclude you must use a great deal of care diligence and industry in this Cure lest that the Tumor become harder or which is most dangerous degenerate into a Cancer CHAP. LXXVII Of the Womb swelled by Wind or Water There is a twofold Dropsy of the Womb one from Wind which is like that sort called Tympanites the other from a watry and wheyish Humour answering to Ascites Some add a third answering to Leucophlegmatia which is seldom seen This Wind or Water is contained in the Cavity of the Womb or in the Membranes thereof or in certain Bladders It is caused by the weaknesse of naturall Heat in the Liver or Spleen from which parts Wind Phlegm or wheyish Humours are sent to the Womb or by the weaknesse of the Womb those Humours are collected Causes which weaken the naturall heat of the womb are many viz. cold aire heedlesly taken into the womb or staying in the cold or padling in cold water whilst the courses flow the use of cold meates and drinks add to these abortion hard labour immoderat flux of the Termes all diseases proper to the Womb. This disease is best discovered by signes which distinguish between this and the universall Dropsy of the Belly The Womb-Dropsy causeth a swelling chiefly in the lower Belly in the other Dropsy the swelling is in all parts in this the Body decays not nor there is not such a Thirst and Drinesse of
Consumptions and Hectick Foavers The Dose is from one ounce to two Syrupus è corralliis simplex compositus The Syrup of Corral simple and compound It refrigerateth dryeth and astringeth it stayeth the immoderate Monethly Flux and the Whites the Dysentery all Fluxes of Bloud it is good in the Falling Sickness it strengtheneth Nature profitable for such who have Hectick Feavers or Consumptions The Dose is from half an ounce to an ounce Syrupus Cydoniorum Syrup of Quinces It is the best to strengthen the Stomach and to help the cold distemper of the Liver it helps Concoction and provokes an appetite it helps Vomiting and is good against a Flux if it be without a Feaver The Dose is from one ounce to two take it in the morning For a Looseness take an ounce before Mâ—at for Vomiting an ounce after Meat Syrupus de Erysimo Syrup of Hedge-Mustard It prevaileth against cold afflictions of the Breast and Lungs as Coughs Astmachs Hoarsness and the like Use it with a Liquoris Stick or take an ounce with two or three ounces of some Pectoral Decoction in the Morning Syrpus de Fumaria Syrup of Fumitory It concocteth Melancholy and freeth the Bloud of such Humours as cause Scabs Itch Leprosie Tetters Ring-Worms Cancers Corns Warts c. It openeth Obstructions of the Liver and Spleen and is soveraign in the Hypochrondriack Melancholy it cooleth the Liver and cleanseth the bloud The Dose is from one ounce to three Syrupus Glycyrrhiza Syrup of Liquoris It helps Coughs and is good against Plurifies for it cleanseth the Breast and Lungs Take it as Syrup of Hedge-Mustard Oxy-Saccharum Simplex Syrup of Pomegranates with Vinegar It is many times used in the small Pox and Measuls by reason of the Vinegar it cutteth and attenuateth 〈◊〉 Humours it restraineth Choller and mitigates its heat The Dose is from two ounces to four Syrupus de Hysopo Syrup of Hysop It hath a notable Faculty of cutting and expectorating tough Humours out of the Breast and Lungs and to strongthen the parts It prepareth and expelleth Salt and Phlegmatick Humours in the Urine which causeth heat and pain in those parts For the first take it with a Liquoris stick For the last the Dose is from half an ounce to two ounces Syrupus Jvae arthriticae sive Chamaepityos Syrup of Chamepitys or Ground-Pine It is good against the Fits of the Mother procureth Womens Courses expelleth the dead Child let Women with Child forbear it It is good against the Strangury or stoppage of Urine openeth obstructions of the Liver and Spseen The Dose is from half an ounce to an ounce Syrupus Jujubinus Syrup of Jujubes It halpeth Diseases of the Trachaea Arteria occasioned by sharp and dry Humours for it is cooling and moistening it helps Hoarsness Coughs Plurisies It is good against Ulcers of the Lungs or Bladder or any inflammation Take it with a Liquoris Stick or take half an ounce or an ounce as oft as you please Syrupus de Meconio vel Diacodium de Meconio compositus Syrup of Meconium or Diacodium and of Meconium compound It prevails against dry Coughs Ptisick hot and sharp gnawing Rheums and provokes sleep but beware of giving it to provoke sleep in the beginning of a Feaver or the body being costive The Dose is from half an ounce to two Syrupus Melissophylli Syrup of Bawm It is cordial strengtheneth the Heart Breast and Stomach chears the Spirits and resisteth Melancholy it helps them that languish strengtheneth Memory and is good in Feavers The Dose is from half an ounce to two Syrupus de Mentha Syrup of Mint This Syrup strengtheneth the Stomach helpeth Digsstion stayes Vomiting and sowr Belechings The Dose is from one ounce to three Syrupus de Mucilaginibus Syrup of Musilages It is a fine Remedy against the Ptisick Bloudy Flux Stone in the Reins or Bladder or Ulcers there or sharp corroding Humours there or in any part of of the body and is of great virtue for those who have taken Physick too strong and corroding Yake one ounce or two sometimes it is lawful to give four or five Syrupus Myrtinus Syrup of Myrtles It is of a comforting and astringent Nature it helpeth all Fluxes and spitting of bloud and strengtheneth the retentive Faculty of the Stomach An Ounce or two is the Dose Syrupus Florum Nymphae simplex compositus Syrup of Water Lilly-flowers simple and compound It allayeth the heat of Choller cooleth the Head Heart Liver Reins Matrix and allayeth all hot Diseases and provokes sleep Syrupus de Papavere Erratico Syrup of Erratick Poppies This Syrup cools the bloud and may be safely given with moderation in Surfeits Feavers Frenzies and hot Agues The Dose is from half an ounce to an ounce Syrupus de Pilosella Syrup of Mouse-Ear It is an astringent and hearing Syrup good for the cure of a Rupture and necessary to be used by wounded people The Dose is from half an ounce to two Syrupus Florum Paeoniae vel de Paeonia compositus Syrup of Peony Flowers or the compound Syrup of Peony It is good against the Falling-Sickness Convulsion and such like infirmities The usual Dose is an Ounce Syrupus de Pomis Alterans Syrup of Apples It cools the Heart and Stomach helps palpitation breeds good bloud profitable in Hectick and other Feavers quencheth Thirst You may take an Ounce in the Morning Syrupus de Prasio Syrup of Hore-hound It cleanseth the Lungs from thick and putrified Flegm it is good against the Ptisick and Cough in antient people or such as are of cold Natures Take it with Liquoris stick Syrupus de quinque Radicibus Syrups of the five opening Roots It openeth the Obstructions of the Liver Spleen and more especially of the Reins it is good against the Stone if you mix it with Syrup of Maiden-hair it is of great vertue in preparing Phlegmatick and tough Humours and is profitable in the beginning of Feavers The Dose is from one Ounce to four Syrupus Raphani or Syrup of Rhadishes It breaks the stone of the Kidneys and cleanseth the part it provokes Urine and Womens Purgations and is profitable against the stone in the Bladder The Dose is from one Ounce to three Syrupas Regius vel Julepium Alexandrinum Julep of Alexandrina It is profitable in Summer time for such bodies which abound with Choller 's for it allayeth the heat and evacuateth it and is convenient to prepare it against Purging The Dose is from two Ounces to five Syrupus de Rosis siccis Or Syrup of Dryed Roses It strengtheneth and comforteth the Heart and Vital Spirits helps Fluxes and Corrosions and gnawing in the Guts strengtheneth the Stomach and stayes Vomiting Take it as Syrup of Quinces Syrupus Scabiosae Syrup of Scabius It freeth the Breast and Lungs of Phlegm and Crudities it easeth Stirches in the sides and is good against inward Imposthumes The Dose is from one Ounce to three Syrupus de Scolopendria
white Poppy heads meanly ripe and newly gathered in number twenty steep them in three pints of warm Spring-water the next day boyle them till the virtue is our then strain out the Liquor and with a sufficient quantity of good Sugar boyle it according to art that you may make it into Lozenges They are good against thin humors distilling from the head upon the Lungs Stomach and Throat they provoke sleep and coole the body in Feavers Saccharum Tabulatum simplex periatum Lozenges of Sugar simple and pearled commonly called manus Christi It is cooling and very Cordiall and therefore is good in Feavers and for weak people who are subject to Hectick Feavets and Consumptions Saccharum Tabulatum Compositum Lozenges of Sugar compound Is is very good for cold Stomachs and it frees the Stomach of Choller and Flegm and is good against Wormes Saccharum Penidium Sugar Penies For the most part they are used in other Compositions of themselves they are good against Coughs Saccharum Rosatum Sugar of Roses They strengthen weak Stomachs easeth pains in the Head restoreth loft strength they cherish a weak Brain and comfort drooping Spirits stay vomiting and pissing of bloud they are convenient for people in Consumptions to carry them in their pockets and now and then cat a bit of them In like manner are all the rest to be taken CHAP. VI. Of Troches THey are also called Placentule or little Cakes they were invented principally to keep Pouders from losing their virtue by the intromission of the air which this Form doth resist and keep it pure the longer Besides they are convenient for a man to carry about him when he travelleth their form for the most part is little round and flat The general way of making them is thus Take what quantity of Gum Tragacanth you please the like quantity of Rose-water or any other fuitable to the Distemper you aim at put it in a Galley pot and cover it in six or seven hours the Gum will be turned into Musilage with which you may make any fine Powder into Paste with the Paste you may make Troches or little Cakes and print what you please upon them Then dry them in the shaddow and keep them for your use Trochisci de absynthio Troches of Wormwood are thus made Take of the Leaves of Red-Roses Wormwood and Annis-seeds of each two drachms Juyce of Maudlin made thick the Roots of Asarabacca Rhubarb Spicknard Smallage seeds Bitter Almonds Mastich Mace of each one drachm Juyce of Succory as much as is sufficient to make Troches They strengthen the Stomach and provoketh an appetite open Obstructions of the Liver and Bowels and carry away Watry and Chollerick Humours The frequent use of these Troches will be beneficial to such as are inclinable to the Jaundise or Dropsie The Dose is from half a drachm to a drachm and an half Agaricus Trochiscatus Agarick Trochiscated They purge Phlegm and Choller mixed and free the Head and Brain thereof purge gross and viscous Humours from the Stomach They are seldome or never used alone therefore I forbear the Dose Trochisci Albi the white Troches They are cooling and drying and of great virtue if a drachm of them be finely poudered and mixed with an Injection for the Yard ulcerated Trochisci Alexiterii Troches against Poyson They are good against all Pestilential and Epidemical Diseases and a good Preservative in Pestilential Times and they strengthen the Heart Take a little now and then Trochisci Alhandal It powerfully purgeth gross Humours from the exterior parts it is good in the Palsie sleepy Disease Apoplexie and Convulsion coming from a cold cause The Dose is from two grains to four It is violent and best mixed with other milder Medicines or given in a Clister Trochisci Aliptae Moschatae They are commended for Children that cannot swallow their Milk well The Dose is from two grains to six given in Breast-milk Others say it is very good for Barren Women taken inwardly and outwardly mixed with a Plaister for the Womb. It is very dear and good for Ladies Trochisci Alchelengi Troches of Winter Cherries They are a good Medicine to allay the heat of Urine and give ease in Ulcers of the Reins Bladder and passage of the Urine and is good against the Stone The Dose is from half a drachm to two drachms Trochisci Bechici Albi Nigri Pectoral Rouls white and black They are very good for a Cough and Hoarsness The Dose is from half a drachm to a drachm Trochisci de Berberis Troches of Barberies They are very good in any Flux cooling in Feavers and allay unnatural heat in any part The Dose is from half a drachm to two Trochisci de Camphora Troches of Camphire They are good in Burning Feavers against the heat of Bloud and Choller and against the hot distemper of the Stomach and Liver or any other part against the Jaundice Hectick Feavers c. The best way is to take a little often Trochisci de Capparibus Troches of Capers They are very profitable against schirrhous Tumors in the Spleen and openeth Obstructions of the Liver and are good against the Hypochondriack Melancholy The Dose is from half a drachm to a drachm Trochisci de Carabe Or Troches of Amber They are good to stop fluxes of bloud in any part of body The Dose is from one scruple to four Trochisci Cypheos It is used in Treacle and Methridate It is good against Ulcers in the Lungs and other parts of the body Trochisci de Eupaterio Troches of Maudlin These Troches are good against the Jaundice and the Dropsie and is good in any Tumor in the Liver or Splean Trochisci Galliae Moschatae They strengthen the Womb the Brain Heart Animal and Vital Spirit Trochisci Gordonii They are good against any inward Ulcers or Ulcers of the Yard and to cool the body in Feavers Take half a drachm with Syrup of Marshmallows Trochisci Hedichroi They strengthen the Heart and Brain they are of a heating quality therefore good for such as have cold Stomachs they are seldome used alone Trochisci Hysterici Troches against the Mother They serve principally against Fits of the Mother expels the Birth and After-Birth cleanseth a Woman after her Labour The Dose is from half a drachm to a drachm Trochisci de Ligni Aloes Troches of Wood of Aloes It chears the Heart and Vital Spirits it is good against Heart-qualms and Faintings and against the Dropsie and is a pretty Medicine for a Stinking-breath The Dose is half a drachm Trochisci è Myrrha Troches of Myrrh They powerfully provoke the dead Child after Birth and Womens Monethly Purgations The Dose is from half a drachm to a drachm Trochisci de Plumbo Troches of Lead It is good to cure Ulcers in the Eyes Trochisci Polyidae It is good in green Wounds and Ulcers Trochiscide Rhabarbare Troches of Rhubarb They have a cutting attenuating strengthening and Choller-purging quality by Urine and otherwise they are
Is good to allay the heat of Phlegmon and Erysipelous Tumors and is good against gaulling of the Skin and tempers the heat of the Head Stomach and Liver Vnguentum Desiccativum Rubrum It is a very drying Ointment restrains a Flux in a Wound and skins the Sore Vnguentum è Solano A Unguent of Nightshade It allays the heat and itching of Wounds Vnguentum Tutiae An Unguent of Tutry Anoint the Eye-lids with it to dry hot and salt humours flowing thither Valentia Scabiosae Tapsivalentia and Tapsimel See the Simples and you may easily know the virtues of them Vnguentum Agrippa It is good to anoint the bellies of such as have the Dropsies Vnguentum Apostolorum It cleanseth Wounds Ulcers and Fistulas consumes dead flesh and softneth the hard Lips of Ulcers and is a good incarnative Vnguentum Aragon It is good in all cold Diseases and such as have their Original from glassie Flegm and is good in the Chollick Vnguentum de Arthanita The Ointment of Sowbread It hath been used with good success in the Ascites when all other means have failed for it powerfully freeth the Abdomen of Serous and watry Humours Vnguentum Catapsoras It is used to kill the Itch. Vnguentum Citrinum It is good to take away the Redness Imples and Freckles on the Face it makes the Skin smooth Vnguentum Comitissae This Ointment strengthneth and bindeth and is good against all fluxes of the Womb and Belly Vnguentum Martiatum It easeth pain and strengthneth the Head Nerves and Muscles Vnguentum Mastichinum It hath the virtues of the former the Stomach being anointed with it it restores Appetite and helps Digestion Vnguentum Neapolitanum It is used in the French Pox. Vnguentum Nervinum It is good in old Bruises and for Diseases of the Nerves coming from a cold cause as dead Palsies c. Vnguentum Pectorale It strengthneth and casetlpains of the Stomach it is good in a Pleurisie and consumption of the Lungs Unguentum Populeum An Unguent of Poplar It is good in Burnings Scaldings and inflammations in any part Vnguentum Resumptivum It is good to correct the hot and dry distemper of any part it easeth pains which come by inflammations and Convulsions which come in Burning Feavers Vnguentum Splanchnicum It easeth the pains of the Spleen Vnguentum è Succis An Ointment of Juyces It opens obstructions of the Stomach and Spleen Annoint the Breast and Sides for the Rickets Vnguentum Sumach It is a binding Ointment and drying anoint the Stomach for Vomiting the Belly for a Looseness and the Fundament for the falling out thereof Vnguentum Refrigerans It cures inflammations in Wounds and Tumors Vnguentum contra vermes Anoint the Belly with it to kill Worms CHAP. XII Of Plaisters EMplaistrum ex Ammoniaco A Plaister of Ammoniacum It mollifieth hard Swellings of the Spleen and easeth the pains thereof Emplastrum è Baccis Lauri A Plaister of Bay-berries Is good against the Chollick and caseth pain coming of Cold and Wind in any part of the body Emplastrum Barbarum Magnum It allayeth the inflammation of Wounds and is good in the beginning of Gouts and cureth the biting of any Creature Emplastrum de Botonica A Plaister of Betony unites a broken Scul or other Bones draws out pieces of the Scul and cleanseth Wounds or Ulcers to the bottome Emplastrum Caesaris It is cooling strengthning and binding it repels hot Rheums and Vapours ascending to the Head or flowing to any other part Emplastrum Catagmaticum There are two of this name both are binding and drying Emplastrum Cephalicum A Head-Plaister This strengthneth the Head and repels Vapours dryes up the moisture and hot Scalding Vapours which fall into the Eyes Emplastrum de Cerussa A Plaister of Ceruss It is profitable in Burns and hot Ulcers it cooles and dryes up the moisture Emplastrum ex Cicuta cum Ammoniaco A Plaister of Hemlock with Ammoniacum It mittigates pains and allays inflammations in the remote parts Emplastrum è Cinnabari Eats off dead flesh Emplastrum è Crusta panis A Plaister of a Crust of Bread strengthneth the Head and Stomach Emplastrum è Cymino A Plaister of Cummin It is good against the Wind-Cholick Swellings and Aches Diapalma is of a cleansing faculty and drying up of the excrementitious moisture which is in Wounds and Ulcers and is most in use in old Ulcers Diachylum simplex ireatum magnum cum Gummi All of these dissolve hard swellings and ease pain and inflammation and dry up womens milk Diachylon compositum Or Emplastrum è Mucilaginibus A Plaister of Musilages It suppurates and breaks Tumors and heals them likewise Emplastrum Diaphaenicon Both hot and cold strengtheneth the Stomach and Liver stays vomiting and fluxes of the belly make use of either according to the nature of the distemper Emplaftrum Divinum A Divine Plaister It is cleansing in Wounds and Ulcers and is a good incarnative Emplastrum Epispasticum It is good to draw Blisters Flos Vaguentorum The Flower of Ointments It cleanseth draweth out bones thorns and whatsoever is in the flesh and healeth speedily Emplastrum Gummi Elemi A Plaister of Gum Elemi It is of special use in Wounds and Ulcers in the Head or other parts also in Fractures of the Scul Emplastrum Lapidis Calaminaris It is of an exceeding drying nature Emplastrum ad Herniam It is good against a Rupture and being applyed to the Reins and Womb stays abortion Emplastrum Hystericum applyed to the Navel is good against Fits of the Mother Emplastrum è Mastiche A Plaister of Mastich strengtheneth the Stomach Emplastrum è Meliloto Simplex the Simple Melilot Plaister draws and heals green wounds ripens breaks and heals Swellings Emplastrum è Meloloto compositum The compound Melilot Plaister asswageth pain and mollifieth any Tumor is good against hardness of the Stomach Liver or Spleen and is good against the Rickets Emplastrum de Minio Simplex compositum A Plaister of Red-Lead Simple or Compound It is cooling and drying and healing Emplastrum Metroproptoticon It strengthneth the Stomach and stops a Looseness and Vomiting Emplestrum Nervinum Strengthneth the Head and Nerves Emplastrum Oxycroceum It is much used in Fractures and Dislocations Emplastrum è Ranis A Plaister of Frogs It was invented for Sores attending the French Pox. Emplastrum Sicyonium See the Ointment of Sowbread Spadarap seutela Galteri It is drying sit for Ulcers Emplastrum Stephaniaion and Sticticum they both draw forth corruption strengthen the Nerves and other parts and ease pain Emplastrum Stomachicum Magistrale A Magistral Stomach Plaister It strengthneth the Stomach helps Digestion and stays Vomiting Emplastrum gratia Dei It is good in Ulcers and Wounds it cleanseth cooleth healeth and incarnateth Ceratum de Galbano A Cere-cloth of Galbanum helps the Fits of the Mother and cleanseth a Woman after her lying in Ceratum Oesypatum Mollifieth hard Swellings of the Liver Spleen Womb or any other part Ceratum Sentalinum A Cerate of
and it will be more powerfull it a little Bolearmenick Sanguis Draconis and Terra Sigillata be given with it Among a multiplicity of Medicines which are astringont and proper for this Diseale I shall insert but one or two Zecheus doth highly commend this following Electuary Take of Gum Arabick and Gum Tragant of each two Drachms Corall of both sorts Eg-shells burnt Harts-horn Dill Seeds Amber of each four Scruples Hony of Roses as much as will make into it an Electuary give half an Ounce in the Morning and fast two howers after it This Julep I have found of great virtue Take of the distilled Water of Plantane red Roses Oak Leavs and Knot grasse of each four Ounces infuse therein a whole Night of the Flowers of Comphry Buglosse and red Roses of each one Pugill strain them out and make it sharp with Oyl of Vitriol with the Sirrup of Comphry and red Roses make a Julep for four or five Mornings Draughts Whatever part sendeth pblegmatick Matter to the Womb you must seek its cure from its proper Chapter To conclude the Medicines prescribed in the former Chapter are good against this Distemper Outward Remedies as Fomentations Unguents Fumes Pessaryes and Injections such as are prescribed in the Chapter aforesaid are usefull here CHAP. LXXV Of the Mother THis Disease is called the Hystericall passion Uteri Strangulatio by the Greeks 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 we call it the Mother and Strangling of the Womb. It is caused by the Seed menstruall Blood or other excrementitious Humors retained besides the intent of Nature in the Womb and there putrified and corrupted breedeth venemous and malignant Vapours which arising doth afflict divers parts of the Body Now these Vapours do not alwayes afflict but when they are stirred up by some cause the most noted are sweet odours sweet meats eaten anger terror and grievous passions of the mind these and such like bring Women subject to this Infirmity into their Fits wherein their breathing is impaired sometimes to appearance abolished the Body becomes cold their Speech gone and Pulse intercepted so that they ly for dead and sometimes have been laid out for burial and yet have revived Sometimes these choaking Fits are not so extream yet is accompanied with other hystericall Symptomes as Vomitings Ravings Convulsions Swoonings and the like Sometimes the Patient feeleth herself as it were choaked by an halter or rope this is caused by abundance of Vapours and Winds ascending from the Womb sometimes seconded by hypocondriack Melancholy which Vapours compressing the Diaphragma and Lungs hinder Respiration and the Patient feeleth herself as it were strangled Others will have it proceed from the Nature of the malignant Vapours whose property is to cause Suffocation Sometimes she loseth her Breath without pain or sense of Strangling by reason of the stupefactive Power of these Vapours which taketh away the vitall Action from the Heart and so hindreth Respiration For Nature having ordained the drawing of Breath to cool the Heart and the Heart is extreamly cooled by these venemous Vapours having no need of the cool Air Breathing ceaseth For the vitall Spirits being destroyed the Animall which are made of them must needs lose their functions We may also say that these venemous and stupisying Vapours do fly up and assault the Brain and hinder the Influx of the animall Spirits whereby the Motion of the Diaphragma and the Muscles which serve for Respiration are hindered Likewise the Womb being filled with these flatuous Vapours doth ascend towards the upper parts as it were by a convulsive Motion which causeth a Compression of the Midriff and Muscles of Respiration Sometimes these sharp and malignant Vapours ascend to the Head and disperse themselves into the membranous parts and cause divers pains pricking and smarting and sometimes stretching and swelling sometimes they cause pains beating like the Pulse Sometimes the Falling-Sicknesse cometh from the Womb by reason of sharp and malignant Vapours which having gotten a powerfull Acrimony do sharply smite the nervous parts These Vapours assaulting the Heart the Heart laboureth to expell them hence ariseth Palpitation Likewise it causeth a great Pulsation in the Back The Stomach doth oftentimes suffer much by this Distemper according to the Nature of the Humours afflicting or part of the Stomach it gets possession of as Want of Appetite or a depraved Appetite that is destring Food which Nature disdains as Coals Chalk c. Loathing of Meat Vomiting Belching Hiccough and pain in the Stomach If in the Womb menstruall Blood is retained it floweth back by the Voins into the Liver from thence shed abroad into the whole Body hence cometh Swelling Feavers and other Diseases If it flows back to the Spleen Swelling Stopping Melancholy and hypocondriacal Diseases are bred Lastly Women have pains in their Loins Thighs and other parts which are caused by these Vapours conveighed from the Womb. Therefore to know this from other pains mark well the Signes of this Disease Much may be gathered from what huth already been said remembring this you must not expect all the Symptomes in one but some in one and some in another the Breathing faileth Sense of Strangling Coldnesse of the Body the Pulse ceaseth and the like which I have mentioned before There goeth before the Fit a Noise in the Belly below the Navill Belching Inclination to Vomit Wearinesse Stretching the Face pale and wan As it gathers Strength it bringeth Suffocation or Choaking afterwards all the vitall animall Actions are depraved diminished and as it were abolished the Womb may be felt in divers parts of the lower Belly gathered round like a Ball tossing and tumbling to and fro When the Fit begins to be over a moist Humour floweth out of the Womb the Body beginneth to be warm they have a Colour in their Face they open their Eyes they sigh they begin to move and so by degrees are freed from the Fit Signs of the Causes are thus known If the Seed corrupting in the Womb hath been the Cause there hath preceded those things which might gather together or excrease Seed and cerrupt it in the Womb as flourishing Age high keeping and an idle life Sanguine Complexion and ripe for Generation or one formerly accustomed to the Actions of Generation and left it of if any such fall into this Disease and have their monthly Purgation well you may judge that Corruption of Seed is the Cause If it come from the Putrefaction of menstruous Blood the Menstrues are stopped or come not down well and the Woman wanteth no carnall Embracements If evill Humours be the Cause the Woman enjoyeth camall Excercise and hath her monthly Purgation but her Body is full of evill Humours Prognosticks we make thus This Disease is seldom mortall but of long continuance the Patient is in great danger if it continue long because Respiration being so often hurt there is danger that the native Heat be suffocated Young Women when they come to bear Children for the most part