stirreth lively 1. The signes of a birth at hand is pain under the navel at the groine and loynes the Genitals swell with pain and a certain fever like shaking invades the body the face waxeth red by reason of the indeavour of nature armed unto the expulsion of the infant Also when the infant by kicking breaketh the membranes so that the humours runne out is a certain sign the child is at hand If the infant come forth with those waters the birth proves easie 2. The child in the wombe untill it be fully formed sends forth his urine by the passage of the navel or Vrachus but a little before the time of child-birth the Vrachus is closed up and then the man-child voydeth it by the conduit of the yard and the woman child by the neck of the womb 3. This urine is gathered together in the coat Chorion or Allantoides or Farciminalis being all one membrane together with other excrements as sweat and wheyish superfluities of the menstruall matter 4. He voyds two sorts of excrements namely urine and sweat in both which he swimmes 5. If the woman have a man-childe she is merry strong and better coloured The males stirre in three months and a half her right parts are strongest to every work or motion of the body The right dug sooner waxeth hard and that child stirreth most on the right side if she have a female contrary signes appear 1. There be three concoctions the first is performed in the stomach which being driven down into the intestines is voyded by the fundament 2. The second cometh from the liver and is threefold first cholerick a great portion whereof is sent to the bladder of the gall and part is expelled by sweat The other is like whey which goeth with the blood into the veines to nourish the whole body and part thereof is expelled by sweat and urines The third is the melancholy excrements which being drawne by the milt the purer part nourisheth the milt and the remnant is purged by the Hemorroidal veines and partly sent to the orifice of the stomack to instimulate appetite 3. Thelast concoction is absolved in the habit of the body and breathed out by insensible transpiration is partly consumed by sweat and other passages as the brain unloadeth it self by the nose mouth eares eyes palat bone and sutures of the scull Lastly Signa if the child be dead in the womb it moveth not the womans belly is cold having great pain about the navel a naughty colâ—ur of the face and a stinking breath 2. Also the waters are flowed out and the secundine come forth which are certain signes of a dead child Because the child breathing by the arteries of the navel and the breath being received by the cotylidon of the arteries of the womb It must of necessity come to pass when the secundine is separated from the infant that no ayr or breath can come unto it 3. Moreover the child will be more heavie to the mother falling like a stone to that side the mother inclines her body she is vexed with sharp pains from the privities even to the navel with a perpetual desire of making water and going to stool because nature is wholly busied in expulsion The Genitals are cold as well as the womb 3. The child corrupteth in three dayes and sendeth vapours up to the brain and heart c. which causeth often swounding Her dugs do fall and her body is more puffed up then before 5. If she be weak having a feeble pulse a cold breath a livid and gastly colour cold sweats and cold in the extream parts then judge death is nigh 1. For the cure of hard travel in child-birth Curatio First place her in such a posture as is fit namely on a stool or chaire that is hollow and lyned with cloath and covered with linning made on purpose or else place her on a bed in posture like one that is ready to be cut of the stone 2. Then let the midwife anoynt the mouth of the matrice with unsalted butter oyle or hens-grease and open it wide by little and little having her nailes pared close and her rings taken off if shee have them on 3. A fearful woman must be comforted and incouraged commanding her to hold and stop her breath strongly 4. If adstriction be the cause as through cold foment with decoction of mallowes fenegreek c. 5 If she be very weak give her fome cordial and let her smell to vinegar 6. If the infant be over-great make the mouth of the matrice as wide as you can 7. If an unnatural form of the child be the cause bring him to a natural form partly by putting back drawing to you partly by turning and partly by making it streight the midwifes armes being bare all the time and well well anoynted with some fat thing 8. If there be 2 or 3 bring out that which seemeth most ready driving back the rest 9. But if it be dead and the Physicians cannot prevail with potions baths fumigations sternutatories vomits and pessaries to expell the dead child It must then be done by chirurgical extraction if the woman be able to indure the same with instruments made on purpose to tear in pieces if necessity require the same 10. If the tunicle or secundine be very thick and strong cut it 11. If the humour contained in the tunicle or secundine cometh away so that the places are dried up and a hard labour like to follow wash it all about with the whites of egges and with the decoction of mallows fenegreek or â„ž Olei ex seminibus lini â„¥ i.ss Linimentum olei de castoreo â„¥ ss olei liliorum â„¥ ss Galliae moschataeÊ’ iij ladaniÊ’ j fiat linimentum 12. Also this powder following is much commended as an universal remedy to help all that have sore travel in child-birth â„ž Ginnamomi elect Ê’ ij myrrhae cassiae lig Pulvis ana ℈ j. succini alb Ê’.i ss fiat pulvis If you please you may adde dictamniÊ’ i. ss sacchari albi ad pondus omnium but it is better without if they will take it let them take Ê’ j. in pure odoriferous wine 13. If the secundine stick to some part of the matrice draw it out by little and little but not violently your arme being warme and well anoynted 14. But if the neck of the womb be shut Fomentatio use somentations that can mollify and release 15. If she be strong let her sneese Sternutamentum with castoreâ—m and pepper use fumigations and the same things you would use to procure the termes 16. Seeth in a pot motherwort Ireos savin penniroyal calamint dictamnus and such like put the pot under a close chaire upon the which let the woman sit If the womb will not open with this means whereby you may draw away the secundine yet it will rot and turn into matter and so fall away 1. When the woman is
she be dead or not take a smooth looking-glasse lay it or hold it before her mouth and nostrils if she breath though never so obscurely yet the glass will be duskey 2. Or take a fine downish feather and hold it likewise as aforesaid and it will by the trembling or shaking motion thereof shew that there is some breath and therefore life remaining in the body 3. But the surest way is to blow up sneesing powder but if no breath appear do not presently judge the woman for dead for the small vitall heat may be drawn into the heart and so not quite destitute of life but for the present nature is contented with transpiration only So flies gnats and pishmares or pismires live all winter without breathing 1. If it proceedeth from the corruption of the seed the accidents are more grievous and violent difficulty of breathing goeth before and shortly after comes the deprivation thereof And the whole habit of the body seems more cold then a stone She is a widow or a woman that her husband hath a long time been absent from her so that she hath great store of seed which causeth heavinesse of the head losse of appetite sadnesse and fear Also young maids that are prone to lechery abounding with blood and seed are often troubled with this disease so that if the abundance of seed be the cause they speak things that are to be concealed some laugh others weep and some sing But the peculiar signes if the midwife tickle her womb with her finger there comes away thick and grosse seed with much pleasure and delight as may be perceived by the Patient so that all symptomes do quickly vanish 2. It is very like it is caused by the suppression of the flowers if they had them very well formerly and on a sudden they stop and the fits likewise quickly follow after Look the cause of Mensium suppressio I mean the signe many do perish in the fit or within few houres after which happeneth when the pulse are swift and inordinate and then vanish clean away In the Fit place her on her back Curatio with her brest and stomach loose and her garments slack about her that she may breathe the more freely Some pull the haires of the secret parts using frictions below and fumes of cinnamon Lignum aloes Callam aromat lignum Aloes Ladanum Benzoin and storax An instrument may be made for this purpose with a tunnell on the top through which the fume may passe into the matrice Contrariwiwise to the nostrils Gum. galbanum Sagapenum Assafoetida ammoniacum Assa foetida the snuff of candle also haire old leather horse-hoofees and partridges feathers burnt are good If she be a married woman let her be strongly encountered by her husband who possibly may be the cause by not affording her due benevolence for one I knew once to be guilty of this crime and for no other end but because he was unwilling to have any more children by her so that the woman had undoubtedly perished in her most grievous fits if I had not perswaded him to relieve her which accordingly he did and she very suddenly recovered If she be a maid or widow let the midwife anoynt her finger with Oleum moschaetalinum Oleum or cloves or the best is a little amber greece or civet Sacculi and tickle the top of the neck of the wombe which Plato calleth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a craving creature Also to apply sitle bagges of motherwort origan cammomel peniroyal lavender and mugwort hot to her secret parts is a present remedy in the time of the fit And procure sneesing with Helleborus albus or pilletary with a little powder of Castoreum After the fit I have procured gentle vomiting with good successe and Castoreum drunk in wine is excellent Also open a vein on the foot Venae-sectio especially if the menstruis be stopped using other meanes also to procure them And administer this clyster following ℞ Clyster Bad. enulae campanae ℥ ss fol. absynth artemisiae pulegii matricar origani ana M. j. Baccharum lauri juniperi ana ℥ .iij. sem rutae anisi an ʒ.iij florum stoecados roris marini salviae centaur minor ana ℥ .iv. fiat decoctio cape colaturae li. j. in qua dissolve mellis anthosati sacchar rub hieraepicrae benedict lax ana ℥ .j. olei aneth ℥ i.ss misce fiat enema Lastly these pills following are excellent ℞ Pul. rad gentianae ℥ ss castoreiʒ ij pul rad Pilulae peoniaeʒ ij assafaetida ℥ ss ol junip. anisi ana gr 10. ol succini ℈ .j. cum theriac androm q. s fiat massa If you can get the mosse that groweth on a malefactors scull put in ℈ ij with the powder of the scull ʒ ij and then it will prove excellent good against Epilepsia If she have her fits mostly in the day let her take 3 or 4 pills every morning if in the night contrary Lastly ℞ Musci ℈ j. Galliae muscataeʒ j. Vnguentū Ruffus olei liliorum ℥ .ij. misce fiat unguentum Let the neck of the womb be anointed therewith And ℞ Castorei Galbani in aceto soluti ana ℥ ss Suffumiga tio Ruffus Sulphuris ℥ j. Assae foetidaeʒ j. Ruffus lib. 6. cap. 8. pag. 84. vel fol. 83. CHAP. XXII PROCIDENTIA VTERI 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or a falling down of the womb so that it sticketh out outwardly The cause is of falling from an high place Causae sore travel of child-birth or through the unskilfulnesse of the mid-wife who draweth away the womb with the childe or with the secundine cleaving fast thereunto Also a tenasmus may be the cause or whatsoever weightily presseth down the Diaphragma or the muscles of the Epigastrium or setting on a cold stone Therefore what thing soever resolve relax or burst the ligaments or bands whereby the wombe is tyed are supposed to be causes of the accident There is felt pain in the entrails loynes or os sacrum Signa And a tractable tumour at the neck of the womb It is sometimes seen hanging out of the bignesse and form of goose egge like a peece of red flesh If that hangeth out be putrified Curatio it must be cut away being first tied and the rest seared with a cautery Paulus and others testifie that some women have lost the greater part others all their womb and yet have lived very well after it If it hangeth down between the thighs it is hard to cure yet place her on her back her buttocks and thighes being lifted up and her legges drawne back then anoint with oyle of sillies Fomentatio If it be swelled use a fomentation of mallowes Althaea and fennegreek then thrust it up gently with your finger into its place whilest the woman draw her breath as as if she supt something then wipe away the oyle and foment with an astringent decoction made
excited The outward signes are smoak and dust If it be caused through a cold distemper Signa they spit out nothing while they cough neither is it so violent but may be eased by holding the breath because through holding the breath the instruments of breathing that were vexed with cold do waxe hot and contrary they are provoked with breathing oftentimes to cough their face is pale and they are not thirsty If a hot distemper be the cause there is felt thirst and often breathing do relieve and succour them it is also sharp and more tedious and they spit but little this is a thin hot Rhoume distilling from the head to the Trachaea arteria and sometimes happeneth in the plurisie For the cure in a cold cause Curatio which for the most part happeneth in winter may be helped with hot things his neck and feet are to be kept warm Oleum and oyles of mace dill and lillies be good to anoint the brest and if he have a plethorick body give a purgation made by the judgement of the water If a thin cold Rheume give penedice in every sooping they take and syrrup of oximel is wondrous proper Oximel If from thin and sharp humours then ingross it with syrrups of violets foals-foot and maidens-hair and stay the distilling humour with such things as you shall find proper in Catarrhus In a hot cause first an Apozem as you shall see proper after take mallowes M. 6 currents Apozema M. 3 stamp them together Decoctio then take Liquoress â„¥ j. boyle them in four pints of water till halfe be wasted strain it and adde stone-sugar â„¥ .ij. Syrrup of violets â„¥ j. give the patient five or sixe spoonefulls at a time last at night first in the morning about ten in the forenoon Syr. de papavere erratico and four in the afternon also syrrup of poppies in poppy water or given alone is good CHAP. XXX PICa is a languishing of the stomach 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 with a provoking and desire of vomit or casting of meat received and sometimes vomiting of chollar and flegme or it is a certain desire of vitious and unwholesome meats for they desire strange things as raw-flesh shells coals chaulk lime salt vinegar old rags rotten leather tar candles one I knew would eat tobacco-pipes The cause according to Piso is a hurtful action of the animal faculty which doth erre Pisco and not desire good nourishment the part affected is the mouth of the stomach as may be perceived by the appetite this disease hapneth for the most part to young women being repleat and full of naughty humours but chiefly when they are with child sometimes to maides and girles and such as are troubled with Cachexia which is an evill state of the whole body with a waterish disposition whereby it waxeth loose and soft the cause signe and cure you shall have in its proper Chapter For the signe of pica or malacia Signa Malacia is that if there be shed burnt and black chollar in the stomach they desire such things as are acrid and sharp as coales ashes tobacco-pipes and all such things as are drie If salt humours they desire those things that are salt some have referred the cause of this disease to be crudity corruption of the whole body which being communicated to the mouth of the stomach they will have it to be affected by consent in like manner there do appear daily spittings gnawing of the mouth of the stomach If there be flegmatick humours heavinesse and according to the variety of vitious humours and patient doth desire the foresaid divers and strange meats This disease for the most part as I said before happeneth to young women with child about the fourtieth day from conception and do continue often untill the fourth month and then it ceaseth partly because vitious humours are avoyded by vomit and partly because they are concocted by reason that about those times the woman receiveth but little nourishment through a loathsomenesse partly because the multitude is diminished by evacuation that in the first two months the child draweth but little to it self because it is but small of growth but in the increase it doth require more nourishment so much as it draweth something that is vitious as well as good and so it happeneth that the whole body becometh more empty from that vitious quality and is lesse offended with naughty humours As for women with child Curatio Viâ—ctus Ratio they seldom make use of a physician but if any do prescribe a sparing diet as chickens rabbets or the like with parseley but nothing that is fat a mornings to eat almonds and reysons of the Sun and oximel and to drink muscadel in the day time is good but suffer not much drink to be drunk because the meat will swimme and if a plethorick body give clysters Vomitus or provoke gentle vomits but not in the first month for danger of Abortive or if a child laboureth of this disease use the means prescribed in the Chapter of Canina appetentia if it take hold on men which is but seldom known Vomitus first prepare the humour with oximel and then administer such a vomit as you shall know to be proper If chollar be adust and scorcheth prepare the humour with this Apozem following â„ž Syr. de Rhabar â„¥ j. syr Rosarum sol â„¥ ss Apozema Decoction Sennae q. s.f Apozema Let it be taken the one half over night and the other half in the morning after this give such a purgation as you shall know to be proper by the water or if need be give stomachal pills Pilulae which are wondrous proper to take one pill at a time one hour before supper when they have gone a day and have not had a stoole or they may purge good roundly with 7 or 9 at a time Syrrup of Rhubarb is good for children Syrrup de rhabarbaro and so is honey and muscadel but indeed they must be diligently admonished and must be constrained from the use of such unwholesom feeding those of reason must hearken to perswasion and children must be made to forbear with the Rod After purging or vomiting â„ž Julepus Platerus Aquae mens ij succi granat vel agrestae â„¥ ij Sacchari â„¥ ss coquatur parùm Vel â„ž Julepus Platerus Aquarum acetosae endiviae ana lb. ij sucei Ribes vel agrestae vel granat â„¥ .iij. succi limonum vel pomorum acid parum coquantur addito saccharo vel sine eo â„ž Electuarium Platerus Conser ros â„¥ .ij. conser acetosae â„¥ .j. cons viol bugloss nenuph. ana â„¥ ss Rob. de ribes q. s.f Electuarium In a cold cause you may use outwardly Oleum nucis moschatae Oleum caryophyllorum absynthii menthae c. In a hot cause Oleum Rosaceum myrrhinum cotoneorum Weckerus cum aceto
his beginning from an un-usuall putrefaction also having its beginning likewise sometimes in our selves the humours do degenerate so much from their natural temperament that they take unto themselves a pernicious and venemous quality sometimes it is caused by outward means as putrefied exhalations communicated to the ayr from dead carcases not buried Fennes Pools standing waters stinking channels venemous dens and mettalin spirits arising out of the earth Also from the variable commistion of the planets and then it is the scourge of the most high God for our sinnes Also a corrupt ayre may be the cause I mean diet It rageth commonly at the latter end of Summer and the beginning of Harvest or Autumne The outward members are cold Signa the inward hot There is heavinesse wearisomenesse sloth difficulty of breathing pain in the head carefulnesse of minde sadnesse marvellous sleepy and sometimes raging vexeth him with losse of appetite thirst often vomiting bitternesse and drynesse of the mouth a frequent small and deep pulse the urine thick and stinking yet sometimes it is like a hail bodies urine Lastly the sure token is botches behind the eares or under the arme-holes or about the share also small spots all over the body with great faintnesse First burn juniper oken wood laurel Curatio Fumigatio or Tamariscus in the house or strew juniper berries mirrhe frankincense rew Angelica in powder upon coales Also sprinkle vinegar upon the pavement Secondly If a plethorick body open a vein Venae-sectio Vomitus on that side the botch is on and on that vein that comes from thence some commend a stibium vomit especially if choller abound also Electuarium de ovo Elect. de ovo which maximilianus the Emperour once used with marvellous successe Ê’ j. at a time in scabious water Also â„ž Theriaca Andromachi ℈ ij Haustus Mithridatum ℈ .j. Bolus arm prae ℈ ss Aqua rosarum Buglossae ana â„¥ .j. misce fiat potio Let him sweat upon it Diascordium treakle or mithridate applied in the forme of a linament upon the region of the heart LinimentuÌ„ mixed with the juyce of lymonds is good make him broath in which boyle Buglosse Borrage Marygolds and Harts-horn Also â„ž Haustus DiascordiiÊ’ j. Syrrupus lymonibus â„¥ ss Aquae cardui benedict â„¥ ij Spirit vitriol Gut 4. misce fiat Haustus Let him take 2 or 3 of the same draughts mithridate drawes poyson to it Gentilis though Gentilis and Valescus affirme that it drives it from it If there be a botch Cataplas rot it with a poultis made of fenegreek linseed roots of Althaea white lillies and figs or goose-dung dissolved in oyle of Cammomel for his sawce vinegar is good and lymonds he may drink wine that is thin and watery And let him often smell on Rew He must eschew Venus that fears this fever and bleed after the body be well purged Pil. pestilentialis with pil pestilentialis and remove into a clear ayre In this fever Clyster a clyster is to be administred if the body be much costive also make this electuary â„ž Electuarium Cons rosarum rubr Buglos Borrag an â„¥ ss confect caryophil â„¥ j. Theriaca Androm â„¥ ss Diamargariti frigidiÊ’ ij Syr. Luâ—ulae q s fiat Elect. molle For dainty stomachs you may leave out the treakle and put in two drams of Aqua Mariae Aq. Mariae Lastly this julep following is most excellent â„ž Julepus Aqua endiviae scabios ana â„¥ ij aqua dracon milis ana â„¥ .iiij. aqua Theriacal â„¥ .ij. Syr. ex infusione rosarum viridum â„¥ .ij. Syr. Luiulae endiviae an â„¥ .j. aqua menthae cord â„¥ .j. misce Let him drink of it often 3 or 4 spoonfuls at a time thus much shall suffice for this kind of evil only this powder following is much coÌ„mended â„ž Radicis heptaphylli pentaphylli an Ê’.j Altomarus Pulvis Zedoariae dictamni cretensis seminis mali medici cornu cervi ustising ℈ .ij. Cyperi baccarum juniperi cujuslibet ℈ j. Ossis de corde cervi ℈ ss croci gr iij. misceantur fiat pulvis tenuissimus Vel â„ž TheriacaeÊ’ iv terrae lemniae santal rub Vnguentum an Ê’.j aquae rosaceae aceti parum f. ad modum unguenti Altomarus de feb pest cap. 9. pag. 980. CHAP. XIII LVES VENEREA is a contagious evill gotten for the most part by the use of venery and of unclean bodies The part affected is the liver The cause is an impure touch in copulation Causa the man or woman having their privities troubled with virulent ulcers or molested with a virulent strangury the contagion whereof is eommunicated from one infected body to another The woman takes it by receiving the virulent seed of an unclean person The signes thereof remaining in the wrinkles of the womb may be drawn in by the pores of the open and standing yard and so infect the man whence succeed ulcers and a virulent strangury in the privities of both persons It may be taken by breathing onely or by eating drinking and lying with the infected or after them in their sheets I read of a nurse that infected a Gentlewomans child the childe the mother the mother her husband and the husband infected two of his other children There appear Bubos in the groine Signa pustuls in the yard the urinary passages are ulcerated The prepuce is sometimes so scorched with heat that it will not slip over the Glans the urine burnes with pain and a virulent Gonorrhea Sometimes red sometimes yellow and filthy spots like warts are over the body which in time prove ulcers and pustuls There is pain of the nerves shoulders head and neck In many there is pustuls in the pallat of their mouth jawes nose and tongue which in time ulcerate oftentimes the haire of the head and Beard fall away They cannot sleep for they have exceeding pain in the night more then in the day Because the venereous virulency lying asleep is enraged by the warme bed also the Patients thoughts are fixed upon the object of pain most in the night On their joynts and shin-bones they have certain tophies and tumours very hard to be dissolved and especially in their foreheads and shoulders Prognostica The effects of Lu. ve are sad For some lose one or both their eyes or eye-lids looking very gastly some lose their hearing and their noses do sometimes fall flat with the losse of the bone called Ethmoides so that they faulter and fumble in their speech some have their yards cut off by reason of a Gangreen and women a great part of their privities are tainted with corruption men sometimes have their urethra obstructed by budding caruncles or inflamed pustules and often stand at need of the Cathaetur some their mouthes are drawne awry others grow lame of armes or legges some are troubled with Asthma others have the leprosie
with washt Venus-turpentine and let him take three over night and four in the morning for a week together 5. Emplastrū Also Emplastrum sticticum is very good to lay to his back spread on leather give him with his meats the seeds of Agnus castus and the leaves of rew Aq. sperm ranarum to eat purslaine and drink spawne-water will be good to extinguish seed Let him lye on his side And lastly he must eschew and exclude all thoughts belonging to carnal copulation and ℞ Succi myrtillorum vel succi foliorum myrti Linimentum Montanus plantaginis ana ℥ .ij. succi sempervivae ℥ .j. unguenti sandalini ℥ .ij. cum modico cerae albae reformetur linimentum pro renibus Montanus de renum vesicae affectionibus Consilium 301. pag. 738. CHAP. XVII CELE in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ramex and Hernia in Latin of the barbarous writers Ruptura there be seven kinds or nine 1. Enterocele or Ramex intestinorum 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is when the Peritonaeum do break and the bowels fall down into the Cods 2. Bubonocele or Ramex inguinis 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is when the bowels do cleave or stay above the privie members 3. Hydrocele or Ramex aquosus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is when a watery humour is gathered into any part of the filmes or skin of the Cods 4. Sarcocele 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Ramex carnosus is when there groweth hard flesh within the coats and tunicles of the stones 5. Epiplocele or Ramex omenti 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is when the kall or filme that laps in the bowels do fall down into the Cods 6. Enteroepiplocele or Ramex omenti intestini is when the bowels do slip down with the filme 7. Cirsocele or Ramex varicosus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is when the veines which nourish the stones are spread abroad and swollen out of measure on heaps 8. Ramex ventosus Physocele or Hernia ventositatis is when wind is gathered into the skin of the Cods 9. Hyrophysocele or Ramex ventosus aquosus when wind and water is gathered into the filmes of the Cods They are caused by some violent accident Causa as a stroak leaping crying fall or lifting which do break the peritonaeum and so cause Ramex intestinorum or stretch it out more then it ought to be and so cause Ramex inguinis Or the vessels joyned together and increasing in the Cods or the vessels being broak and slidden down sendeth blood thither which being changed into a watery or wheyish substance causeth Ramex aquosus Ramex carnosus is caused through a stripe or blow upon the stone or stones The cause of the other ruptures are evident by their descriptions The signes of the two first is a manifest swelling in the Cods Signa or above the privie members It goeth back slowly but rolleth down quickly also the swelling is very great The signes of a watery humour is a swelling without pain firm and shining like the colour of the humour as dregs of blood or the like If it be on both sides of the Cods it s then a double rupture The signes of Ramex carnosus is hardnesse somtimes like a kernel and thenthere is neither colour sense nor feeling But if the humour be of a wicked nature then pricking pain doth vexe him You must lay the Patient upright Curatio yet so as his head may be lower then his buttocks and separate his legges then put up the bowels by little and little then keep them up by convenient trusses and ligaments But if the place adjoyning to the Cods or privie members be inflamed and very painful so that thereby the bowels are made disobedient to go up then you must use foments and liniments made with mallowes cammomel dill linseed fennegreek Fomentati and nourish the place with wooll dipt in oyle Also take Emplastrum ad Herniam spread some on a piece of lether and apply it Emplastrū let it lye on seven dayes being bound fast with his truss and let him give himself rest for thirty dayes this is an excellent help Also make a decoction with comfry roots plantin myrtill seed pomegranat flowers Decoctio and leaves of laurel boyle them in red wine and water of plantin and then sweeten it with sugar For a watery rupture look into the Chapters of the dropsies as Ascites c. A perfect rupture coming by the breaking of the Peritonaeum in men of full growth seldom admits of cure A certain chyrurgion did use to beat a loadstone into fine powder Historia and give of it to children in a little pap and then he anoynted the groine with honey and then strewed on it the fine filings of Iron this he did for 10 or 12 dayes together keeping up the bowels straight with a truss Thus have you had directions for the curing of the first second third fifth and sixth As for the fourth rupture it s more properly a chirurgious work Paraeus and if you please you may take Parey for your guide so likewise for the seventh As for the eighth and ninth look into the Chapters of the dropsies There is also Hernia Humoralis generated by the confused mixture of many humours in the Cod Hernia humoralis or between the tunicles which involve the testicle And there is Pneumatocele which is a flatulent tumour in the Cod Pneumatocele being round and shining both of them are cured by medicines which dissolve and trusses to keep up the Cods from falling Vnguentū Also clysters And take Helder cammomel fetherfew betony great valerian chickweed sention mercury hemlock smallage gomepheny and cellindine ana M j. chop them small boyle them in p. iij. of May butter and two penny worth of neats-foot oyle bathe the Cod with it or ℞ Fomentatio Forrestus Cumini baccarum lauri seseli rnt ana ℥ .j. fiat decoctio in vino leniter astringente lixivio foveatur pars Forest Tom. 1. lib. 27. obs 25. CHAP. XVIII MENSIVM SVPPRESSIO Causa is either naturally or against nature If naturally the woman is vexed with no grief of the body nor yet of the wombe If against nature it happeneth either through grossnesse or slendernesse of body the former have but little blood the latter no superfluous blood in them Also grosse blood bleeding at the nose c. sweating continual vomiting fluxes of the belly hardnes scars or a peece of flesh ingendred in the mouth of the matrice may be the cause also carelesness fear and sorrow There is heaviness a desire to vomit Signa abhorring of meat paines about the loynes thighes neck eyes and head sometimes fevers and blackish urine made with difficulty 1. A cold distemper is known by dulness a white and leady colour in the face and a watery thin and greenish urine 2. A hot distemper of
with pomegranate pills Decoctio roche-allam cypress nuts Clyster barberries c. boyled in smithswater Also a clyster is good Or prepare wooll in figure and thicknesse according to the proportion of the member wind it about with a fine cloath dip it in the juyce of Acatia and Hypocischis put it into the wombe and you shall by little and little Vomitus wrest upward all that is fallen down vomiting is much commended let them smell to odoriferous things and stinking things used below of which you have plenty in the former Chapter Lastly if it cometh through cold ℞ Fol. alth salviae lavend. rorismar artemis Fomentatio flor chammaem melilot ana M. ss sem anisi fenugr ana ℥ .j. With wine and water make a decoction to foment with Forestus in lib. 28. Forestus de mulierum morbis obser 35. doth command this powder to be used outwardly after unction ℞ Acaciaeʒ ij baccar myrt ros rub an ℈ .ij. Fulvis cornu cervini ustiʒ ij.ss misce CHAP. XXIII MOLA of the Greek word Myle 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Galenus which signifieth a millstone Galen in lib. 14. Ther. meth defineth a Mola to be a peece of flesh without shape or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 an idle and imperfect flesh It is a false conception of deformed flesh round and hard sometimes distinguished into members coming by corupt and weak diseased seed Causae and the immoderate fluxe of termes overwhelming the mans seed changeth it into a Mola which disease cannot happen to any without the help of man whose seed doth onely minister matter for the generation thereof There is a pricking pain at the beginning that troubleth the belly Signa which will swell sooner then it would if it were a true issue and will be distended with greater hardnesse being more troublesome because contrary to nature presently after the dugs swell but shortly they fall lank for nature sendeth milk thither in vain because there is no issue in the womb that may spend the same 1. It will move before the third month but the true conception will not 2. Also this motion is of the faculty of the wombe and of the spirit of the seed dispersed through the Mola and not of the intellectual soule or spirit sent from above But is nourished and increased after the manner of plants 3. The Mola by reason of its greatnesse and heavinesse rowleth like a stone unto that side the woman declineth her self 4. She waxeth lean in all her members especially her legs although towards night they swell 5. she is slow in going If it cleaveth not very fast it falleth away in 3 or 4 months some have it cleaving so fast to the sides of the wombe and Cotylidons that they bear them 5 or 6 yeares some as long as they live 6. She hath an evill colour loss of appetite and suppression of menstruis as in the lawfull conception 7. There is sometimes difficult making of urine and the excrements stop for a week together by reason the Mola presseth the guts 8. There happeneth sometimes excellent fluxes that lesseneth the body in one wombe sometimes are found 2 or 3 Moles And sometimes the Mola is annexed with a child 9. Lastly about the ninth or tenth month some expell sounding blasts of wind whereby the wombe falleth lank and slender which before was so puffed up as every one thought them to be with child For the cure Curatio all things that provoke the flowers and exclude the dead child are to be prescribed inwardly put up and outwardly applyed look into the Chapter of Mensium suppressio make fomentations with mallowes Fomentatio Althaea cammomel melilot fennegreek linseed and fat figs. Also ℞ Rad. asari Spatulae foetidae rubiae tinctorum Pessarium anaʒ ij sem rutae nigellae anaʒ ss origani nucis moschatae caryophyll baccarum lauri anaʒ j sabinae ℈ j. castorei euphorbii ana ℈ ss fiat pulvis cum terebinthina fiat pessarium Lastly ℞ Sem. rapi salis nitri Hellebori nigri alb Emplastrū colocynthidis staphisag anaʒ iij. scammo ʒ.ij succi elaterii vel cucumeris anguini ʒ ij.ss f. pulvis cape ol ireos fellis tauri an ℥ .iij. pul carthamiʒ iij armoniac ʒ.iv amigdal amarar li. ss fiat emplastrum secund artem CHAP. XXIV VTERI INFLAMMATIO Causa It is caused through a stripe the stopping of the menstruis abortion exulceration unmeasurable lechery or immoderate deambulation may be the cause There is an acute fever Signa pain of the head share loynes and roots of the eyes convulsion and cramp of the armes fingers and neck pain of the stomach and womb If the hinder part be inflamed there is pain about the loyns if the fore part there is pain about the privities so that a strangury or difficult making of urine do follow when it affecteth the mouth of the matrice the mouth is hard shut up and burning hot If the sides be inflamed the parts above the privities are distended and the legges grieved First open a vein on the foot if it came not by abortion or a flux of blood Secondly ptisan Curatio Venae sectio and cooling clysters are exceeding good Apply to the share cataplasmes of fenegreek Cataplas Althaea mallowes motherwort melilot with the meal of linseed put in wool moystned in the juyce of Plantin knotgrass and purslain or in oyle of roses Lastly ℞ Julepus Aq. sperm ranar. p. 1. Syr. de althaea ℥ iv misce CHAP. XXV VTERI INFLATIO Causa It is puffed up through cold or corrupt humours in it Abortion sore travel in child-birth the neck being shut or a clod of blood stopping it The bottome of the body is swelled with hardnesse Signa and a pain that pricketh even to the Diaphragma and stomach to the loynes share and navel If wind be gotten into the hollownesse of the womb there is heard a rumbling noise If into the thin and slender passages the pain is vehement and hard to cure Fasting is good if a plethorick body Cura tio Venae sectia open a vein an excellent clyster for this purpose you may have in uteri strangulatio Bathe her body with oyle of Rew Dill and Origan you may powre them into her womb for they resolve windinesse In her broath boyle the seeds of Apium fennel caraway cummin and anise Also with cammomel calamint motherwort penniroyal and sothernwood may be made poultises If there be clods of blood let the midwife put her finger being first anoynted into her privities and bring it forth by little and little that the windinesse may passe Lastly with her meat give her this powder ℞ Cinnamomi nucis moscata cardamomi an Pulvis Ruffus ʒ ij zingiberisʒ iij piperis longiʒ ss croci gr v. ex his pulvis fiat CHAP. XXVI VTERI EXVLCERATIO Causa It is caused through
hard child-birth sharp medicines fluxes impostumes or botches broken or Lues venerea may be the cause They have pricking pain in the agrieved part Signa stinking matter bloody and dreggy is sent out from the ulcer They have headache pain of the great sinews in the neck The roots of their eyes and even to their fingers ends For the cure Curatio Venae-sectio first bleed if nothing forbid it If there be much heat look back into the Chapter of Vteri inflammatio If the ulcer be very foul cleanse it with ptisan and honey Also Mulsa with the decoction of Ireos Aristolochia wormwood or Agrimony eating ulcers must be washed with Mares or Asses milk with honey The ulcer being cleansed Decoctio make a decoction of pomegranate rinds roses quinces myrtills Acatia with restrictive wine oyle of roses and quinces are good If you want more look into the Chapter of the ulcers of the rains bladder and yard in Lues venerea Yet this oyntment following is very good VnguentuÌ„ â„ž Tutiae ablutae partes ij lithargyrii cerusae sarcocollae sing partem j. cum oleo rosaceo cera f. unguentum Altomarus de exul uteri cap. 117. pag. 673. CHAP. XXVII VTERI PHYMOSIS 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 It is such a streightnesse of the matrice that it will not admit of any seed yet sometimes it doth receive the seed but through the streightnesse of the matrice it bringeth occasion of death to the woman Also sometimes the yard of man is troubled with a Phymosis upon the praeputium for the most part It is caused of exulceration Causa and an inflammation going before or Lues venerea which lieth hid in the body Signa Curatio Fomentatio There needeth not any signes Fomentations must be used that can dissolve and mollifie made of fenegreek Althaea c. And put up a drie spunge having cord hanging to it If it fall out put in a thicker sometimes anoynt the spunge with oyle of Ireos and goose-grease If there be much inflammation use oyle of roses instead of oyle of Ireos Oleum Thus must you alwayes use spunges untill the end of the cure If this Phymosis which is a callous hardnesse happeneth upon a mans yard use dissolving things as â„ž Muscilag fic faenug ana â„¥ ij Stirac VnguentuÌ„ myrrhae ammo diss in ol irino ana â„¥ ji cerae novae q. s fiat unguentum If it will not yeeld to this meanes use ung argent viv extinct CHAP. XXVIII STERILITAS Causa or barrennesse It is caused either of the womans or of the mans part when his seed is either too hot cold thin watery or too feeble Their yards too short or their bellies too big 2. Also women of their part cannot conceive because their matrice is either too hot cold and moyst or too foule filthy or drie or too streight or too open Also unwilling carnal copulation or their age too great or too little doth let and hinder conception 3. A fertil woman is commonly of a moderate stature and height of body breadth of loynes and share her buttocks sticking out a handsome and convenient greatnesse of belly a streight brest and large paps 1. Signa The hot distemper of a man is known by his lascivious and readinesse to carnal lust yet he is satiated and filled 2. Coldnness is known by their want of hair for their stones are bald and they have little desire to lust 1. If through too much heat of the matrice the rest of their body is hot and they are lecherous 2. Coldnesse is known by their despising carnal lust and the stopping of the menstruis 3. If through too much moystnesse then in the act they are bedewed with moystnesse and the menstruis floweth much in quantity 5. Drinesse of the wombe is known by the contrary signes to moystnesse Moderate exercise and a good diet doth well Curatio ExercitiuÌ„ 1. If she be full of corrupt humors purge her 2. If the menstruis be stopped look back into the Chapter of Mensium suppressio 3. If coldnes be the cause Fomentatio make a fomentation of penniroyal aniseed and cumminseed let her drink Castoreum and the juyce of sage in wine 4. If heat be the cause coole and moysten with lettice plantin purslain and gourds Aq. sperm ranarum to make a decoction or boyle them in broath But Aqua sperm ranarum is excellent 5. If moystnesse be the cause let her exercise purge and use a drie diet and sometimes give her a cup of restrictive wine wherein sage is boyled and steeped 6. If drinesse be the cause of barrenesse use those things that moysten 7. Hierapicra If grosse humours be the cause purge her with Hierapicra in whey or the like labour and sweating is good 8. If witdninesse look into the Chapter of uteri Inflatio 9. If through too much streightnesse of the matrice look into the Chapter Vteriphimosis 10. Fomentatio If through gaping of the mouth of the matrice let her use a drie diet and fomentations of the decoction of pomegranate rinds quinces myrtils brambles Acatia c. 11. If the matrice be writhed use mollifying pessaries Paulus saith that carnall lust used backward is good to conceive Faulâ—â— CHAP. XXIX DIFFICILIS PARTVS Causa hard travel in child-birth chanceth either through default of the parent of the childe of the secundine or through some outward cause 1. Of the parent as if she be grosse fat faint-hearted and unskilful of pain or if the matrice be small inflamed or vexed with some other disease Or if she be naturally weak or labour before time or if the neck of the matrice be crooked or some peece of flesh ingendred there of a bile or ulcer going before 2. Default of the childe is when it is of an unaccustomed bignesse or if it have two heads or three feet Or if it be dead or if they be two or more or weaknesse of the childe may be the cause 3. The travel is made difficile through the secundine If it be not pulled away because of the grossenes of it or if it break before it should because of the thinnesse of it and so the privities are left without moysture which should make a slippery passage for the child 4. Also it is caused of outward causes as of cold that thickens the matrice and streightneth the passages or through a great heat that dissolveth and weakneth the strength 1. Outward causes are easily known by the telling of the Patient Signa or them that sit by them 2. Weakness of the child is known by its flow motion 3. Greatness of the child may be known by the greatness of the womans body and the bigness of the Parents themselves 4. Grosseness and thickness of the secundine is known thus none of the aforesaid signes are present and the woman is strong and the child
delivered give her 2 or 3 spoonfulls of oyle of sweet almonds Ol amigdal dulcium extracted without fire or cullises or gellies 2. Let the secundine be presently drawne away before the neck of the womb be closed according to the former directions 3. Then must the navel-string be tyed with a double thred an inch from the belly let not the knot be two hard lest that part of the navel-string without the knot should fall away sooner then it ought neither too slack or loose lest that an exceeding and mortal flux of blood should follow after it is cut off when the knot is made the navel-string must be cut in sunder the breadth of two fingers beneath it with a sharp knife upon the section you must apply a double linnen cloth dipped in oyle of roses or sweet almonds to mitigate the pain for so within a few dayes after that which is beneath the knot will fall away being destitute of life and nourishment By reason the umbilical vein and artery are tyed so close that no life nor nourishment can come into it commonly midwifes do let it lye unto the bare belly of the infant whereof cometh grievous pain and griping by reason of its coldnesse being destitute of heat but it were better to roule it in soft cotton or lint untill it be mortified and so fall away 4. Then the child must be wiped and cleansed from all filth with oyle of roses or myrtills being first washed with warm water and wine wherein is boyled the leaves of roses red and myrtils adding thereto a little salt is excellent some use this lotion 5 or 6 dayes together with very good success for it washeth away all the filthy matter 5. If there be any passages stopped or covered with a membrane as often happeneth to the eares nostrils mouth yard womb and fundament It must be cut and tents put in to keep it open 6. And if the ligamental membrane under the tongue be short and stiffer then it ought it must be amended by an expert Chyrurgion 7. If there be a chalky substance both in colour and consistence that sticketh on the inner side of the mouth which the French-men call the white Cancer cleanse it with a linnen cloath bound to a little stick and dipped in a medicine made with oyle of sweet Almonds Medicamentum honey and sugar This cancer will not permit the child to suck 8. Also give the child a spoonful of oyle of sweet Almonds extracted without fire and rub the inner side of the mouth therewith 9. If the child be troubled with fretting in the guts apply moyst or sweaty wool macerated in oyle of cammomel 10. Children ought not to be weaned before their teeth appear 11. Those that are scabby all over the heads face or body voyding many excrements are like to be strong and sound of body 12. Those that are faire of body gather the matter of many diseases in their bodies which in time will appear Certainly by the sudden falling of such matter into the back bone many become crook-backt 1. The belly of the woman must be bound about with a ligature made of indifferent breadth and length to keep out cold which bringeth hysterical suffocations painful frettings in the guts and a fever with other mortal diseases and to presse out the blood 2. Then give her some capon broath or caudle with saffron and to keep the belly from wrinkling 3. VnguentuÌ„ â„ž Spermatis ceti â„¥ .ij. olei amygdal dulcium hypericon ana â„¥ i. ss sevi hircini â„¥ j. olei myrtillorum ana â„¥ i. ss cerae novae quantum sufficit f. unguentum anoynt her body therewith 4. For fretting in her guts â„ž Pulvis Anisi conditiÊ’ ij nucis moschatae cornu cervi usti anaÊ’ i.ss ligni aloes rad consolidae major anaÊ’ i. ss ambrae graec gr iv f. pulvis Give her a dram at a time in white wine if she have a fever in capon broath 5. If the woman cannot nurse then to repel the milk that it may be expelled through the womb â„ž LinimentuÌ„ Olei ros myrtini ana â„¥ .iij. aceti rosat â„¥ .j. Incorporate them and therewith anoynt and besprinkle them with the powder of myrtyls and then this emplaster following is good â„ž Emplastâ—uÌ„ Pul. mastichini nucis moschatae anÊ’ ij nucis cupressiÊ’ iij. balaust myrtil an Ê’.i ss Ireos florent â„¥ ss olei myrtini â„¥ iij. terebinth venetae â„¥ ij cerae novae q. s f. emplast Or take the leaves of sage smallage rue and Thervil Cataplas cut them very small and incorporate them in vinegar and oyle of roses and so apply them to her brest and renew it thrice every day CHAP. XXX IS CHIAS in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The barbarous sort call it Sciatica It is a grievous pain which chanceth about the joynt which the Greeks call Ischion the Latins Coxa in English the Hucklebone 1. A plentiful phlegmatick humour Causa that is cold gross and viscid flowes down into this joynt 2. The pain not only troubles the leg but entring very deep is extended to the muscles of the buttocks the groines knees and very ends of the toes yea oftentimes it vexeth the Patient with a sense of pain in the very Vertebra of the loynes 3. The cause of such wandring pain is to be referred to the manifold distribution of the nerves which come to the joynt from the loyns and holy-bone 4. Continual rawness and unmeasurable using of venereous acts do not a little help Also neglect of exercises and a slux suddenly stopped may be the cause sometimes there is a flatulency mixed with the humour that runneth into the cavity of this joynt There is a bitter and violent pain in the Hucklebone Signa some have pain about the privie members and the bladder being vexed they have difficulty of pissing The whole leg from the haunch to the heel suffereth pain yet oftentimes no swelling rednesse nor distemper manifest to the eye Lastly the ligamentous bodies moystned with this excrementious humor become loose whence succeeds lamenesse and at last a hectick fever First Curatio Venae sectio if there be an inflammation and the Patient full of blood open the Basilica on the grieved side for revulsion and then for evacuation of conjunct matter the Vena Ischiadica on the one side of the Ankle If the pain be most in the inside take the Sapheia on the inside of the Ankle Also acrid clysters are good If there be no ulcers in the guts or Hemorrhoids â„ž Clyster Rad. acor â„¥ .ij. centaur rutae salviae rorism calam origan pulegii an M. ss stoechad arabic flor cham melil aneth an p. 1. scm anisi foenic. ana â„¥ ss agaric Ê’.ij rad polypod â„¥ ss fiat decoctio ad li. j. in colaturâ dissolve Hieraepicrae diaphen an â„¥ ss benedict lax Ê’ ij mellis anthos sacc rub ana â„¥ j.