through the Fundament come through the womb Or if the Ulcer reach to the Neck of the Bladder or the Abdomen the matter will come forth there and if it continue long it eats away the neck of the bladder As we have known in some Women who have lost all the womb And if the Ulcer be cancerous there will be a Carcinoma and more pain then in a Cancer not ulcerated and the Lips wil be swollen and turned in and the matter wil flow and somtimes blood and that much at the time of the terms in so much that some have been in danger of death thereby These Ulcers come from Hurts as Inflammations as in hard Travail the first Copulation or other that is violent by which a Vein is broken as when they loose their Maiden-heads some bleed from the Terms by rubbing of the Veins or the neck of the womb or from hurt of the orifice which causeth an Ulcer Some think it comes from the breaking of the Membrane Hymen and take it for a sign of Virginity though it happen not alwayes to Virgins at the first Copulation but to such only whose Veins are easily opened being tender and are nigh their Courses at the time of Marriage and then no Ulcer follows This may come also from outward Hurts or use of sharp Medicines which corrode the neck of the womb as we knew in a woman that lived long after the loss of the neck of her womb Also Inflammations turn to Imposthumes and they into Ulcers and some are very foul and there is a sharp flux of the womb that causeth Ulcers Also malignant Humors in the Terms in soul Bodies and other Diseases as in the Pox and running of the Reins may cause the same And somtimes the Seed of a man that is foul long kept in the womb may do the like And in Women that have a dead Child the womb may be corrupted as I knew in two who had the Child cut out with the Membranes and Perinaeum or Cawle corrupted and one lived long after The Cure The Cure is divers as the Diseases that cause these Pains which are Inflammation Cancer Ulcer The cure of Condyloma shall be mentioned in Diseases of the Fundament When the Inflammation is inward and outward The Cure of Inflammation of the Womb. also it must be cured as other Inflammations with respect to the part which is very sensible to prevent pain Inflammations in the Womb only must be cured as other inward Inflammations mentioned taking heed that it turn not to an Imposthume and Ulcer or Hardness or Scirrhus or Gangraen and corrupt the part Outward things are best as in the inflammations of the bottom of the womb as Baths and Injections and other things that come directly to the womb Revulsion and Derivation and things taken inwardly are also good and we must prevent a Scirrhus when it tends to an Imposthume and if a Scirrhus be it must be cured as scirrhous Tumors without pain If it gangrene it is incurable and must be ordered as shall be shewed in Gangraenes A Cancer of the Neck of the Womb The Cure of a Cancer in the womb because at first it causeth little pain or hinderance or is not known or regarded when it grows up proves often incurable Nor can it well or conveniently be cut in that secret part therefore it ulcerates and causeth death But to prevent you must use a palliative Cure by which the Patient may live longer Such as are mentioned in the external Cancer As by Revulsions and Derivations by Bleeding especially in the Ankle and Purging and strengthning and by drying Topicks and things that digest as was there declared The Carcinoma or Cancers of the neck of the womb must be palliated also The Cure of a Carcinoma in the womb with respect to the part and the medicines must be put in with the finger or by Pessaries or injected or by Fumes as in external Cancers All Ulcers in the Womb are bad by reason of the tenderness and moistness of the part The Cure of Ulcers in the womb of that a little skin off will require a great Cure The eating ulcers are worse which if long lasting and rooted and large are almost incurable as Carcinoma which destroy the whole womb as I shewed Venereal Ulcers are not cured except the Pox be cured in general The Cure differs in that some are to be applied as to cancerous and venemous Ulcers Others generally as to all Ulcers The end in curing of all except Carcinoma and Pox is to cleanse the Body when foul for Humors will flow to the womb and moisten it and make the Ulcers worse especially if they be mlaignant and then they must be corrected by sparing moderate Diet and Bleeding and Purging and Sweating which doth not only take Humors from the whole Body but from the part affected As we shewed in other Ulcers And if the Ulcers bleed the Blood must be revelled as we shewed in the Menstrual Flux And if in a deep Ulcer the Matter fall into the Bladder or strait Gut it must be cleansed as in Ulcers of the Bladder and Fundament These things first observed for the Cure of the Ulcer if it be only the skin off or a simple Wound or Ulcer it must be only dryed with glutinating means and the blood stopt with astringents and the pain abated with Lenitives and Narcoticks if need be If the Ulcer be foul and deep it must first be cleansed then dryed and healed up and if there be Corruption use stronger as followeth We give inwardly such as we give other internal ulcers of the bladder or reins and such as we give in outward ulcers with respect to the part As shall be shewed Or this Decoction to heal old Ulcers Take Comfrey-roots an ounce Plantane Yarrow Bayes each a handful Agnus Castus seeds a dram white Wine a quart Honey a pint boyl and skum it till half be confumed give to drink often and apply it to the parts as I shall shew Dioscorides saith the Roots of Rhapontick and small Centaury drunk cure the Pains and Corrosions of the Womb. Or Turpentine wash'd in Mugwort-water or the like as in Plantane-water or Rose-water for an Ulcer or taken with Honey or Sugar Some add Pouder of Hysop New Milk and Sugar or Honey drunk doth the same Or a dram of Pills of Bdellium of Mesue or a scruple every other day cures the Ulcer of the Womb and stops the Bleeding Or thus Take Bdellium three drams Myrrh Frankincense each a dram Sarcocol Storax Amber Chebs Myrobalans each half a dram red Coral two scruples with Syrup of Poppies and a little Opium if the pain be great make Pills Give a scruple every other day For pain the Troches of Alkekengi with Opium are good Or this Pouder to stop Blood and heal Take Acacia Hypocistis each a dram Sanguis Draconis Starch Plantane round Birthwort each half a dram Earth of Armenia or Lemnos
Eyes Ears Yard Privities of Women Fundament the Pores and other open Parts of which we will treat in the bloody Excretion Chap. V. There is a preternatural Excretion of Matter by the Eyes Ears Nose Excretion of Matter Vrinary Passages Womb and other opening Parts these shall be handled in purulent Excretion or of Matter Chap. VI. There is a preternatural Excretion of Water in Tears dropping at the Nose snotty Nose Excretion of Water Whites over much Swcating or evil Sweat and by the Ears and other open Parts of which we shall speak in the watery Excretion Chap. VII There is a preternatural Excretion of Spittle and Humors mixed therewith in Ptyalismo Spitting or Venom Spittle and other Water or Blood Matter and Imposthumes these shall be described in Spittle Chap. VIII There is also a preternatural Excretion of Meat and Humors Vomiting and Excrements in divers Vomitings as of Flegm Choller to which the Disease of Choller is referred also of Blood of which we shall speak in Vomiting Chap. IX There is a preternatural Excretion of Urine Pissing and other Humors in unvoluntary Pissing or immoderate burning Urin mattery Milk like blood and when the Urin cannot be held and when it flows out at a Wound or is tinctur'd which shall be explained in Pissing Chap. X. The preternatural Excretion of the Excrements of the Belly Dejection or Stooling and the Dung is in the Flux Diarrhaea Lientery Disentery Needing Liver-flux of thick Blood Matter Slime Flegm Fat Vomiting of Dung Pissing it out or sending it out by the Womb or a Wound of which we shal speak in Dejection or going to stool Chap. XI There is a preternatural Excretion of divers Filths by the Ears Nose Eyes Womb Skin Excretion of Filth between the Toes Teeth which we shall describe in the Excretion of Filth Chap. XII The divers Bodies which are in the Body of Man which are wholly besides Nature and are preternaturally sent forth are either living or without Life The live Creatures that come out of the body either live and move Excretion of Living Creatures as Worms Fundament-worms Worms in the Nose Ears that come forth by coughing Pissing from Ulcers Wounds Worms in the Teeth Navel Lips in the Hands of all these we shall speak in the Excretion of Living Creatures Chap. XIII Other Living Creatures that come forth are alive but move not Excretion of living Creatures that move not nor are sensible as a Mole Grove-wormes the Gourd-worm which shall also be described in the Excretion of living things Chap. XIIII The Bodies without Life that are sent forth are earthy Excretion of Earths as Pissing of Sand and Stones or from the Eyes Nose Mouth Fundament from the Tongue Pores as Gravel from the Teeth and the like of which we shall treat in the Excretion of Earth Chap. XV. There are many things come forth of the Body which are not there bred The voiding or Excretion of things that get into the Body by the Eyes Ears Nose Mouth as by Spitting and vomiting by stool Urin by the Breasts Nipple and the Skin which shall be described in the Excretion got into the Body Chap. XVI CHAP. I. Of the Voiding or Excretion of Parts The Kinds THe Voiding or Excretion of the Parts of Mans Body by which they are taken from the Body is twofold first when the parts fashioning the Infant or the Infant it self is cast forth or when the Original parts that constitute the body fall off When the Infant is put forth of the womb A Natural Birth but not without Pain it is called Partus or bringing forth and this is either Natural as when the Child being ripe the time being expired of travel is brought forth And this being Natural is not reckoned among the Diseases that disturb Mankind But seeing this Action by reason of Sin is painful and must be looked after we shall here speak of it that we may know how it differs from that which is preternatural and how it ought to be ordered The Birth is preternatural when it is untimely Abortion or Miscarriage or before the time ordained which is commonly the tenth month although some hold the birth of the seventh month to the Legitimate Abortion is when the Child is not come to its full Ripeness and Growth is sent forth sooner then it ought to be either dead or in desperate condition somtimes it is so little in a Lump no bigger then a Grape that you cannot distinguish the Arms Legs or Head such we have seen often after some weeks conception sent forth and that we might perceive the Limbs we divided them with an Instrument and we perceived two black points like Eyes in the Head and a little Spot upon the right side shewing the Liver the body being all over white besides We have seen at other times a Child of a fingers length having all the Members plain to be seen for the distinction of sex also with Nails and we made a sceleton thereof by cutting an Anatomy as we did by others that were larger Also I knew a woman that after she had brought forth a Child naturally at the time within a few dayes after was delivered of another a span long I observed also that a famous Merchants Wife which was delivered with little pain of a Child a hand long after she had with hard Travail brought forth another dead Child in the eighth month and which is more wonderful in the year 1655. A Contrey-man came to me for Counsel concerning his wife lying of a lusty Child which she brought forth three weeks after she had miscarried of another that was dead If there be three or four at a Birth which is rare Supersaetation or too many at a time yet is it not preternatural when they are compleat either at one time or at divers some talk of an infinite Number which could not come to a just proportion and that may be counted Abortion Children so delivered although unripe and little yet are somtimes whol and of good Complexion otherwhiles lean and consumed if they have been long dead in the womb and they come out slowly and somtimes corrupted and sticking somtimes we perceive the signs of Diseases in them As we discovered a Child that was but half the time in the womb by the Swelling of the Legs bigness of the Belly and aboundance of water there and in the great Veins to have the Dropsie in the womb But if a compleat Child should die through the difficulty of bringing forth it must be referred to the defect of bringing forth also if it remain in the womb after it is so dead as we knew a woman that kept a Child that died so twenty weeks after the time of Delivery she died also and after we took it out rotten and stinking If a woman bring forth a monstrous or ill shapen Child except it be by Abortion or it be dead this is
not to be referred to a preternatural Birth but to evil conformation or Deformity from the Birth as we shewed in Deformity The taking away of parts from the body The taking off of parts that constitute the Body although it may be a Disease in number diminished or if they come piece meal in magnitude diminished where we made mention of them yet they may be reserred hither As if the Eye be thrust out of its place or if any humor as the watery Crystal or glassie Humor of the Eye should flow forth or if part of the Brain should come forth at the Nose the Teeth pull'd out of the Mouth the tongue cut off the Lungs be spit up the Guts fall out as in the Haeretick Arrius by a divine Judgement rather then by a Natural Cause Or which is usual when from a wound any part of the Brain Lungs Liver or Spleen comes forth as we said in the Hurt of those parts The Causes The Causes of the Excretion or Voiding of an Infant or of any parts that constitute the body is the solution of Contiguity or things near or of Continuity as shall be shewed Natural Birth when the Child comes ripe and quick into the world The separation of the Vessels of the Child which were joyned to the Vessels of the Womb is the Cause of Natural Birth is when the child 〈◊〉 so grown that the Mother can no longer contain it but it must have have more Air for life and more nourishment and if it should grow bigger it could not get out of those strait Passages Therefore provident Nature ariseth and moveth it by the expulsive Faculty separating the Veins and Arteries by which the bed of the Infant or Secundine was joyned to the womb without any hurt even as the stalks of ripe Fruit fall easily from the tree driveth down the Iâ—â—â—ant by the help of the Mother and so brings it forth not without pain labor sweat and bleeding by reason of the opening of the Veins in the Womb and Secundine more or less in all Women In a preternatural Birth The separation of Vessels before the Child is ripe is the Cause of Abortion when the Child is sent forth unripe by Natur 's force dividing the Connexion of the Vessels there are somtimes less accidents then in a Natural if the Child be small But if there be this Separation of Vessels by a greater force and solution of continuity and tearing which stirrs up Nature to the work there are greater accidents as Pains and Bleeding There are divers Causes of the dividing of the Vessels The Separation of the Vessels by the violent Motion of Body or Mind is the Cause of Abortion and spurring of Nature to the work which procure Abortion if the Child be shaken by violent Motion of the Body so that the Vessels by which it hangs to the womb are divided Nature especially when near the time will send it forth so it may be driven down by leaping as Hippocrates speaks of the tyre-maker that cast away her Child voluntarily also it may come by other violent motions especially of the lower parts by riding running or other violent Motion It may come also with pressing of the Belly by some external Injuries or with strong tying of the Muscles of the Belly or from couging vomiting neesing crying scowring by which also in a Natural Birth the Delivery is helped As the Excrements of the belly so the Child also may be driven down in a Convulsion made by the compression of the Muscles and a violent motion of the body As we saw one that without Sense aborted in the fit of a Convulsion and wondered when she came to her self what had been done to her Belly Also Nature stirred up by Passions of the Mind through the vehement Agitation of the Spirits will cause Abortion as by Fear Anger and other Passions hath been ordinarily seen especially if they swound for then the Child is deprived for that time of vital Spirits with the Mother from whom it receives them When Nature is stirred up by things taken or applied Abortion caused by stirring up of Nature it voided divers things and so also the Child as by the use of purging Medicines which force Nature violently so that not only the Excrements but the Child also is voided Also by the use of those things mentioned in the want of Terms and bringing forth either taken in or applied to the womb by opening the Passages and provoking the womb by a Propriety to provoke Terms or driving down the Child Abortion may be caused The expulsive Faculty is compelled somtimes by humors that burden the womb to void not onely them but the Child also especially by blood which if it be too plentiful for the nourishing of the Child and not consumed by it about the Veins of the Womb it burdeneth Nature which labours to throw it out and sometimes the Terms comming upon a Woman with Child the Child is also sent forth with them Therefore when women with child have their Terms they are in danger to miscarry Or if the Terms be provoked by opening a Vein in the Foot the same may happen and therefore women with Child must not be let Blood in the Foot Also the Terms will sooner be provoked if the blood be thin cholerick or foul and unfit to nourish the Child When the womb is moistned with water so that it is too loose to hold the Child that it is the chief cause of Abortion as some say And if it were so it must needs be without it and moisten the Orifice of the Neck of the womb which is close shut in women with Child because it cannot be in the womb whose cavity is filled with the Child and if it could be there it could not so loosen it nor can it do it when in the Neck of the womb because it cannot remain there and there must be a greater cause of Abortion then that The chief Abortion is from a dead Child Separation of vessels by a dead child is the Cause of Abortion because then Nature labours to void it as being burdensom the causes of dead Children are divers As external force to the belly being great as a Stroak or Contusion Want of Nourishment by which it decaies and at length dieth this is not easie for while the Mother liveth the Veins can scarce be so empty that there is nothing for the Child Moreover though the Mothers blood be impure and foul the Child will have the best of it hence it is that we have observed that women in Ptysicks and Hecticks have gone their time and brought well But it may happen that if a woman with Child have her Terms violently and long the Veins of the womb and all other parts will be so exhausted that the Child must want Nourishment And this is so if for the Causes aforesaid the Child being alive the Vessels are separated from them of the womb
Guts are fastned to the Mesentery al a long and is turned into these Taeniae which are not alive as worms Therefore they are somtimes as long as the small Guts But they cannot grow in the thick Guts where the Excrements are and no Chyle is and from whence they will be expelled but not from the thin Guts which contain moist and fluid matter that may pass by Hence it is that they may be long without any hurt but heaviness of the Guts and hunger because they are nourished with much Chyle till by violent motion they fall off wholly or in part into the thick Guts and are voided whole or in pieces as when the Chyle grows by parcells to the Guts The plenty of clammy Chyle in the Guts is the cause which is seldom seen as also the Disease And the worse Symptomes are when they come not clean away but stay behind and putresie The Cure The way to cure a Mole in the Belly of a Woman is to prevent it The Cure of a Mole and to expel it before it grow too big For then it is difficult and dangerous by reason of great bleeding which it causeth VVe use preventions when we know women have had them before they conceive or use man you must labor to know which seed is imperfect by considering both constitutions and if both be out of health to prescribe them a good Diet and convenient Medicines The woman must be let blood if there be Plethory and purged If there be superfluous Humors or evil and the womb strengthened and the rather if the Disease come from the weakness and want of natural heat in the womb which cannot conveniently cherish the Seed conceived Those are prescribed in Barrenness and Whites and other Diseases of the womb Among which hot Baths are excellent VVhen a Mole is bred of Seed as we shewed in the Swelling of the Belly we must hinder its growth and labour to expel it But we must not use violent Medicines before we know the certainty of a false Conception and only take away a little Nourishment by Blood-letting and so hinder the growth and purge away other filth with which Nature may discharge the Mole also and we not fear thus doing to cause an abortion if it should be a true Conception for many women with child have been safely purged and had Diarrhae's because Nature is not so ready to cast forth things Natural as unnatural which are burthensom But if we are certain that it is a Mole by many tokens such as women have formerly had in the same Or if the time of delivery be past and the swelling and hardness remaineth then we must give and apply put in and inject into the womb things that may expel it And open the passages All which we must first attempt with the same things that we provoke terms with and then with those that expel a dead Child and Secundine and use a Midwise if it appear and need be to use manual Operation Or if all fail we must make Incision into the womb at the belly All these Operations are shewed in the want of Terms and difficulty of Travail The Taeniae or long Membranes The Cure of Taeniae and Gourd-worms whereof one is broad called the broad Worm the other made of many Joynts called the Gourd-worm a third is round like other worms if they grow in the thin Guts which is seldom they lye very long and being they are not certainly known they are neglected But if they be suspected to be there from stretching heaviness and great appetite then they must be expelled and kept from breeding again And the rather because they seem monstrous like Serpents They are cured thus Before they breed the matter must be diverted that breeds them and cleansed But when they are bred and grown to the Guts you must use strong Cleansers to take them off and Purges It is needful to give things against worms though they have neither life nor sense as worms have The Diet and Medicines must be as follow The Chyle must be made moderate and thin like Milk by taking away the increase and clamminess thereof and by cleansing it that it stick not and this will keep them from breeding It must be such as was ordered in the Cure of Worms by eating Garlick Nuts bitter and sharp Herbs Salt and spiced Meats Mustard and taking Wormwood-wine Purges force these from the Guts and when they are corrupted drive them out and cleanse being commonly bitter or sharp They are mentioned in the Cure of the Worms the best whereof are those of Aloes and Wormwood and sharp things often given To which you may add Tartar or Niter to cleanse There are divers Cleansers which take away the Matter that breeds them and them also and hinders their return or if they return make them sooner fall off and come forth They were mentioned in the Cure of Worms As the Pouders simple and Compound that are good here by reason of their bitterness and cleansing To which Dioscorides adds the Seed of great Sun-flower and Gith seeds Also many Decoctions there mentioned are good here and Syrups Juyces and Conserves VVormwood is best with other bitter things as Centaury and Horehound Also Urin Lye pickle or Brine drunk do cleanse much Also Wine or Water with some few drops of Oyl of Vitriol Clysters reach not to the thin Guts where these Ribbands are fixed and therefore cleanse not so well as things taken down at the Mouth But if some pieces of them are fallen into the thick Guts they will carry them forth and their cleansing quality may reach to the small Guts if they be often administred And for that cleansing quality you may give bitter things that kill worms Also Oyls Oyntments and Emplasters and Cataplasms mentioned against worms are good here to be applied to the Belly being bitter sharp and cleansing and they will in process of time do very much good CHAP. XV. Of the Voiding of earthy Bodies The Kinds THe earthy Bodies that grow in Man are Sand or Mud Stones hard and soft and they are preternatural as also their Voiding They come from divers parts of the Body which shall be mentioned from some often from other parts seldom or very rarely Many piss Sand or Gravel Sand pissed forth Stones pissed forth with and without another Disease Also Stones are pissed forth forcibly and this follows the pain in the Kidneys in the Cure of which these were mentioned Somtimes Blood or stoppage of Urin went afore or burning of Urin or slimy Matter As was shewed in those Excretions Somtimes there is a muddy white matter with the Urin with signs of the stone in the Bladder The Gravel in the Eyes There is often in the Corners of the Eyes and in the Eye-brows a sandie rough Matter brittle and yellow which sticks to the Hair in the night when the Eyes are shut so that the Eyes are hard to be closed as
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Inject with a Syringe into the bladder things that loosen the passages as Oyl of sweet Almonds or in which Mallows was boyled or that prick as Oyl of Scorpions to cause Urin and the Stone to be voided Or Whey or other clensers as Honey and Aloes if the humor be thick or things that break the Stone If there be a Caruncle or hardness inject Mollifiers and Clensers as Aegiptiacum and after Dryers as that of Litharge Tutty Antimony Ceruss and Aloes thrust in at the end of a Wax Candle If the Bladder be ful of Urin put in the Catheter which is good in all stoppages for it drives back the Stone breaks the Caruncle and dissolves clotted blood or matter it is made hollow that the Urin may flow through it Chimches Fleas and Lice may be put into the Yard or smal Hairs to provoke Urin. They say Galbanum applied like a Plaister to the top of the Yard provokes Urin. Also a Fume of Hedghogs bristles and Agarick and of Grass-hoppers doth it in Women Somtimes the only pressing of the swollen Bladder with the hand doth it And when a Stone is gotten into the Yard it may be pressed out by degrees Somtimes they must be cut for the Stone or Caruncle when other means fail as we shal shew in the Stone CHAP. IX Of the Defect of Bringing forth Children or other things The Kinds THere is a Defect of natural excretion by which a Woman sends forth at a fit season either a Child or a deformed Mole The Birth is Defective when it is difficult as it may be preternaturally and naturally Or when it is not at its time appointed by nature or before it or when part thereof remains behind Birth becomes difficult and painful when it is Natural when the Child is ripe A natural difficult Birth and the Woman hath foregoing signs by which she is provoked to hold her breath and press the Muscles of the belly as in other digestion All which are increased when the Child comes forth Also after birth some pain remains called after-pains of which seeing they are natural to the bringing forth we shal speak in the hurt of that Function rather than in pains Somtimes Travail is not preternatural from some impediment and so with more difficulty and slower as is mentioned A preternatural difficult Birth in which great pain afflicteth with straining heat and sweating when the Child sticks cross in the passage where the Midwife may feel it or when the Hand or Foot hangs out and not the Head for when that comes first the birth is easie Hence it is that either the Mother or the Child often dies It is said to be no Birth when the Woman goes beyond the natural time Birth hindered which is usually the tenth month though the seventh month be also allowed and there is nothing brought forth though the Child be ripe or there be a mole And then she falleth to sounding which kind of fainting is here most deadly through pain labor and bleeding Also shee hath her throws at the time and seems to be fit for Travail and is so disposed by the Midwife and her Urin breaks from her as is usual in that condition But all these cease and no birth followeth And if they return not the Child is dead and putrifies and breeds Feavers and Faintings and so infecteth the body that the Mother dieth as many have done especially one who went five months beyond her time with a dead Child and a stinking flux with the Navel-string hanging forth before she died which so infected that the Womb and Child were black and very stinking when shee was opened And when the Mother lived shee had somtimes cleer bladders about her Navel which signified putrefaction through which the Back-bones of the Child were seen and taken forth after they brake This causeth death as we shewed if it be not speedily voided and may be before the Child is perfect and then it must be cast out presently and it is easily done while it is little but when it is great there is as we said want of birth As also if there be a false conception or Mole which the sooner it is cast out the less is the danger therefore when we are certain thereof if nature be slow we help her with Medicines The Child is known to be dead if the Mother feel no motion which shee formerly felt and the belly is stil big which often deceiveth by the Terms reteined and these breaking forth it suddenly falleth flat about the flanks And if the Womb be cold and the Paps which were swollen grow lank At length if it continue there followeth water matter and filth and pieces of the secondine hang out there is a Feaver Heart-pain and Swounding We shal shew in depravate Conception when there a Mole and no Child and how you shal know it The Birth is imperfect when the Child is voided and the Secondine remaineth whol or torn Imperfect Birth growing to the Womb or stopped and causeth great danger of a Feaver or sudden Swounding or Death The Causes The Scripture witnesseth that natural difficulty of Travail was caused by original sin Sin from Eves fall in Paradise for which the Creator was pleased to inflict pain in Travail Yet let us shew some natural cause of both why it should be naturally or preternaturally defective or imperfect which is either from the greatness of the Child Situation or weakness or form of the Womb having three orifices or from streightness of the Neck thereof When a Child ready to be delivered is great as when it can no longer be contained in the Womb Greatness of the Child but seeks another mansion and Diet in respect of the passages the Delivery cannot be without pain though it be natural And the rather when the Child being great by the Father is born by a little Woman which brings forth with great danger alwaies As also when there is monstrous Conception or many at once There is also either no birth or very hard Evil position of the Child when the decent roundness of it is changed by breaking the coats and flowing of water whereby the Child comes not forth with the Head first but the Feet or lieth cross or when the hands or feet which were close to the sides are stretched out And in regard the strong Throws of the Mother are required in Travail Weakness of the Mother the more couragious the Woman is the easier is the Delivery so they that are weak as very young and old Women and such as are weak-spirited and fearful dul and sloathful are tired out and in great danger If the Vessels by which the child wrapt in Membranes with a cake of flesh in the middle cleaveth to the Womb be not ripe The Vessels connexion not divided in the Womb. they are unfit to be divided like the stalks of unripe Apples without tearing and force and bleeding nor doth bleeding
after birth which is ordinary come from this cause as shal be shewed And then they growing together and being forced before the time the birth is more difficult with pain and bleeding and Inflammation of the Womb sometimes with a Feaver and danger of life The same symptomes follow when the Secundine remaineth fast either being whol or rent And also after a fall stroak or taking of a violent medicine there is untimely birth Or from the violent usage of the Midwife taking these pains for Throws they do often provoke with great danger of life And some I have known die of the â—ame and some I have cured These pains of the Womb go before Throws in many for which they send for the Midwife which increaseth them but should rather use hysterical means to mitigate them for these pains do rather hinder the Throws than further them Sometimes there is difficulty and impossibility of bringing forth from the Orifices of the Womb within and the neck without and the cleft of the Privities through which the Infant must pass The inward orifice of the Womb. It is also no wonder if there be hard Travail when the inward orifice of the womb is so streight when the Woman is with Child that nothing can pass in or out and the orifice of the neck of the womb without is no larger than to receive the yard and they both must be so inlarged as to let the Infant pass through And the more when they are by nature straiter and harder The outward orifice of the neck straitned as in those who have not of a long time had Children and old women which all have hard delivery Or if they be drier in regard the water which moisten the passages is spent The Infant may stop in the Privities when they are too strait or short The straitness of the Privities because they cannot be enlarged as the orifices and swel as they do in Bitches in Women the Privity is alwaies of the same largeness as shal be shewed in Conception Also the straitness of the neck of the womb to the Privities is the cause of hard Labor The straitness of the neck of the womb although it be large yet it must be stretched to let out the Child and this stretching causeth pain then as Rondeletius supposeth the separating of the Secundine from the Matrix he was mistaken in thinking that Travail was without pain when the Secundine remained fast For we shewed that if the time be come that wil separate without pine And I have often observed that the pains continued when the Secundine remained Also there follows bleeding from the opening of the Menstrual Veins in the Neck of the Womb which is stretched as in the time of the Terms And that part of the Neck suffers not where it lieth under the bones of the Privities in a strait place which also containeth the strait Gut Although it be larger in Women then in Men by reason of the loosning and Relaxing of the Grisles which joyns the bones and the going back of the Rump except the Woman be strait and short loyned being of little stature and then the difficulty will be increased And also when the strait Gut is ful of Excrements or the Rump pressed in by sitting They report that fat women especially about the Womb Whether fat can cause hard Travail have hard Travil though experience teacheth the contrary neither is there any fat in the Womb or its Neck And that fat which is without in the Belly cannot hinder except it be by making them more heavy or slow in the time The Cure If the Child be too big to be delivered A Praediction especially if it come not from the Womb it will die there and the Mother will be in danger if it come forth she usually dieth of the second or third Child if she breed them so great Also when the Child comes cross or the Orifices or passages be strait Many women that have the Secondine growing to them after Travil do die If she hath a mole we shall shew in depraved Conception what is to be foretold and done for that In all cases if the strength be abated much and she faint bleed or have a Feaver it is dangerous If these dangers are feared we must prevent in time The forewarning and Cure of difficult Travil before the delivery by a good Diet. And nothing must be given to provok before the last month Let her Diet be sparing and of little nourishment if she use to bear great Children and be fat Let her abstain from Wine or drink it with water let her bleed in the middle of her being with Child and if she be plethorck let it be done again a while after and let her not sleep too much Presently after Conception let weak people be refreshed with good Diet. Let the Diet be moist and slippery if the Orifices be strait and let her use Baths In the last month let things be used to make easie Deliverance but not before the throws Let some light things be given then to provoke especially Baths and Oyntments to loosen the passages Increasing their strength by degrees as the time draws on and when the throws come proceed to strong expellers of the Child And at last if the Child be certainly dead or the Secundine not voided use the strongest things such as would have killed the Child had it been living and therefore were not to be used before All these are to be performed in and before the Birth either by the Husband or the Mother or the Midwise or by the Chyrurgion or by the Physitian by remedies taken or applied Many teach and it is agreeable to reason that if a man use his wife often a little before or in time of the Birth the Labor will be easie and she will be more lightsome Travil is quickned by the help of the Mother if she stand up often and walk in the last month up a hill especially at the time of dilivery The endeavor of the Mother is very necessary for nature cannot do it alone therefore she must strain and contract the Muscles as when she goes to the stool And when she perceives her pains coming being taught by the Midwife that her delivery is at hand for she must not be forced before least the Child be delivered without the Secundine as I shewed She must hold her breath strain and contract the Muscles of her belly to expel as much as possible and the Midwife with others must exhort her thereunto And let her be put upon a stool that is hollow and that will not keep the Rump from going back and so let her lean backwards Or if more force be required let her stand up and lean or be held up by the Arms. If fatness hinder let her Face be down towards the ground to her Knees And let her take large steps when she is wearied with straining and knock her
Oyl of Roses Cold air Cures thirst by cooling the Lungs if it come from them and by correcting the heat of the whol body in regard the Tunicle of the Mouth and of the stomach are all one Baths for the Feet and Hands of cold water and change of Linnen doth the same Also Epithems applied to the Liver and Heart And anoynting of the Throat and Neck with Oyl of Violets Water-lillies Willows Poppies Some anoynt the Head in Feavers with the same because the Nerves of the Head consent with the stomach but I suppose it doth good by provoking sleep Hippocrates saith that sleep slaketh thirst not because it moistneth as some say but because heat is carried outward by sleep as appeareth by sweating which is then most easie to be cause Rest is good because it keeps the body cool And also little talk for much increaseth thirst CHAP. XIV Of Defect of Bleeding The Kinds THe wants of bleeding which is divers waies at set times differ first in respect of the place as they are not or not sufficient either from the womb Fundament or Nostrils or the like A suppression of the Terms is when the monthly Evacuation of women Stoppage of Terms by the womb for forty years in which they are fit to bear Children is wanting and they are neither with Child nor give suck Some women but it is rare never have them and without inconvenience these are Virago'es because they are like men Others have had them but they stopped and never returned Some have wanted them a whol year or some months In whom Laziness presageth Diseases Then follows heart pain want of Appetite and loathing with inclination to Vomite Palpitation of heart and Arteries Head-ach troublsome dreams palness of face and crudity of urin discovereth it And as these are preternatural in Plethory and Cacochymy so are they Natural in Women with Child whose Terms are stopped they vomit in the first month Also suppression of Terms is when they flow too slowly for the constitution in less quantity or shorter time then is meet This causeth inconveniences There is another flux of the womb after Child-bearing that is necessary Want of cleansing after child-bearing and continueth some dayes more abundant then the monthly the blood is called Lochia If these flow not they cause great Diseases Colick and Convulsion There is a flux at the Fundament in both sexes called Haemorrhoids Stoppage of Haemorroids in some Natures either once in a year or at a certain time this is said to be stopped when it hath been and is called suppression of Hemorrhoids Physitians explain this defect chiefly when there are other accidents from the retention of them as Cacochymy Cachexy Quartan Feaver Melancholly and the like The Patient disdaining the Flux Complains not of the want of it but when he is Pained by the swollen Veins which cannot open which are called the blind Hemorrhoids Some have a natural Evacuation at the Nose The want of bleeding at Nose at a set time which are young and Plethorick and bleed at no other part as women that want their terms that are with child or Virgins before they have them And hither may be refer'd the critical evacuations in Diseases If any of these are stopped the Physitian must endeavor to procure them If blood flow another way though somtimes it doth good Defect of bleeding by other parts yet in regard it is not so according to nature it belongs to the defect of Natural bleeding if it stop The Causes The defect of these bleedings is either from the want or foulness of blood or from the stoppage or straitness of the Veins Women fit to conceive must have more blood then is fit to nourish the body to nourish the Child if they do conceive 〈◊〉 to be purged forth at the end of the month if they conceive not If this plenty of blood be wanting or not sufficient there is little or no Flux of the Terms And though this want of blood may come from divers causes yet all do not cause this suppression There are Women but few in which as nature before they are ripe to conceive A manly Constitution is the cause of suppression of Terms breeds no more blood then will nourish the body so she keeps the same course when they are fit to conceive these are barren and without other inconveniences These are called Virago'es from their manlike constitution From want of juyce of which blood should be made Spare Diet causeth the same the Terms flow less rather then cease because nature keeps the the same order when blood doth not abound Yet there may be a defect of Terms from long fasting or use of bad meats so that the body may grow very lean In sharp Diseases the blood being spent by violent heat Blood sent another way causeth want of Terms and Hemorrhoids if it continue long the same may be but being short it rather causeth a Flux then stops and often in a Crisis cureth the Disease And great Fluxes by provoking the expulsive faculty provoke the Terms except they be bloody and then they hinder as the Terms hinder them and bleeding at the Nose So these Fluxes are stopped by deriving of the blood to another part And the cheif cause of suppression of Humorrhoids is when nature retaines or sends it otherwaies Thickness of blood causeth also suppression of Terms and Hemorrhoids when it will not flow being too thick from the juyce of meats eaten or want of serum to carry it And this is the cause that in Cachectickes Thickness of blood causeth suppression of Terms and Hydropicks the Terms are stopt the serum or whey sweats through the Veins and when a Vein is opened the blood is thick and if it stand like red or white Coral Crude and impure blood Crudities and impurity of blood causeth suppression of Terms if it be thick as it will be when it is cold as we have observed with a thick skin at the top or foul will not flow by the Terms for the purest blood is sent to nourish the Child and to breed milk If therefore it be foul or there be obstructious then the Terms are wanting Therefore Cachectickes Leucophlegmaticks or Virgins in the Green-sickness while their blood is bad have not the Terms but when it is putrified have Hence it appears that this natural flux of the Terms is not for to discharge foul blood according to the vulgar error which will rather hinder it if it abound And it is not from the quality of blood that is evil but from the quantity abounding And it is preternatural when it is immoderate or without order And we shall shew that women after they are past the Terms may so bleed And though the impurity of the blood cause the Flux of the Hemorrhoids it is no argument why the Terms should flow from impurity naturally for they differ greatly for though foul blood be usually
when they have immoderate bleeding other waies Or when they have in time of giving suck an acute disease which makes them lean Also when the foulness of the Blood is such that it is brought to the Breasts for Milk is made of the purest blood which was the Childs food in the womb Also thickness of the blood as it is the cause of stopping the Courses hinders increase of the milk wholly or in part because it cannot get into the Veins of the Breasts Milk also is wanting when the Veins of the Breasts are stopped by some hard Tumor or otherwise Stoppage of the veins of the Breasts nipples without passage or absent or hurt cause the want of giving suck Or when there is no passage in the Nipples Or when Nipples are wanting which comes from scratching when young Women have itching Breasts being marriageable this causeth Ulcers which either stop the passage or leave a Callus or hardness which doth it Also the clifts and pains which Women have from their strong-mouth'd Children when they suck may hinder giving suck while they cease The Cure If it comes from want of blood shee must be high fed The Cure of want of Milk if from evil humors purged if from thickness of blood it must be attenuated or made thin if from hurt of Breasts or Nipples they must be cured as we shewed elsewhere For this we must use things that by a propriety cause Milk Medicines to cause or increase Milk or make the blood so thin by heat that it wil pass into the Breasts Milk Eggs Udders of beasts and brains are good not only for their nourishment but for the property in them to increase milk Also such Fruits as have a milky juyce as Almonds Pine-Nuts and the like eaten or drunk in Emulsions The Germans use a Broath of Eggs Wine Butter and Sugar Also Rise-milk Broath of Coleworts Mallows Rocket Dill Fennel Parsley is good and though Lettice is said to increase milk we cannot believe it because it extinguisheth seed Onions boyled or roasted are also good And the root of purple-flowr'd Goats-beard boyld in Broath As Barly and Pease broath The best Wine nourisheth and warmeth and is good for Nurses These Decoctions also Take Barley one pugil Fennel and Parsley each one handful boyl them and add Sugar Or thus Take Eryngus roots half an ounce Mallows Polygala Fennel Parsley Dill Rocket Basil Mints each one handful Barley Pease each a pugil Line-seed two drams boyl them drink it with Sugar every morning Of juyces thus Take juyce of Sowthistle and of Goats-beard each half an ounce give it with white Wine and Sugar The Decoction of Earth-worms in Flesh broath with Fennel and Barley is good but let not the Nurse know what she taketh Dry things are less profitable yet some seeds are commended whose herbs are better As Take Annise seed two drams Fennel seed one dram Rocket and Nigella seed each half a dram make a Pouder give two drams with any fit Decoction Or Take Pouder of Earthworms three ounces Sugar half an ounce Annise seed one dram Ginger and Cinnamon each half a dram make a Pouder give a spoonful with some Decoction Or Take Crystal in fine pouder me dram or Coral That which comes from the Alpes called Lac lunae given one dram is accounted good Divers things are applied to the Breasts for the drawing of Milk unto them As hot Fomentations which enlarge the Veins And bruised Mints Or make this Plaster Take Parsley Fennel and green Mints each one handful boyl and stamp them add Barley meal one pugil Storax two drams Nigella seed one dram Oyl of Lillies two ounces make a Cataplasm Some use Sinapisms and Dropaxes made of Mustard or stinking Gums to attract Milk but they are too violent and inflame Friction of the Breast is better And Cupping-Glasses to the Arm-holes upon the great Veins which bring the milk to the Breasts and look blew are good Also to let them be often sucked or milked Also if Nipples be wanting there may be an Instrument made of hollow Glass for the Child to suck CHAP. XVII Of the Defect or Want of Copulation The Kinds THere is a Defect of the Venereal act when the Male and Female cannot perform or weakly joyn together Men are more deficient than Women for the man doth more in that act than the Woman And they are called Impotent which cannot ingender at all for want of erection Impotent men Weak men and such as do it faintly with small extension are called weak men and when they spend no seed in the act whether done strongly or faintly Imperfect Veuery they are called Imperfect men Nor is it a Defect when it is done but seldome because that may be surest And the more moderate the better In Women this defect is rare through fault of the Member which will alwaies receive while it is sound neither doth it wont to recruit as mans doth nor are they confin'd to a certain time of lust as Bitches Venery hindered and imperfect women Yet somtimes there is a defect in the Womb apparent or close so that they cannot or at least with difficulty they endure a Man and will not retain him long And so Venery is hindered as it is imperfect when there is none or smal pleasure in the act especially if they have not been tired but alwaies dislike as I have known three women who advised with me that for many years never perceived any more pleasure then by an external touch Venery extinct in women and this is called Venery extinct The Causes We must search out the cause in both sexes of this defect whether the members be unsit for the act or seed cannot be spent or whether the seminal Vessels which contain the Seed and conveigh it be disordered This act is defective from the want of a Yard somtimes The cause of weakness or impotency in man is the evil shape hurt or numness of the Yard as some are born Eunuchs others have lost it by accident or by force somtimes by loss of a part as a stone by gelding somtimes by smalness of the Yard as Hermophrodites which resemble women and have but a very smal Yard somtimes by largness or thickness so that the Womb cannot receive it without torment somtimes by crookedness or windy swelling like a pudding as in Hydropical Persons or by an excrescence hurt or Ulcer especially in the Glans or Prepuce by which means it cannot endure any force by unclean Copulation or violent acting or when the Prepuce or Foreskin is so straight that it will not come from the Glans for these causes either the action is not performed or difficultly and imperfectly And it is caused also by a cold distemper which hinders the flowing of blood to the part which is requisite as I shall shew for the distension or stretching of it And when it is stupified and insensible from hurt of the Nerves
as in a Palsey And also by inchantments when the exquisite sense of the Yard is so lost that it will not rise by the tickling which we shall shew proceedeth from the seed Hence it is that either there is no act or very faint Venery is defective from a fault in the neck of the Womb The growing together straightness or hurt of the neck of the Womb is the cause of defect of Venery when the passage is not open For Children born without an Orifice cannot live for want of Pissing as hath been known except it be made by Art And this is somtimes by birth and somtimes by an Ulcer after it is heated but seldom Yet a woman which through difficulty in Child-bearing was hurt in that part whom I know was so modest that she would not reveal it but committed it to natures Cure so that proud flesh grew about the Womb and stopped her Courses from coming forth and the Orifice was so closed as appeared after her death though living she would not declare it that there was a thick Escar upon it and it could not be seen or perceived This Orifice in Virgins is often closed with a Skin called Hymen which causeth the first Copulation painful and if it be thick hinders Copulation till it be removed Also it may be made straighter naturally or by an excrescence a Tumor or Callus or hurt of the neck of the Womb which may cause such pain that she cannot admit of a man From the affliction of the Seminal Vessels which bring the blood which begets seed made The causes of hindered or imperfect Venery in both sexes of quenched Venery in a Woman is either no Seed or that which is naught in the Vessels contained and sent forth from them Venery may be hindered or weak in both Sexes if there be either no seed or at least such as will not provoke to the act For the sharpness of the Seed causeth the Itch not wind as hath been thought and stirs up nature by the spirits in the Arteries and fils the Spungy Body of the Yard and Glans therewith so that it is enlarged swollen hard red and hot and fit for the action especially when it is in the proper Vessels hot and labors to get out But when it is weak waterish and crude or little in quantity or none then there is no pricking without which there can be no erection as in Eunuchs and so there can be no performance or very little and weak And if this be in a woman and the provocation or pricking be wanting they grow not warm nor desire Venery nor find any pleasure therein These distempers of the Seminal Vessels hinder the voiding of seed when it is not wanting and cause imperfect Venery The affects Weakness coldness ill fashion of the Seminal Vessels is the cause of defect of Venery in both sexes and of that which is called coldness in man by which Seed is wanting or cannot be spent or grows weak are either weakness of the Seminal Vessels by reason of old age or a Disease especially about those parts or too much Venery which relaxeth and weakneth them Or coldness of the parts especially in men when the Yard is refrigerated and cannot be filled and stretched forth with blood for which causes little or none or dul seed being produced they are not stird up to Copulation or their seed flows from them without sense This also may come from an evil composition of the Vessels at the first the kind whereof is difficult to be known in people that are alive except it be conjectured from this that they having perfect Members for generation and no cause aforegoing to hinder it cannot use Copulation but when they are dead we may as I have found perceive in their opening want of Seminal Vessels or disorderly passages somtimes on both sides of the Reins or the like It often hapneth to men that by incantation Inchantment is the cause of impotency in men from whence they are said to have the point tied or witchcraft their Reins or Yard or both are so weakned that they cannot perform These they call bound or lockt because it is caused by tying of a Point a Bulls pizle or Wolfes pizle or of some other Lecherous beast How this is done being preternatural doth not concern us to enquire By the cutting of the Spermatical Vessels which bring the matter of the Seed Gelding is the cause of impotency in Eunuchs as when both stones are taken off for one cannot do it in men because seed cannot be made they cannot spend nor have they a desire Yet somtimes from other causes blood may so flow to the Member that it may enter into a woman but to no purpose Wherefore when they will have true Eunuchs to whom they may commit their women they take of the Yard at the root This is too often done to men for the Cure of the Rupture but I never knew it done either for any Disease or to take away lust Also the stoppage of the vessels by a thick humor or Tumor The Obstruction of the seminal vessels is the cause of want of Venery may cause a defect especially in men when the passege of the Yard for both Seed and Urin is stopt by a Caruncle or Excrescence a Callus a Stone or the like that neither can come forth Stoppage or streightness or Perforation of the passage in the Yard is the cause that hinders Copulation or makes it Imperfect Or when the member is weak in the act of Copulation and the passage is not direct nor sufficiently enlarged so that the seed being little is not directly conveighed but stopped til after it come forth of it self Or when there is a hole through the Yard by reason of a Fistula therein as I have seen by which means the Seed passeth not the right way And this is not an hinderance to the Act as I shal shew but only of Conception The Act of Copulation is not wholly hindred from a want of sufficient Blood to produce Seed for little is required wherefore poor men that are in want of Food and such as have long been sick and are in Consumptions may do the feat but they who have more blood do it to better purpose Now that Copulation should not be desired in some Diseases where there is disturbance of mind and grief it is no wonder when pleasure and delight which stirs up this act is taken away Neither can thickness of blood cause it when it is brought and dispersed for the extension of the Yard for the arterial blood which hath most spirits is chiefly sent thither yet we suppose them to be most lustful whose blood is hottest and thinnest The Cure We must consider first whether the fault be hid or manifest and accordingly foretel and Act. If men are born without a Yard The Care of Impotency Faintness Copulat on bindred or imperfect or extinct whether
blood which stretcheth the Member in men as we shewed in defect of Venery If Seed be plentiful it causeth Sanguin men Plenty of seed and heat is the cause of a Venereal Itch. by reason of fulness or heat of the Vessels which continually attract blood which desires expulsion where it aboundeth to be Lascivious Especially when the Seed is hotter then ordinary and sharper Sharpness of seed is the cause of Frensie of the Womb in Women so called this we have shewed may come of eating hot Spices or Medicines And of hot humors and sharp not in the Womb of salt Flegm and Choller as is usual but from the seed which is venemous and sharp from the heat of which comes the unsatiable Itch which is usual in unclean Women who infect men therewith Men when they are thus infected have a running of the Reins which sends it forth but women have it not so usually Some say that the cause why Lepers are not Lecherous is because they are separated from women and constrained to be abstinenr Seed raised from its Vessels Shaking of the Seed causeth a Venereal Itch. and desiring passage causeth Itch and is scarse hindered from flowing for this is the condition thereof while it is sound and in its own place except it abound that it doth not much prick But when it is removed it is very troublesome to get forth so it is for by imagination dreams and handling Seed may be spent by both Sexes When much Arterial blood sils the Yard and continueth The cause of Priapismus or Erection preternatural is the plenty of blood gathered in the Privities it causeth Priapismus or constant standing with a desire of which we now speak But it may hapen that there may be Erection before the blood come to prick the part and a desire afterwards from thence Also it may come from heat of the Reins and parts adjacent by blood caused from lying upon the back upon feather beds or boards which posture makes blood come sooner to the part and makes Erection and greater Appetite as experience sheweth And heat of the bed makes men rise at midnight as the Proverb is If it come from other causes as Pain Inflamation Wind or Water it belongs to another treatise The Cure If Men or Women are provoked to Venery to prevent unlawful acts The Cure of the Venereal Itch and Frensie and of Priapismus the heat is to be allay'd by hindering increase of Seed and heat thereof as also of blood and preventing the commotion of Seed Thus Purges are chiefly requisite when foul and sharp humors corrupt and sharpen the Seed and cause lust To cool lust we give things that quench or that dry though hot if they consume it by a propriety nor do we spend time to Cure and expel wind which is not the cause as we said we give them evening or morning often for the effect will not quickly be seen Sallats at supper of Lettice Purslane Mints with Vinegar are proper without Spices And this Electuary Take Conserve of Water-lillies and Mints of each an ounce Lettice and Coleworts candied six drams seeds of Agnus Castus so called from its vertue one dram and an half Rue half a dram Coral one dram Crystal half a dram Camphire a scruple with syrup of Purslane Make an Electuary A convenient Pouder Take Snakweed roots one dram Mints Rue Water-lillies dried of each half a dram the seeds of Vitex one dram and an half Hemp seeds Grapes Lettice of each one dram and an half Crystal one dram Camphire a scruple make a Pouder take a dram in broath or syrup of Purslane or with a little Sugar or made into Tablets with Rose and Lettice A convenient Syrup Take juyce of Lettice and Purslane of each two ounces juyce of Mints half an ounce Violet and Rose-water of each an ounce Vineger of Roses half an ounce Sugar three ounces Boyl them to a Syrup give an ounce often The Decoction of Lettice Purslane Endive Mints is good in broath Cold water drunk in great quantity allaies lust Some affirme that they can take away all desire and use of Venery with Wine in which the Fish called Mullus is infused others give forty Pismires in drink Outwardly cool the Feet Privities Loynes so to wash the Yard in cold water makes it presently fall this remedy my Father told me a learned man used who the first year of his Mariage lost his Wife and Child at once in Child-bed that he night die a Widdower without desire of Women Things that Potentially cool mixed with driers and applied by Fomentation to the Privities extinguish lust as the Decoction of Lettice Plantane Purslane Willows Water-lillies and the like Especially if they be applied to the Feet with Vinegar The juyces of the same to foment the Stones adding a little Vinegar and Camphire is better and injected into the Womb doth the same for Women Vinegar of Roses doth the like It is good to anoynt the Reins with this Take Oyl of water Lillies two ounces juyce of Lettice one ounce and an half Vinegar half an ounce boyl them to the consuming of the juyces add seeds of Vitex one dram Camphire half a dram white Wax a little Make an Oyntment Unguentum Album with Camphire or that cooler of Galen for the Reins with Camphire doth the same And also Plates of Lead to the Reins Sugar and Crystal of Lead with Oyntments and Correcters given in a smal quantity are commended by the Chymists The smel of Camphire stupifieth lust therefore they teach that it is to be worn to preserve chastity which it doth by touching it or tying to the Arms And Vitex and Vervain they say doth the same Great fasting doth somewhat allay lust especially abstinence from hot Meats Spices and Wine which rule they ought to observe which pretend to chastity by abstaining from certain Meats as the Friers who pretend to mortifie by eating of Shel-fish and Botargo and the like in the holy time of Lent The sorrow of mind and grief take away lust And Diseases with pain whether hot or cold By letting blood something is abated but it cannot make the Body lean or weak without some other inconvenience It is reported that one cured his Wife of her unsatiable desire by opening all the usual Veins And Hippocrates teacheth by the example of the Scythians that the opening of the Veins behind the Eares maketh Sterility and Impotency Gelding is the extream remedy for extream Lechery and taking off the Yard is the surest way for which cause they say Origen Gelt himself And I know a Priest that having been often punished for sin in that kind did the same and Masters usually do so to their Servants to whom they commit their Wives but they deserve this punishment best that sin in Adultery and Fornication and therein persevere The surest remedy is Mariage which is granted by God to all that want the gift of Chastity CHAP. XIX Of
Want of Conception The Kinds WHen a Woman is of Age to Conceive and hath her Courses naturally Barrenness and hath the use of a Man and conceiveth not it is called Sterility or Barrenness And if she have conceived and brought forth and after brings not forth which is usual in the space of three or four years it is a defect of Generation which is necessary for the propagation of mankind Of those which are thus barren some are sound of a good habit of Body and are often fatter then those which have born Children and look not quickly so old But oftentimes there are defects of the Womb joyned with this defect Viragoes or manlike Women either they never had their Courses and therefore called Viragines and because they also engender not Or their Courses which they had either flow not or little and disorderly with difficulty and discolored This often hapneth to such as have the whites a Disease usual with barren Women And they have other inconveniences which either cause barrenness or come from thence As when some bring forth only Females which may hinder the Progeny of the Name The Causes The Cause why a Woman conceiveth not when there is no defect perceived in the Venerial act is either because she receives not the Seed into the Womb or retains it not being received And this happneth from the Seed or Genitals of the Man or Woman This comes from the occasion of mans Seed The Cause of Barrenness from the Man is little Seed or Crudity when it is not sufficient in quantity or fit for Generation and though a Woman receives it either there is no Procreation or it s in vain as a Mole whereof we shall speak for if there be not so much as will fill the Cavity of the Womb which therefore was made little a Child cannot be conceived And this is the cause that if the Seed be not enough for Generation but often by too much Venery or running of the Reins abated that such Generate not as they who use it seldom and either for Procreation or health sake are very temperate Hence it is that old men marrying young maids get Children as my Father after fourscore in regard they are less hot and eager then young men and go to it but seldom Also if the Seed be not concocted but crude thin and waterish or too cold and with spirits or the like which takes away the vertue it cannot beget Children This comes from weakness of the Vessels or mixture of evil humors and from the causes mentioned in Impotency and Lechery somtimes there is a secret fault in the Seed which doth not hinder Procreation which passeth to the Children and shews it self then and conveighs the like to the Grandchild when it is of the age the Father was when his disease first appeared Hence it is that the Gout Leprosie and the like are propagated It is probable that this defect is in the seed of the Man when he begets no Males but Females The seed of a Man and Woman is the cause why Males or Females are begotten because it is weaker than the Womans which beareth away the Bell for the sex It is better to impute the secret causes to the seed than to the temper or the change of the sex or to the seeds coming from this or that Stone for a Man with one Stone of what temper soever may beget Children of both sexes It is necessary for Generation that the Womans seed should be mixed with the mans When Barrenness is from the Woman it comes from Crudity impurity or want of seed for the Generation of a Faemale as may be seen by the likeness of the Mother in both now if the seed be defective or be in less quantity than is fit Barrenness is by the womans cause and oftener than by the man for a Woman without seed may suffer Copulation but a man without is unfit for it and this is the cause why Whores which spend their seed for gain so that they are sapless cannot conceive though they receive And if if it be impure crude or the like not only Harlots but other Women are impotent and diseased But if the temper of the Womans seed be the same with the Mans they say there can be no generation from the equality but diversity But we affirming the seed to be hot do not place the generative vertue in it but in the seemly temper of them both It seldom happens that a man is in fault by reason of the Yard so it can but act for though it be not so long as others it hindreth not but the seed may be sent into the Womb if there be no other obstacle for the womb being then hot and greedy after seed easily condescends and takes it in But if the hole in the head of the Yard which sends forth seed and Urin The opening of the Yard being wrong is cause of defect in Conception be not in the middle so that it may directly aim at the inward Orifice of the womb but in the side or beneath as I have known in some who have been born so or if there be a Fistula beneath so that it is not sent to the mouth of ths womb it is nothing worth If Barreness come from the Womb it is seldom caused by the neck thereof but by accident as it hinders Copulation as I said But this may be often caused from the Orifice of the bottom of the womb or the substance thereof The inward Orifice of the womb The largeness loosness closeness of the orifice internal of the womb is the cause of Barrenness or that clift which is close and narrow and openeth at the time of Conception drawing the seed unto it if it be too large though then it easily receive the seed yet because it reteineth not it long enough it is the cause of barrenness This comes from an evil birth when the child hath been violently taken away by reason of the bigness or ill posture when it is so stretched that it cannot return as in other cases to its former proportion And this is the cause why many times Women after difficult Travail never conceive again some Women also are unfit for Conception by reason of the loosness of the Orifice by moist excrement either in the Womb or the neck thereof by reason of the Whites And when the Orificeis shut up so that it cannot be opened there canbe no Conception because the seed cannot be admitted this may be naturally or by a scar or excrescence of flesh after the parts have been ulcerated or torn in hard Travail by which means the outward Orifice though larger hath been closed as I shewed before It is seldom stopt from other causes What they say of Fat in the neck or bottom of the womb we have shewed cannot cause barrenness but the cause is the not opening of the womb in conception for at other times it is
half Cochie one dram Troches of Alhandal half a scruple with syrup of Roses solutive make Pills give a dram Often sweating is good for moist Women because it evacuateth from the whol body as with the Decoction of Lignum vitae using a spare diet a Friend of mine used this diet and proved with child before it ended Also dry or moist Baths Bleeding in the Foot to provoke the Terms as we shewed The things mentioned to provoke Lust increase seed are chiefly used for Conception these are given to men for they are most subject to impotency but women may use them to heat and increase seed and sometimes both together lest one prove slow in performance It is good to add for Women things proper for the womb hot and dry and such as provoke the terms if wanting and consume humidity Thus VVith these pouders the first is Take Nutmeg one scruple Musk two grains Salt a little in a rear Egg every morning The second Take seed of Siler montane one dram Rocket seed half a dram Ivory shavings two drams Cinnamon Nutmeg each a dram Musk six grains Sugar two drams give it in Sack one dram for a Dose The third Take species of Diamoschu and Diambra each half a dram shavings of Ivory one dram and an half seeds of montane Siler two drams Cinnamon one dram Sugar two ounces or dissolve the Sugar in Cinnamon and Mugwort water and make Lozenges give two drams The fourth Take Boars stones two drams Buls pizle one dram of the Matrix and Runnet of a Hare each half a dram dry them and pouder them adding Cinnamon one dram and an half Nutmegs Cloves each half a dram Pepper Ginger each a scruple Rocket and Parsnep seed Siler montane and Ashen keys each half a dram Watercerss and Peony seeds each a scruple shavings of Ivory and Goats-horn each half a dram Musk and Ambergreese each six grains Sugar ten ounces give a dram in Pouder or Lozenges It is better to make Confections of Nuts than Pouders or Electuaries for they wil decay so A dry Confection Take the preserved Kernels of Almonds Hazel Nuts Pine and Pistacha Nuts each an ounce Cieron peels Cinnamon Cloves and Ginger candied each half an ounce Rocket seed candied two drams mix them give a spoonful at bed-time Make Marchpane thus Take sweet Almonds four ounces Hazel Nuts two ounces Pine-nuts two ounces Pistachoes one ounce steep them in Milk then bruise them and add species Diambrae and Diamoschil each half a dram Cinnamon two drams Ivory shavings one dram beat them in round Cakes These Electuaries following are good Take Conserve of Eryngus and Dog stones each one ounce and an half Conserve of Rosemary flowers Scabious Citron rind Ginger candied each an ounce mix them with two or three drams of the first second or third Pouder aforementioned The rest are to be found in the Provokatives Or give one drame of Triphera magna without Opium in Sack The best Junkets are thus made Take Nutmeg a dram Ginger Pepper of each half an ounce dried Marjoram a scruple Rocket siler mountain and Carua seed of each half a dram Make a Pouder for the following Receites Take the Brains of a Hog boyl them in Sack then add the Pouder aforementioned and Salt let her eat them often at supper Or Take the stones and Combes of Cocks and use them as the former Or the stones of a Ram slice them and wrap them in the Pouder mentioned and Sage leaves the Caule being wrapt about let them be roasted for supper Also other nourishing meats are good This dish is pleasant and excellent Take Mints Scabious and Burnet cut them smal add two or three Eggs Onyons Nutmegs and Salt make a Tansey thereof or wrap them in Past and bake them with Colewort leaves in the Embers let the Man and Woman eat thereof fasting and go to the work four hours after eight daies after her Courses This Decoction is infalible Take Eryngus roots Mugwort and Sanamunda boyl them in red wine a glassful of it warm morning and evening with a dram of Triphera Magna without Opium for nine daies together This is a secret and of great force give Chymical Oyl of Marjoram and Musk of each one or two grains with the Runnet of a Hare If the Womb be loose and moist we must warm dry and strengthen it with Baths Fumes Oyntments Pessaries and somtimes relax it when hard Baths Insessions are chiefest if used for five six or eight daies after the Courses before the Husband be admitted before bed time or supper or in the morning repeating them monthly three or four times if she conceive not which we know by a stoppage of the Terms If we will make a Bath of hot drying and strengthening things Take of these more or less white Lilly roots Valerian Orris Mother-wort Mugwort Pennyroyal Nep Organ Calamints Marjoram Baies Savin Juniper Chamomil Rose Elder and Lavender flowers Bay and juniper berries of each a pugil seed of Siler Mountane half an ounce Allum three drams or more or Salt Boyl them in Rain-water adding Lixivium Smiths forge water and Wine If you will have it more binding add Galls Pomegranat slowers of each a pugil Bramvle and Oak leaves of each one handful Allum half an ounce Boyl them as before with more Forge water When we desire to relax Take roots of Lillies Mallows and Marsh-mallows with the leaves of Pellitory of the Wall of each as much as is sufficient add Marjoram Pennyroyal and others that strengthen the Womb with Lime and Fenugreek seed of each a pugil flowers of Chamomil and Melilot of each two pugils Make a Bath If you will purge the womb from moisture add to a hot Bath Bryony roots Mercury and Arsmart make a Bath or Fomentation She may be bathed for a month together every day if her Body require it The last refuge is the use of natural hot Baths for a month every day for many hours sweating as of Allum Niter and Sulphur with mollifie exceedingly in the hardness of the womb but they will make sound women Barren and help over moist bodies by drying Also Salt water by its self or which other proper things is good A Fume taken into the womb is also good from a Decoction in the swearing chaire or in the Bath A hot and strengthening is thus made of sweet Plants as of the Decoction of Motherwort Penny-royal Calamints Organ Sage Hysop Basil Marjoram Rosemary Chamomil with Fumitory and Burnet the roots of Masterwort Valerian and Acorus Boyl them in wine and water If we will astringe more and dry more Take roots of Snakweed Agrimony Acorn cups Cypress nuts with red Wine and Water Make a Decoction Let her take into her body a Fume of Pouders or Troches upon live Coales Thus made Take Benzoin Storax of each two drams Labdanum one dram wood Aloes one scruple Musk half a scruple Sugar three drams Make Troches with Gum Traganth use one at a time Or thus Take
of dryed simples or Chaff of Milium is good here as in other pains Also Pillows and Skins or Furrs Coney-wool and Hares skins are the best Also some Stones tyed about the Waist prevent the stone Great folks by a greenish stone like the Galactites It is called the Nephritical Stone because it expels stones from the Kidneys and also strengthens the Stomach It is good to apply a Cupping-glass not upon the Kidneys least it stir the stone and cause pain which is not great till the stone gets into the Ureters and then apply the Cupping-glass still a little below the stone and so remove it downwards beneath the place of the pain till you have brought the stone into the Bladder The same may be done by chasing with the Hand or with Cloaths and hot Oyls that loosen Especially after so doing you use a Cupping-glass alwayes taking heed that we go not too high with these things to the part pained which will increase pain Some rub the Leggs in time of bathing Moderate motion also keeps the sand from stopping in the passages and it is good to stand upright or to exercise a little to move it And if a stone from the Kidneys stick in the entrance of the Ureters and cause pain it is good to lay the leg so high that the stone may get back by a little motion into the hollow of the Kidneys this will soon take away pain Vomiting by its force in straining doth help to remove the stone therefore at the first if it come not Naturally provoke it or provoke Neesing It is good in great pain when the Patient is plethorick to open a Vein in the Foot on the same side least it run to the Kidneys by reason of the pain and cause Inflammation or when there is Inflammation The pricking pain which is vulgarly called the Spleen The cure of the pricking pain called the spleen but falsly though it be sharp yet because it comes from a cause that lasteth not long as attraction of the Muscles and Wind it goes away of it self otherwise it must be cured If it come often or from little motion rest preventeth it and gentle Motion and good Diet not windy but such as expelleth wind and by keeping the side very warm And if the Party must exercise or ride let him not do it upon a full stomach and then bind himself about the waist with a Swathband When this pricking pain comes also it is good to bind with a Rouler as in a windy Cramp of which this is a sort and by so doing the Muscles will be drawn into their place and the pain removed by expelling the wind If after rest and binding or rouling the pain yet remain you must use the same way of cure as was shewed in the Cure of a windy Pleurisie First use outward things that are hot actually and potentially that expel wind and take away pain as Fomentations Bags Oyntments Plaisters and Baths dry and sweating such as are described in the windy Pleurisie and other outward Diseases from wind If for all these the pain abare not you must use diverters and Derivers as Clysters and Cupping-glasses And as is there shewed if the Body be foul you must purge provoke Sweat and give Alterers which by a hidden quality take away pricking-pain CHAP. XIII Of Pain of the Belly The Kinds VVE call that the Pain of the Belly which is before where it is soft and covered with no bones for we shall speak of other Pains in the parts adjacent that are in Pissing and going to Stool hereafter These in the Belly are first distinguished by their Seats for some are in the Abdomen or Panch about the Navel others below the Navel or above the Pecten or reach to the Hips and Loins There are pains often about the Navel Colick and Iliack-pain These are distinguished by Physitians according to the Gut affected as we shall shew in the Causes and one is called the Colick another the Iliack-pain These are the Symptoms The great pains are called Torments they are somtimes about the Navel Torments above or below or on each side somtimes they move with heat burning and somtimes cold sometimes they are fixed under the Navel chiefly and do as it were bore a hole through but not in the Back Groins as the Nephritick pains of the stone or in the Hips as those of the Womb. There is also Rumbling of the Guts to and fro to be heard and felt Also the belly is bound and somtimes there is an endeavor to belch or fart but in vain And if not or a Loosness follow the Disease is cured Somtimes there follows a purging of matter but not of blood as in a Dysentery In one sort of this Disease the urin is stopped There is also Loathing and Heart-ach called Cardialgia and Vomiting of Flegm or Choler somtimes of the Excrements which is grievous this Disease is called Iliacus from the Gut Ilion Miserere mei is a sort of Iliack-pain or from the Greek Eleos or Eleenos because it deserves pitty and therefore called in Latin miserere mei There is somtimes also a Feaver going afore or comming after or joyned with it Somtimes Convulsions and Palsies follow unknown to the Ancients They are general or in some particular parts as we shewed in the Hindrance of Motion Also there is a vehement pain below about the Pecten A straining pain about the Bladder Somtimes stretching with stoppage of Urin of which we there spake Somtimes burning with pricking and tearing A hot pain about the Bladder with redness and tumor outwardly this is called the Inflammation of the Bladder and then the belly is bound and Urin stopped and a Feaver with its accidents and Dotage also somtimes After which follows pissing of matter or hardness of the part There is another pain below that reacheth to the Hips and Loins Pain of the womb mentioned in the Hypochondriack pain called the Pain of the Womb and it is twofold Either it is stretching in the Belly and Sides usually in Women before their Courses break or when they are stopped And it is like the Colick so that many times it is taken for it at the first And it hath many sad accidents that follow in women as we shewed in Suffocation of the Womb. There is also a pain of the womb in women with child chiefly in the Groyns like that of the Hips only it is felt before and not behind when the Leg is moved There is another pain of the womb in women not in travel The pain after Child-bearing is a kind of womb-pain but after child-bearing not in the Privities but in the bottom of the Belly stretching it some hours or dayes this is called the after birth-pain There is another burning pricking A pain after Child-pain with Inflamation stretching beating and tearing pain called the Inflammation of the Womb before and after Child-bearing it is like that
thereof And then because it hindereth pissing we shall speak thereof in the Chapter of painfull pissing If the Bladder be inflamed in the substance of it The Inflammation of the Bladder is the cause of the burning pain thereof it causeth a pain in the Privities with redness and tumor also when the Bladder is wrapped in the Caule and the tumor is greater when the Excrements and Urin want passage This Inflammation somtimes turns to an Imposthume and then for the time the pain is yet greater and when that is broken there is an Ulcer and painful pissing of matter Also this Inflammation may leave a Scirrhus such a one as I saw gtowing very large in the Bladder of a Cow that was broken by accident and cured again Also this Inflammation if it be not well cured turns to a Gangraene And I once saw a Bladder black within when I opened a dead Fryar Some external accident may cause this Inflammation of the Bladder or pain from the stone or an Ulcer to which Diseases an Inflammation is somtimes joyned of the Bladder and Kidneys also when the body is Plethorick and fit to receive it Because the Womb is in the same lower part of the Belly The cause of pain in the Womb and the Vessels thereof and lyeth under the Bladder and the bottome thereof especially being stretched reacheth into the Belly the pains are alike in both And because the Ligaments of the Womb by which it hangeth reach to the Hips and Loyns they are pained also and of them we shall here speak but we have treated of the pains of the Neck of the Womb in its place But all the pains of the Womb in the bottom or Body or Ligaments thereof some whereof reach to the Neck as in the Bladder come from stretching or from Inflammation The stretching pain in the bottom of the womb The stretching of the bottom of the womb causeth the pain after Child-bearing comes chiefly from outward Cold taken in after Child-bearing while the inward Orifice of the womb is large and open for want of keeping warm by which means the Air gets in and fills and stretcheth and weakneth it and by cooling causeth pain This is called the pain after Child-bearing At another time this pain cannot come from taking in of Air because before Conception the womb is smal and thick and the cavity which is to be filled with Seed in time of Conception is very straight and after conception also when it grows bigger with the Child the inward Orifice is close shut and the womb full Nor from wind bred in the Body because if it get into the straight cavity of the womb or breed there it cannot so stretch the womb to cause pain because it is very thick Neither can water cause pain for the same reasons Though some suppose that the womb may be like a bladder inlarged and have an Inflammation from wind and water as they call it For though the womb be larger in some women by Nature or by much moisture which loosneth it yet it cannot be so filled and stretched that pain may follow And if the repletion be great there will be rather a weight and heaviness then a pain as it is when the Child is great but the weight of the Child by stretching the Ligaments may cause a kind of pain but it is in the Groins and not in the Loins as we shewed So then there is no other stretching pain of the womb but what is after Child-bearing The stretching of the vessels is the usual cause of pain in the womb caused either from the substance of it or from the Membranes and Vessels by which it hangeth but from Humors retained and then it may reach to the sides as we shewed in Hypochondriack pains as when the courses are stopped or disordered or foul This foulness comes from foul blood and humors in women of evil habit that want their Courses which do so fill stretch or provoke the part they that cause pain especially when they are hot and send up Vapors and produce other Accidents especially the suffocation of the womb as we there shewed The Inflammation of the bottom of the womb and neck also The Inflammation of the bottom of the womb causeth the burning pain thereof causeth pain with divers accidents as we shewed This as that of the Bladder may leave an Imposthume Ulcer Scirrhus or Gangraen And the cause external may be a Stroak or Bruise or internal abundance of blood about the womb upon stoppage of the Terms when they flow not into the neck but into the substance of the womb and cause Inflammation according to the diversity of the blood The Cancer of the womb And if the quality thereof be malignant it may cause a Cancer which shall be mentioned in Diseases of the Neck of the Womb because it is commonly in that part The womb is chiefly inflamed from difficulty of Deliverance The Inflammation of the womb after Child-bearing causeth the second sort of pain after child-bearing great pain and straining either while the child or after birth remain or after they are gone which causeth a Feaver And this Inflammation is rather the cause of many womens death then the retention of the after-burden and the pain they have comes from the Inflammation as well as from the Air that gets into it and is then greater and more dangerous The Cure The Cure is different according to the part affected and the variety of Causes as the Bowels are stretched cooled or inflamed by Blood or Choler And is to be applied to the stretching or Inflammation of the bladder or womb The stretching of the Bowels from what cause soever The cure of the Colick pain of the womb Convolvulus from stretching or cold if it cause the Coeliack and Iliack pain must be cured the same way as also when it comes of Cold. And if it come from the abundance of excrements and wind with pain and rumbling if they come forth as they use to do by Fasting Belching or a Flux you must take the same course as in Diarrhaea If these Excrements cause a stoppage in the thick Guts and so by stretching the Colick it is easier cured then in the small Guts especially when they are evil and increase continually for then Iliack passion which is so deadly and hard to be cured will return and cause Convulsions and Palsies and the like which though the pain cease destroy the Patient And if the stoppage be so hard that it cannot be opened but the thin Guts are so full of Excrements that they are sent back into the Duodenum then follows the deadly convolvulus or Spewing up of Excrements or Iliack or knots or tanglings of the Guts In all which cases except when the Guts are knotted or an Iliack pain from a Rupture for then you must rather look to the putting up the Gut then to the Iliack Passion the cure is
winded especially when he goes up hill or lieth down and it is the chief Symptom he complains of which also foretelleth a Dropsie before a tumor appear and when it comes it increaseth and from the beginning about Midnight after Concoction there is a pressing pain at the Heart and then short breathing and they are in Danger of choaking by which they are constrained to sit up like men in an orthopnaea Breathing with their Neck stretched out And when they lie on the one side either right or left they cannot lie long for shortness of wind on either side but are forced to lie upon their Backs At last the Disease increasing they cannot lie down at all because they are straight tormented thereby and they continue Day and and Night strait up and their Head bowed to their Breast for better breathing sitting long they spend the remnant of their daies miserably There strength decaies for want of lying down there Appetite is lost there is constant Thirst little Urin made the Urine is somtimes high red or Gold coloured and thick somtimes crude and watery somtimes not changed There is another kind of Dropsie Ascites A Tympany joyned with an Ascites in which the belly is far more extended and soundeth like a Drum being beaten in which you may hear a Noise upon motion with other accidents like the former onely the Feet swell not alwaies as in other kinds and this is a Tympany with an Ascites In the Dropsie Tympanites only the belly swells A Tympany alone and is stretched like a Drum from whence it is so called In which the stretching is so great that being strook it sounds like a Drum and being compressed it presently riseth nor will it keep an impression long as an Ascites doth These breath freer then they in the Ascites nor do they find any difficulty of breathing by lying down neither do their Legs or other parts swell besides there are Noises heard in the Belly and they have pain sometimes and are weak There is another Kind of Tympany in which with the aforesaid accidents The Tympany of the Guts there is a stoppage Pain and Vomiting with the Symptoms of the Disease of the Ilion Gut and Colon. The Belly also grows great Naturally as after Conception and somtimes besides Nature in a false Conception when there is a Mole with Conception or without so that a Woman seems great with Child thereby of which three kinds of tumors of the Belly we shall treat here shewing what they are and by what signs they are known That growing of the Belly which is in Women great with Child The growing of the Belly in a Woman with Child albeit being Natural it concerneth not us here yet that we may distinguish it from unnatural and shew that it comes not from any Disease which women do pretend which have been irregular and would conceale their bleeding and that we may pronounce some certainety or probability of Conception and that we may not mistake in this prediction which is easie in regard the women that have conceived are at the beginning especially very doubtful and do exceedingly desire to know and therefore do ask Physitians advise and send their waters we shall shew by signs accidents and Experiments how you may know that a woman hath conceived The Constitution of a woman fit to conceive doth with other signs make somwhat for the Knowledg of Conception This as they write is when besides the soundness of Body and Temperature which is thought to be best when contrary to the Mans she hath broad Loyness a large belly not too fat especially about the Privities But since we see those that are not such do conceive of what temper soever fleshy or lean nay the very least like Pigmyes we can gather great Matter from thence We hold her sit for Conception who is between fourteen and forty five and hath Parents that are fruitful Also if she have formerly conceived there is a stronge presumption if there be a doubt that she hath conceived It is necessary that before Conception she have Knowledg of a Man to enquire this of married people is in vain in others Necessary which when they will not confess it must be discovered by divers Arts among which this is one when there is great Suspicion if the Physitian by the water shall affirm that she is defiled because the vulgar people think a Physitian can tell any thing by the water or else the Parents and Magistrates shall force confession by threats Also if a woman shall perceive after the Use of a Man that she kept the Seed and that it went not out again although through Modesty she will not declare it it is a great sign of Conception especially if at that time she perceived any contraction of the Womb or sucking with great pleasure and that her Seed met with the Man 's at that time If the Terms stop which kept formerly their course it is a great and chief sign of Conception by which women presently judg themselves with Child and casting their account from the first Moneth after Copulation they collect the time of their lying in And if they doubt their Conception they will freely tell a Physitian when they stopped both they which are honest and others also though they which pretend other causes of their stopping And although in women with Child there is somtimes some evacuation of Blood from the Womb at some times yet is it be small and keep no order as the terms did it is not a sign of not conceiving and if the woman at the time she conceived gave suck and wanted her terms as it is usual and afterward though not presently the terms wholly stop it is probable she hath conceived and for this cause when Mothers perceive it they wean their Children If the belly grow bigger by degrees no accidents of a Disease being present it is a main sign of Conception especially if the tumor be most under the Navel and if it be hard and gathered together not pitting after impression as in the Ascites and not stretched out as in a Tympany and keeps the same Magnitude only except its gradual increase and grows not bigger when the Body is upright as in the Ascites and less when she lies down nor hath a tumor as in the Ascites suddenly fallen down when she turns upon one side when it is thus if it be not a false Conception or other Tumor joyned with a true as we have feen for then the belly swelling violently the Women are in Danger of Suffocation through shortness of Breath by which somtimes they die except by Abortion or by lying if they can attain to it they are freed pouring forth much water together with the Child The growing of the Breasts if other things be alike is a sign of Conception because in Diseases they rather decrease if they have Milk it is not to be doubted which we conjecture is made before it
come from the swelling blew Veins of the breasts also the increase of the Nipple the itching of the same and when the circle about it is more black When the Child begins to move which is in the middle time of Child-bearing somtimes sooner sometimes later it declares its selfe and the Mother This Motion is not with a Noise or pain of the Belly but by stricking one side of the belly and as it were thrusting it which the Mother perceiveth There is a Loathing of some Meates sooner or later in them that have conceived some abhor wine some vomite contrary to custome others desire much those Meats which they formerly loathed albeit they are not somtimes Meates but other abhominable things this Disease is called Pica as we said in the depraved Appetite There are also some peculiar accidents to Women with child as fainting or weakness when they are constrained to sit long in a place as at Banquets Churches so that they find a straightness of Heart and presently arise and take Air and they must open their breasts that they may breath freely In others that are Plethorick or evil habited there are other accidents as Swelling of Legs crooked Veins in the Legs and the like As for the Judgement of the Urine it is uncertain and deceitful yet the vulgar attribute so much unto it that they suppose a Physitian can tell certainly by only looking thereupon and if they confess there is nothing certain therein he is taken for a Fool and if he pronounce any Judgement he is easily mistaken and exposed to derision as it is with many to whom false Urins or Urins of Cattel Physitians ought to be wise and circumspect in this least they be branded for ignorance Therefore when they cast the water let them ask many things of the divers signs of conception to get from the party and determine nothing rashly but answer circumspectly and dubiously First if he sees a Urin like that of a sound Body and from thence know that the courses are stopped which they will easily confess he may gather that it comes not from Diseases in which commonly the Urin is crude or otherwise changed but rather from Conception and so by some Judgement in regard of the Urin declaring soundness of Body rather then from other signs he shall perceive the woman to be with Child and then he was more freely pronounce somthing for finding out of other signs As to other signs of conception in Urins as the things contained things flying therein like Locks of Wool or rather as I have observed somtimes in women newly married after conception that they have made Urin like Pus or Matter for some dayes without having any hurt in the Reins or Bladder since these are altogether uncertain of these alone there can be no solid Judgement but by all put together there may There is also a stoppage and dropping of Urin in some women when they are first married which is a sign of conception also pains about the Navel or a little beneath presently after Copulation and somtimes a good while after are certain signs of Conception As for Experiments by which you may know whether a Woman be with Child or no they are divers the most usual are these Hippocrates saith that if Meade be given a woman with Aqua caelestis when she goes to sleep and it cause pain she is with Child Make a Pessary of Garlick and put it into the Body of the woman and if she smell it or smell of it she is with Child But in my Judgement it might be proved by this Argument that she is not with Child because in Women with child the Womb is closed so that the Vapor of the Garlick cannot so well ascend that waies but in women not with Child the womb is open and therefore they may more easily receive the Sent thorough that part Moreover if the Urin be lik Bean broth mingled with white Wine they say she is with child Not only common people but many excellent Physitians suppose they can tell whether a woman be with Child of a Boy or a Girle but since I perceived these to be uncertain and erroneous I willingly omit them least I should seem to be a Patron of Errors If from a false Conception The Swelling of the Belly from a Mole not a Child but a Mole in the womb causeth an ill favoured Tumor as we shewed it will have many signs and accidents like unto a true conception therefore it is hard especially at the first to know this preternatural conception and to distinguish it from a Natural First a woman of a good Complexion fit for conception that lives with her Husband may be subject to this though seldom And there is a great Suspicion of a Mole if a woman hath formerly had the same and greater if often before as we have observed some who have had them every year some every month and in the mean time have not been ill but fresh and lusty Otherwise as in true conception so in this the Terms stop and the Breasts and Belly increase by degrees afterwards if the Mole stayeth the belly continues in the same state and increaseth no more as in a true conception or if it increase there is not felt the motion which is when women are with Child neither is it straight but loose and burdensom so that when the woman turneth upon her fide it rowleth that way From these they presume or suspect that there is a false conception As for other accidents the Appetite is diminished and depraved as in a true conception and other accidents are alike and in regard this is preternatural they are more and worse as the extenuation of the whole Body besides the belly and the discolouring of the same pricking of the belly and long want of Apperite by which we cannot pronounce certainties nor by the inspection of Urine to which the vulgar ascribe much in this case and Physitians to seem more skilfull do connive thereat Therefore it is very difficult to know a true from a false conception untill either by Abortion as is usual sometimes in a few moneths or by bringing forth it be discovered And a woman is past her time being certain by the aforesaid signs of Conception if she brings not forth nor have endeavours nor throws nor other signs that shew she hath a dead child unless this be when there is no conception as shall be shewed it is certain that she hath not a child but a Mole such I have known to be kept a long time the belly being swollen the Courses stopt and other accidents add many moneths or years after they have cast them forth with Danger of life and large effusion of blood or kept them till Death Somtimes the belly swells without conception The Swelling of the Belly in women as if they were with child as in women with Child so that they and others that have born Children think the same
Womb and being more then will nourish the Child hence it is that they have these crooked Veins in their Legs because their blood being stopped is carried thither that is into the Legs which Veins consent with the womb as appears by letting Blood in the Foot to provoke the Terms and after they are delivered the blood being purged by the Womb as is usual these veins fall down except they be too much dilated Also blood sent by the Veins into the extream parts by reason of its evil Juyce produceth Varices or crooked Veins and somtimes ulcers let the Blood be what it wil it produceth Varices by its violent motion therefore they are chiefly in the Feet by reason of much Exercise But hard travail and long and great throws in Child-bed are the chief cause of Blood flowing into the Feet which produceth these Swellings of the Veins Also immoderate Venery because it forceth Blood violently into the Spermatick Vessels which hath been somtimes known to come forth instead of Seed and dilateth them may be the cause of the Swelling called Cirsocele which is of the Veins in the Codds And those Swellings come the more when the part is weakned and fit by its loosness to receive a Defluxion and when the part hath more and larger Veins then others or when it is dependant and lowest as was said There is another tumor rising from Blood gathered about the womb in the Veins thereof Blood in the veins of the Womb causeth the belly to swell as if the woman were with Child and stretching them out which causeth that Swelling in women which we shewed made them look as if with Child before Conception And this comes from Blood because the Courses have long stopped and it will not be dissolved but by a Flux of Blood And it appears that this blood doth not cause this tumor by getting into the Cavity of the Womb and by filling it till it stretch because the womb is fleshy and Nervous cannot be enlarged by any Humor as a Membrane and it cannot be enlarged but by the growth of a Child or Mole as we have shewed And if it were filled with blood it could not be kept there long and would be corrupt and putrified which it doth not because alwaies it comes afterwards forth thin and though some Clodds come therewith it shews that they grew so by stoppage at the first and caused this Swelling Now from hence we conclude that this Swelling of the Womb came Because blood being a long time retained in the Veins of the Womb doth not only enlarge them externally in the outside of the Womb and make them crooked and swollen but these Veins in the substance of the Womb which at other times are small and scarce apparent being now filled and dilated by degrees do lift up the substance of the womb and make it larger and so the Swelling of it and the stretching of the veins external causeth this Swelling of the Belly which when the Courses flow and the veins grow empty is asswaged except some other Disease happen as Cachexy or beginning of a dropsie when the Belly is so swelled with wind or water as we have known it in Women with Child and then the tumor is altered and will not be gone with bleeding I have observed in two full bodied Women this gathering and stopping of Blood in the Veins of the Womb which caused a Swelling of the Belly with distension and puffing up or inflation of the Breasts as in Women with Child whom at first I judged to be with Child which was their Hope but not long after the Courses flowing plentifully they were freed both from Swelling of Breasts and Belly Blood in the Arteries causeth that beating Tumor called an Aneurism Blood getting out of the Arteries under the skin is the cause of the tumor called Aneurism which they suppose to be from the dilatation of an Artery as the other was from the Vein And it was formerly declared that this only may be in the inward Arteries and that from an internal Aneurism Pulsation of the Heart and Arteries may proceed when we spake of that Disease But since the Branches of the Arteries do not spread themselves to the skin nor are they fastned unto it as the branches of the Veins are this Swelling cannot be like that of the Veins except by chance an Artery do so swell in some part near to the skin that it appear external and cause Pulsation And if this be so it must come from the same Cause from which we told you in the Palpitation of the Heart the inrernal Aneurism did proceed But an Aneurism doth not come only from the Dilation of the Artery while it continueth sound and whole but often though not alwaies if it be external it comes from some manifest apertion of the same For then the thin Blood which comes out of the Artery gets under the skin and makes it swell and there makes a Hollowness into which the Artery disburdens its self as it is wont to do in the Brain Naturally so here preternaturally by throwing forth the Blood with the Spirits in its Diastole or Dilatation and drawing it again in the Systole or Contraction of it self and this causeth the Pulsation in this Tumor Now the opening of the Mouth of the Artery is the Cause of this Bleeding when being dilated by the Causes mentioned it doth not only swell but makes way under the skin for the Blood to get forth by opening the mouth through the Distension Or if the Artery from the force of that spirital Blood be so compelled that it is stretched forth and opened or be hurt by any external sorce so that it be broken externally it may send blood under the skin as we have declared But it is apparent that this happens not from an Artery broken or by stretching opened internal but external in that the Mouths of the Arteries which end and shut up the same have their termination in the extremities of the Body where the Arteries end and if an Artery inwardly hurt or opened should bleed the Blood would fall into the Cavities of the Body neither would it produce a Tumor such as many times is inward also when the Artery is onely stretched Moreover that an external Aneurism comes often from the effusion of this Arterial blood by the Causes aforesaid under the skin and not from the dilatation only it appears in that the Tumor is round rather than long like the Artery dilated and not wrinkled or twisted like a Varix But it appears chiefly by an incision made in the skin swollen that the blood was lodged there because it leaps out suddenly and often in such abundance that as it hath been observed it could no waies be stopped but the Patient hath bled to Death and that this Aneurism came by the breaking of the Artery appeared by the leaping and in regard the Pulsation was such and it had long continued and
dram Orris roots two drams Sal Ammoniack one dram burnt Harts horn half a dram mix them with the Infusion of Gum Traganth for Troches to be dissolved in Milk Oyntments of Fish gall and Oyl Honey and Sugar doth discuss Pimples If these in the Head are mattery you must add Lytharge with Vinegar and Verdegreese and other Dryers mentioned in the Scab The last Remedy for hard Pimples are the corroding and caustick Medicines mentioned in Spots Hordeolum is a hard tumor like a Barley corn upon the Eye-brows The Cure of the Tumor in the Eyes called Hordeolum grando beneath and Grando like Hail is the same above in the upper Eye-brow and they are cured as warts by applying things which consume them but so that they may touch only them and not get into the Eye and hurt it especially when they are strong These following are good in these tumors Gum Ammoniack or Serapinum spread upon Leather Also Flies their wings taken off and Ants mixed with Rosin and Wax Wine Lyes Vitriol Honey and Wax Lime with the third part of Vitriol and Turpentine If nothing will prevail we may burn them off defending the Eye carefully as in warts whether we do it by actual or potential Cautery VVe may also scarifie them but it is not safe to out them off or forcebly to pull them out VVe may if it be convenient tye them with silk like warts but gently least it through pain should cause Inflammation The Cure of the Swelling of the Breasts from Milk The Cure of the Tumor of the Breasts with Milk because it goes of it self is seldom undertaken But if it be such as it causeth fear of Inflammation then we must have a care to hinder the comming of Milk into the Breasts and to consume that which is there or draw it forth But if it be curdled and the tumor hard we must discuss it if it tend to an Imposthume we must ripen open it and cure it as an Ulcer And if Inflammation follow it must be cured as a Phlegmon of which we spake in the treatise of Pain VVe hinder the increase of Milk with a slender Diet Evacuations by bleeding and purging and giving things that consume both it and the Seed as Agnus castus and Rue seeds we keep it from the Breasts by revelling and deriving the Blood another way as by opening a Vein in the Arm or Foot especially if they were not well cleansed after Child-bearing and with other things that provoke the Courses Scarification Cupping on the Shoulder and above the Knee by Frictions and the like Also by binding the Breasts and using Emollients you may hinder the farther increase and consume the Milk in the Breasts The English and French Women which use not to nurse their own Children apply bags of Lin-seeds to their Breasts and bind them down for the same end VVe repel the blood by outward Applications which we place upon the visible veins that come from the Arm-pits to the Breasts not upon the Breasts but about and without them because if Milk be curdled in them it cannot be repelled There are also repelling Emplasters called defensatives made of Bole mentioned in Phlegmon and in the Pains of the Eyes from Defluxion used to the Fore-head and Temples and the like elsewhere mentioned which must be laid about not upon the breasts but towards the Arm-pits Especially those we mentioned for hindring the growth of Breasts may also be good to hinder Milk Also an Epithem of Vinegar Rose-water and Allum with a little Camphire to penetrate rather then cool VVe dissolve Milk in the Breasts with Dryers and Digesters laid all over upon the breasts and if there be a tumor you must lay thereon things that consume Milk and bring it to matter Mints is chiefly good for this and next Calamints Smallage Coriander Agnus castus also Wormwood Horehound Ladies-glove Palma Christi Epimedium Rue Rocket Celandine Cole-wort white Beets Briony Leaves and water Lilly roots beaten green or boiled first in Wine and Vinegar equal parts and the third part Honey to a Cataplasm Or that which is made of Wheat-bread or Bran Bean Barley Lentils Orobus and Foenugreek meal boyled as before somtimes with Herbs and Oyls of Dill Chamomil and Lillies As for Example Take Marsh-mallow and Lilly roots each two ounces Mints two handfuls Wormwood and Celandine each one handful Chamomil flowers one pugil boyl them in Wine Vinegar and Honey as before beat them up with Bean and Barley meal or the like four ounces Oyl of Dill Ducks grease each two ounces make a Cataplasm Or thus Take Bean and Lentil meal each four ounces boyl them in Vinegar and the third part of Honey with dry Mints half an ounce dry Wormwood two drams Cummin seed half an ounce Agnus Castus seeds and Chamomil flowers each two drams and an half Liquid Storax half an ounce Saffron one scruple Oyl of Dill two ounces and an half make a cataplasm to this add of the Runnet of a Kid six drams to dissolve Milk if it be curdled Another mix Bread with Purslain and Sage-water and Honey for a Cataplasm Some only steep Bread long in Mint Sage or Purslain-water and apply it The Root of the greater celandine beaten and laid upon the Nipple is said to dissolve curdled Milk Dioscorides teacheth that Hemlock doth destroy Milk and hinder the growth of Breasts and other Stupefactives also not by cooling but by discussing as we have shewed their Nature to be Oyntments made of the Juyces of the Herbs mentioned with Oyls as of Mints and the like do consume Milk and dissolve it when curdled as this Take the Juyce of Smallage and Mints each two ounces Vinegar one ounce and an half Honey two ounces boyl them a little and wash therewith Dioscorides commends wine Lyes with Vinegar Also a Fomentation of the Herbs aforesaid with a spunge or Linnen-cloath is good especially a Decoction of cummin and coriander Or with strong Vinegar Sack boiled with a little Saffron VVe take away abundance of Milk by the way ordained by the Infants sucking and if it will not move Children must suck or let a woman draw them with her mouth or with an Instrument for the purpose If this cannot be done for want of Nipples you must do what is taught in the Loss of Nipples and want of Milk The Cure of Tumors comming from Blood is first of the Veins as of Varix or swollen Veins Cirsocele or Cod-rupture and secondly of the Arteries as an Aneurism As to the other Tumors of the belly The Cure of a swollen Belly in women with Conception comming from the Terms stopped as if they were with Child without Conception because it ends with a large Flux of Blood at the womb we shall speak of it in things cast off when we mention bleeding at the Womb. If Women with Child have great Stretcht The Cure of Varix or a swollen and crooked Vein and crooked Veins
And then it can live no longer not only because it wants Blood but because it wants vital Spirits by reason of the Separation of the Arteries and cannot take breath The Mothers by certain signs do know that the Child in the womb hath a Disease and is sick and like to die but those are not easily determined till Birth nor then except there be visible manifestation as I said of the Dropsie But without doubt Children in the womb have some Diseases as a hot Distemper must needs be in the Child when the Mother hath a Feaver which is in all Parts and also in the Child Or when the woman hath another Disease she may communicate it to the Child or she being full of evill Humors may conveigh them into the Child with the blood and so it may be cacochymical or of evil Juyce or she may give it the Pox or Plague and this is not without a great cause because the Child takes the best and most agreable to it and though the Mother be sick the Child may be sound As Children that sucked their Mothers of the Plague have been by us observed to escape it when others have died Yet I knew a Child born of the mother when she had the small Pox to be full of the same Also it is thought that things taken by the mother or applied to her womb may bring a malignant quality destructive to the child as many Medicines which do kill children and are Poyson Some Diseases that come from the Seed in conception to the child appear sooner some later and kill him before his Birth or continue by him after they are mentioned in Deformity in Diseases original There is a Solution of continuity A Wound or an Ulcer is the Cause of taking away a part that constituts the Body divers waies in the voiding of parts that constitute the Body as a wound when part of the substance of the brain Lungs Liver Spleen is cut off and comes out by the wound or the teeth or tongue is cut off they or some of its Humors fall out which also may come from an Ulcer Also the Brains may come out at the Nose by a contusion as we shewed in Wounds of those parts The Cure A natural and legitimate Birth when the Child comes ripe forth in due time he must not be delivered but well ordered and if it be difficult assisted Concerning which how the Mother and the Midwife should behave themselves we shewed in the defect of Child-birth When travail is past then you must have a care of the Mother and child The Gournment of the Mother and Child after Labor for the Mother you must mitigate her pain and provoke her Flux after Labour and strengthen her thus Let her be raised up gently in her bed that she faint not and give her broath and wine and good Scents to refresh her and let her be moderate in eating and sleeping and keep her out of the Air till she grows strong and her womb be brought to its former Condition which will be sooner if her Belly be rouled gently down As for the Child let him be washed in hot water from his filth and wiped with Feathers and anointed with cream or butter or Oyl of sweet Almonds then roul him and lay him in a Cradle and rock him to sleep and to learn him to suck hold him to the breast it is best to try that as soon as he is washed for comming thirsty out of the bath he will presently lay hold on the Teate and suck After Abortion or Miscarriage there is no other order to be observed then after travail And you must after take heed that it cometh not again which it is probable it will if she hath been formerly subject to it And this is done by things given and applied before conception and when she is with Child Before the woman hath conceived which she may be certain of The preventing of Abortion before Conception if she hath not used a man since her Abortion you must consider diligently if there be any secret cause in her body by reason whereof though she do conceive and the child be formed for if the Seed conceived presently flow forth it is not a true but fase Conception and the cause of barrenness as we shewed yet she doth not keep it And this is done by observing her constitution whether she be Plethorick or Cachymick of much or evil blood and as the Humor aboundeth you must cleanse the body by bleeding purging sweating and good Diet. Or if she have a Disease or Fault in the womb which may cause this you must study to amend it But if there be no Humors appearing that can be thought prejudicial you must strengthen the womb that the child hereafter may stay by Medicines mentioned in Sterility external and especially baths which they say are best and therefore they sit in hot baths often After the woman hath conceived which she knoweth by certain signs To prevent Abortion after Conception then you must take care that she may go out her time and that the child may be lusty But if you perceive it to be dead you must not do so and if you be certain thereof you must use things that provoke Abortion for either the child or Secundine remaining will be the Death of the Mother There are divers things good to retain and keep up the child after you have removed all causes that may hurt it or remove it Sometimes it is good to let blood if we perceive that abortion came from blood abounding about the womb the former time by reason of Plethora in regard she had her Terms in the time of her being great and if we see they begin to flow again as they did you may let blood in the Arm not the Foot because that will move the terms nor is litting blood to be feared as the Ancients thought when people with Child are full of blood for I never knew any miscarry thereby though it hath been done twice or thrice and have seen divers wounded and that have lost much blood and yet the child hath not been the worse yet is it not to be done rashly but a little must be taken at once and more the next month and the third time if need require Also you must not be rash in purging women with child that are apt to miscarry except the body be too much bound and then administer Clysters of some opening gentle Medicine or if the body be very foul then you may give some stronger Purge and that will do no hurt but good for many women by chance not knowing they were with child have taken Purges and had a great looseness and the Child not the worse neither did they miscarry There are things that prevent Abortion by altering which have an astringent Quality to fix the Vessels by which the Child is tyed to the womb and these add strength to the womb and vigor to
blood by the passages of urin without pissing with great pain when the stone is taken out of the Bladder The Natural Flux of the Terms is preternatural if it be not at the night time or be longer The immoderate Flux of the Terms or in great quantity or after they have been long stopped or when women have been thought with Child by reason of the greatness of their bellies through that stoppage and then have them suddenly and in great quantity with great weakness and hazard of life But that Flux is preternatural and different from the Flux of the Terms In old Women there is a Flux of blood from the womb different from the Terms if when the Terms are past and the Woman is old it come without order sometimes more somtimes less remaining long which we call not the Courses but an Haemorhagy of the womb Faintness Palness and evil Habit followeth these preternatural Purgations of blood from the womb either pure or mixed And after a long stoppage if there come suddenlya great Flux it weakneth and somtimes kills I observed in three Women which were past their Courses this Haemorrhagy or Bleeding of the womb in one it lasted above two years in the other a long time and in one of them with such great pain of the womb almost continuing a whol year not yeelding to any Medicines it continued till death Somtimes the Flux after Child-birth is so great that the woman is much weakned thereby Bleeding after Child-birth And this is not only after a Natural birth but after Abortion with great Danger There is another Flux of Blood from the womb at the first Copulation of the woman Bleeding in the time of deflowring and Copulation when she looseth her Virginity such as when she hath her Terms and this because it is counted the sign of Virginity and therefore ought to follow is not counted preternatural or hurtful Also this bleeding in Copulation is afterward and with great pain There is another Flux at the Fundament besides that of a Dysentery The immoderate Flux of the Haemorrhoids Needing or Liver-flux which is common in both sexes called Haemorroids as any other flux of blood may be called Which albeit it is usual and profitable to some Tempers and Constitutions especially of Men and somtimes of Women when old especially comming not in order like the Courses but once twice or thrice in a year yet is it preternatural when it is immoderate and flows too long or returns too often and causeth Faintness Weakness Paleness evil Habit and Dropsie as we shewed in other Fluxes of blood In this Flux the Blood is separated from the other Excrements being almost pure and not so black as blood that flows from other parts And if it be discoloured or impure it will be rather very red or yellow then otherwise When this Flux comes in a Disease and doth not good as when it comes in order curing the Disease but hurt by its violence making the Body weak it is preternatural Also that which comes not Naturally but by a violent Cause as shall be shewed and therefore is unprofitable especially when painful and hurt followeth is preternatural Besides this Flux of the Haemorrhoids Another bleeding at the Fundament different from the Haemorrhoids there are other preternatural from the Fundament As that which is of little blood appearing comming from a violent Cause with Itching and Pain Hither may be referred that bleeding in women when the Terms come not only from the womb but Fundament This is seldom but somtimes it hath ulcerated the Parts It can scarce be without a Miarcle as in our Savior The drops of blood from the Pores of the Skin that Blood should sweat through the Pores of the skin But we saw once in a Child that had a Dropsie most of his Pores bloody as if his Body had been sprinkled with blood and yet the blood did not flow or foul the Linnen Blood usually flows from the body Bleeding by wounds or Orifices not naturally by its orifices and wounds great or small either made for bleeding by Art or by Chance as we shall shew here and as was declared in Wounds and the like Divisions of the Skin and Diseases Blood flows but little from the skin when that is only divided without other hurt When a Vein is opened it leaps out abundantly and this will weaken the strength if immoderate As also when there is no need and when it is done rashly and from an evil Custom by which means many have grown weak and old before their time In the opening of an Artery the Blood being hot leaps by starts and if it continue it brings weakness and worse accidents As it hapned in the opening of an Aneurism there was a total loss of blood and strength which causeth Death We have feen in the Feet a Vein open of it self as in Phlebotomy and it hath flowed in great quantity into the Shoes be for Notice hath been taken thereof And we have seen the same in the crooked Veins of the Thighs And some say that it hath been so in the Face Arms Breast and under the Ribbs from whence if it should come at night and not be discovered it would be as dangerous as bleeding over much from opening of a Vein by Art This is rare in Men but usual in Horses when they are very hot but it doth no harm When I was at School I saw my School-fellow that sat next me bleed at the small Vein in the tip of his Nose very much and often and it opened of it self and this came from the heat of his Body by violent Exercise Somtimes the Blood flows more or less from the Habit of the Body in Wounds and Amputations and it is so great somtimes that it causeth great weakness except it be stopped Somtimes Blood flows from the internal Cavities of the Belly Breast Head c. In wounds there or falls into the Cavities And if this be immoderate it weakneth and if it be contained in the Cavities it grows together and putrifies and brings greater Symptoms then those that come from a Wound The Causes The Causes of all these Kinds of Bleeding from divers Parts of the Body is either from the Solution of Continuity by opening of the Mouths of the Veins or the solution of Continuity from the Hurt done to some Veins or parts underneath Some comes from the opening of the Mouths of the veins according to their diversity The opening of the mouths of the Veins or Anastomosis in the Ears nose neck of the womb strait gut or skin is the Cause of bleeding in those Parts The inward Veins of the Ears opened by Anastomosis somtimes bleed much and this comes from the plenty or the thinness of the blood in the head but seldom for then Nature would rather send it forth by the Veins of the Nose except it flow both wayes as we shewed The inward Veins
belly they break out violently in great quantity and with great weakness and danger of life Or if the purging after Birth be too great especially after Abortion which is no less dangerous That Flux which women have in age when their Courses have lest them is preternatural and cannot continue without harm must be also stopped and the rather if it be large often and of long Continuance That bleeding which comes from external violence especially from Copulation if it be at the loss of Maiden-head because it is not much and hurts not and is a good sign is not regarded especially if the Terms come the sooner for it But if it be great and from some great hurt either at the first or other Copulations it must be stopped That bleeding which comes from the tearing of the neck of the Bladder in a woman when a Stone is taken out requires no other Cure but that of other wounds The Cure of all Bleedings at the Womb is by Evacuation of blood and turning it from the womb with things that make it more pure thicker and less flowing and stop the places by which it is carried thither Or that act by a hidden Property you must proceed according to the cause with some of these as considering whether it came by violent use of hot and sharp Meats the violent Motions of Body or Mind Blood-letting is good to prevent it in those that are subject to it if it be in the Arm and in women with Child if they formerly had the same in Child-birth for it hath bin so often used to the same woman being full of blood and hath not taken the Nourishment from the Child as some suppose In the time of the Flux to drive it back it is good to open a Vein in the Arm or Hand or other place above not below for in the Foot it provokes the Terms And you must take a little at a time and by degrees for much will weaken Great Cupping-glasses or many little ones are applied under the breasts to draw up the blood because the Veins there and of the womb consent And they may also be applied to the right side and to the shoulders Frictions of the extream parts are here also good If water in the blood causeth it to be fluid you must sweat often in dry baths before the flux to prevent but in the flux it will heat and move the Humors and do more hurt then good If there be Water and Choler in the blood which causeth the flux you must purge them away But this is better to prevent before the flux comes from them you may use the stronger Medicines which you cannot well do in the flux because it would more weaken and inflame the body and by moving it increase the Flux And then if the belly be bound use gentle Lenitives that leave an Astriction as Rhubarb Myrobalans and the like mentioned in Dysenteries And this Potion Take Tamarinds and stoned Prunes each six drams yellow Myrobalans half an ounce boyl them in Water and the third part Wine and when it is strained infuse half a dram of Rhubarb of Spikenard one scruple strain them and add Syrup of red Roses dryed one ounce give it at once It will work better with a little Senna and not stir up Nature much because the Juyce being taken out by Decoction is very like the Juyce of Rhubarb and of Saffron Colour by which we gather that it doth not differ in strength And because it is used as Rhubarb in many diseases from Choler Or this Take yellow Myrobalans poudered two drams infuse them in red Wine with one scruple of Spike strain them add Syrup of Roses solutive one ounce Rhubarb finely poudered two scruples or a dram give it at one dose Half an ounce of Tryphera Persica taken doth the same because it hath many astringents and things that allay the heat of the blood It is not safe to give other hot and sharp Compositions which have Scammony or Agarick or Turbith in a great flux because by pricking they force the Terms We give things that alter which thicken the blood and allay its heat and bind the Passages and stop it Many whereof have been mentioned in the Bleeding at the Nose and Spitting blood which are good here but these are chiefest that follow Let them eat things that breed thick blood of Flower of Bread-corns and Pot-herbs of glutinating flesh and green Cheese to which they add sour Milk and Eggs and the like mentioned in immoderate Pissing Let them use astringent Fruits crude or boyled or divers Sauces made hereof as Quinces Pears Services Cornel-berries Medlars Mul-berries Black-berries Sloes Straw-berries Currance Myrtles Of Pot-herbs Purslane Lettice Endive Succory Sorrel Plantane boyled in broath or raw in Sallets to which you may add other plants mentioned in the Decoction which tast less like Physick Let him drink Decoctions often and if they must be kept boyl them to Syrups The best ordinary Syrups are of Myrtles and red Roses dryed Or this Decoction Take Comfrey roots one ounce Plantane with the Roots Shepheards-purse Yarrow each one handful red Rose flowers one pugil Pomegranate flowers two drams Myrtle and Plantane seeds each one dram boyl them in Rain-water add to the straining as much Sugar as will make a Potion for three doses or boyl it to a Syrup with Sugar Decoctions may be made of divers others mentioned in Bleeding at the Nose as of Herbs for the vulnerary or wound-drink of Winter-green Agrimony Horse-tayl Sanicle wild Tansey Moufear Comfrey Solomons-seal Straw-berries Bears-ear Sumach Shepherds rod Lungwort Blood-wort Burnet Sorrel Purslane Moon-wort wild Basil Mints Arsmart Phoenice Rock-Comfrey flower Leaves and Roots Myrtle leaves Mastick leaves Olive leaves Oak leaves Brambles also Roots of Avens Ras-berries Water-lillies Sulphur-wort Sanders Brasil Lote-tree Olive-tree Pomegranate-peels Roses Grapes The Indian Milium-flower gentle Some Juyces are given either crude or boyled to a syrup as those of sour Fruits Quinces Pomegranates Currance Bar-berries These Juyces with Sugar may be set in the Sun and so they will have a tast and scent like wine These Juyces are made into Lozenges with Sugar and are very delicate with Rose and Plantane water and the like And instead of these you may use other sour Juyces as of Citrons c. You may likewise use the Juyce of some plants by themselves or boyled as of Plantane Sorrel Purslane made into Syrups and of Shepheards-purse and Yarrow and as Dioscorides teacheth the Juyce of Water-bettony and Goats-beard and Arsmart Waters simple or mixed are of Plantane red Roses Shepheards-purse Purslane Sorrel and the like abovesaid Some approve the water of Snails and that wherein Iron is quenched Mucilaginous or slimy things also as whites of Eggs Mucilage of Quince-seeds Gum Traganth c. The old Conserve of Roses and Tablets of Pouder of red Roses with Sugar candied or conserved Comfrey-roots also the Conserve of Peach-flowers or others of Sorrel or of the Plants
their poysonous and adverse quality at set times as the nature of the poyson is by soliciting the membranes and nervous kind do cause that long continued Epilepsie and almost incurable Yet the nature of which cause as also of other poysons we can no otherwise know then as by dissection made somtimes a Speck is discovered somtimes some humor black or froathy in some inward part of the Skul or bone or membrane or brain but somtimes nothing at all but that 't is a poysenous faculty we collect from this because it is not with a manifest cause or of such moment nevertheless produces such horrid symptomes and yet in the interim doth not kil the man nor yeilds to no Remedies And also this poysonous cause lying in the bowels produceth the like long continued and peâ—inacious Epilepsies as poysons taken in the Stomach and Guts which have some propriety of begetting an Epilepsie or meat changed into the nature of poyson or excrements putting on a venenate quality conteined in those places or also in the Womb as they would have it Of all which that these are the causes and do lie in the veins is judged and known from the affects concurring with them as hath been said or from others offering themselves about the heart strings and the veins and from the faults of the womb and stomach The Veins also if they be filled with malignant and venenate humors of this kind as it often happens in pernicious diseases especially in the pestiferous epidemical and contagious and that malignant vertue do besiege not only the heart but especially the nervous kind then deadly Convulsions do follow such as are wont to happen in Fevers not by reason of too much extinction of the Nerves from vehement heat but by reason of the malignant nature of the humor or also if without these diseases a humor heaped up in the veins changed into a malignant quality do put on that nature inimicous to the brain and Nerves that induceth rather epileptical accidents than others as in melancholy that such a poysonous quality is there also wont to cause the true melancholy and madness we shal shew in the alienation of the mind then I suppose that long continued and incurable Epilepsie doth chiefly proceed from this cause as also a poysonous cause raised from the same place doth cause that madness that lasts so long the which also for the like reason 't is probable doth happen in the mesaraick veins such matter being collected there which do produce rather an Epilepsie than hypochondriack melancholly where also many do write that a Catalepsis is conteined to wit a melancholly humor which we moreover hold to be malignant from whence vapors raised up do cause it And the manner of curing a Catalepsis they apply to this place and humor as we shall by and by shew And also in Women such matter is wont more commonly to be heaped up about the veins of the Womb where also the blood reteined and corrupted rather than the seed which we think can scarce come to that malignity doth cause Convulsion such as are often wont to happen in Virgins and Women that are hysterical their courses being stopt before and after their childing and it may also give an occasion for a Catalepsis That the like quality may arise in the habit of the body and cause an Epilepsie experience witnesseth with which Galen and Fernelius being instructed they write that they have observed the one that an Air in an Epileptick Child ascending from his Foot the other that a Vapor running from the Crown through the outward parts of the head did give occasion of the Epileptical fits as often as they came and we also have somtimes observed that an Air running from the hand where afterwards an Imposthume hath bred as also from the feet other or places hath done the like That the like poyson entring the body from without doth occasion Epilepsies for the like reason as in other Countries the bitings of virulent Beasts especially of the Viper and stinging of the Scorpion do shew so in our Countries 't is manifest that it doth happen from the biting of a mad Dog and besides the symptomes of madness and other cruel ones they are endangered by Convulsions and at length by many fits the Patients are carried away 'T is not yet sufficiently manifest whether there be any things found out which can produce an Epilepsie anew only by their malignant smel yet that epileptical fits are furthered by the smel of some things is certain which do it either by a certain propriety of which are reckoned the ashes of an Asses hoof Goats horn Weathers feet burnt also the smel of Bitumen Myrrhe Smallage and also the breathings of the Goats flesh or the Liver of the Hee-Goat and so much the more if they be eaten or because by a vehement and subtile vapor they assail the head and the nerves made weak by the continuance of this disease as also Wine which besides this doth easily alof its own nature trouble the Nerves they occasion Epileptical fits The Cure In these kind of cases proceeding from the brain all the operation of the Physitian which consists in prediction and Cure must be applied to the Cause nor neglecting in the mean time that symptome which is most urgent If therfore from a simple distemper cold and moist imprinted on the brain as we have said in old folks might happen by reason of their age The Cure of sleep and stupididity from a cold distemper or from a disease of long continuance they become sleepy or stupid yet are not altogether sick as that is hardly corrected so this fault is hardly taken away yet this distemper may be somewhat mended as was said in a weakness of the mind generated from the like causes by the same altering medicines and nourishments both taken and applied As also if the stupidity happen from a cold and dry distemper those things wil serve which are spoken of there in mending of the same distemper but if a stupidity follow the brain actually cooled by the external air or wind it wil be amended by applying of skins and feathers and other things actually hot also by suffumigations which because they serve also in a flegmatick cause they shall there be explained more fully But if a heavy sleep be from flegm or an afflux of a cold humor or from the excrements of the brain as was said The Cure of a Carus and Apoplexy from flegm although the common people despair of them which they judg not opprest with sleep but toucht with an appoplexy and indeed they are not free from danger yet the hopes of Cure is not to be cast off whenas many of them are cured unless some grievous accident supervene as a Convulsion and the humor putrefying an accute Feaver as shal be said do accompany it as in a Lethargie which in old folks is deadly though I have seen also after some
ounce Diaphaenicon half an ounce Diacarthamum Diasena of each two drams with Syrup of French Lavender and Hysop Make an Electuary for your use beginning from two drams Or in form of Pils Take the speacies of simple Hiera half an ounce Agarick two drams Rhubarb one dram and an half black Hellebore one dram Trochisks of Alhandal two scruples Lazulus stone prepared one dram the pulp of Piony seeds Arabian Saechas of each one dram Castor six grains Salt Gem one scruple with syrup of Hysop Make a Mass Let him begin with half a dram In the Gentler called the Childrens Epilepsie we must use Purgers also but the gentlest because it is not safe to purge Infants or great bellied Women with stronger which seeing they are vehemently hot in those they would too much inflame the body and in these they would expell the Child Therefore the Gentler of the aforementioned may be made use of or if they be Infants stil because they refuse ingrateful and bitter things we may give sweet things as Manna or Cassia with Sugar or give Milk in which Roses Violets Senna and the like have been boyled but if they suck stil let the Nurse also be gently purged that the Milk which they Suck may be less excrementitious To others give of this Confection of Raisons which is thus prepared convenient for this case Take of the Leaves of Senna one ounce Agarick Peony roots of each half an ounce Hysop leaves two drams infuse them in water and boyl them a little strain it then put to it one quarter and an half of Raisons boyl them again and strain it and boyl it to the consistence of Honey give first one drammaking tryal according to the age A Pouder also may be given which is thus Take of Tartar two drams Diagridium half a scruple Anise one scruple of Peony root half a dram Sugar six drams give half a dram But especially if the Epilepsie do arise from Worms those things must be made choice of which besides that they do purge may also kil VVorms of which sort are Aloe Rhubarb and we must mix with them those things which resist putrefaction as are the juyces and seed of Citrons Lemmons Harts-horn and Corals and those things which resist an Epilepsie as the root and seed of Peony Missleto of the Oak and the like and they are given in the form of Pils or Pouders or Lozenges Pills are very convenient by reason of the Aloes if they can swallow them such as these are Take of Aloes Rhubarb each one dram Wormseed Coralline the pulp Peony seed of each half a dram Diagridium six grains mix them up with Syrup of Lemmons make little Pils let him swallow them For the most part they are more pleased with Lozenges which may be made thus Take of Rhubarb one dram and an half VVormseed half a dram the pulp of Citron and Peony seed the shavings of Harâ—â— horn Ivory of each one scruple Coral two scruples Missleto of the Oak one scruple Diagridium half a scruple Sugar dissolved in Purslane water adding the juyce of Lemmons or a little Vinegar to one ounce and an half make Lozenges let him take for one dose one dram But in the worser Convulsion which casts down the strength already weakned by the cruelty of the Disease which it follows or whose cause hath a sudden progress from things external to enervate the body with Purgers is either superfluous or dangerous yet if it happen after pains of the Collick from the same humor not yet or not sufficiently purged forth then with one and the same labor by purging we shal provide against the Colick pains and Convulsions arising from thence amongst which Clysters for the most part performing both are commended above the rest although the common people do evilly think that by use of them the Convulsions and Palsies do happen which are wont to follow those Colick passions the which also being used in other evil Convulsions in which otherwise we ought not to use Purgers they are to be preferd before all other forms of Purging because they revell and in the interim do not too much offend nature Amongst the kinds of Evacuations which are made by the Mouth and Nose a Vomit wil help them when the Epilepsie hath its rise or increase from things taken or other repletions of the Stomach which also in the Fit it self being caused by thrusting down a Feather into the Throat or by other means doth make the Fit shorter if Vomiting do follow The which also may be done by Sneezing caused at the same time the which as it doth somtimes go before the falling in an Epilepsie so somtimes it ends it the which is commodiously moved in this case by blowing up of Pellitory of Spain into the Nostrils or with this following pouder Take of the roots of white Hollebore half a scruple Pellitory of Spain Pepper of each one scruple Peony root Freneh Lavender flowers of each half a scruple make a sneezing pouder Errhines put up into the Nose wil do the same such a one as this may be Take of the juyces of Rue Sows-bread of each two drams the juyce of Peony one dram Castor Gall of each half a dram Honey one dram make it like a Liniment for the Nostrils Errhines also when the Patient is out of his Fit being used by course will yeild some benefit if the head be stuft with flegm As also Spitting upon the same account caused much in a morning is convenient which as Dioscorides teacheth is here profitably moved by chawing of Pepper or by other Apophlegmatisms as masticating the following forms Take of Mastick half an ounce Roots of Pellitory of Spain three drams Cubebs Mustard seed of each one dram Root of Peony Nutmeg of each half a dram Make a Pouder mix them with Wax and make Masticatories They very much commend the root of Acorus candied and chawed a good while The Courses promoted through the Womb in the Faeminine sex both by those things which are given by the mouth and those that are put up into the orifice of the Womb and applied to the Region of that if the cause of the evil do lie in the blood retained there they do oftentimes cure an Epilepsie Amongst those things which do it these Pills are very profitable Take of Agarick trochiscate Aloes of each one dram Rhubarb one dram and an half Myrrh half a dram Castor one scruple the pulp of Peony seed half a scruple with the juyce of a Leek make Pills let him take from half a dram to a dram at midnight Also such a Pessary put up doth powerfully move the Courses Take of the root of Orice the seed of Gith of each one dram Electuarium half a scruple or Coloquintida one sâ—â—uple Castor half a scruple mix them with Honey the which let them be boyled to a convenient thickness with some part of juyce of Sows-bread or Mercury and make Pessaries To move the Haemorrhoids by
Brain being long and much smitten an Apoplexy which evils these Symptoms of Suffocations invading oftentimes by fits are wont to foregoe and foretel But that such like Vapors are for the most part raised up from the Veins as from crude impure bad and Malignant blood yet not putrefied otherwise a Feaver would be caused hath been shown in a Madness and an Epilepsie for as there diversly here and there in the Body such vapors being raised from blood collected in the branches of the Vena Porta and Cava molesting the Brain do produce the forementioned accidents so also in the lower Belly cheifly being collected as in a sink of Excrementitious blood and abundantly in great plenty flying upwards to the Midrif and molesting that either they create Suffocation only or other discommodities moreover But from the Mesaraick Veins especially the greater dispersed every where about the Heart to the Bowels Vapors from the Mesaraick Veins affecting the Midrif the Cause of a Night-Mare and in which by reason of the many Excrements of the first Concoction impure blood is easily collected such like Vapors somtimes arising and stopping about the Midrif they produce a Suffocation which they call the night Mare which invades rather in the night then when Concoction ought to be made because at that time the evil Vapors collected therefore the most part are wont by the accession of Crudities to be increased and moved and to be carried upwards and by reason of lying down to torment the more Whence in their Dreams feeling these streits they Dream of divers causes whence they proceed and being often raised up if the Mind moreover be somwhat affected with them they remain in the same perswasion and though they being raised and set upright the Vapors being then discust the evil ceaseth yet often returning if the Fewel of the evil remains at last it threatens and brings more grievous accidents to the Brain as hath been said The cause of which evil certainly depends upon an ill course of Diet and that a long time continued as in other affects sprung also from Vapors there especially in Hypochondriacal Melancholly and Intermitting Feavers as hath been shown in them This is therefore an accustomary affect to Children and those of ripe Age who do sooner and longer offend in their Dyet In the Female sex this more commonly proceeds from the Veins of the Womb Vapors from the Veins of the Womb affecting the Midrif are the cause of the Suffocation of the Womb. in the strangulation of the Womb therefore so called which when being derived from the branches of the Vena Cava and many of them and great ones do creep along the Womb and its Membranes if the filth of the blood doth stop in them which from the whol Mass of it is wont to be purged thither in impure Bodies that at the set time it may be emptied by the Courses Which is wont to come to pass more commonly in the unmarried by a stoppage of the Courses not so easily in the married by reason of Copulation and the Vapors from thence assail the Midrif they produce divers kinds of Suffocations of the Womb as they prejudice the Midrif and the neighboring parts or those that consent with it and as the plenty and nature of those Vapors is diverse For if it hurt only the Midrif either it breeds only a Dyspnaea if the plenty or offense be less or if it be greater it breed only an Agony of Suffocation but if that it also brings hurt to the Stomach that is continued to the Midrif then with a Dyspnaea and Compression of the orifice of the Stomach which they call the heart Nauseousness Vomiting a Vertigo and pain of the Head being caused by consent the Hysterical accidents do shew themselves Which passions are wont to happen in great bellied Women at the first Month the young one being not yet increased nor able to consume the blood that is retained especially if it be impure from which also they take a sign that they are with Child Hysterical Women are far more grievously affected if these Vapors especially the Poysenous being communicated to the Heart too by reason of its communion as it hath been said do also bring dammage In which species the Motion of the Heart wholly ceasing all breathing also ceaseth and as it were seazed on by a Syncope the Virgins fall by degrees to the ground and are held in that fit some a short time others the space of an hour before they come to themselves But at other times the Midrif by reason of the consent which it hath with the Brain as hath been said or both together affected with these Vapors with the said strangulation of the Womb that called the Madness of the Womb or Convulsive Motions and other hurts of the Brain offended do manifest themselves All which also may be varied not only by reason of the parts affected but also if a Poysenous cause be joyned according to the divers Nature of the Poyson by which they are wont chiefly to beset this or that part as we have expounded in other diseases of the Womb that vitious blood breathing forth such like Vapors is generated from divers causes and collected about the Womb. Amongst which they have beleeved that the seed retained and corrupted is not the least cause in Virgins with whom this affect is familiar the which yet can scarce be as long as it is contained in its proper Vessels and if poured out of them it be retained it rather produces an Erosion of that part then such accidents as we shall explain elsewhere Winds filling the Capacity of the Belly because they distend that Wind hindering the Midrif is the cause of a Dyspnaea as also the Midrif which shuts up the upper parts of it they cause a Dyspnaea which also the puffings up with Wind of the Stomach and Cholick Gut that lies under the Stomach do effect by reason of the neerness and Adherency with the Midrif and they know that they proceed from thence by the murmuring and distension of that place but that they write that they would no waies have a Night-Mare to be caused by the same Winds or thick Vapors the far more grievous evils which do then fall out and follow from thence do sufficiently declare A watery Humor also distending the Belly and drawing a sunder the lower Ribs of the Breast A Humor possesssing the Midrif is the cause of a Dyspnaea extending the Midrif doth breed a difficulty of breathing in an ascites Dropsie as shall be declared in a Dropsie But the Humor which is collected in the Cavity of the Breast doth cause a Dyspnaea rather by hindering the Lungs then the Breast as we shall shew in the Lungs The Bowels lying under the Midrif and growing to it The Bowels hindring the Midrif are the cause of a Dyspnaea or hanging by it if they acquire too great a bulk drawing down the Midrif with
Feet upon the ground And if the Secundine be retained or the Child come not let her stamp strongly that she may be delivered as Hippocrates shews of the Tire-woman Also pressing of the belly will help the throws with both Thumbs below the Navil and the Hands upon the sides by a strong woman And the same is good to bring forth the Secundine after delivery Also Neesing causeth strong though short straining by attracting of the Muscles of the Belly especially if the Mouth be a little stopped and the Nose Let the Midwise take half of the Child when it first begins to appear and draw it gently forth by degrees pressing the upper part of the Belly But if it lie deep and be turned let her put in her Fingers or Hand being anoynted and place it right with the Head downward and gather the Limbs together If these succeed not and the Midwise perceive the Child dead let a Chyrurgion enlarge the Orifice with a Speculum Matricis And if so it cannot be taken forth let him pul it out with Instruments or cut it out by pieces When all hope is gone some do so and keep the Mother alive The bladders that appear in the Belly as I shewed when a Child is rotten through which the Child may be seen of which I am an Eye witness gave occasion I suppose to this way which none attempt while the Child is alive except both be desperate It is more safe and honorable when the Mother is dead and the Child alive to cut it out by opening the Belly by which means many have been preserved and Caesar was so called because he was cut out of his Mothers Womb and thence this birth is called Caesarian Also we dilate the Privities to let out the Child with an Incision Knife But it is dangerous to open the Orifice of the Neck of the Womb by Incision And it may be unprofitable because it hath the same largness with the passage There are also things given to open and stir up the faculties which provoke Terms and expel the birth the weakest first after stronger and then strongest which may hurt the Child when dead or when the Secundine is retained The stilled water of Savin Mugwort Mullein Orris white Lillies and Chamomil And these boyled in Wine Pennyroyal Mugwort Savin Beans Wall-flowers Or this Decoction Take Dittany half an ounce Birthwort Madder Cassia barks of each two drams Mugwort Pennyroyal Savin of each one handful Lavender Chamomil Wall-flowers of each one pugil Cinnamon three drams Saffron one dram Boyl them in white Wine This is stronget Take Birthwort Sowbread of each one dram Savin Tamarisk of each two drams Boyl them in wine drink it at once or twice These juyces are good of which you may make this Electuary to be given in Travail Take roots of Elicampane Comfrey Marsh-mallows of each three ounces five leaved Grass Bittony Hysop of each one handful bruise them and clarifie the juyce with Sugar and with Cinnamon make an Electuary Let her take two spoonfuls thrice in a day in the morning before supper and at bed time Or give juyce of Savin Mugwort and Leeks and of Sowbread alone or with wine Let these Pouders be given with wine or waters mentioned or with Sugar made into Lozenges Take the bark of Cassia Fistula white Dittany roots of each one dram Cinnamon half a dram Saffron one scruple Or thus Take Lavender seeds half a dram Plantane and Endive seeds of each two scruples Cinnamon Pepper of each one scruple Saffron half a scruple The yellow tops of the Chives of white Lillies are good to be drunk the Italians steep them in Oyl in the Sun and drink that One dram of Amber is good when there is a Flux of blood from the retention of the Secundine to stop one and expel the other Or this Pouder Take Pouder of Date stones and Harts-horn Canes of Cassia of each one dram Peach kernels one ounce Cinnamon two drams Sugar one ounce Let her take two or three spoonfuls and drink convenient water afterwards This is stronger Take Borax one dram or four scruples Cinnamon Crocus of each one scruple Ginger half a scruple give it with Cinnamon water or Sack or with Confection Alkermes in a Bolus in the greatest weakness Another Take Borax Myrrh Birthwort of each half a dram Saffron Pepper of each one scruple Mak a Pouder These are good to expel a dead Child and the Secundine Chymical Oyl of Amber Camphur Savin anoynt the Navil with a little and give four drops in white wine Some commend a Medicine made of the wrappings of the Child Let the Midwife dry the Navil string and Vreter in a Oven and to two drams of the Pouder add Cinnamon and Pepper of each half a dram Saffron half a scruple and with juyce of Savin make Troches give two drams in Pouder alone or with other Pouders Rondeletius teacheth that the Secundine so burnt and given cureth the after pains Also one dram or one and an half of the Troches of Myrrh or Gallia Moschata are given with Sage Wine or made into Pills These Pills of bitter and stinking ingredients are very efficacious Take Galbanum and Mirrh of each one dram round Birthwort Dittany and Gentian of each half a dram Castor and Assa Faetida and Saffron of each one scruple with juyce of Savin make Pills give from half a dram to a dram Cassia and Tryphera loosen the Belly and cause easie deliverance thereby And purges that are sharp stirre up the expulsive faculty of the womb also therefore to avoid Abortion we give no strong purges There are divers Restauratives to preserve strength which are useful in the throws and to refresh them for Labor both for Diet and Medicine Confection Alkermes is Cordial and stirs up the faculty It is given with wine and Borax Or Take the Ponder of Diamargariton Calidum and Diamoschu of each half a dram give it with wine or water or make Lozenges thereof Fumigations and sents below peirce into the womb and are good if made of very stinking things let them be directed into the womb by a Funnel Of sweet scents Take Labdanum one dram Storax half a dram Musk and Amber grease of each half a scruple Sugar a dram Make a Pouder or Troches to be laid upon Embers Anoynt the Orifice of the Neck of the womb with Oyl of Spike or put it in with bread Also the fume of Amber or Horse or Asse hoofs is good Or Take the Pouder of an Asses hoofe and mix it with Horse grease and burn it Or Take Galbanum Myrrh Asphaltum of each half a dram Castor one scruple and with the Gall of an Oxâ— Make Troches burn them Dioscorides commends the fum of Brim-stone if the Child be dead The fume of the Decoction of Dittany and Mugwort doth the same Sweet scents are applied to the Nose to refresh nor may you fear the rising up of the Womb because it is otherwise as I
purged by the Hemorrhoids yet it is easie in those that are accustomed to them Obstruction of the Veins Obstruction of the bowels and elsewhere causeth the same causeth defect of natural bleeding chiefly in the great Vessels or those of the part by which blood should flow Because the natural distribution to parts that should void it is hindered As we may observe that cupping or bleeding hinders bleeding by revulsion and bleeding at the foot provokes Terms Hence is it that Cachectickes have not the Terms so much because they have impure blood but because of obstructions And when the Meseraicks are obstructed the Hemorrhoids flow not which causeth great Diseases by putrefaction as Feavers Melancholly Epilepsies which are not cured except the Hemorrhoids return If the obstruction be in the part by which they bleed the flux is stopped Obstruction of the parts that should bleed as the Veins of the Neck of the Womb stopped hinder the Terms the Veins of the Womb stopped hinder the after flux if of the Nose the like Either by thick blood or other humors Straitness of the Veins and of their orifices stoppeth blood Fat a Callus or scarre causeth stoppage of Terms as when fat grows too much in the Womb or a scar remains after an Ulcer or other hard Tumors A Tumor also causeth suppression of Hemorrhoids by which last the Veins in the Fundament may also be stopped Especially if they be swollen hard as shall be shewed in the blind painful Hemorrhoids The Womb also may be so naturally formed that the Veins may be wanting Evil Conformation Or Weakness causeth want of Terms or closed in such as never had Terms called Virago s. Although it be the common opinion that a cold distemper stops the Terms and therefore they take heed of Cold and cold Meats and impure it to eating of cold things Yet these parts cannot be so cooled that the Orifices of the Veins should be stopped except cold keep the blood from flowing freely Or comes after the native heat is weakned which weakneth the expulsive faculty and makes the terms flow less and more seldom The Cure In the Defect of terms keep this method of the rest we shal speak hereafter If it be when the woman is not fit for Children it is natural and not medled with The Cure of Terms suppressed You must not attempt til fourteen and when they are evil colored And if they stop after forty four they must not be recalled nor when the woman hath conceived or giveth suck although there be more blood than is needful and some have their terms somtimes then Nor at a time when they use not to flow except to prepare the Body but in that week wherin they used to flow must you givethings to provoke them especially if they be strong Or when there are signs of them as pain of the back and the like or have drops appear It is impossible to bring down the Courses in them which are from the Birth of a man-like constitution or have the Veins closed when they never had them and are barren If they cease for want of blood or fault thereof it is in vain to attempt their recovery in lean people but it is better to repair the blood by good diet And then they wil come of themselves If they have been turned another way and flow not at the Womb they must be brought thither again If foulness of blood or obstruction of the bowels cause it we must open them and clense the blood and give things that provoke the Terms And these are to be used in the stoppage of the Haemorrhoids when the foul blood remains in the meseraick Veins A hard Scirrhus or Callus in the neck of the womb if it hinder the Courses must be taken away And then if the Terms flow not they must be provoked If the Veins of the womb be so hidden with Fat that they cannot bleed it must be consumed by Fasting In other causes as thickness of humors and obstruction of the Veins of the womb or coldness we must proceed as followeth when we intend to move them Purges are good if they be stopped by reason of the foulness or impurity of the blood which though they provoke the expulsive faculty and cause dejection or going to stool yet because they also stir up and move the veins of the womb they so provoke the Terms also Wherefore when Courses flow to abate them and prevent them in Women with Child we dare not give Purges And in those that are stopt we often do more by purges that are mixed with things that provoke the Terms than with such things as only provoke them And these we proportion to the humor abounding whether it be Flegm Choler or Melancholy We first loosen the belly with Catholicon Hiera or the like Then we prepare the humor thus Take syrnp of Mugwort and the five roots of each one ounce and an half Oxymel simple one ounce water of Mugwort Motherwort each two ounces and an half water of Pennyroyal and Nepp each one ounce make a Julep for three or four doses sweetned with Cinnamon Or this Decoction Take the five opening roots steept in Wine each half an ounce roots of Madder and Eringus each six draws Valerian roots half an ounce Mugwort Pennyroyal Motherwort Balm Nepp Germander Chamaepytis or Groundpine Time each a handful Tops of Hops and red Pease each a pugil Bayberries half an ounce Anise and Fennel seeds each two drams Parsley and Dodder seed each one dram and an half Flowers of Rosemary Elder and of both Buglosses each a pugil roots of Polypody one ounce make a Decoction sweeten it with Sugar and Cinamon and give it several daies Then purge with this Potion Take of Catholicon six drams Agarick one dram the species of Benedicta Laxativa half a dram Saffron five grains make a Bolus with Sugar or drink it with Rosemary or Wormwood Wine Or thus in cholerick bodies Take Tryphera Persica six drams Rhubarb one dram Spike one scruple Electuary of the juyce of Roses one dram Syrup of Roses solutive one ounce with Bugloss and Fumitory water make a Potion Or this Decoction Take Liquorish one ounce Red Pease a pugil Mugwort a handful Annise and Fennel seed each two drams Cordial flowers a pugil Polypody roots Carthamus seed Senna of each half an ounce Epithymum two drams make a Decoction Infuse Agarick two drams strain it and add one ounce of syrup of Roses solutive for a Potion Or this Pouder Take Turbith four scruples Agarick two scruples Cinnamon Ginger of each half a dram salt Gem one scruple Saffron five grains Sugar two drams make a Pouder give it in white Wine which hath Mugwort infused or the like Or these Pills Take the species of Hiera and Benedicta Laxativa each half a dram Pil Faeridae one scruple or more according to the strength make Pils with white Wine It is good to purge with things
the least sweat It happeneth in many imperfected Crises of sharp Diseases The want of sweat which in time of sickness is necessary and in some lingring diseases that no sweat can be procured by Art or Nature which should expel the cause thereof and this is a defect of Sweat requisite in the time of Sickness The Causes As is the Serum or watry humor so is the Sweat and Urin The cause of want of Sweat is when the moisture decaieth or is turn'd another way for it causeth both and when there is little Urin there is little Sweat And when the Serum is not carried to the habit of the body but otherwaies as by much Urin Seege or the like then there is a defect of Sweat Wherefore in Diseases when Nature endeavors evacuation by sweat it is hindered by other passages Moreover it may happen by obstructions that the passage of the Serum may be so hindered that there may be great difficulty in Sweating and Pissing wherefore men in Dropsies piss little and sweat with difficulty though it be necessary for them Also the thickness and sliminess of the serum may hinder both Pissing and Swearing as in phlegmatick persons and in sharp Diseases there is no sweat til the humor is concocted and made thin therefore attenuating medicines do provoke Sweat as we shewed in the defect of Pissing The usual cause of want of Sweating is the not drawing of the Serum to the habit of the body The cause of want of Sweat is because the serum goes not to the habit of the body which is done by external heat which being abrent Nature cannot sweat without great Violence especially if the pores are astringed or stopt by cold external for only closing of the pores cannot hinder sweat except there be external cold The Cure If any want serum or natural moisture it is in vain to provoke them to sweat The Cure of want of Sweat also when it is plentiful and turned another way except it be against natures intention for if nature incline to sweat we must not use other evacuations but hinder them Also in Obstructions and crudities if we intend to evacuate by sweat they must first be opened and the matter prepared But if there be abundance of excrementitious moisture in the Veins and habit of the body we must use this evacuation for the preventing and curing of Diseases and it must be attenuated and concocted from its thickness and crudity and first we must remove external causes which may hinder sweat and then give Sudorificks or medicines to cause sweat such as follow Among Sudorisicks Sudorificks or medicines to cause Sweat some are such as cause sweat by a great quantity of Liquor taken in when there is external heat to further it hence it is that when we drink fasting and warm in bed in any quantity sweat wil follow And this is caused by cold drink as well as by hot for the entrals being suddenly cooled the heat external sooner draws the serum to it And this is soonest done by things that are piercing and sharp and these are called Sudorificks Among which distilled waters by reason of their thinness are the best as for example of hot herbs Cherfoyl and Carduus of cold plants Fumitory and Lemmons Many Decoctions are made for this purpose as of Guajacum Sarsaparilla China and other Woods Roots and Herbs boyld in much water Or Horstail or the lesser Polygonum or the like boyled in Wine This following is commended Take Millium or Pannicum hulled one pugil boyl it in Water to four ounces of the Water strained add two ounces of white Wine for one Draught this is called St. Ambrose his Syrup Or this Take Hysop and Marjoram boyl them in Chicken Broath and ad thereto two drams of the Emulsion of Hemp-seed This is excellent Take Nep and Citron seed each one dram and an half Water of Carduus and Sorrel each one ounce and an half or two ounces make an Emulsion add Syrup of Carduus or of Sorrel six drams of Roses two drams let it be given at bed-time some give the root of Asarabacca two darms in pouder in three ounces of Carduus water which is a good Sudorifick Treacle and other sleeping medicines are given dissolved to provoke Sweat for in a deep sleep Sweat doth easily come forth Also the juyce of Elder or Danewort given with distilled waters or in a Decoction doth the same Or Take Saffron one scruple Ginger half a dram give them in Pouder with Almond Milk Or Take one dram of Brimstone with the Yolk of an Egg. The Chymists give Salts Oyls and Spirits as Spirit of Vitriol with convenient Liquors Their Bezoardine Mineral Diaphoretick Sol and Luna Diaphoretick Antimony the Sulphur of Antimony Spirit of Tartar and the Treacle water of Crollius the secret of Carduus and the like All things that outwardly heat the body so that the blood may be carried thither and the serum with it and open the pores do cause Sweat And they may be greater or less as the humor aboundeth and the Constition requireth as follow As many Cloaths and Coverings Skins and Feathers Hot Air caused by the Sun or Fire which outwardly inflames the body Hot Water either natural or Artificial Oyntments for the Back and great Veins which gently heat with Oyl of Lillies Pellitory and the like Also Violent motion And the passions of the mind which inslame the spirits and humors as Anger Joy or such as shake the spirits produce Sweat as Terror Fear CHAP. XVI Of want of Milk The Kinds ALthough the natural excretion of Milk or giving Suck which ought to be from the Birth to the moderate growth of the Child is not so necessary that the defect thereof should prejudice the Woman for we see many Women which for preserving of their Breasts near give no suck and receive 〈◊〉 hurt thereby except it be through plethory or foulness or Inflammation of their Breasts for want of giving suck yet because it is an inconveniency to the Mother or Nurse and also to the Child which must be nourished with Milk it is called a Defect And it is divers Sucking hindred either when the sucking is hindred or cannot be or when there is want of Milk wholly Want of Milk or in part and this is called the want of Milk The Causes This Defect comes from want of Blood in the Veins of the Breasts Want of blood Foulness or thickness of blood is the cause of want of Milk which is the matter of which Milk is made And this comes from divers Causes as we shewed in the want of Courses chiefly in Women with Child who through squemishness eat little or that which is not nourishing from the Disease called Pica Or when they have too many of their courses after Child-bearing or when they flow in time of giving suck which they ought not to do especially violently and beyond their strength Or
in man or woman or with a mishapen one not fit for the work or if it be cut off or the head cut or if the stones are both taken out the Cure is impossible And Women that have the womb so closed that it can be opened by no Art without danger of life they are incurable Other defects in men and Women as Tumors Ulcers Wounds or Bruises stoppage of the passage of the Yard shal be spoken of in other Treatises But we shal here shew the Cure of the streightness of the passage in man and the largeness of the Hymen or Membrane in Women but if none of these appear and the Yard wil not stand nor seed be spent or if the Woman without or with little delight perform the act and these be in sound people there is some original fault which we perceive by what they have been from their youth And this is incurable Or when it comes from Incantation which is not our part to untie But when from Weakness Coldness or other Diseases which hindreth Seed or makes it unprofitable though long continuance may make difficulty yet in these cases chiefly we undertake the Cure We give things that cause seed and this as we said by its plenty and sharpness stirs up a desire to the Act and disposeth the members for it These are such as cause much blood which is the matter of which seed is made To these we add hot things which may make the blood hotter and by consequence the seed which will more stimulate or provoke and by its heat and thinness come sooner and in greater plenty to the Yard And when the serum is hereby inflamed and carried to the bladder it being neer to the seminal vessels promotes the cause as we have seen by the use of Spanish flies the Bladder hath been so inflamed that it hath been ulcerated and the Urin hath been much and bloody and the heat so sent to the parts adjacent that they have violently provoked Lust this sharpness of seed may be cured with Salts mixed with other things as I shal shew And we shal shew that it is our opinion that such medicines work by a manifest quality rather than by stretching the Yard with Wind as some say which cannot be besides their secret hidden quality which was observed by the first teachers of such things from the whiteness of the flesh fruits and roots resembling seed Or because taken from Lecherous Creatures Or from their shape resembling Stones as the Satyrions or plants called Dogs-stones or like a rough wrinkled Cod as Toad-stools or Mushrooms Many things are given for this especially at Supper or after at Bed-time if we expect the effect that night or if you wil have them successively to work in the morning Of meats they are best that nourish wel and cause much blood and they are chosen which are white and ful of marrow as Brains Stones especially of the most lecherous Beasts as of Cocks Quails Sparrows Foxes Also the flesh of the Castor because his Stones cannot be eaten by reason of their stink but they are thought to be Bladders and not Stones The flesh of Craw-fish Crabs Lobsters Oysters and other hard Fishes that have Gristles Cuttle-fish Polypus Milk Eggs Almonds Nuts Pine-nuts Pistachaes Chesnuts Beans Pease Rise Barley Hartichoaks Parsneps Rapes Scirroots and roots of Goars-beard and such as cause Milk cause Seed also also Onions Leeks Mushrooms also Rocket Coleworts Asparagus all these diversly dressed and eaten do the same especially if they be prepared and salted for Pepper stimulateth and provoketh Venery and we suppose that when such things are so eaten it comes rather from the Sawce than the Meat The usual meats to provoke Venery is the white Broath called in Dutch Beinwarm made of Wine Egs Sugar and Butter with which the Bride-groom restoreth himself in the morning Or that called Lebersuls made of Piggs Livers which helps Conception with Wine Spices and Saffron this according to Diascorides increaseth Venery and that which the Germans give at Weddings called Pseffer strong of Pepper and that congealed saffron'd Galren made of juyce of Flesh and Fishes wel spiced Divers Junkets are made of Sugar Honey and Spices given after Supper or at night at the Greeks Collation time called Epidorpismus As dried Confections of Kernels and Seeds with Sugar among which Rocket seed Pine and Pistacha Nuts are the chief Or March-pane as this Take Almonds and small Nuts each four ounces Pine and Pistacho Nuts each one ounce beat them Cinnamon half an ounce Pepper one dram Ginger Cloves Nutmegs Cardamoms the great each half a dram Rocket seed two drams and if you wil have it yellow Saffron or red Saunders and Sugar as much as is fit mix them and bake them in an Oven like Bread The Bread of Life called in High Dutch Lebfuchen wel spiced and honeyed was invented with the rest to provoke Venery Rocket Water-cresses and other sharp Herbs eaten at supper with Botargo or Honey after the Spanish fashion provoke much Strong sweet Wine wel spiced with Cinnamon and Pepper taken moderately heats and refresheth the body and makes it fit for the work but immoderately stupifies and makes unfit and sluggish There are divers pouders to be given with Wine Milk or the like or made up with Sugar in Tablers The first Take Pepper ten grains only bruised that it burn not the mouth let him drink it in Wine or Milk at bed-time The second Take Pepper half a dram Saffron half a scruple make a Pouder take it with any convenient Liquor The third Take Pepper one dram Nutmeg half a dram Salt one dram take it in a reat Egg. The fourth Take Pepper a dram Ginger Rocket seed and Leek seed each half a dram Sugar two drams take a dram The fifth Take Rocket seed two drams Ashen keys Burdock Line and Annise seed each a dram Parsnep Nepp Radish Onion Leek Mustard Nettle Water-cresses and Asparagus seeds each half a dram Pepper a dram and half Ginger Galangal Cloves Mace each half a dram Saffron a scruple Ivory shavings a dram pizle of a Deare or Bull the flesh of the Scincus each half a dram Sugar as much as all the rest Cinnamon two drams make a Pouder give two drams The sixth better than the rest Take Rocket seed half an ounce Parsnep Rape and Leek seed each a dram Watercress seeds and Pellitory roots each half a dram Pepper a dram Ginger Cinnamon of each half a dram Saffron a scruple spanish Flies without wings nine Boraxa dram Musk some grains Sugar an ounce make a fine Pouder give a spoonful at first in Warm Milk and more if it fail The seventh and strongest of all Take two spanish Flies the wings being taken off Cinnamon one scruple Sugar Candy one dram give it in Milk if it do not the feat take three the next time The Chymists highly commend the blood of Satyrion which Quercetan teacheth how to prepare Among Electuaries the
Diasatyrion of Nicolas one dram was invented for the same use also Confectio Anacardina which inflameth highly Another may be made thus Take Satyrion and Eryngus roots candied each one ounce Ginger candied Conserve of Acorus each half an ounce Pine and Pistacha Nuts each three drams the Kernels of Indian Nuts one dram Line seed and Ashen keys each two drams Roeket seed one dram and an half the Electuary of the three Peppers one dram the species of Diambra and Diamoschu each half a dram Cinnamon one dram of Stags or Buls pizle and Scincus of the Sea dried each half a dram for Women add the dried matrix of a Hare and an ounce of Sugar add Honey as much as is fit for an Electuary give two drams or more The nauseous Pils are thus made Take of Mouse-dung half a dram Rocket seed a dram Pepper half a dram spanish Flies the wings taken off five mix them with Turpentine give a dram You may make a Syrup to be kept til you have occasion thus Take the green roots of Eryngus Satyrion and Parsneps each two ounces roots of Pellitory and Dracunculus each half an onnce Rocket two handfuls Watercresses Hedg-mustard each one handful Rocket seed half an ounce Line seed Ash-keys Asparagus seed each two drams Anise seed which is thought to cause Milk half an ounce Dates five boyl them in white Wine and add to the strained Liquor Sugar Cinnamon and Pepper boyl them to a consistence or height give an ounce alone or with white Wine We have observed that gentle Purges corrected with hot Spices whether they work or not do vehemently provoke Venery so that before they work they cause erection as some have confessed to me who thought I had mistaken in my intention when I gave the Medicine Sweet scents provoke not only by refreshing but by heating and piercing as Amber-greece Musk Civet In men outward applications are best for the Yard and beneath by the heat whereof the blood may come to erect that part and that blood may come into the seminal vessels to make seed we anoynt the Stones Loyns and Privities and sometimes the soles of the Feet these are made of hot Attractives Of usual Oyls thus Take of Oyl of Pepper Euphorbium and Castor each equal parts Or thus Take Juyce of Rocket Watercresses Aqua vitae each an ounce Pellitory roots two drams Mustard seed one dram Euphorbium half a dram Line seed Oyl one ounce and half boyl and strain them Otherwise Take Oyl of Nutmegs by expression two drams Oyl of Spike two drams Oyl of Cloves half a scruple mix them for an Oyntment Without Oyls thus Take the Gall of a Bore or Hogg one dram Civet half a scruple Honey anoynt the Yard and parts adjacent if you add three or four spanish Flies it wil be better Oyl of Ants which have wings made by boyling of them in Sallet Oyl is excellent Also the Fat of a Hedg-hog A good Oyntment Take roots of Pellitory Pepper Ginger Mustard seed each one dram Euphorbium half a dram Castor one scruple dried Ants half a dram pouder them add Oyl of Spike and a little Wax make an Oyntment They say that if the right Toe be anoynted with Oyl of Spanish Flies it will provoke Venery which we cannot deny to be possible from the vertue we have declared in them for provoking bloody Urin of which we have experience These Oyntments in the Loyns and Privities of Women stir them up when dull But privately before Copulation let the man anoynt his Yard wit Civet or Gall of a Hen. The use of hot natural Baths is counted the best Remedy to restore heat in cold and decaied persons Also other Baths and Fomentations for the Feet and other parts being actually and potentially hot do the same As the Decoction of Flower-de-luce roots Nep Calamints Nettles Marjoram Rocket Hedg-mustard Lavender flowers and of Chamomil and the like It is good to wrap the Feet in soft furrs which by their gentle tickling stir up Women and effoeminate Persons to preserve the Heat and prevent Cold. Somtimes weakness is taken away by manual Operation in a Man when the Fore-skin is so strait that it will not uncover the Head of the Yard we stretch or divide it by cutting In women when the neck of the womb is too strait or covered with the skin called Hymen or with a Callus we open it with a thin Groat or Instrument made on purpose to cut both sides Other things belong to the Cure of Incantations as shaking of the Pillows pissing through the wedding-ring or the Axle-tree of the Plough or the changing of shifts before they go to the sport shiftings of the left Foot and the like these belong not to us Nor care we for Amulets to which much is attributed They say the ashes of a black Lizard carried in the left hand cause Erection and in the right hand hinder it Imagination and apprehension of former sport provoke Venery extreamly by remembrance beholding or hearing of things passed and much more touching Sweet affections as Joy advance Sorrow and grief hinder the Act This joy is brought by recreating the senses as the Sight the Hearing and the rest especially by Musick CHAP. XVIII Of Lust or Leehery The Kinds WE call that Lechery which is an immoderate inclination to Venery A Venerial Itch. and it is either continual or an often itching and lust which being unsatisfyed disturbeth and provokes people to sordid nasty actions except they have government This is somtimes in Males and Females but differeth in that men are sooner hot Women are longer cooling There is another kind which is far worse and preternatural Lustful fury called an insatiable frensie in lust which when it is excercised hath no allay but grows higher and is unsatisfied This is oftner in Women then Men as weakness is oftner in men then women As in foul and pocky women or the like which have the Priapismus or Frensie of the womb so called The History of impudent Semiramis and of other sheweth that some have been so and unsatisfied with innumerable men and this Disease occasioneth many to try unlawful things and to fal into great sins to appease lust And somtimes when the fury of the womb comes they desire Copulation with beasts as she of whom I spake in the treatise of Madness which desired the English Dogs to Lime her This is more seldom in men though some are so Lascivious Priapismus or immoderate erection that they can do it often in one night not naturally but by the pride of appearing strong and by provocations and forcing these have somtimes a venemous Gonorrhaea or running of the Reins This is called Priapismus Tentigo or Satyriasis from Satyrs painted with standing Yards And there is another Disease called by that name which we shall after mention The Causes All Causes of immoderate lust come either from much seed sharpness or motion which stir up Venery or from
naturally closed and after Conception closeth and openeth not but when there is a supertaetation or taking too much If the substance of the womb be too hard or want blood The cause of barrenness is the hardness and driness of the womb it is a great cause of want of Conception for a Woman is then fit to conceive when the womb which is thick and nervous and unfit for conception while it remaineth so becomes fleshy and soft by heat and affluxion of blood and as in salt Bitches we see their privities swollen so doth the Orisice in a Woman and the clift is larger to entertain the seed But if it continue in its natural condition or grow harder there can be no Conception because the Orifice wil not open and receive the seed And this is from the constitution and temper thereof from the original the substance thereof is too dry otherwise it is only in age and then but natural because they then cease to breed but if it be hard before old age it makes sound Women barren and so they remain This befalls them who by too much Lechery and the like have dried the Womb or them whose wombs are hard by a Tumor or after an Inflammation But if blood doth not moisten the womb When the substance of the womb is not moistened with blood it is barren which is required for the enlarging softning thereof and for the increase of the Infant either not at all or by suppression of the Courses or come not to the bottom of the womb by reason of the hardness thereof or streightness of the Veins or Obstructions it comes to pass that Viragoes or Women that never had Courses or that have them so much that they cannot be dispersed into the Veins for want of heat are barren And hence it is that they who have long abstained from the use of man or not conceived for other causes and made their womb without blood through want of exercise causing it to flow rather to the Veins of the neck of the womb to be purged by Courses by reason of discontinuance or want of practise when they grow old though they use a man they conceive not so easily as they who keep a constant moderate excercise from their youth The weakness of the womb is the cause why it is not fit for Conception Weakness of the Womb is the cause of barrenness for the functions thereof being hurt the chief whereof is the conceiving of seed it cannot attract or retain it This is from the birth or from coldness or other Diseases these are slow to Venery and subject to other Diseases of the womb The Cold and moist distemper besides the cold and dry is a hinderance of conception A moist distemper of the Womb is the cause of barrenness and this is usually lookt at in Cure as being the most usual This comes from moist excrements in the womb made from evil and crude nourishment which moisten and loosen the orifice or from too much Lechery in Whores which causeth slipperiness in the part This cannot be from a defluxion into the Womb beause there is no passage besides the body purgeth the excrements by the usual veins monthly But in both when it comes from defect in the blood the women that conceive not are of an evil habit and ill-colored The Cure If a Woman conceive not The Cure of defect of Conception which hath no defect of the Venereal act or in her Husband we must diligently search out the cause thus If it come from want of seed which is most the mans fault then let them seldom engender and use things to encrease seed as we shewed If from the crudeness of seed or foulness we we must cause good blood and strengthen the vessels that breed seed If it come from a fault of the Yard of the man which hath a hole in the wrong place the Fistula must be cut or first opened otherwise and after united together and healed up that the seed may come the right way If this be from the birth it is incurable If Barrenness be caused from the Wombs defect as when it is hard or the orifice closed with a Tumor or hurt by Child-bearing the Cure is desperate in women otherwise sound which have either never conceived or have been hurt at the time of Travail as in those who never have their Courses In others who want Conception from Weakness Moistness Coldness or excrements abounding in the womb which have their Courses disorderly or are troubled with the Whites or other such like there may be Cure First let her be purged observing her constitution Remedies to procure Conception and the humor abounding and whether shee have her Courses duly or the whites Generally thus Take Catholicon one ounce Syrup of Roses solutive two ounces with Burrage and Mugwort water make a Potion Then open a Vein if shee be plethorick Then give this preparative Take Syrup of Mugwort and Maidenhair each one ounce and an half Burrage Mugwort and Nep water each one ounce with a little Cinnamon make a Julep give it three mornings Or this Decoction Take the opening roots steept in Wine each half an ounce Eryngus roots one ounce roots of Elicampane Valerian and Masterwort each half an ounce Mugwort Motherwort Nep Pennyroyal Germander Ladies-mantle Marjoram of each one handful both Buglosses roots and Leaves Succory Endive Fumitory each one handful Wall-flowers Broom and Rosemary Burrage and red Pease each a pugil Anise and Fennel seed each a dram Parsley seed Siler montane and wild Parsnep seed each a dram beat boyl and clarifie and sweeten them with Cinnamon and Sugar make an Apozem for three doses or four or five or make a Wine of the Infusion of them If we wil have it purge when the body is foul we add Liquorish two ounces Asarum roots two drams Pot-Mercury one handful Raisons twenty pair Senna and Polypody each one ounce and an half Carthamus seeds bruised six drams give them boyled as formerly with Wine and Water Then purge with this Potion Take Rhubarb four scruples Cinamon one scruple Infuse them in Wine and Endive-water strain and dissolve therein the solutive Electuary of Citrons and Diaphenicon two drams syrup of Roses solutive two ounces make a Potion If Pills be taken Take Pills of Cochiae Agregative and sine quibus each a scruple mix them with white Wine into Pills After purging give a dram of Triphera magna without Opium in the morning We also keep the body loose with ordinary Pills or Electuaries before bathing or use of outward medicines as Take Catholicon two ounces Diaphenicon one ounce Cassia newly drawn two ounces Pulp of Sebestens one ounce syrup of Roses solutive one ounce and an half mix them take it with Pease broath or Wine or in a Bolus Usual Pills are either the former Or. Take the Aromatick pill called Alephangina and that of Agarick each one dram and an
Troches of Gallia and Alypta Moschata put one upon the Coales Or this not so pleasant Take Mastick Frankincense Storax Labdanum of each a dram Cloves Cinnamon Nutmegs Cypress nuts yellow Sanders of each half a dram Castor a scruple Make a Pouder sprinkle a little upon the Coales Things that are put into the womb are called Nascals and if they be far put in Pessaries they are to purge the womb from moisture after Purging and the Terms when the whites flow before bathing or at that time for two or three nights continuance or to make the Courses flow kindly a little before they appear Thus Take Mercury leaves green bruise them and put them in a silk bag anoynted with Batter If it be too sharp use Honey and yolks of Eggs. Or thus Take Pulvis Benedictus half an ounce Agarick three drams Gith seed one dram Goats-gall one dram and an half Pease flower one ounce with juyce of Mercury or Beets Make a Pessaty To heat and dispose the womb for Conception after bathing and Fumes when she is in bed let her use the following Remedies all night the three last nights of bathing Thus Take Triphera magna without Opium one ounce Mastick half an ounce Storax one dram the runnet of a Kid or Hare half an ounce Civet or Musk half a scruple make Pessaries in Bags Or thus Take Mastick half an ounce Frankincense three drams Ivory shavings one dram and an half Cypress nuts one dram Balm Nep Cloves Spicknard of each half a dram Civit or Musk half a scruple or one scruple of Castor with the Runnet of a Hare or Kid and three drams of Storax Make Pessaries In Viragoes whose womb is hard and dry it must be enlarged thus Take Goose and Hens grease Mucilage of Faenugreek made with Wine yolks of an Egg each half an ounce Rosin of the Larch tree Runnet of a Kid of each two drams Orris roots three drams Storax two drams Wax Musk and Castor Make Pessaries You must anoynt after bathing the Navil and Groins above the Privities Oyl Moschalinum is the best Or thus Take Oyl of Wall flowers of Nard Hens and Goose grease of each half an ounce Storax two drams Cloves Mutmegs Mace of each a dram wood Aloes Schaenanth of each half an ounce Gallia moschata one dram Wax as much as will make a Liniment This is best Take Oyl of Marjoram and Cloves by distillation of each a scruple Oyl of Nutmeg by expression one dram Civit and Musk some grains with Wax make a Liniment for the Navel and Womb some daies after bathing before she come to her Husband She must have a Plaster also to the Reins and Perinaeum to cause the womb to attract Seed and strengthen to retain it at the same time or when bathing Fumes Oyntments and Pessaries are over and she begins again to go to her Husband using it continually or at least every night to the last week wherein she expects her Courses As this Take the Plaster for the Womb one ounce Gallia moschata one dram Storax one dram and an half Cloves one dram Mastick two drams with Oyl Moscheline Make a Plaster If the Terms be stopt a month or two and we fear she is sped with Child you must rest and expect a week or two and let her be quiet and except they return let the Plaster following be applied to the parts aforesaid to keep Conception and prevent Abortion and she must keep it on every night Take Emplaster of Mastick an ounce Snakeweed roots three drams Cyprussnuts Hypocystis of each two drams red Sanders red Roses Cloves of each a dram with Oyl of Mastick Make a Plaster Decent Copulation is very necessary for Conception and it must be when both Male and Female have a vehement desire and it is better when desired from long want of enjoyments then from provocatives And this is the cause why men returning from Travail and Women from bathing or abstinence from Venery do sooner procreate Then it must be ordered that both seeds may meet at the time and not be presently parted And when the Woman thinks she hath her due let her abstain til the Child be grown to the Womb and well confirmed If they go to it a day or two after the Courses then there is hopes of Conception somthink the best time to hit is when they have their Terms But we think it may be done at any time while the Womb is hot as was shewed There are some that teach divers filthy postures to cause Conception and which is worse paint them forth If a man afore Copulation anoynt his Yard with Civet in regard the Womb is delighted with the scent thereof some think the Seed will be sooner received They report that the smel of Civet Amber greese Musk in baths or Cloves or Pillows especially at night maketh Women apt to Conception That a Male may be conceived The Reason of getting Males or Females rather then a Female some think it may be by their using both a hotter and dryer Diet then ordinary that Males are gotten which are of the hottest Nature Others say that if a man before Copulation eate the Matrix of a Hare and the woman take the Stones dryed and Poudered in white wine a Male will be begotten Or if the man anoynt his Yard with Goose grease and Turpentine three daies before Copulation Some think that of the Seed of the right stone the Males are begotten and the Females of the Seed of the left And that by binding this or that stone at the time of Copulation a Male or Female may be begotten These follow Aristotle who adviseth this to be done to Cattle But this is fals as may be seen in those that are Gelt of one stone and yet beget both Sexes as we shewed Also reason teacheth that except the binding be so straight that the Seed Vessels be intercepted the passage of Seed cannot be hinder'd And if that be done the man cannot be without great pain and so will have little mind to the sport I 'le warrant you Others thinks that Males are begot in the right side and Females in the left side of the womb and therefore advise women to turn on the right side after Copulation Others Superstitiously bind the right Foot with a white rowler of a Boyes and the left Foot with a black THE SECOND TOME IN ONE BOOK Which is the THIRD OF THE Whole Work Of Dolors or Griefs or Pains BY Dolor we understand here every Molestation or trouble of the five Senses of which sick people complain more then of the hurt of any Function which is joyned therewith we therefore shall not speak in this Book of Pain or Dolor as it is in the sense of Feeling but as it is in all the Senses These Dolors are distinguished in respect of the senses wherein they are for all the senses may be offended but divers waies For the four senses in the Face and the fifth which is
vitae And therefore we commend the golden spirit of Life with Camphire above mentioned for the Cure of the plague Treacle also and Mithridate and other Antidotes as the Electuary of the Egg may be added before you stil and then they are Treacle waters Thus Take the best Treacle five ounces Mirrh an ounce and an half Saffron half an ounce Aqua vitae ten ounces distil them give half an ounce with a drop of spirit of Vitriol The second Treacle water approved often Take white Onyons sliced six Garlick pickt three heads Rue Celandine Plantane each a handful Treacle a dram and an half Aquae vitae two ounces Vinegar an ounce Wine two ounces distill them give half an ounce The third made by me for the poor 1594. I used few others and it cured many Take roots of Tormentil Burdock Valerian Burnet Devils bit each four ounces roots of Master-wort Angelica Dittany Gentian Dragons all dry each an ounce Onyons and Nuts not ripe each six ounces Rue Sorrel Carduus each two handfuls Camphire a dram and an half dissolved in an ounce of Aqua vitae Mithridate an ounce and an half with white Wine and two ounces of Rose Vinegar draw a Water give two ounces with syrup of Vinegar or Lemons if you please The fourth Take Angelica roots two ounces Zedoary half an ounce roots of Black-hellebor two drams Devils bit Tormentil Dittany Carline Gentian each an ounce Treacle four ounces Green Nuts twenty water of Pauls Bettony three paints Vinegar a pint and an half distil them give two ounces and an half Infusions may be used instead of waters and they are stronger you may make them of the things mentioned Or thus Take Camphire half an ounce white Ginger an ounce Cloves an ounce and an half Sugar candy an ounce infuse them in Aqua vitae give two drams Another Take Mithridate or Treacle two ounces or an ounce of each Aqua vitae ten ounces syrup of Limons or Citrons five ounces infuse them a moneth or in Balneo give an ounce The third Take spirit of Wine four times distilled a pint and an half Sack two ounces syrup of Lemons or Citrons two ounces Treacle or Mithridate ten ounces Angelica roots half an ounce Zedoary two drams Camphire a dram Saffion half a dram species Diamargariton frigid a dram and an half Cinnamon two drams Musk half a scruple infufe them give an ounce The fourth Take roots of Angelica Masterwort and Zedoary each two drams wild Angelica Burnet Valerian Swallow-wort Tormentil Personate Carline and Elicampane each three drams Juniper and Bay-berries each an ounce Angelica seeds a dram Cinnamon a dram and an half long Pepper half a scruple Saffron a scruple Mirrh half a dram make a Pouder add spirit of Wine syrup of Lemons Citrons or Sorrel two ounces set it in the Sun or in Balneo give an ounce with Treacle Mithridate or Mathiolus Antidote a dram if the Patient be young and hot give less and dissolve it with Marigold water Other Pouders above mentioned may be so used Syrups also of the Decoctions or Juyces mentioned Or thus Take roots of Angelica Tormentil Dittany Burnet Cross wort each an ounce roots of Master-wort and Zedoary each half an ounce Carduus Vervaine Rue Celandine Marigold Sage all dry each three drams Juniper-berries two ounces Bay-berries an ounce and an half boyl them in Winc and with Sugar make a syrup give an ounce Extracts of Angelica Vervain Elicampane and Rob of Elder are commended Mathiolus gives a scruple of Oyl of Vitriol with proper waters Pouders are mixed in potions or Electuaries or made into Lozenges for Children These may be given to Women with Child Take Angelica roots half a dram Tormentil and Dittany roots each an ounce Treacle half a dram Diamargariton frigid half a scruple with Sugar dissolved in Sorrel water make Lozenges give two drams A pouder for weak persons Take Tormentil and Butter-bur roots each half a dram Diamargariton frigid a scruple give it with Sorrel water and syrup of Lemons A second Take Bole Armenick prepared two drams Hearts horn a scruple Pearl half a scruple juyce of Lemons two drams give it with Sorrel or Carduus water A third that is bitter Take roots of Tormentil Dittany Gentian leaves of Carduus each half a dram Bole and Coral prepared each a dram give it with Sorrel water A fourth Take white Amber and Coral each half a dram Pearl a scruple Elkes Hoofe Ivory each half a scruple make a Pouder give it in purslane or Scabious water or make Lozenges A fifth unpleasant Take Diamargariton frigid two scruples Harts horn a scruple Basil seed half a scruple Sorrel seed a scruple Citron seeds six grains Mirrh half a scruple with Vinegar make a Potion Pouders with Camphire are thought to cool As Take Troches of Camphire a dram syrup of Citrons an ounce with Scabious and Sorrel water make a Potion Another pouder which cures all Feavers and is good against the Plague made of hot things and Camphire Take Camphire a dram Ginger two drams Sugar candy three drams give a dram with Carduus Scabious or Marigold water This may be infused alone or with Treacle The Itallians commend Euphorbium and make this Pouder Take Euphorpium and Mastick each half a scruple Saffron five grains Sugar candy a dram make a pouder give it with Sorrel water and Vinegar of Roses half an ounce Or thus Take Euphorbium Maflick and Gum Elemni each half a scruple roots of Tormentil and Angelica of each half a dram Camphire half a scruple make a pouder give it with Sorrel water and Rose Vinegar half an ounce The Chymists commend their Salts and Crato also As Salt of Angelica Scabious Scordium Carduus Zedoary Ash Guajacum Wormwood ten or twelve grains with Conserve of Roses or Citrons or a dram of Salt of Polypody in Wine it doth wonders Also Salt made of Vine boughs a scruple given in Wine or proper water if you take three hours after a scruple or half a dram of Antidote-Colubrine or the like to provoke more sweat Crato saith Diasulphur right made is a strong expeller And the Chymists use Antimonium Diaphoreticum but not safely Hartman commends his Panacea or sulphure of Antimony fixed which he teacheth in his Chymical practise There are divers Electuaries made of the mentioned things and may be given to Cure as well as to prevent You may make them of the pouders with Honey or Syrup The mixture among the preservatives made of roots of wild Cowcumbers with Smallage and Housleek is commended by Honoratus and Crato for to Cure also Opiate Antidotes are good against all poysons and the plague Treacle and Mithridate are the old standers a dram at a time or with Philonium of Gesner The later are Diascordium Mathiolus Antidote and the Electuary made of an Egg or Diacroceum Or thus first Take Treacle or Mithridate or Electuary of the Egg or Mathiolus Antidote a dram and an half dissolve it with the
Epithem An Oyntment for the the Heart and Pulses or to be applied twice a day with Scarlet Take Treacle half an ounce juyce of Limons half an ounce Rose-vinegar two drams Camphire a scruple Saffron half a scruple Musk three grains Or use Vinegar in which Angelica Roots are steeped Or this Emplaster Take red Roses poudered boyl them well in Rose-water with Vinegar juyce of Apples Citron peels Sanders make a Plaster for the Pulses Mathiolus anoynts the Pulses with Oyl of Scorpions And the Balsom mentioned among the Antidotes is as good Or the Bag there mentioned Use to cool the Liver cold and strengthening means as in the cure of putrid Fevers and to the Reins Rose-vinegar to the Head if it be hot And to the stomach strengthening Oyntments if it be weak And because the Stones have great consent with the principal parts apply this to moderate the heat Take Rose Water four ounces Rose Vinegar half an ounce Sack an ounce juyce of Pomegranates half an ounce wet cloaths therein and apply them It is good to change the Air and place and remove the Patient from others that are infected and change his shirts sheets bed Pillows and sprinkle the chamber with Rose Vinegar Lavender Rose and Citron water and in summer to strew Herbs and Fruit and to perfume as we shewed in the Antidotes To keep strength use this Diet. Contrary to all other acute continual Fevers Let meat be given ofen but little at a time and they must be compel'd to eat if they refuse Let it be of good nourishment that a little may serve As Broath or Chickens Kid wood Fowl Partridg Veal and these make divers dishes and Gellies avoid Eggs which easily corrupt and fat things and give fruits and things allowed in putrid Fevers and let this meat be eaten with Vinegar or shap Juyces Let the Drink be Juleps mentioned or Capon Ale or Broath or of Veal and Calves feet Wine temperately taken is allowed This is a pleasant Water Take the flesh of the Loyn of Veal half a pound and a Calfs foot wel clensed add Sugar two ounces boyl them in Water add a dram of gross Cinnamon and strain it Let them not sleep while they sweat some keep them from it twenty four hours after the Botch appears But in regard sleep refresheth and carrieth the heat outward rather than inward as I shewed it must not be hindered Let him rejoyce and be in good hope either of Cure or eternal happiness The Botch and Carbuncle are the chief symptoms their cure shal be shewed hereafter and how the Venom shal be dawn out The first thing is to hold up the strength as we shewed And if swouning or Heart-beating come give Cordials and apply them outwardly If swouning be from the stomach anoynt and comfort that and give a little Wine or a sop in juyce of Pomegranates-Grapes and Wine put the Hands and Feet in warm water and rub the Face and other parts Take away Doting and Watching with a puppy applyed or with Opiates or washing externally If sleep be much use Vinegar of Roses Asswage thirst with this Julep Take water newly distilled of Sorrel and Bread each six ounces Rose and Scabious water each four ounces Vervain and Bugloss water each two ounces with Sugar make a Julep Or with this Take conserve of Sorrel and Roses each an ounce Rob de Ribes an ounce and an half Diamargariton frigid a dram with Sugar of Roses make a Candy If a Diarhaea come it is dangerous then give a Clyster of Barley water and Sugar And Take Tormentil roots half a dram or Bole with red Wine and anoynt the Belly with astringents Women with Child do often miscarry when they are infected this is deadly and to be much regarded The other Symptoms as of the Tongue and Jaws are cured as in putrid Feavers The Fevers that come from the biting of venemous beasts The Cure of venemous Feavers inflaming the Heart kil in a few hours or in the first day except prevented The Cure is by drawing the Poyson forth at the Wound and by an Antidote as we shewed in Poysons If the Feaver be great use Cordials inwardly and outwardly as I shewed to chear the spirits A simple Hectick whether it follow continual Diary The Cure of a Hectick fever or putrid burning or intermiting Fevers not that which is melting and a Symptom of a burning Fever or free from that Fever which caused it is to be Cured according as it is either in the beginning or increase or setlement In Children and Infants because their Heart is easily altered in temper it may be sooner Cured if not confirmed but it is difficult in Men and Women And in old people uncurable The cause of this disease is the temperament of the Heart and the whol Body made hotter and dryer not nourished by a Humor or Excrement when the Body is freed from the Fever that caused it Therefore purges are needless except the Excrements and Crudities increase by long continuance of the Disease and then gentle Clysters or Laxatives may be given But we must chang the temper of the Body And hold up the strength that decaies And amend the accidents if any be At the first we must alter the dryness with moistners of the Heart and Limbs and gentle coolers because the heat is not violent and may be allay'd by temperate and moderate coolers Some give Narcoticks or Medicines to cause sleep to cool the Body but we say they are not cold and rather inflame the Body as I shewed and therefore give them not but when sleep is wanting In the progress when the Consumption is begun we refresh with nourishers that are moist for they will disperse themselves sooner through the Body This is done by internal and external means We give them a moistning Diet that refresheth boyl'd things moisten most and roasted increase the radical moisture more Veal Kid and Porke brains of Hogs and Calves are commended Also the stones of beasts that are not very Lecherous as of Sheep Calves and young Kids And Hens flesh Capons or Pullets fed with Barley or crammed with Dow made up into pills with Cray-fish Frogs flesh and Wheat flower or Barley flower Also Birds boyled or moist roasted for Galen saies meat over roasted turns easily into choller but I rather lay the fault in the Dripping the brains and stones of these are best Also Brook fish Cray fish Turtles of the woods and water Frogs are good meat in Hecticks and Snailes but some disallow of them because they are so slymy The Carthusian Friers make up the tailes of Cray-fish with Barley Almonds and Sugar which is excellent And yolks of Eggs boyled with Wine and Sugar called in Dutch Beinwarme and green Cheese Also a Panado of bread boyled in broath Or this Take crums of bread steept in Milk and add Almond Milk Rose water and Sugar Or Barley cream made with broath Also Almonds Pine nuts Pistachas alone or with
portion into the substance of the Lungs which produceth the Inflammation accompanied with a Synoch from whence it came And therefore the same causes of a Synoch as we shewed in Feavers are the causes of these Inflammations As Surfetting Drunkenness because they cause Fulness and make the Blood too hot are the causes of Synochs in young and old men that live deliciously therefore they are counted the cheif caufes of peripneumony and pleurisie and therefore they prescribed Abstinence from Wine and sat Flesh and Fish as Eels from whence they say the peripneumony cometh because the Blood groweth too fat from eating of fat Meats and therefore may be sooner inflamed except these fish have a peculiar force to inflame as the Sea-Hare hath to ulcerate the Lungs Hence it is that in Spring and in the time when Synochs are rife these Inflammations are most usual in these ages especialy which are subject to a Synoch not only with an outward Erysipelas but that which produceth a peripneumony These Inflammations are sooner in the Lungs then any other part If with the causes of a Synoch there be also a disposition in the Lungs to receive them which disposition is the natural Heat and plenty of Blood and thinness of Substance in the Lungs as also a weakness accquired from a disease which hath caused a Cough To which are added other causes which make them come out of the Vessels and flow to the Lungs as a hot distemper from Air Anger or a hot Disease as a Fever or an outward Cold by Air which pierceth the Breast and Lungs hence it is that this may be when the Veins are astringed Also vehement motion or pain about the Breast or other things that draw blood to the breast As in that Woman which conceived with Child in old age when her breasts that were formerly lank grew great by the flowing of blood to them to breed milk and fell into a Pleurisie And I have observed that divers Women in the middle of their time of breeding especially in the Spring after a cold Winter from a sudden cold and moisture have fallen into Pleurisies by reason of much blood flowing to the breasts to breed Milk These Causes except there be a Synoch scarse produce an Inflammation alone but rather a spetting of blood Or if they produce an Inflammation in the Breast without a Synoch asoregoing there will be only a simple Pieurisie by reason of the Muscles affected from the girding Membrane Or if the Lungs be also inflamed in both the Fever coming from thence will not be a Synoch which is the next cause of a pleurisie and peripneumony and begins with these Inflammations or goes before them but wil be symptomatical as we shewed in Fevers The Cure The Cure varieth as the Disease is divers which produceth these pricking pains in the Breast And it is eithere an Iuflammation of the Lungs in a true Pleurisie and peripneumony or of the Membrane in its pleurisie or a distension from Wind or tumor in the two kinds of false pleurisies called Flatulent and Flegmatick The Inflammation of the Lungs both in a Pleurisie and Peripneumony is dangerous The Prognesticks of a true Pleurisie and Peripneumony but most in a peripneumony by reason of the nearness of the Heart both cause Death either in the fourth or fifth day or in the fourteenth or twentieth When it tends to health it passeth the second or third week and first the pricking ceaseth then the Fever and last the Spitting of Matter but if it continue above the time mentioned and the Fever ceaseth not but is lingring it is to be feared that it wil turn to an Empyema or phthisis These following rules wil declare how these Diseases wil end If from the Lungs inflamed they presently spit mixed matter it is good especially if they Cough and expel it easily if otherwise it is bad This if it be blood or matter such as cometh from the part inflamed which is the Lungs it is allowed But if from the beginning the blood flows plentifully for some daies or cease and return again it snews great hurt of the Lungs But the sooner they spit matter white or concocted and the more easily and plentifully it is voided the better it is unless it be sent forth in such abundance as I have seen in a man that had a peripneumony und was ready to die that it fill a Bason this is a sign that the Inflammation is great and that a suppuration follows and also Death Purulent matter though yellowish is not bad till it be Yellow that whch is green is worse and black worst of all that which is white slimy and cleer prolongs the Disease That Inflammation that comes from pure blood is more gentle that which comes from cholerick or impure blood is worse and shorter but that which comes from flegmatick blood is longer but not so shatp And that which follows other long and acute Diseases is harder to be cured The peripneumony especially or the pleurisie in old people is deadly Great difficulcy of Breathing shews the greatness of the Inflammation or a great collection of the matter which suddenly flowing to the branches of the rough Artery causeth mote trouble and they breath with snorting and if they do not presently spet and hawk it forth it strangleth Cold of the outward parts the Face sunk and the pulse little foreshew Death as in other Diseases If the Fever be strong with Heat Thirst and Watching the danger is more if gentle less If there be a Delirium or Doting which useth not to be in these Diseases nor from the Fever accompanying them It is a mortal sign because it useth to come upon the distemper of the Septum or Diaphragma Bleeding at the Nose cannot be had in the beginning both in respect of the Fever and also for Revulsion But towards the end it weakneth especially if much Plentiful voiding of Urin and Sweat if they come seasonably cures the Fever and if they piss matter they suppose the matter come from the Lungs and the Diseases to be sent out of the way But if matter can be carried from the Lungs by the hollow Vein which is more manifest rather than by the other obscure veins in the Breast which joyn to the Emulgent which some men so diligently seek for and bragg that they have found out then in other Diseases there may be such a passage but this is very rare because in those that have been extreamly phthisical and empyematous no such thing hath been seen A Diarrhaea presageth Death for though some have thought otherwise yet little of the cause of the Disease can be purged by stool But if the Diarrhaea come at the first from other causes and stay not long it may be harmless especially if it take away any filth which may increase the Fever And I have often seen Pleurisies after I have given Oyl of sweet Almonds with pouder of a Bores tooth to go away
prest and there is a numness of the Thigh on that side to the Knee or sole of the Foot with great pain as I have often seen with stoppage of Urin or pissing of Blood after violent excercise or riding And the Sediment or bottom is black in the Urinal This at somtimes is white and muddy like Whey at the first and after setling the bottom is white as Chalk and much somtimes Somtimes it is gravely and white or scaly This pain is also increased by new accidents There is somtimes a burning pain in the top of the Hypochondria A burning pain of the Hypochondria is from the Liver or Spleen before on the right side this is called the Inflammation of the Liver which is the cause of it or Hepatitis Or it is in the left side backwards and is called the Inflammation of the Spleen or Splenitis Somtimes it is below in and about the Hip and behind about the Back on either side and it is called the Inflammation of the Kidneys or Nephritis In all these kinds there is a burning stretching and heavy pain also beating especially if it be the Inflammation of the Spleen on the left side In which there is a tumor to be felt and somtimes on the right when the Liver is inflamed which appeareth more when the patient bends to the right side but it is without redness not as the inflamed Muscles are In both these Inflammations the pain reacheth to the Throat and is increased by the lying on the contrary side and it is more burning in the Erysipelas of the Liver In all kinds there is a smal dry Cough and in the Inflammation of Liver or Spleen the Hiccup And in that of the Liver choler is vomited and the Mouth bitter or voided by stool Also from Inflammation of Liver or Spleen there is a Jaundies and from the Liver or Bloody flux somtimes and there is often Pissing with heat when the Reynes are inflamed There is with all kinds a Synoch Fever going afore or following With restlesness thirst and dryness of tongue Quick and little breath swift and great Pulse High Urin and somtimes matterish These ceasing there is a heaviness in the part mentioned and other accidents Somtimes there is a pricking pain in sound people suddenly on the left side somtimes on the right A pricking pain in the Hypochondria The pain of the Spleen falsly so called which the Germans call Milkesteehen pricking of the Spleen falsly It comes chiefly after meat upon riding exercise with a Tumor like that of the Cramp from wind it is pricking and very tearing when breath is fetched and lying upon the Belly abates it and at length it goes away of it self In other Diseases of the right or left side there is also a heavy pain with greater Symptoms among which I shall speak of that Those pains that are outward in the Hypochondria and about the Groyns in Ruptures are refer'd to the Diseases causing them There is a cutting and stretching pain in the Loyns A cutting and stretching pain in the Hypochondria is from pain of the Womb. which is called the pain of the Womb because it is caused from thence At the time of the courses or when they are stopped Somtimes in great bellyed Women often after child bearing and with other Diseases of the Womb where it is described exactly There is often on one side A twitching and grievous pain of the Hypochondria Nephritis or Stone in the Kidneys seldom on both a twitching tearing and pricking pain most grievous in the Reyns somtimes by fits somtimes returning in a month or year this is called Nephritis from the cause which is the Stone or Gravel it somtimes is fixed and somtimes goes to the Groyns and not the Belly as the Colick And the Leg on that side is benummed At the first there is vomiting of flegm and choler and quick and little breathing At the beginning the Urin is with difficulty crude like water then thick and after bloody and there is red yellow or white Gravel found at the bottom growing together somtimes Somtimes they are so little they stick in the sediment and fat and fly up or stick to the pott All these last long or the pain goes to the bottom of the Belly and then departs in a moment or there is some hurt in the part as we shewed in stoppage of Urin. And this either is not or ceaseth presently if one or more stones be pissed forth the stone is somtimes sandy and brittle red or yellow or white long or round smooth or uneven greater or less or hard and flinty and then white or dunne somtimes of a strange shape The Causes The Diseases of divers parts in the Hypochondria under the short Ribs cause divers pains These parts are either the fleshy Bowels as Liver Spleen two Kidneys with the Ureters or parts belonging to them as part of the Porinaeum or Caul Stomach and Colon The diseases whereof reatch thither and are felt under the Hypochondria Some diseases of the fleshy Bowels cause pains these are manifest on that side where the Bowel lyeth If from the Liver it lyeth on the right side foreward the Spleen one the left side under the Stomach the Reyns one both sides with the Ureters under the other two Bowels The pain of the right Kidney is known thus from the pain of the Liver for when the Liver is afflicted the pain is more on the right side foreward where the greatest part of the Liver lyeth or against the lodg of the Heart where it lyeth upon the Stomach but the pain of the right Kidney remaineth fixed backwards a little lower in the Back But the pain of the left Kidney is not so easily distinguished from the pain of the Spleen because it is higher then the right Kidney And contrary to the common opinion the Spleen lyeth more backward next to the left Kidney Not on the left side so forward as is supposed Therefore the pains of these parts must not be distinguished by the Scituation but by other signs The diseases that may happen to all these and cause pain are Inflammation Weight Obstruction or Distension from a Humor or Tumor or from the Stone When there is Inflammation in these bloody Bowels Inflammation of the Liver Spleen Reyns is the cause of burning pain in the Hypochondria Liver Spleen or Kidneys it is from pure or fowl Blood and causeth a burning where the Bowel lyeth on that side For these Bowels have but dull sense of feeling from the outward Tunicle yet when the Inflammation reacheth to the parts adjacent which are very sensible and Membranous the pain is great and the Tumor more appearing when the Inflammation is in the outward gibbous part of the Liver or when the Spleen which lyeth lower under the Ribbs is swollen and the beating is more when the Spleen is afflicted because it aboundeth with Arteries and there are other accidents as were shewed
Loosners if Clysters may not be given as Syrup of Violets Roses the Decoction of Fruits Raisons Prunes Sebestens Violets with Rhubarb or Cassia and other Loosners not too hot Let the Diet be such as in Inflammations internal and in cholerick Diseases and give no Wine for fear of a convulsion Let it be of things that properly help the Guts which are not too hot and Anodyne and also Narcotick at last mixed with Purgers In both cases anoynt with Oyl of Violets sweet Almonds chamomil Dill with Butter and Mucilage of Seeds of Foenugreek and Line Quinces and with Fat 's Also use a sweet Bath and a Fomentation made of the clyster and Ingredients And a cataplasm of the residents of the clysters and of Barley-meal Lime and Foenugreek seed with Butter Fat 's and Oyls It is good in the Iliack to apply cupping-glasses with Scarification in an Inflammation to the Groins And Amulets mentioned If from tumbling or leaping The cure of the Iliack from Knots comming in the Guts or a Fall upon the Belly the Guts be knotted and the Excrements stopt so that they begin to be vomited up you must cut open the belly by way of Longitude where the pain or tumor is and so skilfully place the the Guts in order again This is the last and only Remedy If stretching of the Bladder and Womb cause pain The cure of the stretching pain of the Bladder and urin and of pains after birth we spake of that in the Bladder in the stoppage of Urin if the stone cause it we spake thereof in painful Pissing If the Womb be stretched by wind or cold external after birth let the woman be kept very warm and bound with a rouler below If it continue use Medicines for the womb that are hot But if the pains of the womb come from evil humors about the Vessels and Ligaments such as go before or follow the stoppage of the Terms or such as is after they cease by reason of age and foulness Then first purge away the filth and make the courses come as we shewed The remedies are the same for pains in the womb as for the Guts when we desire to heat and expel wind These hot remedies that expel wind and are anodyne are mentioned in the Pains of the Guts and are proper for pains in the womb when they come after Birth from cold Air and continue long or be joyned with other cold Distempers of the Womb. And because that the Womb and Guts are refreshed with hot things the things that provoke the Courses are to be allowed Hence it is that because they observed that hot remedies agreed with both the Womb and Guts they supposed that these pains of the womb came from Cold but they agree with the womb for other causes mentioned and the rather when those remedies which heat the Guts and discuss wind and asswage pain are mixed with things proper for the Womb otherwise the Womb-medicines differ little from those of the Bowels but use them as followeth and they will better help the pain of the womb Hence it is that they called the Pains of the Guts the Pains of the Womb in both Sexes Men and Women And gave things that they observed good for the Guts for the Womb. These remedies being hot and expellers of wind and Anodynes are chiefly good against pains of the Womb when they come after Child-bearing from cold Air and are joyned with other Diseases Bleeding will do little good except in the Foot to provoke the Courses or for other Evacuations in another part The same Purges prescribed for pains of the Guts are good here And because Turbith doth trouble the Guts and cause pain it must be given for the Womb from a dram to four scruples in pouder with a scruple of Ginger and a little Cinnamon and Sugar in Nutmeg-water Also the Clysters against Pains in the Guts are good here whether emollient pricking heating or expellers of wind because they go to the straight Gut and there heat the Womb which is joyned unto it especially if you add some Womb-herbs thereunto As thus Take Mugwort Calamints Penny-royal each a handful Chamomil and Melilot flowers and Dill tops each a pugil Aniseed six drams Foenugreek and Linseed half an ounce Bran a pugil boyl and add Honey of Rosemary an ounce Oyl of Wall flowers three ounces Benedicta laxativa and Hiera simplex each half an ounce red Sugar an ounce with a little Salt make a Clyster Another Take Oyl of bitter Almonds six ounces Goose grease two ounces Turpentine dissolved with two Yolks of Egs half an ounce give it in Chicken broath Mugwort-water is as good for the womb as the guts And Oyl of bitter Almonds drunk in a good quantity Some give Oyl of Scorpions And the juyce of Horse dung alone or with Wine Decoctions to be drunk hot alone or with Sugar or Honey and Cinnamon The first Take Schaenanth two drams boyl it in Mugwort-water give it hot at twice or a Decoction of Spike or two drams of both for four times Another Take Motherwort half an ounce Nutmeg two drams boyl them in white Wine Give it at twice A third Take Juniper-berries two drams Anise and Caraway seed each a dram boyl it in Wine give it A fourth Take Motherwort six drams Roots of Devils bit half an ounce Juniper-berries two drams Aniseed half an ounce Caraway and Carot seed each a dram Nutmeg half an ounce Schaenanth and Spike each a dram boyl them in Wine strain it sweeten it for three or four doses The Infusions mentioned for weak Stomachs and others in Wine and Aqua vitae are here good And the things given in substance as follow Mints or great Balm called Greek Mints is good in Broath or Drink or Cakes and Juniper-berries Also Pouder of the Roots of Masterwort Zedoary Gentian a dram or a dram and half with Wine Another Compound Pouder Take Roots of Motherwort half an ounce of Masterwort and Devils bit each two drams of white Dittany Zedoary Gentian each a dram Juniper-berries a dram and half Aniseed two drams Carot Ameos Cummin seed each a dram Schaenanth two drams Mace Spike each a dram Ginger Pepper each half a dram Saffron half a scruple make a Pouder give a dram in Wine or add a double quantity of Sugar or make Lozenges or an Electuary with Honey Diacyminum is good in pains of the Womb and Diamargaritum calidum when there is Weakness A pleasant but good Pouder Take Cummin seed infused in Aqua vitae and dryed a dram Ameos and Ginger each half a dram Castor a scruple give a dram with wine Or a dram of the Jaws of a Trout poudered in Water of Chamomil is excellent when the pain is before the Courses Rondeletius saies that the Pouder of a dryed Secundine or After-birth cureth the pains after Child-birth And because other Beasts eat them they have no such pains and he saith that he took it from his Bitch
after she had whelped and she presently had pains Pills Take Opopanax Sagapenum each a dram Castor Gentian each half a dram Spike a scruple Saffron half a scruple with syrup of Mugwort make Pills Give half a dram or a dram In great Pains give Opiats as in the Colick especially Triphera magna proper for the Womb a dram and half with Wine or Mugwort-water with Mace a scruple and Saffron half a scruple in pouder Or give Treacle and a little Castor therewith Foment make Baths for the Feet proper for the Womb with Decoctions of Herbs Seeds and Spices as chiefly for the Womb Mugwort Motherwort Bayes Balm Nip Costmary Grapes Savin great Celandine Swallow-wort roots Wall-flowers Misleto of the Oak Carot seed and the like Or bags mentioned in Pain of the Guts Anoynt also with Oyls as that of Bayes Wall flowers Orris Lillies Water-lillies Nard Elder Or use Oyntments with Oyls and Juyces of Herbs and Gums or Plaisters as that of Bay-berries Or Cataplasms of the Plants mentioned and Lillies and Onyons boyled mixing Oyls or that of Cow dung and Cummin seed with Honey and Wine or with Henbane if the pain be great Use also Injections made of Decoctions and Juyces of Plants but they reach but to the neck of the womb and therefore cannot take away pain nor Pessaries except it be by provoking the Terms But Fumes or Smoaks go into the Womb therefore they are better then Injections if they be taken into the Body from a Decoction Also sweet things of Musk and Ambergrease put into the womb refresh it And rubbing of the Feet from the Thighs downwards Cupping-glasses applied to the Hips cause diversion The Inflammations of the Womb and Bladder The cure of the inflammation of the bladder and womb if they cause pains in the lower part of the Belly by reason of the joyning together of these parts are cured alike as we shall here shew Inflammations are very dangerous in parts so exquisitely sensible especially in the womb when it is inflamed from hard travail which causeth many Women to die in Child-bearing Also if an Inflammation be in the Bladder from an Ulcer or Stone it endangers the Patient In both if there be an Ulcer or Scirrhus caused by it the case is difficult and if a Gangraene follow death is at the door The cure of both Inflammations is as of others by revelling or drawing by the matter when it first floweth to the part by repelling or driving back and by abating the Heat and presently after the Flux is ceased by consuming and discussing it And if these Inflammations produce other Diseases as is usual in the Neck of the Bladder and Womb they shall be spoken of in their places But you must do as followeth against the Inflammations First open a Vein in the Arm to revel and then in the Foot to derive in both cases except there be any hinderance as a Flux in Women in Travail in or after a mischance Use Scarification and Cupping to the Thighs and Buttocks But in the Inflammation of the Womb if the Terms flow too much scarifie and cup the parts above Give Clysters to open the Belly cool and abate pain and they are good at the first For being given in at the straight Gut they communicate their vertue to to the womb and bladder to which they are closely seated They must be such Clysters as are mentioned for the Inflammation of the Kidneys and Guts And such as abate pain being made of Milk to which when we wil cool to some purpose we add Juyce of Nightshade Violets Mallows and the like Apply outwardly Remedies before and behind first Coolers and Repellers but not strong Astringents as in other Inflammations least Hardness follow Afterwards in the increase we add Dissolvers which we use at the conclusion alone And if it tend to Suppuration we use Ripeners A cooling and somwhat repelling Cataplasm Take Roots of Marsh-mallows two ounces Plantane Shepheards-purse Teazel Vine leaves and Violet leaves two handfuls boyl and stamp them add Meal of Barley and Lentils three ounces Fleabane seed half an ounce Oyl of Roses two ounces make a Cataplasm Or eight ounces of the Decoction distilled Water or Juyce of the said Plants with an ounce and half of Vinegar is a good Epithem for the same And it will be stronger with half an ounce of Bole or Sanguis Draconis An Oyntment Take Oyl of Violets an ounce and half Oyl of Roses or Myrtles each an ounce add two ounces of juyce of Nightshade or of the Plants mentioned and an ounce of Vinegar and boyl them in the Oyls or make them up with Turpentine You may add Bole also to make it more astringent A Cataplasm to be used in the increase of the disease Take Marsh-mallow roots three ounces Lilly roots an ounce Housleek Plantane Nightshade and Endive two handfuls Chamomil Melilot flowers each a pugil Figs and Dates each six pair boyl and stamp them add Bean flower and of Paenugreek and Linseed each two ounces Oyl of Roses two ounces Oyl of Lillies an ounce Saffron a dram The Cerot of Galen made of Housleek is good Or this Oyntment in the progress of the Disease Take Oyl of Chamomil an ounce and half Oyl of Lillies and Rosemary and Linseed each half an ounce juyce of Housleek and Sowthistle each an ounce Mucilage of Foenugreek an ounce and half Conies grease an ounce Saffron half a dram with Wax make an Oyntment You may use Fomentations also when there is pain with the Decoction of Henbane and other Herbs mentioned An anodyne Cataplasm Take Crumbs of Bread half a pound boyl them in Milk add two or three Eggs beaten Mucilage of Linseed and Fleabane each an ounce Butter or Oyl of sweet Almonds three ounces Saffron half a dram In the declination of the Disease use digesting Plaisters as of Melilot Marsh-mallows Diachylon with Orris and the like Or this Take Bdellium Galbanum Opopanax each half an ounce Storax two drams dissolve them in juyce of Motherwort and Chamomil with a little Aqua vitae and make a Cataplasm A Bath in the Declination to take away the residue is made of Mallows Marsh-mallows Lillies Flowers of Chamomil Melilot Elder Rosemary Seeds of Line and Foenugreek And if the Womb be troubled of Marjoram Motherwort Mugwort Penny-royal Wall-flowers Agnus castus Spike or Schaenanth If it will not be digested bring it to maturation with this cataplasm Take Wheat flower four ounce Meal of Barley and Linseed each two ounces Figgs six pair boyl them in Milk and bruise them add three Yolks of Eggs and Hens grease two ounces Or use Ripeners mentioned against other Diseases Injections because they come not easily to the bladder in men and cannot be without pain to both Sexes in the use of the catheter cannot be in the time of Inflammation but when the Urin is stopped to open the passages of which we spake And because the body of the womb by reason of the
straight orifice will not admit Injections they are not profitable except but by what they do outwardly to the neck or bottom of the womb being inflamed And then use the Decoction of the Herbs mentioned for a cataplasm or the waters or Juyces of them to repel at first and in the progress use the Decoction of the cataplasm which we prescribed to be used in the increase Or make a Pessary for women of the Herbs beaten up with Meal Pain chiefly requires Injections as of Milk and whites of Eggs beaten with Oyl of Henbane or a little Opium or of a Decoction of Poppy or Henbane seed or Marsh-mallow seed or the Juyce of it or other narcoticks mentioned in Pain of the Belly Or Triphera Saracenica In the Declination make Injections of things that take away the residue and soften to prevent Scirrhus as of Galbanum a dram and half dissolved in Oyl of Lillies or Wall flowers an ounce Storax a dram Marjoram water four ounces Or Take the Decoction of wild Time four ounces and add the ashes of Mans bones and two ounces of Balm-water make an Injection Or this Pessary Take Galbanum Storax each a dram Labdanum half an ounce Coney Goose or Ducks grease enough make a Paste and put it in a silk bag Also a Fume of Sagapenum Storax Benjamin will consume the refidue Give Lenitives in both Inflammations as Prunes cassia Syrup of Violets Roses Whey and no stronger till the Declination Give coolers in Diet as cool Herbs and Water and Syrups Waters and conserves that cool mentioned in Feavers And things to provoke urin by a cleansing moisture as Emulsions of the cold Seeds Decoction of Pease or Whey CHAP. XIIII Of the Pain of the Privities The Kinds THe pain of the Privities is divers in respect of the Sex we have spoken of the outward pains in their place The pains inwardly in the Yard being in the passage to the Bladder The pain of the Yard which is for the Piss and Seed and chiefly in the time of pissing with discharge of Matter with great straining shall be spoken of in things sent forth And the pain in the Codds or Inflammation because it appears outwardly shall be spoken of in the Externals as if there be a pain and tumor from a Rupture in Ruptures The pains in the Privities of Women The pain of the Privities in Women are either where the two passages of the Bladder and neck of the womb appear or deeper and are divers either with Heat or Ulcer This pain is either with Inflammation only The Inflammation of the womb or with a Tumor and that which is in the bottom of the womb is most usual of which we spake in pains of the Belly This Inflammation is apparent and turns somtimes into an Imposthume Scirrhus or Gangraen There is another pain with heat and tumor The Cancer of the neck of the womb in the Cancer of the womb more usual and apparent then that in the Body of the womb In which there is a tumor at the first as in other Causes with a little pricking onely and then increasing by degrees it grows heavy and troublesom with burning and at length it ulcerateth and turns to a Carcinoma and then there is a venemous Humor and Blood flowing from the womb with other great accidents The third Pain is called Condyloma Condyloma in the Privities of women and is with heat and swelling or excrescens within the womb It is worse when there is an Inflammation This is somtimes both in the Privities and Fundament and in the Fundaments of Men of which in its place A tearing or pricking pain is called the Ulcer of the womb The ulcerous pain of the Womb. and it is either inwardly or more outwardly and may be touched and increased by Medicines or Copulation And then blood or thin matter comes forth Or thick white concocted not stinking or it is crude and waterish or green yellow or black and the same matter is sometimes pissed forth And we have known it come forth of the Fundament and Excrements come forth of the womb and some have observed it is in the Bladder or Panch What kind of Ulcer it is whether Excoriation onely or a profound deep Ulcer whether creeping or with swollen Lips hard or turned in it may be seen or felt or else if deep seen by an Instrument With this are divers other Symptoms And if the Ulcer comes to the Orifice of the Bladder there wil be burning and often pissing If it be malignant the Vital Functions are weakned or if joyned with other Diseases as the French Pox there are many Symptoms The Causes The pains in the Privities of Women come from Diseases of the neck of the womb or Privities and they are either Inflammation or Cancer or Condyloma or Ulcer Inflammation being chiefly in the neck of the womb or in the womb Inflammation is the cause of burning pain in the womb causeth pains with heat burning or tumor as it is greater or less pure or impure or Erysipelas where the heat is greater and no tumor The internal Cause of this Inflammation is Defluxion of Blood to the menstruous veins in the substance of the womb Or difficulty of travail may cause it because the neck of the womb is very sensible and the Orifice narrow And somtimes there is an Inflammation of these parts from the Orifice which is shut in Virgins with the Hymen or Membrane when they are much pained at the loss of their Virginity or at other times when the woman is straight and the man large And it may come also from Pessaries or corroding Medicines A Cancer in the hollow of the womb causeth pain with burning and pricking and swelling which somtimes turns to an Ulcer And this is caused by a malignant Humor sent to the Neck of the Bladder The kinds and causes of which shall be shewed in an external Cancer A Condyloma in the womb causeth the pain above mentioned and is in the Fundament Also by reason of the same Causes to be mentioned An Ulcer in the Cavity of the womb An Ulcer in the womb is the cause of an ulcerous Pain or the Privities causeth ulcerous pains and other accidents that are more as the pain is greater For if it be a simple Excoriation with the skin off there will the pain be small by reason of the exquisite Sense of the part If there be a great hurt or wound the pain wil be greater and the blood come If a simple Ulcer the pain will be less but with a Flux of Matter if it be foul the Ulcers be eating called Nomae or when they are deeper Phagadaenica the pain is longer because there wil be a Flux of Matter If the Ulcer reach the Neck of the Bladder there will be painful Pissing If it eat through the womb and the strait Gut there will be Matter by stool and the Excrements that should have passed
a dram Mastick or Sarcocol each half a dram make a Pounder give a dram with Milk Shepheards-purse Plantane Rose or steeled Water Use warm Injections to cleanse and dry after and heal As three ounces of Barley boyledin two pints of water or Whey with Sugar or Honey or of Hydromel alone Honey and Wine which is strongest Or a Decoction of Barley Lentils Beans Smallage Pellitory Plantane with Honey Against Foulness Take Hydromel half a pint Juyce of Smallage two ounces Myrrh a dram Or use a Decoction of Orris Birthwort and Sowbread Lupins Orobus Horehound Wormwood and Centanry To cleanse add Lye Urin and Wine or a little Allum The Juyce of a Nettle and Urin of a Boy cures the Ulcers of the Womb. Also the Gall of an Ox Goat Carp with Honey and Goats Milk Or Unguentum Apostolorum or Aegyptiacum Or the like Cleansers used in outward Ulcers and Dryers A drying healing Decoction is made of Comfrey Snakweed Plantane Agrimony Shepheards-purse Horstayl Sanicle Mousear Pyrola Yarrow Knotgrass wild Tansey Bramble Myrrh Olive Ceterach Shrub Sumach Rose of Jerusalem Wall-sage Swallow-wort Rock Comfrey Roses three handfuls or four Grape Plantane and Myrrh feeds an ounce boyl them in steeled Water for an Injection Or add Galls Cypress-nuts Acorn-cupps Peels and Flowers of Pomegranates an ounce which are good to stanch Blood or red Wine or Syrup of red Roses or Honey to cleanse You may use the Decoction mentioned for an Injection Or Juyce of the Plants mentioned with Honey Or half an ounce of the pouder of the Plants mentioned with the Ashes of Reeds Gourds or Spunge or of Eg-shells When we desire to dry exceedingly use Litharge Tutty Ceruss Bloodstone Calaminaris Bole two drams and Sanguis Draconis Acacia Hypocistis a dram for once injecting Or this incarnative Pouder Take Orris roots Birthwort and Comfrey each a dram Myrrh two drams Aloes a dram or a dram of Frankincense Sarcocol Mummy put into the Injection Or add to this Pouder two drams of Turpentine with Plantane-water washed and dissolved with Honey and the Yolk of an Eg. Or use Unguent of Pompholigos Ceruss or Lead six drams for one dose in an Injection To allay pain and heal also Use All sorts of Milk to cleanse heal and abate pain And they will dry also if you quench Flints therein and abate pain more if you add Mucilage of Fleabane Line seed Quinces and Infusion of Gum Traganth and Arabick and Whites of Eggs and Yolks somtimes And in great pain a little Opium And if you will cleanse also Honey or Sugar A Decoction to allay tearing and burning pain Take Barley a pugil Foenugreek and Line-seed an ounce Fleabane and Poppey seed each half an ounce the four great cold Seeds six drams Roots of Marsh-mallows and Mallows each a handful Dill a pugil boyl them in Milk and Water adding Honey and Sugar If you add Purslane an handful Water-lillies a pugil the Heat will be better abated and the Pain less if you ad half an ounce of Mandrake roots and Henbane seeds two drams to be boyled therein Also Juyce of Purslane Lettice Nightshade Plantane in Milk or their distilled Waters Or the white Troches of Rhasis with Opium dissolved in Milk or the Decoction mentioned take away pain and heal Add Oyls if need be as of Roses Poppies Henbane-seed or of Lovage to astringe Also Fomentations and Baths are good for their strength reacheth to the inward parts and heals the Ulcers They are made as the Injections by choosing things proper to cleanse dry and take away pain as you please And for drying we add Metals as Filings of Iron and the like Also drying Baths of Allum and Sulphur in old ulcers and we send the desperate Women in this case to the Spawes Also we make Pessaries and thrust them with the finger into the hollow of the Womb to cure Ulcers Or an Anodine of Goose grease or Hens grease or Hogs or Dears suet or Wool grease with white Wax and the Yolk of an Eg and Mucilages and Saffron and Oyl of Opium Dioscorides puts into Pessaries Leaves of Vervain cream of Henbane seeds and Juyce of Mandraks To cleanse Take Turpentine washed with Juyce of Smallage half an ounce Myrrh a dram Birthwort roots two drams Sugar half an ounce make a Pessary with Gall of a Beast or Alium it will more cleanse You may use Anodine Oyntments also Or Dryers mentioned with Pouders or Juyces and with Mucilages and Wax Or Fumes that pierce into the womb and dry Ulcers as in the Nose for which are Fumes mentioned and they which are strongest and of worst Scent may be best used here If these Ulcers come from the French Pox they cannot be cured without a general Cure of the Pox. And then the Fume of Cinnabar doth all together And the Oyntment of Quick-silver is good to be put into the part All which shall be declared in the Cure of the French Pox. CHAP. XV. Of Diseases in the Fundament The Kinds THe Diseases or in inward Pains of the Fundament are such as are in it when closed in the end of the strait Gut and Muscles about it we mean not the Clefts in the outward part which shall be mentioned in external Cures with those of the Lips The kinds of the Pains are from the Sense of the pain and swelling There is somtimes a pain there A burning and hot pain in the Fundament with Burning alone or with a Tumor And this is called the Inflamation of the Fundament when it is inwardly hot swell'd and red and outwardly sometimes This pain is increased by touching sitting going to stool especially with straining The Belly also and Urin are stopped by the tumor and heat And this Inflammation leaves somtimes an Imposthume or the like in the Veins which coming from other Causes have an Inflammation As also the Falling out of the Fundament hath which also I observed in a Child of a year old turned to a Gangraene and caused death All these may be known by touching and sight when the Gut is turned out The pain in the Fundament with a swelling The blind Haemorrhoides and no Inflammation but what is from pain is called the Haemorrhoides because it comes from the Veins so called and it is called blind when they bleed not but it may better be called closed or painful In this upon straining there is a tumor appears or else it lyeth deep and is only felt by the Patient This pain is sometimes great from the Excrements going forth with an Inflammation somtimes which produceth bleeding or open Haemorrhoids which are dangerous from their great Flux somtimes As I have known in two Professors which from a sedentary life had the Haemorrhoids and died of their great Flux and Inflammation A Pain in the Fundament with an uneven Swelling The Tumor called Condyloma in the Fundament like an Excretion that comes by degrees not suddenly as the Haemorrhoids is called Condyloma because
lived then lean this may be in some parts so that a Deformity and an impediment may arise as when the belly is so fat that it extends it self without measure Great Breasts or when the Papps are too large and cover the whole Breast and would go farther if not restrained and hinder breathing by their weight such are those fat Men who have great breasts and which is more preternaturall those which have breasts grow very large as well as Toats being men not grown or other wise dispto portioned Hitherto may be referred the Sarcomata which are not other but the same Flesh over grown as rank Gums the Caruncles of the Eyes too large which is called Encanthis But because these are like the other Sarcomata they are described in the Chapter of Extuberances A Deformity arising from magnitude diminished hath two kinds as that of magnitude increased The first whereof if when the wholl body is little from the birth and they continue all their lives like pigmyes are maintained in Princes Courts for admiration being unfit for any imployment by reason of the weakness of body The second is when the parts are diminished as when the Head is too little as is seen in fools often Smalness of Bedy and its pens with narrow Orifices when the breast is too straight by which means they are short winded and other parts which from their originall have not a due proportion with the rest if they bring any Deformity or impediment Hitherto is referred the straightness of Orifices Phimosit as of the Womb the Skin of the Yard in that Disease which is called Phimosis when it is too straight so that the Glans cannot be uncovered by reason of the straightness of the praepuce or foreskin The greatness of parts is often made less when some is taken off Lent Parts and the Members are partly lamed which brings the more Deformity by how much it is more visible as in the Nose and Ears and the action is most hindered when it happens in a necessary part as the Fingers which being quite taken off there is a hurt which belongs to those that are in number defective Hitherto belongs the want of Papps in Womens breasts which is not only unseemly Breasts consumed but hindereth their giving suck The consuming of the Gums is under this Head when the Teeth are bare at the Root Gums rotten causing them to be loose and fall out Hitherto may be referred those Teeth which are shorter then the rest in the same rank Short Teeth and Hair and Nayles when shorter then the flesh for then they cannot take up small things Hairs also when they are so thin and short Wool-like Hair as happens when they grow again after fallen off so that they look rather like wool then Hair Beard long growing Or if in those parts where they ought to be thicker and longer in due time as the chin where mans beard should grow hair come forth slowly and make them who are men seem still Children this is a kind of Deformity Want of beard in Eunuchs especially if by reason of Gelding before the beard grew it never come forth and they remain beardless it is uncomely and makes them wrinkled in the face as years increase and as the Comaedian saith look like old Women The second kind of diminished magnitude is Slenderness Slenderness of Body which is opposite to Fatness and Fleshiness and this is seen in those parts which should be fleshy and are not and it happens some times to the whol Body not when it decayeth of which we shall speak in the Chapter of Consumption nor when it is naturally small for then it is not out of order since lean folks as we shewed from Hippocrates are longest lived but when it is so lean that it is ugly to be beheld and causeth weakness especially when the Thighs and Arms are withered Senderness of Limbs the Cheeks fallen the Shouders blades stick out and the Belly shrunk in Hitherro is referred the thinness of Womens breasts which is a Dosormity not when they are little Soft and lank Breasts for that is accounted an ornament but when they are lank and hang down this in young Women especially is accounted unseemly That Deformity which comes from the undecent figure and proportion of parts is manifold The first is when the Figure is altered in number and magnitude chiefly from inequality sometimes from the Birth sometimes by accident As when the Head is too sharp pointed or otherwise deformed The indecent Figure and shape of Parts the Forehead wrinkled the Nose crooked the Mouth and Lipps awry or any other part is disproportioned To describe all these punctually would be very superfluous and ask much labour Hitherto may be referred the over curling of Hair like black Moors Hairs too curled which if a little curled is an ornament and hair hanging straight down is unseemly also Nayles if wrinkled and standing forth are ugly Nayles uneven The second kind of the Figure of parts deformed is when that continuity by which they ought to be united is divided Division of parts which ought to be â—nited or the connexion dissolved This we spake of concerning wounds and ulcers but if after Cure the same Division and separation remain which spoils the Figure and Proportion that may be referred to this Head As also the which comes from the birth The division of the upper Lip or hair lip by nature Among which is the hair Lip when the upper Lip is divided originally called in dutch Hasenscharten from the hare whose Lip seems naturally divided as if cut this deformeth the Mouth by making the Teeth alwaies appear Hitherto may be referred the inequality of Teeth when they are broken and rotten The Rotienness and breaking of Teeth by which Women seem uncomely To this the Poet alludes in his Remedy against love If Teeth shee want then cause her often to laugh This is worst when the teeth are black and when there are only stumps remaining The Nayles having continuity divided bring Desormity The Rottenness roughness clifes and dividing of Nayles especially in the hands because most visible and this is worst if it go not away as the Nayles grow and are cast off Roughness and corrosion is worst when the Nayles are black and blew or too thick to this head may be referred the cleaving or clifts of the Nayles when they are divided long wayes or transverse these are the signs of Elephantiafis French Pox and the like Also the fissure or cleaving of hair in the head or beard is uncomely Fissures of the Hair because it causeth inequality and folding especially if many be so cloven To these are added those deformities which proceed from the scarse Skin separated from the Skin Dandrough not as they cause pain but uncomliness of which we speak concerning excoriation and galling they are called
unnaturall shape from some other transmutation and commixion of Seed as by the commixion of two seeds conceived and their mutuall concretion in certain places except they be separated it may chance that two Children may be brought forth of divers figures which permutation and commixion of seed as it may come from divers causes so from some impression which the Mother conceives either in time of conception or when she was great with child from fear or other affection or from strong meditation or imagination As she which being great with child and longeth for some kind of meat which is not fit produceth a Child which deformity either in number magnitude or figure By which means sometimes it hath as it were new parts resembling others or something resembling the thing described adhering to the body from the birth And among others we have seen a child have hairs like those of a Mouse upon the Thighs because the mother being great strook upon that part with her hand when she drove away a mouse Many monstrous births have been by these means which happened from imagination divers wayes so that Children are many times unlike their Parents because in the time of conception and when the Woman is great they have thought upon other people This diffimilitude or unlikeness is more incident to be from mankind then any other creature because it is subject to more intent and strong meditation and phansie other creatures only exercise their senses or things before their Eyes in the time of copulation and so cause a resemblance in shape and colour as we shall shew in the Chapter of discoloration Some originall Deformities may arise from the Mothers blood because the child is there with nourished while it is in the womb The Mothers Blood is the cause of some Diseases naturall in magnitude increased or diminished or indecem Figure not such as are in number of parts increased or diminished because every part proceeds from the seed but such as are in magnitude exceeding or defective or in uncomely figure or shape These Deformities come from the Mothers blood either being too much or too little or from the change or commixion of the same as we shall declare when we speak of internall causes Divers kinds of deformities come from externall causes as when any hurt or wound divideth the continuity of parts and so spoils the shape if it be in a sensible part and causeth pain we have spoken to them in the discourse of pains Also an unseemly figure may come from an outward force which dislocateth the parts or breaketh them in regard that there is then a loss of motion in the part we have spoken thereof in the Chapter of immobility where we spake of Luxations and Fractures Other deformities of this kind which are in number magnitude and figure come from divers causes either internall or externall The distempers and faults of the parts which produce deformity from externall causes come after divers manners A wound or an Ulcer is cause of the lameness or taking off of a part or separation or division as when by a wound they are cut off or lamed either by chance or by chyrurgery through necessity for preserving life as when the parts are consumed by an Ulcer by exulceration or often rubbing or when the dead part is cut off in a Gangren or when in a Rupture the Stones are cut off as sometimes they are or when the continuity is dissolved by wound and the wound healed there remains a separation of the parts or when by externall force the Teeth either through pain Force externall causeth falling out of Teeth or looseness or treating of them the fall of hair and gogle Eyes or other affliction are pulled out The hair falls either by accident externall or by industry or by Disease called Tinea The Eyes by violent passion sometimes thrust forth themselves Or when by mastichation and biting of hard things especially if of long continuance the Jaws are separated from the Teeth by which the Roots of the teeth being made bare they are less firm then before and sometimes fall forth especially the Foreteeth having but one Root when others will scarce fall out except there be an attenuation of the Roots as we see in dead mens Skulls the Teeth firm and unmoveable when all the flesh is gone The teeth also are broken by strong biting of Bones cracking of Nuts c. It often falls out that they which pick their Teeth with a Kinves point from a foolish custome very often do not only take away their smoothness and make them rough but wear away their substance by continuall scraping As the other cause was violent An outward vehement heat is the cause of loose Teeth or falling off them out or breaking of them so may often use of very hot Meats so burn the teeth that they may be dryed up at the Roots and be no longer firm but very loose in their places and then they offend in scituation or in number if they fall out from that cause Or if by the same Heat of meats the hard substance of the teeth be over dryed and at length burnt they fall out or some part crumbles of and the rest remains broken and weak or they become hollow And this is the usuall cause that young people have so many hollow and unsound teeth especially when they eat very hot meats and broaths which least they should burn their mouths they commonly blow upon first This is the chief cause why our Germans which love hot broaths so much have sooner bad Teeth then other people which is imputed through ignorance to defluxions of Rheum when as we shewed in the pain of the teeth defluxions cannot fall upon the substance of the teeth The swallowing of hot meats and presently drinking cold Drink thereupon while the teeth are hot which many have used from their Infancy causeth teeth to rot and fall out before they are old or at least by the sudden change of heat into cold to turn back From the like Heat the Roots of Hair being dryed and extenuated Great heat the cause of falling of Hair the hair can no longer stay in its Pores but fall out by the least combing this is caused by hot water or fire coming to near therefore when they have killed a Swine they use hot Water to take off the hair and to take off the Feathers from Poultery by which means the Roots of the Quills are so dryed that the Feathers fall off and some loose their Hair after the same manner provided that there be not such a heat as to stop the Pores and astring the Skin so that they must come both off together as it often befalls them that dress Hogs with too hot water this mistake is called in dutch Berbruen these are the causes neither can hair fall by moistning the Skin and opening the Pores only except the water be very hot though it be long used
aforesaid Simples for the same use To preserve the Hair from falling when you are afraid thereof use this Take of Oyl of Myrtles or of Mastich two ounces of Labdanum and Hypocizstis or Acacia dissolved in sharp Wine or Vinegar two drams of Allum or Salt two drams of Wax as much as will serve to make an Oyntments or Take of Oyl of Roses and Quinces each one ounce of Labdanum dissolved in Verjuyce two ounces of Mastich one dram and an half of the pouder of Galls Cyprus Nuts and Myrobalans each one dram mix them for an Unguent to these you may add the ashes of Filbirds Nuts and Bees and other dryers above mentioned If you desire hair to grow again or to come forth we may use Fomentations with Liniments before and after or alone and they are made of the Decoction of Southernwood Maiden-hair Goldilocks Horehound Vervain Myrtle leaves sour Docks Rosemary flowers-Chamaepyts or Groundpine Rosemary topps and Sage if the Head be to be washed Take the Roots of Reeds or bark of an Elme the herb Ferula if you can get it Linseed torrefied and Spikenard according to Dioscorides And if the Hair sall by reason of bad Humors we must add those things which clense them away as Senna Guiacum roots of Briony Wildgourd Snakeweed Spinage Lupins Beans Bran boyling them to a Lixivium or make a Lixivium or Lye of the ashes of Juniper Southerwood Horehound Nuts Almonds Snails sometimes adding other ashes as before and boyling other things aforementioned in the same sometimes Fomentations are made of stilled Waters as of Southernwood maiden-hair Goldenlocks with distilled Honey which you may use with ashes of Labdanum Also a Water of Lard and Honey with other proper Plants is good There is another of boys urine Wine and Milk distilled in equall parts to which add Southernwood and other proper herbs and sometimes Mustard seed to make it stronger The ashes of Tobacco boyled first in Boys urine do cause hair to grow and kill Lice wonderfully The urine of a Cow or Mare in which Faenugreek seed hath been boyled is also used To prevent the Falling of hair make more astringent Decoctions in sharp Wine or Lye or ironed Water leaves of Myrtles and berries of the same Elme barks red Roses Galls Cypress Nuts with other things The Falling of hair from the French Pox is cured by a Fomentation of Milk as we shewed adding Butter the Oyl of sweet Almonds and the like Lenients to attemper the acrimony of the Humor besides these externall Medicines That soote which comes from Pine-tree burnt or Frankincense or other Gums especially Storax which sends a sweet sent doth cause the growing of hair in the Eye-brows often and hard rubbing of the part while it grows red with the Figg leaves or rough cloaths helpeth to cause hair by drawing forth the moisture or rubbing with sharpe Juyces as of Raddishes Onions Garlick Squills and the like If the down be first shaved off or the thin hairs very often it helps much to make them thicker and longer This will cause the nourishing moisture to come to the part and the hairs come forth better this is the best way to produce a Beard and when hair falls it will grow stronger the smoothness of the Eye-brows is amended if with blacking or Soote with Oyl of Nuts and vernish you make a paint When the Body or parts thereof grow too big The Cure of the over largeness of the body of magnitude of parts increased of over-large Orifices or the Orifices too large if they be originall from the Birth they cannot be cured nor can we cut off any thing from a part too large or sew up large Orifices or conglutinate them for then they would loose their use which is of more concernment then Deformity Yet for to astring some Orifices if they be not too wide by Nature but caused by Force without Rupture Women have some Medicines for the externall Orifice of the womb The Cure of the mouth of the Womb being too large to make them conceive the better and to conceal the loss of Virginity by often applying astringents which make the parts straighter A Fomentation or Incession is used for this purpose made of the Decoction of Galls and Pomegranate peels in Rain or Smiths Water with red Wine Vinegar and Allum sometimes they add Comfrey roots leaves of Sumach Plantane Oak Cypress Nuts Pine barks and other astringents and sweet sented as Cypress writing Inke applyed with clouts doth strongly astring or this following Take of Pomegranate flowers half an ounce Mastich or Frankincense and Dragons blood each two drams of Asphaltum or Mummy Arabick in red Wine and Juyce of unripe Pears or Sloes make a past and apply it or sprinkle on the pouder of Bole Galls and Mastich to which add Antimony and Scales of Iron To strengthen the Privities and help Conception this water is most proper Take of the great Comfroy roots Galbanum Roman Vitrioll Pine-gum Ammoniacum sweet Almonds Cypress Nists grains of Sumach Terra sigillata each equall parts pouder them and mix them with Sloe-water boyl them a little and with water being warm foment the Privities with a linnen cloath This following is of the same if not greater Vertue Take of the leaves of Myrtles Swine-cresses each four handfulls of green Medlars Sloes and Pears each two pugils and an half of Hens Gizards thirty distill them in Balneo mariae and let the Water be put into the Privities with a lock of Wool often If the Nayls grow continually thick it cannot be cured The Cure of Nayls that are too thick or too long for if you shave some from them the next wil be as thick But when the Nails are too long although it be Naturall in regard they bring Deformity and hinder they must be cut to the quick so that they be even with the flesh for to cure long hair This is done by trimming according to the custome of the Country but when they grow too long in a place they should not as in the Forehead The Cure of hair growing too long or in the upper Lip of a Woman which is usuall or upon her Chin which is monstrous or when they are too many in the Privities then they must be taken and prevented from returning which is most difficult but it is to be done by outward applications a preparative going before either by pulling forth or cutting them off or burning the skin when there is a Plethory you must prepare by letting blood if you intend to burn them off to prevent Inflamation and pain you must also purge Some use sweating before either in a dry Bath or with hot Water that the Pores being opened the Medicines applyed may have the better Operation But this is not so necessary because it will be done without but they do well after to clense the skin from the Liniments and filth especially when they stick fast in the Privities Topiks are divers to make
so soon in other parts as in this most white subject Divers spots discolour the Eyes as those that are red or blew in Sugillation Blew Eyes or Hyposphagma called blood shot these are not only in the white but in the Rain-bow of the Eye and they appear more bloody then in the Skin Exanthemata and Ecthymata Pox and Measles in the Eyes that is Measles and Pox as they insect the whol body so sometimes the Eyes and hurt the sight and if many Pustles be within the adnate and horny Tunicle called Cornea they cause blindness The Cornea or horn Tunicle of the Eye is hurt with white spots The white spots in the Eyes if these be right before the Pupilla or sight they cause blindness but if in the white of the Eye they neither change colour nor hinder sight as was shewed in the Pin and Web Scar and Suffusion or filme in the Treatise of sight depraved or hurt The common people think the Eyes uncomely if too grey Grey and black Eyes because the clear part about the Pupilla which useth to change colour is grey and the blacker it is by consent from the Pupilla which is alwaies black the more comely are the Eyes Although Ancients commended grey Eyes and called Minerva Glaucopis from thence yet our age alloweth them not for the best and would change them if it could Also the Teeth being Naturally white are easily infectly and discoloured Yellow and black teeth as when they are yellow with filth sticking to them or when they grow black from their own Corruption or from Vapors in great Diseases The Nayls are discoloured and spotted by erosion The spots of the Nails sometimes they are too black and blew sometimes too red which Colour is not in the Nails but shineth from the flesh beneath through the Nails as if it were in the Nails as bruises being under them are seen through and blackness in the topps from filth but in young people especially there are small white spots in many places of the Nayles which first rising from the Root grow with the Nayles and are pared off and others grow in their Room The vulgar think that these are a signe of long life in men and women The hair is counted discolored only when it is turned exactly white from a Disease White downy hair which took off the former Or when young people grow grey too soon it is Natural and honorable for an old man to be so hence the Poet said Baldness In old time grey Hairs were of much esteem This Greyness comes soonest in the beard though that come forth long after the hair of the head very red and black hairs are not counted discoloured Red black and yellow hair although they are by Common People accounted less comely on the contrary they that have yellow or gold coloured hair are counted comely because they are according to Nature and black also except curled and like the Moores The Causes All the Causes of Discolouration whether it be general or particular in the Skin Eyes Teeth Nails and Hair come either from Humors as Seed Blood nourishing Juyce Choller or from evil Humors or Filth or other defilments or from Heat Cold or Dryness as shall be in order explained As we shewed in Deformity that it came in respect of Number in Deformity The Parents seed is the Cause of Discolouration and spots original in the Skin Eyes and Hair that it came in respect of Number of Parts Magnitude and Figure from the Parents seed many times so from the same comes Discolouration and hereditary Spots which also as the Diseases in form and figure come from the seed and the Natural colour of the skin is derived from Parents to Children as that blackness which is counted uncomely comes Naturally from Parents of the same colour and Children are grey or black eyed like their Parents and haired black yellow or red like their Parents And as in men often so alwaies in Beasts they produce their like in colour This hath been observed to be true also in Birds especially Pidgeons of which if one or two only be black or different in colour all the rest being white there shall be so many and no more of that colour and if the Eyes of the Pigeon be black yellow or crystalline the young will have the like They that study Pidgeons are so observant therein that they remove those whose colour they like not least the young should prove of the same As this similitude of Natural colours comes from seed rightly and Naturally ordered and disposed so if it be otherwise divers colours and strange spots may come as we said concerning Deformity namely by transmutation or permistion and divers Causes amongst imagination can do so much as that if a woman in the time of Conception or after when with Child apprehended any thing strongly by sight or imagination the same shall have impression upon the Child as Histories report a Woman to have brought forth a black More by beholding the Picture of a black More in the time of Copulation also other spots come from hence as of Mulberries Cherries and the colour of a Peacocks Neck and other representations which we have observed to be Natural from Parents imaginations in their Children some have taught that Beasts have the same imagination to produce the like to what they phansie As the Scripture witnesseth of Jacob who that he might get Cattel from his Father Laban used an Art by barking and peeling Rods that they might be of divers colours to cause the sheep which looked upon them at the time of Copulation to produce party coloured young Pliny saies that Pidgeons will produce Pidgeons of divers colours if the Dove-house be painted with divers colours From the Blood which is over the skin and the flesh Blood in the supersicies of the Body is cause of Redness which in the Description of a Phlegmon I shewed to be Natural in regard it is not only gathered in the small Veins of the skin but the substance of flesh and skin covered therewith as I say there ariseth from the blood a proper colour of the Skin inclining to Rendess to be seen through the Cuticula or scarfe Skin or as there is a perfect Redness in some parts as the Lips and Yard by reason of their spungy flesh containing more blood and in the Yard by reason of Arterial blood and in the Cheeks in which the blood is more frequent then in other parts especially in some constitutions so if this blood should be carried more to the Superficies or outside then ordinary there will be a redder colour but chiefly in the Face which by reason of its tenderness and looseness receiveth blood more easily As we see when the blood is drawn outward with the spirits by external heat the Body begins to be red and the Face to blush and the very white of the Eyes to be dyed
blood through the Body for the same purpose if this abound in the blood or if the greatest part of the Blood be such because not perfectly made red and yet not so corrupted but it is fit to nourish the Body then this being joyned to the substance of the Body for to nourish it still it makes the flesh and skin of the same colour pale and white and the colour is as far from the true Complexion as the blood is being so or when mixed with evil Juyce or water from evil Concoction In Women especially Virgins when that thick Blood flows not so plentifully to the Veins of the womb nor Nature which allots the purest blood for nourishing of the Child and for monethly Evacuation doth not continue her course to carry it thither and send out the crude and evil Blood there will be an evil Habit and want of Terms as we shewed the defect or want of the Terms not being the cause of that evil Habit but the evil Habit the cause of the want of Termes But if with the evil Habit Cachexy and Cacochymy there be also evil Humors about the Spleen which are carried from hence to the meseraick Arteries there will also be as I shewed a Palpitation of the Heart and other Symptomes by reason of the Cacochyma and Diseases of other parts But if this Juyce be crude and plentiful and long before it nourish the Body so that it swell therewith the cachexy is turned into a Leucophlegmacy or white Flegm and if there be much water the Leucophlegmacy will be serous or if the water abound in a Cachexy there wil be tumor of the Feet and of the Belly and Body growing less and the Dropsie called Ascites wil follow the cachexy or evil Habit. Or if this Juyce which ought to nourish the body be so bad that it will not nourish or be very little in Quantity there will be a decay of the Body and the Cachexy will be turned into an Atrophy As we shall see in the Dropsie Ascites and Atrophy how they follow a cachexy This crudity of Blood if there be serosity or waterishness or cacochymy or suspicion of a Dropsie comes often from the Nourishment if such things be taken which produce crude Juyce or Water as we said in the Imbecillity of the Stomach as Summer fruicts that will not last which if they be taken immoderately by young People make them subject to a Cachexy especially by Virgins being weak and using Exercise This crude Blood which causeth a Cachexy and evill Juyce which causeth a cacochymy or water which causeth a Dropsie comes from the Distemper of those parts which are ordained for Sanguification or making of Blood and Chyle as from the Stomach Liver Spleen and the Vessels and Membranes thereto annexed And if the concoction be made imperfect by the Distemper Weakness or other fault of the Stomach the Chylus be crude and imperfect or foule and watery which after in the second concoction produceth the like Blood because it cannot be sufficiently boiled and the rather if the parts ordained for the second concoction are also infirme We have shewed treating of the pain of the Heart what kind of Diseases are from the Stomach and cause pain Blood that is crude unconcocted foule and watery is made by the Infirmities of the Liver Spleen and Veins because these parts are ordained for the Generation of blood The Liver is the Instrument of Sanguification And that Sanguification may be hindered by the Diseases of the Spleen many former Arguments being omitted by which we shewed that the Spleen also is the Instrument of sanguifying and that it may be hindered by the Distemper of the spleen we can prove because as appears by Anatomies when the Liver is sound and the Spleen rotten there have appeared those faults of Sanguification which have been mentioned and have caused a Dropsie so that we need not make the consent between the Liver and the Spleen to be the cause Moreover from the Distemper of the Veins seeing they help to make Blood whether principally as some think or make it better after it hath been wrought by the Liver which all confess the Blood is less concocted and more crude And this cheifly caused by the Distemper of the meseraik Veins that come from the Liver and Spleen because the first change of the Chyle and preparation of it for Blood is by them for they snatch it and retain it first the Diseases which befal the Liver Spleen or Veins by which the sanguification being diminished the blood becomes crude and thence comes the Cachexy either alone with Cacochymy or Weakness Distemper Obstruction Hardness or the like Weakness of the Liver Spleen and Veins which by consent with the Bowels unto which they are joyned suffer with them is properly that which comes from want of Natural heat if it hinder the Functions so that the blood be not sufficiently wrought and therefore too crude Thus it is the cause of a Cachexy in which the Native colour of the body is lost and it grows bigger there is a shortness of breathing by reason of the Distemper of those parts and a pressing pain of the belly the Urin by reason of crudity is waterish especially if through the plenty of Water they cannot be tinctured with Choller if this Weakness last long it turns the cachexy into a Leucophlegmacy by aboundance of crudity which if it come from other causes also will make a Leucophlegmacy serous or watery Also if from the weakness of the attractive faculty of the Liver there be aboundance of Water not sufficiently attracted by the meseraik Veins the Dropsie Ascites as we shewed in the Treatise of the Dropsie will follow but if their weakness be such that the Blood be not only crude but not enough to nourish the Body it will produce a cachexy in which the Body is rather less then bigger or if by this weakness the sanguification is lost an Atrophy will follow A cachexy is known to come from this weakness if there be no other accidents or Diseases in the Bowels it appears by the evil colour of the whole Body that they are weakned and the Patients so affected are called Hepatick or Splenetick This weakness comes from this dispersing of the Natural heat which is from inward Causes from Birth or through Age or from external causes and remaineth after divers Distempers of the Bowels or other long and acute diseases Among which are Feavers after which the Bowels being weakned by too much heat or cold Drink which is usual there follows a Cachexy which by continuance caused the Feet Belly or whol body to swell Moreover great loss of blood especially of the Menstrual causeth a cachexy not only by the loss of Spirits but because the Veins want refreshment by their emptiness and want of heat with which they were nourished not onely by reason of that crude Juyce which is then produced but because the Body being exhausted looseth
was grown very big We also saw a woman loose a great deal of Blood with great Pulsation from the opening of a Vein which could scarce be stopped although many Remedies were applyed having a beating Tumor after the wound was healed which declared it to be an Aneurism And this came either because the Artery was cut by chance in the fleshless bending of the Arm where the Tumor was by reason of the blood ebbing and flowing under the skin after the wound was healed in the skin and not in the Artery Or because the Mouth of the Artery was fresh dilated before the incision was made and that caused that when the skin was cut there was a Flux which caused a Tumor after the cut was healed Neither can an Aneurism not be from the Arterial blood when it is under the skin and corrupted although this may be when blood is sent from the Veins into the empty spaces yet when Blood leaping from the Artery thus opened returns again and the skin is instead of an Artery it may be without concretion as when it is in the Artery And because this cannot be in the Veins an Aneurism cannot be from venal Blood A watery serous Humor produceth in divers places both general and particular Tumors because it is contained in divers parts of the body as in the veins which are dispersed all over and Bowels into which they are sent or in other Vessels being separated from the blood from which places somtimes simple Water otherwhiles mixed with other Humors comming forth produceth divers kinds of Tumors differing exceedingly as they are in the cavity of the Abdomen or Belly Codds Groyns or in the superficies of the Body either in the inferior parts only or al over as shall be shewed in particulars A serous Humor like Water getting into the Cavity of the Belly Water sent into the Cavity of the Abdomen is the cause of the dropsie Ascites or Abdomen causeth the Dropsie Ascites and then the belly swells more or less according to the quantity of the Water and is somtimes so full that it grows very large in which by tapping we have seen taken from the Living and found somtimes in the Dead threescore pound weight and above of water when much had formerly run out at the Feet which water doth not only burden with its weight but by pressing lying and hindering the free Motion of the Diaphragma or Midriff causeth difficulty of breathing of which they so complain and especially when the water goes more to the Midriff and oppresseth it hence it is that they breath better when they are standing for then the water goes downwards And if the same water weaken the Bowels Liver Spleen Veins Stomach and Guts by making them too moist or by its saltness or sharpness from mixture with other Humors or by its Corruption through long continuance till it stink make them too dry the Mesentery Cawle and Reins will be dryed and drawn up and the Fat clodded as we have seen Or if this water corrode the exulcerate in any part or putrifie the same we have seen the Cawle yellow and stinking in many as well as contracted and the Midriff hath been found the same in and opening of Hydropical People if this happen or if any other Bowels be hurt by this Water it will produce worse Symptoms in the hurt Functions of natural parts as want of Appetite Thirst Cachexy Atrophy and Diarrhaea and the like as by Corruption and Gangren of the Stomach by the water long contained therein a Vomiting with Heat and vehement Inflammation of the Oesophagus or Wezand which I saw in an Hydropical Woman which a liltle before her Death vomited often abundance of black stinking Water with great Inflammation of the Throat The cause of this water in the capacity of the Belly is from the parts of the lower belly which contains the Water or from the Bowels that are ordained for Sanguification as the Liver Spleen Reins or from the Veins which go through those parts and the rest or from the Bladder that holds the water from which if they be divided or the continuity dissolved by Diapedesis by which it is strained or Anastomasis by which the Mouths are open this water falls as shall be shewed in particulars Fernelius witnesseth that there is no Dropsie but it is caused by the solution of the continuity or Division of the Parenchyma or substance of the Liver And this by Anatomy we have often known And that chiefly when the substance of the Liver is cleft and gapeth from whence the water passing by it from the Vessels of the hollow and gate Vein and sweating under the Coats being there constrained fills them with water and makes them like bladders by separating the Tunicles from the parts under them which being broken the water runs into the Belly we have often seen these Bladders very large and clear growing to the Liver and Spleen in Men dead of the Dropsies and in an Ape and Butchers find the same in Cattel And when these coats are corroded the water falls directly into the belly The great Dryness of the substance of the Liver which makes it grow less is the cause of these clifts in the Liver And this came rather by a hot then cold Distemper as appears by the great Thirst of Hydropical People and the high Colour of their Urin and other signs of heat rather then cold and in regard they have it that time most deliciously with spiced meats and drink the strongest wine and so continue being young or aged at which time they fall into a Dropsie by reason of the Dryness of their bowels and they jestingly complain that they are troubled with water though they never drank it in their lives And this we have observed to have been the chief cause of dropsies in our Country and we perceive that a perpetual thirst in Drunkards which they long have had from the hot Distemper of their bowels which makes them ever drinking is a most sure fore-runner of a Dropsie if another Disease doth not prevent it by Death This also may come by heating of the Bowels immoderately with hot Medicines with which Women labour to warm the Stomach and Womb or when they have other cold Diseases These bowels may also be dryed and cleft by hot sharpe and constant Diseases as Feavers and Jaundies and therefore the Dropsie which sheweth rather the signs of heat then cold followeth these Diseases From a hard Tumor of these Bowels either all over them or in any part in the concave or convex part of the Liver or in the Spleen may these Clefts come from a Scirrhus of the Liver or Spleen or any other Tumor which will turn to an Imposthume Or there may be such openings by which the water may fall into the Abdomen because from this Hardness the Tunicle quickly cleaveth and if it imposthume and ulcerate then there is way made for the water as shall be said in
retained but carried to the Navel by the vessel that endeth there and gathered under the skin and to produce a tumor like a bladder of water and from thence to flow into the Belly and to break out of the Body so plentifully that the whol belly was emptied We saw one that had his Belly swollen before he died from the breaking of his Bladder and his urin dispersed into his belly in regard another had leaped upon his belly when he lay upon the ground drunk which brake his bladder being stretched out with Drink And it is probable that the same may happen from the breaking or otherwise opening of the Ureters when the water flows out and that a Dropsie may come from thence because they may live long after This I have observed in a Child which new born lying in his Cradle after a long suppression of Urine voided a little stone and much Urine therewith and growing older died miserably of a Dropsie with shortness of breathing having first had great pain in his right Groyne when his Urine was stopped for a time till his Ureters broke which caused the Dropsie If water fall into the cavity of the Cod it will either cause that Tumor which is in the Dropsie Ascites with Swelling of the Belly Water fallen into the Codds is the cause of Hydrocele or water Rupture or the Hydrocele which is without a Dropsie And this tumor being waterish comes from no other part then the belly in both cases into which it first fell and from thence fell into the Codds And that two waies the one by Aanastomosis or Diapedesis which is when the water goes under the skin from the belly into the Codds as in the Dropsie Ascites where it falls the same way into the Feet also The other way is by the Peritonaeum which brings the seminary Vessels to the Codds if it be so enlarged that the water gathered in the Belly may fall by it into the Codds for albeit the relaxation be not so large as that is by which the Guts fall into the codds yet if it be small the water may distil by drops And this relaxation may come from the water only which moistneth that part of the Belly where these passages are without other force but if such be there is a greater Dilatation and Rupture the way being enlarged and the Codds are sooner filled as we shewed in the Dropsie-rupture But if Moistness be the cause only it will come with much water as in the Dropsie but in the watery Rupture it will come slower because there is but little water and falls by degrees into the belly and so into the codds And we have shewed that not only solution of continuity in the Bowels and Vessels but also Anastomosis and Diapedesis of the Meseraick Veins may be the cause of gathering water into the belly in a Dropsie And this seems to proove that in a Hydrocele the water doth sweat through or drop from the Mouths of the Vessels because that in this case they have no other Disease but Swelling of the Codds and it is long a growing and the water is by Degrees carried through the Tunicles of the Veins or Mouths thereof And we have shewed that this may come from the same Causes from which the Dropsie sometimes proceeds but less and such as bring less Damage in regard the water Naturally sweating forth and bedewing the inward parts of the Belly although it abound not much yet may it without a preternatural Cause be gathered into the Codds the wayes being laid open by Moisture or the like causes and so the relaxation of the Passages may be the only cause of Hydrocele or Water-rupture When a serous Humor falls into the Groynes of women When the water gets into the Groins it causeth those watry Tumors in Women it makes a Tumor like the water Rupture And that by reason of the loosness of a Passage by which a certain Vessel comming from the womb is carried without the Peritonaeum into the Privities not unlike that of men which serve the seminary Vessels Which relaxation may come from the same causes with Hydrocele by reason of its moistning the parts and becauseit was first in the Belly Among which Causes strong throws in Child-beaing or Ruptures in this part may occasion the Dilatation and the Tumor following thereupon Somtimes in Dropsies the Humor which is gathered in the Belly In the Dropsie Ascites there is a Collection of water in the Cavity of the breast is carryed to the cavity of the Breast which is perceived after Death upon Dissection though before it appeared by no tumor except as we said in an Empyema or matter in the side there be so much of it gathered together that it cause a Swelling in the spaces between the Ribbs Besides we may gather from shortness and difficulty of breathing which then troubles Hydropical Persons more though they stand upon their Feet that there is water in the Breast because as when it is in the Belly by washing the Midriff below so when in the breast by oppressing it above it causeth weight and hindering its motion two waies causeth difficulty of breathing and the rather because it somwhat hinders the motion of the Lungs But how it is carried from the belly to the breast we cannot find another way then by the Midriff because that separates the parts and by which as by the Peritonaeum or inward Rimme and the Muscles thereto adhaering we have shewed that it may sweat into the Belly or be carried by the Mouths of the Vessels so also may it here pass through the Midriff except some corrosion as we shall shew may be by water long retained or other perforation do make it way For which Reason if water comming not from the belly in a Dropsie but another part into the breast as in other Discases passing through the Midriff fall into the lower belly it may cause a Tumor there or if it go farther a Tumor in the Feet And this we suppose to be the cause why short breathed or Asthmatical People are Hydropical except the Causes of both Diseases do meet and at length though not presently the Feet in the Diseases of the Breast will swell except the water find another way under the Skin from the Breast downwards Water getting into the hollow of the womb A Flux of water by the womb in the Dropsie Ascites and enlarging it causeth the belly to swell and this is called the Womb-Dropsie But we shewed in the Diseases of the womb that the capacity of it was not so large to hold so much water nor can it be so dilated except there be a Child growing therein yet it may happen that water gathered in the Belly may be voided externally by the womb either all or it in part which may cause the asswaging of the Tumor which caused men to think that was gathered in the womb But when this is so it is poured
forth by the Veins which are in the Neck of the womb which sendeth forth the Menstrual Blood or Whites by an Anastomosis when Nature labours to disburden her self by this way which is ordained for the same so that there is no need to determine that the water was in the bottom of the Womb which caused the Belly to swell It may also somtimes happen that before the Belly is full of water it may find out a Passage by the Veins of the Neck of the womb in a Cachexy or evil Habit or the Leucophlegmacy and so prevent a Dropsie as long since I observed in a Woman of an evil Habit of Body which is yet alive which often hath her Terms abundantly and when they cease she avoideth abundance of water by the Neck of the womb When water is carried downwards in the Dropsie Ascites it causeth a tumor in the Feet with that of the Belly because the humor being thin still goes downwards and when it is fixed in the lowest parts it causeth first an appearance and when the Flux continueth and filleth the Feet it tendeth upwards by the Legs and Thighs to the Loins and Belly and there it being under the skin is more manifest in which places it doth not onely list up but softens the skin so that if you press with your Finger it will pit and continue so somtime And when this watery Humor gathered under the skin moveth it happens that if the Legs are downwards as commonly they grow bigger by water comming thither and the Belly somwhat less and if by lying down or other waies they are lifted up the water comming back swells the Belly and the Legs are less This watery Humor in the Dropsie Ascites sweating into the Feet Leggs Belly and Loins from the branches of the hollow Vein or flowing by Anastomosis is referred to that kind of Dropsie which comes from plenty of water in the Veins because the water doth not only flow from the branches of the hollow vein into the belly but also outwardly as in a Leucophlegmacy and we shall shew that the Leggs swell by that way In all other Causes of the Dropsie Ascites which depend upon the Diseases of things contained in the Guts and of the Meseraick Veins it seems to be evident that the water is carried to the outward parts and so to the Feet from the cavity of the belly into which it first came not only in regard that when the water falls downward into the Legs the tumor of the belly abateth but because the breathing is freer and when the water comes back these return And this certainly confirmes it because when the scarse skin either breaks or is opened in the Legs that are swollen the Tumor of the belly is abated by the water that drops out by degrees or if it flow violently or long it quite goes away and many measures of water flow this way forth which could not be contained any where but in the belly because the Feet while they do swel and when they are abated send forth much water which could not come but from the belly And it is to be prooved in that when water gets into the belly from the hurt of the Bowels which we said was the usual Cause of a Dropsie and when there is no Fountain of water but from thence the Feet will swell before you shall perceive a Tumor in the belly this shews that it came from the belly because it was no where else But as these are plain so how this serous Matter can fall without the cavity of the Peritonoeum in regard there is no apparent Passage through the Membrane it is not manifest Wherefore we gather that this is done by a Diapedesis and that the Serum or Whey doth sweat through the Membrane under the skin which is distended by Swelling and moistned with Humors and falls by degrees between it and the parts beneath unto which it is joyned downwards as in other Defluxions And we conceive that it may return the same way upward because in other parts it doth so that is pierced through the Membranes and pass through the Veins Or that it comes by an Anastomosis in the mouths of the Veins dispersed into the skin from the Peritonaeum when the Whey gets in and flows that way into the parts beneath and returns again by the same Or because some part of the Peritonaeum is so corroded by a sharp and stinking water that water may pass through it under the skin As by Anatomies we have seen that the Membrane hath not been eaten through in one but divers places and somtimes in that place where it encompasseth the Midriff upon which the Liver and Spleen do lie And if the Tunicles of those vessels be also eatenthrough the parts touching will grow together as we have shewed formerly But in the case of him that had a Dropsie with a Rupture whose Guts with water had filled the Codds and were grown to the Peritonaeum as we shewed this growing together came from the corroding of the water by which the Tunicle of the Gut and its Membrane were eaten through And this as other Glutinations proveth that parts cannot grow together except their Tunicles or Skins be taken off as we see in Fistulaes Moreover since we have observed in men alive that this water in the Navel which came from the cavity of the belly not by the Navel-vein which is rooted in the Liver and if opened would send water from the Liver and not from the belly and in less quantity but by the Peritonaeum to the Superficies of the skin which it raised into a bladder being gathered under the scarfe skin which being cut all the matter in the whol belly flowed forcibly forth Hence we conjecture that nature can find out divers Passages for the water to pass under the skin through the Peritonaeum Perhaps by Bladders inwardly growing as outwardly or by solution of continuity some other way and if after Death there were more Anatomies made of such as dyed of Dropsies there would be many such things discovered which are yet unknown When a watery Humor gets into the Habit of the whole body When water gets into the whol body it is the cause of Leucophlegmacy it causeth that General Swelling which is in Leucophlegmacy which comes not only from crude Nourishment as we shewed but of a serous Humor less or equal or more in quantity in which not only the substance of the parts is too much increased but being watered with the Serum it is made softer takes Impression sooner and longer retains it And these appear most in the Feet because water being thin alwaies goes downward and they are very like then to the Legs of Hydropical Persons And this may be called the water between the skin or Aqua intercutis Now this serous Humor comes not in this mentioned Leucophlegmacy from the capacity of the Belly but from the Veins distributed into the Habit of the
in their Legs after they are delivered they commonly vanish And if either Man or Woman have them continually they regard them not till they trouble them But if they itch or pain them or turn to an Ulcer they must be cured because while they continue the Ulcer cannot be cured as we shewed in the Kind of Ulcer For the Cure first consider the Plethory and evil Habit or Juyce in the blood and this must first be cured by letting blood and purging as we shewed Then we must apply things that may repress and consume the filthy blood that stretcheth the Veins And that with Lotions or Fomentations with a Decoction made in Forge-water or Lye or Urin of Fennel roots Bugloss the great Agrimony Laurel Cole worts of Rosemary Elder and Lavender flowers Cypress nuts Sloes Lupine seeds Cole-wort seed with Salt and Allum and if you will astringe more with Vitriol Or with this Fomentation or Epithem Take burnt Chalk three ounces Bole or fat Earth one ounce and an half Acacia or dryed Sloes one ounce Sanguis Draconis six drams Myrrh half an ounce strong Vinegar one pint and an half Lye three pounds with a little Salt and Vitriol we stop the flux by Ligatures or Roulers about the part beginning from below upwards as we shewed in Oedema alone or with a Fomentation afore or we wet the Rouler in the Fomentation and strain which will be stronger thereby especially if it be made of Sloes Somtimes we cut off the great Vein which nourisheth the Ulcer when it hinders the Cure of the Ulcer if there were no Ulcer we would not do it because dangerous if but opened It is better therefore to bleed in the other Leg for Revulsion But when we will cut a Vein out that nourisheth the Ulcer first you must mark its Passage above with a Pen as it comes from the Ulcer and then open the skin by longitude and lay the Vein bare then rub the Blood down and tye the Vein above and cut it beneath in length to let out the blood then bind it next to the Ulcer and cut it that part of the Vein which is between the two Ligatures and so the way will be stopped by which the Ulcer was fed The small crooked Veins in the Codds Privities of women and Eye-brows or in other parts of the skin because they hinder not are not regarded but if you will do any thing you must revel the blood from the part and repel and discuss it as in Inflammations only your astringents must not here be so cold least the Blood congeal Cirsocele is when the spermatick vessels are swollen The Cure of the Stone vessel rupture and if it hinder not the Seed it is not regarded because it is hard to be taken without Gelding and except it grow great like a flesh Rupture it is not attempted but you must use Fomentations and the like before it comes to that Aneurisma that is a Tumor from the opening of the artery The Cure of Aneurisma when the blood thereof gets under the skin when it is old is not curable because the blood cannot be repelled by astringents or the mouth of the Artery lying deep be shut Nor may we open it because the Patient would certainly die of a Flux of Blood which cannot be stopped Therefore if at the first Repellers and Closers of the Artery mentioned in Haemorragy or Bleeding do nothing we must leave it except we will use a Ligature or Plate of Lead to keep it down As for an internal Aneurism because it hath no external Tumor of which we spake but produceth the Heart beating we have shewed how it must be ordered when we treated of Palpitation of Heart and Cachexy Tumors comming from Seed as that which is Natural of the Belly in Women with Child require nothing but good Government to prevent Abortion or Miscarriage as shall be shewed in the Treatise of unseasonable Births The tumors of a Womans Belly from a Mole The Cure of the Belly swollen with a Mole is to be mentioned in things cast off because the cause is not to be certainly known till the Mole is brought forth The Cure of particular Tumors is not here to be repeated The Cure of tumors that are from the Birth if they come from the Seed at the Birth as Sarcomata Kernels Struma's and the like because they are to be cured as those CHAP. IV. Of Defoedation or Defilement The Kinds UNder the Name of Defoedation we understand those Infections which defile the Body with many Diseases so that they are that infected with them must leave the society of sound Men. Of this there are two Kinds principally The one is old called Lues Elephantica or Leprosie the other new called the Lues Venerea or French Pox. The body is many waies defiled by them with such as are common to both as tumors pustles ulcers and falling of the Hair and others that are proper to them in particular Pains and Hindrance of Functions There are also other Infections that have been first known our age that defile the Body and are proper to some Countreys among which the Scurvey is most known usual in the North of which we shall speak here leaving other Infections to them that know them It is called Elephantiasis The Leprosie called Elephantiasis from the Likeness of the Patient to an Elephant his Ears growing thin and broad like wings they are called Lepers from the Roughness of their skin and from their Lyon like looks it is called Leontiasis and because they are Lecherous Satyriasis In this there are divers accidents which are to be searched and described because they shew how it came and they who have it are to be examined by the command of the Magistrate and separated from the sound that we may judg rightly and not mistake as usually and offend either sick or sound In regard I have been thirty years appointed and have examined above six hundered suspected of the same I will faithfully declare first the Diseases they have and then the Actions hurt and examine the things cast off that we may know how to judg of the same The outward Infirmities are chiefly in the Heads and Joynts and the Searchers do scarce examine any other part and yet give sure Judgment In the Joynts they examine the Hands and Feet Fingers and Toes and Nails and above the Knees to the Thighs above the Elbow to the Shoulder and in the Head they search the Mouth Eyes Nose inside and outside Face Ears and Hair Eye-brows and Beard and the tumors and ulcers there to judg by them alone or together There are oftentimes little tumors in the Leprous upon the Face and Joynts in the Face upon the Fore-head and Cheeks and making them look wildly which first discover the Disease and are in the Arms Backs of the Hands and in the Feet and Thighs These are moveable and without pain and are blewish red especially in the
Mother Although God sometimes inflicts this as a Punishment with that means It is a received Opinion that one Body will infect another and therefore they are separated one from the other and it appears to be so because the Infection being in the external parts and skin only nay by touching or lying together especially in Mariage may easily be conveighed to the skin of another or by the use of the same Cups or Spoons or taking in of meat which the infected have chewed it may get first into the Mouth and then into other parts As we shewed the venom of the Pox and of beasts could infect by spettle And they are soonest infected that are of a like temper as those of a Kindred as we have upon search found two or three Brethren infected in the same Family Or they have some capacity to receive it which we can scarce declare but it is such because when many have been together in the same danger onely one or two have been infected Also they say that other Creatures infected therewith may infect Man-kind for although Beasts have somwhat like the Leprosie as tumors in the Jawes in Hogs yet because it is not every way the same neither have they other signs of it as men have it is either not the Leprosie or another kind and will infect only beasts of their own kind and not men Also we daily find by Experience that poor people eat daily meazled Hogs and yet have no signs of Leprosie I have observed that a Woman with Child that longed for meazled Pork and eat much of it brought forth a Son who had meazly Pustles all along his Back-bone very like those of Swine spread abroad continuing a while and then vanishing without any other inconvenience We shall affirm little but leave it to every Mans Experience whether from the biting or stinging of venemous beasts or touching only of Venom or drinking or smelling as they say of basil this Leprosie can come or not although the people have divers Opinions thereof It appears this Infection may come from Humors very often because many Leprous Persons have not taken it by Insection and we see often them that have conversed long with Lepers and been married to them to have remained sound Therefore because we cannot perceive any other Cause from whence it should arise we conclude that it comes from within Moreover we cannot say that these Humors from whence the venemous Quality comes into the parts arise from Distemper or Corruption as is generally beleeved because they produce no other Diseases or accidents or signs of the same which use to arise from the change of Humors in that manner but that a certain venemous Quality produceth a Disease like it self And this may be bred in the Blood and with that property by which it can onely hurt some places according to the Nature of poyson it hurts only the skin and Tunicles only and no other part For the doing of which and that its force may come to the Supersicies of the Body it is not needful that all the blood be corrupted for then it would kill the Party but some part thereof Or if this poyson being against Nature be driven to the exteriour parts by it the Cause with its Effect produced will stick there only where the Infection brake forth and no longer be in the Blood although it came originally from thence and so corrupt the substance of the parts and that will corrupt the nourishing Juyce as I shewed and so cause and nourish and Elephantiasis These venemous Seeds in the Blood except the Blood be first insected and then the parts of the Body from it may come from some Corruption in the same or Putrefaction in which the blood may be turned into Venom as in other poysons whereof we have spoken in other Diseases among which as some are said to come from the Terms which are accounted venemous so they say the Elephantiasis comes also not only in a Woman when her Courses are stopped but in a Man by Infection when he hath had to do with a menstrous Woman or in a Child conceived at that time All which come not from the menstrual Blood because it is not of its own Nature in sound women filthy as we shewed except that it or other blood for other Causes contract such evil as may produce the venemous Seeds of an Elephantiasis And it is hard to judg by bleeding whether it comes from meat or a Disease afore going or what kind of Venom it is but by the effect In the Cause of the Elephantiasis begin other Humors as Melancholy as some think it is or any other and if it proceed not from its certain quality though hurtful or if it be Naturally in Humors preternatural or become such from Corruption because other Diseases come from thence which are not found in an Elephantiasis but then also it wil come from the corruption of them from whence these Humors receive a venemous and malignant Quality fit to produce an Elephantiasis they will produce it that as we shewed of Blood by driving it the outward parts of the body and by infecting them It is thought that this Leprosie is contracted by extream Cold external of the Body when men have been long in Water Air or Snow or after vehement Heat as bathing they endure a great cold or when they cool a hot Tumor as Erysipelas too suddenly But because other accidents come from thence as when there is extream cooling the extinguishing of Natural Heat and Mortification of the part we cannot make this a cause of the divers accidents in this Leprosie Nor can we affirm that other Tumors and Ulcers in these outward parts can be turned into this Disease although many think it to be possible in an Erysipelas and Herpes because when they are changed into a malignant Scab which the Greeks call a Leprosie they take it for a kind of Elephantiasis from which it differs as I shewed And if any external Diseases should turn into this the Humors that caused them must first of Necessity turn into a venemous Quality by Corruption In the French Pox that Venom which produceth it The part affected in the French Pox. is chiefly in the Membranes which causeth Diseases there and Pain as we shewed As pains about the Periostium or Skin or Bone where there is no flesh in the Head Shins Breast and Nodes in some places But the Elephantiasis chiefly in the skin the mouth Jawes Nostrils causeth the Hair to fall Spots Ulcers c. The Disease of the French Pox is a Distemper of these parts An evil quality is the cause of the French Pox. and such a venemous quality as is fit not only to produce such accidents as are in the Elephantiasis but more and great pains as appears by what is said in Elephantiasis and in the second Book of the Pox. Where we have at large declared where and how this Venom comming of
Fernelius who distinguisheth this Passage of the Rimme into that which is internal and that which is external faith that in the Gut-rupture and cawle Rupture the inward Rimm or Skin must needs be broken and the outward only enlarged It may be he meant that it was so in Women that these Ruptures came from the Relaxation of the Rimme of the Belly in the Groin where they have as we shewed a peculiar Vessel For he saith that there is a Tendon sent from the Groine to the Rimme of the Belly which strengthneth it and so also the Guts and cawle But in regard that Vessel is not so membranous and thin as the enterance of the Rimme but is nervous and hard and therefore is not so easily enlarged the Guts or Cawle cannot fall into the Groin by the relaxing thereof except it be broken When the Rim of the Belly is enlarged without being broken The cause of Navel-rupture is the enlarging of the Rim of the Belly there there may be a Navel-rupture also and this appears because in great straightness especially of Woman in travail the Navel often swells by the Guts through straining sent chiefly to that part of the Rim where there is a short Passage in the Navel which appeared at the birth in the Navel string and after grew together and there distending or stretching the Rim and when the straining is over and the stretching the swelling goes clean away and returns no more which would not be if it came from the breaking of the Passage for which cause as we perceive plainly that the Navel-rupture continues not so we may collect that the Rupture which remains comes from the Rim of the Belly so stretched by the Causes aforesaid that it cannot return which cannot be in other parts of the rim of the Belly but that in the Groine without a breaking thereof From the Dissolving or Division of the Neck of the Womb The cause of the falling out of the Womb is the dissolving of the connexion of the Neck thereof from the parts unto which it is knit comes the Falling out thereof For the Womb being chiefly held up by its Neck upon which it resteth and unto which it grows firmly and in other parts being free from all connexion or joyning that it may better dilate and enlarge it self in Conception except on each side a little and that loosely to the Rimme of the Belly it cannot be that it should fall all to the Privities except the Neck thereof which is so fastned thereto that it cannot be separated do also follow And because this cannot be without the rending of the fibrous Connexion which is made by the Neck and Parts adjacent The immediate cause of the Falling of the Womb must be the dissolving of the Connexion of the Neck thereof And if this dissolving be in some part onely near the womb the womb will hang down in the Privities with some part only of the Neck turned but if the Neck of the Womb be wholly separated from the parts under it then the Womb will all hang forth with the Neck turned inside outward and the womb will not be so turned in the bottom but as it was when in the Belly the Orifice onely being open drawing with it the Membranes and the Rimme which is joyned to them with the Vessels and Stones And this may be without a Rupture only from the Looseness of the Membranes which can stretch much as we see in Dropsies when the Belly is swollen how the Rim thereof is stretched although the womb hath been long down as appears in that when it is put up again Women may conceive which could not be if the Vessels were divided from it The womb it self causeth chiefly this Separation of the Neck of it from the Fibers or small Veins by which it is joyned to the parts adjacent though not strongly and therfore it may be without great hurt or bleeding when it is forcibly so drawn down that it brings the Neck with it either suddenly or by degrees when there is less force first tearing the Veins next to it and then turning out the neck downward which hanging forth makes it fall more down by degrees through the weight thereof The womb is thus driven down by great and often straining The forcible untying of the Neck of the Womb is the cause of the wombs Falling down by blowing the wind or otherwise which presseth downward the Guts and Womb especially in a womans throws in child-birth when the travail is hard and the womb gets too much downward with the Child and the rather when the Child getting through with difficulty thrusts the Neck of the Womb down and so untieth it from the Veins Or if the Secundine or after Birth sticking still to the womb be so driven by the Midwife that the womb is driven down also with the Neck thereof For these Causes after Child-bearing the womb falls down and those Women which have often brought forth and endured such Midwives are presently troubled therewith or when they grow old The same may come from Leaping or the like Shaking of the Body and the Womb may hang out thereby Also from the Neck of the Womb it self besides when it is pull'd away by the Womb there may be a Falling out of the same when it is separated by Force from the parts beneath by violent and frequent Copulation as in Harlots which are continually rubbed or from some Corruption in the Neck by which we once saw the womb fallen out Also from other Causes this Falling down of the womb can scarce proceed As for the looseness of the Ligaments or of Muscles by which some thought the Womb did hang which they say comes from the Force mentioned and by which the womb is driven down or from the plenty of Humors that wet the Membranes We since there are no such Muscles because as we shewed the womb must be free and Membranes so loosned that they may follow the womb nor so fast tyed as they ought to be if the womb hang by them cannot grant the Falling out of the womb to be from the looseness thereof For although the womb be loosned and the Vessels stretcht beyond their bounds yet can it not fall through the Privities except the Neck be separated also which only holds it in Nor can the breaking of the Membranes be the Cause as some say because we found in the Anatomy of a Woman whose Membranes were putrified and consumed long before her death as appeared by a Flux of stinking matter that the womb moved not out of its place but was firm As for the watery Humor which they say causeth the Falling out of the Womb we shewed that it could not do it by moistning the Ligaments and now declare that in Women that have the Dropsie in whom the womb and its Membranes swimms in water the womb falls not out yet it may come to pass in the Whites that the neck of
the womb being continually moist and therefore too loose that the womb being compelled by other Causes may easier slip down and the neck may yeeld more easily and be inverted Some teach that besides this Falling down that the womb while in the Belly may be moved on one side and get also up to the Stomach But being it grows to the neck and is compessed every where with the guts abiding commonly in the middle it will not easily get into other parts and will rather go downwards then upwards Except perhaps it grow so that it take up more room then formerly as we see in Women with Child and then also it rather goes downwards by its weight and the Belly is more swollen and harder beneath For which reasons and the other accidents in the Mother-fits we declared in the Cure of them that they come rather from Vapors that arise from the womb then from the ascending of the womb it self The Falling out of the Fundament is from the Inversion or straight Gut The cause of the falling out of the Fundament is straining for then it swells as when going to stool the Fundament sticks out with straining to let out the Excrements till it be drawn in again so that if by great force and straining with hard Excrements it be so brought down that it brings a part of the straight Gut with it it is the cause of its staying out The same may be from other causes that bear down as in Child-birth when the Delivery is hard the Fundament also falls out also from forcing about the Fundament as in the Tenesmus or needing or in the Flux called Dysentery And we have seen in an Incision made in the Rimme or Peritonaeum near the Fundament for taking a stone out of the Bladder that through pain the Fundament hath been by straining thrust out and the Yard also though in an Infant and little hath been swollen and stood And I have observed in some Children troubled with the Stone that they had not only this coming forth of the Fundament alwayes when they strained to make water but an Extension of the Yard especially in the Head and Fore-skin from their often handling of it through pain which were the undoubted signs of the Stone in the Kidneys And if the Fundament be so thrust out by straining that the straight Gut be drawn from the Mesentery or middle Membrane by which the Guts are held then they cannot be put up or kept in although the Muscles be right against the Fundament to draw it in again gently yet if it be far forth and tied with no Ligaments the Muscles alone cannot do it because if the Fundament be far out they will fall out also It may come from the weakness of the Muscles which draw in the Fundament after stool The Loosness of the Muscles of the fundament is the cause why it cannot be drawn in and constrain it up that the Fundament may be so far forth that it cannot be drawn in by which means the Fundament may be said to be forth but not to fall out except Force or Straining perceeded because it is not so retained by these smal Muscles that when they cease to act it should presently fall out of the Body in which it was included without any Force These weakness which makes the Muscles unable to draw back the Fundament that falls out by stool bofals them which have often had the Falling of it out or it comes from too much cold of the part which is very sensible by sitting upon a cold stone or the like or by staying in the cold Air or Water which touch the Fundament Many suppose that Falling of the Fundament The Loosness of the muscles is the cause why the fundament cannot be drawn back and that which is called the Palsey of the Fundament comes from Loosness of the Muscles through a Defluxion upon the Nerves But it is improbable that a particular Palsie of this part should be alone without any other part affected from the Defluxion Nor is it probable that a Defluxion which must needs fall in abundance to cause a Palsey should fall only into the lowest part of the os sacrum where these slender Nerves are accompanied with these Muscles and not rather sill the whol Cavity of the os sacrum by which means the Nerves might be dissolved Therefore if there be a Palsie in the Muscles of the Fundament it would be in the whol Body or in the inserior parts as well as there And though there be a great Resolution of parts in an Apoplexy we find none there nor doth the Fundament fall forth nor in any other Palsie when all the lower parts are resolved yet the Patient can go to stool and draw in the Fundament and though it be weaker for the Disease yet it falls out For which cause if difficulty of drawing back of the Fundament be from the Nerves which comes soldom it comes from a Palsie caused by a Defluxion and we suppose that it comes from compression of the Nerves or contusion by Fall or Stroak about the Crupper or from some great Coldness of the part which is not only upon the Muscles but Nerves When the Connexion of the Eye with its hollow roundness is loosned The Connexlon or Fasting of the Eye being loosned by a Contusion is the cause of its coming forth it falleth out and this comes by fome violent Cause because it is so fixed to the place that when it is brought to the Table boyled it can scarce be got out Yet the Eyes fall out by a great Contusion of the head by a Fall or Stroak And scarce by another means except they start out a little by straining as in Child-birth crying or roaring and so seem bigger yet they fall not out by that means but only stick out of which we spake in Deformity because by straining they cannot be much dissended but a little forced by the Muscles Some think that the Eye may fall out by the stretching of the Globe with Wind and Moisture gathered before it but since we find no Cavity in the Eye but it is full every where and there is no way for these to get in or can they be bred in the Eye or come from other parts we cannot yeeld to them As we shewed in the Causes of pains of the Eyes from Wind and Filmes which they suppose to come from Defluxion of Water The Falling out of the Tongue may be from the loosning of its Connexion The loosning of the Connexion of the tongue from a contusion is the cause of its coming forth it is so strong bound by Muscles a Coate and Ligaments that it must be done by great Force But it happens from a Contusion of the Neck or Breast as when theeves are racked their Tongue sticks out and it may also come by other means I saw one whose Stones hung out by a wound which was given upon his Codd
as we shewed may do well here in this solution of the Continuity of the small Fibres or Veins You may make other Pessaries of pouders in the aforesaid Oyntments if they be first mixed with the white of an Egg the Infusion of Gum Traganth or Mucilage of Comfrey or of Quinces and put into a bag And if these Pessaries be troublesom you may make others as big as your finger for the night only of the same things Or you may wet wool in Vinegar and the white of an Egg and sprinkle the pouders thereon and put it in Another Pessary prescribed for the Whites begins thus Take Galls or Acorn-cupps c. is good here Some commend an Eg that a Hen hath sitten upon some daies beaten and put up with wool There is a way among women to keep the womb from falling out by carrying a round Ball therein which must be so big that it fills the Privities and not be put in by great force It must be smooth slippery and light that it may not hurt the tender parts with its roughness or weight and hard that it may better hold up the womb and dry that it may take in no Moisture least it fall out again It is made thus of Cork or Beets by glewing two pieces together if one be not big enough brought into a ball or a bottom of thread and let it lye in melted wax till it be covered over therewith Which she must thrust up with a string fastned thereto to take it out and let her wear it day and night and not take it out but when she is to use a Man This though it be a little troublesom yet it is better then to have the womb fall out This trick have I shewed to many women in a miserable Condition which hath cured them among whom one which a long time before had not known her Husband conceived with the ball in her womb which she voided when she was delivered of a Boy with her Secundine or after-birth You may use Injections with a Syringe for the same made of the Decoction mentioned for a Fomentation and this is best There is a strong Injection made of few things Take Galls three ounces Moss two ounces Comfrey roots one ounce Vine ashes two drams boyl them in Forge-water and the third part of red Wine for an Injection There are also Fumes for the same made of the same Decoction for a Fomentation hot which is very piercing and good As those of Comfrey roots Snakeweed Cabbage stalks Box topps The Fumes of Frankincense Mastick Amber Labdanum Bitumen Pitch Colophony with stinking things are stronger as Galbanum Castor and that abhominably stinking Divels Dung with other astringent Pouders or they may be made into Troches with Rosin Orpiment is very drying but in regard the smâ—ak thereof is hurtful you may better use Varnish That Fume which is prescribed for the Whites that begins thus Take Mastick two drams Frankincense c. is good here Experience teacheth that the Smoak of dryed Cow dung is very good And the Hoof of a Mule burnt doth the same miracles with the Smoak in this case Many things mentioned to stop the Terms outwardly or inwardly are good here to astring but it is better to forbear them least they stop the Courses except the time be past They suppose that the womb follows sweet things and flies from stinkes and therefore they apply the sweets to the Nose and the stinkes to the Privities Somthing vomiting will fetch it up but it is too forcible and so is neesing and rather presseth down the Entrals The womb is kept up by lying down and while the woman is so it remains in its place Also Conception keeps the womb from falling out and while she is with Child it cannot fall down because it grows larger with the Child and cannot fall out till after Child-birth it grows little again The Fundament by straining The Cure of the falling out of the fundament and the straight Gut may be turned out and somtimes it will return again with ease but if this be at every stool and the Patient weak and the Muscles relaxed it is hard to be cured and not at all if it be torn from the Membranes to which it was fastned For the Cure first begins at the Cause and then look at the Disease which is the falling out of the Part. To avoid the Cause if straining at stool be it keep the Body loose with Clysters and Medicines and good Diet. If it come from hard travail or from cutting of the Stone it will be gone when they are over Then you must have a care to put up the part and keep it in by divers means The Fundament is put up by the Hand of the Patient or of the Surgeon pressing with his fingers or with a clout for that purpose And if it be swollen or inflamed which hindereth its going up you must first cure them As we shewed in the Falling out of the womb when it is swollen We keep in the Fundament that it fall not out again by divers Remedies either such as astringe and stop the Passages or that unite the separated parts or by things which amend the temper of the Fundament when it is too cold or weak or loose and relaxed by which means it cannot keep up And this is done by things given inward or applied outward to the Fundament or injected into it If it come from Solution of Continuity you may give somthings prescribed in the Falling out of the womb to consolidate or heal but abstain from strong Astringents least you make the Belly more hard and cause greater straining which will force it forth But if the Fundament come forth by loosness through the Falling down of an humor you must use things that purge and alter which are mentioned in the Palsie The same things that are prescribed by way of Fomentation and Pouders for the falling out of the womb may be used for the falling out of Fundament and straight Gut and they will do the same by holding up and fixing the Part. You may also use other pouders such as were used to the womb in form of a Pessary as a Suppository here anointing before As we shewed least they should by their sharpness get forth again Or this pouder Take Galls two drams Pomegranate-flowers one dram and an half Mastick Frankincense each one dram Amber Sanguis Draconis each half a dram burnt Harts horn and Antimony each one dram make a fine pouder You may add Bitumen Pitch and Cockle shells salt-fish Dogs dung and Hogs brisles and the like burnt Or take some of the pouders mentioned in the Oyntment for the Falling down of the womb or anoint the sundament when it is forth with that Oyntment Fume or Smoak is best because the thick and moist things will not be so well retained as that prescribed for the Falling out of the womb especially that of the Decoction of Mullein with Vinegar
from an Organical Disease of the Instrument or Nose when it is too strait it is almost incurable except you prevent the Falling of the Excrements from the Brain to the part But if it come from filth which either from its plenty or malignity is easily corrupted being retained and stopped then you must go thus to work First we purge the Head and Body of the Humors that abound with Medicines mentioned in the Excrementitious Diseases of the Head Then snuff up things into the Nose or anoint the Nostrils with Oyntments which cleanse and provoke Nature to expel the filth and leave a sweet Scent in the Nose For which use we have mentioned divers Errhines or Purgers of the Head by the Nose the Phlegmatick Diseases of the Brain with which you may mix these sweet-scented things following The Juyce of Flower-de-luce anointed or snuffed up is sweet and very good Or thus Take the Juyce of Flower-de-luce one ounce and an half of Marjoram one ounce of rich Spanish Wine half an ounce mix them and add Juyce of Beets to force more Or when there is great putrefaction add to that the Juyce of Centaury and Wormwood each one ounce Vinegar of Roses or Squills half an ounce Myrrh one dram The Juyce of Bayes and Myrtles and other sweet plants may be added Somtimes these are boyled thick that they may stick the better Thus Take of the aforesaid Composition one ounce and an half ad Labdanum Storax each half a dram with Honey or the infusion of Gum Traganth made in sweet Water make a Liniment We use such things to be snuffed or poured into the Nose to cause a sweet Scent as Spanish Wine in which Basil Marjoram Calamints Bayes Lavender-flowers Cinnamon and Cloves have been infused Or the stilled Waters of Orange flowers Roses or Lemmons or of those Plants which were steeped in wine Or other waters of Plants seeds and Spices that smell sweet which with Musk or Ambergreese will be more pleasant Also there are sweet Oyntments of Musk and Ambergreese dissolved in Oyl of Been or the like which take not away the Scent of the other Compositions if they be added Civet is to be used alone The stilled Oyls of Cinnamon Cloves Marjoram and the like mixed with white Wax and put into the Nostrils do smell strongly and last long If a wound be in the rough Artery The Cure of breath from a Wound which sendeth forth Air Breath or Scent it is deadly for the most part because that part cannot easily be cured But if the wound be in the breast and the internal part hurt it is the like for the most part although as I shewed in the Diseases of the Lungs I saw one escaped that had a wound in his Lungs The other wounds of the Breast without hurt of the internal parts must be cured as ordinary wounds When wind comes from a wound that shews the Stomach and Bowels to be hurt and it is incurable I know other wounds in the Guts that have been cured CHAP. IIII. Of the Voiding of Seed The Kinds A Spermatick Excretion or Voiding of Seed in men is the Effusion of it by the Yard in Women it useth to be Naturally into the cavity of the womb and it is preternatural when it is too much or floweth sooner then it ought and the more when it is foul or passeth by an improper way Too great Effusion of Seed weakneth very much and makes the Body faint and unfit for its Offices and discoloureth it and hastneth Age and Death and it comes either by Venery or without When there is too great Effusion of Seed by Venereal Acts Too much Venery Men through Intemperancy and Luxury destroy themselves and Women that before were strong grow weak and men by that means are unfit for Procreation and women for Conception so that as it may be observed in men only The Voiding of imperfect and crude Seed they send forth in Copulation only a drop or too or it is not concocted but crude and bloody and rather Blood then Seed If Seed fall out without a Venereal Act against the will it is called a Gonorrhaea or Running of the Reins and if it be with pleasure because it often comes in the sleep and Dreams it is called a Nocturnal Pollution And if it be often because it weakneth as a Venereal Act it is preternatural and it doth more weaken if it be without pleasure night and day and crude and watery for Continuance Somtimes there is an involuntary Effusion of venemous Seed without sense of delight A venemous Gonorrhaea or Running of the Reins which is not like Natural Seed but is like a certain white and yellow Venom after which follows matter at the Yard and heat of Urin as we shall shew and this is called a virulent Gonorrhaea which is commonly a symptom of the French Pox as we shewed sometimes it is without it in some especially unclean Strumpets with which she infecteth them that trade with her with the Pox or a Disease like it Hitherto you may refer the involuntary Effusion of Seed in the Falling-sickness and Convulsion The Voiding of Seed in a convulsion and although it do no hurt yet it is preternatural We shewed that Seed might flow preternaturally by another Passage The voiding of Seed at another Passage namely by some Origmal Passage or Fistula under the Yard of a Man either from a defect in Conception or which may cause the same Defect It is also preternatural The too quick Effusion of Seed if the marryed people do not at the same time spend their seed especially when it is at the beginning of Copulation or before by the way because this causeth a defect in the Venereal Act so that it either is not or diminished and imperfect Hither may also be referred that Effusion of Seed when only a little froth is voided with vehement desire without sense of satisfaction in pleasure by which though they are not weakned yet it hinders the persection of the Art Some say that matter flowing from the Brain may be sent forth of the Yard but it seems improbable because there is no plain passage into this common way for the Seed and Urin. The Causes The Cause of the mentioned preternatural Fluxes of Seed is either from Irritation or provoking or Weakness or Anastomosis or from a Disease by Consent Too much or too quick Effusion of seed The Irritation or provoking of the Seed-vessels is the Cause of too much Venery and of a Gonorrhaea or involuntary in both Sexes comes from the Irritation of the seed-vessels which pricks the expulsive Faculty If the vessels swell from plenty of seed because it passeth with delight caufing many to be too much given to Venery it is the cause of too great Effusion and of the weakness that followeth except it be from Heat of Lechery to shew themselves powerful at Venereal Game or for gain sake as Harlots do
And the same is done by Irritation if there be more heat or sharpness then is fit as we shewed in the Causes of Lechery Also the same Seed by pricking through the Imagination only of the Act which is usual in dreams and the like thoughts being moved and sent forth causeth Pollutions sleeping and waking Also this comes from the heat of Seed so that it is sooner ejected in the Action then it ought or some part comes forth before the Act. And also that it comes forth with Heat and Burning But if there be great sharpness in the Seed from Infection or Corruption then follows the virulent Gonorrhaea or venemous Running of the Reins comming commonly from the French Pox. And this may come before they have the Pox from some other Venom which was gotten by Infection of other seed in Copulation and so turned corrupt and sharp by which means not only this foul and involuntary Excretion comes by the sharpness but also in continuance of time an ulcer and pissing of matter The involuntary Flux of Seed in the Gonorrhaea The weakness of the Seed-vessels is the Cause of a Gonorrhaea comes from the weakness of the Spermatick Vessels when the seed is watery and not concocted to the likeness of milk for then being thin it easily comes from its place without sense or with very little and without any Cause or with the least pricking not only in the Yard but Fundament when the stools are very hard or as Fernelius speaks of one when a Clyster is given And this weakness comes from distemper especially cold or want of Natural Heat in the Parts or the whol Body which makes the Seed so watery For it is not likely that the Waterishness of the Seed should come from Flegm because it is made of blood which though it be crude and watery yet the stones and breasts do alwayes take the purest blood to make seed and milk in foul Bodies full of Excrements as appears by men of evil Habit of Body getting Children and women that nourish their Children by giving suck when their Blood is impure Also Weakness comming from the loosness of the seed-vessels produceth somtimes a Gonorrhaea when the places containing the seed in their windings and the Vessels that carry it are too large and loose so that it may easily fall out This loosness comes from often Venery in a short time somtimes sooner somtimes later to luxurious People by which the baggs of seed being often emptied and filled and from the loss of spirits are so loose and weak that the seed is thin and watery By the opening the mouths of the Seed-vessels which make it of Blood The Anastomosis or opening of the mouths of the Seed-vessels is the Cause of imperfect and bloody Seed there comes bloody seed or blood instead thereof in Copulation when by the often Action in a short time the Vessels that contain the seed are so empty that they draw blood or imperfect seed from the mouths of the seed-vessels opened by this sucking And this sucking comes from the Lechery or Heat of the Womb as is said of African Women as it happned to a Soldier a while since that lying forcibly with a Countrey-wench was so brought down that after often Lechery he voided bloody seed and by that means fell into a Consumption that caused his death There is also an involuntary Effusion of Seed from a Disease in other parts The shaking of the Seed-vessels in a Convulsion is the Cause of loss of Seed when the Seed-vessels suffer by consent as the Nerves in a Convulsion in which through the forcible shaking which moveth the whol Body the Spermatick vessels being shaken do cast out seed somtimes especially when it abounds even as by the same violence through the pressing of the Muscles of the Belly the Bladder being pressed sends forth the Urin. And this is rather the Cause of loss of seed in Convulsions then the Convulsion of the Muscles of the Seed although they also suffer For though in the Act of Venery they help the Effusion by gentle opening the Vessels yet they do it not before the seed be out of its bag and is carried by them wherefore in Convulsions they do not help the Effusion but the disorderly motion drives it from its place Neither doth the Loosning of these Muscles in an Apoplexy cause the flux of seed as it doth of Urin because these Muscles are made for Retention and not as the Sphincter The Cure If the involuntary flux of feed in both sexes The Cure of the Gonorrhaea be by Nocturnal Pollution from plenty of seed it is not regarded because it never comes but when it aboundeth and hurts not much and is cured either by Marriage or if not by abstaining from things that increase it and provoke it forth But if the Gonorrhaea come from hot and sharp seed that must be tempered And if from weakness of the Vessels it be made too watery it flow too easily or cannot be contained by reason of the loosness of the Vessels by too much Venery because it weakneth the Vessels must be strengthned and the seed thickned all which may be done by the following Remedies applied to the Causes of the Gonorrhaea Somtimes we purge if the seed grow to sharpe and watery from colerick and watery Blood to cleanse it so that it may afford good matter to make seed And with such things as are fit for the Humor abounding these are so ordinary they need not be mentioned here Things that alter are given to stay this Flux according to the diversity of the Cause And if it be from plenty of seed we diminish it with Dryers and that by a proper quality destroy it or consume it if from heat and sharpness we allay them with cool and gentle Remedies If it be too thin and watery we thicken it if the Vessels that contain it are weak or loose we strengthen them with astringent hot and proper things All which are partly done with the Remedies mentioned in Saelacity or Lasciviousness especially if the Gonorrhaea come from plenty or heat of seed which causeth Lechery and partly with these following which are fit for the Gonorrhaea that comes from any Cause A drying Pouder that bindeth and worketh by Propriety Take Roots of Orris Agnus Castus seeds and Coriander prepared each one ounce Seeds of Plantane Roses Rue Winter-cherries Mints each half a dram Amber and red Coral each one dram Frankincense Mastick half a dram make a fine Pouder give one dram by it self or with Sugar of Roses or some convenient Liquor When you will dry and astringe more you may ad these following to the former as Myrtle seeds Bay-berries Sumach Yarrow Agnus Castus Rue Roses and Ceterach Acorns Pomegranate flowers the Pouder of the Guts and Gizards of Hens Bulls or Dears pizles Hair of an Hare burnt Ivory Bole Blood-stone Crystal For to allay the heat and sharpness of the seed Take the
of the Nose that come from the jugular Vein that ascendeth by the Jawes to the Brain being opened by Anastomosis cause an Haemorrhagy The Cause of this Anastomosis is the plenty of blood which Nature desires to discharge by these tender Veins in that place of the Nose which are more easily opened in Men who have no easier Passage for it For that Evacuation which they have by the Haemorrhoids which is seldom and but in some is onely of that blood which is in the branches of the Gate-vein But in Women if they be so full of blood that it cannot be sufficiently discharged by the menstrual Veins of the womb or when the Terms are stopped Nature doth often send it forth by the Nose And this Haemorrhagy though it be not usual yet it is Natural except it be immoderate Also when Blood is too hot it opens the Veins of the Nose either when it is so hot by Nature or by Motion Sunning or Baths Or if it be inflamed in hot Diseases of the Head or Feavers it breaks forth at the first or in the heighth of the Disease by Crisis or judicially Also thin blood and more watery and mixed with Choller which sooner pierceth the Mouths of the Vessels causeth bleeding at the Nose Hence in evil Habit Dropsies and Jaundies although blood abound not this bleeding may be But if more Causes agree the Flux will be the greater And this is oftner and greater if the Veins be loose by Nature or often purging Also it flows and is increased by force as violent and often blowing of the Nose which opens the Veins by force of the blood thither If the Veins in the Neck of the Womb that come from the hollow Vein be opened by Anastomosis there is great Effusion of blood For as when these open at their set time they cause the Natural Flux of the Terms so when they open at other times they cause a prâ—â—â— natural Flux which is immoderate or the like which is unseasonable but like to the Courses which we mentioned before When the Mouths of the Veins are open by plenty of blood sent thither in a Plethory and they bleed sooner and oftner which is unseasonable or when they bleed at the appointed time but immoderately Or when the blood there by its Heat and Thinness opens the Mouths of the Vessels and causeth an immoderate Flux Or when Nature discharging her self by this way of Superfluities with the Blood at the time of the Courses or otherwise causeth this unusual and large Flux In which the Blood is sometimes watery and somtimes impure But this Flux is greatest when much blood either pure or impure is in the Veins of the Womb from the long stoppage of the terms and suddenly breaks forth and so enlargeth the Mouths of the Veins by its violence that blood is not only out of the womb but other great Vessels which supply and the Body left as it were without blood And as this is in the Veins of the Neck of the Womb so it is in those of the bottom thereof in Women that have had their Courses long stopped which swells their bellies as we shewed in Tumors and when they open suddenly they cause a dangerous Flux Somtimes there is a Flux of Blood from violence when the Mouths of the Veins of the Neck of the Womb are only opened without Solution of Continuity And this is often at the first Copulation not by reason of the skin called Hymen being broken as they suppose because a Membrane hath no blood and if it came from thence it should be torn away But which is more probable it is from that sudden and strong enlarging and dilating of the Orifice of the womb or from the Rubbing of the Neck of the Womb which it hath not felt before that the menstrual Veins are a little opened and send forth blood like the Courses or at least some Sprinklings Also there may be a Flux of Blood at the womb from Medicines that open the Veins thereof especially if they be strong or things put into the womb as Pessaries c. And there may be an immoderate Flux after Child-birth from the Causes that the Terms over-flow and as it is Natural to have the Vessels open and bleed so it is preternatural when the quantity is too great or the blood too thin As the Haemorroids come Naturally from the opening of those Veins which come from the branches of the Gate-vein yet they flow not so as the Terms by which it is necessary that that blood in women that are fit to conceive which is laid up for the nourishing of a Child should be avoided every month till they do conceive but onely then when the blood in the Meseraicks aboundeth or is hot and chollerick as we shewed in the Causes of intermitting Feavers that Choler is chiefly increased and aboundeth there not carried into the hollow Vein or purged by the Gall and therefore is sent forth by the Fundament which is near and which is ordained for other Evacuations also So when these Veins are too open or too long closed Nature being provoked by the plenty of blood or the Heat thereof or by Choler which may cause great Diseases endeavors to make an immoderate Flux and the rather when the Veins are so open that they cannot close themselves From which Cause I shewed you that two very Learned Men who lived a sedentary Life and procured the Haemorroids by Art were brought to such a violent Flux which could not be stopped but caused their Death But if Nature being moved neither by Repletion or Impurity of blood but by other Causes doth send forth good Blood from the Meseraicks without Necessity this Flux will be preternatural neither usual nor profitable By the opening of the Veins of the skin blood cannot flow through it or the Pores nor by the Rarefaction or Diapedesis of the skin can blood strain through the like Sweat because it is thither and the Pores very little except the skin be divided but if it be under the skin with the Sweat there it stayes and causeth the Hypochyma or Suffusion of Blood which I spake of And although as I shewed in the Boy with the Dropsie it was sprinkled about the body yet it past not through the skin but stuck in the Pores and this is very rare There are many Fluxes of blood that come from the Solution of Continuity in divers parts The dividing of the veins in the Eyes ears Yard Womb Fundament Skin is the cause of Bleeding which differ in that Respect If the Tunicles of the Eye be rubbed when they itch or divided the Veins may be hurt and they may bleed though but a little Also they may bleed from the hurting of the horny Tunicle For I observed in a Boy that had a piece of sharp Glass in the Pupilla of his Eye which I drew forth that the blood was discussed without any hurt If the inward Veins of the
Womb An ulcer in the neck of the Womb the cause of Matter voided is caused from an Ulcer in the Neck of the Womb. As we shewed in the Ulcers of the Womb. There is a Voiding of Matter from the external Ulcers External and internal Ulcers are the Causes of the Excretion of matter by the opened places of the Body dispersed by the Superficies of the Body in the skin and flesh either made by force external or opened of themselves And from the internal Imposthumes also opened From whence if the Matter have been long there it will freely come forth either ripe or stinking pure or venemous or mixed with Venom the Causes of all which we shewed in Ulcers and Imposthumes When an Empyema is opened of which we spake in its place there comes forth as much matter from the Cavity of the Breast which came by the Ulceration and Corruption of the Lungs somtimes as will fill divers Basons That Matter which is in the Belly from an Imposthume in the Liver or Spleen as we shewed can scarse be discharged by opening of the belly For although matter may be in the belly from Imposthumes which broke of their own accord yet in regard it is seldom known nor can it be discovered by a tumor external because so much cannot be gathered together you must not be rash in opening a part to let it out And if matter be gathered within the skull you must be as wary For it is not to be known certainly that matter is there and therefore we must not open the skull but upon necessity when we know there is matter because it is dangerous and Nature if death prevent not will discharge it at the Nose There is also an Excretion of Matter without an Ulcer in the Eyes and Nose which are alwayes wet which causeth it In the Eye when the water is concocted The moisture of the Eye turned into matter is the cause of the Excretion of matter and made thick This comes from the Heat of the Eye-lidds which dryeth the humor as we see in red Eyes which goes away when the Heat and Redness is gone which caused it But while they continue there are alwayes tears as in Epiphora and Filth As we shewed in this Disease of the Eyes When slimy Flegm stayes too long in the Cavities of the Nose The moisture of the Nose turns into matter it causeth an Excretion of Matter concocted as in the end of a Coryza or Pose That Flux of white Matter like Milk out of the Nose of a Child came from the Brain where it was made of blood and flegm because the brain was affected so that there were continual Convulsions and Death The Cure If Matter come from the Eyes The Cure of matter in the Eyes and that from an Ulcer first cure the Ulcer If the Eyes be mattery without an ulcer as in Epiphora you must cure it as was there shewed If it come from too great a Heat of the Eyes when that ceaseth the Matter will cease If Matter be in the Eye from any Cause and hinder the Sight it is taken away by gently rubbing the Eye with a fine Clout to bring it to the corner that it may get out We shewed in the Ulcers of the Ears how any matter flowing from thence should be cleansed away The Cure of filth or matter in the Ears If the Matter in the Nose come from concocted Flegm The Cure of matter from the Nose in regard it signifieth that the Flux or Coryza ceaseth it must not be stopped but rather provoked with Errhines and things mentioned in the Stoppage of the Nose As also the milk-like Flux which is seldom seen must not be stopped though usually death follow But if the Matter come from an Ulcer in the Nose the Cure is mentioned there When there is Matter voided at the Yard not with Piss The Cure of the ulcer of the yard and the matter that flows from it but by it self and when there is heat of Urin also which comes from an Ulcer in the Yard it is less dangerous then pissing of matter which comes from an Ulcer in the neck of the Bladder because the part is less noble And if it be not old or lie too deep it is more easily cured but more hard when more filthy and deep then it requires a long Cure or else it eates through the Perinaeum and le ts out the Urin there Voiding of Matter from the Ureters in Women without Piss or with it because it comes from an Ulcer in the neck of the Bladder it is as hard to be cured as pissing of matter The Cure of the Ulcer of the Yard and the Heat of Urin from thence is as that of the Ulcer in the Neck of the Bladder And the things to heal the Ulcer and abate the Heat are to be used here In Women it is cured as pissing of matter to which disease I refer you for both come from an Ulcer in the neck of the Bladder But if it come from the neck of the womb or an Ulcer there the Cure was mentioned in the Treatise of those Diseases In both Sexes we give Clysters to loosen the Belly there mentioned And the Cleansers and Dryers there mentioned because this Ulcer is near the neck of the bladder and in the same Passage so that the medicines good against those Ulcers must needs be good against the Ulcers in the Yard if they be used often The Decoctions mentioned in the Cure of Ulcers in the neck of the bladder may be here given to be drunk because good both against Ulcer and Heat and also they have Guaicum and the like which heal Ulcers Also the Vulnerary or Wound-drinks are good here as in other Ulcers They are best which are mentioned in the general Cure of Ulcers as the wines and distilled waters or the Decoction that begins thus Take Comfrey-roots Fennel c. Juyces Waters Milk and Rosin are here to be used as in the neck of the bladder And the Compound Pouders and those three Pouders two whereof are good against heat of Urin and Ulcers and the third only against Ulcers Simple Pouders are of Acrons Horstayl perwincle c. To asswage pain when violent the Narcoticks mentioned in Heat of Urin are to be administred alone or mixed Injections into the Yard come sooner and easier into the part affected then when it is in the neck of the bladder and therefore are here of more concernment And those mentioned there which first cleanse and then dry and heal also Milk Decoctions Juyces Waters c. to which you may add Aegyptiacum if it be very foul For the Ulcer in the Yard when you must cleanse make this Injection Take Liquorish one ounce and an half Bean-shales six drams red Pease one pugil boyl them in Goats Whey with a little Lye and Honey of Roses Sugar or Turpentine dissolved with Honey and the Yolk of an Egg. Another
Injection to heal Take Roots of Comfrey one ounce and an half Horstayl and Plantane each one handful Litharge six drams boyl them in Iron-water and in one pint thereof dissolve Honey of Roses or Sugar of Roses two ounces Turpentine one dram dissolve it in the Yolk of an Egg for an Injection Or thus Take the white Troches of Rhasis half a dram Lapis Calaminaris Tuity burnt Lead Bole each a dram dissolve them with convenient Liquor or Milk or Whey Another Take Ceruss half an ounce Lytharge two drams Tutty prepared three drams Starch one ounce make a Pouder and inject it with Water or drop it into the Nut or head of the Yard A good Water for an Injection Take Comfrey roots half a pound Roots of Snakeweed Tormentil each two ounces ten Heads of Daffodil roots Horstayl and Plantane each two handfuls Tops of St. Johns-wort with the Flowers two pugils Allum one ounce Honey of Roses as much as is sufficient twelve Eggs beaten if the Herbs be dry sprinkle them with Plantane-water and distil them all If you add to these Injections some Drops of Spirit of Vitriol or of Salt they will be stronger And if these spirits be used alone with Whey they will cleanse and heal The Balsom of Suphur invented by Roland doth cleanse and heal excellently These may be dropped into the Yard if the Ulcer be not too deep as also Juyces They put some Oyntments also as Pompholygos with a wax Candle which is better then other Instruments because it will bend better in the crooked Passage But you must remember that you tye it with a thread least it should get into the Bladder and the Oyntment go beyond the Ulcer The distilled Oyl of Henbane dropp'd into the Yard doth asswage pain You must anoint the seam or suture between the Stones and the Fundament and soment it when there is heat and it will be felt within and the Passages must be loosned with Oyntments mentioned in the Ulcer in the Neck of the Bladder to which add Opium if the pain be great Anoint also the part with Oyntments there mentioned to heal the Ulcer And let the Diet be as there menâ—ioned The Excretion of slimy Matter from the Yard without Urin The sure ofe Uâ—cer in the Neck of the Bladder the slimy Matter and in Women from the Urin-passage is cured as that of the Stone and Matter with Injections which cleanse the slimy Matter and if it stick in the Yard it must be drawn out Or if you put the Yard into a hollow Raddish the matter will be drawn forth The Matter which comes from the Womb The Cure of the ulcer in the womb the matter that slows from it as also from other parts of the Body is to be cured as the Ulcer of the womb When it flows by any other Orifices from any internal filthy Ulcers which lye deep in the Body and are made of Imposthumes that break or are opened you must cleanse and heal As we shewed in Ulcers Imposthumes and Wounds And we shewed in the Cure of Empyema how you should order the Matter that flows from the Breast after Incision CHAP. VII Of Excretion or Voiding of Water The Kinds VVE call that a watery Excretion when a moist Humor thicker or thinner made of the Excrements of Flegm or of that which is Natural and crude and of the Serum or Whey mixed together so that the one is more then the other floweth forth Which Excretion is preternatural chiefly when it is much and often and corrupted or comes not out at the proper place This comes from divers parts besides that of Spitting Vomiting Pissing and Purging Of which shall be spoken in their places Tears flow from the Eyes often which are like Whey Tears or Serum or Flegm mixed with water they break out in sound people especially in Children and doting old Men from a small Cause and in others from a great Passion of Mind And therefore are not counted preternatural But when they are troublesom and of long Continuance in some Diseases of the Head and Eyes they are Symptomes of the same Some Tears are hot and sharp others cold There is often water from the Nose which is natural The dropping at the Nose because it is by the right way but when it aboundeth it is preternatural And it is in some from whose Nose water flows like tears and a drop hangs at the end of it Or it is like slimy Flegm which being usual in children is counted less noisom then in Men. The same is in the Kind of Defluxion called Coryza Coriza or Pose there falls at the first a thin moist Humor constantly actually cold sometimes hot and sharp that makes the Nose smart and provokes Neesing and causeth Tears inflamming and corroding the Nostrils and Lips with great Spitting Hawking and Coughing somtimes And this Humor at the last is thick white or of another Colour The same happens in other Diseases of the Head and Defluxions As was shewed There comes a water out at the Ears thin or thick somtimes Water from the Ears but seldom And a certain Maid had divers measures of water that flowed from her Ear without any other hurt It is usual in Women to have the white Flux The Flux of the womb or the Whites And because it useth to come when women are past their Courses they are called the white Terms But these use to be out of order and with women that have their Courses and last more or less time And somtimes they trouble such as have their Courses stopped As those who are past them and are in old Women In Virgins it is but seldom and often in women with Child Somtimes this Flux is of water and very much and clear and milk somtimes sharp or salt yellow green or black somtimes mattery stinking Sometimes it is mixed with Flegm that is tough without scent cold and little or as much or more then the water If this Flux be immoderate there is no other accident and both Wives and Virgins have it many months and years without hurt But if it be immoderate there is an evil Habit of Body therewith Also Faintness and Weakness also Barrenness in some although it hinders not some If the matter befoul there is an Itching Pricking and Heat in the Privities And it is very noisom when it stinks and makes the Husband loath her Usually there sweats a whey or water out of the Pores of the skin Preternatural Sweat it is Natural and common to all Complexions but it is preternataral when it is too much or soul as it is in Diseases and somtimes without There is too much Sweat without a Disease when it is caused oftner then it should be or continued longer so that they faint and if it be often they grow faint The Sweat is evil when it stinketh This is somtimes al over the Body or in the parts as Feet as we shewed
Passages are loosned As we shall shew in the Whites that water and flegm comes from the Veins As we shewed that the Terms come from the veins of the neck of the womb A moist Humor coming from the Veins to the neck of the Womb is the Cause of the Whites so the Whites come from the same and not from the Cavity of the womb as some dream because that is so narrow that it cannot hold such a quantity as usually floweth neither can it be contained therein or pass through the veins which are small and are not enlarged till the woman be with Child as it may through the Veins of the neck of womb which are larger And this is when this excrementitious Humor is mixed with blood or with the terms which makes it ill-coloured or after the terms are gone when it presseth by the same wayes they did for which Cause it is called the white Terms And this may be at other times when Nature is burdened both in such as have or such as are past their Courses As it is somtimes in women with Child In whom in regard the inward Orifice of the womb is closed it cannot flow from the cavity of the womb but from the neck and in them who are not with Child it is the same Nor is it a wonder that nature should purge these Excrements by the same way that blood is evacuated because she doth the like in other Vessels ordained for other Evacuations And the reason why they are white and without Blood is because Nature dischaâ—geth them at that time when there is no blood to be sent forth As also because Nature separates the blood from the Impurity and keeps it and sends out the Excrements as noxious Which Excrements if serous or watery come from the whey if flegmatick from crude blood if mattery from blood stained And if other Humors be mixed as yellow green or black Choller it is discoloured therewith And if they be sharp or the whey salt then by pricking and burning in the Parts to which it sticketh it causeth Itching and sense of Heat and if it continue long ulcerateth But when it is alone it flows without sense like water or the white of an Egg beaten nor is it then noxious except it be immoderate The Cause of these Excrements in the Blood which feed this Flux is that which is eaten or taken in and the weakness of Concoction and of those Bowels which separate the Excrements as in a Cachexy of which we spake sufficiently These Excrements are sent forth by nature when she is burdened and the sooner if there be weakness of the womb as may be from divers Causes and also from this Moisture which wets and cools the Part. As also when Nature is stirred up to expel them by other means As we have known women who never had the whites before after they have taken a Purge which stirred up Nature have had them And many have had the same by sitting long in a Bath not from Infection as they have thought from other that were in at the same time But Nature throwing out Excrements by bathing doth cause the whites which are too thick to be sweated forth That water which is swet forth through the whol Body is serous Serous Matter getting through the Pores is the Cause of Sweat and mixed with blood gets into the Superficies of the Body by an obscure solution of contiguity of the skin it goes through the Veins This Solution of Contiguity comes from the opening of the Pores or Anastomosis or Rarefaction of the Skin or Diapedesis For then the Serum being very thin passeth through the Pores of the skin and causeth Sweat being either drawn or driven thither Serum or water is attracted by Heat external for then that with the Blood is snatched to the superficies of the body and goes through the skin as water is distilled from Plants as I shewed And the rather when the water is made thin and hot that it may pierce And if there be plenty or if it be thin sharp or cholerick it will be more easily drawn out by the heat And as Heat doth cause a Natural sweat so if it be vehement or long it is preternatural This Heat is from Exercise or Baths dry and moist and the immoderate use of these causeth immoderate Sweats Therefore Baths are said to weaken In Diseases as Feavers though the whol Body burn yet it scarce sweats till Nature expells the Cause thereof by sweat which is in intermitting Feavers when the heat ceaseth in the day of rest and in continual Feavers when they decline For when the Body is hot and Nature is busie in the Concoction of the Cause of the Disease it cannot be sent forth by sweat but when it is prepared and made thin it may Nature drives water to the Superficies of the Body where it is burdened therewith and then the expulsive Faculty labours to cast it out by sweat Nature is burdened when the quantity or quality of the Serum is offensive when it is too much in the Veins for want of Evacuation by Urin then when it cannot be purged from the blood otherwayes it is sent forth or drawn forth by sweat Therefore they which piss little sweat much especially they that use moist Diet and drink much If it be offensive in quantity and be impure by mixture of other Humors and so burdensom to Nature it is sent forth by sweat as well as urin In Cacochymicks or Bodies of evil Juyce Sweats are not Natural but are stinking or clammy and somtimes discoloured now all over the Body and somtimes in some places only wherefore some sweat in their Hands and Feet and are filthy as we shall shew in Filth All these Sweats are evil and forerunners of Diseases If the Cause of a Disease be in the Blood part whereof is Serum as in Feavers Nature if she can find no other way as the Urin sends it forth by sweat And this if it comes kindly is healthful though it stink and be discoloured But if it be immoderate or not sufficient or at an unconvenient time when Nature is not prepared for Expulsion it is evil and unprofitable This is usual in Contagious Diseases Nature oftentimes sends forth the evil Quality with the Whey with Sweat which is sometimes healthful and somtimes deadly And if it come when Natural Heat begins to be extinguished and the Body is outwardly cold then a cold sweat will appear All which we have mentioned in such Diseases Also when Nature is moved by Passion and drives the Spirits inward or outward there will be sweat which will presently be cold if the heat go in as in a swounding and in the pangs of Death There follows a Flux of moisture from solution of continuity in any part of the Body Moisture getting into the openings of the skin is the Cause of the flux and if the skin be only scratched the water is little as
vomit blood without hurt or from the ceasing of other bleeding at the Nose or when blood is in the Body from the taking off of a Member Or from the thinness of the blood mixed with water or from the thinness of the Choler in divers Diseases or from other impurity or malignity Also Blood is vomited somtimes from a Contusion about the stomach upon the parts adjacent or from some hurt of the stomach by any thing swollowed or a wound Also blood from the Jawes or Nose or Breast swallowed down is vomited up in clodders As I lately observed in our Cap-maker who being loaden with his wares and comming from a fair towards night made great hast to get into the City before the Gates were shut but being tyred he lay in the Suburbs all night in a sweat And comming into the City the next morning he grew very weak with Vomiting of clotted Blood with a Megrim and purging also of Blood The Cure When any thing is sent forth by Vomit profitably or necessarily it must not be stopped but provoked if it come not freely But if by violence and long continuance the strength decay or the like then you must make it more easie or shorter When it is unprofitable as of meat or medicine it must be prevented and stopped If Vomiting come after surfeiting The Cure of preternatural Vomiting from things taken in or Drunkenness it must not be stopped but furthered But if it be often take heed of it and use things mentioned in Alienation of Mind and let them not sleep presently upon a full stomach nor let them cause Giddiness usually goes before with reading or motion And if it continue give things mentioned Agarist Vomiting Choler When Vomiting is from Loathing of things necessary which were better kept in the Body that must be prevented especially after a purge is taken because if it be suddenly vomited up the working is lost but if it be kept any while the medicine may have an Operation though cast up with many Excrements which could not go downwards And though the stools are not large because of the double Evacuation yet the medicine will work its effect And the rather if it be not all vomited up You must prevent the Vomiting up of a medicine with pleasant scents and tasts which resist the evil scent and tast thereof as with a crust of bread toasted and dipped in Vinegar applied to the Nose with the pouder of Nutmeg or Cloves or by tying a clout dipped in Vinegar about the Neck or washing the Mouth with Vinegar and Water Or by eating or chewing some sharp fruit or other pleasant thing An Eg held to the throat is thought by the common people to hinder the Vomiting of a medicine Also there are many things in Vomiting Choler which will prevent it here But if Vomiting begin when the purge should work with pain at the Heart it is not amiss because Evacuation is made both wayes Yet because they are weakned by the heart-pain so that they sound somtimes let them wash the stomach from that which pricks it when it first begins As Barley-water which Hippocrates saies must be taken warm with Sugar or Cream of Barley with Sugar or Pease-broath whatsoever allayes pricking is then good As any Broath of flesh A Clyster then given takes away the Heart-pain and quickens the medicine and hinders the Vomiting If Vomiting follow the violence of any medicine or poyson then we give things to resist the sharp burning and malignant force and to cleanse that they may vomit easily and stop it not Or if we do it is with stupefactives to take away the sense of the stomach Or we give Antidotes against poyson which if they have Opium as Treacle are the better Such as are mentioned in the Pain of the Heart If Vomiting be from Flegm or any crude Humor The Cure of Vomiting of Flegm raised from Excrements or Excrements whether in Cacochymicks Women with Child or Diseases and Excrements be voided thereby it must not be stopped But if it come often and in sound men or sick it is convenient or if it be too violent you must stop it observing diligently if it be in women with child or the Patient be sick of another Disease that proper medicines may be given Vomits are given in Vomitings when there is a tough Humor in the stomach which continually provoketh and yet will not be voided but alwayes provoketh to vomit Then you must give a Vomit that cleanseth and cutteth when it is clammy The Kinds of Vomits are mentioned in the Cure of Weakness of the Stomach Purgers to provoke downwardly are given when vomits cannot work or sufficiently discharge that they may cease to molest and pass the usual wayes Such are mentioned in the Weakness of the Stomach But you must make choice of the best and pleasantest Purges least they be vomited up again Among which the purging wine is the best Or Pills if they can be swallowed Clysters also draw down the Cause and are good in great Vomiting not given in great quantity nor too sharp or loosning least when they get into the Colon they shouldpress the stomach that is near or relaxe it or provoke it such as are mentioned in the Colick When in a constant Vomiting no meat can be retained you must preserve the Patient with nourishing Clysters such as are prescribed in the Hectick When the Matter is voided by Vomit by Nature by Art by Stool you may give things to stop such are in this Cause hot and binding proper for the stomach such as are mentioned in the Weakness of the Stomach To which you may add the following which are good when Vomiting is too violent Cinnamon-water being pleasant is good to stop Vomiting and other distilled Spices that are not loathsom mentioned in the weakness of the stomach Wine is best to stop Vomiting because it is pleasant to the stomach especially Rich-wine A Physical Wine made by Infusion which is bitter is better then sweet because that provokes Vomiting That of Wormwood is best to which the matter is very tough we add Squills Gentian and topps of Centaury Another of Mints Marjoram topps of Rosemary Bettony Myrtle-leaves red Roses Corâ—ander seed infused in wine with Wormwood Cloves Nutmegs Mace Hippocras is good also or other Wines mentioned in weakness of the stomach or made of the Aromatical Pouders in wine as shall be shewed with Pouder of red Coral with but a little Sugar least the sweetness offend Decoctions are not so pleaseant but are easily vomited up but they may be made into a Syrup and given by spoonfuls As of Wormwood and Mints with wine with Juyce of Mints Pomegranates and Quinces Or this Decoction Take Roots of Cypress Galangal white Thorn each half an ounce Mirts Bettony Burnet each one handful Rosemary topps one pugil Coriander seed two drams Piony seeds one dram Schaenanth Spike and Coral poudered each one dram and an half boyl them in wine
their growth for so the Roots will be consumed and the Pores stopped which as we may do it with Medicines so may we with an actuall Cautery and this is done with a Plate of Gold burning hot suddenly clapt on for so though there be a burn yet after the healing thereof no Scar will remain It is better to prevent then take away grosness of Body which is burdensome The Cure of the carnosity and fatness of the Body and parts thereof because a Body that hath been great when made less will be wrinkled uneven and deformed as the Breasts when fallen are lank and flaggy so the Cheeks Calfes of the Leggs and Belly if formerly distended will wrinkle when they are fallen But to prevert this burdensome flesh or to stop it that it proceed no further we must hinder the increase of that fat which is Naturall in the Blood first by a more spare Diet or such as nourish little But if a more sparing Diet only be used then formerly and it be of good Juyce there will be rather an increase of better Blood then a less quantity which will little avail for abating of flesh And though a sparing Diet doth abate in regard men will not long endure it we shall do little by that means But if we prescribe a Diet of little Nourishment of Herbs rather then flesh and water instead of Wine or very thin Wine or other Drink they shall so grow lean and this is the best way great and constant Labour taketh down the flesh and Fat of the Body in time especially if the Diet afore mentioned be used but ordnary Exercise makes a better Concoction and rather increaseth then diminisheth the Flesh Great and often Evacuations by which the Blood and nourishing Juyce is taken away from the parts and their increase or groweth hindered as great Sweats by strong Exercise or Baths or the like are very proper as Blood-letting and Cupping which Scarification and often Purging which as they are prescribed with good advise so by chance when there is a Flux of blood or of Seed by much Venery or of the Belly or an acute Disease corpulency is taken away and the Body made lean And this will be so also by old Age. It may also be done by altering Medicines which keep the Body hot and dry constantly this way will prevent and diminish Corpulency and the constitution may be thus altered by Diet as well as Medicines Decoctions are chiefly commended for abating corpulency as of the Huskes of Filberds boyled in Wine Roots of Polypody Avens wild Chervill Rosemary with a little Ginger Or the distilled Water of these often drunk Also Vinegar often drunk doth the same thing Pouders made of these things following and taken in Wine are said to do the same as the seeds of Ash Hil-wort or Pol-montane Parsley Also Tartar or Wine-leaves often taken or Gum Sandarath half a dram with Oxymel also the Salt of Vipers It is said that Pepper often used will cause Leanness Pills of bitter things taken every morning half a scruple are good as of Birthwort Roots Gentian each one dram of Madder roots and tops of the lesser Centaury each half a dram of Allum one scruple with Juyce of Polypody or Avens make a mass Women which desire to be handsom labour much to hinder their Breasts from being over large The Cure of too great Breasts they affect to have them little for Ornament and fear they will be unhandsome when they are big This is done not only by using such means as extenuate the whol Body which we have declared but by outward Applications which by repelling cooling and binding or consuming the Nourishment by a digesting and drying Quality keep the breasts comely The same Medicines which we spake of in the Chapter of Milk over flowing which hinder the coming of it to the brests or dissolve that which is there being applied to the breasts will also make them less A Fomentation often repeated with a Sponge or Linnen clout and left at the Breasts till dry will do it This is made of red Wine Vinegar Ladies mantle Horstail Myrtles Plantane Roses Balm Mints Galls and other astringents Or make it of Sal ammoniack and Allum boyled in Wine Stilled Water from the foresaid may be also used with Allum also a Water distilled of green Pine-nuts also that which is made by Distillation of Eggs Allum and Pouder of Chalk Quinces Apples green Pears Medlars Service-berries Sloes beaten together with Vinegar or boyled in it do the same or boyled with Oyl of green Olives and Galls Hemlock fresh gathered beaten by it self or with Vinegar Henbane leaves Mints and Balm do the same This Plaister following is also good Take of Mastick and Frankincense each half an ounce of Galls and Cypress nuts each two drams of Bole or Fullers Earth or red Okar three drams pouder them and mix them with the white of an Egg and Vinegar or Honey and so apply them or Take of Pomegranate peels three drams of Acacia hypocistis or Conserve of Sloes half an ounce mix them with Vinegar and the Mucilage of Fleabane seed Or this Oyntment Take of Ceruss three drams of Alabaster or white Wax two drams of Camphir one dram of Borax half a dram of the Infusion of Gum dragant half an ounce of Oyl of Mrytles as much as will make an Oyntment They commend the Pouder of two Whetstones rubbed together mixed with Vinegar Dioscorides saith that the Cypruss Whetstone called Naxia keeps Breasts from growing a Squate or skale Fish laid to the breasts doth the same by astriction When the Body or any part is too small by Nature it cannot be cured nor a Member restored by an artificiall Instrument or by making the like this is a Disease in number deficient but that which is deficient in magnitude may be supplyed in some When any part of a Member is lost The Cure of a smal Body or smal Limbs and of such parts are lame instead thereof new flesh may be added which may be fashioned like unto the former which divers ingenious Chirurgions say they can do when part of the Nose is taken off first they take away the skin in the extream part of the Nose then they make a wound in the musculous part of the Arm of the Patient into which they place the remaining part of his Nose having the skin cut off as aforesaid first putting a Tent in each Nostril then they bind his Head to his Arm and so let it remain till the flesh groweth to the Nose this done they cut off as much of the Arm as is fit to make a Nose and fashion it like the former and then take the Tents out of the Nostril and after heal it up If this may be done by a Nose why not by other Members and though this new flesh should serve for no use yet it would take away Deformity To make new Breasts and Papps so that the Child may
suck The Cure of breasts consumed women use to apply an Acorn cup or half a Nut shell filled with Rosin of the Larix tree to the place where the Niple is wanting and let it stay on some time The Gums being naked as it were without a thick Skin The Cure of Gums consumed being worn away may be restored This is done first by taking away any thing that is rotten about them then rubbing them often with Vinegar of Squils or Oyl and Honey which is stronger with the pouder of Dragon roots and Honey or with Aegyptiacum and Wine and the like clensers and resisters of putrifaction mentioned in the Ulcers of the Mouth Afterwards let them often rub the Gums with drying things that breed flesh and glew the same to the Teeth as with this Pouder Take of Orris Root one dram of the Meale of Oroby two drams of Frankincense or mastich one dram of Sarcocol half a dram of burnt Allum one scruple of Angelica Roots for to give a Sent or Cipress roots as Dioscorides will have or Cloves or of Mosch or Ambergreese a little so make a Pouder Birthwort roots may well be added but they are bitter and Mirrhe but it is unpleasant therefore instead thereof Take Benzoin or Storax Sanguis Draconis is good to be mixed therewith and also Blood stone The ashes of Pennyroyal are good according to Dioscorides burnt Harts horn or Ivory and things aforesaid which six Teeth especially when they are loose by reason of the consuming of the Gums there are also things to rub the teeth mentioned in the Rottenness of teeth that are good Calcine Frankincense and Mastich and mix them with Honey a little pouder of Coral with Salt and Allum and rub therewith The Troches made of Orobus and Honey are used The Ponders may be made up with Honey or Oxymel of Squills into Troches and so dryed and kept for use The straigtness of Orifices as of the Womb and Praepuce or Foreskin if it be such The Cure of straight Orifices as doth not only bring Deformity but hinder Action is to be dilated by incision This may be done safely in a Phimosis by cutting off the Foreskin which is usuall in Circumcision When the womb is too narrow a division made by Infection hath been often practised The Cure of Phimosis though it be more painfull and difficult then the other Therefore first you must begin with the safer way of practise by somenting the part with things that loosen moisten and mollifie as Fomentations and Baths Oyntments or Pessaries such as are prescribed in the hardness of the womb which while you use you must put in a Tent somwhat large made of a dry Gentian root or a Sponge tyed close together that as it swells it may enlarge the Orifice by often use That Leanness which is not by a Consumption but Naturall The Cure of the Leanness of the Body and its parts is seldom altered Otherwise flesh or fat may be caused by things that increase blood and nourishing Juyce as good Diet and rest Natural Evacuations Motions of Body and Mind these will bring a better Habit to the Body When Breasts are lank and hang down they are unseemly The Cure of lank and loose Breasts and women that love to be neate desire their Cure this is done by applying things that make them harder and firmer such astringent and drying things which we said would hinder the growth of Breasts When parts are disproportioned and cause Deformity The Cure of the uncomely Figure of parts besides what is from number or magnitude of which we have spoken as a Head Nose or Mouth imshapen if they be so Naturally they are incurable as also the Teeth and Nayls If the Hair be too curling and much we cut it off The Cure of over curling Hair if little pluck it out but this being not very unseemly is not to be tampered with except it be troublesome as when in the Eye-brows and from thence they bend into the Eyes These hairs are to be rectified by often touching them with the slime of a Snaile or with Glew They say they will grow again when pulled out if the Pores be anointed with Oyl in which a Lizard hath been boiled or with Frogs blood especially if it be mixed with the pouder of Laurel root or the ashes of Organ Some desire their Hair may curle Things that cause Hair to curle and this is done by the use of strong astringents such as were mentioned among those which black the hair as the Decoction of Galls Pomegranate peels Cypress Nuts Pomegranate flowers and the like made into a Lixinium to which they ad things that cause curling as Daffodill roots and Dwarfe Elder roots and Leaves with the seed of Henbane Also Oyntments made of the same are used as Take of Oyl of Myrtles and Mastich two ounces Oyl of Henbane half an ounce Juyce of Myrtles and Vinegar each one ounce boyl them then add the ashes of Chestnuts Hedghog and Pine nuts each half a dram the shavings of Pams horns Gum Arabick and Draganth each one dram Myrrh half a dram Honey at much as will make an Oyntment They say Mucilages boyled in Water or Lye will do the same if made of Marsh-mallows roots Linseed Foenugreek and Fleabane seed and Gum Arabick this they beleeve will so soften the hair that they will be fitter to curle or the Pores being loosned thereby and made larger the hairs will come forth more crooked Others add Fern-roots Beets and Lythargy and when the hairs are dry anoint with Oyl of Myrtles Some anoint with the Roots of Dwarf Elder mixed with Oyl Women do more certainly with crisping Irons and when they go to Bed they twist them and with great pains put them under their Head geare and in the morning being combed out they continue curled the whol day If there be a Division of any part which should be united whether after the Cure of some wound The Cure of the separation of parts which should be united at of the hare Lip or Naturall if it be in a fleshy part it may be united as that of the upper Lip which Children are born with called a hare Lip in Dutch Hasenschart it will be united if it be cut on both sides and after the Lips be joyned together with Needles wrap about with Silk or with sowing and a Plaister laid over till it be cured this you may try in any other part where there is Deformity or Hindrance and in fleshy parts it will be done but scarsely in other parts Also these may be artificially united if you first take of the skin upon each side and apply sticking Plaisters to the sides with double or treble Clouts and Buttons with which and good Ligature the parts divided will be drawn together and united If the Gums be separated from the Teeth by biting hard things The Cure of Gums separated from the Teeth
disease Also this juyce may produce a tumor for when the Bones are broken which wil cause abundance of juyce there will a Callus grow to glew them together and it will grow out from the Bone and be like a Node In the Roots of the Nails there is Juyce which giveth them Nourishment The Juyce which nourisheth the Nails being too thick or too much causeth the callosity of the Nails and if it be too much in quantity it doth not onely make them too thick which is unseemly but if it be thick withall it causeth uneven Swellings Now the cause of this abundant juyce among the rest is this when it is drawn thither by a violent Exercise of the Hands or by hurt as we shewed And if this juyce be too thick or be mixed with the Juyce that belongs to the Bones adjacent it makes the Nails to be too hard and thick And if it be mixed with other juyce which is evil it procures other inconveniences besides hardness as shall be shewed The Juyce which nourisheth the Body Crude juyce nourishing the body is the cause of Leucophlegmacy causeth enlargment by encreasing the substance thereof and if it be crude and unconcocted which long nourisheth the body instead of that which is concocted it makes the body soft and faint and swollen and is the cause of Leucophlegmacy so called because it is made of waterish juyce or flegm which is water congealed And the Cause which breeds this crude juyce is the same with that of a Cachexy which comes from the same juyce as we shewed when we told you that it came from crude Blood which produceth such Juyce And that it came either from the Foot or from some Distemper of the Bowels as the Stomach which leaves the Chylus imperfect in the first Concoction or from the weakness of the Liver and Spleen from Distemper or other Diseases as Obstruction and Hardness by which meanes the blood is not sufficiently wrought in the second Concoction Hence is this evil juyce so plentiful in the Veins which nourishing the Habit of the Body first breeds a Cachexy which useth to go before a Leucophlegmacy and produceth it certainly if the matter increase And we have shewed how the serous or watery Humor mixed with the crude produceth the same Crude juyce gathered in some parts causeth the Tumor Oedema The crude nourishing juyce either alone or mixed with water is the cause of the tumor called Oedema which is spread abroad and in which the substance of the parts where it is seems rather to be enlarged soft and swollen then filled with Excrementitious Flegm which they say is the Cause and therefore is harder to be cured Also when Water is mixed with the juyce it produceth tumors that are more soft and watery which we call serous Oedema's these are especially in the Thighs which make them look like a Dropsie We have shewed the Causes of these last in the Treatise of the serous Humor but for the cause of those which come only of crude juyce somtimes it is the same with that of a Cachexy and Leucophlegmacy if it come to the part through the weakness thereof somtimes only the evil constitution of the part by which it doth not so perfectly turn the blood brought thither into its self but leaves it crude and imperfect may be the Cause if the part be cold weak looser or fainter from Diseases or hurts received Abundance of Milk in the Breasts causeth a Tumor which distendeth the whole Breast Plenty of milk is tho cause of the Swelling of the breasts or some part thereof wherein it is gathered The plenty of Blood is the cause of this plenty of Milk but chiefly the retention and collection of Milk already made in the breast commonly after Child-bearing which is the time of giving suck in which if Women give not suck as some do not they are subject to swollen breasts somtimes though the Infant do suck yet in regard it cannot suck them clean by reason of the continual increase of Milk the same may happen Women when they have weaned their Children are troubled with this some sew daies after And they seldom have it before they are delivered albeit they have Milk and their Breasts grow bigger Some say that not onely the abundance of milk but the curdling thereof is the cause of this Tumor of the Breasts which if so the Tumor would be rather gathered and hard as somtimes it is in that place wherein it curdleth rather then a general Swelling and this would be so because the Milk is out of its proper Vessels and then in regard curdled milk as clodred Blood cannot be long in a part without corruption or Suppuration nor can they easily be discussed this tumor would quickly be an Imposthume We shewed in pains Blood filling the Veins is the cause of crooked Veins called Varicae how Blood carried out of the Vessels caused hot Tumors with pain And somtimes when it is in the Vessels it causeth tumors as it is in the Veins or Arteries if in the Veins they are swollen and crooked by too much filling and dilatation and somtimes they are in some places more swollen like baggs or Nodes stretched forth made clear and transparent through dilatation and the Colour of the Blood is seen through and they appear blew and black straight or crooked and if they be so stretched that they presse the adjacent Nerves or if the Matter contained in them do offend the Nerves there is pain And the blood will do this sooner in those parts which are dependant and from whence it cannot so easily ascend as in the Leggs where these Varices are most usuall and large as from the same Cause there is the tumor called Cirsocele in the inward Vessels of the Codds but this is seldom because the Blood will not come so violently into such narrow Passages but by some extraordinary occasion Moreover Blood sent into other Veins of the skin gets Varices especially where there are many Veins as in the Scrotum or Cod and the Eye-brows and the like But these are different as the Blood for if that be temperate and pure they are less and only are offensive by their being stretched forth but if the Blood be hot or foul or mixed with Choller they burn and are more troublesom and sometimes have an Ulcer at the bottom where the Blood setleth as in the Legs is usual if the matter be sharp and it will be a creeping corroding Ulcer which many suppose comes from a Melancholick Humor as all other Varices because they look black when pure Blood seen through the skin may seem so the rather when it is foul Now the reason why the Blood is carried so fast to that part is from the part and from the blood it self as when there is too much Blood as in a Plethora and Women with Child by reason of the Terms stopped in the Veins of the