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

Dragagant Gum of each 1 ounce dissolve the Isinglasse in red Wine Vinegar and mix the other ingredients amongst it to a Plaister For Clefts or Chops of the Nipples Take Mutton or Lambs Suet as much as you please and after it is molten and clarified then wash it in Rose-water and therewith annoint the Nipples And thus much for the Diseases in the Breasts Chap. XVII Shewing means and Remedies for those Nurses that went milk Having already at large discoursed to you the infirmities happening by reason of superfluous or congealed milk and the evil accidents that attend the same with the means of their prevention and Remedy it is also convenient for their sakes who would be Nurses and cannot for want of milk to shew them some means to increase it where it is wanting Women given much to fretting or who are by nature lean and sickly having a bad digesture in stomach Liver cannot breed store of milk nor good milk also bad meats and drinks hinder the ingendring of milk therefore they ought to be forborn And women that would increase their milk let them eat good meats if they can get it and drink milk wherein Fennel seed hath been steeped If the woman be of a hot nature and full of Choler let her drink Barley water and Almond milk eat Lectice with her meat Burrage Spinnage Goats milk Cowes milk and Lamb sodden with Verjuice And avoid sorrow and anger as much as may be and comfort the stomach with the Confections of Anniseeds Carraway and Cominseeds and likewise use these seeds sodden in water Also take Anniseeds two drams and a half beaten and temper them with the broth of Cole●orts and drink it when you go to bed Also take Barley water and boyl therein green Fennel and Dill and sweeten it with Sugar and drink it at your pleasure If you would have an outward means use this Plaister following Take half an ounce of Deers suet and as much Parsley roots with the hearbs an ounce and a half of Barley meal three drams of red Storax and three ounces of oyl of sweet Almonds seeth the roots and hearbs well and beat them to pap and then mingle the other amongst them and lay it warm on the Nipples it increaseth milk Thus have I Counselled women of all sorts how to free themselves from all casualties the frailty of their nature subjects them to which when you finde the benefit of give God the glory and sin no more lest a worse thing sall unto thee FINIS AN APPENDIX TOUCHING The DROPSY THis being an infirmity under which many labour and few are cured thereof partly nay most by reason of their inability I thought it very necessary having this opportunity put into my hands to add this small Treatise of the Kinds Cause and Cure of Dropsies This Disease the Greeks call 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Latins a water between the flesh and the skin and vulg●rly Hydrops or Hydropicus morbus the Dropsy or an Hydropical disease which name seems to have b●en taken from water which in Greek is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Avicenna defineth the Dropsy thus That it is a material sickness ingendred from a material outward and co●d cause and thereby either the whole Body or many parts and Members thereof do swell All Authors do not agree about it some call it a Disease and some place it among the Symptomes but they that are afflicted with it need not care by what name it is called so they were freed from it therefore I shall not stay upon the definition of it but proceed to directions for the Cure but be sure it is a laesion and depravation of the digestive faculty and unconcoction of the blood whereby the nutritive faculty is hindred and corrupted throughout the whole Body and the natural operation of the Liver impedited and this proceeds from a cold and moist humour that penetrates through the Body and swells the Members puffs up the Face swells the Feet and Leggs and the Cods of men destroys the natural complexion altering it into a whitely colour causeth great appetite to drink and little or none to eat stoppeth the Terms in women causeth retention both of Stool Excrement and sometimes hard Tumors about the Bowels and other parts This for the description or definition yet this Disease hath several degrees Kinds or Species One kind of Dropsy is called Anasarca and Hyposarca another Ascites and a third Tympania or Tympanites or in English Tympanies Conserve of Fumitory is not a miss to be used for cleansing of the blood in all kind of Dropsies at the beginning of them but to proceed first to this kind of Dropsy called Anasarca It is a waterish humour that lyeth between the flesh and the skin through all the Body causing a swelling and is known by pressing the flesh with ones finger the dint or impression thereof will remain a great while after the Pulse is slow the privie members swell and the party is subject to be afflicted with a looseness or scowring and bad digestion of meat which is the cause of it that it turns into flegm instead of blood If it be a woman it may be caused through retention or stopping of her Terms therefore all means possible is to be used to provoke and drive them down Let the Patient be purged with Pills of Rhabarb and to expel the water use this Confection following A Confection for the watery Dropsy Take Turbith half an ounce Hermodactyls one ounce wild Saffron seeds peesed three quarters of an ounce Ginger Cinamon Annis●eds of each one scruple Violets Sorrel seed of each one dram Sugar two ounces Honey of Roses four ounces boyl the Honey and Sugar together with Fumitory water until you may scum it clear then mix the rest with it and boyl it to a Confection take hereof half an ounce in a morning Another for the same Take Annis yellow Rape seed Spica Indiae of each one scruple Licoris Rhabarb of each one dragme Asarabacca half a dram Conserve of Marjorom one ounce Conserve of Roses three ounces Syrup of Quinces and Oximel a sufficient quantity to make it into a Confection Take hereof a dram in a morning Pills for the same Take Pills Aggregative two scruples Ammoniaci one scruple make it into six Pills with Oximel take two in a morning The masse of Pills before mentioned are prepared by the Apothecaries therefore do not startle that they bear no English name for they are more commonly known by those Titles In this Disease use abstinence from meat and drink as much as may be forbear drowsiness and lazinesse and addict your self to reasonable sweating and exercise Of another kinde of Dropsy called Ascites This Species of this Disease swelleth only the Belly and Leggs and the upper parts dry and the Belly swelleth like a Bladder and soundeth like a drum head or as the Belly of a rotten Sheep will do if you cl●p your

what I mean by the Sun and the Moon that I may not be forc'd to English one thing twice and if you be Men or Women then know that by the Sun I mean the Man and by the Moon the Woman which if she be a whore I cannot help it That 's an Eclipse to the microcosmical Sun And as these two differ in Sex so they differ in Nature and in the several Faculties of Nature and Members belonging to procreation and Generation of Creatures accomodated the one to the other but if you will take the distinction Aristotle he calleth them in Women Pudenda and uterus and in Men Testes and Membrum virile Testes signifies properly witnesses and a man without such witnesses will have bad success in his cause Turner if women be of the Jury And therefore the first Mover and Maker of all things knew it necessary to have a procreation of Mankind for the continual supply of the World which should be as well Male as Female and therefore he made the Woman and fitted her answerably to be accomodated to receive the Instrument of the Microcosmical Sun the Man necessarily fitting one to the other for the Act of generation and this was the cause why 't was thought not fit the Man should be alone for if he had been so the World had ceased in him and 't was not only sufficient to make a Man and a Woman so and furnish them with Instruments proper to conjunction and copulation but also that as well in the Man as in the Woman there should be a desire and magnetical attraction to the Act of copulation by a sympathy between themselves or else the very Act it self would be abhorred and the species of humane Generation frustrate and come to nothing by an abhorrency of the Act it self naturally as it is whereby the intention of Nature would have fallen to the ground and one Man and one Woman onely been made in vain Therefore the sagacity of Nature to cause propensity in both Sexes to the Act of Generation for procreation sake endued both with a reciprocal pleasure and delight in the Act of Coition it self And this propensity and pleasure is not ordained in men and women only but in all other Animals to maintain a continual succession of generations amongst them as appears by the great fierceness and earnest desire of all Creatures to this Act of which the Philosophers largely write but we passe it as not pertinent to our present intent and come to speak of the menstrual or monethly Courses by the natural constitution whereof all women are more or lesse weak or strong diseased or sound more or lesse able and meet for Conception according to the species or degrees thereof Chap. II. Of the Menstrua or Terms ARistotle delivers Arist 1. de gen Anim. cap. 19. that the Menstrua is an Excrement and in proportion as the Seed of man and that they happen to Women at the same age as the men begin to have Seed And that the humours of the Terms are purged forth by Nature as superfluous and unprofitable therefore they may be comprehended under the general notion of an Excrement the principal use thereof is for generation sake which is the first Institution thereof the Birth desiring a copious matter for nutriment The Terms generally begin in all Women The time about the fourteenth year of their age about which time also Men begin to have Seed and both men and women change their voice and are subject to many other mutations in their Bodies And they cease as the same Philosopher writes about the 50th year seldome longer continuing The time of their flowing is not in all alike for some have these purgations but one day others two three and four dayes according to the age and temperament of the Woman For sometimes they flow more and sometimes lesse sometimes longer sometimes shorter In women that are sound of body they moderately flow two or three dayes if any longer or shorter time that Woman is sickly or barren And so much for the Terms in general we will proceed now to speak of the suppression or stopping thereof Chap. III. Of the stopping or suppression of the Terms WHereas by the institution of Nature it is necessarily provided that all Women should ha●e their monethly natural purgations by reason of the temperature of this Sex and many other causes but if they be supprest or stopt there followes to that Woman much peril and many sicknesses but on the other side if they have their purgations according to the law of Nature it keeps them in health and preserves them from many Diseases The Causes The Causes of the suppression of the Terms or diminishing of them are principally four The first is the vitiousness of the Womb and of the Vessels pertaining thereunto The second is the vice or corruption of the blood The third the viciousnesse of the whole Body The fourth and the last are the viciousness and the Faculties of the Body to which all other causes may be referred First therefore the Terms are supprest or diminisht by reason of the Womb and the Vessels belonging thereunto by which the Terms ought to be purged if therefore the Womb labour under any Disease which may be many as that if the substance of the womb be too hard or too thick otherwise then is agreeable to Nature that causes a stopping of the Terms that must be brought to a better habit with fit medicaments and used in time for a convenient remedy Secondly there doth happen Diseases of intemperateness which are various simple and compound some with matter and some without matter under all which the Womb may labour partly by Nature and from the Birth and partly growing in time against Nature as hardnesse and thicknesse of which we have spoken Of these Causes the Simple are cold and dry the Compound hot and dry both which may stop the Terms cause the Womb to grow thick and hard destroy the blood and impedite the natural purgation Then there are Diseases of intemperatenesse with matter as Inflammations Swellings Tumours and Cancers against Nature Then there are other Diseases as Ulcers Fistulaes Imposthums and the like which the Womb is subject to which also impedite the Terms The second cause of the suppression of the Terms is corruption of blood which may be either too thick or too glutinous by reason of the vicious thickness of the humours the Diet and many other causes frequently happening The third Cause which causes Women many times not to have their Purgations at all is the viciousnesse of the whole Body that it sends not blood sufficient to the Womb for this matter to be digested of the humour inclining to other parts of the Body either caused by ill Diet or too much exercise as often happens in some rustick Women whereby their temperament becomes too hot and dry almost inclining to the nature of men Another Cause of the

suppression of the Terms is the weakness of the Women in general whereby the blood wanting power for Concoction runs to some other parts of the Body and so long as the Woman labours under that weakness the purgations are hindred if not altogether stopped But thus much may suffice for the Causes we shall now proceed to the Symptoms Prognosticks and Remedies to be used in the helping this infirmity Though outwardly no visible sign may appear but only the meer relation of the party afflicted yet the differrences thereof may be judged by the Causes and Accidents attending it and the part of the Body thereby afflicted Whether the whole Body be vitiated and diseased or the defect be in the Womb or Vessels as that the Mouth of the Womb be distorted and turned aside out of its due place or some other impediment there about or if there be a perpetual suppression of the Terms then it plainly shows such a Woman to be absolutely barren If the Obstruction come by weakness of the Vessels and expulsive power then that is perceived by immoderate heat great thirst a swift and strong pulse head-ach and many other signs of heat But if the cause thereof happen to be from cold then the Woman is dull drowsy and much given to sleepiness but without any thirst the pulse beats very slow and the Urine is of a loathsome colour If the Disease proceed from some inward cause it is discovered by the fatness or leanness of the party This Obstruction usually brings to the party afflicted not only barrenness but oftentimes the Falling-sickness Suffocation Swellings and Impostumes of the Womb and the other parts appertaining thereunto much dulness and drowsiness over all the Body Coughing difficulty of breathing the Dropsy detention of the Urine costiveness heaviness of mind pain in the Head and many other infirmities Now therefore to proceed to the Remedies to be administred for Cure of this infirmity it will be very fit and necessary in the first place to loosen the Belly which may be done by Glisters which dissolve wind and gently loose as thus A Glister for the stopping the Terms Take flowers of Camomile and Mugwort of each one handful Anni-seeds and Fennel-seeds each an ounce and make a Decoction thereof Then take of this Decoction a pound or a pint which you please three drams of oyl of Camomile and brown Sugar to make it a Glister so give it Hiera Piera is much cōmended in these cases to purge the Excrements of the Vesicles and remove those grosse humours A proper Receipt thereof may be thus to provoke the Terms Take the Species of Hiera or if it be lawful for me to speak English and that 't is a hard matter to do of such ugly unsignificant words as purblind Physicians have devised Take four ounces of the powder of Hiera pi●ra and mix it with honey of Roses or syrup of Roses a sufficient quantity to make it into a Bolus Also take of the same simple Species or plain powder of Hyera two drams that is a quarter of an ounce and mix it with a sufficient quantity of syrup of Betony that it may be made a Bolus Another Take three drams of solutive syrup of Roses and a sufficient quantity of the Decoction of Citron-seeds make it into a Potion or drink which you please take it immediatly after the Hiera Bolus before directed Another excellent is this Take of the powder of Hiera picra three drams of the Electuary called Lenitivum and Cassia newly drawn three drams mix it into a Bolus with fine Sugar Be pleased to give me leave to tell you what a Bolus is Turner for It is a tearm Physicians have caught by the end without sense or reason to fright you with Bolus is a Latin word and signifies as much in English as to say a mouthful or morsel or as much as one can swallow at once so that you may make it a Pill or Electuary which you please for you know both are to be swallowed Some do refuse the use of Cassia to be administred in such cases and condemn it but being well administred with Hiera piera it is very commodious for this disease The opening of a Vein or letting of bloud is very proper for this Disease if it appears that there be a plenitude or corruption thereof it is properly to be drawn from the lower parts of the Body Give me leave to be so modest as conceale that as the Foot sometimes from the Thighs and Venis Cubiti et ab utero you may imagine my meaning though I speak Latine but I say the superfluous blood must be drawn out and that downwards or else it will endanger to spoil the Body Sub matrice Ligature and binding of the Thighs is also requisite in this case and to keep the same bound to draw down the blood Also if the Veins in the Matrix be obstructed and stopt and the humour of blood abounds it is requisite that there be a Vein opened to take away the blood and that there be other means used to diminish the same as laxative and opening Medicines using abstinence and exercise as need requires but where no order nor abstinence is used never expect a good remedy But take it for a general Rule that at first you begin to provoke the Terms with gentle and lenitive moving Medicines afterwards if that do not the work proceed to stronger by degrees alwaies having due respect to the age and strength of the person For young and tender persons generally this is a gentle mover of the Terms syrup of Betony of Mugwort of honey of Roses the decoction of Betony and Hysop Ceterach Simples gently provoking and moving the Terms which are warm by nature are accounted these Smallage roots Fennel roots roots of Butchers broom of Parsly Madder Asarabacca Valerian and Elecampane The seeds of Lupines Sperage Parsly Smallage Annis Fennel Comin Of herbs these Cinquefoile Mugwort wild Mints Harts-tongne Marjerom Fetherfew Wormwood Juniper wild Time Lovage Maidenhair Southernwood and washt Turpentine Stronger Simples to provoke the Terms are Hemlock Rue Centory Savin Euphorbium Sagapenum Ammoniacum Mirrh Assa foetida Mustard-seed Celandine roots Coloquint Pepper black Hellebore Boras These with the former are to be used in powder Syrrup Juyce or Decoction but beware you be not too busie in medling with some of the last mentioned lest you repent it A Syrup to Concoct and prepare the humours to provoke the Terms Take Syrup of of Betony of Mugwort and Elecampane of each half an ounce of the Decoction of Hysop and Betony of each four ounces mix them together and so take it when you please Odoriferous things which provoke the Terms are Cynamon Cassia Lignea Costus roots Muscus Spica Indiae Spica Romana Gallia muscata and such like Fumes to be burnt to move the Terms are Oppoponacum Soponoria Frankincense Lignum Aloes and red Storax Things by nature cool which move the Terms are The seeds

of small Endive of Melons of Gourds of Pompeons Cucumbers and Lettice of which Pessaries may be made to use in the Womb but have a care you put a string to them to get them out again when you please A Syrup to take away the Obstructions in the Body which hinder the Terms Take Madder two ounces of the roots of Lovage Sperage Cypers and grasse each an ounce and a half Penny Mountaine and Balm of each two ounces Spica Indiae half a dram Licorice Currans Rosemary flowers and Stecados of each an ounce six ounces of Honey and nine ounces of Sugar boyl it into a syrup and take thereof two ounces at a time Another for the same Take two ounces of Madder Sperage roots Cypers roots and the roots of Butchers broom of each an ounce Valerian Sabine white water Mints and Penny-royal of each a handful Baulm two handfuls of Melon seed one ounce Licorice and Currans each half an ounce Honey and Sugar of each six ounces so make it into a syrup and take thereof about an ounce and a half at a time To provoke the Terms strongly Take the water of Smallage of Lupins Sperage and Fennel of each six ounces a dram of Cinamon a quarter of an ounce of Spica Indiae Ammoniacum and Oppopanacum of each a dram and a half Parsly seed Fennel seed wild yellow Rape seed and Carraway of each a quarter of an ounce Gromell seed and Agrimony of each a handful Galingale and Saffron of each half a dram the kernels of Quinces and Mallow seeds of each half an ounce Syrup of Violers two ounces boyl them all except the syrup in two quarts of Gourds water till the third part be wasted then strain it and mix it with the syrup of Violets and boil it with so much Honey as you see convenient then strew a little powder of Cinamon into it and Vinegar of Squils enough to make it sowrish then take of it in quantity as the former Common Sirups whith remove obstructions of the Terms are Syrup of Mugwort of Maiden-hair of Chicory with Rubarb and the syrup of the five roots these you may have ready made at the Apothecaries A Laxative to open the Body and purge superfluous humours Take Sene leaves Penny-royal and Madder of each a like quantity boyl them in white Wine take thereof about three ounces at a time fasting Another for the same Take Penny-royal Nep Southernwood Rue Centory and Hysop of each one handful Savin and Fetherfew of each one handful and an half Galingale a dram Cinamon and Madder of each one handful Mirrh a quarter of an ounce boyl them together in a quart of fair water till the third part be wasted take thereof two or three ounces fasting at a time Another Take Sperage Smallage Fennel and Parsly roots Carduus benedictus and Butchers broom of each an ounce and a half Annis Fennel and Carraway seeds of each a dram and a half Mugwort Penny-royal Mints Horehound Assarabacca and Fetherfew of each half a handful seeth them altogether in two quarts of water till half be wasted then strain it and mix therewith the syrup of the five roots of Calamint and Mugwort of each a like quantity and drink thereof in the morning and afternoon about two ounces Another to move the Terms Take Mints Balm Penny-royal Marjerom and Southernwood of each an handful Anni-seeds Fennel and Carraway seeds of each an ounce Polipody an ounce and an half Cicory roots an ounce cut the roots and herbs very small and boyl them all together in a quart of water till a third part be consumed then strain it and sweeten it with Sugar to your own likeing and take thereof as you please A Syrup to provoke the Terms Take four handfuls of Cicory roots take out the pith and cut them small and boyl them a good space in two quarts of White wine strain it and then boyl the decoction unto a syrup with Sugar and take thereof about two spoonfuls evening and morning A Trochis to move the Terms Take a dram and a half of Mirrh two drams and an half of Lupines Rue water Mints Comin Madder Elecampane roots Sagapenum Oppopanacum of each a dram make it into Trochis with the juyce of Mugwort and give half an ounce thereof in the decoction of Juniper berries made with water Wines good to provoke the Terms Wine of Elecampane roots of Marjerom gentle of the herb Rennet of Betony of Gellow-flowers and of Rosemary these are very good if the Patients Body be fitting to drink Wine otherwise discretion may direct you not to use it Confections good for this Disease are The Confection of Elecampane roots the Confection of Eringo roots Conserves of Pioney and Mirrh roasted in an Apple Pills to move the Terms Take the Pill Alephargine half a dram Aloes two scruples Savin in powder one scruple make in into Pills with the water of Mugwort and take half thereof at once these provoke the Terms and are safe without any danger Others for the same Take-Pill Alephargine half a dram pill Cochiae one scrupse mix them into five Pills and take them at once By the way heed is to be taken that these Medicines are not to be exhibited at such time as the Flowers do use to come or nature useth to send forth the menstrual purgations for at that time they may draw and turn the humors from the womb where nature would yent and purge it to some other parts of the Body to the impediting of nature and dammage of the Body but the whole Body being purged and cleansed then 't is a fit time to apply these Medicaments which may take away the intemperatness and remove the vices and obstructions of the Womb and Vessels purifie the crassious and corrupted bloud and extenuate the same out of the Vessels and briefly provoke the Terms To do which you see the ways and means are manifold partly simple partly compound partly internal and partly external to be administred and exhibited sundry wayes and for sundry reasons as the cause and necessity shall require to which we further proceed Pills to procure the Terms Take Musk and Mirrh of each four scruples Sterhas Madder Penny-royal Citron pills long Pepper Cassia wood Cassia pills Pioney seeds and Calmus of each three quarters of an ounce Spica Indiae half a dram make Pills thereof with the juyce of Mugwort whereof take a dram at once Thus far of inward Medicines to procure the Terms there are also many outward Medicines to be used if need require the first part whereof are Baths and Lotions which are partly natural as of the natural water of hot Baths and partly artificial which are prepared of congruent and fitting Medicaments A Bath or Lotion for the Terms Take of Camomile flowers of Mugwort Calamint Dictamnus of Crete Briony Savin of each one handful of Anniseeds Fennel seeds yellow Carrot seeds and Ameos of each an ounce mix them altogether and therewith make a Decoction in water

The use of these Lotions and Baths is twofold First to wash and Bathe the Thighs and lower parts of the Woman with the water decocted and secondly for the woman to sit in a Bath up to her middle The second sort of external medecines are injections or medecines to be injected into the Womb and Pessaries or Suppositories to be put into the Womb and remain there a space Suppositories are made of medecines wrapt up in wooll or bombast or some such like thing and so put up into the Womb and there a great while to be detained But alwaies remember that you tie a string thereunto put about the Thigh that it may again be taken out when you please A Pessary for the Terms Take the leaves roots and juyce of Mercury and make thereof a Pessary and apply it alone it may also be mixed with other Medicaments Pessaries of odoriferous things and Aromaticks are very good An Aromatick Pessary to draw down the Flowers Take of Gum Ladanum the best two parts of Belzoine and Mirrh of each one part of Musk one part mix the Aromaticks with oyl of white Lillies a sufficient quantity to make it into a fit form and so put it up Pessaries more strong in operation are such as are made of Coloquintida Briony Scammony and the like an example whereof take following A Pessary to move the Terms Take of Ox gall the juyce of Briony of each one ounce Pulp of Goloquintida two drams of Mirrh one dram make this into a Pessary as before is directed and so apply it In the third place outward means to be used are fumes and suffumigations and they are best to be made of odoriferous Aromatick things whereof take this example A Fumigation to procure the Terms Take Belzoinum Storax Calamint Mirrh Bdellium of each a dram These you may have at the Apothecaries Gallia Muscata Mes half a dram Libethum half a scruple Storax liquid or oyl of Spike perfumed a sufficient quantity to make it into Pills or Trochis This is to be put on a moderate fire that the fume may ascend and the Woman is to be so comodiously placed that she may receive the fume up into the Matrix through a vessel or funnel fit for that purpose which is to be made broad at that end next the fire that it may receive all the smoke and with a narrow neck like a funnel to inject the fume into the Matrix But these Fumigations as Hippocrates teacheth Hipp. 5. Apho. 28. use to cause the Headach Therefore the Woman ought to be well covered fortified with clothes that the vapours may be kept from ascending to the Head In the fourth place amongst the external Medicines unguents and plaisters are to be used and applyed to the Abdomina or secret places Letting of blood is also to be used in the Foot or else where as need requires us An Oyl good to bring down the Flowers Take oyl of sweet Almonds two ounces of white Lillies one ounce Oyl of Anniseed two drams Mixe them and therewith anoint c. it is very effectual for infirmities in those parts A Plaister to apply to move the Terms Take of Penny-royal Calamint Ditanny Mugwort of each one handful Cinamon Cloves Mirth Balsom of each a dam meal of Pease a pound mixe them with White-wine upon the fire and make thereof a plaister and apply it to the pundenda An Ointment for the same Take Mussilage of Fleawort and Linseed of each an ounce Butter Unsalted two ounces Hens grease Ducks grease Goose grease Marrow of Calves bones of each half an ounce Ammoniacum a quarter of an ounce oyl of Sesanum oyl of sweet Almonds of each five drams Wax sufficient to make it into a salve With this Ointment anoint the Body behind and before from the Navel downwards but not before you have used all other inward means and outward of Bathing letting blood Fumes Pessaries c. A Plaister for the same Take Confectio benedicta half an ounce Turbith a quarter of an ounce Nigella seed three drams clarified Honey enough to make it into a Plaister This Plaister is to be applyed over the Privities as before is directed If you perceive the Courses begin to appear then take this drink following Take Mugwort Sene leaves and Penny-royal of each half a handful Cinamon half an ounce Mace three drams boil these altogether in three pints of good Wine until the fourth part be wasted boil it in a pot stopt close in boiling water otherwise called Balneo Mariae In the last place is to be used frictions or often rubbing of the Thighs and inferiour parts to draw the humour downwards Ligatures or binding the Thigh hard with a string Cupping glasses to be applyed to the Hips and Thighs and the inferiour parts both with scarification and without Let the sick party beware of all slimy meat and hard meat and from all salt cold binding things as are hard of digestion omit hatred sorrow and melancholinesse and alwaies in these cases begin with the mildest Medicines first of which you have sufficient before directed And thus far for the suppression or stopping of the Terms we proceed to the extraordinary Flux an evil also incident to Women and the remedies thereof Chap. IIII. Of the immoderate Flux of the Terms HAving hitherto fully declared the Symptomes Causes and Cure of that great Feminine infirmity the stopping or obstruction of the termes ' we provide now in order to treat of the immoderate Flux or overflowing of Womens courses which oftentimes brings to the party afflicted there with many other infirmities and great weakness and sickness pains in the back and stomack losse of appetite ill digestion and many other diseases as Dropsie Consumption and others This infirmity may and often times is caused by some fall blow thrust over-straining too much exercise over-heating the body and thereby making the blood thin and fluxible It is also caused by some unnatural and untimely birth breaking of a vein or some bruisings in the womb some vein there being broken or through some weakness in the retentive faculty and too much strength of the expulsive too much moysture and slipperiness in the Matrix Many suppose the immoderate Flux of the termes and the continual Issue of women to be one and the same disease but they are besides the Cussion for they are 2 several distinct diseases as Galen plainly teacheth for in the superfluous Flux of the termes blood only issueth as it useth to appear in the natural monthly purgations but only it flowes immoderately but in the issue or Flux of Women not only blood but various excrements sometimes watry and of another substance are evacuated The Termes or courses are said to flow immoderately after a twofold manner First when they flow excessively and beyond measure in a small time Secondly When this evacuation continues many dayes beyond its natural course and time And to this purpose writes Galen when he saith

Men are wont to call that much rain or a great rain which continues a long time though it fall but slowly and leasurely or else if it suddenly fall upon the earth in great showers If any one shall be so curious as to ask what is the proper quantity and measure of the menstrual blood which nature ought duly to evacuate Hippocrates answers them That in a sound Woman Hip. 1. Lib. de morb mulier Pag. 313. and one perfect in health the moderate monethly Purgations ought to be about 20. ounces a very little more or lesse if they exceed very much that proportion or are much lesse then are the Courses diseased and disaffected But the certain quantity of the monethly natural purgations cannot so strictly be defined in all bodies because of the difference of the temperature the dyet habit constitution age and strength of Womens bodies it must necessarily be that some must have them more copiously then others but this definition might be taken to be of a Woman in perfect health but if the Flux of natural purgation be immoderate the party must needs be much afflicted therewith and thereby incur many other Diseases of some whereof mention is already made and partly of the causes thereof But we desire to be a little more copious Causes in discovering the causes of this distemper before we proceed to the method of the cure thereof The causes of this immoderate Flux Gal. 3. de Sym. Causis Cap. 2.5 Aph. Com. 58. are distinctly and accurately handled by Galen That The Termes as other Fluxes of blood do flow immoderatly for three causes First By reason of the faculty that recludeth the Vessel containing the blood as in the Flux of blood at the nose The second Because of the evil affection and ill disposition of the blood And the third By reason of some vitiousness or detriment in the Vessels themselves The first cause is by reason of the natural faculties which are foure The faculty attractive retentive alterative and the faculty expulsive All which faculties perform their operations Gal. 1. de fac Nat. according to their proper temperatures as Galen largely teacheth Therefore they are the cause of the menstrual Fluxes immoderation when these fuculties do not properly and duly exercise their functions and Offices As chiefly If the retentive faculty be too weak that it cannot retain the blood so much and so long as it should until its due time this is a special cause of the superfluous Flux which many times happens by reason of some ill distemper in the womb or Vessels either too much cold or moysture or both In like manner it comes to passe when the expulsive faculty too powerfully sends forth the blood in such quantity and at such times when by the Lawes of nature it should not and this also chiefly happens by reason of some ill distempers either in the Womb or Vessels proceeding of too much heat and dryness or both Another cause of the immoderate Flux of the Termes is the ill disposition or corruption of the blood and that after a twofold manner The first when the blood is so vitious that it corrodeth and corrupteth the Vessels wherein it is contained which is done when the blood is too thin hot or sharp and that by reason the temperature or ill dyer is mixed with superfluity of Flegme Choler or Melancholy which are offensive to nature and do provoke her to expel them A second cause is superfluity of blood distempered 4 Method 2. so that the Vessels cannot contain it but it breaks out and forces a purgation by reason of the abounding acrimonious humor thereof as Galen also makes mention Having now spoken of two causes of the immoderate Flux of the Termes we proceed to the third which is because of the viriousness of the Vessels and that consisteth in the too much hardness softness or smallness thereof And happens to come in youth in their first beginning and to others afterwards in progress of time And this happens to come thus to passe Too much softness of superfluity of moysture hardness of too much dryness and smallness of too much hunger or want of sustenance If this superfluous Flux proceed of too much blood Colour then the colour of the Termes will be pale and whitish if they come of Choler then the Flowers will incline to a yellow Colour If Melancholy be the abounding humour then are the Flowers of a blewish black or dark colour By which Colours you may judge of the abounding humour and provide a remedy accordingly to stop the excessive Flux thereof for which purpose we now come to prescribe many both internal and external meanes First Observe these Rules Beware of hot things If the Body be grosse and full of blood and humours that nature seems to expulse it this way stop it not suddenly unless there be danger of much weakness by it but gently purge and prepare the body first If the Body be very full of blood you may open the Basilica vein and seek to reverse it that way if it appear to come of Choler or if any other peccant humour abounds purge that humour with proper moderate Medicines mixing astringent and comfortable things amongst it Let the Woman abstain from all hard labour and all kind of slimey thin and waterish meat Vomits are good to stay the humour and turn their course that they flow not downwards Inwardly may be given Sirrups Electuaries decoctions Confections and the like A Sirrup to stay the immoderate Flux of the Termes Take Sirrup of Endive one ounce Sirrup of Purslain half an ounce the decoction of Egrimony and of Plantain 4 Ounces mix them together and make them into a Sirrup and so take it as you please An Electuary for the same Take conserve of Roses 2 Ounces of water Lillies one ounce of Pearl prepared and burnt Harts-horn each half an ounce Bole Armonick Terra Lemnia each half a scruple mix them together with syrrup of Plantain a quantity sufficient to make it into an Electuary A Bolus for the same Take Conserce of Roses half an ounce Philonium or Requies Nicholai two Scruples Mix them together and make a Bolus thereof This is not to be given but when extremity urges Avicenna amongst many other Medicaments of this nature commendeth the use of Vinegar which to some may seem strange it being the vulgar opinion that Vinegar is of a great opening quality Nevertheless Galen agrees with Avicen Gal. 1. de sim med cap. 18.19 who writeth of Vinegar that it is of an astringent quality and doth suppresse and stop fluxes of the blood Others contradict the same not approving of it in this case as hurtful to the Womb. And there being many other Medicines here readily prescribed it may very well be let alone A Powder to stay the immoderate Flux of the Terms Take Species tria santali Diarrhodon Abbatis each a dram Coriander two scruples and a half

drinks as cleanse the Body and make good blood beware of fish and such moist meats and abstain from much motion of the Body Chap. VIII Of natural Conceptions HAving thus far treated of the diseases accidents and infirmities incident to the Menstrue and generative parts of Women we proceed to discourse of those things which pertain to the Conception and Birth of man in which thing the conservation and continuance of all mankind consists That to the generation of every man there is a necessity of a distinction of both sexes Male and Female and also of Conjunction of them both we have already declared But in what manner this admirable operation of nature is effected and brought to perfection Galen declareth who saith Gal. 1. sem 4. That in time of Copulation of the Male and Female the Seed of the Male is attracted into the Womb of the Female and is extended and dilated through all the parts thereof and is there by the natural heat and moisture of the Womb Coagulated into a massy substance before any of the Members be formed and afterwards nature as with an instrument forms and fashions the Veins Arteries Bones and other Members branching them all over the body then safely wrappeth them all up together in a Coat preserving them to the time of the perfect Birth if no mischance or accident intervene to the hinderance thereof which must be diligently endeavoured to prevent And to further the Conception for the procreation sake of mankind take these directions A Confection to cause fruitfulnesse in Man or Woman Take Rapes Ivory shaven Ashkeys Sesely Behen red and white of each one dram Cinamon Doronicum Mace Cloves Galingale long Pepper Rosemary flowers Balsom wood Blatiis Byzantiae Marjoram gentle Penny-royal of each two scruples Balm Buglas Citron pieces of each one scruple Spica Indiae Amber Pearles of each half scruple Sugar a pound decoct the Sugar in Malmsey and the other things and make them into a Confection use of it a little at a time A Powder for the same to be strewed on meat Take Nurmegs Cubebbes Ginger of each half a dram long Pepper Mastick Cinamon red Behen white Behen of each a Scruple mix them all together and make them into fine powder and strew of it a little upon the parties meat Another Confection for the same Take Honey three ounces Linseed Grains Ivory shaven of each one ounce Borrage three ounces Sugar 24 ounces Musk Amber of each half a scruple Cinamon two grains Cloves Mace of each one graine clarifie the Honey then incorporate the other things with it to make a Confection thereof and take of it as you please A Porionto further Conception in a Woman Take Wormwood Mugwort of each a handful Boyl them together in a quart of Goats milk till almost half be wasted and let the Woman drink thereof first and last every morning and evening a good draught A Bath for the same Take Penyroyal Mugwort Rue of each a handful Put them into a Bag and boyl them in Rain-water a sufficient quantity to make a Bath boyl it well bathe therein twice a day and renew the Bath every third day use this for a good space You must understand as I said before that without the mutual conjuction of male and female the natural reception and coagulation of both their Seeds in the Field of generation the Womb there can be no natural conception and so consequently no birth so that if the impediment lie in either of the Vessels receiving or instruments giving then these Medicines prescribed do not work their effect till the obstructive causes be removed and of them you shall be sufficiently directed in the subsequent Chapter of barrenness and the causes thereof but if the Womb be clean and the Masculine Instrument proportioned thereunto so that the defect lie in some debility of nature let both parties make use of this Confection following and take of it in the mornings fasting and they shall seldom fail of their desires But take notice by the way I do not prescribe this to Maids nor Batchelors they have no use for it A Confection to further fruitfulness in Men and Conception in Women Take a Bores Stones Stags Pissel shaven small I ounce Bulls Pissel if you cannot get the other will do as well Sparrows Brains 50. or 60. yellow Rape Eringo Root and Satyrion confected Ivory shaven of each 3 Ounces and a half Cynamon Dates Indy Nut Kernels of each 2 Ounces Long Pepper Ginger Rosemary Flowers of each half an Ounce Seseli 1 dram Nettle-seed Cloves Safron Mace Galingale Cypress Roots Nutmegs Cassia wood Cucubes Doronicum Field Mints Peny Royal Spica Indiae Musk Amber of each one dram Make all these into a Confection with 4 pounds an half of white Sugar refined in Mint-water and take of it as before is directed and if you cannot easily get all the things yet refuse not the Medicine but make it with as many as you can come by Chap. IX Of Barrenness IT is granted amongst all men that the Generation of man-kind and also of all other Creatures is the most perfect work and the most excellent and most exquisite natural operation of all the works of nature Aristotle 2 Gen. A●●mal Galen de ●s● part 14.2 which Aristotle most elegantly sets forth and demonstrates That whereas it is impossible by the decree of nature that any animal or Creature should live alwayes or have an eternal Essence and being therefore for the continuance of the kinds of all Creatures as well bruit as rational that a continual Generation might be had and maintained the Sexes of male and female fitted to the act of procreation were ordained And from hence saith Galen it comes to passe that all Creatures are furnished with Instruments of generation fitting the quality of their Sexe and are indued with natural instincts prompting them to the use thereof Therefore we here take liberty to speak of this wonderful Operation of nature And to seek out the causes that hinder and prescribe meanes to further the Operation of the same partly for Dame Natures sake whose intent in hindred where this work is obstructed and partly for those Ladies sakes who are sometimes disconsolate being amongst the number of those that are accounted barren We intend not here to enter into the Philosophers Inquisitions nor the Physitians Lectures what is the forming matter which causes the birth in the Womb in what order how and in what time or how many dayes the several parts and members of the body are framed at what time God the Authour of all things and nature it self infuseth the living soul into the Conception or conceived body but our intention only is to speak of what belongs to Physick and not only to Philosophy to treat of those things which do impedite or hinder the perfection of conception For as the conception hath some contingency with every part of the body so the same may be

under distempers either simple or compound either with or without matter As if the stones be oppressed with any inflammation or tumour wound or Ulcer or drawn up within the belly not appearing outwardly all such causes of the stones may be the reason of barrenness in the man Also the man may be barren by reason of the defect of the seed and that may come from a twofold cause The first If he ingender and cast forth no seed at all or in lesse substance then is needful And secondly If the seed generated and cast forth be vitious and unfit for generation The seed is hindred from generation in those bodies which are grosse and fat the matter of it being defective And on the other side too much leaness or a continual wasting or consumption of the body destroyes the seed nature turning all the matter and substance thereof into nutriment for the body The seed may also be corrupt and vitious by reason of many internal and external causes If the Instruments and Vessels of seed be intemperate or disaffected or in any wayes corrupted that they cannot attract the matter of the fruitful seed and so that they cannot concoct the attracted matter and retain the same so long until it can receive its whole and perfect absolution as for examples sake it frequently happens to those who have a long time laboured with the Gonorrhea or running of the Reins or if the principal parts of the body be so ill affected that they conceit ill nutriment that causeth vitious seed to be generated unfit for conception Likewise many outward causes may so alter and disaffect our bodies as that they may cause the seed to be vitious and unfruitful Too frequent carnal Copulation Gal. 1. de sem Cap. 16. is one great cause of barrenness of men which attracteth the seminal moisture from the stones before it is sufficiently prepared and concocted as all other members of the body by the institution of nature do use to draw their accustomed juyce to themselves So if any one by daily Copulation do exhaust and draw out all the moysture of his seed then do the stones draw the moyst humours from the superior veins unto themselves and so having but a little blood in them they are forced of necessity to cast it out raw and unconcocted and thus the stones be violently deprived of the moysture of their veins attract the same from the other superior veins and the superior veins from all the other parts of the body for their proper nutriment to the great violating of the body depriving the same of the vital spirits It is therefore no wonder if those that use immoderate Copulation are very weak in their bodies seeing the whole body is thereby deprived of its best purest blood of the vital spirits insomuch that many who have bin too much addicted to the pleasure have killed themselves in the act But chiefly It is no wonder if such seed not well concocted and digested be unfit for generation Gluttony and drunkenness do also much hinder men from fruitfulness and maketh them unfit for generation But amongst other causes of barrenness in men this also is one that maketh them barren and of the nature of Eunuchs the incision or cutting of their veins behinde their ears which for a Disease many times is done This saith Hippocrates causeth barrenness in them Gal. Lib. de genitur whose veins behinde their eares are cut to which Galen agrees for he saith that especially more then from any other parts of the body the seed flowes from the brain by those veins behinde the eares which also Aristotle confirms From whence it probably appears that the transmission of the seed is impedited by the Section of the Veins behinde the eares so that it cannot at all descend to the lower parts of the body or else very crude and raw And thus have we shown the causes of barrennesse in men Now we come to speak of barrennesse in women Although there are many causes of the barrenness of women yet the chief and principal are internal and they may be all referred to the privy parts of the Body the Seed or the menstruous blood Therefore Hippocrates speaking of the easy and difficult Conception of Women saith thus The first consideration is to be had of their Species for little Women are more apt to conceive then great slender then grosse white and fair then ruddy and high coloured black then pale and wan Those which have their Veins conspicuous are more apt then others but to be very fleshy is evil to have great swelling Breasts good The next thing to be considered is their Courses or monethly purgations whether they have them duty every Moneth if they flow plentifully and are of a good colour whether they have them equal every moneth at their certain daies and times for so their purgations ought to be Then the Womb or place of Conception is to be considered it ought to be clean and sound dry and soft the Womb not retracted nor drawn up nor prone or descended downwards and the mouth thereof ought not to be turned awry nor everst nor too close shut But to come to consider of these Causes more distinctly and particularly The first parts therefore to be spoken of are the pudenda that is the privie member and the Womb which parts are shut enclosed either by nature or against nature from hence such women are called inperforate For in some Women the mouth of their Womb continueth compressed closed up from the time of their Birth until the time of the ripeness of their Courses and then on a sudden when their Terms provoke forwards to purgation they are molested with great pain and sickness some break of their own accord others are dissected and opened by Physitians to some it brings death or else they are forced to break or never break at all And this Aetius distinctly handles who writeth that the Wombs of women are shut three manner of waies which hinders Conception The first is When the lips of the Pudenda do grow or cleave together Secondly Although the lips seem open yet there are certain Membrances growing in the middle part of the Matrix within The third Though the lips and bosome of the Pudenda may appear fair and open yet the Mouth of the Womb may be quite shut up all which three kinds of Closures are impediments to the Conceptions of women They do hinder in the first place the performance of three offices the use of man their purgations and their Conception In the second place they are two impediments the communication with men and Conception thereby And thirdly two other impediments to themselves Purgation and Conception there might also fall in by the way a discourse of the Hymen or that Membrane which is so called but that only serves for the testimony of true virginity to them that know it which lock the losse of a Maidenhead opens

to the intent of nature Gal. lib. de hist Phil. lib. 5. plai Ph. 8. are not fully agreed upon by all Galen or rather Plutarch sayes thus Empedocles teacheth That Monsters are created if the seed be too much or too little too much spread abroad or seperated if it be void or injected by inordinate motion or because something is added detracted transposited or inflamed or if the womb be distorted the Vessels corrupted or the formative vertue be deficient or do abound these things hinder the natural conception and due operation of nature Chap. XI Of the unnatural fleshy Conception in the womb called Mola THis unnatural Matter sometimes happens to grow in the wombs of Women that have no Copulation with men and causeth the Belly to arise and all signes to appear as though they were with Child their Termes staying the Breasts grow hard they lose their appetite or stomach to meat their complexion groweth pale and sometimes they may feel a stirring about the Matrix as if they were with Child yet nevertheless they bear no Child which have this mola ingendred in them Of this writes Aetius Aetius lib. ult and Avicen who saith that it is a certain hard substance sometime found to spread it self throughout the whole Matrix Aristotle teacheth that this Mola is nothing else Lib. 4. Gen. Hin Cap. 7. but a certain peece of flesh conceived and ingendred in the womb of a Woman and he reciteth a story of a certain Woman that brought forth a lump of flesh which they called Mola And hereunto Galen also plainly consents Gal. 14. usu part 17.14 Meth. 13 who affirmeth that this Mola is a peece of unprofitable deform'd flesh which is ingendred in the Womb of a Woman without the Copulation with a man as a Hen hath Eggs without a Cock. But now a Question may arise whether the cause of this unnatural Mola proceed from too much heat or too much cold or too much blood For Avicen teacheth Avic fen 21.3 trait 2. cap. 18. that besides the multitude or superfluity of blood there is a vehemency of heat wherein the blood is concocted and thereby the flesh acquires a form But this Aristotle seems to contradict who manifestly writeth that the Mola is no otherwise bred then of impure and imperfect concoction and that it hath its Original from the defect and imbecillity of natural heat And Averroes confirms that the cause is nothing else but debility and weakness of nature corruption of digestion and losse of the last concoction and certainly that rude and deformed flesh called Mola is ingendred of crudities This groweth in the womb in two kinds like a peece of flesh putrified without form or figure resembling rather a peece of spongeous blood wind water then right flesh which hindereth the expelling of the termes and being mixed with the natural seed it groweth sometimes to a hard substance It is also ingendred of superfluous blood and the concourse of tough and unconcocted humours which make the belly swell up as if the Woman were with Child This is an ill accident and putrifieth and spoileth the Matrix breeding there oftentimes Ulcers and Imposthumes Dropsies unnatural Fluxes or some such like infirmities bringing death if it be not well regarded to be prevented The sighes whereby they that labour with this unnatural Masse may be known from Women with Child are generally these The first is motion for this burthen moveth not as Children do because there is neither life nor sense in it But it may move by accident according to the motion of the woman and the ponderousness thereof but that is no true motion The Belly of Women which labour with this unnatural Masse is harder then the Belly of women with Child and will not so easily move from one place to another as theirs that be with Child The Woman that hath this Mola is also more melancholy then those that are with Child and their hands and feet more feeble this Masse also sometimes falleth from one side to another A Woman with Child at nine moneths end is delivered thereof but they go two 3 or 4 years sometimes all their life-time with this burthen For the cure of this Mola Hippocrates before all others prescribes the most perfect method The first means to be used is cleansing and purging of the whole body The second is to mollifie loosen and open the Vessels and ligaments of the Womb wherewith the Mola is bound and fastned there The third is to stir up and strengthen the expulsive faculty whereby this burden may the more easily be expelled from the Womb. All Physicians do agree that this disease cannot be cured without great difficulty and sometimes not at all yet nevertheless meanes must be used and first of all purgation whereby the Belly may be lenified and amongst all other Medicines Hiera obtains the chief place for its molifying and purging quality the better if it be mixed with Cassia as in this manner Take Species of Hiera simplex Cassia new drawn of each 1 dram mix them into a Bolus with Sugar A Sirrup for the same Take of Oximel simplex one Ounce decoction of Betony of Motherwort Mints Peny Royal of each 4 drams mix them together and make a Sirrup thereof but before you take it take this Bolus and Confection following A Bolus Take Conserve of Maidenhair two drams Species of Dia calamint 1 scruple mix them and make a Bolus thereof to be taken before the Sirrup A Confection for the same Take Species Diambre Diacalam of each half a dram Sugar 2 Ounces make a Confection thereof with White-wine and take it before the Sirrup An excellent potion for this Disease Take Elect Diaphen Hiera Diacol of each half a dram Mel. Ros Sol. 4. drams decoction of Betony of Mugwort of each a sufficient quantity to make a potion let the Patient in this Disease abstain from cold and moyst meats and use this potion following which mollifies the Masse or Mola and expels the humors that cause or increase it Take St. Johns Wort Savin Rosemary Field Mints Lovag Mugwort Peny Royal Madder of each one handful Fennel Squinant Parsley seed Calmus Galingale of each 1 dram Hors-radish Roots 4 Ounces boyl them all together in a good quantity of water to make a potion and take thereof every day 3. or 4. Ounces mixing therewith about a quarter of an Ounce of this Trochis following A Trochis Take Cynamon Mirrhe of each 2. drams and a half Rue Savin Field Mints Peny Royal Madder Sagapenum Opopanacum of each 1 dram Cardamum Juniper-wood Rosemary of each 1 dram a half dry them all to powder make Troches thereof and use it as above is directed Also for this Disease this following is a cheap and ready Medicine Take 3 Ounces of warm Fetherfewwater every morning fasting for two moneths together and fast 4 houres after it And every fourth day during the time she drinketh the water let her