rightly then wee must know that the port-passage or outward gate that is to say the secrets may be more extended dilated enlarged and that they may better endure all the difficulties of the birth than the inward receptacle or vault and therefore let the midwife also amplifie open that gate or entrance againe according to the quality of the matter that the whole Infant may come forth to the birth And if these aforesaid things shall afford no succour so that the Infant remaineth as yet fixed and unmovable and all the paines and pangs of the birth shall cease then the labouring-woman shall be brought to her bed againe and be holpen with these medicines following which are such Medicines able to expell dead children the Secundines abortives the false conceptions Molae that they are able to expell and drive forth both dead children the Secundines retained behind and also abortives and the false conceptions named Molae First of all as soone as she shall be brought to her bed let her take this potion warme and that being taken let her abstaine from all other meat and let her rest quietly the space of one or two houres untill she thoroughly feele the force and efficacy of it Take figs sliced seven Fenegreke A Potion Mugwoort-seed Rue-seed of each two drams the water of Peniroyall and Mugwoort of each sixe ounces Make a decoction of them and seethe them till the halfe part be wasted and consumed let the residue be strained and put to that which is strained of the Trochiskes of Myrrhe one dram of Saffron three graines of Sugar a sufficient quantity make one draught of it and let it be spiced with Cinamome so much as sufficeth After the aforesaid time of rest she may be brought againe to the travell and labour of the birth Suffumigations where suffumigations and perfumes shal be made underneath with Trochiskes composed of these kindes cast by little and little upon the coales so that all the fume and vapour may attaine onely to the Matrix Take Castoreum Brimstone Galbanum Opoponacum Culver-dung Assa Foetida of each halfe a dram temper them with the juyce of Rue or Herbe-grace and make Trochiskes like unto a Filbert-nut It will profit much to make fumes and vapours with them But if she finde no helpe by them she may use this Emplaister laid upon her belly An Emplaister Take Galbanum one ounce and a halfe Colocynthis without the seeds two drams the juyces of Rue Mugwoort new waxe so much as fufficeth make a Plaister of them Let a Linnen-cloth be spread with this being decocted made according to the breadth of the belly that it may reach from the Navell to the privie parts and to both the sides which thee may retaine and keepe on the place the space of one or two houres if there shall be need A Pessary Or a Pessary made of Wooll the bignesse and length of a finger and covered with Silke dipped and moistened in the decoction follollowing is to be conveyed into the necke or privie passage of the Matrix and to remaine there two houres Take Aristolochia rotunda brought out of France Savine Colocynthis without seeds Stavesacre Elleborus niger of each halfe a dram With these beaten to powder with the juyce of Rue as much as sufficeth make a Pessary But after all these things being used When how we must use Instruments but especially if the Midwife shall not be able to make way and passage for the Infant the parts of the Matrix being enlarged and amplified as they should Instruments wholly fit and profitable for those uses shall be used And when as necessity shall require the use of them the poore and distressed labouring-woman must be encouraged before hand with comfortable and cheerefull words then the Instruments are to be prepared and devout prayer to be poured forth to God and that done let her so sit upon the Stoole that shee may turne her Fundament as much as shee can to the backe of the Stoole and draw her legges to her as shee may and spread and separate them as wide as shee can the other women standing by helping and furthering her that the Midwife may conveniently performe and execute that which is to be done with the Instruments But if another way shall please and seeme more commodious to the Midwife let her bring the woman to her bed in which let her lie her head declining and bending backeward a little but her buttockes lifted somewhat higher than all the rest and her legges drawne unto her so much as may be Then with either of these Instruments which shall please best being annointed let the Midwife begin to worke and to proceed forward For both these hereafter described and set forth are prepared to open enlarge and bring forth Speculum Matricis Apertorium Rostrum anatis Forceps langa tersa Therefore with one of these Instruments I meane that which is named in Latine Rostrum anatis the Ducke or Drakes bill Rostrum anatis the Ducke or Drakes-bil let her take hold of the dead child and let her draw him out with her right hand having taken hold of him but with her left hand let her drive forward both the ports or gates lest the Ligaments or holders be broken and the falling downe of the Matrix doe insue In this case if necessity shall require you may adde to this instrument the paire of Pinsers with which teeth are pulled out or else this Instrument here pictured out Forceps longa tersa the long and smooth Pinsers or tongs named in Latin Forceps longa tersa the long and smooth Pinsers or Tongs the which let her use so convenient that if it be possible she may easily pull out that which is to be drawne forth But if it shall happen that some swelling or congealed blood doe appeare in the fore-skins of the Matrix under the skinne arising from the paines and difficulty of the birth the Veines or Fibraes being broken because of overmuch dilatation opening and enlargement as it falleth out or some inward swelling or tumour of blood shall be bred by which both the childe and Secundines or after-birth are wont to be hindred very much before the birth let the Midwife make incision of that tumour and open it with a cleane knife Incision to be made of such swelling or tumour which hindreth the birth when the matter shall be perceived to be digested and ripe whether it shall appeare before or after the birth let her squeise out the clotted blood and let her presse downe the swelling wipe and cleanse those things which are defiled and let her bring forth the childe as she may if it shall be unborne as yet After let her convey a Pessary into the place oftentimes let her annoint it with the oile of Roses and bind it up daily untill she shall be whole For after the same manner we our selves have also
else take of the Waters of Buglosse Pimpinell Fumitary Mugwoort Harts-tong of each three ounces Vinegar one ounce white Sugar foure ounces When these are made odoriferous with Cinamome let them be made a Iuleb Let the Dose or quantity at a time be foure ounces Or otherwise Take Calaminth Origanum Staechados Liver-woort Borrage-flowers Mugwoort Buglosse Germander of each halfe a handfull Harts-tong halfe a handfull the barks of the Broome and Ash-tree of each halfe a handfull Raisins one ounce Mixe them and let a decoction be made with one ounce of Epithymie Sugar one pound clarified Hony halfe a pound Vinegar two ounces Let this decoction be spiced with Cinamome let the quantity of an ounce and a halfe be taken with the aforesaid waters The matter being prepared and made solutive for purgation it followeth that it be purged and expelled with medicine Take Cassia newly extracted Manna of each halfe an ounce Let them be dissolved in this decoction following Take Venus-haire flowers of Buglosse Borrage Violets Germander Harts-tong of each halfe a handfull Raisins halfe an ounce Mixe them and make a decoction in water to which adde Cinamome a dram Cassia extracted Manna confection of Hamech of each two drams syrup of Violets one ounce Let all things be tempered together and let a purging medicine be made of them let the quantity of an ounce and a halfe be taken at a time Or else take of the confection of Hamech three drams and a halfe Sugar a sufficient quantity and let a gilded morsell be made devided into three parts Also the pills named Pilulae Lazuli may be used a dram taken at a time The superfluous matter expelled and voyded the next thing to be performed is to use convenient and fit bathes for this purpose which shall be prepared in this manner Take Camomel Melilot Germander Chamaepithys Hyssop Bay-leaves Lavander of each two handfulls Mugwoort foure handfulls Marish-Mallowes with the rootes five handfulls Line-seed Fenegrec of each one pound roots of Valerian halfe a pound Let them all be cut in pieces and being inclosed in a bagge let them boile in bathe let the woman sit afterward But after the Bathe let her eate every day morning and evening a certaine little portion of this confection following Take of the Species of precious Stones two drams seed of Mercury scrapings of Ivorie of each two drams the Pissle of a Bull the Runnet of a Hare with the Matrix of each two scruples white Sugar halfe a pound Dissolve them with water of Buglosse and put to it conserves of Buglosse halfe an ounce of Borrage three drams Cinamome one dram Let those things be powdred which are to be powdred and let the confection be made in Morsells But if the use of the bathe prescribed shall not be convenient yet Fomentations may be made of the aforesaid recited Simples this Electuary going before being alwaies used Further after the bathe or fomentations it shall not be unprofitable to use these Pessaries also in the night and at any other convenient time Take Costus powdered and with oile of Roses and Silke make a Pessary Or with Fenegrec and the Grease of a Ducke or with Sperage-seedes and fat of a Goose Or with oile of Violets Muske and the aforesaid seeds CHAP. VI. Of the Cure and Remedy of sterility proceeding of over-much heate drinesse moisture and coldnesse AMong other impediments and hinderances of conceiving and ingendring immoderate siccity and drinesse of the Matrix is not the least cause And that cause being found out the use of all things is to be directed to a moist temperature yet so as the body be not weakened by these things but strengthened Therefore it shall be very profitable to use these little Cakes often Take white Sugar one pound and a halfe Amylum three ounces Let the Sugar be dissolved with Rose-water and the Amylum mingled with it let a decoction be made with three ounces of sweet Almonds and a little oile of sweete Almonds and little Morsells It is also exceeding profitable to drinke Goats-milke newly milked with Hony or Sugar mixed with it Likewise this bathe is wonderfull convenient Take Heads of Weathers and let them be sodden in a Kettle full of water so long till the flesh be loosed and part quite from the bones which being done Take moreover the leaves of Vine named Vitis Muscatella of the Willow tree Violet-leaves Camomel Melilot of each two handfuls Marish Mallowes with the roots six handfuls Fenegrec Line-seed of each two pound roots of Valerian one pound and a halfe let all things be mingled together and let a bathe be made of them being sufficiently boiled And it may be prepared so that either the woman may sit in it or make Fomentations of it But after the bathe or Fomentations she may take a little morsell of this confection the next houres after meate Take of the Species of Diarhodon Abbatis two drams seede of Mercury scrapings of Ivorie of each two scruples the Matrix of a Hare two drams Cotton-seed Tragacantha Gumme Arabicke of each halfe a dram white Sugar halfe a pound dissolved in water of Buglosse conserve of Buglosse Borrage of each one ounce mixe them and let a gilded confection be made But especially it shall be needfull to moisten the Matrix which shall partly be done by Fomentations used underneath in a chaire inclosed and covered round about and partly by Pessaries being thus prepared Take Marrow of the leg of a Cow Grease of a Henne of each halfe an ounce Styrax liquida two drams Also foure ounces of oile of sweete Almonds may be added to them and let Pessaries be made with cleane wooll But if conception be hindered through intemperate hear that either the body is of an over-hot complexion or the secret parts are molested with intemperate heat First of all this heat shall be diminished by a convenient launcing and opening of the veines the Ankle-veines in the left foot and the Liver-veines in the right foot Afterward purgations must be used so much as reason shall require but before them this Potion shall be taken for a preparative of the hot humours Take herbes of Plantane the greater Endive Venus-haire Polipodie Fumirary of each halfe a handfull red Roses Violet-flowers Buglosse Water-Lillies Borrage of each a little quantity named a Pugil Raisins halfe an ounce Let all of them mixed together be boiled in running-water let one halfe be consumed and wasted let them be strained and to the straining let there be added a sufficient quantity of white Sugar and let it be made aromaticall with Cinamome scrapings of Ivory red Corall prepared red Sanders of each halfe a dram Take three ounces of the aforesaid decoction and let them be tempered with two scruples of Choyse Rhubarb powdred with syrup of Epithymie halfe an ounce Cassia newly drawne one dram and a halfe or Manna one dram Or otherwise Take of the Electuary de Succo Rosarum three drams Cassia newly extracted Diasena
swellings and tumors In the Hydropsie the legs do swel but in the false conception Mola they waxe lesse and feeble In the disease named a Tympany the belly is hard sounding like a tabor or drum but in the conception Mola it is not so And by this meanes the differences of these like tumors may be observed noted and understood how hardly they may be cured CHAP. II. Of the cure of the false conception Mola and other false tumours and swellings of the wombe IN the cure of the false conception Mola The dyet inclining to heat and moisture such a Diet before all things is to bee appointed as may incline to heate and moisture Also where there shal be need of blood letting let the veine of the anckle be opened named Saphena The veyne of the ancle to be opened thereby the matter shall be purged and voyded in that manner as you shall see delivered in the Retention and stopping of the Termes in the sequel of the discourse hereafter following These things going before those things which purge and cure inwardly A Bathe also outward remedies may be used First of al we must use a Bath in which she which is conceived with the false conception Mola must sit every day morning and evening her stomach being empty the water reaching up so high as her navell And the bathe shall be prepared in this manner Take of Marish Mallowes with the roots sixe handfuls of other Mallowes Branca Vrsina or beares foot or if it bee not to bee had Violet leaves Pellitory of the wall Camomile Melilot of of each two handfuls Fenegreke Lin-seed of each two pound Those things being beaten to powder which are to be powdred let them be put in a bag and let them boyle in the water in which the sicke woman shall sit Also it will be very profitable to lay that bagge very hot upon the secret parts and the loynes An Vnguent After this bathe let her bee cherrished with warme clothes and lying downe in her bed let her be annointed with this unguent about the secret parts and loynes Take of the oyle of sweet almonds one ounce and an halfe of oyle of Lillies Hens-grease Muscilage of Lin-seed Fenegreke of each halfe an ounce White waxe so much as sufficeth temper them together An Electuary and make an oyntment Also let her use this Electuary following the quantity of a Filbert nut every day morning and evening Take of Cinamome two drams the rind or outside of Aristolochia longa Cassia Fistulae or in stead thereof let the quantity of the Cinamome be augmented of each one Dram Assarra Baccha Lacca seed of Rue the fruite of wilde Savine Saffron of each halfe an ounce Sugar halfe a pound Let the Sugar bee dissolved in the iuyce or water of Rosemary let the confection be made in morsels Also this Electuary may bee given her another way that is to say in broth decocted with old wine the yolkes of two egges and Sugar a reasonable quantity of this Electuary being put into it Also these Pilles following are wonderfull forcible of which let her take halfe a dram Pilles or a whole Dram. Take Nigella Romana Aristolochia rotunda Dictamum Creticum seed of Garden-cresses the fruit of wilde Savine Serapinum seede of Rue Amoniacum Thymiama Madder of the dyers Myrrhe Castoreum of each one dram make Pilles of them with the iuyce of the wilde Reddisk and Hony so much as sufficeth let her take the waight of one or two drams These things being done Suppositories suppositories also are to be conveyed into the Matrix which may driue forth the false conception Mola and remove it from the inward receptacle and cave of the Matrix into the outward part take Asphaltum Borace Castoreum great Centaurie Ditany Elleborus albus Galbanum Gentian Opoponax Savine Serapinum Scamonie of each halfe a dram Saffron one scruple temper and incorporate them with the iuyce of a Leek and make a suppository Sometime shee may use trochiskes of Myrrhe of which wee have spoken in the third chapter of the third booke for they both drive forth the false conception Mola and cause an easie passage But in tumours or swellings How tumours proceeding from a Tympany and Hydropsie are to be cured which happen of inclosed aire reteined humours the diet is so to be prescribed and ordered that it incline wholly to heate and drinesse Purgations also Phlebotomies or bloud-lettings may bee used according to the abundance of the qualities Which things being performed in the first place a bathe or Fomentation shall be prepared in the forme before prescribed A Bathe these things following being added unto it besides take Wilde Penny-royall Rue Penny-royall Bay-leaves drie Wormewood Anise Fennel Cumine of each an equall portion More things also like unto these of the same Nature may bee taken for mitigation and repressing tumours And Part also of the Herbes now spoken of shall bee put into a bag and applyed to her loynes while shee sitteth in the bathe After the bathe A Confection let her take of this confection the bignesse of a Filbert-nut in old white wine in which Alsara Bacca is before infused Which confection is made thus Take of the Species or kindes of Diacurcuma Diacyminum of each three Drammes white Sugar halfe a pounde let the Sugar be dissolved in the water of Herbe-grace and make a confection in little cakes or Morsels Or if you please you may give her this Potion warme A Potion after her bathing made in this manner Take twenty Peach-kernels the skinne newly pulled off to which being pounded with the yolkes of two egges and mixed together you shall adde the powder following Take Galanga Cinamome Long-peper Ginger Cloves Saffron Nutmeg of each halfe a Dram make a powder of them Let a Decoction be made of all these with the best wine Let them bee strayned and when it is strayned put sugar to it and make a very cleare potion of it Or which liketh us better let the matter of the simples still remaine in the Decoction and let them be taken altogether in the warme drinke The Species also of the confection named Hiera Picra doth much availe in this case taken in some drinke or Pilles But when the Tumour or swelling shall bee caused by the retention of divers humours then the matter shall bee purged out and voided by such remedies as wee have beene accustomed to use in the stopping of the Termes and to provoke urine such as this is Take the seeds of Parsley aniseed Fennel Stone parsley Cardamomus and the leaves of Rue Let all of them being beaten to powder with equall waight be drunke with sweet wine Also in this case the confection of Diagalanga is approved to bee good and the Electuary de Baccis lauri also the oyle of Rue of Henbane and of White Lillies A Plaster and the Trochiskes of Agaricke A plaster also of this sort may
lumpe is felt in the necke of the Matrix with which the Bladder and Intestinum rectum or the Fundament gut are so pressed together that it is a hard and difficult thing for her to void her urine and other excrements her urine also will be white and thick blewish or blacke dregs gathered together in the bottome almost no pulse at all soft slender thicke and disordered But if by intemperate moisture of the Matrix the ligaments and stay-bands of it are putrefied and rotted so that for that cause it falleth downe to issue forth we must understand that this is caused without any paine and when the case standeth so stinking and filthy corrupt matter doth issue out of the Matrix continually If it happen by difficultie and hardnesse of the birth it will at all times appeare out of the privities but it will come forth being forced and constrained by great labours and exercises and will stirre up great paines betweene the lips or brimes of the same being pressed together Therefore all the qualities and conditions of this sickenesse and malady are diligently to be marked and observed that all things may goe forward the better in the administration of the cure The cure of the suffocation of the Matrix It remaineth now to give diligent admonion and counsell also concerning the cure so much as we have beene able to know and profitably to gather out of others Wherefore if the Matrix shall be removed upward without any suffocation it shall be able easily to be reduced and brought into her place againe with Fumes Fomentations or other things which have force to repell and drive backe as it hath been made evident and manifest in the Tractat of the former Chapter concerning the suffocation of the Matrix But if it shall remove toward the right side Cupping-glasses are to be fixed on the contrary side without Scarification Also let there be binding-bands made of cloth folded together a little bundle compounded by the advice of some Physician of such things as have force to move the Matrix being put betweene those bands When those things are inclosed with the binding-bands let them be tyed to that side into which the Matrix is removed and let the woman that suffereth this infirmity lye downe upon them and let her make a tryall to repell it backe And those things bundled together shall be Bawme Camomile Mugwoort Melilot Rue or herbe-Grace and such like things Moreover A Powder shee must take one spoonfull of this powder following with wine very hot her stomacke being as yet empty every day in the morning Take Flowers and Berries of the Bay-tree Harts-horne burnt of each two drams Myrtles two scruples Aristolochia rotunda one dram Mingle them and make a powder Or otherwise take Peach-kernells in number twelve Dissolve them with the yolkes of three Egs. Afterward take Cinamome Bay-berries Aristolochia rotunda of each one dram Dittany halfe a dram Nutmegge one scruple Saffron halfe a scruple mingle them with Wine and Sugar so much as sufficeth let a broth or meate be decocted of this and let the woman eate it very hot next her heart having eaten nothing before in the morning For it serveth wonderfully for restoring the Matrix into her place and doth mitigate the paines of the same But if it fall downeward and appeare outwardly by the secrets first the excrements of the belly are to be moved to issue forth with a Clyster conveniently and likewise the Bladder is to be dis-burdened also the wombe is to be mollified with this bathe following A Bathe that the Matrix may have the more easie regresse and returne into her place Take Mugwoort Camomile both kindes of Mallowes with the roots Fenegrec Bay-berries of each one handfull mingle them together and let a bathe be made of them So often as she shall come forth of the bathe let the Matrix be cherrished with warme cloths and let it be annoynted with the Muscilage made of the Kernells of Quinces mollified with the water of Acacia that it may be slippery in her returne back Afterward this powder following being sprinckled on it being cherrished with a warme cloth let it be put againe into the wombe Take of the juyce of Acacia Myrtles Pomegranat-flowers red Roses of each one dram and a halfe mixe them and make a powder And in the cure of this disease let the woman lie in her bed upon her backe her middle part or hips lifted up in a reasonable manner higher than the rest of her body that the Matrix fallen downe may be repelled and sent backe into the wombe And when it is reduced into her proper place let her lie with her legs stretched out abroad and let a large glasse or more glasses be fastened to her belly as shee lyeth and let such things as are of good and pleasant smell and savour be applied unto her nostrills as Amber and such like things that the Matrix may be drawne upward by the sweetnesse of the savour which it feeleth A Fume Also you shall make a Fume for her as shee lieth which may onely attaine to her Matrix but may in no wise come unto her nostrills Take of the juyce of Acacia the bone of the Cuttle-fish Pomegranat-flowers roots of Bistort Galls Cypresse-nuts myrtles or the leaves of each halfe an ounce Masticke Olibanum of each three drams Assa Foetida one ounce mingle them and make a powder of them After this Suffumigation or Fume let the Matrix be Fomented and comforted with hot Spunges dipped in this decoction following and applied one after another Take Myrtles one handfull red Roses Acornes Pomgranat-flowers Acacia of each halfe a handfull mingle them together and make a decoction of them with red Wine untill the halfe part be consumed and wasted away A Pessary Afterward it will be profitable to use this Pessarie Take Assa Foetida one dram Mastick two drams Myrtles Frankincense Galls Cypresse-nuts of each one dram and a halfe temper them with oile of Myrtles and let a Pessary be made of them the length and thicknesse of one finger covered over with silke Also this experiment is proved to be very profitable Dissolve Garlick bruised in a Mortar so in water that it have no thicknesse left in it let the Matrix be washed with that water and being sprinckled with this powder following let it be put into the wombe againe Take Pine-apple-kernels burn'd Harts-horne burn'd Frankincense Masticke of each one dramme mixe them and make a powder How the Matrix is to be retained being brought into the wombe Now the Matrix being reduced into the wombe and settled againe into her proper place we must use Ventoses or Cupping-glasses and what things soever have retentive force to draw the same Some doe acknowledge this thing for a certaine experiment to lay Nettles being well bruised upon the belly like a plaster and not to be removed from thence for a good while for by
that meanes the Matrix will both be drawne backe and also retained and held still being reduced into her proper place But that the Matrix being reduced and brought into the wombe may remaine and continue there nor suddenly fall downe againe it must be strengthened according to these precepts and rules following First let the woman lie a whole day upon her backe after the reducing of the Matrix into her proper place But the next day let her sit in a bathe boiled with these herbes about the space of one houre Take red Roses Myrtles seede of Sumach A Bathe leaves of the Medler-tree of a Service-tree the bark of an Oke Acornes Origanum Sage Rue Comfrey of each a handfull let them all be mixed and beaten together and let a decoction or bathe be made with them in raine water or in water in which burning-iron hath beene quenched When she commeth out of the bathe let her drinke this powder boiled in Wine very hot Take Rue Mugwoort of each halfe a handfull Castofeum two drams mingle them and make a powder of them Then take the best white Wine so much as sufficeth straine it and to the straining adde two drams of Mithridate And let a hot Potion be made of it Afterward the secrets are to be Fomented and bathed nine daies together and likewise Pessaries are to be used A Plaister And the tenth day this Plaister following spread upon white Leather shall be laid to the lowest part of the belly and to remaine there for some weekes together But let the Cerot or Plaister be made in this manner Take Frankincense Masticke Opopanax Turpentine Galbanum Serapium Rosine of the Pine-tree Styrax liquida Colophonie of each two drams yellow wax three drams temper them together and let a Cerot be made with them Or else Take Galbanum halfe a dram Gallia Muscata one dram Cloves halfe a dram Rosine of the Pine-tree and Colophonie so much as sufficeth mixe them and let a Cerot or Cerecloth be made of them We let passe here of set purpose nor without great cause something in this Cure which is onely knowne to the learned and skilfull which may be demanded of them so often as neede shall require Further you shall consider that when the aforesaid sicknesse shall arise from cold wind or over-much moistnesse of the Matrix that you must proceede altogether in the same manner which wee have prescribed and set downe before discoursing of the windie and waterish false conception named Mola I say concerning a Tympany and Hydropsie CHAP. X. Of the superfluities of the Termes and of the Cure of the same EVen as the Termes may be stopped contrary to the course of Nature so they may issue forth too immoderately contrary to the custome of Nature and as by them being stopped so by them flowing abundantly many diseases are caused unto women as Hippocrates doth advise us But as the naturall issue of the Termes which otherwise we call the Menstruall The unnatural issuing forth of the Termes or monthly purgation should issue forth every Moone naturally in women being well disposed in body and age I say from the third or fourth day after the new-Moone untill the eighth day although in this case there be many differences of ages complexions and disposition of body so wee say that issuing forth of the Termes not to be naturall which passeth beyond that time And we say that this doth happen two waies that is outward and inward Causes The outward causes are these Externall Causes as if some little veine be broken in the mouth or necke of the Matrix through immoderate exercise or some hurt chancing unto it as over-lifting stroke fall violence or exulceration Also some such like thing may be caused by aborcement and hard birth and also by the ulcers or fores of the Matrix Notwithstanding it happeneth sometime that Fluxes and issues are found to be in women conceived with childe every moneth yet they are never the weaker by them neither doe they substract or withdraw any nourishment from the Infant Inward causes are to be judged and discerned from Nature it selfe or from the blood Internall Causes From Nature when shee being strong doth expell the blood or being feeble and weake cannot hold or retaine it For the blood when it is too hot or sharp or over cold and thinne againe when by idlenesse immoderate meate and drinke too much nourishment is afforded to the blood Moreover certaine signes doe happen Signes of the Causes by which it may certainly be found out whether they come from an outward or inward cause If the Flux happen from an outward cause as from a veine being broken through some immoderate exercise by some hurt or fall then the colour of the blood will be red at the first but by and by blackish or blacke If it issue forth straight-way it will appeare in his naturall colour but being retained sometime in the Matrix it will issue forth with an ugly and thicke colour if it shall remaine there long it will be altogether full of corrupt matter But if the blood shall issue forth because of ulcers and sores of the Matrix First it will be cleare and thin but by by it wil be ful of filthy matter without all colour If the strong and mighty force of Nature doe expell it then it will be done without paine that also the body is alleviated and eased by it because Nature voideth no more of that which is ingendred but that which is superfluous either in quality or quantity If it shall happen by defect of retentive vertue it will issue forth by drops by little and little and disorderly without any intermission and the woman which shall be affected and afflicted with this issue shall waxe pale leane and very feeble in all her members but the blood doth retaine still his naturall colour and flowing abroad it doth not burne bite or molest with any paines But the cause of this Flux for the most part doth happen to women having passed beyond the fiftieth yeere when as their Termes doe generally depart away When it chanceth to young women oftentimes it h ppeneth by vehement and grievous fits of a Tertian Quartan Ague and paines of the head For these things doe dissipate and drive away Naturall vertue and power and do easily bring upon them such a Flux and immoderate issue If it proceed and be caused by intemperate heate or acrimony and egernesse of the blood the issue doth burne bite inflame and corrode the entrance and mouth of the Matrix The woman pained with this passion doth endure intolerable thirst and her lips are grieved with chaps bred and caused by most sharpe and hot vapours of the blood fuming and steaming upward Most grievous dolours and paines are felt in the niples of the Dugs by reason of the affinity and fellowship that they have with the Matrix The blood resembleth the colour of Saffron and is
with the best wine and let her receive the Fume of them underneathe thorow a Tunnell And if shee shall also be unable to endure this notwithstanding let her have a Fumigation with this fume following Take Amomum Galbanum of each three drams Assa Foetida Castoreum Spodium of each one dram mixe them and and let a powder be made of them of which one dram at a time cast upon the coales let a Fume be made to be received onely into the Matrix After the Fume being done let her use these Pills seven of them taken at a time Pills Take the fruit of Savine two drams Rue dryed one dram seed of wild Rue halfe a dram Assa Foetida Lachryma Ammoniaca Diers Madder of each one scruple Myrrh Castoreum of each two scruples Cinamome black Peper of each halfe a dram let all things be mix'd together and let them be made a powder and tempered with water of Mugwoort and let pills be formed as big as Pease all these things being finished both the veines named Saphenae shall be opened in both feete the Moone going downe Afterward she may use these Pessaries Take Triacle Mithridate Pessaries of each halfe a dram Castoreum Lachryma Ammoniaca of each one dram mixe them with Cotton dipped in the juyce of the herbe Mercury and make a Pessary Or otherwise Take of the juyce of Rue Wormewood of each equall parts Myrrh Euphorbium seed of Savine of each one dram and a halfe mixe them and let a Pessary be made Another may be made in this manner for women which are stronger by Nature Take Elleborus albus Pyretrum of each three drams Nigella Diagridium of each one dram mingle them with the juyce of Mercury and let a Pessarie be made Let such another be made which is of more efficacie and force Take Nigella Staves-acre Centaury the lesse of each two drams Elleborus albus Vitrum Sal gemma blacke Peper Diagridium of each two scruples Aloes Ladanum cleare Turpentine Styrax Calamita of each three drams Amber one scruple let all things be mixed together and incorporated with a hot Pessell because of the Gummes and being inclosed in a cloth moistned in the juyce of Mercury let Pessaries be made of them Or otherwise Take Gentian Savine Staves-acre Colocynthis Nigella or Gith of each one dram and a halfe let all these things be incorporated with the juyce of the wild Cowcumber named Elaterium or with the juyce of Mercury and let Pessaries be made of it If these former seeme to profit little other Pessaries shall be prepared in this manner Take juyce of Mercury Wormewood Feverfew Mugwoort of each three ounces Myrrhe Euphorbium Castoreum of each two drams Savine-seede Gith-seed of each one dram Ladanum Galbanum of each one dram and a halfe those things which are to be beaten to powder let them be powdered but let the juyces be decocted to a thicknesse let Pessaries be made of them the length and thickenesse of a finger If retention of the Termes be from Choler how it is to be Cured But if retention and straining of the Termes doe proceed from Choler heat shall be felt in the sound and botome of the Matrix drinesse coarctation and streightnesse and a certaine hardnesse not without paines and prickings desire of Venus a yellow colour of the eye-lids the urine red small store of Termes alwaies of a Citrine or yellow colour doth follow and accompany these signes and tokens of Choler And that cause being known the universall diet shall decline to a cold and dry temperature Afterward the supefluous matter shall be prepared for to be purged with this decoction following take leaves of Sena one ounce Mugwoort two handfuls Venus-haire Sorrell Endive Harts-tong Betony Liverwoort Bawme Mercury of each one handfull the foure cold seeds Agnus Castus Daucus or wild Carrot Pyonie Sperage Sothernwood Basil Milium Solis or Gromell of each halfe an ounce red Roses Borrage-flowers Violets of each a small quantity calld a Pugil roots of the best Rheubarb one dram Valerian Butchers-broome stone Parsly Smallage of each an ounce Cyperus Spike of each one dram and a halfe Cicers red Beanes Iuniper-berries Fenegrek of each one Pugil Let all these things be mingled together and beaten and boiled in three pound of running-water untill halfe be wasted let them be strained and to the straining let Sugar be added so much as sufficeth let it be spiced with a dram and a halfe of Cinamome You shal give 3 ounces of this decoction foure daies together in the morning when the stomack is empty or in the evening three houres before supper very warme to be drunk of the Patient But if she shal loath this decoction let her use this syrup following A Syrup Take syrup Acetosae simplicis one ounce Oximel simple half an ounce mingle them with the water of Succory and Endive of each one ounce and let a draught be made of it Or else take one ounce of the syrup of Peach-Roses syrup of Endive half an ounce commixe them with two ounces of the afore-spoken decoction or water of Endive and let a draught be made Or you may prepare such solutive medicines Take Manna halfe an ounce Electuarium de Succo Rosarum confection of Hamech Diacassia of each one dram syrup of Violets halfe an ounce waters of Succory and Endive of each one ounce mixe them and let one draught be made or otherwise take of the best Rheubarbe two drams Spike Nard six graines sprinckled with the best Wine infuse them in Whey twelve houres then straine them and to the straining adde Manna Cassia newly drawne of each one ounce and a halfe syrup of Violets one ounce let it be spiced with Cinamome as much as sufficeth and let a potion be made to the quantity of three ounces The superfluous matter being sufficiently purged voided by these solutive medicines such a bathe is to be decocted in which the woman may sit Bathe Take Marish-Mallowes with the rootes three handfulls Motherwoort or Mugwoort two handfulls Elder-flowers Willow-flowers Violet-Plants or Mater violarum Maiden-haire of each one handfulll Valerian halfe a pound Fenegrek Line-seed of each three ounces common Salt two drams Roche Allome halfe an ounce Brimstone one dram let all things be beaten together mingled and put in a bagge and let a bathe be made by boiling of them in which the woman may sit In this case all temperate waters with Allome and Copper doe profit and doe good when shee commeth out of the bathe let her be annointed with this ointment about the Loines and under the Navell Take oile of Roses of sweet Almonds of Violets of each one ounce Marrow of the leg of a calfe halfe an ounce two drams fresh Butter Hens-grease Muscilage of Fenegrek Muscilage of Line-seed of each halfe an ounce Waxe so much as sufficeth and let an Vnguent be made of them in a liquid forme After the Vnction being performed A
Decoction let her take one sponefull of this powder following in a little potion of the decoction hereunto adjoyned and lying downe in her bed let her take rest Take of the Herbes of Sorrell Bawme Mercury Motherwoort red Cicers red Beanes Fenegrek roots of Imperatoria Valerian of each halfe a handfull mingle them with wine so much as sufficeth and let a decoction be made let it be strained and let there be added to the straining two ounces of the powder following and let them be drunke together very hot A powder Take of the rindes or barkes of Cassia Fistula Cyperus of each one dram rootes of Tormentill of Pionie cleared from uttermost rinde Cinamome of each two drams Saffron seed of Daucus graines of Pionie of each one dram and a halfe seedes of Agnus castus of Parsley Basill Stone-Persley Mercury Sperage Milum solis or Gramill Venus-haire Maiden-haire Camomile Betony Liverwoort Spike-Nard Squinanthum Hops Endive of each one scruple Sugar so much mixe them and let a powder be made If she will not use this powder in the aforesaid manner let a confection be made in little rundells or cakes which shee may eate alone comming out of the bathe or may take them dissolved in the afore prescribed decoction And let the confection be such Cakes â—sells Take one ounce of the prescribed powder without Sugar white Sugar halfe a pound let the Sugar be dissolved in Rose-water let the powder be tempered together with it and let little cakes be made in morsels If it doe not please her to use this bathe yet let her use this Fomentation Take Sothernwood â—entaâ— Dill Motherwoort Camomile Clarie Bawme Mercury Elder-flowers red Roses of each one handfull Fenegrek Line-seed of each halfe a pound mingle all things together and make a decoction with Wine so much as sufficeth with which let the woman be fomented Or let her receive this fume following underneath by a Tunnell or Pipe for the purpose Take seed of Agnus castus one ounce Dill one handfull Carui Costus of each one ounce commixe them and let a decoction be made with wine so much as sufficeth All these things being performed the veines of the Ancle or Saphenae shall be opened after the fift or sixt day in both feeet or in one day one only and in another day the other It will also be profitable to sweate in a bathe also to scarifie the skinne with cupping-glasses about the hips Afterward shee may use these Pessaries Take Borace Amomum Myrrhe Aristolochia rotunda Calamus Aromaticus Cloves Pessaries Majorame of each one dram and a halfe Diagridium tenne graines temper them with the juyces of Motherwoort Wormewood and wild Mint and let a Pessery be made which she shall use continually Or else take Triphera magna sine Opio halfe an ounce Myrrhe Mountaine calamint of each two drams fresh Rue three drams Savine rootes of Sothernwood of each foure drams Ladanum Galbanum Serapinum Assa Foetida of each one dram and a halfe roots of Madder the greater of Cyperus of each one dram mix them and let a powder be made of them but let the Pessary be made with the Gall of a Bull and Oile of Lillies Or she must use the Pessary following Take juyce of Mercury Wormewood Majoram Mugwoort Clary wild Mint of each halfe an ounce mingle the aforesaid prescribed powders with these juyces and make a Pessary of such forme and quantity as it ought to be 〈◊〉 the reâ—â—n shall â—ed of meâ—â—â—â—â—oly how 〈◊〉 be 〈◊〉 But when retention of the Termes shall proceed from melancholy there are found paines and a sound or noise in the bottome of the Matrix by reason of vapours and winds mixed and shut up together in the same the Vrine will be thin blacke and blewish and loose a cloth stained with that flux will appeare with a black colour Moreover this cause being knowne before all things the diet must be directed to a hot and moist temperature afterward the superfluous matter shall be mollified with this decoction or digestive following and prepared for to be purged Take leaves of Sena one ounce herbs of Calamint Origanum Motherwoort Staechados Harts-tong Liverwoort of each half a handful Borrage-flowers Buglosse-flowers Violets Venus-haire Germander of each one Pugil Parsley-roots roots of Sperage Fennel rindes of Cappar-roots of each two drams Liquorice Raisins of each halfe an ounce the best Rheubarb Agarick of each one dram mingle them with running-water and let it be boiled untill one halfe be consumed afterward straine and to the straining adde so much white Sugar as sufficeth and let it be aromatized and spiced with one dram of Cinamome You must give so often of this decoction to the sicke woman untill the superfluous matter shall seem to be sufficiently prepared Or you shall prepare another digestive in this manner Take Oximel simplex one ounce Syrup de radicibus halfe an ounce waters of Sperage and Elder of each one ounce Let it be spiced with Cinamome so much as sufficeth and let one draught be made of it but the matter being sufficiently prepared shall be expelled and purged with this potion following Take Maiden-haire flowers of Borrage Buglosse Violets Hops Staechados Germander of each halfe a handfull Polypodie three drams Liquorice Raisins of each one ounce let all things be mingled and stamped together and let a decoction be made with running-running-water so much as sufficeth till halfe of it be wasted afterward straine it and to the straining put syrup de Epithymo of Violets Cassia newly extracted Manna of each three drams Electuary Hamech Diaphaenicon of each one dram and a halfe commixe them and let a minorative or purging medicine be made of it Or if it please you let it be made in this manner Take Myrobalani Indi halfe an ounce Citrini two drams let them be infused in Whey the space of eleven houres afterward let them be strained out and let there be added to the straining Cassia extracted Manna of each halfe an ounce powder of Epithymie two scruples Ginger six graines Sugar so much as sufficeth temper them and let a potion be made of it In this case also Pilulae Indae are most specially allowed Moreover the superfluous matter being sufficiently purged bathes also fomentations suffumigations unguents powders pessaries may be prepared in the same manner as we have spoken of late concerning Phlegme and choler but not without the counsell of skilfull Physicians For now wee will make an end to say any more concerning the retention and stopping of the Termes by some certaine and manifest cause These are those things courteous Reader which that most learned and expert Chirurgion Iames Rueff compiled in Latine concerning the Originall of Humane-seed and Generation c. 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stones bones iron and innumerable such like things through the Matrix all which things verily the wicked Spirit had subtilly and maliciously conveyed underneath and brought in The same Vincentius citeth some other Histories serving to this matter and question in the twenty sixt and twenty seventh Chapter of his Booke named Naturale Speculum Namely that a certaine young-man caught a woman by the haire of the head bathing her selfe in the Sea about the evening whom he tooke to wife after he had brought her home to his house and begot a sonne by her But she not speaking a word at all hitherto that her husband compelled her to speake moved by instigation of others which said she was a spirit making a shew as if hee would murther the child begotten of her unlesse shee would declare her of-spring But shee having uttered forth sorrowfull things to have vanished away and also to have drowned this childe washing himselfe in the Sea being growne to ripenesse of age and that hee was afterward found in no place cast out to the shore side Therefore that hee was not a true man although he was borne and brought up in shape of a true man Moreover that many did believe that this spirit which by a false apparition did seeme to be a woman The Divell named Succubus to be a divell which is named Succubus It is not unlike to this which hee bringeth forth in the aforesaid place Namely that at Colonia Agrippina many Noble men sate in Councell in a certaine Palace sometime neere the shore of the river Rhenus which while by chance they did looke downe into the water did see a certaine souldier carried in a little boat a Swanne swimming before drawing the little boat with a silver chaine put upon his neck suddenly to leap upon the shore the Swan being sent away with the little boat there to have married a wife and to have begotten many children of her And some yeeres being ended the empty boat swimming backe againe and the Swanne swimming before it as hee did before time that the same souldier did returne againe into the same boat and to have appeared to no man againe and that his children lived there a long time But many have believed that he was a Divel whom they named Incubus who dwelling so long with the woman and so many yeeres in the shape of a man having used such great coozenages and deceits did shew forth counterfeited tumours of her wombe and counterfeited births children conveyed underneath taken by stealth from some other place Whether the Divell may conceive seed of men and by the same seed cast forth into women ingender or not But whereas many doe labour by this perswasion and contend that the Divell named Succubus may be able to conceive seede from man and by and by being changed into a Divell named Incubus to cast forth the same seede into the wombe of a woman and of her to ingender a man as it is most false so it ought to deserve no credit at all For it is most contrary and repugnant both to Religion and also to Nature For if this were possible with how many monsters of wilde beasts had wee seene mankinde so long space of time to have beene tormented and vexed of such a great enemy of mankind by the change and alteration of seeds made in brute beasts men and women Wherefore Conciliator in his Booke de Medicina the twenty and fifth Difference determineth well of these things saying Wee must know that the testicles or stones of man are the principall parts of the generative or begetting vertues but not the sole or onely parts because the beginning of Generation is not caused by them alone neither are they alone able to perfect Generation For the first beginning is from the heart by reason of vitall and lively faculty and vertue reposed and laid up in the same so that no living thing can be ingendered without the helpe and aid of the power and vertue of it For at last the vertue and faculty of the testicles doe consist by vitall vertue and naturall heat Wherefore that the Divell named in Latine Succubus may be able to conceive with men and being changed into the Divell termed Incubus may cast forth the same seede conceived into women and beget a man is not only a fabulous thing to be spoken but also impious wicked and odious to be believed But whether the Divell hath power to steale to carry from one place to another to convey and change children one for another is a matter that needeth no great enquiry For that some such like thing may be brought to passe some time wee must understand but that it is not done by his owne power but by the permission of the most just and omnipotent God for the sinnes of men especially when wicked Parents having no religious care of their children do not strengthen and fortifie them with the blessing of God and overwhelme them with the curse of the Divell Therefore let all because they are the children of God learne to bring them up religiously and to consecrate them to God and not to object them to the maledictions of the Divell The sixth Booke Of the divers causes of Sterility and barrennesse and of the speciall maladies of the Matrix and also of the divers remedies of all of them CHAP. I. Of the Sterilitie of men and women also of the cause and signes of the same WEe say that sterility or barrennesse of which wee have purposed to speak at this present is not onely a disability and unaptnesse of bringing forth children in women contracted and caused by some cause that may be corrected and remedied but in men also of ingendering and sending forth fruitfull seede Aristotle attributeth this disability and impotency principally to fat men and women because of the evill proportion and ill disposition of the generative members that is to say in whom the seed is procured and derived from a more remote place and so vitall spirit inclosed in it doth vanish away sooner by that delay But not onely that habite and disposition of the body is a cause but there are many other causes also besides of this difficulty and infirmitie For when we see oftentimes man and wife joyned together not to ingender and beget children but being separated both of them to procreate children and on the contrary part that those which being coupled together doe beget children are not fruitfull when they are separated it must needes be that without doubt there is some hidden cause Where wee thinke it will not be an unprofitable thing to declare and bring forth those things which are best knowne For there are many outward and inward causes which doe concurre together in this case But as fertility and fruitfulnesse hath his helpes and furtherances by many outward things as in a convenient diet in an accustomed temperature of the aire by bathes warme by nature such as are the Helvetian
Waxe and Hens grease so much as is sufficient and make an ointment of them Let such a water be made for the same purpose A Water Take Anâ—s figges five ounces Indian-nuts the Fishes named Scinci brought from beyond the Seas the taile of the Fish named Lacertus sweet Almonds Pine-apple-kernells Rocket-seed of each one ounce Vrtica the roots of both the kindes of Satyrion Hermodactili Peper long and blacke of each two ounces Muske one scruple the best white Wine wine sublimated of each one equall Measure Let them all be mixed and infused and haxing beene set out to the Sune fouretene daies let them be distilled If you will use this water take halfe an ounce with one ounce of the Electuary Diassatyrion and drinke them mixed together morning and evening very hot Also these Pills are approved taken in the evening Take of the seede of Rocket Radish stone-Parsley Pills Vrtica Satyrion of each one dram stones of a Fox pissle of a Bull of each two drams the taile of the Fishes named Scinci and the Fishe Lacertus of each one dram braines of Cocke Sparrowes Drakes Cocks Pigeons of each halfe an ounce Peper Galangal long-peper of each a dram and a halfe roots of both kinds of Satyrion halfe an ounce Euphorbium Castoreum of each one scruple Let all be beaten to powder let them be incorporated with Hony and let Pillls be made of them Take the quantity of two or one dram Another Electuary for the same purpose to be taken morning evening Another Electuary the quantity of a Chesse-nut shall be prepared in this manner Take Satyrion-rootes halfe a pound Dates foure ounces Mints Ginger candi'd or green-Ginger Iujubae of each three drams Let all things be mingled together and sodden in Sheeps-milke and pounded in a Morter as is accustomed which being done afterward take Cock-stones stones of a Weather or of a Bull or of a Goat Let those things be decocted in Sheeps-milk with a little fresh Butter and the yolkes of two Egges let them be dried in a Pipkin on the fire orderly After which things take clarified Hony two pound and a halfe of the Sugar named Tabarzeth as much as sufficeth Let all these things be decocted in due order and these powders following be mingled with them being boiled take the Pissle of a Bull of a Goat Rocket-seed of each one dram and a halfe Galangal Zedoaria of each one ounce Cinamome Ginger long-peper seed of the Ash-tree of each six drams seed of Mercury seed of Mallowes of each halfe an ounce the pith of the Indian Nut Pine-apple-kernells cleansed sweet Almonds of each one dram Let all these things be brought to a powder and let them be mixed to the decoction before prescribed and let an Electuary be made of them And now also let these things be sufficient to have beene spoken concerning medicines to be received inwardly for the cure of barrennesse sterility CHAP. VIII Of the Suffocation and choking of the Matrix and of the causes and cure of the same IT remaineth also to speak a few things hereafter concerning the most especiall diseases of the Matrix which have greatest force to procure and cause sterility and also to hinder conception and generation such as are principally the Suffocation and Precipitation or falling downe of the Matrix the immoderate issuing of the Termes and the stopping of the same But we will speake first of the first What the suffocation of the Matrix is Wee say that the Suffocation of the Matrix is not naturall but that it is a forced and constrained ascending and rising up of the Matrix or Mother towards Diaphragma or the Midriffe whereby it commeth to passe that the passages of the aire are stopped the Lungs and Arteries of the heart being pressed and thrust together and the Lungs is prohibited and barred from amplifying and inlarging it selfe as it should which passion proceedeth from windy and divers vapors arising from corrupt matter And by this sicknesse the breathing is hindred the braine is molested the Heart is restrained of his free liberty the Lungs is crowded together the senses and motions doe cease the Spirits are intercepted the members of the body doe deny to doe their office whereby it falleth out that faintings of the faculties of life doe happen sudden swoonings doe overwhelme the diseased and sometime doe deprive them of life the Heart being suffocated for which effect it is supposed that it is therefore called in Latine Suffocatio The Causes We cannot say that there are any other causes of this Malady but the stopping of the Termes contrary to the course of Nature or corrupted seede or else other depraved and evill humours inclosed in the Matrix being dissolved into winds vapors and so forcing the Matrix to be heaved and lifted upward The signes of this disease are two-fold The Signes one of the sickenesse present by the fit which is present the other of the disease to come taken from the tokens of the fit to come But the tokens of the present sickenesse taken by the Present fit are these signes The women doe hardly fetch their breath Signes of the present fit the Pulse of the Arteries is seldome their hands are continually laid upon their belly above the Navell for to depresse and keepe downe the Matrix rising upward the habite and forme of the body is bending downward the colour is pale when you speake they make no answer the understanding is quicke and lively without any voyce at all there is no motion of the body and indeed nothing else but a similitude of present death But whether life doth remaine still in the body or not in this extreme passion of the present fit we may finde out by these experiments and trialls Let feathers or cleane wooll be put to the mouth of her which is afflicted with this grievous fit the which if they be blowne away or at least be moved it shall be certaine that there is life remaining in the body Moreover it shall be a more certaine thing to place a glasse full of water upon her breast for life remaining as yet must needs thrust and extend it selfe out and so moving of the water must follow Or else a cleane and smooth looking-glasse is to be put to her mouth and nostrills and if life be not departed you shall see the glasse stained by the hot breath Which experiment seemeth to be most probable of all Some doe declare that a certaine woman was afflicted with this fit three whole daies and nights and at last to have returned to her selfe being supposed to have beene dead Wee have seene the same thing to have happened in some women for one naturall day that is foure and twenty houres together through suffocation of the Matrix Signes of a future fit But these signes goe before a fit which shall follow that is to say paine of the head dimnesse of the eyes a continuall
be prepared for her drinke Compound Medicines But because the ancient Physicians have many times beene accustomed to use compound medicines not without praise in restraining and stopping this unnaturall Flux wee will hereafter also bring forth some of them An Electuary First of all you shall prepare an Electuary of which you shall give halfe a dram every day in the morning when the stomacke is empty to the woman which is grieved with this Flux dissolved in red Wine wherein Steele hath been quench'd Take roots of Comfrey Plantane as much as sufficeth Let them being boiled well be brayed in a Mortar and let them be straind a thorow strainer made of horse-haires Take of the Paste of Comfrey two drams of the roots of Plantane one dram and a halfe Sugar one pound dissolve the Sugar in raine-water or water wherin Iron red-hot hath been quenched or temper them together in plantan-Plantan-water in which Lapis Haematites hath beene dissolved untill it be red and boile all being mixed together with a little and easie fire and when they are are boiled and cooled a little put to them these simples following Take Sanguis Draconis Succus Acaciae seed of Sumach Terra Sigillata Amber Harts-horne burned and washed of each one dram Pearles prepared foure scruples red Corall prepared one dram and a halfe Spodium Lapis Haematites Parsley-seed of each two scruples mixe them being beaten to powder and make an Electuary in a dry Forme to be divided into Morsells Another Electuary Or prepare another Electuary in this manner Take old conserve of Roses one ounce Diacydonion cum saccharo sine speciebus three ounces Diarrhodon specierum Abbatis Coralls red prepared and powdred foure scruples Pearles prepared one dram Trochiskes de Carabe de Terra Sigillata of each two scruples Spodium Lapis Haematites Mumia of each of them halfe a dram Temper them with syrup of Pomegranates and make a gilded Electuary of which let the quantity of a Chesse-nut be taken every day morning and evening and let it be drunke being dissolved in red-Wine wherein Steele red-hot hath been quenched Also the Party may take these Pills following seven of them taken every morning when the stomake is empty as yet fasting Take Mumia Frankincense Masticke Harts-horne burned and washed of each halfe a dram the Runnet of a Hare or Kid foure scruples Temper them with Plantane-water in which Gum Arabick may be dissolved and let Pills be formed of it Also Mesue doth commend in this case Pilulae de Bdellio Majores and Minores to be taken one dram at a time Notwithstanding also these Pills following do profit Take Terra Sigillata Bole-Armeniacke prepared Galls Sanguis Draconis Runner of a Kid of each one dram Camphire two scruples mixe them and let Pills be made with syrup of Myrtles a dram to be taken at a time There is also no lesse consideration and respect to be had of the cure to to be used outwardly than of the inward hitherto handled and intreated of for there are many things which applyed outwardly doe wonderfully profit for the curing of these Fluxes But first of all such a bath or fomentation is to be prepared A Bathe or Fomentation Take Cauda Equina or Horse-taile leaves of the Mulberry-tree of the Peare-tree of Sloes of Services of the Medler-tree the inward barkes of the Oke red Roses Virga Pastoris or Fullers Teasell of each two handfulls Galls Myrtles of each one pound Medlers Services Acorne-cups of each two pound mixe them together and let a bathe or fomentation be made of all of them in water wherein Iron red-hot hath beene quenched If it be not convenient to use this bathe or fomentation you shall prepare such a Fume to be received by a Tunnell A Fume Take Colophonie halfe an ounce Spodium Bole-Armeniacke Blatta Byzantina blacke Poppie Henbane of each two drams mixe them and make a grosse powder Or else you must use this experiment very well approved Take the barks of the Pitch-tree used of the Curriers already in their worke one pound the inward parts or inward kernells of Galls bunches of Grapes dried let these being mixed together boile in water wherein red-hot Steele hath beene quenched and let the woman convey that fomentation into the Matrix by a Tunnel and that being done let her eat a Morsell for to comfort her of the Electuary before prescribed Also Vnguentum Comitissae is approved the which because it is knowne unto the Apothecaries It was not needfull to set it downe But if that cannot be gotten you may profitably use this Vnguent following prepared in this manner Take oile of Myrtles foure ounces juyce of the greater Plantane two ounces powder of Masticke two drams Sumach-seed Succus Acaciae Hypocistidos Myrtles Terra Sigillata Bole-Armeniack of each two ounces and a halfe Spodium Barley burned red Roses of each one dram Mingle them with Waxe so much as sufficeth and let an Vnguent be made of it A soft oynment Also such a soft ointment very profitable may be made Take the juyce of Comfrey of both the kindes of Plantane Cinquefolie or five-finger-grasse of each a like a little Vinegar mixe all things together and lay Linnen-clothes moistned in them upon the belly and loynes Or you shall prepare another in this forme Take Succus Acaciae Hypocistidos Psidia Another soft oynment Terra Sigillata Trochiskes de Carabe Colophonie of each halfe an ounce mingle them together and let a powder be made of them which you shall use in manner of a Cataplasme tempered with the juyce of Plantane applyed to the fore-parts and hinder-parts Also such a Plaister not unprofitable may be made Take the powder of Harts-horne burnt A Plaister Paper burned the drosse of Iron of each one ounce Acorne-cups two ounces mixe them make a powder with which tempered with the white of an Egge a little Vinegar and Plantane-water let a plaister be made A certain other plaister shall be prepared in this manner Take Masticke Olibanum Mumia Sanguis Draconis of each one ounce Flea-beane burnt Allome roots of Wal-woort or Asse-eare Psidia Pomegranate-flowers of each equall parts of all of them being beaten to powder halfe an ounce Earth-wormes pounded Frankincense of each two drams Mixe them together and make a Plaister of them with the white of an Egge a little Vinegar and Plantane-water Againe let another Plaister be thus made to be used after the manner of a soft ointment Take the juyce of Plantane mixed with Vinegar steepe leather of a Cowes hide in that Mâ—â—ture Afterward boile it and dip a cloth sometimes folded together in that decoction and apply it in manner of a soft ointment But if you shall use all these things in vaine at last you shall use these Pessaries Pessaries having wonderfull power to bind Take Triphera Magna Micleta Athanasia of each one dram Hypocisthidos Succus Acaciae Bole Armeny Sanguis Draconis roots of Comfrey