THE
FYRSTE
BOKE
.
THE
FYRSTE
¶
After
what
maner
and
fasshyon
the
byrthe
lyethe
in
the
mothers
wombe
,
and
howe
many
caules
it
is
compassed
and
wrapped
in
.
¶
Cap
.i.
IN
so
muche
as
oure
entent
is
in
this
boke
folowynge
to
entreate
and
speake
of
the
byrthe
of
mankynde
/
and
of
suche
thynges
whiche
happen
and
chaunse
to
the
mother
in
her
labor
and
trauayle
/
in
the
deliueraunce
of
the
same
/
it
shal
be
fyrst
verye
necessary
to
shewe
after
what
maner
and
fasshyon
the
infant
lyeth
in
the
mothers
wombe
/
and
in
howe
many
caules
the
same
is
lapped
and
wrapped
:
to
the
farther
knowlege
and
perceuerance
of
suche
thynges
the
whiche
we
shall
entreate
of
hereafter
.
¶
wherfore
ye
shall
vnderstande
that
the
byrth
lyeth
in
the
mother
after
this
maner
:
Fyrste
it
lyeth
rownde
in
maner
as
a
bowle
the
handes
beynge
betwene
the
knees
/
and
the
hedde
lenyng
on
the
knees
:
eyther
of
the
eyes
ioynynge
vppon
eyther
of
the
knees
:
the
ryghte
eye
vppon
the
ryghte
knee
:
and
the
lefte
vpon
the
lefte
/
the
noose
dependyng
betwene
the
knees
/
so
that
the
face
and
foreparte
of
the
infante
is
towarde
the
inwarde
partes
of
the
woman
/
lyenge
in
maner
vpryght
in
the
mothers
matryce
.
¶
Farther
ye
muste
vnderstande
that
there
be
thre
coueres
or
caules
in
the
whiche
the
byrthe
is
contayned
and
lapped
:
of
the
whiche
the
one
compassyth
&
embrasyth
rownd
aboute
the
byrthe
/
and
the
other
two
caules
also
:
and
it
is
called
the
secondyne
seconde
byrth
or
the
after
byrthe
:
the
whiche
defendeth
the
byrthe
frome
noysum
and
yll
humours
encreasynge
in
the
matryce
after
conception
by
retensyon
of
the
flowres
otherwyse
wonte
to
passe
and
yssue
furthe
ones
in
the
monethe
/
the
whiche
yll
humours
yf
they
sholde
touche
or
come
nere
to
the
byrth
wolde
greatlye
peryshe
and
hurte
the
same
.
But
after
the
deliueraunce
of
the
pryncipall
byrth
these
humours
also
with
the
foresayd
caule
or
secondyne
yssue
furthe
/
and
is
called
the
after
byrthe
.
¶
The
seconde
caule
with
the
whiche
the
byrth
is
coueryd
/
compasseth
the
same
byrth
frome
the
nauyll
downe
warde
/
couerynge
all
the
inferyour
partes
of
the
infant
/
and
this
skynne
or
caule
is
as
it
were
fulle
of
plyghtes
and
wrynkles
:
and
through
this
caule
the
byrthe
is
defended
and
kepte
from
yll
and
sharpe
humours
as
vryne
or
pysse
yssuynge
frome
the
infante
and
swette
.
&c.
for
so
longe
as
the
chylde
is
in
the
mothers
wombe
it
sendeth
furthe
vrine
/
not
by
the
due
membres
but
by
the
vayne
whiche
procedeth
out
of
the
nauell
.
¶
The
thyrde
shynne
or
caule
lykewyse
contayneth
all
the
byrthe
in
it
defendynge
also
the
same
frome
humours
&
vryne
:
and
from
the
boystesnes
of
the
secondyne
or
fyrst
caule
and
this
is
called
the
armoure
or
defence
of
the
byrthe
.
¶
This
is
the
maner
of
the
sytuation
and
lodgyng
of
the
infante
in
the
mothers
bellye
:
and
these
be
the
thre
caules
contaynynge
and
enclosyng
in
the
byrth
.
Nowe
wyll
we
speake
of
the
tyme
of
byrthe
.
¶
Of
the
tyme
of
byrthe
,
and
whiche
is
called
naturall
or
vnnaturall
.
¶
Cap
.ii.
ANd
when
the
tyme
of
byrthe
approchyth
nere
/
moste
commenly
these
sygnes
folowyng
come
before
:
by
the
which
the
tyme
of
labor
is
knowen
to
be
at
hande
.
¶
Fyrste
certayne
dolours
and
paynes
begynne
to
growe
about
the
guttes
/
the
nauell
/
and
in
the
raynes
of
the
backe
/
and
lykewyse
aboute
the
thyghes
&
the
other
places
beinge
nere
to
the
priuy
partes
/
which
lykewyse
then
beginneth
to
swell
and
to
burne
and
to
expell
humours
/
so
that
it
gyueth
playne
and
euident
token
that
the
labor
is
nere
.
¶
But
ye
shall
note
that
there
is
two
manner
of
byrthes
/
the
one
called
naturall
/
the
other
contrarye
to
nature
.
Naturall
byrthe
is
when
the
chylde
is
borne
bothe
in
due
season
&
also
in
due
fashion
.
The
due
season
is
most
commenlye
after
the
.ix.
moneth
or
aboute
.xl.
wekes
after
the
conception
/
althoughe
some
be
delyuered
sometymes
in
the
seuenthe
moneth
/
and
the
chylde
proueth
verye
well
.
But
such
as
are
borne
in
the
eyght
moneth
/
other
they
be
dead
before
the
byrth
/
or
els
lyue
not
longe
after
/
as
the
noble
medicine
Auicenna
doth
testifye
.
¶
The
due
fashion
of
byrthe
is
this
/
accordynge
as
wytnesseth
Albert
the
greate
/
fyrste
the
head
commeth
forwarde
/
then
foloweth
the
necke
and
shouldes
/
the
armes
with
the
handes
lyenge
close
to
the
bodye
towarde
the
fete
/
the
face
and
forepart
of
the
chylde
beyng
towardes
the
face
and
foreparte
of
the
mother
/
as
it
appeareth
in
the
fyrste
of
the
byrthe
fygures
.
For
as
Albertus
writeth
/
and
as
we
haue
rehersed
before
also
/
before
the
tyme
of
delyueraunce
the
chylde
lyeth
in
the
mothers
wombe
the
face
and
breste
beynge
towardes
the
backe
of
the
mother
/
but
when
it
sholde
be
delyuered
/
it
is
torned
clene
contrary
/
the
head
downewarde
/
the
fete
vpwarde
/
and
the
face
towarde
the
mothers
bellye
/
and
that
yf
the
byrth
be
natural
.
Another
thyng
also
is
this
/
that
yf
the
byrthe
be
naturall
/
the
delyuerance
is
easye
withoute
longe
taryenge
or
lokynge
for
it
.
¶
The
byrth
contrarye
to
nature
is
/
when
the
mother
is
delyuered
before
her
tyme
/
or
oute
of
due
season
/
or
after
any
other
fashion
then
is
here
specyfyed
before
/
as
when
bothe
legges
procede
fyrste
/
or
one
alone
/
with
both
the
handes
vp
/
or
both
downe
/
other
elles
the
one
vp
&
the
other
downe
/
and
diuers
otherwise
as
shal
be
hereafter
more
clerely
declared
¶
Of
easye
,
and
vneasye
,
difficull
,
or
dolorous
delyueraunce
,
and
the
causes
of
it
,
with
the
sygues
howe
to
knowe
,
and
forese
the
same
.
¶
Cap
.iii.
VEry
many
be
the
parelles
/
dangerous
&
stronges
which
chanse
to
women
in
theyr
labor
/
whiche
ensue
&
come
in
dyuers
wayes
/
&
for
dyuers
causes
/
such
as
I
shal
here
declare
.
¶
Fyrst
when
the
woman
that
laboreth
is
conceyued
ouer
yonge
/
as
before
.xii.
yee
or
.xv.
yere
of
aege
/
which
chanseth
somtyme
/
though
not
verye
often
/
and
that
the
passage
be
ouer
angust
streate
or
naro
we
/
other
naturally
/
or
els
for
some
disease
and
infirmite
/
which
may
happen
about
that
parte
/
as
apostumes
/
pusshes
/
pyles
/
or
blysterres
/
and
such
other
/
thorowe
the
whiche
causes
nature
can
not
(
but
with
great
dolor
and
payne
)
open
and
dilate
it selfe
to
the
expellynge
&
delyuerance
of
the
chylde
.
And
sometyme
the
vesyke
or
bladder
/
or
other
intralles
beyng
about
the
matrice
or
wombe
be
also
apostumat
&
blystered
/
whiche
beynge
greaued
/
the
matrice
or
wombe
lykewyse
is
greaued
with
them
/
and
that
hyndereth
greatly
the
deliueraunce
.
Also
sometyme
in
the
fundament
are
emerrodes
or
pyles
and
other
pusshes
/
chappynges
or
chynnes
which
cause
greate
payne
/
also
hardnes
and
difficulte
or
byndynge
of
the
belly
/
which
thinges
for
the
grefe
and
payne
that
ensueth
of
them
causeth
the
woman
to
haue
lyttell
power
to
help
herselfe
in
her
labor
.
¶
Farthermore
if
the
partie
be
weke
and
of
feble
complexion
/
or
of
nature
very
colde
/
or
to
yonge
/
or
very
aged
/
or
to
grosse
and
fatte
/
or
contrarye
wyse
to
spare
and
leane
/
or
that
she
neuer
had
chylde
before
/
or
that
she
be
ouer
timorous
and
fearefull
/
dyuers
waywarde
/
or
suche
one
as
wyll
not
be
ruled
/
remouyng
her selfe
from
one
place
to
another
/
all
such
thynges
causeth
the
labour
to
be
much
more
payn
full
/
cruell
/
and
dolorous
/
then
it
wolde
otherwyse
be
.
Also
ye
must
vnderstande
that
generallye
the
byrthe
of
the
man
is
easyer
then
the
byrth
of
the
female
.
¶
Item
yf
the
chylde
be
of
a
fuller
&
greater
groweth
than
that
it
maye
easelye
passe
that
narowe
passage
/
or
contrarye
wyse
/
yf
it
be
so
faynt
/
weake
/
and
tender
/
that
it
can
not
turne
it selfe
/
or
doth
it
very
slowly
/
or
yf
the
woman
haue
two
chyldren
at
ones
/
other
elles
that
it
with
the
which
she
laboreth
be
a
menster
/
as
for
example
/
yf
it
haue
but
one
body
and
two
heddes
/
as
appeareth
in
the
.xvij.
of
the
byrth
fygures
/
such
as
of
late
was
sene
in
the
dominion
of
werdenberghe
.
¶
Agayne
when
it
procedeth
not
in
due
tyme
or
after
due
fashion
/
as
when
it
cometh
forthe
with
bothe
fete
or
both
knees
togyther
/
or
els
with
one
fote
onely
/
or
with
both
fete
downewarde
and
both
handes
vpwarde
/
other
els
(
the
which
is
most
perellous
)
sydelong
/
arselonge
/
or
backelonge
/
other
hauynge
two
at
a
byrth
/
both
procede
with
their
fete
fyrst
/
or
one
with
his
fete
and
the
other
with
his
head
/
by
those
and
diuers
other
wayes
the
woman
susteyneth
greate
doloure
payne
and
anguysh
.
¶
Item
yf
the
woman
suffer
aborsment
/
that
is
to
saye
brynge
forth
her
chylde
in
the
.iiii.
or
v.
moneth
after
the
conception
/
whiche
is
before
the
due
tyme
/
in
this
case
it
shal
be
great
payne
to
her
/
for
so
muche
as
(
accordynge
to
Galenus
sayenge
)
in
that
tyme
the
entrance
of
the
wombe
is
so
firmely
and
strongely
enclosed
/
that
scace
the
poynte
of
a
nedle
maye
enter
in
at
it
.
¶
Also
yf
the
chyld
be
dead
in
the
mothers
bellye
it
is
a
verye
perellous
thynge
/
forsomuche
as
it
can
not
be
easely
turned
/
nother
can
it
weld
or
helpe
it self
to
come
forth
/
or
yf
the
chyld
be
sycke
or
weakened
/
so
that
it
can
not
for
feablenesse
helpe
it selfe
.
The
whiche
thynge
maye
be
foresene
&
knowen
by
these
tokens
:
Yf
the
woman
with
chylde
haue
ben
longe
sycke
before
her
labor
/
yf
she
haue
ben
sore
laxed
/
yf
after
her
conception
she
haue
had
dayly
&
vnwontly
her
flowres
/
yf
streate
after
one
moneth
vppon
the
conception
her
brestes
yelde
anye
mylke
/
yf
the
chylde
steare
not
ne
moue
at
suche
tyme
as
is
conuenient
for
it
:
these
be
tokens
that
it
sholde
be
verye
weake
.
By
what
tokens
ye
shall
knowe
it
is
dead
/
I
shall
shewe
you
in
the
nynth
chapter
hereafter
.
¶
Also
there
is
greate
parell
in
laborynge
/
when
the
secondyne
or
latter
byrthe
is
ouer
fyrme
or
stronge
/
and
wyll
not
sone
ryue
or
breake
asunder
/
so
that
the
chylde
maye
haue
his
easy
commyng
forth
.
And
contrary
wyse
when
it
is
ouer
weake
slender
or
thynne
/
so
that
it
breaketh
asunder
before
that
the
chyld
be
turned
or
apte
to
yssue
forthe
/
for
then
the
humours
which
are
collecte
and
gathered
to gether
about
this
secondyne
or
secoside
byrth
passe
away
soner
then
it
sholde
do
/
&
the
byrth
shall
lacke
his
due
humidite
and
moystenes
/
whiche
sholde
cause
it
the
●●selyar
to
procede
and
with
lesse
payne
.
¶
The
byrth
also
is
hindered
by
ouer
much
colde
or
ouer
muche
heete
/
for
in
ouer
muche
colde
the
passage
and
all
other
powres
of
the
laborynge
woman
be
coarted
and
made
narrower
then
they
wolde
otherwyse
be
.
Lykewyse
ouer
much
heate
debiliteth
/
weakeneth
and
faynteth
both
the
woman
and
the
chyld
/
so
that
neyther
of
them
in
that
case
can
well
welde
or
helpe
them selfes
for
fayntnesse
.
¶
And
forther
yf
the
woman
haue
vsed
to
eate
commenly
such
meate
or
fruytes
/
whiche
do
exiccat
or
drye
and
constrayne
or
bynde
/
as
medlars
/
chestenuttes
/
all
sowre
fruyte
/
as
trabbes
/
chokeperes
/
and
suche
other
/
with
ouer
muche
vse
of
vergers
/
&
such
lyke
sowre
sauces
/
with
ryse
myll
/
and
many
other
thynges
/
all
this
shall
greately
hynder
the
byrth
.
¶
Also
the
vse
of
colde
bathes
after
the
.v.
moneth
folowyng
the
conception
or
to
bathe
in
such
water
where
alome
is
/
yron
/
or
salte
/
or
any
suche
thynges
which
do
coarcte
and
constrayne
/
or
yf
she
haue
ben
oftentymes
heauye
and
murnyng
/
or
yll
at
ease
/
or
yf
she
haue
ben
kept
ouer
hungrye
and
thurstye
/
or
haue
vsed
ouer
much
watche
and
walkinge
/
other
yf
she
vsed
a
lyttell
before
her
labor
thinges
of
great
odour
smell
or
sauoure
/
for
suche
thynges
attracte
and
drawe
vp
warde
the
mother
or
matrice
/
the
whiche
is
greate
hynderaunce
to
the
byrthe
.
¶
Also
yf
the
woman
fele
payne
onely
in
the
backe
and
aboue
the
nauell
and
not
vnder
/
it
is
sygne
of
harde
labor
/
lykewyse
yf
she
ware
wont
to
be
delyuered
with
greate
payne
in
tymes
passed
/
is
a
sygne
of
great
labor
alwayes
in
the
byrth
.
¶
Nowe
sygnes
and
tokens
of
an
expedite
and
easy
delyueraunce
be
such
as
be
contrary
to
all
those
that
go
before
.
As
for
example
/
when
the
woman
hathe
ben
wonte
in
tymes
passed
easelye
to
be
〈…〉
that
in
her
labor
she
feale
but
lyttell
thronge
or
dolor
/
or
thoughe
she
haue
greate
paynes
/
yet
they
remayne
not
alwayes
in
the
vppar
partes
/
but
descend
to
the
nether
partes
or
botome
of
the
bellye
.
¶
And
to
be
shorte
in
all
paynefull
&
troublesome
labours
/
these
sygnes
betoken
&
signify
good
spede
and
lucke
in
the
labor
:
vnquietnes
/
muche
stearynge
of
the
chylde
in
the
mothers
belly
/
all
the
thronges
and
paynes
tomblynge
in
the
fore
parte
of
the
botome
of
the
bellye
/
and
when
the
woman
is
stronge
and
myghtye
of
nature
/
and
such
as
can
well
and
strongelye
helpe
her selfe
to
the
expellynge
of
the
byrth
.
And
agayne
euell
sygnes
be
those
/
when
she
swetethe
colde
swete
:
and
that
her
pulces
beate
and
labor
ouer
sore
/
and
that
she
her selfe
in
the
laborynge
faynt
and
swowne
:
these
be
vnluckye
and
mortall
sygnes
.
¶
Howe
a
woman
with
chylde
shall
use
herselfe
,
and
what
remedies
be
fo●●
them
that
haue
harde
labor
.
¶
Cap
.iiii.
T●…
〈…〉
such
as
are
in
suche
difficull
parell
of
labor
/
as
we
haue
spoken
of
before
/
ye
must
obserue
/
kepe
&
marke
those
thynges
whiche
we
shall
(
by
the
grace
of
god
)
shew
you
in
this
chapter
folowynge
.
Fyrst
the
woman
with
chyld
must
kepe
two
dyettes
/
the
one
a
monethe
before
her
labor
/
the
other
in
the
verye
laborynge
/
&
aboue
all
thynges
she
muste
exchue
and
forbare
all
suche
thynges
which
maye
hynder
the
byrthe
so
nere
as
she
can
possible
/
the
which
we
rehersed
in
the
chapter
before
/
but
yf
there
be
anye
suche
thynge
which
can
not
be
auoyded
/
for
so
much
as
it
commeth
by
nature
or
by
long
contynuance
and
custome
:
in
this
case
yet
ye
shall
vse
some
such
remedies
/
the
which
maye
somwhat
asswage
it
/
mollifye
it
/
or
make
it
more
easye
or
tollerable
/
so
that
it
hynder
the
byrth
so
muche
the
lesse
.
¶
But
yf
it
so
be
/
that
any
infirmitie
or
dysease
/
swellyng
/
or
other
apostumation
chanse
about
the
mother
or
the
preuy
parte
/
or
about
the
vesyke
or
bladder
/
as
the
stone
/
the
strangurye
/
and
suche
lyke
:
the
whiche
thynges
may
cause
suche
straytenesse
and
coarctation
that
vnnethe
greate
and
horrible
payne
/
the
partie
can
be
delyuered
or
discharged
:
in
these
cases
it
behouethe
suche
thynges
to
be
loked
vnto
and
cured
before
the
tyme
of
labor
commethe
/
by
the
aduyse
of
some
experte
Surgion
.
¶
Also
yf
the
woman
be
ouer
muche
constipat
/
or
bounde
all
wayes
/
she
muste
vse
the
monethe
before
her
labour
suche
thynges
/
the
whiche
maye
lemfye
/
mollifye
/
dissolue
/
and
loose
the
bellye
:
as
aples
fryed
with
sugre
taken
fastynge
in
the
mornynge
/
and
after
that
a
draughte
of
pure
wyne
alone
/
or
elles
tempered
with
the
iuyce
of
swete
and
rype
apples
.
Also
to
eate
fygges
in
the
mornynge
fastynge
and
at
nyghte
/
loosethe
welle
the
bellye
.
¶
Agayne
in
this
case
she
muste
refrayne
frome
all
suche
thynges
as
doo
harden
/
restraynt
/
and
constipat
:
as
be
suche
thynges
/
the
whyche
be
browled
or
rosted
/
&
ryse
/
harde
egges
and
myll
/
and
suche
lyke
.
¶
Also
yf
farther
necessite
require
she
maye
receaue
a
clyster
/
but
it
muste
be
very
gentell
and
easye
tempered
other
with
cheken
brothe
or
brothe
of
other
flesshe
:
she
maye
vse
also
some
other
easye
and
temperat
purgation
to
mollifye
and
loose
her
with
all
:
also
a
suppositar
tempered
with
sope
/
larde
/
or
the
yolke
of
egges
.
¶
And
yf
it
chaunse
that
(
the
labor
drawynge
nere
)
she
waxe
faynte
or
syckelye
:
then
muste
ye
comforte
her
with
good
comfortable
meate
/
drynke
/
holsome
and
noble
electuaries
/
and
in
this
tyme
must
she
do
all
such
thinges
the
whiche
can
make
her
apte
and
sufficiente
to
her
labor
/
&
to
vse
suche
thynges
the
which
maye
laxe
/
open
/
and
mollifye
the
nature
and
passage
/
so
that
the
byrth
maye
the
more
frely
procede
:
and
that
chieflye
in
the
younger
women
.
The
elder
women
for
because
that
/
that
partes
in
them
be
somewhat
dryer
&
harder
/
therfore
they
muste
vse
hote
and
moyst
thynges
which
haue
properte
to
lenifye
and
sople
/
and
that
bothe
in
meate
and
drynke
/
and
also
in
outwarde
fomentations
/
bathynges
/
suppositaries
and
anoyntmentes
:
Anoyntmentes
wherewith
ye
maye
sople
the
priuie
place
/
be
these
:
hennes
grese
/
duckes
grese
/
goose
grese
/
also
oyle
olyfe
/
or
lynesede
oyle
/
or
oyle
of
fenegreke
/
or
the
viscosite
of
holyoke
&
such
other
/
and
for
drinke
let
her
vse
good
type
wyne
mixed
with
water
:
also
ther
must
be
a
consideration
in
the
dietynge
of
the
woman
/
that
she
maye
vse
such
thynges
the
which
maye
moysten
her
/
and
not
make
her
fatte
.
Contrarye-wyse
let
her
auoyde
such
thynges
the
whiche
sholde
exiccat
drye
constrayne
or
coarte
her
:
&
that
all
the
monethe
before
her
labor
.
But
about
.x.
dayes
before
the
tyme
(
yf
she
fele
any
payne
or
grefe
)
let
her
vse
euery
day
to
washe
or
bathe
her
with
warme
water
/
in
the
which
also
that
she
tary
not
ouer
longe
in
bathynge
for
weakening
of
her
:
in
the
bath
let
her
stand
so
chat
the
water
come
aboue
the
nauell
a
lyttell
/
and
lette
be
sodde
in
the
water
mallows
/
holyoke
/
camomell
/
mercurye
/
maydenhere
/
lynesede
/
fenegreke
sede
/
and
such
other
thynges
which
haue
vertue
to
mollifye
and
suple
:
and
yf
it
so
be
that
for
weakenesse
of
the
body
she
maye
not
endure
this
bathynge
in
warme
water
/
then
with
a
sponge
or
other
cloth
dypped
in
the
foresayde
bathe
/
let
her
sokynglye
washe
her
fete
/
her
thyghs
/
and
her
pryuy
partes
/
the
whiche
thynge
shall
greatly
profet
to
her
.
But
in
suche
tyme
beware
ye
come
not
in
the
commune
hote
houses
/
for
they
wolde
cause
you
to
be
feble
and
faynte
/
whiche
ware
yll
in
this
case
.
¶
And
when
ye
are
thus
bathed
or
washed
/
then
shall
it
be
very
conuenient
for
you
to
annoynte
with
the
foresayde
greses
and
oyles
youre
backe
/
belly
/
nauell
/
sydes
/
and
such
places
as
are
nere
to
the
preuȳe
partes
.
Farthermore
it
shall
be
greatelye
profitable
for
her
to
conueye
inwarde
in
to
the
preuye
parte
these
foresayde
oyles
or
greses
with
a
sponge
or
other
thynge
made
for
the
purpose
/
she
lyenge
vpryght
the
middes
of
her
body
most
hyest
/
so
that
it
maye
the
better
remayne
within
her
/
and
that
chieflye
/
yf
the
matrice
be
drye
/
other
elles
the
partie
very
leane
and
spare
.
¶
It
shal
be
also
verye
profytable
for
her
to
suffume
the
nether
places
with
muske
/
ambre
/
gallia
muscata
/
whiche
putte
on
embers
yelde
a
goodlye
sauour
/
by
the
whiche
the
nether
places
open
them selfe
&
draw
downwarde
.
¶
Also
as
I
sayd
before
/
she
must
take
good
hede
to
her
dyette
/
that
she
take
thynges
the
whiche
maye
comforte
and
strenghten
the
bodye
/
feadynge
not
ouer
muche
of
any
thynge
/
and
to
drynke
pleasaunt
and
well
sauerynge
wyne
/
or
other
drynke
/
also
moderatly
to
exersyce
the
body
in
doyng
some
thing
/
stearynge
/
mouinge
/
goyng
/
or
standyng
/
more
then
other
wise
she
was
wont
to
do
:
these
thinges
farther
the
byrth
&
make
it
the
easyer
:
&
this
is
the
maner
of
dyette
the
which
we
aduise
the
woman
to
kepe
the
moneth
before
her
labor
or
longer
.
¶
Another
dyette
there
is
/
the
whiche
she
ought
to
obserue
in
the
tyme
of
labor
/
when
the
stormes
and
thronges
begyn
to
come
on
/
and
the
humours
/
whiche
yet
hytherto
haue
remayned
about
the
matrice
or
mother
collected
/
nowe
begyn
to
flowe
forth
:
and
this
maner
of
dyette
consysteth
in
two
sortes
.
Fyrste
that
suche
thynges
be
procured
and
had
in
redynesse
whiche
maye
cause
the
byrth
or
labor
to
be
very
easye
.
Secondly
to
withstande
/
defende
&
to
put
awaye
so
nere
as
may
be
the
instant
&
present
dolours
.
And
as
touchinge
this
poynt
/
it
shal
be
very
profitable
for
her
for
the
space
of
an
houre
to
syt
styll
/
them
rysyng
again
to
go
vp
&
downe
a
payre
of
stayres
cryeng
or
reaching
so
loude
as
she
can
/
so
to
stere
herselfe
.
¶
Also
it
shal
be
very
good
for
a
tyme
to
retayne
and
kepe
in
her
brethe
/
for
because
that
thorow
that
meanes
the
guttes
and
intralles
be
thrust
to gether
and
depressed
downeward
.
Also
it
shal
be
verye
good
to
receyue
the
same
medicine
/
the
which
we
shall
describe
hereafter
/
for
that
medicine
expellethe
and
sendeth
forthe
the
byrth
.
¶
But
when
the
woman
perceaueth
the
matrice
or
mother
to
waxe
laxe
or
loose
/
and
to
be
dyssolued
/
and
that
the
humours
yssue
forthe
in
great
plente
/
then
shall
it
be
mete
for
her
to
syt
downe
lenynge
backewarde
in
maner
vpryght
.
For
the
which
purpose
in
some
regions
(
as
in
France
and
Germanye
)
the
mydwyfes
haue
stooles
for
the
purpose
/
whiche
beynge
but
lowe
and
not
hye
frome
the
grounde
/
is
made
soo
compase
wyse
and
caue
or
holowe
in
the
myddes
/
that
that
maye
be
receaued
from
vndernethe
whiche
is
loked
for
:
and
the
backe
of
the
stoole
lenyng
backewarde
/
receauethe
the
backe
of
the
woman
/
the
fashion
of
the
which
stole
is
set
in
the
begynninge
of
the
byrth
sygures
hereafter
.
¶
And
when
the
tyme
of
labor
is
come
/
in
the
same
stole
ought
to
be
put
manye
clothes
or
clowtes
in
the
backe
of
it
/
the
whiche
the
midwife
may
remoue
from
one
syde
to
another
accordyng
as
necessite
shal
require
.
The
mydwyfe
herselfe
shall
syt
before
the
laboryng
woman
/
and
shall
diligently
obserut
and
wayte
howe
muche
&
after
what
maner
the
chylde
stearethe
it selfe
:
also
shall
with
her
handes
fyrste
annoynted
with
the
oyle
of
almondes
or
the
oyle
of
whyte
lylies
rule
&
directe
euery
thynge
/
as
shall
seme
best
.
Also
the
mydwyfe
muste
enstructe
and
comfort
the
partie
not
onely
refresshynge
her
with
good
meate
and
drynke
/
but
also
with
swete
wordes
/
geuynge
her
good
hope
of
a
spedefull
delyueraunce
/
encouragyng
and
enstomacking
her
to
pacience
and
tolleraunce
/
byddyng
her
to
holde
in
her
brethe
in
so
muche
as
she
maye
/
also
strekynge
gentylly
with
her
handes
her
belly
aboue
the
nauel
/
for
that
helpeth
to
depresse
the
byrth
downewarde
.
¶
But
and
yf
the
woman
be
any
thynge
grosse
/
fat
/
or
flesshly
it
shall
be
best
for
her
to
lye
grouelyng
/
for
by
that
menes
the
matrice
is
thrust
and
depressed
downe
warde
/
anoyntynge
also
the
preuy
partes
with
the
oyle
of
whyte
lyllies
.
And
yf
necessite
require
it
/
let
not
the
mydwyfe
be
afrayde
ne
asshamed
to
handle
the
places
and
to
relaxe
and
lose
the
straytes
/
for
so
muche
as
shall
lye
in
her
/
for
that
shall
helpe
wel
to
the
more
expedite
and
quycke
labor
.
¶
But
this
must
the
mydwyfe
aboue
all
thynges
take
hede
of
that
she
compell
not
the
woman
to
labor
/
before
the
byrth
come
forewarde
/
&
shewe
it selfe
.
For
before
that
tyme
all
labor
is
in
vayne
/
labor
as
muche
as
ye
lyst
.
And
in
this
case
many
tymes
it
cometh
to
passe
/
that
the
partie
hath
labored
so
sore
before
the
tyme
/
that
when
she
sholde
labor
in
dede
/
her
myght
and
strength
is
spent
before
in
vaine
/
so
that
she
is
not
nowe
able
to
helpe
her selfe
/
and
that
is
a
peryllous
case
.
¶
Farthermore
when
the
secondine
or
seconde
byrthe
(
in
the
which
the
byrth
is
wrapped
and
conteyned
)
doth
ones
appeare
/
then
maye
ye
knowe
that
the
labor
is
at
hande
/
wherfore
yf
the
same
secondine
breake
not
of
his
owne
kynde
/
it
shal
be
the
myd
wyfes
parte
and
offyce
with
her
nayles
easely
and
gentely
to
breake
it
/
and
rent
it
/
or
yf
it
maye
not
so
conuenientlye
be
done
/
then
reyse
vp
betwene
your
fyngers
a
pece
of
it
/
and
cutte
it
of
with
a
payre
of
sheeres
/
or
a
sharpe
knyfe
/
but
soo
that
ye
hurte
not
the
byrthe
with
the
cutte
/
this
done
/
by
and
by
ensueth
consequently
the
flux
and
flowe
of
humours
/
of
the
whyche
I
spake
before
/
and
then
nexte
foloweth
immediatly
the
byrthe
.
¶
But
yf
it
so
chanse
the
secondine
sholde
be
cutte
by
the
mydwyfe
and
all
the
watery
parte
yshued
and
spent
before
due
tyme
and
necessite
sholde
requyre
it
/
so
that
the
preuye
passage
be
lest
exiccat
and
drye
/
the
byrth
not
yet
appearynge
/
and
by
this
meanes
the
labor
sholde
be
hyndered
and
letted
.
In
this
case
ye
shall
annoynt
and
mollify
that
preuy
passage
with
the
oyle
of
white
lillies
/
or
som
of
the
greses
spoken
of
before
/
fyrste
wharmed
and
so
conueyed
in
to
the
preuy
partes
the
whiche
thynges
wyll
cause
the
waye
to
be
slypperye
/
sople
/
and
easye
for
the
byrth
to
passe
.
But
chiefly
in
this
difficulties
sholde
profette
the
whyte
of
an
egge
to gether
with
the
yolke
powred
in
to
that
same
place
/
whiche
sholde
cause
it
to
be
moste
slypperye
and
slydynge
.
¶
And
yf
it
so
be
/
that
the
byrthe
be
of
a
greate
groweth
/
and
the
head
stycke
in
the
commynge
forthe
/
then
muste
the
mydwyfe
helpe
al
that
she
may
/
with
her
handes
fyrst
annoynted
with
some
oyle
openyng
and
enlargynge
the
waye
/
that
the
yssue
maye
be
be
the
frear
:
lykewyse
muste
be
done
yf
she
bare
two
chyldren
at
once
.
And
all
this
is
spoken
of
the
naturall
byrth
when
that
fyrst
procedeth
the
head
/
and
then
the
reste
of
the
body
ordinatly
/
as
ye
mayese
in
the
fyrste
of
the
byrth
fygures
folowynge
.
¶
ij
.
But
when
the
byrthe
commeth
contrarye
to
nature
/
then
must
the
mydwyfe
do
all
her
diligence
and
payne
/
yf
it
may
be
possible
/
to
turne
the
byrthe
tenderlye
with
her
annoynted
handes
/
so
that
it
maye
be
reduced
agayne
to
a
naturall
byrthe
/
as
for
example
:
Some
tyme
it
chanseth
the
chylde
to
come
the
legges
and
both
arines
and
handes
downewarde
cloose
to
the
sydes
fyrste
forthe
/
as
appearethe
in
the
seconde
of
the
byrth
figures
/
in
this
case
the
mydwife
must
do
all
her
payne
with
tender
handelyng
and
annoyntyng
to
receaue
forthe
the
chylde
/
the
legges
beynge
styll
close
to gether
/
&
the
handes
lykewyse
remaynynge
/
as
appeareth
in
the
say●e
.ij.
figure
.
Howe
be
it
/
it
were
farre
better
(
yf
it
maye
be
by
any
meanes
)
that
the
mydwyfe
sholde
turne
these
legges
commyng
fyrste
forthe
vpwardes
agayne
by
the
bellywarde
/
soo
that
the
heade
myghte
descende
downward
by
the
backe
part
of
the
wombe
for
then
naturally
agayne
&
without
parell
as
the
fyrste
myght
it
procede
&
come
forthe
.
¶
iii.
Agayne
sometyme
the
byrthe
commeth
forth
with
both
legges
and
fete
fyrste
/
the
handes
beinge
lyfted
vp
aboue
the
head
of
the
chylde
/
and
this
is
the
parelloust
maner
of
byrth
/
that
is
as
appeareth
in
the
iij.
of
the
byrth
figures
.
And
here
must
the
myd
wyfe
do
what
she
maye
to
turne
the
byrth
yf
it
maye
be
possible
to
the
fyrst
figure
/
and
yf
it
wyll
not
be
/
muste
reduce
the
handes
of
it
downe
to
the
sides
/
&
so
to
reduce
it
into
the
ij
.
figure
.
But
yf
this
also
wyll
not
be
:
then
receaue
the
feate
as
they
come
forth
/
&
binde
them
with
some
fayre
lynnen
clothe
/
and
so
tenderly
and
very
softly
loose
out
the
byrth
tyll
all
be
come
forth
/
and
this
is
a
very
●copardous
labor
.
¶
iiij
.
Also
sometyme
the
byrth
commeth
forwarde
with
one
fore
onely
/
the
other
beynge
left
vpwarde
/
as
appeareth
in
the
.iiij.
fygure
.
And
in
this
case
it
behoueth
the
laborynge
woman
to
laye
her
vpryght
vppon
her
backe
/
holdynge
vp
her
thyghes
&
belly
/
so
that
her
heade
be
the
lower
part
of
her
body
:
then
let
the
mydwyfe
with
her
hande
returne
in
agayne
the
fore
that
commeth
oute
fyrste
in
as
tender
manner
as
maye
be
/
and
warne
the
woman
that
laboreth
to
stere
and
moue
her selfe
/
so
that
by
the
mouynge
and
sterynge
the
byrth
maye
be
turned
the
head
downewarde
/
and
so
to
make
a
naturall
byrth
of
it
/
and
then
to
set
the
woman
in
the
stole
agayne
/
and
to
do
as
ye
dyd
in
the
fyrste
fygure
/
but
yf
it
so
be
that
notwithstandyng
the
mothers
stearynge
and
mouynge
the
byrth
do
not
torne
/
then
muste
the
mydwyfe
with
her
hande
softelye
fetche
out
the
other
legge
whiche
remayned
behynde
/
euermore
takynge
hede
of
this
that
by
handelynge
of
the
chylde
she
do
not
remoue
ne
sette
oute
of
theyr
place
the
two
handes
hangyng
downewarde
towarde
the
fete
.
¶
v.
Lykewise
somtyme
it
commeth
to
passe
that
the
syde
of
the
chyld
commeth
forwarde
/
as
appeareth
in
the
.v.
fygure
/
&
then
must
the
mydwyfe
do
so
/
that
it
maye
be
returned
to
his
naturall
fasshion
/
&
so
to
come
forthe
.
¶
vi
.
Also
sometyme
the
chylde
commeth
forthe
the
fete
forwarde
/
the
legges
beynge
abroade
/
as
in
the
.vi.
figure
/
and
then
muste
the
mydwyfe
se
/
that
the
fete
&
legges
maye
be
ioyned
to gether
/
and
so
to
procede
&
come
forth
/
euer
more
regarding
the
handes
/
as
I
warned
you
before
.
¶
vij
.
Yf
it
come
with
one
of
the
knees
or
bothe
forewarde
/
as
in
the
.vij.
figure
/
then
muste
the
mydwyfe
putte
vp
the
byrth
/
tyll
such
tyme
as
the
legges
and
fete
come
ryght
forth
/
and
then
to
do
as
afore
.
¶
viij
.
When
the
chylde
commeth
hedlonge
/
one
of
the
handes
commyng
out
and
appearyng
before
/
as
in
the
.viij.
figure
/
then
let
the
byrthe
procede
no
farther
/
but
let
the
mydwyfe
put
in
her
hande
and
tenderlye
by
the
shoulders
thrust
in
the
byrth
agayne
/
so
that
the
hande
maye
be
setteled
in
his
place
agayne
&
the
byrth
to
come
forth
ordinatly
&
naturally
/
as
in
the
first
figure
/
but
if
by
this
meanes
the
hand
come
not
to
his
conuenient
place
/
then
let
the
woman
lye
vpryght
with
her
thyghes
&
bellye
vpwardes
/
&
her
head
downewardes
/
so
that
by
that
meanes
it
maye
be
brought
to
passe
/
and
then
to
bryng
her
to
her
seate
agayne
.
¶
ix
.
But
yf
it
procede
with
both
handes
forewardes
/
then
muste
ye
lykewyse
do
as
afore
:
by
the
shulders
thrustynge
it
backe
agayne
/
vntyll
suche
tyme
as
the
handes
lye
close
to
the
sydes
/
and
so
to
come
forth
as
appeareth
in
the
.ix.
fygure
.
¶
x.
But
when
it
commeth
arsewarde
/
as
in
the
.x.
fygure
maye
be
sene
/
then
muste
the
mydwyfe
with
her
handes
retorne
it
agayne
/
vntyl
such
tyme
that
the
byrth
be
turned
/
the
legges
and
fete
forwarde
/
otherels
yf
it
maye
so
be
/
it
ware
best
that
the
heade
myght
come
forwarde
/
and
so
naturallye
to
procede
.
¶
xi
.
And
yf
it
so
be
that
it
appere
&
come
forth
fyrst
with
the
sholders
/
as
in
the
.xi.
figure
/
then
must
ye
fayre
and
softely
thrust
it
backe
agayne
by
the
sholders
/
tyll
such
tyme
as
the
heade
come
forewarde
.
¶
xii
.
But
when
the
byrth
commeth
forthe
with
both
handes
and
bothe
fete
at
once
/
as
in
the
.xij.
fygure
/
then
muste
the
mydwyfe
tenderly
take
the
chylde
by
the
head
/
and
returne
the
legges
vpwarde
/
and
so
to
receyue
it
forth
.
¶
xiij
.
And
when
it
cometh
brestewarde
/
as
in
the
.xiij.
figure
/
the
legges
and
handes
bydynge
behynd
/
then
let
the
mydwyfe
take
it
by
the
fete
or
by
the
head
/
which
that
shall
be
moste
apte
and
commodious
to
come
forwarde
/
returnynge
the
rest
vpwarde
/
and
so
to
receaue
it
forth
/
but
if
it
maye
be
hedlong
/
it
shal
be
best
.
¶
xiiij
.
Nowe
sometyme
it
chaunseth
the
woman
to
haue
two
at
a
burden
/
and
that
bothe
procede
to gether
headlonge
/
as
in
the
xiiij
.
figure
/
&
then
must
the
midwyfe
receue
the
one
after
the
other
/
but
so
that
she
let
not
slyppe
the
one
whylest
she
taketh
the
fyrste
.
¶
xv
.
Yf
bothe
come
forthe
at
once
with
theyr
fete
foreward
/
then
must
the
mydwyfe
be
very
diligent
to
receaue
fyrst
the
one
/
and
then
the
other
/
as
hath
ben
shewed
before
.
¶
xvi
.
When
the
one
commeth
hedlonge
/
the
other
fotewyse
/
then
must
the
mydwyfe
helpe
the
byrth
that
is
most
nerest
the
yssue
/
&
it
that
commeth
fotelōg
(
if
she
can
)
to
returne
it
vpon
the
head
/
as
is
spoken
of
before
/
taking
euer
the
hede
/
that
the
one
be
not
noyson
to
the
other
in
receauing
forth
of
ether
of
them
.
¶
And
to
be
shorte
/
let
the
mydwyfe
often
tymes
annoynte
and
mollifye
the
waye
and
passage
with
some
of
the
foresayd
oyntmentes
/
to
make
the
womans
labor
so
much
the
easyar
/
&
haue
the
lesse
thronge
trauell
and
payne
/
&
yf
there
chanse
to
be
any
apostume
/
or
dysease
about
that
places
in
this
tyme
by
suche
annoyntynge
to
alaye
and
swage
the
payne
:
so
that
for
the
tyme
it
may
be
the
lesse
grefe
to
the
partie
/
as
I
poke
of
before
also
/
and
for
them
that
be
in
this
case
/
it
shall
be
best
to
lye
growelyng
/
as
I
said
of
the
grosse
fatte
and
flesshly
woman
.
¶
Remedies
and
Medicines
by
the
whiche
the
labor
maye
be
made
more
tollerable
,
easy
,
and
without
great
payne
.
¶
Cap
.v.
ALl
suche
thynges
as
helpe
the
byrth
&
make
it
more
easye
/
are
those
:
Fyrst
the
woman
that
laboreth
must
other
syt
grouling
or
els
vpryght
leanynge
backewarde
/
accordynge
as
it
shall
seme
commodious
and
necessarye
to
the
partie
/
or
as
she
is
accustomed
.
And
in
wynter
or
colde
whether
the
chamber
wherin
she
laboreth
muste
be
warmed
/
but
in
somer
or
hote
whether
/
let
in
the
ayre
to
refresshe
her
withall
/
lest
betwene
extreme
heate
and
labor
the
woman
faynt
and
sounde
/
and
farthermore
she
must
be
prouoked
to
sneesynge
/
&
that
other
with
the
powder
of
Eleborus
/
or
elles
of
pepper
.
Also
the
sydes
of
the
woman
must
be
streken
downewarde
with
the
handes
/
which
thing
helpeth
greately
and
farthereth
/
and
let
the
mydwyfe
alway
be
very
diligent
prouidyng
and
seinge
what
shal
be
necessary
for
the
woman
/
annoyntinge
the
priuities
with
oyle
or
other
such
grese
as
I
spoke
of
before
in
this
fasshion
:
Take
the
oyle
of
whyte
lyllies
or
duckes
grese
/
&
with
that
temper
two
graynes
wayghte
of
Safran
and
one
grayne
of
muske
/
and
with
that
oyntmente
annoynte
the
secrete
partes
.
Yf
this
profet
nothynge
/
then
vse
this
suffumigation
.
¶
Take
myrrhe
/
galbanum
/
castorium
/
let
those
be
beten
and
make
lyke
pylles
of
them
tempered
to gether
with
bulles
gaule
/
then
take
a
dramme
of
this
pylles
/
and
put
it
on
hote
coles
/
and
let
the
woman
receaue
the
fume
and
sauoure
of
it
vndernethe
.
¶
Another
perfume
:
Take
yelowe
brymstone
/
myrrhe
/
mader
/
galbanum
/
oppoponacum
/
of
eche
lyke
much
/
and
temper
all
these
to gether
/
makynge
of
them
pylles
/
and
with
those
also
ye
may
make
fume
to
be
receaued
vnderneth
.
Item
the
fume
of
culuer
dunge
or
of
hawkes
dunge
by
puttyng
to
of
oppoponacum
/
is
souerayne
for
the
same
.
All
these
fumes
open
the
poores
benethe
/
and
causeth
nature
to
be
the
frear
in
delyueraunce
.
¶
Also
it
is
very
good
to
dyp
wooll
in
the
iuyce
of
rue
/
and
the
same
to
conuey
into
the
secreates
.
Also
the
pouder
of
aristolochia
rotunda
/
or
the
rote
called
bothor
martis
/
or
malum
terre
/
or
the
sede
of
staphisagre
:
any
of
these
wrapped
in
wooll
and
conueyed
inwarde
prouoketh
&
calleth
forthe
the
byrth
.
¶
Item
take
heleborus
/
oppoponacum
/
and
wrap
them
to gether
in
wooll
/
and
ministre
them
inwarde
:
for
that
wyll
brynge
forthe
&
prouoke
the
byrthe
/
whether
it
be
alyue
or
dead
.
Also
the
rynde
and
barke
of
cassia
fistula
beaten
to
pouder
/
and
tempered
with
wyne
and
dronken
/
prouoketh
well
the
byrth
.
¶
Item
asa
fetida
of
the
bygnes
&
waight
of
a
pese
myngled
to gether
with
castorium
of
the
wayght
of
a
dram
:
beaten
to gether
&
tempered
with
wyne
myxt
with
water
and
so
dronken
/
is
very
good
to
prouoke
the
byrth
Also
canell
dronke
with
wine
is
very
good
.
¶
Item
take
a
scruple
of
roses
/
with
the
water
of
the
sede
of
fenegreke
/
cicercula
/
may
denhere
/
all
beaten
to gether
and
soden
/
and
the
oyle
of
blewe
flowre
de
luce
a
smal
quantite
tempered
there
with
all
:
and
then
geue
it
to
the
woman
that
laboreth
/
and
it
shall
prouoke
the
byrthe
greately
.
Also
cassia
lignea
and
asa
fetida
dronke
with
wyne
/
be
very
good
for
the
same
.
Also
holyoke
soden
in
water
and
dronken
/
is
souerayn
for
the
same
purpose
/
&
it
is
verye
good
for
her
to
washe
her
in
the
water
/
in
the
whiche
this
holyoke
is
decocte
and
soden
in
.
¶
Certayne
pylles
the
whiche
make
the
labor
easye
and
withoute
payne
.
TAke
canell
or
cinamome
and
of
sauyne
of
eche
a
dram
/
of
cassia
lignea
a
dram
and
a
halfe
/
of
myrrhe
/
aristolochia
rotunda
/
&
costemary
of
eche
a
dram
/
of
storax
liquida
halfe
a
dram
/
and
of
oppium
the
wayght
of
.xij.
graynes
/
bete
these
all
to gether
/
and
forme
them
into
pylles
/
and
geue
vnto
the
woman
two
dramms
of
these
pylles
with
.ij.
ounces
of
good
olde
wyne
.
¶
Item
Safrane
and
Syler
Montanum
prouoketh
the
byrth
of
any
lyuynge
thynge
/
yf
it
be
droncken
:
howe
be
it
to
a
woman
geue
neuer
passynge
a
drame
at
once
of
Safrane
/
for
greater
quantite
sholde
greately
hurte
.
¶
Item
take
.v.
drames
of
Sauyne
/
of
rue
or
herbe
grace
one
dragm̄
&
an
halfe
/
of
iuniper
byryes
.ij.
dramms
/
of
asa
fetida
/
amoniacum
/
madder
/
of
ech
.ij.
dramms
:
of
these
make
pylles
/
geuen
to
the
woman
in
labor
with
water
in
the
whiche
is
soden
sauyne
and
penyryall
/
or
els
with
the
brothe
of
cicercula
/
and
the
iuyce
of
rue
shall
helpe
very
greately
.
¶
Item
take
.ij.
dramms
of
sauyne
/
of
asa
fetida
/
armoniacum
/
&
madder
/
of
eche
halfe
a
dram
/
these
temper
to gether
in
pilles
/
and
geue
her
with
wyne
.ij.
dramms
of
the
same
.
¶
Item
take
of
aristolochia
longa
/
pepper
and
myrrhe
/
of
eche
lyke
much
/
confict
them
to gether
with
wyne
&
make
pylles
of
them
/
&
minister
them
with
an
ounce
of
water
of
the
decoction
of
lupynes
/
these
pylles
be
of
such
efficacy
and
strength
that
it
alleuiateth
and
vnpayneth
the
byrthe
/
it
delyuereth
the
matrice
or
mother
from
all
maner
of
byrth
/
be
it
alyue
or
dead
.
¶
Item
take
of
whyte
bedellium
/
myrrhe
/
and
sauyne
/
of
eche
lyke
much
:
temper
these
with
cassia
lignea
and
hony
/
and
make
pylles
of
them
of
the
byggenesse
of
pesen
/
&
of
these
pylles
geue
at
eche
tyme
.v.
to
the
laborer
/
whiche
be
of
the
same
myght
&
strength
with
the
other
pylles
spoken
of
here
nexte
before
.
¶
Item
take
of
myrrhe
/
castorium
/
and
storax
/
of
eche
one
dram
/
temper
them
with
hony
/
and
make
pylles
of
it
/
these
for
this
purpose
excell
and
passe
al
other
/
they
be
of
such
vertue
and
strength
in
operation
.
¶
A
plaster
to
prouoke
the
byrthe
:
Take
wyld
goward
/
&
seth
it
in
water
/
in
the
same
water
temper
myrrhe
/
the
iuyce
of
rue
/
and
barlye
meale
/
so
muche
as
shal
be
sufficient
/
stampe
these
thynges
to gether
/
and
make
it
plasterwyse
/
then
laye
it
to
the
womans
belly
betwene
the
nauel
and
the
nether
part
this
plaster
shall
helpe
meruelouslye
.
¶
And
although
many
other
thinges
ther
be
the
which
haue
vertue
and
power
to
prouoke
byrth
and
to
help
it
/
yet
leuyng
all
such
thynges
for
breuite
and
shortenesse
we
haue
set
here
suche
thynges
/
which
are
chiefe
and
most
principally
conducent
for
the
same
purpose
.
¶
Howe
the
Secondyne
or
seconde
byrth
shall
be
sorsed
to
yssue
forth
,
yf
it
come
not
frelye
of
his
owne
kynde
.
¶
Cap
.vi.
HEre
also
somtyme
it
cometh
to
passe
/
that
the
Secondine
/
whiche
is
wonte
to
come
to gether
with
the
byrth
/
remayne
&
tary
behynde
and
folowe
not
.
And
that
for
dyuers
causes
/
one
is
:
For
because
peraduenture
the
woman
hathe
ben
so
sore
weakened
and
feblysshed
with
trauell
/
dolour
/
and
payne
/
of
that
fyrst
byrth
/
that
she
hathe
no
strength
remaynynge
to
helpe
herselfe
to
the
expellynge
of
this
seconde
byrth
/
another
maye
be
/
that
it
be
entangled
/
tyed
/
or
let
within
the
matrice
/
which
chanseth
many
tymes
/
or
that
it
be
destitute
of
humours
/
so
that
the
water
be
flowen
from
it
soner
then
it
sholde
/
which
shold
make
the
places
more
slyppery
and
more
easye
to
passe
thorowe
/
or
els
that
the
places
ouer
weryed
with
longe
&
sore
labor
/
for
payne
contract
or
gather
together
/
&
enclose
themselfe
agayne
/
or
that
the
places
be
swollen
for
anguysshe
and
payne
/
and
so
let
the
comminge
forth
of
the
seconde
byrthe
.
¶
But
to
be
shorte
of
what
so
euer
cause
it
be
thus
stopped
/
the
mydwyfe
in
anye
wyse
must
fynde
such
meanes
that
it
maye
be
vnloosed
and
expulsed
.
For
otherwyse
greate
inconuemency
sholde
chaunse
to
the
partie
/
and
speciallye
suffocation
&
chokynge
of
the
matrice
/
whiche
also
must
so
much
the
more
be
taken
hede
to
/
for
because
the
seconde
byrth
retayned
&
kept
within
/
wyll
sone
putrifye
&
rot:
whereof
wyll
ensue
yll
noysom
and
pestiferous
vapours
/
ascendynge
to
the
harte
/
the
braynes
/
and
the
mydryffe
/
throughe
the
which
meanes
the
woman
shal
be
short
wynded
/
faynt
harted
/
often
soundynge
&
lyenge
without
any
maner
of
mouynge
or
stearing
in
the
pulces
:
yee
and
many
tymes
is
playnly
suffocated
/
strangled
/
and
dead
of
it
:
wherfore
that
none
of
these
thinges
happen
/
with
all
diligens
and
payne
it
muste
be
prouyded
that
the
secondyne
be
expelled
.
¶
Yf
retention
of
it
come
by
weakenesse
of
the
laborer
throughe
long
trauell
/
then
must
she
be
recomforted
and
strengthed
with
good
confortable
meates
&
drynkes
which
may
enharte
her
/
as
brothe
made
of
the
yolke
of
egges
/
or
with
good
olde
wyne
&
good
fat
and
tydy
flesshe
/
or
byrdes
/
hennes
flesshe
/
capon
/
partrige
/
pyginnes
/
and
suche
lyke
.
¶
And
yf
retention
of
this
secondine
come
/
because
the
place
is
contract
to gether
agayn
/
otherelles
that
the
matrice
is
swollen
for
longe
payne
/
then
must
be
vsed
such
thinges
to
prouoke
it
oute
/
the
whiche
do
make
the
way
slypper
/
sople
/
and
easy
for
it
to
procede
/
with
the
oyles
or
oyntementes
spoken
of
before
/
as
oyle
of
whyte
lyllies
/
of
maioram
/
and
of
blewe
lyllies
.
Item
the
beryes
of
iumper
or
galbanum
beaten
to
powder
and
dronke
with
luke
warmed
wyne
/
wyll
cause
the
same
to
yssue
out
.
Item
sothernwood
/
or
elles
penyryall
soden
in
wyne
/
and
the
decoction
dronken
/
is
of
the
same
vertue
.
¶
Item
to
suffume
the
secreates
with
the
perfumes
wrytten
of
before
/
is
good
for
this
purpose
/
&
the
fume
of
the
water
/
in
whiche
mallous
holyoke
/
and
berefutte
vt
soden
in
/
receaued
beneth
/
is
lyke
good
.
Also
to
washe
that
partes
in
water
in
which
is
soden
branne
/
or
to
holde
a
lyttell
bagfull
of
soden
branne
to
the
place
/
and
therewythall
to
sooke
the
place
/
is
very
profytable
.
¶
But
yf
the
retention
of
the
secondyne
come
by
reason
that
it
is
entanglyd
or
fastened
in
some
place
of
the
matrice
/
so
that
it
wyl
not
resolue
ne
lose
then
make
a
fume
vnderneth
of
brymstone
/
yuie
leues
/
and
cresses
or
elles
of
cresses
and
fygges
.
¶
Also
of
all
odoriferous
and
swete
smellynge
thynges
:
as
ambre
/
muske
/
frankencense
/
gallia
muscata
and
confection
nere
/
the
whiche
sauoures
and
perfumes
put
on
the
emberres
must
be
so
closely
receaued
vndernethe
/
that
no
part
of
the
smell
do
ascend
to
the
nose
of
the
woman
.
For
to
the
nose
sholde
the
sauour
of
nothynge
come
/
but
onlye
of
suche
thynges
/
the
whyche
stynke
or
haue
abhominable
smell
:
as
asa
fetida
/
casto
rium
/
mans
here
or
womans
here
burnt
/
pecockes
fethers
burnt
.
Item
in
this
case
it
shal
be
very
good
to
make
a
perfume
vnderneth
of
the
houe
of
an
asse
/
which
thinges
althoughe
they
be
of
yll
sauoure
/
yet
they
be
of
such
nature
&
efficacie
/
that
they
occasionat
not
onely
the
secondine
/
but
also
dead
byrthes
to
procede
&
come
forth
out
of
the
matrice
.
¶
And
in
this
case
also
let
the
woman
with
holde
her
brethe
in
warde
in
so
muche
as
she
can
/
for
that
shall
dryue
downewarde
suche
thynges
as
be
in
the
bodyr
to
be
expelled
.
Item
let
her
be
prouoked
to
sneese
with
the
pouder
of
eleborus
or
pepper
put
in
the
nose
holdynge
her
mouthe
and
nose
soo
cloose
as
maye
be
.
¶
Also
the
oyntment
/
whiche
is
called
vnguentum
Basilicon
/
conueyed
into
the
matrice
/
is
very
good
/
for
it
mollifyeth
the
place
and
draweth
out
the
secondine
parforce
/
the
whiche
so
soone
as
it
is
expelled
/
infude
the
oyle
of
rooses
in
to
the
same
matrice
.
Item
roosewater
tempered
with
a
quantite
of
the
pouder
of
holyoke
/
and
dronke
/
is
good
to
expell
the
secondine
.
¶
And
yf
it
be
so
that
any
parte
of
the
secondine
do
appeare
/
let
the
mydwyfe
receaue
it
tenderlye
/
loosynge
it
oute
fayre
and
softely
leste
it
breake
/
and
yf
ye
doubte
that
it
wyll
breake
/
then
let
the
mydwyfe
tye
that
parte
of
the
whiche
she
hathe
handfast
to
the
womans
legge
or
fote
/
not
very
strayght
/
leste
it
breake
/
nether
very
lax
/
lest
it
slyp
in
agayne
/
and
then
cause
her
to
snese
.
Then
yf
the
secondine
tarye
or
stycke
/
so
that
it
come
not
quyckly
forewarde
/
then
loose
it
a
lyttell
&
a
lyttell
very
tenderlye
wrething
it
frome
one
syde
to
another
/
tyll
such
tyme
as
it
be
gotten
oute
/
but
euer
beware
of
violent
and
hastye
mouyng
of
it
/
lest
that
with
the
second
byrth
ye
remoue
the
matrice
also
.
¶
And
yf
in
this
meane
whyle
the
women
faynt
or
sowne
by
reasone
of
great
payne
ensuynge
of
the
takynge
a
waye
of
this
secondine
/
then
muste
ye
minister
such
thinges
to
her
the
which
comfort
the
head
and
the
hart
as
be
electuaries
whiche
are
conficte
with
muske
/
ambre
/
and
the
confection
of
precious
stones
/
as
Diamargariton
/
and
suche
other
.
Also
suche
thynges
the
whiche
comforte
the
stomacke
/
as
Diagalanga
/
Dia
cinamomum
/
and
such
other
which
are
alwaye
in
a
readinesse
at
the
apothecaries
/
the
which
thinges
she
shall
receaue
with
wyne
.
¶
Item
to
remoue
the
secondine
and
to
expel
it
:
take
rue
/
horehownd
/
Sothernewood
/
and
motherwort
/
of
ethe
lyke
quantite
/
and
then
take
so
muche
of
the
oyle
of
lyshes
/
as
maye
be
sufficient
to
stype
/
moysten
and
soke
the
foresayd
herbes
in
/
put
all
this
to gether
into
a
glased
potte
couered
with
suche
a
couer
that
it
haue
a
lyttell
hole
or
vent
aboue
in
the
toppe
of
it
/
then
set
this
pot
ouer
the
fyre
of
coles
/
so
that
it
boyle
a
whyle
/
then
take
it
frome
the
fyre
/
and
sette
it
vnder
the
stole
where
the
woman
sytteth
made
for
the
nonce
hauyng
a
pype
made
for
that
purpose
of
the
whiche
the
one
ende
ye
shall
put
into
the
vent
or
hole
of
the
couer
to
the
pot
&
the
other
ende
must
the
partie
receaue
in
to
her
bodye
.
And
so
to
syt
cloosed
rounde
aboute
with
clothes
/
that
no
vapoure
or
ayre
go
forth
of
the
potte
hauing
a
fewe
coles
vnder
it
/
to
kepe
it
hote
/
and
thus
sytte
the
space
of
an
houre
or
two
/
tyll
such
tyme
as
the
secondyne
moue
and
begynne
to
procede
of
his
owne
kynde
.
And
yf
it
be
so
that
ye
profette
not
this
wayes
/
yet
then
laye
this
plaster
on
the
bellye
betwene
the
nauell
and
the
secreates
/
of
the
whiche
we
shall
speake
hereafter
/
the
whiche
is
of
suche
operation
and
efficacite
that
it
expelleth
deade
byrthes
:
yf
for
all
this
the
secondyne
come
not
forewarde
/
then
leaue
it
/
and
vse
no
more
medicines
ne
remedies
to
that
purpose
but
let
it
alone
/
for
with
in
fewe
dayes
it
wyll
putrifye
and
corrupte
/
and
dyssolue
into
a
watery
substance
/
thycke
lyke
bryne
/
or
other
fex
myxed
with
water
/
&
so
yssue
forthe
.
Howheit
in
the
meane
whyle
it
wyll
put
the
woman
to
great
payne
in
the
heade
/
in
the
harte
/
the
stomacke
/
as
we
touthed
before
.
¶
Howe
that
many
thynges
chaunse
to
the
women
after
theyr
labor
,
and
howe
to
auoyde
,
defende
,
or
to
remedye
the
same
.
¶
Cap
.vii.
IT
is
also
to
be
vnderstanded
/
that
many
tymes
after
the
delyueraunce
happeneth
to
women
other
the
feuer
or
ague
/
or
swellyng
or
inflation
of
the
bodye
/
other
tumblynge
in
the
belly
/
or
els
commotion
or
settelynge
out
of
order
of
the
mother
or
matrice
.
Cause
of
the
which
thynges
is
somtymes
lacke
of
due
and
sufficient
purgation
and
clensyng
of
the
flowres
after
the
byrthe
/
or
elles
contrarye
wyse
ouer
muche
flowinge
of
the
same
/
whiche
sore
doth
weaken
the
woman
.
Also
the
greate
labor
and
stearynge
of
the
matrice
in
the
byrth
.
¶
Then
as
ofte
as
it
commeth
for
lacke
of
due
purgation
of
the
flowres
/
then
muste
be
ministred
such
thinges
/
the
which
maye
prouoke
the
same
/
whether
it
be
by
medicines
taken
at
the
mouth
/
or
by
lotyon
&
washyng
of
the
fete
/
or
by
fumes
or
odours
or
emplastration
/
or
by
decoction
of
herbes
seruynge
to
that
purpose
/
other
els
by
oyntmentes
/
&
suche
other
thynges
/
accordynge
as
the
persone
or
the
parell
doth
requyre
/
of
the
which
thynges
fewe
or
no
wemen
be
ignoraunt
.
And
ye
muste
take
diligent
hede
that
she
be
exactly
and
vtterly
purged
:
to
this
be
agreable
all
suche
thynges
/
the
whyche
prouoke
vryne
&
open
the
vaynes
/
making
free
waye
for
the
bloude
to
passe
/
&
sende
the
humours
and
matter
downewarde
/
as
motherworte
/
azure
/
sauyne
/
penyryall
/
parcelye
/
cheruyll
/
anyse
sede
/
fenel
sede
/
iumper
byries
/
rue
/
baybyries
/
germaunder
/
valeriane
/
tyme
/
cinomome
/
spykenarde
/
&
suche
other
.
All
those
thynges
as
they
do
prouoke
and
cause
vrine
so
do
they
also
prouoke
and
cause
the
flowres
to
depart
.
Howbeit
as
nere
as
ye
can
vse
none
of
these
thynges
without
the
counsell
of
an
expert
physisyon
/
leste
whylest
ye
helpe
one
place
ye
hurt
another
/
also
to
sneese
helpeth
muche
in
this
matter
/
&
to
holde
in
the
brethe
enclosynge
the
noose
and
the
mouth
.
Also
fumigation
made
of
the
yes
of
salt
fysshes
/
or
of
the
houe
of
a
horse
vnderneth
/
prouoketh
the
flowres
.
Yf
ye
profet
not
by
this
meanes
then
yf
she
be
able
to
bare
it
/
let
her
bloude
in
the
vayne
/
called
Saphena
/
vnder
the
ancles
of
the
fete
/
for
this
ꝓuoketh
flowres
chieflye
of
all
other
thynges
.
¶
Lykewyse
doo
/
yf
the
woman
haue
the
ague
after
her
labor
/
for
that
commeth
of
lyke
cause
by
retention
of
the
flowres
/
and
in
the
feuer
let
her
vse
to
drynke
water
/
in
the
whiche
is
decocte
barlye
beaten
/
or
cicer
and
barlye
to gether
/
or
water
in
whiche
be
soden
Tamaryndi
/
or
waye
of
mylke
/
and
lette
her
eate
cullys
made
of
a
cocke
/
and
swete
pome
Granates
:
for
these
thynges
do
prouoke
the
flowres
/
&
mitigateth
the
immoderat
heate
/
refresshynge
greatelye
the
bodye
/
loosynge
and
openynge
suche
thinges
/
the
whiche
before
ware
constricte
and
cluddered
to gether
.
¶
Yf
the
body
after
labor
do
swel
&
inflate
then
let
her
drynke
water
in
the
which
is
soden
cicer
and
cummyn
beaten
to gether
.
Item
good
olde
wyne
with
the
electuarium
called
diamarte
/
or
the
whiche
is
called
alcakengi
:
of
the
whiche
Auicenna
speaketh
in
his
.v.
boke
.
Item
gumme
serapine
/
organnie
/
and
masticke
.
Also
in
this
case
a
glyster
made
of
suche
thynges
/
the
which
do
vaynqueshe
and
expelle
ventositees
and
wyndenesse
/
also
a
pessarie
or
suppositar
made
for
that
parte
of
Aristolochia
rotunda
/
squinan
tum
/
storax
liquida
/
doronicum
/
zeduaria
.
¶
Agayne
yf
the
woman
after
her
labor
haue
frettynge
and
knawyng
of
the
guttes
/
and
payne
of
the
matrice
and
other
secreate
partes
there
aboute
/
then
let
her
vse
the
vapour
and
fume
of
suche
thynges
the
whiche
haue
vertue
to
mitigate
swage
and
alay
the
payn
/
as
mallowes
/
holyoke
/
fenegreke
/
cummyn
/
camomell
/
sauyne
/
and
hemlocke
.
¶
Also
to
annoynt
the
places
with
oleum
sesaminum
/
or
with
oyle
of
swete
almondes
And
yf
no
greate
heate
do
abounde
in
the
woman
/
she
maye
drynke
tryacle
or
trifera
magna
with
wyne
in
whiche
is
decoct
motherwort
or
muggeworke
.
¶
Also
agaynste
paynes
in
the
preuy
partes
/
take
penyriall
/
policaria
/
syx
leues
of
bay
tree
:
sethe
them
to gether
/
and
receaue
the
vapour
vndernethe
closely
.
Item
take
rue
/
red
motherworte
/
sothernwood
/
bete
them
to gether
/
and
temper
them
with
the
oyle
of
peny
ryall
/
and
put
all
to gether
into
a
pot
/
and
set
it
ouer
the
fyre
a
whyle
/
tyll
it
be
somewhat
soden
to gether
/
and
then
take
it
of
agayne
/
&
put
it
all
in
to
a
lyttell
rounde
lynnen
bagge
made
for
the
purpose
/
the
whiche
with
this
herbes
in
it
ye
shall
conuaye
into
the
secretes
.
¶
Item
take
camomell
&
lyne
of
eche
lyke
much
.iiij.
handefulles
:
braye
them
to gether
&
sethe
them
with
whyte
wyne
/
&
then
put
it
in
a
rounde
bagge
of
lynnen
/
as
before
was
done
/
&
conuey
it
into
the
womans
preuy
partes
.
Item
let
her
drynke
for
the
same
purpose
ij
.
graynes
of
muske
with
wyne
.
¶
Item
take
white
onyons
&
couer
them
vnder
the
hote
asshes
the
which
when
they
be
wel
rosted
/
beate
them
to gether
with
freshe
butter
vnsalted
/
&
make
it
in
maner
of
a
plaster
/
&
then
put
it
in
a
lynnen
bag
/
&
conuey
itin
to
the
places
/
as
before
/
in
the
meane
whyle
perfumyng
the
preuy
partes
with
whyte
frankencense
&
storax
.
¶
Yf
it
be
so
that
the
woman
be
vexed
about
the
backe
and
loynes
after
her
labor
/
take
camomell
/
and
muggewoort
/
of
eche
.ij.
handfulles
of
woorwode
/
sothernewood
of
eche
one
handefull
/
of
motherwort
.iij.
handefulles
/
of
cinamome
and
nutmegges
beten
small
halfe
an
ounce
/
decocte
all
these
thynges
together
/
and
in
the
water
of
this
decoction
beynge
warme
/
dyp
a
spunge
or
other
lynnen
clothes
fomentynge
/
sokynge
/
and
strekynge
the
backe
with
the
same
/
and
so
do
often
tymes
/
or
els
put
all
these
foresayde
herbes
to gether
soden
in
a
bagge
/
and
laye
it
plasterwyse
to
the
backe
.
¶
Yf
this
profette
not
:
take
oyle
nardine
/
oyle
of
whyte
lyllies
/
of
ech
an
ounce
and
an
halfe
/
to
the
whiche
put
a
dram
of
nutmegges
beaten
to
small
powder
/
with
this
annoynte
the
backe
.
Item
take
oyle
of
anys
/
oyle
of
camomell
/
of
eche
an
ounce
/
oyle
of
whyte
lyllies
.ij.
ounces
/
of
waxe
.ij.
dramms
:
dissolue
all
these
to gether
ouer
the
fyre
/
and
there
with
annoynt
the
backe
.
¶
But
yf
after
the
labor
the
flowres
yssue
more
vehementlye
&
in
greater
aboundance
then
they
sholde
/
to
the
great
effeablysshyng
of
the
woman
and
inducynge
of
muche
langor
and
paynefulnes
:
then
syrst
shall
ye
note
where
vpon
it
commeth
:
for
the
cause
knowen
the
dysease
maye
the
more
readelye
be
recured
:
and
causes
of
it
be
dyuers
:
but
moste
espetiall
those
that
folowe
/
that
is
to
saye
:
Of
muche
aboundant
superfluous
bloude
contayned
in
the
hole
body
:
or
of
muche
commistion
of
the
melancholy
humor
&
the
bloude
to gether
/
by
the
which
the
bloude
is
e●fyred
and
chawfed
:
and
so
distendeth
openeth
and
setteth
abroade
the
vaynes
whiche
descende
to
the
matrice
.
Also
the
bloude
beynge
very
thynne
and
wateryshe
:
for
so
it
penetrateth
/
thrylleth
/
and
yssueth
forthe
the
soner
.
Also
yf
the
vaynes
be
very
large
/
&
receaue
much
bloude
:
for
in
that
case
they
sende
forthe
the
more
agayn
.
Also
yf
the
matrice
be
vnmyghty
&
weakened
/
the
vaynes
lykewyse
weake
and
large
:
so
that
they
can
not
retayne
nor
witholde
the
bloude
.
Also
yf
the
body
of
the
woman
or
the
outward
partes
be
very
dense
/
cloose
/
and
compacte
to gether
:
so
that
the
outwarde
powres
be
contracte
and
shut
in
such
wyse
that
no
vapours
or
swette
can
yssue
out
at
them
:
then
this
shall
cause
the
yll
humoures
(
whiche
otherwyse
wolde
passe
thorough
the
powres
in
swette
)
to
remayne
within
the
body
/
and
there
to
engender
and
encreace
greater
fluxe
and
aboundance
of
matter
/
which
procedeth
with
the
flowres
&
augmenteth
the
quantite
of
them
.
Also
yf
the
vaynes
/
whiche
be
named
hemorroides
/
in
the
matrice
be
open
and
flowe
forth
.
Also
yf
the
matrice
be
peryshed
or
otherwyse
viciat
.
Also
yf
it
chanse
that
the
woman
haue
had
a
fall
/
or
hath
ben
thrust
or
beaten
/
by
all
and
any
of
this
meanes
maye
come
this
inordinat
fluxe
of
flowres
.
¶
Nowe
stynge
then
that
it
ensueth
by
so
manyfolde
occasions
&
causes
it
shal
be
mete
that
women
in
this
case
be
nothing
ashamed
ne
abashed
to
disclose
theyr
mynde
vnto
expert
phisitians
/
showyng
them
euery
thyng
in
it
/
as
they
knowe
where
vppon
it
sholde
come
:
so
that
the
phisition
vnderstandynge
the
womans
mynde
/
maye
the
soner
by
his
learnynge
and
experience
consyder
the
true
cause
of
it
/
and
the
very
remedy
to
amend
it
.
And
many
thinges
there
be
which
sease
and
restrayne
this
ouer
much
flowynge
of
flowres
:
bothe
electuaries
/
confections
/
trochiskes
pouders
/
clisteres
/
odoures
/
suffumigations
bathes
/
plasters
and
oyntementes
/
of
whiche
for
the
loue
of
women
I
wyll
here
set
forthe
the
moste
principall
and
best
.
¶
Fyrste
then
to
stynte
and
restrayne
the
owtragius
fluxe
of
flowres
it
shal
be
verye
good
to
bynde
the
armes
very
strayght
and
strongely
&
not
the
fete
or
handes
as
:
some
vnwyse
men
do
teache
/
and
then
to
set
a
ventose
or
boxe
or
cup
of
glasse
with
fyre
(
which
is
called
boxynge
)
vnder
the
brestes
/
but
cuttynge
no
part
of
the
skynne
/
layeng
also
lynnen
clothes
dypped
in
vyn●g●e
on
the
bellye
betwene
the
nauell
and
the
secreates
:
conueyenge
also
into
the
places
suche
thynges
/
whiche
haue
vertue
to
restrayne
bloude
/
as
balaustium
/
the
ryne
of
pome
granate
/
carabe
/
terra
sigillata
/
bole
armenyacke
/
sanguis
draconis
/
hematites
/
the
red
rose
/
whyte
frankencense
/
and
galles
:
all
those
thynges
or
as
manye
of
them
as
ye
can
conuenientlye
get
/
beate
them
to
powder
in
lyke
portion
/
and
temper
them
with
thycke
and
grosse
wyne
/
making
of
it
a
plaster
/
the
whiche
so
tempered
put
it
in
to
a
lyttell
rounde
bagge
the
quantite
of
a
mannes
thombe
the
which
she
shall
put
in
to
the
preuye
places
.
¶
Item
an
other
plaster
to
be
ministred
lykewyse
:
Take
of
the
bloudestone
/
called
Emathites
/
bole
armenyacke
:
of
eche
halfe
an
ounce
:
sanguis
draconis
/
licium
/
of
ech
.ij.
dramms
:
Karabe
:
the
cuppes
of
Acornes
/
Cipresse
nuttes
/
Balaustium
or
psidium
/
of
eche
one
dram
:
of
the
scales
of
yron
one
dram
and
an
halfe
:
Turbyntyne
and
pyche
lyke
quantite
/
or
so
muche
as
shal
be
sufficient
to
make
a
plaster
:
beate
and
braye
all
these
to gether
/
temperinge
it
to
a
plaster
:
and
then
do
with
it
as
ye
dyd
with
the
other
before
.
¶
An
oyntemente
for
the
same
purpose
:
Take
oyle
Myrtine
/
oyle
of
rooses
/
of
eche
halfe
a
pounde
:
Carabe
/
the
scraping
of
yuerye
/
the
scrapynge
of
a
gootes
horne
/
redde
corall
:
terra
sigillata
/
whyte
frankencense
/
of
eche
one
ounce
/
of
white
waxe
.iij.
ounces
/
all
those
tempered
to gether
/
make
them
in
an
oyntment
/
&
therewith
annoynt
the
wombe
and
the
secreates
.
¶
A
batthe
concernynge
the
same
:
Take
wurmewud
/
plantayne
the
more
&
the
lesse
the
toppes
of
vynes
/
fresshe
branches
of
wyld
mulberyes
/
vnrype
damsenes
slowes
/
or
boloes
/
wylde
peres
/
medlers
or
myspylles
/
of
eche
.iij.
handefulles
/
of
red
roose
leues
thre
handefulles
/
of
oke
barke
.iiij.
handfulles
/
of
dayses
/
of
all
sortes
of
thystles
/
of
eche
.ij.
handfulles
:
of
cinkefoyle
/
the
leues
&
rotes
/
tormentyll
the
rootes
/
colubrine
/
of
eche
an
handefull
:
also
of
acorne
cuppes
a
sawser
full
/
of
gawlles
/
of
acorns
pylled
/
of
bursa
pastoris
/
of
eche
.ij.
handefulles
:
beate
all
these
to
powder
/
cuttynge
and
brosynge
that
/
that
wyll
not
be
beaten
to
powder
/
&
sethe
them
to gether
in
rayne
water
/
or
els
in
water
/
in
the
which
.x.
or
.xij.
burnte
s●ones
haue
bene
quenchyd
:
this
done
/
let
the
woman
bathe
herselfe
in
this
water
vp
to
the
nauell
/
and
when
she
cometh
forth
of
the
bathe
/
geue
her
to
drynke
.ij.
dramms
of
electuarium
athanasie
/
or
miclete
/
wich
plantayne
water
/
or
yf
she
be
sore
thurstye
with
red
wyne
.
¶
And
lykewyse
ye
maye
geue
vnto
her
of
these
electuaries
that
folow
:
take
good
olde
roose
sugre
.ij.
ounces
/
of
red
corall
/
burnte
yuery
/
bole
armenyacke
/
of
eche
two
dramms
/
of
hematites
thre
dramms
/
beate
all
these
thinges
to gether
/
temperynge
it
with
the
roose
sugre
/
&
let
her
receaue
of
it
in
the
mornynge
and
euenynge
with
two
dramms
of
plantane
water
/
or
els
the
water
of
bursa
pastoris
.
¶
Item
take
the
stone
Emathites
/
&
rubbe
it
on
a
whetstone
/
tyll
the
whetstone
seme
redde
/
then
washe
it
of
agayne
from
the
whetstone
with
plantaynewater
/
and
so
do
oftentymes
/
vntyll
suche
tyme
that
thou
haue
a
good
quantite
of
it
/
and
euery
mornyng
and
euenynge
let
the
woman
drynke
two
or
thre
sponefulles
of
the
same
.
¶
Farthermore
there
be
at
the
apothecaries
trochiskes
which
helpe
greately
in
this
case
/
as
the
trochiskes
of
karabe
/
and
the
trochiskes
of
bole
armoniacke
whiche
muste
be
ministred
a
dram
or
more
of
ether
of
them
/
with
.iiij.
or
.v.
sponeful
of
plantayne
water
.
Who
that
requyreth
farther
in
this
matter
let
them
aske
counseill
of
the
phisytions
/
for
we
haue
set
here
but
suche
thynges
whiche
may
seme
most
necessarye
.
¶
Nowe
yf
it
so
be
that
there
be
engendred
any
apostume
or
other
dysease
in
the
preuye
places
after
her
labor
/
then
moste
the
apostumes
and
deseases
be
clensed
/
purged
/
&
healed
/
the
payne
and
ache
of
it
mitigated
and
swaged
with
the
iuyce
of
the
beryes
of
solatrum
and
the
iuyce
of
plantane
/
also
the
oyle
of
rooses
/
so
that
all
these
thynges
be
tempered
to gether
/
and
the
places
annoynted
therewith
.
¶
Item
otherwyse
:
take
the
wyte
of
an
egge
/
womans
mylke
/
the
iuyce
of
purselayne
/
and
temper
all
these
to gether
/
and
conueye
it
to
the
dyseased
place
/
also
let
a
bathe
be
made
of
water
/
in
the
whiche
be
soden
psida
/
redde
rose
leues
/
the
cuppes
of
acornes
/
oke
barke
/
tormentyll
/
colubryne
/
and
cinkefoyle
/
the
leues
and
the
rotes
/
lette
all
these
thynges
be
soden
to gether
/
and
in
the
water
the
woman
to
bathe
her selfe
vp
to
the
nauell
:
and
after
that
the
greued
partes
be
healed
and
clensed
let
the
place
be
annoynted
with
vnguentum
album
/
or
vnguentum
rubeum
/
whiche
is
to
be
had
at
the
apothecaries
/
and
with
suche
other
thynges
whose
propertie
be
to
refrige
rate
and
coole
.
And
loke
what
cure
and
remedies
be
mynystred
to
this
places
beynge
apostumate
/
or
otherwyse
deseased
/
the
same
also
seruethe
/
yf
the
matrice
or
anye
other
parte
of
the
secreates
be
rupte
or
broken
.
¶
Manye
tymes
also
it
chanseth
that
the
foundament
gut
commeth
forth
both
in
man
and
woman
/
and
spetially
in
women
in
this
busynesse
/
by
reason
of
theyr
great
labor
and
stryuynge
with
themselfe
:
wherfore
in
this
case
it
is
the
mydwifes
parte
with
her
hand
warmed
&
wet
in
whyt
wyne
/
to
reduce
it
backe
into
his
place
agayn
/
the
which
yf
she
can
not
by
this
meanes
/
for
because
that
per
aduenture
it
be
swollen
/
then
let
her
dissolue
butter
in
whyt
wyne
warmed
/
and
there
in
dyp
wooll
with
the
which
wrappe
the
same
gutte
a
while
/
so
doynge
often
tymes
/
tyll
it
be
swaged
/
that
it
may
be
retorned
in
agayn
and
ye
maye
vse
in
the
stede
of
wyne
luke warme
mylke
.
And
when
it
is
thus
retourned
and
reduced
into
his
place
:
take
waxe
/
and
melt
it
to gether
with
masticke
/
or
whyt
frankencense
/
then
sprede
it
vpon
lynnen
plasterwyse
/
and
laye
it
ouer
the
place
where
it
came
forthe
byndynge
it
to
it
with
a
lynnen
clothe
or
roller
for
partynge
of
/
&
let
this
be
done
thus
so
often
as
she
goythe
to
stole
after
that
she
hath
done
/
vntyll
suche
tyme
that
it
be
so
setteled
within
/
that
it
come
no
more
oute
/
and
yf
ye
wyll
not
occupye
waxe
/
then
dyp
wooll
in
the
oyle
of
masticke
or
of
speke
nardy
/
and
lay
it
vnto
the
place
ouer
the
fundament
/
byndynge
it
faste
vpon
the
place
/
as
before
.
¶
Item
another
way
:
wasshe
&
soke
the
gut
with
the
water
in
which
is
decoct
&
soden
such
thynges
whiche
exiccat
drye
and
constrayne
or
combyne
/
as
gaules
/
cypresse
nuttes
/
spida
/
karabe
/
mastick
/
frankencense
/
sanguis
draconis
/
and
when
it
is
well
wasshed
and
soked
with
this
water
/
then
take
the
powder
of
an
hartes
horne
burnte
/
and
strue
it
rounde
aboute
the
gutte
/
and
so
restore
it
agayne
in
to
his
place
.
¶
Agayne
yf
it
chanse
/
that
after
the
womans
labor
the
matryce
be
remoued
oute
of
his
place
/
and
appeare
forthe
/
then
lette
it
be
wasshed
and
soked
with
the
water
in
whiche
be
soden
these
thynges
folowynge
:
take
of
cupresse
nuttes
/
spicanarde
/
psida
/
balaustium
/
acorne
cuppes
/
of
eche
an
ounce
:
of
mespylles
and
vntype
wylde
peres
/
&
vnrype
aples
/
plummes
/
and
damsens
or
bolous
:
of
eche
a
handefull
and
such
/
of
those
as
be
to
be
powdered
beate
them
to
powder
and
the
reste
diuide
/
and
cutte
them
small
:
then
seathe
them
all
to gether
in
rayn
water
/
or
els
in
water
in
the
whiche
stele
beynge
red
hote
hathe
ben
often
tymes
quenched
:
and
in
the
same
water
lette
the
partie
bathe
her
vp
to
the
nauell
/
or
els
dyp
a
sponge
or
a
locke
of
wooll
in
it
/
&
therewith
wasshe
and
soke
the
same
matrice
oftentymes
then
/
euer
with
a
fayre
cleane
lynnen
clothe
wype
it
cleane
agayne
&
strewe
vpon
it
the
powder
folowynge
/
beaten
verye
small
and
searched
thorough
sylke
.
¶
Take
of
frankencense
/
karabe
/
galles
/
pside
/
balaustie
/
cypresse
nuttes
/
alome
/
antymonye
/
bole
armoniacke
/
masticke
/
of
eche
lyke
much
:
beate
these
to
very
fyne
powder
/
and
strewe
the
matrice
with
it
/
then
tenderlye
reduce
it
in
to
his
place
agayne
with
warme
lynnen
clothes
byndynge
it
vp
.
¶
But
yf
so
be
that
the
matrice
be
swollen
/
so
that
by
this
meanes
it
wyll
not
be
restored
to
his
naturall
place
agayne
/
then
dissolue
butter
in
whyte
wyne
/
as
ye
dyd
before
/
and
with
the
same
soke
it
vnto
suche
tyme
as
it
be
asswaged
/
and
then
reduce
it
.
¶
Agayne
sometyme
it
chanseth
that
the
womans
nauell
thoroughe
labor
is
dyssolued
/
so
that
it
openeth
it selfe
:
then
make
a
small
tente
of
fyne
lynnen
/
and
anoynte
it
with
this
oyntement
that
foloweth
/
and
the
same
put
it
in
to
the
nauell
:
take
whyte
frankensence
/
and
beate
it
to
powder
/
and
then
temper
it
with
the
whyte
of
an
egge
/
so
that
it
be
after
the
manner
of
lyquyd
honye
:
with
this
annoynte
the
nauell
within
and
withoute
/
annoyntynge
also
the
tente
/
the
which
beynge
putte
in
the
hole
of
the
nauell
bynde
some
clothe
ouer
it
to
kepe
it
in
his
place
.
¶
Item
many
tymes
it
chanseth
that
thorowe
the
greate
difficultie
and
thronges
of
labor
the
preuye
parte
and
the
foundament
be
come
one
/
by
reason
of
rupture
and
breakynge
of
the
same
parte
in
the
delyueraunce
of
the
chylde
/
and
that
by
that
meanes
the
matrice
descendeth
and
yssueth
downe
/
the
whiche
thynge
chanseth
sometymes
by
reason
that
the
same
place
is
very
narowe
and
also
tender
/
and
the
byrthe
bygge
/
and
of
greate
growethe
/
soo
that
it
procedeth
with
suche
violence
/
that
it
breakethe
the
waye
before
it
.
¶
When
thys
myshappe
fallethe
/
then
fyrste
wasshe
and
soke
the
matrice
/
and
alsoo
reduce
it
to
his
place
agayne
/
after
the
manner
as
I
tolde
you
here
immediatly
before
/
then
heale
these
bracke
&
wounde
sowynge
of
bothe
sydes
of
it
to gyther
agayne
with
a
sylken
threde
/
as
surgeons
do
other
woundes
:
and
yf
that
lyke
ye
not
then
/
may
ye
cure
it
otherwyse
without
sowyng
thus
.
¶
Take
two
lyttell
peces
of
lynnen
cloth
/
eche
of
the
length
of
the
wounde
/
&
in
bredth
two
fyngers
brode
:
spred
the
lyttell
clothes
with
some
faste
cleauynge
plaster
the
which
wyll
cause
the
clouthes
to
stycke
fast
where
they
shal
be
set
/
then
fasten
them
the
one
on
the
one
syde
of
the
ryfte
/
the
other
on
the
other
syde
/
so
that
nothyng
appeare
betwene
the
peces
of
lynnen
in
the
myddes
of
them
/
but
onely
the
clefte
and
ryfte
of
the
wounde
in
the
breadthe
of
a
strawe
/
then
this
done
/
sowe
these
sydes
of
lynnen
to gether
close
as
before
I
bed
you
to
sowe
the
skynne
:
&
when
they
be
thus
stytched
to gether
/
laye
a
lyttell
lyquyd
pytche
vpon
the
seme
:
and
this
done
the
lappes
and
sydes
of
the
wond
vnder
the
lynnen
plaster
wyll
growe
to gether
agayne
&
heale
/
&
then
may
ye
remoue
your
plasters
.
¶
I●em
another
way
:
take
camfely
dryed
/
&
beate
it
to
powder
/
also
cummyn
and
cynamome
both
beaten
to
powder
/
ioyne
all
thre
to gether
/
and
strew
of
this
powder
into
the
wounde
/
and
without
faute
it
shall
heale
.
¶
Of
aborcementes
or
vntymelye
byrthes
and
the
causes
of
it
,
and
by
what
remedyes
it
maye
be
defended
,
holpen
&
eased
.
¶
Cap
.viii.
ABorcement
or
vntymely
byrth
is
/
when
the
woman
is
delyuered
before
due
season
&
before
the
frute
be
rype
:
as
in
the
.
iij.iiij
.
or
.v.
monethe
before
the
byrth
haue
lyfe
and
sometymes
after
it
hath
lyfe
it
is
delyuered
before
it
steare
beynge
by
some
chaunse
dead
in
the
mothers
wombe
.
Of
the
which
thynge
there
be
many
and
dyuers
causes
.
¶
Fyrste
sometymes
the
mouth
of
the
matrice
is
so
large
and
ample
/
that
it
can
not
conueniently
shytte
it selfe
to gether
/
nether
contayne
the
feture
or
conception
/
or
it
is
corrupt
and
infect
with
such
vicyous
&
yll
humours
that
it
is
so
slyppery
that
the
feture
slyppeth
and
slydeth
forth
.
Also
sometymes
the
matrice
is
apostumated
&
sore
/
so
that
for
payne
it
can
not
contayne
the
conception
.
¶
Item
sometyme
the
cotilydons
/
that
is
the
vaynes
and
synnues
by
the
which
the
conception
and
feature
is
tyed
and
fastened
in
the
matrice
(
through
the
which
also
the
feature
receaueth
noryshment
and
fode
)
be
stopped
with
vyscous
and
yll
humours
/
or
elles
swollen
by
inflation
/
so
that
they
breake
/
by
the
whiche
meanes
the
feature
destitute
of
his
wont
noryshment
peryssheth
and
dyeth
/
and
that
moste
commonlye
in
the
seconde
or
thyrde
monethe
after
conception
:
wherfore
Hypocrates
sayth
:
All
suche
women
whiche
be
impregnat
or
conceaued
being
of
a
meane
state
in
her
bodye
/
that
is
to
saye
/
neyther
to
fat
or
grosse
/
ne
to
spare
or
leane
:
yf
it
chanse
anye
suche
to
aborce
in
the
seconde
or
thyrde
moneth
(
no
other
euident
cause
appearyng
)
knowe
ye
for
certayne
that
it
ensueth
for
because
the
cotilydons
be
opplete
/
stopped
/
and
stuffed
with
yll
humours
/
&
be
swollen
and
puffed
therewith
/
that
they
breake
/
and
so
consequently
the
feature
dryeth
for
faute
of
fode
.
¶
Item
aborcemente
sometyme
commeth
by
reason
that
some
of
the
places
about
the
matrice
be
deseased
and
greaued
:
as
yf
intestinum
rectum
/
whiche
is
called
the
fundament
gutte
be
exulcerat
/
hauynge
the
pyles
or
hemorroides
/
or
the
vysyke
or
bladder
be
swollen
or
encombred
with
the
stone
/
the
strangurye
/
or
other
yll
/
in
these
cases
thorough
the
greate
labor
and
payne
the
which
the
partie
hathe
in
endeuourynge
and
enforsynge
her selfe
other
to
stole
or
to
make
water
/
be
engendred
greate
motions
downewarde
/
by
the
whiche
meanes
manye
tymes
the
cotylydons
be
enfringed
and
broken
.
¶
Also
aborcement
maye
come
of
a
disease
called
Tenasmus
/
the
whiche
is
when
one
hath
euer
greate
desyre
and
luste
to
the
stole
and
yet
can
do
nothynge
/
neuer
the
lesse
the
parties
greately
do
enforce
and
payne
them selfe
to
it
/
as
Hypocrates
sayth
:
The
pregnant
woman
which
hath
tenasmum
/
for
the
moste
parte
aborteth
.
¶
Item
the
coughe
/
yf
it
be
greuous
/
causeth
the
same
/
and
as
the
forenamed
excellent
phisytiane
sayth
/
such
as
are
very
spare
and
leane
and
brought
lowe
euermore
lyghtlye
dothe
aborte
/
for
because
that
as
Auicenna
wryteth
:
all
the
meate
and
fode
the
whiche
they
receaue
/
turneth
to
the
fode
/
noryshment
/
and
restauration
of
theyr
owne
bodyes
/
and
so
is
the
conception
destitute
of
fode
/
wherfore
necessarily
it
dyeth
.
¶
Item
this
chanse
also
commeth
by
ouer
muche
bleadynge
or
yssuyng
of
the
flowres
/
when
they
yssue
immoderatly
.
And
so
sayth
Hypocrates
:
Yf
the
woman
yelde
flowres
after
her
conception
/
it
can
not
be
that
the
feature
do
longe
proue
/
the
which
saying
muste
be
vnderstande
/
yf
they
flowe
vehementlye
/
or
that
the
partie
be
weake
and
verye
spare
/
or
yf
it
be
after
the
thyrde
moneth
/
for
it
may
be
well
that
in
the
fyrst
and
seconde
moneth
flowres
maye
yssue
/
and
yet
no
daunger
/
for
as
yet
lyttell
fode
and
noryshment
satisfieth
the
conception
.
¶
Item
to
be
let
bloude
/
maye
be
the
cause
of
aborcement
as
Hypocrates
sayth
:
whiche
muste
be
vnderstande
in
suche
as
haue
but
lyttell
store
of
bloud
:
but
such
as
haue
great
copie
&
plentie
of
bloude
maye
without
any
parell
(
yf
any
cause
requyre
it
)
be
let
bloude
/
so
that
it
be
after
the
.iiij.
moneth
and
before
the
.vii.
Howe
be
it
I
wolde
that
none
shold
be
let
bloude
/
except
some
greate
and
vrgent
cause
dyd
requyre
it
.
¶
Item
it
maye
come
by
takynge
of
some
stronge
purgation
before
the
.iiij.
monethe
&
after
the
vii
.
moneth
/
and
yf
it
be
so
that
any
necessitie
do
so
requyre
that
she
muste
nedes
receaue
a
purgation
/
let
it
be
done
betwent
the
.iiij.
and
the
.vij.
moneth
after
the
conception
:
for
then
maye
it
be
with
lest
parell
/
and
se
that
the
purgation
be
very
gentell
&
easy
.
¶
Also
this
maye
come
by
reason
of
a
continuall
fluxe
/
be
it
bloudy
or
otherwyse
/
and
spetially
yf
the
woman
be
weake
and
spare
/
for
by
that
meanes
the
conception
is
greately
weakened
and
peryshed
.
Item
ouer
much
vomytynge
may
be
cause
of
aborcement
/
for
by
ouer
muche
galpynge
and
reachynge
vpwardes
the
cotilydons
maye
be
broken
/
and
so
the
feature
to
perysshe
.
¶
Item
ouer
muche
famyne
or
hunger
&
also
sharpe
and
faruent
syckenesse
maye
be
the
cause
hereof
/
as
the
pestelence
/
apostume
in
the
breste
/
the
soden
palsie
/
the
fallynge
syckenes
.
&c.
Also
ouer
much
dronkenesse
&
excesse
fedynge
and
surfetynge
/
by
the
which
the
byrthe
is
suffocat
and
strangeled
in
the
bellye
and
the
fode
corrupte
for
lacke
of
due
digestion
.
Item
yf
the
byrthe
be
sycke
by
anye
outwarde
or
inwarde
cause
/
or
yf
the
secondyne
in
the
which
the
feature
is
contayned
/
do
breake
before
his
tyme
and
the
humours
and
waterres
of
the
same
flowe
and
yssue
forth
/
causeth
the
place
to
be
slyppery
/
and
so
the
byrth
to
slyde
awaye
vntymely
/
or
yf
the
mother
haue
taken
very
greate
colde
/
which
maye
sone
chanse
in
the
farre
northe
partes
/
or
ouer
greate
heate
/
which
weakeneth
both
mother
and
chylde
.
And
therfore
ought
women
with
chylde
to
eschue
muche
bathynge
or
goyng
to
the
hote
houses
in
theyr
temyng
for
that
maye
do
hurte
thre
wayes
/
fyrst
that
it
kenleth
&
enflameth
the
ayre
or
brethe
contayned
in
the
body
/
and
so
styfleth
the
chylde
and
sometymes
the
mother
to
/
secondly
that
it
relaxeth
/
dissolueth
/
and
loseth
the
cotylydons
/
and
so
maketh
the
byrth
to
yssue
forth
/
thyrdlye
that
the
vtter
hette
of
the
bathe
encreaseth
the
inwarde
heate
of
the
body
/
in
so
muche
that
the
byrthe
not
beynge
able
to
sustayne
and
abyde
the
heate
naturallye
procedeth
for
refrigeration
&
colynge
/
but
in
the
tyme
or
about
the
tyme
of
labor
she
may
vse
bathes
/
as
I
declared
before
for
the
redyar
and
more
expedite
delyueraunce
.
¶
Item
the
intemperancie
and
mutation
of
the
ayre
/
and
whether
maye
be
cause
of
aborcemente
/
for
as
Hypocrates
wrytteth
/
when
so
euer
the
wynter
is
hote
&
moyst
/
&
the
sprynge
tyde
after
colde
and
drye
/
suche
women
in
that
sprynge
tyde
maye
sone
and
of
a
lyghte
cause
haue
aborcement
/
or
yf
they
aborce
not
/
yet
they
shall
be
delyuered
with
greate
payne
/
and
the
byrthe
shall
be
verye
weake
and
syckelye
/
soo
that
it
shall
dye
strayght
/
or
yf
it
dye
not
by
and
by
/
it
shall
proue
but
verye
slenderlye
/
the
cause
of
the
whiche
thynge
is
this
:
for
when
that
suche
wynterynge
chaunseth
/
the
hote
and
moyste
whether
heateth
and
moisteth
the
womans
bodye
/
and
by
that
the
bodye
is
opened
/
vnloosed
/
and
resolued
/
no
lesse
then
thought
she
ware
euery
daye
bathed
/
and
vpon
this
when
the
sprynge
tyde
cometh
/
yf
it
be
colde
and
drye
:
fyndynge
the
body
open
and
vnlosed
after
suche
sorte
/
the
colde
entryth
and
percethe
the
bodye
the
soner
and
the
more
vehementlye
/
and
the
byrthe
fealynge
the
soden
colde
and
change
of
whether
/
pyneth
awaye
and
dyethe
in
the
mothers
bellye
/
or
anone
after
it
is
delyuered
/
or
yf
it
lyue
/
it
lykethe
not
/
nor
prouethe
not
/
and
greate
payne
shall
it
be
to
kepe
lyfe
in
it
.
¶
Item
aborcement
maye
happen
by
ouer
muche
stearynge
of
the
bodye
in
laborynge
/
daunsynge
/
or
leapynge
:
or
by
some
fall
or
thrust
agaynst
some
wall
/
or
beatynge
/
or
by
some
sodayne
anger
/
feare
/
dredde
/
sorowe
/
or
some
soden
&
vnloked for
ioye
.
Thus
haue
I
rehersed
all
the
causes
of
the
whiche
most
commonlye
maye
ensue
aborcemente
or
vntymely
byrth
:
the
which
no
doubte
is
muche
more
grefe
and
vayne
to
the
woman
then
the
verye
naturall
labor
/
for
suche
thynges
as
chaunse
to
man
or
woman
contrarye
to
nature
/
or
before
nature
doth
require
it
/
is
farre
greater
grefe
then
the
same
happenyng
and
commynge
in
his
due
season
.
Sygnes
wherby
ye
may
forsee
aborcement
.
When
the
woman
shall
labor
before
her
tyme
/
these
sygnes
are
wonte
to
go
before
:
Fyrste
her
brestes
which
before
were
hoole
/
sounde
/
and
full
/
shall
begyn
to
were
lesse
/
to
fall
/
and
to
flagge
:
&
then
euer
for
the
moste
parte
aborcement
foloweth
.
But
yf
it
be
so
that
she
go
with
two
chyldren
at
once
/
yf
one
of
the
brestes
swage
/
whiche
before
was
in
good
lykynge
/
the
other
remaynyng
sounde
and
safe
/
then
loke
of
what
syde
the
brest
is
of
/
and
the
chylde
of
that
syde
is
in
parell
/
wherfore
Hypocrates
wryteth
:
Yf
the
ryght
breste
slake
or
flagge
/
the
masculyne
or
male
byrth
is
in
parel
:
yf
the
left
/
the
female
byrth
:
for
because
that
for
the
most
part
when
there
be
two
at
once
/
the
one
is
masculyne
and
the
other
femenyne
/
the
man
lyeth
in
the
ryght
syde
/
and
the
woman
in
the
lefte
.
¶
Also
an
other
sygne
of
aborcemente
is
/
when
the
woman
hath
greate
paynes
&
dolours
of
the
matrice
/
and
that
she
begyn
to
wexe
redde
in
the
face
/
and
all
partes
of
her
bodye
to
shake
and
tremble
/
as
thoughe
it
ware
in
a
feuer
/
or
the
palsye
in
the
heade
.
Item
when
she
feleth
greate
ache
in
the
ynner
parte
of
the
eyes
towarde
the
braynes
/
the
reste
of
the
bodye
taken
as
it
were
with
a
werynesse
and
languesshynge
/
these
thynges
portende
and
sygnifye
aborcement
to
be
at
hande
/
spetiallye
yf
at
the
same
tyme
the
flowres
yssue
also
.
¶
Item
yf
the
womans
body
do
swell
and
inflate
with
a
certayne
hardnesse
or
styfnesse
and
that
she
fele
stytches
and
as
it
were
ven
tosyte
or
wynde
runnynge
frome
one
syde
of
the
bodye
to
the
other
/
and
yet
the
belly
not
withstandynge
/
beynge
nothynge
the
more
ponderous
or
wayghtye
/
and
that
the
same
inflacion
do
persyst
and
continue
any
whyle
the
woman
takynge
and
eatynge
such
thynges
which
haue
vertue
to
discusse
and
vanqueshe
ventosite
&
wyndénesse
:
this
thynge
I
saye
dothe
betoken
parell
of
aborcemente
throughe
ventosite
and
inflacion
/
and
that
chieflye
aboute
the
thyrde
or
fourth
moneth
after
the
conception
.
Now
haue
I
sufficiently
declared
euident
&
sufficient
signes
where
by
maye
be
prouyded
and
forsene
the
aborcement
before
it
come
/
nowe
wyll
I
shewe
you
the
remedyes
/
whereby
it
maye
be
auerted
and
let
.
¶
The
chiefe
remedy
to
auoyde
aborcement
is
:
to
auoyde
&
shun
all
such
thynges
which
maye
be
cause
of
it
/
the
whiche
I
haue
competentlye
entreated
of
alreadye
:
but
yf
ye
feare
aborcement
because
that
the
mouth
of
the
matrice
be
ouer
ample
and
large
/
then
muste
ye
vse
such
thynges
/
whose
operation
is
to
contrahe
/
constrayne
/
and
brynge
to gether
:
as
bathes
/
fumigations
/
oyntementes
/
plasters
/
odours
/
and
suche
lyke
/
of
the
whithe
I
spake
before
in
the
seuenthe
chapter
/
and
suche
thynges
the
whyche
represse
and
stynte
the
flowres
flowynge
ouer
muche
after
the
byrthe
.
¶
Agayne
yf
ye
feare
this
parell
/
because
the
mouthe
of
the
matrice
is
moist
and
flypperye
/
other
because
that
the
cotylydons
be
repleate
and
fulfylled
with
vyscous
humours
/
and
with
inflations
or
ventosytees
:
then
maye
ye
defende
it
by
vsynge
of
suche
thynges
/
whose
qualitees
be
to
purifye
/
clense
/
exiccat
/
or
drye
/
and
to
represse
ventosytees
.
¶
Howe
be
it
/
in
all
this
matter
lette
not
to
make
some
experte
physytyan
of
youre
counseill
/
yf
ye
maye
haue
suche
one
/
for
because
that
manye
suche
thynges
come
/
and
not
all
by
one
waye
or
meane
.
¶
And
yf
ye
doubte
parell
/
for
because
that
the
matrice
or
other
places
aboute
be
infected
/
exulcerated
/
or
appostumat
/
or
hauynge
the
stone
or
strangurye
/
and
such
other
thynges
/
then
aske
/
and
vse
the
aduyse
of
some
well
learned
medycyne
/
and
he
shall
shewe
you
howe
all
thynges
shall
be
recured
.
¶
Yf
agayne
ye
feare
aborcement
/
because
the
partye
is
very
weake
and
lowe
brought
/
then
let
her
feade
on
such
thinges
the
which
moysten
and
norysshe
well
or
fatten
the
bodye
/
as
capon
flesshe
/
kydde
/
lamme
/
younge
veale
/
partrige
/
and
suche
other
.
¶
Agayne
yf
the
woman
be
taken
with
any
sharpe
and
fell
decease
/
then
let
her
be
cured
of
the
same
as
shortelye
as
can
be
with
such
thynges
the
whiche
appertayne
to
the
curynge
of
suche
desease
/
or
yf
she
haue
sustayned
any
longe
famyne
or
hunger
:
then
lette
her
be
fedde
with
good
meates
and
drynkes
moderatlye
taken
/
and
yf
she
haue
surfeted
by
ouer
muche
eatynge
and
drynkynge
(
as
nowe
a
dayes
moste
commenlye
people
do
)
then
let
her
absteyne
for
a
tyme
/
&
yf
it
maye
be
conuenientlye
done
/
let
her
receaue
some
casy
&
gentyll
medicine
/
which
may
alleuiat
and
lyghten
her
of
her
surfetynge
burthen
.
¶
Now
yf
it
so
be
/
that
the
woman
abounde
in
bloude
/
then
shall
it
be
very
good
a
lyttell
to
let
her
bloude
/
bothe
for
her selfe
and
also
for
the
byrthe
/
whiche
throughe
ouer
muche
adoundance
of
it
myght
happen
to
be
suffocated
and
strangeled
/
of
the
which
thynge
also
I
haue
spoken
largely
before
.
¶
Farthermore
yf
the
woman
feare
aborcement
/
by
reason
of
contynuad
coughe
/
or
ouer
muche
vomyte
and
perbrakynge
/
or
the
fluxe
/
or
of
the
desease
called
tenasmus
/
or
of
ouer
muche
yssuynge
of
bloude
/
whether
it
be
by
the
nose
/
or
other
partes
of
the
bodye
axe
th
aduyse
of
a
physitian
for
remedy
/
yf
for
the
fragilite
/
tendernes
/
and
bracke
/
of
the
secondyne
she
feare
this
aborcemente
/
for
because
that
in
this
case
the
secondyne
shall
not
be
able
to
holde
and
contayne
the
byrth
/
as
for
this
/
there
is
no
other
medicine
to
defende
it
/
but
onelye
that
the
partie
take
hede
that
she
hurte
not
her selfe
by
ouer
much
mouynge
or
stearynge
/
as
by
laborynge
/
daunsynge
/
runnynge
/
standynge
/
faste
goynge
/
or
caryenge
of
ponderous
and
weyghtye
thynges
/
or
leftynge
of
the
same
.
And
to
be
short
/
let
her
with
all
warynesse
take
hede
and
be
diligent
that
she
exchue
and
abstayne
frome
all
such
thynges
the
which
might
cause
and
induce
aborcement
.
¶
Of
deade
byrthes
,
and
by
what
sygnes
or
tokens
it
maye
be
knowen
,
and
by
what
meanes
it
maye
also
be
expelled
.
¶
Cap
.ix.
IT
shal
be
nowe
conuenient
for
vs
to
speake
of
deade
byrthes
/
howe
it
shall
be
knowen
that
they
be
deade
/
and
howe
they
maye
be
expelled
from
the
mother
.
Sygnes
then
that
the
byrth
is
dead
in
the
mothers
wombe
be
these
:
j.
Fyrste
yf
the
mothers
brestes
do
sodenlye
slake
/
as
I
touched
before
in
the
.viij.
chapter
.ij.
Yf
it
moue
it selfe
no
more
beynge
wont
before
to
steare
it selfe
.
in
.
Yf
when
the
mother
torneth
her
from
the
one
syde
on
the
other
/
she
feale
it
fallynge
from
the
one
syde
to
the
other
lyke
a
stone
or
aded
wayght
.iiij.
Yf
her
bellye
and
nauell
begyn
to
were
colde
/
whiche
before
was
wont
to
be
temperatly
hote
.
v.
Yf
anye
stynkynge
&
fylthye
humours
flowe
from
the
matrice
/
&
chieflye
after
some
fell
desease
.vi.
Yf
the
womans
eyes
wexe
holowe
/
&
that
her
color
change
from
whyte
to
swarte
and
dunne
coloure
/
and
that
her
eyes
and
nose
wexe
astoned
/
and
haue
not
theyr
ryght
vse
/
and
her
lyppes
wexe
wan
.
vij
.
Yf
benethe
the
nauell
and
aboute
the
secreate
partes
she
feale
greate
thronge
and
payne
/
the
colour
of
her
face
changynge
into
worsse
and
worsse
/
otherwyse
then
it
was
wonte
to
do
.viij.
Yf
she
haue
appetyte
to
eate
suche
thynges
/
the
whiche
be
agaynste
nature
/
and
not
wonte
to
be
eaten
or
dronken
.ix.
Yf
she
be
in
her
slepe
vexed
with
bayne
dreames
.x.
Yf
she
be
payned
contynuallye
with
the
strangurye
/
or
that
she
enforce
her selfe
muche
to
the
stole
/
and
with
all
her
power
/
and
yet
can
not
do
any
thing
.
xi
.
Yf
her
brethe
begynne
to
stynke
/
the
whyche
thynge
lyghtlye
happeneth
two
or
thre
dayes
after
the
byrthe
be
deade
.
xij
.
Yf
her
handes
put
in
to
verye
warme
water
/
and
then
layde
on
the
womans
bellye
/
and
the
chylde
steare
not
/
is
a
sygne
that
it
is
deade
.
¶
Of
all
these
sygnes
nowe
the
more
that
come
to gether
of
them
at
one
tyme
&
in
one
person
/
the
surer
may
ye
be
that
the
byrth
is
ded
the
which
being
ones
ded
/
all
diligence
must
be
had
that
it
may
be
expelled
out
of
the
womans
body
:
but
here
must
ye
se
agayne
whether
it
maye
be
expelled
/
the
mothers
lyfe
saued
or
no
/
for
some
tyme
it
chaunseth
that
the
mother
dyeth
with
all
/
and
sometymes
the
mother
dothe
well
and
prospereth
.
¶
Whether
the
mother
shall
be
in
parell
withall
or
no
/
by
these
thinges
shal
ye
know
yf
the
woman
beynge
in
the
labor
sowne
or
fare
as
thoughe
she
ware
in
a
transe
/
yf
her
remembraunce
fayle
her
/
and
she
waxe
feable
and
scant
able
to
moūe
or
steare
herselfe
/
yf
she
(
called
with
a
lowde
voyce
)
canne
answere
nothynge
at
all
/
or
els
very
lyttell
and
that
verye
softelye
/
as
thoughe
her
voyce
began
to
fayle
her
:
yf
she
be
inuaded
or
taken
among
in
the
laborynge
with
conuulsion
or
shrynkeling
to gether
:
if
she
refuse
or
can
not
broke
meate
/
yf
her
pulces
beate
verye
faste
/
the
which
sygnes
when
ye
se
in
the
woman
laborynge
:
it
is
an
ruident
token
that
she
shal
not
liue
long
after
her
byrth
/
wherfore
commit
the
cure
of
her
to
the
handes
of
almyghtye
god
/
but
yf
none
of
these
sygnes
do
appeare
/
then
haue
good
hope
/
for
the
woman
shall
do
well
/
the
byrthe
beynge
once
departed
:
wherfore
geue
all
diligence
to
the
expultion
of
it
/
that
the
woman
maye
be
delyuered
of
this
dead
burthen
:
the
whiche
thinge
maye
be
done
by
two
wayes
/
other
by
medicines
expulsyue
/
or
elles
by
certayne
instrumentes
made
for
the
nonce
.
¶
Fyrste
without
instrumentes
with
this
fumigation
:
take
other
the
houe
or
dunge
of
an
asse
/
and
put
it
on
coles
/
and
lette
the
woman
receaue
the
fume
vndernethe
.
Another
:
take
the
skynne
of
an
adder
/
myrrhe
/
castoreum
/
brymstone
/
galbanum
/
oppoponacum
/
madder
that
the
dyerres
occupye
/
pygeons
dunge
/
or
hawkes
dunge
:
beate
all
these
to
powder
/
and
temper
them
with
oxe
gall
/
and
make
pylles
of
it
eche
of
the
quantite
of
a
fylbert
nutte
/
and
then
put
one
after
another
in
the
coles
/
and
receaue
the
fume
thorowe
a
pype
or
conduyte
made
for
that
purpose
in
to
the
priuities
.
¶
Another
:
take
encense
/
oppoponacum
/
galbanum
/
brymstone
/
of
eche
lyke
muche
/
beate
them
to gether
and
temper
them
with
oxe
galle
/
and
make
pylles
of
them
/
and
then
of
the
same
make
fumigations
/
as
before
.
¶
A
potion
for
the
same
purpose
:
take
asafetida
halfe
a
dram
/
of
rue
iij.
dramms
/
of
myrrhe
.ij.
dramms
:
&
beate
them
to
powder
/
and
geue
to
the
woman
at
eche
tyme
a
dram
of
this
powder
with
whyte
wyne
/
or
with
water
in
the
which
sauyne
is
soden
.
¶
Another
:
take
fygges
/
fenegreke
/
organnye
/
and
sethe
them
in
water
the
which
gene
vnto
the
woman
to
drynke
/
for
this
drynke
wyl
engendre
lubrycyte
and
slypperynesse
in
the
nether
partes
/
and
vse
also
some
of
those
thynges
whiche
haue
vertue
to
prouoke
the
byrth
/
wherof
we
entreated
before
.
¶
Item
certayn
pessaries
or
suppositaries
concernynge
the
same
:
take
gumme
armoniacke
/
oppoponacum
/
helleborus
niger
/
staphisagre
/
aristolochia
longa
/
&
colocynthis
without
his
kernelles
:
beate
all
these
thynges
to gether
/
temperyng
them
with
oxe
gall
and
also
with
the
iuyce
of
fresshe
rue
/
then
make
a
pessarie
of
wollen
/
and
annoynt
and
wet
the
pessarie
with
the
same
/
conueynge
it
into
the
secreate
places
.
¶
Item
another
:
make
a
pessarie
of
wollen
of
the
lengthe
&
thyckenesse
of
a
fynger
/
and
do
it
in
the
iuyce
of
rue
in
the
which
is
dissolued
a
quantitie
of
scammome
/
and
do
with
that
pessarie
/
as
before
.
¶
Item
take
aristolochia
rotunda
/
sauyne
/
garde
cresses
/
of
eche
lyke
muche
/
beate
them
to
powder
/
and
temper
them
with
oxe
gall
:
with
this
annoynt
a
pessarie
made
and
ordered
as
before
is
spoken
of
.
Item
yf
the
woman
drynke
the
mylke
of
another
woman
/
it
wyll
steare
and
expell
the
byrth
.
¶
Item
take
of
the
iuyce
of
dyttayne
or
of
the
powder
of
the
roote
of
the
same
herbe
.ij.
dramms
/
and
geue
the
same
to
drynke
to
the
woman
with
wyne
/
excepte
she
be
in
greate
heate
/
for
then
shall
ye
geue
it
her
with
luke warme
water
/
and
this
shall
expell
the
dead
byrth
without
any
parell
of
the
mother
.
¶
Item
take
of
myrrhe
.iiij.
drammes
/
of
cinamome
/
galbanum
/
castorium
/
of
eche
two
drammes
:
of
oppoponacum
one
dram
:
all
those
beaten
/
and
tempered
to gether
with
oxe
gall
/
make
pylles
of
them
/
wayenge
eche
of
them
a
dram
/
and
with
the
fume
of
those
perfume
the
nether
partes
/
by
this
vapoure
the
deade
byrthe
is
broughte
forthe
/
inflamation
and
suffocation
of
bloude
is
expelled
.
¶
Item
take
of
water
mynte
/
sothernwood
/
muggewort
/
of
eche
a
handefull
/
of
asphaltum
halfe
an
ounce
/
of
madder
two
ounces
and
an
halfe
/
of
camomell
/
barotum
/
fenegreke
/
of
eche
two
ounces
:
sethe
all
these
thynges
to gether
in
rayne
water
:
in
the
whyche
lette
the
woman
bathe
her selfe
/
then
take
of
hensgrece
and
duckes
grece
/
of
eche
.iiij.
dramms
:
to
the
which
adde
two
ounces
of
oyle
of
anues
sede
/
with
this
oyntment
annoynt
the
womans
head
comminge
out
of
the
bath
:
then
take
datestones
&
beate
them
to
powder
a
dram
and
a
halfe
/
with
a
scruple
of
safrane
tempered
to gether
with
whyt
wyne
:
the
which
let
her
immediatlye
drynke
after
she
come
forthe
of
the
bathe
.
¶
Item
take
oppoponacum
/
&
make
there
of
a
pessarye
the
quantitie
of
a
fynger
/
conueye
it
into
the
priuities
/
this
expelieth
the
dead
byrth
.
¶
Item
take
of
galbanum
a
dram
or
some
what
lesse
:
of
gotes
mylke
an
ounce
and
a
halfe
or
two
ounces
in
the
which
the
galbanum
beynge
dissolued
/
geue
it
to
the
woman
to
drynke
.
¶
Item
a
plaster
for
the
same
:
take
galbanum
beaten
and
tempered
with
the
iuyce
of
motherworte
/
and
of
this
make
a
plaster
by
puttyng
to
of
wexe
a
certayne
quantite
/
than
take
a
lynnen
cloth
of
suche
length
&
bredth
that
it
maye
couer
all
the
belly
vnder
the
nauel
to
the
priuities
from
one
syde
to
the
other
/
on
this
cloth
spred
this
plaster
of
the
thyckenesse
of
a
strawe
/
and
laye
it
to
the
bellye
.
Item
take
the
tryacle
which
is
called
diatessaron
:
and
geue
of
it
to
the
woman
for
to
drynke
/
and
it
wyll
expell
this
dead
byrth
.
¶
But
yf
all
these
medicines
profette
not
/
then
muste
be
vsed
more
seuere
and
harde
remedyes
/
with
instrumentes
/
as
hokes
/
tonges
/
and
suche
other
thynges
made
for
the
nonce
.
And
fyrst
the
woman
must
be
layde
a
longe
vpryght
/
the
myddell
parte
of
her
bodye
lyeng
hyer
then
all
the
reste
/
companyed
of
women
assistynge
her
aboute
to
comforte
her
/
and
to
keape
her
downe
/
that
when
the
byrthe
is
plucked
oute
she
ryse
not
withall
.
Then
let
the
mydwyfe
annoynt
her
left
hand
with
the
oyle
of
whyte
lyllyes
or
other
that
may
make
it
sople
and
smouth
:
and
holding
out
her
fyngers
shytting
to gether
her
hand
let
her
put
it
to
the
matrice
to
feale
and
perceaue
after
what
fasshion
the
dead
byrth
lyeth
in
the
mothers
wombe
:
so
that
she
maye
the
better
putte
in
hokes
and
suche
other
instrumentes
to
plucke
it
out
with
all
.
¶
Yf
it
be
so
that
it
lye
the
head
forewarde
/
then
fasten
a
hoke
other
vpon
one
of
the
eyes
of
it
/
or
the
rofe
of
the
mouthe
/
or
vnder
the
chyn
/
on
one
of
the
sholders
/
whiche
of
these
partes
shall
seme
moste
commodious
and
handsome
to
take
it
oute
bye
/
and
the
hoke
fastened
to
drawe
it
oute
verye
tenderlye
for
hurtynge
of
the
woman
.
¶
But
yf
it
lye
the
fete
forewarde
/
then
fasten
the
hoke
on
the
bone
aboue
the
priuye
partes
/
or
by
some
ribbe
/
or
some
of
the
backe
bones
/
or
of
the
breste
bones
/
and
when
this
hoke
is
thus
fastened
/
the
midwyfe
may
not
by
and
by
drawe
and
plucke
at
it
/
but
holdynge
it
in
her
lefte
hande
/
lette
her
with
her
ryghte
hande
fasten
another
in
some
other
parte
of
the
byrthe
ryght
agaynste
the
fyrste
/
and
then
tenderlye
let
her
drawe
both
to gether
/
so
that
the
byrth
may
procede
and
come
forthe
on
bothe
sydes
equallye
/
mouynge
it
from
one
syde
to
another
/
tyll
ye
haue
gotten
out
to gether
/
and
nowe
and
then
to
helpe
it
in
the
comming
forth
with
the
fore fynger
well
annoynted
/
if
it
chanse
to
stycke
or
to
be
let
any
where
:
and
as
it
commeth
forthe
/
alwaye
to
remoue
the
hokes
farther
and
farther
on
the
dead
byrthe
.
¶
Agayne
yf
it
chanse
that
one
of
the
handes
onely
of
the
byrth
do
appeare
/
&
that
it
can
not
conuenientlye
be
reduced
&
returned
vpwarde
agayne
/
by
reason
of
the
narownesse
of
the
place
/
then
byndt
it
with
a
lynnen
cloth
/
that
it
slyp
not
vp
agayne
/
and
then
to
plucke
it
outwarde
/
vntyll
suche
tyme
that
the
hole
arme
be
out
and
then
with
a
sharpe
knyfe
cut
it
of
from
the
body
/
and
euen
so
do
yf
both
handes
appeare
fyrste
at
once
/
or
one
legge
or
bothe
/
yf
they
can
not
be
returned
backe
/
to
be
otherwyse
taken
out
conuenient
lye
/
as
ye
cutte
the
arme
frome
the
sholders
/
soo
lykewyse
cuttinge
the
legges
frome
the
thyghes
/
for
the
which
purpose
the
surgeons
haue
me●e
instrumentes
made
for
the
nonce
with
the
which
such
legges
and
armes
may
sone
be
cut
frome
the
bodye
/
these
partes
beynge
once
rese●te
and
cutte
frome
the
bodye
/
then
turne
the
teste
/
so
that
it
maye
easylye
procede
with
as
lyttell
payne
to
the
mother
/
as
maye
be
.
¶
Yf
it
be
so
that
the
chyldes
head
be
soo
swollen
by
inflation
/
swellynge
/
or
resorte
of
humours
that
it
wyl
not
conueniently
yssue
oute
that
narowe
places
/
then
let
the
mydwyfe
with
a
sharpe
penknyfe
cutte
open
the
heade
/
that
the
humours
contayned
in
it
maye
yssue
and
runne
forth
/
and
so
the
head
to
waxe
lesse
able
to
be
plucked
out
:
but
yf
it
so
be
that
not
by
any
suche
casualte
the
head
be
bygge
/
but
onely
of
a
naturall
groweth
/
then
muste
the
head
be
broken
in
peces
/
and
the
partes
euermore
taken
forth
with
suche
instrumentes
/
as
the
surgeons
haue
readye
and
necessarye
for
suche
purposes
.
¶
Agayn
yf
that
after
the
head
were
come
forthe
/
yet
the
breste
parte
wolde
not
folowe
for
greatenesse
/
then
muste
ye
breake
and
cut
lykewyse
that
parte
/
vnto
suche
tyme
that
it
maye
be
had
forth
.
And
euen
so
lykewyse
/
yf
all
the
rest
of
the
bodye
sholde
be
so
swollen
that
it
wolde
not
procede
ne
come
forth
/
then
muste
it
lykewyse
be
broken
in
peces
/
&
so
had
forthe
.
¶
Farthermore
if
by
chanse
or
bysease
it
come
to
passe
that
the
mouth
of
the
matrice
be
exulcerat
or
apostumat
/
so
that
the
passage
be
made
the
narower
by
that
meanes
/
the
dryer
and
the
more
contracte
/
then
muste
ye
fyrste
studye
and
endeuour
you
to
sople
and
ease
the
places
by
oyles
&
other
greces
/
suche
as
I
spake
of
sufficientlye
before
in
the
fyfth
chapter
with
bathes
and
fumigations
.
¶
Also
yf
the
dead
byrth
come
sydelonge
/
then
muste
ye
do
what
maye
be
doue
to
conuerte
&
torne
it
to
such
fashion
/
that
it
maye
moste
easyly
be
brought
forth
:
the
matrice
&
other
secreates
muste
be
annoynted
/
perfumed
/
and
vapored
with
suche
thinges
/
the
which
maye
make
it
more
ample
&
large
/
yf
it
can
not
be
thus
had
forthe
hole
:
then
let
it
be
cut
out
by
pese
mele
/
as
is
before
spoken
of
.
And
yf
after
this
delyueraunce
the
flowres
yssue
ouer
vehementlye
/
then
vse
suche
thynges
as
haue
vertue
to
restrayne
them
/
of
the
which
I
haue
spoken
in
the
.vij.
chapter
before
.
But
contrary
to
all
this
/
yf
it
chanse
that
the
woman
in
her
labor
dye
/
&
the
chyld
hauyng
lyfe
in
it
/
then
shall
it
be
mete
to
kepe
open
the
womans
mouth
/
and
also
the
nether
places
/
so
that
the
chylde
maye
by
that
meanes
bothe
receaue
&
also
expell
ayre
&
brethe
which
otherwyse
myght
be
stopped
/
and
then
to
turne
her
on
the
left
syde
/
&
there
to
cutte
her
open
/
&
so
to
take
out
the
chylde
/
&
they
that
are
borne
after
this
fashion
be
called
cesares
/
for
because
they
be
cut
out
of
theyr
mothers
belly
/
whervpon
also
the
noble
Romane
cesar
the
.j.
of
that
name
in
Rome
toke
his
name
.
¶
Howe
the
infante
newlye
borne
,
muste
be
handled
,
nouryshed
,
and
loked
to
.
¶
Cap
.x.
AFter
that
the
infant
is
once
borne
/
by
&
by
the
nauel
must
be
cutte
thre
fyngers
bredthe
from
the
belly
/
&
so
knyt
vp
:
then
as
Auicenna
wryteth
/
let
be
strued
on
the
head
of
that
that
remayneth
/
of
the
powder
of
bole
arme
nyacke
/
&
sanguis
draconis
/
sarcocolla
/
myrrha
and
comyne
/
of
eche
lyke
much
beaten
to
powder
/
strewe
on
the
cut
of
that
pece
that
remayneth
/
then
vppon
that
bynde
a
pece
of
wooll
dypped
in
oyle
olyfe
that
the
powder
fall
not
of
:
some
vse
fyrst
to
knyt
the
nauell
/
and
after
to
cutte
it
so
much
/
as
is
before
rehersed
.
¶
And
farthermore
some
say
that
of
what
length
the
reste
of
the
nauell
is
lefte
/
of
the
same
length
shall
the
chyldes
tonge
be
/
yf
it
be
a
man
chylde
.
Item
Auicenna
sayth
that
dyuers
thynges
maye
be
knowen
by
merkynge
of
the
chyldes
nauell
/
for
as
he
sayth
/
when
the
woman
is
delyuered
of
her
fyrste
chylde
/
then
beholde
the
nauell
of
the
childe
/
which
yf
in
that
parte
of
it
which
is
next
vn
to
the
body
it
haue
neuer
a
wryncle
/
it
proten
deth
and
doth
signifye
perpetuall
from
thensforth
sterilite
or
barennesse
/
&
yf
it
haue
any
wrynkles
in
it
/
then
so
manye
wrynkles
/
so
many
chyldren
shal
the
woman
haue
in
tyme
to
come
.
Also
some
adde
to
this
&
saye
:
that
yf
there
be
lytteli
space
betwene
these
wrynkles
in
the
nauell
/
then
shall
there
be
also
lyttell
space
betwene
the
barynge
of
the
chyldren
/
yf
muche
/
it
syngnifyeth
longe
tyme
betwene
the
barynge
of
them
.
¶
Nowe
to
returne
to
our
purpose
/
when
that
the
nauel
is
cut
of
/
&
the
reste
knytte
vp
:
annoynt
all
the
chyldes
bodye
with
the
oyle
of
acornes
/
for
that
is
syngularly
good
to
confirme
/
stedfast
/
and
to
defende
the
body
from
noysom
thinges
/
whiche
may
chaunse
from
without
:
as
smoke
/
colde
/
&
suche
other
thinges
which
yf
the
infant
be
greaued
with
all
/
streate
after
the
byrth
/
being
yet
very
tender
/
it
sholde
hurte
it
greately
.
¶
After
this
annoyntynge
wasshe
the
infant
with
warme
water
/
and
with
your
fynger
(
the
nayle
beynge
pared
)
open
the
chyldes
nosestrelles
/
and
purge
them
of
the
fylthynesse
.
Item
it
shal
be
good
to
put
a
lyttell
oyle
into
the
eyes
:
and
also
that
the
mother
or
nource
handle
so
the
childes
syttyng
place
that
it
maye
be
prouoked
to
purge
the
belly
.
And
chieflye
it
muste
be
defended
from
ouer
much
colde
or
ouer
muche
heate
.
¶
After
that
that
the
parte
extante
or
boging
forth
of
the
nauell
is
fallen
/
the
whiche
commonlye
chanseth
after
the
thyrde
or
.iiij.
daye
then
on
the
reste
remaynyng
strewe
the
powder
or
asshes
of
a
calfes
houe
burnt
/
or
of
snayle
shelles
/
or
the
powder
of
ledde
/
called
redde
ledde
/
tempered
with
wyne
.
¶
Farthermore
when
the
infant
is
swadeled
and
layde
in
cradell
/
the
nource
muste
geue
all
diligence
and
hede
that
she
bynde
euerye
parte
ryght
and
in
his
due
place
and
order
/
and
that
with
all
tendernesse
and
gentell
entreatynge
/
and
not
crokedlye
and
confusely
/
the
which
also
muste
be
done
oftentymes
in
the
daye
:
for
in
this
is
it
as
it
is
in
younge
and
tender
ympes
/
plantes
/
&
twygges
/
the
whiche
euen
as
ye
bowe
them
in
theyr
youthe
/
so
wyll
they
euermore
remayn
vnto
aege
.
And
euen
so
the
infante
yf
it
be
bounde
and
swadeled
/
the
membres
lyenge
ryght
&
strayght
/
then
shall
it
growe
streate
and
vpryght
/
yf
it
be
crokedlye
handled
/
il
wyll
growe
lykewyse
/
and
to
the
yll
negligence
of
many
nources
may
be
imputed
the
crokednesse
and
deformite
of
manye
a
man
and
woman
/
which
otherwyse
myght
seme
well
fauered
as
any
other
.
¶
Item
let
the
chyldes
eyes
be
oftentymes
wyped
and
clensed
with
a
fyne
and
cleane
lynnen
clothe
or
with
sylke
:
and
let
the
armes
of
the
infante
be
verye
strayght
layde
downe
by
the
sydes
/
that
they
maye
growe
ryght
/
and
sometyme
strokynge
the
bellye
of
the
chyld
before
the
vesike
of
bladder
to
help
to
ease
and
to
prouoke
the
chylde
to
the
makynge
of
water
/
and
when
ye
laye
it
in
the
cradell
to
slepe
/
set
the
cradell
in
such
a
place
that
nether
the
beames
of
the
sonne
by
daye
nether
of
the
mone
by
nyght
come
on
the
infant
:
but
rather
set
it
in
a
darke
and
shadow
place
:
layenge
also
the
head
euer
somewhat
hyer
then
the
reste
of
the
bodye
.
¶
And
farther
lette
it
be
wasshed
two
or
thre
tymes
in
the
daye
/
and
that
anone
after
stepe
in
the
wynter
with
hote
water
/
in
the
sommer
with
luke warme
water
:
nether
let
it
tary
long
in
the
water
but
vnto
such
tyme
as
the
body
begyn
to
waxered
for
hete
:
but
take
hede
that
none
of
the
water
come
in
to
the
infantes
eare
/
for
that
shulde
greatelye
hurte
his
hearynge
another
daye
.
Then
to
be
shorte
/
when
it
is
taken
oute
of
the
bathe
/
let
it
be
wyped
and
handeled
with
gentell
and
softe
lynnen
cloth
warmed
/
and
then
to
laye
it
on
her
lap
the
backe
vpward
/
the
whiche
with
her
handes
let
her
tenderly
stroke
and
rubbe
/
and
then
to
lappe
it
vppe
/
and
to
swadell
it
/
&
when
it
is
swadeled
/
to
put
a
drop
or
two
of
water
in
to
the
nostrelles
of
it
/
is
very
good
for
the
eye
syght
.
And
so
laye
it
to
reste
.
¶
Of
the
nourse
,
and
her
mylke
,
and
howe
longe
the
chylde
sholde
soucke
.
AS
conternynge
the
bryngynge
vp
nourisshement
and
geuyng
of
sucke
to
the
chylde
/
it
shall
be
best
/
yf
the
mother
geue
her
chyld
sucke
herselfe
/
for
the
mothers
mylke
is
more
conuenient
and
agreable
to
the
infante
then
anye
other
womans
/
and
more
dothe
it
nourysshe
it
/
for
because
that
in
the
mothers
bellye
it
was
wonte
to
the
same
and
fedde
with
it
/
and
therfore
also
it
dothe
more
desyrouslye
couet
the
same
/
as
that
/
with
the
which
it
is
best
acquented
/
and
to
be
shorte
/
the
mothers
mylke
is
most
holsomste
for
the
chylde
.
As
Auicenna
writeth
:
it
shall
be
sufficient
to
geue
it
sucke
twyse
or
thryse
in
a
daye
.
And
alwayes
beware
/
ye
geue
not
the
chylde
to
much
sucke
at
once
in
this
tender
aege
of
it
/
for
clowyng
of
it
/
and
leste
also
it
lothe
it
/
but
rather
let
it
haue
often
of
it
/
and
lytell
at
once
/
then
fewe
tymes
/
and
ouer
muche
at
once
.
For
such
as
be
ouer
clowed
with
the
mothers
mylke
/
causethe
theyr
body
to
swell
and
inflate
/
and
in
theyr
vrine
shal
it
appeare
that
it
is
not
ouer
come
ne
concocied
or
digested
in
the
chylde
/
which
thyng
yet
yf
it
chaunse
/
let
the
infant
be
kept
fastinge
/
vntyll
such
tyme
as
that
the
which
it
hath
receaued
already
/
be
compleately
digested
.
Item
yf
the
mothers
mylke
be
somewhat
sharpe
or
egre
/
lette
her
neuer
geue
the
chylde
her
breste
fastynge
.
¶
Yf
it
be
so
that
the
mother
can
not
geue
the
infant
sucke
herselfe
/
ether
for
because
of
syckenesse
or
that
her
brestes
be
sore
and
her
mylke
corrupted
:
then
let
her
chose
a
holsom
nurse
with
these
conditions
folowynge
.
¶
Fyrste
that
she
be
of
a
good
coloure
and
complexion
/
and
that
her
bulke
and
breste
be
of
good
largenesse
.
Secondly
that
it
be
not
to
sone
after
her
labor
/
ne
to
longe
after
/
so
that
it
be
two
monethes
after
her
labor
at
the
leste
/
and
that
(
yf
it
maye
be
)
suche
one
whiche
had
a
man
chylde
/
thyrdelye
that
she
be
of
meane
and
measurable
lykynge
/
neyther
to
fatte
ne
to
leane
.
Fourthelye
that
she
be
good
and
honest
of
conuersation
/
neyther
ouer
hastye
or
yrefull
ne
to
sad
or
soleme
/
nether
to
fearefull
or
timorous
:
for
these
affections
and
qualitees
be
parnicious
and
hurtfull
to
the
mylke
/
corruptynge
it
/
and
passe
forth
through
the
mylke
in
to
the
chylde
/
makynge
the
chylde
of
lyke
condition
and
manners
/
also
that
they
be
not
ouer
lyght
&
wanton
of
behauoure
.
Fyftelye
that
her
brestes
be
full
and
haue
sufficient
plentie
of
mylke
:
and
that
they
be
neyther
to
great
/
softe
/
hangynge
/
and
flaggynge
/
ne
to
lyttell
/
harde
/
or
contracte
/
but
of
a
measurable
quantitie
.
¶
Also
loke
vpon
her
mylke
/
that
it
be
not
blackysshe
/
blueysshe
/
grey
or
reddysshe
/
neyther
sowre
/
sharpe
/
saltysshe
/
or
brackysshe
/
nether
thyn
&
fluye
/
neyther
ouer
grosse
and
thycke
:
but
temperatly
whyte
and
pleasante
in
taste
:
and
to
be
shorte
:
that
mylke
is
beste
and
moste
to
be
chosen
of
the
whiche
a
drop
beynge
mylked
softelye
on
the
nayle
of
the
thombe
holdyng
your
fynger
styll
/
it
rolleth
not
of
/
nether
flytteth
abrode
/
but
yf
ye
moue
your
hand
a
lyttell
it
will
slyde
of
by
and
by
:
but
yf
when
it
is
mylked
on
the
nayle
it
spred
abrode
/
&
flyt
by
&
by
/
then
is
it
to
thyn
:
but
yf
it
cleaue
styll
when
that
ye
moue
a
lyttell
youre
hande
then
is
it
so
spysse
&
thycke
/
the
meane
betwene
bothe
is
beste
.
¶
Yf
it
be
so
/
that
the
nourses
mylke
be
to
hote
or
sharpe
/
then
lette
her
neuer
geue
the
chylde
sucke
her selfe
beynge
fastynge
.
Sometyme
it
chaunseth
/
that
the
mothers
or
nourses
mylke
dothe
fayle
or
decrease
/
the
which
thynge
maye
come
by
dyuers
causes
:
as
by
syckenesse
/
by
decease
in
the
brestes
/
or
by
takyng
of
colde
in
the
same
/
and
so
stoppe
and
cludder
the
mylke
:
or
for
because
she
lackethe
suche
thynges
/
the
whiche
myght
engender
mylke
/
other
by
ouer
muche
fastinge
/
hungre
/
and
thurste
:
the
whiche
causes
must
be
well
consydered
/
and
then
accordynge
to
that
minyster
a
remedy
.
¶
Thinges
which
do
augment
&
encrease
mylke
/
be
those
:
let
her
vse
to
eate
parsenyp
/
other
the
sede
or
the
rote
.
Also
the
sede
or
rote
of
fenell
soden
in
the
brothe
made
with
barley
or
cicercula
:
let
her
eate
of
that
with
other
meates
that
she
feadeth
on
.
Item
to
eate
shepes
breste
and
the
mylke
of
them
is
good
.
Item
take
an
ounce
of
cowe
butter
/
&
dissolue
it
in
warmed
wyne
/
the
which
lette
the
nource
drynke
.
Item
boxynge
vnder
the
brestes
doth
well
/
not
cuttynge
the
skynne
.
¶
Item
a
plaster
for
the
same
of
frankensence
/
mastycke
/
and
pytche
layde
to
the
brestes
or
vnder
the
brestes
the
skynne
fyrst
beyng
annoynted
with
oyle
/
left
it
shold
cleaue
ouer
faste
to
the
place
.
Item
it
shal
be
verye
good
to
rubbe
softelye
with
the
hande
the
brestes
/
or
elles
in
bathynge
after
dynner
or
supper
to
cause
some
to
sucke
her
breste
.
Item
take
the
oyle
of
white
lyllyes
or
of
violettes
/
and
myngle
with
it
muske
/
encense
/
&
laudanum
well
tempered
to gether
/
in
the
same
dyppe
a
pese
of
wooll
/
and
clappe
it
to
the
brestes
/
and
soke
them
with
it
.
Item
wasshe
them
/
and
soke
them
often
tymes
with
wyne
/
in
the
which
is
decoct
and
soden
myntes
/
roses
/
violettes
/
and
xiloaloes
.
Also
to
eate
of
the
brothe
in
the
which
is
soden
a
henne
/
with
cynamome
/
maces
/
and
cardamomum
/
and
also
the
yowlke
of
an
egge
.
Item
it
is
good
for
her
to
eate
fresshe
chese
and
mylke
/
and
to
refrayne
frome
all
maner
of
greate
labor
and
harde
workes
.
Also
potage
made
of
beane
meale
/
ryse
/
and
breade
made
of
fyne
flowre
/
tempered
with
mylke
and
sugre
/
putting
to
it
also
a
quantite
of
fenell
sede
or
of
the
●eues
/
is
very
good
for
her
.
¶
Item
take
of
anys
sede
/
of
syler
montanum
/
of
eche
.iii.
dramms
/
of
christall
beten
to
powder
.
u.
dramms
/
&
as
muche
of
sugre
/
geue
her
this
to
drynke
aboute
.x.
dayes
at
morning
/
euening
/
&
myddaye
.
Item
take
of
fenell
sede
or
the
leues
/
&
of
horehownde
of
eche
.ij.
hāofulles
/
of
ams
sede
iiij
.
dramms
/
of
safrane
beaten
one
scruple
:
also
of
fresshe
butter
.iij.
ounces
/
&
sethe
all
these
in
sufficient
water
/
makynge
hereof
a
plaster
/
&
the
same
plaster
whylst
it
is
hote
/
laye
it
to
the
nourses
brest
.
¶
Item
take
of
comyn
sede
an
ounce
&
an
halfe
/
&
of
clarifyed
hony
.iij.
ounces
:
sethe
it
in
.vi.
li.
wayght
of
water
to gether
beynge
put
into
a
newe
pot
&
let
it
sethe
to
the
thyrd
parte
/
&
of
this
decoction
geue
the
nourse
them
oftentymes
to
drynke
.
Item
take
of
beetes
well
wasshed
one
ounce
:
of
commyn
halfe
an
ounce
of
hony
.vi.
ounces
:
of
these
myngled
&
tempered
to gether
/
make
an
electuarie
/
of
the
which
let
her
take
both
in
the
morninge
and
eueninge
at
eche
tyme
a
sponefull
.
Item
take
two
dramms
of
crystal
beaten
into
fyne
pouder
&
deuyde
that
in
foure
equall
partes
/
one
of
these
partes
geue
vnto
the
nourse
the
space
of
.iiij.
dayes
to
drynke
/
with
brothe
made
other
of
cicer
/
or
els
of
peason
:
also
all
those
thinges
folowing
encrease
&
augment
mylke
in
the
brestes
:
annes
&
annes
sede
/
dyll
&
the
sede
/
horehownde
/
cardomome
/
fresshe
chese
/
wortes
made
of
olde
ehece
/
cicer
/
crislal
beaten
to
powder
&
taken
with
hony
:
lettuse
/
fenell
/
wyne
in
which
rosemary
or
serpillum
be
soden
.
Item
to
abstayne
from
venery
or
mans
company
/
for
yf
she
vse
that
/
it
shall
spende
&
consume
the
mylke
&
make
it
vnsauery
&
vnholsome
:
nether
can
the
chylde
well
broke
it
/
but
most
commenly
shall
cast
it
vp
again
/
because
it
can
not
digest
it
Also
it
shal
be
best
that
the
child
sucke
not
of
the
mothers
breste
by
and
by
as
sone
as
it
is
borne
:
but
rather
of
some
other
womans
for
a
daye
or
two
/
for
because
that
the
creme
(
as
they
cal
it
)
streit
after
the
byrth
the
fyrst
daye
in
all
women
doth
thycken
and
congeyle
.
¶
Item
yf
it
chaunse
that
the
nourse
be
ouer
sore
laxed
/
or
that
she
be
ouer
bounde
/
so
that
she
take
anye
medycynes
to
remedye
it
/
then
let
another
geue
the
chylde
sucke
/
whylst
she
be
recouered
agayne
.
And
when
the
chylde
is
layde
in
cradell
to
be
rocked
:
rocke
not
to
fast
/
lest
through
ouer
much
rockyng
and
stearyng
the
chyldes
stomacke
torne
and
the
mylke
there
corrupte
for
lacke
of
rest
.
¶
Auicen
auyseth
to
geue
the
chyld
sucke
two
yeres
/
howe
be
it
amonge
vs
most
commenlye
they
sucke
but
one
yeare
.
And
when
ye
wyll
wene
them
/
then
not
to
do
it
sodenly
/
but
a
lyttell
and
lyttell
/
and
to
make
for
it
lyttell
pylles
of
breade
&
sugre
to
eate
&
accustome
it
so
/
tyll
it
be
able
to
eate
all
maner
of
meate
:
&
this
shall
suffyce
for
the
education
and
bryngynge
vp
of
infantes
at
this
tyme
/
notwithstandinge
dyuers
other
thynges
here
are
lefte
vnspoken
of
/
another
tyme
god
willyng
we
shall
declare
them
at
large
.
¶
Thus
endeth
the
fyrste
boke
.
THE
SECONDE
BOKE
.
¶
Of
dyuers
deceases
and
infirmities
whiche
chaunse
to
chyldren
lately
borne
,
and
the
remedyes
therefore
.
AL
thoughe
there
be
in
manner
infinite
deceases
which
happen
to
infantes
/
as
wryteth
Hypocrates
/
Galenus
/
Rasis
/
Amcēna
/
and
diuers
other
:
yet
for
breuite
and
shortnesse
we
wyll
reherse
here
only
such
of
them
/
which
moste
commenly
happen
to
the
same
/
and
that
be
those
:
Exulceration
of
the
gummes
/
flyx
of
the
belly
or
ouer
much
loosenesse
of
the
same
/
the
belly
hardbownd
/
the
crampe
/
the
cough
/
&
distillation
of
the
heade
/
short
wynded
/
bladders
on
the
tounge
/
exulceration
or
chyppynge
of
the
mouthe
/
apostume
in
the
eares
/
apostume
in
the
brayne
/
swellynge
and
bolnynge
of
the
eyes
/
skum
or
creme
of
the
eyes
/
the
feuer
/
knawynge
in
the
bellye
/
the
body
swellynge
and
puffed
vp
/
often
sneesynge
/
whelkes
or
bladders
on
the
bodye
/
swellynge
of
the
coddes
/
swelling
of
the
nauell
/
vnslepynesse
/
yexynge
/
appetyte
to
perbrake
/
fearefulnes
in
the
dreames
/
the
mother
/
yssuyng
out
of
the
fondament
gut
/
wormes
in
the
belly
/
chawfynge
/
the
fallynge
syckenesse
/
the
consumsyon
/
the
palsye
/
trymblynge
of
the
partes
of
the
bodye
/
the
stone
/
gogell
eyes
.
¶
Howe
to
cure
and
to
remedye
all
these
/
nowe
wyll
I
shewe
in
order
.
Fyrst
in
exulceration
of
the
gummes
are
wonte
certayne
pusshes
and
as
it
were
wheles
grow
on
the
gummes
or
in
the
corners
of
the
iawes
/
the
which
put
the
place
to
muche
greuance
:
and
to
remedie
this
it
shall
be
good
that
ye
with
your
fynger
rubbe
the
infantes
gummes
and
the
pusshes
or
whelkes
with
all
:
and
then
to
annoynt
the
same
gummes
with
oyntment
made
of
hennes
grese
/
hares
brayne
/
oyle
of
camomell
mixt
with
honye
/
other
els
turpentyne
tempered
with
hony
/
then
take
water
/
and
in
it
sethe
camomell
and
dyll
/
the
which
water
beynge
hote
:
powre
it
on
the
chyldes
heade
/
holdynge
it
a
fote
aboue
the
heade
.
¶
Of
the
flyx
or
ouer
muche
loosenesse
of
the
bellye
.
For
this
take
the
sede
of
roses
/
cummyn
/
anyse
and
the
sede
of
smalege
:
beate
all
those
together
and
make
them
plaster
wyse
/
and
laye
it
to
the
chyldes
bellye
:
yf
it
stynte
not
by
this
remedye
/
then
take
of
the
coagulum
of
a
kyd
a
halfe
peny
wayght
or
a
lyttell
more
/
&
geue
it
to
the
chylde
to
drynke
with
colde
water
/
and
all
the
same
daye
let
the
chylde
be
kepte
frome
suckynge
/
leste
the
mylke
shulde
curde
in
the
stomacke
of
it
/
but
in
the
meane
whyle
let
it
eate
of
the
yowlke
of
poched
egges
/
or
of
whyte
breade
soden
in
water
.
¶
And
farther
yf
that
it
whiche
the
infant
voydeth
be
of
/
redde
or
yelowe
colour
/
then
lette
drynke
,
of
the
syrupe
of
roses
/
or
of
crabbes
/
other
elles
of
pome
granates
/
tempered
with
a
lyttell
mynte
water
.
¶
Item
another
medycyne
:
take
leuen
and
in
water
breake
it
/
&
let
it
stype
a
whyle
/
then
strayne
it
throughe
a
lynnen
cloth
/
then
take
of
the
syrupe
of
violettes
the
wayghte
of
an
halfe
peny
/
of
spodium
/
called
burnt
yuerye
/
the
wayght
of
a
scruple
/
of
gaules
the
wayghte
a
dram
and
a
half
:
temper
all
these
thinges
to gether
/
and
geue
it
to
the
infante
to
drynke
.
¶
Item
take
the
sede
of
sorrell
/
and
beate
it
/
then
temper
it
to gether
with
the
yowlke
of
a
rosted
egge
/
and
geue
that
to
the
chylde
to
eate
.
¶
Item
take
a
gaulle
/
&
beate
it
to
pouder
/
then
sethe
it
in
water
with
this
water
/
temper
barley
meale
/
or
the
meale
of
millium
/
&
make
a
plaster
of
it
/
the
which
laye
vnto
the
chyldes
belly
.
¶
Yf
this
profet
not
:
take
of
acatia
&
seruse
of
eche
a
dram
/
of
opium
the
wayght
of
an
halfe
peny
/
of
sugre
a
dram
/
&
of
all
these
tempered
to gether
/
make
a
suppositary
of
the
length
of
a
fynger
&
an
halfe
the
thyckenesse
of
two
wheten
strawys
twyned
to gether
/
&
the
same
conueys
into
the
infantes
foundament
/
&
it
shall
sease
the
flyxe
.
¶
Item
yf
that
that
cometh
from
the
chyld
/
be
whytysshe
/
then
take
of
nutte
megges
the
wayght
of
the
.viij.
parte
of
a
dram
/
and
of
whyte
frankencense
a
scruple
/
the
which
temper
it
with
the
iuyce
of
a
quynse
/
and
geue
it
to
the
chylde
to
drynke
.
¶
Item
take
an
ounce
of
safrane
/
of
myrrhe
/
a
quartar
of
an
ounce
and
temper
them
with
redde
wyne
/
makyng
of
it
a
plaster
/
the
which
laye
vnto
the
chyldes
bellye
.
Item
take
the
meale
of
barleye
/
temper
it
with
the
iuyce
of
plantan
and
a
lyttell
vinegre
/
and
make
it
plasterwyse
/
and
laye
it
to
the
chyldes
belly
.
¶
Item
take
the
iuyce
of
centinodium
and
the
whyte
of
an
egge
:
and
temper
them
together
/
to
the
whiche
adde
the
pouder
of
dryed
red
roses
/
the
pouder
of
hematites
/
mastycke
frankencense
/
bole
armenyacke
/
sanguis
draconis
and
psida
:
of
all
these
myxed
to gether
make
a
plaster
/
and
laye
it
to
the
infantes
bellye
.
¶
Item
to
wasshe
the
chylde
with
the
water
in
the
which
be
soden
leues
of
red
rooses
is
very
good
.
Item
take
the
iuyce
of
confery
and
the
iuyce
of
plantayne
the
more
and
the
lesse
/
and
in
this
put
claye
of
an
olde
furnyse
or
ouen
/
and
make
of
it
a
plaster
/
and
laye
it
to
the
chyldes
bellye
.
¶
To
vnloose
the
chylde
beynge
bounden
.
Yf
the
chylde
be
so
bounde
/
that
it
can
not
sege
:
then
make
a
suppositary
of
hony
soden
tyll
it
be
harde
and
massye
/
and
let
the
suppositary
be
of
the
length
of
your
lyttell
fynger
/
&
the
byggenesse
of
two
whetestrays
bounde
to gether
/
then
dyppe
it
into
oyle
and
conuey
it
into
the
chyldes
foundament
.
¶
Item
lykewyse
ye
maye
make
a
suppositary
of
the
stalke
and
rote
of
betes
/
or
els
of
the
rote
called
oresse
or
flowre
de
luce
rote
/
made
of
the
quantite
before
spoken
of
/
&
conueyed
into
the
syttynge
place
of
the
chylde
.
¶
Item
to
geue
to
the
infant
as
much
hony
as
a
peaze
to
drynke
&
to
rubbe
the
bellye
a
lyttell
/
and
to
sople
it
with
a
pece
of
wooll
dypped
in
oyle
/
or
dypped
in
bulles
galle
/
&
layde
to
the
nauell
.
Item
ye
maye
geue
vnto
the
nource
a
medycyne
whiche
hathe
vertue
to
vnbynde
and
loose
/
and
the
next
day
after
let
the
chylde
sucke
her
/
and
it
wyll
loose
also
the
chylde
.
¶
Item
take
of
mouse
dounge
half
a
dram
and
temper
it
with
the
fatte
in
the
kydnees
of
a
goote
/
&
make
a
suppositor
of
the
same
.
Item
take
of
small
mallowes
/
of
greate
mallowes
of
eche
an
handefull
of
fenegreke
and
lynsede
of
eche
an
handefull
/
of
holycke
two
ounces
/
of
fygges
the
nomber
of
.x.
sethe
all
these
to gether
in
water
/
&
then
stampe
them
in
a
morter
/
and
put
vnto
it
of
butter
and
of
hennes
grece
.ij.
ounces
/
and
of
safrane
one
scruple
/
and
make
a
plaster
of
it
vppon
a
lynnen
clothe
of
the
thyckenesse
of
a
strawe
/
and
laye
it
to
the
chyldes
bellye
a
daye
and
a
nyghte
.
¶
Yf
this
moue
not
the
belly
/
then
take
of
aloes
one
dram
/
of
eleborus
bothe
niger
and
albus
of
eche
.xv.
graynes
/
beate
these
to
pouder
/
then
temper
them
with
thre
sponefulles
of
the
iuyce
of
walwort
or
of
oxe
gall
:
in
this
licoure
dyppe
wooll
/
and
laye
it
to
the
nauell
the
bredthe
of
a
hande
/
and
bynde
it
to
the
place
.
¶
Item
take
the
iuyce
of
wallwurte
and
of
myll
meale
and
sethe
those
to gether
/
tyll
they
be
thycke
/
then
make
a
plaster
thereof
/
and
laye
it
to
the
bellye
benethe
the
nauell
.
Item
take
two
handefulles
of
redde
roses
and
putte
them
in
to
a
bagge
of
foure
fyngers
bredthe
/
then
sethe
it
in
the
water
wherin
smythes
quenche
theyr
hote
yron
/
putting
to
it
a
lyttell
vynegre
/
them
take
out
the
bagge
agayne
/
and
wrynge
it
a
lyttell
/
then
laye
it
to
the
chyldes
stomacke
.
Item
to
annoynte
the
chyldes
bellye
with
butter
/
the
whiche
hath
styped
and
stande
longe
in
the
rynde
of
walnuttes
/
is
very
good
.
¶
Remedye
for
the
crampe
or
distention
of
the
membres
.
Yf
it
chaunse
that
the
infant
be
taken
with
the
desease
/
called
the
crampe
/
the
which
for
the
most
parte
commeth
of
indigestion
and
of
the
wekenesse
of
the
powre
attractyue
:
&
specially
in
such
chyldren
the
which
be
very
fat
and
moyste
/
then
shall
ye
annoynte
the
infant
with
the
oyle
of
floure de Lyce
or
elles
whyte
lyllyes
/
other
the
oyle
of
rue
.
Yf
the
crampe
take
the
chylde
whylste
it
stretcheth
forth
the
armes
/
legges
/
and
other
membres
(
as
we
be
wont
in
gapyng
or
yanynge
)
then
let
it
be
bathed
and
wasshed
in
water
/
in
the
whyche
tapsus
barbatus
is
foden
in
/
or
elles
annoynted
with
the
oyle
of
violettes
/
and
the
oyle
of
swete
almons
tempered
to gether
/
and
yf
the
chylde
be
in
great
heate
annoynte
hym
with
the
oyle
of
violettes
/
or
with
oyle
olyfe
/
tempered
with
a
lyttell
whyte
wexe
/
and
also
powre
on
the
chyldes
heade
the
oyle
of
violettes
.
¶
Remedy
for
the
coughe
and
distillation
of
the
heade
.
Sometymes
the
chylde
is
sore
encombred
with
the
coughe
and
with
distillation
or
runnynge
of
humours
oute
of
the
heade
/
to
the
nose
/
the
mouthe
and
the
brest
:
the
which
he
shall
remedye
thus
:
Fyrst
powre
warme
water
on
the
chyldes
heade
holdynge
it
a
fote
&
a
halfe
from
the
chyldes
heade
/
and
so
do
contynuallye
the
space
of
halfe
an
houre
/
and
in
the
meane
whyle
put
a
lyttell
honye
on
the
chyldes
tonge
to
chawe
vpon
/
then
put
your
fynger
in
to
the
chyldes
mouth
/
and
depresse
or
holde
downe
the
ynner
moste
parte
or
the
rote
of
the
tunge
nexte
to
the
throte
/
to
prouoke
the
chylde
to
vomyte
/
and
to
voyde
the
grosse
and
viscous
humours
which
be
cause
of
this
yll
.
¶
Item
take
gumme
arabicke
/
gumme
dragagant
/
the
sede
of
quynces
/
the
iuyce
of
lycoryse
/
and
sugre
penedium
:
all
this
beaten
together
/
geue
euery
daye
to
the
chylde
a
quantite
of
it
with
mylke
newe
mylked
.
Item
take
swete
almons
and
blanch
them
/
&
then
beate
them
in
a
morter
/
and
then
sethe
them
with
the
iuyce
of
fenell
/
or
els
the
water
therof
:
of
this
decoction
geue
to
the
chylde
at
euenynge
and
mornynge
.
Item
the
water
of
fenell
tempered
with
mylke
/
and
so
dronken
/
is
very
good
.
¶
And
yf
it
so
be
that
the
coughe
haue
exasperat
and
made
roughe
the
tounge
&
the
rofe
of
the
mouthe
/
then
take
of
the
sedes
of
rydonium
.ij.
sponefulles
:
bruse
them
a
lyttel
and
stype
them
in
warme
water
the
space
of
two
or
thre
houres
:
then
strayne
the
vyscose
and
grosse
water
from
them
throughe
a
strayner
/
and
that
remayneth
/
frye
it
to gether
in
a
fryenge
panne
with
sugre
penidium
&
the
oyle
of
swete
almons
therof
makyng
an
electuarium
:
the
which
geue
vnto
the
chylde
to
receaue
:
yf
the
chylde
haue
great
heate
with
the
coughe
/
then
adde
vnto
the
same
electuarie
the
iuyce
of
a
swete
pome
granate
.
¶
Item
agaynst
the
coughe
&
ouer
muche
heate
:
take
of
whyte
popye
/
and
dragagant
two
dramms
/
of
the
granes
of
Gowards
.iiij.
dramms
/
and
beate
all
these
to gether
/
&
geue
of
it
to
the
chylde
with
the
water
in
whiche
reasons
haue
ben
soden
.
¶
Item
take
reasons
/
and
takynge
out
the
sede
or
graynes
of
it
:
sethe
them
to gether
with
water
in
a
fryenge
panne
/
so
that
they
burne
not
to
the
botom
of
the
pan
/
then
take
it
from
the
fyre
/
and
beate
it
well
in
a
morter
temperynge
there
with
all
sugre
penidium
/
and
geue
of
this
in
the
mornynge
&
euenyng
to
the
chylde
.
¶
Agayne
yf
the
coughe
come
of
a
colde
cause
/
then
take
a
lyttell
myrrhe
beaten
to
powder
/
and
temper
it
with
a
quantite
of
warmed
hony
and
the
oyle
of
swete
almondes
/
and
of
this
geue
vnto
the
chylde
.
¶
Farthermore
the
nourse
muste
auoyde
all
such
thynges
the
whiche
maye
engender
coughe
:
as
vynegre
/
ouer
muche
salted
meates
/
nuttes
/
and
all
sharpe
thynges
.
Also
she
muste
annoynt
the
chyldes
brest
with
butter
and
with
dialtheas
.
¶
Item
for
the
coughe
:
take
reasons
/
and
frye
them
in
a
fryenge
panne
/
then
stampe
them
in
a
mortar
/
and
to
that
adde
as
much
of
sugre
penidium
/
with
a
lyttell
oyle
of
violettes
/
and
make
an
electuarye
of
these
/
and
geue
to
the
chyld
the
mountenaunce
of
a
hasell
nutte
.
¶
Remedye
for
shorte
wynde
.
Manye
tymes
chaunseth
also
to
infantes
difficultie
of
brethynge
or
shorte
wyndenesse
/
the
which
to
remedye
:
take
lyne
sede
/
&
beate
it
/
and
geue
it
on
the
childe
with
hony
:
but
yf
the
desease
encrease
on
the
chylde
/
&
that
the
wyne
pipes
in
maner
seme
stopped
/
then
annoynte
well
the
eares
/
and
all
the
places
about
the
eares
with
oyle
olyfe
/
and
also
the
tounge
for
to
prouoke
vomyte
/
and
then
powere
a
lyttell
warme
water
in
to
the
chyldes
mouthe
/
and
geue
to
it
a
lyttell
lynesede
tempered
with
hony
and
beaten
/
made
after
the
fashyon
of
an
electuarye
.
¶
Item
yf
the
chylde
haue
besydes
this
also
the
flyx
:
then
geue
vnto
it
the
syrupe
of
myrche
decocte
with
hony
/
other
elles
dates
soden
with
mylke
/
and
the
meale
of
wheate
.
¶
Agaynst
wheles
or
bladders
on
the
tounge
.
Item
sometymes
happeneth
to
chyldren
wheles
and
blysters
on
theyr
tounges
and
mouth
/
whiche
thinge
cometh
of
the
sharpenesse
and
egrenesse
of
the
nources
mylke
/
the
mouthe
&
tounge
of
the
infant
beynge
so
tender
that
the
lest
thing
that
toucheth
it
/
shall
offende
it
/
wherefore
besydes
that
it
is
great
payne
to
the
chylde
thus
to
be
blystered
by
the
egrenesse
of
the
mylke
it
is
also
verye
perellous
&
dangerous
/
for
such
wheles
which
be
not
rype
and
seme
blacke
/
betoken
death
/
whiche
yf
they
be
whyte
or
yelowyshe
/
then
they
be
of
lesse
parell
.
Agaynst
this
yll
:
take
violettes
/
roses
/
and
xylocaracta
/
and
temper
all
these
beatynge
them
to gether
/
&
laye
of
it
vpon
the
blysters
.
¶
Item
take
the
iuyce
of
letuse
/
the
iuyce
of
solatrum
/
and
the
iuyce
of
purcelayne
/
whiche
when
they
be
well
commyxte
and
tempered
to gether
/
annoynt
there
with
the
whelkes
.
And
yf
the
foresayde
blysterres
or
whelkes
be
blackysshe
/
then
adde
to
the
foresayde
myces
lycoryse
beaten
to
pouder
.
¶
Item
yf
the
same
be
very
moyst
/
then
take
myrrhe
/
galles
/
the
ryne
of
frankencense
:
bete
them
well
to gether
/
and
temper
them
with
hony
/
and
annoynte
the
chyldes
tonge
there
with
.
¶
Item
take
the
iuyce
of
sharpe
mulberies
other
els
of
vnrype
grapes
/
which
is
called
vergeus
/
&
with
that
annoynt
the
tonge
.
Item
it
is
verye
good
to
wasshe
the
tunge
with
wyne
/
&
then
to
strewe
vpon
it
the
pouder
of
galles
/
or
elles
of
the
barke
or
rynde
of
frankencense
.
¶
Yf
ye
wyll
haue
a
quyckar
medicine
in
operation
&
a
sharper
/
then
take
bole
armenye
/
psida
and
sumach
of
eche
.iij.
dramms
/
also
of
galles
.ij.
drin̄s
of
alome
one
dram
:
all
these
beate
to gether
&
serche
them
throught
a
serchar
/
&
strewe
that
pouder
on
the
blysterres
.
Item
yf
this
wheles
be
reddyshe
&
cause
muche
spettyll
to
gather
to gyther
in
that
place
/
then
lette
the
nourse
vse
suche
thinges
which
are
moyst
&
colde
/
and
let
her
chawe
in
her
mouthe
verye
small
a
fewe
fatches
/
of
the
which
laye
on
the
infantes
mouth
&
tunge
.
¶
Item
amidum
tempered
to gether
with
rose
water
/
&
put
on
the
chyldes
tunge
/
is
good
.
Item
take
the
iuyce
of
pome
granates
/
the
iuyce
of
quynces
/
or
the
iuyce
of
orynges
/
&
do
of
this
on
the
chyldes
tunge
in
lyke
maner
/
but
yf
the
wheles
or
blysters
be
somewhat
yelowysh
then
to
these
iuyces
spoken
of
before
adde
the
iuyce
of
lettuce
&
of
purcelayne
.
¶
But
yf
the
wheles
seme
whytyshe
/
then
take
of
myrre
/
&
of
safrane
/
of
eche
one
dram
/
of
sugre
candy
.ij.
dramms
/
and
beate
these
to
pouder
and
laye
of
it
on
the
wheles
and
the
tunge
.
¶
Of
exulceration
or
clefture
,
chappynge
,
or
chynynge
of
the
mouthe
.
Sometymes
by
reason
of
the
hardenesse
of
the
nources
pappes
the
chyldes
lyppes
&
mouthe
be
exulcerat
hauynge
in
manner
of
cleftes
and
chynnes
in
them
and
in
this
case
take
tozed
wooll
/
and
dyppe
it
in
the
iuyce
of
plantayne
/
or
elles
in
butter
molten
/
or
in
fresshe
hens
grese
euery
of
them
beyng
warme
and
with
this
annoynte
the
mouth
and
lyppes
of
the
chylde
.
¶
Of
Apostumation
and
runnyng
of
the
eares
.
When
that
humours
and
matter
yssueth
out
of
the
eares
which
properly
commeth
of
aboundant
humours
in
all
the
body
/
&
most
spetially
in
the
head
/
then
take
a
pese
of
wool
/
and
dyppe
it
in
hony
mixt
with
redde
wyne
/
to
the
which
is
put
also
a
lyttell
quantite
of
alome
beaten
to
pouder
/
or
of
safrane
/
then
make
of
the
same
as
it
ware
a
tente
/
and
put
it
in
the
childes
eare
/
&
when
the
wooll
hath
sucked
and
drawen
to
it
the
humour
and
fylthynesse
of
the
eare
/
then
take
it
out
/
and
put
in
newe
/
and
if
that
/
the
which
commeth
out
of
the
eare
be
as
matter
/
then
take
of
soden
hony
and
tempered
with
water
/
put
of
it
in
to
the
eares
/
or
elles
take
the
pouder
of
galles
temperynge
it
with
vynegre
/
and
do
lyke
wyse
.
¶
But
yf
the
chylde
haut
greate
payne
&
dolor
by
wyndynesse
/
ventosyte
and
the
humours
in
this
place
/
then
sethe
organnye
or
myrrhe
with
oyle
olyfe
and
so
beyng
warme
put
of
it
in
to
the
eares
.
¶
Of
Appostumation
in
the
heade
.
Yf
there
be
any
appostume
engendred
in
the
heade
(
whiche
many
tymes
chaunseth
)
the
whiche
causethe
the
cheekes
and
eyes
to
be
greatelye
payned
/
and
the
eye
sight
to
waxe
wannysshe
or
tawnye
/
then
must
be
applyed
suche
thynges
whiche
maye
refrigerat
and
coole
the
braynes
:
as
take
of
the
iuyce
of
gowardes
and
the
iuyce
of
solatrum
/
and
the
iuyce
of
purcelayne
/
and
temper
them
with
the
oyle
of
roses
/
in
this
dyp
a
pese
of
wooll
and
laye
it
to
the
head
/
and
as
ofte
as
it
waxeth
drye
/
dippe
it
agayne
/
and
lykewyse
laye
it
to
the
heade
.
¶
Of
the
swellynge
or
bolnyng
of
the
eyes
.
Agaynst
swellynge
&
bolnynge
of
the
eyes
:
take
licium
/
and
temper
it
with
womans
mylke
/
and
put
of
it
into
the
chyldes
eye
/
and
bynde
it
to
the
place
with
fyne
and
softe
lynnen
clothe
/
then
afterwarde
wasshe
the
eyes
with
water
in
whiche
camomell
and
basyll
haue
ben
soden
in
.
Yf
that
in
this
swellynge
the
eyes
be
not
redde
/
neyther
the
browes
swollen
/
then
take
myrrhe
/
aloes
/
safrane
/
&
the
leues
of
roses
/
and
temper
all
these
/
and
stype
them
in
olde
wyne
:
and
bynde
it
to
the
thyldes
eyes
with
some
lynnen
clothe
/
&
into
the
childes
nose
put
a
quantite
of
ambre
dissolued
in
womans
mylke
.
¶
Of
the
scum
or
whyte
of
the
eye
.
Agaynst
the
scum
or
whyte
of
the
eye
which
for
the
most
parte
happeneth
to
chyldren
thorowe
ouer
much
cryeng
&
wepynge
:
take
the
iuyce
of
solatrum
/
and
droppe
of
the
same
in
to
the
chyldes
eye
/
and
yf
by
the
same
chanse
the
vayne
of
the
eyes
wexe
reddysshe
/
or
be
swollen
/
then
annoynt
them
with
the
same
iuyce
.
¶
Agaynst
immoderat
heate
or
the
feuer
.
Yf
the
infant
be
in
great
&
vehement
heate
contrary
to
nature
/
the
whiche
is
called
a
feuer
.
Fyrst
it
shal
be
the
nources
parte
to
eate
and
vse
suche
thynges
the
whiche
coole
and
moysten
Also
to
geue
vnto
the
infant
of
these
thynges
folowynge
:
the
iuyce
of
pome
granate
/
the
water
of
gourdes
/
sugre
/
with
a
lyttell
camphere
myxed
here
with
all
/
tempered
well
to gether
.
Item
it
is
very
good
to
prouoke
it
to
sweiyng
.
¶
Item
take
of
the
iuyce
of
worme
wood
/
of
plantayne
/
malows
/
&
syngrene
/
and
temper
them
all
to gether
/
in
the
whiche
also
myxte
barly
meale
/
and
make
a
plaster
of
all
these
/
and
laye
it
to
the
chyldes
breste
.
Item
take
the
oyle
of
roses
&
the
oyle
of
poplar
/
&
myxte
them
to gether
with
this
oyntment
beyng
colde
/
annoynt
the
chyldes
forehead
/
the
temples
/
the
armes
/
the
handes
about
the
wrystes
&
pulces
/
&
the
fete
about
the
ancles
.
Item
take
of
barlye
meale
and
of
dryed
roses
&
poudered
/
&
temper
these
with
the
water
of
roses
&
the
water
of
endyue
/
&
make
therof
a
plaster
/
the
which
laye
to
the
chyldes
brest
.
¶
Also
as
often
as
the
chylde
is
wasshed
/
let
it
be
done
with
water
in
whiche
is
soden
such
thynges
whiche
coole
/
as
lectuse
/
purcelayne
/
endyue
/
plantane
/
and
such
other
.
¶
Agaynst
frettynge
or
knawynge
in
the
belly
.
Yf
the
chylde
be
vexed
with
frettynge
and
knawynge
in
the
belly
/
the
which
thynge
ye
shall
know
by
the
immoderat
cryeng
of
the
chylde
/
and
that
it
turneth
from
one
syde
to
another
with
greate
cryenge
/
then
shall
you
take
warme
water
/
oyle
olyfe
/
and
a
lyttell
waxe
/
temperynge
them
to gether
/
and
herein
dyppe
a
pese
of
wooll
/
and
there
with
soke
the
chyldes
bellye
oftentymes
.
¶
Agaynstc
swellynge
of
the
bodye
.
When
the
chyldes
bodye
or
any
parte
ther
of
is
swollen
and
puffed
vp
/
then
take
the
toppes
of
elder
tree
/
and
of
walworte
:
and
sethe
them
in
white
wyne
/
&
therein
lap
the
infante
/
spetially
yf
it
be
not
taken
with
ouer
greate
heate
/
but
yf
so
be
that
with
swellyng
in
the
heade
the
bellye
be
swollen
also
/
then
take
myrrhe
/
aloes
epaticus
/
&
safrane
/
and
beate
them
all
to gether
/
and
temper
them
with
the
iuyce
of
beanes
/
and
laye
it
to
the
thyldes
heade
.
¶
Agaynst
often
sneesynge
.
Sometymes
the
infantes
be
sore
troubled
and
vexed
with
often
starnutation
and
sneesynge
/
which
thynge
yf
it
come
of
the
appostume
in
the
head
:
then
shal
ye
minister
such
thynges
to
the
heade
whiche
refrigerat
and
coole
/
whether
it
be
oyles
/
oyntmentes
/
iuyces
of
herbes
or
other
thynges
.
Yf
this
come
of
anye
other
cause
then
of
appostume
/
then
take
basilicum
/
be
it
grene
or
drye
/
and
put
of
the
iuyce
or
pouder
of
it
into
the
childes
nose
but
yf
this
sneesynge
come
and
begyn
with
heate
/
&
that
the
chyldes
eyes
seme
as
they
grewe
in
warde
for
payne
of
this
sneesynge
/
then
laye
to
thyldes
heade
the
leaues
of
purcelayne
/
or
gowarde
cut
in
thynne
peces
and
tempered
with
the
oyle
of
rooses
and
barley
meale
/
and
also
the
yowlke
of
an
egge
.
¶
Of
whelkes
in
the
body
and
the
cure
.
These
whelkes
yf
they
appeare
blacke
vppon
the
body
/
they
sygnify
parell
of
lyfe
/
and
so
muche
the
more
the
greater
quantite
that
there
is
of
them
/
but
yf
they
seme
whytyshe
or
reddyshe
/
it
is
no
parell
/
&
maye
easelye
be
cured
:
wherfore
take
the
leues
of
the
red
rose
the
leues
of
myrtylles
&
of
tamariscus
/
and
sethe
these
in
water
/
and
in
that
water
wette
a
lynnen
cloth
/
&
soke
there
with
the
whelkes
.
Item
like
wyse
it
is
good
to
annoynt
the
same
with
the
oyle
of
roses
/
of
myrtylles
/
&
tamariscus
.
Yf
the
whelke
be
whyte
or
reddyshe
/
then
let
them
be
rype
/
before
ye
minister
any
thyng
to
them
/
&
when
they
be
open
&
begyn
to
matterye
/
then
annoynte
them
with
the
oyntemente
of
ceruse
.
Item
it
shal
be
verye
good
for
the
same
purpose
to
wash
the
same
whelkes
with
mulsum
&
hydromell
/
in
whiche
salt
peter
hath
ben
styped
&
dyssolued
.
¶
Agaynst
swellyng
of
the
coddes
.
Manye
tymes
chaunseth
to
chyldren
(
thorowe
ouer
much
cryenge
)
swellynge
aboute
the
coddes
/
&
sometymes
burstennesse
&
swellynge
in
the
ynner
parte
of
the
thyghes
.
Against
this
yll
take
the
sede
of
ameos
:
bete
it
&
temper
it
with
the
yowike
of
an
egge
/
&
laye
it
to
the
swellynge
or
burstenneste
/
and
thereto
bynde
it
with
some
gentell
lynnen
clothe
.
Item
take
bytter
lupynes
&
myrre
/
and
stype
them
in
wyne
/
and
sethe
them
to gether
makynge
hereof
a
plaster
/
the
whiche
laye
to
the
greued
parte
.
¶
Item
take
of
alome
.xiii.
dramms
/
of
galles
.xi.
dramms
:
beate
them
/
and
sethe
them
to gether
in
redde
wyne
/
tyl
it
be
thycke
/
of
this
laye
on
the
greued
place
/
holdyng
also
vpon
it
a
sponge
dypped
in
water
/
myxt
with
vynegre
/
oftentymes
renuynge
the
same
when
it
is
wasted
.
Also
you
maye
take
the
aforesayde
decoction
/
puttynge
vnto
it
a
quantite
of
syse
/
and
sethynge
them
to gether
/
&
make
a
plaster
of
it
/
&
spredde
it
on
a
lynnen
cloth
/
and
so
bynde
it
to
the
place
/
and
often
tymes
to
renue
it
.
¶
Agaynste
swellynge
of
the
nauell
.
Also
sometymes
the
chyldes
nauell
swelleth
/
&
spetially
streyte
after
the
byrth
when
it
is
cutte
/
for
this
take
spyke
celtyke
/
whiche
some
call
mary
mawdelyne
flowre
/
the
whiche
women
vse
to
put
in
lye
/
&
sethe
it
in
the
oyle
of
sesamum
myxed
with
turpentyne
/
then
in
this
dyp
wooll
/
&
laye
it
on
the
place
the
thyckenesse
of
a
fynger
.
¶
But
yf
so
be
that
this
swellyng
come
of
ouer
muche
cryenge
/
cough
/
or
of
a
strooke
or
fall
/
then
take
lupynes
&
the
pouder
of
fayre
olde
lynnen
clothe
burnt
to
pouder
/
and
temper
these
with
red
wyne
/
&
then
in
this
dyp
a
pese
of
towe
/
and
laye
it
to
the
nauell
.
¶
Agaynst
vnslepynesse
.
Agaynste
vnslepynesse
/
that
is
/
when
the
chylde
is
destitute
and
wanteth
his
due
and
naturall
reste
/
all
the
whyle
cryeng
and
wepinge
/
for
this
take
the
stalkes
of
popye
/
and
the
sede
with
all
/
and
temper
it
with
the
oyle
of
lectuse
and
the
oyle
of
popye
/
all
these
beynge
myxt
to gether
/
bynde
them
with
some
lynnen
clothe
to
the
forehead
&
temples
of
the
chylde
.
¶
But
yf
this
vnslepynesse
come
of
the
impurite
and
ylnesse
of
the
nourses
mylke
(
as
many
tymes
it
doth
)
then
take
of
the
oyle
of
violettes
/
and
put
vnto
it
a
lyttell
quantite
of
vynegre
/
and
of
this
lycoure
drop
often
tymes
in
to
the
chyldes
nosethrylles
/
or
elles
take
the
oyle
of
rooses
/
and
temper
it
with
the
iuyce
of
letuce
/
and
therewith
annoynte
the
heade
and
stomacke
of
the
chylde
/
&
farther
se
that
the
nourses
mylke
be
amended
.
¶
Item
take
the
syrupe
of
whyte
popye
/
&
geue
of
it
to
the
chyld
to
drynke
/
annoynting
the
foreheade
and
temples
with
the
oyle
of
violettes
/
in
whiche
is
put
a
lyttell
quantite
of
safrane
and
of
oppium
.
¶
Agaynste
yexynge
.
Agaynst
yexynge
:
take
a
nutte
of
ynde
/
and
beate
it
/
temperynge
it
with
sugre
/
and
geue
it
to
the
chylde
to
eate
:
this
yexynge
cometh
other
of
ouer
muche
meate
/
or
for
lacke
of
meate
and
emptynesse
of
the
stomacke
.
¶
As
often
as
it
commeth
by
the
aboundance
of
meate
&
coldenesse
of
the
stomacke
/
then
annoynte
the
stomacke
with
the
oyle
of
bays
warmed
/
other
els
laye
to
the
stomacke
a
plas●●r
made
of
the
sede
of
dyll
beaten
and
tempered
with
the
iuyce
of
myntes
.
¶
But
yf
it
come
by
defecte
and
lacke
of
meate
and
emptynesse
of
the
stomacke
/
take
the
oyle
of
violettes
/
or
of
rooses
/
or
the
iuyce
of
endyue
/
or
of
anye
other
suche
herbes
/
the
which
haue
power
to
infrigidat
&
coole
/
and
temper
the
same
with
womans
mylke
/
and
annoynte
therewith
the
chyldes
stomacke
.
Also
geue
the
chylde
to
feade
vpon
mylke
&
other
good
and
holsome
thynges
to
suppe
neyther
passe
not
greately
/
though
the
chyld
reiecte
and
vomyte
vp
agayne
that
the
whiche
it
receaueth
/
for
soo
muche
euer
wyll
remayne
in
the
stomacke
that
shal
be
sufficient
to
sustayne
it
and
to
moysten
it
.
¶
Of
yerkenesse
or
appetyte
to
vomyte
.
Agaynst
ouer
muche
appetyte
to
vomyte
/
bete
.iiij.
graynes
of
cloues
/
and
geue
it
to
the
chylde
.
Item
take
of
mastycke
/
whyte
frankensence
/
and
the
leues
of
the
redde
roose
/
so
muche
as
shal
be
sufficient
/
and
all
these
beaten
to gether
/
temper
them
with
the
iuyce
of
myntes
/
and
make
a
plaster
of
it
layenge
it
to
the
chyldes
stomacke
:
but
yf
the
chyldes
vomytynge
be
very
vehement
/
then
put
vnto
these
foresayd
thynge
a
quantite
of
vynegre
.
¶
Item
take
fyne
meale
/
and
bake
it
so
hote
/
tyll
it
ware
browne
/
then
beate
it
to
pouder
agayne
/
puttynge
it
in
to
vynegre
/
&
to
these
adde
the
yowlke
of
an
egge
harde
rosted
/
mastycke
/
frankensence
/
&
gumme
arabycke
/
and
temper
all
these
with
the
iuyce
of
myntes
/
makynge
of
it
a
plaster
the
which
lay
to
the
childes
stomacke
/
&
to
the
childes
mouth
holde
a
warme
toste
of
breade
.
¶
Causes
of
this
yll
be
.iii.
the
fyrste
/
yf
the
childe
haue
taken
more
mylke
then
it
is
able
to
concocte
&
digeste
:
the
seconde
/
yf
the
nourses
mylke
be
ouer
thynne
/
waterysh
/
and
fluyshe
:
the
thyrd
/
yf
the
same
mylke
be
impure
feculent
and
corrupte
:
these
causes
pronoke
vomyte
/
and
spetiallye
yf
the
chylde
alsoo
haue
a
weake
and
waterysshe
stomacke
/
wherfore
ye
must
helpe
the
infant
after
this
maner
:
fyrste
lette
the
chylde
sucke
lesse
then
it
dyd
before
/
and
then
alsoo
marke
that
the
whiche
the
chylde
dothe
perbrake
/
whether
it
sauer
sharpelye
lyke
vynegre
/
and
that
it
be
whytysshe
:
for
yf
it
be
soo
/
then
take
of
whyte
frankensence
.viij.
graynes
/
of
dryed
rue
.xx.
graynes
/
beate
these
to
pouder
/
and
geue
it
to
the
chylde
to
drynke
/
with
the
syrupe
of
redde
rooses
.
¶
Or
elles
lette
the
nourse
chawe
comyn
/
and
so
put
it
into
the
chyldes
mouthe
/
geue
alsoo
of
the
syrupe
of
pome
granates
/
with
the
pouder
of
drye
myntes
to
the
chylde
.
¶
Item
take
of
xiloaloes
one
dram
/
of
galles
.x.
graynes
:
beate
all
those
to
pouder
/
temper
it
with
the
syrupe
of
rooses
/
puttynge
to
it
a
lyttell
of
nutmegges
/
and
geue
of
this
to
the
chylde
to
drynke
euer
before
it
sucke
/
alsoo
to
the
stomacke
of
the
chylde
laye
this
plaster
.
¶
Take
mastycke
/
accatia
/
xiloaloes
/
galles
/
whyte
frankencense
/
tosted
breade
/
of
eche
lyke
much
/
beate
them
to gether
puttynge
to
of
redde
rooses
and
temperynge
it
with
the
syrupe
of
rooses
/
and
so
laye
it
to
the
chyldes
stomacke
.
¶
But
yf
it
so
be
that
the
perbrakynge
of
the
chylde
sauer
not
after
the
fashyon
of
vynegre
/
but
after
some
other
sowre
sauour
/
&
that
it
be
not
whytyshe
/
but
pale
&
grayesshe
then
geue
it
the
iuyce
of
quynces
/
and
laye
this
plaster
vnto
the
chyldes
stomacke
:
take
barley
meale
/
wylde
mulderyes
/
and
psida
/
beate
all
these
to gether
/
and
temper
it
with
roose
water
/
and
laye
it
to
the
chyldes
stomacke
.
¶
And
farthermore
yf
the
childes
stomacke
be
some
what
wateryshe
and
slowe
in
digestion
/
then
annoynte
it
with
the
water
of
roses
/
in
the
which
muske
hath
ben
dyssolued
/
or
elles
the
water
of
myrtylles
:
and
geue
it
to
drynke
the
iuyce
of
quynces
with
a
lyttell
cloues
and
sugre
/
or
with
a
scruple
of
nuttemegges
/
there
with
tempered
and
myxed
.
¶
Agaynst
fearefull
and
terrible
dreames
.
uers
other
thinges
there
be
which
might
be
here
rehersed
/
but
this
shal
be
suffitient
.
¶
Consumption
or
pynynge
awaye
of
the
body
.
When
the
infante
falleth
awaye
/
and
the
flesshe
rebateth
remaynynge
nothynge
but
as
it
ware
skynne
and
bone
/
and
thereby
the
chylde
waxeth
syckely
/
then
let
the
infant
be
often
bathed
in
water
/
in
which
hath
ben
soden
the
head
&
the
fete
of
a
ramme
/
so
longe
tyll
the
flesshe
parte
frome
the
bones
of
his
owne
accorde
/
and
euery
tyme
that
the
chyld
commeth
forth
of
the
bathe
/
fyrst
let
it
be
wyped
and
dryed
cleane
/
&
then
annoynt
it
with
this
oyntmente
:
take
fress
he
butter
/
oyle
of
violettes
/
or
oyle
of
rooses
/
of
eche
.ii.
dramms
/
of
swynesgrece
.vi.
dramms
/
of
whyte
wex
.iiij.
dramms
:
melt
all
these
thynges
to gether
/
and
make
an
oyntment
of
it
/
annoyntynge
there
with
the
chyldes
body
.
¶
Item
take
whyte
waxe
/
swenes
grece
/
shepes
tallowe
/
fresshe
butter
/
melt
all
these
thinges
to gether
/
&
strayne
them
/
making
of
it
an
oyntment
to
annoynt
the
chyld
withall
.
¶
Of
lassitude
,
werynesse
,
or
heuynesse
of
the
chyldes
hodye
.
Sometymes
it
chaunseth
that
the
chyldes
membres
of
the
body
be
so
feable
/
as
though
it
hath
the
palsye
/
so
that
with
that
partes
of
the
bodye
the
chylde
can
not
helpe
it selfe
/
neyther
can
it
lefte
vp
the
handes
/
armes
/
ne
stande
on
the
fete
/
yf
the
chylde
haue
this
dysease
whylst
it
sucketh
/
then
let
the
nourse
be
comforted
and
strengthned
with
such
thinges
the
whiche
haue
vertue
to
heate
and
to
drye
.
Also
let
the
nourse
fede
onely
on
rosted
or
fryed
meate
/
&
that
she
forbare
from
mylke
/
fysshe
/
and
harde
or
salt
poudred
flesshe
.
¶
Farthermore
let
not
the
nourse
vse
any
watered
wyne
/
or
myxed
:
&
let
her
bathe
the
childe
euer
before
that
she
geue
it
sucke
/
after
annoyntynge
it
with
the
oyle
of
castorium
/
or
the
oyle
of
costum
/
&
let
the
chylde
drynke
euerye
daye
a
quantite
of
this
electuarye
folowyng
:
Take
wyld
mynt
/
cynamome
/
cummyn
/
drye
roses
/
masticke
/
fenugreke
/
valeriane
/
ameum
/
doronicum
/
zedoarium
/
cloues
/
saunders
/
xiloaloes
/
of
eche
a
dram
/
of
muske
halfe
a
dram
/
beate
all
those
to
pouder
/
&
confycte
them
with
clarifyed
wyne
/
makynge
thereof
an
electuarye
/
of
the
whyche
euerye
daye
geue
vnto
the
chylde
the
,
iiij
.
parte
of
a
dram
to
drynke
.
Yf
the
chylde
haue
this
dysease
in
euerye
parte
of
his
bodye
/
then
take
an
ounce
of
wexe
/
and
a
dram
of
euforbium
/
temper
them
to gether
with
oyle
olyfe
/
and
make
hereof
a
plaster
/
and
laye
it
to
the
raynes
of
the
backe
.
¶
Of
trymblynge
of
the
bodye
and
the
membres
of
the
bodye
.
Yf
the
chylde
happen
to
be
vexed
with
trymblynge
and
quakyng
of
the
bodye
or
the
partes
thereof
/
so
that
ye
feare
that
shryncklyng
of
the
parte
/
or
that
the
fallynge
syckenesse
sholde
ensue
/
then
remeady
it
after
this
meanes
:
take
the
oyle
of
rooses
/
and
the
oyle
of
nardus
/
and
temper
them
to gether
/
warmynge
it
/
and
there
with
annoyntynge
the
backe
boke
or
raynes
and
the
other
shakyng
membres
/
ye
maye
also
take
any
other
oyle
/
the
whiche
hathe
vertue
to
warme
and
calefye
/
as
the
oyle
of
bays
/
and
suche
other
.
Yf
thou
can
not
cure
it
by
this
meanes
/
then
demaunde
farther
counceill
of
the
physytyons
.
¶
Of
the
stone
.
Yf
the
chylde
be
emcombred
with
the
stone
or
with
anye
other
thynge
the
whiche
maye
lette
,
and
stoppe
the
vryne
/
the
whiche
maye
be
knowen
by
these
tokens
:
Fyrst
yf
he
haue
the
strangury
/
yf
it
be
prouoked
often
to
pysse
and
yet
can
do
but
lyttell
at
once
/
and
that
with
greate
payne
and
dolour
/
yf
the
vryne
be
thynne
and
clere
/
and
also
(
beynge
a
man
chylde
)
yf
the
prycke
be
euer
standynge
:
all
which
thynges
ye
shall
remedye
thus
:
¶
Fyrst
bathe
the
chylde
in
water
wherin
is
decocte
malous
/
holyoke
/
lynsede
/
and
paritorye
/
then
geue
it
to
drynke
some
suche
thinge
which
hath
qualite
to
prouoke
vryne
and
also
when
the
nourse
layeth
it
to
sleape
/
let
her
annoynte
the
pryuie
partes
with
oyle
and
geue
the
chylde
to
drynke
the
water
of
mulberyes
with
mylke
/
or
otherwyse
:
take
the
bloude
of
a
gote
/
and
the
powder
of
a
burnt
scorpion
/
with
the
oyle
of
scorpions
/
or
the
oyle
of
whyte
lyllyes
tempered
plasterwyse
/
and
laye
it
to
the
chyldes
bellye
aboue
the
pryuie
membres
.
¶
Of
google
eyes
or
lokynge
a
squynt
.
Yf
the
chylde
haue
google
eyes
/
or
that
it
loke
a
squynt
/
then
fyrst
set
the
cradel
in
such
a
place
/
that
the
lyght
maye
come
directelye
and
ryght
in
the
chyldes
face
/
neyther
in
the
one
syde
/
neyther
in
the
other
/
neyther
aboue
the
heade
/
leste
it
torne
the
syghte
after
the
lyght
.
Also
marke
/
on
whiche
syde
that
the
eyes
do
gogle
/
and
let
the
lyghte
come
vnto
it
on
the
contrary
syde
/
so
to
retorne
the
syght
.
And
in
the
nyght
season
set
a
candell
on
the
contrarye
syde
/
so
that
by
this
meane
the
goglynge
of
the
eyes
maye
be
retorned
to
the
ryghte
place
.
And
farther
it
shall
be
good
to
hange
clothes
of
diuers
and
freshe
coloures
on
the
contrary
syde
/
and
spetially
of
the
coloure
of
lyght
grene
/
or
yelowe
/
for
the
chylde
shall
haue
pleasure
to
beholde
these
strange
coloures
/
and
in
retornynge
the
eye
syghte
towarde
suche
thynges
/
it
shal
be
occasion
to
rectifye
the
syght
agayne
:
and
this
shall
be
sufficient
for
this
tyme
of
the
dyseases
of
chyldren
/
after
they
be
borne
makynge
here
an
ende
of
this
seconde
boke
.
THE
THIRDE
BOKE
.
¶
Of
suche
thynges
the
which
shal
be
entreated
of
in
this
thyrde
boke
.
¶
Cap
.i.
IN
these
two
precedente
bokes
we
haue
sufficientelye
for
this
tyme
declared
such
thinges
the
which
are
wont
to
happen
vnto
women
before
theyr
labor
/
in
theyr
labor
/
&
also
after
theyr
labor
/
and
farther
of
such
infirmities
and
deseases
/
which
are
wont
to
vexe
the
infant
after
it
is
delyuered
into
this
wordle
/
with
competent
remedyes
for
the
same
.
¶
And
here
in
this
thyrde
boke
(
by
the
leaue
of
god
)
shall
brefelye
be
declared
suche
thynges
whiche
maye
farther
or
hynder
the
conception
of
man
/
whiche
as
it
maye
be
by
dyuers
meanes
letted
and
hyndered
/
so
also
by
many
other
wayes
it
maye
be
farthered
and
amended
.
Also
to
knowe
by
certayne
sygnes
and
tokens
whether
the
woman
be
conceaued
or
no
/
&
whether
the
conception
be
male
or
female
/
and
finally
certayne
remedies
and
medycynes
to
farther
and
helpe
conception
/
&
so
to
conclude
this
small
tracte
or
treatyce
.
¶
Of
conception
,
&
howe
many
wayes
it
maye
be
hyndered
or
letted
.
¶
Cap
.ii.
THere
is
nothyng
vnder
heauen
which
so
manifestly
&
playnlye
doth
declare
&
shewe
the
magnificent
myghtynesse
of
that
omnipotent
lyuing
god
/
as
doth
the
perpetuall
and
continuall
generation
&
conception
of
lyuynge
thynges
here
in
earth
/
by
the
whiche
is
saued
/
proroged
/
&
augmented
the
kynd
of
al
thinges
.
And
where
that
this
almyghty
lorde
&
creator
hath
so
institute
&
ordeyned
/
that
no
syngular
thynge
in
it selfe
(
here
vpon
the
earth
)
sholde
contynually
remayne
&
abyde
/
yet
hath
he
geuen
from
the
begynnyng
and
instincted
such
a
power
and
vertue
vnto
these
mortall
creatures
/
that
they
maye
engender
and
produce
other
lyke
thinges
vnto
them selfe
/
&
vnto
theyr
owne
sunilitude
/
in
the
which
alway
is
saued
the
sede
of
posterite
/
were
not
this
prouision
had
by
almyghtye
god
/
the
nature
&
kynde
of
all
maner
of
thinges
wold
sone
perysh
&
com
to
an
ende
/
the
which
vertue
&
power
of
generation
many
times
doth
halt
&
misse
/
by
defect
&
the
contrary
disposition
in
the
partes
generant
.
As
ye
maye
euidentlye
see
in
the
sowynge
of
corne
and
all
other
maner
of
seade
/
so
that
there
be
in
all
maner
of
generation
thre
principal
partes
concurrent
to
the
same
:
the
sower
/
the
scade
sowen
/
and
the
receptacle
or
place
receauynge
and
contaynynge
the
seade
.
Yf
there
be
faute
in
any
of
these
thre
/
then
shall
there
neuer
be
due
generation
/
vnto
suche
tyme
as
the
faute
be
remoued
or
amended
.
The
earth
vnto
all
seades
is
as
a
mother
&
nource
contaynynge
/
clyppynge
and
enbrasynge
them
in
her
wombe
/
feadynge
and
fosterynge
them
as
the
mother
doth
the
chyld
in
her
belly
ormatrice
/
vntyll
suche
tyme
as
they
come
vnto
the
growyth
/
quantite
/
&
per
fection
due
vnto
theyr
nature
and
kynd
but
yf
this
seade
conceaued
in
the
bowelles
of
the
earth
do
not
proue
or
fructifye
/
then
be
thou
sure
that
other
there
is
lette
in
the
sower
/
in
the
seade
/
or
elles
in
the
earthe
.
The
earthe
maye
be
ouer
waterysshe
/
dankesshe
/
or
ouer
hote
and
drye
/
or
elles
full
of
stones
/
grauell
/
or
other
rubryshe
/
or
ful
of
yll
weedes
/
which
maye
strangle
and
choke
the
good
corne
in
his
growynge
/
also
the
sede
maye
be
putrifyed
/
or
otherwyse
viciat
and
corrupted
/
and
so
the
lyfe
&
sprete
of
it
vanyshed
awaye
and
destroyed
.
The
sowar
maye
vnordynatlye
strewe
and
caste
the
seade
on
the
earthe
.
&c.
So
that
yf
there
be
let
in
none
of
these
thre
partes
concurrent
to
generation
/
or
that
the
lettes
be
remoued
&
done
away
/
then
doubte
lesse
will
ensue
multiplicacion
and
encreasement
of
that
kynde
/
of
the
which
the
seade
commeth
/
accordyng
to
the
naturall
enclination
the
whiche
almyghtye
god
hathe
enplanted
and
set
in
the
kynde
of
all
thynges
.
¶
Howe
many
wayes
conception
maye
be
letted
.
and
howe
the
causes
maye
be
knowen
.
¶
Cap
.iii.
EVerye
thynge
then
the
whiche
doth
encrease
in
his
kynd
must
fyrst
be
conceaued
in
the
wombe
&
matrice
of
the
mother
/
which
is
apte
and
conueniente
for
the
receate
of
such
seade
.
And
as
I
sayde
before
/
as
there
maye
be
defecte
and
lacke
in
the
mother
receauynge
the
seade
/
soo
maye
there
be
faute
and
defecte
in
the
sower
/
&
in
the
seade
it selfe
also
.
¶
And
in
woman
there
maye
be
foure
generall
causes
/
by
the
whiche
the
conception
may
be
impedyte
and
let
:
ouer
much
calidite
or
heate
of
the
matrice
/
ouer
much
coldnesse
/
ouer
muche
humidite
or
moystenesse
/
&
ouer
much
dryenesse
.
Any
of
these
foure
qualitees
exceadynge
temperancye
/
maye
be
sufficient
causes
to
lette
due
conception
.
¶
Wherfore
the
ryght
excellent
physitian
Hypocrātes
in
the
.v.
boke
of
his
Amphorysmes
sayth
:
All
such
women
the
which
haue
colde
and
dense
matrices
/
can
not
conceaue
/
nor
such
as
haue
moyste
and
waterysshe
matrices
can
conceaue
/
for
the
powre
of
the
seade
is
extynguyshed
in
it
.
Also
hauyng
drye
matryces
/
conceaue
not
/
for
the
seade
peryssheth
for
lacke
of
due
nutriment
and
fode
/
but
that
matrice
the
whiche
hath
all
these
qualities
in
temperancye
/
that
is
fruytfull
/
this
is
Hypocrates
sayenge
/
the
which
thing
also
may
be
well
perceaued
by
a
famylyer
example
of
the
sowynge
of
corne
.
¶
For
yf
it
be
sowen
in
ouer
colde
places
/
such
as
be
in
the
partes
of
a
countrye
/
called
Sithia
/
and
in
certayne
places
of
Almayne
/
or
in
such
places
where
is
contynuall
snowe
or
froste
/
or
where
the
sonne
doth
not
shyne
/
in
this
places
the
seade
or
grayne
sowen
/
wyll
neuer
come
to
profe
/
nor
fructyfye
/
but
throughe
the
vehemente
coldenesse
of
the
place
in
the
whiche
it
is
conceaued
/
the
lyfe
and
quyckenesse
of
the
grayne
is
vtterlye
destroyed
and
adnyhilat
.
¶
And
farther
as
concernyng
ouer
muche
humidite
:
Yf
ye
sowe
your
grayne
in
a
fen
or
marysse
and
watery
grounde
/
the
seade
wyll
perysshe
through
the
ouer
much
aboundance
of
water
whiche
extynguyssheth
the
lyuelynesse
and
the
naturall
power
of
the
grayne
and
sede
.
¶
Lykewyse
yf
it
be
sowen
in
such
a
countrye
or
place
where
is
ouer
greate
heate
/
not
tempered
with
water
&
rayne
/
or
yf
the
yere
be
so
drye
/
that
there
cam
no
rayne
at
al
to
alay
the
extreme
&
faruent
heate
of
the
sonne
/
then
shall
the
seade
sowen
whyther
&
drye
away
/
and
the
power
of
it
be
consumed
&
burnt
.
¶
Also
yf
it
be
sowen
in
drye
places
/
where
neuer
commeth
rayne
/
or
on
the
sande
/
and
grauelye
places
/
in
suche
a
place
the
grayne
can
neuer
take
/
ne
proue
/
ne
be
conceaued
in
it
to
come
to
any
fruyte
or
profet
.
¶
Wherefore
yf
the
matrice
be
distempered
by
the
excesse
of
any
of
these
foure
qualities
/
then
must
ye
reduce
it
agayne
to
temperancie
by
suche
remedyes
/
as
I
shall
shewe
you
hereafter
.
Lykewyse
maye
there
be
defecte
and
lacke
in
the
man
/
as
yf
the
seade
be
ouer
hote
/
the
which
the
woman
shall
feale
/
as
it
were
burning
hote
/
or
to
cold
the
which
he
shall
feale
/
as
it
were
in
maner
colde
as
yise
/
or
to
fluye
or
thynne
.
&c.
dyuers
other
other
wayes
also
it
maye
be
letted
/
whyche
shall
not
nede
here
to
be
rehersed
.
¶
Nowe
yf
the
woman
can
not
conceaue
/
the
cause
commynge
of
ouer
muche
frigidite
and
coldenesse
in
the
matrice
/
that
shall
she
knowe
by
these
tokens
:
she
shal
feale
greate
cold
about
the
sydes
/
the
raynes
of
the
backe
and
the
matrice
/
her
vryne
shall
appeare
whyte
and
thynnysshe
/
and
sometymes
also
somewhat
spysse
and
thycke
/
and
all
maner
of
colde
thynges
shall
noye
her
/
hote
thynges
shall
greately
comfort
her
.
¶
But
yf
it
come
by
ouer
muche
humidite
of
the
matrice
/
that
shall
she
knowe
by
these
sygnes
:
Yf
the
bodye
of
her
be
of
a
fatte
and
grosse
disposition
/
yf
with
her
flowres
yssue
forth
at
the
begynnynge
and
the
latterende
of
them
certayne
vyscous
and
waterye
substaunce
/
and
that
her
vrine
be
whyte
/
thycke
/
and
sometyme
as
it
were
mylke
.
Alsoo
that
she
feale
greate
colde
and
payne
aboute
the
matrice
&
pryuie
partes
/
&
muche
dolour
in
her
sydes
and
in
the
raynes
of
her
backe
.
¶
And
when
ouer
much
heate
or
dryeth
in
the
matrice
/
is
cause
of
the
hynderaunce
of
conception
/
then
is
the
vryne
hye
coldred
/
red
or
yelowe
/
beynge
thynne
with
certayne
motes
appearyng
in
the
water
/
the
woman
hath
greate
thyrste
/
and
bytter
rysynge
or
belking
oute
of
the
stomacke
in
to
the
mouthe
.
And
manye
tymes
they
that
are
in
this
case
/
are
verye
spare
and
leane
in
all
theyr
bodye
/
hauyng
also
but
small
quantite
of
flowres
/
the
whiche
thynge
maye
happen
other
by
ouer
muche
watche
/
or
ouer
much
fastynge
/
labor
/
trauell
/
sorowe
/
syckenesse
.
&c.
But
suche
women
which
naturally
are
thus
spare
&
lene
/
maye
verye
hardely
be
brought
to
a
temperancye
agayne
&
be
made
apte
to
conceaue
.
And
this
shal
be
sufficiente
for
this
tyme
to
knowe
whiche
qualite
by
his
excesse
causeth
sterilite
/
nowe
wyll
we
shewe
howe
it
shal
be
knowen
whether
lacke
of
conception
be
in
the
woman
or
elles
in
the
man
/
and
howe
to
knowe
whether
the
woman
be
conceaued
or
no
/
accordynge
to
the
mynde
of
ryght
expert
doctors
of
physycke
.
¶
Howe
to
knowe
whether
lacke
of
conception
be
of
the
woman
or
of
the
man
,
and
howe
it
maye
be
perceaued
whether
she
be
conceaued
or
no.
¶
Cap
.iiii.
IF
ye
be
desyrous
to
know
whether
the
man
or
the
woman
be
hynderance
in
conception
:
lette
eche
of
them
take
of
whete
and
barlye
cornes
/
and
of
beenes
of
eche
.vii.
the
which
they
shall
suffer
to
be
steped
in
theyr
seueral
vryne
/
the
space
of
.xxiiij.
houres
/
then
take
.ij.
pottes
/
suche
as
they
set
gylyflowres
in
/
fyll
them
with
good
earth
/
&
in
the
one
let
be
set
the
whete
/
barlye
/
&
beanes
/
styped
in
the
mans
water
/
&
in
the
other
the
whete
/
barlye
/
and
beanes
/
styped
in
the
womans
water
/
and
euerye
mornynge
the
space
of
eight
or
ten
dayes
/
lette
eche
of
them
with
theyr
proper
vryne
/
water
the
sayd
seades
sowen
in
the
forenamed
pottes
/
&
marke
whose
potte
dothe
proue
/
&
the
seades
therin
contained
dothe
growe
/
in
that
partie
is
not
the
lacke
of
conception
/
but
see
that
there
come
no
other
water
or
rayne
on
the
pottes
.
¶
Item
accordynge
to
Hypocrates
wrytyng
yf
ye
wyl
knowe
whether
the
faute
be
in
the
woman
or
no
/
then
lette
the
woman
receaue
in
to
her
body
vndernethe
/
beynge
well
and
closely
closed
round
about
the
fume
of
some
odoriferous
perfume
/
as
laudanum
/
storax
/
calamyte
/
lignum
aloes
/
muske
/
ambre
/
and
suche
other
/
and
yf
the
odour
and
sauour
of
suche
thynges
assende
thorowe
her
body
vp
vnto
her
nose
/
ye
shall
vnderstande
/
that
sterilite
commeth
not
of
the
womans
parte
/
yf
not
:
then
is
the
defecte
in
her
.
¶
Item
yf
she
take
garlycke
beynge
pylled
out
of
the
huskes
/
and
conueye
of
it
into
the
pryuie
partes
/
and
yf
the
sente
of
it
assende
vp
through
the
bodye
vnto
the
nose
/
the
woman
is
fautelesse
/
yf
not
:
then
is
there
lacke
in
her
.
These
are
sygnes
to
knowe
whether
the
lacke
be
in
the
man
or
the
woman
.
¶
Whether
she
be
conceaued
alreadye
or
no
/
ye
shall
knowe
by
these
sygnes
:
Fyrste
the
flowres
yssue
not
in
so
great
quantite
as
they
are
wont
/
but
wexe
lesse
and
lesse
/
and
in
maner
nothinge
at
all
commeth
from
them
.
Also
the
brestes
begyn
to
waxe
rounder
/
harder
/
and
styffar
then
they
were
wonte
to
be
/
the
woman
shall
longe
after
certayne
thynges
otherwyse
than
she
was
vsed
to
do
before
that
tyme
.
Also
her
vryne
waxeth
spysse
and
thyckysshe
/
by
retension
of
the
superfluyties
.
Also
the
woman
fealeth
her
matrice
verye
fastelye
enclosed
and
shytte
/
in
so
muche
that
as
Hypocrates
saythe
/
the
poynte
of
a
nedle
maye
scace
enter
.
¶
Item
to
knowe
whether
she
be
conceaned
or
no
/
accordynge
to
Hypocrates
mynde
/
in
the
.v.
of
his
Ampho
.
geue
vnto
the
woman
when
she
is
goyng
to
bedde
a
quantite
of
mellicratum
to
drynke
/
and
yf
after
that
drynke
she
feale
greate
payne
/
gnawing
/
and
tumblynge
in
her
belly
/
then
be
ye
sure
/
that
she
is
conceaued
:
yf
not
/
she
is
not
conceaued
/
this
mellicratum
is
a
drynke
made
of
one
parte
wyne
/
an
other
parte
water
soden
together
/
with
a
quantite
of
hony
.
¶
But
if
ye
be
desyrous
to
knowe
whether
the
conception
be
man
or
woman
:
then
lette
a
droppe
of
her
mylke
or
twayne
be
mylked
on
a
smothe
glasse
/
or
a
bryght
knyfe
/
other
elles
on
the
nayle
of
one
of
her
fyngers
/
and
yf
the
mylke
flewe
and
spredde
abrode
vpon
it
/
by
and
by
then
is
it
a
woman
chylde
:
but
yf
the
droppe
of
mylke
contynue
and
stande
styll
vppon
that
/
the
whiche
it
is
mylked
on
/
then
is
it
sygne
of
a
man
chylde
.
Item
yf
it
be
a
male
/
then
shall
the
woman
with
childe
be
well
coloured
/
and
lyghte
in
goynge
/
her
belly
rounde
/
bygger
towarde
the
right
syde
then
the
lefte
/
for
alwayes
the
man
chylde
lyeth
in
the
ryghte
syde
/
the
woman
in
the
lefte
syde
.
¶
Of
certayne
remedyes
and
medycynes
which
shall
cause
the
woman
to
conceaue
.
¶
Cap
.v.
ALl
sterilite
then
for
the
moste
parte
ensueth
and
commeth
of
the
dystemperancye
of
one
of
these
.iiij.
forenamed
qualities
/
wherfore
the
remedye
and
cure
of
the
same
when
it
chaunseth
/
must
be
done
by
such
thynges
/
the
whiche
haue
contracye
power
&
operation
to
the
excessyue
qualities
for
by
that
shall
it
be
reduced
to
his
temperancye
agayne
.
¶
As
yf
that
coldenesse
and
moystenesse
exceadynge
temperancye
in
the
matrice
be
occasion
of
sterilite
/
then
muste
she
applie
such
thynges
to
that
place
/
the
whiche
be
of
nature
hote
&
drye
/
the
whiche
maye
calify
and
warme
the
place
/
and
alsoo
drye
vp
the
yll
moystenes
and
humoures
contayned
in
the
same
/
hynderynge
conception
.
¶
Wherfore
take
of
sauyne
/
baytreleues
/
the
flowres
of
camomell
/
melylote
/
maioram
/
caprifolium
/
herba
paralysis
/
cytron
leues
/
and
such
other
thynges
of
aromatycall
and
hote
nature
:
and
sethe
these
in
water
to gether
/
and
let
the
woman
receaue
the
vapour
and
fume
hereof
vndernethe
in
to
her
bodye
through
some
conduite
or
pype
made
for
that
purpose
:
her
clothes
beynge
close
about
her
/
that
none
of
the
vapour
or
ayre
yssue
oute
/
&
ouer
this
let
her
syt
all
a
nyght
/
yf
she
may
/
receauyng
euer
the
fume
hereof
in
to
her
bodye
/
and
in
the
mornynge
let
her
accompany
with
her
husbande
/
and
she
shall
conceaue
.
¶
A
bathe
also
for
the
same
purpose
:
when
the
tyme
of
her
flowres
aboute
the
ende
of
the
laste
quartar
of
the
moone
is
almoste
fynyshed
:
let
her
bathe
herself
in
a
bathe
/
wher
in
is
decocte
&
soden
caprifolium
/
malowes
/
frenche
malowes
/
holyoke
/
rooses
/
iunyper
beryes
/
parytarye
/
wylde
myntes
/
bay
leues
/
myrtylles
/
sauyne
/
camomell
/
pynpernell
/
myntes
/
maioram
/
cytron
leues
/
basyll
/
penyryall
/
and
suche
other
.
But
before
that
she
bathe
her
in
this
water
/
it
shal
be
best
for
her
to
be
purged
and
clensed
from
the
colde
humours
with
theodoricon
/
or
with
benedicta
/
or
with
the
pylles
which
be
called
sinequibus
esse
nolo
/
to
be
had
at
the
apothecaryes
/
and
then
let
her
enter
in
to
this
foresayde
bathe
/
and
when
she
commeth
forthe
of
the
bathe
agayne
/
then
let
her
take
of
diamargariton
/
or
of
muscata
/
to
the
quantite
of
a
nutte
/
drynkynge
it
with
good
and
odoriferous
or
well
sinellynge
wyne
/
other
elles
let
her
take
of
this
electuarye
folowynge
/
whiche
is
verye
excellent
for
that
purpose
.
¶
Take
of
spyke
/
nuttemegges
/
cloues
/
zedoarium
/
galyngale
/
longe
peper
/
drye
rosesstorax
/
alipta
muscata
/
of
eche
of
these
lyke
muche
/
then
take
of
the
roote
of
tormentyll
as
muche
as
of
all
the
other
forenamed
thinges
to gether
/
and
beate
all
these
to
pouder
/
temperynge
them
with
a
sufficiente
quantite
of
clarifyed
honye
/
to
the
whiche
also
adde
a
lyttell
of
pure
muske
.
Of
this
electuarium
bothe
euenynge
and
mornynge
the
space
of
ten
dayes
let
the
woman
take
to
the
mountenaunce
of
a
nutte
with
good
odoryferous
wyne
bathynge
her selfe
also
euery
daye
the
space
of
the
sayde
ten
dayes
:
at
her
comynge
forthe
of
the
bathe
/
receauyng
of
the
foresaid
electuarye
/
then
also
let
her
perfume
her
pryuities
with
the
sauoure
and
fume
of
laudanum
/
frankencense
/
xiloaloes
/
storax
/
ambre
/
alipta
/
xilobalsamum
/
and
suche
other
thinges
.
And
after
this
let
her
make
a
supposytarye
annoynted
with
magna
trifera
/
or
esdra
/
with
the
pouder
of
olibanum
/
and
the
dyle
of
bays
myxte
and
tempered
to gether
/
and
let
her
retayne
this
supposytarye
in
her
pryuities
all
the
day
tyme
the
foresayd
space
of
ten
dayes
/
and
then
at
the
ten
dayes
ende
(
the
man
and
woman
accompanynge
together
)
god
wyllynge
/
she
shal
be
conceaued
/
&
these
be
the
remedyes
yf
the
defecte
&
lacke
of
conception
come
by
reason
of
coldenesse
and
moystenesse
.
¶
But
yf
it
come
by
distemperaunce
of
the
matrice
in
hote
and
drye
/
fyrste
lette
the
humour
which
is
cause
of
it
/
be
purged
by
conneniente
medycynes
/
&
then
euery
nyght
the
space
of
ten
dayes
let
her
bathe
herselfe
in
warme
water
/
nothing
elles
beyng
put
vnto
it
/
&
in
this
batthe
let
her
remayne
not
long
/
and
at
her
comminge
forth
geue
her
to
drynke
of
trifera
magna
/
with
watered
wyne
/
and
after
this
receaue
she
the
vapoure
&
fume
of
the
decoction
of
these
herbes
vnderneth
into
her
priuy
partes
:
take
violettes
/
beerefote
/
parytarye
/
and
penyryall
/
sethe
them
in
water
:
and
then
conuaye
in
to
the
same
place
a
supposytary
of
trifera
magna
with
the
pouder
of
olibanum
.
¶
Item
a
suppositarye
whiche
is
wonderfull
good
in
expellynge
and
dowyng
awaye
suche
thynges
whiche
let
conception
:
take
of
siler
montanum
beaten
to
pouder
.ij.
dramms
/
of
the
renatte
of
an
hare
the
.iiij.
parte
of
a
dram
/
and
temper
these
to gether
with
clarifyed
honye
and
the
oyle
of
bayes
/
&
annoynt
here
with
a
supposytarye
/
the
whiche
let
the
woman
retayne
in
her
secreates
the
space
of
a
daye
and
a
nyght
.
¶
Item
a
supposytary
made
of
hares
dunge
and
hony
tempered
to gether
/
is
verye
excellent
for
the
same
purpose
/
but
let
the
woman
abstayne
from
all
maner
of
salte
and
sharpe
meates
/
and
vse
to
drynke
good
odoriferous
and
pleasaunt
wynes
alayd
with
water
.
¶
Also
to
drynke
of
the
wyne
in
whiche
is
dissolued
muske
/
or
elles
viscus
quercinus
/
is
good
to
helpe
to
conception
/
also
the
herte
bone
of
an
herte
/
and
the
scrapynge
of
yuery
is
very
good
for
the
same
.
¶
Item
a
supposytary
for
the
same
/
which
hathe
ben
many
tymes
well
proued
for
that
purpose
:
Take
garlycke
pylled
and
clensed
frome
the
huskes
/
and
sethe
it
in
the
oyle
of
rooses
/
or
elles
the
oyle
of
maioram
vnto
the
tyme
that
it
be
dyssolued
/
and
that
all
the
moystenes
be
departed
from
it
/
then
take
it
out
of
the
oyle
agayne
/
and
stampe
it
/
&
then
wrappe
it
in
wooll
/
and
conuaye
it
supposytarywyse
in
to
the
pryuie
partes
/
and
there
keape
it
the
space
of
a
daye
:
this
thynge
is
maruelous
good
for
conception
/
and
hathe
ben
well
proued
.
¶
Dyuers
other
lettes
of
conception
and
remedyes
for
the
same
myght
here
haue
ben
declared
/
whiche
for
breuite
and
shortenesse
we
for
this
tyme
do
let
passe
/
makynge
here
an
ende
of
this
treatyse
/
the
whiche
we
haue
composed
and
translated
oute
of
Laten
/
to
the
honour
of
God
/
the
vtilite
and
profette
of
all
honeste
matrones
.
Deo
gratias
.